A light drizzle started in Tokyo and as the rainfall increased, people rushed home or took shelter in shops except for one teenager who has taken refuge in an alleyway, trying to get his breath back as if he has just ran a marathon for the first time. His attention is focused on a large plume of smoke in the distance and the sirens fast approaching.

Keitaro wipes some blood from his face and turned around, angry. "Damn it! I was THIS close!" emphasising THIS with a small space between two of his fingers.

"That was a close call, you should consider yourself lucky to be alive, you barely made it out that time".

Keitaro massaged his temple, he currently forgets vital parts of his past, stolen from him. One of the few vague memories he clutched onto are fragments of a 15-yr-old promise but now he wasn't sure if it was ever real but something he conjured up in his imagination.

"I'm not in the mood to talk to you, not after...that..." Keitaro trailed off, looking down slightly.

Montroels' grin grew wider, "fine", it shrugged, flexing its' wings, "go all mopey, I'll see you soon."

Keitaro watched as it took off into the sky and disappeared. It had been 5 years since he met the interdimensional demon but only he could see and interact with it and they forged a very unusual friendship.

Eventually Keitaro started to make his way through the city, no particular destination in mind and ended up at the bottom of a large set of stone steps. He gazed up at the building sitting at the top for a moment and the word Hinata popped into his head, something that sounded familiar to him. It was an Inn if he remembered correctly. Did he stay there once? Keitaro tried to wrestle his memory for more unsuccessfully but decided whether or not he once knew this place, he was weary and soaked and climbed the steps to see if he could get a room for the night.

Keitaro knocked the main door, shifting nervously on the spot. After a while with no response, he tried the handle and got the all-too-familiar sinking feeling when it opened with ease. Suspicious, he peered into the lobby and announced his arrival but no reply. Carefully, he stepped inside and closed the door behind him to keep the heat in then watched and listened for movement elsewhere. The more he concentrated, the less he liked being here.

"You're being unusually cautious aren't you?" a voice mocked and he noticed Montroel perching on the back of a sofa staring at him with his big, red eyes.

"Is it any wonder with the games you play? So what have you done with the residents or am I better off not knowing?" Keitaro questioned the demon with a hint of sarcasm.

The demon grinned again, "don't ask me, I just got here. Besides if this was a game, I'd have laid down the rules already."

Suddenly something caught Keitaros' ear before he could respond, voices down a hallway and he followed the noise to the source until he tracked it to a single door. Sliding the door open, Keitaro stopped cold as three girls sit towel-clad in a hot spring; a long-haired (and now angry looking) brunette, a raven-haired girl armed with a sword and a short-haired brunette with a cup of sake in her hand.

Keitaro stepped back slightly, exclaiming "oh, shit" while Montroel appears, invisible to the girls, peering over his shoulder, leering at their semi-naked forms, "you hit the jackpot here, K, look at the size of these..."

"PERVERT!" the long-haired brunette screamed angrily at Keitaro who doesn't even get time to utter an explanation as the raven-haired girl quickly launches a forceful Ki attack with her blade that destroys the whole doorway he was standing in and part of the wall behind it.

Keitaro had barely dived to the ground in time to avoid it but as he starts to gets up, he finds the two girls standing in front of him ready to inflict serious pain.

"What the hell? You just destroyed a doorway! Is that even possible?" Keitaro barraged the sword-wielding girl, pointing at the doorway and the wall in exasperation.

"What's all the noise"" an older woman asked, stepping into the doorway, looking down at Keitaro.

Keitaro turned to the newcomer and uttered "Haruka? What are you doing here?"

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"Absolutely not!" ranted the angry brunette. "This is a girl's dorm; we can't let a pervert like him stay another minute!"

Keitaro had explained to his aunt he was just looking for a room for the night but this one girl Naru and her sword-wielding companion Motoko weren't having any of it.

"It was an accident, I didn't expect half-naked girls to be roaming the place! I already explained myself!" Keitaro explained again but gave in. "Oh, what's the point of talking to you damn psycho bitches."

The two girls hit the roof, the other tenants having to restrain them. Keitaro taunted them some more for good measure, made a few rude gestures at them and told Motoko to shove her sword up her ass throwing in the word 'fat' to further infuriate her.

"I'm surprised you forgot I was here", his aunt commented, after the duo had calmed down slightly, lighting a cigarette, "Granny Hina used to be here but she went on a world-wide sightseeing tour a year ago after she turned her hotel into a girl's dorm."

Keitaro rubbed his temples, soothing the headache that started to form, "yeah, surprised I forgot that myself..."

"How long has it been? If I remember correctly, you're at Tokyo U now, right? You'd be a sophomore now."

Keitaro half-smiled, "actually I...", then he paused slightly, "yeah, that's right, but I've taken a few months off to clear my head."

"YOU'RE a sophomore?" Naru exclaimed in disbelief, trying to get into Tokyo U herself.

"Yeah, shows you what dedication and hard work can do", he smiled, ignoring Montroel laughing in the background.

"So, girls, can a sophomore be trusted for the night? That must have some merit surely?" Haruka asked the other residents.

All the girls raised their hands, although sword-bitch Motoko and the quick-to-judge Naru hesitate for a few seconds. After the vote Naru shows her index finger to Keitaro and glares at him. "Just ONE night!" to make sure he understood the terms.

Motoko drew her blade slightly, "also, if you try anything with the residents here, you WILL answer to my blade."

Haruka sighed slightly, got up and left, "I'll be down in the tea house if you need me. Behave yourselves."

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"Well, I'm Keitaro Urashima" he smiled at the girls gathered.

"Well, I don't care!" Naru huffed and stormed off to her room past Motoko who stayed and watched Keitaro in case he tried anything.

"My name is Shinobu!" smiled a shy-haired girl, "it's nice to meet you."

"Well at least someone thinks so", he smiled back to which she blushed slightly.

"I likes ya too, Keitaro!" an energetic voice shouted. A blonde, foreign-looking girl stood near Shinobu grinning. "Before you go you have to promise to play with me, okay?"

Keitaro didn't know what to say to that but Motoko chimed in, "don't get any funny ideas, Urashima, else you will be struck down!"

They locked eyes for a while until he felt a pair of arms wrap around his waist from behind. "You can play with me though if ya want, stud?"

He looked over his shoulder into a pair of hazel eyes and found his eyes wandering down further past her cheeky smile to the most impressive breasts he had seen in a long time, hidden in a low-cut t-shirt.

"Urashima! Get your hands OFF her!" Motoko growled causing Keitaro to sigh and glare at the menacing swords woman. What he would do for some alone time with this girl.

"Taking advantage of Mitsune when she's drunk will not go unpunished!" she growled.

"Hey, she wanted some loving, not my fault no-one is giving you any cock!" he smirked as Mitsune staggered to the sofa and collapsed on it.

Motoko went beet red at this to which Suu asked, "what's cock? Does it taste yummy?"

Keitaro couldn't believe it, did Suu just ask that? How innocent was she? Motoko went even redder and harshly ordered the girls to go to their rooms which they did and quickly.

"You DARE say that in front of children, your punishment will be swift!" she glared and drew her blade. "No-one mocks a warrior of the Shinmei-ryu!"

"You know, that's quite a coincidence. I'm guessing Shinmei-ryu is some sorta dojo and I'm actually a member of one myself!" Keitaro exclaimed.

"You are?" she replied in disbelief that he could do anything remotely resembling a martial art. "What dojo do you belong to?"

Keitaro smiled and answered, "the dojo of...KISS MY ASS YOU KENDO WHORE!" he shouted before he laughed out loud.

"You...you...how DARE you!" she yelled before launching a ki strike which Keitaro barely dodged again.

"That's awesome! Hope you got the money for repairs though!" he mocked.

"Nice window view in here," Montroel commented, perched on the sofa again, gazing out at the scenery.

Keitaro carried on concentrating on the psychopathic swords woman in front of him. The games he had played with Montroel had gave him good reflexes.

"It's a big building, lots of space inside", Montroel continued, "lot of interesting people too..."

Keitaro continued to goad Motoko until Haruka appeared and broke it up telling Motoko to go to her room and for Keitaro to grow up.

Montroel turned to face Keitaro, "give me a break, you're thinking the EXACT same things as me. Sophomore? You? If they knew what you did in Tokyo U..."

Keitaro glared at his demon friend then looked about to see if anyone was nearby before continuing, "I don't even know what I did in Tokyo U, you STOLE that memory, remember?"

"So", Montroel grinned and leant forward slightly, "why not spice up tonight with another game? Maybe I'll restore that memory?"

Keitaros' stared at the demon for a while then broke out into a dark grin, "bring it on! This time I won't lose!"

END CHAPTER 001