Pairing: Keitaro/Sara

When Sara encountered Keitaro for the first time, she had a poor impression of him. She thought he was a jerk and a dimwit. The first time the blonde kid and he met each other, she tussled with him in her stepdad's office.

When Sara's stepfather brashly announced he was going to leave her to live at Hinata Inn, she protested against it. He just left abruptly without listening to her objections, leaving her crying.

Keitaro meekly offered her comfort but she ungraciously refused to accept it but was reluctant to accept her new "home" with the jerk Keitaro and the girls. To her surprise, Sara was getting used to Keitaro's presence.

On one day, Sara observed Keitaro accidentally trip and grab Naru's skirt with one hand, pulling it down to expose her panties and legs. Growling and fuming, Naru punched him out of the house.

As the nine-year old girl watched Keitaro flying away by Naru's punch, she sighed and wondered, 'I don't know why those gals especially Naru tolerate Keitaro, much less let him manage the house. Shinobu is probably the only girl who hadn't decked him, maybe yet.'

Sara loved to join Kaolla and pounce on Keitaro almost daily even though he hadn't even done anything wrong. But strangely, each time she witnessed each girl's beating on Keitaro, she felt something was wrong with her heart. She had no idea what kind of feeling it was but It felt something close to…grief. Then she shook her head at such a preposterous thought. 

'Come on, Sara. What makes you think you're grieving for him for getting beaten? That is what he deserves. He is a jerk.' Sara thought. But as she completed her thought, she felt a pang of sadness piercing her heart and she never felt so hurt.

'What is wrong with me?' the blonde wondered. 'Am I falling in love with that jerk?'

Shaking her head, Sara cleared her thoughts and asserted 'No way. That's a load of nonsense. I can't be falling in love with this pervert. Besides I'm just nine years old. How the hell can I fall in love?'

'Assuming I have attraction to some guy, does this mean I'm going to be a woman?' 

With that final thought troubling her mind, Sara decided to wait for Keitaro to return so she'd test her feelings by pouncing on him.

Tonight.

It had been nearly five hours since Keitaro "flew" out of the house. When Sara was done eating, she returned to the entrance of the inn, staring at the outside. Her behavior drew some puzzled and baffled thoughts from the other girls but they didn't bother to question what she was doing.

Every one already went to their rooms and slept there while Sara remained at the entrance. She finally saw Keitaro entering the house.

"Yo, Keitaro." Sara greeted him. "Where have you been?"

"I landed ten miles away from here. It took me seven hours to reach here." Keitaro answered.

"Oh, well, that's ni—very bad news." Sara replied. Before Keitaro could respond, Sara jumped on the geek and knocked him out cold with a hammer.

Staring at his unconscious body, she expected satisfaction but instead she felt empty and filled with sorrow. She tried to deny her true feelings but it was a losing battle.

She also felt compelled to make amends with Keitaro. Without thinking, she knelt down by the unconscious man's side, closed her eyes  and planted a kiss on his lips. Once the young blond girl kissed him, she planned to break away. But she changed her mind and continued kissing Keitaro until it stirred him awake. But she ignored his return to the land of lucid.

When Keitaro opened his eyes only to find a nine-year old child locking lips with him, he quickly pulled Sara away from him.

"What do you think you were doing, Sara? First you hit me and now you kissed me?" Keitaro mumbled, wiping his lips.

"Hey you jerk. I wasn't kissing you." Sara countered. "I…um….I thought I might have killed you. I was afraid that you're dead 'cause of me. S-so I was just performing artificial respiration or CPR or something on you."

"Well, I appreciate your attempt to save me but this doesn't look like CPR. Don't you know how to do CPR?" Keitaro said.

"Um…no." Sara shook her head.

"It's all right, Sara. Everyone makes mistakes."

"Good night." Sara said deftly. 

"Good night Sara."

As Sara saw Keitaro walking to return to his bedroom, she started to think about the kiss she gave him. When she had kissed him, she felt an amazing feeling. She wondered if the kiss proved that she fell in love with her but she knew her true feelings clearly for the first time.