Ever Wonder If...
Disclaimer: I do not own Love Hina, any of its characters, or any thing Love Hina-ish. Ken Akamatsu does. So thank him for creating this awesome manga series.
A/N: All right...chapter 5! Now, just in case you're wondering, I'm going to skip a lot of time at some places and not at others...just like a real manga! Haha...real. Anyways, don't be confusticated (it's a real word!) by this...just accept it. Pretend that life goes on as normal – scratch that, it's not normal when he's a guy and it won't be normal if he's a woman, but life goes on. I just realized that the equals sign that I had denoting daydreams and sleeping dreams doesn't appear on FanFiction. Oh well, I'll use something else. Now, for our feature presentation...Chapter 5! Please R&R!
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Chapter 5:Kendo-girl Keitaro?!? Part 1
------------------Hinata-sou---------------------
::6:30 AM, Saturday, December 20th::
The wind blew, scattering the snow across the front courtyard of the Hinata-sou. All inside was quiet. The occasional noise of snoring could be heard. The snow was falling lightly, like a gentle cloth being spread over your head. The silence was awesome.
The door of the Hinata-sou opened, and a high school girl walked out. Her long black hair flowed out of her long furry hat. But except for her hat, she was not wearing that much for a cold winter day, merely a long shirt and a hakama. She commanded a type of elegance and grace, standing there in the snow. She had a sword by her side. The sword hung there, now lifeless but only while not commanded by the figure that possessed it. If called, she could wield the sword with awesome power, sending some people flying many kilometers – if they survived them. The girl moved forward and now unsheathed her sword. She held it with two hands, in a samurai like pose. She swung.
"Hiya!" she said, not too loudly as to wake up the inhabitants of the Hinata-sou, once again truly an all girls dorm. "Hiya!" she cried once more. She paused, and looked at her wrist as if she owned a watch, though she didn't. "He's late," she commented. Suddenly, with no poise, elegance, or any hint of grace the door burst open and another girl burst out, tripping and falling face first into the snow. Phoof! The snow made a soft landing, but still, the black-haired girl sighed with a kind of hopelessness that says "If only you weren't such a klutz I wouldn't be sighing with this kind of hopelessness." The second girl got back up. She also had black hair, and was only several centimeters shorter than the first (4 cm, to be exact), but was more developed and had no grace nor power with the sword that she held.
"Good morning, Motoko-sensei!" she said.
"Good morning," Motoko merely replied. "Are you ready to start training?"
"Of course!"
"Are you bound?" Motoko asked.
"Err...no."
"Why not? Did I not say that you should be?"
"But...it hurts..."
"Don't be such a wimp, Urashima." Keitaro sighed in defeat. He wanted to learn enough for self-defense due to a event that had happened a couple weeks ago, but Motoko insisted on being very strict – especially with things like binding. He had done it the first time, but it was very painful. That blasted genie had to make me so big! Not only in my chest, but my butt? Keitaro thought angrily. It was true. As Kitsune had pointed out numerous times, often accompanied by a smack on his posterior, he had a big chest and a big butt. This actually led to the incident that caused him to want to learn self-defense.
-----------------------Train-------------------------
::Two weeks ago::
"Hurry up!" Naru said, motioning to Keitaro. He dived into the masses.
"The doors are closing now...please take caution," the PA system rang. The doors closed, narrowly missing closing on Keitaro.
"You idiot," Naru said. Suddenly, something touched her butt. "Eh?!" she cried out.
"Eeeep!" Keitaro cried out too. Something had touched his butt. Two beefy looking men were standing there.
"What are two cute chicks like yourself doing all alone?" one asked.
"Yeah," the other agreed. "You should come with us."
"We'll show you two a great time," the first one said.
"No thanks," Naru said. "Not interested."
"Aw...that just makes it even more fun!" the second guy said, grabbing Naru while the other grabbed Keitaro.
"The doors are opening...the doors are opening..." the PA system said.
"Let us go!" Naru demanded. They both struggled uselessly.
"Haha!" the two men evilly laughed. They dragged both Naru and Keitaro outside.
"Help!" Keitaro yelped.
"Nobody's going to help you now! We are part of the...PERVERT BRIGADE!" one yelled. You mean those idiots from the shopping trip? Naru thought, sweat-dropping. The train zoomed off. "HAHA!" the men laughed again. "OW!" STOMP! STOMP! Naru had stomped on her captors foot, but he still held on. Nevertheless, he had shifted, so Naru broke free. Though she broke away so suddenly that she almost fell onto the train tracks.
"Woah!" she cried. She tottered on the edge, then regained her footing. The guy came up behind her again to grab her. BAAM! Naru swung around and smacked him in the face, causing him to stumble.
"Why you! I'll get you for that, you $#!" he shouted, holding his face. The second guy meanwhile, had tied Keitaro up.
"Help!" he cried.
"Haha! Now you are truly helpless!" he said, and let out a full bellied laugh. (A/N: are there such things as full bellied laughs?).
"Heeelp!" he shrieked.
"Hahahaha!" the second guy continued to laugh. Meanwhile the first guy had managed to corner Naru.
"There is nowhere to go now!" he said. He lunged forward, while Naru wound up and smacked him in the face, causing him to fly over his friend. BAAAAAM!
"YOU PERVERT!!!" she roared. Suddenly the second guy joined his friend. SLAAAAASSSH!!! "Eh?" Naru said.
"Eh?" Keitaro said, who had had his eyes closed, and now opening them. Motoko was there, untying him.
"Motoko-chan!" Naru shouted. "I'm so happy to see you!"
"Are you two okay?" she asked, and finished untying Keitaro.
"Thank you, Motoko-chan!" Keitaro said, bowing profusely.
"You know, now that you're a girl," Motoko said, "You have to be more careful. Every girl should know some self-defense to protect themselves against guys like those."
"Can you teach me, Motoko-chan?" Keitaro asked.
"EH?!" Motoko said, shocked.
"Well, you're the best at what you do!" Keitaro said.
"But...but..." Motoko stuttered. I wanted him to learn it, but not from me! Motoko thought.
"It's true," Naru mused. "You are the best. I learned some from Seta-san, and that's enough."
"Please?" Keitaro said, and somehow managed to create "shimmer eyes."
"Oh, all right, but you have to agree to do exactly as I say," Motoko finally said.
"Waaaah! Thank you!" Keitaro shrieked, hugging Motoko, causing her to blush. Is this really Urashima?
---------------------------Hintat-sou---------------------------------
::Present Time, December 20th::
Keitaro again walked out, grimacing. The bandage wrapped around him was tight and made it harder to breathe. Of course, maybe that was the plan anyways. The snow continued to fall lightly.
"Are you finally ready?" Motoko asked.
"Yes," Keitaro said firmly. No matter, though, he had to learn this. In case the pervert brigade ever decided to show up again.
"Now, attack me," Motoko said.
"What, like yesterday?" Keitaro asked.
"You have been training for about two weeks and you still don't know what attack me means? GO!" Motoko bellowed. Keitaro lunged forward and swung. CLACK! CLACK!
"That was too predictable, I could see through it before you swung," Motoko said, easily parrying all of Keitaro's attacks. Darn it! Keitaro said. He changed his pattern and started lower. CLACK! CLACK! CLACK!
"No! Faster! Feel the power within yourself!" Motoko commanded. Keitaro gritted his teeth. Secretly, he had been practicing by himself, but maybe he had to get books and read about fighting. CLACK! CLACK! CLACK!
"You're not concentrating!" Motoko chastised, and Keitaro was filled with resolve.
"HIYA!" he shouted, and suddenly swung with all his might. SHINGGGG! The swords met each other in a lock.
"Urashima...you'll never win like that!" Motoko said in a whisper. BAAAM! She extended with all her might and pushed Keitaro backwards.
"Woah!" he said, and fell down. Motoko had her sword at his throat.
"I win," she said.
"Of course you win!" Keitaro yelled. "Did you expect me to beat you?"
"Well...no," Motoko admitted.
"Then what's the point?" Keitaro asked.
"To see if your stronger," Motoko said. "That's enough for today."
"What?! Why?" Keitaro asked.
"Because it's breakfast time!" Motoko said. "Let's go eat. We'll resume tomorrow."
"Sempai! Motoko-sempai! Breakfast!" Shinobu called from the doorway. Keitaro and Motoko walked towards the door.
"I'll beat you yet!" Keitaro said.
"If you ever get a clean hit, then I'll admit defeat," Motoko said. "Not that'll ever happen."
"You!" Keitaro said, balling up his fist.
"Yo, idiot!" Naru said. "Time to eat."
"I know that!" Keitaro said.
"Then why aren't you at the table?" Naru asked.
"At least I'm not drunk like Kitsune is!" Keitaro said. Suddenly Kitsune wobbled in.
"Hey!" she said, holding onto the door post she was leaning against. "Don't be, (hic), so mean!"
"Kitsune!" Naru said, as Kitsune fell down.
"I just need to lie down for a bit," she said, and lay on the floor asleep or passed out.
"Ugh..." Naru said. "She drinks too much."
--------------Kitchen------------------
::7:30 AM::
"So, how's the training going?" Naru asked.
"Hmm?" Keitaro said, mouth full.
"She needs more work," Motoko said.
"Motoko! You just called Keitaro a she!" Su said.
"Well, that is what she is," Motoko continued. Keitaro sighed. It had been several months since the genie wantonly changed him into a girl. Subconsciously, he could feel himself slipping into a girl like state. He would think something like, Oh, that's cute, in reference to an item, and them automatically his brain would say, What? Who cares whether it's cute or not? Being a girl had it's perks; he wasn't hit as often anymore in the Hinata-sou and everyone seemed nicer. But ever so often he would remember that he was a guy with a girl's body. He had to find that genie, somehow.
"Yo, idiot, what's up?" Naru asked. "You're not doing anything, the foods gonna get cold."
"Hmm?" Keitaro asked slowly.
"I'll eat it!♥" Su said, and grabbed it and ate it. "Yum yum!"
"Wha-? Did you just eat my food?!" Keitaro asked.
"Yup! It was yummy!♥" Su said, and she bounced out of the room.
"Ahh...that's the third time this week!" Keitaro complained.
"Well, if you weren't so spacey all the time..." Naru said.
"Sorry, I was just contemplating life," Keitaro replied. "Want to study?"
"Study?" Naru asked. "It's almost Christmas and I'm sick of studying."
"So...that means...what?" Keitaro asked.
"Idiot! Like I'd tell you!" she said, and stomped off. Keitaro sighed again.
------------------Keitaro's Room------------------
::8:00 AM::
Keitaro was studying. She may be the nation's top scholar, but I'm not. I have to continue to study, Keitaro thought. Knock! Knock! Knock!
"Eh?" Keitaro said. Why was someone at his door? And why were they knocking? PHWOOSH!! The door slid open and Mutsumi-chan stood there.
"Good morning, Kei-kun!" Mutsumi said. "Do you want to take a bath?"
"WHAT?!" Keitaro yelled. The girls had this discussion before. Yes, Keitaro was a girl, and had probably seen himself ("Only seen?" Kitsune asked, giggling, to which Keitaro got beaten up) already, but still couldn't peek at anyone and therefore couldn't use the bath. But somehow, Mutsumi did not get it.
----------------Hinata-sou Living Room--------------
::Sometime in the past couple months::
"Keitaro, you cannot use our bath!" Naru said.
"Why not? I'm a girl too! This is anti-Keitaro discrimination!" Keitaro complained.
"No, it's protect ourselves discrimination!" Naru retorted.
"It's not like I haven't seen naked women! I take a bath everyday! I have these!" Keitaro said, pointing to his chest.
"Yes, you probably have seen yourself naked," Naru said.
"Only seen? Not more?" Kitsune giggled.
"What are you insinuating, Kitsune??!!" Keitaro yelled.
"Oh, I don't know...maybe you touched yourself here," Kitsune said, grabbing Keitaro's breasts. "Because you haven't actually had a good feel of them!♥"
"Waaah!!" Keitaro said, backing away.
"Kitsune, you pervert!" Naru said, smacking her on the head with a fan.
"Urashima...you haven't have you?" Motoko asked.
"Err...of course not!" Keitaro said. It was sort of the truth. He had felt them in the beginning because they had felt so weird on him, but not for the reason that Kitsune said. But Motoko misinterpreted the pause.
"You HAVE! DIE! ROCK SPLITTING TECNIQUE!" Motoko bellowed at the top of her lungs. BAAAAAAM! Keitaro was given a personal view of the Hinata-sou he had not seen before-an aerial view.
"Aieeeeeeee!" he cried in pain. When he landed back in the Hintat-sou, they resumed the meeting.
"You just can't! That's final," Naru said.
"Fine..." Keitaro said, defeated.
"Ara...why not?" Mutsumi said, butting in and appearing from nowhere.
"Mutsumi-chan?!" Naru said. "Where did you come from?"
"Why can't Kei-kun bathe with us?" she pouted.
"Because! He's a guy!" Naru said.
"Oh me, oh my, isn't Kei-kun a female?" Mutsumi asked, confused.
"Yes, but he has the mind of a male," Naru said.
"But isn't he female?"
"Yes, but...never mind."
------------Keitaro's Room-----------
::Present::
"Uh...no," Keitaro answered. "I don't feel like taking a bath right now."
"Kei-kun! Of course you do! It's always good to take a bath before studying!" Mutsumi reasoned.
"You just like taking a bath," Keitaro said.
"Well, baths are good!" Mutsumi replied.
"..."
"Then how bout we go and buy some textbooks?" Mutsumi said. "All of us ronins together!" Sure, Keitaro thought. And waste more time. Oh well, I wanted to get a fighting book to study. Maybe one day I'll get better and beat Motoko!
"Sure, Mutsumi-chan," Keitaro said. "Let me ask Narusegawa." He stood on his table and knocked on the hole.
"Narusegawa, do you want to come and get some review textbooks with us?" Keitaro asked, popping his head through the hole. Yet, of course, Narusegawa was in the middle of changing.
"YOU HAVE TO WARN ME WHEN YOU COME THROUGH!" Naru shouted, punching Keitaro. BAAAAAAAAAAM! Keitaro came flying back to his room and landed painfully on the floor. Naru's eye twitched in anger. "Hmmph!" she said, and closed the hole.
"Kei-kun?" Mutsumi asked, inquiring to the pained and twitching form of Keitaro on the floor.
"Ah haha..." Keitaro laughed nervously.
"What do you want?" Naru asked, opening the hole again.
"Ah, do you want to go shopping for some text books?" Keitaro asked.
-----------------The Bookstore--------------------
::9:00 AM::
They had finally made it to the bookstore without further mishap.
"What do you want to get?" Naru asked. "I just need some books for English. It's such a stupidly difficult language."
"Ara...I'm so bad at it too," Mutsumi said. "I'll come with you to get some."
"I need some thing else, so you two go off by yourselves and I'll catch you later!" Keitaro said, and zoomed away.
"Uh..." Naru said, sweat-dropping. "Okay." Keitaro hid behind some math books. I want to get a fighting book without them seeing it, Keitaro thought. He went to the fighting book section. He read several categories. "Sword Fighting," "Hand-to-Hand combat," and "The Way of the Ninja – the many forms of Jutsu." He was sorely tempted to take the last book, but he grabbed several from "Sword Fighting" and browsed through them. Ugh, nothing really worth buying. They all are the same and tell me nothing new. He picked up a Jutsu book, just to look at it. His eyes bulged. Woah! This is complicated! It had all types of stuff about "chakra" and seals and such. He read a bit.
"The Tiger seal is a seal that often signifies a fire type jutsu. Beware of people using this seal, as if you are not ready, they will burn your butt." Hmm, he thought. He was about to reach for another "Sword Fighting" book when he heard Naru ask,
"What are you doing?" Keitaro spun around and hid the book. (A/N: I have recently read Naruto, and it is one awesome Manga series, so yes, this stuff is taken from it, and I guess I'll add another disclaimer here that I own nothing Naruto like. It wont be a crossover, though, so don't worry. The fighting, however, may turn more jutsu like? Haha...I might use it once.)
"Uh...nothing," Keitaro lied.
"Liar," Naru said. Doh! Keitaro thought.
"I was just looking for a book and somehow ended up here!" Keitaro said, pointing behind him. Naru looked.
"Adult books?!" Naru asked in surprise.
"Eh?" Keitaro said, and he looked over his shoulder and saw that Adult Books was right by the sword fighting category. Darn it! He thought again.
"Why are you getting adult books? Is your brain still that perverted??!" Naru asked angrily.
"I, uh, meant these books!" Keitaro said, and he pointed now correctly to the fighting genre of books.
"Fighting books? I know you're just covering up," Naru said. "Look, if you want to be perverted, just say so."
"I'm not!" Keitaro said. "I wasn't being a pervert!"
"Yeah. This from the person who still peeps, gropes and generally does naughty things even though he's already a girl," Naru said.
"Those were accidents!"
"Well, then, what book are you getting?" Naru asked.
"Oh. Well, I, uh, can't show you," Keitaro said. If I show them then I won't be able to keep it a secret from Motoko, Keitaro thought.
"Knew it was a perverted book!" Naru said.
"No! It's just a secret," Keitaro said.
"Ara, Kei-kun, you can trust us to keep a secret!" Mutsumi said.
"Yeah, it's not like I go blabbering everything I see," Naru said.
"But..." Keitaro said.
"Fine, if you don't show us, I don't care," Naru said. "I knew you were still a pervert!"
"Fine!" Keitaro said, and he whipped out his book.
"Uh...what's that?" Naru asked.
"It's a fighting book!" Keitaro said.
"For...?" Naru inquired.
"Me!"
"Right. Okay, idiot, if that's it, let's go," Naru said, heading for the cash register.
"Narusegawa!" Keitaro called out. "Wait for mee!"
"Hurry up, idiot," Naru said, tapping her foot.
"Hello, did you find everything you were looking for?" the sales clerk asked.
"Yes," Naru said.
"Wonderful!" He rang them up. "Oh, The Way of the Ninja – the many forms of Jutsu? This is a very interesting insight into ninjas."
"Really?" Keitaro asked.
"I once got this book and tried to learn a technique. Man, it was really really difficult. I spent the entire night and only got down one technique. Though it was a useful one."
"That's good, I guess."
"Want to see it?" the clerk asked.
"Yes!" Keitaro answered enthusiastically. The clerk stood still and put his hand in a seal position – he had his index and third finger of each hand pointing up and the fourth and pinky finger down with the hands clasped next to each other.
"Hup!" the clerk said, and he proceeded to walk up to the wall and up the wall and on the ceiling, hanging down like a bat. BOONG! Naru's and Keitaro's jaws hit the floor in surprise.
"Ara, he's hanging up there like a bat!" Mutsumi said. The clerk walked down the wall.
"It took me forever to get that, not to mention I fell several times. Look, I still have a bruise here," the clerk said, pulling up his sleeve and showing a scar.
"Woah," Keitaro said.
"So, you want to learn that, eh?"
"Well...maybe," Keitaro answered.
"If you get someone good to teach you, it's possible. I had my good friend who's a professional ninja teach me, and it still took me all night!" There are still ninjas in the world? Naru asked herself.
------------------Keitaro's Room------------
::Late that night, 9:00 PM::
Keitaro had been training. And training. And training. He had virtually not stopped because it was "so cool" as he had told Narusegawa when she asked him if he wanted to study.
"Fail for all I care, then, if that's what you care about!" she had angrily yelled at him. Oh well, this would be so worth it.
Feel the chakra within yourself. It is the energy that is from the spirit and the body. It is how you make justsu, and how you perform anything.
"Okay, but I still feel nothing except stupidity," Keitaro said. He felt like it was Star Wars. Feel the force flowing through you...right, he thought, and giggled to himself.
"Okay, no more giggling, and more practice. Practice practice practice!♥" he said, and continued.
::1:00 AM, December 21st::
"I've got it..." Keitaro snickered to himself.
A/N: Chapter 5 is done. Now, it's not going to turn into a fighting thing, this is just because Naruto is so cool that I had to do one chapter or two about it. Please don't think it'll turn into Naruto or something like that! Please R&R!
