Minako laid in the grass, her eyes on the sky. Her eyes were wide as she tried to process everything that had just happened. Her body felt odd, like as if she had no control over it anymore. Her eye twitched slightly as she watched dark storm clouds start to roll in, covering over the bright sunny sky. Minako closed her eyes as rain began to fall. She stayed still in deep thought as the rain quickly soaked her. She always had Hibiki in her thoughts, but now it was x10. She thought about them as a couple, how they looked together, how Hibiki treated her, and how she treated him. Her eyes opened again as she let the rain fall into her eyes. She then closed her eyes again as she thought even more.

Suddenly she gritted her teeth and rolled onto her side as she held onto her side, suddenly acheing in pain. She tried to think of possibilites and only had one. When she was young, her father had once inflicted a wound so bad she almost died from blood loss. She had stayed in the hospital for months with stitches all along the right side of her body. Now that she was older, whenever it was thunder storming, it ached so bad she couldn't even move. She bit her lip as a strangled scream left her throat. A bolt of lightning lit the sky as a crash of thunder filled her ears. She knew as soon as Hibiki realized the weather, he'd know she was in pain, that is it he hadn't already heard her scream.

Hibiki was inside the house in the kitchen grabbing something for a quick snack. He strolled into the livingroom and sat down on the back of the couch, looking down at Yuudai lying on the couch with a blank expression.

"How is Yuudai in these wee hours?" Hibiki asked casually.

Yuudai waited a few seconds before turning to look at Hibiki. "I feel so disgusted I want to kill myself."

Hibiki raised an eyebrow. "Is that so? But that's quite harsh."

Yuudai gritted his teeth. "Everytime I think of myself I hate me more. I just can't move myself. I...am so filled with hatred I want to smash my face in."

"Oh?" Hibiki continued to stare at Yuudai. The technique that Hibiki had used on both Yuudai and Minako involved controlling the person with a certain feeling, whether the person knew the feeling or not. For Minako, Hibiki used an ovewhelming feeling of love in Minako that drove her mad with love. For Yuudai, he used an overwhelming feel of hatred that left Yuudai hating himself more and more for what he had done with charming Minako. The point of the technique was to control the person in such a way that drew information for someone; it was useful in aiding Hibiki in his years of being a spy, but after being freed from Hotaka, he considered on discarding it since he barely used it. Instead, he decided to use it on Yuudai since after the technique, it left a certain after taste to the person that continued to effect them. For Yuudai, it would be a last feeling of hatred towards himself whenever he thought of Minako in anyway that would upset Hibiki. For Minako, her love for him would grow stronger and each time she thought of Hibiki with love, her pulse would quicken and her desire to be with him would be stronger than anything else running through her mind.

A loud crash of thunder brought Hibiki's attention back towards the back door. He could hear the rain on the roof of the house and he moved to the back window, peering out to find Minako still laying in the grass, holding her side.

"Maybe if I stand outside I'll be struck by lightning." Yuudai said in a monotone voice.

Hibiki rolled his eyes. As much as Yuudai felt the urge to kill himself, he wouldn't be able to bring himself to actually do so; Hibiki still had control over the technique. He made his way to the door and pulled it open. He made his way to Minako and bent to pick her up. "Think of something else." He whispered into her ear as he made his way back to the door. He opened it up and walked in, closing it behind him and carrying Minako to their room. He placed her on the chair before gathering some dry clothes. "Put these on before you get sick." He murmured and stepped from the room.

Minako weakly, but quickly changed into the dry clothes before curling up under the covers on their bed. She closed her eyes as her mind drifted in thought of Hibiki - she suddenly really wanted him to come back into the bedroom. A few minutes later, Hibiki did just that. A light rap at the door before he stepped in with a towel in his hands and crossed the room to the bed. He sat on the edge of the bed and pulled Minako gently up into a sitting position as he began to squeeze the water from her hair with the towel. She smiled softly. "Th-Thank you." She choked out as she searched his eyes, unsure as to why she had this feeling of throwing herself at Hibiki - it was taking most of her self -control to keep herself from doing just that.

Hibiki nodded before he leaned forward to kiss her quickly. "Remember, try not to think of the pain." He whispered and stood up, heading back towards the bedroom door.

Minako reached for his wrist and pulled him back towards the bed. "Wh-Where are you going?" She murmured, her face heating up slightly.

"I was going to leave you to take a nap." He said, raising an eyebrow, supressing his smirk.

Minako shook her head and pulled Hibiki back down onto the bed. "D-Don't leave... I-I don't want you to go yet..." She murmured, moving closer to Hibiki, wrapping her arms around his neck as she searched his eyes, only question she had, was why was she wanting Hibiki so bad right then?

"How come?" Hibiki asked simply.

Minako shook her head, she didn't know, all she knew was that she didn't want him to leave. "J-Just don't..." She whispered, pressing her lips to his.

Hibiki smirked and pulled back, keeping their gaze held. "I have to return the towel to the bathroom, Minako."

She shook her head. "Why? D-Do you not w-want to stay?" She murmured, tightening her grip on Hibiki as she blushed and turned her face away.

"Why do you want me to stay so badly?" He asked and touched her side gently where he knew the pain resided. "Shouldn't you rest?"

Minako looked at her side before looking into his eyes and shook her head. "I never really sleep anyway..." She murmured. "I-I just want you to stay..." She whispered, slowly pushing him down onto his back. "P-Please?" She whispered, blushing more.

Hibiki caught himself with his elbow on the bed and placed his hand to Minako's cheek. He pressed his lips to hers quickly and pushed her back. "Minako, this is quite unlike you." He stated.

Her face turned redder as she bit her lip. "Y-Yeah, so? D-Do you not like it?" She murmured, turning her gaze from him as some of her damp hair fell in front of her eyes.

"It must wait, my love." He murmured and rubbed her cheek gently and laughed lightly. "You may feel as if something in our reltionship is missing, but this is not what fills the hole." He whispered.

Minako's face twisted in confusion as she slowly got off of Hibiki to sit up against the pillows on the bed. "I-I don't... get it..." She murmured as she looked at Hibiki through the damp hair covering her eyes.

Hibiki smiled and sat up, moving her hair from her eyes. "Don't get what?" He laughed softly.

"E-Everything right now..." She muttered. "Wh-What have you done to me?" She whispered.

Hibiki chuckled and leaned forward, stopping inches from her face. "I intensified your love for me to the point where it's driving you mad." He smirked and pulled back again as he stood up, stretching his arms above his head as he looked out the window at the pouring rain.

Minako's eye twitched as she continued to look straight where Hibiki was sitting. Thinking of Hibiki in anyway, thinking of his eye appearance, things he has or had ever said to her, how they met, what he wore that day, his scent, how he treated her, just any thoughts of his involvment in her life made her feel weird. She felt lighter than air yet as heavy as gravity at the same time. She continued to have this feeling like she had to throw herself at him. It was different from what Yuudai had done to her earlier that day, what Hibiki was doing was cruel. He was purposely pushing her away to make her want him more. Her eye twitched again before her eyes fell shut. Even if Hibiki had not increased the love she felt towards him, she still always wondered one thing. Why would her unstable mind stablize enough to allow Minako to fall in love with Hibiki Hiroshimo, a man who, at the time, she had never met in her life. She shook her head and smirked.

"Damn you, Hibiki." She chuckled, running her hand through her hair.

Hibiki chuckled and turned, heading back to the door once again. "I love you." He smirked.

She shook her head and laughed again. "I love you too, Hibiki Hiroshimo."

Hibiki glanced back over his shoulder before he left. He returned the towel to the washroom before heading back out to the kitchen. Yuudai was still laying on the couch, staring up at the ceiling. Hibiki walked over and pushed his legs back before sitting down. He continued to mutter a bunch of things to himself under his breath and Hibiki closed his eyes and tipped his head back. If Minako was already so far in her desire of him already, he wondered how she would end off at the end. He rested his arm against his forehead and tuned Yuudai's blubbering out

By the time the jutsu on Minako wore off it was six o'clock at night. She got up to have a shower before looking over herself in the mirror. She sighed before smirking. She made her way through the house and to the living room. She saw Yuudai still on the couch, looking depressed. Minako smirked and moved to kneel in front of him. "Guess you regret what you did, eh?" She smirked, poking his cheek where a bruise had formed from her punches she had inflicted on him earlier that day.

Yuudai turned his face to look at Minako before turning over. "Please, don't touch me." He stated quietly.

She smirked and laughed before standing. "Whatever Hibiki did to you, has made me so happy." She smirked before walking around the couch towards the kitchen where she could smell food cooking. Minako spotted Hibiki with his back to her as he stood in front of the stove, stirring a pot of something. She moved silently towards him before resting her back against his, her eyes closed and her arms across her chest with a smirk playing at her lips. "Do things always work as you want them to, love?" She chuckled.

Hibiki smirked as he dropped a pinch of salt into the pot of beef broth, rice, and a variety of vegetables. "It's rare they don't." He replied with a chuckle.

Minako shook her head and chuckled more. "So, then you're already assuming your plan worked on me?" She smirked, opening her eyes to look at the floor.

"It worked all the other times I've tried it. Although, I've never used the overwhelming feeling of love before." He closed his eyes partly. "How do you feel?"

Minako smirked and chuckled. "I can't explain it." She shook her head and moved from leaning against Hibiki's back to sit at the table in the kitchen. She chuckled again as she looked over at Hibiki. "But I'm definately mad that you kept rejecting me." She smirked.

Hibiki chuckled. "The point is to keep the one thing the person wants away from them as much as possible. Take Yuudai as an example. He wants death, but if death doesn't come, by the time the technique ends, everytime Yuudai thinks of you in anyway that I wouldn't like, it'll have an affliation of death. Never again will he try to charm you, steal subtle glances, touch you afflectionately, etc. For you," Hibiki placed the spoon on the counter and turned to look at Minako. "Everytime you look at me, your heart will flutter; everytime you speak with me, you will be more in-tuned; every touch, your pulse will quicken; and every kiss will make you weak in the knee's." He smirked, as he eyed Minako with amusement.

Minako shook her head and laughed. "And you call that fair?" She sighed and smirked again. "Seems on top of that, me as a whole feels different... better, even." She chuckled. "Still, unfair... what does that leave me for an affect to you? Nothing. I'm still plain old Minako. I do not make your pulse race, your heart flutter... I don't think I could even make you weak in the knees unless I really try." She smirked. "So, I call all of that unfair."

Hibiki glanced back at the pot before crossing the room to Minako. He knelt down in front of her and entwined his fingers in her hair. "You're beautiful, and it makes me happy to know that such a beautiful woman is only mine; your lips are so soft, and everytime we kiss, I don't want to part; your frame fits so perfectly in my arms, it makes me feel as if I can protect you against anything; everytime you blush, it makes me smile knowing just how much I can effect you; it especially makes me excited knowing you're making an effort to get to know Yuuki." He shrugged slightly and moved his hand to her shoulder and he looked up into her eyes. "You're a woman, and woman react differently to different things. I'm a man, and it's the same thing. You effect me in different ways, and vice versa. A woman reacts more to emotions and feelings, while men react more to the visual." He pushed himself up to press his lips against hers before he pulled away and returned to his place by the stove, stirring the contents of the pot once again.

Minako smirked and laughed before standing back up and moving to lean against the wall beside the stove, her arms over her chest as she looked up at Hibiki. "So here's a question for yah, with all these feelings you have towards me, and all the feelings I have toward you, are we going to ever take it further?" She asked, raising an eyebrow at him with a slight smirk.

Hibiki glanced over at Minako before looking back at the stove. "I have already been thinking about it for a very long time." He smiled and turned to look at Minako again.

Her eyes widened in shock. "Y-You have?" She stuttered, taken aback as she stared at him.

Hibiki shrugged and chuckled. "If there is one thing I want to do right for once in my life, it's this. I've never loved anyone in my entire life until I met you, and you're the one I want to spend the rest of my life with."

Minako's eyes widened more as she grew speechless. Bringing it up as she did, was more of a joke. Never in her life, even after dating Hibiki, something like marriage or even children never crossed her mind. As far as she was concerned, she would be an unfit mother and a horrible wife. What she feared most was that if she did have a child, what if she died and left her child and husband alone, like her mother had done to her. Whatever Hibiki had done to change Minako's feelings, had changed them greatly. Before that jutsu, she had never considered being anything more then Hibiki's girlfriend.

"Was that not what you had in mind?" He asked as his left brow slowly rose.

Minako scratched the back of her head nervously. "W-Well... i-it was... b-but before I wasn't... and then you used the jutsu... i-it just occured to me that I've never thought that my whole life... u-until now.." She murmured with a nervous laugh.

Hibiki chuckled and stepped closer, pulling her closer to his side. "You'd have no excuse after that; you'd be mine fully, completely." He chuckled and kissed her cheek gently.

Minako smirked as she looked up at Hibiki. "Is that really what you want though?" She chuckled. "To marry the woman once dubbed "The Village Psycho"?" She giggled.

Hibiki sighed and rolled his eyes. "Yes." He whispered and kissed the skin below her ear. " Besides, the Village Psycho and Koro Tiniko are a perfect match, do you not agree?" He whispered into her ear.

Minako blushed and laughed. "Yes, it appears that they are." She wrapped her arms around Hibiki as she closed her eyes. "Though... I don't know if I could ever imagine myself as Hiroshimo Minako, and not Uma Minako..." She giggled softly.

Hibiki laughed softly. "I hope that wouldn't be a determining factor." he chuckled and turned back to the pot, turning the stove off and placing the top over the pot to let it sit.

Minako laughed and shook her head. "Of course not. I just think it'd be odd, do you not agree?" She asked, raising an eyebrow to him.

Hibiki shrugged. "My mind drifts more to the fact that you'd officially be mine." He glanced at Minako.

Minako blushed and laughed. "Yeah." She sighed and moved back towards the exit of the kitchen. "Call me when dinners ready." She smiled before walking out to bother Yuudai.

The following day Minako was shocked to find that she woke up, dreamless. She sat up normally and rubbed her eyes as she glanced down at Hibiki who was still peacefully sleeping. She quickly pondered on if the reality was actually a dream, but it seemed pinching her arm did nothing. She smiled softly as she took a moment to look out the window. Waking up like a normal person made things feel better, but why was she suddenly waking up like a normal person? She had never woken up normally since she was five. She shrugged and leaned closer to Hibiki. She pushed some hair from his eyes before placing a soft kiss on his cheek. "Hibiki, wake up." She murmured with a smile - she was curious if he'd be as confused as she was that she was up before him, at a decent hour, and hadn't screamed and cried to wake from her slumber.

Hibiki's eyes shot open and he looked up at Minako. "Are you alright?" He asked and sat up, caressing her cheek gently.

Minako laughed and smirked. "You think something is wrong?" She shook her head. "Do I look like I've been crying?"

His brow rose as he searched her eyes. He had managed to sleep the entire night without waking to any screaming, or crying. No tear streaks were found dangling from her eyes and she seemed comfortable. He smiled softly and shook his head. "I didn't think the technique would effect you further then those intial few things." Hibiki murmured.

Her eyes widened slightly before she laughed. "A-Are you saying that that's why I could sleep? Because of that technique you used?" She smiled at him.

"Well, I surely find it ironic the first time I use it on you and you sleep perfectly." He leaned forward and smirked. "Obviously no nightmare, so, did you have any dreams?" He asked.

She shook her head. "I don't remember dreaming at all."

Hibiki shrugged. "I'm just glad you slept well tonight." He smiled softly. His fingers dragged along her skin, down her cheek and shoulder to her arm. His hand reached hers and he lifted it to kiss the top of it. "I'm glad."

Minako blushed and smiled as she leaned forward to kiss him, but just before their lips touched she placed a finger between their lips. She smirked and pulled back. "Please, Hibiki, come with me when I go to see Yuuki and Red." She whispered lowering her hands to rest over his.

His brow raised as he glanced at her lips. "I can't promise anything." He frowned. "But I guess I will."

Minako smiled and smirked. "Are you confused by my actions?" She laughed as she tried to pull of an innocent look.

Hibiki chuckled. "I'm just surprised at how much self-control you have after the jutsu ended." He shrugged and smirked.

Minako smirked and shrugged. "Maybe you don't know me as well as you believed, my love.I admit I still have all those ... things you had mentioned, but it doesn't mean I cannot control myself to still be able to tease you a little." She giggled.

"Tease me?" He smirked.

Minako nodded. "Why, did I fail just now? I can try again." She smirked.

Hibiki laughed lightly. "I don't think that's necessary."

Minako smirked. "You sure? I could..." She stated, pushing some hair from her eyes.

Hibiki laughed again and shook his head. "Trying to act cute?"

Minako shook her head as she looked up at Hibiki with puppy dog eyes. "Of course not. Why would I do such a thing? It gains me nothing." She mumured softly, holding back a smirk.

"Sorry, but it doesn't work." He smiled and kissed the edge of her jaw. His lips moved to her lips before he pulled back and stood up, stretching his arms far above his head.

Minako smirked before standing up on the bed and quickly jumping onto Hibiki's back. "You teased me enough yesterday..." She whispered into his ear, before kissing the skin below it. "Today will be my turn." She whispered again with a smirk.

Hibiki gasped at the sudden attack and shook his head. "Now that is unfair." He murmured.

She smirked. "How so?"

"You have me pinned in a sense, and I don't want to hurt you." He sighed.

Minako laughed. "So in other words, poor Hibiki is asking me to get off of his back?" She asked, moving her face into his view as she pretended to pout. "But I feel tall for once..."

Hibiki shrugged and made his way to the door. He walked down the hall and walked to the bathroom, moving quickly to the shower and jumping in and turning on the freezing cold water.

Minako gasped and quickly jumped off his back, her hair and clothes now soaking wet. "Okay, that was just cruel." She murmured, glaring up at him.

He turned off the water and leaned back against the wall at the back of the bathtub. His sweats were slightly wet and his shirt slightly wetter. Minako had recieved the blunt of it. He smirked. "Bad kitty." He chuckled and climbed from the tub, heading back to the room.

Minako grabbed his wrist before he leaved the room and pushed him up against the wall. She smirked before grabbing the collar of his shirt and forcing their lips together in a slightly rough kiss. She couldn't stop herself anymore. As Hibiki had said, the technique he had used on her increased all her senses and feelings towards him. Her pulse raced as she kissed him, her heart pounding in her chest, and her knee's felt weak, like she had to lean against him or else she would fall. She loved this man more than she even realized by her own mind.

Hibiki grabbed both of her wrists and turned to pin her against the walls, his breath heavy as he looked into her eyes. "M...Minako..." he breathed as he looked into her eyes. His forehead rested against hers as he could hear her breathing coming out roughly. She struggled against his hold as she reached for his lips. He shook his head and kissed her quickly. "There goes that self-control." He chuckled.

Minako blushed and lowered her head slightly. "I-I blame you..." She whispered.

Hibiki laughed and kissed her cheek. "I know, and I'm not complaining." He whispered and breathed out slowly. He slowly let her wrists go and wrapped his arms around her shoulders, kissing the top of her head.

Minako smiled softly. "I-I will get you back for soaking me you know..." She murmured, pulling from his arms. "But right now, I'm going to meet up with Yuuki and Red, and if you are still going to come with me, you should get ready." She smirked, running her hand down Hibiki's chest.

Hibiki nodded. "I don't think wet pajama's would be the best attire either." He chuckled before leaving for the bedroom once again.