Hey there. Sorry this chapter is so late… I started playing this game called 'Princess Maker 2'. Most of you probably know what it's about. Anyway, I got hooked on the game. Seriously, it's like crack on the computer. It's addicting. I probably would have played for the rest of the day, but my brother needed the computer.

But eh, as long as the chapter gets up, right? Besides, I no longer have a consistent schedule, so things are a bit of a mess now… Oh well, I'll try to work on a schedule… Later… Maybe…

P.S. to Mike: Eh? What do you mean with your last comment?

---Kouji Tamino

Love Hina Next: Second Phase

Week 2, Day 7: Let's Go! Rescue Mission! (Haunted Adventure, Part 2)

Ami waved her hands around, trying to see if there was something solid in this strange area that they were in. Realizing that they were in some strange void, Ami furrowed her eyebrows. "Everyone be very careful… If you walk too far, you could get lost!"

Shinichi screamed. "So you mean that we're going to be stuck here forever?! I don't want to die here!!"

Megumi protectively glomped her friend. "Don't worry, Shinichi!! I will protect you!!"

Sakura gritted her teeth, a fang emerging. "You're going to be the one who needs protection if you don't get your hands off of him!!"

Megumi grinned. "Ahh, fresh meat… You look like you will be very fun to rile up!" Just to get on Sakura's nerves, she rubbed her cheek against Shinichi's. "Mmmm…"

Sakura's hair began to flair in the air. "Damn it, you stop that! You'll ruin his innocence!!"

Junko groaned, smacking her forehead. "My god, what are you women squabbling over? It's Shinichi, for crying out loud!"

Sakura stared at Junko. "So? He'll make a perfect sex slave…"

"And Shinichi is me buddy!" Megumi said, snuggling against him and literally smothering him with love. She glared at Sakura. "And I will NOT let you make him your little man-slave!!" She hugged him even tighter, nearly cutting off his oxygen. "I may tease him a lot, but I care an awful lot for him! You just want him for pleasure!!" She looked to Shinichi and seeing that he was turning blue, quickly let him go. "Oops, sorry!!"

Sakura grinned. "Nuh uh… You see, Shinichi has been showing lately that he has the potential to become quite the man… And I aim to be his… future girlfriend…"

"Whhhhaaaa?!" Shinichi yelled, shocked. Silently crying in happiness, he thought to himself. 'Thank you, who ever is looking over me!! I would have never thought in a million years that I would ever live in a house with several pretty girls!! And best of all, one of them likes me!! Maybe being her slave wouldn't be so bad…'

-Enter Shin's Fantasy-

Shinichi awoke tied up to a heart shaped bed. He blinked confusedly, looking around. "Huh? Where am I?…" He stared at some of the 'interesting' objects lying around and hanging from the ceiling and walls. "Oh my god… I know where I am now!!"

Sakura walked in, wearing a tan trench coat. She smiled sexily. "Oh do you, now?"

Shinichi nodded. "That's right! I'm on a game show!!"

Sakura face faulted. "No!" She screamed in an annoyed fashion. She calmed down and smiled again. "You are my bitch. You will do whatever I say…" She untied her trench coat and let it slip down to the floor. She was wearing a red dominatrix outfit. The skimpy red leather outfit hugged her form in all the right places and revealed quite a bit of cleavage. She held up her matching whip and grinned evilly. "Do you understand?…" Shinichi nodded. She whipped the bedpost above him. "Speak when you are spoken too!!"

Shinichi nodded, then realized his error. "Yes, mistress!! Sorry, mistress!!"

"Sorry, isn't enough…" Sakura said, grinning and walking closer to the bed. "Time for your spankings!"

-End Shin's Fantasy-

Junko stared at Shinichi suspiciously. He was smiling, drool running down his mouth. "What are you smiling at?…"

Shinichi quickly snapped out of his day dream and looked to her. "Um, heh heh… Nothing! Nothing at all!!" He calmed down and looked to Ami. "So, have any ideas on how to get out of here?"

"How about running like hell until we reach the end of this thing?" Junko suggested. "It can't last forever, you know…"

Ami shook her head. "Yes it can, which is why we must…" She gasped as Junko began running. "Junko, no!" But it was too late. Junko had disappeared. "Junko…" Ami sighed, putting her head down low. "I barely knew you, but you were a good person… Sort of."

"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Junko muttered, standing right behind her.

"It's almost as if she was still here…" Ami said sadly.

Junko sighed in exasperation. "I am still here… Look behind you…"

Ami looked back. "Junko!!" She tightly hugged her. "I thought that you were lost forever!! What happened?!"

Sakura pointed behind herself. "She came out of the other side over here…"

"Interesting…" Ami said, putting an arm into the black void. Shinichi screamed as a seemingly disembodied arm came up from behind. Ami smiled nervously as she looked back to him. "Sorry!!" She brought her attention back to the void. "So while I was right about this place being endless, I was wrong in the way that I explained it. I was thinking of this place being a sort of infinity, where you could run and run and run and never find an end to it, ever…" She smiled at the others. "Of course, that would completely impossible!!"

They sweat dropped, staring at Ami. Junko whispered over to Shinichi. "Hey, you're the resident geek around here… Have any idea what's she's saying?"

"No idea at all!" Shinichi replied, whispering back.

Ami rubbed her chin, smirking. "All right, Mister/Misses/Miss ghost, whatever the hell are you are: I've caught on to your little trick!" She placed a hand on the ground. "If I can disrupt her magic with the little I know, amplified by my psychic abilities, then we should be out of here soon…" She concentrated, and suddenly the black void became blue, then dissipated completely. Ami smiled. "Hey, it worked!"

Shinichi looked at the hole in the ceiling. "Yeah, but look at that hole! My parents are going to kill me!!"

Tenshi and Kai looked down, the former flying down into her owner and friend's arms. "Ami-dono!! You're all right!!"

Ami petted her bunny on the head. "Yep! It'll take more than that to get rid of us!"

Junko frowned. "Now we have to save Naoko…"

Megumi nodded and looked to Ami. "So, got any way to get us all back up there?"

Ami looked to Megumi and smirked. "Of course I can!"

As Ami helped up Shinichi, the last of the group that needed to get upstairs, they began to carefully walk down the hallway. Suddenly, everyone heard a woman scream as if she was being murdered. Junko in turn screamed and hopped on Shinichi's back. "Kyaaah!! Please don't hurt me!!" She looked around and blushed, hopping off of the man's back. "Um… No one saw that…"

With that out of the way, they continued their way down the hallway. "I hope we can make it to poor Naoko in time…" Megumi said, worry in her voice.

Junko had a look of hatred on her face. "I swear, if that thing has done anything to harm Naoko, I'll skin it alive with my bare hands!!"

Shinichi sweat dropped. "And I don't doubt that you are perfectly capable of that feat…"

Junko suddenly bumped into something… or more like, someone… She screamed as the person suddenly unsheathed a sword they were carrying. The person then sliced the air, a giant spider falling to the floor. "Geez, I hate spiders…" Kimomo smiled and waved at Junko. She was wearing a shrine maiden outfit quite similar to her mothers. She was also carrying a back-pack. She still pretty much looked the same, just shorter (shoulder-length) hair in a pony tail. "Hey there, stranger! Sorry about scaring you like that, but hey-- Getting the crap scared out of you is better than getting your head bitten off by a giant spider, right?"

"Kimomo?!" Ami yelled, smiling. "Hi! What are you doing here?!"

Kimomo smiled even more as she saw one of her old friends from Hinata House. "Ami! What are you doing here?"

Ami stared at Kimomo. "I live here… Now seriously, what are you doing here?"

Kimomo tilted her head. "You live here? That's cool… Anyway, I was called here to take care of what ever the hell is up here, but I got stuck when the door disappeared! I've been here for the last week and a half…"

"Oh yeah, I was away during that time..." Shinichi said to no one in particular.

"Oh, my!!" Ami said in shock, her hands over her mouth. "How did you survive?!"

Kimomo waved her hand a few times. "Girl, are you stuck in the early 20th century, or what?" She took off her back pack and set it on the ground. She opened it up and took out a small white metal box. "This is the Ultimate Portable Fridge! The newest released product from Kaolla's newly founded company, The Smart Banana! It would have cost an arm and a leg, but Kaolla let me off with a discount!"

"What was the original price?" Ami asked.

"300,000¥" Kimomo said as-a-matter-of-factly.

Junko flinched. "Ouch, and the discount?"

"250,000¥" Kimomo replied. She watched as everyone face faulted. "But hey, it's worth it! Check this out!" She opened up the fridge and you could see a purple portal in there. She reached in and pulled out a can of soda. "Anyone want one?" They all shook their heads. The samurai girl shrugged. "Oh well, more for me!" Just as she was about to open it, a hand reached out of the fridge and snatched it away from her. Recognizing the hand, she screamed into the fridge. "Oh come on, Tokimi, don't be like that!! I said that I'd pay back for all the stuff I snatched from the fridge!!" She got down on her knees and begged. "Please!! I need that to live!!"

Everyone sweat dropped, Ami quickly recovering, her eyes widening in amazement. "Wow, so that has a link to the fridge back at Hinata House? Can I speak to Tokimi?"

Kimomo sweat dropped. "Ami, it's not a phone… I just got carried away." She closed the fridge, put it back in the back pack, and stood up. "So, why are you all up here?"

Junko glared at Sakura. "Ms. Psycho over her wanted to investigate the strange noise up here… We came up to make sure she doesn't get herself killed, and now my little sister has been snatched up by a wild dog… By the way, my name is Junko Sagawa."

Sakura waved. "Sakura Mishima. Nice to meet you."

Megumi smiled and waved. "I like your style! My name is Megumi Thompson!"

Shinichi rubbed the back of his head. "My name is Shinichi… My father is Shinji Suchi, the man you're currently working for…"

Kimomo smiled. "Nice to meet you! My name is Kimomo Sakaseyu!"

Junko scowled. "I hate to be rude, but can we get going? Naoko's life is put into further danger the more we waste time!"

Sakura nodded. "She's right, you know… And I'll be the one that's most responsible… My recklessness has put her into danger…"

Junko, getting more frustrated, snapped at Sakura. "You're damn right it was!!"

Ami glared at Junko. "Stop it… She's obviously very sorry for what she's done…" She then added to her lecture. "Plus, it's also your fault for letting Naoko come up here in the first place…"

Junko looked away. "You're right… It's all my fault…"

Ami choked. "N-now, wait a second! I never said that!"

Junko curled up into a fetal position. "I'm a horrible older sister…"

Ami's eyes widen. "I never said that either--"

"You're right, I deserve to die…" She muttered.

Ami growled. "Now wait just a minute!!! Stop putting words in my mouth, get off your angsting ass and actually help us do something about this problem!!" She gasped. "Junko, I'm sorry--"

Junko stood up. "No, you're right…" She looked at Ami and smirked. "Now let's get to the bottom of this mess and save my sister!" Suddenly, her clothes fell off, leaving her in only her undergarments. "What the hell?!"

"Oh my..." Kimomo's eyes widened. "I'm sorry... It appears that when I cut the spider in two, I cut your own clothes!"

'Red silk!!' Shinichi thought, taking some tissue and plugging up his nose.

"Stop staring!!" Junko screamed, punching him and sending him flying down the hallway.

'Why me?...' Shinichi flew down the hallway and into the darkness...

To Be Continued…

Whew! Finished! I forgot what finishing chapters late at night several times in row feels like! My arms are sore, and it feels great! Now if I could only stay away from Princess Maker 2...

By the way, going to a baseball game on Monday. I'm pretty sure it's going to be an evening game, so I'll get to the next chapter as soon as I can.

P.S. 300,000 Japanese Yen (JPY) = 2,743.74 US Dollars (USD)

250,000 JPY = 2,286.45 USD

---Kouji Tamino