The Lusting
Chapter 13
Carrying torches, Sensei and Lunch Lady led Kim, Ron and Shego through a long narrow rocky passage through an ancient mountain that was a good hike away from the Yamanouchi School. The Sensei leading while Lunch Lady brought up the rear, the trio of lovers/friends/soulmates were in the middle and was dressed in what was easily determined to be combat training clothes but in an somehow older fashion that what was normally worn at Yamanouchi.
"The original Monkey Master before carving the school out of solid rock of the mountain first came to this cave but he was not alone." Sensei told them in his deep voice. "He came with a friend whom he had known since childhood. The two were inseparable and did everything together but when the Monkey Master forged the great sword Lotus Blade using his immense power and mystical skills, his childhood friend began to covet it and became jealous of the power his friend had developed. Their first night they spent on this mountain it was storming mightily so the Monkey Master found this passage that we are traveling through now and searched it looking for a dry place that he and his friend could spend the night. It is said when they reached the end of the passage they found a small space barely large enough for one to stand up in. The Monkey Master first used the tremendous power of the Lotus Blade to carve a space for them to spend the night in comfort in."
Sensei paused and Kim and Shego were surprised to hear him sigh. "It is said that this display of power was what caused the Monkey Master's friend to finally turn on him and try to seize the power for himself and this is where the Monkey Master's heart was broken…"
"Broken?" Shego interrupted.
Lunch Lady gave a soft snort. "Some versions of the story have it that the 'friend' was more of a secret lover of the Monkey Master."
"Whatever the truth of the matter is, we know from scrolls written by the Monkey Master himself what happened afterwards." Sensei continued his story.
"Why do I have the feeling this story doesn't have a happy ending?" Ron asked.
"No Ron-san, it does not." Sensei leading the way didn't bother to look back as he replied. "The Monkey Master's friend having followed him since childhood knew almost as much of the mystical monkey training as the Master did and challenged him for ownership of the sword, even though the Master had forged the sword himself and was obviously its rightful master. So the room carved and formed by the Monkey Master for comfort and protection for him and his friend became a chamber of combat as they fought over the Lotus Blade." Sensei paused for a moment. "Much is made over how absolute power can corrupt the bearer of the power but not much is ever said of the terrible things it can do to those nearby. How it can seduce and subvert and turn friends and lovers into enemies."
"What happened to the Monkey Master's friend?" Kim asked.
"The Monkey Master eventually had to destroy him. His lust for power had driven all reason from him and there was nothing else the Monkey Master could do." Sensei paused as the passage ended in front of a massive iron door. "This chamber the Monkey Master carved into the heart of the mountain has been used by the school for special occasions since that day. It is here new recruits are brought first so it may be explained to them that if they choose to become students their old lives end and their new ones may begin. Those at that point who cannot commit to the school are allowed to return to their old lives without having ever seen the school proper. Graduating students are brought here also for a solemn ceremony where they pledge to stand against the darkness and desires of power to protect the innocent."
The Sensei pulled on the massive single ring in the center of the door and pulled it open. The door made an ominous clang as it opened and hit the rocky wall of the passage. "And this is also where friends at the school who have conflicts are sent to solve their problems. Away from others so they may resolve it in whatever manner they find best to."
Ron took a nervous swallow. "That sounds kind of ominous. How many of them solve their arguments by only one coming back?"
It was the Lunch Lady who answered him. "Not many. But there have been a few. No questions are asked of the one who returns alone and the other is never mentioned again."
The Sensei looked as if he wanted to say something but settled for merely sighing again and gesturing for Ron, Kim and Shego to enter.
Ron paused at the entrance to the chamber, he said nothing to Sensei but his look plainly asked him if he thought this was such a good idea? Sensei nodded his head slightly and said. "Listen to your heart Ron-san but do not let it override your mind. Remember the way of the ninja is heart, mind and soul. Let all three guide you and listen to the insights they may bring you."
Ron gulped but nodded his head and entered the room. Shego bringing up the rear glanced back at Sensei and Lunch Lady. "You two are not coming in?" She asked.
Lunch Lady shook her head. "This is for you four to settle among yourselves. We will be back in the morning to take you to the airport for your ride back to the United States." She turned to leave. "Or to pay you the proper respects and see to your burials if it comes to that." She muttered.
Shego glanced sharply at her and then looked to the Sensei. He remained inscrutable however and just stood there waiting for Shego to enter the room. As soon as she did Shego could feel the massive door behind her closing and the dull clang it made as it sealed the room. The chamber itself was perfectly round with a rounded dome high above them. Along the padded walls torches flared and sputtered casting light. A small hole in the center of the dome ceiling provided ventilation and a path for the smoke from the torches to escape. The floor of the chamber was perfectly flat and Shego could make out some kind of faded pattern painted on the floor. Cocking her head and staring for a moment she could make out it was a stylized Lotus blossom.
Sitting in the middle of the room in the dead center of the Lotus pattern was Yori waiting for their arrival. She too was dressed in an old style training uniform of white, she had her eyes closed and seemed to be meditating.
Ron unsure of exactly what they were supposed to do sat down across from Yori on the hard floor and waited. Kim and Shego glanced at each other and with a shrug took a place on either side of him and sat down as well. Finally Shego, never the patient one, cleared her throat. "Okay Yori, we're here. I believe you have some explaining to do?"
Yori opened her eyes and found herself staring across into Ron's eyes. She quickly dropped her eyes to stare at the floor.
"Ron-san, Kim-san, Shego-san." She began tentatively. "I first want you to know that I deeply sorry about what has happened."
"Sorry that it happened or sorry that me or Kim is not dead and you are not by Ron's side right at this moment?" Shego asked.
"Why don't you start at the beginning?" Kim suggested but in a slightly less hostile manner than Shego.
Yori explained without looking up at them how she had found the scroll in the scroll room stating that Ron was going to take another mate and how she had thought it referred to her, on finding that out through newspaper stories and ninja observer reports about Shego miraculously turning good and joining Team Possible. About how she had found the cursed house while looking for property for Yamanouchi and how the sisters had whispered to her and eventually took control of her mind and convinced her that Shego was trying to take her place to be the Chosen One's next mate. How she had started to realize that Kim and Shego were keeping Ron from his destiny of being the Chosen One and holding him back and she ended with how they all knew things had ended.
Neither Shego, Kim nor Ron interrupted her at any point but just listened but as soon as she finished Shego leaned forward. "And that makes it all right does it?"
Yori looked up and met Shego's eyes. "We all survived didn't we?"
Shego's green eyes flashed dangerously. "Do you know after you drugged Kim that she stumbled outside and was picked up by some scum in a van? Do you know they were a gang that specialized in raping young women and filming it to make money? Do you realize or even care that if I didn't have my powers and had not been able to throw off your drugging, that Kim at this moment would probably be dead and perhaps dozens of low lives would be watching her last moments to get their jollies?" Shego's voice that had started low had risen till she was shouting.
Yori blinked at her in surprise. In truth no one had told her about that. She had assumed that both Shego and Kim had remained somewhere on the property till they had rushed in to save Ron from the spirit Hoshi.
"I had not known." Yori said slowly. "But if she had only stayed in the kitchen…"
"Oh that is it." Shego growled as she launched herself from a sitting position over to where Yori was sitting. Slamming into her she knocked Yori back against the hard floor and pinned her arms to her side and started bitch slapping her face. Even in her rage Shego was careful not to use her plasma powers or even to double up a fist and hit Yori but just slapped her.
Yori at first remained passive and allowed Shego to slap her. After all if what Shego was saying was true, she deserved it for almost getting Kim raped but soon her pride rose. She was a ninja and she was letting Shego beat her up in front of the Chosen One! This just wouldn't do, no matter how much she might deserve it.
Suddenly bucking her hips she threw Shego over her head and leapt to her feet. Taking a defensive position she waited. "I am truly sorry but what more do you want from me?"
Shego her eyes blazing hissed at her. "If Kim had been touched in any way I wouldn't just want, I would have your blood all over this freaking mountain!"
"If she was worthy to be the Chosen One's mate she shouldn't have been caught off guard like that to be drugged in the first place!" Yori yelled back. Her own eyes widened as she realized what she in her pride and still hurt on Ron's choices had said.
Shego's eyes nearly burst into blue flames in rage and she launched across the room and caught Yori around the middle to slam her into a distant padded wall. At first she had refrained from using her plasma powers or the mystical monkey power because she was trying to be more compassionate and forgiving as her guide advised her to be but now? Now she was just so enraged by Yori's seemingly uncaring attitude that she wanted to physically rip the young ninja apart with her bare hands.
Ron started to rise to his feet to try and stop the fight before it got out of hand and someone was hurt but was stopped by Kim's hand on his arm. Glancing over at her, he was surprised to see tears rolling down her face and he immediately dropped back to his seat and reaching over took her in his arms.
Even though Kim was crying she still managed to say fairly calmly. "If you stop Shego now what will she think?"
"But Kim…"
"She'll think you don't care that I was almost raped and that you care more about Yori than you do either of us." Kim stated as she sobbed.
Ron's eyes grew large. "No Kim! I love you and Shego! If anyone had touched you or Shego I don't know what I would have done!" Ron started crying too as he clung to Kim.
Hearing Kim and Ron crying behind her caused a red haze to cover Shego's sight. "You had no right to try to tie someone down and take advantage of them just because they are different!" She screamed so loudly her voice broke.
This caught Yori in confusion. "What?" She asked but in no way lowered her guard.
"You tied Ronnie down and while he was in no condition to try and deny you, you tried to take advantage of him!" Shego screamed as tears suddenly appeared in her eyes and started to flow.
"I just wanted to prove to the Chosen One how good we could be together." Yori said but had the decency to look down guiltily. "I was under the control of the sisters!"
Ron still clutching Kim pulled/helped her to her feet and together they rushed over to embrace Shego in a group hug and hold her. Ron looked over at Yori and Yori felt like the mountain had fallen on her when she saw the hard look in his eyes. "Shego was almost raped as a teen by someone who drugged and tied her down." He said.
Shego was sobbing and clenching her fists. "Damn it! I'm Shego!" She roared at the ceiling. "I will not be broken like this! I vowed never again to let it affect me!"
Ron pulled her to his chest and rubbed her back. "It's okay baby. It's okay. No one will ever hurt you again as long as I live. I'm sorry I wasn't there for you and Kim…"
Shego pulled back enough to stare into his face. "You big dufus! You were the one that was almost raped! You and Kim! If anyone should apologize for not protecting someone it should be me! I'm the cynical one that trusts nobody. I should have been on guard!"
Kim was crying, Shego was crying, even Ron had tears running down his face as he tried to find the right words to say to the women in his life that he loved more than life itself.
Yori tried to explain to make Ron understand it wasn't really her fault. "Ron-san…" She began.
"Oh you do remember my name?" Ron asked her, his voice cold as he held his lovers and glared at her
"I don't understand."
"I listened to your explanation Yori and through it all you kept calling me the Chosen One…"
"That is who you are."
"No. I'm Ron Stoppable. Yamanouchi may have given me that name. Fate may have decided to call me that. Hell I don't know, maybe even God himself has decided to give me that job title but I do know that under it all I am just Ron. Don't you see Yori? You aren't in love with me. You don't even want me, you lust after the title. You want to be the mate of 'The Chosen One', not Ron Stoppable. You don't even know the real me."
"I know you as well as she does!" Yori cried pointing at Shego.
Ron shook his head but this time sadly. "No. You don't. Shego has talked to me and really listened to my replies. She has taken the time to get to know me. Every time you got close to knowing me you would just giggle and say, 'oh Ron-san always with the American style humor.' And change subjects. I'm sorry, really I am Yori but you don't know me. They do. And they love me and I love them."
"But all I want is for you to reach your full potential Ron-san!" Yori stated.
Kim pulled away from Ron and stepped in front of Yori this time it was her eyes blazing in anger. "Don't say that! You have no idea how many times in my pride and ego I said the exact same thing to Ron. How I tried to change him to fit what I thought he should be and every time Ron tried to change for me he came close to losing what makes him, himself. I was a fool and you are one now too. If you truly loved Ron you would have let him make up his own mind on what he wanted and needed but you tried to take that choice from him all the while telling yourself you know what is best for him!"
Yori looked sadly down at the floor as she could not argue against Kim's point. "If it will make you feel better Kim-san, you may strike me for what I almost did to Ron, you and to Shego. I deserve it."
Kim shook her head. "I'm not going to hit you Yori. I'm not going to hit you. I'm not going to… Aww Hell like I'm not!" Kim lashed out with a blow and catching Yori off guard knocked her back into the wall.
Shego broke free from Ron's embrace and ran over to Kim's side as Yori stumbled back to her feet.
"Ron gave you his friendship. When he was at this school the first time he had almost decided to quit but he stayed to rescue you. When I met you I was suspicious and I will admit I was jealous but I gave you my friendship and help too and Shego who didn't even know you tried to give you the benefit of the doubt but you accused her of being a whore and by your actions nearly destroyed all three of us. Give me one good reason why we shouldn't spend the rest of the night beating you to a pulp?" Kim hissed at the ninja woman.
Yori bowed her head. "I cannot give you any such reasons. I was under the control of the spirits of the sisters but even that does not excuse what I have done. I only can say you don't know how horrible it is to be under evil's influence and have no control of your own actions. All I can do is ask you to forgive me and give me a chance to redeem myself."
Kim started to stalk over to Yori but was stopped by Shego placing a hand on her arm. "Let it go Kim."
"But…"
"Her words made me think of the Deadites and the Necronomicon. Remember? I do know what it is like to be under evil's influence and say and do things I later regret. Ron and you were willing to give me a second chance, perhaps this is Fate's way of allowing me to pay it back?"
Kim softened her look at Shego but then glanced in suspicion at Yori. "So we should trust her around our Ron again?"
"Oh Hell no. I'm just saying we should forgive her. I won't trust her for a very long time after this but I'm willing to forgive now."
Yori bowed lowly in their direction. "Then are we, how do you Americans say it? Are we okay now?"
It was Ron that answered her. "We're not okay Yori but we're getting there and someday we will be."
Yori nodded her head. It wasn't quite what she had hoped for but she knew it was more than she deserved at the moment.
"So can we go back to Yamanouchi now?" Ron said turning to the large iron door that blocked their exit.
"No Ron-san. We must stay till morning. The door cannot be opened from this side. The purpose of this room when it is used to resolve conflicts is to make sure a true resolution has been reached." Yori explained.
"We have to sleep in here?" Shego growled. After the emotional draining experience she had just gone through all she wanted to do was go back to their room and cuddle with her Kimmie and Ron. She as sure as Hell wasn't going to do that with Yori watching on. Realizing another of her plans for intimate time with Kim and Ron were ruined Shego walked back to Ron and grabbed him by one arm. She could see that Kim had his other arm already. "Come on then Ron let's go to the other side of the room and try to get some sleep."
Between the two of them they led Ron to one side and sat him down. Then they took their spots on either side of him and lifting his arms they snuggled into his side.
Yori watched them for a moment before sitting down on the far side away from them. She shivered slightly as she wrapped her arms around her knees and tried to conserve body heat. The room in the heart of the mountain was cold and the stone floor leached heat from any body part in contact with it instantly.
"It is very cold in here." She stated after a few moments.
Shego who had snuggled into Ron's side opened her eyes and glanced across at her. "Really? Me and Kim seem to be quite comfortable."
Yori sighed.
Shego closed her eyes and reached around Ron's back to hold Kim's hand and with her other hand she reached around in front of Ron to hold Kim's other hand, bringing as much of her body in contact with Ron as she could. She hadn't been exaggerating to Yori. Holding Ron like this she did feel quite comfortable and she could see by the blissful smile on Kim's face she felt the same.
"It must be below freezing in here." Yori stated a few moments later.
Kim opened her eyes and looked across Ron's chest at Shego.
"Hell no. She is not snuggling with us for warmth." Shego hissed.
Hearing heavy breathing noises, Shego risked a glance in Yori's direction and saw that the ninja was now standing and was doing some rapid training movements to keep the blood flowing and to warm herself. Kim once again silently communicated with her eyes that it was going to be next to impossible to sleep with Yori moving about. Shego glanced up at Ron's face to see what he thought about the matter but wasn't surprised in the least when she noticed he was fast asleep. Once again Ron's ability to sleep anywhere and at any time when he wanted to had came to his rescue.
"We could set her on fire to keep her warm?" Shego whispered to Kim. Shego was pleased when Kim actually smiled at the comment before she shook her head. "We promised to give her another chance." Kim mouthed back to her.
"She is not sitting next to you for warmth." Shego flatly whispered to Kim.
"I don't want her next to you either." Kim whispered.
"Well she sure as hell isn't sitting in Ron's lap for warmth." Shego stated.
Kim frowned as she considered the problem. It was cold in the room, almost unnaturally so, but nobody wanted Yori to be close to the other person to share their warmth with her. They didn't have any jackets or other clothing they could give to Yori to keep warm. All they had was the fairly thin training uniforms and the soft boots on their feet. There was nothing in the room to burn for warmth and the only other heat source in the room was the torches that were very high up on the walls almost as if to discourage someone from tying to use them to keep warm by.
"Well I'll be damned." Kim muttered to herself but loudly enough that even Yori heard her and glanced over in question.
Shego raised an eyebrow. "What?"
"Yori said this room was sealed from the outside to make sure that any conflict was truly decided before the opponents were let out."
Shego nodded her head.
"This is how they mean to test it. No way to stay warm long enough to survive till morning unless enemies resolve their differences enough to be close enough to share body warmth."
Shego glanced over to a thoughtful looking Yori. "So how do we solve this puzzle if we truly want to give her another chance?"
Master Sensei sat at a low Japanese table in his room and looked across at Rufus who was sitting on the table looking back at him. Beside Rufus and sitting on the table in front of Sensei were some fine bone china tea cups. Sensei took a sip of his tea and waited for Rufus to take a drink from his. "So Rufus-san? Do you believe they will settle their differences this night?"
The naked mole rat shrugged his shoulders. "Don't know." He squeaked. "Hope so."
"I believe they will." Sensei stated. "Ron-san has a large heart and a forgiving nature and Kim-san has the forgiving nature of a hero."
"Shego?"
The Sensei smiled at the naked mole rat. "Shego-san for all her fierceness actually has a delicate soul and when given the chance her soul can be as forgiving as either Kim or Ron can be."
Rufus blinked at Sensei and reached up to scratch his head. Rufus liked Shego. He was starting to think the world of her just as he did Kim but a delicate and forgiving soul? He wasn't sure he was willing to go that far.
The next morning it was the Lunch Lady that was leading the way as she and Sensei, with Rufus riding on his shoulder, made their way down the rocky corridor to the foreboding iron door of the round room. Grabbing the ring on the door and praying they wouldn't find the room awash in blood she gave a mighty tug and pulled the massive door open.
She blinked at the sight that greeted them.
Lying in the exact center of the room were the four young people. Ron was at the bottom of the pile lying flat on his back and sound asleep. Lying on top of him was Kim and Shego, they were lying on him face down with their training uniform tops open so as to cover Ron's sides and so their naked upper bodies could share their heat with him better. Another reason their uniforms were open was because the sashes that closed them were in use somewhere else.
On top of the pile of people lay Yori, face up. Her backside insulated from the cold of the floor by the warm bodies underneath her. Her hands were tied in front of her via the use of either Kim or Shego's sash. The other sash was around Yori's middle and looped around the arms of Shego and Kim under her, making sure Yori didn't get up or move around sometime in the night.
"Not exactly the friendliest solution I've seen for the opponents challenge." Lunch Lady mused. "But it does get points for being creative."
Sensei nodded his head. "They at least didn't let Yori freeze last night so they must have reached at least a somewhat friendly conclusion."
Yori woke hearing their voices and raising her upper body she looked over at them. She quickly looked down at the floor rather than meet Sensei's eyes. "Master." She said softly in way of a greeting.
Shego and Kim feeling Yori moving on top of them also woke. Shego gave a sharp jerk of her back causing Yori to slide off of them to land on her butt. Getting up careful not to accidentally knee Ron in an unfortunate place and keeping their uniform tops closed with one hand, both her and Kim got up.
Kim quickly untied Yori's hand and used the now free sash to quickly tie up the front of her uniform.
Shego bent over the still sleeping Ron and using a hand she nudged him. "Time to wake up sleeping beauty." She stated.
Ron mumbled something in his sleep but gave no other indication he was willing to wake at the moment.
"Come on Ronnie… Time to rise."
Even sound asleep Ron's arm snapped out catching Shego around her waist and pulled her back on top of him. "It'll rise, just give it a moment." Ron muttered in his sleep. His other arm began questing about, looking for Kim no doubt.
"Whoa tiger! We're not alone. You gotta wake up." Shego said glancing back at an amused Lunch Lady and Sensei.
Ron continued to hold her down on top of him, and to make it worse his hand holding her started to slide down to her butt.
"Ron! Mr. Barkin sees you groping Kim in class!" Shego beginning to blush shouted into his ear.
"Kim was choking. It's a new form of the Heimlich Maneuver! One where instead of patting them on the back you pat them on the chest!" Ron shouted as he suddenly woke and sat up with Shego in his arms.
A bewildered Ron blinked and smiled at Shego. "Good morning." He said as he leaned in for a kiss. He paused when he realized his other arm was empty. "Where's Kim?"
"I'm over here. Next to Sensei, Lunch Lady and Yori." Kim replied
Ron glanced over at the group near the door. "Oh. Um, yeah. Eh. Um." He started to stutter.
"You are very entertaining in the mornings Big Ears." Lunch Lady said with a laugh.
Ron didn't think he could blush any more than he was doing right at the moment.
"Um Ronnie?" Shego quietly said into his ear. "Maybe it would be better if you took your hand off my butt now?"
"Okay I can blush more." Ron thought to himself as she quickly let go of Shego's butt and rising to his feet helped her to stand up as well.
Even though he was deeply embarrassed, it didn't stop him from putting his arm around Kim's waist as she joined him and Shego as they looked to Sensei and Lunch Lady.
"You have solved the problems between you?" Sensei asked but looked at Yori.
Yori nodded her head. "They do not trust me again yet but they have forgiven me for my weakness in allowing the sisters to influence me."
"Then you owe only one other being an apology." Sensei stated.
Yori looked confused for a moment before realization dawned. Turning she bowed at Rufus sitting on Sensei's shoulder. "I am very sorry I drugged and left you in a cage Rufus-san. Can you find it in your heart to forgive me?"
Rufus seemed to ponder a moment before holding up a tiny paw with a thumbs up gesture.
Yori bowed again. "Thank you Rufus-san. I promise that I shall never again betray your trust again."
Rufus squeaked something that suspiciously sounded like, "you better not."
Lunch Lady looked to Ron as he neared to leave the room. "I managed to gather and purchase all the items on your list Big Ears."
"Items? What items?" Shego and Kim asked at the same moment.
"Jinx. You owe me a coke." They both said at the same time. Shego shook her head at her and Kim being in perfect unison this morning.
"I felt bad that we didn't get to do any shopping on this trip and I wanted to get some gifts for family and friends back home." Ron explained. "That and I felt bad they couldn't find your luggage with all that lingerie you and Kim bought for this trip so I asked Lunch Lady if she could find some stuff on a list I made up."
Kim frowned. "Where did our entire luggage end up?" She asked.
Sensei shrugged. "I do not know. I suppose it is possible that the sisters stole it but if they did, what did they do with it? Nothing was found when my ninjas went back to get your stuff later. The house was empty of all your things."
Shego shrugged. "At least it was all new stuff and nothing we had worn or I would be a little weirded out that someone might be wearing it."
"I had all the packages delivered to the plane service you are using Big Ears. It waits for you there."
"Does she have to call me Big Ears?" Ron with a note of whining asked Sensei.
"I could call you Big something else?" Lunch Lady smirked back at him as she led the way through the tunnels that led out of the mountain.
"No. Big Ears is fine." Ron blushing again stated.
"So what did you buy us Ron?" Kim asked.
"You'll find out when we get back home." Ron said with a grin.
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Author notes:
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I've gotten a lot of requests that in the confrontation with Kim, Shego, Ron and Yori that it would start out as a fight and evolve into a make out session. I'm sorry to those that wanted that but I just couldn't see it.
I'm a bit of a method writer. What does that mean? Well in addition to writing as a hobby I also collect toy figures. I have book shelves filled with various toy characters and when I write, if I have a toy of that particular character I sit it on my computer tower and while I write I will glance over at the figure and literally ask it, "is this what you would do?"
Unfortunately with Kim Possible I haven't found any toy figures of them yet but I do the next best thing. I have dual monitors with my computer setup so while one monitor contains my writing software the other has desktop wallpaper of the main characters of KP. At the moment a lovely picture of Shego from some artist on deviantart is staring at me while I write. And when it came to the confrontation scenes I would look over at this Shego art and could almost hear in my mind her reminding me that I had wrote as a teen she had almost been raped (my story Dream Team) so she would take it deeply seriously and that I wrote that because of Yori, Kim had almost been raped and Yori was trying to do to Ron what anyone would call the same thing, attempted rape. So while Shego for Ron's sake and the fact that Yori wasn't exactly in control she might be willing to forgive but it will take a very long time before she trusts someone like that for her to allow intimacy between them, her or Ron or Kim.
I believe the fact that what Shego allowed to keep Yori from freezing in the chamber shows just how much she forgives her but intimacy with her, Kim or Ron?
Sorry all you Yori/Ron/Shego/Kim fans. Perhaps in a distant story but for right now? No.
The story of the chamber and the founder of Yamanouchi? I of course made all that up. Why did I make his lifelong friend and maybe lover a man instead of a woman?
Well I would hate to be a hypocrite and in my writings I often imply, if not downright state that I think who you love has more to do with the person and less with the gender. I've had lots of female/female parings but no male/male ones yet so I thought it was only fair I give that paring at least a brief nod in passing. And for those uncomfortable thinking the school was founded by a homosexual? Well I did say that one version of the story had they were lovers. Perhaps that story is wrong and they were just good friends? It is up to your interpretation.
The other reason I made the friend/companion/lover a male is that in almost all stories where one person covets someone else's power it turns out to be the woman who gives into the seduction of power, ala Adam and Eve. I believe women are given short shrift in too many stories. It is always the woman who faints, who loses her head and panics in dire situations, who trips while running away from the psycho/killer or who is enthralled by bling bling and does something she'll regret later. I hate that and prefer to write strong female characters.
I can hear some of you now. If you think women characters should always be portrayed as strong then why do I have Shego so hung up over what happened to her as a teen and still affecting her? Again it is my take on Shego's personality.
She is strong. She is independent and always wants to be in control over what happens to her. So for a person like that to have an incident in her past where she was helpless and almost taken advantage of? I believe it leaves a mental scar. One Shego has tried to bury and hide from but still influences her more than even she realizes. She hates Dr. Drakken cause he tried to leave her in a similar situation (my story Frequency of Evil), she realizes she could fall for Ron when he risks his life to save her from that situation (again Frequency of Evil), She realizes she really does love Ron and Kim when they refuse to abandon her in a similar situation (My story Trio) and now she mistrusts and almost hates Yori when, even unknowingly she almost causes the same situation for Ron and Kim.