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Interlude Two:

Life is like a box of Rat Poison

"Speech"

'Thoughts'

"'X-ray Vision'"

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"Teary?"

Shampoo didn't bother to respond, merely remaining over the plain gravestone, crying.

"Teary?" Cologne repeated, solemnly.

Shampoo clutched her pained chest and fell to her knees. "Here lies... Mousse..." She cried out, and fell to the ground.

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The black cloaked figure walked closer, chuckling as she observed the bound figure. "Now now, Money, we won't hurt you any more if you'll just talk."

Nabiki struggled against the ropes. "This isn't a game anymore, Cologne! Let me go, or I'll... I don't know what I can do! I'll find some way to get back at you for all this!" She burst into tears.

"We have ways to make you talk." Cologne said, and made a hand sign quite similar to the international 1-fingered salute. In a puff of smoke, Nabiki felt herself shrink and her clothing shift.

"What have you done to me?" Nabiki said, wondering at her reversion to the tender age of... fourteen.

"Begone, foul one!" Cologne said, looking at her hands in disgust. "I lack the power to dispose of you permanently, but this will have to do." Nabiki heard a fwoosh, quite like the flushing of a toilet, and faded out of existence.

Cologne merely contemplated Furinkan High, visible from the window where she sat.

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Kuno was enjoying himself very much. "I have forever chased away the Demon Saotome! Worship me, my grateful school!" His rant continued until a silhouette on a pogo stick appeared behind him, silencing him.

The class was alternating between terrified and relieved.

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Cologne looked over the two matching headstones, both bearing the name "Mousse."

"Now it matches!" She said, cheerfully, and walked back into the torture room, forgetting, for the moment, that her prey was already released.

Shampoo weakly dug her way out of the ground, and glared angrily at the headstone, all she could do in her injured and unhealthy state. "She didn't bother to carve my own name into the stone..."

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AN: This is stupid. I'm leaving.