Author Words: Well after waiting for just over a week I finally got a response from the fanfiction .net staff. They told me as long as I didn't post anymore lemons I could make a new account. So I'm back! As for my old stories never fear because I will be loading them all back. Just not all at once.

Disclaimer: I do not own Love Hina. Tokyo Pop and Ken Akamatsu do.

Warning: Contains some adult situations and some choice words. Reader discretion is advised.

Bold words: Mr. Maehara on the phone.

Regular words: Mrs. Maehara on the phone

Italic words: Mr. Hibachi on the phone, Butler on the phone, or phone recording

ELOPE A DOPE

Chapter 1
The Plan

October 25th. It's a crisp cool early morning fall day in Hinata Town and everyone at Hinata Sou are going through their usual routines. Shinobu is in the kitchen fixing breakfast, Motoko is on the roof just finishing up her morning exercises and is starting to go downstairs, Su is in her lab preparing another crazy invention to bring to class today, both Sara and Kitsune are just now getting out of bed, and Naru and Keitaro are going over each other's work they had done last night.

All around Hinata Sou Halloween decorations are hanging up everywhere. Fake cob webs are on some of the walls, some toy bats are hanging from the ceilings, paper ghosts and skeletons are also hanging from the ceilings and walls, outside is a big Jack-o-lantern made from a big pumpkin Shinobu had bought from the grocery store that she, Sara, and Keitaro had carved. Su even installed a scream sensor under the welcome mat so when ever someone would come in through the front door a light scream can be heard through out the building.

It's about this time when the phone in the hallway starts to ring. Shinobu looks out of the kitchen doorway and sees Motoko coming down the stairs wiping the sweat off her neck with a small towel. "Um Motoko! Could you answer that please? My hands are full at the moment." calls out Shinobu. Motoko nods her head.

Motoko picks up the phone. "Hello. This is Hinata Sou, Motoko speaking. Can I help you?" asks Motoko politely. Motoko listens as the person on the other end says what they have to say. "Ok 1 sec." says Motoko. She turns to the kitchen.

"Hey Shinobu!" she calls out. Shinobu pops her head around the corner of the kitchen door. "It's for you." says Motoko. "Ok. Just give me a second." answers Shinobu. Motoko turns back to the phone. "She'll be here in just a second." says Motoko politely.

Shinobu walks through the kitchen door wiping off her hands on her apron. "Who is it?" she asks as she walks up to Motoko and takes the phone. "It's your mother." answers Motoko. Shinobu suddenly gets a ticked off look on her face. She immediately hangs up the phone and turns to walk away. Motoko looks a little puzzled and shocked.

Within a couple of seconds the phone rings again and Motoko answers again. "Hello?...Shinobu it's for-" before she can say anything else Shinobu spins around, yanks the phone out of Motoko's hand and slams it down on the hook making sure her mother would hear the loud slam.

Within a few more seconds the phone begins to ring again. Motoko reaches for it again. "LET IT RING!" orders Shinobu with an angered look that totally surprises Motoko. "But it's your mother." says Motoko. Motoko sees Shinobu's hand shake as she balls up her fist tightly.

"I have nothing to say to HER!" says Shinobu angrily as she stomps away. Motoko is left totally stunned and bewildered at Shinobu's sudden angry actions. But she decides to let it be. The phone rings for another 2 minutes before stopping.

Breakfast goes by smoothly and Shinobu is back to her happy yet still shy self as if nothing had happened. "So Shinobu. Who was on the phone earlier?" asks Keitaro. Shinobu gets a bit irritated at his question but quickly hides it. "Oh just some salesman who wanted to see if we were interested in buying some kind of new vinyl siding for the place." answers Shinobu with a fake smile. Motoko looks at Shinobu for a second before going back to sipping her tea.

Breakfast ends and everyone goes their separate ways for the day. Shinobu, Su, Sara, and Motoko all go on to school, while Kitsune, Naru and Keitaro stay. Naru and Keitaro go to his room to study while Kitsune goes on another drinking binge.

The rest of the day passes without incident, excluding Keitaro being blasted into orbit about 3 times. That is until just after dinner time when the phone starts ringing again. "I got it!" calls out Kitsune as she was starting to head up the stairs. She walks over and picks up the phone. "Hello." she answers with a slight seductive voice.

She listens carefully to what the person on the phone has to say. "Ok darlin. I'll get her." she says a bit more seductively. "Shinobu! Telephone!" she calls down the hallway to Shinobu's room. "Ok. I'll be right there." calls out Shinobu back.

Shinobu opens her door and begins to walk down the hallway to the phone. When she reaches the phone Kitsune hands it to her. Kitsune begins to walk away. Shinobu brings the phone up to her ear. "Hello?" she answers.

But after a couple of seconds Shinobu gets an extremely angered look on her face again and slams the phone down hard back on its hook. Kitsune turns back around after hearing the loud slam with a curious look on her face. The phone starts to ring again. Shinobu reaches down and turns it off and starts to walk back to her room with an angered look still on her face.

"Leave it off for the rest of the night." she says as she passes Kitsune sounding a bit like Motoko. "Uh…Ok." says Kitsune a bit startled at Shinobu's angered glare. "Who was it?" she asks. Shinobu gives Kitsune another quick glare. "Just some boy from my school who has been bothering me lately." Shinobu answers.

Shinobu walks on back to her room. When she closes the door she punches the wall hard. "1st my mom calls me today then my dad does just now. I wish they would leave me the hell alone!" she yells in her head as she lets a couple of tears run down her face.

As Kitsune is walking back up the stairs she looks up and sees Motoko leaning against the wall at the top of the stairs with her arms crossed. "We need to talk." says Motoko calmly. Kitsune nods her head and they both walk on to Motoko's room.

When they enter Motoko's room they both sit by her futon. "So Motoko what's this about?" asks Kitsune. "I'm sure you noticed Shinobu's angered look after that phone call right?" asks Motoko.

"Yeah. She said it was from a boy that has been bothering her lately at her school." says Kitsune. Motoko gives a slight sigh. "Tell me. When have you ever known a boy to actually call Shinobu?" asks Motoko. Kitsune's eyes widen….for once. "Your right. But if it wasn't a boy from school then who was it?" asks Kitsune.

"It was from a male right?" asks Motoko. "Yeah." answers Kitsune. "Then I'm guessing it was from her father." says Motoko. "What makes you say that?" asks Kitsune.

"Early this morning she received a call from her mother and she reacted the same way she did just now." explains Motoko. "You mean the one she told us was a call from a salesman?" asks Kitsune. Motoko nods her head. Kitsune thinks for a moment.

"But why would Shinobu lie to us and get mad at her parents for?" ponders Kitsune. "Well as you already know she and her parents aren't on very good terms right now. They went through a nasty divorce that left her right in the middle of an all out tug of war between them. And even before their divorce they had been fighting with each other for many years. Shinobu was always left depressed, sad, and lonely all the time because of it. But after she started staying with us for a while she began to slowly open her heart to us, you know become more open, happy, cheerful, and more independent. And although she is still somewhat timid, she is no longer that girl she use to be. Nor do I think she ever wants to be again." explains Motoko.

"And I think that every time her parents call it makes her feel like that little scared girl again and she is just sick and tired of it. I think the reason why she lied to us is because she doesn't want to show that side of her anymore." adds Motoko.

"That makes since." says Kitsune while nodding her head. "So do you think we need to do anything about it?" she asks. Motoko thinks for a moment. "No I don't think we need to interfere for now. Shinobu just needs some time to heal. It's going to take a while before she can ever trust her parents again. I'm sure she will eventually realize that she will need her parents again someday. All she needs is some time." says Motoko.

"You're probably right." says Kitsune standing up. She walks over to Motoko's door and opens it. "However. I think tomorrow I'll take her out shopping after school. You know, have some girl time. I think that would cheer her up a bit and help her forget what has happened today." says Kitsune with a smile.

Motoko smiles a bit. "I may not be a shopper like you or Naru but I think that taking Shinobu out to cheer her up a bit is a good idea. You're 1 in a million Kitsune. You can be nice to people sometimes without wanting something in return after all." says Motoko sarcastically. "HEY!" says Kitsune in protest. Both of them have a nice giggle before Kitsune goes back to her room.

(Meanwhile at Shinobu's Father's apartment)

"We're sorry. But the number you have dialed is temporarily out of service right now. Please write down the number and try you call again. This is a recording……………We're sorry. But the number-" CLANG! Shinobu's father slams the phone back down on its hook.

"Damn that girl! That's the 4th time she done that to me! Why the hell is she ignoring me all the time? Unless her mother got to her. That has to be it! I'm going to call her and give that bitch a piece of my mind!" he says angrily. He picks up the phone once again and dials the number for Shinobu's Grandmother's house.

(At Shinobu's grandmother's house)

RING! RING! The phone rings a few times before Mrs. Maehara answers the phone. "Hello. Mrs. Maehara speaking." she says. Her cheerful polite look on her face quickly changes to one of disgust. "Oh it's you. What do you want?" she says rudely.

(Author interruption: Format will now change to reflect the phone conversations ahead.)

"Before you get all mad I haven't called you to argue about the divorce."

"Ok then. Why did you call?"

"It's about Shinobu."

"Listen! We can talk about this after you tell her to stop ignoring me like you told her to!"

"Stop ignoring you! She's the one who is ignoring me! I want you to stop making her ignore me!"

"I haven't told her to stop ignoring you! You maybe a creep but you are still her father! I would never tell her to stop talking to you!"

"You mean to tell me she has been ignoring you too?"

"Yes! Every time I try to call her she slams the phone back down and hangs up. She did it to me just this morning!"

"Then if you didn't tell her to start ignoring me then why is she ignoring both of us?"

"Probably because she's too busy banging that wannabe Toudai student you left her with! I have dreaded leaving her there in the care of that strange man ever since the 1st day she moved there. It's an all girls dormitory run by a man! God only knows what he has made all those girls and Shinobu do!"

"Calm down! I have kept in touch with that young man's aunt and she has said that he has done nothing of the sort. But I think it's those other girls' fault that she is ignoring us!

"Care to explain that?"

"One of the girls is a kendo freak, another one is a drunk and heavy gambler, another one doesn't know her head from her ass (Mutsumi), another one is crazier than a loon, and the other one is a hothead who can't seem to control her anger. God only knows what they have taught her. Bunch of hooligans have probably turned her against us."

"That does make more since. I was worried about those girls more than about that boy anyway. Besides that brown haired hothead girl I hear has been keeping him under wraps. Shinobu only told us that she wanted to make some friends before she ever moved. We've given her almost 2 years. I think it's about time we got her out of there and back into the real world!"

"Yes. I agree with you for once. She needs to come back with us. That trash bin of a dormitory is a very bad influence on her. From what the aunt tells me she does all the cooking a cleaning. At this rate she'll probably end up as a cheap hotel maid when she grows up. The only problem I see is her willingly agreeing to move away from them and back with us."

"That is going to be a problem……. Hey I've got it!"

"Ok spill it."

"Remember what we talked about when she was 8? About that other restaurant owner and his son?"

"Oh you mean Mr. Hibachi, the millionaire who owns 40 different restaurants across Japan? Yes I remember the conversation with him about arranging to have Shinobu marry his son. But didn't we turn down his offer?"

"We did, but he did say he would always keep the offer open to us if we ever changed our minds. His son should be about 20 now and I hear he has grown quit handsome now. This I think will be the best thing to straiten Shinobu up out of her arrogance she has for us now. If he accepts the offer we'll have Shinobu married on her 16th birthday. And if Shinobu doesn't like it then tough. She needs to learn not to be so selfish and learn that the world doesn't revolve around her. How does that sound?"

"Sounds fine by me. After all, his place is about half-way between our houses now so we could go see Shinobu anytime we wanted to. I still have his number so I'll call him right away."

"Good. This time Shinobu will have to come back with us whether she likes it or not. Goodbye."

"Goodbye."

Both parents hang up their phones. But Mr. Maehara picks his back up after a few minutes of searching for the number and dials another number. He hears it ring a few times.

"Hello. Hibachi residence. Can I help you?" (Butler)

"Yes. Is Mr. Hibachi in? I would like to speak with him please."

"I'm sorry Sir. But Mr. Hibachi is a little busy taking a soothing bath. Can I take a message?"

"Just go in and tell him that Mr. Maehara is on the phone and that I would like to take him up on his offer."

"One moment if you would."

A few minutes go by.

"Hello. This is Mr. Hibachi. It's nice to hear from you again Maehara old buddy!"

"Hey Hibachi."

"It's been a while! How have you been doing? How's business treating you?"

"I'm not fairing very well actually. I've gone through a nasty divorce, I had to close and sell off the restaurant, and my daughter Shinobu has moved to a crappy run down old all girls dormitory."

"Oh that's bad. So my butler tells me you are interested in my offer from a few years ago."

"Yeah both Mrs. Maehara and I are interested in it again."

"Can I ask why the sudden change of heart after all these years?"

"Well ever since Shinobu moved to that run down old dormitory she has become quite ill-mannered toward us. The place is run by a wannabe Toudai student who doesn't appear he'll ever get in, not to mention he's a guy! But not only that but the girls who live there aren't……well….the best role models for a girl of her nature. Ever since she started living there she has become belligerent, and has been ignoring all of our phone calls and letters. So Mrs. Maehara and I decided that arranging a marriage for her 16th birthday will shove her into real life again. You know to show her the error of her ways. We want her to come back to us now but she refuses. So by getting her married she would no choice but to come back to us. And well since you live between me and Mrs. Maehara now we could go visit her and call her at anytime. So what do you say?"

"I can see your problem clearly. You want to help your daughter out of that rackety old dorm before she starts spinning out of control by living with these people. Am I right?"

"Yes. So one friend to another will you help me?"

"Now hold on a second. What if Shinobu doesn't want to get married?"

"She'll have no say on the matter. We are her parents and we have the right under the law to arrange a marriage for her. There's nothing she can do. So will you help?"

"But of course I will! We've been friends since high school so I accept you daughter to marry my son. I hear that she has become quite the cutie herself."

"Indeed she has. We'll start making the arrangements right away. Is that ok?"

"Yes of course it is. And I'm sure that Shin will be pleased to see Shinobu again."

"Well I'll call Mrs. Maehara and tell her you accepted to have the arranged marriage. We plan on going over and tell Shinobu about this tomorrow after her school let's out. Thanks again and we'll be talking again soon. Goodbye."

"Goodbye."

Both men hang up their phones. Mr. Maehara picks up his phone again and calls Mrs. Maehara with the "good news" about his call.

End of Chapter 1

To be continued in Chapter 2: The Announcement.

Author Note: Well I'm back. After having my account deleted because of that lemon I posted was a real drag and I have learned my lesson from it. I will be posting Chapter 3 of "The Hinata Maiden" soon, but after that I'm going to be putting that story and "Gundam Hina" on hold for a while to straiten a few things out 1st. After all, my college is going to be starting back up soon so I need to prepare for that. And also I'm going to be starting my very own Children's book soon so I'll be working on that soon also. BTW this story literally hit me from the blue. It happened during one of my brain storming times where I just let my mind wonder a bit. This is how I come up with a lot of my stories. I hope you will like it! This story idea sounded so good to me I just had to start it right away!

Story Note: Shinobu's Parents are going to be really mean in this story. Plus next chapter is going to contain some physical and emotional abuse so be prepared for that.