Disclaimer- Yet again I don't own Love Hina or any of the characters that hail from it. However, Crowe is of my creation. Also in response to your question Theme4Two, this is not tied to Bugsy's story. I did not know that the title was already in use until you said something.

/ This is a thought/

***Change of Point of View from 1st to 3rd and vice-versa***

Chapter 2 – The Unknown

The questions lasted for the next hour as the residents of Hinata House asked about every detail of my dream; the looks of worry on their faces turning to looks of fear of what I might be. I could tell they were afraid, afraid of what the dream made me, afraid of the young man who was probably an orphan lying in front of them. Me.

It was sickening having to relive the dream because they would not let it even begin to fade from my mind although I doubted I would ever be able to forget something so terrible as that. They kept pushing deeper and deeper about their theories of the dream but I deep inside I knew what it was, one of the memories I had forgotten.

After I finished retelling the dream for the third time, Keitaro stood up and cleared his throat to ask for silence in the room. "Ladies, I know that you still have questions but I need to speak to him for one moment so could you all wait outside for a few?" He asked, his face a mask of mixed and hidden emotions and thoughts.

They walked out one by one, Ema at the end of the line after she took one last lingering look at my broken body, tears glistening in her eyes. After she closed the door, I could hear hushed voices begin talking outside but I could not understand what they were saying.

/Great, now everyone here probably thinks I'm crazy and Ema's most likely frightened of me. Stupid dream, stupid amnesia, stupid life! / I thought as Keitaro sat back down alongside my mat.

He took his glasses from his nose and cleaned them with a quick rub of his shirt and then put them back on before saying anything. "I believe that this is a memory like you said earlier, kid. I've been shot enough by Su that I'd recognize a gunshot wound from a mile away and you've definitely been shot, more than a dozen times as a matter of fact." He said, not smiling but not giving the pity I didn't want or need then. "It's amazing that you're still alive with all the damage you've suffered so I just wonder if we're related." He was smiling, laughing inwardly at a joke that only he understood then.

"Once my body's healed, I've got to leave." I said as I sat up, ignoring the burning pain in my body that protested against me ever moving again. "I can't put my burden on you or anyone else here, it's just not right."

"I'm sorry kid but we can't let you go if there is someone out there that wants you dead for whatever reason they have." Keitaro replied as he stood back up and walked to the door. "It's the basic rule of Hinata House; when you're here, you are one of us no matter what."

He pulled open the door as though he were about to leave only to have Naru fall forward and knock him straight to the ground underneath her. His face was buried in her chest and his arms were flailing about ridiculously as he fought for air but I could tell that she was not happy or even regretful of what she had accidentally done. She was definitely angry with him for some reason I would not figure out until a moment later.

"Damn perv!!" She shouted as she got off of him and he stood up, following up by sending him flying with a punch that could have killed a bear in one hit. The speed at which he left the ground was incredible yet so was the repercussions that it brought with it. As he flew past my futon, his foot caught hold of the edge of it and whipped it out of the room with him, sending me spiraling to the hot spring far below my room.

"CROWE!" Ema cried as she rushed to the outer balcony in time to see me begin falling towards the waters so far below.

It felt like I was falling for an eternity, everything seemed to slow down as the spring and the rocks surrounding it rushed up to meet my tattered body. As I fell, thoughts ran through my mind like the flames of a wildfire, the old saying of life flashing before one's eyes proving itself true. Every memory I had since I had awakened in that room, including the dream, flooded my mind, replaying continually. There was only one that I really care about or treasured and that was from when I had first opened my eyes and saw Ema for the first time.

Despite being powerless to arrest my fall or even protect myself from the death that awaited me when I hit, a deep emotion arose within me, a desire to live even if just for her. "Zero breed activate!" My voice shouted, no longer under the control of my consciousness but instead by my sub consciousness. It was at that instant that I realized I was definitely not normal by any definition of the word.

Everything stopped moving; my body stopped its rapid descent, the wind stopped blowing, the water stopped rippling and even Ema stopped. Everything stopped completely. My vision now saw everything in shades of gray, like I had become colorblind when the world stopped moving. /What in the hell is going on?! /

I seemed to be suspended there in that position, just barely floating above the water that had threatened my life just moments ago, until I began drifting. My body righted itself on its own somehow so that my feet now faced the water instead of my back. It was like I was standing on air now, hovering about two feet above the surface of the water. My body slowly moved towards the rocks so that it was as though I was now hovering about a foot above one of the rocks that lined the edge of the spring. "Deactivate now." My voice said softly, still not under my control.

The world returned to normal and I dropped to the ground lightly on the toes of my feet, a look of awe and shock appearing on my face as I stared down at myself. I lifted my gaze shakily to Ema and we just stared at each other for what felt like an eternity, her eyes seeming to pierce my very soul as we just watched each other with amazement.

Her face was the last thing that I saw before I blacked out and fell backwards, hitting the water of the spring behind me with a tremendously loud thud.

***

"Damnit! I knew I shouldn't have punched that pervert with the kid so close by!" Naru said, berating herself after she took a sip of the tea sitting in front of her while she sat on the couch in the living room of Hinata House.

"There is no way that you could've known that he would have been taken out by the force of your punch as well. Don't beat yourself up about it." Shinobu replied, also drinking from a cup of tea. "By the way, did you hear what Ema said happened as he was falling down to the spring? She said that he shouted something like 'Zero breed activate' and the next second he was safe again. The fall didn't even hurt him."

"But that's just impossible! Nothing makes sense anymore and it hasn't since he arrived!" Naru said before becoming really quiet when Ema walked into the room, a look of relief on her face.

"He's stable, sleeping, and his wounds are finally starting to heal so I think that he's going to be alright." Ema said with a smile as her pet chameleon, Leon, climbed off of the small tree that he was on and onto her shoulder. "I don't understand what happened but whatever did, I'm glad that it did. Crowe's a good person so it just would not be right if anything happened to him and he got even worse than he is already."

"Why do you call him Crowe, huh Ema?" Naru asked as Ema took a seat next to her on the couch.

"His dream. He said that the woman's name was Rei Crowe and if she is...was his mother then that makes his name something Crowe, too." Ema replied, the smile fading from her light skinned complexion. It was obvious that she did not want to think about or talk about the fact that his parents might have been dead. "I pray that his dream was him remembering something but I also pray that he did not remember it the way it happened because he shouldn't have to be put through such misery. If his memory is fine, then you all know what it means for him."

They talked for the next few hours as a nice winter rain fell outside, a severe contrast to the outright deluge that had occurred four days earlier when he had arrived at Hinata. The rain was calming, it seemed to wash away the impurities of the world and leave it far better than it had been.

"Guys! You gotta come check this out now!" Su shouted from upstairs in the Landlord's room, the room that they had put him in since Keitaro now slept in the same room as Naru. They rushed upstairs at a nearly break-neck pace, Ema leading them.

"What happened, Su?" Naru asked when they arrived.

"I was changin' his bandages like Motoko told me to but when I started to unwrap the ones he had on, I found him like this. Look at him guys!" She exclaimed incredulously, gesturing madly at his sleeping form. The expressions of worry on their visages quickly turned to expressions of complete bewilderment as they gazed down upon his body. All of his wounds had healed completely, leaving now evidence that he had even ever been hurt.

They just stood, watching him silently as he slept soundly on a futon mat.

"What is he?" Ema asked, finally pinning down her thoughts with words.