Different Life, Different Viewpoints
Disclaimer: I do not own Love Hina or any of its characters. I don't own Ranma 1/2 either nor the characters that seldom appear in this story.
Chapter 5:
1999, New Years Eve.........
Keitaro sat in his room, a look of extreme concentration on his face. He mumbled as he wrote something over and over in his notebook.
"3000 Useful Vocabulary List, rewritten five times already!" He shouted out as he finished.
He dropped down on his desk, exhausted. He had been studying for 48 hours already non-stop. He struggled as he concentrated on getting back up to study. He cried happily as he thought of the person behind this big change.
A while later he was standing on the roof, shouting defiantly at his fate.
"Work! Work! So what if my chances of getting in are 0%! I'll get into Tokyo U, Naru! Work!"
He turned around to walk away only to fall off the roof. Fortunately he fell into the tree. As he tried to get up a bird flying over him decided to relieve it self and poor Keitaro was the recipient of its droppings.
"Arrgh, what luck, and it's New Year too........." he said as he got off the tree and jumped onto the third floor.
"Hey Keitaro, what are you doing up so early in the morning?" said a voice in front of him.
He raised his head only to see Mitsune and Suu dressed in Kimonos. Motoko was dressed in priestess clothes.
"Come on, Shinobu, don't be embarrassed," said Ranko as she tried to drag out said person.
She was reluctantly dragged out by Ranko, blushing heavily.
"H-happy New Year," she said shyly.
"Whoa," said Keitaro before remembering to answer.
"A-ah, I should be the one to say that; Happy New Year," he said, bowing.
"You look cute in a Kimono," he added.
"T-thanks," Shinobu answered, still blushing.
"Aunt Haruka loves Kimono, so we wear them every year." Mitsune explained.
Though Ranko seems to wear them very often, she thought.
It was true though, at least once out of every week Ranko could be seen wearing Kimono. Usually it was on weekends when she went out shopping though.
Ranko was at the side, watching as Suu showed Keitaro her 'lion'. She noticed Mitsune watching her and turned around to smile at her. She looked confused when Mitsune sweat-dropped nervously and turned away.
Mitsune then walked up to Keitaro and invited Keitaro to go with them to the shrine. At first, he declined, but after she said that Naru was going too he agreed. That was when Naru came out of her room. He turned around, expecting to see her in a Kimono. He face-faulted when he saw her wearing her 'Salem' pullover. She also had her hair tied up in two braids.
At last, they headed for the shrine. The place was crowded, after going to say some prayers they separated.
Ranko sat down in a bench near a tree and took out some beverages. She opened one and threw it quickly behind her with a flick of her wrist.
"What are you doing here, Ryoga?" she said to a person hidden behind the tree.
"Just coming to check up on you, Ranko-chan," he said, taking a sip from the drink Ranko threw him.
"Don't call me that, our relationship is over; you know that," she said angrily.
"I know," he said, walking over to put a hand on her shoulder. Only to get thrown over.
As he tried to get the cobwebs out of his head, he saw a figure standing in front of him, offering him a hand. After his vision cleared out enough to see who it was, he took the offered hand and stood up.
"Your act is as bad as ever, Ryoga Hibiki," Ranko smirked.
"I could say the same about yours, Ranko Himura," he retorted.
"Geez, couldn't you have used some other less painful way to greet me?" he asked, rubbing his back.
"Sorry," Ranko apologized.
"So what do we do today?" she asked.
"Dunno, maybe catch up on old times?" he suggested.
"Aww, you know that part of our lives is over. Come on, I saw a stand over there that sold your favorite food."
I wish you could notice it, but I'm still in love with you, Ranko. thought Ryoga before running after her.
On the other side of the shrine, Keitaro was trying his hands on a fortune telling talisman. Motoko warned him that the talismans of this shrine were pretty accurate. He laughed saying he wasn't afraid of it before looking at his talisman and froze.
The talisman said "Extreme Bad Luck"
He walked around worried about it. When he read the part about staying away from high places and anima droppings he sweat dropped remembering what had happened this morning.
He thought it had to be a coincidence but as things happened right when he read them from the talisman he began to believe it.
A part of it said "Keep away from the opposite sex for it will bring misfortune to both". So naturally, when Shinobu came near him, he panicked and told her to stay away from him. Unfortunately, this caused her to run away crying. When this happened he began to believe more in the talisman.
Later, he met up with Motoko and Suu. Due to a series of events that happened he ended up being chased by them.
On yet another side of the shrine, Naru was looking for an examinee's talisman when she saw Ranko with some guy.
Hey, isn't that Ranko? Who's that guy she's with? Hey! Maybe it's her boyfriend, she thought.
She hid in a bush looking at them, not being able to resist her curiosity. That was when Keitaro ran by being chased by Motoko and Suu. This caused her to trip over and she got up only to meet the face of Ranko. She smiled nervously.
Keitaro stopped to get his breath back after finally losing them both. He saw a woman lying on the ground, apparently unconscious. He went over to help her only to find out that it was Mitsune and that she was drunk.
She was half way through seducing him when the other tenants discovered them. Naturally, he was beaten up by Motoko and Naru while Ryoga stood at the side with Ranko and sweat dropped.
And I thought mine and Ranko's lives were weird......... he thought.
After Keitaro was beaten senseless Ranko was bombarded with questions about Ryoga.
Later that day, Keitaro sat in his room putting bandages on his injuries. He was worried because the last part of the talisman might just be true. It said "At this rate, might fail again."
He was thinking about this when someone took the talisman from his hands.
"You idiot." Naru said as she took the talisman from his hands.
"I heard about it; let's go tie this on a tree"
"N-Naru........." he said surprised, looking at Naru who was wearing a Kimono.
"Since everyone was wearing it, I wanted to try it out as well. So how do I look?" she said and stuck out her tongue mischievously.
"Wow, you look nice. It suits you." He said while blushing.
Well, At least I got to see Naru in a Kimono he thought as they walked away talking about random stuff.
A/n: Hmm........ I admit, this chapter might be seen a bit rushed. At least I'll be getting internet tomorrow and will be able to update the chapters I've written lately. I have this nagging in the back of my head saying 'I did it again.........' though. What did I do again? I can't seem to figure out.