Subject: [fanfic] Altered Shampoo part in Ranko & Kaneda 6b
From: "C. Wong" <711788@ican.net>
Date: 7/15/1997, 8:41 PM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com

I've changed the Shampoo curse Mousse part, please C&C (even though I can't
answer them till 2 days from now since I'm going away . . . (sorry!)




	"Then I supposed you thought that I wouldn't mind getting cursed too,
didn't you?"  Mousse asked in a cold voice.  

	Ranko looked shocked as Shampoo looked downcast.

############################FLASHBACK############################
	
	A year ago, at Jusenkyo.

	A still bespectacled Mousse was training vigorously by himself on the
bamboo poles.  While he could defeat his love easily with his deadly armed
and unarmed techniques, he MUST be extremely agile in order to restrain
Shampoo without hurting her.

	{Shampoo, I shall win your love soon!} the boy spoke out aloud as he
performed a kata on a single bamboo pole. 
	   
	{Mousse!} A child-like voice called out to him from behind.

	Mousse turned around, and his eyes could be seen brightening up even from
beneath the glasses. {Shampoo!!}

	Shampoo, standing on a bamboo pole opposite him, looked bored. {Are you
training once again in hopes of winning my hand?}

	Mousse looked embrassed. {Eh, well . . . that is . . .}

	Shampoo sighed in frustration.  {Give it up, will you?  I DON'T love you,
get it? I've beaten you, I've humiliated you, I've done EVERYTHING that is
humanly possible to drive you away.  Can't you just give it all up and spare
yourself some pain?} 

	Mousse almost shattered into pieces. {NO!  You don't mean it, Shampoo!  I
know that deep down inside, you DO love me!  It's my lack of skill, is that
it?!  Is that why you've been rejecting me for all this time?!  Well, don't
worry, after more training-} 

	Shampoo, who had apparently had enough of his babbling, snapped.  {Were you
deaf?!  Didn't you hear what I've just said?!  I DON'T LOVE YOU!  Get it
through your thick lenses, blind boy!}  With that, she flung a bonbori at
him without thinking . . .

	. . . and pushed him off the bamboo pole that he was standing on as a result.

	As Shampoo watched in shock, Mousse fell into the Jusenkyo spring below him
with a cry. {Urk!!}

	SPLASH!!!

	Shampoo looked at the bubbling pool of water in horror.  What has she
done?!  She had always wanted to drive him off, but to curse him . . .

	With a splash, a blur sprang out of the water and landed on a bamboo pole,
its now perfect vison took in the face of its beloved with utmost clarity . . .

	. . . and REALLY saw Shampoo for the first time.  

	For years, Mousse had envisioned the features of his beloved as being . . .
divine.  She should have been brave and fearless.   She should have been
flawless and brilliant in every way.  She should have been every man's
desire . . . 

	She should have stayed as an Amazonian goddess in his mind.

	Instead, what he saw was simply a GIRL, looking at him with fright in her
eyes.  Yes, she was pretty, but not beautiful . . . not when compared to the
goddess in his mind.  And her fear, a fear that betrayed her own cowardice .
. . how could . . . how could his goddess have such an unbecoming expression
on her face?!  A mere flower in a garden . . . no way was she what he had
peceived as for all these years. 

	And he had allowed this ordinary girl to walk all over him . . . FOR ALL
THIS TIME?!

	Working up her courage, Shampoo spoke up.  {Mousse, I don't mean-}

	Before she could have finished her sentence, the creature dived past her
and flew away into the distance.

	Realizing the seriousness of the tragedy set off by her, the girl could
only whisper faintly to herself.  {What have I done . . .?}


#################################################################
	 
	Mousse stared hard at the shame-filled, crying Shampoo.

	"Shampoo very mean to you in past, she know that now." she spoke up in a
shaky voice.  "But Shampoo only that way cause she desperate to-" she
stopped abruptedly.

	Mousse continued the sentence for her.  "To get rid of me, was that it?
Well, it WORKED, I'm telling you!  You DON'T ever have to worry about being
chased by me again, for now I can't even look at you without WANTING TO
PUKE!   Day after day, even now, I had to deal with the fact that I used to
love someone as cruel as you!  I bet you even curse me on purpose just to
get rid of me!"

	"NO!"  Shampoo's screamed even as she sobbed.  "That really accident caused
by Shampoo's bad temper!  Mousse can berate Shampoo, even beat Shampoo up,
but please no say Shampoo curse you on purpose . . . breaks Shampoo's heart
when you think she so evil." her crying subsided a bit.  "Shampoo know she
very slimy to say this , but in strange way, curse help Mousse get new
eyesight too . . ."

	"Yes . . ."  Mousse spoke up in a cold voice.  "And that's EXACTLY why I
hadn't taken any active revenge against you.  You do anything to my Airen,
and I just might change my mind."

	Shampoo became frustrated.  "But minx already have dozens lovers!  You no
can choose her over virtuous Shampoo!!"

	Ranko fumed at hearing that.  "I'm NOT a minx, you deranged, curse
inducing, hygene product!  And how can you possibly expect Mousse to keep on
loving you after what you did to him?!

	"That accident!"  Shampoo narrowed her eyes.  "Besides, Mousse no marry
outsider who only won cause she untied Mousse before ceremony formally
started!  Everyone show self!!"  

	With that, all the acrobat girls from the circus, now carrying various
weapons, came out and formed a circle around Ranko and Mousse.  Ranko
immediately recognized them as the other girls from the Combat Free Your
Airen Ceremony.   LinLin and RanRan positioned themselves beside Shampoo as
she smirked evily.  "Now we show minx what REAL warrior women can do in fair
fight."