I know I usually have an excuse for being late, but I'll be completely honest and say that this time I was just being lazy. I'm writing approx. five other stories, one of which is a book that I want published, so I have been too tired (completely out of inspiration) to write anything for this. I deeply apologize for the delay in the story, and hope that you could forgive me.

One another note, it's Thanksgiving here in America, so I'll tell you guys this: I'm thankful that I could come here and be treated with such a good reception. I've met many good people on this site, and hope to continue meeting people who want to be writers, or only support me in my writing. I'm thankful for each and every one of you that reads this.

Anyhow, ON TO THE STORY! .

Last time on Love Potion: Issei and Koneko spent quality time getting to talk. Today is the last day of the break. Everyone grab my cursor, it's story time!

Chapter 9:

"Day Five"

I woke to an empty bed and an entirely dressed Koneko. She was cleaning the room in a long white skirt, embroidered with a floral pattern. She also had on a plain white t-shirt and a light brown jacket over that. I snuck up behind her and hugged her, but in response gained a new bruise on one of my ribs.

I sat down on the ground and got the air back into my lungs. Koneko spoke, "Sorry! Don't sneak up behind me." I laughed meekly and tried to breathe again. After a few minutes I felt well enough to walk and went down the stairs as fast as I could manage.

I cooked up a similar meal to the previous days due to the time constraints caused by catching my breath. Everyone ate, everyone commented that I needed to fix something new. Each time I nodded and told them what had happened.

Koneko had spent the morning latched to my arm, and when everyone was done eating I fixed us our food. She immediately tried to feed me, which I politely refused. The people in my house were treating us weird enough already, I didn't need these people thinking I was trying to get cozy with Koneko while she was under the potion's influence.

I quickly grabbed her arm and dragged her out into the daylight, hoping to find something to do. I took her to the park like any other day and we walked around the one-day carnival that had shown up overnight. I looked for something to do, and found that the carnival had miraculously brought rides with them.

I took a moment to see if I could come up with a way the carnival would have been able to set up rides overnight, but came to no real conclusion. Carnivals confused me anyways, so I didn't strain my brain on it. I walked to the roller coaster and paid for two tickets; it was unsurprisingly expensive.

During the ride Koneko feigned fright as an excuse to cling to me, and at one point tried to undo the safety mechanism to get me to do the same. I had managed to stop her by saying that it would be weird if it had just come undone, so she left it be.

In return I had to take her on the ride of her choice. She, also not surprisingly, took me on the Tunnel of Terror. It was my turn to feign being scared, so I clung to her and she did the same. After the ride we walked into a courtyard and started laughing at the ridiculousness of the situation. I took her to a stall for food, finding that I was running out of money very quickly.

"These western-style carnivals sure suck cash." I said while rubbing the back of my head. I paid for her food, grilled squid, and went to find a place to sit. We heard the radio skip a few times, and shared a smirk of mutual entertainment from the small mechanical malfunction.

I found our bench unoccupied and motioned for her to take a seat. She did, and I put my arm around her. She ate in silence, leaning against me and periodically feeding me a piece of the squid. When she finished her food we went into a semi-silence of periodic questions about the other person. Most of Koneko's consisted of questions about my turn-ons, which I respectfully declined answering.

The day faded into night, and the carnival went dead. Soon enough we were left staring at the stars that were faintly shining through the city's lights. I felt more energized at night, but the day's events had left me physically tired. I started to doze off, but noticed Koneko lightly snoring.

I stifled my laughter at the girl's fault of easily falling asleep near any source of warmth, then picked her up onto my back. I began the trek back to my house, again reassured that I would be fine through the month by the moments spent with her like this. I decided to make this habit, and even if she wasn't tired I would carry her.

We arrived at my house, and I removed our shoes and entered. I found another, slightly more legible note on my door. It consisted of not doing perverted things to Koneko, but I shook my head in frustration at not being able to read the whole note.

I didn't really plan to do more perverted things, but I wasn't sure. According to Kiba the potion forced both parties to make love if they looked into each other's eyes at the wrong moment. I shook the troubled thoughts from my head and dressed Koneko in her night clothes, taking care to avert my eyes where necessary.

I dressed myself as well and climbed into bed. I pulled Koneko's head to its place on my arm and drifted into a deep and dreamless sleep.

AGAIN, I'M SO SORRY FOR MISSING SO FREAKING MANY DAYS OF UPDATES! I just couldn't gather the inspiration to write, and as such I couldn't bring myself to write. I'm planning to skip weekends on this story due to time constraints, so don't expect thirty chapters, though it may end up that way if I write many more updates.

Again, sorry. Feel free to PM me or leave a review asking for something. I'm always open to story suggestions, so gimme a shot.

Thanks all for reading,

-Kyle