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Kasumi chuckled, turned over her mod duties to one of her assistants and went to change. She stripped off the purple crop top, black low rise jeans and high heels that she wore when she affected her alter ego, Cutiekitty. Then took off her trademark purple rhinestone black velvet cat collar, from which a silver cat shaped tag depended.

She removed her makeup and got back into her normal dowdy dress and fastened her hair into its side ponytail. No one knew that she was the site mod, it was her dirty little secret and she loved it! Cutiekitty was bossy, sexy, sharp-witted and popular; everything that Kasumi wasn’t. Sometimes she looked into her closest and couldn’t believe that it belonged to a young woman. She was only nineteen! But then again, who did she have to dress up for? No one, her clothes had been her mother’s clothes and perfectly suited a drab homemaker like herself.

Kasumi had felt the need to create a life for herself outside of the home, but hadn’t known how to go about it. She didn’t want to take dance lessons and dance with strange men, so instead she’d joined a book club that was being promoted through the local library and had met other shy people like herself. One of whom was an otaku, he’d won a contract from the government to design chat forum aimed at teens and he’d suggested to Kasumi that she would make a great moderator. He had said that with her having flexible hours and still being young enough to understand teenager’s problems, she was a natural choice. She had tried to turn him down, stating that she knew nothing about computers. He had taught her everything she’d needed to know about them and now she was on the government payroll.

She’d been shy about enforcing the rules at first and a tad shocked that teenagers wanted to talk about sex so much. She had no trouble finding her voice and kicking some cyber butt after a few rude threads were published and then Cutiekitty was born. She’d wanted something that sounded harmless with an edge; kittens have razor sharp claws do they not? Now she had money coming in, a job she loved and tons of cyber friends who talked and flirted with the dynamic Cutiekitty all the time.

Only a few people knew who she really was and they were sworn to secrecy. One was Bluethunder, she had gotten to admire his persistence online, he kept get slapped down but never gave up. Kasumi could peek into people’s profile at will, but preferred to get to know them by their online personalities. So when Bluethunder had sent her a pm asking her to email him she’d been flattered and a bit intrigued, especially when it turned out he lived in her hometown. They’d agreed to go to a movie together. That was the first time she’d ever gone out in public dressed as Cutiekitty. They’d both laughed when they recognized who the other was, but had went to see the movie anyway. Then got takeout sushi and ate it in a nearby park, he’d surprised her by acting like a gentlemen. It had been a fun date and they’d even kissed at the end, her first kiss and first date, she thought that Cutiekitty was the sort to kiss on a first date. However, they’d both admitted that they weren’t really attracted to each other. He was too much into her sister to be anything but weirded out by the situation and she simply didn’t like younger guys. So they became friends of a sort and he promised to keep her secret. She’d highly enjoyed monitoring his conversation where he was hitting on his own sister, even if he hadn’t.

Kasumi frowned when she thought about Ranma and Akane, surely they must realize that they were talking to each other on some level? ‘Perhaps that’s the only way they can properly express themselves?’ she thought. Their behaviour had certainly improved recently and they seemed to be able communicate better than before. They seemed kind of.....sweet to each other. She wondered if there was some way of informing them about this without giving herself away. But she liked being Cutiekitty and liked having a secret life for herself, no matter how small. Now she could afford to replace her more worn out clothes, pay most of the bills with her salary and afford to fix better meals these days.

Ranma was furtively watching Akane play baseball; he had to do it this way because he was afraid of being called a hentai for ogling her in her gym shorts. He had to wonder why female students were forced to wear something that drew attention those parts of them, it was like they were designed for teenaged boy’s leers. He was watching her in admiration of her athletic prowess. The way her deceptively slim arms managed to knock the ball right over the fence. The way her toned legs pumped as she ran the bases and the way her cute bottom faced him as she slid into home plate. Ranma quickly blushed at the last part and averted his eyes. Akane was no Amazon, but with the Amazons he knew, he was happy about that.

Then Ranma noticed a flustered looking Ryoga going into the ball diamond and Akane and the rest of her teammates surrounding him. Ryoga caught sight of Ranma and gave him a fang toothed grin. He went around the corner and returned as P-chan, who Akane picked up with a glad cry. Ryoga smirked at Ranma while rubbing himself against Akane’s chest.

“Honestly Ranma I don’t see what your problem’s with P-chan” Akane said as she hugged her pet pig closer to the area that Ranma didn’t want to see Ryoga near. They’d just returned from school.

“There’s more to that pig than you realize!” Ranma snarled.

Akane looked at him; P-chan was a little smaller then other black pot bellied pigs and wore a cute patterned neckerchief. Other then that, she couldn’t see any difference between P-chan and other pigs. “How so? He’s just a harmless little piggy and you’re a bully for always beating him up” she snarled back. “Now excuse me, we’re going to go take a nap”

“You’re not sleeping with that thing!” Ranma ordered.

Akane turned and glared “you don’t tell me what to do. The only person who decides what’s good for me is, is me!” she cried and went to slam her door after her. Ranma cursed himself for losing his temper as he had promised Red that he wouldn’t. He stomped into his room and tried to find her online.

Akane logged on and pmed Ray.

Red2221: Ray are you on here? I need to speak with you right away!

Ranma logged in and he got his pm. For once he couldn’t handle Red’s whining and really needed to vent.

Kickinbutt: Yes, I’m here but I’m in a crappy mood. I just had a fight with my friend.

Concerned with Ray, Akane forgot about her own problems.

Red2221: What’s wrong?

Kickinbutt: There’s this guy that my friend sleeps with, only she doesn’t know that he’s a guy.

Akane blushed at what Ray was implying.

Red2221: She’s sleeping with someone?

Kickinbutt: Not like THAT! I mean that she shares her bed with someone occasionally and she doesn’t know that he’s a man.

Red2221: You mean like a cross dresser?

Kickinbutt: Something like that

Ranma had no clue how to explain it.

Red2221: You should tell her. This guy could be watching her undress.

Ranma glared in the direction of Akane’s room, as if challenging Ryoga through the walls themselves.

Kickinbutt: I wouldn’t put it past him. However, I swore a vow to him that I would never reveal his secret, I can’t go back on my word.

Akane frowned at this; she knew that Ray was an honourable man.

Red2221: Is there anyone else that knows his secret? If so then you should have them break it to her. It isn’t right to have some pervert take advantage of a young naive girl that way.

Kickinbutt: I know its killing me. I want her to know the real reason why I don’t trust her friend; she thinks that I just fight with him for sport.

Red2221: You have to find a way. She’ll be really upset if she finds out that you were letting her sleep with a pervert.

Kasumi frowned when she followed this conversation and tried to wonder who Ranma was referring to. No one slept with Akane on a regular basis; except for her pet pig. Kasumi wondered who the pig actually might be. She decided to get to the bottom of it and called up a friend.

“Kuno residence” said Sasuke

“Hello Sasuke, could you please tell Tatewaki that Cutiekitty’s calling” Kasumi purred.

“Miss Tendo” Tatewaki said when he came on the line.

“Hello Tachi, there’s a vile sorcerer bothering Akane. Would you be up to helping rescue fair maidens today?”

“Of course” he declared.

“Great, do you know where you can get a sanitation worker’s overalls and a warm water hose? I’ll make it worth your while; I’ll give you a pair of your pigtailed goddess’s underwear” she said persuasively.

“I accept my mission. What do I have to do?” he asked. Kasumi smiled and outlined her plan.

Kasumi removed clean clothing from the clothesline, folded it all up and put it into the basket. Save for one pair of Ranma’s boxer shorts, these she put into a paper bag and set it aside. Then she went to talk to Akane.

Akane logged off when she heard a knock on the door and opened it; expecting it to be Ranma come to apologize. Instead it was Kasumi come to visit. Kasumi took in the sight of Akane at her desk and P-chan on the floor beneath her; she could have sworn he was looking up her baby sister’s skirt.

“Akane, I understand that your pig’s arrived. I want you to give him a bath before you allow him into your bed, only kami knows where he’s been” Kasumi suggested. She noticed that the pig’s eyes went wide when she said this.

“Okay Kasumi” Akane agreed and went to pick up P-chan, who darted away. “Where’re you going baby?” she asked and managed to corner him and pick him up. As soon as he reached the hall, he leapt out of her arms and took off running. He managed to get to the front door and found it half open. He thanked Kami and then jumped out, only to be hit with a stream of hot water just as Akane reached the door.

Ryoga turned bright red, realized he was nude in public and covered himself with his hands. “R-Ryoga you’re P-chan” Akane screeched.

The man dressed in sanitation worker overalls and a baseball cap touched his brim and politely said “sorry sir, I had orders to spray down the sidewalks in this area” Leaving Ryoga to wonder in a vague way; why they were using hot water for this and why the man had Kuno’s face? Then he turned to Akane.

“Yes, Akane I’m P-chan. I was planning to tell you” Ryoga said and accepted the towel that Kasumi gave him.

He was surprised when Akane slapped him “you pervert, I feel sick about all the times I undressed in front of you. You never told me, leave Ryoga!” she commanded.

“But Akane” he protested.

“I said get out” she cried and Ryoga left.

Akane didn’t even bother knocking on Ranma’s door, she just kicked it down.

“All this time you knew I was taking a man into my bed and you never told me!” she thundered.

“I promised him on my honour as a martial artist that I wouldn’t” Ranma explained.

Her eyes seemed to glisten and then she said “I understand, you’re martial arts always did mean more to you then I do. That’s why you can never turn down a challenge, no matter how asinine. Find another fiancée, oh that’s right, you have several” she said sadly and then left.

“Akane” Ranma said with concern and went to follow her, only to be stopped by Kasumi.

“Just leave her alone for now” she advised.

Ranma read his pm from Red, who he now realized was Akane. He felt tears spring to his eyes when it said:

Red2221: You’re right, he isn’t worth it

Kuno got home and opened the bag that Kasumi had smuggled out to him. His expression was decidedly puzzled when he pulled out a pair of man’s orange boxer shorts, size medium.