Daisuke was once again wandering someplace he didn't know. Actually he found himself at a high school. "NOOOOOOO NOT SCHOOL!"

/Heh. You're worse at directions than Ryouga.../(1)

"Hu-eh? Who's Ryouga? Have you been cheating on me!" Daisuke demanded suspiciously.

/WHAT? What the hell's THAT supposed to mean/

"and then we'll"

"Hmm?" Daisuke turned a corner where he heard some whispering. There he saw a young blonde girl- or was it a boy? He's wearing a girl's uniform- and with him/her was an older boy with black and white hair and kinda goth-looking, a creepy-looking black-haired girl, and a tall blonde girl. They all seemed to be whispering about a plan of some sort...

"Hi!" Daisuke chirped. The four froze and slowly turned to face the redhead. Realizing it was nobody they knew, or didn't even seem to go to their school, they each sighed in relief.

The blonde boy/girl bounced over and squeaked, "Hi!" just as enthusiastically. "I'm Momiji!"

"I'm Daisuke!" he blinked cutely, "What're you guys doing?"

Momiji looked surprised at the question. "Um...nothing really..."

"It sounded like you were whispering about stuff like a plan or something."

Hesitant. "N-no..."

Oblivious. "Can I help?"

"Um..."

"I'm good at tricking people! I'm a thief!"

"Well, kinda. I'm actually-"

Daisuke was cut off as the black and white haired person grabbed the back of Momiji's shirt and started to drag him away. "...bye..."

"W...wait!"

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"So, you're trying to get your two friends together?"

"Yup!" Momiji chirped with that big cute smile of his. The bunny and his new tamer friend were sitting underneath a pretty some-kinda-tree, chatting about the Sohma plans. The others- Haru, Uo, and Hana, he later discovered- had left to make preparations for their wonderful plan.

Daisuke deliberated the situation. He folded his arms over his chest as he thought. "But, if they hate each other so much, why do you want to get them together?"

The blonde shook his head, "No, they don't really hate each other, it's just a cover up! They really love each other a lot, I can tell!" His grin got wider.

"Well!" The redhead punched a fist to his hand, "I'll help!"

Brown eyes blinked wide, "You will? How?"

Daisuke grinned, the way one would if they were holding their fingers up in a 'victory' sign. Hey, that sounds like so much fun, Dai-chan wants to do it too! "I'm a little pro in whipping up love potions myself!" he declared, still flashing a victory sign for no reason than his own amusement.

Momiji's smile only got wider and brighter, if that were even humanly possible! ...Or bunnily possible. "That's so great! The fighting will stop, and Kyou and Yuki will live happily ever after!"

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"And I add this here?"

"Uh-huh."

"What's next, wasn't it this?"

"Mn...yeah."

"And to finish it off...there!" Momiji exclaimed excitedly as he added the last ingredient to their potion. The process was actually a lot quicker than Daisuke remembered, but it must just be because they had so many people helping out. He was certain they hadn't forgotten anything. Nope, nothing at all. Well, not anything important. But there was something he felt was still off...

The smaller boy was just about to dip a glass into their pot when Daisuke shouted "WAIT!" so loudly that it made everyone jump- Momiji dropped the glass and it broke; Saki, who was still struggling with the (quite heavy) bag of flour now had fallen backwards and had it dumped on her; Arisa, who was leaning down inside one of the cupboards and banged her head, which in itself doesn't seem so bad, but the bottom of the cupboard gave out for some unforeseeable reason and broke a bunch of dishes; and of course don't forget Hatsuharu, who had taken a trip to the bathroom and could be heard falling down and cursing anything and anyone he knew the name of.

Silence.

"Heh, sorry..." Daisuke put a hand behind his head, "guess I didn't mean to yell that loud, but, well, you forgot to put dye in it. And you know dye is very important."

The girls, grumbling, dust themselves off and started to clean the new mess, tossing angry glares at the stupid redhead and his horrible sense of importance. Momiji, however, contemplated this.

"Mn," the blonde tapped his chin as he thought, "but I don't see a need for it. I like the color it is now. It looks...more natural. No one will get suspicious."

"Huh? The color it is now? What color is it now?" Daisuke had never thought to take in what color the potion was before dying it, he just remembered the book's ingredients listed food dye.

Momiji pulled out another new non-broken glass, stepping over Arisa who was down on the floor cleaning as he did so. "It's yellow...like lemonade! See? No suspicions!"

"Yeah...you're right," the taller of the naive ones murmured, feeling embarrassed that he made a big deal out of something that for all outward appearances was nothing.

"Guys!" Haru called, bursting through the kitchen door of Shigure's house where they had been 'cooking', "They're coming!"

After the warning, everyone took their places around the house. Sure enough, a few seconds later came the happy "Tadaima!" of a teenage girl, followed by a few grumbles of some angry boys bickering quietly as to not alert the girl.

Haru made a motion from his place under the table to indicate the two girls' cue.

"Tohru-kun!" they immediately chorus, springing up randomly.

The fact that they had skipped school and were hiding out at the Sohma's surprised the ditzy girl, to say the least. "Ah...Uo-chan, Hana-chan, what...?"

"Come come Tohru! We uh, have things to discuss!" Leading her out the front door again, Arisa winked at flashed a subtle 'V' to the other members of The Plan that were still in hiding. The cat and rat just stared after the trio wondering 'what the heck'.

"Yuki! Kyou! Why don't you try this nice refreshing drink I made!" Momiji called out as he popped up from somewhere and hurried over to them with two glasses of potion.

"You're here? That means that stupid cow must be here too!" Kyou said annoyed. Yuki's eyes widened a little at the mention of Haru, but tried not to let his panic show. /Time for Ninja Rat./ (2)

"No I'm not!"

kyou + yuki: -.-;

"Ah...! Please, just try some!"

Kyou stuck out his tongue, "No."

"We would love to try some," Yuki told Momiji in his ever-polite manner, not so subtly aiming a kick at Kyou.

"Mother fucking rat..."

"YAY!" Momiji handed them both the glasses of potions and rubbed his hands together and started cackling all evil-like while waiting for them to drink up.

They stopped and stared at their young cousin's strange behavior. Momiji noticed this and ceased his cackling.

The two Sohma's took a drink. The ones part of The Plan dived under or behind whatever was closest to them at the moment, so they could watch safely.

And they waited.

"...well that was disgusting," Kyou remarked, critically studying the drink in his hand. "What the hell is- eh? Yuki?"

Everyone slowly rose from their hiding places to get a better look. Yuki fell to the ground clutching his throat and choking very loudly.

"What's up with him?"

"OH NO WE'VE KILLED HIM!" yelled Haru dramatically, running to the rat's side. "QUICK, WHAT DID YOU PUT IN THAT POTION!"

kyou: eh? potion?

Momiji started bouncing around like something that should be sad and worried but was too hyper to do so, "Just the ingredients the book listed! Nothing dangerous!"

"What were the ingredients!"

"Various spices and liquids- things Tohru uses all the time in her cooking! He can't be allergic to anything, do you think?"

Daisuke broke the two's chatter, "It might be that can of stuff that fell in while you weren't looking and...I didn't want to say anything 'cause I thought you guys would be mad."

"WHAT! WHAT WAS IT!"

"Um, I think it was...rat poison?"

GASP!

"SOMEBODY GO CALL HATORI NOW!"

/Something tells me you pissed off the wrong kind of people this time, Daisuke./

He nodded vigorously to the voice in his head, "Should we run?"

/I would./

The redhead promptly ran for the proverbial hills before a certain schizophrenic cow could murder him.

"HOW DARE YOU DO THAT TO MY YUKI! GET BACK HERE!" (3)

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1 Ranma plug.

2 I read a fic a long time ago where Yuki was trying to avoid Haru and he says "Must be sneaky like a mouse. No, a rat. A ninja rat." I thought it was funny.

3 Don't ask why Hatsuharu is still in love with Yuki but is helping to hook him up with Kyou. Schizophrenic cows are just like that.