Love Hina


Disclaimer: This episode of Love Hina is of my own creation. I do not own any portion of Love Hina. "Love Hina" and all related characters, names, etc. are ©1999-2004 Ken Akamatsu/Mixx Entertainment Inc. Love Hina is a trademark of TOKYOPOP®. All rights reserved.

Note: This series takes after the "Love Hina" manga, since I haven't watched any of the anime, though I will watch them all as soon as I possibly can. Hey…what's that thing in your hands? Wait! Don't hit me! No! Okay, okay! I'm going to buy all of the "Love Hina" anime DVDs! I promise.



Different Promises
Chapter 2:
The Male of Hinata House


Keitaro Urashima is about to enter The Hinata House, when he notices the sign on the left side of the door. "Girls Dormitory: Hinata House?" His eyebrows rise in surprise. "When did this place become a dorm just for girls? I think Grandma left a few details out in that fax." He cautiously makes his way inside, sliding the door open and looking around hurriedly. "I'd better watch my step in here," he thinks out loud. "I don't want any girls seeing me exploring around and thinking I'm some kind of pervert or something."

The Tokyo U student slides the door shut behind him and takes his shoes off, placing them next to four other pairs on the floor. "Hello? Anyone home?" he calls out. After a few moments with no response, he begins to rub the back of his head. "Grandma?" he shouts, this time a little louder. "It's your grandson, Keitaro. I...I got your fax. It looked kind of urgent, is something wrong?" Still, nobody answers. Keitaro walks in a few more steps, adjusting the strap of the book bag that is hung over his shoulder. "Where're grandma and everyone else? I expected someone to have heard me and come here to inspect all the noise."

Shaking his head, he walks into the living room and places his things down next to the couch. "Maybe I should go looking for one of the girls who live here and ask where grandma's at. They could also tell me why this place is now a girls dorm." He smiles and nods slightly. "Yeah, that's the sensible thing to do." He reaches into his duffel bag and pulls out the fax he just received earlier. "Hopefully somebody can possibly make sense of this fax and why it's so vague." He stands back up and begins to walk around the first floor.

As he nears the hot spring area, a young girl carrying a basket of clothes comes walking out of a door to his right, the laundry room. She looks to be in her early teens, judging by the middle school uniform she has on. She definitely appears to be foreign, seeing as how she has dark skin, blonde hair, carefree green eyes and a small black dot in between her eyebrows. The young girl pauses and turns to look at Keitaro. She quickly runs up to him, a bright smile on her face. "Heyas!" she cheerily greets. "Are you here to play with me?"

Keitaro rubs the back of his head again. "Um...not exactly. Do you know where Grandma Hinata is?"

The foreign girl is about to say something when suddenly another young girl comes walking out of another room behind them, which Keitaro remembers as leading to the kitchen. She has short very dark purple hair and kind blue eyes and is holding a soup ladle in her left hand. "Su, is that you making all that noise?" She stops as she sees Keitaro. "Oh, I didn't know we had a guest."

The Urashima male decides to take this opportunity to introduce himself. He takes a step back and bows formally. "Hello there, I am Keitaro Urashima."

The purple haired girl tilts her head to the side slightly. "Urashima? Are you related to Granny Hina or Miss Haruka?"

Keitaro is about to respond when two very pretty women emerge from the hot spring area, both clad in only white towels. The one with long reddish brown hair and brown eyes starts to say, "Hey, what's going on in here? Kitsune and I thought we heard a guy talk..." and trails off as she and the other girl with short light brown hair and squinted fox eyes notice Keitaro. The long haired girl quickly hides behind her friend, blushing lightly. Her head appears from the side, an angry scowl distorting her pretty features. "What are you doing here?" she growls menacingly at him. "This is an all girls dormitory! What are you, some kind of peeping tom pervert?"

"A pervert?" asks a voice ahead of everyone. They all turn to see yet another young woman, this one in her mid teens. She has straight, long raven black hair and a very eloquent stature, though the samurai sword in her left hand and the accusing look in her narrowed soft brown eyes instantly makes the Tokyo U student nervous. "Males are not allowed in the Hinata House," she states in a calm, yet stern voice. "I ask you now to leave politely, but if you are a pervert," she pauses to raise up her sword and start to unsheathe it, "I will show you no mercy."

"What!? No!" Keitaro replies, looking offended and slightly frightened. He holds out the fax in front of all of the girls. The girl they called Kitsune takes it while he bows again. "Like I told the two younger girls, my name is Keitaro Urashima. Granny Hina is my grandmother. She sent me this fax this morning telling me to come here." He waits for all the girls to read the fax to confirm what he just said. "Do any of you know where my grandmother is? And why is this place a girls dorm?"

The long haired girl behind Kitsune begins to move away from her friend to address the stranger, oblivious to the fox eyed girl's evil smirk and the hand that has grabbed her towel. She starts off saying, "Well Granny Hin..." but freezes as her towel falls to the ground. Keitaro quickly turns around, a heavy blush on his face and a slight dribble of blood coming from his nose. The long haired girl hurriedly pulls her towel back up, also blushing heavily. While holding her towel up with her left hand, she squeezes her right into a fist.

Keitaro starts to slowly turn back around. "Is it safe to look?" His eyes go wide as he sees the girl arching her arm back for a fierce punch.

She screams, "Iron Punch!" as she throws all her might into the blow, aiming directly for the face of the 'pervert'.

The young Urashima swiftly dodges the blow, rolling away on the floor. The samurai girl notices his movements and stores them away for later use. "What the hell was that for?!" Keitaro shouts while getting to his feet. "I didn't do anything!"

"You saw you pervert!" the crazy girl shrieks, her face fuming with anger. She begins to advance on him again when Kitsune grabs her from behind, holding her back.

"Whoa there Naru! I think you should calm down."

Just then, Haruka comes walking in, calmly smoking her cigarette. She takes in the scene in front of her and smirks ever so slightly. "You're still in one piece Keitaro, I'm impressed."

Keitaro walks up to her. "Aunt Haruka," he pauses as she whaps him over the head again, "can you please tell me what's going on here?"

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A little while later, the entire group is in the living room. Naru and Kitsune have changed into something more decent, though Naru constantly glares over at the younger Urashima in the room, her fists clenching and unclenching. Keitaro rubs the back of his head after hearing the news about his grandmother. "So grandma isn't here?"

"That's right," Haruka calmly answers. "She went on a world-wide sightseeing tour a year ago." She pauses to take a puff from her cigarette. "We just get faxes from her once in a while." She leans back in her chair and crosses her legs. "She's looking for new thrills in life and wanted some extra funds so she took this old failing inn and turned it into a girls dorm.

"Well that explains the changes, but why did she want me here?"

The older Urashima calmly reaches in her back pocket and unfolds a sheet of paper. "I got this fax this morning, probably around the same time you got yours. Grandma would like for you to stay here, but she didn't say why."

Naru quickly stands up and shouts, "Absolutely not!" Kitsune once again restrains her friend from behind while she walks up to Keitaro. "This is a girls dorm! We can't let a sicko like you stay another minute!"

The fox desperately tries to hold Naru back, saying, "Cool your jets," and, "Calm down Naru," softly to her, hoping to get her to not thrash around so much.

"And just what makes me a sicko?" Keitaro asks Naru, his annoyance at the crazy girl staring to rise. She is about to answer, but the Tokyo U student waves his hand, halting her. "Yeah, I know, I saw you naked, but jeeze, you're acting like I took your towel off. Why are you getting so mad over a little accident?"

Naru opens her mouth to speak, but pauses for a moment and slowly closes it, sitting back down on one of the couches and blushing slightly. "He still shouldn't stay here," she whispers, placing her hands in her lap.

The samurai girl, who has been standing near Kitsune and the young purple haired girl, decides to add in her opinion. "I must agree with Narusegawa on this. Though he has done no dishonorable deeds towards us, he is still a male, and there is no place for a male in this place now. Though I usually always agree with the decisions that Grandmother Hinata makes, this is one I cannot accept."

Keitaro smiles kindly at her. "I understand where you're going. Grandma's a great person, but I have no idea what she could have been thinking. I can't ask you to let a guy stay in a girls dorm." He stands up and grabs his suitcase and duffel bag. "I'll be leaving now. I'm sorry to have bothered you girls." He starts to walk away, when Haruka blocks his path.

"Are you sure about this Keitaro? This place may be old, but it's still quite nice. And I know you'd have saved on rent here, what with going to Tokyo U and all."

The Urashima male nods slightly. "Yeah, you're right. I would've like having some extra money to..." he trails off as one of the girls begins to speak.

"T-T-Tokyo U?!" Suddenly four of the five girls are in his face, all having shocked expressions on their faces and simultaneously shouting, "Tokyo University?!"

Keitaro backs up a step, a sweatdrop forming on his head. "Yeah, I'm a student at Tokyo U."

The foreign girl walks up to him, a curious look on her face. "What's Tokiyo-Ewe? A snack?" All the girls are used to her constant questions on what is edible so they let the question pass. Keitaro raises an eyebrow at her odd question, but decides not to answer her for the moment.

Haruka walks up behind her nephew and places a hand on his shoulder. "Our whole family was quite proud of him when he got in, none of us thought he was going to pass the entrance exams."

The foreign girl looks over at the samurai girl and asks, "Does Tokiyo-Ewe taste good?" This question also goes on unanswered.

"I knew I was going to pass," the Tokyo U student confidently responds, an old fierce determination reappearing in his eyes. "I had to keep my promise to her," he whispers so low that no one else hears him.

Kitsune closes the distance between her and Keitaro, making the young man nervous. "So mister big-shot Tokyo U student, what are you studying?" She wraps her arm around him and gives him a foxy grin.

Her nearness is beginning to make him uncomfortable. "I...I'm studying archaeology. It's really..." he is cut off as the fox eyed girl rushes over to her house mates.

"Did you hear?! An archaeology major! He's going to be a world famous archaeologist and might even get his own show on television!!" Her eyes open a bit as a devious plan starts to unfold in that strange, money hungry mind of hers. 'This guy is studying to become an archaeologist and his grandmother owns this dorm?' she thinks to herself. 'In a few years he's gonna be super loaded...and he's not too bad looking either...this is my chance!'

Haruka notices the look on Kitsune's face. She shakes her head and sighs deeply. "I hope that boy lasts long enough here to graduate," she mumbles as she finishes off her cigarette.

The fox eyed girl turns to her friends, a bright smile on her face. "How 'bout it guys?! Granny had a good idea with this one, so why don't we let him stay like she wanted? Of course," she adds, turning towards Keitaro, "this is still a girls dorm, so stay in line and don't get all pervy on us and we won't be forced to toss you out on your butt!"

The young Urashima holds his hands up defensively. "Hey, I had no such thoughts going on! I don't know what you're thinking, but I'm a respectably guy towards girls!"

The samurai girl nods lightly. "I suppose I will agree to him staying as well. As a university student, we should be able to trust his words."

"Yeah! I want him to stay too!" the young purple-haired girl squeals, clasping her hands together.

The foreign girl, who Keitaro now remembers was called Su, hops onto his shoulders suddenly, causing him to stumble a bit, and wraps her arms around his neck. "I wants Tokiyo-Ewe to stay too! He's funny!" She giggles and lets go and begins to run around the room.

Naru stands back up, visibly upset. "But this isn't right! This is still a girls dorm! You can't just change that on a whim! He shouldn't be allowed to stay here at all!"

Kitsune rests her head against her hand, a small smile on her face. "I thought you were also gunnin' for Tokyo U Naru. It'd be nice to have somebody around with some first hand experience." She looks over to the samurai girl. "Don't you agree Motoko?"

The young woman now dubbed as Motoko nods ever so slightly, her body barely even moving from her spot on the couch. "Yes Kitsune, you are correct. He could provide substantial information to help make your own entrance easier. Besides, we all know him now and he seems trustworthy. It would be rather rude to kick him out now."

Su dances around Naru, saying, "Don't be a meanie!"

Kitsune smiles and joins the foreign girl and they dance around their friend, singing, "Meanie! Meanie! Old hag! Meanie!"

Haruka starts up a new cigarette, smirking the entire time. 'It didn't take very long for everyone to welcome you in Keitaro,' she thinks to herself. She takes a quick glance at Naru, who is remaining very still, though a vein is throbbing on her forehead. "Well...almost everyone," she adds out loud with a snort of amusement.

Su and Kitsune continue on with their dance, the purple haired girl standing nearby looking both anxious and hesitant to join. Finally, Naru gives in. "Fine!" she shouts, halting the two girls' dance. "We'll welcome him in...for now."

The four other girls smile happily and shout, "Welcome to Hinata House!" to their newest member, Keitaro Urashima, the first ever male resident to live in the Hinata House Girls Dormitory.


To be continued...

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Author's notes: Well...chapter 2 is now in the wraps. It isn't as long as I had wanted it to be, but I didn't know what else to add in. Like I said before in chapter 1's notes, I will be taking a lot from the manga for a while, and of course making changes and twists here and there due to Keitaro's different status and more mellow clumsiness. There will be some areas in the manga that I will not add in, since I don't think I can change them too much, but I will mention them as having happened in between 'takes'.

Oh yeah, I've been getting an idea for another Love Hina fanfic. It's gonna be a semi lemony one, my first partial attempt. It will take place in manga volume 14, a couple of months after they get back to the Hinata House from Molmol. I'll describe more in chapter 3's notes so stay tuned! - lighthawkdemon

Questions or comments? E-mail me at: lighthawkdemon@yahoo.com