Author notes: Well i always wanted to take a crack at a non-self insertion fic so i'm tryin' this one out. gimme some reviews please, but PLEASE don't complain about how short this is because i tried my hardest. also i would like to add that the name is really important to the story plot so thats gonna stay the way that it is right.
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Our Story Begins...
A young Man the age of 23 named Ichitatakai Tenbunichi, attending his fourth year of college. All was well with Ichitatakai until that one fateful day...
--scene change--
Ichitatakai woke up to his alarm ringing swinging violently at it, "Ag, what a pain!" He rolled out of bed and got dressed.
"Hey Ichi! wake up class starts in 5 minutes!" called a voice.
"No it doesn't, it starts in an hour and five minutes!" Ichitatakai said to the voice.
"Uh, no. Did you forget that you needed to set your clock back last night?" There was a momentary silence, then Ichitatakai yelled.
"Damn it why didn't you wake me when you got up?!" Ichitatakai furiously got dressed as fast as he could and dashed out the door, not bothering with breakfast. His roommate was already gone.
He was running as fast as he could, but he was a mere five yards from the door when the bell went off.
"ICHITATAKAI! Class has started. Why were you so late?" the instructor fumed.
"Sorry. I forgot to set my clock back and SOMEONE didn't wake me up!" he glared at his roommate.
--Scene Change--
After class, he was traveling back to his dorm room when he heard a strange noise coming from another dorm room. Curious, he followed the noise and there was suddenly a loud scream. There were actually two voices screaming, and they were both girls! Ichitatakai, worried, smashed open the door to a horrific sight.
Two bodies were on the floor, being bitten and attacked by two hideous monsters.
"What the hell is this?" he said to himself. Suddenly, a dark circle appeared beneath his feet and he fell through the floor. "What the hell is going on?!"
As he fell through the darkness, moments of his life flashed by. The images kept going back to younger versions of him. It started out with the day that had gone by and went all the way to his childhood years. FLASH! A bright light surrounded him as he fainted.
As he started to come to, he heard a voice say, "Hey is he still alive?"
"Of course! Otherwise my Mecha-Tama wouldn't have found him" said another voice. As he opened his eyes, he saw two people that he couldn't believe he was seeing in real life. Two people from his favorite manga: Love Hina. They were Sara Mcdougal and Kaolla Su, but something was amiss.
They weren't little kids anymore. They were in their mid to late teens. "Hey He's awake!!" Kaolla cheered.
"Duh, he opened his eyes," Sara said sarcastically.
"This can't be real..." said Ichitatakai. And his world turned black again.
Ichi awoke with a splitting headache thinking that he had one heck of a dream. "ugh my head" he said as he opened his eyes slowly to reveal that he wasn't in Kansas anymore. the walls were oddly decorated and there were about four Tanukis in the room with him.
"what in the world?" he thought to himself.
"i must still be dreaming, come on wake up!" he said hitting his head with a loud thump.
"Well its about time you woke up." a voice said as he looked up to reveal Keitaro.
"Hi I'm Kei- - - -" he started but was interrupted by Ichi.
"Keitaro Urashima?" Ichi said in a questioning.
"Yeah that's right have we met before?" Keitaro said quite surprised that this stranger knew his name
Ichi just looked at him with a blank stare, and then held up book 14 of Love Hina.
"Wh-What is that? that has me and Naru on the cover!" Keitaro said with excitement
"Yeah i don't understand it either see where I come from you guys don't exist." Ichi said.
"At least not as real people." Ichi finished Looking down at the cover. His mind racing trying to figure out how this could have happened.
Just then Ichi heard a High Pitch "weeeee" noise and felt a painful or rather two painful thumps on his head, which was none other than Kaolla Su and Sara McDougall.
"It seems like they like you, haha!" Keitaro said.
"Yeah, your not funny Keitaro. Oh by the way My name is Ichitatakai Tenbunichi. you can just call me Ichi though." Ichi said
"Ah nice to meet you" Keitaro replied
"I'm sure you know everyone else. Seemings how that little book of yours has all of us on it. Well we were just about to have a group meeting." Keitaro continued.
--Scene Change--
"Well todays topic is this guy" Keitaro says while pointing to Ichi.
"He doesn't seem to know how he got here and it seems that he doesn't have a place to stay. Which actually brings us to the topic at hand. I was wondering if it was alright with you ladies if he stayed here for a while."
There was a dark aura amongst the atmosphere it seemed as though everyone in the room was glaring at him.
Motoko then said, "hmmm he doesn't seem to be as much of a pervert as you. but i'm gonna say no." Ichi slumped at this sentence.
Kaolla then said, "Aww come on Motoko give him a chance!" followed by Sara saying "yeah i'm sure he's not that bad! he couldn't possibly be worse than Keitaro." At the mention of this Keitaro did a prompt face fall.
"I think that he should be given a chance, after all we did give Keitaro a chance and he's the worst pervert of them all." said Naru. Again following this was a face-fault from Keitaro as well as a sweat drop or two from Ichi. But then reality sunk into Keitaro's thick skull.
At this point everyone looked shocked even Keitaro, though that was probably from being called a pervert by his own wife. Of all of the Hinata housers NO ONE expected Naru to say yes to Ichi lodging there.
"But don't get me wrong if you screw up your gonna be out on your ass. This means absolutely no perverted stuff got it?" Naru stated.
"Y-yes ma'am." Ichi gulped. he could sense that Motoko was not very happy about another man in the house.
"okay then we're all at an agreement?" Keitaro asked
"Fine" Everyone said in stereo.
And so it was to be set that Ichitatakai Tenbunichi (a young man of the age of 23 standing 5' 11.5" tall with long red hair steel blue eyes and a tattoo on his chest that almost resembles the one from Jecht in FFX) was to house in the Hinata house.
--scene change--
The next morning Ichi awoke to the sound of birds, running water and ... screaming?
"AAAAHHHH!! it's Tama! get her away from me! get her away from me!" Motoko screamed running by Ichi's room
Ichi grabbed Tama right out of mid-air and held her to his face
"are you trying to play with Motoko again? you know she doesn't like that." Ichi said to Tama in turtlese
Tama looked at him with a confuse expression and then made a happy sounding "Myuh" and he let go and Tama went off in the opposite direction of Motoko.
Motoko looked shocked Tama only listened to a few people and furthermore she thought that only Su and Mutsumi could talk in turtlese.
"Did you just speak in turtlese? that's incredible but thanks for getting rid of her for me" Motoko said.
"No problem I know how much you hate turtles." Ichi said.
"How did you know that?" Motoko questioned. She was suspicious no-one outside of the Hinata house knew that she hated Turtles.
Gracefully he put his pointer finger up to his mouth and closed his eyes and said "Thats a secret!"
Motoko merely stared at him with a dumbfounded look on her face as the walked towards the living room. Upon reaching the living room there was a faint smell of booze to which Ichi responded
"Boozin' it up already huh Kitsune? drink in moderation or else you might not be able to enjoy the premium sake I'll bring tonight"
It was clear that he knew a lot about the Hinata housers and that he was trying to stay on everyone's good side. Ichi then proceeded to sit down next to Kitsune.
"Well now aren't we the sweet talker?" she said inching closer to him. "trying to get a little something something?" she continued
Ichi laughed and responded "no i'm merely trying to be a friendly house guest. besides you know as well as I do that Naru would kill me if I tried that stuff" With this sentence she stopped, she was shocked at what he just said, the fact that this stranger knew so much about everyones personality was shocking and somewhat disturbing.
Shinobu place a cup of green tea in front of Ichi "Here try some of this, breakfast will be ready soon so just hang in there please." She smiled and walked off to the kitchen
"Thank you Shinobu." he began to sip at his tea
Kitsune's eyes narrowed "Hey you wouldn't happen to be a spy or secret agent would you?"
At this Ichi nearly choked and spat out some tea "Say what?! No I'm not a spy, why would you think that?" Ichi managed to choke out and then looked forward and noticed that he had spit some tea right at Naru who was standing in front of him glaring with the eyes that could scare a devil.
"Why...you!!" She said almost stammering as she raised a fist.
"Na-Naru calm down I'm not indestructible like Keitaro." Ichi said getting ready to run.
As she reared back and threw a World Famous Naru Punch, Ichi saw it coming and managed to dodge it. But when he thought Hey why is she punching with her left arm? He knew full well that she was right handed, as he was thinking this there was a second punch flying now straight for his face.
"Oooo this is gonna hurt." Ichi said as the fist connected with his face and went flying and heard the phrase "ROCK SPLITTING SWORD!"(I forget what its called gimme a break) He felt a shock wave slam into him and he went flying out the front door.
Laying outside the front door somewhat smoldering from the impacts he stood up.
"Wow that wasn't all that bad. I had imagined it a whole lot different, more...painful if you will." Ichi said brushing himself off.
At this he felt glares from the two women to which he had gotten very nervous as he turned around he noticed that the glares were not pointed at him but they were pointed and Keitaro.
"What did he do? It wasn't perverted why'd you guys beat the crap out of him like that?!" Keitaro asked.
"He spit tea on me, thats absolutely disgusting!" Naru stated.
"I just thought he did something perverted so I helped out." Motoko said without batting an eye lash.
"It was only an accident. You didn't have to punch me so hard." Ichi said
"That wasn't that hard! that was just a light tap. Do something perverted and you'll find out just how hard I can punch." Naru said, and at this Both Ichi and Keitaro shuddered.
Ichi thought to himself What? That wasn't hard? What kind of demon is this woman?!
"I-I'm sorry I didn't mean to." Ichi apologized.
"Breakfast is ready everyone!" Shinobu called to everyone From the kitchen.
"Well whatever foods ready, lets go eat!" Naru said heading for the dining room with a half scowl and half smile on her face.
As they all followed Naru for the dining room one by one they filed in and took their seats. The breakfast prepared was that of a traditional American breakfast with eggs, ham, potatoes, and bacon. At this point they all clapped their hands together and said in unison "Itadakimasu" and then began to dig in. After breakfast everyone helped to clean up the dishes, everyone that is excluding Kitsune.
After all the dishes had been cleaned up and were now in the sink Ichi entered the kitchen.
Upon walking into the kitchen Ichi said "Hey Shinobu, can I help you with those dishes?"
Shinobu turned around startled and replied "Oh no thats alright I wouldn't want you to trouble yourself."
"Nonsense I wouldn't feel right just staying here for free, it would make me feel like a freeloader! I insist, please let me help just tell me what to do." Ichi said
"Well if you insist would you mind putting away these dishes for me they go up in that top cupboard" Shinobu said pointing at one of the cupboards.
After they finished up everyone was fixing to head off to school, as they hustled to get their things around. One by one they started to leave until only Kitsune and Ichi were the only ones left at home. However this wasn't to last long as Kitsune began to get her things together.
"I'm heading out, you take care of the house okay?" She asked as she headed out the door.
As Ichi sat there alone he began to think about the hot spring.
"Maybe i should take this opportunity to try out the hot springs." He said heading for the hot spring.
After he finished in the hot spring he proceeded to gather his things around so that he might be able to go out on the town.
"Well since I'm stuck here for who knows how long I might want to get a part-time job at the very least." Ichi spoke to himself.
He wandered around for a little bit stopping at as many places as he could find and it seemed nothing was hiring, he thought this was strange because when he read the manga it seemed EVERYONE was hiring. Up until he hit the very last place he had no luck, he came upon a sign which read: HELP WANTED! If interested please contact one Noriyasu Seta.
"Hot Damn! I was waiting for a chance to meet Seta, and what do you know I'll even be able to work for him while I'm at it." Ichi said with excitement ripping the paper off of the sign.
He then Proceeded to get on the train that would take him to the Tokyo University campus, know full well that classes were in full swing. The train had arrived at the exit and off he went. As he rushed towards the Todai campus he noticed that it was begging to rain. He also noticed the time at the fact that all the classes were soon to be released.
A few minutes later the class bell rang for the end of the day classes, the students rushed back to their housing quickly so that they might be able to study up and finish homework. Ichi was very surprised that he had not seen his new house mates coming home from class, as he continued onward toward Seta's classroom he heard an all too familiar "Oh my!"
He stopped and had to think for a second before he recognized the voice and he raised his hand and snapped his fingers.
"Come to think of it... i didn't see Mutsumi at the Hinata house." He said starting to head towards the source of the voice.
As he came upon the scene he saw Mutsumi on the ground passed out, which to this he gave a rather large sweatdrop. He smacked his head and stated "Geeze Mutsumi you'd think that you would grow out of this."
He bent down with a smelling salt which he had no idea where it came from and gently waved it in front of Mutsumi's nose and she slowly opened her eyes.
"Oh my, did I pass out again?" she asked then looked up at the stranger.
"Yes I believe that you did." he said with an exasperated look.
"Oh well thank you for your help but I have to be going!" She said standing up beginning to run off as she waved while doing so.
After the encounter Ichi was left puzzled, but he decided to shrug it off and just continue on to Seta's class. About 10 minutes later he came upon the room number 402.
He knocked on the door and waited for a little bit, but there was no answer. So he knocked on it a little bit harder, this time there was a rather loud noise that came from behind the door. Concerned he opened the door to see Seta on the ground in his traditional clothes; white lab coat pink shirt and brownish pants, scratching his head with an odd look on his face as well as blood trickling down his face.
"Seta-sensei? Are you alright? What happened?" Ichi asked in astonishment
"Yeah I'm fine I wasn't expecting the ceiling to fall apart and fall on my head...wait do I know you? How do you know my name?" Seta ask Ichi curiously
"Well that is...um I read the flyer for the part-time job. so i got it from there! Yeah thats it! I was just wondering if you were still hiring because I just moved into the Hinata province and I'm in desperate need of a job." Ichi said trying his hardest to sound like he had never known Seta in the slightest bit.
"Okay your hired!" Seta stated to Ichi
TO BE CONTINUED...