Being weaponless, Kodachi restrained her normal exuberance. It helped her that Azusa was stunned. Kodachi ostensibly started helping untangle Azusa, but in reality she was recovering her ribbon.
Having just been given her first kiss while bound and having her bottom fondled by her once-beloved Charlotte, Azusa didn't even notice the loss of her Martinet.
Kodachi eyed the fearful Ryouga, who was still lying on the ground with Azusa straddling him, and said to Azusa, "Would you mind it I practiced kissing on him?"
"No! You can't kiss him right now! Charlotte's been a bad boy! He needs to be spanked so he learns not to do that again; then you can kiss him."
When Kodachi said, "OK, I'll help." Ryouga threw Azusa off of him and ran for it.
A chase developed. Had it been a straight sprint, Azusa would have been the fastest; but her skates left her unable to tightly corner. Of course Ryouga was incapable of running in a straight line. Unlike Azusa, Kodachi wasn't taking the chase too seriously; she found it loads of fun as she leapt from fence to car to lamppost in the pursuit of her kissing training dummy.
When they passed the Nekohanten, Shampoo called out, "What's going on?"
Kodachi paused long enough to answer, "He fondled her without permission, and now needs a spanking!"
Shampoo turned to Mousse and said, "Give me a weapon for a spanking!"
Mousse automatically handed her a paddle, but when she moved to follow, he threw himself around her ankles and cried, "No! You can't use it on him!"
Shampoo, stunned, looked from the boy at her feet to the paddle in her hands. The blade was six inches in width, about half an inch thick, and a foot long. It had four holes drilled through it to decrease wind resistance, and was covered with bright red leather.
On one side there were words printed on it which read, "Because I care;" on the other side it read, "Love Hurts."
Shampoo looked back at Mousse, before handing the paddle back to him. Then she quietly made her way back to her bedroom, and closed the door.
This began a shift in the relationship between Shampoo and Mousse. From that point on, Shampoo felt a strong reluctance to strike out at Mousse, because she was not sure how he would take it or what it might have meant.
Mousse's normal behavior failed to inspire the attention from Shampoo which he had become accustomed. After a few hours of depression, Mousse's resolve firmed up, and he became more assertive. Whenever Cologne wasn't present, and Mousse was sure that any punishment had to come from Shampoo, Mousse became bolder. In anyone else it would probably be unremarkable, but for him, he was acting bold and brash; almost rude.
Shampoo had no idea how to react in this case. In her indecision, she was left accepting Mousse's "rude" behavior; well it was rude for a male Amazon to behave in such a way. Of course Mousse never acted this way when Cologne was present, since he had no desire to be punished by her. And Shampoo was acutely embarrassed that she was unable to deal with a mere male, so she never raised her problem with Cologne.
Thus cologne was unaware of what was happening between her charges, except for the tension between them. Of course Cologne would never inquire into it; it was her great grand-daughter's responsibility to learn to handle these situations, Shampoo could ask her directly if she was unable to handle things.
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