Finally, another chapter! I had a lot of trouble with this one… Eh, oh well. Hope you enjoy it. Hmmm, I wonder if it's possible to make Saki more evil… Nah… Then again…
-Kouji Tamino
Love Hina Next: Second Phase
Chapter 46: Savior…
Saki pointed to Naoko. "How about you? Since you are so hungry, then maybe a makeover will take your mind off of your hunger…"
Junko gasped, suddenly waking up. "No! Run Naoko, ru- Oh crap, you're in a cage… Forgot… Damn…"
"God, stop complaining…" Saki muttered in annoyance. "I won't go overboard like last time…" She cracked her knuckles and fingers. "Okay, let's get started! First, we'll get these old clothes off!" Within a flash, Saki stripped the girls of their clothes, leaving them in their underwear.
Saki laughed as they screamed. "Nice panties…"
Naoko sweat dropped. "Hey, wait… I'm still in the cage…" She stared at Saki in shock. "How did you?…"
Saki waved her finger. "That is a secret, my dear…"
"God, you're so freaking creepy…" Junko muttered.
Saki clapped her hand together and smiled. "Thank you! Now, let's get this started for real!"
And so, a few makeovers later…
Saki smiled, looking at her handy work. "Now, then! Isn't that better?"
All the girls except for Kairi, decked out in new outfits, stood in front of a mirror.
Ami gasped. She was wearing a white sparkling dress with open shoulders. The dress had built in fingerless gloves. A small flower rested on her hair. Her lips were colored light blue with lipstick, with matching eye shadow. On her feet were a pair of high heels that matched her dress. She smiled. "Oh wow… I look gorgeous! Thank you, Saki!"
Megumi did a twirl as she looked at herself. Her hair was wavy and she was wearing a hot green tube top, mini-skirt, and sandals. "Hot damn!"
Naoko giggled happily as she looked at her new pink one piece dress with the ducky on it. Her cute pink lipstick glistened. Her hair even had a few pink streaks in it. She danced a little in her pink sandals. "How did you know I like ducks?"
Sakura grinned in her black dress with net sleeves. The front of the shirt was net as well, showing of some of her, ahem, assets. The bottom half of the skirt was semi transparent. On her lips was crimson red lipstick. "Niice… Saki, you may be a heartless bitch, but you have style…"
Junko raised an eyebrow in approval as she looked in the mirror, impressed that Saki had managed not to maim her this time. Her hair had grown out quite a bit in the past few months, down to her shoulders in fact. It was put into cute pigtails. She was wearing a blue Chinese style dress. "Wow… Kick ass… I look like a character in a kung fu movie…"
Saki sweat dropped. "Right…" She smiled. "So, what do you think?"
"Thank you, Saki!" they all shouted.
Kairi smiled. "Oh wow, you all look so pretty!" She sighed, pouting. "I wish I was going through my living cycle right now, I want a makeover…"
Saki chuckled. "Well, glad you all like it… Besides, how else would you all get yourselves a man?"
They all growled under their breath. "What was that?…" Sakura began. "You know, you're really getting on my nerves…"
"That's my goal…" Saki began. "You're all free to leave, if you want… I'm sure that Shinichi won't miss you…"
The girls glared at Saki in anger. "That… that's not true!" Naoko shouted.
"You don't know Shinichi at all!" Ami screamed. "How dare you say something like that!"
"Perhaps… But perhaps not…" Saki rubbed her chin. "Maybe, just maybe… Shinichi doesn't like any of you at all… Perhaps he just took pity on all of you? Living in the streets, no home to go to… Perhaps he was simply pretending to like you…"
Junko completely lost it then and there. "Sh-shut up! Just shut the hell up!" She ran towards Saki and prepared to sock her right in the face. 'Yes! My strength is coming back!' Just as she was about to hit her, she seemingly disappeared. "What th-"
"Too slow…" Saki hissed, reappearing and socking Junko right in the stomach. It didn't hurt very much due to her toughness, but it caught her by surprised and knocked a bit of wind out of her.
"How?…" Junko began, her eyes widening.
"I have mastered a super fast, ancient style of martial arts known as 'Kyokudo Sokuryokudo'…"
"Extreme Speed?…" Junko gasped out, repeating the name. "But… that's just…"
"A myth?" Saki interrupted. "Afraid not, girl… It's very real…" she smirked. "And I'm gonna use it to kick your ass…"
"Not if I take your head off, first!" Junko screamed out, punching toward her. Once again, Saki's super speed made her miss. She screamed out as she was hit in the chest and stomach with a flurry of punches.
"Don't you see?" Saki yelled, gradually beating the tough Junko down. "If I'm this fast, you can't hit me! And I can whittle you down to nothing!" She stopped and watched as Junko fell to her knees, wheezing and hugging herself. She then finished her off with a kick to the head that sent her flying across the room. "Pitiful…"
"Hey, that was low!" Kairi yelled. "Hitting her while she was down like that!"
Saki spat on the floor. "Well, someone had to put her in her place…" She turned around and left the room.
Junko, still laying on the ground, held her stomach and her head, crying out in pain. "It hurts!… God damn it, it hurts so much…"
Naoko ran over to her sister. "Junko-nesan!" Tears started running down her eyes. "How could she? How could she do this to Junko-nesan? How could she ruthlessly beat my big sister like that?"
Sakura frowned. "Seriously… I mean, I know Junko attacked her first, but what she did was brutal…"
Ami clenched her fist, fingernails digging into her palm. "That's the last straw… I don't care if Saki is Shinichi's fiancée, no one treats my friends like that!"
Megumi nodded. "You're right… We have to do something about her… But what? Junko's like, the strongest person I know, but she had her ass handed to her by Saki…" Her face became pale. "Just think about what she could do to us!"
Ami chuckled. "Megumi-san, you forget… You're looking at one of the most powerful psychics in the world…" She sweat dropped. "Well, one of the only ones now, thanks to that near-genocide 20 years ago and what-not…"
"Well, then…" Megumi began. "What did you have in mind?"
"USA Chick, this is PK Girl, do you read me? Over." Ami spoke to someone through a walkie-talkie. She was in the hallway, camouflaged by Su's new and improved 'Stealth Suit', given to her and the others by Su herself. Also, their walkie-talkie had headsets, so Saki could not hear their words.
"This is USA Chick. I can read you loud and clear! Over." Megumi was in the kitchen, suspended on the ceiling by a cord. "Bruised, but not Beaten, you doing okay?"
Junko, hiding a few feet away from Saki who was watching TV in the Rec Room, spoke softly. "Bruised, but not Beaten is ready to go…" She smirked. "What about you, Ducky?"
Naoko nodded, hiding in a closet. "Ducky is ready and willing to do whatever she can to help! Over." She paused before adding a quick. "Sister, you have to say 'over' when you're done…"
Junko sighed. "Do I really? I mean, it's really kind of pointless in this situation if you ask me-" Junko was so caught up in her little conversation with her sister, she didn't notice that her voice had raised in volume and Saki was standing right behind her.
"Junko?…" Naoko asked, worried because her sister hadn't said anything in a while. "Junko?"
"Shit! Plan's all gone to hell!" Sakura yelled. "Time to kick ass and take names! Come on, girls! I doubt she can take us all on!"
"I can't believe she took us all on…" Sakura muttered, all of the girls except Kairi and Ami tied up and hanging over a pit of mud.
"Try and pull a fast one on me, huh? I'll make you all pay!" Saki screamed.
"Oh, I'm so scared… Mud…" Junko muttered.
Saki grinned. "Yeah, but this is that really stinky mud where the smell takes forever to go away!"
"… Okay, that's a bit worse right there…" Sakura began. "And just plain nasty…"
Megumi began to cry out. "Waaah! I don't wanna stink forever!"
"Stop right there, Saki!" Ami ran up and glared at the somewhat insane woman. "I won't let you- erm, make my friends… stinky…"
Kairi nodded. "Yes, it's just not right, dumping people in mud like that… um…"
Saki nodded slowly. "Um, yeah… Maybe this wasn't such a great idea in the first place…" She shrugged. "Oh well… I don't like any of you, so why not put you through this embarrassment?"
Ami's aura flared, flickering between blue and black. "Saki, I'm warning you… I'm freaking pissed right now, so don't push me!"
Saki laughed. "Fry me, and your friends get the mud pit…" She glanced toward a rope, pulling out a knife and pressing the blade against the rope threateningly.
"…Wait, all it takes is for us to smell for a little while to get Ami to kick Saki's ass?" Junko asked.
"If that's the case, go for it, Ami!" Megumi shouted. "It will be worth seeing that witch burn!"
Ami grinned evilly. "It will be by pleasure…" She raised a hand, glowing with energy.
Saki's eyes widened. "Um, look Ami, let's talk this out!" Just then, a car drove up.
"Talk?" Ami began, a plain expression on her face. "I'm done with talk…"
"What's going on here?" a man asked, walking up to them. He was wearing a black suit and shades. His hair was short and spiky.
Everyone stared at the man. "Um…" Ami began. "Who are you, mister?"
The man face faulted. After recovering, he took of his shades to reveal a familiar face. "It's me, Shinichi!" He had a new haircut and seemed to not need glasses somehow, but it was him. "Heh, I look pretty different, don't I? I finally decided to get contact lenses…"
There was silence for a moment. The girls smiled, becoming teary eyed. "Shinichi/Shinichi-kun/Shin-sama/Shinichi-chan!, it's really you! We missed you so much!"
Shinichi looked around in confusion. "Um, girls… I missed you too and all but…" he pointed at Saki. "Who is she and-" he waved his hands wildly. "What the hell is going on here? Why are the others suspended over this disgusting mud?"
Ami pointed at Saki as well. "Um, Shinichi-kun… First of all, that's your fiancée, and second of all… It's a long story…"
Shinichi stared at Ami for a moment, then laughed. "Oh wow, that's funny… For a minute there, I thought you were serious…"
Ami frowned. "But Shinichi-kun…"
Saki pouted, dropping her knife, running over to Shinichi and grabbing his arm. "Shinichi-chan… Don't you remember me? It's me, Saki…"
Shinichi froze. "S-s-s… Sa-chan? Is that you?"
End of Chapter 46.
And that's the end of that dilemma… Now they've got a new problem! D
-Kouji Tamino
