Story thought up by: ReaderOfAwesomeStories
A Love Hina Fanfic! Enjoy! (I hope this one is better than my last one)
Disclaimer: I do not own any characters, or Love Hina. I do however own my thoughts, which have been put into the story
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Chapter 2: Why can't I leave?
Naru walks over the sheets, and then over to the pillars, she carefully unfolds each sheet and ties them together, eventually tying them all together, she ties one end firmly to the left pole, hoping it will support her. She starts to slide down the crudely-made cliff diving gear.
Meanwhile, over with Keitaro
He looks up at the ship, the only one in the port. Seagulls fly around him, as if to say he is the only one there that matters among 20 other men. "I'm only 10 minutes from Hinata-sou, but it feels like I'm so far away. The boat will sail in 30 minutes… goodbye Hinata-sou, goodbye Kitsune, Motoko, Shinobu, Su, Naru…" He puts his hands in his pockets, feeling around he notices something. He doesn't have his ID card on him! He left it under the table in his room! He realizes this and decides to run back to Hinata-sou! If he can get his card and leave without being noticed it will work perfectly.
A/N Um… This is Keitaro, things going according to plan? Good luck with that.
Keitaro ran all the way back to the inn looks at his watch only 6:35 P.M. I can still make it, I got 25 minutes till the ship leaves!"
Keitaro acting like a thief leans his head around the corner to see in the window, there is everyone in Hinata-sou, granny Hina starts explaining to them everything she read in Keitaro's letter. Keitaro stands there beating himself up in his mind.
("you could have told them!" "yeah, and then had them angry at me!" "do they look like their angry?")
He looked around the corner, seeing Motoko tense up, Su tear up, Shinobu run out of the room, and Naru slowly make her way up the stairs. Then he finishes his conversation with himself
("Well I'll give, most of them don't look angry, but Motoko does!" "your, um… Me, is, are… Whatever! Keitaro Urishima is over-reacting!" "what am I doing, I don't need to watch this, I need to get my card!)
Keitaro quickly made his way to the back side of Hinata-sou and smiled, after he found out they forgot to lock the back door again. Not so sad Keitaro made his way up the stairs and to his room, all the time watching for Motoko and the others. Finally after reaching his room he grabbed his ID card and smiled
A/N His plan worked? I'm surprised
"I guess this is the last time I'll be here, goodbye old room, goodbye friends, goodbye Naru."
He looks at his watch.
"6:43, huh? I guess I got enough time to make it to the ship, I just need to get out of here."
He looks out his window to gaze at the sun, but see's something different, a few sheets tied together on the outside of his window. Completely confused he asks
"What is that supposed to be? Some curtains?"
He hears a noise coming from outside his window "ah, that was close… I almost fell." he looks outside the window wondering "That sounded like Naru, but why would she?" after standing there for a moment he realizes that he's just standing there, looking at Naru.
Naru still clinging onto the sheets for her life. Looks up and closes her eyes until she hears someone say her name. "Naru? What are you doing down there?" she looks up, staring there she see's Keitaro standing there, she doesn't say a word, more like she can't say anything, she is left speechless.
Keitaro after looking at here for a few seconds notices her shirt is slightly pulling away from her…
Keitaro gets dizzy because of what he has just seen, and falls, after falling below Naru he tries grabbing the closest thing to him. He grabs hold of the sheet, causing the extra weight to untie one of the top sheets from another, causing both Naru and Keitaro to fall together on the ground, with Keitaro on bottom, not noticing his ID and ship guide fall out of his pocket stares at Naru.
A/N I knew he couldn't make a full proof plan!
Keitaro now frightened by what might happen if he stays there too long, rolls out from under Naru and, runs as fast as he can, looking at his watch 6:45 P.M.? I can make it there with time to spare!"
Naru still wondering what just happened looks around and see's two items on the ground just laying there, she picks them up.
"Keitaro's ID card, and a manual for the S.S. freedom? Could he be going on that ship? Doesn't the S.S. freedom only dock at peer number 2? I can cut him off there, I just hope that's where he's going!"
She stuffs the two items into her left pocket and runs over to the direction of peer 2!
Meanwhile where granny Hina and the others are
Motoko decides to break the long silence "Does this bag have any other items that may lead us to where Urishima is?"
Granny Hina shook her head and answered "I'm not sure, he simply said it had letters, he didn't mention anything else."
Motoko nodded her head "Thank you, I shall see if there is anything else in here."
Motoko turned the bag over the now-empty table and saw 5 boxes fall on the table, each one labeled with a residents name on it.
"Su! Shinobu! Kitsune! Look at these!" she exclaimed as she presented each girl with the corresponding box.
Su opened her box quickly, ripping away the rapping paper saying "I want a Keitaro inside!" but when she opened it her wish did not come true, it was a new Tama-Chan radar, and two bundles of banana's. though it wasn't Keitaro she looked a bit happier.
Shinobu opened hers and found inside a cook-ware set, and some frying pans. Shinobu screamed to herself "Oh, Sempai!"
Kitsune opened hers and found a bottle of prime quality sake. Kitsune nodded "Keitaro, you said one day I could have this, when you had to leave and wouldn't come back, is that today?"
Motoko opened her gift it was a long and slender sword, she read the inscription on it "For the one who cares and will fight for those she cares about, who will never give them up, nor give up on them. This is to defend those people close to your heart, whoever they may be…"
Motoko smiled as she looked at it, saying "I remember this sword, my father said he gave it to a friend of his, that friend must have been Urishima's father. And once he passed it down to Urishima, Urishima gave it to me."
They all stood there wondering, until Su said what they were all thinking "Where's Naru?"
They looked around then Kitsune said what she remembered
"Naru went up to her room."
The group migrated up the stairs and to Naru's room. To their surprise when they opened the door, they found that it was empty except one sheet they were able to be see, tied to a pole next to and draped out of her window.
Shinobu ran over to the window and stared out it, looking down as her hair caressed her face. Seeing the other sheets untied at the end, with the rest lying tied together, on the ground, the end caught on a raspberry bush.
"What's wrong?" asked Kitsune with a worried look on her face.
Shinobu answered her immediately "Naru must have tied these extra sheets I left here together! She left her room and ran off! Maybe she went to look for Keitaro?"
Su decided to add her own opinion to the conversation "Maybe she couldn't take it, and went to do herself in?" without realizing how hard those words rang on the ears of the others, she just smiled and stopped thinking about it.
Motoko thinks about what might happen, on how Naru might die, or what Naru might do to make sure it happened. Frightened she shivered and grabbed the hilt of her sword, vowing to herself "Keitaro, I shall bring you back! For Naru's sake!"
Just then all of the girls heard a voice coming from the common room "Hey, where is everyone?" All of the girls piled downstairs to see if it was Naru, returning with Keitaro in hand. But to there surprise it wasn't. Kitsune stared and asked a question to her
"What are you doing here Haruka?"
Haruka looking confused pulled out her cigarette and answered "Do you mean I'm not welcome here?"
Kitsune started getting a little nervous trying to explain "no, you see, there's this thing that's happening with Keitaro and-"
Kitsune stopped after being Interrupted by Haruka "Did you girls have a fight with Keitaro again?"
Kitsune furious for no apparent reason shouted "No! It's not our fault every time!"
Haruka was surprised that Kitsune would act like, yelling back at her, not even drunk yet. So she looked Kitsune in the eye and began to talk to her in a more intreaged voice "you sure? Because when Keitaro ran off he looked kind of crushed, and Naru was chasing after him, like she wanted him to stop, but she didn't look mad."
Kitsune looked at her "You saw where Keitaro went?"
Haruka nodded "M-Hmm. He was heading in the direction of the docks"
Kitsune smiled turned around and placed her thumb next to her lips saying "alright girls, we know where Keitaro is heading, lets follow him and drag him back!"
Granny Hina just sits there listening to the girls, and wondering what will happen in the end.
All of the other girls appear to be happy, smiling, and not fake smiles, real smiles, happy smiles.
Su shouted before anyone could get another word in "Lets go play with Keitaro!"
The group decided they needed to leave right then if they planned on catching him.
Meanwhile Keitaro is running for his life
Keitaro is running as fast as his legs could carry him looking at his watch he commented to himself "it's 6:57 P.M. I don't have much time to get there in. if I don't make it in the next three minutes I might not get on."
Naru still tailing behind him, but by quite a bit is thinking to herself "When did he get so fast at running? We've been running for 15 minutes now, I don't know how much longer I can keep this up!"
Keitaro looks over his shoulder his previous smile has long since faded "I don't see Narusegawa, she must have given up on me, it's for the best." he looks forward again "the boat is right in front of him, just a little bit farther and he would be there.
Naru stops running after seeing the ships, and all the workers moving about, she's lost sight of Keitaro "NO! I lost him, I can check with the ship and see if he's on it, lets see…" walking up to the first person she see's "Excuse me?" she asks him politely.
"Hmm? Oh, hello." the man replied in a nice voice.
She looked at him and said "I'm Naru Narusegawa, do you know which one of these boats is the S.S. Freedom?"
He smiled "your looking for that ship over there, it's going to sail soon, better get what you need."
She smiled at the sailor "Thank you very much."
He simply nodded and continued with his work load, loading and unloading barrels.
She smiled. Then began to run at the ship, as it started to set sail, she ran onto the ship just in time, not realizing it was sailing.
End of chapter 2