Disclaimer: I do not own Love Hina. Tokyo Pop and Ken Akamatsu do.
THE HINATA MADIEN
Chapter 1:
Powers Awakened
Saturday May 27th, 2006. A freak record braking heat wave has sat itself over the midsection of Japan and right over Tokyo. For the past week temperatures have topped 100F, when the average temperature for this time of year is 82F. But today is the hottest day yet and it's only 12:00 noon!
Everyone except Su and Sara are sitting in the living room watching the noon news. The weatherman says the heat index is at 120F! (I have no idea how to convert into C so please forgive the F scale) The actual temperature is 98F IN THE SHADE!
All the girls, including Motoko, are in booty shorts and tank tops, while Kietaro is wearing cargo shorts and a plain white t-shirt. What's worst most of all though is that the Air-conditioning in Hinata Sou has been broken for the past 2 days! Kietaro called a repair man but there is only 1 in town and he has a list of other people who had called before Kietaro a mile long and wont be out there for another 2 days!
Only Sara and Su seem to be immune to this heat. Sara says she use to live close to Death Valley in southern California with her real mother so she is use to a lot of heat. And since Su use to live on an island out in the middle if the mid Pacific she is also use to this kind of heat.
Meanwhile everyone else is sitting in the living room just suffering from the heat; their hands too tired to wave their fans anymore. "Man……when will this heat ever end!" complains Kitsune. Right after she said that the weatherman says that there is no end in sight in the 5 day forecast. Everyone moans.
It's so hot Shinobu has refused to cook anything in the kitchen out of fear of passing out because of the heat. Everyone has had to fix cold sandwiches. Also the city of Tokyo and the towns surrounding it are on a water restriction notice; so they can't use any water until about 6:00 p.m.
Everyone is just starring at the T.V. with blank looks on their faces when a rustling noise gets their attention. They look over to the lamp table near the front door that is shaking. They watch as the top part of it pops up suddenly revealing Su's head, and then Sara's a second later.
"Hi guys! You hot?" asks Su with a smile. Everyone just looks at her with the same blank stares they were giving the T.V. Su hops out, runs to Kietaro and does one of her famous drop kicks on him. He barely reacts to it by just falling over.
"Come on guys it's not that hot!" says Su trying to pick everyone's spirits up. But is fails. Su gets a little annoyed. "I know! You guys need a little adventure!" she says with another big smile.
"Su…..it's too hot to do anything like that right now." answers Naru with a very cranky voice. "Oh come on! Me and Sara found something pretty cool in the secret passageways that I think you all will like!" says Su. Everyone starts to give her annoyed looks, even Shinobu.
"Did I mention it's dark and damp, and of down there." says Su with a sly grin. Everyone's faces light up with new energy and they all charge the tunnel entrance at the same time.
Sara gets a panicked look on her face and dives back into the tunnel before she's plowed into by everyone charging the tunnel. Everyone reaches it and they start to push and shove each other around trying to be the 1st one down.
Su comes up from behind them and drop kicks Kietaro in the back of the head causing him to fly forward and crash into everyone else and they all fall down the hole at the same time screaming their heads off. Su dives in after them doing a cannonball.
Everyone screams as they tumble end over end and over each other down long shoots and long drops. (Think of the anime episode with Moe where they show them falling down the tunnels)
A wall flips open and they all come crashing down onto a floor. Kietaro some how came out 1st, followed by Kitsune, then Motoko, then Naru, then Mutsumi, and finally Shinobu in one massive pile of flesh. Before any of them has time to get up Su pops out and lands on Shinobu which in turn crushes Kietaro on the bottom of the pile even further. (Poor guy….or is he?)
Su stands up. "Ok! Now we can go see that place me and Sara found!" orders Su. "We would Su; unfortunately you're standing on us!" complains Shinobu. Su looks down and sees everyone trying to get up but can't while Su is on top. "Oh sorry." answers Su as she sticks out her tongue.
Moments later the group is following Su and Sara down the long dark hallway. Everyone doesn't mind the dreary looking hallway because just as Su said, it's nice and cool down here. At about 80F or so.
After walking down the hallway for about 10 minutes or so, Su stops. "We're here!" she says. Everyone looks and sees nothing but a wall. "Su! What kind of 'adventure' is this?" complains Kitsune. "Hmm….I forgot what to do next….." ponders Su. Everyone else does a comic fall.
"Uh Su. You're standing on it." says Sara as she points down to the floor. "Oh yeah!" says Su. Su reaches down and pulls up one of the floor boards. When she does it uncovers an old looking iron ring. Su grabs it and begins to pull hard.
After a few seconds of pulling, a big think iron door begins to open up. It's painted on top to look like floor boards. As it comes up it makes all the usual squeaks and creeks and old rusted metal door would make. Su pulls it past its center of gravity and lets it drop to the floor with a loud BAM!
When the dust settles a bit everyone looks down and sees a big hole with a ladder going down. "Follow us guys!" orders Su. Su and Sara both go down the ladder 1st. Everyone else hesitates for a moment before Kietaro decides to go down 1st. Everyone else goes down one by one with Shinobu being the last person to go down.
The ladder seems to go down a very long ways before they reach bottom. When they get off it is solid black. Suddenly a spark of light gets everyone's attention. They look over to see Su putting a match into a cylinder shaped object. After a second or 2 another brighter light comes out of the cylinder. Su presses a button on the side of it and it gets even brighter, making everything around them to become bathed in its light. They see that's it's a good sized lantern.
Everyone looks around and sees that they are in a large man made tunnel with Shrine gates every few yards or so leading in one direction. "Wow. I had no idea something like this was down here." says Kietaro. "Actually I think that we are actually underneath Hinata Sou." says Su. They look around and see that's it's all rock, so she's probably right.
"Su what's down here?" asks Motoko. "I'm not sure. Me and Sara only came down the ladder once before we decided to bring you guys along, and to grab a lantern because it was so darn dark down here." answers Su. They start walking in the direction that the tunnel leads.
They walk for about another 10 minutes down the tunnel hearing nothing but their own foot steps echoing through out the vast tunnel. Suddenly they come upon an old door with an old rusted looking dead bolt lock on the handle. "Wow I wonder what's behind that door!" says Su curiously.
Everyone walks up to the door, but what they thought was a rusted old lock was just a lock painted brown. Su reaches for it but gets a little shock from it. "Ouch!" yelps Su as the jerks her hand back. "Hmmm it appears to be protected by a powerful magic barrier." says Motoko.
"I don't know about this Su. Usually when a door has this kind of lock on it, whether it be a magic one or not, it's meant that it is never be opened again." says Naru. "Oh come on Naru, where's your sense of adventure? Hey Motoko do you think you can break the barrier and lock with your sword?" asks Su.
"I'm sorry Su but I can't. My clan isn't allowed to break such spells unless it's an emergency." answers Motoko. "Besides, that is a class 9 magic barrier spell around it. I've only been able to break up to class 7." she adds. "Oh man." complains Su.
Suddenly Shinobu looks over to her right to the pillar of the last shrine gate and she starts walking to it. Everyone watches in curiosity as she walks up to it. "Shinobu what are you doing?" asks Naru. Shinobu doesn't give a response.
Shinobu reaches up and pushes on part of the pillar with her finger. To the surprise of everyone a small 1 foot section of it flips around like a revolving door. When if flips around it reviles a wooden peg on the back of it. On the peg hangs an old metal key.
Shinobu reaches over and takes the key. She turns around and walks over to the door in what appears to be in a trance like state. "Shinobu?" asks Naru again. But she still doesn't get a response.
Shinobu reaches the door and reaches for the lock. "Shinobu don't! You'll get shocked!" warns Su. But to the shock of everyone Shinobu actually grabs the lock without so much as a spark shooting out from it. Shinobu puts the key into the lock and turns the key. She turns it 360 degrees when CLICK, the lock pops open.
Shinobu takes the lock and key and hangs them both up on a peg on the wall just next to the door. She then moves the latch over and pushes open the door. The door's rusty old hinges squeak and creek loudly as the door is opened for the 1st time in God only knows how long. They all look and see a large room.
Everyone stares back at Shinobu for a second before Naru speaks up. "Shinobu." she says once again. Shinobu snaps out of her trance like state after Naru calls her again. Shinobu turns around. "Shinobu. How did you know where to find that key and know that you weren't going to be shocked by the lock?" asks Naru still in a bit of shock. Everyone else nods wondering the same thing.
"I…I don't know. It was like someone was telling me that there was a key in the pillar, and it was also telling me that I wasn't going to be shocked. I don't know what it is but…. this place somehow seems…. I don't know 'familiar.'" says Shinobu sounding a bit scared.
"Hey Motoko do you suppose this place is haunted…..and just now Shinobu had been possessed?" asks Kitsune with a little worry. "No I don't think that's it? I sense no evil chi or spirits here. All I sense a lot of good energy. I don't think it wants to do any harm to us." answers Motoko.
"Well what are we waiting for!" shouts Su. "Let's go see what's in that room!" she adds as she proudly marches past everyone into the room. Since she carried the only light source with her into the room, everyone soon joins her.
Su turns the lantern up to as bright as it will go. When she does everyone gasps in amazement. What they see is a room full of, not only the expected cobwebs all over the place, but of old artifacts. Old jewelry, robs, tapestries, rugs, enceintes burners, weapons of all varieties, golden boxes with fancy inlays, scrolls, and many different sized golden Buddha statues all over the place. Some about the size of your fist to others as tall as Kitsune, to one big one at least 10 ft tall in the back of the room! "Wow…." everyone says in unison.
"What is this place?" asks Kietaro. "I believe this is the old shrine's storehouse." says a voice from his right. "What shrine?" asks Kietaro as he looks to his right. "WAHHH! Aunt Haruka how did you get down here!" he shouts in surprise. Haruka slaps him across the head causing him to smack into the ground.
"I followed you guys. I was coming up to invite you guys to the Tea house for some cool drinks since it's air-conditioning was still working. But as I reached the top of the steps I saw Su knock you all down the tunnel and then her dive into it herself. So since I had closed the Tea House for lunch I decided to follow you all." she explains.
Su spots a hook on a rope hanging from the ceiling in the center of the room that appears to be on a pulley on the ceiling. She walks up to it and places the handle of the lantern over the hook. She pulls the rope and it goes up into the air. The top part of the lantern is a mirror so the light from the lantern shines down on everything.
"Now let's see what this room really has to offer." says Su. Everyone goes in their own direction. Motoko of course heads strait for the many weapons hanging on one of the walls. Kietaro, Mutsumi and Naru head over to the old jewelry and robes. Haruka, Su, and Sara, look at the fancy golden boxes and rugs. Kitsune walks up to the big Golden Buddha near the back of the room. "Wow! We could be rich beyond our wildest dreams if we sell all this stuff!" she thinks to her self with a sly gleam in her eye.
Meanwhile Shinobu walks off by herself to the right back part of the room as if drawn by something. When she reaches the right back part of the room she spots a podium standing all by itself off to one side. She walks toward it. As she gets closer she spots a small golden interlaid box with the forms of dragons carved onto the gold. The box resembles and old Jewelry box.
Curiosity gets the better of her. She reaches up and opens the box. When she does her eyes grow big at what she finds inside. Inside she finds a large golden inlaid pendent with a good sized rectangular shaped emerald in the center. She reaches in and pulls it out. She stares at it almost as if she is hypnotized by it.
The pendent looks to be in the shape of the sun with thin wavy "sunlight" streams coming from the center. But they are all connected with golden rings, kind of like how a spider web is shaped. The emerald is right in the center. Shinobu just stares at it, memorized by its beauty.
"Hey guys! Come look what I found!" she calls out. Everyone makes their way over to Shinobu to see what she has found. Su grabs the lantern and brings it on over. Everyone is also amazed at Shinobu's find. All except Motoko.
Kitsune notices this. "What is it Motoko?" she asks. "I sense….a presents here." answers Motoko. "A presents?" asks Naru. "I can't tell where it's coming from, but it's very close. However it has a strong good chi." answers Motoko.
Suddenly the emerald in the pendent bursts open with a bright light. "Yahhh!" yelps Shinobu as the drops the pendent and stubbles backwards in surprise. But to everyone's surprise the pendent hovers right where it is.
Suddenly a calm, yet deep and echoy, feminine voice seems to come from inside the pendent. "Someone with the blood has awoken my powers." it says. By now everyone, including Haruka, have taken a few steps back out of fear.
The pendent turns to face them and they all get sweat drops on their heads. "There is no need to fear me. I mean no harm to any of you." says the calm, deep sounding female voice again. The bright light from the pendent fades in and out as it speaks. Everyone seems to relax just a bit, but are still a little tense. The pendent floats a little closer to the group.
"The one meant to protect all is here." says the feminine voice again. "'Protect all?' what do you mean?" asks Kietaro. "The one meant to defend all that is good and just. The one meant to fight the forces off evil demonic forces is here." answers the feminine voice. Everyone just looks at each other with confused looks.
"Excuse me, but……we have no idea what you are talking about." says Naru. "So the legend has been lost?" asks the feminine voice. Everyone just looks at each other with more confusion again. "No matter. I can find the 'one.'" adds the feminine voice.
The pendent floats right up to Mutsumi. "Ara." says Mutsumi as the pendent stops just a foot away from her. Suddenly a bright yet very thin horizontal green light streams out from the emerald, kind of like a laser scanner. It starts at her head and goes all the way down to her feet. "You are not the one." says the feminine voice.
The pendent moves on over to Su. It "scans" her next from head to foot. "You are not the one." says the feminine voice again.
It then moves on to Sara and scans her. "You are not the one." it says again.
It moves on to Motoko next. It scans her. "You are not the one." says the voice again.
It moves on to Kitsune next. It then scans her. "You are not the one." says the deep feminine voice again.
Next it floats over to Naru and scans her. "You are not the one." says the voice again.
Next the pendent floats on over to Haruka and scans her. "You are not the one." says the voice once again. "I already knew that." answers Haruka.
The pendent next floats on over to Kietaro and scans him. "You are not the one." says the feminine voice again. "Well that figures. He is my nephew." says Haruka.
Then finally the pendent floats on over to Shinobu. It slowly scans her. "YOU ARE THE ONE!" says the voice loudly. Suddenly the emerald flashes brightly once again even brighter than before! Shinobu puts up her right hand to block some of the light from her eyes.
Suddenly, in the blink on an eye, Shinobu get sucked right into the emerald! "YEEAhh…" she yelps but is quickly cut off when she enters the emerald. "Shinobu!" shouts Kietaro as he tries to grab her, but it's too late. "
"WHAT DID YOU DO? GIVE US BACK SHINOBU!" shouts Kietaro. "Do not fear she is safe." says the voice. "Where is she!" orders Naru. "She is inside of me." answers the voice.
"INSIDE!" everyone, but Haruka, shouts. "Why did you do that!" yells Kietaro. "I am currently merging my powers with her." answers the voice. "Powers? What powers? Is Shinobu ok?" asks Kietaro in a bit of a panic.
"She is safe and in no pain." answers the voice again. "And how can we trust you that she is?" asks Motoko. …… "One moment please." says the voice. A few seconds go by in silence.
Then another voice comes from the emerald. "Huh….Where am I? Where is everyone?" says the other voice. "Shinobu! Is that you?" shouts Kietaro. After a second or 2 comes a response. "Sempai? Where are you? I can hear you but I can't see you." answers the other voice which is Shinobu's voice.
"Never mind that. Are you ok?" asks Kietaro. "I don't know." answers Shinobu. "What do you mean? Are you in pain?" asks Kietaro with a little fear. "No. But my entire body feels tingly. Other than that I think im fine." answers Shinobu.
"But I still don't know where I am. All I can tell is that I seem to be floating in a bright glowing green light." describes Shinobu. "Well according to the pendent, you're inside of the emerald." answers Kietaro.
"WHAT! I'm inside it!" yells Shinobu. "That's what it said. It also said something about merging its powers with you." describes Naru. "YEAHHHH!" yells Shinobu suddenly.
"Shinobu! What's wrong?" shouts Kietaro. "My feet! They're disappearing!" shouts back Shinobu. "What!" shouts Kietaro. "No! It's moving up! Now it's past my waste!" shouts Shinobu some more.
"Shinobu!" shouts Kietaro again. "Sempai! SEMPA….." Shinobu gets cut off as she completely disappears. "Shinobu! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO SHINOBU!" shouts Kietaro to the pendent. No response. "ANSWERS ME!" he shouts some more angrily.
Suddenly a huge burst of light comes out of the emerald causing Kietaro to fall backwards onto his butt. The pendent then floats up a little higher into the air. Everyone just stares at the pendent as it hangs in the air for a moment or 2.
Then suddenly green glowing ribbon like lights stream out from the emerald. 1st at random but then slowly they start to take a form of some kind. To everyone's amazement it's in a form of a human!
When the "ribbons" complete the human form it slowly sets down on the ground on it's feet. It stands there for a moment still glowing green. Then slowly the glow starts to fade and the color of skin can be seen poking through the glow as it fades. When the glow finally fades everyone's mouths drop to the floor.
What they see in front of them is….Shinobu! But she has her head down. Even though she is completely naked, everyone is too amazed by what they have just seen that they don't even think to clobber Kietaro. Then slowly Shinobu's head rises up.
Everyone gives a small gasp as they see, not Shinobu's dark blue eyes, but glowing green eyes. "The merge is now complete." comes the calm, deep, feminine voice; not from the emerald but from Shinobu's own mouth! "Who….Who are you?" asks Naru with amazement.
The voice doesn't answer. Then she slowly closes her eyes and after a moment opens them up once again. This time with Shinobu's dark blue eyes. "Shinobu?" asks Kietaro.
Suddenly her eyes shut and she gives a very short, soft sounding moan and begins to fall forward. "Shinobu!" yelps Kietaro as he reaches out and catches her in his arms.
"Shinobu! Hey Shinobu!" shouts Kietaro as he shakes her a bit. But it's no use. There's no response from her.
End of Chapter 1
To be continued in Chapter 2 – Who are you? ... The Hinata Maiden?
Author Note: Whew another 9 page chapter. Oh well. This took a while figure out how to do. I hope you all enjoy this story because it's going to be one of the hardest I'm ever going to create! This is going to have many similarities to Sailor Moon, Xenia, Figure 17, and Slayers. And the battles that are going to come a little later in the story are going to be intents! Or at least I'll try to make them intents. This, I can tell you, is not going to be any ordinary Magic girl story! OH! And please be sure to read my other Fanfic I have going now called "Gundam Hina."
Story Note: I will explain on why everything in this chapter happened in the next chapter. Hint: Haruka knows what's happening! But you're just going to have to wait till Chapter 2 to know how.