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
