Important information: Valentines is different in Japan from here in North America. On Feb 14 people give each other chocolate. On White Day, March 14, you give out gifts to the people who gave you chocolates, if you want. At least that's my understanding. Google for more information.

Disclaimer: I am not Akira Toriyama, something Takahashi, or the maker of Yu Yu Hakusho.

A/N: The BETTER version of the sequel of sorts to Lock, Shock, and Barrel. And this was posted in parts just because all bunch together it was 50+ pages and that just seemed too much to me.

Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
I hope you like this story
Made just for you.

-Death101 – Fox Version

The Trials of Eros

Foreshadowing Unease

He thought he had recovered from his adventure into the land of the insane and haunted. After all, it had been three months since the creatures in Halloween Town had mistaken him for the little skeleton boy Barrel. The nightmares about the many horrible events he was forced to relive had stopped. The bruises from falling down the stairs and rolling into the town hall had vanished within days. His friends stopped asking for the real reason that he had shown up late to the Halloween Party in a badly torn costume. New Year's Eve and Christmas had passed without a problem. And most of all, he hadn't even thought about the switch up after he destroyed his skeleton costume a day after the nightmares stopped. However, as February 14th approached, Trunks couldn't help but feel some unease.

A large part of him tried to believe that he was only worried because of a meeting scheduled on that day. One day his mom had looked at the sales and noticed that they were not as high as they could be. For a couple of minutes, Trunks had tried to explain that while many people were using capsules, a large amount of people weren't because they were leery of them and that Capsule Corps didn't have the connections to spread them worldwide. After his mother had ignored him and ordered him to bring up the sales he did the only thing he could do. Try to get a partnership with the other company. The only appointment he could get was the 14th at 3 o'clock. While a large part of him was sure that he was worried only because the fate of his company might rest on that meeting, a small part said it wasn't the meeting but the holiday.

It wasn't as if he hadn't survived through Valentines and White Day before. Once he turned 13, it actually became one of his favourite holidays after Halloween because of all the chocolate he would get. The fact that his sister Bra nearly turned the kitchen upside down making chocolate every year since she started going to school didn't worry him. He was used to just shrugging when his mom started asking him who he was taking out that night. This year he wasn't even surprised when his grandmother mistook Goten for a girl and asked if they were dating because his best friend had grown his hair out again. These were perfectly normal occurrences (except for Goten being mistaken as a girl.) And yet Trunks couldn't help but feel worried as he crossed out the days on his calendar.

Somehow, he just knew that February 14 was going to be as bad as his previous Halloween, and if he was going to be honest with himself, he knew that the meeting with a CEO of another company wasn't behind it.

Foreshadowing Paranoia

After his trip to the island of madness, Kaiba had been very careful to avoid any repeats of the adventure or repercussions. To avoid having his adventure become public knowledge he replied to the news story that said he had gone missing by stating that he had in fact been working in the sublevels of his company all along. Not only did this show his company in a better light but it also got rid of a harpy for him. To avoid any more people mistaking him for a small devil costume wearing child named Lock, he ordered to have the costume destroyed. He avoided any nightmares caused by the hellish machine that showed him his worse memories by worked overtime. Probably more than he should have. Finally, he simply avoided thinking about it by focusing on the upcoming meeting with another company whose technology could be of invaluable use. But three months later, Kaiba started looking over his shoulder.

It started as a simple thing. He'd look behind him to watch through the huge window in his office when a bird flew by as he tried to think his way through the many figures he saw daily. A couple of days into February, he started feeling the hairs on the back of his neck stand up and he would turn, expecting to see someone. Sometimes someone would be there and looking for him. More often there wasn't. As February 14th crept closer, he found himself looking over his shoulder more and more. Sometimes because he sensed something. More often he found himself looking over his shoulder just because. Even while he was buried in work, he still found time to look over his shoulder, no longer looking for birds but something else. Something he didn't want to admit he was looking for. Something that carried arrows and was one of the many symbols of love.

He knew he was being an idiot and wouldn't admit that he was looking out for an insane cupid. He reasoned it was just stress caused by the kidnapping and the approaching meeting, but as February 14th crept closer, Kaiba's nerves were reaching the breaking point.

Foreshadowing Fear

Peace and quiet were two of Keiko's favourite things, but since she had returned from a dimension not even her boyfriend's boss knew about, both were in short supply. Three months has passed since her trip and her nightmares had faded. At first she was just picturing the memories from past years that she had locked away for fear of her sanity. Then she started dreaming about her time in Halloween Town and how she had been confused with a small, green skinned witch named Shock. Whenever she awoke she wondered if the other two people who had been kidnapped were having similar problems. She hadn't seen them since they had split up at the town square. Soon the dreams stopped and she forgot about the experience.

Then, as January faded into February, the nightmares returned and took a turn in a new direction. Instead of dreaming about her past and previous holiday experience, Keiko was dreaming about what shouldn't be. Cupids with flaming and fatal arrows filled her dreams causing her to scream and make her parents rush into her room in the middle of the night.

Her only comfort was that she was not a psychic like her friends so her dreams could not come true. Unfortunately, her boyfriend, Yusuke, overlooked this fact and had started to trail her like a puppy on a lease that was super-glued to her hand. As February 14th, the day of cupids firing their arrows at couples, approached Yusuke became clingier and clingier.

To make matters worse, the dreams kept visiting her and soon she saw that the cupids weren't aiming at her but someone else. Try as she might, Keiko couldn't remember who. This frustration grew as her amount of sleep decreased due to the dreams, but Keiko was sure that somehow it could all come to ahead on the day she was starting to dread.