Watermelon Girl

by Chaos Orchid ← Ron Dow75

16.1 Nabiki, Matchmaker

"Male heir! Male Heir!" Ranma cried in outrage! "I'm stuck as a girl for nine months! A male mom!"

"What?" Ukyō was confused. Did the idiot actually commit to stay on role-reversal therapy for that long, the length of time for pregnancy? Or was it worse? Was Ranchan–

Her thoughts were interrupted by Ranma pulling her up off her cushion by an arm. "Everything's always been about the heir of the Anything-Goes School! Maybe I don't wanna be its heir! Maybe I'll become Kuonji Ranma and be the heir of the Okonomiyaki School!" Even as the redhead was venting, s/he was dragging Ukyō to the veranda and off into the garden.

Akane, "Ranma?!"

Ukyō dared not get her hopes up again. But that didn't mean she couldn't enjoy the What-if scenario.

"Okay, Ucchan, gimme some spatulas and let's spar!" But Ranma was impatient and grabbed two of them from her bandolier a moment after s/he had asked. "Come at me!"

When she pulled out two spatulas from her ammo belt sash, Ranma cried, "No! Use your Battle Spatula! Make it a big challenge for me!"

Ukyō unquivered her giant spatula and swung with all of her well-developed upper body strength. She knew Ranma would expect no less from her! Still, she did not want to hurt her best friend.

She almost did – as, unready, her aim was off! The smaller girl had brought her spatulas up to the wrong places to counter. Instead of forcing the face of Battle to slide along the edges of Ranma's spatulas, it was tipped to come down on her weak side; its sharp edge could slice her thigh or dislocate her knee!

Her spatulas sliding Battle, Ranma used her Amaguri-ken speed to nudge!nudge!nudge the metal surface away from her! The edge broke through the grass and into the dirt.

"Again, Ukyō! You showed me I really do need to practice Okono-ken! This time, try to hurt me."

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Soun wondered if he should weep, "Is, is the boy trying to abort my grandchild?!"

Genma, "He would be able to return to being a man."

Akane wasn't happy about what she was seeing, but she said, "Kasumi said most women can do whatever they did before they became pregnant." Then she raised her voice in the mother's direction, "They still have to BE CAREFUL!"

Kunō, "It eases my heart to witness my Second-Greatest Love's continued vigor and skill! Her and Akane's offspring will most certainly make this godfather proud!"

"Goddofāzā(?)" Kasumi repeated at the tea/common room doorway.

"Ah, the nadzukeoya!" And Kunō rose up from his cushion to greet her. "But is not goddomāzā more apt? After all, what the English call minor gods are more involved in this quadrilateral relationship than what is implied by kari-oya! You do carry proof of that as you have a godling residing in your omamori talisman!"

Nabiki, "Don't blow it, Kunō-baby. Big Sis is skittish. And she is protected by her kami amulet."

Kunō bowed, "I would like to approach the godmother."

"Through me, Kunō. Think of me as your nakōdo, matchmaker. And chaperone." She then had a truly Nabiki smile, "And witness when you and Kasumi sign the godparent contract."

"A contract?" Kasumi again sounded hesitant.

"Bassinets, crib, baby carrier, stroller, changing table, clothes, etc. You did donate the family's paraphernalia away to young neighbors, didn't you, Big Sis?"

"We, too, will receive donations from those neighbors who no longer have use for them."

"And will they lend us diapers, bottles, formula, bibs, wipes, etc., et cetera? The costs add up quickly."

Kunō, "Concern yourself not at all, Blessed Godmother. I will fund all the essentials our godchild needs and beyond. Even unto breast pumps!"

Nabiki, "I wouldn't mention breast pumps around your Pigtailed Girl, if I were you Kunō."

Kasumi, "Oh, my. Ranma isn't prepared for the changes to her body."

"And let's leave it at that for now, Sis. Ranma hasn't even accepted he should be expecting."

"Then it should be my first duty as his child's nadzukeoya I help him to clearly see his…her future."

"Hmm. How about shock treatment? Ranma is sure to react to seeing you date Kunō."

"A marvelous idea, O Cunning Girl! The Pigtailed Girl may even become jealous!"

"I said to curb your enthusiasm, Kunō-baby. You're about to blow it with big sis as you did with little sis.

"Look, Kasumi, Ranma will expect your dates with Kunō to be the "sickeningly romantic" kind. What he won't expect is you returning with baby supplies. The more baby things pile up, the more she will have to confront the reality of her condition."

Kasumi hung her head, "And the more guilt he'll feel, thinking I am forced to date only because her."

"Which he'll take out on Kunō: Just like old times! The perfect venting dummy."

Kunō brought out his broken sword, "I am avid to confront Saotome Ranma once more! I would savor his fallen expression of defeat once he knows it was I, Kunō Tatewaki, the Blue Thunder, that impregnated the girl he has for far too long kept in magical bondage to him!"

"How metaphorical. Holding a stub of a sword while declaring you had somebody else father onto a girl you profess you love.

"Well, Kasumi? What is your answer?"

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Ukyō came into the house frowning, "Jackass! You didn't have to slice a hole in my uniform!" There was a rip under her right arm that revealed part of the sarashi wrap that flatted her breasts.

Ranma was still holding the two spatulas, "You made a wrong move. You're the expert in Okono-ken, but you obviously need me to spar with, Ukyō."

Soun pleaded, "You're not really going to leave the Anything-Goes School?! Tell me it isn't so!"

Genma was smug, "He can't. Anything-Goes is too well trained into my Son."

Akane, "Go become Kuonji Ranma! See if I care! The only thing we have in common is the baby!"

Ukyō, "Gee, Ranma, it doesn't sound like therapy is doing her any good. What about you? What is role-reversal doing to your male pride?"

That hurt! If only s/he could change into a guy again. Before all it took was…. S/he smiled, "I'm takin' a hot soak!" And s/he hurried off! "No more cold showers!"

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S/he stopped by the toilet first. And was surprised to find some hand-held plastic thing with a cut out for a strip of something. Beside it was a little instructions leaflet. The title told her what it was for.

Knowing s/he didn't want to know, it made the warrior feel like a coward.

S/he picked up the leaflet and read.

"I have to piss on the thing!?"

16.2 The Denial of Denial

Having to piss while a girl was one of the things Ranma hated most. It was even more annoying than being shorter and having to look up at everybody. Most of the time s/he could get used to her many jiggly parts, her plumping buttocks and even, less of most of the time, her bouncing boobs. But having to piss was something that could not be ignored. And when s/he had to think about keeping it in, s/he had to be aware of what un-guy muscles s/he was squeezing. It was so much better having a dick in all ways. Especially as he* didn't have to go sitting down!

It took her a couple of moments to figure out how s/he was going to piss on the home pregnancy test.

Two dark pink lines.

It took her a couple of moments to figure out what they meant. S/he didn't want to.

And it took her a moment later to tell herself, "It don't mean nothing(?) Yeah, that's right: It don't! It's gotta be too early to tell! It's just been two days!" S/he threw the plastic holder and its strip into the waste can! After finishing going, s/he pulled up her pants and headed for the door. S/he thought of sending the packet of strips into the trash, too. But didn't. "Nabiki probably uses them. Definitely not Akane. Or Kasumi." Kasumi? S/he thought the Pervert-Hater was more likely to get knocked up than the angelic mother-figure of the family.

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Ranma was enjoying, as s/he saw it, the one perk of being knocked up: "I can take hot showers!" Why s/he hadn't usually become a guy before going into the furo tub, s/he really couldn't tell herself. There had been reasons – a number of them if s/he bothered to remember them – but by now it had become a habit. A habit now broken!

Sitting on the shower stool, s/he was lathered and rubbing upwards, leaving her sex for last and headed for her two–

"Ukyō! You can't go in there! Ranma's in there –Naked!" Akane yelled from the other side of the closed door.

"I just had my toughest sparring match: I stink and need a shower!"

"You're about to have your toughest match now!"

"Bring it on, Akane!"

"I will –Haii-YE–" The door opened and in dashed Ukyō in her underwear! "–OW!" Akane cried when her foot slammed into the closed door! The safety glass above the hit-point rattled!

Wearing only her sarashi and fundoshi, Ukyō quickly wedged spatulas into door's counterframe, slowing down the sliding door. Having bought time, she turned. And lost her smile. "Steam? A hot shower? That role-reversal therapy was BS! You can't change back to a man, can you(?)"

Ranma continued washing herself. S/he wanted to say something. But s/he couldn't find the words. What could s/he say? Ucchan was her best friend. And yet…and yet, even now, s/he couldn't tell her the truth. S/he couldn't even tell herself the truth.

"HSS!" s/he sharply hissed as her washcloth rubbed against a nipple.

"Ranma? Did you get hurt?"

"Course not! They just must've been scuffin' against my shirt more than usual. The spatulas did make me use my upper body morrre–!" Now the area around her nipple was sort of sore.

"Ranma, something is wrong!" And Ukyō went to her.

Akane's adrenaline strength forced the spatulas to pop loose! Suddenly! She came bursting through the door, landing face down on the tiled floor! Even then, she cried, "I said No, Ukyō! You don't flash in my house!"

"Shut up! This is about Ranma! Something's wrong."

"We already know that!" she hit the floor in frustration and sat up, hanging her head. "It happened a couple of days ago. And there's nothing we can do about it. A fertility god will see to that."

"Fer,fertility god?(!)" Ukyō had a flashback to her telling Ranma the idiot shouldn't pretend to be a girl for nine months.

Nine months. Fertility god. Ukyō fell onto her butt. "Ranma can't change back because he's…."

"I'm sorry, Ukyō," Ranma finally found something to say to her.

"Wh,who, who's the pop?"

Neither Ranma nor Akane said anything, did anything.

Kasumi, "Akane's the father of Ranma's baby."

"Kasumi!" Akane wanted to scold.

But big sis held up the omamori she had on a lanyard. "Apparently it is now time for me to be a…godmother." She turned to Ukyō. "It is not the fault of Ranma or Akane. My father and Ranma's told them it was simply a watermelon eating contest."

"They lied!" Ranma exclaimed.

Akane was also angry, "It was Kunō who injected our stem cells into the watermelon and made the god angry!"

Ranma, "It was that priestess nurse that gave him the love juice!"

Ukyō, "Whoa, hold on. This is too much to take in all at once. And I first have to deal with Ranma becoming a mom.

"Mom(*)" her voice choked as she remembered her own mom.

Akane was on her feet. "I'm the one who has to marry Ranma. I am the, uh, "father"."

Kasumi, "You don't "have to". A step-father who genuinely cared about the mother and child would be better."

"I, I c,care," he voice dropped almost to a mumble.

"But do you show it?"

Everybody in the furo room with her didn't allow Ranma to enjoy her hot shower. S/he had now been using the shower wand to wash the lather off.

Kasumi noticed. "Do you have a problem with your breasts, Ranma?"

"No. They're just a little sensitive. Nothing my healing techniques can't fix."

She came closer, "Do they seem heavier?"

"Not much."

"May I?" Ranma wanted to move her boobs away from the big sister's hand, but didn't. S/he suffered the humiliation of being 'fondled' in public. "They're getting fuller."

Akane, "Ranma's boobs are getting even bigger?!"

"That is what happens when a women is pregnant." Ranma was relieved when the hand was removed.

Ukyō, "Yeah. Being a street vendor, I've seen some go up two cups sizes. Maybe more."

"Oh, just great! Perfect! I don't want the size I have now!"

Kasumi, "I'm going to have check my books on pregnancy, but I don't think this symptom should be happening this soon. I believe it usually happens a week or two after conception."

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NOTES to Section 16.1:

Everybody but Nabiki, Kunō and Kasumi was distracted by the sparring match in the garden