Love Potion (Part 2)
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Kohari: I told you nobody would remember to tell me happy belated birthday!

Jacqie: No, I'm the one who told YOU.

Kohari: -momentary thoughtful pause- Oh, yeah.

Jacqie: Let's just get this thing started...again.

(Note: Thanks to those of you who caught the grammatical errors in the last section. We haven't changed them yet, though.)

Daphne rushed ahead in an angry impatience to get at the vendor. "Come on, you guys!" she shouted back to her friends, waving her arm to emphasize. She got ready to shout at that loser who had made their lives miserable when she stopped on a dime just before where this whole adventure had begun.

Kit reached her a second later. They had matching bewildered looks on their faces.

"What?" Daphne yelled in aggravation. "He's not here!"

"It could be...a...she..." Kai pointed out between pants. She grabbed her knees to help regain her breath. "That's it. No more skipping training for me."

"Huh..." Kit pondered for a moment. "This is certainly weird."

"This is another example of irony," Daphne told them.

"How?"

The sassy blonde shrugged.

"I told you this would be a waste of time," Kai bragged, having recovered from her sprint.

"No, what you said, and I quote," Kit countered, "was 'How do you know there IS an antidote?'"

"Oh shut up."

"Well, what do y'all suggest we do now?" Daphne broke in. "I mean, how do we plan to get the guys to chill?"

After a couple seconds of thoughtful silence, Kit said, "Any of you ever see the show 'Danny Phantom'?" (no own)

"This is no time to talk about stupid cartoon shows, Kit," Kai chastised her buddy.

"It's not stupid if it's gonna help us!" Kit protested. She now had all ears. "In the episode 'Fanning the Flames', Danny and Sam were in this same situation...sort of."

"Okay, so how does that help us?" Daphne challenged her.

"'If I can't break the spell, I'm gonna hafta break your heart,'" Kit quoted, to which Daphne shouted out ecstatically, "That's brilliant!"

"Well, duh. It wasn't Kit's idea," Kai reminded her, receiving a glare from Kit.

"Well, let's put this plan into action!" Daphne suggested, and they left.

Back at the Temple

"Yusuke," Koenma's voice came over the communicator, waking the teen up from his peaceful slumber. Good thing, too, because he was just about to launch a Spirit Gun at some dream victim, which would have spelled disaster for the temple ceiling.

"Huh? Wha? Who?" Yusuke blurted out, then realized who was speaking to him. "Oh, it's you. Eh, I'm going back to sleep." He turned over and pulled the sheets of his bed over his head.

"It's about your misison, you idiot! We found the criminal!" This got his attention.

"You got the witchdoctor?" Yusuke asked, going into rewind and yanking the covers back off.

"Yes, Yusuke," his employer sighed. "That's what I've been trying to tell you."

"Where is he?" Koenma beamed him the current coordinates before hanging up. A voice stopped him before he could get out of the room.

"A better question would be," Hiei began, "WHERE is my MATE?"

"Dude? She's not your mate, and I've gotta go." He failed to get past Hiei.

"WHERE. IS. SHE?...Tell me now, detective before your life pays for your hesitation." By now, he had the boy in much the same way as Daphne had last chapter.

"I DUNNO! SHE WENT SOMEWHERE! THEY WENT SOMEWHERE! I DUNNO!" Yusuke received a punch to the face before Hiei gave him the time to crawl away by wondering where she was and then checking on it.

"There he is!" Yusuke yelled to no one in particular. The man he was pursuing turned around and saw him, then took off in an attempt to escape. Urameshi tackled him to the ground and began punching the ever-loving daylights out of him, shouting out a word with each blow. "You! Son! Of a-! B-tch!" He paused for a second. "Don't I know you?" He shrugs and continues. (Kohari: IT'S THE VENDOR! Jacqie: SHHH! They were supposed to figure that out on their own!)
Hiei and the other males didn't have to go after Daphne and her friends, for they were already on their way home. Hiei had his arm wrapped around her waist before she even had time to step onto the path home. "I missed you," he growled.

"Yeah...look, we gotta talk," Daphne jumped right in.

"Alone." He carried her off into the forest, hoping for things that probably wouldn't happen.

Kit took Kurama's hand and led him into the temple before he even had time to try to flirt with her. Kai, however, had other plans for her "breaking up".

"I hate you," she told Kuwabara simply and maliciously before walking away, sending the ugly retard into tears.

"But -I thought we had something special," Kurama started, trying to pull her back onto the bed as she was trying to leave the room. "Nope. Sorry. Not yet."

"Then there's hope?" His eyes lit up.

"Uh...no."

"Hiei, as much as I wanna screw you, I don't wanna do it like this."

"What does it matter how we do it?"

"Uh...I dunno how to explain this, but...heh..."

"You're leaving me," Hiei realized angrily.

"Yeah," Daphne sweatdropped. Then she ran. Who wouldn't? The swordsmaster was hot on her tail with his katana, trying to kill her. (I think this goes with "If I can't have you, no one can.")

"Now, now, it's alright," Kit tried to console Kuwabara, patting him on the back as he cried on her shoulder. She made a mental note to take a VERY long shower and wash her clothes quite a few times after this was over. Well, his crying fit. After all, the whole deal with the spell was gone, right?

He continued to sob. "There are other fish in the sea," she tried again.

He sniffed, and gazed up at her longingly. "Like you?"

"Oh sh-t." 'NOT AGAIN!'

Daphne kept running, even though she was so tired she was about to pass out. He was serious! He was really going to kill her. Why, oh, why had she passed this up?

She saw Kurama coming out of the temple, looking very disappointed. It looked like things with Kit had gone well. She crouched behind him for fear of Hiei and want of protection from the demon. "Save me, please!" she begged, bracing herself for the blow from Hiei.

It didn't come. Kurama stood there with his rose whip and glared at his partner. "Stay away from my girl, Hiei."

'Oh GOD!' Daphne screamed in her mind. 'What's going on!"

Kai stepped in front of Hiei, trying to prevent a fight. "Hey, no fighting unless it's over me!" she told him, trying to push him away from the new couple. She hadn't been in earnest, but Hiei now was.

"There's no need. You're mine."

"Oh dear," Kai whimpered, noticing the coloring of his eyes. "Uh...uh...Help?" she turned to Daphne, before the two disappeared into the woods, repeating the chase from earlier.

"Will you go out with me?" Kuwabara begged.

"No," Kit replied nonchalantly as she continued her way down the hall. He was dragging at her heels. She shook him of and went on her way again. He followed her.

"Please?"

"No."

"You didn't even think about it!"

"No."

"Come on."

"No."

He waited a moment. "Now will you go out with me?"

"No."

"How about now?"

Kit pretended to think about it. "Um, no."

"Now?"

"NO!"

"Please?"

"NO!"

This time Kuwabara broke down with no one to help him get over his pain. And Daphne and Kai were in serious need of reinforcements in the forest, unbeknownst to Kit.

Jacqie: Y'all know the drill. Get to it.

Kohari: Um...this one wasn't really proofread, either. Sorry. We apologize for any mistakes and/or grammatical errors that you may find.

Jacqie: I'm more concerned with whether they liked the content of this thing than if there were any mistakes, Ko.

Kohari: Right. Anyways, we look forward to your reviews! Remember, 5 minimum for the update!