What's this?! I'm alive?! It's a miracle! Not particularly, no, but I'm back! I've been doing much of NOTHING for the past few days, and I'm sure all of you are extremely annoyed with me. I'm so severly sorry about not updating, I just couldn't do it. I didn't have the thought process running to write, and have written NOTHING for God knows how long.

Anyhow, ON TO THE STORY! .

Last time on Love Potion: Issei and Koneko went on a real date! One time jump later, and we're ready to live the tale!

Chapter 10: "Falling Ill"

I looked at the calendar. Six days left. I sighed tiredly. Another two times Koneko and I had made love, but twice again it felt empty. More like something was forcing it than like it was truly between us. With that thought in my head I fell asleep.

The next day my alarm woke me early as usual, and I marked another day on the calendar done. Five days left. I looked at the small frame still asleep in my bed and didn't see anything out of the ordiary. Koneko was breathing normally and was entirely covered up, I couldn't even see her face.

After cleaning the room I went downstairs and began to cook. I burned the palm of my left hand after getting distracted thinking about something pointless. Rias and Asia came and ate, then my parents. After ten minutes of waiting for Koneko to come I decided to wake her up.

My room was in near silence. The only sound I could hear was light and ragged breathing. When I reached Koneko and flung back the covers, she was pale. Almost ghostly. I shook her and woke her up, and color came to her face. She seemed fine now, almost with no issues except for being tired.

"What was that?! Are you sick?" I nearly yelled at her. She shook her head calmly and started to get dressed. I took that as my cue to leave the room and did so, but something didn't seem right.

There was no way that was natural, no way she had been doing that the whole time and I hadn't noticed it. I shook my head to clear it and went about my other morning duties. Sure, her problem then was serious, but it wasn't something to trouble myself about now. She was fine.

The rest of the day to me she seemed paler than usual, and her voice might have been quieter. Maybe all of this was going on in my head, but maybe not. No one said anything about her being sick. I made the assumption that she was perfectly fine.

On the way back home from school she grabbed my arm and dragged me to the park. The sun was setting early, so I felt fine, but nothing was out of the ordinary. When I looked up at the sky, I could see both the sun and the crescent-shaped moon in the sky. A few stars were visible as well, but not as many as I would be able to see in a few minutes.

She brought me straight to our bench and we sat down. After just a few minutes of enjoying each other's time, she began to speak. She was talking about feeling odd, and how she didn't remember a whole lot from that morning.

She began to say how she was losing some of the memories from the month, and I realized that the potion was probably removing her memories of the time spent together. I felt sad.

Sure, it had been an odd, and rather forced, relationship, but I had grown to like it. The time I spent with her made me feel calm. "And that time whe-" and she broke into a fit of coughing.

"Koneko!" I picked her up and ran to the nearest hospital. The doctor put her in the ICU and told me to come back the next day.

Yeah, short chapter. Sorry! You'll get a chapter every Friday until the story reaches its conclusion. I may release two today because I feel bad about leaving you guys hanging for so long. I will not be writing the other two lemons, as they're unimportant to the story, and I want to get this done without distracting myself.

I'm alive! That's what's important.

Have a good 'en,

-Kyle