Love Potion

(Part One)

AKA

I'm Gonna Make You Love Me

Kohari: Sorry, folks. I know we's been gone a while, but we back now.

Jacqie: (That wasn't proper grammar, Ko.) Oh, and let's not forget to wish Ko a happy Sweet Sixteen a month late! Yay!

Audience: -nonchalant "woohoo"-

Kohari: Oh, come on. Y'all can do better than that.

-nothing-

Kohari: Oh, well. I know there's someone out there cheering for me, and I really appreciate that person. THANKIES! Brownie Points!

Jacqie: Let's get this fic on the road.

Daphne caught up to Yusuke, who was leading the group on yet another field trip. "So why are we doing our Halloween shopping in an outdoor Makai market?" (A/N: Yeah, there's no costumes or nothing!)

"'Cause we feel like it," he replied, extra attitude. The next thing he knew, an angry Daphne had him by his shirt collar, right hand pulled back and read to catapult into his face. He corrected his former statement. "Or we're searching out a renegade causing trouble and you have nothing to do with the mission, but I'm bringing you along, anyway," he rushed out.

"Better." Daphne dropped him. "At least you're honest," she told him sarcastically, smirking, and walked ahead. She adjusted her backpack on her shoulders as she looked around.Yusuke breathed a sigh of relief.

They all spread out in groups. Of course, our favorite girls are together. Kit and Kai joined Daphne as she's drawn to a table that seems to be ignored, hypnotized by the glass shimmering in the open noon sunlight. She spies a particularly interesting beaker, stopped fast with a cork, and picks it up, turning it at different angles in front of her eyes to better examine it, sloshing around the beautiful light-pink liquid.

"Fascinating," she says aloud.

"I see you've found the love potion," a voice rang out in from behind the table. The person seemed to match it - old, with tattered rags for clothes (Basically, the table's old, too, with a crappy tablecloth. Work with us, here.). They couldn't tell whether the intruder was male or female, but its groggy voice startled them somewhat. "I can give you a fair price."

Kai snorted. "Love potion?" she echoed.She burst into uncontrollable laughter. The other two, however, controlled their urge to launch into a skeptical giggle fit.

"A potion that makes people fall in love?" Daphne checked. She had her doubts about this. She still held the bottle, finding herself unable to put it down just yet.

"Yes," came the answer. "It's very powerful. My strongest yet. And guaranteed to work. No one is immune to it."

"No one?" Daphne smiled, thinking of the possibilities. None of them truly believed this faker, however.

"No one," the vender confirmed. "But be warned - its effects are very drastic. It can be dangerous in the wrong- Hey! Where are you going?"

"Away," Daphne called out. She waved the potion as the three headed off. (We'll just call him/her/it the vendor from now on, okay?) The vendor sneered. All according to plan.

"Oh, you can have this back," Daphne returned notlong afterwards, having realized she still possessed the potion. She tossed the beaker onto the table, bouncing into the hands of the now standing vendor.

"Wait," it said as she turned to walk away again. She halted, turning back to the table, finding the vendor standing right beside her. "Can I interest you in a hair potion?" it asked, pointing out a beaker out of the spread on the table. This one had green fluid.

"Your hair is so pretty," it complimented, running its fingers through her hair.

"Don't touch me!" Daphne recoiled. The vendor went on talking as though it hadn't heard her command.

"So pretty, but those split ends -."

"No thanks," Daphne rejected the offer, and took off, freaked out by this weirdperson. The vendor sat back down in its chair, drumming its fingertips together to wait for business.

It was almost time to begin preparing supper. Daphne came into the kitchen to remove her backpack from the table. Wanting to go outside and read before dinner, she dug into her backpack to find her new novel. She searched every pocket, unable to remember where she put it. Then she arrived at the front pocket. When she withdrew her book, out tumbled a glass something that clinked gently as it madecontact with wood.With a confused look on her face, she pickedupthe bottle of love potion.

"How'd that get there?" she pondered aloud.

As the vendor made its way around the table, it quietly and discreetly unzipped a pouch on her backpack. Slipping in the bottle as quietly and quickly as it could without her notice, it distracted her by directing her attention to the table, and then zipped the pocket back up before she could notice anything.

"That creep from the market must've put it in my backpack!" she determined. "But why?" When she couldn't discover a reason, she shrugged it off and placed pink(liquid)-filled bottle on the table, grabbed her book, tossed her backpack into the hallway, and ran outside to the forest, forgetting all about the potion.

Not long afterwards, Yukina wandered in, ready to fix supper. Her eyes caught the potion on the table. "Ah! I see they got the (some ingredient in a foreign/other language that we couldn't understand even if we tried) that I needed to go withtonight's dish!"

Snatching it up from the table, she carried it to the stove and started on dinner.

(Just in case that's confusing, she thinks it's something it's not. She doesn't realize it's a love potion.)

"Wow. What smells so good?" Kit asked, poking her head into the kitchen.

"Oh. (Something else in that language that we, again, couldn't understand. Unfortunately, neither could Kit.)."

"Oh." She smiled nervously, trying to act as though she knew what Yukina was talking about and was as happy about it as the young maiden was.

"Can you call everyone in for me?" Yukina requested.

"Sure. GUYS!" she screamed. "DINNER!"

Yukina flinched. "Um, could you retrieve them please?"

"No prob." Kit left to go get everyone.

It didn't take long for everyone to assemble. "What is this?" Yusuke asked rudely.

"It's a special meal from my homeland," Yukina answered. "The main dish is (explains) and these are (explains). The drink is a special mix that I discovered when I was searching through Genkai's Makai cookbooks. I thought it sounded good."

It looks like poison. Most stared at it, expecting it to jump out of the cups and bite them. Yukina told them to let her know if they wanted more. No one did. The only ones who touched anything were Kurama, Hiei, Yukina, and Kuwabara. (Kurama, Yukina, and Hiei knew what it was, so it didn't bother them. Genkai was absent for this. She had to go see a dojo about something or other. Kuwabara was just really hungry and thirsty.)

Afterwards, they all went to bed. They knew they wouldn't get a chance to go to bed early again any time soon and wanted to soak up as much sleep as they could (?). But those who hadn't eaten did sneak something before they turned in for the night.

The Next Morning

Daphnegroaned as the sunlight filtered in through the window and splashed onto her face. Closing her eyes tighter, she rolled over so that the sun wasn't so directly on her. Aware of something not right, she quickly reopens her eyes to see someone staring at her from the edge of her bed.

"Daphne," Hiei whispered. His chin was resting on his palms, which were stacked one on top of the other.

"Uh...hi?"

After a moment's pause, he commanded, "Kiss me."

"What?" Daphne was near panic. This was too weird.

"Kiss me," he repeated.

"Uh..." What to say to that? Finally, it occured to her. "Bye!"

She ran out of her room in her pajamas, dashing into the hallway and crashing into Kit. The two landed in a pile on the floor. The rose up onto their knees rubbing their heads. Then it finally hit them what was going on. "You, too?" the asked in surprised unison.

"Yeah," Kit answered first. "I woke up, and there Kurama was. IN MY BED!"

"Hiei wasn't IN my bed, but I bet he wanted to be," Daphne gave her story.

"Did he ask you to kiss him?"

"He demanded it."

They didn't have any more time to talk. They hadn't noticed that the topics of discussion had snuck up behind them. Their lovers pulled them to their feet. Hiei and Kurama then wrapped their arms around their respective girls.

"I love you," Hiei murmured to Daphne as Kurama cooed lovely rhymes into Kit's ear.

"Why couldn't this happen when we first got here?" Daphne whimpered to Kit. The girls then tried to squirm their way out of the boys' arms, but the guys were too strong. There was only one way to get out of their grasp.

Kit managed to turn enough to kiss Kurama, who loosened his grip. The girl then wormed her way out of his arms and took off to the kitchen as fast as she could. The trick hadn't worked for Daphne. Jaganshi only held her tighter, with more lust. Daphne,with much effort, broke free of his lips andyelled after her friend, "YOU TRAITOR! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'D LEAVE MELIKE THIS!"

The Breakfast Table

"Any reason why these creeps are following our every movement?" Kai asked of her pals. Kuwabara was staring at her the entire time, drooling all over his plate. Waving her food in front of his face and tilting had ceased to become amusing long ago.

Kit and Daphne were getting sick of having their boys kneel behind them and hugging their waists as well. Kit wasn't too fond of being licked, either. Daphne had numerous scratches along her neck from where Hiei had tried to bite her.

"Uh, we gotta go to the ladies' room," Daphne excused them, taking Hiei's hands off of her. The three girls rushed to the girls' bathroom.

"What're we gonna do?" Kit asked.

"Yeah, this is getting old, and I don't even know what's going on," Kai added.

"And to think when I first got here, this is exactly what I wanted," Daphne demonstrated the irony. "I didn't think a make-out session with him could be this disturbing."

"There's something wrong with them," Kai pointed out.

"Yeah, there's something different about them," Kai agreed. "But what?"

They gasped. "THEIR EYES!" They had failed to notice that the affected boys' eyes had turned pink. The same color pink as...

"It's that stupid love potion!" Daphne announced. "But how'd they - ?" Her mind flashed back to the night before. The only people affected were the ones who had eaten/drank Yukina's dinner. Yukina had gone into town early that morning, so none of them had noticed if anything had happened to her.

She smacked herself in the head. How had she been so stupid? "Yukina must've accidently used it in last night's supper."

"I knew there was something wrong about it," Kai informed them.

"So now that we know why this is happening, how do we stop it?" Kit brought them back to the original subject.

Daphne clapped her hands together once, as though having an ingenious idea. "I know! I've seen this in movies and TV shows. All we gotta do is - !"

She was interrupted by the crashing of the walls being smashed in. Standing there were Hiei, Kurama, and a dazzled Kuwabara.

"This is the girls' room," Kit told them.

"I don't care," Hiei replied, and made his way towards Daphne.

"It doesn't matter, as long as I'm with you, Kit." (Kurama)

"Uh, Kai. I think I love you." (Is there any need to tell who that was?)

The girls screamed and escaped into the woods, the boys hot on their tails. Daphne was having a hard time keeping from getting grabbed many times by Hiei, and Kit was nearly captured by the rose whip just as many. Kuwabara was soon lost. Kai used this opportunity to run back to the temple and get the fog machine that they had used for her party (see chappie 1), and created a smoke screen. The girls knew what that meant and made their way outside temple grounds.

"We've gotta get that antidote," Daphne said urgently, "before one of us gets raped or something."

"What makes you think there's an antidote?" Kai challenged her.

"There's always an antidote in the movies."

"Besides, that vendor DID have a lot of stuff there," Kit added. "It's worth a shot, anyway, right?"

They high-fived each other and left before Hiei could track them down.

Kohari: The End! For now. Yes, there is a Part Two, but we need at least five reviews before we go on. You do wanna know what happens, right? I dunno 'bout Jacqie (where'd she go this time?), but I'm itching to write it out.

PS: No, this was not proofread, but any mistakes that you find, please let us know so we can fix it. Thankies!