Disclaimer: I would like to say that Gensoumaden Saiyuki does not belong to me at all. All characters honorably belong to Kazuya Minekura-san Sensei except for the storyline and the original characters that rightfully belong to me. The title "Love Potion No.9" is not mine too. I'm just borrowing it from a Hollywood movie.
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Ayie: Thanks for all the reviews minna-san…I really appreciated it. One thing that keeps a writer like me going is readers' support and encouragement and not to mention is to know that there're someone who like the fic. Arigatou gozamaishita minna-san… My heartiest thanks goes not only for my dear reviewers but also to the readers who came across this fic, and read it… it's a great pleasure to know that someone actually read your fic…
Sanzo: Baka onna…stop talking now, and start writing.
Ayie: Hai! Enjoy your reading minna-san…[bows head]
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Love Potion no.9
Chapter 7
"So…I was your girl ne?" Hakkai looked at Aiko as he leant on one side. His brows lowered and his emerald eyes turned soothe. Aiko's eyes widened and the deep flushes of red got even deeper in red. She smiled nervously.
"Anou…" Aiko was lost of words.
Hakkai lifted one brow and smiled. Aiko chuckled edgily. She scratched her head and lifted her shoulders. The look on Hakkai's face made her shivered. Her chuckles faded away as the look stayed firm on his lover's face and there's no sign that it would vanish. She coughed nervously and lowered her gaze.
The nervous girl rolled her eyes around the room and spotted the fruit basket on the bedside table.
"Ah! You must be hungry…I'll peel the apple for you" Aiko didn't wait for the agreement. She marched toward the table, took the knife and hastily peeled the apple. Hakkai followed Aiko's trails with his gaze and he let a sly smile appeared on his lips. The emerald-eyed man leant against the door and folded his arms around his chest. Now only he felt rather agitated with the bra straps.
Hakkai scratched one itchy shoulder. 'Gesh! Guess Gojyo was right… wearing a bra was not such a good idea'. He kept scratching.
"Hakkai"
The youkai quickly retreated the scratching hand and kept it folded before his torso. He looked at Aiko, now with a knife in one hand and an apple on the other. "Nanda?" he asked, a pretending smile displayed on his face.
"Which one do you prefer? Green or red?" she asked and held out a green and red apple. Her eyes blinked in serenity.
"Any one" Hakkai answered blindly. He's not so in for food anyway.
Aiko turned around and kept peeling. Suddenly she heard the sound of the key being twisted. The door was locked. Aiko gulped as she could hear footsteps advancing toward her.
"So… here we are, only the two of us…in one room" Hakkai said calmly, but the calmness in his voice caused the other brunette to quiver and her hand slipped off the fruit she was peeling. The knife sled and cut one finger.
"Darn!" a small yelp escaped from the small cherry mouth but it evoked great alarm from the man with the plaited hair. Aiko flailed her wounded hand frantically, shaking the slicing pain away. Hakkai scurried to Aiko's side and grabbed the wounded finger. He sighed with relief, as it only happened to be a slight cut.
Hakkai lifted his gaze and it met with Aiko's wretched face. She hissed and clamped at sudden as soon as she realized she was being stared at. Hakkai smiled merrily.
"Does it hurt?" Hakkai asked. Aiko shook her head with haste and lowered her eyes with a blush. He studied the wounded finger and then sucked on it gently. Aiko's eyes widened. Hakkai winked and then kissed the finger. "Now… does it hurt?" he asked comfortingly. The deep green eyes looked marvelously radiant when they were fixed upon the deep ocean blue of his companion.
Aiko didn't reply to that question. She just kept her mouth shut. Hakkai smiled. He swept one glowing palm onto the injured thin finger and healed the cut. "You had saved me from a group of hentai warriors today" he said. "Arigatou"
"Unh?" Aiko still hadn't found the right word. She kept replying with slight grunts.
Hakkai lifted his face after he was done with the healing. He stared straight to Aiko's face. One hand went up and caressed the girl's cheek softly. The raven locks were twisted around his fingers in a playful manner and then the bang on one side of her forehead was carefully swept away to the back, revealing soft soothe blue eye that gleamed magnificently despite the lack of sunlight in the shady room.
The hand ran from her forehead, glided along her cheekbone and lastly ended under her chin. Hakkai lifted the pointed chin and made her looked at him by his face. The sapphire-liked eyeballs were lowered. The deep fuchsia on Aiko's cheeks hadn't had the chance to leave the girl's face instead it had become even more furious.
Hakkai was about to sink his lips onto Aiko's when the girl shoved him away and then pulled herself away from him. "Aiko?" he stared at the girl with disbelief. He thought the girl would not refuse for a quick kiss.
Aiko turned the other way around. "Gomen ne Hakkai… but I feel ill at ease, you know… kissing someone in a dress" she explained. She had to admit it, she almost think she's going to kiss a girl, or may be an older sister.
Hakkai stared down to himself and chuckled edgily. He had forgotten that he's still in his woman form. "Yare yare desune…" he sighed. Aiko turned to face him and the girl smiled.
Suddenly Aiko rose up to her toes and kissed Hakkai on his cheek. She patted his face and smiled wryly. "I'm going to buy dinner… make sure you and your pals next door had drink the potion for your voice when I come back" she reminded and walked gracefully to the door. She unlocked the door and opened it before stepping out of the room, leaving the poor man stood dumbfounded.
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"Ch!"
Gojyo yanked himself away from the wall, which he had being acquainted with since the pair of brunettes entered the room next door. He had had his ear plastered to the wall, listening for every single words uttered by his neighboring teammates.
'Here I sacrificed myself to be in one room with a blood-thirsty monk and a food-brained monkey just to give a chance to two stupid shy lovebirds to make a move… and my sacrifice was wasted' and it was followed by another irritated Tsk.
"Oi kappa! What are you doing there?" Goku has just finished a red bean bun and was starting to gobble up another one. "Don't you know it was not nice to listen without one's consent?" Goku ended that up by stuffing one bun after another into his stretchable mouth.
Sanzo echoed that words of wisdom with a harsh 'ch!'. 'Hakkai must had taught him that' He flipped the pages of the newspaper and tried to search for an interesting headline to read at. He found none, so he just kept himself busy by reading the same article over and over.
Gojyo grunted. He walked towards the itan and locked the kid's neck with his arm. He rubbed the boy's head with his knuckle as the latter struggled really hard to let free of his hold. "Don't preach me kono baka saru!" he said as he moved his knuckle relatively faster.
"Argh! Let me go…kono ero gokiburi!!" Goku shouted with rage. He flailed his arms frantically, trying to reach for Gojyo's outstanding antenna-liked locks. There's none, except for short fringes, which stuck out from the well-combed hair.
The teeth and nails fight went on and on for quite some time before it caused a certain blond monk to feel rather annoyed by the noise. The newspaper was slammed hard to the table and swooshing sound was heard as the harisen came down in a lightning fast speed onto the itan and the kappa's head.
"URUSEI!!!!" came the warning, later than the punishment.
"Ittei…" Gojyo and Goku disengaged abruptly and now, sitting cross-legged on the floor, they clutched to their heads and moaned helplessly.
"Ma…ma…minna-san, girls are not suppose to cause havoc in a town" the door was jerked open in a polite manner and a girl with turquoise cardigan and a khaki pants entered the room.
Gojyo, Goku and Sanzo glanced to the door and sighed with relief. 'Ch! It's only Hakkai'
Hakkai smiled his typical Hakkai's smile and walked to the center of the room, where his friends were gathering. The door was softly closed behind him, lessening the worst creaking noise possible.
Goku rose up to his feet and tugged at Hakkai's shirt. He looked all around the brunette as if he's searching for something. At last he just lifted his face and showed Hakkai his puppy-liked eyes. "You didn't bring any food ne Hakkai?" he asked and as soon as his mouth closed, came in the grumbling sound from his churned stomach.
Hakkai laughed gleefully. He ruffled the kid's hair with a slight trace of an amused smile. "Yada… Aiko's gone to get our lunch, she'll be back soon" he explained.
"Why don't you go with her?" the blonde monk had retreated to his seat. He lifted the newspaper and hastily flipped the pages. "It's not usual for you to let her go alone" he exclaimed.
"She insisted for me to stay and…" Hakkai retrieved something from his pocket and carefully pulled it out in the open. Neither Sanzo, nor Gojyo nor Goku liked the sound of his voice, especially when it was accompanied by his act of getting something from his pocket. Knowing Hakkai, they won't like the outcome at all.
"…make you guys drink this" the brunette with the eyes so green that it shamed the green emerald held out one phial that contained blue liquid. The men before him gaped with surprise. They held their jaw loose and sweat dropped.
"What the hell was that?" asked Gojyo, pointing his forefinger to the phial. He hated the grin on Hakkai's face. He hated it when Hakkai acted as their medicine man. Most of all, he hated Hakkai's medicine because the taste was absolutely terrible.
"Iie!!!" Goku leapt away from the floor and scuttled around the bed. He stood on the other side of the bed, snatched the blanket and wrapped it around his skinny body. Eating or drinking anything that bore much resemblance to medicine made his stomach twisted in a very displeasing manner.
"Kyu!!" Harkuryuu and Nimmiku flew to Goku and flapped their wings. They nuzzled the boy's body and bit on the hem of the blanket, trying to pull the piece of knitted woolen cloth off Goku as the latter tried really hard to remain covered.
"Ch! Another antibiotic for a spreading disease?" Sanzo mocked as he flicked the ashes on his cigarette tips to the ashtray. The ashtray was filled to the brim with cigarette's buts.
"Yare yare desune" Hakkai chuckled edgily with one hand brushing the back of his head. "This is not an antibiotic or any medicine…it's just a potion" he explained, as simple as possible so not to make his comrades confused or jerked back with fret.
"What potion?" Gojyo scrambled to his feet and took several steps closer to Hakkai. He inspected the phial, and looked up to Hakkai. "Is this the love potion Aiko had talked about before?" he asked, rather demanding.
"Wha-…" Hakkai stopped immediately. "No…this is not that sort of potion" he denied. 'Love potion?' Hakkai never heard Aiko talked about any love potion before but he didn't dare show his confused expression in front of his redheaded friend, feared of being mocked. He could expect what would come out of the hanyou's mouth if he were to say that he knew nothing about any love potion.
But Hakkai was wrong, his confused expression showed somehow because the red haired man snickered and landed an elbow on his shoulder, lifting one red brow and tittered in a sneer to his face. Gojyo must have known him too well to miss the flicker of confusion he had on his face. What he'd done wrong? Was the confusion too obvious?
Gojyo smiled. Hakkai's smiles talked and this time it told him that the brunette was confused. "Na na… don't tell me you don't know anything about that love potion number nine? I thought you guys have got it all planned?" his lips curved demonic-liked.
Hakkai sniggered sheepishly. "This is not a love potion and don't get too excited Gojyo… this potion was meant to change our voices to female's voice" he explained. Just as he had expected, Gojyo backed away a few steps and stumbled on his back.
Sanzo's cigarette, which was firmly stuck in between his lips, fell at instant. The droopy eyes turned amazingly wide and Hakkai could have sworn that he never saw Sanzo's mouth opened up so wide like it was right now.
"Hakkai…you must be kidding?" Sanzo uttered in sheer cold tone. It was hard to differentiate when Hakkai was actually making a joke or saying something serious with the smile that never left his face.
"Gomen Sanzo… but no, I'm not kidding" Hakkai laughed slightly.
"K'so!" came out the reply, as icy cold as Hakkai had anticipated. He knew his comrades for so long that he was used to the patterned response of the men.
Hakkai clasped his hands and smiled. "Now, who's the first?"
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"Urgh…" the pathetic cry slipped off Kazo's trembling lips. He didn't intend to let it out but it was urged out by the pressing pain in his chest. One limp hand clung to his chest, squeezing the blanket that covered his sweaty body. His knuckle turned somewhat white and pale.
"Kazo…"
He opened his eyes and searched for the source. He saw someone standing by his side but the image looked no more than merely a mirage. Kazo tried really hard to stay awake but his eyes insisted to drop. He flinched and tried again. He barely saw anything at all, just a simple dark image that bent down to his face.
The consciousness is giving away to another stream of oblivion. He gasped for oxygen, which he desperately need after waves of short panted breath. His lungs refused to work obediently and his brain started to delay in sending neurons to his motors. Yet, the current of pain seemed to move real fast via his veins and spread to all over his body. He could feel the pain swelled in his muscles and tendons and damn! He didn't have the time to fight it and the pain contributed to another agonizing cry to the ceiling.
Kazo cried. He could not fight it any longer. He's losing at each time the pain struck. He began to forfeit, giving away to death.
"Oi kiddo!" Matte! It's his voice.
"Hang on there kiddo" the voice? He's not supposed to hear it. Is he hallucinating?
"I'll come back for you…I'll come back with the cure" it's him again. Kazo clutched to his head and braced himself. The voice gave him courage to fight the agony. He curled into a ball and hugged himself tight to stop the violent shakes.
"Don't die coz you owed me a lot" A thin, yet comforting smile curled over his paled lips when he heard the words. Kazo closed his eyes and a slow hissed escaped his mouth.
"Gojyo…anou baka" he retired into a restless sleep, amazingly with a smile curling upon his cold dry lips.
Kei sighed with relief at seeing Kazo's sleeping again. For a while he thought the boy is going to give up with his fight and die. He muffled the curling boy with a thick blanket and caressed the young hanyou's head. The fever hadn't ceased. It's going up and up. He sank to the boy's bedside.
Kazo's sickness got worse at each seconds and the disease worked faster in him than in the other kids. Kei smiled at remembering the last words uttered by Kazo right before he fell asleep. 'Guess they had a special bond that none can understand'
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"Shit!" Gojyo shook his head.
"Excuse me?" Hakkai looked at Gojyo, astonished at his sudden curse. But Gojyo wasn't looking his way, neither at Sanzo nor Goku too, so it was obvious that the curse was not intended to any of them. The hanyou had fell to his knees, clutching his head with one hand. "Dai jou bu desuka?" he asked, worried at Gojyo's sick expression.
"Nande monai" Gojyo shot out coldly and wiped the sweats on his forehead. His body trembled slightly as he scrambled up to his feet. 'What's up with the cries kiddo? Don't give up!'
"Gojyo?" Hakkai didn't buy Gojyo's answer. He knew the kappa too well to believe his words.
'Damn it! Hakkai always knew'. "Dai jou bu da yo…just a little headache" he lied, again. That's the best way to keep Hakkai's worried sentences from buzzing to his ears. Hakkai quickly understood. Second lie in one time means the hanyou was really desperate to hide the truth. Normally, Gojyo would just surrender after continuous claims from him.
"What's wrong kappa? You look sick?" Goku appeared in front of Gojyo and peeked up to his face. His question sounded more sarcastic than worried.
"Don't call me kappa! Kono baka saru!" Gojyo bobbed Goku's head with one fist. The kid yelped and leapt away, rubbing his head with liters of curses streaming out his mouth. He went to the monk and reported to his guardian, hoping for a bit of sympathy but what he got was more bumps on the head as the monk swayed his harisen down to his head several times.
The whacking session ended after a few tormenting seconds. Hakkai slapped his head and sighed with disbelief. Goku was now staggering all over the room, with his eyes spinning and his arms swaggering above his head.
"Hakkai…I'll be the first to drink the potion" Gojyo offered himself, much to Hakkai, Goku and Sanzo's surprise. It's surprised him too, thinking of volunteering to drink the potion without Hakkai even need to give him the icy cold glare. If it's not because of he kept hearing Kazo's cries of pain, he wouldn't give it a damn to drink the potion. But Kazo's voice kept ringing in his ears and at one time he thought he had conversed with the kid telepathically.
"Wha- here!" Hakkai handed him the phial. Surprisingly, Gojyo pulled out the cork and gulped a quarter of the blue substance in the phial. Hakkai's eyes widened with shock. The hanyou wiped the edge of his mouth and gave the phial back to him.
"Hey! That wasn't so bad" Gojyo claimed. He held his neck and sang a lyric out of his favorite song. His voice is still the husky one. "There're no changes" he complained as he glanced at the dumbstruck Hakkai.
"May be it takes up to few minutes to work" Hakkai stuttered. He had missed out something about the inscription. "Gojyo…you should only drink this up to one teaspoon" he explained with worries plastered all over his face.
"Nani?!!!" Gojyo freaked out. "Now you're telling me!" he scolded the emerald-eyed man before leaping away into the bathroom. He bent down to the sink and started throwing up.
"Yare yare…" Hakkai sweat dropped. He brushed the back of his head and chuckled with guilt. Hakkai turned around and smiled as he confronted with Sanzo's deadly glare and Goku's widened eyes. "Who's next?"
Sanzo replied with a harsh humph and Goku cowered at one edge of the room. That definitely means no.
"Don't tell me you're scared bouzu… where's that oh-so-brave Sanzo-sama?" Gojyo came out from the bathroom, sweeping his mouth with a flannel. His mocking really affected the monk. Sanzo's head swerved abruptly and his violet eyes shot Gojyo a death-demanding glare. Gojyo whistled as he crossed his arms behind his head.
"Ch! Fine!" Sanzo rose up from the chair and snatched the phial from Hakkai's hand. The healer gave him a teaspoon and he quickly drank the potion according to the inscription. He handed the phial to Hakkai and turned around to execute the penalty on Gojyo.
"WHACK!" the harisen connected with Gojyo's skull.
"Ittei…" came the moan.
Hakkai smiled. Gojyo's insult always worked on Sanzo. He turned to Goku, who tried to sneak out from the room. "Goku!" he called out and stopped Goku's pace. Goku glanced at him and grinned sheepishly.
"Arara saru… don't ever think of running away" Gojyo advanced to Goku in a very devilish manner, so did Sanzo. Goku was trapped between the wall and the advancing men. He sweat dropped. He looked over his shoulder; hard wooden plank, impossible to break through; he looked to his left, Nimmiku and Harkuryuu hovered the area, no way he could escape; he looked to his right, Gojyo and Sanzo had already blocked the way, passing through them means torture; and he looked to the front, Hakkai stood holding one teaspoon of the potion, he could not run.
"Iie…!!!" he screamed as the three men and the two dragons scrammed on him.
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"Unh?" Ami halted. The brown haired girl looked around and kept her ears in alert. The scream definitely came from the new customers' room. What's with all the commotion? She walked nearer and raised one hand to knock the door.
She thought she heard someone's screamed by the time she passed the room, and the voice was not womanly-liked. Ami hesitated for a while, not sure of whether to knock or to leave the matter unsolved. She turned around and was about to walk away when she decided that she could not leave it just like that. Ami turned to the door again and this time she knocked.
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"Gah?" the ikkou gawped and they stopped struggling. Hakkai had managed to shove the substance into Goku's mouth when they altogether turned to look at the door. Someone's knocking and looking at the time, it was obvious that Aiko was not the one who knocked.
They froze and waited. She knocked again. How do they know that it was a she? Duh… they're the only men, remember? The ikkou looked at each other.
"K'so!" Gojyo cursed, almost whispering. He looked down to Goku, who he had his head pinned under his knees. "Now saru… you keep quiet!" he warned as he signaled to Hakkai to take up his position. Hakkai pinned the itan's head to the floor with his palm, his mouth plastered to the wooden floor. They needed to make him stay in that position so that he didn't spit out the substance that he barely had swallowed.
"What are you going to do?" Hakkai asked as he looked up at Gojyo, who had rose up to his feet.
"Open the door…what else?" Gojyo asked sarcastically.
"Are you crazy? You want to get us into trouble?" Sanzo's hand itched for the harisen. He needed to get the paper fan badly since the saru that he's pinning under him didn't stop struggling. 'One whack…one whack is enough'
"Sanzo's right Gojyo… your voice hadn't change yet" Hakkai exclaimed.
"Relax … think of what will happen if we don't open the door" Gojyo swept his cheongsam and secured his bra and his hair. He double-checked the pins to make sure that his hair is carefully fastened. "A little act will do…" he said as he walked to the door, almost slipping his ankle to one side because of the high heels as he did so. He balanced himself and cursed silently, one hand reaching his butts, securing the underwear to its place.
Sanzo and Hakkai sweat dropped at the disgusting scene. 'Boys will be boys'
"Here it goes!" Gojyo winked as he turned the doorknob.
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Ami was about to knock again when the door before her was jerked opened at sudden. A red haired head popped out from the slight ajar. 'It's her'. "Sumimasen desu kudo…" she bowed politely. "I was walking by when I heard someone's screaming… I hope you don't mind but is everything all right?" she smiled.
Gojyo gulped and looked down to the floor to hide his anxiety. 'Just put up your voice as little as possible'. How can he pretend to have women's voice when all that he got was a harsh husky one? 'Shesh!' Now only he regretted for having to be the first one with the bright idea of putting up an act.
"Ojou-san?" the girl demanded for answer as she looked at Gojyo with curious look.
Gojyo sighed. He raised his gaze and what he saw was something splendid. A pair of hazel eyes looked straight into his ruby and they seemed to glitter magnificently. It's the innkeeper assistant, the same girl who had led them to their rooms. The hanyou gaped at the beautiful face; jaw dropped as he adored the beauty.
"Ojou-san" the girl sounded rather impatient this time, alongside a very uncomfortable feeling at being stared like that.
"Ehem!" Gojyo coughed alarmingly and what came out from his mouth freaked him out. His voice had turned soft and fragile, no more harshness. The frail in his voice shocked him out of his guts. He looked at the girl with disbelief, more to himself.
He smiled sheepishly and the girl returned that with another warm smile.
'The smile…' Ami felt a slight tremble in her body. She looked at the red haired girl with a pretender's smile. She shouldn't be too obvious.
"Ah! Betsuni… just a simple you-know-what between the blonde and the little girl" Gojyo had finally built up the confidence to use his new voice. 'Hey! This is not bad…' His sudden made-up-a story had a caused a severe blush to appear on the girl's face. 'Wha-? Shit! The monk definitely going to kill me after this' A very sharp intensed feeling creeping up his spine as he felt a sharp piercing glare was cast to his back.
"Ah! Gomen nasai… I don't know, since you didn't put up the 'Do not disturb' sign" Ami bowed numberless of time.
"Eheh!" Gojyo grinned awkwardly. 'I am sooo dead!' "Nothing serious…just a little kiss and make up" he said, an act is an act. You just have to complete it once you've started.
Ami felt like her blood rushed up to her face. She bowed and apologized again and again. "Gomen ne?" she looked down and backed away a few steps. "By the way… this are the extra blankets, your mistress had ordered for it a moment ago" she handed the red haired a handful of blankets.
'Mistress? Ah! Aiko' Gojyo received the offering. "Arigatou" he greeted the girl. "I'm Go- I mean Misa…you?" and he cursed himself for the slip of the tongue.
"Ami" she replied and walked away without even turning back to look at him.
"Shit! I'm surrounded by bunch of ladies and damn, I'm a girl myself!" Gojyo cursed silently as he watched Ami walked away. He stepped back into the room and closed the door softly behind him.
"KACHINK!" the sound of the shoureijuu clicking as it was cocked by the monk greeted him as soon as he turned into the room. He gaped at seeing the monk standing before him with the shoureijuu pointing in his direction and the saru standing with nyibou was firmly gripped in a fighting mode.
"A little kiss and make up you say?" Sanzo smirked devilishly and Gojyo could have sworn that was the most demonic-liked smirk he had ever saw from his entire life.
"You are so dead kappa!!!!" with that Goku charged right toward him and the shoureijuu blasted.
To be continue…
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ayie: I don't know what's happening with FFNet, but it seems that the site provider is having some kind of problem on managing the website, the latest reviews from whom I don't have the chance to read did not appeared on the review page. Hai…hai… FFNet, gives me back my precious reviews…I hope they can do that T__T.
Sanzo: Stop that!
Ayie: Ch! You're so mean… never mind, thanks for the reviews minna-san. For this chap, I strongly suggested to all reviewers to save your reviews for a few days more or else your effort on writing the review will become a waste…I feared that your reviews will not appear on the review page like the last one.
Vex – Well, the movie Love Potion no.9 is somewhat ancient, it was shown in the late 1980s staring Sandra Bullock and Tate Donovan, in this movie Bullock plays the character of a psycho biologist and Donovan is a lonely biochemist. Somehow, they found out about this Love Potion no.9, a gypsy's mysterious potion and tested it on chimpanzees. The marvelous result made them test it on themselves. The result? Lots and lots of men and women fall in love with them and this caused havoc, but deep down inside down, true love evoked upon each others and they became terribly jealous at each other. So, the story begins… however this movie was rated PG-18 for the sexual content. Ehem! About the yaoi thing that Aiko had mentioned, it's only a slip of the tongue that she had made due to nervousness… nothing serious though ^_____^. Anyway, thanks for the reviews ne?
Arista Niara – well, thanks a lot for having reviewed even though you're so busy. Thanks again. FFnet is giving me the same problem too… How's work? My exam is over but the assignments are mounting up and up…
For the unknown reviewer who's his/her review did not appear – Whoever you are, thanks for reviewing. I'm totally grateful for your effort, blame it on the FFNet! Sheesh! Anyway, thanks for reading the fic and reviewed…I must have known you as the regular reviewers, whether it's GS-chan, or AliasofWestgate, or Leila Winters, or Sk8er boi, or Fuuei-chan, or chibineko, or anyone new…thanks a whole lot.