A/N: Yep! Last chapter so first things first, acknowledgements to obsessed dreamer, BlackWolfofFire, kiseki-girl, IloveanimeIlovelife, fiore777, dark672 (Should have done this too in my earlier fic! Oh well…)

And again, since last chapter, there's a handful of Greek myth characters, gomen!

Disclaimer: Yoshihiro Togashi owns Hunter X Hunter, not me 

CUPID GONE WILD

Chapter 4: Love is due for a Rude Awakening

Zeus was in a towering rage. He had just got back from another…yet another… clandestine meeting with another…yet another…woman. Oh he loved his wife, Hera, but one couldn't ignore a pretty face after all. Besides, he did always come back to her and it wasn't always his fault. It was also because of that demmed arrows that the god of love sometimes shoots him with.

This particular affair however was relatively short-lived, only a few hundred years or so compared to his other affairs. That may be due to the fact that Hera had been extra vigilant and extra…well…violent considering that he recovered from Cupid's arrow of love just by a mind-numbing slap from his enraged wife.

So thus recovered, he had been of course angry at Cupid for putting him in his wife's black books yet again but was doubly angry when he discovered what Cupid had been doing for the last centuries or so. He felt chagrined that he wouldn't be able to rectify the love (and hate for some) relationships that the seemingly crazed god brought about on some of the unlikeliest partners Zeus had ever seen! They were now either married, already have a family or well, dead. It has been a few centuries after all.

However, he could do something about Cupid's most recent antics. A good thing too because he had never seen a more odd-looking group than this one gathered at…what was the name of this place again…oh yeah, Kunwari City. So he had materialized at once in front of a startled Cupid, grabbed him by his wings, teletransported and dunked him headfirst in the River Styx.

The river worked its divine powers, as always, on Cupid. That and upon surfacing, he was treated to an ear-splitting bellow, "WHAT IN MY NAME HAVE YOU BEEN DOING ALL THIS TIME!"

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Meanwhile, Hisoka and Irumi's bravado evaporated quickly as it had come. Gon, Kirua and Machi had entered Kuroro's hideout like excited, stampeding bulls. Kirua was now at Irumi's hip, hugging him fiercely while his brother desperately tried to get away. Gon was holding on to one of Hisoka's leg while Machi had her arms around his neck. Poor Hisoka was shaking Gon off at the same time, disentangling Machi's arms. As for Kuroro? Still holding hands with Kurapika.

Kirua said, "Love your hands, love your eyes, love your hair, lov−..."

Machi said, "I kill people, you kill people. We have a lot in common. I'm cool, you're hot. See? We're perfectly matched.

Gon retorted, "Hah! Opposites attract. I'm immature, he's mature. I'm innocent, he's…er…not."

Kuroro said, "Honey cakes"

Kurapika answered, "Tweedlekins"

Those two are hopeless.

TWANG! TWANG! It was the sound of several arrows swishing through the air. Not one of them even noticed but each arrow hit with perfect accuracy its intended target. Unlike Cupid's earlier arrows however, the effect of these special arrows weren't instantaneous but gradual, and curiously enough, it was Kuroro who recovered first.

Like a very bad hangover, when you get a huge headache and also remember every humiliating detail of your drunken state, Kuroro remembered. Being the sly fox he was, he quickly turned to Kurapika and said in the most lover-like tone he could muster, "Ah, honey cakes…about that sword of judgment. Would you remove it so I could use nen again? You'd like that, won't you?"

"Of course, my love," Kurapika said sweetly while Kuroro tried to hide a wicked smile. Kurapika leaned forward, his face very near to Kuroro, then he swung backwards and gave Kuroro a sharp upper cut! "Fat chance, you murdering creep!"

Kuroro lay sprawled, semi-conscious on the floor.

"Legooffme! Icanfbreaf!" Kirua's smothered voice could be heard coming from Irumi's middle. Irumi was hugging his brother close to his chest, very close and very tight while Kirua continued to struggle, his arms locked at his sides.

"But I thought you wanted to be close to me?" Irumi asked innocently, a small nasty smile on his otherwise expressionless face.

Gon had landed on the floor the last time Hisoka shook him away. He looked dazedly up, blinked several times and cried, "WAAAH!" Kurapika immediately covered Gon's eyes.

Machi and Hisoka were kissing…but not for long. Machi all at once stopped, glared at Hisoka and pushed him roughly away. "Do you have a death wish?"

"Ah, Machi…you were kissing me, remember?"

And so one by one, each of them shook off the effects of Cupid's spell, each of them remembered, each of them returned to normal…"You missed one," Zeus pointed out to Cupid.

It was Hisoka. "Er, no, my lord…that's his normal state," Cupid explained. Hisoka was slightly drooling, probably thinking about his missed chance with Machi.

"Oh," Zeus said, still a little doubtful if that clown was really normal. Then he shrugged. Even he couldn't tamper with the natural order of things. "Alright, if that's all of them. I'm taking you back to Olympus," Zeus said sternly but there was an unholy glint in his eyes. "I think it's time that you get a dose of your own medicine."

Cupid scoffed that off, being the god of love, he had a great advantage, "Really, my lord. I'm immune to that."

Zeus smiled enigmatically, "We'll see about that. Her name's Psyche." He started to ascend into the heavens but stopped as he remembered something. "I seem to recall Apollo pestering me all these years about your whereabouts."

Cupid flushed a deep red.

Zeus continued with a frown, "You do know that I've turned myself into a bull, a swan, a vagabond, etcetera because of your love arrows, don't you?" Cupid nodded a little fearfully, then was surprised when Zeus laughed, "But Apollo is a tree lover…literally!" He chuckled heartily once more before disappearing in the skies.

Cupid heaved a sigh of relief then followed suit. He didn't get far because Apollo suddenly came from nowhere. "Caught you at last, you little twerp!" Apollo cried triumphantly as he seized a struggling Cupid. His action upset the quiver of arrows Cupid had on his back and they all came tumbling down. Cupid and Apollo watched in horror as the mortals below them were once again stunned by the shower of arrows.

They were all arrows of love.

"Ow!" They all said.

Gon was looking at Irumi, Irumi was looking at Kuroro, Kuroro was looking at Hisoka, Hisoka was looking at Kurapika, Kurapika was looking at Machi and Machi was looking at Kirua.

Cupid and Apollo looked at each other in trepidation, "Uh-oh"

- OWARU -