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Monkey Pod
"Matte, Lupin!"
And he stopped.
For one time in their eternal game of chase, Lupin stopped. Baffled, Zenigata caught up with him -and Lupin went up in smoke.
Literally.
The inspector gawked, then cursed. Swearing, he kicked at the small pebble-like object-
"Arara! Careful! You know how easily I bruise!"
Zenigata looked around. Was he hallucinating?
"Ne, first you tell me to wait, then you kick me around, and now you ignore me! That's not nice!"
Clearly, that was Lupin's voice. But where-?
"Down here, tot-san!" He looked down, at the peach-sized ball(eh?), saw Lupin's signature doodle painted all over it and picked it up.
"That's better" said the doodle, features moving.
Zenigata gave a startled yelp and flung the ball as far away as he could. Belatedly he realized, that he just threw away a possible piece of-
"Evidently, you don't like me" the monkey said. Zenigata looked up the tree he had stepped out from and narrowed his eyes. True enough, the face adorning the macaque's body was Lupin's.
"Come down here, ya little ape!" bellowed Zenigata. Lupin pouted, then shrugged.
"Fine. Catch!" And dropped from the tree.
Zenigata scrambled to catch him, but mid-air, Lupin exploded.
Again.
Grumbling unintelligible swears underneath his breath, Zenigata folded his arms in front of his chest.
"Nasty lil' shit" chuckled Jigen. Zenigata conceded. Then blinked.
At Jigen.
Who stood thee, grinning, then waved,
"Ja!" and was gone. No explosion this time.
"He's soo cool" swooned Lupin next to him. Zenigata almost jumped out of his skin. The shrub with Lupin's face gazed at the spot Jigen had just vacated. Then grinned up at Zenigata.
Who-
"-decided that Botox isn't good for ya, huh?" snorted Jigen, as he handed the cold, wet washcloth over.
"Gives ya worse nightmares than any trip." A nod, then a lurch over an empty bucket, as the aftereffect of the botched procedure wrecked havoc on one Mine Fujiko.
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If you can make sense of it, you clearly got too much time on your hands. I'm going to bed, now.