DISCLAIMER: Love Hina is owned by Ken Akamatsu. Not me, not you, unless you're Ken Akamatsu. If you are, I am much honored to have you reading my pitiful story that I call a fanfiction that pales in comparison to the great manga that you have created. Please forgive me for disgracing Love Hina with my mere presence in this world. I also do not own Ichigo 100, if I did, I would have had a Manaka & Kozue ending for the manga!

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Nishino, Aishiteru

By SK-superpower

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Author's Note: Hello! This is my first fanfiction ever written, so I will be accepting any advice and if possible, I request that anyone who wishes to pre-read chapters and help me create a better fanfiction out of this pitiful story!

If anyone has a question, please ask, it'll probably help me write this story since I'll have more material to base events and other parts of the story off of.

Story Note: Keitaro has been finally accepted into Tokyo U here, I can't really refer to where this story takes in the manga since I've only read them in the bookstore... --;;.

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Chapter One: Keitaro's Dilemma

It was wearing him out. He needed to take a vacation or something like that. The pressure was unbearable for him.

'I need to tell them how I feel, maybe I'll also drop in a hint of a vacation.'

Keitaro started to get up from his futon, but something suddenly stopped him. The reason may have been because his body finally got some feedback from the constant beatings and stress. Talk about a long response time, maybe he wasn't completely invincible after all.

'Maybe later, I should sleep a little more, it'll calm my nerves.'

Once again, drowsiness got the best of him and he closed his eyes.

"Maybe…once…I…finish…this…little…nap…"

He started to begin his peaceful journey once again to the land of sheep and fantasies. Not to be awoken until breakfast started.

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2 hours later

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Shinobu had been tapping lightly on Keitaro's door for the past 17 minutes and had not had any response from him. She was getting worried since her sempai wouldn't respond. She started calling to him in his room with her soft and timid voice, but still no response.

"Sempai!" she called out a little louder.

"Shinobu-chan, is that you?"

"Hai! Breakfast is ready Sempai!"

"Arigato, Shinobu-chan. I'll be out in a few minutes."

"Eto eto...Sempai?"

"Hai?"

"Could you call the others while I finish cooking?"

"No problem, Shinobu-chan."

"Arigato Sempai!"

Shinobu quickly ran down the stairs and just noticed that her heart was beating rapidly and she was blushing.

'Auuu, I can't make my feelings for Sempai this noticeable!' And with that, she started to put the finishing touches on this special breakfast, as with every meal that she made not for everybody, but for Keitaro, her Sempai.

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Keitaro got up slowly, not groggily, but filled with thoughts. He didn't know what to do next, he could not think of any ideas. He suddenly reverted to the dumb ronin he was a few years ago when trying to answer the questions on the Tokyo U exams.

It was a hopeless feeling, as if he couldn't get out of a cage even if he had the key.

He started to think about the two scenarios that he came up with. Both of the ideas weren't perfect, but he had to choose between them. There was no other way out from Hinata Inn and the stress.

'Ok, I can probably tell them upfront with out any reprise from Naru or Motoko, but the downside is that the girls will probably insist that they come with me and I can't tell the girls that they are the problem, or I'll definitely get a beating from Naru and Motoko while Shinobu cries her eyes out. But I could just sneak out during the night and then leave a note, yeah, that'll work out perfectly. I can deal with them calling me a coward for about 2 weeks once I get back from the vacation.'

Just reminded that he also had to tell the rest of the girls that breakfast was ready, Keitaro walked slowly to the door, out the hallway, and first to Kitsune's room.

Consumed with thought, his brain processing cycles were almost completely devoted to constructing a plan to sneak out of Hinata Sou.

He knocked a few time's on Kitsune's door and called out, "Hey Kitsune, breakfast is ready, along with a few aspirin and water downstairs as usual."

Kitsune's door opened and there was a pungent and dense smell of alcohol that wafted out of her room, making him gag almost instantaneously.

Kitsune came into Keitaro's view a few seconds later and Keitaro almost threw up from the sight of her. Baggy eyelids, dark circles around her eyes, something that appeared to be a few wrinkles, clothing that smelled like she threw up a few times in her sleep, and hair was very ruffled and some of it covered her eyes, making her look like a...

"Ahhhhhh! Zombie! Don't eat me," exclaimed Keitaro, very frightened from what looked like the undead, "I'm not tasty at all, I'm just skin and bones!"

"Haha, very funny Keitaro. I'm going to get cleaned up, tell Shinobu-chan that I'll probably be a little late."

He peeked out from his hands that were shielding his face.

"Oh, it's you Kitsune. Sure I'll tell Shinobu that."

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Keitaro started walking towards Kaolla's room, with much apprehension.

Knowing very well that even with a light tap on the wrong floorboard near Su's room would mean the trigger of various missiles, bombs, lasers, and other dangerous devices that would be launched at him.

This time, he was lucky enough to get to her door unscathed.

Too afraid to knock on her door, he just started to call to Su before he felt the wind brush past him. Unluckily for him, he turned around at the wrong moment and was greeted in the face by a rather small, but powerful foot with a lot of inertia.

"Aaarrrggghhh!" Keitaro yelled as he was propelled several yards from his original standing point and skidded another few feet after landing forcefully on the wooden floor.

Then Kaolla did a backflip and gracefully, with a childish giggle, landed right next to the poor landlord. She bent down to Keitaro's prone body.

"Hiyas Keitaro! Does Keitaro want to play with Su-chan?" Kaolla's face was mere inches away from Keitaro's face.

"Not now Su-chan," said Keitaro with a hint of pain in his voice, "I have to tell the others that breakfast is ready."

"Okiees!" Kaolla stood up and giggled at Keitaro's weakened state. She put on an over-exaggerated thinking pose. "Hey, Keitaro, did you say that breakfast was ready?"

Keitaro weakly nodded while trying to get up off the floor.

Kaolla rushed out of the hallway and yelled "YAAAY!" all the way down to the kitchen.

'At least Shinobu will have an early warning, unlike me.'

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Keitaro kept walking down the seemingly endless hallways and rice paper screens of Hinata Sou until he reached Naru's door.

And for some reason that will probably be never explained, he reached out and opened the door without even thinking.

"Naru, breakfast is-"

As expected, Narusegawa was in the middle of changing her clothes when Keitaro opened the door.

The offended woman screamed, "HENTAI NO BAKA!" and gave a Naru punch, but aimed downwards.

When Naru punches Keitaro, it is usually somewhat of an uppercut and sends Keitaro skyward, but now her aim was a bit off and now Keitaro is flying through walls and is bound to be even more hurt than falling onto the ground after being sent into the air.

Keitaro could only say, "Ow, ow, ow, ouch, ow!" as he sailed through the walls. But once he looked at his current trajectory, which he got very good at when in the sky and trying to locate his landing position, he became frantic and started thinking furiously.

'Oh no, oh no, oh no. Please no, don't have me crash in there. Kami-sama, please!'

And with the luck of a 3-time ronin, he crashed through another wall and bumped into Motoko, who happened to be changing out of her practice clothes at the time.

They started at each other for a few seconds, then Keitaro started to bleed profusely from the nose.

Motoko then grabbed her sword and yelled, "Male scum, DIE! ROCK SPLITTING SWORD!

The former ronin yelled, "Noooooo!" All of it in vain when Motoko dueled out a powerful ki blast that knocked him through the floor, into the kitchen table, and he finally stopped when he smashed into the tile wall where he was cut a few times from the broken tile and wood splinters.

And with all the worst luck in the world, it just happened that Naru just got down to the kitchen at that very moment.

"Look what you did to Shinobu!" shouted Naru, pointing to a small cut on Shinobu's hand that was made from the table splintering into little pieces of wood.

Shinobu could only protest in vain while Naru advanced onto Keitaro's weakened state. Su was in the refridgerator trying to find some bananas that she could eat.

Naru pulled back her fist, and then hit Keitaro into another wall, causing the aged wood to collapse above him and create quite a dust cloud.

Motoko had finally come down the stairs to see what was happening, while Shinobu was too stunned to say anything, and Su was still trying to find some bananas in the now dust-covered kitchen with a collapsed wall. Naru walked over to the rubble to give her final blow, but it never came, she was too shocked from the sight that came to her.

The abused and hurt man, rose up from the rubble, with a severly torn shirt and some cuts on his arms and a prominent cut on his cheek that was dripping with blood, stood up and slowly turned around.

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And Chapter One is finished!

For all of you people who don't know already, this is a Love Hina, Ichigo 100 crossover. I'm only using one character from Ichigo 100 actively (Nishino Tsukasa) and there will be a part that talks about how Manaka dies (in this fanfic).

Please review, constructive and helpful flames are accepted.