Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction ❯ Nekoken is Out of the Bag ❯ First Steps ( Chapter 5 )

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Nekoken Is Out Of The Bag!

by Lord Archive

Characters are own Rumiko Takahashi and Shogakukan and are used without permission. All rights reserved.

This story takes place after manga volume 38. While at times darker than canon, this series has its share of Takahashi styled humor.

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Chapter 5 - First Steps
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Ranma sat at the psychologist's waiting room, fidgeting. Akane rested a hand on his forearm. It was already past five o'clock and the doctor had yet to see them.

The receptionist called, "Saotome Ranma, the doctor will see you now."

Ranma and Akane stood up went into the doctor's office.

"Hello, please have a seat," greeted the doctor.

Ranma studied the doctor as he moved to sit down with Akane as she now held onto his hand.

"Um, Dr. Tofu said you might be able to cure my fear of cats," Ranma said a little nervously.

"That is what I specialize in, curing phobias." The doctor flipped through a file. "Dr. Tofu said that you'll be a difficult case. Can you tell me why?"

"Didn't Dr. Tofu tell you?" Ranma questioned.

The doctor nodded slowly. "In part, but I want to hear the whole story in your own words."

Ranma sighed. He hated the idea of talking about this, but the reason he had to was holding his hand. He never wanted to hurt her again. "Well, when I was six-years-old, my Pop came across a martial arts training manual that told of how to teach an unbeatable fighting style called Nekoken. Pop, in all his infinite stupidity, decided to train me, but didn't bother to read the entire thing."

Ranma closed his eyes. "The means to train someone in Nekoken is to wrap the subject in fish sausage and throw him into a pit of starving cats. Repeat until subject frees himself. If my old man had read the whole thing he would have found out that Nekoken was banned because it drove people insane. Ever since then, a kitten can scare the hell out of me."

The doctor's eyes widened. That was more than what Dr. Tofu had told him, and sounded entirely unbelievable that anyone would be that insane to do such inhuman training to their own child. However, being trained to be a psychologist, he came across a few demented case files that left many who had read them with sleepless nights. If this had not been a referral, he would be far more skeptical. "Can you describe the sensations you felt when you were being trained?"

Ranma shook his head. "Not really, I can't remember much of the training. Just the meowing... the claws... and the eyes... the piercing eyes...." He shivered uncontrollably.

The doctor nodded, observing the boy's words. "Do you dream about the training?"

Ranma shook his head. "No."

"Yes he does," Akane interrupted. "He's been having nightmares about that."

"I have?" Ranma became even more uneasy.

"Yes, you've been waking me up with you're screaming," Akane insisted.

Ranma blushed a little and started fidgeting in his seat.

"Can you tell me what he's been screaming?" the doctor asked.

Akane gripped Ranma's hand tighter and closed her eyes, meekly saying, "Basically he screams, 'Please daddy, don't send me in,' 'I don't wanna learn this technique' or, 'Let me out.'"

Ranma shivered.

The doctor paled. "Why would anyone do that to their own child?"

"He's an idiot who holds martial arts above all else," Ranma grumbled irritably. "He has made my life hell. The only good thing he ever did was get me engaged to her, but of course screws that up by engaging me to other women as well."

The doctor blinked. "You were engaged to more than one woman?"

"Still am. I've got three, well two fiancees and a nut case that thinks she is as far as I know." Ranma shook his head.

The doctor shook his head. "You live an interesting life."

"I haven't told you half of it. But, that's besides the point. I need your help curing me," Ranma insisted.

The doctor nodded. "Okay, first explain how and what happens when you go into Nekoken."

Ranma frowned. "When I get really scared and a cat is present, my mind will shut off and I behave like a cat. The cat will have the same feelings for someone as I do and act accordingly. I remain that way until splashed with water or lose consciousness."

"Is that really much of a problem?" the doctor wondered.

Ranma stood up and shouted angrily, "IS THAT A PROBLEM?! While in Nekoken, I am unbeatable. If I hate your guts, I will rip them out of you, no matter how good of a fighter you are. If I see you as a mate, I will have sex with you, whether you want to or not."

Ranma slumped back into his seat. Akane drew back into her seat and blushed.

The doctor shook off the angry outburst and noticed Akane's reaction and said, "I take it that second part has happened."

Akane reluctantly nodded, while Ranma cursed at himself.

The doctor paused a moment in though. "Dr. Tofu was right in saying this will be a challenge, as your fear is ingrained into your psyche. I may not be able to cure it completely, but I might be able to lessen the fear."

Ranma nodded and looked hopeful.

"It'll take a while though. You need to become desensitized to the presence of a cat. That is accomplished by first showing you pictures of a cat and slowly build up to the point where you can actually hold one. It usually takes months for that to happen, but it might take years for you due to how you got the fear," the doctor finished with a frown.

Ranma nodded, the hopeful look was gone. "So, what are we suppose to do before then. I don't want to kill someone or rape her again."

Akane slapped Ranma on the arm. "I wouldn't call it that. Next time I'll be better able to deal with it. Now if only your cat side had some sense of modesty and didn't try to do it in public."

The doctor took a moment to think. "You might want to see if you can train his cat personality to have sex only at certain places, much like training a cat to use a litter box. As for avoiding killing someone, I can't help much except suggest that you warn people you hate they might get hurt."

"How would we train him?" Akane asked.

"Do everything in your power to prevent him from having sex except when you're in a place where it'd be safe. If you're near a safe place lead him there and allow it to happen."

Ranma paled.

"So, never leave home without a water gun," Akane replied, a little jokingly.

Ranma looked at Akane, stunned.

She looked at him, saying, "I told you before I'm not THAT adverse to your cat side. If it prevents you from trying to do it in public, then I have to do it."

The doctor nodded, "I'll set up some preparations to start desensitizing you next week."

Akane pulled out a water gun from behind her back. "We could start now."

The doctor blinked in confusion. "Where did that come from?"

"It's a hidden weapons trick one of my friends showed me," Akane grinned.

"Mousse taught you that?" Ranma screeched.

"Yeah," Akane replied a little sheepishly.

Ranma growled, "Remind me to hurt him for teaching you to hide the mallet."

The doctor shook his head. "Okay, we can start by showing pictures."

"Um, Doc, there is something you should know." Ranma sighed. "The reason water can snap me out of Nekoken is because of a Chinese curse that turns me into a girl when I get hit by cold water. Hot water returns me to normal."

The doctor blinked and flipped through his files. He found what he was looking for and read, "Ranma is not delusional. Anything he says, while sounding impossible, is probably true. This includes talk of a Chinese curse, it is real."

The doctor blinked again. "Ooookay." He went over to a shelf filled with photo albums and pulled out one labeled, 'house-hold pets.' He opened it and pulled out a photo.

Ranma watch him a he turned the photo around, showing a very cute gray and black kitten. He promptly screamed like a little girl and jumped into Akane's arms.

Akane's face was flushed with embarrassment. "You can be really pathetic."

"This... this is bad," the doctor commented, shaking his head.

Elevator music began to play in the office, as Ranma got off of Akane.

"Oh, that music means your time is up. Um, I'll give you some pictures. A couple times a day attempt to look at them. Set an appointment with the receptionist on your way out for next week." He took a couple pictures from the album and placed them into an envelope, which he handed to Akane.

Ranma said, "Thanks, Doc."

Akane got up, bowed, and left.

The doctor thought he could make a career off this guy.

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Akane and Ranma held each others hand as they walked across Nerima, only letting go as they arrived home for the first time since they left for the training trip. They had no plans to tell anyone about Ranma seeing a psychologist.

"We're home," Akane called.

"Welcome back, how was your training trip?" Kasumi greeted.

"It was great," Akane replied.

"I'm sure it was," Nabiki interjected. "And I want details." She then grinned as the young couple blushed.

"So boy, have you gained better control of Nekoken," Genma asked, as he arrived with Soun.

Ranma shook his head. "Not really."

"We do have some ideas to help him gain control, though," Akane added.

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After Kasumi politely asked Ranma to clean the dishes, Soun and Genma decided to take a late night walk... to a local bar. Nabiki wondered if Kasumi actually planned that or was just lucky, because it removed the possibility of the men from eaves dropping into the talk between the Tendo sisters.

Akane sat nervously on her desk chair. Kasumi sat on Akane's bed, a pleasant smile on her face. Nabiki also sat on the bed and eyed her little sister closely.

"So," Nabiki began. "Are you going to tell us about your 'training trip?'"

"I learned a few new martial arts moves and increased my speed greatly," Akane answered, proudly.

"That's wonderful," Kasumi congratulated.

"Anything else?" Nabiki asked.

"Ah, um, not much else to tell. Nothing I did for Ranma really helped," Akane replied sheepishly.

"Now Akane, you know you can't hide anything from me," Nabiki pressed.

Akane blushed. "What would I hide?"

Nabiki shook her head. "I know you had sex with Ranma during your training trip."

Akane attempted to sound angry. "What makes you think that?"

"Because you're blushing for one and you get an odd smile whenever you look at Ranma. A smile I usually see on girls who recently done the deed," Nabiki informed.

Akane looked at the floor, knowing there was very little she could really hide from her sisters. She finally said meekly, "You're right. I did make love to Ranma."

"So, what's it like?" Kasumi wondered.

Akane and Nabiki look at the eldest sister, shocked.

"What? Can't I wonder about that?" Kasumi returned defensively.

The younger sisters began to laugh, but soon all of them were.

"Well, as big sis so eloquently put it, 'what's it like?'" Nabiki asked.

Akane's face was deep red. "It's hard to describe really. The sensations of pleasure and ecstasy come in waves as he, um, well, plays with my body."

"Is he good at it?" Kasumi asked.

Akane nodded. "Yes. I think he... you know... 'practiced' on his female body."

"You're not upset about that?" Nabiki jokingly asked.

"Why would I be? It may make him a pervert, but one that knows what's he doing," Akane retorted.

"Are you going to marry him soon?" Kasumi asked.

Akane blinked at the abrupt change in topic. "Um, not sure. We're more concerned with Nekoken right now. I won't push the issue, but if he asks, I'd say 'yes.'"

"What are you going to do about Nekoken?" Nabiki asked.

"We're working on desensitizing him to the presence of a cat," Akane replied. "I'm also trying to reduce his other fears, but that hasn't helped. I think he's scared he's going to hurt Ukyou's feelings."

Nabiki smirked. "Well, thanks to your outburst Friday, he'll have to do it soon."

"What?!" Akane screeched.

"Several students heard you when screamed your love for him," Nabiki informed smugly.

Akane massaged her forehead. "Oh, great."

"Fortunately there are two rumors based off that. One that you professed your love, and the other you denied it," Nabiki added.

Akane blinked. "Huh?"

"The next word you screamed after 'I love you too' was the word 'not.' That rumor isn't well accepted, though, as you two have been away from school since Friday." Nabiki grinned devilishly. "Most think you two ran off and eloped."

"The joys of the rumor horde," Akane said sarcastically. "Which one does Ukyou believe?"

"That you denied you love him. No one wants to be the one to tell her the other rumor," Nabiki answered. "What are you going to do if he goes into Nekoken?"

Akane took a deep breath. "If he ends up going into Nekoken away from home I have to stop him by any means possible. At home, I have to lead him here and allow him to have his way with me."

"What?!" Kasumi and Nabiki screeched.

Akane meekly informed, "If we can properly train him by doing that, he'll stop trying to have sex away from here and may try to lead me here."

"Are you sure you want to try that?" Kasumi asked.

Akane nodded slowly. "Having a little more experience, it won't be nearly as bad as that first time. If it'll keep him from trying to do it in public, I'm going to try it."

"Okay, have you thought about getting birth control pills?" Nabiki asked.

"Um, no. I wasn't sure they were legal," Akane answered.

"They've been legal for a couple years. Besides, even if they weren't, I could get you some," Nabiki corrected.

Akane glanced towards the direction of the kitchen where Ranma should be. "I guess I should get them. I don't know if I can put a condom on him when he's in Nekoken."

"I'm sure he'll like it even better when he doesn't have to use one at all," Nabiki commented.

Akane nodded. "He certainly complained about it."

"You should make an appointment to go to a family planning clinic soon," Nabiki said. "Now lets get back to talking about what's it like..."

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Ranma was looking rather nervous, while walking with Nabiki through Nerima's shopping district. To be safe, the girl was holding a rather large water gun.

"You're sure you want to do this? You don't have to do it," Nabiki asked, not particularly liking the idea of someone dumping a lot of money on someone else, even her own sister.

"Yes I do. Thanks to me, Akane's life is anything but normal. So, I want to try to do this as everyone else does, something normal," Ranma answered.

"Most people try to come up with unique ways to do this. You, however, want make it unique by trying to do it normally," Nabiki joked sarcastically.

Ranma nodded.

"So how much money do you have on you?" Nabiki inquired.

"Ninety-thousand yen," Ranma replied.

Nabiki's eyes widen in shock. "How did you get so much money?"

"I got Pop to give me some of it, then I rented him to the zoo." Ranma grinned. "I wonder if Mom will get upset if she finds out he's had an affair with a panda."

Nabiki's laughter was infectious and lasted longer than it should have. Finally catching her breath, she entered a jewelry store, followed by Ranma.

Ukyou caught a glimpse of Ranma just as he entered the store, not seeing Nabiki. She wondered what he was doing and took a peek inside and saw him looking at rings, engagement rings. She grinned and mentally cheered that he had finally decided. She promised herself to look surprised when he proposed, since Akane had rejected him and there was no way he'd go with a cat or a lunatic. She turned around and sat down on the sidewalk, lost in daydreams. She never did notice that Nabiki was with him.

Several minutes later, the door to the shop opened startling Ukyou out of fantasizing about her life with Ranma.

"Do you think she'll like it?" Ranma asked.

"Of course she'll like it," Nabiki intoned as if Ranma asked this question several times already. "The ruby is a nice touch."

Ukyou froze in shock. A ruby would be something for Akane, not her. He couldn't have chosen that kitchen destroyer after the girl denied being in love with him. She was his cute fiancee and she loved him the most. His father ruined her life and her father's. He couldn't have possibly picked anyone else. He had to marry her, not Akane.

"RANMA, PREPARE TO DIE!" was all the warning that was given before Ryouga dropped toward Ranma, ready to attack.

The ground exploded where Ranma and Nabiki had been previously. Nabiki had been pushed out of the way by Ranma, but that caused her water gun to break, spilling its contents on the ground.

Ranma stood in a battle stance several feet away, wondering how much the pig-boy knew of what happened.

Ryoga stood up in the mist of concrete that settled around him. "How dare you attack Akane! You jerk!" He ran at Ranma full tilt.

Ranma flipped over him, landing a kick to Ryoga's back. He guessed his old friend only heard about what happened last week, Monday. He ducked under a spinning punch. "Hey, she already forgave me about that."

Ryoga launched a series of devastating punches, all of which, missed. "She is too kind to hold hate for long. She'll forgive anyone for everything. But I haven't forgiven you."

Ranma continued dodging the various punches, and landed several of his own, for what good it did against Ryoga's thick hide. "You've never forgiven anybody for anything."

"I have to forgiven people," Ryouga protested.

"Who?" Ranma mocked while getting a few quick strikes just below the left ribs.

Ryoga's attacks let up for a moment. "Akane for hitting me."

Ranma leapt back and remained on guard. "Oh, please you asked for that and you love her. Anyone else besides Akane?"

After a moment Ryoga emitted a bestial scream as he pressed his attack. His attacks grew in speed and ferocity.

Ranma knew he had to end this soon, but then was caught in the gut by Ryoga's knee, sending him flying into a near by store window.

"OH SHIT!" Nabiki screamed as various house pets, including a couple cats, scrambled out of the broken pet store's window.

"Meow," emitted Ranma as he jumped out of the store and onto the sidewalk.

Ryoga blinked. "Shouldn't he be running around scared?"

"No, we should be. RUN!" Nabiki yelled.

Ryoga, knowing about Nekoken, decided it might be best to do just that. He turned and ran.

Ranma, seeing his prey starting to run, pounced at him. Both of his hands landed on Ryoga's head, sending him hard into the ground face first. Ranma checked his prey for signs of movement, and found none. He bit into Ryoga's shirt and ran off with him towards the Tendo home.

Ukyou had remained out of the action. First, she watched a typical fight between Ryoga and Ranma, waiting for her fiance to win. When Ranma went into the Nekoken, she was shocked at how fast he went into it and then what he did to his rival. She decided to follow them to at least save Ryoga and hopefully confront Ranma.

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Akane was at home helping Kasumi cook. Soun had decided to go look for Genma, and avoid his youngest daughter's questionable culinary skills.

Kasumi smiled a fake smile. "You're improving, but next time leave out butter from Miso Soup."

Akane frowned and looked at the recipe. "Huh, I could've sworn it said one stick of butter." She clenched her fists. "Damn it! He'll never want to marry me if I can't cook."

Kasumi was now smiling genuinely, "I'm sure Ranma appreciates the effort."

Akane blinked, mentally cursing her big mouth. She laughed nervously. "Don't let Dad or Uncle Saotome know I said that. I'm not sure if I want to get married before the week is over."

"You probably should marry him soon, though." Kasumi was prevented from saying more by a loud thud.

Akane's and Kasumi's attentions were drawn to the noise. At the door separating the dining room from the kitchen was Ranma, standing on all fours, before a comatose Ryoga.

"Meowr," Ranma uttered.

Kasumi gasped.

Akane swallowed hard, knowing what she had to do. She looked at Ranma with dread... and a little bit of anticipation. "Um, Kasumi, you tend to Ryoga. I'll keep Ranma, ah, distracted. Don't go near him until I say it's safe, no matter what." She then moved towards the door to the hallway.

Ranma noticed her movements and went to pick up Ryoga.

"No!" Akane shouted. "Leave him there. Follow me." She was walking backwards and bumped into the refrigerator on her way towards the door.

Ranma obeyed and moved towards Akane without Ryoga. After a couple feet, he looked as if he was going to pounce on her.

"NO! Follow me!" Akane ordered as she moved as quickly as she could through the hall, backwards. "Wait!" she ordered as he once again looked ready to pounce.

Akane shouted several more times of 'No' and 'Wait' as she led him to her room. Once inside she ducked around the side to let Ranma pass her. When he entered the room, she shut and locked the door.

Ranma moved toward her. "Wait!" Akane ordered as she pulled a condom from her pocket and quickly took her pants and panties off. He once again moved toward her and again was ordered, "Wait!" This time Akane moved toward Ranma with her left hand outstretched, suggesting stop.

Ranma saw the object in her right hand and swiped at it. Akane saw this and drew back her hand, dropping the condom. It landed in a couple pieces.

Akane sighed in defeat, seeing just how much her lover hated condoms. She untied the draw sting of his pants with her right hand and pulled down both pants and boxers.

Ranma shook the pants off his legs. The sight of this added fuel to the fire between Akane's legs that was started in the anticipation of what was about to happen. With the pants off, no words could reach him as he quickly pawed Akane into position. He was happy that his mate seemed willing this time. He moved over her and gently nipped the ends of her hair and began to mate with her.

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Ukyou arrived at the Tendo home. She saw Kasumi tending to Ryoga, who was just now waking up.

"Are you all right?" Kasumi asked.

"Where is Ranma? He's in Nekoken," Ryoga said, not paying attention to Kasumi.

"I know. Akane is dealing with him upstairs," Kasumi answered tenderly.

Ukyou, seeing Ryoga was fine, ran towards the hallway and the stairs.

"Oh, Ukyou, wait. It isn't safe," Kasumi warned, too late for the girl to hear.

Ukyou approached Akane's door and could her moaning. She let out a curse believing the girl was being hurt. She bashed through the door with her giant spatula at the ready. But she was not ready for the sight before her. Akane certainly seemed to be in pain with her fists clenched tight and tears leaking from her eyes while Ranma screwed her like the cat he was behaving like. "What is going on here?!"

Akane's eyes snapped open. "Ukyou! Get out! He's still in Nekoken!"

Ukyou raised her combat spatula in an attempt to brain Ranma. That was answered by a hiss and swipe of his hand. The head of the spatula dropped to the floor.

"Please! Leave now! He might hurt you!" Akane pleaded.

Ukyou stepped back out of her room as she watched the feral look on Ranma face return it's attention to Akane. She couldn't understand what was happening. She stared at them from the hall. After a minute, she saw him stiffen for a moment and then nearly collapsed.

"Good Ranma. Now go to sleep," Akane ordered. She wobbled unsteadily as she moved to stand up.

Ranma nodded and hopped into Akane's bed, curled up, and soon fell asleep.

Akane put her lower clothes back on before going over to Ukyou.

"Wh-what just happened?" Ukyou's mind was in shock.

Akane sighed, "Ranma, at some psychological level, considers me his mate. So when ever he goes into Nekoken, he'll try to have sex with me."

"You're lying!" Ukyou cried out.

Akane shook her head. "What more evidence do you want than seeing what you just saw?"

"Why didn't he try to do that with me then?" Ukyou demanded. "I was there when he went cat."

"It's because he doesn't love you," Akane tried to answer softly, but it sounded smug even to her own ears.

Ukyou slapped the girl. "How can you say that?! He loves me! I know he does!"

Akane, her left cheek bright red, angrily retorted, "Listen here! If he loves you, then while he's in Nekoken you could either calm him or he'll chase after you for in order to have sex with you. Neither of which has happened."

"What he's like as a cat doesn't reflect what he's like as a person," Ukyou retorted bitterly.

"Yes it does. He loves me, so I've been able to control him until last week when I became his mate. He doesn't like Ryoga that much, so he treated him as a mouse," Akane pointed out heatedly.

Ukyou glared death. "I still don't believe you."

"Fine!" Akane pointed at her satisfied lover. "Ask him when he wakes up."

Akane went to close her door but noticed a small box on the floor near Ranma pants. She nervously bent down to pick it up, wondering what it could be yet somehow not believing what it probably was.

"You don't want to do that," said a voice from behind her.

"Nabiki, ah, what's in the b-box?" Akane asked nervously.

"You'll find out soon enough." Nabiki grinned.

Ukyou looked down at the box, remembering now that the one of her reasons for following Ranma was about to confront him about the ring in that box. Her heart froze in realization. "D-do you love him?"

"Yes. I love him," Akane answered firmly.

"But... at school... they said... you denied it," Ukyou stammered.

"That rumor was started from someone who didn't hear everything. No one wanted to be the one to tell you the rest of what she said," Nabiki said.

Tears filled Ukyou eyes as she ran out of the house.

Nabiki thought that had to be one of the worst ways to be dumped. She decided to distract Akane from the ring and from thinking about Ukyou. Nabiki peeked into little sister's room. "Damn. With him curled up like that, I can't tell how big he is."

"What?" Akane screeched.

"You know. How big is his manhood?" Nabiki grinned.

"Nabiki!" Akane shouted angrily.

"Why don't you tell me?" Nabiki pressed.

"I will not!" Akane screamed, slamming her bedroom door shut.

"Doesn't hurt to ask," Nabiki shrugged. "Um, is Ryoga okay?"

"I didn't get a chance to check," Akane replied, her anger turning to concern. She went downstairs without another word, followed by Nabiki.