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A Different Person

Prologue

A young man stood in a very large welcoming area to an inn with a distressed look on his face. "Late again, hmph, grandma wont be happy about this," said a young man wearing a black suit, black leather shoes which were polished to perfection, a clean white dress shirt, and a matching black tie. He had brown hair which was messily tossed into a pony tail, and had earrings on just about every part of his right ear. He was very muscular and had an innocent face which betrayed who he actually was. "I guess I'd better see if she's around, if not I'm just going to have to go back to……" the man spoke aloud before he was cut off.

"Nice to see you nephew, you look well," a feminine voice said from behind him.

"Au…..Haruka-san, it's good to see you again, it's been quite some time," the young man stated as he turned to face a woman with brown hair, wearing a pink turtle neck sweater, tan khaki pants, an apron, and smoking a cigarette. "Do you mind if I have one, it's been quite a trip," the young man asked as he approached her.

"These things will kill ya' you know?" Haruka told him as she handed him a cigarette and lit it for him.

After taking a long drag on it he blew out a cloud of smoke and said, "You know Haruka-san with everything I've been through on that godforsaken planet I should have been dead by now. I mean it's not like my job expects me to actually reach retirement. Which actually brings me to my point, grandma contacted me and said that she needed me for something important. If you could tell me what that is I would greatly appreciate it, I really need to get it done because I need to get back to work,"

"My, my, I can't believe you're in such a rush to get back to doing "that" kind of work Keitaro. Years ago you would have appalled, and disgusted, but now it's like a regular nine to five job for you. What happened to my sweet little nephew?" Haruka said with a smirk. The irony of it was the fact that she knew exactly what happened, her nephew made the choice to survive.

"Well lets see you get transported to a strange planet, by our standards of course, at the age of 14 and let's see what you do to survive. It's not like I had a choice, and with my semi-immortality I couldn't see a reason, mind you I refused until I was starving to death, why I shouldn't have joined. It wasn't until Meteor that I gained the ability to come back and forth between worlds," Keitaro finished as he took one last drag of his cigarette and the proceeded to mash the rest into an ash tray on the table next to him. He took a seat and so did Haruka.

"Well it's not like I'm all that different, so I can't really judge you," Haruka said as she thought about her own past adventures. "However, you never did tell me how you got there in the first place. You know until a year ago we thought you were dead, but keep in mind we didn't come to that conclusion until we had searched for you for three years and found nothing."

"Trust me Haruka I understand completely, and to tell you the truth I don't know how I ended up there I just did I guess," Keitaro said as he played with one of the coasters sitting on the ebony table in front of him. After a moment he turned to his aunt, who at that time was lighting another cigarette, "So you still haven't told me what grandma called me hear for."

"She wants you to become the landlord of the Hinata-sou," Haruka said in a deadpan voice.

Keitaro whistled and replied, "Really? Well I don't thin……"

"It's really already to late for you to back out Keitaro she's put the entire thing in your name, so if you don't take it were going to have to shut it down," Haruka said calmly.

"What about my job?" Keitaro asked as he tried to figure a way out of his current predicament. He knew that this was not something that he was ready to do. For a while all he had to care about was either protecting Rufus Shin-Ra, or himself. Knowing what Rufus alone would do to him if he didn't come back made the situation even worse. On top of that he wasn't trained for anything like this.

"Don't worry about it, Granny Hinata has already talked to your boss, and everyone else so they already know you wont becoming back," Haruka said nonchalantly as she took another drag on her cigarette letting the smoke blow out her nose.

Now that he thought about it Keitaro did remember Rufus telling him to take all the time he needed. 'Oh sweet mother of josephine ,' Keitaro thought, 'I am sooooo screwed,'

"Don't worry you'll only have five tenants to account for, that should be relatively easy for a Turk right?" Haruka questioned with a smirk evident on her face.

"I guess I can't say no," Keitaro said as he stood up fixing his tie and correcting his hair.

"Good to hear it because here the girls come now," Haruka said as she too got up.

"Just girls, that doesn't sound right," Keitaro said as he heard foot steps draw closer toward his present location.

"Oh did I forget to mention, this is a girls dorm now."

"WHAAAAAAAT!" Keitaro yelled, but it was too late for him to retreat.