First Disclaimer: I don't own the rights to Love Hina, Ranma ½, Video Girl Ai or Sakura Diaries. This story is one of the many ideas I have in my brain. In this whole story, you will meet characters from other anime shows. However, with my limited knowledge of anime that I watch (it's about three or four other shows if you were wondering), I won't be putting a lot of characters. I will put disclaimers on them, but not in the first disclaimer of a chapter so you can be surprised about what characters show up! So sit back, relax and enjoy the show.
New Faces And Dangers At The Hinata Sou: Problems Of The Day
Motoko lays in her bed as she hears Ranma train outside on the baloney just before the sun raises on this Friday morning. She would love to go out there with her and train, side by side. But she has a problem. She knows that Ranma would love to help her. They are friends after all. But that is the problem. Her problem is out there on the baloney, training. Her problem is Ranma Saotome. She has felt like this even before the whole mess, that started in the beginning of this week and almost made Ranma leave. She didn't mind her being a lesbian, even thought she never did admitted at breakfast. She learned before meeting Ranma, that a girl, who is a friend of hers at the high school, told her that she's a lesbian and she is fine with that. Also, she knows that Ranma isn't checking out any of the girls. She never went near the hot springs. She has a phobia of hot water after her dad left her alone at one and forgot to get her. 'I wonder how she can handle the cold water during winter time?' she wonders as she gets out of her bed. Since Ranma's room is opposite of the hot springs, she would just lock herself in there, take a shower in the bathroom or hang with Keitaro or someone not going to the hot springs. No. That wasn't the problem she had with her as she looked out the window and saw the baloney empty. The problem she has with her was that she could never beat her. When they would practice together, they ended their practice with a little sparing match. But no matter how hard she tried, her would always beat her in the end. She couldn't deal with it and decide to practice after she would leave. She wanted to beat her the next time they spared.
She got dressed in her usually kendo clothes and headed to the baloney. 'The next time we spar, fun or not, I will beat you' she thought to herself as she climbed up the stairs. She took her usually spot and started swinging the sword, but after the first swing, she felt something heavy. She looked at it and saw Ranma balancing herself on it.
"Hi!" she says with a smile while waving an arm up as a greeting. "Long time, no practice, huh?" Dismayed, Motoko lets go of the sword as it hits the ground while Ranma does a back flip the moment she felt it fall and landed on the baloney rail with her feet.
"Ranma!" Motoko gaps. "But I thought that...you..."
"Left? No. I didn't leave," she walks up to her and gives a pat on her back. "I heard you getting out of bed. So I jumped to the roof and hide there until you came out." She walks a few feet away and gets in a fighting stand. "Maybe when your ready, we can..."
"No. I don't wish to spar with you."
Ranma blinks twice and is confuse with her answer. "HUH? Why not? We usually spar together and..."
"That was before I knew you."
"What do you...," she suddenly realizes why Motoko won't spar and start to leave, crying. "Oh. I get it now. You don't want spar because you think I'm a lesbian!"
"Ranma, it's that...WHAT?!" Motoko start to chase after her. "Ranma! That not it. It's just..."
"It's what?" Ranma yells. "I'm not good enough to spar against you anymore because you think I'm a lesbian? Well, I'm not a lesbian, damn it!"
"But Ranma, you said 'I know I like her' to all of us."
"So what! I tried to explained myself when I came back from school that day, but everyone avoided me like I'm the plague. You won't practice with me, let alone spar; Keitaro tells me that he has to do an errand and brings someone along with him. Even Shinobu is either cooking or doing her homework. And when we hang out, it's only for a minute" She starts to run off, but Motoko grabs her by the arm.
"Tell me why you're not a lesbian. I'll listen."
"No. None of you here deserve an explanation. At least for now. Just believe what you want to believe. Now let go of me."
"No!"
"Let go!"
"NO!" Ranma pulls both hands back and thrust them towards Motoko as a ball of energy comes out.
"Shishi Hoko-Dan" The ball hit Motoko and sends her fly into the hot springs as Ranma runs off. After being getting up, she heads to the laundry room where she takes off all her wet clothes and puts them in the dryer.
"Damn you Ranma!" She grabs a towel and wraps it around herself. "I didn't want to spar with you because I was sick of losing to you. You didn't have to send me flying into the hot springs for stopping you. I swear, I'll kick your ass the next time we spar again. I don't care if you put a can of whoop ass on me, just as long as you get the beating of your life!" She leaves and gets dressed, ready to go to school.
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It's about 4:30 in the afternoon and everyone is back in the Hinata Sou except for Shinobu. No one seem to notice until she opened the front door. Everyone looked at her as she takes three steps, then faints to the floor. Immediately, Su and Keitaro run to her side.
"What happened to you Shinobu?" Moemi asked.
"And why are your clothes wet?" Keitaro asked as he and Su help her up to her feet.
"Oh that! It's nothing. Someone just pushed in a manhole cover and...*achoo*" Keitaro puts his hand to her forehead.
"My gosh Shinobu. You're burning up! You need to get some rest."
"No. No." Shinobu covers her mouth and coughs. "I need to cook dinner and..."
"But you have a fever. It'll be wise for you to rest and recover," Keitaro tells her.
"But..."
"Don't worry Shinobu," Urara tells her as Keitaro and Su help Shinobu to her room. "I'll take care of dinner for you. OK? You just rest."
"Thank you *achoo* Urara." Su opens the door and Shinobu walks in her room under her own power. She waves good bye to both of them as she closes the door. She slowly walks to her dresser as she takes off all her clothes and throws them in the laundry basket. She gets dresses in her pajamas and is almost finished when there is a knocking on her door.
*cough* "Come in," she says as she finishes buttoning up her shirt. The door opens and in pops Ranma, holding a tray with a cup of water and something on a dish.
"Shinobu! You should be in bed right now."
"I know Ranma-chan, but *achoo* but I wanted to get out of my wet clothes first before going into bed."
"That good. Here. Take this." She puts the tray on the table near her bed. Shinobu see a some sort of brown candy on the dish.
"What that?" pointing that the dish.
"That's an old Saotome family cure for cold or flu." Shinobu pops one in her mouth and drinks the cup of water. "Good. Now get some rest." Ranma walks out as Shinobu gets from under the covers and sleeps. She wakes up, feeling better and refresh as she stretches.
"Boy, that was a good sleeps. Better make...huh?" She looks at her clock and notices that she has only slept for one hour. "WOW! It's must have been Ranma's medicine she gave me. I'll thanks her later." She gets out of bed and walks out of her room. She slowly head to the dining room. She can't wait to see the look on all their faces on her recovery. But as she gets closer and closer, she hears everyone talking all at once.
"This food is great Urara."
"Yeah! This is really something."
"I think it's better then what Shinobu usually cooks."
"What? You got to be kidding me?"
"But I agree."
"Here. Here."
Shinobu's heart breaks as all the resident complement Urara's cooking. Full of sadness, she runs back in her room and dives on her bed. She tightly hugs her pillow as she cries into it. 'Urara better then me at cooking?' she thinks to herself over and over again. 'I'm so used to doing the cooking for everyone that I'm not used to someone else out doing me in that. Are they going to replace me as cook?' She hears a knocking on her door. Not wanted anyone to see her in this condition, she pulls over the covers and has her back towards the door. After about a minute, she hears the door slowly open and footsteps. They stop near her and then a little banging before more footsteps and the door slowly closing. Once she doesn't hear the footsteps in the hallway anymore, she throws her covers out from under her and sees a bowl of soup with a letter attached to it on her end table. She gets up and walks towards it. She sits down in her chair as she picks up the letter and reads it to herself:
Shinobu-
I hope that your soba isn't cold by the time you read this letter. Get well soon.
-Urara
Shinobu smashes the paper into a ball and shoot it into her trash can like Larry Bird at the NBA All-Star three-point competition. After seeing the paper ball go in the trash can, she takes her spoonful of soba and sip it. After finishing her spoonful, she drops the spoon in the bowl and begins to cry. 'This soba really great! Better then mine even.' She jumps back into bed and cries some more into her pillow. 'This can't be happening! I'm the resident cook here. Not Urara. She going to replace me. They won't need my cooking anymore. Maybe even won't need me!' She cries in her pillow for ten more minutes before finally lifting her head and wiping away her tears.
"That it then," she says out loud. "Urara! You want to take over being cook at the Hinata Sou? Well, fine then! We'll have an all out cooking war. And I promise you this, little miss Keio girl, you are NOT going to win!"
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It's late at night as Naru is finishing up with tutoring Urara. The two sit at the table, opposite each other as Naru tells Urara her late math problem of the night..
"OK. X = Y - the square root of 49 divided by 9. What do you get?"
After writing out the problem on a piece of paper. It takes her a few minutes before she answers. "Five?"
"That correct! You're really getting the hang of this."
"Yeah. I guess so." Urara starts to pack up her things in her folder. "Thank you for all you help Naru. You made this real easy for me."
"Oh, it's nothing. Remember, if you need any help with school, just come to me."
"Will do! Bye." She waves to Naru and heads out the door. Once she leaves, Naru get up, goes to her dresser and picks up a game, Resident Evil Zero.
"I should give this to Keitaro. I really didn't give him anything since we passed the entrance exams and he did gave me this necklace," she says as she touches pearl necklace. "He worked really hard to buy that gamecube for himself. And he did tell me that he got bored playing the first resident evil game, since he beat it." She looks at her Liddo doll and walks towards it. She might as well hand it to him right away before she forgets or loses it. She slides the plank, opening the hole on the ground. As she puts her head and arm, holding the game, she sees Keitaro and Moemi looking over his sketch book, sipping some tea.
"Wow!" she says, flipping over the sketch book. "You draw pretty well."
"See. I told you so." he say as he takes another sip. Just then, she screams, drops the sketch book and holds Keitaro tightly. "What's wrong?"
Moemi flips thought the sketch book and show him a picture of a female zombie, eating someone's head on the floor. Naru almost hurls at the site of it, but tries her best to hold back. "What...What is that?! That's the most sickening drawing I've ever seen!"
"Sorry about that." He takes back the sketch book. "I been playing a lot of resident evil lately and I wanted to draw the likeness of the characters in the game. That's the first one I drew. I guess I made it life like, huh?"
"Life like? I swear it could pop out of the page and...and..."
Keitaro smiled at Moemi and patted her head. "Don't worry. That's never happened. By the way, I drew a few pictures of you in a different book. You want to see?" She nods. He gets up, heading to his closet. He pulls out a blue sketch book and hands it to her. She opens it and is amazed at the pictures he drew of her.
"You drew all of them?"
"Yeah! What do you think?"
"I love them," she says, flipping thought each of the drawing. "You are a very talented artist. Did you draw anyone else?"
Keitaro sweats all over at the question. "Anyone?! No. Why would I do that? Even thought you are like everyone else here, you are a lot kinder and nicer to me. Since I am always around you, it's easy to remember features of you so I can draw you very well. Everyone else seems distant."
Moemi inches closer to him and grabs him by the arm. "You're so sweet, Keitaro. Maybe that's why I'm so comfortable with you. You know how to make someone feel real special."
With those words, Naru feels sickly and weak. She is unable to hold onto the game and lets it fall out of her hands. Shocked of what she just did, she quickly gets herself out of the hole and slides the plank back. She grabs her Liddo doll, covers her face in it and screams until her lungs hurt. 'Moemi!' she thinks. 'If you think you can take Keitaro away from me, you got another thing coming.'
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