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Chapter 17

It was several hours later that found Ranma walking out of the bathroom at his old place in Kuoh while he ran a towel over his head.

"Do you always walk around in a white tanktop and pants or are we just special?" Fubuki asked while grinning at him while she was laying on the couch, reading some manga. Yaku and Miko were sitting on some chairs and watching television before looking up to see Ranma walk down the stairs.

"Well, I could walk out here naked, since my parents aren't in town, but I'm not in the mood to get laid."

Fubuki smirked at him as she sat up. "Why not? The three of us could show you a hell of a good time."

Ranma rolled his eyes. "I'm not into casual flings. Don't have anything against them, but if I'm going to fuck anyone, I'd rather be able to go back to them more than once."

"Well, aren't you romantic?" Fubuki's smirk turned into a grin. "Well, if that's the case, if you don't mind, I'd like to make a request."

"I'm not fucking you in your Shikima form." Ranma answered, causing Fubuki to face-fault off of the couch. "That looks like it hurt."

Fubuki growled as she pulled the manga off of her face and stood up. "No! I was thinking about having you hire me as a long term ninja retainer." She stood a bit more straight as she presented herself to him. "One, I only use my Shikima form when I need to kill someone. Two, I'm curious about the larger world of the supernatural and according to Miko, you've got connections to China and Europe."

"I was thinking of heading to South America or Africa in a few years." Ranma mused. "They've got to have their own legends and gods there too, right? Even if they're all dead for whatever reason, I like to learn about that stuff. Besides, who knows what lives down there?"

"And that's what I mean." Fubuki said with a grin on her face. "Besides, you're the king of Makai, you need a bodyguard. No matter how strong you are, you need someone who can take out threats that you can't see."

Ranma cupped his chin in thought and nodded. "Not a bad proposal, but I have one question for you." Fubuki tilted her head and nodded. "Are you any good at cleaning?" He chuckled at her confused look. "We need maids to clean the castle and take care of stuff around the place. If you're serious about being a retainer..."

"I'm no maid." Fubuki gave Ranma a flat look. "Though I am better at cleaning than Miko is."

"And I tried so hard." Miko said with tears coming out of her eyes. "It's not my fault that I'm bad at cleaning."

"Would you rather wear a suit and tie and be a butler?" Ranma asked with a smirk as Fubuki glared at him. "Relax, you don't have to be a maid, but we'll need to talk to Lilith about your role. Bodyguard isn't a bad idea."

Fubuki grinned and Ranma looked at Yaku, who shook her head. "Nah, I don't want anything. I mean, unless you know how to control werewolf transformations."

Ranma shook his head. "Nope, sorry, not something I've personally come across. I suggest you go to the school in the morning and ask to meet with a few people. Rias Gremory might know, or the student body president, her name's Sona, she might know, and I know that Azazel would know better than anyone about that stuff. Why?"

"I have my reasons." Yaku said.

Fubuki smirked at her friend. "She's a werewolf that can only transform when there's a full moon and she's horny."

"HEY!" Yaku yelled as she got up from her chair and jumped at Fubuki, who grinned and grabbed Yaku out of the air, drove her feet upwards into Yaku's stomach, knocking the air out of the green-haired girl and then slamming her onto the ground, face-first while pinning Yaku down. "Oww! Just because you don't have boobs doesn't mean you can just abuse mine and YEOW!" Yaku cried out as Fubuki slapped her ass hard. "That hurt, Fubuki!"

"As you can see," Fubuki grinned at Ranma, "I'm pretty quick on my feet."

Ranma shrugged as Fubuki got off of Yaku, who got to her knees and cradled her boobs in her arms. "Alright, we'll talk to Lilith and figure out what to do with you. And, you?" He looked at Miko. "I can somewhat understand Fubuki, but why are you still here?"

Miko blushed lightly and looked away, muttering something.

"I didn't catch that and I can hear your heart beating." Ranma told her, causing her to look at him in confusion. "I'm a Devil, did you forget? Supernatural hearing, I can hear people having conversations from blocks away, so, what did you say?"

Miko took a deep breath and slowly let it out. "Fine, I want to join your group. What do you call it? A peerage or something?" Ranma gave her a flat stare.

"What?"

Miko groaned and hung her head. "Dad isn't happy about the fact that I left to help you out and told me that the only way he'd forgive me is if I had a kid and..."

"You do," Ranma interrupted her, emphasizing the second word, "realize that I can knock you up without needing to turn you into a Devil, right?" Miko gave him a confused look and he twitched. "...Did you think that Kuroka and Yasaka were part of my peerage?"

"...They aren't?" Miko asked, a dumbfounded look on her face. "But Kuroka's a Devil and Yasaka's your wife and..."

Ranma hung his head and shook it. "Look, if you want to have a kid with me, I won't say no, not right now, but you don't need to be turned into a Devil for that."

"Oh," Miko chuckled and rubbed the back of her head. "I guess I never bothered asking, my bad."

"Told you that you were thinking too hard." Yaku said as she shook her head. "Stupid ditz."

Miko had an angry expression on her face. "Hey!" Tentacles slid out from her back. "Let's see you, oww!" She yelled and rubbed her head, looking up at Ranma, who gave her a dirty look. "What?"

"I don't want to clean the mess up that you two would make if you got into a sexcraft battle here." Ranma told them and turned around. "If you'll excuse me, I need to check on Gabriel."

After Ranma left, Yaku gave Fubuki a dirty look. "Did you have to be so rough? Urgh, I know that you wanted to help us sell that you're a good ninja, and you are, but you didn't need to be so rough. My poor boobs are hurting."

"Aww, lemme kiss them and make it better." Fubuki said as she pulled Yaku's shirt up, letting her very large breasts flop out before she started licking and kissing them.

Miko stared before squirming. "Didn't Ranma say something about a training room in the back?" She gulped at the looks her friends gave her. "Oh come on, just because I have tentacles and a dick and..."

"Well, better you than some random asshole." Fubuki said as she and Yaku went over to Miko, grabbed her and dragged her to the dojo. "Besides, what you did to that Angel was hot, do it to me."

"And me!" Yaku grinned.

Miko sighed and hung her head as she was dragged into the dojo where her friends stripped naked and she joined them a moment later.

Besides, her dick was hard and she needed to get off.

(-)

Ranma paused as he walked to the guest room where Gabriel was. "Asmodues?" The mini-girl was looking somewhat thoughtful. "What are you doing here?"

"Making sure no one tries to hurt my sister." She answered Ranma while not looking at him. "Despite how things ended up, my brothers and sisters, even though we ended up at war with each other, I did love them."

"I'm... Kind of surprised that you still felt that way about them." Ranma answered her.

"I know, I'm weird." She smiled as she looked at him. "The biggest ball of horny the universe has ever seen, joined with three of my brothers and a bunch of selfish humans, waged war on my former family and yet I didn't want any real harm to come to them. If we hadn't been in a war, I probably would have had a rivalry with Azazel for having large harems." She shook her head. "Or maybe I would have ended up in his bed? I don't have a problem with that thought." Asmodues paused and nodded as she turned in mid-air to fully face Ranma. "Enough of me, I wonder though, do you love her?" Ranma blinked in confusion. "Gabriel I mean." She floated over to Ranma and patted him on the forehead. "I know that you have a lot of lust, but..." The tanned Devil smiled as she floated backwards. "You have a heart full of love for those who are closest to you. Don't fight your feelings. If she has them for you, embrace them."

"...Why tell me this?" Ranma asked her.

"Because I want her to be happy." Asmodues said softly. "I know you wouldn't do anything to make her Fall, but I doubt you would have fought so hard for someone you didn't truly care about."

She floated off, leaving Ranma to think about what she said.

(-)

In the guest room...

Gabriel, in a robe, smiled as she talked to Michael over an audio connection, which was indicated by a magic circle by Gabriel's ear. "I thank you for your concern, but right now I cannot return to Heaven. The time I spent chained up seems to have drained me of a significant portion of my strength. Thankfully being freed has allowed for it to return, but I think it will take all day."

"If you are certain that you are safe, I can arrange for young Irina to come and bring you home."

Gabriel closed her eyes and nodded. "Should my powers not be recovered to sufficient levels by dawn's first light, then I shall give her a call. There's a couple of things that I must do here first."

"I see, and what of the Angels who betrayed us?"

Gabriel's face was sad. "They are either dead or have Fallen. ...I fear we may need to have Lilith give another boost to Father's system to create new Angels. I... One of the betrayers was Cassiel, someone whom I was considering to be my backup in case something happened to me."

"...I see." Michael said with a soft sigh. "That is most unfortunate. Is she dead?"

"No, she was... Well, she became a Fallen and Azazel took her."

"I guess I shall have to give our brother a call."

There was a knocking at the door and Gabriel nodded. "I must go now, Lord Michael, I shall return to Heaven in the morning."

"Of course." Michael said as the connection ended and the magic circle ended.

"Come in." Gabriel said as the door opened and revealed Ranma, who looked in. "Hello."

"Hi." Ranma said as he walked into the room. "How are you feeling?"

"Better." Gabriel said as she rolled her shoulder. She walked over to the bed and sat down on it, patting the area next to her. "Please, join me. I wish to talk." Ranma nodded and sat down next to her. "Thank you," she smiled at him, "for saving me."

Ranma waved her off. "You don't need to thank me."

"Yes, I do." Gabriel said with a nod. "Father always instructed us to be thankful to those who deserve it." She smiled softly before her visage became sad. "I realize something. When I was captured, I was worrried that I was going to become a Fallen... When you were fighting, I could only worry about you. But at the same time..."

"Yes?" Ranma asked as he put a hand on her shoulder. "What?"

Gabriel sighed again. "Thinking about what Cassiel said to me. About how I was betraying Heaven for courting you. Maybe she was right? Maybe I put my own feelings ahead of my duty?"

"Maybe." Ranma nodded as he looked at the wall while Gabriel looked at him. "But is it wrong to want personal happiness? I understand duty and honor. There was something my magic teacher told me. He told me that if duty and happiness interfere with each other, you need to figure it out. Sometimes the right thing to do is follow your duty, but if it's too heavy..." He trailed off and shook his head. "So I've lived my life that way. Do my duty when I have to, but never let it consume me to the point I feel nothing but disgust towards it."

"...I wish I could be that free." Gabriel said softly. "But maybe..."

"Maybe the reason that this happened the way it did..." Ranma trailed off as he speculated, "well, maybe it's because there was no communication?" He looked at Gabriel, who was confused. "Maybe the reason that this happened was because we weren't as open about it as we could have been." He smiled at her and cupped her cheek before leaning in and kissing her on the lips softly, which she returned.

After breaking the kiss, Gabriel was blushing hard. "M...Maybe I should call all the Angels of Heaven together and make an announcement?"

Ranma nodded as he lowered his hand. "Yeah. Let them know that we're dating. Ask them what they think. If they have concerns about you being able to do your job..."

"Yes." Gabriel nodded and hugged Ranma, closing her eyes and sighing happily as he hugged her back. "Thank you."

"You don't need to thank me." Ranma chuckled softly. "I really do like you, Gabriel, I..." Ranma trailed off and the two let go of the hug as they felt a build-up of power and the two looked up as two people appeared in the room. "Puck and... Who's that?" The second person was short, about the height of Koneko, but covered in a hooded cloak.

"That one does not have a name." Puck said with a smile on his face. "And Puck was listening in and may have used magic to send the big boss of the white wings a video of what was going on in this room. Or not, who knows?"

Gabriel frowned at him. "Please, why are you here?"

"Well, first of all..." A black sword appeared in his hands and he held it out for Ranma to take. "Puck forgot to return this."

Ranma took the sword from him. "...Thanks?" He said while dismissing it into his subspace pocket.

"Secondly, Puck has to leave this one with you." Puck smiled and slapped the person on their back, causing them to stumble forward while the cloak was pulled off of them, revealing a young-looking person with white hair that had orange stripes in it while wearing a vest over their chest and black panties.

What drew Ranma and Gabriel's attention though, was that this person had cat ears and two tails.

"Who?"

The girl suddenly threw herself to her hands and knees and bowed her head. "Please forgive me!"

Ranma was confused and looked at Puck for more information. "What's going on?"

"See, this one was created..." Puck said while walking up to the Nekoshou and putting his food on her back. "From all the souls of the cat people that were exteriminated by Devils and thus she tried to get revenge and..."

"I almost harmed your children!" The nekoshou cried out. "In my pursuit of revenge!"

"Well, after that debacle," Puck continued to speak as though she hadn't interrupted him, "Puck decided to tie up loose ends, summoned at Cat Sith to send all the souls to the next life, but to this one's shock," he grinded his foot against her backside, "one soul remained, but with the memory of what she did."

Ranma sighed heavily. "You know, I'm VERY tempted, right now, to ask Gabriel to purge the remaining soul in that body. After hearing what you tried to do to my family and..." He paused as he felt Gabriel give his hand a squeeze. "What?"

Gabriel smiled at him. "Perhaps you should give her a chance to earn her forgiveness?"

The Nekoshou was looking at Ranma with tears in her eyes while trembling. "Please... I just want to live. I have the feelings of everyone who was exteriminated and all of them just wanted to live."

Ranma looked at her and sighed, his shoulders slumping. "Fine, I won't have you purged... Jackie."

"Jackie?" The other three in the room asked at the same time.

Ranma shrugged. "I don't know, that was the first name that popped into my head. But if she wants to earn everyone's forgiveness..." A slow grin came to his face. "Fine, you will work for me, as a maid, in a tiny mini-skirt."

"...Why?" Gabriel asked and Ranma shrugged.

"Mostly because it would be more embarrassing for her." Though, that was only the biggest reason.

He did have one more reason.

After all, she was a petite girl with a large butt.

A sudden realization came to Ranma as he mentally sighed when he realized what he thought. 'I am never going to get away from that lolicon label, am I?'

Gabriel looked at Puck. "I have a question for you, if you would answer for me."

"This one sees no problem with answering." Puck said as he leaned back. "What is it?"

"How come you were able to hold me in that spell?" She asked him. "Even if you are strong, I should have been able to escape it by the time Ranma came to save me."

"Well, for one, your powers were being drained." Puck said while holding up a finger. He held up a second finger. "The second reason is that I, like all Fae, can enhance any spell or magical item beyond what it could normally do." He smiled at her. "A spell that could hold a mid-level white winged could be easily enhanced to hold you and your greatest rival of the bat wings."

"I see..." Gabriel said.

"This also includes those Sacred Gears that your creator made." Puck told her, causing both her and Ranma to gasp in surprise. "Queen Mab told me that she wanted her daughter, Alfea, to have one of the god-slaying Sacred Gears. With a Fae's natural ability to enhance magical items, even Lord Oberon would have been defeated with ease." Puck floated upwards. "Well, it's time for this one to go. I did enjoy our time together."

"Let's not meet again." Ranma told him and Puck laughed before disappearing.

Gabriel knelt down next to the newly named Jackie and helped her to stand up before smiling at her. "Welcome, young one, you will have to earn forgiveness from those you have wronged, but I am certain that you will obtain it if you wish for it in earnest."

Jackie nodded while trembling and hugged Gabriel, who was surprised, but she smiled and patted Jackie on the back to soothe her.

End Chapter 17

And that's it.

A 5 part epilogue is coming and then this story is over.