Me: Hello!
Nico: I'm the star of this story~ Nico Nico Nii~!
Me: No. I think the real star here is the love potion.
Nico: What?! I'm the star! Now write me good!
Me: roger that!
Maki: *comes in* TimeWasters does not own Love Live! School Idol Project. If she did, it would probably have been terrible.
Me: How rude!
Nico: Hey! That was my job!
Maki: Just start the story already.
...
Nico sat on the clubroom's table cross legged with her hand supporting her chin. There was no club practice that day so Nico found herself in the clubroom.
But why was she sitting on the table?
Before she had entered the clubroom, she had encountered a certain red haired girl. Of course she started a fight and now she's frustrated.
"That stalker..." She growled under her breath the word which caused the argument.
But I'm not exactly being honest am I?
She sighed in an annoyed manner. The situation, her feelings, Maki, were all too complicated. More complicated than they needed to be.
She let out a light laugh. "We're both too stubborn."
It was then that she came up with a brilliant idea and, jumping off the table, she rushed over to the library in order to do some research.
She slammed open the door shouting, "I NEED A BOOK ON LOVE POTIONS!"
Everyone who were inhabiting the library at that time shushed her.
"Ah, Nico. I didn't expect to see you here." A familiar voice said from the library counter.
"Nozomi? What are you doing here?" Nico asked, not expecting to see anyone she knew at the library. She was slightly afraid that the fortune teller had heard her outburst.
"I help out sometimes." There came that knowing smirk. "I never expected to see Nicocchi at the library though."
Her tone was innocent yet her expression suggested she knew the truth.
"Ah, I just came to study for a bit." Nico offered sheepishly.
She knew that Nozomi saw right through her.
"Came to study up love potions? There's a book in the back." Nozomi pointed to the back of the library where a large shelf stood with all sorts of complicated books. The kind that no one in the school really reads, but they are just there.
"The back? Isn't that where all the foreign books are?" Nico tilted her head in confusion.
It was true. There were all sorts of thick and heavy foreign books, often written in their native languages. How in the world was Nico supposed to read that?
"Hm? There's some translations, I believe and you could always just go on a random online translator." Nozomi suggested, she seemed to have believed that the conversation was over as she had opened a book and began to read.
"You can never trust online translators you know..." Nico sweat dropped as Nozomi seemed to be very focused on the book she was reading.
Nico shook her head.
Is that book really that good?
As she began to walk away, she could of sworn she saw a thin line of blood trailing down Nozomi's nose. She dismissed it quickly as she practically ran to the back shelf.
"I wonder if it will be called 'spell book.' That would surely make it easier." She sighed and began to search for her book.
Scanning the shelves, she saw many foreign titles she did not recognise or understand. But alas, no spell book.
"Hmmm..." She growled as she read the title of the 100th book on the shelf. Still no sign of the spell book.
"Nozomi, why couldn't you have gotten the darned book for-"
Just as she said that, a book with giant golden letters spelling 'Spells' caught her eye.
"Ah hah!" she let out a satisfied sound as she immediately reached for the book and opened it.
She scrunched up her face in confusion. Every single word on the page was gibberish.
"How on earth am I supposed to read something like this?!"
As she complained angrily, she made her way over to the counter to see Nozomi absorbed in her book with a pool of blood gathering on the counter table.
"Nozomi, what are you reading?" Nico asked the fortune teller.
"Just some NozoEli stuff..." Nozomi replied after a while, putting the book down and dismissing the pool of blood.
"Ah, so you picked that one?" Nozomi asked, glancing at the book cover.
"How many spell books are there in this library?" Nico questioned but it didn't matter as she then said, "Whatever, I'm taking this one. Kay?"
Nozomi nodded then as she went back to her book she told her, "Kay. Be sure to return it soon."
...
Nico sat in her kitchen attempting to read the book. She held her phone in her hand which had a translation app open.
She had spent over an hour scanning the pages and letting the app translate them with no luck on finding any love potions or spells.
"Last time, it was right when I was about to give up when the miracle happened so..."
Another page translated.
"Grah! I give up!" Nico yelled, but translated another page anyway.
Love Spell
Make your crush fall in love with you!
As she read the first two lines, she jumped out of her chair and danced some sort of victory dance then casually sat back down.
As she calmed herself down a little, she read the translation on her phone.
"Hm... It says here that it's a sort of charm to put on a drink. It makes it into a love potion?" Nico muttered.
Upon reading the 'What you'll need list' she stood up and grabbed a glass cup from the cupboard. She then proceeded to fill the cup with water then sat back down, reading the instructions from the app.
"So... I just have to put my hands over the cup and say a couple of magical words then let Maki drink it?"
She put her phone down and smiled.
"Sounds easy!"
She proceeded to do as the instructions told her and hovered her hands over the top of the full cup. She then looked at the book and attempted to read the spell.
"Upast' dlya menya."
Nothing seemed to have happened.
"I guess we have to see if it works tomorrow." Nico sighed, pouring the water into an empty water bottle (which totally made it look non-suspicious!).
"Heh! Heh! Heh! I will make her love me against her will!" Even though adding that last part made her feel slightly guilty, she evilly chuckled.
...
It was a bright and early morning when Nico set foot in the clubroom. She was early in order to plan how she's going to get Maki to drink the water.
Her original plan was to just give it to her when she sees her but then she's been having second thoughts. Particularly about how strange it would be to just give her some water. A store bought water bottle.
"I should have charmed Nico's very own NicoJuice..." Nico muttered.
She was sat at the end of the clubroom table with a book open in front of her and a pen in hand, ready to write out whatever plan that came to mind.
"While she's asleep I could force her to drink it...?" She shook her head. Of course that was a bad idea.
"You could swap it out with her water during practice. Nya~!"
Nico's face lit up. That was a brilliant idea!
"Yeah!" She exclaimed, scribbling the idea down.
Wait... wasn't she meant to be alone in the clubroom?
Nico slowly looked up at the person who had offered the idea.
It was Rin. She was wearing a huge grin as she looked suspiciously towards the raven haired girl.
Behind her was Hanayo standing in the doorway, nervously.
"Uh... How long were you standing there?" Nico asked, suddenly conscious of the two standing in front of her. She was tempted to cover up her notebook, even though the love potion plan was not said yet.
"Long enough. So why exactly are you putting so much effort into giving Maki regular water? Nya~" Rin cheerfully asked, raising an eyebrow in suspicion.
Nico went silent and avoided Rin's gaze. She was unsure of how to answer. After all she was too stubborn to admit 'Ah, Nico-Nii just has a MASSIVE crush on Maki-chan so she made a love potion to help Maki-chan fall in love with Nico too~!'
Luckily, Hanayo saved her by saying, "R-Rin-chan, T-this isn't any of our business."
Rin seemed to have backed off muttering, "I'm still suspicious."
Nico rubbed her neck sheepishly, hopefully this wont mess up her plans. But if she doesn't say anything, Rin probably will try to get it out of her later anyway.
"I-I just wanted to get Maki a drink for after practice since she forgets sometimes." She finished it off with a nervous laugh, knowing the lameness of the excuse herself.
After all she did say she would feed the water to Maki as she slept...
Rin, however, paid it no mind as she nodded her head, accepting the hastily thought up excuse.
Nico, desperate to change the subject, asked, "When will the others get here?"
Rin seemed to interpret the question as 'when will Maki get here?' as she answered, "Well, Maki said she'll be a little late today. What did she say she was doing again, Kayo-chin?"
Rin turned to Hanayo in question and patiently awaited her answer.
"Uh..." Hanayo was deep in thought, trying to remember what Maki had told them not long ago, but it seemed that so much has happened that she forgot.
After an irritating amount of silence, Nico decided to break it.
"It doesn't matter what she's doing. In fact, why would I want to know?!"
Her tsundere side has kicked in. She no longer cared about what Maki was doing. Well, she did but she was too... stubborn to admit that to her friends.
Rin tutted and sat down with Hanayo soon following after her. It seemed like all the members in μ tutted whenever Nico and Maki argued or whenever one of them complains about the other.
Nico ignored the tuts and went back to her notebook, tapping the pen against the table waiting for an idea to come to her.
Time almost seemed to have slowed down for Nico as Nico heard every tick of the clock in the club room.
Wait a second- They had a clock?
Nico looked up from her notebook and glanced around.
Rin and Hanayo seemed to be playing a time limited game. Where they were using some sort of app on their phone to count the seconds.
So that explains the ticking... Nico thought and scribbled down another idea.
'Challenge Maki to chug the drink as fast as she can.'
But why do they need the app on full volume? It's very distracting.
She decided to dismiss the question, as it will probably never get answered, and kept tapping her pen against the table, adding to the annoying sound of ticking.
A while later, Honoka slammed open the door shouting, "I'm here!"
Nico jumped out of her current daydream (probably about Maki), and slammed her notebook shut. She then quickly rushed to hide it as unsuspiciously as possible.
"Honoka..." Kotori muttered, sweat dropping.
"How can you be so... hyper in the mornings?" Umi questioned as they all sat down in their seats.
Her question was left unanswered as Honoka became interested in the game that Rin and Hanayo were playing.
A couple of minutes later, as Nico fell back into another daydream, Nozomi, Eli and Maki walked into the clubroom.
"Hello everyone." Nozomi greeted.
"Sorry we're late." Eli added as they all sat down.
This time, Nico was still daydreaming.
As Maki sat down, she observed the unusually quiet 'number one idol'. She was, dare she say it, worried about her as she seemed out of it.
"Hey Nico, everything ok over there?" Maki asked, forcing Nico out of her state.
Nico blushed slightly and quickly avoided eye contact, suddenly finding the table very interesting.
"Y-yeah, why wouldn't I be? I'm Nico-Nii the greatest idol in the universe~!" She said, pulling her signature pose.
Maki frowned. It annoyed her whenever Nico became her other persona, her idol side. She was just so... cocky.
"Whatever." Maki grumbled, seeming to be in a bad mood.
"Anyway, We should probably get to practice now!" Honoka announced, cheerfully.
...
Practice was as rough as usual. From the warm ups to the actual dance practice, Umi worked the group hard. After all μ were getting popular so their lives have to get more serious and perfect.
"Alright, Nico, Rin, Hanayo 5 minute break." Umi told them.
"Ramen~! Ramen~! Ramen~!" Rin exclaimed repeatedly, running towards her bag to get a ready made Ramen bowl out. She had previously put the hot water in before practice so it should have cooled down enough to eat.
Hanayo followed her and took out some rice balls from her bag then began to eat.
Nico however had other plans. She went over to her own bag and grabbed the spelled water.
"Alright! It's time to put the plan into action!" Nico declared quietly to herself, smirking.
"She's going to be so into me~" She sang triumphantly but quiet enough so that the others wouldn't hear.
She dug into her bag again and grabbed some food then quickly jogged over to Rin and Hanayo.
The bags were, for some reason, split up into year groups so Nico's bag was with Nozomi's and Eli's and Maki's bag was with Rin's and Hanayo's.
As Nico made her way over to the other two, she was silently thanking the Gods that Rin and Hanayo were on break with her. After all wouldn't she look suspicious if she just went over to the first year bags for a while then go back to hers?
She sat down next to the other two and Maki's bag.
"So, you going to swap out that water bottle? Nya~!" Rin asked between slurping the noodles.
Crap! I forgot about them! There really was no reason to hide, but being the tsundere she was, Nico just couldn't admit it was a love potion. Obviously they were going to get suspicious again.
"Ah, yes." Nico rubbed her neck sheepishly.
"Hm... what if Maki-chan didn't forget a water bottle? Nya~!" Rin asked.
She didn't seem to realise that she had previously said 'swap out'.
"Whatever. I'll just put it in her bag anyway." Nico grumbled and, looking at the practice to make sure no one was watching her, she opened the bag and swiftly stashed the water away. After the deed was done, she closed the bag in a hurry and started to eat her food.
"Nice one! Nya~!" Rin said, as the other two had been watching Nico complete her mission.
"What's going to happen next? Nya~! Rin then asked.
Hanayo had stopped eating her lovely mouth-watering rice balls to listen to Nico's answer.
"She's going to drink it and I'll be happy." Nico replied, not revealing any of her evil plans.
"Oh, so you do care about her..." Hanayo muttered.
"Ha! Now you owe me a drink! Nya~!" Rin exclaimed excitedly.
Nico raised an eyebrow, "You were betting on me?"
"That doesn't matter. Nya~!"
Suddenly, Umi called out, "Nico! Rin! Hanayo! Break's over!"
The three stood up, after disposing of their food rubbish and jogged over to practice. The next three to take a break were going towards their bags and those three were Maki, Nozomi and Eli.
As she was dancing, Nico was spying on Maki from the corner of her eye. Because of that, however, she had been getting some of the steps wrong, much to Umi's frustration.
"Nico! Focus!" Umi yelled.
"Yeah..." Came Nico's lazy reply. She was a little bit too focused on watching Maki pick up the water bottle Nico put in her bag.
Maki didn't seem to notice that the bottle wasn't hers but instead opened it and drank it until the very last drop.
"Focus, Nico!" Umi yelled again as Nico almost tripped over her own feet yet again.
"Right!" Nico yelled back with more enthusiasm this time.
Inside her head, Nico was doing a victory dance as Maki had drunk the love potion and her plan was successful.
...
After the practice session was over, the group grabbed their things to go home.
Since her plan had worked, Nico had wanted to test out the love potions effects especially to see if the love potion really did make Maki fall for her.
"But what oh what should I do?" Nico wondered under her breath.
"What should you do about what?"
"Oh, to test out the love potion I secretly made Maki-chan drink." Nico unconsciously replied.
She heard a giggle behind her and swiftly turned around, realising she had voiced her plans aloud.
"Oh really Nicocchi?" Nozomi questioned, her eyes lit up with amusement.
Nico tried to think of an excuse, but her mind went blank.
"Uh..." She stuttered.
As her only other option, she went with her other persona.
"Nico Nico Nii~?" She pulled her signature pose for the second time that day and hoped that Nozomi would forget what she just said.
Unfortunately for her, Nozomi doesn't quite have any sort of amnesia whatsoever.
"Ni-co-cchi..." Nozomi said in a tone as if she was daring her to keep up the act and while she said so, she lifted up her hands and mimed squeezing Nico's chest, a punishment she always did when Nico was being silly.
"Alright! Alright! Alright!" Nico gave up her act almost immediately, lifting her hands in defence.
"I was researching love potions so that I can give one to Maki-chan... s-so that she... she c-can fall in l-love with m-me..." she admitted, a light blush appearing on her cheeks.
She was careful to not be heard by the others as they surely will be loud about it and obviously Maki will get especially mad if she ever found out that Nico had tried to use a love potion on her.
"Oh, I knew that." Nozomi simply said with an evil glint in her eye.
Nico's face turned tomato red. From embarrassment or anger, Nozomi couldn't tell.
"Then why did you make me say it?!" Nico said furiously, her eyebrows furrowed in anger.
"Anyway, you should test the effects by asking her out." Nozomi suggested casually.
As they spoke they were walking down the halls of the school. They were behind the others as to not be heard.
"Ehhhh?!" If possible, Nico's face would have went shades darker along with this sudden outburst.
"What are you so surprised about, Nicocchi, you know it's going to have to happen soon if you want her as your girlfriend." The fortune teller told her.
Nico let out an embarrassed sound when Nozomi said the word 'girlfriend'. It was all just too good to be true.
"I know! But what if the love potion didn't work!?" The raven haired idol complained.
"Just go ask her to ice-cream." Nozomi ordered, pushing Nico towards the red haired beauty herself.
Nico gulped nervously. Surely if the love potion had worked, Maki would have asked her out or given her some sort of sign?
Whatever. She's got to do this. She's got to be brave.
"Hey, Maki-chan." Nico greeted.
"Hey, Nico-chan." Maki replied.
Nico observed Maki closely, or as closely as she could without looking suspicious. Maki seemed to be the same old Maki. Nothing different. Nothing new.
"So..." she started, but then immediately transformed into her alternate persona. "Would you like to take the number one idol, Nico-Nii, for Ice cream?" She asked.
Maki watched Nico curiously then as the 'request' ended, she rolled her eyes in annoyance.
"No thanks."
The response of the redhead beauty threw Nico off guard. The love potion... what happened?
No matter then, Nico has a special trick for emergencies like this anyway.
"Oh, come on Maki-chan! Nico's giving you the honour of taking her out!" She said, almost begging.
They walked towards the gate of the school and the group all turned their separate ways with Nico following Maki.
"I told you! No!" Maki said back, annoyed.
They walked in silence. Towards the direction of Maki's house, probably far from Nico's house by now.
As they walked, Nico spotted an ice cream truck parked nearby.
"Maki-chan! Maki-chan! Maki-chan!" Nico broke the silence excitedly.
"What Ice cream do you want?" The small idol then asked.
"Why?" Maki asked back.
"Never mind. Just wait here for a sec!" Nico, suddenly full of energy, ran away, leaving Maki standing there in her dust.
Maki was, to say the least, very confused. She was tempted to just leave right then and there to prevent the 'greatest' idol, Nico from bothering her anymore, but she thought against it.
Her eyes followed the small idol to a certain ice cream truck and she sighed. She already said 'no' so why was the older idol getting ice cream.
She quickly dismissed it as Nico ran back with an ice cream in each hand.
"...S-sorry... I didn't know your favourite flavour... so I got vanilla." Nico panted, out of breath from rushing over so quickly.
"It's okay..." Maki said, taking the ice cream. "I'll pay you back." She then added.
Nico shook her head. "No way. You never asked for the ice cream so no paying me back!"
Maki sighed yet again, Nico was being difficult. It wasn't like this was a date or anything, right?
Maki shook her head with a slight blush at the idea. Her and Nico going out on a date? No way. Impossible.
"Ooo! Maki-chan's blushing! Does she perhaps think that she's on a date with the number one idol in the universe, Nico-Nii?" Nico teased, smirking.
Maki's expression turned deadpan as she replied, "In your dreams."
Nico smirked wider, she had read something on the internet that was perfect to use in this situation.
"But, Maki-chan, dreams can come true." She stated, feigning innocence.
Maki's face turned a shade darker.
"Your face suggests you love the idea of dating me." Nico stated bluntly.
Another shade darker and an expression of pure embarrassment.
"Why would I want to go out with you!?" Maki, in a fit of rage, forgot she had an ice cream in her hand and tilted it at an angle so that the ice cream fell from the cone.
"Aw, your ice cream fell." Nico mentioned, looking at the ground where the vanilla ice cream lay.
Maki didn't seem to be sad about the spilt ice cream, but still Nico extended her arm out for Maki to take her ice cream.
"You can have mine instead."
The redhead was reluctant at first, but Nico's insistence lead her to take the ice cream.
Maki stared at Nico's partially eaten ice cream, wondering if it's too late to give it back as she previously didn't realise that Nico had eaten it.
"What's wrong Maki-chan? It's not like Nico has poison saliva or anything." Nico told her, breaking the redhead out of any further thoughts.
"I-I suppose I have no choice then."
Maki then ate apart of the ice cream.
Nico watched, she can feel her cheeks heat up as she was well aware that Maki had just bitten into the part of the ice cream that she was previously eating.
As Maki swallowed the ice cream chunk she muttered, "Indirect kiss."
Nico's facial colour had matched Maki's hair at that point as she frantically yelled, "Don't say something like that!"
Maki looked at Nico and, taking another bite, told her, "You're the one who gave me the ice cream, you should have known something like that would have been said."
At this point, their tsundere sides have kicked in as they both erupted in an argument.
"You're really making me regret giving you my ice cream!"
"Whatever! I never wanted it any way!"
"Then why did you take it!?"
"Fine! You can have it back then!"
The argument died down a little. Both Nico's and Maki's faces were red from anger and they both wore similar frustrated expressions.
As Maki stood there, arm extended for Nico to take her ice cream back, Nico's anger had suddenly vanished and replaced with embarrassment.
She cautiously took the ice cream and paused. Was she supposed to eat it now? But Maki's... lips has been on it.
"What's wrong, Nico-chan? It's not like I contaminated it did I?" Maki asked, raising an eyebrow.
Nico gulped. She could feel Maki's eyes on her as she slowly took a bite of the ice cream and swallowed.
They were both blushing. Indirect kiss.
"S-see. It wasn't that hard was it?" Maki asked, stuttering a little.
For the rest of the walk home, the two refused to speak and Nico refused to take another bite of the ice cream, only waiting till Maki went inside her house to start eating again.
...
Nico paced around her room.
What the heck?! Maki-chan was just like normal! If the love potion worked she would have agreed immediately to be Nico's date!
Nico was very frustrated of the outcome for her little plan. It was not what she had wanted.
"Did I even make any progress on that date? No of course not. We argued like normal." Nico muttered to herself as she turned around to pace the other way across her room.
"And Nico tried to be romantic..." Nico collapsed onto her bed.
She was feeling a mix of emotions after her 'date'. Upset, frustrated, heck even slightly happy!
"Wait... should I even be calling it a date?" Nico found herself in a sudden dilemma.
She turned around, lying face flat onto her bed and put a pillow over her head. It was all so confusing.
"I'm going to have to have a chat to Nozomi tomorrow then..."
...
Nico slammed a certain book on a certain fortune teller's desk shouting, "No-zo-mi!"
Nozomi wasn't fazed in the slightest though.
"Why, hello, Nicocchi have you come to return your book?" Nozomi asked with a smile.
With Nozomi behind the counter was Eli, but Nico paid no mind to her and continued to yell at Nozomi.
"The love potion didn't work! I made Maki-chan drink it but she was just acting like normal!"
Nico then flicked the book open onto the page with the love spell that she had used on it.
"Hm... Not all love spells have immediate results you know." Nozomi mentioned, looking over the spell.
"Well, it never said anything about that here!" Nico yelled, pointing at the spell.
Her outburst caused many people in the library to shush her.
"Nicocchi, why don't you try to get her to fall for you without using a love potion?" Nozomi suggested.
Nico stomped her foot in anger.
"She'll NEVER fall for me that way!"
"Ah, but the cards-" Nozomi lifted up the top card from her tarot card deck, which was labelled 'The Lovers', and showed Nico. "-Tell me that you two are destined to be together." She finished with a smirk.
Nico, becoming even more frustrated, yelled, "Those cards were rigged!"
Both Nozomi and Eli sweat dropped. Nico sure was a difficult one.
"The cards are never wrong." Nozomi stated, the smirk still present on her face.
"Whatever!" Nico shouted and stormed out of the library in anger.
"You think the love potion worked?" Eli asked, leaning over Nozomi's shoulder to read the spell.
"That doesn't matter. They are destined to be together." Nozomi replied, showing Eli the card.
"Hm... that's weird..." Eli muttered, reading the spell.
"What is, Elicchi?" Nozomi asked.
"It says here 'The love potion will not have an effect if the victim is already in love with the caster." Eli told her, pointing to a corner of the book that was so small to read that Nico's translation app must have not been able to pick it up.
"You know what that means right?" Nozomi asked the blonde and without giving her any time to reply she added, "Maki-chan must already be in love with Nicocchi."
...
Me: Hello again! Did you miss me?
Maki: Please tell me that was a joke.
Me: Of course it was! Duh!
Nico: Nico-Nii doesn't need a love potion to make people fall in love with her.
Me: ...Of course.
Nico: Was that sarcastic?
Me: No. Nope. Nopey nope.
Maki: Anyway, we hope you liked this story-
Nico: Be sure to leave a review!
Maki: I was getting to that.
Nico: Yeah, and you stole my job.
Me: Let's just wrap this up already.
Nico: right. Right. Nico-Nii wishes you all a good day and we'll all see you soon! Bye!
Me and Maki: Bye!