Different Life, Different Viewpoints

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Yawn... Chapter three:

Time flew by and soon Christmas came, Keitaro and Naru walked up the stairs leading towards Hinata-sou. Having just finished their classes, they walked home together, talking about things along the way. Beyond the end of the stairs, the rest of the tenants were busy decorating for Christmas; they selected a tree in the yard and used it as a Christmas tree. A ladder was put along it and Motoko was on top of it hanging decorations.

As Keitaro and Naru walked up the stairs, it could be seen that he seemed excited about something. It appears that his average has gone up and he was excited because he actually has more of a chance to pass this year. He was going to prove it with the practice test they are having tomorrow. This was when Haruka came out of Hinata-sou, telling Keitaro that he has a phone call.

"Hello?" He said into the phone,
"Oh, hi mom. Huh? Go home? Why?"
"Yeah, I'm taking the exam again this year. No, I'm actually doing better this year."
"Well, tell you what, if I fail that practice test I'm taking tomorrow then I'll go home straight away; Ok, bye"

With that, he hung up and skipped away happily, going to study. The other tenants who were watching this sweat dropped. The next morning, he woke up and got dressed. It was an interesting party they had last night. Suddenly, he remembered that he still had Naru's notebook, so he climbed up the hole in his ceiling to return it. Unfortunately, Naru was up getting dressed and clobbered him for peeping on her. At breakfast, the other tenants commented on his newly formed bruise.

"Hey Keitaro, what's with that bruise?" asked Suu.

"Heh, it must be from peeping on Naru," joked Kitsune.

"No!! It was an accident, I swear!!" he answered in a panic as Motoko put her blade on his throat.

"Oh, dear.........I think you should calm down Motoko," Ranko said.
"If it bothers you that much, why don't you just fix the hole then?" she suggested.

"Well.........that room used to belong to grandma Hina," Naru said.
"Hey Keitaro, you're the manager, why don't you go fix that hole?" she then asked, turning to Keitaro.

"But that hole is very convenient."

"Not for me!!"

Hmm.........then that means that the only thing separating their rooms is a thin piece of board thought Kitsune.
"Then what happens when you hear 'strange' sounds in the middle of the night?" she wondered out loud.

"What strange sounds?!?!" screamed Keitaro and Naru at the same time.

The rest of the tenants sweat-dropped as Kitsune explained in a hurry that she was only joking. Soon everyone was finished and the dishes were washed. They left for their respective rooms to mind their own businesses. A while later Keitaro stood in his room staring at the chair he had put on his table and then gazing at the hole on his roof.

I guess I really should fix that hole, I am the manager after all......... he thought then went up the chair.

He knocked on the board a couple of times before deciding that there was nobody in. He removed the board and propped himself through it. The room was dark as Naru was outside somewhere. He pulled up his tools and began the task of boarding up the hole. He daydreamed as worked then accidentally bumped into the bookcase when he stood up. A couple of books were knocked over and he panicked trying to put them back to their place. One of them was open and he glanced over its contents when he went over to pick it up.

It was Naru's diary. Unable to resist his curiosity he picked it up and started to read through it. Before he was able to read more than a sentence he heard the door open and a sense of dread came upon him. He turned around and saw Naru staring angrily at him.

"What are you reading?" she asked in a monotonous voice, anger evident in her eyes.

"Ahh.........N-Narusegawa," he stuttered out.

"What are you doing reading my diary?!!"

"I-I was here fixing the floor!!" he explained in a panic.

"Get OUT!!!" she shouted then hit him so hard that he went through the hole that he had just boarded up.

He lay on the floor of his room looking up at the hole in the roof when he regained consciousness. He gazed at it for a while then turned his eyes away in shame.

"I-I did something I shouldn't have done........."

Omake #1

Hmm.........then that means that the only thing separating their rooms is a thin piece of board thought Kitsune.
"Then what happens when you hear 'strange' sounds in the middle of the night?" she wondered out loud.

She was surprised when both of them blushed heavily and looked away from each other.

"Y-you mean?........." she managed to get out.

The two of them were still blushing. Keitaro was staring intently at his two index fingers which he was playing with. Naru gave a small but nervous nod then hid her eyes with her bangs.

"W-why?" Kitsune asked.

"W-well, it seemed a good idea at the time........." said Naru blushing.

The entire Hinata-sou could be seen shaking the rest of the tenants face-faulted and Shinobu's crying could be heard miles away............

The end............?

A/N: Ok...here, I'm done. Finally took my time to finish another chapter instead of reading other people's works ( I usually do that more rather than to finish my own works :P). I wrote my first Omake, too (Dunno where that came from, it just popped out of my mind)
Any comments or flames are welcome. After all, what can't kill you can make you grow. :P

C ya next time.

Rochchen, over and OUT