CRY AT THE FACE OF THE MOON
By: Darklord1
Note: I don't own Love Hina and all that. Moving on....
Chapter One: The Ceremony
Urashima Keitaro sat by the desk in his room, trying to get the math problem he was reading. But no such luck. The final excam test was due in just two weeks, and both Keitaro and one probably promised girl upstairs were studying like there was no tomorrow.
Keitaro was determined that this was the year he was going to make into the Tokyo University, the one school that he promised to the girl on that sand box many years ago, as soon he could solve the this little math problem. Without thinking about the usual consequense and punishment, he removed that plywood that was covering a hole between his room and the other one above his.
"Hey, Naru?" Keitaro said, sticking his head trough the hole. "I was wondering if you... ah, shit...."
Deep inside his brain, Keitaro cursed himself for not knowing better than sticking his nose where it didn't belong, and in this case, it would seem that it didn't belong anywhere, since it's owner lived in a girl dormitory with five very attractive girls, well, three since the other two were underaged.
In any case, Keitaro found himself looking at Narusegawa Naru, a redheaded slightly younger girl, in the middle of changing. This was a very classic scene, Keitaro accidently peeking at the one girl Keitaro suspected to the one promised girl and had a crush on for so long, and Keitaro knew what was coming next.
"YOU PERVERT!!!!" The redhead shrieked and delivered a right foot on the wrongfully accused perverted's face, kicking it as it were a footboll. Keitaro flew trough the wall, taking a first class flight tour across Tokyo.
This was strangely enough very peaceful for Keitaro as he was flying just above the atmoshpere, the cold surrounding his scarred body, the stars above, and the bluegreen planet underneath.
'Naru must be very tense about the final excam.' Keitaro thought to himself, holding his breath. 'That must be why she send me all the way up here.'
Then he felt the gravity from Earth started to slowly pull him back down. This was going to hurt, Keitaro realized. But at least he didn't catch on fire as he was going faster and faster. As he saw the ground closing on him, he couldn't help to think how this was ever possible, being able to take a punch hard enough to take down a entire building and still walking. Or flying like this without any protection what so ever.
This thought hasn't accure to Keitaro until now since he was busy staying alive in a house with five girls who would punish him every single wrong move.
Naru would on one occation be pretty nice and open to him and then push him away.
Aoyama Motoko, the kendo girl were a slightly more harsh to him, since she hated his gut entirely.
Konno "Kitsune" Mitsune, well Keitaro knew that she would abuse him sexually just to use him either as a prank or a piggy bank, squising him out money so that she could more sake.
Koalla Sue was... well, Sue. Using advance techno stuff as toys on Keitaro to se if they were working properbly. Keitaro thought that she were kicked out of her country or something.
Maehara Shinobu, the youngest tenant of the dorm and caretaker of all the housework. Keitaro thought that she was the only one who was kind to him, even she was a little bit to shy of him.
'Heh.' Keitaro chuckled. 'It's funny how many things just pops up one's mind.... Hey, I can see the Fuji Mountain from here.'
Then he crashed.
When the dust from the impact settled, Keitaro rose to find himself in a forest. He looked at his newbought watch that had a little compass to figure out the direction back to Tokyo. As he started to walk east, his mind started to run in order to keep himself occupied.
It's funny how one guy would have to suffer. For what? A promise made in sandbox when you were a kid? But it was the same promise that kept Keitaro fighting, even though the gods or fate or just bad karma kept putting him into bad situations where he would have no friends, his family did not have any hopes for him, and last but not least, no girls would take no interest in him, just because he was weak and a geek.
But Keitaro kept fighting, to show not only the ones who didn't believe in him, but the entire universe that he was the one who in the end would all the happiness. All though this would seem pretty much impossible. But then again, maybe that's why Keitaro was given this weird ass immortality. A gift or a curse? Keitaro was until this very day not sure. Well, this very night, anyway.
Keitaro realized that it was night. Naru must've have kicked him harder than he first thought. He would have to find a shelter of some kind, otherwise he would catch a cold or worse. Then suddenly, from a distant Keitaro heard a singing. It was a human voice and it was lighttoned. A girl? But then the single singing would be joined, both male and female, and it was surronding Keitaro. He was beginning to panic, and yet a strange curiosity burned inside him. Not able to contol himself, he dragged himself to the source.
Couple of minutes later, hiding in some bushes, Keitaro witnessed a remarkable scene. In front of a large mansion, such beauty Keitaro ever saw, countless people wearing white and red kimonoes and a lantern with the acient japanese sign "Moon". Keitaro felt himself affected by the magic surronding the very air of this place. The people were singing this old japanese song that Keitaro never heard of before, but if he experience the song first as spooky, he now felt lighthearted.
Suddenly, a tall woman, probably in her middle thirties, appered on the top on the stairs. She was wearing a red kimono and had a tall black hair tied nicely in a golden slip. As the song finished, the woman, she must be the leader thought Keitaro, raised her arms in the air and spoke with a soft and very sensual voice.
"My dear sisters and brothers." The woman exclaimed. "Tonight is a very special ceremony, not only celebreting the glory of the moon, it is also the night we will celebrate the unification of two lost souls in love, chosen by the moon, the gods, and the very fate itself." She gestered her left, as she was inviting from her audience.
And then, ascending the long stairs, a blackhaired girl, maybe in Keitaro's age, dressed in a golden kimono approachedher female leader. When Keitaro saw her girl's face, her healthly pale skin with darkblue eyes, black inviting lips and white strings of hair over her forehead, something struck inti his chest, filling it with a feeling that he would usually have when he was with the girls in dormitory, only now it was multiplied in hundreds. It was lust and wanting.
"My dear daughter, Ann." The woman adressed to the girl who had a anxious smile on her face. "Now's the time you will not only join our pack, but it's also the time when you will be unified with love and care with someone outside this pack. Then one day you two shall lead us as I did, as a pack, as a family"
"Yes, mother Anzu." The girl Keitaro now knew as Ann, said with lust in her sweet voice. And then, to Keitaro's great surprise, he saw how Ann leaned in and kissed her mother! And it wasn't a light family kiss, it was a lover's kiss.
Keitaro felt that his Little Johnson were growning up into a Big Johnson as he witness this very strange yet very sensual scene. And since he was lying on his stomach behind the bushes, he tried move his body a little to get a little more comfortable. But by moving his body, one of his legs were lying on a short branch and when the leg putted to much weight on the branch, it snapped. And the noice was loud enough to caught everyone's attention.
"Ah, shit!" Keitaro muttered.
"Would someone be so kind to reveal our little secret visitor?" Anzu calmly asked out.
And as a response, a woman with her boyfriend approached the bushes, and reached in with her hand. Afterwards, she fished out a blushing Keitaro, who was covering his embarrisment between his legs, by his collar.
"It looks like our visitor has been enjoying himself." The woman commented and everyone including Anzu responded with laughter.
"Pleasedontkillmepleasedontkillmepleasedontkillme..." Keitaro whined as the woman who had no problem with holding up the whimpering boy in the air, walked up on the stairs to Anzu and Ann, who was blushing as she leers at Keitaro's Privates.
"Hush..." Anzu whispered softly at Keitaro who was still whimpering and immedietly obeyed. Then she studied Keitaro very close up face to face. Keitaro was so afraid that he was holding his breath, and soon he would die by suffocation.
"How would you like your cup of tea?" Anzu asked smiling friendly.
"Huh?" A dumbfolded Keitaro asked, as he was catching his breath.
The next thing Keitaro knew, he found himself in a living room, inside the big mansion, waiting for his tea, together with Ann and Anzu. The living room looked pretty much like the one in Hinata Hou, only this one were maybe three, four times bigger. And much nicer and cleaner. Keitaro would have enjoyed this much more, if it weren't for his hostesses.
Anzu was keeping an eye on her teapot as it was boiling beneath a living fire, causing the shadows of the three dancing. Every now and then she would study Keitaro deeply with eyes, causing Keitaro to shiver as he felt as if her eyes were looking right trough Keitaro's soul. And yet, he couldn't help to feel a deep respect for this mysterious woman. For some reason, he felt that he could trust trust her.
But the most hardest part was to keeping his eyes from Ann, this strangely very attractive
female creature who every time Keitaro looked at her, she would respond with a invitation in her eyes, and a wanting smile. That would cause some blood stain from Keitaro's nose. But yet unlike other girls, the blood didn't come out like a waterfall, more like some few drops and he felt comfortable to be sitting next. He didn't feel so afraid of this girl, instead he felt warm and all tingely inside.
'What is happening to me?' Keitaro asked in his thought. 'I'm more nervous than before, and yet I feel like I belong here.' Many more questions like this were running through his head, and strangely enough, he almost automatically answered them all. It was almost as if someone was answering them from the outside. Then the teapot gave out a sharp whistle, as a signal that the tea was ready.
"Now then." Anzu said proudly, breaking the silence. Then she turned to Keitaro who was holding out his teacup, and she pored in the steaming hot tea. She did the same with Ann and herself. "While we wait for the tea to cold down a little, maybe we shall introduce eachother. My name is Mazaki Anzu, the owner of the Mazaki Manor, and this is my daughter Mazaki Annuzki, but we call her Ann."
"A truly pleasure to make your aquantance." Ann purred, making that she was doing a dubble meaning on the word pleasure.
"My name is Urashima Keitaro." Keitaro said, trying to not stammer. "I just want to apologize for intruding your...erm...ceremony..." He blushed as he thought about the kiss. But then Anzu raised her left to interupt. Keitaro did so.
"Please." Anzu chuckled softly. "We are the ones to apologize. We didn't mean to scare you like we did. We love visitors, but there are some we still should be careful with."
"Okay..." Keitaro said, a little nervous to say anything. "So what is this ceremony you are doing here, if you don't mind me asking?"
"Oh, this is just a little local ceremony we call 'Cry at the Face of the Moon'." Anzu explained shyly. "Every fullmoon, we sing to the moon, giving it our thanks due to a local legend."
"What kind of legend?" Keitaro asked, his curiosity growing bigger than his nervousity.
"It is said that once a ninja were given a mission to kill a samurai." Ann explained, her eyes scanning Keitaro's body. "But the ninja knew that the samurai were to great in the way of the swords. So the ninja descided to spy on the warrior, in order to spot any weakness in the samurai. Soon enough, the ninja discovered that the samurai were afraid of wolves.
The ninja had an idea of how he would succeed in his mission. He bought a skin of a wolf, and ran into a forest where he knew the samurai would pass. The idea was that by using the samurai's weakness and fear for wolves in order to kill him. But little did the ninja know that the samurai would take another route.
So the ninja waited and waited. Then one night, when the full moon shined upon the ninja, he discovered that his wolfskin grew attached to his skin, and shortly after, he became a Wolfman. Part wolf, part man. Sadly and ashamed that he fail his mission, he cried. When he cried, he gave out a wolf's howl at the moon. And the howl was so heartbreaking, that every wolves in the forest would sang along with him, sharing his pain. The wolfman then realized that all the wolves were gathering around him.
'Dear brother', one female wolf asked the ninja now turned into a wolf. 'Why do you cry of sadness at the face of the moon? This is the night when you shall cry of joy, because you are now one with us now.' Then the female transformed into a princess so beautiful, the ninja were struck.
'You shall not be ashamed for something you were meant to be.' The princess continued. 'You wished to become a wolf to complete your quest, and you have become one.'
The ninja realized the wise words of the princess, and together they both killed the samurai. Afterwards the two were married and lived in the forests for all eternity. And every fullmoon, they would sing their howls of joy for they would have each other.'
Keitaro just sat there, letting the tale sink in. He took his teacup and drank it all up, it tasted sweet and good.
"But that's not all." Anzu said.
"No?" Keitaro asked confused. "What's more speciell about tonight?"
"You see." Anzu explained with excitment. "It's my daughter's birthday as well. She is now eighteen years old, and this is the night she will take a man's hand in marriage."
"Well...eerrm... congratulations, Ann..." Keitaro said, not sure of what does make him involving all this.
"Thank you." Ann answered shyly yet lustful.
"And who is the lucky guy?" Keitaro couldn't believe that he had to ask that!
"Well..." Anzu started to hesitate. "That's the funny part of this ceremony. You see, we never know who it is."
"Excuse me?" Keitaro started to feel how his nervousity started to biult up again.
"When a man or a woman around here turns eighteen, we'll sing at the full moon, and then the moon shall chosen a man or woman from the outside. Now, when these two who are destined to together shares a brief look at each other, they will know that they are meant to be together. And since you are the only outsider, so..."
Keitaro felt his old fashioned panic attack going up inside his spine, causing him to rise quickly from the table, backing away from these people.
"Okay." Keitaro said nervous. "It's been a wonderful barbeque, it tastes good and all, but someone has drinking to much sake here, so I'd better leave before something bad happens!"
But as Keitaro started to take his step, he felt it as it was started to disppeared, he KNEW that it was still there, but it just went numb. Since because he lost control over his leg, he fell on the floor. Anzu and her daughter walked slowly towards him.
"Think about it." Anzu said coldly. "You fell from the sky, arriving at this very time and at this very moment. And when you took one look at my daugher, did you not feel compassion for her? Did you not feel like you just met the love of your life? Let me answer for you: You did. I could smell it."
Keitaro could now feel how his other leg went numb, and the numbness started to work up on his lower back, along with panic and fear. Both Anzu and Ann were on either side of Keitaro, down on their knees. Ann put her hand on Keitaro's chest, rubbing it slowly. In a way, Keitaro thought that it felt pretty good.
"Besides." Anzu said, her voice now soft again. "You're not the only to be scared and react this way. So I have to apologize about the drug I snug in your tea."
"What.... are you....going to....qith me "Keitaro whispered, on the verge on crying. But then Ann put her hand on his chin, hushing.
"Shh..." Ann whispered smiling. "We're just going to show you the light. And the sooner you realize our destiny, the better..."
Keitaro looked at her eyes, those darkblue eyes, and he could tell that she was telling the truth. But what happened next, Keitaro wasn't sure if it the drug doing stuff in his head, was that her eyes suddenly changed from blue into yellow. And they looked like eyes of a wolf. Getting more and more dizzy from the drug, he looked at Anzu, and her eyes were the same, but only that her smile also transformed into the grin of a wolf.
"My..." Keitaro muttered dizzy. "What great teeth you have..."
The he'd passed out.
When he woke up, he found himself not lying on the hard wooden floor, but in a large soft bed. When he raised himself up, he could countless lights from candles surronding the bed. Then he saw Ann. Apart from her nightgown that was almost completely transparent, she was naked. Funny thing tough, that Keitaro didn't shudder at the sight or suffered nosebleeding. Instead, he'd admired the sight of this beautiful being who slowly walked towards her.
"Am I dreaming?" Keitaro asked out loud. "If that's the case, please don't pinch me."
"No, husband." Ann answered, her voice filled with passion. "This is what it is meant to be. You and me, together forever." She then removed her nightgown, revealing her soft body. And she lied down on the bed leaning on Keitaro.
"Husband...?" Keitaro muttered through closed throat.
"Happy Honeymoon..." Ann giggled and leaned her head on Keitaro's and gave him a lover's kiss. Quickly, Keitaro responded her kiss and their tongues would dance with eachother inside their connected lips. Somewhere, he heard from a distant wolves howling. Then their lips seperated, their eyes looking deepy into each other, filled with love.
"...Ann... I've.... it's my... " Keitaro whispered, completely excited. But Ann quited him by putting two fingers on his lips.
"I know." She whispered. "It is for me too." Then she lied down besides Keitaro, inviting him join her.
As Keitaro accepted her invitation and moved in on her, there was something deep inside him that was shrieking and forbidding him to go any further, but it was covered by the love, shared by the two joined together. The something continued to plead to Keitaro who now entered into Ann, pleading to remember.
Remember the promise that was now shattered...
Note: Well, after two years, I finally come with a new fanfic. The next chapter will be up in two days, and will tell of Keitaro returning to Hinata Sou, facing the consequenses, and discovers a new potentual inside him, ready to explode...!
So send in review and let me know if this story is worth continuing.