Addicted to Love

Addicted to Love is written by Gregg Sharp (Chapters 1 & 3 only) and Christopher J. Olsen (Chapters 2 & 4~8) and began online publication on August 2nd, 1998.Post at FFML - Retrieved 19-Jul-2024 It currently stands incomplete at eight chapters, the most recent of which was published on September 2nd, 2000.Post at FFML (Link subsequently deleted)
==Description==
==Plot==
===Part 1These instalments do not appear to have titles.===
A vengeful Happosai decides to inflict a particularly cruel punishment on Ranma Saotome, and on Ranma's fiancees. To aid him in his plan, he enlists a drunken and depressed Mousse, subtly placing the Reversal Jewel on him to ensure he's properly motivated to assist. Luring Ranma, Akane Tendo, Nabiki Tendo, Kasumi Tendo, Shampoo, and Ukyo Kuonji to the Tendo Dojo under false pretexts, Happosai arranges for them to consume a feast of spaghetti that has been spiked with a cocktail of mystical drugs, most prominently the hypnotic mushrooms. Once the teens have all eaten, Happosai snaps his fingers triggers an audio recording of the song "", which combines with the drugs in their system to compel them into a riotous orgy.
All of them feel quite humiliated when they regain consciousness the next day, but that's not the end of their problems. Firstly, Chinese Amazon Law has very strict definitions of what just happened; the other girls can either agree to be adopted into the tribe, or put to death. Reluctantly, they all choose the former option, and an annoyed but not unsympathetic quickly performs the ceremony. Making things worse, for the next couple of days, the girls discover that the sound of snapping fingers gets them extremely aroused. While that goes away, it doesn't change the seriousness of the discovery at the Tendo Dojo a month later: Akane and Nabiki are pregnant!
Meanwhile, an abandoned Mousse, now free of the Reversal Jewel and stricken with shame and guilt, writes an apology letter to Cologne, telling her what Happosai did and what drugs they used, before preparing to leave Nerima forever.
===Part 2===
As the eldest and most respected of the Tendo siblings, Kasumi goes to a nearby drug store to purchase ginger tea and some pregnancy tests. There, she learns from Hiroshi that their little "incident" isn't merely a private shame - Happosai taped the whole thing, and has been distributing it on the back alleys of Tokyo since two days ago! She quickly heads home and informs her sister, with Nabiki complaining about how hard it will be to spin-doctor events before she goes to take her pregnancy test.
Meanwhile, Ranma is training in the backyard, unaware of Akane's and Nabiki's condition. He is interrupted by a joyous Ukyo, who happily informs him that she is pregnant from the orgy. Ranma experiences a rush of emotions, not all of them good, but immediately promises he'll do the right thing and be there for his and Ukyo's child by marrying her. Ukyo's joy at having apparently finally won the fiancee wars lasts only a few minutes before they learn that Akane and Nabiki are also pregnant. Shampoo arrives just then, and after some brief conversation, it's established that she and Kasumi are the only girls who didn't get pregnant. Still, that leaves the question of what to do next.
Shampoo volunteers that, as Chinese Amazons, she is now permitted to allow Ranma to wed the other girls as well. The only problem is that he'll need to defeat them in battle first, to prove he's strong enough to be able to be worthy of them. Thus, by Chinese Amazon law, Shampoo, Ukyo and Akane are all Ranma's wives (pending a ceremonial 1v3 battle before two tribal elders to confirm the group marriage)... but Nabiki and Kasumi are, legally, nothing more than his mistresses. Which, an appalled Nabiki realizes, means that she and Kasumi could be challenged to engagement battles, despite being completely untrained. After some talk, they decide they can use Nabiki's pregnancy to keep challengers at bay whilst she trains like crazy, but Kasumi is told about Dr. Tofu Ono's long-unnoticed (by her) infatuation and she is told to go and ask him to marry her, so he can keep her safe from an unwanted spouse.
Then the topic comes up of the tape, and they learn from an embarrassed Shampoo that Cologne was actually given one weeks ago. Though this angers Nabiki, she assures them that she should be able to spin-doctor things so they can keep their good names relatively intact... but first, they have to watch the video and find out what exactly they need to defend their reputations against. Reluctantly, they settle in to see what it was they did under Happosai's spiked spaghetti...
===Part 3: Ranma No Video===
Cologne arrives as the teens finish watching their porno... which they learn, to their horror, is actually a Hong Kong-produced knock-off, meaning there are doubtlessly thousands of the tapes with potentially international distribution. Things get worse as Cologne explains just what kind of nasty drug cocktail Happosai slipped into them. Specifically, it included a secret Chinese Amazon drug called "Faithfulness" which leaves the consumer literally addicted to the physical presence of somebody they had intercourse with - as is the other subject. Thus, the sextet are all addicted to each other, to at least some degree.
Before they can fully get into the details, the second Chinese Amazon Elder, Lilac, arrives. She warns them that two would-be suitors are coming for Kasumi and Nabiki - Sponge and Rag, regarded as the stupidest and ugliest men in the Joketsuzoku village. Thus, they need to put their plans into averting being "captured" by the two as soon as possible. She also brings up that the sisters should consider marrying Ranma by Chinese Amazon laws themselves.
===Part 4===
Ranma goes to speak to Dr. Tofu on Kasumi's behalf, unaware that as he goes, Kasumi is trying to picture the doctor as attractive, only to keep thinking of Ranma instead. Nabiki sets down to start working out how to try and salve their reputation from Happosai's smear campaign, with help from Shampoo, whilst Akane and Ukyo discover the truth of Cologne's warning when a simple attempt to commiserate leaves them so enamored and aroused they nearly start making out.
At Tofu's clinic, Ranma asks the doctor for some techniques on paralyzing shiatsu points, so he can beat the girls without hurting them. He also tells him all about what Happosai did, and pleads with Dr. Tofu to challenge Kasumi to a marriage match, only for the doctor to sadly refuse. He explains that the cocktail of drugs Happosai used makes Kasumi incurably addicted to Ranma; she will never be able to be happy again unless she can regularly interact with Ranma. And Ranma is forced to admit that he feels like he's in love with Kasumi now too. He promises to ask Kasumi if she'll marry him as well, before the doctor begins teaching Ranma the sleep shiatsu point.
Plan made, Nabiki and Shampoo begin enacting Nabiki's plan to try and counter Happosai's efforts to destroy their reputation. In short, the plan is to go to the police (with some help from Cologne's contacts at the Chinese Embassy) and go public with how the teens were all victims of a crime, thus turning Happosai and Mousse into wanted felons. It won't entirely undo the damage done to their reputation, but it will blunt the worst of it. As they go, Shampoo and Nabiki start feeling some mutual sparks of desire, which they push aside.
Home alone, Akane, Ukyo and Kasumi start talking about their recent feelings. Kasumi admits to feelings of deep desire and love for Ranma, whilst Akane and Ukyo admit to their newly emerged sexual desire for each other. Kasumi goes to take a bath, whilst Akane and Ukyo start to explore their physical desires, only to be interrupted by Ranma's arrival. He tells them in brief what Dr. Tofu talked to him about, and they encourage him to persuade Kasumi to enter the group marriage with them as well - they can't bear to imagine her miserable under the effects of the drug. Ranma agrees, and Akane and Ukyo withdraw to the bathroom. They send Kasumi to talk to Ranma, and once she has left, they begin making out in the bathroom, their own initial plans of bathing forgotten.
Ranma and Kasumi talk, and confess their mutual desire for each other, deciding to get married after all. In fact, things go so well that the two of them can't resist each other, and they start having sex there in the living room.
===Part 4.5: The Seduction of Kasumi===
Sexual intercourse between Ranma and Kasumi takes place in the living room, and between Akane and Ukyo in the bathroom.
===Part 5===
Having finished their lovemaking, Akane and Ukyo go to the living room and remind Ranma and Kasumi that Soun Tendo and Genma Saotome will be home soon. Kasumi and Ukyo get to work on cleaning up and cooking, whilst Akane and Ranma have a brief heart-to-heart.
Nabiki and Shampoo arrive, and explain what Nabiki did. They are then told about the mutual sexual addiction afflicting all of them, binding them into a polycule whether they want to be one or not. Ranma offers to wed Nabiki as well, especially since the repugnant Sponge and Rag will arrive the next day, but Nabiki turns him down in pride. The others try to be supportive, but each feels she's making a mistake.
Soun and Genma arrive, and are finally told about what Happosai did. Nabiki also irons out some details to make their living arrangements a little more palatable to Japanese sensibilities, proposing that Ranma wed Akane in his male guise, only to then have Genma officially adopt Ranma's female form as his daughter and have her wed Ukyo, who has school paperwork officially proclaiming her to be a boy. By the time explanations are all finished, even Soun is pushing for Nabiki to marry Ranma, but she stubbornly refuses. 
Once Nabiki, Ranma and the fathers leave, the other girls discuss what to do. They are conflicted, but ultimately resolve that they need to change Nabiki's mind, for her own happiness.
===Part 5.5===
Taking on her cat form, Shampoo sneaks off into the bathroom, where she has sex with Nabiki. She makes no mention of Nabiki wedding Ranma, instead playing a subtle game and hoping that this reminder of the pleasure the two of them are compelled to feel from such actions will weaken Nabiki's resolve.
Shortly afterwards, Ukyo sneaks into Nabiki's bedroom and arranges herself, naked and seductive, in Nabiki's bed, thinking all the while about how strongly she is attracted to her new "wives" as well as to Ranma. When Nabiki arrives, she talks Nabiki into her arms by describing it as a way of showing her how she truly feels about her, and if nothing else as a way to say goodbye. Once she leaves, Nabiki contemplates how much she'll miss the sex, before deciding she can "get by" with just regular lesbian flings with Ukyo and Shampoo on the side.
Then Kasumi arrives, wanting to talk. She gently pleads with Nabiki to reconsider her plan to go it solo, confessing to seducing Ranma, how good it felt with him, and how Akane, Ukyo and Shampoo welcomed her into the marriage. Then she starts getting physically sexual with her startled younger sister, who finds herself helpless to resist the amorous intentions of her elder.
Once Kasumi departs, Akane arrives soon afterwards. It's unclear if she intended to seduce Nabiki, but by this point, Nabiki recognizes a pattern and decides to just go with the flow, aggressively capturing her little sister's lips before pulling her into the bed and making love with her. Once they're finished, Nabiki admits that maybe she can't hold out against the drug after all.
The sudden appearance of Ranma is the last straw. He barely starts talking to her before she cuts him off, promising to wed him but at the same time pleading with him to just go away and let her sleep, as she's had all the sex she can handle for one night. As she passes out in her bed, Ranma creeps out of her room, thoroughly confused, but also relieved.
===Part 6===
The next morning, Kasumi and Nabiki announce their intentions to challenge Ranma as part of the wedding battle, and they are told when and where it will take place. The new polycule tries to relax and eat their breakfast, as well as figure out how they're going to arrange sleeping arrangements once the wedding is officially cemented. They don't get far into that conversation before Ranma's mother Nodoka arrives. She is told of what has transpired, and gives her approval to Ranma's new wives.
Finally, it's time for the fight to begin. The collective girls give Ranma a genuine fight, with Kasumi displaying a surprising affinity for martial arts, but he prevails and is formally married to all five of them by Chinese Amazon law.
===Part 7===
That evening, Akane explains to a curious Cologne how the Japanese side of the marriages has been handled. The polycule then discusses the immediate future; Shampoo is closing the Nekohanten and Cologne is returning to China, whilst Ukyo is torn between shutting down Ucchan's Okonomiyaki so she can live with her new spouses and her desire to keep her business running. The agreement is made that Shampoo and Ukyo can both live in the guest room formerly used by Happosai, as Ukyo can still easily commute to her shop from the Tendo Dojo. Once the adults have left, the conversation then turns to the salacious; how do they settle who gets Ranma on a nightly basis, and in particular for their honeymoon?
Ultimately, they decide that Shampoo gets dibs tonight, it being technically "her" honeymoon as Ranma's chief Amazon wife, whilst Akane will get him tomorrow, when their Japanese wedding is held. Shampoo carries Ranma off to his bedroom, whilst the remaining girls decide to drink some sake and play poker.
By the time a wandering P-chan stumbles into the Tendo Dojo, the four girls are quite drunk and their poker has morphed into strip poker, with the smashed girls getting increasingly flirty as they play. Inevitably, P-chan passes out with a nosebleed, and Akane and Ukyo carry him to the bathroom, intending to wash the pig and enjoy some bathtub sex. They are, understandably, less than thrilled when P-chan reverts to Ryoga Hibiki.
===Part 8===
A short but angry confrontation takes place between Akane and Ryoga, before the fact he's looking at a nude Akane sinks in and Ryoga passes out. Akane storms off, with Ukyo going to comfort her whilst Nabiki and Kasumi drag Ryoga into the spare room so he won't catch cold. After some commiseration, Akane realizes that Ranma knew about P-chan all along, and goes to confront him.
In Ranma's room, Shampoo asks Ranma to tell her the truth about if he loved her before the drugs or not. Ranma confesses that he liked her, but he doesn't know enough about love to say anything more than that about his feelings. When she asks if he loved Akane then, he tells her that they need to stop thinking about "before"; they are bound irrevocably to each other now, so all that matters is the now. Shampoo concedes the wisdom in what he's saying, but she still feels somewhat insecure.
The tender moment is interrupted by Akane, angrily demanding how Ranma could have kept P-chan's secret identity from her. With Shampoo's help, Ranma is able to calm Akane down. She retires to her room with Ukyo and the two commiserate for a while before making love. The next morning, the new polycule wakes to their first day of marriage.
Meanwhile, Ryoga, naked save for a towel, wanders onto the Kuno estate and crushes part of the mansion with a Shishi Hokodan before wandering off again. This attracts the attention of Kodachi Kuno, who decides she really likes what she can see of Ryoga and promptly makes her forget about Ranma, sending her chasing after Ryoga instead...
==Notes==
*An entry in The Bet universe.
*An adaptation and continuation of Addiction (To Love) by Gregg Sharp (which served as the original "Part 1" of this story before revisions).
==FFML Posting History==
*Part 2 02/Aug/98
*Part 3 03/Aug/98
*Parts 1~3 (revision) 17/Nov/98
*Part 4 17/Nov/98
*Part 4.5 20/Nov/98
*Part 5 29/12/98
*Part 5.5 15/01/99
*Part 1 (revision) 29/01/99
*Part 2 (revision) 29/01/99
*Part 3 (revision) 29/01/99
*Part 4 (revision) 29/01/99
*Part 4.5 (revision) 29/01/99
*Part 5 (revision) 29/01/99
*Part 6 25/02/99
*Chapter 1 (revision) 25/08/00
*Chapter 2 (revision) 25/08/00
*Chapter 3 (revision) 25/08/00
*Chapter 4 (revision) 26/08/00
*Chapter 4.5 (revision) 29/08/00
*Chapter 5 (revision) 30/08/00
*Chapter 5.5 (revision) 30/08/00
*Chapter 6 (revision) 30/08/00
*Chapter 7 01/09/00
*Chapter 8 02/09/00
*Chapter 8 (revision) 07/09/00
*Chapter 7 (revision) 07/09/00
==See Also==
==External Links==
*Addicted to Love at ArchiveofOurOwn.org - Retrieved 04-May-2022
*Addicted to Love at the Internet Archive record of Studio Asynjor - Retrieved 08-Jan-2020
*Addicted to Love at The Ranma 1/2 Lemon Stories Archive - Retrieved 08-Jan-2020
==References==
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