(Author's Notes: Hmm, it's a update you say? Yes, I am in fact alive Triumvirate fans out there, I have just been taking time to enjoy the hell out of my summer vacation, and have been ignoring my work. Yes, it's been over a month, but eh, last update I was still in school and still studying for finals. Anyway, again I modified this chapter's idea a little bit, to where the parents start arriving at the end. So that means the meet the parents comes next chapter. By the way, Keitaro's show up first, then Tsukuro, then Naru's parents. And uh, this sounds really bad of me, but to my memory, the manga didn't name Naru's, so I will go and double check those before writing next chapter. And uh, if I get any names wrong as they are mentioned if someone could email them to me, that'd be great. Also people, to prevent the flood of update soon emails that is bound to increase, all info about why I am not writing will be posted on my blog, link in my profile. Okay, moving on. I know I ate my words, but this gets an update before Pilauts it seems, because this one got inspiration first. So ha. Anyway, here we go. Enjoy chapter three of Triumvirate, entitled Hide and Seek Honeymoon!)

(Disclaimer! I do not hold the legal rights to and or in any other way, shape or form own Love Hina. The aforementioned series is owned by Ken Akamatsu. Don't ever claim I own this, cause I'm really just a sensitive artist, and I am broke.)

Triumvirate

Chapter Three: Hide and Seek Honeymoon

"What is going on?" asked Haruka, who had run up the stairs upon hearing the explosion. When she entered she saw Keitaro cowering on the couch in his boxers. "... Do I really even want to know where your pants are?"

"Haruka! You have got to help me! Naru and Motoko are not themselves tonight!" shouted Keitaro.

'Wow, this must be bad, he didn't even call me Aunt...' thought Haruka. "Okay, Mutsumi will be here in a minute, so please tell me, what is going on!"

"Well, I came home from calling Mom, and everything is fine till I get to my room, where strangely enough I find Naru and Motoko." Keitaro took a breath. "So then they discuss sleeping arrangements and I freaked, and as I tried to get out the hole to Naru's room, they latched onto my legs and held me back. So then I had to unbutton my jeans and finally I had a way out, but that left me without my pants, so..."

Mutsumi entered with a wide grin upon seeing Keitaro. "Oh my! I see your having a wonderful honeymoon, Kei-kun."

"Far from it..." he muttered. Up stairs a loud Damn it, Su, Could be heard along with stomping footsteps. Keitaro panicked. "Ahh! Hide me, Hide me for the love of all things good and pure!"

Haruka whispered something and Mutsumi's ear and then looked at Keitaro. "Go and hide behind the couch, we'll cover for you. Just remain perfectly quiet and they won't hear you."

Keitaro nodded and dashed behind the couch. No sooner had Keitaro ducked behind the couch than Naru and Motoko came bounding down the stairs.

At this point, Mutsumi bolt out the door shouting, "Come on, Kei-kun, wait for me!"

Naru glared at the door. "He's already out of the house!"

Motoko grabbed her sword and ran for the door with Naru in tow. "I am prepared to use force to bring him back. How dare he insult his wives by running off when we had an important conversation to have!"

The pair dashed out the door after Mutsumi and they thought, Keitaro. After they had gone, Keitaro looked up from behind the couch at his aunt and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Thank you so much!"

"Keitaro, your not out of the woods yet." said Haruka. "Now, it's time we sat here and talked this over..."

"Or not!" interjected Kitsune. "Come on, Keitaro. You gotta run and hide! In fact, you can come and hide in my room!"

"Are you sure about this?"

"Yes you idiot! Just run, and really fast too! I think I hear Naru coming right now."

Keitaro panicked and then bolted upstairs for Kitsune's room. A loud thud was heard as he ran through, and he soon reappeared clutching his arm and carrying some wooden planks under his arm. He said as he was passing through. "Heh, guess I forgot about the crater in front of my room."

Kitsune grinned devilishly and followed Keitaro up to her room. She looked back at Haruka and winked. 'I almost feel bad for doing this to him.'

Keitaro finished frantically fixing the hole in front of his room and then he went to Kitsune's room to hide out.

"Okay Kitsune, where do I hide?"

Kitsune slid the door shut and flashed her trademark grin at Keitaro. "Well, I was thinking I could hide you under the covers of my futon."

"KITSUNE!" shouted Keitaro. "I'm a married man!"

"So?" asked Kitsune. "I've dated married men before, it's no big deal. And it doesn't even have to mean anything, this can just be a little fling. Just our little secret." She winked at him.

"Bu...but... Naru's your best friend! And I know you have more compassion than that for her."

"Your right, I'd never do it to Naru." Kitsune paused. "But lets just say I am doing it to spite Motoko. And besides, even I have my needs Keitaro, it gets really lonely in here sometimes..."

'Well at least someone is acting like themselves tonight.' thought Keitaro. "Ahh, why did I even come in here in the first place!"

Keitaro got up and bolted for the door, diving between Kitsune's legs and accidently tripping her with his cast. Keitaro ran amazingly fast for someone who had a cast on his leg, and this helped him get out the door quickly. He felt bad for tripping Kitsune, but right now his fear of his wives put his guilt in the back of his mind and he now dashed for Su's room. Inside he found that Su was tucked away at her computer on the far side of her jungle of a room. Little did Keitaro know, but he had tripped Su's custom burglar alarm. A shrill cry soon came over an unseen loudspeaker;

Intruder alert! Intruder alert! Now locking down all doors and exits! Unlocking the weapons cache with code 5-1-5-4-3-Alpha.

"An intruder, whassat about?" asked Su. "Oh wells, I must now arm myself!"

"Su! Su!" shouted Keitaro. "Su wait! It's me, Keitaro!"

"Oh you should have said that in the first place." said Su, jumping behind a large fern. She re-emerged moments later with a rocket launcher. "Take aim!"

Keitaro's bottom lip quivered as he looked down the barrel of the rocket launcher. "Su! Please! I just want to stay here and hide from Naru and Motoko, because if you haven't noticed, they aren't exactly themselves."

"Tell me about it, they both wanna ride you like a horse!" Su grinned wildly. "Okay, heres da deal. I will let you stay and hide here if you promise to play with me!"

"Uh... play? Like, checkers?"

"No stupid! How we usually play."

A look of horror flashed across Keitaro's face as he began to panic. "No thanks, I should be going."

Su smirked as Keitaro began to run for the door. "Oh no you don't!"

Keitaro ran harder for the door but to no avail, Su began firing rounds off from her rocket launcher at him. Keitaro reached the door but he had forgotten one thing, Su's security system had locked down all of the doors.

"Please Su, let me go."

Su let out a heavy sigh. "Fine." She once again shouldered her rocket launcher and let a rocket fly right into her door, blowing a whole through it and sent Keitaro flying through as well.

Keitaro continued flying through the house, finally smashing through the wall and into another room. Keitaro groaned and looked about his surroundings. He had landed on something soft, and he saw that he had landed on a pile of stuffed animals. He was in Shinobu's room. Keitaro heard footsteps outside but really didn't have time to get up and hide, so he just lay there, hoping that the next person through that door was not Naru or Motoko. Thankfully for him it was Shinobu, who had rushed upstairs upon hearing a loud crash.

"ACK!" shouted Shinobu as she saw the hole in her wall. Her eye's traveled down to Keitaro. "Oh no! Sempai! Are you okay?"

Keitaro groaned. "My back is a little sore, but other than that, I'm okay." He looked up at Shinobu. "May I hide in here for a while?"

"Of course!" Shinobu nervously looked around the room. 'Hmm... Ah! There we go.' Shinobu walked over to a pile of clean clothes in the corner of her room. "You can hide under here, it's a tight fit, but it should do the job." Shinobu lifted up the pile a bit at a time and motioned for Keitaro to come over, and he crawled under the bit of clothes that remained. Shinobu again piled the clothes on top of Keitaro and did so till he was almost completely covered. The clothes covered all of Keitaro's torso, but left his feet sticking out, which was a big problem. But Shinbou found an easy remedy to this by taking the top blanket off her futon and throwing over Keitaro's legs. 'Now it's perfect.' she thought.

Keitaro mumbled a thank you from under his cotton fortress. He started to say something else, but in the distance, stomping footsteps could be heard. Someone in a very foul mood was home, it had to be Naru.

"Just try and keep quite." whispered Shinobu. "I wont let them hurt you. I'm going to try to throw her off the trail."

The stomping grew nearer, and now a voice was heard to be accompanying the stomping.

"Damn that Mutsumi! Just damn it!" groused Naru. "I can't believe we followed her for nearly twenty minutes only to find she had tricked us!"

"Yes, that was very annoying." replied Motoko. "We should be smarter than that, but yet, he has given us the slip."

"Wait a minute!" said Naru, stopping just short of Shinobu's room. "If he wasn't with Mutsumi, there just might be a good chance he is still hiding in someone's room."

Motoko looked around at the various holes and blast damage that had resulted from Su's latest game. "Perhaps, we should start at Su's room and look from there."

Naru looked at a trail of broken wood and scorch marks that lead to Shinbo's room. "Or not." She motioned over to Shinobu's room. "I think we won't have to go far."

The pair walked over to Shinobu's door and knocked.

"Yes?" asked Shinobu. "Who's there?"

"It's Naru and Motoko. We'd like to come in, if that is alright."

"Oh... of course. Come in."

The girls walked into Shinobu's room and looked directly at the hole in the wall.

"Keitaro was here." said Naru, looking at the hole. "Unless you have an explanation for the hole."

"Yes. Yes, he was here." said Shinobu. "But that was about ten minutes ago, he ran off someplace, I haven't seen him since."

Motoko glanced around the room and then settled on the clothes pile. "I think, that he is still in here. Are you lying to us?"

Shinobu just looked at the floor. "No..."

Motoko drew her katana and walked over to the clothes pile. "Then you wont mind if I just prod around in your clothes pile."

"Please don't! You'll ruin my clothes!"

"With Keitaro's blood I bet!" shouted Naru.

Just then Keitaro jumped out from under the clothes pile. "No don't! You don't want to kill me!"

"Ah ha! Thought you could out run us, eh?" shouted Naru. "Well guess what? Your ass isn't running from this anymore!" Naru balled her fists as Motoko held him in place by keeping her katana in his face. Looking at all of this, Shinobu began to cry.

"Please don't hurt him!" sobbed Shinobu.

"ALRIGHT! THATS ENOUGH!" yelled Haruka who had bound upstairs upon hearing Naru shouting. "EVERYONE STOP TRYING TO KILL EACH OTHER!" Everyone in Shinobu's room just looked at Haruka.

"But if we let him go, he'll make a break for it!" said Motoko.

"Yeah, he threw his pants at me!" chimed in Naru.

"First off, Naru, that is the weakest argument I have ever heard in my life!" said Haruka. "Secondly, look at yourselves! Your not yourselves, your freaking out over nothing."

"Exactly girls!" said Keitaro. "Ever since I got back from calling my mom you guys have been very odd. In fact you wanted to sleep with me! Come on! When has that ever even crossed your minds before today? I think your taking the marriage thing a bit over the edge!"

"But..." started Naru.

"But nothing!" said Haruka. "You've chased the poor boy around in nothing but his skivvies, and threatened to kill him if he didn't sit down and sleep with you!"

"That's not true!" said Motoko. "Well... we didn't force him too, we simply wanted to talk to him about our sleeping arrangements, that's all."

"Yes, but he wouldn't even sit there and discuss." said Naru. "He just up and bolted."

"And then you two latched onto my legs and played tug of war with my torso!"

Motoko blushed. "Yes... there was that."

Naru blushed as well. "Yeah... sorry Keitaro. I guess we were both just letting our hormones get the best of us."

"Keitaro, I think I speak for the both of us when I say we are sorry." said Motoko, bowing her head.

"Yes, Motoko's right. I don't know what came over me today, and I will try to make sure it doesn't happen again."

Keitaro sighed. "Thanks girls, and I'm sorry for running." He got up and brushed off the pair of Shinobu's socks that was draped over his shoulder.

There was a pause in the room as everyone looked at Keitaro, who was still pantless.

"You... might want to get some pants on, Keitaro." said Haruka.

Keitaro blushed. "Yeah... right..." Keitaro left to walk to his room, with Motoko and Naru following. After a little chat, it was agreed that the three Urashimas would share a bed, but if anything funny was tried, consequences would be dire. Just as the gang was getting ready for bed, a knock was heard on the door.

"Come." said Keitaro.

"Oh ho, not yet tiger. Save some for your wives!" It was Kitsune. "Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you earlier, during your little shouting match up here, Keitaro's parents called. They'll be here tomorrow."

"And you just got around to telling us now?" asked Naru.

"Yes..." said Kitsune. "Oh yeah, speaking of Naru. Honey, your parents are also coming, seems that they are interested in meeting your new family." Kitsune's gaze settled on Motoko.

"Let me guess." sighed Motoko. "A-ne will be here tomorrow as well."

"Yep, that about sums it up." said Kitsune. "Now you all play nice this evening, you hear? It might be a good idea to use some protection and to take things slow."

"Just shut up and leave already!" said Naru, throwing a pillow at the door. After the door slid shut, Naru glanced at the others. "This is really weird, they are all coming at once. It almost doesn't make sense."

"I don't know about you two, but I don't want to concern myself with that tonight." yawned Keitaro. "I'm going to bed."

"Alright, but just remember. Nothing funny." said Motoko.

"Yes, yes, I know. And that goes for you and Naru too."

"What? Like I'd try something."

"Whatever, just go to sleep."

The three Urashimas lay there in silence, Naru and Motoko on either side of Keitaro. The girls, tired from the events of before had fallen fast asleep, but not before each grabbed Keitaro around the chest like a teddy bear.

Keitaro tried to suppress a nosebleed and he succeeded. 'Oh man, this is going to be something else. Something tells me that tomorrow is going to be one hectic mess.' Keitaro quietly drifted off to sleep after that thought.

The Next Morning...

Kenjo and Kasumi Urashima walked up the stairs to the doors of Hinata-sou.

"Well love, are you ready?" asked Kenjo.

"Yes, I mean, I already spoke to Keitaro and he seemed okay."

"What man wouldn't be okay with having two wives?" laughed Kenjo. "Think of all the interesting things you could do!"

Kasumi hit her husband with her purse. "Honestly! Don't start getting all perverted on me now, is that the kind of example you want to set for Keitaro?"

"Do you honestly think that he hasn't already consummated his marriage with both the girls already? You seriously can't stick a guy in a room with two women he is married to and not expect something erotic to happen!"

"Well, after all this is Keitaro we are talking about." said Kasumi. "Think about how well he has handled girls in the past. I don't think he'd try to sleep with them, he'd die of blood loss before anything interesting happened!"

Kenjo looked at his wife. "You know, I never thought of it that way. I hope he hasn't lost too much blood already..."

"Oh look, top of the stairs already." said Kasumi. "Are you ready?"

"... I just asked you that a minute ago."

"Just shut up and knock on the door."

"Yes love, right away."

Kenjo knocked on the door and from there it was no turning back.

End Chapter Three

Coming Next Chapter: The gloves are off as all three families come to meet the newlyweds. And from the start things are a little tense. How will the families react? It's finally time to meet the in-laws! Stick around for the next chapter to find out!

(Author's Footnote: Yeah sorry about the chapter if it isnt that good and seems rushed in places. I have been working on this in small increments over the past week and I hope it all comes out okay. I am sorry if this chapter was bad, but I promise next chapter will be even better!)

(Update 6/26/2005! Okay, thanks everyone for informing me of my typo, it should now be fixed, might take a while for it to uh show up again but I have fixed it in the text. Also, again, other than Mei, her step-sister, if Naru's parents have names that are generally accepted, I'd like to hear em! So email em to me.)