Love Hina: Deadly Secrets!
By White Magician
A/N:This is a Love Hina / Mortal Kombat x-over. This is going to have elements from the game and the movies, this means that certain things that happen in the movie will not be true. Sub-Zero and Scorpion will not be slaves under Shang Tsung's control. Sub-Zero was hired from the lin kui by the sorcerer, and Scorpion will have come to the island because of his quest for revenge against Sub-Zero. Also that means that Scorpion's spear attack is not some pirahana plant thing coming out of his hand. I will also add quite a few characters from the other Mortal Kombat games and not just the first. Also there will be some original character's also.Now some of you might be wondering how Love Hina is going to fit into all this you'll just have to read. Also I will add some characters from other animes, games, and shows. Disclaimer: I do not own Love Hina, Mortal Kombat, Metal Gear, Yu Yu Hakusho, Dragonball Z, Cyborg 009, or Teen Titans.
Claimer:Hiroshi, and the made up Lin Kui Ninjas. Not sure if I can claim the entire plot but I do own at least some of it. I also own this computer, a half eaten candy bar, over 5,000 yu-gi-oh trading cards, manga both translatated and not translated, and my soul. I own nothing else but that is going to change when I trade in my soul for ownership of Kaolla Su and her Mecha Tamas! I will then use them to take over the world! Mwahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!
Naru Narusegawa woke up to the banging of hammers. She shot up from her futon and looked around trying to tell where it was coming from. Soon she realised that it was coming from Keitaro's room. She removed the plywood from the hole and tried to stick her head down into the room to see what was going on but met resistance. There covering the hole was another large piece of plywood. She was so used to being able to get through the hole that she did not even look.
"I guess he really is mad at us." She said as she got up. She got up and placed the board back over what was once the hole. She got left her room and could not help but beat herself up mentally. She knew that Keitaro would never have done something like that but like always her anger got to her.
"Hey Naru!" Came the energetic voice of Su as she passed her right up. At that moment she smelled the air and relised that something was cooking. And since she was the only one besides Shinobu who could cook even the slightest that must have meant that Shinobu was home. As she walked into the kitchen she was shocked to see Keitaro cooking.
When did he learn to cook? She thought as she sat down next to Su who was drooling in anticipation of the food. After a few minutes Keitaro placed a plate of food down in front of Su and then went back to cooking. Soon all of the Hinata house residents except for Shinobu were down at the table, most shocked that Keitaro was cooking. He placed a plate in front Kitsune and then one in front of one of the empty seats and sat down in it. Naru and Motoko just stared at him.
"What!?" He said as he noticed the two sets of eyes on him.
"Weren't you going to cook something for us?" Naru asked.
"Oh." He then reached into his pockets and pulled out two packages of instant ramen and threw one at each of them. "I'm sure you know how to heat the water he said and then went back to eating. Motoko started to get mad and was about to pull out her sword but Naru managed to catch her eye and shook her head to say not to do it. Motoko looked a little doubtful but then took her hand off her sword. She then handed a piece of paper to Motoko.
Meeting in the attic after breakfast. Pass it to Su and Kitsune.
Motoko read it and quietly passed it on to Su, who then passed it to Kitsune. Kitsune was about to put it in her pocket until she could throw it away when a hand snatched it up. The hand happened to belong to none other then Keitaro. He took a look at it and then looked at thne four girls. He threw the note on the ground and then stomped on it.
"Fine! Go on and have your meeting. I already know who it is about. He then walked out and headed for the living room. All the girls looked towards the door, two with a look of worry, and two with a look of shame.
The nerve of them. They think they can discuss my life as if I had no control over it. God damn it!!! My life is going straight to hell and it is all that damn ninja's fault. He collapsed on the couch and began to look at the ceiling. He was mentally drained and could not bring himself to get up.
He was lying there when the door opened up and was soon slammed. Standing at the door was Shinobu looking tired and sad. She walked over to the couch and sat down next to Keitaro. At that moment Keitaro noticed the sound of footsteps going up the stairs. He knew it must have been.the other girls about to go to their 'meeting'.
"Are you okay sempai?" Shinobu asked from her spot on the couch.
"Just feeling like shit put in a bag, hanged in the air and used as a punching bag by Mike Tyson." This managed to get Shinobu to laugh a bit but it sounded forced. "How is Haruka doing?" He finnaly asked.
Shinobu sat up at this and turned around. She could not bring herself to look at him. "The doctors say their doing their best but..." She then burst into tears. Keitaro got up and turned her around. She looked down to keep from making eyes contact. He pulled her close and tried to comfort her as she continued to sob.
"It's going to be all right. Haruka is a strong woman and I'm sure she will make it." He said not only to calm her down but to also put his mind at ease. Not to long after that Keitaro looked down to find Shinobu had fallen asleep on him and he could not bring himself to wake her up. After a few minutes he himself felt his eyes begin to close. That was the last thing he remembered before falling asleep.
"Could some of you tell me what's going on? I know that Haruka got hurt but why is Keitaro acting so cold to you two?" Kitsune asked. The four of them were all sitting in the attic and Kitsune was curious as to what caused the ronin's sudden change in attitude towards her friends.
"It was because of last night. Before Haruka was taken away we kinda did something that I'm not proud of..." Naru trailed off and could not bring herself to finish becuse he was so embarrased. Kitsune managed to put two and two together and figured out what happened.
"You guys sure know how to make a mountain out of a mole hill." She said as she looked to Su who had a clueless expression on her face. "Keitaro may be stupid, perveted, and completely unreliable but he wouldn't hurt anyone. Especially not Haruka." She then headed to the exit. "If you guys are trying to do something about Keitaro then you will not be getting any help from me. I'll be in my room drinking my Sake."
Both of Motoko and Naru looked at each other and sighed.
"I guess we'll just have to apologize. That is the only thing I can think of, unless Su can give us an even better idea." She said.
"Well how about you give Keitaro a lot of bananas!?" Su suggested and began to day dream about banana's.
"I highly doubt Urashima would except bananas as a form of apology." Motoko said and cringed at the thought of apologizing to Keitaro but as a warrior she was honor bound to apologize and admit her mistake. But then the thought of how perverted and weak she thinks he is comes to mind. This is gonna be harder then I thought. (15 minutes later.)
Motoko and Naru were both heading down the stairs after argueing over how to apologize. Su was of no help by suggesting the most craziest ways of apologizing (saying most of them were ways to apologize in her country.)
When they reached the living room both stopped and their face turned ash color. There on the couch was Keitaro very close to Shinobu with his arms around her waist. At this moment all thought of apologizing went down the drain only to be replaced with thoughts of his slow painful death.
"YOU PERVERT!!!" Both screamed at the same time waking both Keitaro and Shinobu. Keitaro merely got up and glared at the two. He was really not in the mood for this. He put his hands in the air and slowly began to back away from them.
How the hell am I to get away from them. I already showed to much yesterday by breaking Motoko's sword. He soon felt hi back pressing against the wall and could not move back any farther. Both Naru and Motoko were slowly going in for the kill. Keitaro felt like he was on one of those nature documentaries and they were the animals. He could almost hear in his head the host talking in his head.
'Here we see the young male landlord geek being stalked by one of the most dangerous predators in the land of Hinata, the enraged female tenant. As you can see the youngest and most docile tenant is standing to the side with worry on her face.' yup that sounded like what was going through his head. They were getting closer and was almost in reach of Keitaro when a sudden loud bang came from the door. Naru and Motoko looked at each other wondering what to do.
"I'll get it. You just keep the pervert here." Naru said and headed to the door. The sound of the door opening could be heard. "Yes? What is it?"
The next voice sounded very familiar to him "We are looking for a Kei..." The voice was interuppted by a voice he could never forget.
"Hey Beautiful!!! How about you and me go on a nice romantic stroll!?" Then the sound of cackling came and soon a very loud bang.
"Perverted old man!" Came the usual screech of Naru. Keitaro quickly ran to the door, ducking Motoko's swing and looked outside to see Roshi slammed into a tree with two very bewildered teenage boys with their mouths hanging open in shock.
Roshi was in his usual monk robes and still had his sunglasses.
Hiroshi was amazingly wearing a shirt. It was a black short sleeve shirt. 'Stupidity is not a crime so your free to go.' was written on the shirt in english. He was wearing jeans that were really faded and worn.
Kenshi was wearing a brown leather jacket with a white t-shirt on. He was wearing kakhi pants with several holes in them that looked intentionally put there. Kenshi seemed to have gotten one of Roshi's habits as he was now wearing sunglasses exactly like Roshi's
Naru then turned to the boys and gave them a glare. "I don't know what you are trying to pull but you better leave now! Don't you know that this is a Girls Dorm!" She yelled at the two.
"But then what is our friend Keitaro doing here?" The younger one said and pointed his hand towards Keitaro but his face did not even look to Keitaro.
"Well... uhh... Wait! How do you know Keitaro!?" Naru suddenly yelled.
"Kenshi! Hiroshi!" Keitaro lunged forward and gave both of them big hugs. "It's been so long!"
"Well we got your letter and decided it was time to visit an old friend." Hiroshi said, his face now back to being it's usual stoic look instead of the shock from before.
"Also we were wondering if maybe we could stay with you for a while." Kenshi said as he was peeling Roshi off the tree.
"Absolutly not!" Naru said as she pounded the table. All the residents were there watching the exchange. "I barely tolerate having a male as a landlord but I will not allow three more males staying even one night!" She stated very loudly. Right next to her was Motoko agreeing with her. Motoko had her sword drawn and was polishing her sword while giving the three guys creepy looking glares.
"Well actually I can't stay much longer anyway. I have duties to take care of where we come from. The only ones who would stay is my nephews, and all they will do is hang out with Keitaro and training themselves." Roshi said.
"Training?" Motoko's interest had been peaked at the last word.
"Yeah me and my brother are Martial artists." Kenshi expleained.
"I thought that would be obvious because Keitaro..." BANG!!! Hiroshi had at that moment got a swift kick to the knee and if were not for his usual practice of not showing emotion everyone would have seen him in a lot of pain. He gave Keitaro a barely noticable glare and Keitaro made a signal to button his lip. "Because Keitaro should have told you all about us." He said while rubbing his knee.
"Well he did not. How about me and you have a sparring match. If you win you can stay, but If I win you must leave and never come back to this place." Motoko said and pointed her sword at Hiroshi.
"Fine I accept your challenge. Just name the time and place." He said and glared at Motoko. The other people in the room could feel the tension the air as both glared at each other.
"Wow this place looks familiar" Keitaro said as he looked at the area. The area was filled with lots of plants and a waterfall that poured into a large pond with an island in the middle. The water then would empty out into the river that went through the center of Hinata city.
"Well it should be. Motoko tried to kill you here before but it ended in a tie." Kitsune said. Motoko was standing on the island with her sword drawn and was waiting for Hiroshi to appear. At the moment their was no sign of Roshi, Kenshi, or Hiroshi.
"It seems that your friends showed their true natures. They are mere cowards with no warrior's honor." Motoko yelled towards the landlord.
"Honor has nothing to do with it." Came the voice of Hiroshi. Everyone looked around for the owner of the voice but he could not be found. "Even if I had no honor I would still have come for my friend." Then there was a bright flash right in front of Motoko that caused all of them to cover their eyes. When their vision recovered there was Hiroshi standing in front of Motoko. He was wearing the bottom part of his gi with a black belt around his waist. On his back was a tattoo of a large sea turtle. Keitaro could not help but wonder how he was able to have no shirt on in this cold weather.
"Are you ready?" he said and looked to his brother and uncle who was now sitting next to everyone.
"Yes. But I cannot do battle with someone who is weaponless."
"But Keitaro is an exception, right?" He said. His face remained stoic but inside he enjoyed the look of shock on Motoko's face. "Don't be so surprised. Keitaro told us about all you girls in his letters." He then looked over to Roshi and jerked his head as if to tell him to come over there. Roshi took out a small staff like weapon from his robes and threw it to Hiroshi. It was about three feet long and a foot of it in the middle seemed to be a handle. A foot on each side of it seemed to be holding something and was was proven when Hiroshi pushed a button and two blades extended from each side making the staff now five feet long.
"Uhh Roshi... Do you happen to have anymore weapon hidden in that robe?" Keitaro asked and eyed the monk with suspicion.
"Only a few." He then began to pull weapons out of his robes. "Let's see. I have a sword, a few daggers, some throwing stars, tonfas, butterfly knifes..." And he continued to pull weapons out while everyone's eyes began to bulge in amazement as he pulled out many different weapons from his robes.
Where does he keep it all. Keitaro thought as a sweat drop formed on the back of his head.
"Now that I have a weapon we can begin." Hiroshi said. Both him and Motoko got into their stances. Both di not make a move as each studied their opponent. Then a gust of sind blew through the area and both took that as their signal to start. Both combatants seemed to dissapear and then both reappeared on the opposite side, both looking slightly winded.
"Woah! I barely even saw them move!" Kitsune exclaimed.
"All I got were a few flashes and then they reappeared." Naru said as she looked back and forth between the two fighters.
They may have not seen all their movements but I did. They had both made at least nine attacks each and none had hit their mark. Motoko never fought like that against me. Could it be that she had been holding back all this time because she thought I was weakling. Keitaro thought as he looked on in awe at the two. Both Hiroshi and Motoko were slightly above his level of fighting. He knew he would be much stronger if he had trained harder all these years. When ever he trained it was merely to keep himself at the level he was when he left the temple but now he saw that he needed to train alot harder now.
Hiroshi turned around and slashed the air in front of him. A wave of distorted air raced towards Motoko. She fell to the ground and the wave went over her and crashed into a tree behind her, cutting the tree in two.
"Air Cutting Flash Mystic Strike!" Motoko yelled and sent a ki wave towards Hiroshi. He put his hand in front of him and managed to deflect it to the side. He then jumped into the air and brought his staff up in front of him.
"Faded Circle" He spun around which sent a circle of energy through the air in all directions like ripples in pond. Motoko got hit with the full force of the attack and was sent flying towards the tree behind her. She turned around midair and planted her feet on the tree and pushed herself off it and towards Hiroshi. She held her sword above her head and brought it foreward to slash him but he dodged it. She did a horizontal strike but that was blocked and followed up by punching her in the stomach and following up with a swift uppercut to the face. She flew through the air and landed painfully on her back.
"Had enough?" He said from where he was standing but then noticed her form begin to dissapear. An after image!? He thought before feeling a ki blast hit him on the back. He fell to one knee and panted hard as he heard her footsteps coming towards him. He then felt her blade on his neck.
"I guess you lose." Motoko said.
He turned around and put his hands up as if to surrender, but then he brought his hands towards her. "You... are... a sleeeeeepy girl..." He said and waved his hands around as if hypnotizing her.
"What is he doing?" Su asked Roshi.
"An attack I taught him called the sleepy boy tachnique, or girl in this case. It sends ki in small gentle waves towards the opponent and stimulates the nerves to make the brain feel sleepy." He said as he waved a flag with Hiroshi's face on it.
Motoko at the moment was barely able to keep her eyes open. She dropped her blade and then fell backwards. Su came then appeared near her with a referee outfit on.
"One... Two... Three... Four... five... six... seven... eight... nine... ten! The winner by a knock out is Hiroshi!" She said through a microphone.
"That wasn't fair!!! That was no martial arts technique, that was hypnosis!" Naru yelled. She could not stand the idea that the two 'perverts' were going to stay now and was trying to come up with some way that she could stop this from happening.
"Come on. I explained it just a few minutes ago. The sleepy boy technique uses ki to put an opponent to sleep. If the use of ki is not part of martial arts then half the stuff Motoko was doing wasn't fair either." Roshi explained with a slight bit of irritation in his voice.
"Well it was Motoko who made that deal. You still don't got the rest of our votes!" She said and looked towards the others hoping for their help.
"Wow that was so cool! I could hardly keep up with you guys. You remind me so much of the people in my video games." Su was saying to Hiroshi as she hanged from his shoulders. Kitsune was giving Hiroshi a very sly grin and seemed to be trying to flirt with him but he merely gave her his usual stoic face. Shinobu was talking with Kenshi and seemed to be enjoying herself. Naru now had a sweatdrop on her forhead and a small breeze blew a few leaved passed her.
"Fine! They can stay but any screw ups and they are out!" She said and stomped off towards the Hinata house.
"Well I better be going. You two better keep on training." Roshi said and then gave Keitaro a look that just screamed 'and I expect the same thing of you slacker.' Before he left he gave the girls a wink "See you later girls!" (In Keitaro's room.)
All three boys had been in the room for about half an hour. Hiroshi was leaning against a bookcase with his arms crossed, looking ahead of himself blankly as if in a trance. Kenshi was laying down on the ground with the back of his head cupped in his hands. Keitaro was sitting down on his bed and was looking at both his freinds.
Keitaro's mind was full of questions. He could not figure out which to ask first. Everytime he chose one, another more important one would come up. Finally he just settled on the one that had been plaguing him for two years.
"Why haven't you wrote back to me in these last few years?" Keitaro asked his friends. Hiroshi turned his gaze to the landlord, but Kenshi did not look towards him. Keitaro wondered if his friend had heard him. "Kenshi? Are you listening?"
"I can hear you just fine." He said and then let out a sad sounding sigh. Keitaro wondered about that but was put to a halt as Kenshi continued to speak. "The answer to your question is that we have been under constant training with Roshi. We only had time to eat sleep and any necessary stuff. He even made us wear double the wieghted clothing when doing chores. Several times we have tried to write a letter but usually fall asleep from exhaustion long before we even started writing the first greetings."
"Why did he train you so hard.?" Keitaro asked. This time Hiroshi answered.
"He believed we would be invited to the Mortal Kombat tournament."
"That brings up another question. What is Mortal Kombat and why was I invited?"
"Mortal Kombat is tournament set up by the elder gods in order to..."
"Hold on!" Keitaro yelled. "Not this whole elder gods thing again." He then turned towards Hiroshi, "I thought I told you guys before. I don't believe in that."
"And you also did not believe that the use of ki was real." Hiroshi said. If you looked real close you could almost see a smirk on his face. "Now your not only able to use it. It's also your best ability."
"Fine. I was wrong about that. But I still have no proof that those "gods" even exist. I can't go chasing fairy tales."
"Then why are you going to the tournament?" Kenshi asked.
Keitaro sighed at this question. He then reached into his pocket and pulled out the pieces of the note that had been near his aunt. He then handed them to Kenshi. Kenshi merely held them up and Hiroshi grabbed them. He went over to Keitaro's desk and began to piece them together. After a few minutes it was completed and he was reading it.
"This is the reason for you going. I can't believe that you would go for something as petty as revenge." Hiroshi said and then threw the pieces into the trash can.
"Don't you know. I explained it in my letter that I sent."
"I thought maybe it had been written in the heat of the moment. I never believed you to be the type for revenge." Hiroshi said. "But I guess I got the wrong idea about you."
"Well I'm sorry if you did. If you want to leave because of it I'm sure Motoko and Naru would be so happy to kick you out." He said. Hiroshi merely sighed.
"We can't leave. Not while our friend needs help. we'll support you just to make sure you don't get youself killed." Hiroshi said.
"Thank you. I'm real glad you guys are here." Keitaro said and wiped and wiped a tear from his eye. "So I'm guessing Roshi was right. You guys are invited to the tournament."
"Yup." Kenshi said. "The elders were horrified when we told them. They thought there was some kind of mistake. They wanted proof that we were good enough to enter. They had us fight who they considered the most likely be invited."
"Let me take a guess. Shin was one fo them." Keitaro said with a big grin on his face. Shin had been a really arrogant student at the temple. He was considered the most skilled student by the teachers, and he had been the bane of Keitaro and his friends.
"Yes. He was one of the students to go against Hiroshi. He was hit one time and was knocked out." Kenshi said.
"I wish I was there." Keitaro said as he pictured the boy being thrown across the room. "I wish someone had taken pictures."
"We did. I'll show them to you later. Right now I want to take a bath." Kenshi said and stood up. He grabbed his bag and began to head out the door.
"Wait! I'll show you to the bath." Keitaro said.
"No need. I can smell the minerals of the hot springs." He said and left.
"No wait!" but Kenshi was gone. "Great... The girls are gonna find him and attack him."
"What!? They would attack Kenshi?" Hiroshi questioned.
"Most of the girls will. Once they dub someone a pervert they never give him a chance. Since you are my friends they will think your nothing but perverts."
"Well, Kenshi can take care of himself, and it's almost impossible for him to be considered perverted."
"Why is that?" Keitaro asked. (Kenshi)
Kenshi was now in the changing room of the hot springs. He took off all his clothes and grabbed a towel and wrapped it around himself, leaving his sunglasses on. He walked towards the spring, dragging his right hand along the wall as he held his towel with the left. He felt the heat coming from the water and went towards it. His feet brushed against the rocks of the spring and carefully climbed into it. He sighed and leaned back sleepily. (Keitaro and Hiroshi)
"It was several months after you left. Kenshi was given the chore of keeping all the candles lit one night. After a few hours he was relighting another candle when Shin and his gang had decided to pick on Kenshi." Hiroshi said, for once not hiding his emotions. Grief was clearly shown on his face.
"What happened next?" (Kenshi)
Kenshi soon heard several voices coming towards the springs. He slipped lower into the water. From the feel of the mist against his skin he knew it was pretty thick. He was going on instincts to check to see if there was a threat. He could tell by the sound of the voices that it was Kitsune, Motoko, and Naru. He quickly got up and put his towel around his waist, thinking there was no threat. He soon found out he was wrong as he heard the familiar sound of a sword being drawn. He barely had time to duck and he felt the sword pass by him just inches above him.
"What the hell is wrong with you!?" He yelled as he dodged a powerful punch that came from where Naru was.
"The fact the a peeping tom such as yourself is in here!" Motoko yelled and sent a ki wave at him which he just merely countered with one of his own.
"Peeping tom?" He said in a confused tone. "You must be mistaken. I can't be one."
"What reason do you have to say that?" Naru yelled as she tried to hit him again. (Keitaro and Hiroshi)
"Kenshi told me that they had started to say things about you and how that you had run away from the temple because you were scared. He defended you and they got mad at that and decided to make his job harder. They began to knock over several of the higher candles. One ha managed to catch a tapestry on fire and they quickly ran when they realized what they had done."
"What happened next?" Keitaro asked fearing what he would say.
"Kenshi tried to save it but it had fallen from where it hang and landed on him." Hiroshi took a deep breath as he tried to continue his tale. "He had quite a few burns on his face but most of it had not scarred. But the damage had been done." (Kenshi)
"The reason is that I'm physically incappable of such things." He took off his glasses and showed that the areas around his eyes were scarred pretty bad. His eyes were an odd cloudy grey color. "I am blind." (A/N: I planned on this chapter being the last one in the hinata house but decided to split up the chapters. also I realised that I had made a mistake thanks to a reviewer. The god of thinder and a character from metal gear solid two had names that are pronounced almost exactly the same. So there will be no confusion the god will be spelled Rayden, and the stealth agent will be spelled Raiden. anyway, please R/R!
By White Magician
A/N:This is a Love Hina / Mortal Kombat x-over. This is going to have elements from the game and the movies, this means that certain things that happen in the movie will not be true. Sub-Zero and Scorpion will not be slaves under Shang Tsung's control. Sub-Zero was hired from the lin kui by the sorcerer, and Scorpion will have come to the island because of his quest for revenge against Sub-Zero. Also that means that Scorpion's spear attack is not some pirahana plant thing coming out of his hand. I will also add quite a few characters from the other Mortal Kombat games and not just the first. Also there will be some original character's also.Now some of you might be wondering how Love Hina is going to fit into all this you'll just have to read. Also I will add some characters from other animes, games, and shows. Disclaimer: I do not own Love Hina, Mortal Kombat, Metal Gear, Yu Yu Hakusho, Dragonball Z, Cyborg 009, or Teen Titans.
Claimer:Hiroshi, and the made up Lin Kui Ninjas. Not sure if I can claim the entire plot but I do own at least some of it. I also own this computer, a half eaten candy bar, over 5,000 yu-gi-oh trading cards, manga both translatated and not translated, and my soul. I own nothing else but that is going to change when I trade in my soul for ownership of Kaolla Su and her Mecha Tamas! I will then use them to take over the world! Mwahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!
Naru Narusegawa woke up to the banging of hammers. She shot up from her futon and looked around trying to tell where it was coming from. Soon she realised that it was coming from Keitaro's room. She removed the plywood from the hole and tried to stick her head down into the room to see what was going on but met resistance. There covering the hole was another large piece of plywood. She was so used to being able to get through the hole that she did not even look.
"I guess he really is mad at us." She said as she got up. She got up and placed the board back over what was once the hole. She got left her room and could not help but beat herself up mentally. She knew that Keitaro would never have done something like that but like always her anger got to her.
"Hey Naru!" Came the energetic voice of Su as she passed her right up. At that moment she smelled the air and relised that something was cooking. And since she was the only one besides Shinobu who could cook even the slightest that must have meant that Shinobu was home. As she walked into the kitchen she was shocked to see Keitaro cooking.
When did he learn to cook? She thought as she sat down next to Su who was drooling in anticipation of the food. After a few minutes Keitaro placed a plate of food down in front of Su and then went back to cooking. Soon all of the Hinata house residents except for Shinobu were down at the table, most shocked that Keitaro was cooking. He placed a plate in front Kitsune and then one in front of one of the empty seats and sat down in it. Naru and Motoko just stared at him.
"What!?" He said as he noticed the two sets of eyes on him.
"Weren't you going to cook something for us?" Naru asked.
"Oh." He then reached into his pockets and pulled out two packages of instant ramen and threw one at each of them. "I'm sure you know how to heat the water he said and then went back to eating. Motoko started to get mad and was about to pull out her sword but Naru managed to catch her eye and shook her head to say not to do it. Motoko looked a little doubtful but then took her hand off her sword. She then handed a piece of paper to Motoko.
Meeting in the attic after breakfast. Pass it to Su and Kitsune.
Motoko read it and quietly passed it on to Su, who then passed it to Kitsune. Kitsune was about to put it in her pocket until she could throw it away when a hand snatched it up. The hand happened to belong to none other then Keitaro. He took a look at it and then looked at thne four girls. He threw the note on the ground and then stomped on it.
"Fine! Go on and have your meeting. I already know who it is about. He then walked out and headed for the living room. All the girls looked towards the door, two with a look of worry, and two with a look of shame.
The nerve of them. They think they can discuss my life as if I had no control over it. God damn it!!! My life is going straight to hell and it is all that damn ninja's fault. He collapsed on the couch and began to look at the ceiling. He was mentally drained and could not bring himself to get up.
He was lying there when the door opened up and was soon slammed. Standing at the door was Shinobu looking tired and sad. She walked over to the couch and sat down next to Keitaro. At that moment Keitaro noticed the sound of footsteps going up the stairs. He knew it must have been.the other girls about to go to their 'meeting'.
"Are you okay sempai?" Shinobu asked from her spot on the couch.
"Just feeling like shit put in a bag, hanged in the air and used as a punching bag by Mike Tyson." This managed to get Shinobu to laugh a bit but it sounded forced. "How is Haruka doing?" He finnaly asked.
Shinobu sat up at this and turned around. She could not bring herself to look at him. "The doctors say their doing their best but..." She then burst into tears. Keitaro got up and turned her around. She looked down to keep from making eyes contact. He pulled her close and tried to comfort her as she continued to sob.
"It's going to be all right. Haruka is a strong woman and I'm sure she will make it." He said not only to calm her down but to also put his mind at ease. Not to long after that Keitaro looked down to find Shinobu had fallen asleep on him and he could not bring himself to wake her up. After a few minutes he himself felt his eyes begin to close. That was the last thing he remembered before falling asleep.
"Could some of you tell me what's going on? I know that Haruka got hurt but why is Keitaro acting so cold to you two?" Kitsune asked. The four of them were all sitting in the attic and Kitsune was curious as to what caused the ronin's sudden change in attitude towards her friends.
"It was because of last night. Before Haruka was taken away we kinda did something that I'm not proud of..." Naru trailed off and could not bring herself to finish becuse he was so embarrased. Kitsune managed to put two and two together and figured out what happened.
"You guys sure know how to make a mountain out of a mole hill." She said as she looked to Su who had a clueless expression on her face. "Keitaro may be stupid, perveted, and completely unreliable but he wouldn't hurt anyone. Especially not Haruka." She then headed to the exit. "If you guys are trying to do something about Keitaro then you will not be getting any help from me. I'll be in my room drinking my Sake."
Both of Motoko and Naru looked at each other and sighed.
"I guess we'll just have to apologize. That is the only thing I can think of, unless Su can give us an even better idea." She said.
"Well how about you give Keitaro a lot of bananas!?" Su suggested and began to day dream about banana's.
"I highly doubt Urashima would except bananas as a form of apology." Motoko said and cringed at the thought of apologizing to Keitaro but as a warrior she was honor bound to apologize and admit her mistake. But then the thought of how perverted and weak she thinks he is comes to mind. This is gonna be harder then I thought. (15 minutes later.)
Motoko and Naru were both heading down the stairs after argueing over how to apologize. Su was of no help by suggesting the most craziest ways of apologizing (saying most of them were ways to apologize in her country.)
When they reached the living room both stopped and their face turned ash color. There on the couch was Keitaro very close to Shinobu with his arms around her waist. At this moment all thought of apologizing went down the drain only to be replaced with thoughts of his slow painful death.
"YOU PERVERT!!!" Both screamed at the same time waking both Keitaro and Shinobu. Keitaro merely got up and glared at the two. He was really not in the mood for this. He put his hands in the air and slowly began to back away from them.
How the hell am I to get away from them. I already showed to much yesterday by breaking Motoko's sword. He soon felt hi back pressing against the wall and could not move back any farther. Both Naru and Motoko were slowly going in for the kill. Keitaro felt like he was on one of those nature documentaries and they were the animals. He could almost hear in his head the host talking in his head.
'Here we see the young male landlord geek being stalked by one of the most dangerous predators in the land of Hinata, the enraged female tenant. As you can see the youngest and most docile tenant is standing to the side with worry on her face.' yup that sounded like what was going through his head. They were getting closer and was almost in reach of Keitaro when a sudden loud bang came from the door. Naru and Motoko looked at each other wondering what to do.
"I'll get it. You just keep the pervert here." Naru said and headed to the door. The sound of the door opening could be heard. "Yes? What is it?"
The next voice sounded very familiar to him "We are looking for a Kei..." The voice was interuppted by a voice he could never forget.
"Hey Beautiful!!! How about you and me go on a nice romantic stroll!?" Then the sound of cackling came and soon a very loud bang.
"Perverted old man!" Came the usual screech of Naru. Keitaro quickly ran to the door, ducking Motoko's swing and looked outside to see Roshi slammed into a tree with two very bewildered teenage boys with their mouths hanging open in shock.
Roshi was in his usual monk robes and still had his sunglasses.
Hiroshi was amazingly wearing a shirt. It was a black short sleeve shirt. 'Stupidity is not a crime so your free to go.' was written on the shirt in english. He was wearing jeans that were really faded and worn.
Kenshi was wearing a brown leather jacket with a white t-shirt on. He was wearing kakhi pants with several holes in them that looked intentionally put there. Kenshi seemed to have gotten one of Roshi's habits as he was now wearing sunglasses exactly like Roshi's
Naru then turned to the boys and gave them a glare. "I don't know what you are trying to pull but you better leave now! Don't you know that this is a Girls Dorm!" She yelled at the two.
"But then what is our friend Keitaro doing here?" The younger one said and pointed his hand towards Keitaro but his face did not even look to Keitaro.
"Well... uhh... Wait! How do you know Keitaro!?" Naru suddenly yelled.
"Kenshi! Hiroshi!" Keitaro lunged forward and gave both of them big hugs. "It's been so long!"
"Well we got your letter and decided it was time to visit an old friend." Hiroshi said, his face now back to being it's usual stoic look instead of the shock from before.
"Also we were wondering if maybe we could stay with you for a while." Kenshi said as he was peeling Roshi off the tree.
"Absolutly not!" Naru said as she pounded the table. All the residents were there watching the exchange. "I barely tolerate having a male as a landlord but I will not allow three more males staying even one night!" She stated very loudly. Right next to her was Motoko agreeing with her. Motoko had her sword drawn and was polishing her sword while giving the three guys creepy looking glares.
"Well actually I can't stay much longer anyway. I have duties to take care of where we come from. The only ones who would stay is my nephews, and all they will do is hang out with Keitaro and training themselves." Roshi said.
"Training?" Motoko's interest had been peaked at the last word.
"Yeah me and my brother are Martial artists." Kenshi expleained.
"I thought that would be obvious because Keitaro..." BANG!!! Hiroshi had at that moment got a swift kick to the knee and if were not for his usual practice of not showing emotion everyone would have seen him in a lot of pain. He gave Keitaro a barely noticable glare and Keitaro made a signal to button his lip. "Because Keitaro should have told you all about us." He said while rubbing his knee.
"Well he did not. How about me and you have a sparring match. If you win you can stay, but If I win you must leave and never come back to this place." Motoko said and pointed her sword at Hiroshi.
"Fine I accept your challenge. Just name the time and place." He said and glared at Motoko. The other people in the room could feel the tension the air as both glared at each other.
"Wow this place looks familiar" Keitaro said as he looked at the area. The area was filled with lots of plants and a waterfall that poured into a large pond with an island in the middle. The water then would empty out into the river that went through the center of Hinata city.
"Well it should be. Motoko tried to kill you here before but it ended in a tie." Kitsune said. Motoko was standing on the island with her sword drawn and was waiting for Hiroshi to appear. At the moment their was no sign of Roshi, Kenshi, or Hiroshi.
"It seems that your friends showed their true natures. They are mere cowards with no warrior's honor." Motoko yelled towards the landlord.
"Honor has nothing to do with it." Came the voice of Hiroshi. Everyone looked around for the owner of the voice but he could not be found. "Even if I had no honor I would still have come for my friend." Then there was a bright flash right in front of Motoko that caused all of them to cover their eyes. When their vision recovered there was Hiroshi standing in front of Motoko. He was wearing the bottom part of his gi with a black belt around his waist. On his back was a tattoo of a large sea turtle. Keitaro could not help but wonder how he was able to have no shirt on in this cold weather.
"Are you ready?" he said and looked to his brother and uncle who was now sitting next to everyone.
"Yes. But I cannot do battle with someone who is weaponless."
"But Keitaro is an exception, right?" He said. His face remained stoic but inside he enjoyed the look of shock on Motoko's face. "Don't be so surprised. Keitaro told us about all you girls in his letters." He then looked over to Roshi and jerked his head as if to tell him to come over there. Roshi took out a small staff like weapon from his robes and threw it to Hiroshi. It was about three feet long and a foot of it in the middle seemed to be a handle. A foot on each side of it seemed to be holding something and was was proven when Hiroshi pushed a button and two blades extended from each side making the staff now five feet long.
"Uhh Roshi... Do you happen to have anymore weapon hidden in that robe?" Keitaro asked and eyed the monk with suspicion.
"Only a few." He then began to pull weapons out of his robes. "Let's see. I have a sword, a few daggers, some throwing stars, tonfas, butterfly knifes..." And he continued to pull weapons out while everyone's eyes began to bulge in amazement as he pulled out many different weapons from his robes.
Where does he keep it all. Keitaro thought as a sweat drop formed on the back of his head.
"Now that I have a weapon we can begin." Hiroshi said. Both him and Motoko got into their stances. Both di not make a move as each studied their opponent. Then a gust of sind blew through the area and both took that as their signal to start. Both combatants seemed to dissapear and then both reappeared on the opposite side, both looking slightly winded.
"Woah! I barely even saw them move!" Kitsune exclaimed.
"All I got were a few flashes and then they reappeared." Naru said as she looked back and forth between the two fighters.
They may have not seen all their movements but I did. They had both made at least nine attacks each and none had hit their mark. Motoko never fought like that against me. Could it be that she had been holding back all this time because she thought I was weakling. Keitaro thought as he looked on in awe at the two. Both Hiroshi and Motoko were slightly above his level of fighting. He knew he would be much stronger if he had trained harder all these years. When ever he trained it was merely to keep himself at the level he was when he left the temple but now he saw that he needed to train alot harder now.
Hiroshi turned around and slashed the air in front of him. A wave of distorted air raced towards Motoko. She fell to the ground and the wave went over her and crashed into a tree behind her, cutting the tree in two.
"Air Cutting Flash Mystic Strike!" Motoko yelled and sent a ki wave towards Hiroshi. He put his hand in front of him and managed to deflect it to the side. He then jumped into the air and brought his staff up in front of him.
"Faded Circle" He spun around which sent a circle of energy through the air in all directions like ripples in pond. Motoko got hit with the full force of the attack and was sent flying towards the tree behind her. She turned around midair and planted her feet on the tree and pushed herself off it and towards Hiroshi. She held her sword above her head and brought it foreward to slash him but he dodged it. She did a horizontal strike but that was blocked and followed up by punching her in the stomach and following up with a swift uppercut to the face. She flew through the air and landed painfully on her back.
"Had enough?" He said from where he was standing but then noticed her form begin to dissapear. An after image!? He thought before feeling a ki blast hit him on the back. He fell to one knee and panted hard as he heard her footsteps coming towards him. He then felt her blade on his neck.
"I guess you lose." Motoko said.
He turned around and put his hands up as if to surrender, but then he brought his hands towards her. "You... are... a sleeeeeepy girl..." He said and waved his hands around as if hypnotizing her.
"What is he doing?" Su asked Roshi.
"An attack I taught him called the sleepy boy tachnique, or girl in this case. It sends ki in small gentle waves towards the opponent and stimulates the nerves to make the brain feel sleepy." He said as he waved a flag with Hiroshi's face on it.
Motoko at the moment was barely able to keep her eyes open. She dropped her blade and then fell backwards. Su came then appeared near her with a referee outfit on.
"One... Two... Three... Four... five... six... seven... eight... nine... ten! The winner by a knock out is Hiroshi!" She said through a microphone.
"That wasn't fair!!! That was no martial arts technique, that was hypnosis!" Naru yelled. She could not stand the idea that the two 'perverts' were going to stay now and was trying to come up with some way that she could stop this from happening.
"Come on. I explained it just a few minutes ago. The sleepy boy technique uses ki to put an opponent to sleep. If the use of ki is not part of martial arts then half the stuff Motoko was doing wasn't fair either." Roshi explained with a slight bit of irritation in his voice.
"Well it was Motoko who made that deal. You still don't got the rest of our votes!" She said and looked towards the others hoping for their help.
"Wow that was so cool! I could hardly keep up with you guys. You remind me so much of the people in my video games." Su was saying to Hiroshi as she hanged from his shoulders. Kitsune was giving Hiroshi a very sly grin and seemed to be trying to flirt with him but he merely gave her his usual stoic face. Shinobu was talking with Kenshi and seemed to be enjoying herself. Naru now had a sweatdrop on her forhead and a small breeze blew a few leaved passed her.
"Fine! They can stay but any screw ups and they are out!" She said and stomped off towards the Hinata house.
"Well I better be going. You two better keep on training." Roshi said and then gave Keitaro a look that just screamed 'and I expect the same thing of you slacker.' Before he left he gave the girls a wink "See you later girls!" (In Keitaro's room.)
All three boys had been in the room for about half an hour. Hiroshi was leaning against a bookcase with his arms crossed, looking ahead of himself blankly as if in a trance. Kenshi was laying down on the ground with the back of his head cupped in his hands. Keitaro was sitting down on his bed and was looking at both his freinds.
Keitaro's mind was full of questions. He could not figure out which to ask first. Everytime he chose one, another more important one would come up. Finally he just settled on the one that had been plaguing him for two years.
"Why haven't you wrote back to me in these last few years?" Keitaro asked his friends. Hiroshi turned his gaze to the landlord, but Kenshi did not look towards him. Keitaro wondered if his friend had heard him. "Kenshi? Are you listening?"
"I can hear you just fine." He said and then let out a sad sounding sigh. Keitaro wondered about that but was put to a halt as Kenshi continued to speak. "The answer to your question is that we have been under constant training with Roshi. We only had time to eat sleep and any necessary stuff. He even made us wear double the wieghted clothing when doing chores. Several times we have tried to write a letter but usually fall asleep from exhaustion long before we even started writing the first greetings."
"Why did he train you so hard.?" Keitaro asked. This time Hiroshi answered.
"He believed we would be invited to the Mortal Kombat tournament."
"That brings up another question. What is Mortal Kombat and why was I invited?"
"Mortal Kombat is tournament set up by the elder gods in order to..."
"Hold on!" Keitaro yelled. "Not this whole elder gods thing again." He then turned towards Hiroshi, "I thought I told you guys before. I don't believe in that."
"And you also did not believe that the use of ki was real." Hiroshi said. If you looked real close you could almost see a smirk on his face. "Now your not only able to use it. It's also your best ability."
"Fine. I was wrong about that. But I still have no proof that those "gods" even exist. I can't go chasing fairy tales."
"Then why are you going to the tournament?" Kenshi asked.
Keitaro sighed at this question. He then reached into his pocket and pulled out the pieces of the note that had been near his aunt. He then handed them to Kenshi. Kenshi merely held them up and Hiroshi grabbed them. He went over to Keitaro's desk and began to piece them together. After a few minutes it was completed and he was reading it.
"This is the reason for you going. I can't believe that you would go for something as petty as revenge." Hiroshi said and then threw the pieces into the trash can.
"Don't you know. I explained it in my letter that I sent."
"I thought maybe it had been written in the heat of the moment. I never believed you to be the type for revenge." Hiroshi said. "But I guess I got the wrong idea about you."
"Well I'm sorry if you did. If you want to leave because of it I'm sure Motoko and Naru would be so happy to kick you out." He said. Hiroshi merely sighed.
"We can't leave. Not while our friend needs help. we'll support you just to make sure you don't get youself killed." Hiroshi said.
"Thank you. I'm real glad you guys are here." Keitaro said and wiped and wiped a tear from his eye. "So I'm guessing Roshi was right. You guys are invited to the tournament."
"Yup." Kenshi said. "The elders were horrified when we told them. They thought there was some kind of mistake. They wanted proof that we were good enough to enter. They had us fight who they considered the most likely be invited."
"Let me take a guess. Shin was one fo them." Keitaro said with a big grin on his face. Shin had been a really arrogant student at the temple. He was considered the most skilled student by the teachers, and he had been the bane of Keitaro and his friends.
"Yes. He was one of the students to go against Hiroshi. He was hit one time and was knocked out." Kenshi said.
"I wish I was there." Keitaro said as he pictured the boy being thrown across the room. "I wish someone had taken pictures."
"We did. I'll show them to you later. Right now I want to take a bath." Kenshi said and stood up. He grabbed his bag and began to head out the door.
"Wait! I'll show you to the bath." Keitaro said.
"No need. I can smell the minerals of the hot springs." He said and left.
"No wait!" but Kenshi was gone. "Great... The girls are gonna find him and attack him."
"What!? They would attack Kenshi?" Hiroshi questioned.
"Most of the girls will. Once they dub someone a pervert they never give him a chance. Since you are my friends they will think your nothing but perverts."
"Well, Kenshi can take care of himself, and it's almost impossible for him to be considered perverted."
"Why is that?" Keitaro asked. (Kenshi)
Kenshi was now in the changing room of the hot springs. He took off all his clothes and grabbed a towel and wrapped it around himself, leaving his sunglasses on. He walked towards the spring, dragging his right hand along the wall as he held his towel with the left. He felt the heat coming from the water and went towards it. His feet brushed against the rocks of the spring and carefully climbed into it. He sighed and leaned back sleepily. (Keitaro and Hiroshi)
"It was several months after you left. Kenshi was given the chore of keeping all the candles lit one night. After a few hours he was relighting another candle when Shin and his gang had decided to pick on Kenshi." Hiroshi said, for once not hiding his emotions. Grief was clearly shown on his face.
"What happened next?" (Kenshi)
Kenshi soon heard several voices coming towards the springs. He slipped lower into the water. From the feel of the mist against his skin he knew it was pretty thick. He was going on instincts to check to see if there was a threat. He could tell by the sound of the voices that it was Kitsune, Motoko, and Naru. He quickly got up and put his towel around his waist, thinking there was no threat. He soon found out he was wrong as he heard the familiar sound of a sword being drawn. He barely had time to duck and he felt the sword pass by him just inches above him.
"What the hell is wrong with you!?" He yelled as he dodged a powerful punch that came from where Naru was.
"The fact the a peeping tom such as yourself is in here!" Motoko yelled and sent a ki wave at him which he just merely countered with one of his own.
"Peeping tom?" He said in a confused tone. "You must be mistaken. I can't be one."
"What reason do you have to say that?" Naru yelled as she tried to hit him again. (Keitaro and Hiroshi)
"Kenshi told me that they had started to say things about you and how that you had run away from the temple because you were scared. He defended you and they got mad at that and decided to make his job harder. They began to knock over several of the higher candles. One ha managed to catch a tapestry on fire and they quickly ran when they realized what they had done."
"What happened next?" Keitaro asked fearing what he would say.
"Kenshi tried to save it but it had fallen from where it hang and landed on him." Hiroshi took a deep breath as he tried to continue his tale. "He had quite a few burns on his face but most of it had not scarred. But the damage had been done." (Kenshi)
"The reason is that I'm physically incappable of such things." He took off his glasses and showed that the areas around his eyes were scarred pretty bad. His eyes were an odd cloudy grey color. "I am blind." (A/N: I planned on this chapter being the last one in the hinata house but decided to split up the chapters. also I realised that I had made a mistake thanks to a reviewer. The god of thinder and a character from metal gear solid two had names that are pronounced almost exactly the same. So there will be no confusion the god will be spelled Rayden, and the stealth agent will be spelled Raiden. anyway, please R/R!