Chapter 2: Of Ranma's Housing Dilemma

After Ranma finally was able to drive them out of the furo long enough to change into his sleeveless shirt and cargos, (as many of the girls kept walking back in to get a look) he went to the front room where a heated argument was taking place.

"NO! HE'S STAYING WITH ME!" Black hair.

"NO HE'S NOT!" Brown

"I think it would be in everyone's best interest if he stayed with the Outers." Green Hair

"LIKE HELL HE IS!" Black, Brown, Blue*blush*, Blond, Meatball

"Um, actually, I think I'll stay with this lesbian I know, if just to avoid situations like this." Poor Braided Fool.

"WHAT!" Mass about face and glaring at the poor martial artist. Until they took in his new look and started drooling. 'So Ranma-like' was a sudden thought. Then they blushed when they realized that they had put "Ranma" in the place of "Hunky."

Ranma sweatdropped and backed away slowly. 'I think I better leave for a while.'

"Uh ya, cuz if I stayed at one of your places, I don't think that your parents would like that, y'know."

"Don't worry about that, my mother was the one that actually asked me if you could stay."

"Yeah! My parents already got the spare room ready!"

"So did mine!"

"Sempai! You can stay with me! I don't have any parents!" Makoto was, for the very first time in her life, grateful to that fact.

"Do not panic, Ranma, you may stay with me. I'm a legal adult.

Ranma gave her a wry look, "Uh uh. No way. Last time I 'stayed' with you, I woke up tied to the bed and you getting out of the shower in the next room! I mean, I fall out of the sky, black out, then when I wake up, I'm tied down. Definitely not your place."

"WHAT!" "SETSUNA! HOW COULD YOU!"

Said woman slowly stepped back, as if she was nervous, but that wasn't possible, was it?

"So, I can't stay with you guys until I feel safe enough to sleep at your places."

"SO YOUR GOING TO STAY WITH LESBIANS!?"

"Yep, its been a while since I last saw her, but I think she'll let me stay for a bit."

Ami then put in something reasonably intelligent.

"Ranma, don't you turn into a girl? An especially attractive one? Wouldn't that be a bad thing if you were going to stay with lesbians?"

"Funny you should mention that, but uh, I cured the curse about three days ago, so I should be safe around any lesbians I meet. Heh."

"RANMA!" GLARE

"..eep..WellanywayIgottago," the black cat, which was wandering around the house, appeared and jumped into the satchel, which he picked up quickly, "seeya'llaroundbyebye." "Meow." long braid goes out the window.

"RANMA! GET BACK HERE!"

"SEMPAI!"

"......................." Silence so deep that one could hear his or her own heartbeat.

"Ssssoooooooo, I guess nobody wins that bet."

Everyone turns to Minako and glared.

"...eep.."

Hotau, who had been in the kitchen, came out with a tray of food and drinks. See set them down, and glanced around. "Where did sempai go?"

They stared at her for a second, then switched their gaze to Setsuna, who was sipping tea at the table.

"Setsuna! Why are you so calm?" asked a red faced slightly*cough* angry preistess.

"Hmm? Oh. That is quite simple. How many lesbian couples do you think Ranma may know?"

"......WHAT!?...."

Outside next to a telephone booth

"Lessee...Tenou, where are ya......"

He suddenly shivered.

Back at the shrine

"Soon, Ranma's going to discover that the 'lesbians' are not actually lesbian. Just Ranma-deprived."

In the silence that follow, only broken in regular periods by the sound of tea being sipped, one could hear the brains of the various girls ticking away. Of note, Ami's brain was ticking faster than the others.

At the Outers residence

*bring* *bring* *click*

"Hello? Setsuna? hmm...Really! Interesting......Sure.......No prob.....ya...bye!"

"Haruka? Who was on the phon-eek!" Michiru was almost crushed in the hug that Haruka just gave her.

"He's coming! He's coming! He's coming! He's all mine! uahahahahaha....I mean..ours?" Haruka wilted slightly at the look that Michiru gave her. "eheheh"

"Who was on the phone and when is Ranma getting here."

Haruka brightened up immediately.

"Setsuna! She said that Ranma said he was going to stay with this lesbian he knew, and the only "lesbian" he would know is me! I told him I was staying here with a female lover when I met him a few months back."

"Why would Ranma want to stay with a lesbian?" wondered Michiru out loud.

"Setsuna said the Inners came on too strong, and he was scared they would start fighting. Suckers."

"hmm....we should act like real lesbians for a while, so try not to drool over him too much...."

"Ya, I know. I'll try not to stare at him to hard. Setsuna also said not to mention she lived here."

"That's a good idea, making it seem like only lesbians live here. It should make him feel secure enough to sleep." rationalized Michiru. "Then we bring out the ropes. No, chains. Wait....this won't work." She shook her head. "Ranma is strong enough to break out of anything we have!"

Haruka smirked. "Setsuna said she was going to the Moon to pick up a special set of chains. Something about the Princess having them custom made for someone."

"Perfect." Michiru and Haruka suddenly got a odd thought.

"Hey, Michiru? Why would the Princess have chains made for someone? I mean, Mamoru doesn't seem like a person that would run away from her, right?"

"That is true....I wonder.....Maybe the Princess had someone else she wanted....."

"...Someone capable of ripping though the normal stuff?"

Outside

Ranma was searching for the Outers residence.

He sneezed and rubbed his nose. 'I have a bad feeling about this.'

Outers Residence

They both sat around in deep thought. Michiru then spoke.

"I think it would be best not to dwell on these things."

"Yeah, if we really want to know, we can just ask Setsuna."

*Bingbong*

Haruka went to open the door.

"Hey! Haruka it's me! Ran-"*Glomp*

"RANMA!!!!!!" *squeeze snuggle*

*pitapatapitaata* Michiru quickly walked out to the front room.

"Ranma?" She was treated to the somewhat amusing sight of Haruka rubbing herself on a man, while performing a basic Amazon Glomp.

"Erk-Haruka- your squeezing too- Michiru? You live here to- YOU'RE HARUKA'S LOVER?!!"

"Hello Ranma. It has been some time, hasn't it."

"Erk, Ya it has. Hold up a sec." Suddenly Haruka found herself holding nothing, and blinked at Ranma, who was gasping for air five feet away.

"Huh? OH! I'm sorry Ranma!" Haruka blushed like a schoolgirl. A heterosexual one. She seemed to be doing that a lot lately.

"No *Gasp* problem. *gasp* Automated Anti-Amazon System. 'breath in, breath out, breath in' God, I thought you were a lesbian."

Haruka's blush intensified 'think of something fast'

Michiru spoke up again. "That's just Haruka's way of greeting people she hasn't seen in a long time."

"Oh, I see."

'That was close.' two minds thought at once.

"So why don't we go in, I'll make some tea, and you can tell us about your adventures."

Later

"This can be your room." Michiru opened a door. The last two hours had been hell for her. Although she was not as forward as Haruka, it took all the willpower she had not to leap over the coffee table and take him were he sat. Haruka, who was not what one could call restrained, had gone to take a artic shower.

"Wow! Really?" Ranma was amazed. The room consisted of a desk, night table, a small couch, and a large four post bed. He walked up to the bed and rapped on the post.

"Wow! This is really sturdy. I think there's bar steel in side the posts."

"Oh, umm...it was made to last."

"Cool. You know, this room seems kind of familiar some how."

"Maybe you've been to a house with the same layout. Let me go get your bag for you." Michiru was eager for a chance to get out of he room before she broke.

"Huh? Oh! Sure, thanks."

The teal haired girl stepped out of the room, and padded towards the entryway. As she bent over to pick up the bag, she heard Ranma call out from the guest room.

"Be careful! He might still be asleep!"

Curious, she carefully picked up the bag, and returned to the room. As she entered, Ranma took the bag, and set it down on the bed, as she sat down with the bag between them."

"What did you mean "still asleep?"

He unzipped the bag.

"Here, lemme show you."

He reached in, and moved his arm as if stroking something.

"Wake up, I wanna introduce you to someone."

"....Mrow?"

"Michiru started, and stared as a medium sized black housecat climbed out of the bag and onto Ranma's shoulders, and draped itself across his neck.

"Michiru, I want ya ta meet Endymion, or just Dyn for short."

"HUH!??" 'ENDYMION?! ISN'T THAT MAMORU'S NAME?!'

"Yo! Michiru, you there?" Michiru blinked and saw Ranma, and his cat, staring at her.

"Y-yes?"

"You look out of it, is somethin wrong?"

"No no," She spoke hastily, "its just that...I thought you were afraid of cats. Yes. That's all."

"Oh, um, Dyn here part of the Neko-Ken. I got it cured awhile back., I'll tell you about that some other time. I can tell you though, If it wasn't for this little guy," He reached back and scratched the clack cat behind the ears, which twitched its ears and purred, "I wouldn't have survived the Neko-ken intact and still be romping around somewhere in the forests."

"I see..." Michiru held her silence for a moment, then stood up.

"Well, I'll leave you to get settled in. I'll call you when dinner is ready."

"OK. Thanks for everything." He stood up and bowed slightly. The cat, still draped on his neck, nodded its head and meowed in what seemed to be a grateful way.

"Oh, no problem. It's our pleasure."

Michiru stepped out into the hallway, closing the door behind her still slightly withdrawn in thought.

"Well, she took that quite well, didn't she."

"Mrow, I may be wrong, but those lesbians aren't as homosexual as you think." The cat spoke. and lept down onto the bed."

"Wadda ya mean.? They're lovers, and their both girls. What else can they be. That's why I'm staying here in the first place." Ranma stretched out on the bed, with a yawn.

"Maybe your right." Suspicions relieved, Dyn curled up on top of the bed covers alongside his master.

"I'm gonna rest for a bit. If ya want, I'm sure you can explore the place."

"I think I'm gonna take a catnap first. I'll go check the place out later. After all, cats are nocturnal creatures."

Ranma stretched out his arms and placed them behind his head.

"Sure, so I won't be waking you up for dinner."

"I'll find something to eat later."

That Night

Dyn was exploring the house while Ranma slept, and was currently in the hallway. He was about to return to Ranma's room when he suddenly heard some voices talking about Ranma.

"-sure he's asleep."

"-es, get the chains Setsuna brought in."

"-each him to run away from me."

He went to the door the voices were emitting from, and pushed open the door with his paw. The occcupants of the room froze and turned towards the door, and saw nothing.

"Meow."

Haruka and Michiru were quite startled when Dyn meowed from below. They looked down to see him looking up at them with curious eyes.

Michiru recovered her wits and said "It's Ok, it's just Ranma's cat."

"So he really does have a cat. Well, I don't see no pigs flying." Haruka gave Dyn a pat on the head.

"Let's get back to preparations."

"Sure." Haruka scratched Dyn behind the ears, causing a them to twitch and eliciting a purr. She bent over and told Dyn, "Now don't run off to tell Ran-chan about this

Dyn realized that this was Haruka and Michiru's bedroom. He jumped up onto the bed where they two females had lay out what seemed to be small pieces of cloth and a length of metal shackles. He then realized the pieces of cloth were clothing. Very skimpy clothing. Then he noticed the shackles had lunar inscriptions on them.

'what's this?' curious, he went over to the shackles to examine the inscriptions. 'What are lunar inscriptions doing here? Hmm...An inscription for durability, and an emergency release when the victim is in mortal danger. (hmm...then what's the point for the chains?) Keyed for the ....Wild Horse.....' He suddenly remembered. 'These were the chains that Serenity-hime had in her room! The ones the Senshi and the princess used to catch Ranma! Shit!' He quickly decided to warn Ranma.

He quickly leaped off the bed, and was about to rush out of the room when a hand reached down and grabbed him by the scruff of his neck. "MROW!"

"Why, Endymion? What a pleasant surprise."

Haruka and Michiru turned to see Setsuna holding a struggling cat.

"Nya! SETSUNA! THAT'S WHERE THE CHAINS CAME FRO-ERK!"

Smiling, the Guardian of the Time Gates clamped a hand over the cat's mouth.

"Now now, not to loud. You might wake Ranma up, you know."

"IT TALKS!" Haruka had her mouth open in shock. Michiru had a knowing look on her face.

"Excuse me! I am a HE not a IT!"

Haruka colored slightly. "Sorry."

Michiru spoke with a reflective tone of voice. "I thought he was a moon cat when Ranma said his name was Endymion, but then again, Mamoru's name was Endymion, so I had a to wait to see if you could explain this."

"WHO TOOK MY NA-k!" *WHAP WHAP*

Haruka and Michiru both winced and sweatdropped as Setsuna calmly smacked the poor kitty on the back of the head, knocking it out.

"There, that should keep him out for the night." She arranged the unconscious cat on the bed and tucked him in as well as he could. "After all, we can't have him warn Ranma while we are so close to our prey."

Haruka whispered to Michiru.

"That was brutal. Remind me never to get on her bad side." Michiru nodded and spoke.

"Setsuna, will you be explaining this to us?" she indicated the cat, who started to knead himself into the covers, none worse for the wear.

The green haired woman picked up the chains and proceeded to step out of the room.

"I'll explain it to all of the Senshi tomorrow, but tonight, We have more important things to do."

Haruka blinked at that. "So seducing Ranma is more important than Crystal Tokyo?"

Setsuna paused at the door, and gave a little smile. "Infinitely more so."

Haruka sweatdropped. "I see."

Ranma awoke to a feeling running up and down his chest.

'hmm...feels like the time Shampoo snuck into bed. She kept running her hands around my ch...wait a minute, something's not right here.' His eyes shot open when he felt a someone stick her tongue in his ear.

"Wha??!" He turned his head slightly to see a woman with green hair nuzzling the side of his neck.

'Michiru? No, her hair ain't that long.....'

"SETSUNA! WHAT ARE YOU DOING! AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE." Ranma tried to get up, but found himself held down by chains.

Said woman paused in her ministrations and brought her head up to gaze into his panicky eyes.

"Lets see here," she spoke thoughtfully, "I'm not wearing any clothes, and neither are you," a draft in the room proved that fact. "You are a man, and I am a woman." She smiled in a sultry manner. "Isn't it obvious? And besides, you are in my room."

"Let me go!" 'I thought this place looked familiar.

Setsuna tilted her head thoughtfully. "hmm...if you can break those chains, you may leave."

"Serious?"

"Yes." She smirked in a clever manner.

"No problem." Ranma pulled against the chains, confidant that he could break them. When the chains didn't even strain, he fell back in surprise. "What the hell are these things."

Setsuna's smirk grew wider. "They were made many millennia ago, by Lunar mages, at the command of Princess Serenity, and paid for by the Sailor Senshi." Ranma eyes grew wide "You're shitting me. You went and got THESE? FROM THE MOON? FOR THIS?!" She brushed his hair back. "These chains were commissioned for the express purpose of pinning the skittish Wild Horse down to the bed so that his many fiancees could get some from him without him running away. They were only used once, as I believed that he was scared of ruining his admirers." She idly traced the side of his face with a fingernail. "Of course, once they were "ruined" he became quite masterful, believing that there was no longer any impediments." "Her smile grew even wider. "I believe that the events of the past must be repeated again."

"....crap...................fiancees!? "

The Time Guardian leaned in close to his ear. "It was a point of law stated on a treaty, but that is besides the point, which is, if you must know, that I haven't gotten any for three thousand years. That's three thousand years too long for my tastes, but I can be patient and take a shower to "purify" myself while two of your fiancees attend to you." She smiled again, albeit a little evilly this time. His eyes grew wide as she stepped back to let two figures approach the bed, figures dressed in very little.

"Uh...Hi Haruka! Hi Michiru! Are you here to let me go?"

Michiru smile slightly as she crawled to one side of him, as Haruka took the other side.

"Don't be silly Ranma, I'm here for Revenge."

"d-dr-essed like t-that?"

She giggled and whispered in his ear.

"It seems that I'm only attracted to Ranmas and girls because of you. You've ruined me for other men, so far that I turned to lesbianism, and I demand justice, and satisfaction."

Ranma gulped turned his head towards Haruka.

"I'm here to teach your about running away from me. Don't give me the "I didn't know," I'm sure that you aren't as clueless as you make yourself seem. I've waited many years for this." Evil smile.

He shrank back as much as he could as they converged on him.

"Uh...girls, we can talk about this...can't we?"

Michiru spoke again. "We've starved a very long time, and now we have a chance to satiate our hunger."

She reached out.

"Hey now! Hands off! I thought you two were lesbians!"

"So did everyone else....but they're wrong, and so are you."

"Erk!"

Twenty minutes later

*Knock knock*

"Who is it?"

"Michiru-mama? Haruka-papa? What are you doing in Setsuna-mama's room? I heard screaming and I decided to come check."

The current female occupants of the room, namely the three older Outer Senshi sweatdropped. Ranma had gotten panicky and they had to gag him. He finally surrendered to a horrible fate of satisfying the three women for the night a short while ago. Now as that may not normally seem like a bad thing, especially with his endurance and stamina, but the three women happen to be magically enhanced, not to mention starving for him for many years, and in one case, had been for three millennia. Along with the ingrained feeling that he was going to get malleted if anything sexual was even implied, or thought to be implied, which was about always by the standards of a crazed tomboy, calm was anything but him.

Setsuna then spoke.

"Come in Hotaru."

'HUH?' Ranma, although resigned to his fate, still had a conscious mind. He started struggling and making protesting noises through the gag as the door swung open.

"Setsuna-mama, why is it so noi-Ranma!"

The fourteen year old flung herself at the helpless Ranma, as the others looked on. Said helpless Ranma looked surprised to see Hotaru next to him snuggling into his sticky body, much less living in the same house as the others.

"ouraruan?" Hotaru correctly translated this into "Hotaru-chan?" and looked up to gaze at the astonished face of a man-turned sextoy-with-braid. She tilted her head cutely.

"Yes?"

More garbled words.

"He's probable wondering why your hugging his oh-so-hunky but rather sticky body." Setsuna helpfully supplied.

"Hmm?" Hotaru looked down at the said stickiness, then started snuggling again. "I don't mind."

Setsuna stepped towards the girl, and touched her on the shoulder. They both started to glow.

Hotaru suddenly grew almost a foot in height, and a few inches outward, both front, sides, and behind. She gave a curious glance at the woman behind her, who smiled.

"I thought you might want to join in on the festivities."

Hotaru looked confused for a second, then brightened up, and looked at Ranma eagerly.

One thought ran through Ranma's head as the four girls converge on him.

'God must hate me, or love me overly, 'cause I can't decide whether this is Heaven or Hell."

It was a very gaunt and drained Ranma that woke up the next morning among the bodies of sleeping females covering him. They four had released him after about four hours of non-stop sex, when Michiru gave a huge yawn, which was then emulated by Haruka. Setsuna and Hotaru would have continued on if it wasn't for the sleepy bisexuals latching on to Ranma and using his as a pillow. The remaining outers decided that sleep was pretty inviting at that point, and unshackled him, then proceeding to cover the exhausted trio, and joining them under the covers.

'At least they aren't fighting over me this time around.' He then hugged the Senshi in his arms to himself and returned to sleep.

*creak* The door to the room opens as a black paw pushes it.

"Ranma?" Dyn sneaks into the room quietly, and notices the musky smell in the air. The HEAVY musky smell in the air.

"I guess I'm to late." The black cat shrugged, cat style, and proceeded on the sacred mission of finding food in the kitchen.

"Maybe I should make sashimi for breakfast. It's not like Setsuna couldn't afford it, and it'll teach her to hit me...."

End Chapter 2

I was working on the next chapter which is mostly plot development, but then thought about it, and decided that a story with too much plot was a bad thing. I wrote this semi plotless chapter, and decided to restructure the order of the story. Hmm. I worked faster than I thought I would, cause the next chapter is already half finished, and it hasn't even been a week. I know this chapter didn't have much plot, but that was the idea.

Received a review from Athenais, and he was asking me to tell more about why Ryoga was helping Ranma, and about the reason Ranma knows the Scouts. I'll tell ya'll right now not to worry, 'cause I already have the plot planned out. Most of the past will be told out in flashbacks. Friendliness from the Lost Pig will be explained, and many other things, like how Ranma met the Senshi, why he is in Juuban, etc. so don't worry.

By the way, the lime in this chapter was a Fluke, I was bored, and it was gonna happen eventually anyway.

Of course, I'm always open to new ideas and Omakes anyone sends in. I think I'll make a Chapter just for Omakes. Like the one that ShadowBakaSama sent in. Read it in the Reviews. It's really funny. Thanks a mil.

Oh, and if anyone knows some good sites where I can post this fic, could they tell me? And if anyone wants to post this fic on their site, go ahead, but email me about it first.

Chapter 3 teaser

"Are you Ms. Urashima?"

"What if I am?"

Ranma smiled, "I found the ad you posted for the sale of this place. I would like to buy it from you."