Love Hina ain't my work DAMMIT!! And neither is Toby Keith's "It Works for Me"
ON WITH THE FIC
Sunrise in the Hinata-Sou has begun. Everybody had gotten his or her fair share in sleep from a WILD AND CRAZY NIGHT!!! But what they didn't know is that when Motoko got up, she noticed the printed picture of her and Hanku. She looks right and left to check and see that nobody was looking as she slipped the picture in her back pocket.
She changed into her training outfit and placed the picture in the pocket of one of the sleeves as she made her way to the living room. She stopped when she overheard a conversation that everybody was in.
Hanku-"THERE'S NOTHING GOING ON BETWEEN ME AND KENDO GIRL, GOT IT? How many times must I say that?"
Naru-"As much as we want you to Hanku. As much as we want you to (giggles)"
Kitsune-"Speaking of Motoko, Mutsumi over here told us about your little tag-team fight with Motoko and how much you kicked ass. Which raises the main question; did you go easy on Motoko when you first came here?"
"Umm (sweat drops)…I don't mean to sound arrogant, but yes I did. I was pretty impressed with her abilities, but of course I was thrown off when we used that "Doomsday Typhoon" technique."
Keitaro-"Yeah, umm…question. How come you never seem to be affected, rather hurt, when Motoko strikes you with her sword? I mean, I get burned and bruised from that thing."
"You actually think that a sword THAT sharp could damage me?! (everybody stares and keeps quiet as they notice a VERY angry samurai walking behind Hanku)
"C'MON PEOPLE!! Her sword's really not that sharp. It's like a toothpick, er…maybe sharp enough to make a paper-cut.
Motoko-"A-HEM"
Hanku gets a nervous look and tries to act like he doesn't know that Motoko is behind him-"Duuuuuuhhhhmmm…….which are 2 of…the finest things in life;…a toothpick or…maybe a paper-cut. (turns around) Oh hey kendo—Uh Oh!!"
To everybody's shock, including Hanku's, Motoko didn't simply strike with her sword, instead she took her training katana, that was leaning against the wall, and held the sword where the tip would be an inch away from Hanku's throat and walked towards him, forcing Hanku to back up into the wall, while she insulted him…
"You…you foul, evil, bloated, pretentious little WORM!!!"
"Can't you take a joke kendo girl?"
"You insult my sword, you insult my skills as a swordsman which I had learned from my family, thus insulting them in your evil words."
Hanku gets a frown and tries to calm Motoko down-"I didn't mean to insult you or your family. Your pride is blinding your judg--"
"SILENCE!! Your words will not go unpunished. Your saying of those words will the biggest mistake you'll EVER make in your pathetic life! After the next 24 hours, Royiaki, you and I will fight in a duel. A DUEL TO THE DEATH!!! I actually thought there was something in you I had respected last night, but now I see you'll always be the perverted bastard that came here 4 days ago!!"
Hanku DIDN'T enjoy hearing those words a bit. He grabs the blade with his trigger and middle finger, and bends the sword to where it snapped in two. He throws down the metal piece, grabs Motoko, with both his hands, by her gi, and slams her into the wall (about a foot above the floor) where she had corned him.
With a very pissed look-"One of the biggest mistakes I ever made in my life was ever going easy on ARROGANT, little bitch like you. I used to think that SOME samurais had enough common sense to tell who other people were insulting, and whether they were serious or not, bu-hut boy you proved me wrong."
"You don't frighten me you little…"
"SHUT UP!!! (he slams her in to the wall again then brings her down to his face as he leans to her ear and whispers) If I have to, Motoko Aoyama, I WILL kill you. I will obliterate your life and feast upon your soul, and when that time comes, I will not be able to wait to do it."
He walks away and starts leaving the room, before turning back around-"Oh and, by the way, this death match has already killed something that could've happened. (He pulls out, from his back pocket, a picture of him and Motoko from the previous evening and shows it) A very…good…friendship."
When finished, he took the picture and tore it down the middle and tossed the halves away. He heads to his room and makes/punches a 2ft. wide hole through the wall, and shouts…
"GOD…DAMMIT!!"
The room was left speechless. Everyone, but Motoko, gave looks that didn't act surprised, in fact they were filled with pity towards Motoko, whom couldn't feel anymore guilty than she already was. Everybody began to walk to their rooms, not without saying something to the samurai.
Kitsune-"I hope you're satisfied with yourself."
Shinobu (crying)-"Motoko…(sniff) how could you?"
Mutsumi-Fu, fu, fu.
Sara (thumbs up)-"Way to go, stupid."
Su just bounces away
Haruka lights and starts smoking a cigarette-"Ya, happy?"
Naru-"That…was a bit low of you Motoko."
Keitaro-"Mr. Opportunity was knocking, but you chose to ignore him."
Motoko, actually felt alone in the world. She was pitied by her friends, not to mention she got told by the perverted landlord, she destroyed a friendship and was left with nothing but a fight to the death with a man that HAD admired her as she had admired him.
Before Naru started walking upstairs, she noticed Hanku's door was wide open. Out of curiosity, she snuck just outside his room and peeked inside to see Hanku in a meditating position facing the window.
Meanwhile, Keitaro was passing by at the time and decided to check on what was going on along with Naru.
Toby Keith's "It Works for Me" starts playing. Hanku starts singing along with the CD in English.
Never owned a brand new car
I never worked in a white collar
I never held a woman longer
Than I held one single dollar
I never went out chasin' rainbows
'Cause there can't be that much to it
Even if I found my pot of gold
I'd probly' piss right through it
I can't remember ever wanting
For one second of my life
Even if I did it cost too much
To ever pay the price
I don't dance out on the dark side
Ain't no secrets I can tell
So you don't have to say a prayer for me
I just said one for myself
I'm livin' my life
Under my terms
I'm callin' the shots
As far as I can see
I don't owe nobody nothin'
I don't answer to a soul
It might not work for you
But it works for me
Naru looks at Keitaro-"You know the language. What's he saying? I can't understand it."
Keitaro stares in disbelief. It's true he can understand English, but it quickly came to his senses that this song was not just another American country song that Hanku would normally play, it was a song talking about Hanku, himself.
I've been bent and bruised and broken
And flat busted once or twice
I brought most of it upon myself
But I never compromised
My pride's too hard to swallow
So I've chewed a lot of it
Mild-mannered and soft-hearted
And hard-headed as you get
I live out on the backroads
Where I walk my country mile
And if it's so good in the city
Why don't anybody smile?
The traffic's always heavy
And that air ain't fit to breathe
I ain't saying that it's wrong for you
It just don't make sense to me
I'm livin' my life
Under my terms
I'm callin' the shots
As far as I can see
I don't owe nobody nothin'
I don't answer to a soul
It might not work for you
It might not work for you
But it works for me
That afternoon, Motoko starts training for, what would be, one of the biggest fights of her life. She had gotten over the fact of Hanku's former respect for her and once again saw him as her enemy that needed to die. In the middle of her strokes, she sees Hanku staring at a humongous tree (5-6ft wide and 50ft high). He was wearing a black Karate uniform with the sleeves torn at the shoulders, a silver dragon was on the back and he wore a belt with a purple and black flame. He also wore bandages around his hand (not fingers) down to the middle of his wrist and elbow on both arms, and around the center of his feet (horizontally), and his ankles.
Hanku looks up and down the tree, gets in a fighting stance, and strikes the tree with all his might. The earth shook for a moment before Motoko paused and noticed that nothing had happened, not even the tree was splintered. She wasn't surprised however, because she had practiced her strikes upon that tree and it was never scratched from them either. She still, however, found it amusing that Hanku thought he could knock the tree down in a single punch.
Hanku then stands in his normal way saying, "Damn", turns around and starts walking back inside, wiping the sweat away from his forehead and speaks to Motoko.
"You might wanna cover your eyes."
Motoko was a bit confused, but quickly saw what he meant. The tree made a cracking sound as giant cracks gradually surrounded the tree, about 1 or 2 13ft cracks a second, before the tree, branches and all, shattered and became nothing but sawdust and twigs. Hanku then looks back at Motoko and asks…
"You still want to continue with this?"
Motoko gave a look of shock, but then just smirked and chuckled-"Of course not. It just now means that I won't be as disappointed as I thought I would be."
Hanku returns the smirk and walks back inside.
The next morning…24 hours from when the death match was suggested…we see the two warriors standing face-to-face, 30ft away from each other, staring eye-to-eye. They both wore their training outfits from the previous afternoon. They also decided to fight where Motoko did her own private training: at the edge of a canyon with a waterfall flowing down the steep drop and with a one-room cabin. Both became soak and wet as it began to rain.
Hanku crosses his arms-"Last chance, kendo girl. Either step down or get your ass beaten."
Motoko shakes her fist-"Grrrrrr…Why did I spare the life of a SELFISH, parasite like you. You have a pretty weird way of thanking people who spare your life, because I could've just finished you off that day, and then I could've rested in peace that night."
Hanku smiles-"Well then that makes you both a bitch…AND a dumb-ass!"
Motoko points to her sword-"You won't be talking so much after I infect with this venom."
"Eh?"
"I coated my blade with the legendary Monrovian poison. Assassins have used it for generations, why, because there's no cure for it. Once infected, you'll have no more than 24 hours left to live."
"(Yawn) Are you through? I wanna get on with my life."
Motoko draws her sword-"Let's…end this!"
Hanku bows-"I thought you'd never say it."
Both fighters charged head-on.
Now the fight for their lives begins.
End of chp. 9
I know, you might hate my guts for separating Hanku and Motoko like that. I know a lot of you supported those two, but you'll understand why I did this later in chp. 10, so you can insult me all you want, I really don't mind, HONEST!!!
Now for my reviewers…
Nakatsu-YA CAUGHT ME!! Sorry, I forgot to put the disclaimer up for that quote, I didn't think anybody had seen that movie. FUNNY AS FUCK RIGHT?
Lee3-As much as you hate country music, you know those songs were pretty good, right?
Outsider Writer-I figured you'd like that.
Lieutenant Pyro-Glad you liked the fight scenes; this one's my best yet. Here are the ages Keitaro Urashima-20
Naru Narusegawa-19
Motoko Aoyama-18
Kitsune Konno-22
Shinobu Maehra-15
Kaolla Su-16
Mutsumi Otohime-19 or 20
Sara-9 I think
Haruka Urashima-26
Hanku Royiaki-20
bonehead25-try this combo…B, B, B, hold right/direction she's facing K, K, K (continue to hold the direction button while you press the K button. Tell me if it works.
Everybody else-Thought you'd like those two songs. I know ya'll wanted a Hanku/Motoko pairing, but wait till next chapter.
PLEASE REVIEW/FLAME ASAP!!!
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