Hello again. Heh, now that I've gotten all the negativity out of my system, I don't have much to say. Anyway, glad you enjoyed last chapter. Hopefully I can keep this going for several more chapters.

---Kouji Tamino

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Love Hina Next

Chapter 34: …And What Happened to Urashima the Second?

Rikina and Tokimi continued to travel through the forest, beating their way through the thick trees. "For crying out loud!" Rikina screamed. "How far did you go, Yamato?!"

Tokimi yelled as she was hit in the face with a branch that had been let go of by Rikina. "Ow! Rikina, watch it! You just hit smacked me with that branch!"

Rikina looked back and glared. "Look, if you have a problem with it, then catch up or don't follow me at all! Argh, when I find Yamato I'm gonna kick his ass!"

Tokimi glared. "Not if I get there first! I'm going to hug and kiss him, then strangle him for causing all this!"

"Fine!" Rikina growled. "We'll split up and whoever gets there first gets to do whatever to him!"

"Fine!" Tokimi screamed, getting ready to run. "On your mark…"

Rikina backed up next to Tokimi. "Get set…"

"Go!" they both yelled at the same time, then began to run in different directions.

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Meanwhile, Kanako and Nyamo continued to have trouble communicating.

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On the other hand, the Aoyama's were making a bit of progress… Sort of. They had found one of Rikina's shoes. Sukyuzo, now awake, stared at the boot. "Hm… It appears to be… a boot!"

Motoko sweat dropped. "Yes dear, that's kind of obvious…" She raised an eyebrow. "But whose boot is it, I wonder?"

Kimomo's eyes widened. "Oh, I know! If I'm not mistaken, that is one of Rikina's boots! So she must be near!"

Sukyuzo rubbed his chin. "Hm, I think that this is that Rikina girl's boot… She must be nearby!"

Kimomo sweat dropped. "Um, I already said that, daddy…"

Both female's eyes widened as Sukyuzo sniffed the inside of the boot. He pointed in a random direction. "The girl is this way! Follow me, lads!" The man then ran in the direction that he had pointed in.

Kimomo stared at her father, a bit frightened. "…Mother, I think you hit him on the head a bit too much…"

Motoko sweat dropped again. "I agree…"

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Meanwhile, Rikina ended up back near the shore, but on a different side of it. She glared at the man sitting on a rock near the water. She stomped over to him and punched him in the back of the head. "Hey, you!"

Shima looked at her glaring. "Hey! What the hell did you do that for?!"

Rikina growled angrily. "What the hell do you mean?! I'm still pissed off at you for everything you've done recently! And on top of that, you abandoned me back at the other side of the shore!"

Shima eyes widened. "Oh, so you're that woman I saw when I woke up!" Shima smiled. "You're cute! What's your name?"

Rikina raised an eyebrow. 'Oh, crap! He lost his memory! Wait, what am I thinking? This is great! He doesn't remember that he loves Tokimi! It's a bit selfish of me, but--' Rikina cleared her throat. "My name is Rikina Su. Your name is Yamato Urashima, and we are engaged to be married!"

Shima raised an eyebrow. "Um, is that right? I did sort of lose my memory, so it might be true…"

Rikina nodded frantically. "Of course it's true!" She hugged him tightly. "And I am so glad that you're alright! I had thought that you'd been eaten by sharks or something!"

Shima raised an eyebrow. He wasn't sure what exactly was going on, but he hugged her back. "Um, okay… Um, sorry for leaving you there, but I wasn't really sure what was going on… I'm really confused right now…"

Rikina smiled. "Oh don't worry, dear…" She kissed him on the neck, nibbling slightly on his neck, leaving a hicky. "I'm sure that I can find someway to remind you of our relationship…"

Shima began to blush heavily. "Um, alright… That sounds nice…"

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Meanwhile, Tokimi was stepping through a swamp. How this island can have so many different landforms on it? I don't know. Tokimi plugged her nose as a horrible stench met her nose. "Ugh, it stinks in here…" She gasped as one of her shoes began stick in mud. "Ewww…" She attempted to pull her shoe out of the mud, but she fell back as her foot popped out of the shoe, sending her falling backwards into more mud. She whimpered as she stood up. She growled as she tried to walk back to her shoe, but found out the hard way that not only was her other shoe stuck in the mud, but her foot was loose. She was not ready for this change in pull and she fell forwards, getting front also covered in mud. She sat up and began to cry. "Why? What did I do to deserve this? I want Shima and I want to go home! Waaah!"

Suddenly, she heard a noise behind her. She looked back to see a huge crocodile, smiling at her with a 'I am going to eat you' type look in it's eyes. Her eyes widened. "Oh my god! Kyaaaaaah!" Tokimi, completely forgetting about her shoes, ran as fast as she could. The alligator began chasing her, taking her in a completely different direction from the area that Rikina and the amnesiac Shima were at.

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Meanwhile, the 'Immortals' and 'Amazons' were happily studying some old pottery they found. Actually, it was more like Seta and Keitaro happily studying old pottery while Haruka and Naru looked on, annoyed. Haruka looked at an imaginary watch. "Hey. Are we going to stand here all day and look at this crap?"

Seta looked up and smiled at Haruka. "This is not crap, Haruka my dear, these artifacts could help us find out more about the people on this island!"

Keitaro nodded, not looking away from the tablet he had found. "Odd, this writing looks familiar…" He looked to Naru. "Naru, remember that tablet I found after hitting my head on it?"

Naru nodded. "Yes, dear… Why do you ask?"

Keitaro scratched his head. "Um, did you bring it with you?"

Naru smiled. "Yep, I sure did!" She reached into her purse and pulled it out. "It was this one, right?"

Keitaro nodded, smiling. "Yep, that's the one. Thanks Narusegawa, you're a peach!" He took it from Naru and looked at both tablets. After a bit of studying both of them, he nodded. "Just as I suspected, these are both part of the same language!" He frowned, new questions emerging in his mind. "But wait, what would a Lakunian tablet be doing at Hinata House?"

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Kanako, after flipping through a 'Japanese to English-English to Japanese' dictionary, looked to Nyamo. "Okay, let's try this again… Nyamo, where do you think we should go?"

Nyamo smiled, then replied. "I don't know, maybe we should ask these nice people over here!"

Kanako raised an eyebrow. "What nice--" She looked around to see a bunch of cannibals surrounding them. "Well damn…"

One of the cannibals, wearing yellow, rubbed his chin. "Should we eat them now or later?"

A female cannibal, wearing a purple bikini, scratched her head. "I dunno, we got done eating that old couple about a few hours ago… I say later!" Kanako and a now more aware Nyamo sighed in relief. The woman cannibal smiled. "We can share them with the village!" The cannibals cheered as Nyamo whimpered and Kanako muttered to herself.

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When Kitsune finally awoke, she found herself locked in a bamboo cage. "Oh great, I was hoping they'd at least eat me while I was unconscious… Now I've got to be awake for it…" She looked at the two cannibals carrying her in the cage. "Hey, why haven't you eaten me yet, anyway? Not that I mind, but you two sure seemed hungry…"

The one in red, who was carrying the cage by some handles on the front, looked to Kitsune. "Oh, yeah… Well for one thing, we live in a city a few miles from here. And we recently got a message. Two young goddesses appeared today! With just the snap of her fingers, one of them annihilated a random person! So now, we've been instructed to bring all foreigners to this island over to the city, where they will be sacrificed to the goddesses!"

Kitsune smacked her forehead. "Oh, great… Now instead of being eaten by gay cannibals, I'm going to be sacrificed to some brat goddesses…" She rubbed her chin. "Say, how much longer until we reach this city, anyway?"

The cannibal in yellow, carrying it from the back, looked at Kitsune and smiled. "Oh, I'd say about 3 more hours!" He stared at the cannibal in red's butt and licked his lips as Kitsune shuddered.

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Static began to look around suspiciously. "Hey, you said that we would go back before running into any cannibals, right?"

Haitani looked back to Static. It was now nighttime, and the group was crawling on the ground at the moment. "Yeah, your point?"

Shirai sighed. "Um, I think he's currently wondering why we're sneaking the cannibal city, then!"

Jin chuckled. "Relax, we should be fine… No one ever pays us any mind, anyway…" He suddenly heard a gun click. "Until now, that is!"

They all stood up with their hands up. "Don't shoot!" Haitani screamed. He frowned. "Hey wait, cannibals with guns?"

The cannibals were all dressed in black suits. The leader, who in addition to the suit was also wearing shades, smiled. "Yeah, rocks doesn't it?"

Jin scoffed. "Well maybe for you guys, but not us!" He smirked, crossing his arms. "Besides, guns suck…"

The leader growled. "That's it, you punk! We're taking you to our goddesses! They will make you pay!"

Jin and Haitani got grins on their faces. "Goddesses, eh?" Jin began.

Haitani moved his eyebrows up and down suggestively. "How old are they, huh?"

The leader glared. "Well if you must know, they came to us in the form of two girls that seemed to be in the middle of the adolescent stage in life… They were wearing black and white…"

Haitani snapped his fingers. "Damn, jailbait!"

Jin shrugged, still grinning. "Hey, I can wait a few years…"

Static sighed, annoyed. "Idiot… We don't have a few years!"

Shirai rubbed his chin, deep in thought. "Hey, wait… Two powerful teenage girls, dressed in black and white… Don't we know someone like that?"

Haitani and Jin thought to themselves. "Hmmm… Nope, doesn't ring a bell!"

Shirai and Static sighed.

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Meanwhile, Kaolla was still searching her bag for something. The others stared wide eyed at the items that Su pulled out of the small handbag. Included was a telephone booth, an entire Mecha Tama unit, and a pool table, complete with a set of cues and balls. Finally, she pulled out something that looked like her old 'Turtle Detector Radar' (which in turn was based off of the 'Dragon Radar' from Dragon Ball) "Ah ha! The Urashima detector! We can use this to find Shima!" She pushed a button to activate it, then sweat dropped as tons of results popped up on the screen. "Oh crap, I also forgot that this thing works on all Urashima family members… Stupid useless piece of--"

Sarah sighed, shaking her head. "Well, great… That was a complete waste of time…" She took out a cigarette, light it and took a long puff. She then proceeded to hack violently. "Shit, I'm so stressed out that I can't even smoke right… Look, why don't we just follow the closest Urashima on this thing? At the very least, we wouldn't be lost anymore…"

Shinobu nodded. "Yes, let's try that out…"

Nina tapped on Sarah's shoulder. "Mama, my leg still hurts…"

Sarah smiled. "Alright, hop on my back…" Her eyes widened as Nina jumped on her back a little too roughly. "Hey, be a bit more careful next time…" She looked to Kaolla. "So where to, Su?"

Kaolla pointed to the northeast. "The closest Urashima is this way!"

And so, they traveled farther into the unknown…

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Meanwhile, back with Shima, er, Yamato and Rikina…

Yamato looked at Rikina nervously. "Um, I know we're supposed to be engaged and everything, but do you really think it's a good idea to run around in your just your bra and panties like that? Especially since you wear a thong and all--"

Rikina, who had her back (and ass) toward him, looked back at him. "Well, my clothes are sort of wet right now, so yeah…" She smiled seductively. "Besides, don't you like my body?"

Yamato blushed. "Well yes, you have a very nice body and--" He gulped as Rikina slowly stepped toward him and brushed her finger lightly against his chest. "Your clothes are sort of wet right now, too…" She grabbed his shirt and pulled it over his head. "Maybe you should strip down, too!"

"H-hey, wait!" Yamato screamed, wrapping his arms around himself.

"Ah ha!" Tokimi screamed, running up into the area. She was breathing heavily, now wearing a peculiar belt and carrying a purse that she didn't have before. She had gotten most of the mud off of her skin, but some had remained and dried into dirt. Also, her clothes were stained. "I knew I heard voices! What the hell do you too think you are doing?!"

Rikina raised an eyebrow, sweat dropping. "…Where the hell did you get a crocodile skin purse and belt?"

Tokimi growled. "Never you mind that!" She ran over to Yamato and kicked him in the head. "What the hell do you think you are doing with her, Shima! Both of you almost half naked!"

Rikina chuckled. "I really don't think that's any of your business… Right, Yamato?"

Yamato nodded, glaring at Tokimi and rubbing his cheek. "Yeah, really… I don't know who you are, or who Shima is as a matter of fact, but you really should learn to mind your own business, miss!"

Tokimi's eyes widened. "Y-you don't remember me?" She growled at Rikina. "What did you do to him, Rikina?"

Rikina shrugged. "I did nothing… He had amnesia, so I simply 'reprogrammed' him a bit…" She smiled evilly. "I hope you don't mind…"

Tokimi stared at Rikina, shocked. "H-how could you? I-- I thought you were my friend…"

Rikina smiled at Tokimi. "Love is a battlefield, honey… Learn to fight the battle or lose…"

Tokimi clenched her fist. "Oh, so that's how you wanna play, huh? Fine! I'm not leaving you guys until I find a way to bring his memory back!" She then pointed at Yamato. "And you! Rikina is lying to you! I know that you really can't believe either of us, but don't believe her at all! She's an evil, conniving, backstabbing little--" She squealed as she was pounced on by Rikina. The girls rolled around in the sand, pulling on each others hair and calling each other names for a few minutes, before Yamato broke it up.

"Ahem… As hot as watching this little fight is, we aren't really aren't accomplishing much, now are we? Now I'm even more confused than before, so I'm just going to ignore everything I've been told except the name… Actually, I remember my real name, Yamato Urashima, but not anything else personal like that…" He crouched down and smiled as he held both of his hands out to help them both up. "So what do ya say, ladies?" He began, smiling. "Shall we stop all this fighting and find out where the hell we are?"

Tokimi and Rikina looked to each other, then to Yamato, then grabbed his hands roughly and began to walk side by side at a quick pace, dragging Yamato between them. They stared hard at each other, ignoring Yamato's pleas to slow down as they ran through the forest.

End of Chapter 34

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Whew, got another chapter finished! Once again, not much to say… =P 'Cept I got a headache. =(

---Kouji Tamino (Seeya tomorrow!)