Cologne had been stirring a pot of ramen when she had heard Ranma enter and saw Shampoo give him an enthusiastic greeting. Nodding in satisfaction before returning her attention to the kitchen and the seasoning of the noodles, she cocked her head and waited.
After a moment, she heard Mousse's outraged cry and shook her head. Like clockwork. She didn't bother looking up - Mousse hadn't been training, and hadn't been in her collection of artifacts and such since she had spied on him last week - and he hadn't taken anything then.
She heard the sound of coughing, and then some kind of commotion. She frowned, and put the lid on the pot before pogoing over to the doorway. Had the idiot tried some kind of sleeping gas to beat Ranma? If he scared away the customers...
What she saw when she got to the door, however, was NOT the effects of some kind of gas. Everyone in the restaurant seemed to be clinging to one another, as if...
Her involuntary inhalation, and the taste of lemon and pomegranite in the air, gave her the answer. Lust Dust! She had discarded the thought of using it, since it was both temporary and highly indiscriminate in it's targets - how did Mousse get a hold of it??
She knew it was too late - she had already breathed it in. However, her instant reaction of shutting her eyes tight and focusing on ignoring her senses had preserved her - for now. There was no cure for Lust Dust - except time, and she needed to be able to function effectively as soon as possible if she was going to control the damage this would cause. Hitting a set of pressure points on herself (designed to knock her out, so she wouldn't see anybody) and then speeding up her metabolism and recovery rate as much as she could, she opened her eyes and took one last look around without actually SEEING, trying to categorize who was embracing who, to be sorted out when the dust finished coursing through her system.
Then, the world went black, and her last conscious thought was that Mousse was going to REALLY get it when she got a hold of him.
Half an hour later, she woke up. Looking around the restaurant, she noted perhaps three pairs and a threesome in various corners of the Nekohanten - none of them she recognized. They were irrelevant - she had to find out where Shampoo (and Ranma) went... and with whom.
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