Haruko’s Contract
Haruko the tanuki likes to tease, but after she gets in trouble for abusing her powers, Haydn the panda finds himself with an interesting new roommate.
Haruko's Contract
By Danath
Characters © LifeForce
Written during Freebies Vol. 89: Just Plain Rude! Edition
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Haruko stifled a giggle as she leaned around the corner of the large stone building. The tanuki's wide and long tail bushed out as it curled in the air above her thick hips and narrow belly. Her pale brown fur was thick and fluffy and it contoured around her wide thighs and calves, down to the toes on which she stood as she peeked across the street from her hiding place. Haruko's chest squeezed into the stone, causing the emerald green top around her torso to stretch as she smiled. Her tail wiggled as she watched her target walking up the sidewalk away from her, and she nimbly stepped out from her hiding spot and crouched behind a post office box, careful to maintain her distance as she waited for a good opportunity to strike.
Her calves flexed against a pair of decorative leggings around her shins. Gold bands shone brightly against the dark brown material, which matched the short-legged onesie hugging her thick hips. The cutout for her tail in the back was far too large, and the top halves of her plump, full rump cheeks poked through cheekily. Between her large, pale ears, which looked almost too big for her head amidst a tumble of dark brain hair, the tanuki had a single bright green leaf. Her golden eyes peered from beneath as she tracked the panda on the other side of the street all the way down the block.
She took great care to remain hidden by hiding in alleys and behind trucks, but in truth, it wouldn't have mattered. Thanks to her tanuki magic, Haruko could disguise herself as pretty much anything or anyone. So it wasn't difficult to follow the panda without him noticing - as she'd been doing for the better part of two weeks. He was just too much fun! Haruko still hadn't gotten tired of him and had pretty much abandoned all of her other duties to tease the panda whenever there was a chance.
Like this one... approaching the panda from the other direction was a large, muscular stallion in a tank top and gym shorts. He was a foot or more taller than the panda, who Haruko already knew was about the shyest person in the city.
The tanuki's tail tip twitched and she smirked as she flicked out a finger, knocking a pebble into the black and white male's footsteps.
"Whoa!"
"Oof!"
Haruko smirked and wiggled her hips as she watched the cute little panda tumble into the large stallion's chest and belly, and was absolutely delighted at the deep crimson shade that burned through his cheeks once he realized he'd been pawing at the big horse's crotch while trying to gain his balance.
"Hee hee hee! That was the best one yet!" Haruko gasped, dropping onto her butt on the sidewalk. Holding her sides, she closed her eyes and squeezed her sides. "Oh, he's so funny!"
Haruko's eyes snapped open and she sniffed the air. The gleeful look on her short, blunt muzzle faded as the world around her turned gray and melted into nothingness, before reforming with her in the center of a dark forest surrounded by floating lights.
"Haruko... you are misbehaving again."
The perky tanuki affected a pout and shoved her chest forward, arms back, leaning over as she looked up into the blackness of the sky around the ring of trees.
"Oh, me? I'd never do anything bad! I'm a good girl!"
There was a long silence. Then:
"Very well. The punishment is set."
Haruko's face grew alarmed.
"Wait, punishment? For teasing him? Oh, come on!"
Her pout turned real as the world turned gray, then reformed once more, depositing her back on the same street she'd been on before, only this time, she materialized right in front of the shocked panda boy she'd been teasing all this time.
He stumbled backwards and fell onto his seat on the sidewalk. Looking up at the tanuki, he swallowed nervously.
"Who are you?" he asked, eyes wide.
"Y-you can call me Haruko," the tanuki said, just as surprised as the panda at where she wound up. Curse that old geezer and all his magical rules. "I mean... you can call me Miss Haruko. Hmph."
She adopted a bit more of a haughty tone, but then looked around and realized that the panda wasn't the only one who could see her. In fact, her half-exposed rump and tight green top were drawing plenty of appreciative stares from passers-by.
Haruko tried to go invisible, but she couldn't. She tried to use her other magic, but couldn't. She fumed, paws on her hips, glaring down at the panda as she tried to figure out how she was going to get out of this mess.
"Uhh... Miss Haruko?" the panda asked meekly.
"Mph?"
"Uhhhh... have you been following me around for a few weeks?"
Haruko's eyes relaxed and turned to the upper right. She rubbed the back of her neck and turned around sheepishly, though when her plump backside swung across the panda's field of view, he didn't seem to be upset about anything in particular.
"Wellll... I might have been having a little fun, but what can I say?" she said, glancing over her shoulder. The panda's gaze was locked on her tail. Haruko rolled her eyes. "Boys. Always the same."
"Wait, so you were the one that was-"
"Okay, I apologized, enough talking now, please," Haruko said, trying to put on an assertive tone. She snapped her fingers and, to her surprise, the panda's muzzle did indeed snap closed and remain closed despite his attempts to open it. "Oh, well... now, that's interesting."
"Mmfff ffmff mmph?"
"Yeah, looks like I'm gonna be stuck with you for a little while, cutie," Haruko said, grinning as she turned back around and sauntered up to the panda who was still sitting on his butt on the sidewalk.
"Mff fffff! Fmmff mff."
"You won't even notice I'm around!"
"Mff."
"Don't worry we'll have lots of fun, cutie. Up you go!"
Helping the panda to his feet, the tanuki grinned. Apparently, she couldn't use any magic - unless it was on this shy little panda, who even now was squirming in her grasp as she pulled him in against her side and rubbed her breasts across his face. What a cutie! Haruko giggled.
"Alright, since I can't use my normal methods of transportation, we'll have to get back to your place the old-fashioned way," Haruko said. "Which way? I never followed you home - that would've been creepy, right?"
"Mff fff!"
Still muffled, but with Haruko understanding somehow, the two set off. The panda tried to ask questions, but found it difficult with his face smooshed up against the side of her taut green top. The tanuki's breasts were huge and he could imagine fitting his whole head in between them, and it was that thought that occupied him so much he barely noticed the trip back to his apartment. It wasn't until she pushed him against his locked door and he got a breath of fresh air that the small panda realized they'd already arrived. It had passed in an instant for him.
"Oh, by the way, what's your name?" Haruko asked as he fitted his key into the lock.
The panda paused and glanced over his shoulder. "You followed me for two weeks and you didn't know my name?"
"You knew I was following you for the whole two weeks?"
Raccoon and panda stared at each other, then the door swung open.
Irrepressible, Haruko strode inside and, out of habit, flicked her finger at the light switch. It went on, and the tanuki grinned. So not just the panda, but the panda's belongings.
"It's Hadyn, by the way."
Haruko turned and grinned even wider at the panda standing in the doorway. "Nice to meet you, Hadyn. Got anything to eat?"
A tour of the apartment followed. It was a basic affair - two bedrooms, small living room, kitchen. No balcony, but a nice view from the windows. Haruko ended up sprawling across the couch on the way back in from seeing the bathrooms and let out a sigh.
"Uuuuugggghhh... I'm already bored."
There was a rattle in the kitchen.
"Do you want to knock me over into more people?"
Haruko's paws appeared over the top of the couch, followed by her head, as she looked over it into the kitchen.
"Yes!"
It was Hadyn's turn to sigh as he brought out a plate of cheese and crackers.
"So... uh... what exactly are you?" he asked as the tanuki spread crumbs everywhere.
"Mmff... a tanuki, duh..."
"And you're here because..."
"Well... I may have bent some teeny tiny little rules because I was having fun with you."
"And?"
"And so I'm here and I haven't quite figured that part out yet. Mff... good crackers."
Hadyn tried not to stare at the crumbs spilling across her wide chest and narrow belly. To be fair, he hadn't seen her clearly, just glimpses of a tan and dark brown ringed tail or flicking, broad ears. Now that he could, especially this close, he once again found it difficult to carry on his side of the conversation.
"Anyways, until I do, I guess you're stuck with me. I can already tell if I try to ditch you I'll end up right back here."
The tanuki stretched her arms and legs in all directions. Even her tail poked straight up her backside as she let out a loud and long yawn. Hadyn's eyes widened as he watched her chest shifting and sliding under her top.
"Alright, I'm getting bored again," she said, flopping back into the cushions. "So what did you do for fun before I came along?"
Hadyn blushed as he remembered all the hips, bellies, and chests he'd "stumbled" into over the past few weeks, in addition to a myriad of other accidents, clothing mishaps, and unfortunately timed entrances. She was probably the one who switched the signs on the bathrooms at the office.
"Games, books, you know, the usual stuff," Hadyn said. "What about you?"
The tanuki cocked an ear and waited for Hadyn to answer his own question. The panda blushed again and turned away as she leaned her head back over the top of the couch, causing the emerald top to squeeze even more tightly around her heavy breasts.
"Actually, maybe there is something we can do for fun."
Hadyn was not sure whether to get very excited or very afraid at the way the tanuki said that. Her voice dropped lower as she lifted her head, and the panda's loins sent a few warning signals to his brain as he watched her tongue spread across her lips suggestively.
Haruko smirked and stood up, then strutted over and smooshed her chest into the panda's.
"C'mon, cutie... if I'm gonna be your guest, you oughta entertain me! Hee hee!"
Hadyn's breath caught in his throat as she slid her paws down his sides and pulled him in close to her smooth, firm belly. His chin barely peeked over the top of her swells as she grinned down at him suggestively, her sharp little white teeth bared and fully displayed. There was no mistaking the intention behind a smile like that.
"After all, usually I'm not allowed, but maybe it's part of my punishment and I can't leave until I satisfy you to make up for all those awful things I did..."
Haruko's fingers teased down Hadyn's muzzle. The panda stiffened as her other paw disappeared beneath her heavy chest and into his pants.
"Is there... mmmhh... anything I can do so that you'd forgive me?"
Hadyn's paws moved suddenly for the first time. Wrapping around the bare sections of Haruko's plush rump cheeks, the small panda pulled her forward with surprising strength. His eyes were wide, but the pupils were gone, vanished amidst a swirl of light and dark gray smoke.
"Huh? Oh, what now?" Haruko gasped. "C'mon, you old geezer, it was just getting interesting!"
A flash lit up the room and made Haruko blink rapidly. The paws around her hips dug in even harder as the small male squirmed forward, pushing back more eagerly than before.
"Uh... Hadyn? You okay?" Haruko asked. She wasn't sure what magic had just been used or how it related to her punishment, but as the sharp and short little claws massaged her glutes until she gasped, she knew it was going to be... interesting. "Urrghhh... you old... guh-heezer!"
The panda's eyes were back to normal, but set in a narrower gaze, appraising and haughty. His claws stroked through her fur and snagged on the hems of the onesie, then pulled forward and up until Haruko groaned and wriggled in his grip. Her rump was squeezed by the hem behind as her breasts squeezed together under his clutching paw.
"Oh... oh, Hadyn! You're pretty strong, aren't you?" she gasped.
Then his paw reached in front instead and closed around her right breast.
"Ooooooh!"
Her long gasp continued as the panda's muzzle split into a wide grin. His fingers pinched and squeezed, then his whole paw would wrap around for a few hefts and rubs. Soon it was Haruko shoving his other paw to her free breast with an eager moan.
The green top stretched tighter. Her plump nipples fattened under Hadyn's not-so-subtle manipulation. The panda's growls and grunts echoed in her ears as she shivered and gasped, both paws going flat to her smooth belly. She couldn't move, not that she wanted to, as her heavy, full breasts squeezed into his fingers.
And then kept squeezing. And squeezing. Haruko looked down and moaned as she watched her emerald top stretch outwards. Each gasping breath encouraged another bout of growth, an inch or so in width at a time, until her already full breasts hung well past the sides of her shoulders. Or they would, except Hadyn's paws kept rubbing, pulling, squeezing, even when her plump nipples grew bigger than his hand could stretch under the fabric. The heat in her belly blossomed, leaving her sagging and moaning and wriggling as the panda's fingers toyed with her chest until she was panting and on the verge of drooling.
"Ahhhhhh... ooohhhh.... nnnffff!"
Haruko's eyes closed. Her long tail swept side to side behind her as she leaned forward eagerly into the panda's paws. Her hips swayed back and forth and she was starting to really get into it, even though heaving around such a big pair of knockers would be really inconvenient. It just felt so good, so warm and tingly as she grew heavier, bigger, massive...
And as it turned out, she wasn't the only one. Warm panda boobs squeezed up underneath her larger pair. She couldn't see them past her swells, but she could feel them, and she definitely heard the effect they were having on the panda. His sharp little claws squeezed against the fabric and Haruko groaned louder than ever.
"Oooh, Hadyn!"
The panda's breasts grew at around the same pace as Haruko's, but slightly quicker. They were almost half of the tanuki's size by the time she noticed. The panda's shirt stretched taut, buttons straining. Not being magic, the shirt, unlike Haruko's clothing, was fairly easy to rip.
The tanuki stepped backwards and gasped as she felt her heavy top drag off the shelf provided by Hadyn's own oversized tits. They slumped down, then sproinged back upwards into place, hanging out high and proud from her otherwise narrow shoulders. They were already more than twice as wide as she was, and going for three, apparently.
Hadyn's shirt could take no more. The button-up office outfit tore along the back and shoulders, splitting from hips to neck. The panda's wobbling, bouncing new breasts quickly shook off the scraps and revealed the full extent of his shocking growth. His lean shoulders hadn't grown a bit, though he was showing more tone in his belly and luster in his black and white pelt. Each huge breast was covered in thick white fur, while black surrounded his shoulders and legs. The white sheath hanging between his thighs was, curiously, not yet hard despite his rapid groaning and gasping and shuddering. The panda's pants appeared to be next on the block as his hips spilled out over the belt. His groans rose as he had to try to get his arms down around the beach balls hanging off his chest without making them bounce and wobble too much, or he'd get distracted again and forget.
By the time Hadyn was out of his pants and Haruko had recovered enough from the groping to catch her breath, both tanuki and panda sported equally impressive racks. Both pairs were so large their stomachs were practically hidden beneath the lower swells, while they jutted out far and proud, leading the way before them by almost half of their own height. Staring at each other with dazed gazes, Haruko and Hadyn both shivered as they felt the impressive new weight tugging them forward constantly. The panda's pupils were back to normal, though Haruko's sensitivity to magic meant she could still detect remnants of the spell in the overgrown panda.
"So... is this... nnnnffff... part of the... punishment?" Hadyn asked. "Or is this just for... mmmmmfff... my benefit?"
"Probably both," Haruko conceded. The tanuki, slightly more experienced in this sort of transformation magic, hefted her enormous jugs from below, but they were just so heavy and full they simply draped around her wrists and arms. "But that's probably it. I don't think the old geezer would do anything really crazy."
"Wouldn't he?"
Haruko's head snapped back towards Hadyn. The panda's eyes cleared of a small bit of gray smoke before the room flashed again, leaving them both blinking.
"What was that?" Hadyn asked. "And why do I feel so... so... oooooohhhhhhhhh..."
The panda's teeth came out in a growl as he realized that, in addition to breasts, there were even more reasons to no longer consider himself male.
She slid both paws down between her thighs, to either side of her sheath, as Haruko went through the opposite experience a few feet away. The tanuki bit her lower lip and stifled a cry as her paws went down to her front and cupped the rapidly swelling and enlarging male package forming at the base of her belly. The tan furry tube was nearly the thickness of her arm and as long as her paw before the pale red tip pushed free, and with every rasping gasp of air, Haruko could feel the magic fueling the change with the intent to grow her even quicker.
Hadyn dropped to her knees. Her plump backside thickened and fattened, growing firm and round and bubbly beneath her cute little stub tail. The round, enormous curves echoed what was going on with her heavy jugs in the front, while between her legs, a fat pair of furry bear balls also began to grow and swell. While she wasn't getting much taller, her curves grew more accentuated, especially around her lean belly and the widening, flaring hips below to better support her increasingly rotund and plump backside. The thick maleness between her legs pressed forward, easily escaping her white-furred sheath to droop well past her knees, several times longer and thicker than the original. The tatters of her pants fell around her thighs as she reached past her chest and wrapped both paws around her stalk with a cry.
"Nngggghhhh... sooooo big!" Hadyn moaned. The panda's fingers caressed her maleness, stroking from the tip down to the base, until the tip grew so long it flexed into her own enormous cleavage and hid away from view. The panda's pleasure only increased at the auto-boobjob, and her hips squirmed down into the floor needily.
Haruko never felt a heat so intense before. While she was able to bear it somewhat better than the panda in that she remained standing, Haruko's legs twitched, thighs straining under her fur, as her new balls swelled to the size of her own head as they hung down between her thighs. The sheath accompanying did the same, growing huge and thick, far larger than ought to be possible even with magic. Like Hadyn, her rapidly fattening cock flexed right between her aching breasts, plunging into the furry cleavage with a shock of pleasure that made Haruko's whole body tremble.
While the tanuki had always been voluptuous and was merely being accented, so to speak, the panda's skinny male figure underwent more impressive changes as she managed to push herself back to her feet. The panda's heavy balls draped down her toned, firm thighs, until they bounced just above her knees. The fat sac was wider than her thighs at the biggest, and were made to look even bigger thanks to a thick ruff of white fur along the bottom. Each wide leg narrowed to the knee and was supported by delicate paws and ankles and calves, all smooth and much more feminine than before. On the backside, Haydn's rump cheeks were thicker, fuller, and hard enough to bounce quarters off of were it not for all the fur.
Back in the front, Hadyn's white-furred sac bounced down over her knees and shins. The meaty maleness squeezing free of her sheath was as thick around as her own belly and easily long enough to stretch past her ears, though with the fantastically large breasts in the way, there was little chance of that happening at the moment - instead, it shoved forward, past the fat nipples capping her breasts, and hid her small, tight stomach from view entirely.
"What kind of... punishment... is this?" Haruko gasped.
Hadyn, now back on her feet, unsteadily moved in Haruko's direction. The panda's sharp little claws stretched out again, once more stroking through thick tanuki fur, as the hypervoloptuous bear babe squished her oversized assets against the tanuki's ridiculous attributes. Both overdeveloped and incredibly hung, they shuddered and gasped as their arms pulled and tugged, forcing their breasts and arousals together between them. By the time they'd stopped growing completely, the tips of their huge, thick lengths were able to reach their chins and stretched completely through the valleys of cleavage.
There was no talking as an animalistic need swept through both of them - the final gift of the transformational magical punishment, apparently. Hadyn, unused to magic, felt its effects most strongly. The panda's plump rump flexed as she surged forward and toppled over on top of the top-heavy tanuki. Sprawling onto the couch behind her, she ended up sliding halfway up, leaving her huge breasts spilling back over her own head and her hips elevated.
Hadyn didn't waste the chance. Grinding up against the couch, she wrapped her long, delicate fingers around each of Haruko's ankles and pulled them to the sides. Ignoring the muffled grunts and moans from beneath the prodigious tits draping back over Haruko's head, the panda's hips shoved forward. It took a few tries to adjust to the size - she was just sooooooo big, and it was hard to get the enormous head lined up just so above the tanuki's cute, flicking tail. The panda's eyes filled with smoke as a few flickers of light flashed around the room, and then...
"Mmmfffffffhhhh!"
"Ooooh, yessss!"
Haruko's narrow stomach bulged with the outline of the fat panda bear cock that flexed inside her a moment later. Her breath caught in her throat and her wide, plump hips clenched tight. Her legs stretched to the sides as the panda's belly shoved down into her heavy balls, which were trapped between them, riding up and down the massive black-skinned panda shaft.
The whole couch creaked and moaned as the bear's hips swung forward and down. She was so big that it was hard, at first, to get more than half of her incredible dick into the whining tanuki, but after adjusting her grip on Haruko's cute ankles and dragging her up, she got past the midway point. Hadyn's eyes faintly glowed as she huffed and grunted, biting her lower lip between deep, gut-churning thrusts that left the tanuki beneath quivering and dripping.
"Oh, yes... you've been... mmmffff... so naughty," Hadyn gasped. "Good thing you're all mine... to... punish!"
Harkuko could only see glimpses of the smirking, moaning panda as her own huge breasts flopped around her head, but she could feel the oversized thickness stretching her open. Her belly fattened as the massive length went deeper, stretching her more and more until her belly was forced past her own breasts. Her arms clutched at the couch cushions below as her whole body was flung against the back by the awesome power of the panda's thickness.
"Nnnngghhh!"
Haruko's ears flicked as she felt her upper body flung over the top of the couch. Her belly bloated, rapidly filling and hiding the outline of the immense panda dick inside. Slender fingers clutched at Haruko's thighs, pulling her hips down until her thick rump bounced off the panda's balls. The tanuki's spine curved as she felt her warm, full stomach slosh and grow thicker and fuller.
"Mmmhhh, yeah! Though I think you might be liking this punishment too much, Haruko!"
The panda gurgled. Her eyes widened as she felt the thrusting resume. How could the panda keep going so quickly after cumming? She groaned as the pleasure in her hips made her clench and squeeze all the tighter even as her huge belly collided with her swollen breasts. Haruko's throat bulged and her muzzle tipped back over the edge of the couch as a huge wave of thick white panda seed gushed out, creating another mess in addition to the one between her widespread legs.
Like a machine, Haydn's hips surged forward. Her huge, oversized cock felt so good stretching out the tanuki's tight inner walls, and the panda's big, fat tits rubbed and squeezed so nicely over the sloshing tan-furred belly that she couldn't stop gasping and growling and moaning and humping. Her heavy sac thumped against Haruko's backside and hips every time Haydn bottomed out, and both of their cries mingled as the surging pleasure rose again within them both.
As Haydn's smoke-filled eyes closed and a gleeful smile crossed her half-open muzzle, she slammed forward and squirmed into the tanuki. Her huge shaft pulled upwards, showing the massive girth stretching Haruko's belly and chest, before her stomach fattened and filled even more, inflating like a balloon even as waves of seed poured from her muzzle and rump.
"Ooooh, even better than... the first!" Haydn groaned, digging her paws into the tanuki's swollen stomach. "Let's go for... hnngggghhh.. Three!"
Beneath them, the couch splintered, crushed by the weight of their overgrown bodies, damaged by the deluge of thick, warm jizz. Haruko's muzzle opened with shock, but as her shoulders hit the floor, her hips lifted. Her thick cock jabbed into her muzzle, setting off a blast that overwhelmed her leaking muzzle and turned her open throat into a lake of seed. Haydn's hips crashed down, jamming in and flexing. An instantaneous eruption followed as the panda's greedy fingers and surprisingly powerful legs shoved down into the curled over, fattened up tanuki.
"How about we go big... I'm not stopping... until I hit... six! At least!"
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Haruko shuddered. Her belly was back to normal. She felt like it had been weeks since the panda hadn't "punished" her with a spare load or two to keep her "nice and plump," as Haydn put it. The dommy little panda was relentless, constantly horny, and unafraid to put his sharp little claws to oh-so-effective use. Haruko shuddered, and the fat swell of her half-hard shaft flexed against the green fabric of her clothes. Despite being magic and untearable, they weren't any larger than before. Her massive cock was on full display, with only a small portion of it actually hiding thanks to all the straps and cutouts. Her enormous chest was wrapped up nice and tight in her stretchier top, but her achingly hard nipples may as well have been bare from how thin-stretched the material was.
Her cheeks burned as she felt the stares of the people passing by her on the sidewalk. Most stopped to stare, astounded by either the size of her massive chest or the thickness of her plump and breedable backside. Haruko's thighs quivered as her fat, full balls squeezed up between them, feeding a steady drip of pre-cum from her throbbing, half-hard shaft.
She was so embarrassed... Haruko wished she could turn invisible again, but apparently the punishment wasn't yet done, and she found herself forced to stay with Haydn and accompany the panda around everywhere. Since the big change, Haydn dragged her to all sorts of clothing stores, both traditional and adult, while pounding the tanuki senseless every night. At this point, she wasn't even sure she wanted the punishment to end.
Haydn, meanwhile, strutted alongside her, purposefully bouncing her bulging shorts or top against the tanuki's side to tease her. The panda's wide hips swayed as she led Haruko through the busy mall. The confident black and white bear grinned as she soaked up all the attention while Haruko, who'd rather not be seen at all, found herself getting embarrassed and aroused to the point that her tight, undersized outfit clung to the stalk of her massive cock as it pushed down past her knees and released several thick, oozing globs of pre-cum that squeezed right through the thin material and dribbled onto the floor between her dainty feet.
"Oh? What's this? Are you gonna be naughty right here in front of all these people?" Haydn said, loud enough for the crowd of lust-filled onlookers to hear. "Look at you, making such a mess. Heh heh heh..."
Haruko gasped and her eyes went wide as the panda's palm dug into one of her thick rump cheeks up to the wrist. Warm, heavy weight squeezed against her side as Haydn leaned in close and dropped the volume of her voice to a teasing whisper. Haruko swallowed hard as she flicked her eyes to the side and saw the familiar gray smoke filling the panda's otherwise black pupils.
"I think I'll have to 'punish' you right here and now, in that case..."
The end