Love Hina
Chapter 3
Everyone gasped as Haruka placed the gloves onto her bare hands. Keitaro yelled for her to stop but it was too late. She had been possessed by the same spirit that had taken over Kitsune earlier. Kitsune dropped to her knees, shaking in fear. She finally saw what the others were telling her had happened to herself that morning. Shouting at the spirit Kitsune charged at Haruka with brute force holding a chopstick in each hand. Motoko tried to stop her from doing harm to Haruka but she was still weak from having her aura disrupted. She broke right through Motoko's defenses.
As Kitsune inched closer to Haruka, the spirit got more and more anxious of its incoming meal. The gloves suddenly slammed together and energy raced through the house. What is this? It seems the gloves have gained in strength as they were passed on from Kitsune to Haruka. This couldn't be good, since Motoko was physically and mentally weakened at its first stage of difficulty, what would happen this time around? Time would only tell.
As the energy raced through the house, Motoko remembered what Keitaro had told her earlier about having bad days. She fought the spirits aura one step at a time, remember, patience is a virtue. As the spirit was being weakened by Motoko, Kitsune took her chopsticks and pierced them through the lining of the gloves. Haruka dropped to the ground. The pain was so intense that it made her faint and the only thing moving were her hands which had been possessed.
She couldn't believe what she had just done. Motoko finally decreased the aura enough to attack the spirit itself. She placed her hands on her sword's hilt and lifted it in the air. She yelled at the top of her lungs, and gathered the biggest energy she has ever gotten out of her ki since she was a young girl. She sliced her sword through the air and sent the powerful blast through the house, directly into Haruka's hands. The gloves turned black and fell to the ground. Motoko had overcome her weakness.
Kaolla went to grab the gloves, but they started to shake and glow purple on the floor in front of her. There in front of the group's eyes, the spirit had shown himself. It was one of the ancestors that had roamed the town a few hundred years ago. He had asked to not be slain, and had offered peace to the group of friends. Motoko didn't trust him one bit so she lifted her sword. Naru put her hand on the top of her sword and lowered it, nodding to Motoko. "How can we be so sure you're telling the truth by offering us peace?" Naru said with a questionable look on her face. "The only thing I can do for you is give you my word and protection, I can help you out in future mishaps. If you have any problems with future rebellions, just slip my gloves near the opponent and chant, 'Ye have no remorse!' and I shall come to your aid. But remember this; I will only help you for seven times. Remember that, only seven times can you chant for me. On the eighth time I shall bring you harm and misfortune. You have been warned."
The group was excited to test out this chant, but they remembered, if they used him more than seven times, he would practically ruin their lives. They had to keep track of his usages. Keitaro placed the gloves in a protective casing with an alarm system set up by Kaolla. He kept a piece of paper in the case along with the gloves to keep track of times that the chant had been used. The crew went to their rooms to rest up for the night. Not paying attention to Haruka as she still laid in rest on the floor. Blood seeped out of her hand onto the floor.
As they slept, Kitsune wanted to find out why the spirit had taken over her friends and set wrath upon the town. She crept downstairs to the glass casing, noticing Haruka on the floor. She was just about to wake her up, when she returned to her stance. She figured that if she was awake then she wouldn't allow her to use the gloves to find out the reason for its wrath. She left her lay for a little while longer.
She saw the core unit of the alarm and switched it to off. She lifted the glass casing and proceeded to snatch the gloves. She threw them out on the floor and said the chant. The spirit arose and she asked him her question. She received his answer and put the gloves back in the case. Also, she forgot to write down that she called upon the spirit. She also forgot to reset the alarm. She creeped back up the stairs and went back into her room to bed.