“What trap for?” Shampoo asked curiously.
Startled, Hotaru let go of the rope and watched sadly as the tree sprung back up, tangling her line in the upper limbs. It had taken her half an hour and most of her energy to get the small tree tied and bent the way she wanted it.
“Well, Momma and Poppa decided I was old enough to start dating, so I’m setting a trap to catch a boyfriend.” She answered distractedly, wondering how long it was going to take to untangle the rope and get everything set up again.
Shampoo smiled fondly, remembering her own village’s version of the Sadie Hawkin’s dance idea. “Shampoo know how you feel. Shampoo remembers building trap to catch boyfriend when was your age. Only problem was Shampoo catch Mousse.”
Hotaru frowned cutely. “I really don’t want to catch a Mousse.”
Shampoo nodded. “Shampoo really know how you feel. Shampoo not want to catch Mousse either.”
The amazon maiden looked pensive for a moment before grinning. “Let Shampoo help with trap. Then she lure off Mousse so you no get inlict… infect… No get stupid Mousse following you around all the time.”
5 Minutes later…
“Good quality steel important. No want weak boyfriend and strong one easily break through anything not as strong.” Shampoo thumped a metal bar with her hand making it ring.
10 Minutes later…
“And if use Acetylene torch like so, weld come out nice and even.” She gestured to the seam she was working on, while the young girl watched fascinated.
15 Minutes later…
“And one final touch.” Shampoo connected a heavy power line to the cage and hoisted it into the tree top. “And viola we done!”
Hotaru clapped her hands happily and gave a small cheer, before removing her welding goggles. “Thank you, Shampoo. I’m sure to catch a boyfriend now.”
Shampoo grinned at her. “Now all need is bait.”
The multi-talented warrior started to quickly sort her ‘special’ ramen from the young girl’s order, but paused in thought. It wasn’t like the laced ramen was likely to work on Ranma. He was really resistant to most mind altering techniques, which was part of the reason Shampoo kept using them on him.
The last thing she wanted was for an unscrupulous rival from her village to steal him away from her with some special herb or item, rare though they were, even inside the village.
‘Best up dosage on next one and get grandma to teach Airen beginning mind block techniques.’ Grinning Shampoo placed her ‘special’ on top of the little girl’s order.
“Remember, must speak forcefully on what want to boy when catch. That way he know how behave. Now Shampoo lure off Mousse. It be just like him, show up and ruin all Shampoo’s hard work.” The amazon quickly sprang on to her bike yelling something about Airen that had a group of people chasing her before she’d gotten out of the park.
Hotaru watched curiously as martial artists seemed to appear out of nowhere and join in the chase.
‘It’s times like this that I wonder if being a reborn princess from a magical kingdom is really all that strange around here.’
Shrugging to herself the young girl quickly hid in the bushes as she noticed someone approaching, sniffing the air.
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