A/N: okay. Too many ficlets. I am bad girl - TOO MANY FICLETS MUST UPDATE THEM ALL NOT WRITE MORE!!!!! Okay. I am weird.

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Spirited Away

Summery: Yubaba gets pissed at Haku (whom I will refer to as Kohaku in Third Person) for not wanting to be her apprentice any more, so she splashed some juice on him that is supposed to be a temporary curse. The Curse Of Having Every Female One Meets Fall In Love With The Cursed. What Yubaba didn't expect, though, was for something to go wrong - so now Kohaku is cursed forever! Eventually he has to find a cure, but STILL! Doesn't ***everybody*** want to read about Kohaku getting stalked by every female in the movie et al? Hey, yeah!

Rating: PG just to be safe. ~_^

Warnings: a little bit of Kohaku bashing, but he wins over in the end. :D this is probably my ONLY non-beating-up-Chihiro-filled-with-angst ficlet ever! Well, not ONLY. I'm working on a different one that doesn't bash Chihiro OR Haku. It'll be a humor-wanna-be. If you're interested. As for other warnings... if you don't like the thought of Kohaku being chased by the ladies then poo on you! also, this is probably the FIRST and ONLY Kohaku/Rin ficlet ever. Some flame me if you like. I don't care.

That makes this an Automatic AU, since I'm considering Kohaku a bit old for Chihiro, and Chihiro and Haku just kids and friends.

Genre: action/poor Haku!/romance? Maybe/ridiculousness/wanna-be- humor/complete idiocy. I haven't even started typing this and I think it sucks! Lol :D :D :D good thing I'm a good sport, eh?

Chapter Started: 5/4/03
Chapter Finished: 5/4/03

Third Person POV

About, maybe, fifteen minutes after the movie? Thirty?

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After Chihiro had left, Kohaku turned and went straight to Yubaba's office, and informed her he was no longer her apprentice.

"Excuse me?" she snapped, grumpy because "The Human" had escaped. "I haven't destroyed your contract, boy! You're stuck!"

"YOU didn't destroy it, I did." Kohaku explained, and the entire box of papers next to Yubaba's desk burst into flame. She squawked and put the fire out. None of the papers were damaged - except one.

"Great," she muttered, then, in a louder voice, "And what will you do now?" She paused. "okay, then, Haku; how about being my assistant instead? You can keep your name."

He shook his head. "No. I'm free, Yubaba. You can't - won't - control me, never again."

Yubaba was now VERY angry.

"WHY YOU UNGRATEFUL LITTLE," She began, but in the next room over, Bou and the Yu-bird peeked out from the doorway. Yubaba sighed, then grabbed a bottle, magically filling it up with some stuff. Clear liquid.

"Fine," she said, uncorking it and sniffing the contents. "Fine," She repeated. "then you'll have to suffer the consequences." And faster than the eye could blink (which is fast) she jerked her hand, and the clear liquid splashed out. All over Kohaku.

"Oh, I'm sorry," she cooed. "it must have slipped. Never mind, never mind, if you wish to be free or whatever, then go ahead."

Kohaku's eyes narrowed in suspicion.

"Wait a second," he said, pushing his hair out of his eyes, where the liquid had splashed it.

"Why, do you wish to sign another contract?"

"No." Kohaku left, going to his room where he washed the stuff off thoroughly. He could faintly smell it, though, but couldn't quite press his finger to what it was. Bad, obviously, since this was , apparently, Yubaba's way of punishing him. So he took a bath, then washed his face and hair. Again. For a third time. You can never be too safe!

With a sigh, Kohaku left his room, unsure of what to do now. As he walked down the hall, he passed Rin, who glanced at him as he passed. She continued walking for a moment, then froze, and whipped around, watching Kohaku as he walked away. the blankets and clothes in her arms dropped to the floor, and she immediately began following him.

Kohaku, of course, was unaware of this until he stopped outside, just in front of the bridge. Everybody was inside back to doing their jobs, so it was quiet out here.

That's when Kohaku heard Rin, then turned around.

"Rin, what are you doing here?" he asked. Rin smiled sweetly.

"Just... sightseeing," she said truthfully. Who could EVER lie to Haku, she thought.

"Oh."

There was a moment of silence.

"And, uh, just *what* are you sightseeing?" Kohaku asked suspiciously. He had only JUST noticed how slightly Rin's eyes were glazed over with... something.

'Oh, Kaonashi Poo,' Rin thought. 'Haku will run away and want to play catch- the-dragon with me if I tell him the truth.'

While she thought, Kohaku was becoming VERY suspicious and wondering if Yubaba had anything to do with this.

"Um," Rin said, going a little red in the face. She clasped her hands to her chest as though she were praying and bounced up and down, saying 'Um!' each time she touched the ground. Kohaku watched her bemusedly, no SEVERELY freaked out. This was VERY unlike Rin - what, was she some love-sick teenager?

"Um, see," Rin said, saying the first thing other than a girlish 'um' in a while. "I was wondering if," she continued, still bouncing up and down like that.

Suddenly, there was a commotion, and something tackled Rin to the ground. it was one of the Yuna, women workers at the Aburaya.

"OH NO YOU DON'T!" she snarled, and Kohaku bared witness to his first cat- fight over him. He didn't know it was over him, of course, but it WAS his first cat fight.

And, as always when watching a cat-fight for the first time, he was momentarily mesmerized.

"I know exactly what you were going to do," the Yuna snarled.

"You can't stop me!" Rin snarled back.

"Ho yeah? Not if I strangle you with your mother's umbilical cord first!"

"HA! Was that a threat?"

It took a moment for common sense to hit Kohaku square in the head, and he backed up onto the bridge just as they rolled past, biting, kicking, scratching, clawing, snarling, and all of that god stuff in cat-fights.

"Uh, ladies," he said, voice raised slightly. "It'd be nice if you stopped, you know, fighting."

To our hero's surprise, they did, and were automatically on their feet with identical bows.

"I'm sorry!" they chorused. "is there anything you would like us to do for you?"

Yes, Kohaku was more than JUST officially freaked out!

"Uh... No..." he said carefully, backing away.

"Wait, I want to help you," Rin said, coming closer. So did the Yuna.

"Yes, Master Haku, let us help you!" she said.

He backed away even more. "Uh, you're scaring me..." he informed them, but alas! To no avail.

Ten minutes later, one could watch Kohaku charge pass, Rin and the Yuna on his tail. He ran into the bathhouse, intending to find a place to hide, but this proved fatal. Every single (female) head turned to him when he entered.

But hey, Ladies and Gentlemen, let's give him some credit! He DID just make thirty laps around the island in just ten minutes.

And NOW he realized that running inside was a bad idea in record time!

So our hero turned and bolted right out, dodging Rin and Yuna#1, while everybody else chased after him, even the guests.

He escaped, though, by transforming into a dragon and flying high.

A whole bunch of loud, disappointed groans could be heard.

Kohaku ended up sneaking to Kamajii's boiler room just as everything was shutting down.

"Ah, young Kohaku," said Kamajii as the dust-balls disappeared. "What can I do for you? did you quit being Yubaba's apprentice?"

"Yeah," he said miserably. "I did."

"Why so down, then?"

So Kohaku ended up sputtering out the whole thing.

"Hmm, that doesn't sound like Rin, or the others, for that matter, she was just in here a moment ago and seemed perfectly normal."

"Kamajii, what am I going to do?" Kohaku asked.

"You know, Kohaku, the ladies'll be plaguing you the rest of your life," Kamajii informed him. "so suck up, learn patience, and you'll survive."

"Sure," Kohaku said doubtfully. "I think... I think Yubaba did something to them. They weren't like that before."

"Sure they were, before you became Yubaba's apprentice. Well, a few were, at least."

"Really?"

"Yes. You may not have noticed, though, since you were more concerned with other things."

"Oh." Kohaku frowned. "even Rin?"

"Oh, I imagine she's had a little crush on you for a while."

Kohaku looked down. "Oh. But, either way, can I stay here for the night?"

"Sure, why not."

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AND so the nightmare begins...