I'm BACK!!!!! Silly school Bare with me!!!

Chapter 10: Love in a Dart

Kotori, Neko, and Utari sat quietly in Akito's dark room. Two hours had passed and still Akito lay motionless in a deep slumber.

"So....What's we gonna do?" Neko asked poking Akito's face. Utari shrugged her shoulders and slipped the little wooden tube back into her pocket.

"Let's just tell them that he fell asleep. We just tired Akito out." Kotori said pulling the darts out of his back.

"Yeah, in a sense we did "tire" him out." Utari grinned proud of achievements.

"By the way where did you get those darts?" Kotori asked.

"Well, I made the substance in the darts, and I just found some wood and carved out a tube and the darts." She said.

"Very interesting...." Kotori said rubbing her chin. Neko and Utari both looked at her funny.

"What plan are you thinking up now?" Neko asked, looking at her with suspicion. Before Kotori could answer there was a knock at the door. Shigure, on the other side, asked if everything was ok.

"Yeah! Akito fell asleep." Utari said in an innocent voice. Shigure peeked inside, and saw the three girls sitting down, surrounding Akito. He looked puzzled.

"I never knew Akito could sleep that deep." He said as Hatori walked in behind him.

"What did you three do to him?" Hatori asked.

"We sang him to sleep." Neko said hoping that he would believe her. He didn't say anything about it, but asked the girls to quietly leave the room. They did so with mischievous grins on their faces, which Shigure saw.

"Well I'll take them back to the house." Shigure said with a big smile on his face. Hatori nodded and put Akito in a bed.

"That was some song you girls sang." Hatori said as he covered Akito. Kotori and Utari didn't look at him as they left the room, but Neko winked at him. Hatori sighed.

"Hey Shigure! Can Hatsuharu come home with us?" Utari asked.

"Utari, he is at school right now." Shigure replied.

"Oh yeah.."

"I do believe that he is coming home with the others though."

"Yay!" Utari cried out, and pranced into the front seat of the car. Kotori and Neko tangoed to the back seat of the car.

"You three..." Shigure laughed as he turned on the car and they headed for home.

At Shigure's House....................

Right as they returned Neko and Kotori bounded away into the woods. Utari and Shigure watched as they did.

"I don't even wanna know." Utari grumbled as she walked into the house. Shigure followed her inside.

"There are some more leftovers from the other day of you're hungry." Utari mumbled rummaging through the refrigerator. "I'll heat something up if you want me to."

"That would be lovely." Shigure said cheerfully. "What about Kotori and Neko?"

"Who knows when they'll be back," Utari started the stove and got some plates out, "Don't worry they'll come wondering back when their stomachs get the best of them."

"Alright then. I'll be in my office. Just call me when the food is ready." Shigure left Utari to herself.

Later That Day..............

"Its almost time for Yuki and the others to be home, and Kotori and Neko still aren't back." Shigure looked outside for some sign of them.

"I wonder where......look! There they are!" Utari pointed in the distance to two people charging towards the house like wild bulls. "They're back." Utari opened the door as they came charging in.

"The others aren't back yet are they?" Kotori asked breathing heavily.

"No....where have you two been?" Utari asked. Neko grinned and held up a bag full of darts and a small wooden pipe. "Hey! The tranquilizer thing was my idea!" Utari reached for the bag, but Neko pulled them away from her.

"They aren't tranquilizers you silly filly! They are Kotori and mine very own love darts. We ran into town and found some weapon shop and they guy helped us make them!" Neko said happily.

"He helped you for free?" Utari asked.

"Well Kotori threatened him..."

"Kotori!"

"What! We had no money!" Kotori yelped hiding behind Shigure.

"Darts? Tranquilizers? Wait a minute...." Shigure began, "Is that how Akito...." His voice faded. All three of the girls nodded with guilty looks on their faces. Shigure bursted out laughing. "I wondered why it was so quiet in there." He said.

"Well he attacked us so we had to do something." Neko said as she hugged Shigure. Shigure sighed and hugged her back.

"Wait!" Kotori yelled. "My Kyo senses are tingling!" She grabbed Neko and they ran into a different room. Both Shigure and Utari looked outside, and sure enough, there was Kyo fighting with Yuki. Haru and Tohru were walking behind them. Utari bursted out the door and tackled Haru.

"Yay! You're here! Its fate my love!" Utari declared clinging to Haru's neck.

"Uh...." Was all Haru said. He patted Utari's head and smiled.

"Well good afternoon Utari. Did you have a good day?" Tohru asked. Utari nodded her head. At this point Yuki and Kyo had stopped fighting and turned their attention toward the others.

"How did your meeting with Akito go?" Yuki asked in his quiet voice.

"Oh well ya know...it went alright." Utari sat up and scratched the back of her head.

"You three probably pissed him off." Kyo grumbled.

"Well we did, but he tired himself out and fell asleep!" She said nervously. The other four looked astonished.

"Fell asleep?..." Haru asked.

"Oh look! Shigure is waiting for us! Let's get inside! Much to do!" Utari hurried to the door.

"Hello everyone!" Shigure sang as they entered the house.

"Afternoon Shigure!" Tohru was the only one that answered. "Where are Kotori and Neko?"

"Hiding somewhere." He laughed.

In a separate room........

"How do these things work again?" Neko asked loading several of the darts into the tube.

"Once you shoot the person with these darts, the first person they see they fall in love with!" Kotori exclaimed. "Let's go get them!"

Back in the living room......

"Miss. Honda, would you like to come with me to the garden? We can pick some of the vegetables for dinner tonight." Yuki asked.

"Sure!" Tohru immediately jumped up as they headed for Yuki's garden. Neko and Kotori slithered down the stairs and hid in the hallway. They observed their subjects. Utari was flirting with Haru in the living room. Shigure as sitting across from them and Kyo was in the kitchen drinking milk. Yuki and Tohru had just left the house.

"Ok Neko...you first!" Kotori laughed.

"Got it!" Neko took aim at Haru. As soon as he was looking at Utari she shot the fist dart. It was a hit! She nailed him right in the back. Haru swayed a little and looked into Utari's eyes.

"You are very beautiful!" Haru pulled Utari into his arms. Shigure was puzzled. He looked over in the hallway but saw no one. "Come on Utari!" He pulled her up and the disappeared into the bathroom. Shigure heard the door lock.

"Oh my..." He said to himself. "Kotori, Neko...what are you two up to now?" He peeked around the corner of the hall but saw no one. In the instant a dart went swooping by his head. Shigure stumbled backwards. He found the dart in the wall and examined it. A light blue liquid was seeping out of the little dart carved out of maple wood. He pulled it out from the wall and examined the black tip. Slowly he poked his finger with the tip, but jerked it back when he felt a sting. He became dizzy as he saw Neko running up the stairs.

"Neko!" He pranced his way up but found no sign of her. Downstairs, Kyo entered the empty living room.

"Where did everyone go?" He asked. "Oh well, more peaceful without anyone around." He sat at the table, waiting. Kotori crouched on the kitchen floor, barely entering the living room. She let out a small laugh and fired a dart at him. It missed, but it spooked Kyo. She shot another one, but he dodged it.

"What the hell do you think you are doing!?" He yelled, hearing someone run out of the kitchen. He jumped up and tried to catch whoever had shot the darts at him, but she was gone. He turned around to go sit back down, and saw that the two darts that were fired at him were missing. Kyo looked around the room, every sense alert. He was startled when Yuki and Tohru entered the house. They saw Kyo standing motionless.

"What are doing now?" Yuki asked him.

"Shut up rat boy. Someone is firing darts in this house."

"What are you talking about?" Yuki asked. Tohru looked nervous.

"Darts? Like what kind of darts?" She asked in a shaky voice.

"I don't know." Kyo answered. Another dart went flying across the room, landing at Yuki's feet.

"I'll bet this is Neko or Kotori's doing." Yuki said picking up the dart.

"Well duh! Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out." Kyo snapped. Yuki shot him an evil glare.

"I-..I'm, just going to go to the kitchen and start cooking dinner." Tohru said walking quickly to the kitchen.

"We need to find them." Kyo said looking around.

"Neko! Oh Neko!" Shigure came back down the stairs. He seemed as though he was floating when he entered the living room.

"Have either of you seen my little Neko?" He asked. Yuki and Kyo just shook their heads. "Well darn! Guess I'll just look outside. Neko!" Shigure went into the front yard calling out for Neko.

"I'll bet it's the darts that they are shooting that do that." Kyo said. "There!" He yelled charging to someone that moved behind one of the doors. It was Neko. She shrieked and ran away from him. Yuki then caught sight of Kotori and ran after her.

"Ms. Kotori please!" Yuki said. Kotori led Yuki though the kitchen while, Neko led Kyo through a different room. Both girls were running toward each other as they reentered the living room. As they passed each other with both boys behind them, they fell down to the floor, and shot them with the darts.

"Yes! We got them!" Kotori exclaimed still laying on the floor. The boys staggered a little and both of them rested their hands on their foreheads. "Now they will love us! Kyo!" Kotori clapped her hands, then noticed something as wrong. Kyo wasn't looking down at her.

"Yuki....my love!" Kyo sighed and ran toward Yuki.

"Oh Kyo!" Yuki ran towards Kyo and they both embraced each other. "I'm so sorry Kyo, for all the bad things I've called you. You know I don't mean them. I don't think you're a stupid cat." Yuki cried, hugging Kyo.

"I know Yuki. I didn't mean it when I called you a damn rat or stupid or anything like that. I just was trying to hide my feelings for you." Kyo sighed.

"Kyo I....." Yuki started.

"Oh crap!" Kotori jumped up and tried to pull them apart. Neko jumped up and put her hands between their faces before they could kiss.

"Tohru!" Neko cried. Tohru entered the living room and nearly passed out.

"Oh my! Yuki! Kyo! What's wrong with them!" Tohru asked.

"They were shot with our darts, but they weren't supposed to be looking at each other!" Neko said.

"No! Please Leave me and Yuki be!" Kyo shoved Kotori away.

"Yes! Kyo and I have a lot to talk about." Yuki said pushing Neko away. "Ms. Honda I'm sorry."

"Huh!?" Tohru was confused.

"Kotori! How long does this stuff last?" Neko asked attempting to pull Kyo and Yuki apart. Just then they heard a knock at the door.

"Is anyone home?" They heard a familiar deep voice.

"Uh oh..." Both Neko and Kotori said at the same time. Hatori appeared into the living, and Neko and Kotori couldn't help but laugh at the look on his face.

"Hi Hatori! How are you? I sure hope you are hungry! Dinner is on the way!" Tohru voice was very shaky as she threw her sentences together.

"That's alright I'm just here for Hatsuharu. Where is he?" His eyes never left Yuki and Kyo.

"Haru..well uh he..." Tohru began.

"He and Utari went out into the forest to get some....fruit!" Kotori interrupted. "They'll be back in a jiffy!" She laughed reaching for her small wooden tube. Neko did the same. In one swift motion they shot at Hatori and hit him. It didn't phase him. They shot at him again. Nothing.

"Why doesn't it work?" Neko asked. Kotori shrugged her shoulders. "Capitan! We have nothing! Send in reinforcements!"

"Ten four!" They both knelt down and shot numerous darts at him.

"What are you two doing?" Hatori asked.

"Why doesn't it work!?" Neko broke down in front of him.

"Neko look at the wooden tube!" Kotori said. Neko did that. On it there was a warning label that read: Does not work on any member of the zodiac that is the dragon, or goes by the name of Hatori.

"Wow....that is an oddly specific warning label." Neko was surprised and looked at Kotori who only shrugged. Moments later, Utari walked out wearing Haru's shirt, and Haru was behind her with no shirt.

"Do I even want to know." Hatori sighed.

"What happened?" Haru was still dazed. "Hi Hatori."

"Oh my...I have a serious headache." Shigure walked in. For a moment he was speechless, but he was laughing hysterically when he saw Yuki and Kyo holding hands. Then Yuki and Kyo came to. They stared at each other and then at the awkward position.

"What the HELL!!!!!" Kyo jerked away from Yuki, and Yuki jerked away from him.

"What in the world was going on! What did you two do to us?" Yuki asked.

"I can't believe this! I was holding hands with that pathetic rat! What were those things you shot at us!" Kyo grabbed Kotori's shirt.

"Why, they were love darts." Kotori said quietly.

"Oh my....Why would you do something like that! You two are so stupid! Remind me again of why they are even here!?" Kyo raged on.

"Kyo I'm sure it was an accident." Tohru tried to calm him down.

"How could that have been an accident? It was completely foolish. I'm surprised you two could do something like that." Yuki shook a little. Hatori grabbed Hatsuharu and they bowed and quickly left. They didn't want to be caught up in this event.

"And you Utari are no help to influencing these two. I bet you're the one who started that." Kyo yelled.

"No!....Well....in a way I was." Utari grinned.

"Its nothing to be proud of." Yuki remarked.

"It was just harmless fun." Shigure laughed.

"Harmless!? Me and that damn rat nearly made out! Ah! Makes me mad just thinking about it!" Kyo stormed off into the kitchen.

"Kyo.." Tohru said quietly, but Kyo ignored her.

"Kyo, don't lose your temper over something so silly." Shigure yelled.

"It's not silly. Its probably the only thing me and that stupid cat agree on. Its not something your should've done. Would your parents have let you do that?" Yuki said looking at the three girls just standing there.

"Yeah! Their parents would've probably encouraged to ruin others lives." Kyo yelled from the kitchen.

"Kyo!" Shigure shouted.

"They are the ones who came here uninvited! Where do you three come from a circus?" Kyo stormed back into the living room. "Is that why they won't tell us where they're from!?"

"Stupid cat....that message was uncalled for." Yuki said.

"Kyo, please don't." Tohru said standing in front of the three girls. He looked away from Tohru.

"Those three don't belong here. They need to go home." Kyo said more quietly. He heard a chuckle from Utari. He looked over at them. Utari had her head down and was laughing, while Neko and Kotori simply smiled.

Utari glared at Kyo. "Fine, you wanna know about us? We'll tell you."

Ooooooo...suspense. Silly Kyo...lost his temper!