The Lusting
Chapter Eight
Shego woke with a large pleased smile on her face, rotating her naked body gently so as not to wake the person whom arms she was in, she found herself cuddled in Kim's grasp. Shego studied the younger woman's profile for a moment before gently blowing a gust of air into her face disturbing the strands of red hair covering her face. Kim, still asleep, made a frown and removing the upper arm holding Shego in place she brushed at her hair. Shego arched her side slightly and rolling she freed herself completely from Kim's embrace without waking the heroine up.
Smiling at her success, Shego tip toed around the thin mattress on the floor hoping she could make it past Ron without waking him too and was pleased when she noticed he was still asleep flat on his back with his left arm trapped under Kim's side. Shego for just a moment allowed a frown to cross her face at how vulnerable they both appeared but then shrugged it away. Even with the weirdness of the 'bathroom incident they should be safe enough in the bedroom for at least a short time. They both deserved their rest. After the workout Shego had put them through last night it would be amazing if they both could walk straight when they got up.
Shego could feel another uncharacteristic giggle start to come over her and clamped her teeth together to stifle it. "I'm turning into a giggling schoolgirl." Shego thought in annoyance. Shego could see by the late morning light coming into the room that when she had extradited herself from Kim's grasp she had inadvertently pulled the blanket down and Shego could now see the profile of Kim's breasts and Ron's lean hard chest. Shego took a deep swallow. "A very horny giggling schoolgirl."She mentally amended. Taking a deep breath Shego carefully pulled the blanket back up over the two to keep them from getting cold and tip toed over to her clothing and silently got dressed.
As Ron stated last night, there was something unsettling about this house and Shego was determined to get some straight answers from Yori. Ron and Kim were too close to the Asian woman to ask any hard questions but Shego had no such limitations. Sliding the door to the room open Shego glanced back one last time to make sure Ron and Kim were okay and then slipped out into the hallway and slid the door shut behind her.
The moment the door to the room fully closed, a dark shadow in the corner of the room detached itself from the other shadows and sidle towards the sleeping two. As it neared, the shadow shifted and broke to reveal the dripping specter of the Japanese sister. A pale cold clammy hand reached out and started to tug the blanket covering Ron down but drew back sharply as a blue glow came from Ron's sleeping form. The wet form of the sister scuttled backwards from the light and once again blended in with the other natural shadows in the corner of the room and was gone.
Shego in the hallway paused as if sensing something but after listening intently for a few moments and detecting nothing, she continued to stealthy make her way down the hallway towards the room at the distant end of the hallway that Yori had claimed as hers. As she passed one of the dark shadowy doorways to a room they were not using, a shadow detached itself and started to follow her, after a few moments the shadow coalescence into the dripping wet sister.
Shego paused once again and the phantom behind her quickly crawled / slid up the wall as Shego spun around to look behind her. Seeing nothing Shego shook her head in annoyance and turned back to continue on her path but paused once again. The creature above her lowered down until its face was a few inches from the back of Shego's head, its musty wet hair nearly brushing Shego's back. The blue rotting lips of the face pulled back to reveal scum covered teeth as it silently hissed at her. The creature quickly leaned backwards until it was flush with the ceiling as Shego once again spun around to stare suspiciously at the hallway behind her.
"This damn place is playing with my mind." Shego muttered as once again she found nothing behind her. She couldn't explain the sensations she kept getting that she was being stalked but she had spent far too much of her life on the wrong side of the law to dismiss those feelings now. Finally reaching Yori's room Shego placed her ear to the door and listened intently. Hearing nothing, she was just about to ease the door open when she heard a sudden rasp of a noise from downstairs. Deciding to check that out first Shego turned and quickly made her way to the staircase. All the while the soggy looking creature kept pace with her crawling on its back along the ceiling of the hallway above her, water continuing to drip off of her but instead of falling down it pooled unnaturally on the ceiling.
The creature once again bared her teeth at Shego as the young green-skinned woman started down the stairs but in no way made to follow her down to the first floor of the house.
Shego listening at the door to the kitchen for a moment and continuing to hear noises coming from it, slid the door back and stood in the doorway.
Yori who had been pulling items from a backpack and placing them on the kitchen table glanced up and scowled at her for a moment before replacing the look with her normal calm placid mask. "Shego." Was all she said in way of a greeting.
"Yori." Shego replied with a nod. Glancing at the table Shego could see various food items including one very familiar looking Bueno Nacho bag. The writing on it was stylized in a Japanese flair but there was no denying it was Bueno Nacho all the same. "Been shopping I see."
A genuine smile graced Yori's face for a moment. "I know how Ron-san loves his food." Yori smile slipped slightly. "And of course I bought enough for you and Kim as well." She added in a tone of voice that implied she really didn't care whether Shego or Kim ate or not.
"How kind of you." Shego said insincerely.
"Well I suppose even criminals must eat." Yori replied with a serene smile.
Shego resisted the urge to grit her teeth. "Look, why don't we just cut this polite bullshit and get down to it. You don't like me. I don't like you. But Ron considers you to be a valued friend and for his sake let's call a truce when he's around but since it is just you and me at the moment..." Shego leaned on the edge of the table to glare across it at Yori. "What's your problem bitch?"
Yori's serene features pulled back into a scowl. "I agree completely. While Ron is around, we will have your truce. As for my problem, it is you. You don't deserve Ron's care."
"You mean his love and not just his but Kim's as well." Shego replied with a faint smirk.
"You are unworthy." Yori practically growled.
Shego with a shrug replied. "You are so right. I don't deserve it. I don't see how they both can love an ex-villain like me. What it is they see in me that is even half way worthy of redemption or their love I'll never know, BUT the fact is, they do and you just can't stand that can you?" Shego's smirk grew slightly.
"You and Kim limit Ron. You keep him from the greatness that he can be. You control and manipulate him and it sickens me. Ron-san is just not wise in the ways of women enough to realize it and free himself from Kim and your control." Yori with venom in her voice hissed at her.
"Whoa! Neither Kim nor I control Ron. In case you haven't noticed Ron is capable of making his own decisions. He's a big boy." Shego smirk became a full-blown grin. "A really big boy if you get my drift. Unfortunately for you, that is something you aren't going to get to experience for yourself." Shego couldn't help but needle the Japanese woman again about what she and Kim had but Yori could only dream of. She had pissed her off with the implication that Ron was some kind of simpleton that two women could bend and twist to suit their whims. Ron was a hell of a lot more clever and smart than most people would give him credit for and it really angered her that a so-called friend would dismiss Ron's reasoning ability in such an off-handed way.
"It is unwise to annoy a ninja." Yori stated coldly.
Shego lowered her hands to her sides but didn't yet flare her plasma powers. "And it isn't a good idea to piss off a fireball throwing ex-villainess either."
Kim woke with a start and reaching out meant to pull Shego closer to her so she could resume her nap in comfort but found her arms empty. Turning she found Ron behind her on his back. She was surprised that Shego had managed to leave without one of them waking up but then again Shego was an expert at moving silently and both Ron and her were worn out by their activities last night. Kim gently nudged Ron in his side.
"Wake up Ron. Shego is gone."
"Hu? Wha? Five more minutes mom. School was turned into a pile of pancakes yesterday and they won't pour the syrup till this afternoon." Ron muttered still asleep.
Kim frowned and once again wondered what went through her boyfriend / lover's mind sometimes. "It's not your mother Ron." She said as she poked him a little harder in his side.
"Rufus? We'll get some cheese later I promise, just let me sleep now. I'm having this great dream where Shego and Kim are both my lovers and I don't want to lose the dream now."
Kim couldn't keep a smile off her face. "It's not Rufus either Ron and that isn't a dream. Shego and I are your lovers and Shego is missing."
"You are?" Ron said with a large smile appearing on his face as he woke to a semi-conscious state. "Maybe she went to the bathroom?" He added and a moment later the thought of the bathroom caused Ron to wake to a fully conscious state. Leaping to his feet, he rushed over to the bathroom door and slid it open to check, fully prepared to be embarrassed if it turned out Shego was in there but still risking it after the weird mirror incident the night before.
The clean and suspiciously normal looking empty bathroom was all that met his eyes however.
Ron came back into the bedroom to meet Kim's stare. "She's not in there." Ron said but noticed that Kim was still staring at him. "What's wrong?"
"Um, you are naked." Kim replied as she licked her lips.
Ron's normal shyness started to arise but he pushed it back down. Raising an eyebrow, he gave a smirk that Shego would have been proud of. "So are you." He pointed out.
Kim glanced down and noticed that when she had sit up that the blanket had slipped down and her breasts were fully visible to Ron. She started to cover herself with her hands when she heard Ron chuckle.
"Isn't it a little late for us both to be akweird about being naked with each other after all we've been doing?"
Kim thought about it for a moment before with a laugh of her own she lowered her hands. "You do have a point." Kim's eyes drifted downward for a second. "A very big point as a matter of fact."
She almost laughed again as Ron, even after pointing out how silly it was, turned bright red at her statement and started to cover his privates with his hand. "KP!"
"Going to need something larger than just your hand to cover that monster." Kim continued to tease.
"I can think of something to cover it." Ron said gaining control of his own blush and waggling his eyebrows.
Kim's eyes grew wide at Ron's suggestive comment before she did laugh aloud. "I think Shego is rubbing off on us."
Ron smile grew larger. "Yeah and I do love how she rubs us." His grin ceased as he was reminded that Shego was missing. Looking for his clothes, he remembered that Shego and Kim had practically ripped them off him the night before in the bathroom so he went over his bag and quickly got dressed in fresh clothing. Kim after a moment dressed as well.
"Where do you think she might have gone?" Ron asked.
"Well she was certain that Yori was lying to us last night. Knowing Shego she probably went to have a word with her alone."
"That probably wouldn't end well." Ron muttered. He and Kim shared a look and as one, they rushed out of the bedroom. Hearing voices starting to raise in anger from the kitchen they both raced down the stairs.
Reaching the doorway, they could both see a tense Shego and Yori standing a few feet from each other. Near Yori on a counter top was a large butcher knife and Shego had her hands in what Kim and Ron called her ready position to throw plasma. Hoping to defuse the situation and the fact that he was hungry, Ron looked at the table where a Bueno Nacho bag rested. "Bueno Nacho!" Ron shouted.
Shego slightly relaxed her tense state but never once taking her eyes off of Yori. Yori however reacted strongly as she relaxed her tense stance and smiled at Ron. "Ron-san, I knew you would be hungry when you awoke this morning so I obtained for us some food."
"Yeah and if we're lucky she throw might throw us a few crumbs to eat too." Shego muttered to Kim as Kim reached her side and the two were practically pushed aside by Yori as she rushed to serve Ron.
"What's going on?" Kim whispered to her as Yori practically led Ron a chair and sat him down and started to open the bags and set the food before him.
Shego whispered back. "I'm not sure but I think Ron's ninja friend isn't playing with a full pack of throwing stars if you get my drift."
Kim raised an eyebrow.
"She thinks we are controlling Ron like some puppet and let me know in no uncertain terms she doesn't think we deserve him." Shego whispered back as she continued to watch Yori like a hawk. She didn't think she would do something like poison Ron but Shego never a trusting soul, wouldn't trust Yori farther than she could throw her, a thought that was quickly becoming more desirable by the moment, throwing Yori, like through a wall.
Kim's eyes narrowed in anger as she watched as Yori fawned all over Ron. She went as far as even trying to feed him with her hands as if Ron were helpless rather than let him feed himself.
"I say we knock her out and leave her tied up and get out of here." Kim whispered to Shego.
Shego wanted to nod her head but couldn't. "She is the only one who knows where Rufus is, or what happened to him. We can't do anything till we know Rufus is okay." She reminded Kim.
"What is your plans today Ron-san?" Yori asked as she tried to feed him a bit of nacho.
Ron embarrassed at the atypical fuss she was making over him, and the glowering of his two lovers a few feet away, took the nacho from her and popped it in his mouth rather than let her hand feed him. He chewed for a moment and then replied. "I thought we could go to where Rufus is and pick him up and check out the city. I heard it was one bon-diggity place to see. That and of course I'm eager for Sensei to meet Shego."
Kim and Shego getting tired of watching Yori attempting to feed Ron and being hungry themselves pulled out chairs at the table and sat down all the while continuing to not so subtly glare at Yori.
Yori stood up and nearly bowed apologetically to Ron. "I'm sorry Ron-san but that is completely impossible. The Sensei and Rufus stated they wanted to immerse themselves in meditation today. We would be disturbing them if we were to intrude."
"You talked with them this morning? In person?" Kim casually asked.
Yori watching Ron as he ate nodded her head.
"Then they must be very close by for you to obtain supplies and still have time to drop by and see them this morning." Kim stated. "So that means we can just pop in for a moment to check on them on the way into town, we wouldn't have to disturb their meditations at all."
Yori's eyes widened with the realization of the trap she had inadvertently sprung on herself. "When I said I met with them in person I meant by the astral plane, physically they are not close and it would take too long to travel to their location and then back and then explore Tokyo."
Ron watching Yori out of the corner of his eye sighed and then putting on his best 'goofy grin' he said. "Well then I'll just meditate and speak to Rufus and Sensei. I could use the practice."
Yori frowned and moved away from Ron's chair to stand between Shego and Kim. "Ron-san, these questions and statements, I feel almost as if you all do not trust me."
Shego snorted something that suspiciously sounded like 'duh'.
"I really want to Yori but things are just not making sense. You say Sensei and Rufus are too far away to physically go see them yet you took Rufus with you last night and you said you left him with Sensei then and you came back fairly quickly. So which is it Yori? Is Sensei and Rufus close by or far away?" Ron asked dropping his goofy expression and replacing it with his serious look.
Yori rested her hands on the back of Kim and Shego's chair and leaned forward towards Ron as if to speak to him. "I'm sorry Ron-san" Was all she said.
Shego leapt to her feet as she felt something stick her in the back of the neck. Kim reacting instinctively to Shego's movement threw herself sideways avoiding the other needle in Yori's hand. Shego only managed to stand for a moment before she slumped back into her chair and her head fell forward to hit the table with a hollow thunk.
Ron in shock could see in Yori's hand two small needles, he didn't need to see the sticky looking coating on it to know that Yori had drugged Shego and very nearly had drugged Kim. "Yori!" He yelled as he tried to rise to his feet and rush to his lovers' sides but felt something holding him down in the chair. Glancing down he was horrified to see what looked like long dirty black hair wrapped around his waist and arms pinning him to the chair. Twisting his neck to look behind him Ron eyes bugged out as he saw a very dirty and also very dead looking face of a young girl staring back at him, her eyes were a dead milky white and flakes of dirt and worms fell from her face in an almost constant stream.
Opening his mouth to scream Ron quickly felt the dusty dirty strands of hair cover his mouth and start to smother him. He could physically taste the gritty dirt on the hair and was fighting hard not to panic.
Kim her eyes wide in fear and shock tried to rush to Ron's aid but was stopped by Yori as she slammed her back into the wall and once again tried to stick her with the needle in her hand. Kim desperately dogged to the side and felt the material of her top tear and a burning pain in her shoulder as the needle scratched her. Almost immediately a numbing sensation started to spread along her arm from the point of the scratch. Kim had no idea what was on the needle but she had a pretty good idea she only had moments before losing consciousness, she dove past Yori and out the kitchen door of the house into the garden. Fumbling with fingers that were already starting to become useless, Kim managed to pull out her Kimmunicator to call Wade when a gurgling noise from the direction of the garden's pond drew her attention. With eyes starting to grow fuzzy from the drug on the needle Kim saw what looked like ridiculously long strands of wet dark hair shoot out of the pond and wrap around her Kimmunicator and with a savage jerk pulled it out of her hands and into the depths of the pool. Even drugged Kim managed to do a front flip and avoid the rest of the questing strands of wet hair as it swept around trying to capture her. Running on nothing but pure adrenalin Kim managed to doge and weave through the deadly garden and reach the garden gate. Leaping through it Kim slammed it shut and leaned on it for a moment.
"Ron, Shego!" Kim cried as she turned, determined that no matter what stood in her way she was going to go back and rescue them. She was Kim Possible and nothing was impossible for a Possible. As her vision faded to black and she felt herself falling to the side of the alley road Kim had one last thought. "Except ignore a potent ninja drug in my body."
Ron watched as Kim managed to get out of the house and breathed a sigh of relief that she was okay. He didn't doubt for a moment that Kim would find help and be back to rescue him and Shego soon. Ron worried what it was that Yori had done to Shego but breathed another sigh of relief when he saw that Shego was still breathing and apparently was only unconscious.
Unfortunately that was his last breath of ease as the strands of hair around him continued to tighten. He could hear the cracking of the chair he was sitting in as the strands continued to crush him like some kind of python snake.
"No Asami! Hoshi promised! He is mine! You may take the two worthless girls." Yori yelled at the horrendous figure behind Ron as he started to thrash from the lack of air caused by the hair crushing him and blocking his nose and mouth.
Ron desperately tried to summon his mystical monkey power but it did take a slight amount of concentration to reach it and it wasn't exactly easy to remain calm when being crushed by a dead thing, not to mention the disgust and horror at the taste of dirt in his mouth from the hair.
"Asami! Stop it! You are killing him!" Yori shouted again as the girl showed no signs of releasing or letting up her crushing strangle hold on Ron. Grabbing up the 'mighty big gulp' from the Bueno Nacho meal she threw it into the dead girl's face. The dead girl's face pulled back into a frightening snarl of rage and she hissed as if the soft drink was acid. The hair quickly retracted from Ron and flowed back to Asami as the girl backed away still hissing and faded into the shadows of the kitchen. Ron his breath having been forced from his body managed to look up in time to see Yori approaching him with a needle in her hand.
"Yori? Why?" Was all he managed to get out before Yori stuck the needle in his neck plunging him into unconsciousness. Trying to keep an eye on all of the shadows in the room at the same time, Yori began to drag Ron's body into the living room. She had no idea why the dark twin named Asami had tried to kill Ron but Yori knew the sister known as Hoshi would help her protect Ron and make him see that she was the best and his only choice for a lover now.
Yori cast one last glance at Shego as she left the kitchen but shrugged her shoulders. She knew that she had got enough of the drug into Kim's body to knock her out in the garden and Shego was helpless in the kitchen. Let the sister Asami have Shego and Kim. It would save Yori the unpleasant task of having to kill Ron's former lovers herself and perhaps Asami killing them would appease her bloodlust enough to leave Ron alone.
Reaching the stairs leading to the second floor Yori could see the shadows of the living room thicken and dark hair began to flow from the shadows reaching for Ron's unconscious body. Frantically tugging on Ron's body she managed to get him half way up the stairs before the hair reached them and wrapped around Ron's legs.
"Hoshi help me!" Yori cried out as the dry dirty hair tried to pull Ron back down to the first floor.
Yori almost lost her grip on Ron's shoulders when she saw more dark hair flowing down from the second floor but quickly realized it was Hoshi coming to her air. The wet slimy hair weaved and twisted around Ron's arms and started to pull him upwards. The two sets of hair strands, one dripping wet around Ron's shoulders and one dusty and dry around his legs, tugged on Ron briefly in a grotesque type of tug of war but with Yori helping Hoshi's side, Asami finally lost the battle and Ron was quickly dragged up to the second floor landing, as soon as they reached the landing the monstrous 'living' carpet of hair disappeared from both sides.
Almost in a trance Yori ignored the dripping wet form of Hoshi standing on the landing and continued to drag Ron to her room. At the ground level the dry and dusty Asami walked up to the stairs till both girls were at the midpoint of the staircase staring at one another. With a hiss both girls turned at the exact same moment and stormed away from each other as if they were throwing a temper tantrum, dripping Hoshi back to the second level of the house while dusty Asami stomped down the staircase towards the first floor, both girls fading into the shadows as they reached their respective 'territories.'