Hey there! Back again. Time for another chapter! Hopefully I can put this fic back on track with this next storyline. And no, I didn't forget the wedding. I've actually been waiting until I could finally bring it into the story. Story wise, we'll just say it got delayed. P Yes, I know. I'm bad.
---Kouji Tamino
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Love Hina Next: Second Phase
Chapter 34: Meiruuna Rising…
Tenshi giggled, tugging on her newly gained human hair. "I guess I have a lot of explaining to do…" The look on her face became serious. "But it's not just me… Kai as well… And both Meiruuna and him are up to no good, as usual… That's why I kept disappearing… I was trying to see what they were up to…"
Ami and the others stared at Tenshi in momentary shock. Ami calmed down a bit. "But… Why, Tenshi? Why have you and Kai become human?"
The rabbit turned human shrugged. "I have no idea…"
Kairi tilted her head. "…I'm still a bit confused…"
Ami sighed. "Maybe I should explain this all more clearly…"
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"And that's the whole story…" Ami said sadly. "Meiruuna began to stay at Hinata House with the rest of us and all was normal again… Well, as normal as it can get at Hinata House… And there are those occasions of Meiruuna molesting Rikina…"
Everyone sweat dropped. Shinichi, standing up from his seat, cleared his throat. "Wow, Meiruuna sounds… Interesting… I think I'm going to go check up on Naoko…"
Junko quickly stood up, walking over to Shinichi and shaking her head. "No, I will…" Shinichi nodded in an understanding fashion, sitting back down. Junko began to walk up the stairs.
When she was at the door of Naoko's room, she knocked lightly, hoping that her sister would answer. To her dismay, she heard nothing. She slowly opened the door, peeking in and frowning. Naoko had still not woken up, her forehead bandaged up. Her pale skin was starting to regain some color and she had a grimace of pain upon her face, breathing heavily. Junko bit her lip in anger, her fingernails digging into her hands, drawing a small amount of blood. "Damn it… How dare she do this to my sister… I don't care who you are! Naoko did not deserve something like this!" She punched the nearby wall, creating a large hole. "You hear that, bitch?! Yeah, I'm talking to you, Meiruuna!! You want to use someone in your sick, twisted plans?! Use me!!" She burst out crying and fell to her knees. "But don't you ever dare… use such a sweet and innocent girl again…"
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Meanwhile, while sitting on top of a building, Meiruuna sneezed. Kai walked up behind her and frowned. "Are you all right, Mistress?"
Meiruuna looked up to Kai and grinned. "Yeah, I'm fine… Someone was just talking shit about me… Again…" Her grin turned into a sigh. "I've felt some very negative energy towards me ever since I sent that 'message' to my sister…"
Kai shrugged. "Eh, forgot about it… It doesn't matter. Soon, there will be no one who can mess with you!"
Meiruuna stared at her guardian. "…Kai, please don't use cliché lines like that or I'll be forced to hurt you…"
"Why?" He asked. "You use them all the time!"
She chuckled lightly. "That's because I can get away with it…"
Kai took a seat next to her. "So, what's the next step, Mistress?"
"We wait…" Meiruuna replied. "We wait and see if our respective siblings take the bait… If they do, then we both will get what we want in the end…"
Kai smiled. "You're so deliciously evil, Mistress…"
Meiruuna pouted. "Hey, I'm not evil… Just misunderstood… I'm just trying to save the earth from the filthy normies… Is that a crime?"
The boy sweat dropped. "Actually, it is… It's a little something called genocide…"
The psychic shrugged. "Well, whatever… Can't arrest me if they're all dead…"
"True…" Kai muttered.
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Two days had passed. Naoko had not awoken. Everyone became more and more worried as each hour passed. Junko had not left her sister's bedside for anything. She stared at her younger sister's unconscious form sadly, her hate for Meiruuna growing slowly. "Damn it, haven't even met the bitch yet and I hate her already… Shit shit shit! I'm going to kill her!! I don't know how, but I will kill that little--"
"My, you're in a nasty mood, aren't you?" Kairi asked, floating in. "How is Ms. Naoko?…"
"No shit, freak…" Junko muttered, annoyed. Her expression softened. "And… Naoko still hasn't woken up… I'm… I'm getting scared, Kairi… What if she never wakes up? I…" Tears began to roll freely down her face. "I don't know what I would do if… if…"
Kairi's expression became sad for the first time in a while. "Don't think that way, Ms. Junko… Think optimistically!"
"You know, that's another thing I hate about you!" Junko screamed. "How can you be so happy after all you've been through?!"
Kairi looked away. "I maybe happy on the outside, but I am hurting on the inside… More than you can ever know… I lost everything in that fire… My house, my valuables, my life… But they meant nothing without him… But he had to go and screw it up…" She looked up to see Junko's confused face, slightly smiling in nostalgia. "We were so happy, newlyweds moving into our new house… My husband had come up with a new serum that would cure a disease that had already killed 72 people within a month. He was given a huge offer so we moved into a mansion… It was in pretty bad shape, but we fixed it up… But then he was called away to serve in World War I… The war was almost over, and I didn't expect him to be gone for long… But the war was over, and he still hadn't come home… I waited for 5 years before he finally returned… Turns out the bastard had a new wife… Met some tramp while overseas… He left again after returning to tell me that… So then I just said 'screw it' and burned that damn house up… With myself in it… I thought that I was ugly… Guess I wasn't pretty enough for him… Either that or he was tired of waiting for me to let him screw me…"
"That's horrible…" Junko said, completely shocked. She glared. "If I was you, I would have cut his balls off… How dare he do that to you!"
Kairi sighed. "Well, thanks for reminding me how shitty my final days of living were… Bye, Ms. Junko…" Kairi then floated off.
Junko growled. "Damn it, I didn't mean to make you feel bad! Wait up!" Too late. She was already gone. "Just great… I've messed things up again…"
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Meanwhile, Shinichi was at his 'self defense class'. He screamed as Yamato tossed him over to the other side of the dojo. He landed on his feet, much to his surprise. Yamato grinned. "You're getting much better, Shinichi…" His grin turned into a glare. "But yeah, you may be right… Meiruuna has been acting very strangely lately… And she's been going off to places and not telling us where she's been… If she shows up anywhere near your place, give me a call…"
Shinichi smiled. "Thanks! Will do!" He quickly ran out of the building.
Yamato sweat dropped. "Um, your lessons aren't over, yet…" He sighed. "Oh well, not like he really needs them anymore… He just needs to become a little braver and keep at his exercises…"
As Shinichi was running home, he was stopped in the middle of the road. Suddenly, time seemed to stop. He gasped as Meiruuna and Kai walked up to him. Meiruuna was wearing a tight black leather sleeveless shirt, short skirt, and high heels. Her hair was back in it's old style. She grinned. "Hello there… You must be Shinichi…" She walked up to his shaking form and pressed up against him. "You're kinda cute… Too bad you'll be annihilated with the others…" She kissed him on the lips, slipping her tongue into his mouth. She reached back, pressing his hips against hers and squeezing his butt. She moaned into the kiss, then broke the embrace, grinning at him. "One final gift before your death…" She chuckled, walking away with Kai as Shinichi stood there, stiff as a board.
"You know, that little display over there gave me a bit of a woody…" Kai said slyly.
Meiruuna stared at him. "Kai, that was way too much information… Now could you please just shut up for a few hours at least?"
Kai pouted. "Yes, Mistress…"
As they disappeared, Shinichi blinked rapidly. "Wow… I mean, no objections or anything, but… What the hell was that all about?"
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Up on another rooftop, spying on an unknowing Shinichi, was our resident dastardly duo. "He has an… interesting life force to him…" Meiruuna said softly. "He may fit into our plans…"
"Oh!" Kai shouted, in realization. "So that's what the kiss was all about! You were trying to sense if there was anything special about him!"
Meiruuna smiled, licking her lips. "Well… Partly… I could have done that through any extended type of contact, but the kissing was fun…"
Kai smirked. "Mistress, you horny little--"
Meiruuna pinched Kai playfully on the butt. "Hey, you should know me by now…"
Kai sighed. "Sure, sure…"
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Shinichi sighed as he walked into the house. "Hey everyone, I'm home… How's Ms. Naoko?"
Sakura ran down the stairs, glomping Shinichi. "Oh darling, you're home!" She gasped as she got a good look at his face. "Why are you wearing black lipstick?" She sniffed the air. "And why are you wearing perfume?" She gasped. "You were with another woman that we don't know about, weren't you?!"
Ami walked down the steps, Tenshi quickly following. "What was that about another woman? Shinichi-kun, are you keeping secrets from us?" She asked, playfully.
Tenshi sniffed the air, frowning. "Ami-dono… Doesn't that scent seem familiar?"
Ami nodded. "You're right… That's the same perfume Meiruuna wears…"
"Oh!" Sakura screamed. "So you're getting fresh with the enemy, is that it?!"
"Huh?" Megumi came out of the bathroom in a towel. "Getting fresh with who? Shinichi, you naughty boy!"
Shinichi's eyes widened. "N-no!" He yelled, waving his arms in front of himself protectively. "It wasn't like that!! She came onto me!"
All was silent for a few moments. Suddenly, the girls burst out laughing. "I'm sorry, Shinichi…" Megumi began. "But I don't see a girl seriously trying to get into your pants…"
"Speak for yourself, melon chest…" Sakura muttered, crossing her arms. "But that… slut has to be stopped! She's already corrupted poor Shinichi!"
"I think we've already corrupted him… He's touched more parts of me than my last boyfriend ever even knew existed…"
"She said…" Shinichi began, touching his lips. "That the kiss was one final gift… before my death…"
Ami smirked. "Well then, we'll just have to make sure that we all live, won't we?"
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Just then, upstairs, Junko's left eyebrow twitched. "Damn, damn, damn… I really have to go to the freaking bathroom…"
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Nighttime. Meiruuna had always loved looking at the bright lights in the city of Tokyo. All the different colors and flashing signs excited her. "Another one of the sacrifices I will have to make in order to purify this world… Is there anything that you would like to say farewell to, Kai?…"
Kai sighed. "Well, I am going to miss all the hot chicks and what-not…"
Meiruuna face faulted. "Idiot…"
"What?" Kai asked, shrugging. "What?!"
End of Chapter 34
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And that's the end of this chapter. Sorry for the bit of darkness. Like most writer's, my mood affects my writing. I did manage to sneak in some bits of humor though, as you can see. Oh well, hopefully the next one will be better.
---Kouji Tamino
