Love Hina: Of Red and White
By: Dimitri Plabato of the Dark Icon Writers
Chapter 6: Understanding
Disclaimer: Bite me.
A/N: Sorry this took so long to get out… in all honesty I've stopped liking Love Hina for the time being… don't worry it's nothing permeate I just had an overload of it so I took my mind off of it… I'm writing this chapter cause I DID promise that it would be done 2 months ago so yea. And this may not be my best chapter since I am just coming back but yea…
Also you'll notice that my writing format has changed (for the better I hope) it changed when I started writing my Naruto fic as well as some of my originals… also it's also gotten a lot deeper so it may feel different for a couple of chapters… Well anyways, get to the story you people have been threatening me for J Also… I'm completely unsure where to go with this so send in some ideas or something!
And besides the context of this chapter don't assume the parings (even though you know it's a K/M/T) just yet… don't assume anything for that matter, I'm non-predictable :)
Keitaro Urashima sighed as he looked up to the night sky from his spot on the roof. He lay there quietly allowing the sounds to rush over him in the solitude that he and he alone shared for that moment. He was so out of it that he didn't even hear the footsteps behind him stop behind him until a sweet voice asked,
"Urashima, may I sit?"
Keitaro's eyes looked up into the bright chocolate eyes of one Motoko Ayoama and smiled nodding while sliding over slightly to give her a little more room on the top of the building. She lay down next to the young man and then looked up to the stars along with him.
Neither of them said a word to each other, just being there together with someone who cared for you was all that mattered. Motoko sighed however, she felt bad for what she had did earlier…
"Ura…Keitaro." She said correcting her mistake
This of course got him even more interested, since when did she call him by his first name?
"Yea Motoko?"
"I'm sorry for earlier… I just flipped." She said sitting up and then placing her head into her legs, she wasn't use to showing all of these emotions they were for weaklings, not warriors like herself! But she knew that she had to do this… even a warrior couldn't live long without expressing their emotions.
"My sister is the most important family to me; she's always been there for me in everything that I do. No matter how she went about it, she always was there for me." She paused to look at the boy to find his own chocolate eyes watching her intently.
She willed herself not to blush as she pushed on "I just snapped when she said that the two of you we're engaged… it was a little too much for me to handle. I couldn't handle the idea that you had the chance there to hurt her."
Keitaro leaned back to the ground again, he knew that it was all shock more than anything else, but in all honesty he just was not expecting this girl to come and tell him that.
"Motoko." He paused as he saw the girl turn and then looks down at him
"I promise you one thing; I will never hurt your sister. I love her with all of my heart; if I ever do" he chuckled "I give you both permission to beat the heck out of me."
Motoko giggled freely followed by Keitaro, the two of them did this for a while neither of them feeling anything else but each others company.
"You know I'm still forced to hate you because you're a man right brother in law?" Motoko asked after a moment
Keitaro laughed "I wouldn't have it any other way sister in law."
Behind them with her presence hidden Tsuruko smiled, 'maybe those two can get along yet.'
The next day
The entire household was still a buzz from the information that they had received earlier, their Keitaro; the spineless wimp who ran their dorm was getting married to this beautiful woman, damn.
But there we're two who we're handling it worse than anyone else, namely Shinobu and Naru. The two of them we're really taking it hard. In fact the feelings had never even truly sunk this morning when Keitaro entertained the older samurai with a delicious kiss on the lips. The two of them then ran off muttering excuses.
'Keitaro-sempai… have I truly lost you?' Shinobu thought as new tears escaped her as she sat down on the hill which over-shadowed the place that she called home.
'Keitaro… I thought that we…' Naru's thoughts we're in turmoil. Nothing that she could say would bring Keitaro back to her, nothing. She had truly lost the battle for the K-man's heart without even knowing it.
'He's getting married!' she roared in her mind. Of all things that she had suspected this was the most unlikely one on her list of things to ever happen.
'Keitaro…what happened! I thought that we were going to end up together…' that time Naru let tears flow out like never before, even when she had 'lost' Seta, she had never cried tears like this.
Back at the dorms
Keitaro looked at his fiancée as she sipped on her customary cup of green tea and pulled on his sleeve.
"But…"
"Leave them be Keitaro, they'll be back soon enough." Tsuruko said allowing her wise words to wash over the man that she had chosen to be for her lover and better half.
"But…"
"Keitaro if you do not let it drop at this exact moment I won't let you eat any ramen anymore for an entire month."
Needless to say the man sat down and his face paled… he knew the meaning behind that statement… before he had come back home they had decided to be a little fun and come up with codes for everything that they said… as you can tell, the two of them had seen too much Naruto which was why the man was now reduced to an obeying dog… if there was one thing a man could not take while taking to his girlfriend/wife; it was the absence of that man's 'ramen'
Su was appalled for another reason entirely
"You'd threaten a person with ramen? You're not human!" she cried thinking about the lovely substance of noodles that she had come to love second only to her love of the long yellow fruit.
Keitaro and Tsuruko looked at each other for a moment and then started giggling like little school girls understanding what the young girl thought they were talking about. After all, how was she supposed to know what they meant by it?
The other people there however only blushed slightly when they figured out what the hidden meaning behind the statement actually was.
Mitsune had an evil smirk on her face as she looked in between the two still giggling love birds while Motoko 'fumed.'
"You've been having ramen with my sister Urashima! Die pervert!" she screamed as she jumped up from her chair at the table and then proceeded to swing sword attacks at her future brother in law.
Keitaro 'eeped' and then jumped from the table as well just in time to avoid the younger girl's sword slash. He jumped around avoiding the playful attacks while his fiancée just giggled. He flipped and then looked towards her with his eyes slanted…
"Dear, aren't you supposed to help me when I'm in danger? Not laugh as your sister gets ready to attack me!" he said dismayed
She shrugged and went back to her tea with a grin leaving the former man to fend for himself.
Motoko giggled slightly to herself, this was just a little bit of fun when she wasn't really trying to kill the 'pervert', after all… since when was it not normal to do things with the woman you were getting married to? So right then and there she decided to keep going on much to the dislike of her manager and future brother in law.
Roof
Tsuruko and Keitaro stared each other down as they stood in front of each other. She wore her traditional red and white gi where as Keitaro had opted to wear the ninja type of outfit instead. He wore a pair of black kacki jeans with pockets for blades and things and a sleeveless black muscle shirt which fit his body perfectly.
They both smiled at each other and then they disappeared from normal sight.
Naru and Shinbou had come back earlier that day and were now watching in amazement along with the rest of the dorm the movements of the two warriors.
Well… watching wouldn't be the word since none of them could actually see the movement of the two, but they could hear the clanging of their swords as they met in the air.
Motoko watched on silently, barely able to even keep up with her sister and her manager. Just how had he gotten this strong without her even knowing?
She unconsciously gripped her sword blade harder at the moment the Keitaro dunked right in time to avoid the slash from her sister.
'I want to be this strong… I want to be this fast… I want to be this powerful… how can I do that?' she silently wondered as she saw the two smile at each other in the heart of combat…
The two of them were having fun in the heart of combat… she had never seen anything like this before and she wondered one thing, this one thing was what was going through her entire mind after she saw the simple movement at the tug of their lips…
'How can I be that powerful where I can smile in the face of combat?'
Keitaro yawned as he lay back in his futon. He closed his eyes until he heard the running water in the bathroom which his room connected to stopped running.
He opened them once again only to see the face of beauty staring down at him with a smile tugging at her creamy perky lips…
"Sleepy I see?" she asked softly while staying in the same position
"Lemme lone'." He said in soft sleep speech and then returned her smile
"But where is the fun in that Keitaro-kun?" she grinned evilly as she bent down more and then kissed him on the lips.
She smiled when she felt him return it and then she broke it off and laid down next to him.
"About my sister Keitaro…" she asked after a moment
"Yea?" he said still sleepy
"Thanks for earlier."
"No problem… we just had to come to an understanding." He said with another yawn as the two of them fell asleep…
-End chapter 6-