Authour's Notes
The funny thing is that this thing is practically writing itself as I go along.... last fic I wrote that did that went 14 chapters.... Okay you can put down the flaming torches.... Please?
Anyways on with the show.. Kitsune/ACC pairing.... Why? Well why the hell not eh?
Disclaimer: I don't own Love Hina, someone far more talented does, I'm just borrowing for the purposes of entertainment (Of myself or you the reader? Hey that's your call not mine -smiles-)
All comments to NefCanuck - amslerd@sympatico.ca
The Fox and the Hound Part 2
Hideki wondered just what deity had he made angry that night. He found himself driving towards a girl's dormitory with a drunken passenger whose head was staying upright by means that he couldn't comprehend. He thought back to the conversation that he had had with the police officers who had attended the scene of the disturbance....
Hideki groaned inwardly as he recognized the two patrolmen sent out after he called in the incident on his cellphone. The two patrolmen were the bane of his existence, always trying to goad him into doing or saying something that would get him in trouble with the precinct commander.
The taller one, Sochiro Saotome, looked at Hideki as he noticed the blanket on the girl. "Your blanket 'Bulldog'"? Sochiro smirked at Hideki. Hideki for his part kept a cool demeanor as he looked at the patrolman and spoke "Unlike you Sochiro, my heart isn't a piece of ice. This girl was nearly raped and she passed out after I managed to subdue her attackers"
The shorter one, Shinji Tylor, grunted as he peered at Kitsune's unconscious form "Wait a second Sochiro, that's the Konno girl right?" The taller one looked down and groaned "Oh hell, not her...." Hideki looked at the pair growing more annoyed by the minute "What's the problem patrolmen?" his voice carried an edge to it as he looked at them with growing frustration.
Patrolman Saotome spoke, his voice had an amused tone to it "We've dealt with the Konno girl before and frankly after the last time we spoke to the station commander and he agreed that we wouldn't have to deal with her again. If you want her to get home, you'll have to take care of it yourself."
Hideki couldn't believe his ears, here were two police officers outright refusing to help a victim of a serious crime. Hideki stood up and glared at the pair "I must have misheard you. You just said that you wouldn't get Ms. Konno home?" Patrolman Tylor looked up at Hideki with a mischevious glint in his eye. "That's right Matsui, you care to take the matter up with the station commander?"
Hideki glared back "After I've gotten Ms. Konno home you can bet your ass I'll be reporting this to the station commander!" with that comment Hideki gently picked up Kitsune, making sure that she was wrapped in the blanket and placed her gently in the bike's sidecar. He then proceeded in the direction of the Hinata Suu, the residence indicated on the girl's identification.
The patrolmen nodded at each other as Hideki drove out of sight and Sochiro spoke "Good riddance to her, why should we have to hose out the patrol car after she tosses her cookies in there?" Shinji nodded "Yeah, let the big hero deal with her" and the pair drove off into the night, taking the assailants in to the precinct for booking.
Hideki came to a gentle stop at the base of the stairs of the Hinata Suu. He looked at the stairway that seemed to climb off into forever and looked at the girl snoring quietly in his sidecar and muttered to himself "Well, looks like I can skip the gym tommorow" and he removed the girl from his sidecar and began to take the girl up the steps to the building.
Suddenly the quiet night was shattered by a whistling sound and Hideki looked up to see what appeared to be a missile heading for the pair! "Holy shit!" Hideki exclaimed as he grabbed the Konno girl and dove for cover. The missile was unerring in its flight path and proceeded to blow Hideki's bike to bits! Hideki could hardly believe what he was seeing from his hiding place, his bike, his one indulgence to himself with the money his family gave him, was a smoking ruin.
Before Hideki knew what was happening a sword was being held at his throat and he and the Konno girl were being forceably separated. A cold female voice spoke "Who are you and what are you doing with Kitsune-san?" Hideki could barely breathe, whoever held that sword was an expert and he found himself unable to do more than swallow without feeling the blade on his throat. "My jacket pocket..." Hideki managed to croak out. Another voice, this one sounding rather bored, spoke even as he felt a hand in his jacket "Well, well what do we have here?" Hideki's only thought at that point was that Sochiro and Shinji had knowingly sent him to the gates of hell and if he died here he would haunt them for all their days.
Hideki heard a gasp and suddenly found himself free of the force of the blade on his throat. The sudden loss of the support caused him to pitch forward and land squarely on his nose! "Dammit! Would somebody mind explaining what the fuck is going on around here?" Hideki hated to lose his temper, but after all that had happened tonight his patience had been worn thinner than a piano wire. He found himself being helped to his feet with numerous apologies being flung at him, seemingly from everywhere. Hideki screwed his eyes closed and shouted "Please be quiet!" The air grew still as he opened his eyes and found several young girls and a lady that Hideki placed in her late twenties bowing deeply. Hideki could only blink and stammer out "Sorry for yelling"
Hideki found himself inside the Hinata Suu, a former inn that the former manager had changed into an all-girls dormitory and then left in the care of her nephew, a situation that Hideki couldn't begin to wrap his head around, why put a male in charge of an all girl's dormitory? He found himself being spoken to by a shame faced young woman in a hakuma and gi "My apologies Patrolman Matsui, I did not realize that you were a member of the local authourities"
The speaker was Motoko Ayonama, she introduced herself as a student of kendo, this explanation seemed a bit skimpy to Hideki, considering the speed and the swiftness with which he had been subdued, but he decided that it wasn't his place to question. Hideki smiled "I should be the one apologizing Ayonama-san. I wasn't in uniform and if I had thought of it, I could have called ahead and saved us all the bother of this little.... incident" Motoko smiled "Thank you, Patrolman Matsui" Hideki shook his head "I'm off duty now, Hideki is fine" Motoko nodded "Understood Matsui- san"
Hideki blinked in confusion but decided not to press the point, he sipped the tea that sat in front of him "Delicious" he sighed happily. Haruka Urashima the owner of the tea shop near the base of the steps offered a half-smile "Glad you like it Hideki, it's the least we can do after what happened to you and your bike" Hideki grimaced slightly at the reminder that his bike was now in pieces small enough to be mailed to him in a Pokèball.
A strange, foreign-looking girl spoke up sadly "I'm sorry about your bike, we thought Kitsune was in trouble so I used my Mark IV Tama missile to rescue her." Hideki looked at the strange girl but decided that she had truly not meant any harm, though how shooting high explosives at someone was rescuing them he had no idea.
Hideki smiled "It's okay... Su was it? Anyways, no one was injured and a bike is just a machine, machines can be fixed, people can't" Suddenly Su got a strange glint in her eye and scurried off, shouting something to Hideki about making amends. Hideki could only smile at the young girls energy level, even as he wondered how she intended to make amends.
The dorm's manager, Keitaro Urashima spoke next "Will Kitsune be alright Matsui-sa..." a sharp glance from Hideki caused him to correct himself "I mean will she be alright Hideki?" Hideki exhaled through his cheeks as he answered "I honestly have no idea Keitaro. If she's lucky, she was so drunk that she'll have lost this entire evening, though it will make convicting the slime that tried to rape her that much harder"
The girl that held Keitaro's hand, one Naru Narusegawa spoke "But if they aren't convicted that means they could come after her again doesn't it?" Hideki nodded "It's possible, though they did attack me, so assault with a weapon charges with me as the complainant should stick"
Shinobu Maehara, the Hinata Suu's resident chef set a pastry in front of Hideki, her voice wavered with worry "Should stick? Auuuuu" Hideki smiled in an attempt to reassure the young girl "I'm sure the charges will stick Shinobu-san, I mean I have my nightstick with a chunk taken out of it as proof" and Hideki produced his collapsible baton from his back pocket and extended it in one swift move, the baton clearly showing the effects of the nights activities. Shinbou blinked at the sudden appearance of the weapon and beat a hasty retreat back to the kitchen.
Hideki blinked in confusion "Did I do something wrong?" A young blond girl spoke "Nah, Shinobu's just a fraidy cat, you any good with that thing?" The speaker was Sarah McDougall an American girl staying at the Hinata Suu while her adoptive father was away. Hideki smiled "I wouldn't be a good patrolman without being able to handle this" and he proceeded to play with the baton, twirling it and transferring it back and forth between his two hands as he spoke. The young girl seemed unimpressed "Where's your gun?" Hideki smiled grimly "It's at the station where it belongs, frankly I dislike carrying it even while on duty, but rules are rules.... Anyways, I should get going, I'm sure you all would like to get some sleep and to be honest, so would I"
Hideki yawned hugely even as he realized the long trek home he faced without his bike. "I almost forgot, if Konno-san remembers anything at all about tonight please have her call me at the station" Hideki handed a card to Keitaro. "I'm on day shift this week, but please don't press her on this, it's better if she forgets everything that happened tonight"
Keitaro took the card and nodded "Of course Hideki, once again we owe you a great debt for returning Kitsune to the Hinata Suu safely" Keitaro bowed deeply even as Hideki rose from his chair after finishing the tea. Hideki smiled again "It was a pleasure meeting you all and again, my apologies for all the chaos I caused tonight" Hideki strolled down the steps of the Hinata Suu, calling for a cab on his cell phone for the journey home.
The group watched Hideki dissapear into the night. Haruka was the first to speak and her voice was tinged with dissapointment "I can't believe what you girls did to that patrolman, here he is bringing Kitsune back and you go off half cocked and nearly hurt him and end up destroying his motorcycle. By all rights he should have pressed charges against you and Suu, Motoko."
Motoko hung her head "Believe me Haruka-san, I regret my actions deeply. As a disciple of the God's Cry School I should have been more cautious about the use of force. Now I have angered a member of the local authorities" Suu, who had returned downstairs after Hideki left spoke up softly "Suu didn't mean to cause trouble. But Suu will fix everything see?" and the young girl pulled out blueprints for a motorcycle that looked like it came directly from a racetrack as the assembled group blinked in confusion.
Haruka offered a soft smile "That's good, now I don't know about the rest of you, but I think I want to get some sleep" and with that she left the Hinata Suu to return to her teashop and her bed. The others nodded amongst themselves and went to their respective beds.
Upstairs in her bed Kitsune was moaning, her dreams a jumbled mass of images, a knife in her face, the sound of a hand hitting flesh, the sight of a pair of ice blue eyes and a warped image of what she believed to be a bulldog. These and more images tormented the young girl in her sleep and as she drifted off to a dreamless sleep the last thing that she heard was a voice gently asking her if she was alright. As she heard that voice in her head her mouth unconsciously twisted into a smile even as she rolled over for the night...
The funny thing is that this thing is practically writing itself as I go along.... last fic I wrote that did that went 14 chapters.... Okay you can put down the flaming torches.... Please?
Anyways on with the show.. Kitsune/ACC pairing.... Why? Well why the hell not eh?
Disclaimer: I don't own Love Hina, someone far more talented does, I'm just borrowing for the purposes of entertainment (Of myself or you the reader? Hey that's your call not mine -smiles-)
All comments to NefCanuck - amslerd@sympatico.ca
The Fox and the Hound Part 2
Hideki wondered just what deity had he made angry that night. He found himself driving towards a girl's dormitory with a drunken passenger whose head was staying upright by means that he couldn't comprehend. He thought back to the conversation that he had had with the police officers who had attended the scene of the disturbance....
Hideki groaned inwardly as he recognized the two patrolmen sent out after he called in the incident on his cellphone. The two patrolmen were the bane of his existence, always trying to goad him into doing or saying something that would get him in trouble with the precinct commander.
The taller one, Sochiro Saotome, looked at Hideki as he noticed the blanket on the girl. "Your blanket 'Bulldog'"? Sochiro smirked at Hideki. Hideki for his part kept a cool demeanor as he looked at the patrolman and spoke "Unlike you Sochiro, my heart isn't a piece of ice. This girl was nearly raped and she passed out after I managed to subdue her attackers"
The shorter one, Shinji Tylor, grunted as he peered at Kitsune's unconscious form "Wait a second Sochiro, that's the Konno girl right?" The taller one looked down and groaned "Oh hell, not her...." Hideki looked at the pair growing more annoyed by the minute "What's the problem patrolmen?" his voice carried an edge to it as he looked at them with growing frustration.
Patrolman Saotome spoke, his voice had an amused tone to it "We've dealt with the Konno girl before and frankly after the last time we spoke to the station commander and he agreed that we wouldn't have to deal with her again. If you want her to get home, you'll have to take care of it yourself."
Hideki couldn't believe his ears, here were two police officers outright refusing to help a victim of a serious crime. Hideki stood up and glared at the pair "I must have misheard you. You just said that you wouldn't get Ms. Konno home?" Patrolman Tylor looked up at Hideki with a mischevious glint in his eye. "That's right Matsui, you care to take the matter up with the station commander?"
Hideki glared back "After I've gotten Ms. Konno home you can bet your ass I'll be reporting this to the station commander!" with that comment Hideki gently picked up Kitsune, making sure that she was wrapped in the blanket and placed her gently in the bike's sidecar. He then proceeded in the direction of the Hinata Suu, the residence indicated on the girl's identification.
The patrolmen nodded at each other as Hideki drove out of sight and Sochiro spoke "Good riddance to her, why should we have to hose out the patrol car after she tosses her cookies in there?" Shinji nodded "Yeah, let the big hero deal with her" and the pair drove off into the night, taking the assailants in to the precinct for booking.
Hideki came to a gentle stop at the base of the stairs of the Hinata Suu. He looked at the stairway that seemed to climb off into forever and looked at the girl snoring quietly in his sidecar and muttered to himself "Well, looks like I can skip the gym tommorow" and he removed the girl from his sidecar and began to take the girl up the steps to the building.
Suddenly the quiet night was shattered by a whistling sound and Hideki looked up to see what appeared to be a missile heading for the pair! "Holy shit!" Hideki exclaimed as he grabbed the Konno girl and dove for cover. The missile was unerring in its flight path and proceeded to blow Hideki's bike to bits! Hideki could hardly believe what he was seeing from his hiding place, his bike, his one indulgence to himself with the money his family gave him, was a smoking ruin.
Before Hideki knew what was happening a sword was being held at his throat and he and the Konno girl were being forceably separated. A cold female voice spoke "Who are you and what are you doing with Kitsune-san?" Hideki could barely breathe, whoever held that sword was an expert and he found himself unable to do more than swallow without feeling the blade on his throat. "My jacket pocket..." Hideki managed to croak out. Another voice, this one sounding rather bored, spoke even as he felt a hand in his jacket "Well, well what do we have here?" Hideki's only thought at that point was that Sochiro and Shinji had knowingly sent him to the gates of hell and if he died here he would haunt them for all their days.
Hideki heard a gasp and suddenly found himself free of the force of the blade on his throat. The sudden loss of the support caused him to pitch forward and land squarely on his nose! "Dammit! Would somebody mind explaining what the fuck is going on around here?" Hideki hated to lose his temper, but after all that had happened tonight his patience had been worn thinner than a piano wire. He found himself being helped to his feet with numerous apologies being flung at him, seemingly from everywhere. Hideki screwed his eyes closed and shouted "Please be quiet!" The air grew still as he opened his eyes and found several young girls and a lady that Hideki placed in her late twenties bowing deeply. Hideki could only blink and stammer out "Sorry for yelling"
Hideki found himself inside the Hinata Suu, a former inn that the former manager had changed into an all-girls dormitory and then left in the care of her nephew, a situation that Hideki couldn't begin to wrap his head around, why put a male in charge of an all girl's dormitory? He found himself being spoken to by a shame faced young woman in a hakuma and gi "My apologies Patrolman Matsui, I did not realize that you were a member of the local authourities"
The speaker was Motoko Ayonama, she introduced herself as a student of kendo, this explanation seemed a bit skimpy to Hideki, considering the speed and the swiftness with which he had been subdued, but he decided that it wasn't his place to question. Hideki smiled "I should be the one apologizing Ayonama-san. I wasn't in uniform and if I had thought of it, I could have called ahead and saved us all the bother of this little.... incident" Motoko smiled "Thank you, Patrolman Matsui" Hideki shook his head "I'm off duty now, Hideki is fine" Motoko nodded "Understood Matsui- san"
Hideki blinked in confusion but decided not to press the point, he sipped the tea that sat in front of him "Delicious" he sighed happily. Haruka Urashima the owner of the tea shop near the base of the steps offered a half-smile "Glad you like it Hideki, it's the least we can do after what happened to you and your bike" Hideki grimaced slightly at the reminder that his bike was now in pieces small enough to be mailed to him in a Pokèball.
A strange, foreign-looking girl spoke up sadly "I'm sorry about your bike, we thought Kitsune was in trouble so I used my Mark IV Tama missile to rescue her." Hideki looked at the strange girl but decided that she had truly not meant any harm, though how shooting high explosives at someone was rescuing them he had no idea.
Hideki smiled "It's okay... Su was it? Anyways, no one was injured and a bike is just a machine, machines can be fixed, people can't" Suddenly Su got a strange glint in her eye and scurried off, shouting something to Hideki about making amends. Hideki could only smile at the young girls energy level, even as he wondered how she intended to make amends.
The dorm's manager, Keitaro Urashima spoke next "Will Kitsune be alright Matsui-sa..." a sharp glance from Hideki caused him to correct himself "I mean will she be alright Hideki?" Hideki exhaled through his cheeks as he answered "I honestly have no idea Keitaro. If she's lucky, she was so drunk that she'll have lost this entire evening, though it will make convicting the slime that tried to rape her that much harder"
The girl that held Keitaro's hand, one Naru Narusegawa spoke "But if they aren't convicted that means they could come after her again doesn't it?" Hideki nodded "It's possible, though they did attack me, so assault with a weapon charges with me as the complainant should stick"
Shinobu Maehara, the Hinata Suu's resident chef set a pastry in front of Hideki, her voice wavered with worry "Should stick? Auuuuu" Hideki smiled in an attempt to reassure the young girl "I'm sure the charges will stick Shinobu-san, I mean I have my nightstick with a chunk taken out of it as proof" and Hideki produced his collapsible baton from his back pocket and extended it in one swift move, the baton clearly showing the effects of the nights activities. Shinbou blinked at the sudden appearance of the weapon and beat a hasty retreat back to the kitchen.
Hideki blinked in confusion "Did I do something wrong?" A young blond girl spoke "Nah, Shinobu's just a fraidy cat, you any good with that thing?" The speaker was Sarah McDougall an American girl staying at the Hinata Suu while her adoptive father was away. Hideki smiled "I wouldn't be a good patrolman without being able to handle this" and he proceeded to play with the baton, twirling it and transferring it back and forth between his two hands as he spoke. The young girl seemed unimpressed "Where's your gun?" Hideki smiled grimly "It's at the station where it belongs, frankly I dislike carrying it even while on duty, but rules are rules.... Anyways, I should get going, I'm sure you all would like to get some sleep and to be honest, so would I"
Hideki yawned hugely even as he realized the long trek home he faced without his bike. "I almost forgot, if Konno-san remembers anything at all about tonight please have her call me at the station" Hideki handed a card to Keitaro. "I'm on day shift this week, but please don't press her on this, it's better if she forgets everything that happened tonight"
Keitaro took the card and nodded "Of course Hideki, once again we owe you a great debt for returning Kitsune to the Hinata Suu safely" Keitaro bowed deeply even as Hideki rose from his chair after finishing the tea. Hideki smiled again "It was a pleasure meeting you all and again, my apologies for all the chaos I caused tonight" Hideki strolled down the steps of the Hinata Suu, calling for a cab on his cell phone for the journey home.
The group watched Hideki dissapear into the night. Haruka was the first to speak and her voice was tinged with dissapointment "I can't believe what you girls did to that patrolman, here he is bringing Kitsune back and you go off half cocked and nearly hurt him and end up destroying his motorcycle. By all rights he should have pressed charges against you and Suu, Motoko."
Motoko hung her head "Believe me Haruka-san, I regret my actions deeply. As a disciple of the God's Cry School I should have been more cautious about the use of force. Now I have angered a member of the local authorities" Suu, who had returned downstairs after Hideki left spoke up softly "Suu didn't mean to cause trouble. But Suu will fix everything see?" and the young girl pulled out blueprints for a motorcycle that looked like it came directly from a racetrack as the assembled group blinked in confusion.
Haruka offered a soft smile "That's good, now I don't know about the rest of you, but I think I want to get some sleep" and with that she left the Hinata Suu to return to her teashop and her bed. The others nodded amongst themselves and went to their respective beds.
Upstairs in her bed Kitsune was moaning, her dreams a jumbled mass of images, a knife in her face, the sound of a hand hitting flesh, the sight of a pair of ice blue eyes and a warped image of what she believed to be a bulldog. These and more images tormented the young girl in her sleep and as she drifted off to a dreamless sleep the last thing that she heard was a voice gently asking her if she was alright. As she heard that voice in her head her mouth unconsciously twisted into a smile even as she rolled over for the night...