Ranma Aqua-Isekai'd, by Chaos Orchid
Chapter 18: Pet the Piggy, Children
The yellow with scattered black rectangles neckerchief had to mean the little, black pig was the same one that had attacked her-him, he was himself at the time-in Animal Town. It couldn't be somebody who knew him on before Jusenkyo; it had now attacked him while he was a girl. And he had only been on This-side been for less than a full day and had only been a girl three times. He/she couldn't be its target-It had attacked others, too! It had to have mad swine disease or something! She had to stop it!
Eyeshadow thought the same. She, too, was prepared to capture or, if it had to be, kill the beast!
At the final corner of the triangle, the pig shifted its eyes between the two redheads that were nearly the same. Which one did it hate!? Did it matter? They were both ganging up against it! But it had attacked two times before and been shown how little of a black pig it was. Let them make the first move, but tell them it put up a real battle!
Growl!
Growl!
Growl!
"Our stomachs are getting louder! So hungry!" Ranma and Eyeshadow said. "Bwee-bwee!"
"We haven't had breakfast. How does bacon sound, Eyeshadow?" Now there was an even better reason to get this fight over with!
"Bwe-errr!" That's what its life had become: Adults wanting to eat it! Children wanting to play with it! Existential crisis or horrid humiliation? It was better to go down fighting! It would(!) attack first! And did!
And was caught from behind. "Don't hurt the piggy!" Sweetie declared holding the thrashing animal out in front of her.
"Because you wanna eat it as a falcon?!" Ranma accused.
"Only if it's not an immigrant." And she asked, "Are you really a people? Did you get cursed into becoming a piggy?"
"Bwe, bwe!" it nodded with all its tired might.
The child smiled. "Gramma's divination was right! It predicted three people coming to Jusenkyo around the same time!" Cologne vindicated, she hugged it.
It's back to her chest, it writhed in humiliation, remembering what the adults and children of this town had tried to do to it. It was happening all over again! It was a man, not a farm animal! Not a pet!
Sweetie swatted its little bottom. "How would you like to be a pí-chǎn!"
"Leather-yield?" Both the pig and Eyeshadow felt ill. Ranma wasn't yet convinced it was really a human.
"Sure! I wouldn't eat it. But I wouldn't waste its skin and fur!"
The others had to wonder what kind of a girl she really was. She did have a bad reputation.
Growl!
"We've earned creds for what we did here," Eyeshadow said. "Let's cash them in for breakfasts!"
The giant ox-man stirred in its sleep. They all moved away from it. "Only…*sigh* we should escort it back to Animal Town," she said.
"It's going to want some more medicine from Gramma's shop," Sweetie reminded them.
"No fair! I'm starvin'!" Ranma cried out.
"I can hurry home and bring you back some food," said the woman who had been drawing water from the fountain earlier. Ranma now noticed her small, pregnant belly.
"Give me creds and I'll go to the nearest restaurant!" This was the many more months pregnant man who had been doing the laundry.
"I'll use my own creds on you heroes!" The third woman quickly washed herself in the fountain water and became a man again. The two currently stuck as women did not like that.
"Stay here, Fella! It's your turn to babysit!"
"Babysittting is for women! And I'm a man, now!" he told them as he was running away.
"Come back here, Roommate!" and the laundress rushed, wobbling some, after him, waving the washboard as if it were a weapon.
"You'd think they were married, the way they fight," said the last, exasperated, woman said. She turned to the twin redheads and Sweetie and said, "You can have our picnic basket. I'll go home and get you proper meals." As soon as Ranma was holding the basket, she was walking hurriedly away herself. "Watch the children while we're gone!"
"Wha, what?! Hey!" Ranma cried. Sweetie stood in her way.
"They haven't been really converted, yet," Sweetie said, having let them go before saying anything. To the redheads, she said, "Let's see how far you have to go.
"You, too, piggy." And she handed it over to the oldest, maybe 5, of the kids. She stopped its squirming by sticking her face up to its. "Behave yourself, Pí-chǎn." A shivered went through the little, black thing. "You don't want to make a child cry, do you?" It shook its head.
Having been overwhelmed by the size of the big, huge monster, two of the kids moved closer to the women heroes. "Pick me up!" And he raised his short arms towards Eyeshadow.
The little girl raised hers only to place them on the basket. "I want something."
"Haven't you already eaten?" Ranma's first impulse wasn't sharing. Not when the Old Man tried to steal everything she had, even if he didn't want it.
"This is the Be Good Basket."
"You won't be good unless I bribe you?!" Pop had never tried that technique!
"But I've been(!) good!" she whined.
"Just give her something," Eyeshadow said, holding the little boy. (Whose arm was around her neck while sucking his thumb."
Grumbling, Ranma reached under the lid and pulled out…a dehydrated slice of some fruit. The girl reached for it, only for the redhead to flip it to the hand beside her ear. "A little martial arts practice?"
"Ranma!" Eyeshadow cried out. "That's like taking candy from a baby!"
"She ain't a baby. That's a baby!" The infant was just waking up in her basket. Looking around and seeing nobody familiar, it cried.
"I'll take care of it." And Eyeshadow made the other redhead take the boy in her arms that was now reaching for his own treats.
"Hey! Aw, man, this ain't a job for a martial artist. I only hafta protect the weak." While Ranma was distracted, the little girl got the fruit slice. It was in her mouth as she reached under the basket lid for something more. The boy had shifted his weight, getting to Ranma bend, putting him close enough to open the other lid.
"Mine!" both kids cried, claiming the same treat under their lids.
"You need to learn pressure points," Ranma advised them.
"Which one wants to pet the piggy?" the oldest kid asked.
The girl pushed the fruit slice in her mouth and went to do just that. The boy got the fought-over slice of peach and then wanted down to pet the pet. Ranma was happy to put him down.
"That older boy will make a good mommy," Sweetie said.
"You're not gonna give him Instant Nyannichuan while he's still a kid!?"
"They said they don't, Ranma," Eyeshadow said, rocking the baby in her arms. And she quoted, " 'The body and brain will be mature, but the mind will not be. If the mind is not mature enough, it won't be good for either the mother's or her child's mental health'."
"What about my(!) mental health! I'm supposed to be old enough, but I still don't wanna have kids!" Glaring at the thought, she stuffed her mouth with a handful of shelled nuts. It was some sort of comfort food, at least. "Mpreshly nna as a wmmn!"
Suddenly she seemed to be swallowing less than went in. She then realized she was taller and more of her weight was up inside her boobless chest. She was his guy-self again!
"Now she changes! The curse is cursed. The Conversion Process was just beginning!" Sweetie frowned. She reached into her belt pack and brought out a foil packet.
The pig looked up after having to bow from a hand petting its head. It hadn't seen the girl change into the guy, but it did recognize his clothes. It did recognize him! The older boy was in the middle of getting the girl to share the pet with the boy. The pig squirmed on the hand-off and it was dropped. It bounced off the cobblestones and attacked Ranma!
Eating, Ranma was caught off guard and stumbled back from the impact. As he fell into the fountain with the pig, Sweeting tossed the content of the packet on him. Instant Nyannichuan and external water equals girl.
She came up past the surface with the pig slashing at her with its hooves! There were cuts and bruises on her, but those had always been a part of her life. Something else really got to her, "Look what you did, you swine! You tore my shirt!" Her cleavage was entirely exposed, but she didn't care.
But the pig cared. Its large eyes went larger and…. "A nosebleed!?" she said, holding it away from herself.
"You hurt Piggy!" the kids accused. Which made the baby was cry.
"It hurt me! Can't you brats see that!?"
"Ranma, show the children you like the animal, too!" Eyeshadow told her. "I'm your team leader and that's an order!"
"Like the-" She stopped her protest when she saw a martial arts' strategy. She turned the thing around so its hooves and teeth were pointing away from her and she hugged it (between her boobs). Hugged and squeezed. More blood came out of its nose.
But by the Cursing of those Cursed the pig became a young man! Startled, she let the much heavier body drop with a splash!
"Eh! I'm naked in front of people! Children people!" the boy with the yellow bandanna around his head, keeping himself low in the fountain and covering what he wished nobody would see beneath the water.
In the land of mixed bathing and where daddies became mommies, the childrens' innocence was preserved. Also helping was Sweetie emptying the goodies basket in front of them.
"Who are you?!" Ranma and the guard, Eyeshadow, demanded to know.
The guy had his own demand, "Are you really Ranma Saotome?!"
"Yeah, I'm Ranma of the Saotome School of Martial Arts."
"Then-You should know me! I'm the guy you ranaway from! I'm Ryōga Hibiki! We had a fight for the day after the last day of middle school-And ran! You fled the country to get away from a man-to-man fight!"
"I don't run!" Ranma yelled back. "You wanna fight!? Then let's fight!"
"Let's!" And the guy started the attack by rising higher in the water. At the last second, he remembered he was still naked-and covered and lowered himself deeper into the water. "Uh, um, well -We'll fight when we can have a man-to-man fight!"
" 'Man-to-man'? Did you just say,'man-to-man' again?" It was enough to make her laughed to herself-with a wicked tactic! "It could be a while." And she backed up to rest her butt against the rim of the fountain. "Even if my other half becomes a girl, this Instant Girl will still be makin' me a girl." She crossed her arms. "We'll have to wait.
"Aaa! Wait? This water's cold! And, and…." the crouching boy looked out to the children and gathering lookyloos. His blush from embarrassment was added to the blue of the chill. "I could become a prune," he groaned.
"It'll serve you right for ruinin' my shirt. And I don't know if I can get another like it outa weapon-space !"
"Mr. Pig, would you like to have clothes?" Sweetie asked.
"Yes!" he shouted from embarrassment.
"Give him something to wear," she told Eyeshadow.
The second redhead frowned, thinking she knew what would be coming out of her own weapon-space.
She was right. The guy caught, "A dress? I can't wear a dress! I'm a guy!"
Eyeshadow sighed. "Of course, he'd say that."
"Put it on or be naked," Sweetie told him.
"Or become as purple as a prune!" Ranma taunted him.
He glared at her. "I guess I have no choice." His manly pride had him almost smile when he held it up to himself and saw, "It's too small."
That's when Sweetie tossed in an open packet into the water where he stood.
"It shrank," his alto voice said. Then he looked down behind the dress and saw boobs and…. With the biggest nosebleed yet, she fainted.
Ranma caught her before her face hit the water.
"Give her to me," Eyeshadow said.
"Gladly!" And she tossed the golden-haired girl with the bandanna over to her.
Practically at the same time the other redhead had caught her, the newest girl was dressed in the dress.
"How did that(!) happen?!" Ranma wondered.
"Magic. And practice." Eyeshadow got some satisfaction over the idea that here was something where she, not Ranma, could be the sensei.
SPLASH! A huge wave of fountain water fell on top of the girls who were once guys.
The gigantic ox-man was now awake and laying on its side, disgusted with the scene. Its fist dripped water.
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NOTES:
By the time Ryōga was adopted as Akane's pet weeks had passed and he had been through so many ordeals and humiliations that it was easier for him to accept being her pet. She was the comfort the pig was craving then.