Keitaro's Other Side
A Love Hina/ Ranma ½ Fanfic
Pietaro Urashima
Disclaimer: Mr. Urashima owns neither Love Hina nor Ranma ½. He probably never will, unless his prayers are answered and he is granted secret magical powers. As to how he will use said powers, the universe must ponder for eternity. Many props to Mr. Ken Akimatsu and Ms. Rumiko Takahashi! I wonder what would happen if they did a Manga together... Alas, 'tis for us to wonder.
Hey all! This is my first fanfic ever, so be nice to it... (small pause) As nice as you can be to a first fanfic. There's a lot of potential to this one so I hope you enjoy it! (In commercial tone) Praise, Evaluation, Criticism and Scorn are accepted. (In casual tone) ...um, not so much scorn is accepted, but that's life.
The story starts at the Hinata House somewhat after the Hokkaido incident in book 12.
Chapter 1: Kei-Kun to Kei-Chan
"Mmmn." Keitaro was having a dream. His dreams have in the past, created and solved problems. Other times they just showed how screwed he was at the time.
Right now, all that was happening was a normal dream, or that was what it seemed. "All right! Another priceless artifact. (digs some more) Another?" Keitaro was big into archaeology. "Where am I? Why are there things in every hole I dig?"
"You in China, young man."
This is where he woke up. "China?" Because of the omnipotence of Keitaro's dreaming abilities, he took them very seriously when he could. Which meant whenever he didn't dream about giant dinosaurs or mecha rampaging around. "China, huh. Maybe I should go there, I don't really think I have ever been in Chi-mrrgh!!!"
"Wake up, sleepy head!!!" Kaolla Su swung in through the window as usual and greeted Keitaro with a boot to the head. This over a period of time would eventually mean the death of anyone, but this is Keitaro Urashima. He has survived the plethora of Uber attacks from the God's Cry School, Naru's rage induced fighting style, Explosions, Giant Radishes, Mole Statues, near fatal loss of blood (nosebleeds, common for a male landlord of a girls dorm), the Residents of Hinata House, and the least of which would be boots to the head. And this happened almost every day, save for the Giant Radishes and Mole Statues.
"Su?" Keitaro rubbed his head. "Why exactly do you do that? Every day?"
"First it was fun, then it was habit. Today, I woke up hanging outside your window."
"Su? You woke up outside my window?!?" Keitaro held the deer in headlights look for a second {For those of you who don't know, deer in headlights looks like this: O.O}. "Huh, I guess that's not as weird as your room." He was right.
Motoko burst into the room. "Su, come on, Keitaro probably has something to do." Enter the logic of the Hinata House. Now recently Keitaro has proven himself to be a pretty decent person, and a good catch nonetheless. But the equation still stands: Keitaro and girl in bedroom equals Keitaro is a pervert. Now Su and many other girls have been in Keitaro's room before, with Keitaro in fact. But ever since Hokkaido, the girl's brains, aside from Naru, have been pretty much short circuited. "K-K-Kei-Keitaro!!! Have you no decency? You already have Naru! What are you doing with Su!?!" Motoko, out of habit, moved her hand to the hilt of her sword.
"Nothing, she kicked me in the head again."
"Oh." Keitaro thought he was safe from Motoko's godly techniques. He was. He was in danger for another reason.
Naru fell through the hole in the ceiling, landed, jumped at Keitaro, and screamed, "Naru Super Iron Rage Fist!!!" She overheard and was quick to accuse Keitaro of wrongdoing. Now when I said Naru wasn't short circuited, she's not. This was out of habit {Lots of things seem to be out of habit at the Hinata House, ne?}. Keitaro at the moment was flying towards China.
"Naru, exactly why did you do that?" Motoko asked. Su was measuring Keitaro's trajectory.
"He said he has me. He doesn't HAVE ME! ...w-well maybe he does. But still, he shouldn't say things like that!"
"Uh. He didn't say that. I did. Again."
Naru's eyes widened in shock and partly in fear. She ran to the window.
"Shouldn't he be coming down now?" Motoko asked.
Then she went out to look for Seta.
(How the hell did she do that? And how does she get off doing that?) Keitaro started thinking as he flew from the window. It stopped hurting now, but usually he would land in the nearby forest. The forest was shrinking. (That's not normal...)
Seta was headed towards China when he saw Keitaro flying at an unusual velocity in the direction that he was going. He then decided to drive over to Hinata House. Kitsune was out front with Kanako, doing something no one ever thought to see. They were having mundane conversation over gambling prospects, literally the next horse race. "Hello Kitsune, is Motoko around?"
Kitsune was being frazzled at the conversation with Kanako, so she didn't answer. She always went for the miracle upset, which never, ever happened. Kanako intervened here, "I think she's on the roof, practicing. Why do you want to see her?"
"Keitaro. Flying. Towards. China."
"Oh..." Pause. "Oniichan!!!!!!" She left to ask Su for a Mecha Tamago.
"I'll never understand this place." Seta said as he jumped to the roof. "Hello Motoko. Did you send Keitaro into high orbit?"
"Um no. That was Naru. She's looking for you."
"Naru?" A sense of urgency arose in Seta's voice. "I should've known. Where is she?"
"SETA!!!!!!!" Seta turned around to a crying Naru. "I knocked Keitaro into another country! Waahhhhh!!!" {Note: She does this, to a somewhat smaller degree almost every day.}
"I know. I saw. Let's go." Seta put one hand on Naru's shoulder and began to lead her into the dorm. Motoko figured that since it was her fault Naru bopped Keitaro, she should follow them. Kitsune, snapping out of her trance, went inside to get something to eat.
(I should get frequent flyer miles for this. Is that China? Hey! This wasn't too bad after all!!!) Keitaro thought, enjoying it for about a second. (Wait... How do I land?) Pause. (NOOOOOOOO!!!)
"No, you can't take the Mecha-Tamago! It blew up!!! You did that!!!" Kanako thought for a little while. Realizing that it, in fact, was her fault the Mecha-Tamago was scrap metal right now, she asked Su, "But you have to have some kind of flying device, right?"
"No, I don't." Seta, just walking in with Naru, heard those words, as did Naru, who then began to become reduced to a torrent of tears. "Look," Su explained, "There IS an invention that does fly. It has been around for a while, it's called the airplane?!" Everyone in the room was startled at Su's resolve. Motoko was just startled.
"To the airport!!!" Kanako exclaimed. Everyone in the room just started following her. [Group walks past the kitchen] Shinobu followed as she did not want to be left alone. Kanako grabbed Kitsune, saying, "Come here, gambling girl, we need you to come up with some money gaining scheme quick."
"Hey, hey, hey! Let me at least get my bottle!"
"NO BOTTLE!!!" Everyone said. Kitsune could get REALLY plastered.
(Oh God, how am I gonna get out of this one? I don't think I can even survive a fall like this!) Keitaro saw trees get bigger. It seemed that he was headed towards a small clearing. Keitaro whimpered.
"Time for your work, girl." Kanako said. Motoko groaned. She knew that Kit's schemes involved Motoko doing something to disgrace her art. So she stepped forward. Then she was surprised.
"Some kind of contest... yes that's it. I need a short pole, a big clearing and Naru."
"Me?!" Naru said. "Her!?" Motoko added, and continued to stand there confused. Su whooped out another radar and went in the direction of a big field. Shinobu pulled a pole from nowhere {She does that a lot, recently}. Sarah, who was in Seta's van, pulled out a booth for Kitsune to talk from. Mutsumi... wait... {Mutsumi was there?} (Myuh♥) {Right...}. Seta started to advertise the event with Kanako.
(I wonder if we can find him...) He wondered.
He saw many, many ponds out of the corner of his eye, but all that he could focus on is the growing stump of a tree he was headed towards. (How the hell did Naru do this anyway? Oh well. This is it.) And he braced himself for the inevitable DOOM.
WHUMP! And he made a nice crater.
"Naru, I know that you can do this. You did this, just when you did... Oops."
"WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!"
"You can do it! Do it and we all will have money on the side after this." Naru nodded. Kitsune went up to the booth. "Gather round folks! Here is an opportunity to show off and make some money while at it! Any one but only one can challenge our lovely champion in distance hitting. You must punch this Wooden Block on top of the pole as far as you can. If it goes farther than this girl's does, then you win the bets which will be placed now. Bets start at 5000 yen."
There was much hustle and bustle around the booth. Then a giant shadow covered the booth. A giant muscular shadow. "I'll challenge her." All the previous challengers took a second to back out. Then everyone changed their bets to the mass of muscle.
([blink] I-I'm alive? I can't move, but I'm alive!) Now let us take a short break to explain this. Keitaro has always been known to be just about immortal. He can't in the least avoid pain, massive pain, but he never died from truly fatal things. Now what Keitaro had was a curse of curses. This basically meant that Keitaro would be cursed by a great many curses, until he accomplished his goal, which would mean he then would have even more curses attuned to him.
This mass of curses, although the source of all his problems, has flexed his chi into something incredibly potent. Anyone who took a real good look at his chi would see a really thin layer of light around him. This was the secret to Keitaro's survival. This barrier protected him from fatal harm. It did nothing to stop pain, but dying was nowhere in this guy's future. Now, he has just survived a fall big enough to leave a crater. He normally wouldn't survive that too well {um... more broken things}, but where he was in the moment and its current connection was more than enough to create a dampening effect with the residual chi in the area.
Now this all is true because this is MY FANFIC!!! And in MY FANFIC, Anything Goes! {Hint.} So if I say Keitaro is so cursed that he won't die, then he won't because it's MY FANFIC!!!
{Keitaro: Hey does that mean that I won't suffer any more bodily harm in this fic?
Pietaro: Oh of course it doesn't. Anything Goes {Hint.}, but I can still stick with tradition, CAN'T I?!?
Keitaro: Oh... yes you can...
Pietaro: Alright then! Now back to MY FANFIC!!! Already in progress.}
The muscle blob stepped up to the pole and hefted his arm. With a grunt, he smashed his hand into the block, and it flew clear into the faraway woods. People felt happy that they would now walk away from there with much money in their pockets. And there was quite a big betting pool. It got close to a half million yen.
Naru stepped up to the pole. She thought back to the morning. Then she shouted, "Naru Super Steel Anguish Fist!!!" and took a swing at the block.
The pole flew across the field. The block was different. It blinked off into the distance. Kitsune was collecting the money. The crowd, quickly emptied their pockets and ran away. Mr. Muscle, was quite simply, dumbfounded. He stood there, all day. Naru had to take the money and drag the crew to the airport.
Keitaro, gaining control of his arms after snapping them in place, snapped his legs in place. "Eh... too much Gundam Wing, I guess..." He got up and looked around at the crater. He had unearthed various artifacts with his impact. There was no crowd around the crater. In this region, that was actually nothing. So he had no bothers in his archaeological gold mine. {Hey, sure he has insane bad luck, but that doesn't mean he can't have insane good luck at the same time!} Just then, he got hit in the head with a sizzling wooden block. "Ow..." {Well then, I guess he does have very insane bad luck.}
He put all of the trinkets in one place. Deciding to take a break, he went in the direction of the ponds he had seen. What he didn't know was that he was headed towards a training ground, a quite famous training ground from another famous Manga/ Anime {HINT.}.
Just now, Naru and the gang were inside Seta's van, driving towards Keitaro, with the help of Su's radar. And Rocket Booster. They had lost a lot of time funding the trip.
Keitaro was taking a stroll around a rather infamous spring {HINT.}. Bamboo sticks stuck out from it. "Ah, a training ground. Maybe I should try." And he jumped on the bamboo. Big mistake. He heard a charging sound coming closer. Way closer.
"We're almost there," Su said. Everyone else either tried to turn off the booster or helped Seta steer. Neither was good at keeping the van's occupants safe, but a little effort would go a long way in a moment.
(No, it can't be.) Keitaro thought. It was. Seta's van erupted through the trees. And somehow landed safely. They did see Keitaro lose his balance a bit. Getting out, they ran towards him, and saw him on a bamboo stick, wobbling. They saw nothing wrong with him falling into a spring. Neither did Keitaro. Splash. Everyone but Keitaro saw something wrong coming out of the spring.
"K-k-k-k..." was all anyone who could say anything said.
An old Chinese man came out of nowhere and said. "Ah. There is very tragic story of young girl who drown in spring one thousand five hundred year ago. Now, anyone who fall in spring, take form of young girl." This they all saw. Keitaro saw everyone looking at him. He looked at himself. And a girlish scream could be heard throughout China, and in some parts of Japan.
Mutsumi seemed to be the only one unaffected by what happened. Putting two and two together, she said simply, "Kei...-chan?♥"
-End Chapter One-
Well, that was fun. There is more on the way. YAY!!! This was started about a week after reading the first fanfic I have ever read. Props and props to Vega Obscura 666, who actually got me into fan fiction. Be cruel or nice in your reviews. Just review!!! Now. Or I will tape a picture of Keitaro to you and send Naru after you.