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A Love Hina Fanfic! Enjoy! (I hope this one is better than my last one)
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Editors Note: Hello, before you read the Fanfic, just wanted to say This is my second Fanfic! My other one didn't turn out so well! So I hope you enjoy, and please leave a review of this if you feel like it, so I will know what to correct!
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Chapter 1: Goodbye, my friends.
A man sits in his chair staring, managing the inn as he usually does this time on a Saturday afternoon, worry can clearly be seen by the way he curls his brow, the man stays seated in his chair constantly adjusting his glasses, and looking around the completely empty, and very neat room. He then looks back at his paper. Still looking as worried as before, he picks up a pencil and tries to move it over the paper, but can't, he then begins an outburst.
"UGH! Why can't I just write this down! I've been trying for 2 hours!"
Looking back at the paper he forces his pencil to touch the paper
"I should just… well maybe I could…"
Looking at the paper again, he remembers what was said to him last week.
FLASHBACK
Granny Hina is standing there, next to Keitaro who is holding a paper, not able to figure it out he tries to ask her.
"What is this granny?"
She replies with a frown.
"It's a bill, do you see the amount?"
Quickly skimming over the paper, he reaches the final number.
"It couldn't be that much!" he shouted toward his grandmother.
She sighs and nods her head once. "I'm sorry Keitaro, but that amount is real. And it's really big, we can't pay 250,000 Yen every month!"
A/N I believe 250,000 Yen is $25,000
Keitaro looked back over the paper, with a drop of sweat running down his face he said "What are we supposed to do about it?"
She looked up "one of the residents will need to move out, we can't afford all the bills, Motoko destroys buildings using her sword. Naru has destroyed the roof more than occasionally, Kitsune spends all her time getting drunk, then comes home and breaks plates and bowls." she continues with a harsh tone "Su has destroyed the inn several times, with things like her mecha Tama. And Shinobu is constantly the 'cause of Naru and Motoko's anger. Most of all, almost half of that is medical bills, please choose one of them."
He looks down at the diamond patterned floor, sighing as he does.
"So one person needs to leave the inn?"
His grandmother nodded at him, with a serious face.
"Yes Keitaro, I'm sorry, I know that it must be hard because you know all of them." His grandmother said with a frown.
Keitaro sighed and looked at his grandmothers hand, which was holding another paper. Slowly he took the new paper from her old wrinkled hands. Keitaro looked at the paper, and spoke
"So I write down one of their names here, and give it back to you?"
She nodded her head at him
"Yes, I will visit Hinata inn, please have it ready by Saturday afternoon."
END OF FLASHBACK
Keitaro looks down at his desk, trying to avert his eyes from the paper, he hears something from above him, Keitaro looks up at the covered hole in the ceiling. He grabs the pencil and writes down a name, looking back up at the hole he grabs a chair, using the chair he climbs through the hole, uncovering it, Naru turns around and looks at Keitaro, shocked at why he's there, without even knocking on the ceiling, or asking if she was in there.
"Keitaro! Why are you in my room, without even knocking?"
He simply ignores that comment, crawls the rest of the way through the hole, and continues with what he was planning to say.
In a calm and emotionless voice Keitaro speaks to her "Naru, I want you to know that I love you, all of you here at Hinata."
Shocked by what she says she gives him one of her famous "Naru-punches" and screams at him
"You pervert!"
He simply smiles while being hit, not trying to explain like usual, seeing him get punched through the roof she notices he didn't try to say he was sorry, or that it wasn't what it seemed like this worried Naru.
A moment later, Grandma Hina is walking toward the inn, knowing what time it is. She decides to look up at the sun , and sees Keitaro flying through the air, crossing the hot springs using airline Naru-punch.
Keitaro shouted to his grandmother "Granny Hina, it's lying on the table!"
She looked down, and sighed, knowing this would be a hard decision, and she would have to break the news. Slowly, and trying to make it slower, she walked into Hinata, and started heading right, and up the stairs. Naru who just came out of her room saw granny Hina, and said to her.
"Why are you here? Not that I'm not happy to see you, but why didn't you call ahead?"
Granny Hina looks at Naru, and thinks to herself (I see, Keitaro decided not to tell any of them what was going to happen, that makes it much harder on me.)
Naru noticing the silence since granny Hina has yet to respond decides to break the silence "Is something wrong? Or did you just come to visit Keitaro? Because he left a minute ago…"
Granny Hina notices she's just standing there apparently doing nothing, so she decides to speak up "Oh, it's not really much, I just need a paper from Keitaro's room!" trying to smile the whole time she spoke.
Naru even more worried than a minute ago tries to help Granny Hina "OK! I'll go get the paper for you."
Granny Hina Just continued with her plan and spoke accordingly "No, no, it's okay, don't waste your time sweetie. I just need to get it, you don't need to waste your time! I'm just going to head to his room now, see you later."
Granny Hina begins walking up the stairs once again, right past Naru. Naru sheds a single tear, not knowing why she thinks to herself.
(Why did I just cry? I'm not sad about anything!)
Naru continues walking downstairs, and enters the kitchen to help Shinobu make dinner for the rest of them.
Granny Hina slowly enters Keitaro's room looking to the far side of the very clean room, she see's one sheet of paper on the table, and a backpack beside it. Slowly she walks over and lifts the paper up, squinting her eyes so she can read what he wrote.
"Granny Hina, I have decided which resident will leave, and this should bring the cost down a lot, I'm sorry I couldn't tell you this face to face. But here it is. The one who will leave Hinata inn is Keitaro Urishima. I can't let any of the girls leave this place, it's been there home much longer than it's been mine. I sat a backpack next to this, inside is a letter for each of them, please give them the letter, and my apology for leaving without a word. Goodbye."
Granny Hina sets the letter back down on the table and walks to the far wall, on her left side, she slides open his traditional style closet and looks inside, to her expectations, everything is already gone. She frowns and thinks to herself.
(Keitaro! Now we have to look for another manager, unless one of the girls take up the position.)
Since it's already 6:00 P.M. Granny Hina decides she will stay for dinner and inform the girls of his decision then.
Several minutes later
Shinobu comes running up to the managers room, and knocks on the door. Granny Hina inside opens the door and looks at Shinobu.
"Shinobu-Chan what is it?"
Shinobu shakes her head "Nothing, I was just going to call you, err… Sempai for dinner."
Granny Hina makes herself smile, a fake smile "Ok, do not worry Shinobu-Chan, I shall be there shortly"
Shinobu calls the rest and gathers them all to the table for the meal.
Granny Hina decides now is as good a time as ever. She looks up with an emotionless face. And states the problem.
"Naru, Shinobu, Kitsune, Motoko, Su, listen well. As of late you have made many, many, problems at the inn, causing us some very big bills. I approached Keitaro about this last week, and decided, he would pick a resident of Hinata-sou, and they would have to leave, thereby reducing costs."
All of the residents starting to look pale, even Su, the tanned girl from a foreign country. Slowly Naru spoke up.
"Who-Who did he pick?"
Granny Hina shook her head "He decided he couldn't let even one of you leave."
Su shook her head "What do ya mean, ya said one has ta leave!"
Granny Hina nodded her head "Yes, I did."
Shinobu looks around the table "Where is Sempai, anyway?"
Suddenly all the girls noticed and started looking around the table, not seeing him anywhere.
Granny Hina looked at them once more, staring at them all as she spoke "He decided he couldn't make one of you leave, so he left instead. He decided if he disappeared then it would save everyone here some trouble, I believe he tried to anger Naru in order to use her punch and leave here as fast as he could, so he would not have to say goodbye to all of you."
Naru thinks about what happened earlier then speaks "He didn't try to explain when he barged into my room so I hit him hard enough he could be out of Japan by now for all I know…" She thinks to herself about this new information (If I had known that was part of his plan to leave, I wouldn't have punched him.)
Granny Hina speaks to them before anyone can say anything else "He left a few letters, I believe he addressed one to each of you. You should read them." Granny Hina pulled out the backpack and sat it on the table. Slowly each girl looked inside and grabbed a letter, and begin to read it to themselves quietly.
Su read hers before anyone else, the letter is as follows
"Hi Su-Chan, if your reading this I'm already gone, sorry I can't play with you anymore, but you can still play with Motoko, right? Don't get sad that I left, I promise I'll play with you again, someday. - Keitaro Urishima."
Su started to tear-up, remembering him playing with her the past week.
Next Shinobu read her letter
"Dear Shinobu, I'm sorry I left without telling you, I took some of the food you made from last night, I'm sure the dinner you are/will be having will be just as good as you always make it. Don't feel sad, I will be back one day, and I can't wait to try your food then! I'm sure you'll be a great cook, so please, keep helping them until the day I come back. - Always your Sempai, Keitaro Urishima."
Shinobu began to get sad, so she left the room and went to the kitchen. (To cry).
Kitsune read her letter next, deciding to read it to herself was a good idea for hers.
"Kitsune, I've already left, and I just wanted to say that this will help the cost of the inn go down, but you won't be able to get free rent anymore by pushing yourself on me, and the rent rate might increase a small bit, there is an extra few dollars I left inside your room, make it go to good use. - Keitaro Urishima."
Kitsune reached her hand for a glass of sake that was set out on the table close to her. After grabbing the sake Kitsune was about to drink it, but was to depressed to do anything with it, so she sat the glass down on the table.
Motoko began to read hers.
"Motoko-Chan, I'm sorry that I must leave, please do believe me when I say I never meant to see you in the bath all those times, or when you had a towel on, or when you were sleeping. I am also sorry, but now you will have to find a new person for target practice, with your shinmei techniques. I shall never meet another swordswomen like you, thank you. Your training partner Keitaro Urishima."
Motoko put her hand on the hilt of her sword, and gritted her teeth.
Granny Hina looked up as all of them had opened and read there letters, and were clearly effected. Except Naru she sat there as here letter lay on the table in front of her, un-opened. Granny Hina simply sits there and stares at all of them. Until, finally Naru opens up her letter, her eyes open wider while reading.
Naru reading her letter to herself reads.
"Narusegawa… Naru… I'm sorry I had to leave Hinata-sou I was given the responsibility to remove one person from Hinata inn, and I couldn't choose any of the other girls, most importantly, I couldn't choose you either, because I care for you. I know I'm saying all of this so suddenly. And I know it's a lot to take in, but I wish you the best life you can have their Naru, make it into Todai, live with your friends, I will be leaving on a ship soon, at 7:00 P.M. I will be leaving Japan for a long time, I don't know when, or if I will ever return. Thank you for always being there for me. Before I go, I wanted to tell you, but never got the chance, so I will say it in this letter… I do and always will love you Narusegawa! - Keitaro Urishima."
Naru starts to slightly cry after reading the letter, so as to not let the others see her, she wipes her tears away and says to the group "I'm sorry Shinobu-Chan, I'm not very hungry." she walks up the stairs Slowly she slides open the door to her room, walking inside, all she see's is her table, two pillars next to her window, the new sheets Shinobu left (she likes to leave 2 or 3 choices for Naru and the others), and a liddo-kun doll sitting on top of a wood board covering a hole in the floor, the same hole that connects her room to Keitaro's. looking up at a clock on her wall she see's it reads 6:41 P.M. she starts to mumble to herself
"Keitaro, I was going to tell you, tell you how I felt! But you ran away again, and this time not to save yourself, but to try and save us! Keitaro, come back Keitaro…" She falls to knee's, crying.
Looking up she see's the new sheets Shinobu left, and the pillars next to her window. She wipes away the tears from her eyes, and starts to smile a small smile. And says to herself out loud.
"Keitaro Urishima! If you care that much you, can't leave for us! I'm not going to let you, your coming back!"
End of chapter 1