Standard Series Disclaimer:
	This is less a series than a collection of self-indulgent,
surreal, farcical, near-lemon shorts.  Reading the previous chapters
isn't really necessary, at least in the short term, but if you didn't
like those you probably won't like this, either.



Take Off Your Clothes 6: Spiritual Regeneration
by: Jeff Rutsch

"Akane, it's NOT funny..."
"I'm not trying to be funny.  I'm just asking."
"Well...you know I'm not interested.  Not even slightly."
"But what if you were?  Hypothetically speaking, that's all."
"Well, I'm not."
"But if you were..."
"No.  No, I wouldn't."  Akane paused, smiled, and looked at Ranma.
"Why not?"
"What do you think?  What's gotten into you, anyways?  You're worse
than Nabiki!"
"Just answer the question, Ranma."
"Well...for starters, because I'm not interested."
"Yes..." Akane rolled her eyes.  He was so stubborn about that.  Ranma
continued.
"And what if everybody found out?  I'd...the Martial Arts
school'd...never live it down."
"Ranma!  Look.  I already established that in the question.  He's a
complete stranger, you'll never meet him again, and there'll be no
evidence."
"Well...if he's a complete stranger, how do I know he doesn't have one
of those sicko diseases?"
"He could always wear a condom, or something."
Ranma blushed.  It took him a while before he responded.  "I don't
think those always work.  Besides, what if I got pregnant?"
"Using a condom?"  Ranma was clearly embarrassed, but he didn't say
anything, not wishing Akane to one-up him.
"Well...What if it breaks?"
"They don't break if you don't break them."
"If" said Ranma, for emphasis.
"I mean on purpose.  Besides, I have birth control pills you could
borrow..." Akane paused as she realized what she had said.  Amazingly
enough, Ranma caught the meaning.
"You...you do?  Geez...you're not...not Ryouga, are you?"
"Dummy!  Of course not..." Akane paused.
"I haven't even opened them yet.  Dr.  Tofu gave them to me, in case
we ever got...intimate."
"Intimate?  Me?  With a tomboy like you?" asked Ranma, as much
disbelief in his voice as he could muster.  Akane glared back at
Ranma.
"Fuck off," swore Akane.  Ranma looked a bit startled.
"Geez, sorry Akane."
"Well, then, what if he wasn't a complete stranger?"
"This again?"
"Yeah."
"Well...that'd be even worse.  I mean, then the word would be sure to
get out."
"But...what if it was, maybe, somebody like Kunou?  If you denied it,
and there weren't any witnesses, nobody would believe Kunou...they'd
just think he was deluded again, or misinterpreting things again,
or..."
"Akane...this is getting too weird."
"Just answer me, Ranma."
"I could never...do anything, with Kunou."
"But you've thought about it..."
"No way!"
"You're telling me you've never even thought of it?  Just...what it
would be like?"
"Of course I haven't!"
"There's nothing wrong with it, you know.  Nothing wrong with
thinking."
"I tell you, I haven't!"
"Sure, Ranma."
"I haven't!"
"Not once?"  Ranma didn't answer.  Akane continued.
"Not even that time you almost bathed with him?  To get the photos?
You didn't even stop and think...what if?"
"Well...in an intellectual way.  Not...erotically, or nothin'."
"So you have."
Ranma didn't answer.  He only blushed.  Akane asked another question.
"Why didn't you?"
"Akane!"
"Ranma, you know Kunou's not going to have a VD...and that nobody
would believe him...so why not?  Aren't you even...curious?  What it
would be like...as a girl?"
"Akane..."
"What?"
"No.  No, I wouldn't.  I'm not curious.  I'm not interested.  This is
a stupid..." Ranma was starting to yell before he got cut off.
"Why not?" asked Akane.  Ranma looked flustered.  It took him a while
to get back into the conversation.
"For...For the same reason you don't, I guess."
"Because I'm not interested?"
"Yeah."
"Well Ranma, I've got news for you." Akane smiled mischievously.
"Yeah?"
"I wouldn't be so sure that I'm not."
"Akane?"
"Don't looked so shocked.  I mean, if you admit to fantasizing about
it, why can't I?"
Ranma didn't respond.  Akane leaned forward and put Ranma's hands in
her own.
"All you'd have to do is transform.  We could...together.  I'd even do
most of the work.  And nobody'd have to know.  Nobody would find out.
It'd be our little secret."
"Maybe...but...but...geez, that's not the point!"
"That is the point, Ranma.  So why don't we?  Just slip on over to
Kunou's...you know he'd go for it.  It's...not many people have the
opportunity to compare it as a male to as a female.  And you could.
Nobody else would have to know.  Just Kunou, and the two of us."
"No way!  I told you...I'm not interested!"
"So you'd rather I went alone?"
"Of course not!"
"Well, Ranma...either you go with me...or I might just go myself."  Ranma
looked back at Akane.  She was so beautiful, her lengthening hair tied
back with a white ribbon.

**

I don't know if anybody's interested in these things.  PhoneyNT told me 
it was worth posting, so I did.  Blame him.

Yes, there is a TakeOff5, which I haven't archived, but it's not worth
asking me for ^_^.

If you liked the story, I'd appreciate a reply.  Thanks for reading,

Jeff

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