"Love Hina: Of Red And White"

By: Dimitri Plabato of the Dark Icon writers

A/N: Yo everyone, how's it going? Dimitri here. After Heaven's not enough officially died in my mind I decided to create another fic and I'm calling it 'Of Red and White.' This redoes heaven's not enough and then switches over to the new story on the fourth chapter. I've also noticed that people like my new writing style so I'm writing in that now and since I'm just reposting these chapters they are still in old format. The new stuff starts on chapter four so please read up to that and then tell me what you think. Thank you and see you all on chapter five! And yea I notice that it seems like him and Kitsume are getting together in the beginning chapters but I promise that it is still Motoko and Tsuruko. Remember this is an old fic that I'm just continuing differently. But… I will tell you that she does hold a nice role with the resident manager 

Disclaimer: Opens up the gift hidden under the Christmas tree OH LOVE HINA! Huh? Socks? NOOOO! Where's my Love Hina, I still don't own thou!

Chapter One: Complexity of the heart

The human soul is a complex thing, made up of many parts that make us as a being physically and mentally. The heart is a part of this soul and without it the soul is useless. The feelings that we feel during our short existences make up our hearts... weither they be good or bad; the soul adapts to the feelings of the heart. - The Dark Icon Writers (Dimitri Plabato)

It was a quiet afternoon in the dorm known as Hinata Sou as the sun began to set in the horizon. Two young people stood on the balcony, watching the sunset together not as a couple yet not only as friends. They both smiled, not nesciarally at each other but only theu knew what they were feeling. "Keitaro..." came the voice of one, her auburn hair glowing in the remaining sunlight as she slowly looked at the young man to her side his dark hair sweaying in the breeze as he also turned to face her, his small square glasses shooting off the last glare of light from the sun. "Yes, Naru?" he asked as she reached her hands out for his own. "I just wanted to say..." Naru started as the wind suddenly picked up among the two as the surroundings began to fade. "I just wanted to say... that THIS IS YOUR LAST TIME PERVERT!" screamed the real Naru Narusegawa as the dreams of Keitaro Urashima faded into the distance and then a single star appeared within the sky. "Even I can only take so much." came the inner voice of Keitaro Urashima as he flew through the skys of Hinata, not a single sin on his soul as he paid for them anyways.

"Did you blast him out again Naru?" came the voice of the slacker of the Hinata girls, Kitsune as she noticed the wall that once again had a hole in it allowing all of the town to look inside. "He deserved it. He was being perverted again and tryed to pull down my skirt." Naru said trying to defend her actions "Oh ok." Kitsune replied, inwardly sighing as she looked out into the sky worrying about Keitaro. 'I hope you're okay' she thought as she normaly did hen Keitaro was sent out on one of his "flights across Japan" and then she walked downstairs to get ready for breakfast, following Naru.

'What do I do to deserve all of this?' Keitaro asked himself as he made the tiring trip back to his 'home' if you wanted to call it that. 'All I really do is try to take care of the girls and I still get treated like trash' He paused in his walking to look at his to hands 'These hands...' he paused once again and then took one hand and placed it against his heart 'This heart... they are the things that are causing me this pain.' he thought as he continued the rest of his journey in silence.

Hinata Tea House-

There was a single soul within the Hinata tea house which was known as the place to come and vent. It's owner the beautiful and deep Haurka Urashima sighed as she followed the path of her nephew as he flew through the sky once again. "He can't take much more of this before his heart begins to take the pain and then murge with the darkness of our family." she said to herself as she shook her head. "I hope that the girls learn before it comes to that though." she said with an uneasy smile towards the Hinata house, her inner thoughts running wild about what would happen to the Hinata girls if Keitaro ever did decide that enough is enough.

It took twenty minutes for Keitaro to reach his home once again. He slowly opened the door and sighed on the inside before he screamed "I'm Home!" and then walked into the kitchen where everyone was finishing up their breakfast. "Hello Keitaro-Sepmai! I left a plate for you inside of the oven." came the voice of the young blue haired cook of Hinata house, Shinobu. "Thank you Shinobu-Chan." he said as he walked over to the oven and pulled his plate out and then he sat down and prepaired to eat since it was already warm for him. "So Urashima, may I ask what perverted act sent you to see the sights of Japan today?" asked the samurai Motoko as she sipped on a cup of green tea, her eyes downcast to the ronin's level. "He tried to pull down my skirt again!" said Naru. Keitaro slowly pulled his eyes up to her, a dark aura could be seen but it disapeared as fast as it had appeared and a smile replaced it. "It was an acident." he said "Well then, I am sure that Naru-san applied the most appropriate punishment." Motoko said as she grabbed her sword that was at her side and then stood up "I'll be on the roof if anyone needs me." she then walked away to do her practicing. "I'ms going ot go and work on my newest invention!" said Su as she then procedeed to run upstairs and into her room. "I'm headed upstairs as well." came the voice of Kitsune as she grabbed another bottle of ake from the fridge and then walked up the stairs, giving Keitaro one last glance before she got all the way up the stairs and entered her room. "Thank you very much for breakfast Shinobu, I'll be headed to my room to finish up my studing." said Naru as she gave the young girl her plate. "You are welcome Naru-sepmai." said the now blushing teen as she took the plate and then proceeded to the kitchen. "Come up when you're done." Naru said looking behind her as she too walked away, leaving Keitaro to his breakfast alone. Keitaro closed his soft brown eyes and continued to eat on his piece of toast while his mind thought. ' So many men wish to be in my situation but... yea.' he ate one more helping of his fried rice and eggs and then walked over to the sink and washed his dishes.

'Guess I'd better go ahead and get ready to study with Naru... why am I still trying for Tokyo University anyways?' Keitaro was constally asking himself this question nowadays. He had failed the Tokyo U exam three times now. He kept studing but it didn't work... nothing would ever work. It would seem that everything in the world was going against him. It was like the world wanted to see his failures, it was like the world didn't want him to get anywhere. Little did he know that all the world was doing, was prepairing him... preparing him for the journey that his soul would take him through in the days to come and the fight that he would have to endure, the one he would have to endure to evolve his very soul and being.

Keitaro slowly knocked on the slide door of one Narusagawa, Naru until a soft voice picked up and said "Come in Keitaro, it's open." Keitaro quietly walked into the room and at at the heated table where Naru was currently sitting, his books already sitting down on the table as well. "About time, I was about to go ahead and start studing without you, you Baka." she said calmly while she watched him sit down beside her. "Sorry Naru, but..." he cut off knowing that he didn't want to mention the "trip" that he had taken earlier this morning via a Naru Punch "At least i'm here now." he finished, grabbing his English book and then opening to the page that she was on as well.

Four hours passed with the two ronins studing for their Tokyo U exams, no one inturpeted with the exception of one knock on the door from Shinobu bringing the two "lovebirds" if you could call them that, some tea but besides that the two ronin of hinata house quietly studied with each other, basting in the light and love of each other as well, without letting the other know. Naru's heart was quickly beating as she looked over the top of her book at Keitaro. The young man mentioned earlier was facing the window a book in his hand about science. His eyes were sparkling in the sun's glory and power and his hair was wavey in the breeze of the nice summer's eve since the window was open. It all just made him look ' handsome...' which is the word that was crossing Naru's thoughts at the time. "Humm? What's up Naru, you look a little flushed." said Keitaro as he noticed the dreamy and hot look on Naru's face. This caused her to come out of her shock and then wailing her arms around. This of course would turn to be something that would become a great event in the transformation of one Keitaro Urashima. While moving her arms up and down she accidently hit the cup of tea that was on the table onto her, causing her shirt to be wet. This of course revieled something to one Keitaro that should not have been seen, especially since Ms. Narusegawa opted not to wear a bra for the day. Now Keitaro was not a pervert by any means, in fact he was one of the world's most decent men but he still was just that a 'man' therefore... he could not resist the urge to take a look at her "attributes of womanhood". Naru of course did not let this go un-noticed and let out a roar "Go on and stare pervert-king!" she said while winding up for a now famous "Naru Punch" "Naru wait, I'm sorry I didn't mean to..." he never was able to get his apploogy out of his lips before he was sent flying for the second time that day...

Hinata Tea House-

One woman still stood in the depths of the tea house, a cigerate in her mouth as she shook her head and watched her nephew fly overhead once again... a sour look on his face for the first time. "I think one more. And then the depths of his true power will awaken. It's not my problem or anything but on his next trip..." she sighed thinking about the near future events.

' All I was trying to do was appologize... like always.' were the thoughts on Keitaro's mind as he opened the door to his home once again but for once there was not even a simple fake smile on his face. He was all frowns, as if after all this time he had decided to give in to the way that the darkness was taking over his soul and show the residents of Hinata house the way that he was truly feeling. But since when had anybody cared about 'him' or 'his feelings'? He laughed at the thought mentally as he walked into the kitchen where everyone else was waiting on him for dinner. "Yay! Keitaro's here! Let's eat!" came the voice of Su as she then began to dig into her plate, everyone else following behind her except for two people. Keitaro Urashima and one Mitsune "Kitsune" Konno. An single eye raised of the young woman towards her landloard, Kitsue was the only one who noticed the sour look on his face. He noticed her look and then gave her a fake smile, knowing that she saw straight through it. Dinner went by uneeventful, no one else noticing the sour look on his face. While everyone was getting up and getting ready to head back to doing whatever a group of five girls and one guy did after dinner, Kitsune passed by her mannager and gave a simple message... "Your room, ten minutes." he could only nod as she walked upstairs...

Ten Minutes Later-

A soft knock was heard on the door of the manager as he said "come in" and the beautiful Mitsune Konno walked into the room. She wasn't wearing what she normally would, in fact she was dressed appropriately for a young lady to be. Her long t-shirt with the black sweatpants underneath gave her freedom but didn't give her 'freedom'. She pulled the shirt up a tad as she sat down next to the ronin, a worried look on her face. "So what's up with you?" she said simple and clean, laying back and looking at the ceiling like he was. "Huh, I don't know what you mean Kitsune, everything is fine." he said with a lot of fake effort. "I know you better than that, and so should everyone else here. So tell me, whats wrong, and I mean be truefull. I want to help." this was the first time that Keitaro had acctually heard Kitsune talk serriously without trying to get money out of him, her words and her tone... broke him out of his barrier as he sat up and the tears began to fall down his soft light face. "I...I don't know whats wrong with me..." he said "I...I try my best to be everything that I can think of that she would want but...it just won't work." tears were now completely falling down, drenching the ground with his tears. "Everytime... I get hit... it just hurst so bad...not physically, but mentally." he broke down in tears, Kitsune holding him softly in her arms. "Ssshh... Let it all out Keitaro...it's not good to hold feeling like this in." she said rubbing her hand on his back while he cried. It was a peacefull moment...until a cover could be heard slideing away at the top floor. "Hey Keitaro..." came the voice of Naru until she noticed what was going on and immedentally dropped down to the ground "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" she screamed causing Keitaro and Kitsune to snap out of their trances. "Wait Naru!" said Kitsune as the door opened once again, one samurai warrior at it.

"What perverted act are you preforming now Urashima?" said Motoko as her eyes widened at the scene that looked really bad. "You will die!" she screamed as Ki powered up in her blade along with Naru's fist. "NO! STOP YOU TWO!" screamed Kitsune to no avial as the two pounced him and sent him flying once again, breaking the wall... and the final piece to his heart...

One Week Later-

A letter from Keitaro arrived at the dorms and all of the girl's, even Haruka we're in the living room reading of what had happened to their only male. The letter read:

Dear Girls (And Haruka since you're probally there):
It might seem a little weird that I never came back last week yet all of my stuff vanished from the dorm room, don't worry about it. I was the only one who came in and took it so you don't have to worry about any bugerlers anymore. As to why I never came back, I decided that I needed a change for a little bit, out of all of you Haruka should know what I mean. You'll all see later. Yes, I am coming back. When? I'm not all that sure, it'll be when i'm ready. I have to go so let me say this. Take care of the dorm and each other while I am away. C-ya when I get back.

Keitaro Urashima

A year passed by without another word from Keitaro. The girls had grown use to it by now but they were no longer theirselves. It was a quiet evening at Hinata Sou as a lone figure walked up the stairs. ' It's about time I got back.' he thought as he walked up the stairs.

"Hey I'm headed out for a moment!" screamed Kitsune as she placed on her shoes and got ready to head out. "Anybody else need anything from the Sake store? Nope? Aww well!" she said as she opened the door... to be greated by a surprise indeed. There stood a young man, about 21 in age. His eyes were a light brown yet his hair was spikey and black. He stood with the same thin pair of glasses the 'he' wore before he left. His muscles were tight and the white shirt he wore fit them perfectely along with the black pants. He held a blade on his back; a demon and dragon in the hilt. "It can't be..." she muttered looking at the young man with a grin on his face "Kei?" she was interupted by the arrival of the rest of the Hinata girls. "Who are you?" Naru asked pulling back her sleave "Foul male, leave our home now!" said Motoko her blade out. The stranger smiled as they both prepaired their attacks. "It hasn't been all that long has it?" he asked, placing his blade down on the ground and then replacing his grin with a full smile. "Well for those who forgot me already, allow me to introduce myself once again." he slowly bowed towards his sword, his voice pausing everyone's hearts. "The name is Urashima, Keitaro. And i'm your manager."

End Chapter One-