What Dreams May Come

By Daimyo Shi

I don't own Love Hina. I wish I had Keitaro's luck

------------- change of place

(thoughts)

'Internal dialogue with parts of a personality.'

Keitaro picks himself of the floor of the hallway. 'Hey why did she send me into orbit?' says Keitaro to his evil side with a perplexed look on his face.

'I have no idea, maybe she likes you now!' says Keitaro's evil side with a smirk.

'Likely there is a more normal explanation.' says Keitaro.

'Maybe but why be so boring. Mine is a heck of a lot more fun.'

'Yeah, there more laundry to finish' says Keitaro.

Keitaro and his evil side go back down stairs to finish the laundry.

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Mutsumi is putting the last of the frosting on Motoko's cake. "There we are Shinobu. How does it look?" asks Mutsumi.

"Oh Mutsumi-Senpai, it looks wonderful. Let me just get the tube of writing gel I have for it." Shinobu began looking in a cupboard for a tube of writing gel. " Here it is." says Shinobu as she pulls a small tube of writing gel from the cupboard. She takes it over to Mutsumi and hands it to her.

"Thank you, Shinobu, now it should read 'Happy 18th Birthday Motoko' right?"

"Hai, Mutsumi-Senpai."

"Where are you going to keep it until the party?" asks Mutsumi.

"In this cupboard, no one uses it much and normally it has flour, and rice in it so I am the only one in it." says Shinobu.

"Very clever, Shinobu-chan." says Mutsumi as she writes the kanji on the cake. "There how is that?"

"Oh Mutsumi-Senpai that is so beautiful! I can't write like that!"

"Well when I was younger I took several calligraphy courses." says Mutsumi.

"Really Mutsumi-Senpai, my writing is terrible." says Shinobu with her head bowed.

"There is nothing wrong with you righting. I wish I could draw like you or Kei-kun you both very good." says Mutsumi with a smile. "I have to get going now, Shinobu, I have come to study with Naru and Kei-kun."

"Thank you, very much Mutsumi for your help." says Shinobu

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Keitaro was coming down the stairs from putting Su's laundry in her room. To hear a knock at the door.

(I wonder if that is Mutsumi.) thinks Keitaro.

'One could only hope!' says Keitaro's evil side.

'Shut up!' says Keitaro to his evil side. Keitaro goes down to see who is at the door. Only to see that it is Kentaro. Keitaro thinks (Well if it not our least favourite person.) thinks Keitaro.

A charcoal brazier with a bellows set appears next to Keitaro's evil side who has a complex mad branding iron in the shape of the kanji for sucker. 'Try and beg for mercy Kentaro, you will find I don't have any!'

'Hush.' says Keitaro as he opens the door.

"Hello Kentaro, what do you want?" says Keitaro with venom is his voice.

"Is the lady of unstable temperament in?"

"What! You are not getting Naru or my aunt. Please tell me you haven't forgotten that I have nearly killed you last time!" threatens Keitaro, his face in a dark twist of his normal ronin face.

'Oh please tell me you are here for that I though of several new ways to torture you, Kentaro. The one I like the most is the one where we suspend you my fish hooks imbedded in you flesh and allow pure alcohol to drip down the fishing lines attached to the hooks into the wounds causing immense pain and keeping the wound clean so that you don't die from it. Of course we have to strum on the lines to keep the wounds open.' says Keitaro's evil side.

'Sounds good to me.' says Keitaro to his evil side.

"No I meant that kendo chick. Athletic women really turn me on." says Kentaro.

'Oh! We got to call Daimyo Shi, please Keitaro.' says Keitaro's evil side rubbing his hands together.

'Well I was going to call Motoko figuring that the result would be entertaining anyway but call Daimyo Shi would be even better.' says Keitaro with an evil smile.

Kentaro has a bit of an uneasy look on his face. "Uh, is Motoko here?"

Keitaro ignores Kentaro's question "Daimyo Shi there is someone to see you."

Daimyo Shi, dressed in a black kimono and black hakama with a Katana and Wakazashi tucked in his obi, comes out from the Keitaro's left. "Nani, who could want to see me? Wait you!" Daimyo Shi's turn blood red when he sees Keitaro. "What do you want?" growls Daimyo Shi.

"Uh, I am here to see Motoko." says Kentaro hesitantly.

"Nani!" growls Daimyo Shi in a very demonic voice. "You have three seconds to run away otherwise I shall KILL YOU!" as Daimyo Shi ties his sleeves so they won't get in his way.

"Ahhyeee!" screams Kentaro like a little girl as he charges away from the door. Daimyo Shi steps into his sandles. From behind Keitaro appears Kitsune.

"Hey Keitaro, why is Daimyo Shi all Battousai(4) for?"

Keitaro turns with an uncharacteristic evil smile on his face. "Kentaro came to see Motoko. So I called Daimyo Shi to deal with it."

"Oh and he would care why?" asks Kitsune.

"He wants Motoko to himself." says Keitaro.

"Three!" says Daimyo Shi. He draws his Katana and begins to chase after Kentaro. Kentaro runs like a scared cat away from Daimyo Shi as Daimyo Shi slashes at him. Daimyo Shi manages to get some stray hair from Kentaro just before Kentaro dives down the Stairs. Daimyo Shi stands watching as Kentaro tumbles and hit the stone stairs. When Kentaro gets to the bottom, he turns back towards Hinata Sou. He passes Keitaro and Kitsune "I shall return to my room, I have to finish wrapping Motoko-chan present."

"Sure!" says Keitaro.

"He is scary like that!" say Kitsune "I wonder if Kentaro is alive?"

"Who cares?" says Keitaro.

Mutsumi comes from the kitchen hall way. "Hello Kei-kun, shall we get Naru and start studying?"

"That is a good idea." says Keitaro. Beside Keitaro is his evil side drooling. 'Please can I get me some of that!'

'Mutsumi just go over there and kiss him!' says Mutsumi's evil side.

'I can't both Kitsune and Kanako are here. It would be to embarrassing for Kei-kun.'

Keitaro and Mutsumi go upstairs to look for Naru.

'Well while that was highly amusing, but we have a party to get liquor for.' says Kitsune's evil side.

'True we might as well go get it now.' says Kitsune to her evil side.

Notes

(4) This is one of the Nicknames for Himura Kenshin from his assassin days. I use it for my evil side as well. It seems to fit.

Japanese terms

Senpai roughly means senior as student very common in Japan. In Ranma ½ it used often with Takiwaki Kuno which is why in the dub he called Upper class man Kuno. Shinobu often uses it with Keitaro, while it is true it also is seen as being a hint that Shinobu is fond of Keitaro since Keitaro often calls Naru by her last name with a similar romantic intent.

-chan, honorific means small or little often used between parents and children, sometime between friends can be use between lovers too. Most often used for girls.

-kun, Sort of a male version of Chan but more masculine often used between friends and older people to boys that they know. Kei-kun is a favourite of Mutsumi for Keitaro.

San is Mister or Miss, a polite way to address an inferior or an equal. Note that both this and sama are used with a family name which in Japan come first

Onii-san means big brother

Hai Yes

Gi a martial art top sort of a tunic length kimono or Yukata

Yukata a robe worn in the mostly summer time. Often made of cotton and considered less formal than Kimono. What westerns call Kimono is much more often like a Yukata than a true Kimono.

Battousai I have been told means be header, it is established Nickname of Himura Kenshin. It also the nickname of my dark side.

Hakama is a pleated divided skirt that keeps a man from tripping on his Kimono tails, part of the Garb of the Samurai.

Katana A Japanese long Sword that has a slightly curved blade, between 80cm and 90cm in Blade length. The sword and soul of a samurai.

Wakazashi A Japanese short Sword that also has a Slightly Curved blade, between 60 and 70 cm. A secondary sword for Samurai.

obi is a belt for a kimono.