The Lusting
Chapter 11
The Lunch Lady pulled back from the entrance to the garden as Asami neared, the dead creature didn't cross the portal but stopped and stared from the safety of the garden at her. When it appeared that the Lunch Lady was not going to cross into the garden to face her, Asami turned to look back at the house.
"She cannot cross from where she was killed and buried and if we do not take the attack to her she will leave and go to attack Kim-san and Shego-san." Sensei whispered to his companion. Reforming his levitation bubble the Sensei quickly soared up and over the wall and landed in the garden.
If the look Asami had given the Lunch Lady after she taunted her had been one of anger, the look she now gave Sensei was one of pure hellish rage. Asami hated men. Her father, a man had left her, her mother and her sister and it was a man that took her sister's love from her and even though it had been Asami that had killed her sister, she blamed men in general for it. Rising up off the ground till her feet lightly skimmed the surface she flew at the Sensei with her jagged dirty fingernails extended as if they were daggers meant to rip and tear at his flesh.
The Sensei awaited calm and cool and as Asami slashed at him he avoided the strikes gracefully, leaning backwards or shifting sideways with the barest of movements. The Lunch Lady coming through the now undefended gate could almost empathize with Asami's growing rage. It was one thing to be outclassed in a fight but when one made it look like they were not even trying? Well, it was easy to understand the growing frustration showing on the dead teen's face.
As if some demented martial arts movie the dead teen starting throwing wild punches and kicks hoping to catch the aging ninja Sensei off guard. The old man moved fluidly avoiding all strikes making Asami look the fool, the only signs of his exertions being his long mustache fluttering in the wind as he moved from one position to another.
Asami let out an almost animalistic groan of rage as she swept out a leg hoping to trip him and he merely hopped out of the way to land lightly with a flourish spin.
"I know. It can be quite annoying how easily he moves, can't it?" Lunch Lady called out to Asami.
Asami spun to stare at the woman and instantly dirty hair erupted from the ground at the Lunch Lady's feet and started to wrap around her legs immobilizing her.
"Hey. Don't take out your anger at him at me." Lunch Lady grumbled at the dead teen as she reached into her clothing and swiftly pulled out two large highly decorated war fans and snapped them open. Twisting and slashing with them gracefully she managed to sever the hair holding her.
While Asami had her attention on the Lunch Lady, the Sensei leapt to the teen's back and lashed out at pressure points on the girl's neck. If she had been living the points would have instantly paralyzed her. Unfortunately, the dead really have no need of things like nerves or even muscles to move so the only result of Sensei's attack was the girl's head rotated 90 degrees to stare over her back at the Ninja. The Sensei found himself staring into a rotting dirty face with glowing red eyes at a very up close and personal range.
"What is the expression Americans have for situations like this?" Sensei muttered out loud. "Ah yes, I remember now." The Sensei calmly looked into Asami's burning gaze and said. "Oh… Shit." And turning he wasn't ashamed in the least to leap away as fast as he could.
Asami turned her body till it was matching the way her head was looking and started to chase after the old man but was stopped when a flying war fan struck her in the back of one of her legs severing it instantly. The dead teen fell towards the hard dry ground… And was swallowed instantly into it as she landed, no hole appeared for her to fall into, it was just like the ground had accepted her back into it without a trace. Even the remains of her severed leg disappeared back into the ground as if it had never lain there.
The Lunch Lady poised with her other war fan peered around suspiciously. "I doubt it was that easy." She muttered. Seeing nothing but the harmless looking dead garden she walked over to where her thrown war fan lay on the ground and bent over to pick it up.
She just had time to hear the Sensei yell out a warning for her not to, when dirty dark strands of hair erupted from the ground and latching on to the back of her head drove her face first into the solid packed earth.
Kim and Shego watched as their two fireballs headed for the dead teen Hoshi poised above Ron only to see two wet slimy strands of hair dip down from the ceiling and catch the fireballs and throw them harmlessly to one side of the room. The wet hair sizzled as the fireballs hit and were temporarily cradled in them but they did not burn like the dry sister Asami's hair had done.
Hearing the unmistakable sounds of the door slamming behind them, both women glanced over their shoulders to see the door and indeed the wall was gone, now covered in a thick disgusting mass of wet slimy hair. Wet hair dangled from the ceilings, the walls were covered in the slowly moving mass. The only objects not completely covered in the mess was Shego and Rufus, Kim, Ron, the dead girl Hoshi herself and the eyes of Yori as she struggled against the wall she was plastered to. Realizing how easy it would be to lose Rufus in the mass of moving hair if he were to fall off of her shoulder, Shego reached up and gently put him into a pocket on her skirt. A pocket that was closable with a Velcro flap. "Stay in there Rufus where you'll be safe." She muttered to the naked mole rat. Rufus looked like he was going to argue but seeing a strand of hair moving towards them he reluctantly nodded his head.
Having seen to Rufus's safety Shego roared as she charged across the room towards the dead teen standing over Ron's body. "Get away from him you bitch!" A thick strand of wet hair lashed down from the ceiling once again, almost as if it was a fireman's runaway hose and slammed into Shego throwing her across the room to crash next to where Yori was struggling.
Yori's desperate struggles managed to free her mouth from the slimy choking hair covering it and cried out to Shego. "Release me so that I may help you and Kim save Ron!"
"Release you?! You are the reason we are all in this mess!" Shego shouted at her and started to pull away from the wall. She was stopped as Kim was thrown across the room to slam into her and they both slid down the wet hair covering the wall to slump on the floor.
Yori strapped to the wall by the hair couldn't follow their fall, she practically had to stare straight forward the hair had such a grip on her. "I know. And I am deeply ashamed and dishonored by what happened but I wasn't in control! Well, not completely. You need my help if you are to stop Hoshi from what she plans for Ron-san."
"We don't need anyone's help to spank that bitch." Shego growled as she helped Kim to her feet. Both women had to pause however when they noticed that Hoshi was no longer in the middle of the room and seemed to have merged into the masses of hair moving along the walls in the room. A naked Ron was still lying in the center of the room but no hair was around him at the moment, not even the strands that had been so obscenely stroking him earlier.
Shego started to rush to him but was held back by Kim. "It is probably a trap. That thing didn't go to such effort to get Ron as to let him go now!"
"Kim-san! Shego-san!" Yori called out.
Both women glanced at her and then to where she was frantically looking. Dark strands of hair had slithered across the floor and were under Ron's shoulders and inch by inch they were pulling him towards a very dark corner of the room. As Kim and Shego looked on, twin glowing eyes revealed themselves in the dark shadows of that corner.
"What is that crazy bitch doing now?" Shego asked.
"If she can't have a living Ron she plans to drag him to the other side to be her lover!" Yori cried out.
Shego and Kim took a step in Ron's direction but paused as thick strands of hair dripping slime moved down from the ceiling to block their path. The hair was bunched together and looked like tentacles waving about.
Kim looked over at Shego and then back at the stuck Yori as if to say, 'we really could use her help.'
Shego looked unhappy but nodded her head. Turning both her and Kim caused their power to glow in their hands and grasping the hair on either side of Yori they began the laborious task of searing and pulling the hair off of her. With a final massive tug they caused the main portion of hair to release Yori and she slumped gratefully to the floor.
Shego let out a growl when she noticed the ninja woman was naked and correctly jumped to the conclusion that she had been either molesting Ron or had been preparing to when she was double crossed by the dead teen girl.
Yori leapt to her feet and dove across the room, in a direction opposite to the one Ron was being pulled. For a moment Shego and Kim thought the ninja had betrayed them once again and was trying to escape through the covered door to the room but noticed the woman was headed for yet another wall of the room and was pulling the hair away from something on that wall.
Kim felt a angry tick develop under her left eye when she saw that Yori was uncovering a picture of Shego with several deadly sharp looking throwing stars piercing it. She realized a moment later what Yori was thinking when the ninja pulled the stars free from the picture and turning rushed back towards the hair dangling from the ceiling. Slashing wildly with the deadly sharp blades Yori managed to open enough space for Kim and Shego to dive through to reach Ron.
However, before the two women could reach him, the strands pulling Ron jerked savagely pulling him out of their reach towards the corner while more hair sprang from the ceiling wrapping around their throats.
Yori immediately tried to rush to their aid but was stopped as more hair caught her by her legs and hoisted her into the air. Almost immediately the hair began pulling on Yori's legs in opposite directions and the ninja knew she only had moments before the supernaturally strong hair ripped her in half.
Hoshi had reformed from the crawling hair on the walls and stood watching the three women as they neared death. Kim and Shego slowly suffocating as the hair around their throats constricted closing off any hopes of air while Yori resisted the urge to scream in agony as her legs neared the point of dislocation right before being ripped off.
"Ron help me!" Yori screamed but the drug she had herself poisoned him with kept the blond man unconscious. Struggling silently for a few moments Yori tried to reach the hair holding her legs with one of the throwing stars she was still clutching, finally seeing Kim's face turn blue and Shego's a greenish purple, Yori cried out with what she knew would get through to Ron's drugged mind. "Ron, your lovers Kim and Shego are dying!"
Ron lay… Well he wasn't really sure where he was lying, but it was dark and he supposed it could be considered peaceful but he couldn't shake the feeling he was suppose to be somewhere, somewhere important? Maybe he was supposed to meet someone some place, maybe at Bueno Nacho?
Ron turned his head to ask Rufus sitting on his shoulder but then realized that Rufus wasn't on his shoulder, in fact Ron couldn't see his shoulder or anything else. Everywhere was the same darkness. Pondering for a moment Ron realized he couldn't even remember what a Rufus was or why he expected it to be sitting on his shoulder anyway.
Off in a great distance Ron heard a voice. He thought he should know the voice but he couldn't get his mind to focus enough to recognize it. "Ron help me!" The voice cried.
Well sure, the Ron man was all about the helping. He lived to help others and enjoyed doing so but he couldn't tell who the voice belonged to or what direction it was calling from. Left, right, up and down were all the same blackness he was floating in.
"Blackness? Is that a real word? Maybe I'm floating in black Jello? Do they make blackJello? Wonder what flavor that would be? Licorice maybe? I should ask…" Ron's mind ground to a halt. Who should he ask? He had the distinct impression that there was usually someone he asked when he couldn't think of something. Someone he had relied on for a very long time… And then there was the nagging feeling in the back of his skull that there was a new someone he had come to rely on to help him too. What were their names again?
Ron became aware of a soft sibilant voice whispering to him. "Relax. Sleeeep." The voice whispered to him. Off in the distance Ron could see a bright light start to shine and he idly wondered if maybe he should move towards the light away from the darkness. After all, that did seem to be the right thing to do when one was stuck in darkness, right? Go towards the light?
"No…" The soft voice whispered to him. "The light is bad. Stay with me. Stay with me forever." The darkness whispered.
That didn't seem right but then again who was Ron to argue with the darkness? Maybe it knew what was right?
"Ron, your lovers Kim and Shego are dying!" Ron heard the other voice from before shout out.
"Kim? Shego?"Ron's mind questioned. Instantly a mosaic of rapid pictures passed through Ron's sluggish mind. Images that floated past Ron as if they were being shown on planes of glass, images of a stunning redhead's smile, of a raven haired green skinned woman's sultry look, of naked bodies intertwined in passion, of eyes aglow with love.
"Kim? Shego?" Ron muttered as his body was being dragged along the floor towards the corner of the room. Suddenly his eyes flew open and glowed a bright blue. Leaping to his feet he ripped the hair holding him by the shoulders off and stood unsteadily.
Seeing slimy looking hair everywhere he looked and spying the still bodies of Kim and Shego, Ron lifted his hand into the air and weakly muttered. "Lotus Blade come to my hand."
Yori with tears in her eyes from the pain and strain of trying to keep the hair from tearing off her limbs watched as Ron freed himself, she tried to get his attention but it was obvious he only had eyes for Kim and Shego. Even still Yori felt a surge of desire hit her as she watched Ron hold his hand out and summoned the mystic Lotus Blade, the blade that would only respond to a true Monkey Master. The blade appeared in a burst of light in Ron's hand and Ron instantly slashed at the hair throttling Shego and Kim. The strands of supernatural hair stronger than the strongest steel parted as if they were mere spider webs as the blade touched them. Ron started to drop to his knees to check on his loves but at the last moment noticed Yori hanging in mid air as if she was some exotic piñata and with a final slash of his blade freed her legs from the hair holding her.
Yori dropped to her feet in a ready stance, even though she did wince in pain as her abused muscles let her know they were far from in prime condition for a fight.
The hair along the walls and ceiling tensed and twitched, preparing itself to rip them all apart but Ron spared not a look at them but drove the Lotus Blade into the floor near the fallen Kim and Shego.
"Protect." Ron muttered to the blade as he bent over to check first Kim and then Shego for signs of life. As hair sprang from the walls to attack, a blue shield of energy formed over the four people and the hair could only lash at the barrier ineffectively.
Yori with a sick surge of dark joy noticed that both Shego and Kim were very near death. Ron would only have time to save one of them. The other was bound to succumb while he breathed life into the other. Even though she was no longer under the control of the sisters, Yori still couldn't stop the thought that if one of Ron's lovers were to die, she could take their place, perhaps it was destiny that this should happen? Slumping to the floor she feigned unconsciousness so Ron couldn't ask her to help him to revive them.
Ron's movements became frantic as he pulled the clinging strands of hair from around Kim and Shego's throats as he too realized he would only have time to perform CPR on one of them.
"No. NO! I can't lose either of you!" Ron cried to the room.
Yori felt a wave of self hate so deeply she herself almost stopped breathing. How could she cause such pain to someone she professed to love? How could she do nothing while Ron lost someone who obviously meant the world to him, no matter which one it would be? She started to rise from her position on the floor to offer to attempt to revive one while Ron worked on the other when she saw a sight she would remember to her dying days.
Ron leaned backwards and placing a hand on Kim's chest he then placed the other hand on Shego's chest. With his eyes glowing blue like an arc wielder, he silently screamed. The blue fire in his eyes leapt along his arms into the women's chests and both Kim and Shego's backs arched as the power fed into them.
At the same time a green glow appeared around both women's bodies and slowly began to wrap around the blue fire coming down Ron's arms. It wasn't like the green glow was trying to fight off the blue, but almost as if it was lovingly caressing and welcoming it. The green fire traced backwards along Ron's arms until it was lightly caressing either side of his face. As Yori looked on, she could see Kim and Shego's hands twitch from where they lay and then slowly start to close the distance between them. As the two women's fingers laced together the blue glow of Ron's leapt along their clasped hands with the green glow following along.
As the fire and glow connected all three, it formed into a large triangle and grew brighter and brighter till Yori had to look away from the glare. Looking at the walls of the room she noticed the wet hair hanging there grew dry looking before it puffed away into dust and was gone.
The dead teen Hoshi started to back away from the building power and as Yori watched, water began to stream out of the dead teen's mouth, nose and eyes to dry almost instantly upon leaving her. As Hoshi neared the farthest corner of the room away from them, her naked form became clothed in a clean attractive looking kimono. Reaching the corner the dead girl huddled into a ball as if she was trying to hide herself from the glow.
The glow dimmed somewhat as with a sigh Ron leaned back but even though he was no longer in contact with Kim or Shego the blue and green flames continued to lightly flicker over his naked body. Yori could see that the bruises and signs of injuries on Shego and Kim's body had faded as both women started to slowly sit up as they blinked and tried to figure out just what had happened.
Ron standing up turned and with slow deliberate steps walked over to where the dead creature that had almost killed the loves of his life was huddled. Lowering himself down he reached out a hand and gently turned the creature's face up to look at him. Gone were the milky white staring eyes and the bloated face of a drowned teen. What looked up into Ron's eyes was the face of a sad looking girl with brown eyes.
"It's time for you to go little one." Ron his voice thick with compassion told her.
"I should go towards the light?" Hoshi asked slowly in English. The teen looked past Ron's shoulder at a distant wall of the room as if seeing something only she could see.
Ron nodded his head. "He waits for you on the other side."
The dead teen looked back into Ron's eyes. "Richard-san waits for me?" She asked, hope evident in her voice.
Again Ron nodded his head.
Hoshi rose to her feet and stepping around Ron she slowly made her way towards the distant wall. Stopping midway she turned to look back at him and bowed deeply from the waist in his direction. "Domo arigato." She said.
A bright clean light filled the room and after it faded she was gone.
Lunch Lady managed to turn her head from where it had been slammed into the ground and with a forceful blast of air she blew the dust out of her nose, the strength of the hair was too great for her to pull free but at least by managing to turn her head she stayed off suffocating. From the angle in which she was pinned the Lunch Lady could do nothing more than watch as Sensei continued to move fluidly and gracefully around the garden area avoiding hair shooting up from the ground trying to ensnare him. At one point the Sensei neared a fallen tree branch and without pause he leapt gracefully over it only to find strands of hair already out of the ground awaiting him, instantly the strands of hair shot up from underneath him and catching on to an ankle drew him back down.
Lunch Lady was privy to a sight she had never seen before as Sensei was slammed down to the ground next to her. On his face was a very rare look of surprise.
"No fortune cookie words of comfort?" She asked him as they both struggled to rise as more hair sprung up around them and tried to crush them against the earth.
Sensei shot her an annoyed look which the Lunch Lady counted as yet another hardly ever observed emotion on his face. "The words, look before you leap come to mind but it is a bit late for it now." Sensei muttered to himself.
From the position she was pinned in, the Lunch Lady was looking at the back gate of the garden away from the house but that did not stop her from hearing the sound of running feet coming from that direction.
"Let them go!" She heard Big Ears order.
Feeling like a spectator at an important Sumo wrestling event and being placed behind a column, the Lunch Lady could only see out of the corner of her eye as Asami reformed out of a pillar of hair that erupted from the ground and stood staring at something out of Lunch Lady's viewing angle.
"Your sister is gone. She has passed to the other side and you need to as well." Ron's voice was heard.
Asami's face pulled back in a snarl or rage at hearing her sister was beyond her reach now forever.
"I have no idea what happened here to lead to this." Ron continued. "But I could see that your sister was free from dishonor and disgrace and she has moved on to her reward…" Ron's voice paused for a moment. "But I see that you are not free from dishonor and disgrace. Perhaps your sister's death was an accident but I can see that you knowingly killed at least one other person. Probably the Richard your sister mentioned as she exited into the light?"
Asami growled at the mention of that hated American name and crouched in preparation to leaping at Ron. Lunch Lady could see a mighty blue / green light spring into being. A light so strong it drowned out the bright afternoon sunlight that had been pouring into the garden and cast shadows.
Asami froze as the light washed over her. She stumbled backwards as the light began to cause her skin to crack and start to flake off. Lunch Lady was in a perfect position to watch as the dead girl fell to the ground near her and her sightless eyes stared into hers.
Lunch Lady was made of stern stuff and seen much in her life so she managed to resist screaming as long wicked looking talons broke the ground near Asami and latching on to her body started to pull the teen into the ground. As the hair holding the Lunch Lady and Sensei began to weaken and Asami was pulled into the ground, the dead teen looked once more into Lunch Lady's eyes and the girl's mouth moved. "I'm sorry." She quietly said and then she and the demon like talons pulling her into the ground were gone.
The Lunch Lady with a shiver leapt up from where she had been lying and turned to look in the house's direction. She could see that Shego and Kim were unharmed, although by their clothing they had been through Hell. Once again the woman shivered at the word hell with what she had just seen with Asami and the claws.
Looking towards Ron she saw… The Lunch Lady blinked and looked again.
"I see Big Ears that your ears are not the only thing big on you." She finally stated.
Ron looked at her in confusion and then looked down his own body. Blinking a few times of his own and turning bright red, he glanced over at Shego and Kim.
"Um, guys? Can you explain to me why I am standing in a garden completely naked?" He asked.
Sensei from where he had risen from the ground stroked his mustache. "I am not aware of this fighting technique Chosen One. Would one call it the Naked Mystical Monkey attack?"
Ron standing totally naked with only the Lotus Blade in one hand started to cover himself but stopped when he realized he had started to cover himself with the hand holding the blade. Realizing he had just came really close to performing another circumcision on himself, he opened his hand and as the blade started to drop he said. "Return till needed." The blade flashed out of existence as it neared hitting the ground to return to Yamanouchi till the next time its master required its services again.
Sensei watched as Yori came running out of the house behind Ron, Kim and Shego. To his trained eye it was apparent from the wrinkled skirt and the way the blouse she was wearing was sticking through the side zipper of said skirt that she had hastily gotten dressed. As she neared Ron's back she reached out a hand to put on his shoulder but was stopped as Shego spun on one heel and caught her hand in an iron grip.
"I merely wanted to give Ron his clothing. I realized when he ran from the room that he was still unclothed and I knew he would want to get dressed as soon as he could." Yori replied refusing to look up and meet anyone's eyes.
Sensei noticed that in her other hand, true to her words she was carrying items of Ron's clothing.
Shego said nothing but reaching out she took the clothes from Yori and releasing her hand she gave the ninja woman a glare that plainly stated, "back off."
Yori without a word took several steps away from the group and remained looking downward. Shego handed Ron the clothing and as he went inside to get dressed, she opened the pocket on her skirt and looked inside. "You okay Rufus?"
The naked mole rat stuck his head out of her skirt pocket and looked around. "Nasty bitches gone?" He finally squeaked.
Kim looked at Rufus in shock. "Where are you learning such language?" She asked him
Rufus glanced up at Shego and then tried his best to look innocent.
"Way to rat me out." Shego muttered.
Rufus scrambled up her skirt and onto her shoulder and gave her cheek a hug.
"Yeah yeah. Sucking up and flattery will get you nowhere." Shego told him but couldn't help a grin coming over her face.
A now dressed but still blushing Ron came out of the house and walked back towards the group. "Okay there are two things right off." He stated. "The first is, I think I helped those spirits, ghost things to cross over but their bodies are still buried on this lot. The girl upstairs is buried under the pond and I think there is a man's body over there too. The girl that had dirt all over her is buried under that tree over there. We need to get them a proper burial." Ron with his eyes still glowing slightly greenish blue pointed at the spots named.
Lunch Lady nodded her head. "I know an old friend nearby who owns a temple. I'm sure him and his granddaughter Rei will perform the proper ceremonies for us and will not ask too many awkward questions."
Ron nodded his head.
"And the second thing?" Kim asked as she leaned next to her man and placed an arm around his waist as Shego took his other side.
"Can someone please tell me what the heck has been going on?" Ron asked in a plaintive voice.
Sensei looked pointedly at his student Yori who still refused to look anyone in the eye and replied. "There is much explanations that need to be done I believe."
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Author's Note:
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The sisters are now at 'rest'. One of them gone on to heaven for her only crime had been falling in love with a older man and then refusing to give up her lust and desire to lose her virginity when she died and the other on to Hell for her punishment for killing a man and then her sister.
For those that wondered, Asami hadn't planned on killing her sister Hoshi. She did try to sneak into the shower in an attempt to seduce her after the American was gone and when Hoshi resisted, she had told her sister all she had done in 'love' for her and Hoshi had tried to escape. Hoshi slipped in the tub and hit her head. Asami in panic fled the room leaving her sister face down in the water and allowed by not helping her sister for her to drown. She then drug the body out and working through the night dug up the pond where she had already hidden the body of the American Richard and buried her sister there.
The American she had killed in his sleep by taking her long hair and wrapping around his throat strangling him while she sat on top of him with his arms pinned to his side. She had made sure that night the American was deeply drunk on Sake so he couldn't resist. So it was premeditated cold blooded murder and that is why she wasn't absolved from her sin the way Ron was able to do with Hoshi.
We're nearing the end of this story. Maybe just one or two more chapters to go.
About Yori. I've gotten almost as many requests that I kill her off as I have for me to allow her to join Ron, Shego and Kim in their trysts. I have my plans for Yori but I'm not going to tell them here.
On Ron. Poor Ron. It used to be just losing his pants in embarrassing situations. Now he's losing his entire clothing!