Love Hina: Of Red and White
By: Dimitri Plabato of the Dark Icon Writers
"Blah" – talking
'Thoughts'
'Author…'
A/N: Okay this isn't a one shot; it was going to be but I haven't done a real story in a while so I decided to do this one. The first two chapters are just edited versions of my original fanfiction; heaven's not enough. I decided on a paring so this one will take over where that left off. This is by far one of my most original parings so I hope you enjoy it, and it's the first of its kind! YAY!
This takes place right after Keitaro comes from America, except that he went to gain the mastership of the Urashima style and Devil's Laugh instead.
This is the first new chapter so enjoy and please leave a review telling me what to improve!
Chapter Four: Arrival of a fiancée
Slice one, slice two, slice three turn!
Motoko Ayoama stood with her blade extended towards the sky as she delivered three slices to the wind and then turned.
This was her training as the future master of the God's Cry School, her training as the one who would uphold her style until her time was up.
She held a stern look on her face as she dashed towards the edge of the balcony. As she reached the end she jumped into the air and did a back flip and landed back on the balcony as she rushed in the opposite direction and then slashed with an ki attack leaving a mark in the air for a quick moment.
She closed her eyes as her soft black hair took a moment to catch up with where she was. She breathed hardly as she brought her hands down to her side.
'He came back… I wonder why?' she thought to herself as her heart began to ascend to new heights while she thought about the young manager that was currently asleep in his room.
'No… I cannot think about him like that, I must stay strong and I must not give into anything…'
She downcast her eyes 'Especially my heart…'
And with that she took a deep breath and began her training once again.
Keitaro Urashima lay down on his straw mat looking up at his ceiling. He had just come back earlier that day and it was still taking a while for him to get use to it.
'I've been gone for a year yet it feels like nothing has changed…'
He held his right hand to his lips
'Well maybe a little…'
He sighed as he took a look to his right where his alarm clock was waiting. It currently flashed 6:46 am.
'Well, I'm not going to get any sleep now am I?" he took another glance towards the other side of the room where his blade currently lie dormant and then he took a look at his ring finger and smiled…
'Might as well get some work done with.' And with that he rose from his spot and grabbed the blade as he headed out of the room.
Motoko paused in her training as the first signs of sunrise began to play around the city. She looked out of the balcony to the quiet city below her and allowed a soft smile to cross her face.
'It really is beautiful out here isn't it?' she asked herself as she looked down at the city from the reflection of her blade.
Her concentration however was quickly broken as the door to the roof opened.
She span around ready to face whoever would come into her home, since it was never that anyone but Shinobu got up this early.
'What is he… doing out here?'
She relaxed allowing her hands to fall once again as she watched Keitaro enter her training grounds.
"Hey Motoko, I'm sorry I forgot that you normally train here." He said with a bow.
She suppressed the both of them as she returned the bow as she faced him.
"That is okay Urashima, so may I ask what brings you here?" she asked, confused as to why he was up so early in the morning.
"Actually, I couldn't sleep so I decided that I would come up here and do some training. But since you're up here I can find another place to train at." And with another bow he turned to leave but he was stopped…
Motoko bit her lip as she watched him turn around, she felt the soft pain in her heart rasping at her and she knew what she had to do…
"Wait Keitaro." He turned around to face her
She managed a small smile as she said "You know, they always say that it is best when training with another person, both of them get something out of it."
Keitaro wondered this for a moment and then he smiled back at her. "Okay." He then walked back over to where she currently was and then pulled out the blade on his back.
Motoko watched him with great and growing interest. "Urashima, your blade. What is the name of it may I ask?"
Keitaro looked down to his blade and then stated "its name is the Tamashii No Rufruan."
She looked at him in wonder as she allowed the name to run through her mind.
"The Soul's Refrain?" he nodded
"Interesting name I have to say but for now…" she took a warrior's battle stance as she looked at him with a confident smirk "let's not worry about the name and instead we shall he how strong it is and you have become."
Keitaro smirked as well as he then mirrored her actions. "Are you ready?" "Of course." She replied quickly… She was having fun with this and they haven't even started yet.
"Good." He said as his body disappeared followed by Motoko's.
Shinobu walked around the kitchen, delivering the finishing touches to the delicious meal that she had prepared. She thought to herself as she finished up and then she nodded deciding that it was time for her to wake the rest of the house up.
As she went around the inn she noticed that no one was in their rooms. No one. She stepped in front of Keitaro's room and paused for a moment allowing a silly smile to cross her face… 'he came back to us… he came back to me…' and with that she knocked on the door from which came no answer.
She knocked once again, and again still receiving no response. She closed her eyes as she pulled the door open…
"Keitaro-sempai, it's time for breakfast." She looked around the room to find it empty. She sighed and wondered where everyone was as she closed the door and then headed towards the roof where at least Motoko would hopefully be.
As Shinobu walked up the stairs towards the roof she began to hear sounds which reminded her instantly of a…
'FIGHT!'
Her mind threw out at her as she rushed towards the door allowing the sunlight to spill into the halls.
There on the balcony she found all of the missing tenants, they we're all appearing to be looking out into space but Shinobu had to make sure…
"Err… guys what is going on?" she asked timidly
Kitsume turned to look at her with a smile as she turned back "Keitaro and Motoko are currently practicing… you might want to check it out yourself, he's doing pretty good."
Shinobu's eyebrows picked up as she heard that her beloved Keitaro was fighting Motoko. With that she closed her eyes and allowed her soft yet existent battle aura to over take her.
It was not surprising that the two of question appeared right in front of her delivering sword slash after sword slash when she activated her aura, after all she, and everyone else who lived in Hinata Sou had some martial arts background…
Kitsume – Student of the Hakiem Dojo of Speed Attacks
Kaolla Su – Student and master of the Molmolian tech tigers.
Naru Narusegawa – Student of the Mei dojo of Tai Kwan Do
Motoko Ayoama- Student of the God's Cry School of Kendo
Keitaro Urashima – Student of the Devil's Laugh School of kendo and master of Urashima bonding
Haruka Urashima – Student of the Urashima School
And herself; Shinobu Maehera – Student of the blossoming flowers school
'I can't keep this up that much longer' Motoko thought as she dogged another attack from the man ahead of her, the blade in her silky hands doing nothing to slow him down.
'When did he get this good, and what's up with his attacks?' she paused in thought to dunk a side slash from the opposing male and then countered with an upward slash only to have him jump back to avoid it.
"Heh, not bad Motoko!" Keitaro yelled as the two of them danced around at speeds that made super sayians blush.
"Not bad yourself Keitaro." She said as the two of them delivered slashed to each other, causing them to stop at their speeds and return to an existence, which allowed normal mortals to view them as they held their blades out dramatically waiting to see who would take the fall.
……………………………………………
"Heh, you win." Keitaro said as he fell down to one knee dropping his blade to the ground.
All of the residents rushed to his side.
"That was awesome Keitaro!" "You actually held your own against Motoko?" "You really are immortal aren't you?" "Wow Keitaro-senpai! That was wonderful!"
Motoko approached him with a smile and held out her hand.
"You did great Urashima-san. A few more minutes there and I would have lost." Keitaro returned her smile as he took her hand and pulled himself up.
"Thanks, but I still have a while to go." He said as he bent over to pick up his sword.
"Well now that you're done. Breakfast is ready." Shinobu said as she opened the door followed by the rest of the house leaving Keitaro and Motoko alone for the moment.
'What is this that I am feeling?'
Motoko walked over to him and then placed her hand on his shoulder. "We have to do this more often…" and with that she left him to follow her with a silly grin on his face…
Breakfast went about as uneventful as a bourbon street day during Mardi gras but none of the interactions we're all that important. Except one…
Keitaro rose from where he was sitting to answer the door that was currently being knocked on…
"Coming!" he said 'Wonder who that could be?'
And with that he opened the door only to find himself face to face with…
"T…Tsuruko!" he said in wonder as he stared down the older woman ahead of him. Her long red and white gi fitting her figure as it always had. Her long glistening black hair shined with wonders as she smiled at the male ahead of her. "Ahh, hello Urashima-kun, I'll speak with you in a moment but I'm actually here to see…"
"SISTER!" Motoko said as she saw who was in the door and then she eyed the figure with much suspiciousness… "What brings you here, I thought we decided that I would always come to you." She said nervously…
"SISTER? The two of you are sisters?" Keitaro yelled out causing everyone to fill the hallways.
"Well yes Keitato-kun and it's nice to see you too Motoko, you make it sound like I'm not welcome here." "No, nothing like that dear sister, I'm just confused as to what made to come here to visit me."
"Oh I'm not only here to visit you…isn't that right?" she winked at the male who was making weird X gestures with his hands and neck.
"Ah, wait you haven't been introduced to Urashima have you?" she said finally noticing Keitaro behind her.
"Keitaro, this is my sister Tsuruko… Tsuruko this is…"
Tsuruko cut her off as she walked towards Keitaro and then embraced him in a deep hug…
"Nani?" everyone said as they watched this display
"You know Keitaro?" Motoko said in wonder
"Oh of course silly, how would I not know…" she ignored the weird sounds that Keitaro was making now that he knew the two of them we're sisters…
"My fiancée?" she finished causing everyone's eyes to go wide… and then embrace the dark side as they all fell to the ground.
"Oh My…" Tsuruko looked to Keitaro "Was it something I said?"
Keitaro chuckled "Oh you can say that Tsuruko… we have quite a bit of explaining to do." He said as he embraced her hand…
End Chapter Four-
A/N: Okay everybody how was that?
Charon: Dude, stop with all this fanfiction and get to work on your original stuff… I've been waiting forever for another chapter up.
Kenji: Not bad Dimitri, not bad at all…
Me: Thanks; But this is only the beginning. I plan on taking fanfiction to new heights with this fanfic!
Temjin-On: Good luck with that….
Me: Oh yea, forgot. Everyone we have a new member within the dark icon writers
Temjin-On. Check out his work on his profile.
Me: Well with that said, I'm out for the night. Tomorrow is officially my final day in highschool… and I graduate on Saturday. I'll be back later though with another update… I like my new writing style
C-ya guys later.