Chapter 9

Valentine's Day Madness! A Broken Heart with a Name Inside

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February 13th, 1999

|Nighttime, Near the Path to the Hinata-sou|

It was nippy in the city. Naru and Keitaro had finished their run at the Sasaki Preparatory School and had returned home.

"Darn," Keitaro interjected, "This exam test didn't go so well..."

"With your kind of effort, those results are already kind of a miracle, don't they?" Naru sarcastically questioned, "But you know, tomorrow is February 14th. Got to work harder."

February 14th... Something about that particular date makes the landlord ronin flinch for some reason. He tries to hide his reasons in front of Naru.

-LNH-

For a rather unattractive guy such as Keitaro, that day had to be the worst.

However, that's not quite true. The only Valentine's day gift that he got is from his stepsister Kanako. At first, she gave to him and Ruto were giri-choco for casual reasons, but since 2 years ago and onward, Kanako started to give the boys Honmei-choco and she is becoming more and more fond of the older brother for some forbidden reasons that are yet to be explained.

And Ruto, he somehow got some chocolates from Kaolla and Shinobu, along with other girls from his class. On White Day (March 14), he generously gave them a white form of object in return; whether it's personally made marbled fudge, white chocolate bonbons, or whatever it was. Gad! Keitaro is soooo~ envious, he wishes that he should have done this when he was younger.

But right now, these odd feelings will have to be cast aside as Keitaro secretly goes to the kitchen late at night. He's in his chef's attire as he prepares a confectionery that is sure to please... himself.

"Who's the idiot that invented Valentine's Day and White Day in the first place?" the loser asked himself as he gathered the necessary ingredients and prepared them. After a few hours, Keitaro's chocolate cake made with 100 ingredients (which is a bit of an exaggeration) is finally done. "Girls can't match this kind of chocolate!" he proudly said to himself, "Hohoho! Because I never received any chocolates from my old schools, I had to make my own chocolates instead, every year. My skill can easily match any real confectionery chef! We'll see who is the idiot this time!"

(FYI, Keitaro's the idiot with that habitual idea.)

And Keitaro trotted along the hallway, he didn't notice that his brother was hiding in the shadows the whole time; he was thinking of a good gift for the girls next month. However, he slaps his own face in exasperation from witnessing the crazy idea from his idiotic brother. "Aniki, that part should have been saved for White Day, 'ttébayo..."

-LNH-

|The next morning|

Naru is in the dining room, doing her studies when she sees Shinobu in the kitchen making something peculiar. So when she asked her roommate what she's been doing. But Shinobu lost her mojo for a second and dropped her bowl of melted chocolate and Naru managed to catch it in time.

"Thanks, Naru-senpai," Shinobu said with a blush.

Naru got curious and questioned, "What's this? Chocolate?"

"Oh... To-today is Valentine's Day... I want... eto... It's exam time for Keitaro-senpai and for Ruto-kun already... I want to cheer them up."

"Oh! For Ruto-kun and the idiot?" the Narusegawa guessed and the blood-red blushing from Shinobu told her, "I forgot all about that." Naru was wondering how Ruto and the idiotic landlord will fare on getting chocolate, (Keitaro would most likely end up not getting any form of chocolates). As she was preparing tea from the thermal heater, Shinobu asked an awkward question, "Naru-senpai, are you going to give Keitaro-senpai chocolates?"

Naru facefaulted badly on the table. "Now why on earth would I do that?" she exclaimed from accidentally spilling the hot water.

"Be...because... You and Keitaro-senpai were always together," Shinobu kindly pointed out the reason

"Shinobu-chan! It's not like that! I'm just studying with him. This had nothing to do with this. Why should I give him chocolates!?"

"Is that so? It would be nice."

(Naru)» "?"

"You have your kind of charms with Senpai and Ruto-kun likes me the way that I am... Oh! No, no, no, no, no! What am I saying‽" (Shinobu is flustered from being lost in thought.)

(Naru)» "Hey, calm down, Shinobu-chan!"

After the roommates relaxed themselves from the excitement, Naru then said, "I understand. I know that I can't cook that well, so I can't help with that. So, more power to you."

"Thanks, Naru-senpai," Shinobu cheerfully replied.

Naru couldn't understand why the dormmates like the birdbrained landlord. At least, Shinobu is really trying her best for the boys. Come to think of it, she's always been busy studying for the past 2 years. She never thought about Valentine's day for some reason... But then, she gasped as she realized that she has 10 days left until the real exams begin.

Work, work, work... Sometimes taking the University Exam is more trouble than it's worth...

(Meanwhile, Ruto was given 'supplementary training' from his supervisor. He told the neighbors that he won't be able to return until sunset, to which the latter are dismayed that their friend had to go away for a while.)

-LNH-

|Later into the night|

Keitaro returned from the streetcar and walked back to the Hinata-sou. He's jealous of "What're-their-faces" showing off their chocolates and somehow, they fell for that beautifully crafted lie: hook, line... and stinker. That's how the asinine landlord got them off his case... But right now, Keitaro wants to have a taste of the real homemade chocolates from his tenants instead of eating his chocoholic creation.

Shinobu saw Keitaro coming towards the front entrance and she looked at her finished chocolate boxes (one for Keitaro and the other for Ruto) and her nerves were jittering for her landlord-senpai as the entrance exams approached. Maybe he'll work hard after this. So she is determined to do her best as she tries to approach Keitaro... If it weren't for her neighbors' impeccable timing, that is...

-LNH-

Ruto had just returned later than usual from the long session with his kendo club's supervisor along with a stint of babysitting her baby boy. (They get along rather well, despite changing diapers and witnessing 'motherly love'.) He could use a nice hot bath after the effort, sweat, and a bit of a terrible 'odor' from all the hard work.

As he declared his return, Ruto heard a crash from the 2nd floor halls and then heard crying noises. He quickly removes his shoes and shunshins to the unsuspecting Naru and Keitaro and asked them, "I just got back from the club and here you are holding a genuine fake, Aniki!"

Ruto grabs both sides of his brother's face like an angry panther holding a sloth bear's cheeks and sternly growls, "Now, what happened? Where's Shinobu-chan, 'ttébayo?"

-LNH-

|Hinata-sou Roof Access|

Shinobu is crying at the edge of the roof, holding her 2 boxes of chocolates that she made; her poor heart is hopelessly crushed once again. She sees Keitaro's chocolate cake, thinking that a girl gave it to him and she must be a better confectioner than her. Not to mention Ruto is late from his appointment. She was about to make a vow to never make homemade chocolates again... That is, until Ruto whispered in her ear, "Don't cry, Shinobu-chan." And a gentle hand helped move her away from the ledge. Then, she let her sorrow out onto Ruto's chest and he comforted her.

"It's all right, I'm here," Ruto said, "I was a bit held up by Sensei. Tell me, did Aniki do something foolish again?"

"Y...yes," Shinobu answered with tear-stained eyes, "The girls gave him their chocolates and then just as I was giving him mine, he has a big chocolate cake that a girl makes and I can't even match her quality... And I... *sniffle* *sobs!*"

No doubt about it, Keitaro just had to break Shinobu's little heart again. And just as he was about to explain, Keitaro and Naru were telling the younger residents to come down from the rooftop. But then the other residents came along, asking what the fuss was about.

(Unfortunately, if Keitaro 'fessed up, he'll be more humiliated than he already is...)

Shinobu yelled, "Go away! Please... *sniff!*"

But then, a sudden gust flaunts Shinobu's skirt and leggings, and while she tries to hide her modesty, she almost tripped in her slippers... almost. Ruto swapped places and he became a human cushion as he caught the falling girlfriend. In the aftermath, their lips met and Ruto quickly grabbed the dropped chocolates with great timing. They wanted it to make the moment last a little bit longer, but there were people present.

(All of this happened in a brief 5 seconds.)

After the butterfly engagement, both 13 year-old residents said sorry to each other at the same time. "Shinobu-chan," Ruto said as he wiped the sweat off his brow, "We were afraid that you were doing something... dangerous. That's what it was. So don't ever do that again, please?"

"I promise, Ruto-kun," Shinobu replied as she stopped crying.

"Shinobu-chan, that chocolate is..." Keitaro began to explain, "That chocolate is something I cooked up to show off to the other guys! I made it myself!"

Ruto commented, "Like I said, dattébayo, Aniki made a genuine fake, since he hadn't had a gift from his female classmates."

The other residents laughed at the landlord's idiotic ideas.

("Just as I was expecting,😭" the loser resignedly said to himself.)

Then Shinobu blushingly said after she retrieved one of the boxes, "Keitaro-senpai, It was kinda my fault for putting you through this incident... Please accept this chocolate and good luck on your exams, Senpai." She gave her box of honmei-choco to Keitaro and he thanked her.

"What about this one, Shinobu-chan?" Ruto asked while holding the other box.

"This box is yours, Ruto-kun. Please accept it," Shinobu answered.

"Thanks, Shinobu-chan," Ruto said and he hugged her endearingly. The meek girl felt a whole lot better as she mended the pieces of her already broken heart.

When Keitaro opened the chocolate box, it was a honmei-choco saying «Tōdai Gōkaku» (Success (for) Tōdai), but it was broken in two from the falling incident.

"Waah~! I'm so sorry! What should I do‽" Shinobu panicked from seeing her project for her hope of giving good luck to her senpai.

Kitsuné sweatdropped as she tried to calm Shinobu, "Don't worry, it's okay! It's all the same after it's been eaten."

"See? It still tastes great, Shinobu-chan!" Keitaro said after eating the broken chocolate.

Shinobu finally calmed down and said, "Exam Prep must be really hard and there's only 10 days left... So please, Senpai, try your best."

Then she turned to Ruto's chocolate, worrying that his chocolate would get broken, too. But when it opened... Thank goodness, the heart-shaped honmei-choco was still intact. It read, «Koi» (a form of the word, [love]) and he accepted it.

Kitsuné then gave Naruto a 10 yen chocolate (because she's not the woman to be in the kitchen), Motoko gave him a bag of cocoa powder (for she has no clue about chocolates or how to make them), Kaolla... Well, let's just say that she has her unique tastes as she gave Ruto a bar of [coconut curry milk chocolate with sea salt] that she learned to make online (she gave a bar to Keitaro earlier, even though it's a bit on the spicy side), Naru then gave Ruto her gift-wrapped chocolate (the do-it-yourself variety) as she retires in the landlord's room and have briefing with the aggravating Keitaro. But before she left, Ruto asked Naru if he could use the outdoor onsen. He admits that he does have a pungent odor from hanging around at the kendo club.

-LNH-

|Outdoor Onsen|

Ruto had his set of clean night clothes in a basket and removed his dirty garments in a different basket. And he showers himself to remove the work and sweat that he had done, along with baby-sitting his sensei's kid. At least, Shinobu didn't smell the odors on his shirt after all the crying had happened.

As he puts a folded towel on his head and slowly sinks into the hot water, he reflects on how this special day almost turned into a huge disaster. Not to mention that Shinobu had put her heart and soul into making the chocolates. ::At least Aniki is grateful for Shinobu-chan's chocolate, despite having a case of bad luck,:: Ruto thought to himself as he reclines in the hot water and stretches his arms, he looks at somebody from the mist and it revealed to be Shinobu in her all-nude fashion.

(She had recently noticed from her full-bodied mirror that she is slowly, but surely becoming a woman, hence the slight change in her breasts and the sight of hair covering her womanhood. Shinobu wanted to show off her looks to Ruto, because she trusted her best friend without any need for caution.)

"Is...is it alright if I can sit here, Ruto-kun?" Shinobu nervously asked.

Ruto nearly lost his balance when he saw his girlfriend's naked glory, but then he blushingly consented.

After a few moments of awkward looking at each other's eyes (and bodies), Ruto broke into the conversation, "About what happened, Shinobu-chan, I'm sorry for kissing you like that, 'ttébayo. It's just that ever since we used to come to this place as an inn, I never knew that you or any girl would like me because of my looks, my verbal tic: 'dattébayo', or my honesty."

"Yes," Shinobu agreed, "I wasn't sure if I could live my life being shy and introverted. But ever since you saved me from a bad fall from the inn all those years ago, I felt that there's more to you than just being an Urashima." She clasped her hands with his and looked into his blue eyes and said, "And now, I never felt so happy spending my entire life being with you."

"Thank you, Shinobu-chan," Ruto gladly said, "And you know, your chocolate is delicious, I just couldn't eat it all in one setting. The other girls' chocolates are good, too. Especially Kaolla-chan's, I mean, *whoo!*, hers was super spicy."

Shinobu can see the effects of the curry chocolate on Ruto's lips and she giggled from the comedic effect. And then, both lovers start laughing at each other about what happened throughout the day. Then they looked into the moonlight for this rather romantic setting, but then Ruto whispered into Shinobu's ear and said that they were 'snoopers'. She nodded and the former said, "Why do you two come and join us? There's a wonderful moon out tonight."

"Aw, shucks!" the voice belonging to Kaolla said.

"How did you know that we were here, Ruto-kun?" the other voice belonging to Motoko asked.

"Elementary, my fine neighbors," Ruto explained, "You just can't contain the excitement from the dressing room. Besides, have you forgotten about my special senses?"

The two girls then reluctantly joined Ruto and Shinobu as they enjoyed watching the moonlight that reflected onto the onsen.

(We'll just let them have their moments in private as we go ahead and end the episode.)

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To be continued…-»


Extra Story

A Day in the School Life 1

[The day after Valentine's Day]

School in the Co-ed Konoha Academy was pleasant at times. Sometimes, it can get a little rough, due to the unwanted trouble brewing inside its doors. The school had decided to delay their Valentine's Day event until today, since it fell on a Sunday. This gives plenty of time for the girls to prepare their sweets for that extension.

Some sweets from the female students were either personally given to their beaus or close friends and some were secretly hidden in the selected friend's shoe locker.

Of course…, there are cases of the 'cuckoo chick' throwing their unrequited's stowed chocolate from other girls' wrappings by either eating them or being tossed in the rather empty rubbish bin. However, there are a few 'hawks' who managed to swipe the unsoiled wrappings and have the replacements to themselves and returned the originals back to where they were.

But let's go see what's happening with class 1-3 before we go to the gym.

-LNH-

There are some students from the neighboring class of 1-1 that don't seem to like Ruto Urashima with a passion. Everyone that is, except Sakura Haruno, who was Shinobu's good friend before she moved away to another neighboring part of town until they reconnected after the last summer vacation.

Besides Sakura, they were Karin Uzumaki, Kiba Inuzuka, Suigetsu Hozuki, Juugo Tenjuin, Hibachi Daimon and the bastard himself, Sasuke Uchiha; as well as their head teacher: Kakashi Hatake (wearing a dust mask all the time, due to his troubles with *ah-choo!* allergies).

Earlier, before the start of the next class, Sasuke crossed Ruto's path and said, "Well, if it isn't 'Yurashima'!"

"Hey, 'Uchiwa'-témé," Ruto countered with the mispronunciation, "I was worried about how you managed to get out of the hospital bed with the case of overwork from getting away from too many girls."

"Shut up, stupid!" the duck-tailed teme exclaimed, "You who I am‽ I'm an - -"

"Yeah, yeah. You're an elitist. Gamu gamu gamu and all that jazz. Why don't you just shut up and do me a favor and never bother me again. I don't have time for your bullcrap and the bell is going to ring for the next class. So get lost, or your record will really begin to show in public."

"Very well, stupid. I'll bide my time, but I'll get you and your little pretties soon enough. I assure you."

And both sides went on their way, knowing that the trouble was beginning to boil.

-LNH-

|Current time|

Class 1-3 students were doing some warm-ups and light exercises as Guy-sensei and Anko-sensei were watching them as they did their stretches together. When Guy saw Ruto and Shinobu working together, he said to his colleague in a rather loud, expressive manner, "Ah, the visualization of youth! I see that there seems to be some students that are helping each other like they are a charming couple!"

"For once, Guy-sensei, I agree with you," Anko said with a dango stick in her mouth, "Those two 'brats' must have worked together like they have gone through thick and thin."

Guy then turns to his students and declares with a friendly grin, "Alright, everybody! Let's give ourselves 110%, show our youth, and burn some muscle!"

"Hai!" Ruto and the other students determinedly obliged.

And then the students of both genders prepared for their daily workouts.

-LNH-

|Over an hour of tort- - err... training later|

After a good workout, the students are entering the classroom 1-3 before PAIN-sensei and his intern are back on the desk and see Shinobu and the girls changing out of their uniforms, but Ruto came shouting, "All menfolk leave the room, NOW!" And he forces the male students to vacate the room until the girls are done and they take turns changing.

In the midst of changing, one of the girls, Ino Yamanaka (Class Representative of 1-3) was asking Shinobu about her sharing her chocolates with some people and about a boyfriend.

Shinobu stammered and said that she has friends back at her dormitory that are very dear to her.

Then Ino said about some rumors that her dormitory has men living there, despite being segregatively female and she wants an explanation. Just as Shinobu and the female were fully dressed and was about to loosen her tongue until Ruto knocked on the door and asked, "Are you all set, ladies?"

"Yeah," Shinobu answered.

"Okay, all ladies, amscray! Unless you want to see our manliness," Ruto said as the men dressed themselves out of the gym clothes while the girls were kindly asked to be outside in the halls, much to their chagrin. Later, Ruto then gave the signal to let them back in before PAIN-sensei and Konan-sensei arrived. (It's routine for this to happen.)

-LNH-

|After school and a kendo section|

Ruto was looking for Shinobu and Kaolla before they returned home, but something's amiss. It's too quiet until he hears a scream coming from the shed near the track & field. So he quickly shunshins near the trees to scout the location before setting things in motion.

A group of 6 qualmless thugs had kidnapped some of the girls and tied them up near the shed. Sakura Haruno, Shinobu, Ino, and a few other girls were among those being unlawfully captured. (Kaolla managed to escape.) Then the thugs started removing the girl's articles of clothing and chatted among themselves about what to do to which damsel and why their boss is getting desperate on finding Naruto Uzumaki like he's the key to a treasure trove or something, but the head of the group told them shut up before anybody hears them.

But what they didn't realize was that Shinobu was wearing a hidden microphone that Ruto and Kaolla put together; it's so small, wireless, and acoustically sensitive, it was hotwired and broadcasted through the receiver, recording everything that they heard.

Then, just as they try to get to Sakura and her unborn child, Ruto is on the roof of the shed, disguising himself as the dubbed 'Masked Ninja' (Spanish orange and black ninja garb that blends into the sunset, and a mask similar to Racer X to hide his blond hair and most of his face) carefully planning when to strike... Now!

Ruto sets up a group of Shadow Clones to ambush the unsuspecting thugs and rescue the hostages. One enemy was left with a burn mark of a footprint on his cheek as one double pulled a successful Falcon Kick (F-Zero's Captain Falcon's move).

Enemy number 2 swings his baseball bat at another double, but is taken by surprise with a rushing Spark Finger (based on Brocken's move from World Heroes with a G Gundam twist) that leaves him utterly shocked with electricity.

Thuggee number 3 tried to charge at the double like a raving wolf, but then Ruto's double countered with a Kamehameha blast (borrowed from the Dragon Ball series), just enough to non-fatally put him away.

(The powerful Ki technique that he learned can be deadly against people if one doesn't learn self-control. Thankfully, it didn't, so it won't affect Ruto's conscience.)

The fourth thug, who is a bigger person, tried to cross-chop at a different double, only to be hit with a well-timed body blow and followed with a Shōryuken (Ryu and Ken's move from Street Fighter) on the chin, knocking the big brute out.

The 5th foe turned out to be a woman who somehow willingly surrendered without much conflict.

The last enemy then shows his face to reveal that it was Sasuke Uchiha, as the ringleader, who says to Ruto, "Why, you m***********! How dare you muscle in on my racket! You've ruined my chances to restore my family's bloodline and you are responsible for my family's murder!"

"No!" Ruto in the mask said and pointed his finger at the crooked student, "It's 'how dare YOU' harm our school's brightest students' futures! And you're pointing the blame on the wrong person. I know about your mother clinging to life and your father being killed by the shrapnel, along with the rest of him by an explosive blast. She was close to my friend as if she's family to him. But you know, I have friends that tell me not to lose my temper, and I tried... Really, I tried... But when I see those beautiful young students so degraded... And when my fellow classmates are going to think in the number of years they have to carry in their memories of the savagery of this... idiotic moment of yours..."

In the middle of the diatribe, Sasuke reached for his high-voltage taser (the close quarters variety) and slowly began to charge at the masked Ninja as he said, "...I just go ber-SERK!" And begins the swing of the masked ninja's back hand...

(We're skipping the brutality of the scene to where after all the violence is over.)

Sasuke was beaten up by the captives that were released as his humiliating punishment. Shinobu and Kaolla were told to meet at the kendo club entrance and Ruto-san will meet over there. He also said to play along. The fully dressed Kaolla and Shinobu willingly agreed to the masked ninja's request.

Then the masked ninja revealed the faces under the ski masks and revealed to be:

1) Hibachi Daimon (Class 1-1, a delinquent student and first time loser. His dad (a salaryman) has also been given an earful from the authorities for his ignorance and the reminder of his son's foot-shaped burn. His grades are really in the lowest tier in the whole 1st Year group from all the cheating and sabotaging of others' tests. RETIRE)

2) Suigetsu Hozuki (Class 1-1, Juugo's friend. Has scorch marks and singed hair from the electricity. His adopted parents (Water Management Workers) are disappointed for him to be hanging around with the wrong crowd. Grades are in the below average tier. RETIRE)

3) Kiba Inuzuka (Class 1-1, Son of the Inuzuka Pet Shoppe owner. His mother and older sister (a veterinarian) disciplined him for his humiliation and forced him to take frequent baths for hygienic issues. Grades are near the lowest in the tier. RETIRE)

4) Juugo Tenjuin (Class 1-1, Friend of Suigetsu) lives with his adopted parents who run a woodcutting business. They are angry at their son for deliberately disobeying his parents' warnings the same way as Suigetsu's. Grades are above average. RETIRE)

5) Karin Uzumaki (Class 1-1, Friend of Suigetsu and Juugo, PAIN's baby sister; and ironically, Ruto's aunt (older than him by less than 4 months). Even if her punishment is the lightest, that doesn't mean that her older brother isn't letting her off the hook so easily. Her grades are in the high tier.)

And then there's the "Oh! Sweet Lovin' Sasuke Uchiha" as Ruto said to the bastard, "Mikoto-sensei was like an aunt to me and then she died in my arms as I grieved for their deaths..."

-Explanation-

What really happened was that on a tragic day on the first days of summer vacation, a few years ago, Ruto was invited to dinner at the Uchihas' house since Mikoto (35) was his former teacher. (Itachi and Sasuke were having to do some errands away from the house.) But then, just as they were about to have curry for dinner, Mikoto protected Ruto from a pipe bomb that killed her husband Fugaku (Chief of Detectives, 40) and she defended the boy from the blast. As Mikoto lies there on the ground in the broken house, dying, the sudden horror triggers the awakening of his Hagun (Alkaid) powers. And then he fainted from its surge of energy, just as the emergency crew arrived.

(Itachi tried his best to take care of his foolish little brother after the incident occured, despite being 15. But it seems that Sasuke has a bad rebellious streak, even though his parents tried their hardest for him to behave.)

Later, the injured Ruto is in his hospital bed recovering from the burns, shrapnel, and having a blood transfusion from the late Motoko's body (for she was a documented donor and is the same blood type and polarity as his) when an acquaintance of his biological mother named Tsuruko Aoyama who came by and with his parents' permission, decided to go to Kyoto for the summer to help ease the pain of the loss of his 'teacher/aunt-figure'.

From then on, the innocent and carefree life of Ruto Urashima will never be the same again.

(And whenever he has spicy curry for his meals, the heat of the seasonings reminds him to move along as he handles the burn.)

-End Explanation-

"Mikoto-sensei's last words are 'Protect your family and your virtues and then your efforts will be worthwhile. And beware of Danzo Shimura'."

But Sasuke's in nowhere-land and probably is still fixated on revenge on the Masked Ninja. Then the disguised Ruto heard the sounds of the sirens going off and he used the Nirvana Temple Art to knock all bystanders out safely as they saw feathers. Then the ninja made good his escape along with Su and Shinobu before switching to his civilian clothes.

(We won't be seeing the last of the rebellious Uchiha, yet…)

-LNH-

Head Principal Sarutobi witnessed most of the incident as he was leaving the school and he called the Police. Immediately, Sgt. Ibiki Morino (29) of the Hinata City Police Dept. was the first to arrive and called the investigators to check the crime scene as the 3 Musketeers returned to the crime scene and gave the officer their statements.

Then they returned home and life in the Hinata-sou still brings the students peace of mind.

-LNH-

|Back at the electoral offices|

"Blast that meddling brat!" Danzo grumbled through his stogie, "I don't know how he managed to capture Sasuke, but I know he's that Naruto Uzumaki that slipped through my fingers! *Fuming smoke!* That scurvy little shit has messed with me for the last time!"

He buzzed at the intercom and said, "Prepare the [ROOT FOUNDATION]! We're going to get Naruto Uzumaki by using the election board come April! Now, get moving!"


Omaké

The Results of the School Trials

On February 16th, a hearing was held for the 6 people responsible for the kidnapping of the female students of Year 7 classrooms, at Konoha Junior High. Here's what as follows:

The suspects, Suigetsu Hozuki, Kiba Inuzuka, and Juugo Tenjuin were reprimanded to the school board and are to serve the amount of hours of community service to society and will have to be held back a grade for their crimes.

Hibachi Daimon was forcibly kicked out of the school program for his involvement and for making scenes of unwanted disruptions. The psychiatrists proved the subject to be sane as he intentionally caused trouble for his class, the other students, and the school despite not heeding the reprimanding from the teachers and principal.

The suspect, Karin Uzumaki, pled guilty to the charges and was given 20 hours of community service. She also was reprimanded to her older brother to serve out her punishment. She won't be held back a grade.

The suspect, Sasuke Uchiha, was evaluated by 2 psychiatrists and found to be sane at the time of the kidnappings. He was placed in a Youth Facility for Juvenile Offenders for a time until he's 20. The custody with Danzo Shimura has been revoked.

The suspects, except Sasuke Uchiha, gave up their associated clients, Orochimaru and Danzo, as the conspirators for the promise of their desired wishes and Sasuke as a fence for their embezzlements, improper spending, and other violations.

The victims were given psychiatric care before moving on to their daily lives.


More of the Backstory

Sasuke Uchiha is the last of the 2 survivors of the 'massacre' that killed almost his entire family. The house didn't burn completely down, but the inside of the front room was dyed in red, charred burns and ashes from the double homicide (plus one attempted). He thinks that his older brother Itachi Uchiha (19, 'Renegade' bounty hunter) was also involved, but he has bigger fish to fry; namely with Ruto Urashima and his lust for his lovely young ladies.

He was currently under the ward of Danzo Shimura until he could earn a living and graduate Senior High, but when the case came into light, he was sent away to the youth authorities to get straightened out.

It turns out that Sasuke and Sakura secretly had 'flings' together back when they were 'in love' without the latter's parents' knowing and they had protection... That is, until the end of July/early August when they went too far; the condom broke and Sakura had to tell her parents Kizashi (Salaryman, 37) and Mebuki (Female Wrestling Coach and former Yankee, 36) that she's likely to be pregnant and confessed that she and Sasuke had occasionally had premarital sex together and he left her high and dry after she made the announcement. The parents are worried about being one of the youngest grandparents in Hinata City and they have a beef with that Uchiha brat and his guardian, Danzo.

Later, Sakura took a few pregnancy tests with a urine sample to prove that she's wrong, but found that she's tested positive for pregnancy. She's in utter distress about being a mother and not being able to get a diploma at the same time.

Thankfully, Ruto and his trusted schoolfellows decided to help pitch in for a makeshift baby shower for Sakura's well-being and her bundle of joy.

Currently, Sakura is 7½ months along with her first child, which happens to be a girl from whom she learned from OB/GYN. And Sasuke continues to ignore and deny the paternity of baby Sarada (the name that Sakura chose).

With this outrageous claim, where's a paternity show where they needed it?


A/N: Now normally the story of Love Hina wouldn't have tragedies, but when you add Naruto into the equation. Well, it's like the saying goes: If one can experience true happiness, the same one must share the unhappiness. In this case, Naruto's unhappiness was a lot worse than losing a chance to go to the university or anything else.

Also, I incorporated many different special techniques for Ruto to use from other stories and games to utilize the 4 symbols that were used in the Love Hina story among the many other attacks. The same will somewhat affect his swordplay along with other techniques..

That's all for now as the heat will be on!

- blukmage19