Love Hina: Another Story

By Cody Pryor

Chapter 1: You're in Hinata House now, Keitaro

It was a hot spring filled with beautiful women. At first, Keitaro could not believe what he was seeing, but eventually came to his senses and realized that he was not dreaming this time. However, the mysterious girls of the hot spring were not to enthusiastic about a strange man walking in on them, all naked or only with a towel to cover themselves. It took a few seconds, although it seemed like minutes, for one of the girls to react.

"What the hell is a guy like you doing in a place like this?! Get out before I call the police!"

"What? I fell asleep in a car and woke up here! It's not like it's my fault I randomly stumbled upon you people! But I will leave!"

Keitaro quickly turned and left, shutting the door behind him, red with embarrassment. He wasn't about to admit it, though, but he did like what he saw. He continued to wander around this strange building, until he found another room with somebody in it. However, this time it wasn't a hot spring filled with beautiful women, but it had two rather familiar people in it. It was his Aunt and his Grandma.

"Huh? What are you two doing here? How did we get here? Where are we?" Asked Keitaro.

"You mean you don't remember? You used to stay here all the time as a kid. I'm sure you'd remember. I used to baby-sit you here all the time until you were about 10 years old." Replied Keitaro's grandmother.

"No, I don't quite recall. I don't ever remember being here. Although I do want to ask, why is there a hot spring filled with women down the hall?"

There was some muttering from his Aunt to his Grandma, and then they both turned to face him.

"Keitaro, I am going away for a long time. The place you are in now is the Hinata Inn. You are here today with your Aunt because of my traveling. Your Aunt has received the deed for the Inn, and has since forth turned it into a girls dormitory. She has picked you to be the manager of Hinata House, the new name for this building."

Keitaro was both shocked and confused at the same time. Everything was happening so fast, he could barely take it. While trying to get into Tokyo U, he would now have to help out in a Girls Dormitory of all places on the side of all the studying he is going to have to do.

"I don't know if the girls will be happy with that. I just sort of walked in on them all taking a bath, not knowing exactly where I was or where I was going." said Keitaro dully.

"Don't worry about it. Once they know who you are, they'll get over it. Just until then, deal with it. Here is a book of the residents. Get to know them."

Keitaro's Aunt handed him a pretty small book, probably only around 20 pages in length. Keitaro wondered if there were really that few amount of tenants at Hinata House, but decided not to say anything. He thought it over for a few minutes, then nodded and left to go back to the room he awoke in.

When he got there, he sat down, turned on a light, and began learning the names and faces and personalities of the tenants of the dormitory. A bit into his reading, he began to hear shouting from down the hall, from what sounded like it was coming from the room he just recently left. He left his room, and slowly walked towards the room until he was in earshot length of the shouting.

"WHAT?!"

"I know you might not be thrilled at the idea of a male manager, but he was the only person we could find. Plus, he it also trying to get into Tokyo U, so he needs a place to stay since his parents kicked him out of his house after failing the practice exams."

"Well, I'm not surprised the kicked him out. he seems like a horrible person, not to mention a peeping tom."

"Narusegawa, it's just something you and the other girls are going to have to accept. There are only four of you, so it shouldn't be too difficult to get to know him better."

"So you are trying to tell us that we have no choice but to accept this complete stranger into our dormitory, and live with it with no say in what happens? What does grandma Hina have to say about this?"

At that time Keitaro heard what sounded like a pile of papers hitting the table.

"Here's all the paperwork. Grandma Hina has handed this building over to me on account of her upcoming travels, and since he needed a place to stay, and he is my nephew, I decided to bring him in as manager of Hinata House."

Silence ensued, and Keitaro found it best that he return to his room before anybody find out he was listening in. However, he was too late for that, as one of the girls burst out of the room. This one apparently he had missed seeing in the hot spring, and didn't get to in his book yet. She had a medium complexion with long black hair, and was wearing a kimono. She also carried a blade.

"YOU! Are you Keitaro Urashima!?"

"Uh. yeah?"

"Let this be your warning. we all will never forgive you for what you did earlier. So the best advice we can give you is to leave us alone, and we'll leave you alone. Try to interfere with our daily lives, and you'll have to answer to me. By the way, names Motoko. Remember that."

At these words, Motoko turned and headed in the opposite direction, leaving Keitaro standing there, dumbfounded. After standing there for five minutes or so before realizing he had not moved, he headed back to his room to continue reading up on the girls. But before he could even open the book, a loud crashing noise came from the other end of the room. Apparently, many objects fell, leaving a curtain of dust behind. As the dust cleared, a human-shaped figure appeared, however, it was not human, as it was obviously see-through, as Keitaro could easily see the wall, but could still see the figure of this ghostly creature.

"I come heeding a warning."

"What was that noise? It sound like it came from Keitaro's room." Came a voice from down the hall.

Apparently the ghostly figure heard the voice, and disappeared as though it was never there. All the objects that have fallen were still there, and as one of the girls came bursting through his door, she gave him a look of disgust.

"What was all that racket?"

"Oh. sorry. some of my stuff fell. you're Narusegawa, correct?"

"Yeah, I am. Be careful from now on. We don't respect all that noise coming from your room."

Narusegawa left before Keitaro could say anything back. When he was sure she was gone, he started picking everything up.

"Man. she was beautiful. but what was that ghostly figure, and what did it want? What is this warning it had for me? Oh well. whatever."