Back again! Sorry about there being no chapter last week, pretty busy with other things. Sorry. But, hey, I'm still at this thing, right? There were a few times where I just thought about taking a long break or just quitting all together, but I've managed a pull my self together and get at least one chapter a week. I'm hoping to permanently bring it back up to 2-3 chapters, but for now, this the best I can do without the chapter quality going way down. As you can see from the past few chapters, I'm finally getting back into the 'groove', so to speak. And remember, this is just a hobby. Simply something I do on my free time.

Anyway, let's get started!

---Kouji Tamino

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Love Hina Next: Second Phase

Chapter 37: Sister… Memories and Realization…

Shin quickly dodged his brother's fist, catching it and smirking. "Still too slow…" He looked to Meiruuna. "Is that the best that you can do? My brother may not be much of a fighter, but--" He gasped as he was hit by a swift kick to the side. He tumbled to the side a bit, holding his ribs. "Cheap shot while I wasn't looking, huh?"

Meiruuna stuck her tongue out. "Not my fault that you weren't paying attention…"

Shin regained his footing, blocking an incoming barrage of punches. With one arm. Everyone, including Meiruuna, was shocked. Junko, Naoko, and Kai ran in at that moment, watching in amazement. "Come on, bro! Is that all you've got?" Shin taunted.

"Shut up!" Shinichi screamed, suddenly gaining a burst of speed and strength. His punches began to make to through, forcing Shin to use both hands. But even that wasn't enough, as Shinichi managed to punch his older brother right in the face.

Shin stepped back, rubbing his face. "Geez, Shinichi was never this good or this aggressive…" He stared at Meiruuna. "What did you do to him?"

"Nothing." Meiruuna said simply. "He's not even under my complete control. All I did was unleash his hidden feelings and gain slight control over him."

"So you mean…" Shin began. "…that all this time, Shinichi has wanted to beat me?" He looked to his younger sibling. "Little brother, is this true?"

"Yes…" Shinichi said softly. "You… were always so cool and strong… I wanted to be just like you…" He began to clench his fists. "But no matter what I did, I could never break out of my shyness and cowardice…" His expression became angrier. "But Meiruuna has given me the courage I need to beat you and prove that I can be strong as well!!" He screamed, lunging towards Shin and hitting him in the chest. He kicked at him, but Shin blocked it, grabbed Shinichi's foot, and sent him flying towards a wall. Shinichi flipped him self over in the air and skidded on his feet. "You can't do that anymore, big brother…" He stood back up, his glasses lying on the ground over to the side because they had fallen off.

Shin raised an eyebrow. "Holy crap. I heard that you had been training, but jeez!"

Ami stepped forward. "Meiruuna… Leave Shinichi-kun out of this…"

Meiruuna chuckled. "And who is going to stop me, dear sister? You?" She screamed as she was sent flying back by an energy ball from Ami.

Ami smiled. "Actually, yes! Now play nicely, Meiruuna…" Her expression became dark. "Or someone will get hurt, and it won't be me…"

"You don't scare me anymore, Ami…" Meiruuna growled, her clothes slightly singed, preparing her own energy ball. "And I'm afraid that I'm not the one who will get hurt!"

Tenshi stood in front of Ami, but was gently pushed aside by her. Ami shook her head. "No, Tenshi… I must do this by myself…"

The sisters shot at each other, the blasts canceling each other out. Ami swept Meiruuna off her feet and slammed her against a wall. Meiruuna quickly recovered and smashed Ami up and down on the ceiling. Ami picked herself off of the floor and sent a beam at Meiruuna, cutting her cheek. Meiruuna growled as the cut bled, sending several beams towards Ami. She managed to dodge a few, getting a few cuts on her clothes and arms.

Meanwhile, Shin and Shinichi were now trading blow for blow, seemingly evenly matched. Shin was impressed by his brother's greatly improved skills. He sighed, smirking. "Sorry, little brother… You've improved a lot, but it's time to end this!" He blocked a punch from Shinichi, spinning around and kicking him in the head, sending him flying over to another part of the room. Shin flinched as his brother flew head first into a wall. "Oops… Think I over did it…"

Shinichi slowly stood up, back to normal. He looked away, tears running down his face. "I'll… never be like you, will I big brother?" He walked over to his glasses, picked them up, and put them on. He looked back to Shin, a sad smile on his face. "I'll always just be your nerdy, weak, cowardly little brother…"

Shin walked over to Shinichi and smacked him in the face. "Don't you ever say such low things about yourself. You are not weak or a coward! Would a coward give himself up to save a group of girls like you did? Would someone weak be able to move on with their lives like you have? When I lived in the mansion with you and my parents, you always managed to amaze me with your positive outlook on life! When I left home, I had lost all hope, but Urashima-sempai helped me find the light within the darkness!" He sweat dropped. "Okay, that was kind of corny, but…" He sighed. "What happened to that Shinichi?"

"He lost hope…" Shinichi muttered, crossing his arms. "I just… got tired of waiting for something in my life to change…" He looked to Meiruuna. "Just like Meiruuna got tired of waiting for humans to clean up their act…"

Meiruuna gasped, putting her arms down. Ami followed suit. "He's right…" She began. "Every day, I became more and more disgusted with all the war and death and ruining of the environment… I just wanted it all to stop…" She looked toward the machine. 8 minutes until the drop. "But if I kill all the humans off… I'm even worse than the 'evil' people…" Meiruuna fell to her knees, tears running freely. "What have I done? I almost killed all the people close to me!"

---Flashback---

"Meiruuna!!" Rikina screamed., chasing Meiruuna outside. "Stop groping me in my sleep, damn it! It's really awkward!"

Meiruuna, at 15, floated into the air so Rikina couldn't reach her. She smiled. "But your boobs are so big, Rikina… They're really fun to play with…"

Rikina blushed, giving Meiruuna a shocked look. "Meiruuna, are you--"

Meiruuna shrugged. "I don't know… yet…" She grinned evilly. "But I'll be sure to let you know…" She blew Rikina a kiss and left, leaving a confused goth princess.

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Everyone was sitting at the kitchen table for breakfast. Meiruuna reached over to grab a banana, peeled it, and began to lick it a few times. She grinned as she got a shocked response from the others, so she licked all around the fruit and slowly slipped the whole thing in her mouth, moving it in and out, making soft sucking noises. She suddenly gagged on it, moaning out softly. Yamato blushed as a certain part of him reacted. Tokimi gave him a disgusted glare. Suddenly, Ami pounded on the table. "Will you stop that?! It's really disgusting and people are trying to eat!"

Meiruuna pulled the banana from her mouth with a messy sounding 'pop', a thread of drool stretching from her mouth to the yellow fruit. She gently wiped her mouth, licking her lips. "Mmmm… And why should I? That's the way I always eat bananas…"

"Y'see, why can't you eat bananas that way, Tokimi?" Kai asked, jokingly. He yelped as Tokimi pounded him in the back of the head. "Kidding! I was kidding! Owww, you're a big bully…"

"You'd better be…" Tokimi muttered threateningly.

Meiruuna giggled as she took a bite of her banana.

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Meiruuna flinched, holding back a scream, as Shinobu applied hydrogen peroxide to her skinned knee. "Now just hold still!" Shinobu shouted, lightly dapping the wound with a soaked cotton swab. "Now how did you mess your knee up?"

"Um, I fell and went skidding across the floor… Rikina whacked me after another attempt to grope her in her sleep…"

Shinobu giggled, putting a big bandage on Meiruuna's knee. "Serves you right, you little pervert…"

Meiruuna sighed. "But her boobies are so soft and squishy and warm…" She stared at Shinobu's chest. "Ooh, yours are nice, too…" She added, diving face first between them.

Shinobu sweat dropped, sighing and smacking her in the back of the head. "Out. Now. My tits are not pillows…"

Meiruuna groaned, getting up and rubbing the back of her head. "Owww… You're messed up…"

Shinobu raised an eyebrow. "I'm the one who's messed up?…"

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"I'm so sorry, everyone… I tried to kill you all…" Meiruuna stood up, looking to the machine again. "6 minutes until this thing starts falling towards earth…" She walked over and started pressing a few buttons. "Well, I'll stop it… I can't completely stop the current countdown, but I can override it and cause it to self destruct… Only problem is that once I press the button, the whole thing goes boom… You all have to leave now, I'll blow the thing up!"

Shinichi gasped. "Meiruuna, we can't--"

Junko grabbed him in a headlock, effectively shutting him up. "Sure we can! Come on, everyone, let's--" She blinked as everyone glared at her. "What? Well excuse me for still being bitter towards her for hurting Naoko!"

Meiruuna shook her head. "No, it's okay, Junko… I owe you and Naoko a big apology…" She smiled, pointing right at her cheek. "Go ahead, slug me… Take out all your anger… In one punch…"

Junko shook her head. "No, I can't do that… I'm not a bully, you know--"

"Just hit me, you stupid bitch!!" Meiruuna screamed.

"Oh shit…" Sakura muttered. "Meiruuna's dead… Powers or not, she called Junko a bitch… She's screwed…"

Junko's eyebrow twitched. "What the hell did you call me, slut?"

Meiruuna chuckled evilly. "That's right, I said it… And so what if I'm a so-called, 'slut'? Yeah, that's right, I want sex! I want to ride Shinichi's bone!"

Junko growled, bringing her arm back. "Fine! Want me to hit you?! I'll knock you back into last week!" As she prepared to punch Meiruuna, everyone flinched. Junko's fist flew towards Meiruuna's face, then stopped. Junko flicked Meiruuna in the forehead and sighed. "There. The deep is done."

Everyone sweat dropped. Shin stood up, rubbing his temple. "Ladies… Don't you think there's an easier to stop this thing?"

Ami and Meiruuna looked to each other with a grin. "Oh, we get what you have in mind…"

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Ami and Meiruuna were floating under the fortress, charging up huge beams of energy. The others were on the ground, cheering them on. "I sure hope this works…" Ami began. "That fight we had was pretty tiring…"

"Yeah, we should have enough energy to nuke this thing…" Meiruuna said confidently. "So, you ready?"

"Ready when you are, sis…" They unleashed their fully charged attacks on the fortress. They held their attacks for a few minutes, but nothing happened. Not even a scratch.

Meiruuna sweat dropped. "Aw shit, I screwed up …"

Ami gasped. "What's wrong? Why haven't our attacks affected it?"

"Because I put a damn psychic barrier around it that won't go down until the countdown is over!"

Ami's eyes began to water up. "So you mean--"

"Yep. There is absolutely no way to stop it now… Unless I press that self destruct button… But who knows, maybe I'll luck out and manage to put up a shield before I'm blown to bits…"

"Rastel maskil magister!" A man's voice shouted out in latin. "Septendecim spiritus obscuri… Sagitta magica, wries fulguralis." The fortress was then covered in lightning, the machine shorting out.

Everyone looked on in confusion, looking around for the source of the lightning and the man that shouted out in the foreign language. There was no sign of anyone being in the area except them.

Meanwhile, elsewhere, a hooded man wearing brown robes and carrying a large wooden staff was walking along a road. He chuckled. "I've found you, my old friends… But I can't let you know of my identity…" He sweat dropped. "Then again, a huge chunk of my old class knew about me and no one ever jumped me for that… Oh well…"

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The threat over with, everyone headed back toward the mansion. "Oh man, am I glad that's over!" Megumi yelled, yawning and stretching.

Sakura sweat dropped, looking towards the fortress that was still in the sky. "Yeah, but what are we going to do about that?"

Ami chuckled nervously. "Um, don't worry… We'll figure out something! I hope…"

Meiruuna looked to the others. "What I pulled off in the last couple of days was horrible… I understand if you never forgive me… However… There's something that I've learned recently that may be of some interest to you all… Especially to Ami, Shinichi, and Shin…"

Ami tilted her head. "Huh? What are you talking about?"

"Shin and Shinichi… I have some information on your father and his history as the legendary 'Psychic Jammer'… And Ami… I've learned our family name, and the identity of our true parents…"

Ami's eyes widened. "Real… parents?…"

End of Chapter 37

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Mwahahahaha… I am so evil… But eh, not my fault. I ran out of time. Seeya next time.

---Kouji Tamino