Runaway princess by Inustgirldreamer
Chapter 4: A Fortuitous Meeting
Disclaimer: I don't not own love hina nor any of the characters they belong to another ,I merely write this fanfic because I adore their creator and hi
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AN: Once again thank you to my readers and reviewers, thanks to Eden Tsukimiya and Bigfic2 once again, Also I am still looking for a beta reader so I can avoid my nasty typos that I seem to miss even on my rereads. Eden the I am so boned comment I am fairly sure was said by Keitaro in the mangaraises hand I swear I read it there or I was hallucinating. Everyone I am right or wrong on it? I know my capital letter and punctuation is a bit shaky I will try and work on it . Now onto our story.
Sniffling softly she looked back at the wall of the castle she had lived her life then rubbing her face free of tears, and looking more determined then she felt. Shinobu turned away and moved out into the dark night she knew it was hours to dawn and that by shortly after sun up she needed to be miles away from the castle and on the road to Kyoto. She moved through some of the tangled brush the was on this slope of the castle she was almost sobbing by the time she made it through . Her hands and face bore scratches and her feet were bleeding from sharp thorns and rocks. It had taken her 40 minutes to get clear of the brush and she knew she had hardly gone any distance , for a moment she thought of going back of resigning herself to her fate.
Fate grinned and decided the girl need a but more of a shove to get going so she leaned down and whispered to one of her most trusted divine minions.
" Ara, Gidget go get the poor child moving down the road please "
Shinobu begin to pace and sniffle she sat down on one of the boulders beside the road with a soft sigh thinking if she just waited her in the morning she would soon be found. Then the oddest thing happened the boulder moved .
' Oh dear it must be a bit loose I better stand up maybe even tell someone when they find me so no one gets hurt'
Turning she looked back at the boulder ,she let out a soft gasp and her eyes went wide as she saw the rock sprout stumpy legs then she saw a long serpentine head sliding from it, the eyes of the thing begin to glow and it let out a hideous sounding "Myuh". Well it wasn't hideous but it sounded that way to a certain young stressed heroine out for the first time by herself in the dark.
Screaming, which seemed only the proper thing to when confronted by a unknown and hideous sounding terror, was exactly what Shinobu did turning she fled as fast as her no longer tired legs could carry her.
"Ara fight or flight is a wonderful instinct isn't it Gidget? Fu fu fu How could some one be scared of something as cute as you. Oh dear did you see where I put my watermelon?"
"Myuh "
"Oh your perfectly right it right there behind the tree where I left it. Ara Gidget you're the best helper fate could ask for, Oh my"
"MYUH, myuh myuh"
"Oh dear I see what you mean he really wont make it in time without a bit of help will he?"
"Fu a little might of divine intervention , a dash of travel magic, a little eerie fog, and a spritz of watermelon juice and that time and distance wont be a problem are all I am a, Oh My"
Thump, such a odd sound for Fate to make as it passes out.
Keitaro clutched at the reins of the horse as he moved through the growing darkness, Lost in though he really wasn't paying much mind to the road he was traveling. He blinked as he caught the scent of a new strong smell.
"Watermelon? This time of year? It the wrong time of year for melons. HEY! What the hell is all this fog….. Kind of creepy"
He rode along in the hanging fog it felt almost as if it was clinging to him and to his body despite the night time the fog felt warm almost alive to him, his horse was acting a bit skittish too still he didn't thinking stopping was option besides one doesn't just stop after a few when your fleeing the wrath of a aunt like Haruka, one needed miles many many miles for that and a bit of luck. Keitaro not feeling lucky yet decided that he need to press on.
"Odd it feels like I been going through this for days, I guess they are right when they saw fog disorientates time and space "
He couldn't shake the odd feeling as if his travels had taken him far longer then they should have, then he heard it the haunting, echoing "MYUH" then his horse jumped forward and suddenly clear of the fog he heard a girls scream. His Horse decide a flat out run was called sprinted in a away only Kentucky derby winners normally plunging through some brush toward a very startled group of people.
Shinobu was still running and screaming as she pasted the inn some two miles down the road much to the enjoyment of the 3 old men sitting outside.
" Long journeys begin with the first screaming step"
"The sound of a woman's peril stirs a heroes heart"
" A true heroes heart is the one that doesn't see its self"
No doubt these words of wisdom would have interested Shinobu if she had heard them, a person running with flaying arms and tears, oh yeah and piercing screams doesn't often here passing wisdom as it is handed out. Finally Shinobu began to slow and even quiet down of course this was less due to fact she was brave and more due to the fact she really didn't want the indignantly of puking along side of the road for over stressing her body. Realizing that she wasn't being chased but the long neck rock demon any longer she slowed to a walk and began to catch her breath, then she smiled looking up into the sky she realized that she was free. She was farther from home then she had ever been and on her own too.
' I still have a long ways to go to Kyoto but I sure I can do it the world isn't so scary after all. Look I never knew the moons and the stars were so bright and so many of them and the air smells so clean'
Walking with her head in the clouds she never realized that after the first hour of walking she had been followed. It was nearly 3 am in the morning when she heard a chuckle in front of her and then one behind her. Snapping out of her pleasant day dreams and seeing the two scruffy men before and the one behind her. Feeling another surge of fear she began to sniffle and waked to avoid the men .
"Well now what is a young girl like you doing out in the middle of the night hmmm?"
"Maybe she has something to sell or give us" the voice from behind her said.
"Oh she has a lot to give us I think, don't you girl?"
With that said the men rushed grabbing her arms and laughing in a wicked evil way such as wicked evil men were often want to do.
"Mawhahahaha"
"Hehehehehe"
"Ummmduhhahahah"
She let out a scream of terror as the Men held her, the three of them close about her feeling light head her eyes springing she was the only one that noticed the horse suddenly coming from the brush a young man on it beginning to lean over. Then she Heard a rip and felt the cold air on her breasts and then she slumped to the ground fainted.
'That girl needs help, I know I will lean down snag her arm and whisk her away…OH MY GOD is that….is that … FAN SERVICE?'
Keitaro Couldn't help but see the exposed flesh as his plunged toward the helpless girl and one really cant blame him for noticing the way that the moonlight seem to shine off the suddenly over exposed girl. It wasn't his fault that his nose gushed out blood like a small geyser, after all he was trying to do the right thing. Nor was it his fault that the sudden loss of blood to his brain caused him to swoon and fall off the thundering horse.
One can only imagine what the three men were thinking when the man on the horse sprouted blood and seeming flung himself at the three of them hitting them with a bone crunching impact, well bone crunching if your not semi immortal. The four men all sailed right over the fallen Shinobu who laid swirlly eyed on the ground thus avoiding the horrendous impact of Keitaro's bleeding body. Four bodies lay on the road behind her three villains and the body of one Keitaro Urashima ,hero at large.
AN: wow this one was hard to write and make it come out the way I wanted it too I hope you like this chapter. It was very exciting yes? Oh you got to meet the Mysterious Fate that seems to be taking a hand in these two lives hmm I wonder who she is LOLany ways I have one favor to ask my readers well ok two 1. Read ,enjoy, review . Read my other story Cocoon a little short one shot I did a little while ago I tried a new style with it and really want feed back on it to see how it was liked so please do me the favor of reading and reviewing it thank you so much. Till next time enjoy the story and I hope to up date soon.
