By: Jesse (Expertise626)
Author's Note: I don't own Love Hina. But, this story is my fiction, so if you wish to use this story in a site, please notify me first and ask for my permission.
Another note before I begin. This story is set in the present, in New York City. When reading, know what you are expecting from a huge city. Also it requires a basic knowledge of Love Hina. The characters here are closely based upon the ones from Lova Hina. You can tell from their names and habits. Just for safety, let me name them here.
Keitaro Urashima - Keaton Ulysses
Naru Narusegawa - Natalie Naville
Kaolla Su - Kelly Sumpter
Motoko Aoyama - Michelle Anderson
Mitsune Konno (Kitsune) - Caroline Morado (Kara)
Shinobu Maehara - Sheryl Massiah
Mutsumi Otohime - Melissa Ottoman
Amalla Su - Anna Sumpter
Lamba Lu - Lamba Lu
Seta Noriyasu - Samuel Northrope
Haruka Urashima - Hayley Ulysses
Sarah McDougal - Sarah McDougal
Kentaro Sakata - Kenny Serval
Grandma Hina - Granny Heather
If there's any I missed, I'll place them in later installments. Forgive any grammar and punctuation errors. With making something like this, I might make a mistake by putting in the real names and stuff. To start basically, I might work with the same episode layout. But I have to start adding new episodes that won't alter the story, but serve in some way to enhance it as a different version. With that said, let's begin!
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Chapter 1 - All-girls Apartment with a Jacuzzi: New York
FLASHBACK
Two kids, a boy and a girl, are playing in a sandbox in a mini-park in New York City. The girl is building some sort of sand castle with the boy.
"They say that if two people promise to go to NYU together, they'll get married and stay together forever."
"Huh?"
"Kei, promise me that you'll get into NYU with me!"
The girl kisses the boy on the cheek and runs off grabbing her Hello Kitty plush. Later, we see the boy, Keaton, chasing after the girl in a truck. She was yelling 'Bye...! Remember our promise!' and Keaton responded with 'No, don't leave!' in between breaths. Keaton trips and falls on the ground, watching the truck go away. He stands up with confidence and says 'I'll get into New York University!' and the flashback ends with a grown Keaton standing triumphantly in front of the Exam results.
"I've finally made it into NYU!"
He slumps past the graduation party and is surrounded by many women who seem like they want to be with him. He brushes them aside and walks through a door and sees his promised girl.
"We can finally be together, Kei..."
We see them together doing random couple things and finally at a student marriage ceremony. While they are getting married, Keaton's Grandmother Heather jumps on him and congratulates him, opening her mouth for a big kiss on Keaton. He resists and suddenly wakes up from the dream sweating.
"I'm Keaton Ulysses. I'm 20 years old. My hobby is taking pictures, although I'm the only one in them. I haven't made it into NYU, and the only girl I ever liked was the one I made a promise with 15 years ago. I can't even remember her name and how she looks like."
Keaton walks to the bathroom and commences to brush his teeth when his mom interrupts him.
"Keaton, today is your exam results!"
"I know."
"Honestly, we can't support you forever. Why don't you stop chasing that dream and go get a job? I can't afford to feed you anymore!"
Sighing, Keaton finishes brushing his teeth.
"How about I get a job and help pay for it?"
"Really? You'd do that? Oh, by the way. Your Grandma Heather just called. She wants you to come!"
Keaton gagged at the thought of his dream with his Grandmother in it. He stood up and got dressed, preparing to go look for his exam results. In the Hinata Apartments in New York City, we see Grandmother Heather sitting at a table with four girls. She sips tea and smiles.
"I'm going to explore hot springs around the world. I'm leaving."
"What? What about us? You can't just make us go home...!"
"Don't worry, Natalie. I'm assigning a new landlord. The new manager should be arriving soon."
Grandmother Heather rises and walks out the door. A tall woman with dark hair stood up and also walked out the door. Natalie grabs onto her shoulder and the woman turns around.
"Michelle?"
"I'm leaving to go to the Fencing training club."
Michelle runs out of the house with fangirls following her. Natalie walks over to a woman who is plopped down on the floor.
"Ugh, I stood up too late..."
"Kara, we have to convice Grandma Heather not to go!"
Kara fell fast asleep as a little tan-skinned girl spun around her. The scene shifts to Grandma Heather who is waiting for the bus outside of the apartment. A woman is standing outside with her. She mumbles with a cigarette in her mouth 'Are you sure we should leave Keaton to do this?', responded by 'You're having doubts, Hayley? Yes, he'll be fine.' The bus arrives and Grandma Heather gets onto the bus, which rides away into the distance. The Practice Admission Exam Results, Keaton is seen looking at the results. Not seeing his name, he walks over and bumps into a girl with think glasses on. She falls to the ground and Keaton offers her his hand to help her up. She grabs onto his hand and Keaton helps her up. His two friends come over and pull out the exam results.
"Keaton Ulysses, 27th from the bottom. Almost sure not to make it in."
Listening to the results, the girl panics and pulls her hand off of his grip, yelling 'Ahh, don't give me your bad grades! It's contagious!' Pulling her hand off caused Keaton to lose balance and fall. He landed under the girl's dress and he looked in shock. Enraged, the girl picked him up by the shirt and punched him across the hallway. Keaton knocked around like a pinball, finally slamming into the end of the corridor, whispering 'Pink.' Keaton's two friends walked next to his piled heap of flesh and helped him up.
"What's with that girl anyway." said one of the friends.
"This is my third time failing."
"There's always next year, Keaton!"
"Yeah. Oh, by the way. I need to go to my Grandma's Apartment!"
Keaton digs into his pocket and finds he has no money for the bus fare. He pulls his hands out of the pocket and rests his hands upon his friends' shoulders.
"Hey guys, can I borrow some money?"
They turned around and ran backwards with Keaton chasing them yelling 'Hey, money! MONEY!' Scene shifts to Keaton on a bus. He sits down remembering how he used to go here when he was a child. An annoucement stated 'We are now arriving at Harrison street. Please exit and don't forget your belongings.' Keaton stood up and left the bus. He arrived at the area where the Hinata apartment was. He continued his walk until he reached a park and a memory of his promised girl came to him. He took a seat at the bench and started to draw a moving truck. When he picked up his pencil to draw her face, he forgot how she looked like. His attention was taken by a girl who was on another bench, sitting and crying. He opened up to another page and started sketching how she looked like with a smile on her face. Suddenly, a frizbee came flying in his direction and hit him in the face. He looks up and sees a dog, steadily running towards him. The dog jumps on him and startles him, making him drop the sketch book and opening in front of the girl, revealing her face. The dog picked up the frizbee and ran off, back to it's owner. The girl looked at the picture and turned to Keaton, who was standing up, looking at her.
"Huh? It's so-"
"Aaah, sorry sorry. My drawing hand just got the best of me again. Bad hand, ehehehe."
He jets off in the direction of a narrow alleyway which seemed familiar. He runs down and remembers this as the place he used to go to when he was a child. He ran further and arrived at the Hinata apartment building. It was not tall like other buildings, but it was more wider with only few stories. He came to the door which was unlocked and Keaton entered. He screamed out for his grandma and unable to find her, he comes across a Jacuzzi with hot water in it. He takes off his clothes and puts on a towel. Keaton then proceeds to jump into the Jacuzzi and swim around in it. He stops and relaxes on one of it's edges and closes his eyes. He opens them when he notices a girl walk in to join him. Natalie sees him in there and says 'Hi.' and proceeds to enter the Jacuzzi with him, placing the pair of glasses she was holding in her hand on the side of the tub.
"I forgot to put on my contacts."
In shock, Keaton has his eyes wide open and didn't move. She wades over to him and puts one hand on his back.
"You know, Kara. Lately my breasts have been getting bigger."
She puts her other hand on his lap. She stares in wonder.
"Well, Kara. Didn't Miss Hayley say not to drink wine in the Jacuzzi? And why is your wine bottle under water? Wait a minute..."
Natalie puts on her glasses and looks at him. She takes off her glasses and in shock, she slaps Keaton in the face. Keaton starts to run and trips onto a basket of clothes. Another woman with a towel on, identified to be Kara, sees him. Keaton runs off with the basket on his head with Kara yelling 'Hey those are my undies! Give 'em back!' Natalie then runs into the room.
"He's a pervert! Get him!"
They both get dressed and run after Keaton. He runs down the hallway and sees a little tan-skinned girl with an army uniform on and some toy tanks. Keaton walks over thinking 'Finally, someone normal.' and steps on a tank, causing it to break into many tiny pieces. The girl, in shock, presses a button on her remote control and the toy tanks launch BBs at Keaton.
"Commander Kelly is here to save the day from naked intruders! Woooooo hooo!"
Keaton runs outside and sees Natalie who kicks him into a tree. Keaton climbs up the tree with Natalie and Kara at the base, looking up at him. Several more BBs fire at Keaton, knocking him down and onto the floor. He stands up and tries to run, being stopped by Kelly. He turns the other direction and his surrounded by a very angry Natalie and Kara.
"Pervert! I say we chain him up, whip him and send him to the depths of hell!"
"And he's a Pantie thief!"
"Nooo....! I didn't do anything wrong!"
Suddenly, a more mature and elderly voice comes from somewhere. They turn to it, to see Hayley with a broom looking at Keaton.
"Oh, I see you've arrived, Keaton. Where is your clothes? It's not safe to be with just a towel on in the city."
Keaton runs over to her and goes down on his knees and hugs her.
"You've come to save me, Aunt Hayley!"
She takes her elbow and slams it against his head, sending him to the ground, saying 'That's Miss Hayley.'
"Wait a minute, 'Aunt Hayley'?" said Natalie.
"Yeah, he's my nephew. He's the new landlord."
"What?!"
"I'll explain it. Let's go to the Apartment first. I'll close the bar for an hour."
Scene shifts to inside the Apartments, around a table. They are discussing about Keaton.
"It's not right! An All-girls Apartment can't have a boy Landlord!" yelled Natalie.
"He'll make a good Landlord. He's an NYU student." Hayley said in response.
"I'm not really a-" Keaton said. But was interrupted by Hayley's elbow on his head.
"Yeah, Natalie, maybe he can tutor you." said Kara.
"I don't know. Something's not right about him. Where have I seen you before?"
"So it's settled. We now have a new Landlord, yay!" said Kelly joyfully.
They dispersed in all direction. That night, we see Keaton and Hayley in the bar next to the Apartments after hours. Keaton is sitting down at a table with Hayley leaning against the door.
"I see. So you didn't make it in yet, huh? Guess that's a mistake on my part. I thought you made it in."
"I feel bad lying to them. I shouldn't lie."
"What will you do?"
"I guess I'll leave."
"If you leave, Natalie, Kelly and Kara will be without a home. There will be no one to manage this place and keep the rent in check. They don't exactly have places to return to."
Natalie is walking past the bar and hears them talking and eavesdrops.
"Keaton, there are good lies and bad lies. Besides, if you get in this year, the lie will become the truth."
Natalie who is outside, overhears and remembers then. She whispers 'Ah, it's you!' and walks off back into the apartment building. Later that night, Keaton is seen scrobbing and cleaning the apartment building. He was in the middle of scrubbing the hallway when a familiar voice calls from behind him yelling 'Keaton Ulysses, 27th from the bottom!' Keaton turns around and sees the girl from the Practice Admission Exam place.
"It-it's you!"
"You still don't know me?"
She pulls off her glasses to reveal Natalie.
"How could you lie to us like that!"
"Sorry, I didn't mean to. I was going to-"
"You think by cleaning this place up will make it any better?"
"It was the last thing I could before I left."
"Wait a second, you're going to leave? But we need a manager!"
Natalie walks towards Keaton and slips on the soapy hallway and slams onto Keaton who is pushed against the wall. Both their glasses fall to the ground and she gets a good look at him.
"You actually look pretty cute without your glasses." said Natalie.
'Is this real? If it's real... I can touch her.'
Keaton grabs her arm and she punches him in the face yelling 'What are you doing?!' Kelly and Kara run into the hallway to see what was the commotion and see them to up against the wall.
"Taking advantage of him already, Natalie?" said Kara.
Natalie pulled herself off of him. She straightens herself out and Keaton pulls his head out of the wall.
"I'll tell you the truth."
Keaton closed his eyes getting ready for the effects of lying.
"I was asking him about Exam questions and if he could tutor me."
He opens his eyes and looks at Natalie.
"Lying.."
"Is bad?"
She winks one eye at him and they walk off. Later that night, Keaton walks around and sees a note on a door saying 'Your room is here!' He goes inside and sees an empty room with nothing but a hole in the ceiling. Keaton walks up to the balcony and looks at the moon.
"Wow, I got to admit, she saved me there. But I prefer women who are more nicer."
Hearing this from the floor below, Natalie yells 'And after I saved you? Ungrateful wretch!' and throws a brick at Keaton. It hits him and send him flying into the skies yelling 'Where will I goooo!'
END OF CHAPTER 1: Tell me what you think. You can leave reviews or e-mail me.