Love Hina: Of Red and White
By: Dimitri Plabato of the Dark Icon Writers
A/N: First off I got to say thank you to Shinji the Good Sharer, the Dark Icon Fanfiction Division website is finally up and is being hosted on his page so please check it out, the link is in our profile.
Second, thank you all for reading this, I'm glad that it has gotten such a good response so I'll go ahead and make this my major fanfiction project, next to BS to the Max of course…
And to answer the questions about all of them knowing martial arts, is it really that hard to believe? I mean… they have to survive all of that chaos in Hinata Sou… they'd die if they didn't.
Also I never said that this was the first Tsuruko/Keitaro. I said this was the first Motoko/Keitaro/Tsuruko as in all three of them together… and al anonymous congratulations… you basically got the general line of where I'm going… minus a couple of parts but you are close enough.
Anyways. I'll shut up now and get on with this chapter!
Disclaimer: Tsuruko didn't have a big enough role in Love Hina… she would IF I owned it.
Chapter Five: Shaken not stirred
"Urashima! What did you do to my sister?" Motoko screamed out as she pulled out her blade and then began to rush towards the still shocked Keitaro. "You must die now!" she screamed as she raised the blade in the air and thrust it towards his neck…
Until…
The Blade was stopped an inch before it reached its destination.
Motoko looked down the edge of the sword, which had deflected her attack. She looked down its length. She ran her eyes down the long slender arm covered by a white sleeve. She ran them over the holder's body to the other arm, which brought a cup of tea to their mouth calmly allowing them to sip on it. She looked up finally at her sister's face who had her eyes closed.
"Sister why do you protect this vile man?" she asked coolly as her sister pushed her blade away and then opened her eyes up calmly.
"Because my sister, he is my fiancée."
"You would raise your own blade to your sister over him?" she spat, looking over to the manager with an undeniable hate.
Tsuruko looked up to her sister's eyes and rose from where she was calmly sitting down. An air of complete seriousness within her as she replied "Yes Motoko-Chan. As long as you continue to raise your blade against him" she twirled her own blade in her hand and then pointed it towards her younger sister "Then yes, I will."
"I think that is enough of that you two." Said a voice from besides them
Both sisters looked at their hands and then looked at each other with confused glares. And then together they both looked at the young man, the one that they were fighting about…
The one who now held both of their blades in his hands.
"But…how?" Motoko asked looking at the blade that he held in his left hand.
No one could take her sword anyone.
"Yes Keitaro, I have to ask that one myself, how did you get the blades from both of us?"
Tsuruko looked at her student and fiancée with a curious look.
Keitaro grinned and replied simply "Because anger clouds the vision of what is more dangerous."
He then tossed the blades back to their owners.
Motoko grumbled and then walked out of the room leaving the rest of Hinata Sou behind her.
Tsuruko looked at the retreating form of her sister and then looked back at her beloved.
He smiled and she nodded as she followed her sister out.
Quietness broke out all around everywhere else. No one knew what to say next, that sure was a bomb.
But… bombs have to make noise…
Yes… bombs eventually have to make some noise…
"Keitaro-sempai?" Shinobu was the first to speak
"Yea Shinobu?" he looked up to the young girl's eyes. Both of her brilliant blue orbs sparkled with two things…
A serious confusion on the entire situation
"So are you really engaged to Tsuruko-sempai?"
All of the other girls froze up instantly and then slowly began to look at Keitaro.
Keitaro opened his mouth… but right before he spoke he realized what the other thing in her eyes were…
Love, pure love. Not friendship, not family. Love.
'Damn…' he silently cursed to himself for not figuring it out earlier.
Keitaro sighed and then lowered himself back down to the couch. Everyone else followed his example.
"I guess I'd better start from the beginning first." He said as he closed his eyes and then allowed his mind to run over the events of the past and then talk the people closest to his heart through the time of his life when they we're not there.
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Another training day had come and gone. Keitaro Urashima sat down under the Sakura tree in the yard and soaked himself in the shade.
Sweat poured down his body as he tried so hard to catch his breath.
He leaned back on the tree and then looked up to the sky where the sun bore down on his skin. He groaned…
'Why the heck is it so hot…' he thought to himself as he melted away in the outside oven.
Just as he was about to give up he felt the shade cover him.
Curious, he looked up to find his beautiful instructor stretching out right in front of him.
"Hey Tsuruko, how's it going?" he asked her casually
"Hot." She replied in an elegant way.
"You can say that again. But hey, what can we do about it?" he shrugged
"Well." She smiled "You could take me out for ice cream."
Keitaro's eyebrow rose to the top of his head as he eyed her and then he smiled and he replied "True, I could… but why would I want to do something like that?"
Tsuruko huffed and then looked down at her student. "How dare you Keitaro! You would because I'm a beautiful older woman who wants you to take her out on a date!"
"But I don't want to."
"It's not a request, it's an order." She said in her instructor voice "Now get up off of there you lazy bum and take me out!"
Keitaro sighed and stood up. "You owe me for this."
Tsuruko grinned like a schoolgirl and then looped her arm with his as they walked off of the campus.
In the shadows stood one Kanako Urashima. She smiled to herself as she watched the display of affection coming from the two.
"Oni-chan needs to stop lying to himself…" she shook her head with the smile still lasting as she walked back inside of her home/dojo.
Tsuruko and Keitaro walked down the streets, both of them ignored the looks that the people we're giving them and instead they continued to talk among themselves.
They had done this many times.
Going out that is…
"So where do you want to go now?" Keitaro asked while eating his ice cream.
When he didn't get a response he looked around… to see 99 of the male population in that area staring in the spot beside him.
'What the…' he stopped in mid-thought as he faced Tsuruko to find her slowly licking the ice cream from side to side.
"Nani?" she asked noting the weird look that Keitaro was giving her at the moment.
He blushed and then quickly looked away "Nothing. Nothing at all."
She giggled to herself and then began eating the ice cream normally, giving herself a mental high five for her victory. "So where are we headed now?"
"Err home?" he replied
"Home? You take me out for ice cream and that's it? How cold!" she said in mock anger and shock.
"Fine then, how about a movie or something?"
"That's much better. Come on there is a movie I want to see anyways." And with that she dragged him off towards the theater.
"You planned this didn't you?" he looked at her out of the corner of his eyes
"Maybe." She simply replied as she took a kernel of popcorn and placed it in her mouth.
Keitaro sighed as he lay back in his seat and watched as the room got dark and the screen began to light up.
The movie turned on… but (needless to say…) Keitaro didn't even pay any attention to it. He got the general grip of the movie… something about 42 ninth graders killing each other or some crap like that…
No his mind was on one other thing…
He turned to look at the woman right beside him. She was entranced in the movie, her eyes bouncing around the screen along with every action.
His mind was on her…
The movie blazed by but he never even once watched it… instead he watched something a lot more interesting.
Her.
"So did you enjoy the movie?" Keitaro asked as the two of them headed back home
"Yes I did." She said as she moved in closer and grasped his hand in her own "Did you?"
"Umm…" he said trying to think about it.
"Or…" she stopped walking and looked at him with an honest smile "We're you too busy watching me that you never even paid attention to the movie?"
"ERK!" Keitaro gasped after being found out.
"Thought so!" she smiled and then she took his hand again and ran towards their home…
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"After that, we went on a lot of dates and stuff. I guess it was sort of like an unexpected love." He said to the girls who we're around him
"Yea, it was. He proposed after seven months of us dating." Tsuruko said as she entered the room.
"So the two of you are really getting married sempai?" Shinobu asked
"Yea, this isn't a joke or anything like that right Keitaro?" Naru looked over to the ronin
"YAY! I'll have Keitaro, Motoko, AND Tsuruko to play with now!" Su jumped around
"Yea, that would be the case." Keitaro smiled gently
Cries erupted around the room from Shinobu and Naru as they ran out of the room.
Su followed, wondering what was wrong and Tsuruko sighed following as well.
"So you're really getting married eh nephew?" Haruka asked leaning on the wall with a cigarette in her mouth.
"Yup." He said simply
"Congratulations as long as she makes you happy." She said as she left the room.
"Heh." Kitsune laughed as Keitaro leaned his head down in exhaustion
"What is it K-chan?" he said tiredly
"Nothing Keitaro… want a drink? It does good for the headache."
"Sure, I'll take one."
"How do you want it?"
"Shaken not stirred… my life is stirred enough already."
"You can say that again my friend. You can say that again…" she smiled as she fixed her friend a drink…
End chapter 5-
A/N: Oh yea, another disclaimer, I don't own battle royale. But I do suggest that you all pick up the novel (Not the manga, even thought that's cool as well) as soon as possible. It's really a good book; think of it as a modern Japanese Lord of the Flies.
And sorry this took so long, I found a new anime called Ichigo 100 to check out and I was hooked. I suggest you all bit torrent that as well on anime-suki.