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Someone asked the other day in regards of my opinions on the "natural" pairing of Kei/Naru. Personally, anime-wise she is a very attractive character, but her personality kills it. While I do wish to slap some sense into everyone's beloved landlord for chasing her, it's beyond me. I've always been a firm believer that the other women would've treated him better, hence my first piece of writing on FF.net was born.
For those of you who dislike my opinion, remember, it's just an opinion posted by an American who believes in free speech. I'm not bashing anyone who likes the "natural" pairing, so please don't bash me either.
As always, Love Hina and its characters belong to Ken Akamatsu, all original characters belong to me and may be used with permission.
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For Love and Honor
Chapter 6: Memories
As the first rays of sunshine began shining into the room, Emi slowly stirred before sitting up in her futon. Glancing at the clock, she mentally scolded herself for missing the prime training time period of the day, and quickly dressed in her training uniform. Finishing her preparations, she reached for her bokken and paused at a curious object beside it...
A black ribbon...
Sho's hair ribbon...
Immediately several thoughts shot through her mind as she picked up the ribbon with wide eyes. 'We didn't last night... Did we...?!' She tried desperately to remember, then sighed in relief and held the ribbon to her face. 'Of course not, you idiot... He's too much of a gentleman to do that...'
Smiling to herself, she tied the ribbon to her bokken and exited her room...
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"Now let's see..." Sarah chewed on a pocky stick with a thoughtful look, as she walked in a dark passageway. She then flipped a couple pages through the notebook she carried with her as she came to a fork in the passage.
"Well, we charted the path heading right last time, guess I'm heading left!" Smiling to herself, Sarah closed the notebook and stashed it away as she continued on. Just as she dug into her pocket for another pocky stick, she heard a loud 'click' and froze...
"Aw man, not again..." Sarah sighed, just as a trapdoor opened beneath her, sending her tumbling down towards the darkness.
"I hate it when this happens...!" Her voice echoed through the secret passageways of the Hinata-Sou.
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Natsumi hummed to herself as she cooked breakfast in the kitchen, stirring a pot of miso soup gently. She smiled quietly as she realized that in a few more minutes she would once again be trying to fend off the landlord from tasting the food before the actual meal, and more often than not fail from it.
Even though he appeared to be cold and silent to everyone, he always had a smile and kind word for her that would melt her heart each time. At times, she would make him believe he had outwitted her in the kitchen just to be carried in his arm, to be close to him even if he didn't recognize her intent...
She then sighed, remembering how there was a seemingly natural bond between Sho and Emi. To her, the resident swordswoman was better at everything. She exceled in the martial arts, was in advanced academic classes, and was much more beautiful than she was... It would seem that winning the landlord's heart was an impossible task...
"Something on your mind, Natsumi?"
Blinking out of her thoughts, she turned to find Yuki and Raina smiling at her. The chef silently scolded herself, as in the time lapsed the landlord's sister had helped chop all the vegetables for her, and had even helped set the table.
"It's nothing..." Natsumi replied with a nervous smile, returning to her cooking.
"That so...?" Raina raised an eyebrow at the chef, then grinned. "Don't know about you, cousin... but looks like someone here has the hots for your brother..." Natsumi, who happened to be tasting the soup at the time, nearly spewed it back into the pot, and coughed for a moment.
"I... I don't know what you're talking about..." Natsumi replied nervously, her face flushed as she scrambled to work on the next dish for breakfast.
"It's alright, Natsumi." Yuki smiled as she helped her serve the miso soup. "My Big brother is a honest and caring person, there's nothing to be ashamed of..." Seeing the chef nod quietly with a small smile, the two cousins smiled as well and proceeded to help her with preparing the rest of breakfast...
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As Emi climbed up the last steps to the balcony, she watched as Sho flowed through a kata and simply admired his strength. Each step and strike was fluid and beautiful, yet she saw the destructive force behind each attack and the ferocity in his eyes and couldn't help but worry for him...
"You're late for training." Sho commented as he landed from a jumping roundhouse kick, and looked at the swordswoman calmly.
"Sorry, I slept in on accident..." Emi replied with a sheepish smile.
"Well, I suppose you can afford to indulge yourself every now and then..." The landlord shrugged. "By the way, Sensei called the other day and left me very precise instructions on helping you train..."
"Mother called...?" Emi gulped nervously, as her instructions tend to be harsh and taxing not only to the student's body, but mind as well... "So what is her instructions on my training for today...?"
"Fairly simple, actually..." Sho smiled. "All you have to do is hit my body physically with your bokken for your first lesson..." This caused Emi to raise her eyebrow in suspicion, as the excercise seemed far too easy for her to complete, even if she was used to attacking with energy techniques...
"Very well..." Emi bowed to the landlord, who bowed back as the two settled into ready stances. Sho adapted a loose stance with his hands in front of him, while Emi positioned her bokken close to her right ear. Neither side moved as they tested each other's patience, and finally Emi's ran out as she charged forward with a loud battle cry and delievered a massive shomen strike, designed to cleave an opponent from shoulder to hip...
...Except Sho was now standing parallel with her instead, and connected with a vicious right to her leg. Biting back a cry, she limped back several steps to resume her stance. She knew that he had held back, or her leg would have been in multiple pieces by now. Nontheless, she was going to have a nasty bruise later...
"Too slow, are you even awake yet...?" Sho commented, and Emi found herself speechless at the sight of his eyes, which were as emotionless as when she first moved into the dorm...
'Was last night really just a dream...?' Emi thought as she switched to an offensive stance. '...Or is he just really serious about his training...?' With a roar, she faked a swing to his midsection, then proceeded into a decapitating blow towards his neck. The landlord calmly dodged the first swing, and before the swordswoman's astonished eyes lightly tapped the flat of her bokken with his palm, deflecting it off course. Before she could recover from being set off balance, he had set a foot behind her legs, and used the momentum of her swing to trip her, sending her crashing onto her back.
Wincing in pain from landing on her shoulders, Emi slowly opened her eyes to see Sho kneeling above her, and her eyes widened slightly as she felt the landlord's hand brush a lock of hair from her face, then gently carress her cheek... Looking up, she saw that the warmth and caring he had shown her before had returned in his eyes. Reaching up, she cupped Sho's face in her hands, and felt her heart melt as he smiled at her warmly, as she pulled him down into a passionate kiss and feel him reciprocate, she smiled inwardly...
'It wasn't a dream, after all...'
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Having returned inside the dorm, Sho made his usual attempt to sneak a taste of Natsumi's cooking, but was surprised as he was beaten back into retreating through a combined effort from Raina and Yuki, who were apparently assisting the chef with breakfast. Forced to wait at the dining table for the first time in weeks, the landlord sat with a dejected look on his face, but was surprised as Sarah suddenly fell through a ceiling panel and bowled the two to the ground...
"Ah, dining room!" Sarah smiled, sitting up and happily jotting in her notebook. "So that's where that branch leads to..."
"Someone needs to go on a diet..." Sho commented as he shot the American an annoyed look, who stuck her tongue out at him before getting off his body. She then watched curiously as the landlord replace the ceiling panel with a raised eyebrow.
"Hmm, someone's cheerful this morning..." She commented at seeing his neutral expression, rather than his usual brooding. "...Someone get lucky last night, by chance?" This drew a death glare from the landlord, to which she laughed and waved her hand to show she was joking.
"Breakfast is ready!" Natsumi announced cheerfully, as she and her 'helpers' arrived with an assortment of food. Eyes lighting up in delight, Sho quickly forgot the comments from Sarah, and the group settled down to yet another woderful meal prepared by their master chef...
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Being on a weekend, the female tenants had no school and decided to gather to talk about "women issues," which sent the landlord off to clean the hot spring and drew laughs from everyone else. Amidst the laughs and cheerful talking, a knock at the front door drew everyone's attention, and Yuki went to greet the visitor with Emi following close behind, ready to protect the landlord's sister if need be...
A woman greeted the two residents at the doorway, her auborn hair was long and refined, and she wore a simple blue business dress under a white lab coat. Her brown eyes seemed to reflect ages of knowledge which was reinforced with the name badge that marked her as a professor at Toudai.
Emi merely blinked in surprise, while Yuki smiled in recognition and led the woman inside. As the newcomer sat with the group in the living room, Sarah grinned as she recognized the woman and waved at her.
"Hey there, pint-size. Haven't seen you in ages..." Sarah smiled, then raised an eyebrow. "And a Toudai professor now, no less!"
"Nice to see you too, Sarah." The woman replied with a smile, then thanked Natsumi as a cup of tea was handed to her. As Yuki inquired to the reason of her visit, she smiled. "Well, I was checking my student listing for this upcoming semester, and I was surprised to see you and your brother's name, so I decided to come pay a visit and..." Her voice trailed off as she looked behind Yuki, and the group turned to find the landlord watching them.
"Mei Narusegawa..." The landlord narrowed his eyes, surprising everyone by his cold attitude towards the visitor. "What business do you have here at the Hinata-Sou...?"
Sighing, the woman stood and walked up to Sho, looking up at him with a sad expression. "Sho, I just want to apoligize about last time..." Her sentence was cut off abruptly as the landlord suddenly turned and walked away, leaving her looking down at the floor sadly.
"Whoa..." Raina blinked. "What the heck did you do to make him that mad? I'm surprised he hasn't ripped your head off..."
"It's something that happened after the accident..." Mei replied with a sigh as she rejoined the group. "I was trying to bring him back from the depression he sunk into... And me being the hotheaded bitch I was, I threw something at his head to try and snap him out of it..."
"I can understand being mad for getting hit..." Natsumi blinked. "But Sho's not the type of person to hold a grudge over that, is he...?"
"No, he's not..." Yuki shook her head sadly. "But when the said object was a picture of him and my Dad..." No more words were needed as everyone nodded in understanding, aside from his sister, Sho treasured memories of his parents more than anything in the world...
"Needless to say..." Mei continued. "His first act as the landlord of the Hinata-Sou was to evict me, despite everyone's complaints..." She then sighed and looked down into her cup of tea. "I guess he still hasn't quite forgiven me for that..."
"It's just a misunderstanding... We all know that..." Yuki patted Mei's hand reassuringly with a gentle smile. "But I believe you were going to tell us the reason of your visit...?"
"Of course..." Mei smiled slightly. "As I said, I noticed your names on my students' list, so I wanted to come by and see if either of you would be interested in being tutored by me after classes..."
"Thanks, but not interested in your offer." Everyone looked up in surprise as Sho entered the room again. "But I'll work out a deal with you: Natsumi needs a tutor to help her out, and I believe you're more qualified than anyone here." Sho looked between the chef and the professor before continuing. "If you can manage that, I'll welcome you back to Hinata-Sou and waive your monthly rent. Deal?"
Surprised, Mei quietly nodded as Natsumi thanked the landlord, who turned and left again without another word...
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As night came and everyone retired to their respective rooms, Sho is seen walking calmly through the premises and checking to make sure everyone was safe. As he rounded the corner to the corridor leading to his room, he narrowed his eyes as he spotted Mei waiting outside his room.
"Good evening, Sho..." Mei nodded to him quietly, wearing a modest sleeping kimono and holding a wrapped package in her hands.
"It's late, you should be resting." Sho replied coldly.
"I know, it's just..." She began, looking up at him with a sigh. "I just never got to apoligize for what happened that day... I should've been more considerate..."
"It's in the past, don't worry about it..." He then began making his way past her, but stopped as he felt her hand clinging to his sleeve, and glanced back at her.
"Here..." She held the package forward. "It's not much, but both my sister and I wanted you to have this... An apololgy gift, if you will..." Raising an eyebrow in curiousity, the landlord unwrapped the package, then paused in shock as he pulled out a picture frame...
The picture was taken in front of the Hinata-Sou on a bright summer day, with all of its former tenants and his parents in it. It also included Sho and Yuki, along with everyone of the current tenants as well, depicting them in their childhood roughly ten years ago...
Nearly moved to tears by the memories from the picture, he gently pulled the Toudai professor into his arms. Mei merely blinked, then smiled and wrapped her arms around the taller landlord...
"So am I forgiven...?" Mei smiled up at the landlord after a moment.
"Yes, you are..." Sho smiled back warmly, and decided to escort her back to her room, happy to be reunited with the last of his childhood friends...
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Like? No like? Please review!
Ah ha! Finally introduced Mei, with thanks to Mr-Winkie's suggestions! As I've said before, any suggestions through reviews, e-mail, or even AIM is welcome! Stay tuned, more coming soon!
Someone asked the other day in regards of my opinions on the "natural" pairing of Kei/Naru. Personally, anime-wise she is a very attractive character, but her personality kills it. While I do wish to slap some sense into everyone's beloved landlord for chasing her, it's beyond me. I've always been a firm believer that the other women would've treated him better, hence my first piece of writing on FF.net was born.
For those of you who dislike my opinion, remember, it's just an opinion posted by an American who believes in free speech. I'm not bashing anyone who likes the "natural" pairing, so please don't bash me either.
As always, Love Hina and its characters belong to Ken Akamatsu, all original characters belong to me and may be used with permission.
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For Love and Honor
Chapter 6: Memories
As the first rays of sunshine began shining into the room, Emi slowly stirred before sitting up in her futon. Glancing at the clock, she mentally scolded herself for missing the prime training time period of the day, and quickly dressed in her training uniform. Finishing her preparations, she reached for her bokken and paused at a curious object beside it...
A black ribbon...
Sho's hair ribbon...
Immediately several thoughts shot through her mind as she picked up the ribbon with wide eyes. 'We didn't last night... Did we...?!' She tried desperately to remember, then sighed in relief and held the ribbon to her face. 'Of course not, you idiot... He's too much of a gentleman to do that...'
Smiling to herself, she tied the ribbon to her bokken and exited her room...
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"Now let's see..." Sarah chewed on a pocky stick with a thoughtful look, as she walked in a dark passageway. She then flipped a couple pages through the notebook she carried with her as she came to a fork in the passage.
"Well, we charted the path heading right last time, guess I'm heading left!" Smiling to herself, Sarah closed the notebook and stashed it away as she continued on. Just as she dug into her pocket for another pocky stick, she heard a loud 'click' and froze...
"Aw man, not again..." Sarah sighed, just as a trapdoor opened beneath her, sending her tumbling down towards the darkness.
"I hate it when this happens...!" Her voice echoed through the secret passageways of the Hinata-Sou.
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Natsumi hummed to herself as she cooked breakfast in the kitchen, stirring a pot of miso soup gently. She smiled quietly as she realized that in a few more minutes she would once again be trying to fend off the landlord from tasting the food before the actual meal, and more often than not fail from it.
Even though he appeared to be cold and silent to everyone, he always had a smile and kind word for her that would melt her heart each time. At times, she would make him believe he had outwitted her in the kitchen just to be carried in his arm, to be close to him even if he didn't recognize her intent...
She then sighed, remembering how there was a seemingly natural bond between Sho and Emi. To her, the resident swordswoman was better at everything. She exceled in the martial arts, was in advanced academic classes, and was much more beautiful than she was... It would seem that winning the landlord's heart was an impossible task...
"Something on your mind, Natsumi?"
Blinking out of her thoughts, she turned to find Yuki and Raina smiling at her. The chef silently scolded herself, as in the time lapsed the landlord's sister had helped chop all the vegetables for her, and had even helped set the table.
"It's nothing..." Natsumi replied with a nervous smile, returning to her cooking.
"That so...?" Raina raised an eyebrow at the chef, then grinned. "Don't know about you, cousin... but looks like someone here has the hots for your brother..." Natsumi, who happened to be tasting the soup at the time, nearly spewed it back into the pot, and coughed for a moment.
"I... I don't know what you're talking about..." Natsumi replied nervously, her face flushed as she scrambled to work on the next dish for breakfast.
"It's alright, Natsumi." Yuki smiled as she helped her serve the miso soup. "My Big brother is a honest and caring person, there's nothing to be ashamed of..." Seeing the chef nod quietly with a small smile, the two cousins smiled as well and proceeded to help her with preparing the rest of breakfast...
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As Emi climbed up the last steps to the balcony, she watched as Sho flowed through a kata and simply admired his strength. Each step and strike was fluid and beautiful, yet she saw the destructive force behind each attack and the ferocity in his eyes and couldn't help but worry for him...
"You're late for training." Sho commented as he landed from a jumping roundhouse kick, and looked at the swordswoman calmly.
"Sorry, I slept in on accident..." Emi replied with a sheepish smile.
"Well, I suppose you can afford to indulge yourself every now and then..." The landlord shrugged. "By the way, Sensei called the other day and left me very precise instructions on helping you train..."
"Mother called...?" Emi gulped nervously, as her instructions tend to be harsh and taxing not only to the student's body, but mind as well... "So what is her instructions on my training for today...?"
"Fairly simple, actually..." Sho smiled. "All you have to do is hit my body physically with your bokken for your first lesson..." This caused Emi to raise her eyebrow in suspicion, as the excercise seemed far too easy for her to complete, even if she was used to attacking with energy techniques...
"Very well..." Emi bowed to the landlord, who bowed back as the two settled into ready stances. Sho adapted a loose stance with his hands in front of him, while Emi positioned her bokken close to her right ear. Neither side moved as they tested each other's patience, and finally Emi's ran out as she charged forward with a loud battle cry and delievered a massive shomen strike, designed to cleave an opponent from shoulder to hip...
...Except Sho was now standing parallel with her instead, and connected with a vicious right to her leg. Biting back a cry, she limped back several steps to resume her stance. She knew that he had held back, or her leg would have been in multiple pieces by now. Nontheless, she was going to have a nasty bruise later...
"Too slow, are you even awake yet...?" Sho commented, and Emi found herself speechless at the sight of his eyes, which were as emotionless as when she first moved into the dorm...
'Was last night really just a dream...?' Emi thought as she switched to an offensive stance. '...Or is he just really serious about his training...?' With a roar, she faked a swing to his midsection, then proceeded into a decapitating blow towards his neck. The landlord calmly dodged the first swing, and before the swordswoman's astonished eyes lightly tapped the flat of her bokken with his palm, deflecting it off course. Before she could recover from being set off balance, he had set a foot behind her legs, and used the momentum of her swing to trip her, sending her crashing onto her back.
Wincing in pain from landing on her shoulders, Emi slowly opened her eyes to see Sho kneeling above her, and her eyes widened slightly as she felt the landlord's hand brush a lock of hair from her face, then gently carress her cheek... Looking up, she saw that the warmth and caring he had shown her before had returned in his eyes. Reaching up, she cupped Sho's face in her hands, and felt her heart melt as he smiled at her warmly, as she pulled him down into a passionate kiss and feel him reciprocate, she smiled inwardly...
'It wasn't a dream, after all...'
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Having returned inside the dorm, Sho made his usual attempt to sneak a taste of Natsumi's cooking, but was surprised as he was beaten back into retreating through a combined effort from Raina and Yuki, who were apparently assisting the chef with breakfast. Forced to wait at the dining table for the first time in weeks, the landlord sat with a dejected look on his face, but was surprised as Sarah suddenly fell through a ceiling panel and bowled the two to the ground...
"Ah, dining room!" Sarah smiled, sitting up and happily jotting in her notebook. "So that's where that branch leads to..."
"Someone needs to go on a diet..." Sho commented as he shot the American an annoyed look, who stuck her tongue out at him before getting off his body. She then watched curiously as the landlord replace the ceiling panel with a raised eyebrow.
"Hmm, someone's cheerful this morning..." She commented at seeing his neutral expression, rather than his usual brooding. "...Someone get lucky last night, by chance?" This drew a death glare from the landlord, to which she laughed and waved her hand to show she was joking.
"Breakfast is ready!" Natsumi announced cheerfully, as she and her 'helpers' arrived with an assortment of food. Eyes lighting up in delight, Sho quickly forgot the comments from Sarah, and the group settled down to yet another woderful meal prepared by their master chef...
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Being on a weekend, the female tenants had no school and decided to gather to talk about "women issues," which sent the landlord off to clean the hot spring and drew laughs from everyone else. Amidst the laughs and cheerful talking, a knock at the front door drew everyone's attention, and Yuki went to greet the visitor with Emi following close behind, ready to protect the landlord's sister if need be...
A woman greeted the two residents at the doorway, her auborn hair was long and refined, and she wore a simple blue business dress under a white lab coat. Her brown eyes seemed to reflect ages of knowledge which was reinforced with the name badge that marked her as a professor at Toudai.
Emi merely blinked in surprise, while Yuki smiled in recognition and led the woman inside. As the newcomer sat with the group in the living room, Sarah grinned as she recognized the woman and waved at her.
"Hey there, pint-size. Haven't seen you in ages..." Sarah smiled, then raised an eyebrow. "And a Toudai professor now, no less!"
"Nice to see you too, Sarah." The woman replied with a smile, then thanked Natsumi as a cup of tea was handed to her. As Yuki inquired to the reason of her visit, she smiled. "Well, I was checking my student listing for this upcoming semester, and I was surprised to see you and your brother's name, so I decided to come pay a visit and..." Her voice trailed off as she looked behind Yuki, and the group turned to find the landlord watching them.
"Mei Narusegawa..." The landlord narrowed his eyes, surprising everyone by his cold attitude towards the visitor. "What business do you have here at the Hinata-Sou...?"
Sighing, the woman stood and walked up to Sho, looking up at him with a sad expression. "Sho, I just want to apoligize about last time..." Her sentence was cut off abruptly as the landlord suddenly turned and walked away, leaving her looking down at the floor sadly.
"Whoa..." Raina blinked. "What the heck did you do to make him that mad? I'm surprised he hasn't ripped your head off..."
"It's something that happened after the accident..." Mei replied with a sigh as she rejoined the group. "I was trying to bring him back from the depression he sunk into... And me being the hotheaded bitch I was, I threw something at his head to try and snap him out of it..."
"I can understand being mad for getting hit..." Natsumi blinked. "But Sho's not the type of person to hold a grudge over that, is he...?"
"No, he's not..." Yuki shook her head sadly. "But when the said object was a picture of him and my Dad..." No more words were needed as everyone nodded in understanding, aside from his sister, Sho treasured memories of his parents more than anything in the world...
"Needless to say..." Mei continued. "His first act as the landlord of the Hinata-Sou was to evict me, despite everyone's complaints..." She then sighed and looked down into her cup of tea. "I guess he still hasn't quite forgiven me for that..."
"It's just a misunderstanding... We all know that..." Yuki patted Mei's hand reassuringly with a gentle smile. "But I believe you were going to tell us the reason of your visit...?"
"Of course..." Mei smiled slightly. "As I said, I noticed your names on my students' list, so I wanted to come by and see if either of you would be interested in being tutored by me after classes..."
"Thanks, but not interested in your offer." Everyone looked up in surprise as Sho entered the room again. "But I'll work out a deal with you: Natsumi needs a tutor to help her out, and I believe you're more qualified than anyone here." Sho looked between the chef and the professor before continuing. "If you can manage that, I'll welcome you back to Hinata-Sou and waive your monthly rent. Deal?"
Surprised, Mei quietly nodded as Natsumi thanked the landlord, who turned and left again without another word...
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As night came and everyone retired to their respective rooms, Sho is seen walking calmly through the premises and checking to make sure everyone was safe. As he rounded the corner to the corridor leading to his room, he narrowed his eyes as he spotted Mei waiting outside his room.
"Good evening, Sho..." Mei nodded to him quietly, wearing a modest sleeping kimono and holding a wrapped package in her hands.
"It's late, you should be resting." Sho replied coldly.
"I know, it's just..." She began, looking up at him with a sigh. "I just never got to apoligize for what happened that day... I should've been more considerate..."
"It's in the past, don't worry about it..." He then began making his way past her, but stopped as he felt her hand clinging to his sleeve, and glanced back at her.
"Here..." She held the package forward. "It's not much, but both my sister and I wanted you to have this... An apololgy gift, if you will..." Raising an eyebrow in curiousity, the landlord unwrapped the package, then paused in shock as he pulled out a picture frame...
The picture was taken in front of the Hinata-Sou on a bright summer day, with all of its former tenants and his parents in it. It also included Sho and Yuki, along with everyone of the current tenants as well, depicting them in their childhood roughly ten years ago...
Nearly moved to tears by the memories from the picture, he gently pulled the Toudai professor into his arms. Mei merely blinked, then smiled and wrapped her arms around the taller landlord...
"So am I forgiven...?" Mei smiled up at the landlord after a moment.
"Yes, you are..." Sho smiled back warmly, and decided to escort her back to her room, happy to be reunited with the last of his childhood friends...
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Like? No like? Please review!
Ah ha! Finally introduced Mei, with thanks to Mr-Winkie's suggestions! As I've said before, any suggestions through reviews, e-mail, or even AIM is welcome! Stay tuned, more coming soon!