Well finally finished chapter 2 of this fic.
I've had it almost ready for about 3 weeks but delayed sending it to my beta's because I wasn't really happy with how it was written
(and still am uncertain if I like it myself or not)

Me no own Love Hina or Final Fantasy 8, me also no own the mystery guest at the ending (can't tell who it is or what she's based on because it would give away too much for the rest of the fic).
But mesa do own the Umata family

Together they walked up the stairs to the inn..
"Could you wait for me out here? I'll call the girls and tell them you have arrived.."
"Nanra.."
Taking that as a yes, Haruka walked inside and started shouting:
"Get down here, the new manager is here."
She was answered with various calls of agreement and a short time later they were all gathered in the living room.
"Where is he, Haruka-san?" Naru asked still not being comfortable with a man as manager.
"I'll get him, he's waiting outside." Haruka replied.
When she and Keitaro got inside Motoko instantly reacted and advanced to Keitaro with her sword drawn.
"Demon!." she yelled and brought her sword down on him.
He easily dodged the first two strikes and when she struck for the third time he simply sidestepped her and elbowed her hard in the back of her head.
Motoko went crashing into the wall and slumped to the ground unconscious.
"You pervert!" Naru shrieked but fell silent when his gaze fell upon her.
The other girls were shocked to see Motoko beaten so easily and stood motionless.
Haruka decided to let matters not run out of hand and swiftly regained control.
"Keitaro, your room is Grannies former room. You can put your stuff there."
Keitaro nodded and left the room without even looking at the other girls.

Haruka walked to the kitchen and brought back a wet wash cloth to help Motoko.The girls had put her on the couch.
After several minutes she woke up.
"Why did you do that?" Haruka immediately asked.
"He's a demon." Motoko replied, still a bit shaken from his attack.
And of course Naru instantly agreed. "He is, he attacked Motoko."
"No he's not. He's just as normal as you and me. And Motoko attacked him." Haruka shot back.
"But his Ki is dark so he must be evil." Motoko almost sounded as if she was pleading.
"He's not evil, do you honestly think me or granny would bring him here if he's evil?
"No, but he's a male he must be evil and perverted." Naru tried to make Haruka see it in her or Motoko's way.
"He's also my nephew and Granny made him manager and it's her dorm so live with it." Haruka got a bit angrier at the stubborn girl.
She then looked at the other girls "Are you okay?"
They all nodded and Haruka continued "I'm going to go talk to him, behave yourselves."

When she had left the rooms the girls all huddled together.
"We have to do something." Naru started. "We don't want him here."
"I agree, I won't allow a perverted man in the dorm." Motoko added
"He looked kinda cute, maybe I can loosen him up a bit and have some fun." Kitsune added with a sly wink.
"You wouldn't!." Motoko almost screamed "He's evil!"
"Lighten up I was only kidding." but the others saw in Kitsune's eyes she would definitely give it a try.
"You guys shouldn't say such things, we only saw him for a few minutes." Shinobu timidly added.
"I wanna play with him, He looks strong." Su added in her usual tone before going off to chase something around the room.
Motoko and Naru ignored the other girls and went scheming to get Keitaro kicked out as fast as possible.

Meanwhile Haruka made her way to the kanririn's room.
She knocked and waited for a reply which didn't come.
After a few minutes of waiting she tentatively opened the door and walked in a bit afraid of what she might see.
He was sitting on the floor and staring at a couple of pictures before him.
When she was getting closer, he quickly scooped the pictures up and put them in his bag.
He then faced Haruka with his emotionless mask back on.
Haruka was looking a bit puzzled at him. She could have sworn she saw a flicker of sadness on his face before he turned to her.
"Sorry about Motoko" She tried to apologize.
He didn't answer.
"She has some problems with men."
"People do it all the time." He shrugged while he said that.
She was startled for a bit, not exactly anticipating a reply and she tried to steer the conversation elsewhere after a few seconds:
"Should I send the girls up here one by one so you can get to know them?"
"No need to."
"Why not?"
"I'll meet them later. Now I want to be alone: It's been a long trip."
"If that's what you want." Haruka took the hint and she left the room silently.

Keitaro picked out the photo's again and stared at them
One has a beautiful young girl of about seventeen on it she had long raven-black hair and was wearing a black Gi.
She stared with some sadness in the lens and he knew exactly why.
He had left her all alone with their parents and his mind kept playing the departing scene where she hugged him and refused to let go.
Until finally their mom pried her of him allowing him to leave and never come back.
He hadn't seen or spoken his little sister or their parents for over three years now.
The only reason he got the picture was because Granny Hina send it to him a while back
"How come she keeps finding me wherever I am?." He briefly wondered before switching his attention to the next photo

This one showed another beautiful girl of around fifteen with long brown hair and hazel coloured eyes.
She was wearing a nice yellow summer dress and a yellow hair band.
This photo was definitely made earlier because it wasn't in prime condition any more.
He could still remember the day the photo was taken clearly: They went out together and had their pictures taken on a street fair.
Two of him and Mariko together and two of them alone.
Two weeks later she died.
He put one photo of the two of them together on her chest and she was buried with it and he gave the other one to Yumiko.
He didn't know what happened to his own picture maybe her grandma still had it, but he couldn't care less.
One silvery tear dropped from his eye onto the glass frame and he wiped it away and focussed on the last picture.

The last one depicted a small girl of about nine years old., she was the spitting image of her older sister, except for her blue eyes.
He smiled a bit, he may have a very harsh exterior but his one and only weakness nowadays was Yumiko.
That was exactly the reason why he didn't take her with him travelling even tough she begged him every time he came by.
She finally gave up and was content with living with her grandmother.
A little girl would have made a perfect target for his enemies.
And even though she wasn't with him his life was clearly influenced by her.
Heck if she wouldn't have been in his life, he would have never have taken the job but just continued his wandering life taking down as many enemies as possible and eventually he would die.
Normally he wouldn't care any more but Hina's words struck a chord deep inside him.
Maybe it was time to settle down and take care of her.
A large part of him still wanted to die but the small part of him that wanted to live grew bigger when he thought of her.
After reminiscing for a while he put the pictures back in his bag and began meditating on the floor.

Haruka returned downstairs and found Motoko and Naru talking to each other in the corner while the others where doing their normal activities.
"You're not up to something are you, Naru?"
To which Naru replied with a fake smile. "Me? Of course not."
Haruka gruffed but didn't respond any further.
"He's up in his room and wants to be left alone, so don't bother him."
She lit a cigarette and left the Sou without saying anything more.
Kitsune, Su and Shinobu went to their rooms and Naru and Motoko kept on trying to figure out how to get him away from the sou.
They finally came up with a plan and Motoko left to make a phone call.
Naru smiled genuinely for a moment thinking: "We'll get rid of him in the morning."

Several hours later Keitaro suddenly snapped out his meditation, his muscles where aching from sitting to long and he stretched them a bit before glancing at the clock.It was almost midnight and a little surprised Keitaro walked to his window and looked outside.
He softly whispered "A beautiful night, she would have loved it." into the night and for a moment his mask seemed to crack, but he found control of himself before it totally disappeared.
With so much on his mind he decided he couldn't sleep anyway and decided to train.
He grabbed the Hina blade from his bag and unlocked his window, jumping out in a fluent motion and landing with a slight thud and headed into the woods.
At a small clearing he found enough room to practise and drew the Hina blade.
After a short struggle with it he gained control and started slashing in the air.

Meanwhile Naru who couldn't sleep with Keitaro in the room below her and when she heard him open his window, She got very suspicious and quickly went to her window .
She was just in time to see him head into the woods.
She quickly dressed and ran after him into the woods.
After walking around for a while she heard him slashing into the air and quietly walked towards the clearing where Keitaro was practising.
She hid behind a bush and watched in awe as she saw him repeatedly make slashing moves.
After about an hour he stopped and glanced towards her direction.
She held her breath and hoped he wouldn't find her.

After a hour of exercising he stopped.
Keitaro felt a disturbance earlier in training and used his Ki to scout the area around him. and quickly spotted a girl nearby, hidden behind a bush.
He was a bit annoyed somebody had followed him but decided she wasn't worth the trouble.
He suddenly felt his Gi cling to his body and noticed he was getting sweaty.
Without giving the girl another though Keitaro removed his Gi and thus revealed his scarred chest, a necklace and a pair of black pants.
Keitaro then continued his training at an even more intense pace and pushed himself towards his limits but not over them.
He knew what would happen if he lost control of the Hina Blade while training:
It almost happened once and he almost killed a friend before he regained mastership over the sword.

Naru released her breath slightly after he looked away.
She was certain he would have spotted her.
And to her surprise he started to take his Gi off.
She almost went into pervert hitting mode but stopped when she saw he had pants underneath it.
And when he had removed his Gi, she could barely keep a gasp in when she saw his chest glistering in the moonlight.
Not only because of his well built proportions, but also because of the alarming amount of scars he had.
She thought to herself: "Haruka must have been right about his troublesome life."
He also seemed to train even harder now.
Naru wasn't an expert on martial arts, but she knew Motoko couldn't do this amount of training for this long.

After another hour of training he sheeted the Hina Blade and grabbed his Gi from the ground
He stood still for a second and glancing in her direction again, he jumped towards the nearest tree and to Naru's amazement he seemed to leap from trunk to trunk and quickly disappeared from her sight.
She shook out of her daze and decided she didn't want to follow him and went back to the Hinata Sou to wait for Keitaro to come back
But after an hour she couldn't stay awake any more and dozed off in her futon.

Keitaro sped off till he finally arrived at a small stream.
He washed up a little bit and sat on his knees and began praying like he always did after training.
And as usual the prayer wasn't a very happy one.
It was a prayer for the safety of Yumiko and Kanako but he also prayed he could join Mariko in death.
But he couldn't get Yumiko out of his head: It was like a little voice saying to him: "Don't die, we need you."
He prayed for quite a while before standing up and he decided that with one last sprint to the Hinata Sou his training for tonight was complete and he quickly rushed off.
Unnoticed by him a small girl had seen him and was sadly shaking her head.
"It's not your time yet, Kei-Kun." She sighed loudly "But your suffering will end soon" and then she disappeared into the night again

I'm working on the next chapter at this moment and also on the next chapter of Loving Onii-san. I hope I can get them out out a little sooner
As always r and r :)