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A Life is But A Dream

"Yatta! I found it!" Su, fully clad in mechanoid armor, lands on the main level with a massive crash. "Keitaro Immortality Blaster to the rescue!"

Shinobu turns around. "Aaa!" Seeing a face with three eyes, she throws the phone into the air. 'A monster is here to collect Seta-san's soul! Auu!'

Catching the freaked Shinobu easily, Su pull the girl behind. "Alright! Step aside people. I need a clear shot at this!" The suit began to reform into a large cannon. "This can either bring him back, or turn him into sushi!" Su points at her newest contraption. "Ready!"

"Wait!" Shinobu tackles Su from behind. "Don't fire. Haruka-san..."

"Its okay, Shinobu-chan." Haruka traces Seta's rough jawline with her fingers. "Either way I will be with Seta..." She smiled.

"Auu!" 'Haruka-san is going to follow her love! How romantic....Wait! She is going to die! Auu!' Shinobu runs around aimlessly.

Haruka kisses Seta on the forehead. "Shinobu..."

"Auu!" 'Please change your mind! Ack! What I am asking? She is finally with her love...Noooo! I can't let her die!' Shinobu turns toward the older woman.

"Just tell Keitaro...I will miss him..." She hugs Seta closely.

'Auu! She made up her mind!' Shinobu starts to cry. 'I didn't have a chance to change her mind. Auu! Sempai! Sempai! Where are you?'

"Okay! Now that everybody is ready! Lets get this baby started!" Su punch the power button. Nothing. "Oops!" 'Where's that plug?'

"Ano...Here!" Shinobu held the plug in one hand and a frying pan on the other. 'Auu! It all comes down to this!'

"Shinobu!" Haruka looks at the shaking girl coldly.

'Auu!' Shinobu drops the cord and the frying pan. "Please Haruka-san!" Shinobu puts on her best puppy face.

"Please Shinobu! I want to be with him! I don't want to live without him!" Haruka's voice was hoarse with emotions. Her watery eyes sparkles. "Please let me have my last chance and be with him!"

'I am sorry sempai. I couldn't stop them.' Sobing, Shinobu plugs the power cord into a kitchen plug.

"Gee thanks! Shinobu! I almost forgot to plug that in too!" Su punch the power button. This time the cannon began to hum with increasing pitch. "Now I need the source."

Shinobu whips around. "What do you mean?"

"It's a Keitaro Immortallity Blaster! We need Keitaro to be the source! You see him anywhere?" Su looks around the room. Haruka lets out a cry of despair.

Shinobu freezes. 'Auu! I wish sempai is here. Haruka-san is suffering badly, and I can't do a thing!' "Sempai."

"I am right here." A voice came out from underneath the cannon.

"Auu!"

Slowly the cannon rises to reveal Keitaro holding it up with just one hand.

'Sempai is super cool!' Shinobu's heart starts to beat rapidly. 'Look at his muscles! Kyaaa! I am such a pervert!' Her face began to turn red.

"Umm...Shinobu." Keitaro sweatdropped. "This is too heavy for me to move with one hand...and I don't want to damage it." 'Ow ow ow ow ow! If only I had digged myself out sooner.'

Flash back:

Keitaro flies through the air after Haruka threw him and the girls up stairs. While Su and Shinobu lands well into the level, Keitaro lands at the edge of the staircase. After a brief struggle for balance: "Hew! That was close." The van took out the lower part of the staircase. "AAAAAAA!" Keitaro's screams were drowned out as he fell to the main level and was buried in debris.

After some digging, Keitaro pokes his head out. He sees Haruka hugging Seta. 'This looks bad! I better get some help!' Then more stuff fell on him. "Crap!" Then...stomp...stomp. He is out like a light.

With Su and Shinobu's help Keitaro is out of his hole. "Aunt Haruka!" He cringes. Haruka didn't respond. 'Shit! It wasn't my imagination!' "I will do everything possible to save Seta-sensei! Haruka-san!" 'This better work! Su!' The pain returnes with a vengence.

Shinobu gasp as Keitaro fell onto his knees and groaned. "Sempai!"

"It's okay!" Keitaro grimaced. "Sorry, I taking so long. I had you worried." Keitaro stagger to his feet and limp to the device. "Su start the machine."

Su stared at Keitaro. 'Keitaro looks so serious now. So much like oni-chan...'

Keitaro pulls out a helmet from the canon and puts it on.

"How do you know you have to put it on Keitaro?" Surprised Su jump onto Keitaro to check if it was on correctly.

'OW!' "You have to extract my immortality some how." Keitaro grimaced at the pain. 'I am no better off than Seta, but I am immortal...' "Okay! Lets do this!"

As Su reaches for the switch, Shinobu slaps her hand down. "Sempai! You could die!" 'Sempai could die if he tries to save Seta-san...Haruka-san would grieve forever without Seta-san...I...I... don't want anyone to die! Especially, Sempai!' "Su! This is too dangerous. We could lose all of them!"

Su hesitates. Silence.

"Keitaro! I..." Haruka looks at her nephew. "You don't have to..."

"Do it!" Keitaro faces her.

"Sempai!" Shinobu runs toward him.

"Do it!" Keitaro strain to avoid looking at Shinobu. Su's hand trembles as she reaches for the switch.

"Kei-kun! This is too much for you..." Haruka held on to Seta as she gets up. "I..." She looks at him with eyes devoid of hope.

"Do it Now! Su!" Keitaro, Haruka and Seta was enveloped in a bright halo.

Pain struck Keitaro like two hundred naru punches. "I... won't... take no... for an answer, aunt Haruka." Keitaro squeeze out his words through his teeth as his nerves lights up in flames. His words echo through out Hinata-sou.

"Keitaro, Haruka-san, SETA-SAN!" Naru came barrelling throught the front door. 'Am I too late?' The room was filled with a white glare, so that she could only make out the outline of some person until that person tackles her. "Waaa!" She looks down at the slightly singled Shinobu. "What happened to you Shinobu-chan?"

"Sniff! Sempai..." Shinobu cries out.

"That baka! He's being mean again? I will wack him good this time."

"NOOO!" Shinobu clings onto Naru like a wet blanket. "Don't hurt sempai! Saave HIM!"

"WHAT!" With a burst of speed Naru charges into the source of the glare.

Pain. Usually, Keitaro feels this sensation at least twenty times a day, especially after events like falling into Naru's breast, seeing Motoko bathing, been caught 'seducing' Kitsune, greeting by Su, or flustering Shinobu. All those times were frequently followed by bursts of this intense sensation. But this is beyond that, this isn't the aching of Naru's tickets to a distant location, or flashing agony Motoko's supersonic techniques, or even Su's explosive torturing. It was all pain, all poking needles of flame on his every nerve cell. It was hell. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

"Stop! Shinobu charges toward the control panel despite the arcing electricity. Her tears follows her as she reach to turn off the source of Keitaro's suffering. Zap!

Su can barely cushion Shinobu's flying body. "Owie!"

"Auu!" Shinobu was numb, and smoking a little bit more. 'I was so close.'

"Keitaro!" Naru swings her fist to knock the helmet off of the screaming man's head. 'Sorry! But this could save your life!'

A giant flash, Naru slams against the wall. "Argh!"

"No good!" Su yelled. "It won't stop until Seta is healed!"

Naru shook of the shock and limp toward Keitaro. "I will make it stop!" 'I won't let him die!'

Shinobu tries to get up, but her bady won't listen. "Sempai!"

"Urashima!" Motoko leap over Su and Shinobu. "Lotus fist!" She struck the halo around the manger and flew back against the wall. "Demon sealing palm!" 'If only I had my sword!'

Naru leap at Keitaro and try to tackle him down.

Old wounds are opening up. Keitaro feels his body's death cry as the immortality that had protected him since birth is been stripped away like the peels of an orange. Unpaid debts are due, with plenty of interests as Keitaro whrither under the agony. "AAAAAA!" 'I won't let Haruka lose her last chance!' He then hears Naru through the din of his own screaming.

'I could barely remember that wild, teenage girl I call aunt so many years ago. You hits me then, as you do now, but you would always laugh and play with me afterward.' Memories welled up in Keitaro's mind. 'Then you stopped smiling everyday, as if there was a cloud blocking your cheery spirit. When you do smile, you do it with such longing, such loneliness that my heart aches. I know now why you became what you are. You found love, and it hurts you. You ran from it, and longed for it when it was out of reach. I see now, Seta-san was more than just you punching bag. He was your best friend, your love, and your life. He is the only one who could bring back the old you, so I must do everything possible to bring him back!' "I must AAA do this... Naru!"

"Why?" Naru's strength fails her, and she falls. 'Am I not enough for you?'

"Because for...everyone." Keitaro feels shock runs down his spine. "Shinobu-chan..." Shinobu weeps as she props up against Su. "Motoko-chan..." The kendo girl's bleeding hands is yanking furiously at an iron rebar. "Konno-san..." The woman is hammering a large rock on the power box, trying to break it open. "Su-chan..." The blond girl orders her mecha-tamas to attack the power cord, but the intense electric field fries their circuits. "My sister..." Out in America, a dark hair girl turns around and whisper Keitaro's name. "Auntie Haruka..." The older woman is cry as she beats against the halo. "Seta-sensei..." The man is limp in Haruka's arms but his wounds are slowly closing up. "Mu-chan..." The anemic girl smiles, but is still KOed. "and you, Naru..." Naru screamed as she charged at Keitaro. "I need to care for everyone, and make them happy. For this I am willing to give my life..." Streams of red mist erupts throughout his body.

"Sempai!" Shinobu falls as she tries to run toward the stricken manager. 'I love you!'

"...because..."

Motoko readys that rebar in her hand and whirl around into position. 'Hang on Urashima!'

Kitsune popes open the power box and reaches in. 'Keitaro! Just a little further!'

"I ..."

Su changes into her adult form and plays a cord on her guitar. A hole appears in the halo.

"love..."

Mutsumi wakes up. Her head yanks the power cord half way out of it's socket. The glare dims.

Shinobu gets up.

Motoko swings.

Kitsune reaches for the master switch.

Su leaps forward.

Naru barrels into Keitaro.

Haruka and Seta fell unconscious to the ground.

"Everyone." Motoko's blast annihallates the machine. Kitsune shuts off the power. Su transform back and slams into Naru and Keitaro. Keitaro's world turned into a sea of light as he fell down with Naru and Su. The helmet rolls to a stop a feet away.

"Sempai!" Shinobu latch onto Keitaro's unresponsive body. "Sempai! Sempai!"

"Urashima!" Motoko drops the rebar, and rushes in.

"Keitaro?" Naru pats Keitaro's face, she reaches for his neck and feels for his pulse. Her eyes widens. "BAKA! KEITARO! NOOOOO!"

"So this is what death feels like." His world became darkness. 'IS LIFE JUST A DREAM?'

Author's notes: I hope, this is not out of character.

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