Disclaimer: I don't own Love Hina.

A/N: Pardon on the long delay, new job and personal issues keeping up most of my time.

Chapter 23

Mutsumi was standing by the wall and feeling very nervous. She was nervous because of Kanako and she wanted to do something to get away without giving much suspicious but she felt that was out as the way she was being questioned.

"I'll ask you again Mutsumi," Kanako started, "Any reason is to why you're stalking my brother and his friends? Just what are you up to?"

"Um, well, heh, nothing in particular," Mutsumi responded nervously, "I just wanted to see if Keitaro is okay, that's all. Well, now that I know that he is, I'll be going now."

Mutsumi tried to walk away but Kanako grabbed her shirt and forcefully shoved her back to the wall, surprising Mutsumi.

"You expect to believe that?" Kanako asked with a glare.

"Kanako…don't do that…"

Kuro, Kanako's cat appeared and hissed at Mutsumi.

"Mutsumi, who sent you to spy on Keitaro and Kazuya, was it Kagura Hajime, Chisato Ichimura, or both of them?"

Mutsumi chuckled nervously, "Kanako, what are you talking about?"

Kanako put her hand on the wall gave Mutsumi a death glare, "Don't play dumb, I know that those two bitches are plotting and you're foolishly cooperating with them out of this stupid naïveté that you're helping my brother when in actuality that you're not."

Mutsumi got offended and frowned, "How…?"

"Yoshinari told me and by the way, Keitaro already knows as well."

"I...I'm sure he would understand if he could see that…" Mutsumi said.

"Understand? Really?" Kanako asked and then looked at her right, "What do you think Keitaro?"

Mutsumi was surprised and looked at her right and saw Keitaro as well as Kazuya, Shirai, Haitani, Duncan, and Zack.

"Keitaro…" Mutsumi spoke surprised.

Mutsumi noticed that Keitaro was wearing a new pair of round glasses.

"I have some questions for you Mutsumi," Keitaro said with a serious expression.

Mutsumi guessed what questions Keitaro had and decided to walk away, "I should go."

"Hey Mutsumi," Keitaro called.

Mutsumi stopped and turned, "Keitaro, I know what you're going to ask but all I'm going to say that I'm doing this for your own good."

"For my own good," Keitaro repeated feeling disgusted, "you really don't get it. Kagura Hajime and Chisato Ichimura are not really good people."

Mutsumi sighed with expression of pity, "Oh Keitaro, you really do need help. You can't just believe what everyone else just says. I know that you really care and have concern with Naru and the others and concern for the Hinata Inn, even if you deny it, I know it well. Nagisa and your cousin Yoshinari have got you brainwashed, well not to worry Keitaro, with the help of Chisato and Kagura, I'll be able to help you out, you'll see."

"Hey, you think you can just stand there and insult my twin sister?" Kazuya said angry at Mutsumi for insulting his sister.

Mutsumi looked at Kazuya, "I see, so you're Nagisa's twin brother Kazuya…I see."

Mutsumi started to walk away and Keitaro was getting upset with Mutsumi's attitude and the fact that she was constantly ignoring his request.

"Mutsumi, I'm warning you right now," Keitaro started, "if you do not stop, there will be no forgiveness. You stay the hell away from me. Stay away from my family and stay away from my friends, especially, stay away from Nagisa."

Mutsumi stopped and looked at Keitaro, "Do you consider her as someone close to you?"

"She's a friend, a real friend, someone who actually helped me out and accepted me despite my terrible faults and doesn't use me, doesn't attack me for unjust reasons and certainly doesn't sell me out just to make someone happy."

Mutsumi flinched when she heard that and looked at Keitaro surprised. Kanako and Kazuya were surprised to hear what Keitaro said.

Mutsumi shook her head and then just smiled, "It's okay, you just need to remember the good times you had with Naru."

Keitaro was getting angrier and he went to Mutsumi, surprising her.

"Mutsumi, I don't know how much more I need to say it but I'm going to try, stop this idiocy that you're doing right now. I'm making my own choices, no one is influencing me or forcing me, I sincerely don't want to have anything to do with Naru, the Hinata Inn, my grandmother, and I certainly don't want to be near Kagura, Chisato, or you for that matter. How about you stop being so stupid and brainless and wake the hell up from this delusion you're creating for yourself. You're not doing any favors, this is just you being selfish and arrogant, acting like you know what's good for anyone when you don't, you're just like Granny, acting self righteous and self centered."

Mutsumi's eyes widened as she was surprised with what Keitaro said as it bothered her and then she slapped Keitaro across the face.

Kazuya, Zack, Duncan, Shirai, Haitani, Kanako, and even Kuro were surprised and appalled with what Mutsumi had just done. Keitaro wasn't surprised and simply looked at Mutsumi with a glare.

"Just stop it!" Mutsumi demanded, "What's wrong with you Keitaro? Why do you insist on saying cruel things? This isn't like you at all. I don't like the person you've become and you're saying that I'm being arrogant?"

"You shouldn't have done that Mutsumi," Keitaro said as he was about to reach out hand to Mutsumi.

Suddenly, Mutsumi was struck hard in the face with a vicious punch to the face. Keitaro was surprised and saw that it was his adopted sister Kanako who punched Mutsumi.

"Kanako…" Keitaro spoke.

Mutsumi was surprised that she got punched and looked at Kanako, "You…you struck me."

"I'm not going to just stand by and let you insult and strike my brother," Kanako said.

Mutsumi got up on her feet held the spot on her face where she was punched and ran away with tears in her eyes.

Kanako sighed, "I'm sorry big brother, I may stepped out of bounds with what I did but I just couldn't—"

"Don't worry about it Kanako," Keitaro interrupted and assured her, "thanks for defending me and besides, it's my own fault, I was careless."

Kanako was happy with what her brother said and then nodded and Keitaro looked on and then looked at the others.

"It seems that Mutsumi isn't going to stop until she has her way and with the two that she's associating with."

"Not to worry Keitaro," Kazuya said, "we just have to be prepared."

Keitaro nodded, "I hope that we can. I still don't know what they're up to."

A Supermarket Somewhere

Nagisa was getting groceries. She was at the meat aisle looking at the variety of meat that was there and tried to decide which one she should buy.

"Hello Nagisa," Kagura's voice said.

Nagisa was surprised and looked and saw Kagura.

"Kagura," Nagisa responded.

"I see that you're doing well."

"Hmph, I wouldn't think that a spoiled, murderous rich girl like you would set foot in a supermarket."

Kagura smiled, "You know, I spoke with Mayako the other day and I went to Takeru's grave."

Nagisa flinched and looked at Kagura with a glare, "You really are that shameless. It's disgusting. You're the one who killed him and you don't feel shame and remorse for what you did."

"Hmph, why should I? It wasn't my fault, it was his fault. He's was being an idiot," Kagura responded crossing her arms.

Nagisa got offended, "You bitch, how dare you."

"If Takeru wasn't being so stupid and actually told me what happened, this wouldn't have happened."

"He did tell you but you didn't believe him, you just assumed that he was lying and then you literally beaten to death."

"Hey, I didn't know, he recovered before and besides, I didn't really hit him that hard."

Nagisa gritted her teeth and had a vicious glare, "You're a monster, you're a heartless, despicable monster, how dare you. Takeru was a sweet and kind person and was loved by many and you took his life for nothing, you killed him for nothing, for something so stupid and pointless," Nagisa pointed her finger at Kagura, "you should be rotting in prison for what you've done."

Kagura huffed, "Well, as you can see, I'm not. There's no way I would be in jail and besides, my father would never let it happen. Someone like me isn't meant to be in prison, but of course, people like you are just green with envy…that's why you and your friends wouldn't stop with the harassment."

"Harassment, you say, all we were doing was letting people know that you're a murderer that got off free. It's obvious that your father bribed his way to make sure you didn't get convicted. You should have just accepted your punishment."

"Well let me tell you something Nagisa Aoyama, there is a time that people need to learn their place and believe me, you will learn yours," Kagura paused for a moment, "there's someone you seem to be getting close to," Kagura put her finger on her forehead, "what's his name…hmm…oh that's right, Keitaro Urashima."

Nagisa's eyes widened as she looked at Kagura surprised as Kagura had a wicked grin.

"How do you know about…?" Nagisa asked.

"I talked with someone who knows Keitaro and his…so-called situation," Kagura answered in a sinister tone.

Nagisa had cold eyes, "The way you said it…I don't know what you're thinking or planning but you better stay the hell away from Keitaro. I won't let you victimize him like you did with Takeru."

Kagura chuckled, "You want me to stay away from him…my, my, is he that important to you?"

"He's my close friend, it's only natural."

"Is that so?" Kagura asked with a chuckle, "I'm suspect that he may be more than that to you."

Nagisa balled her fists, "I won't let you hurt him."

Kagura put her fingers on her lip, "I wonder how you would look if I was to take him away from you."

Nagisa gritted her teeth again, "Kagura…"

"Good bye for now Nagisa," Kagura said as she left the supermarket.

Area near the now destroyed Kuromitsu Inn

Sosuke was talking to some of the employees of the Kuromitsu Inn as well as some of the people who were guests there.

"The Hinata Inn in Hinata City?" Hikaru asked.

"Yes, my wife is willing have you continue with your service there," Sosuke asked.

"Is it really alright?" Todo asked.

"Yes, I talked to her about it and she is more than willing. In fact, she'll also have some of her employees to help out as well."

"I see," Hikaru said.

Hikaru and the other Kuromitsu employees were discussing things with each other about the proposal that was brought to them. After a few moments, they nodded.

"Mr. Sosuke Urashima," Hikaru spoke, "we thank you and if it really alright with our guests, we'll take you up on that, but regarding in how to get there…"

"Not to worry," Sosuke assured, "we'll be able to provide transportation to get there."

Hikaru smiled, "I see."

The Kuromitsu employees bowed to Sosuke and they said in unison, "Thank you very much, we will happy to take you up on it."

They unbowed and Hikaru and Todo went to tell the guests of the plan.

Meanwhile Hina was with Shakiko and Hina was shocked when Shakiko decided to end their friendship.

"I don't understand," Hina said, "you and I have been friends for 50 years and now all of a sudden, you want to end our friendship?"

"That's right," Shakiko said, "because frankly, you really can't be trusted. Our friendship has always been based on trust and honesty and frankly to me, those things don't seem to matter to you anymore."

"How could you say that?"

"Because of what happened with what Naru did, what Kaolla did, and the fact that you lied to me."

"W-Wait a minute, that's not fair."

"Naru assaulting one of the guests and Kaolla brought destruction to my inn and the fact you knew about their behaviors beforehand and if you had giving me some sort of warning…"

"Shakiko!"

"Hina, you treat them as if they were your own daughters and you insist on making excuses for them. Mitsune told me that you were told and the she told you of the things with Naru and Kaolla but you didn't seem to take her seriously. If you had, none of those things would have happened. You realized what had happened with your grandson but it seems that you were more concerned with what you wanted and turning a blind eye on the things instead actually really addressing the issues."

"Listen Shakiko, what happened today was just terrible but I assure you that this is all a terrible misunderstanding, they're not really bad girls."

Shakiko sighed heavily, "I really can't understand you but since you care so much for those two rotten girls and not all that real concern for what happened, I don't want anything to do with you. We're through Hina, go away and never show your face around me again."

"Shakiko, you're making a mistake," Hina insisted, "okay, fine, I should have done more with what happen for my grandson and maybe I should have told you beforehand but you're being irrational. You're breaking our long time friendship for nothing."

"Just leave Hina, seriously, leave me alone, please."

Hina was shocked and then frown and sighed, "Fine, if this is what you want," Hina walked away from Shakiko and then looked back at her now former friend, "You're such a fool Shakiko."

Ikebukuro Police Station

Naru had arrived in the police station and had been placed in a small cell there. She looked back and then sighed when the officer that had escorted her had left. Naru felt so humiliated and was racking her head regarding the situation.

Flashback: Yesterday at the Tokyo University Cafeteria

Naru had lost her cool and went to charge at Keitaro with the intent to give one of her patent Naru Punches. But when her fist went to was just close to Keitaro's head, something happened that completely caught her by surprise, her fist was stopped when Keitaro quickly turned and caught her fist with his hand stopping the attack.

"Naru, Naru, Naru, aren't you embarrassed of acting like this. This is the behavior of a bully, a thug, a delinquent," Keitaro said with a disappointing expression, "You seriously need some help because this is just going to get you into a real trouble if keeping acting like a barbaric moron."

"How dare you…how dare you talk to me that way," Naru replied still shocked that Keitaro caught her fist and the things he had just said to her.

"Naru, look around."

Naru did looked around and saw that there were people staring at her. There some whispers, most about the way Naru had just acting and wondering why she was acting like the way she did. There was even someone who just looked at Naru and then went somewhere abruptly. Naru was shocked as she looked around and felt embarrassed.

"Naru, you need to realize that the world doesn't revolve around you and that this behavior of yours is just going to cost you in the end. You were about to hit me just because I wouldn't give in to what you ask just like always. Thank you so much for once again for making me see the kind of person you really are," Keitaro said.

Flashback End

Naru shook her head of that memory and paced around in her cell for a bit.

"This has got to be the worse day in my entire life," Naru said to herself as she sat down on a bench and covered her face with her hands, "Dammit…dammit…dammit…"

Hinata Inn

Vehicles' were showing up by the entrance stairs of the Hinata Inn. As they stopped, people were coming out of them and it was the employees of the Kuromitsu Inn. As they looked up at the long stairway, they saw Marumi and Haruka coming down and greeting them.

"Welcome to the Hinata Inn," Marumi greeted, "I'm the owner, Marumi Urashima. I take it you're all employees of the Kuromitsu Inn."

"Yes, we all are," Hikaru said, "so you're Marumi, I do remember my grandmother mentioning you before. I'm Hikaru Kuromitsu; it's a pleasure to meet you."

"Likewise, so you're Sanjiro's daughter, it's nice to meet you," Marumi then motioned to Haruka, "this is my niece Haruka."

The Kuromitsu employees said their hellos to Haruka and Haruka greeted them back.

"I would like to thank you for having us here and allowing us to continue for our service," Hikaru said.

"It's not a problem, it's understandable," Haruka said, "we saw what happened in the news, a terrible thing to have happened."

Hikaru frowned remembering the destruction and trauma that Su caused.

Marumi cleared her throat, "Anyway, go ahead and get ready, I have some of my employees up there and they will be assisting as well and I understand that my husband will be here with the guests in busses."

"Yes, thank you, we appreciate it," Todo said as they all went ahead.

Marumi turned to Haruka, "Haruka, go ahead and help them out with whatever they need, I'll wait her for my husband and the Kuromitsu's guests to arrive."

"Sure, you got it," Haruka said as she went up to the inn.

Shichimura Apartment Complex

Keitaro and the rest of the boys he hung out with had arrived back at building owned by Kazuya's father. Shirai and Haitani were looked at the place and they were impressed.

"Wow, so this where you guys live," Haitani said.

"So Kazuya, your dad owns this building?" Shirai asked.

"Yeah, he sure does," Kazuya said feeling proud.

"So you live and work here now Keitaro?"

"Yeah, it's a lot better and it's a great deal, I get to live here for free and work here and it's definitely a lot better than where I was previously," Keitaro said.

"If you guys want, we can give you a tour of the place," Kazuya suggested.

"Yeah, yeah, what do you guys say?" Keitaro asked.

Shirai and Haitani looked at each other and thought of the offer that had just got.

"You guys really don't mind?" Haitani asked.

Zack put his hands on Shirai and Haitani's shoulders, "What do you say?"

"Kazuya's father is really a great guy," Duncan said, "and the people there are real cool."

"Hmm, well, I have time," Shirai said with a smile.

"Yeah, so do I," Haitani added, "Okay, we happily accept your offer."

"Excellent," Keitaro said.

"Well then you two come on in and we'll show you guys around," Kazuya said.

They all went inside the building and Kazuya, Keitaro, Zack, and Duncan showed Shirai and Haitani around the Shichimura Apartment Complex. Shirai and Haitani were seeing the place and they were impressed in what they were seeing. As they continued to walk around the building, Shinsuke showed up.

"Oh Dad," Kazuya spoke.

'Hello boys," Shinsuke greeted and then he noticed Shirai and Haitani, "hello you two."

"Hello sir," Haitani greeted with a bow.

"We're just seeing the building," Shirai said with a bow as well.

"Well, are you two interested in an apartment?" Shinsuke asked.

Shirai unbowed and grinned, "Would you let us stay for free if we work here as well?"

"Sorry, but I can only afford to do that with just one and Keitaro filled that spot."

"Oh, oh well, it didn't hurt to ask," Haitani said.

"Sorry boys…anyway, Keitaro, I'm glad you're here, there's someone here who wants to see you."

"Really?"

"Yes, my mother is here from Kyoto…and she brought Motoko with her."

"Huh? Grandmother is here?" Kazuya asked surprised.

"Yes."

Keitaro frowned, "Motoko…"

"My mother said that she wants to talk to you," Shinsuke looked at his son, "Kazuya, she also wants to talk to you and Nagisa about something important regarding the God Cry School."

"The God Cry School?" Kazuya asked.

"Yes, as of now, Motoko is no longer the heir."

"…Well good, Motoko doesn't deserve it after what she's done."

"…Well, okay, I'll talk to her," Keitaro said.

Kazuya looked at Duncan and Zack, "Hey guys, why don't you guys take Shirai and Haitani to your place. We'll try to be back as soon as we finish."

"Sure, no problem," Zack said.

After things were discussed, Kazuya and Keitaro followed Shinsuke back to the Aoyama family apartment.

Meanwhile, Nagisa had just arrived back in the Shichimura Apartment Complex with bags of groceries. Nagisa was still steaming with her meeting with Kagura and she knew she had to do something about it. Nagisa swore that she was not going to let Kagura get away with whatever it was she was planning to do. As she walked inside, she heard voices.

"So, you've come back again," Tamaki's voice said, "just as I was told you would."

"Tamaki, please," Tetsuhiko's voice pleaded, "Just hear me out."

Nagisa looked and saw Tamaki and Tetsuhiko.

"Tetsuhiko, listen, this is the last time, I don't want you coming here again and bothering me," Tamaki said, "now, I want you to leave, otherwise I'll call the police and have you arrested."

"For what?" Tetsuhiko asked surprised and upset.

"How about harassment and trespassing," Nagisa said as she walked towards them.

Tetsuhiko glared at Nagisa, "Stay out of this; this is not your concern."

"When a tenant of my father's building is harassed, it becomes my concern," Nagisa said glaring at Tetsuhiko.

"Tetsuhiko, you don't have the right to say things like that to my friend," Tamaki said.

"Tamaki, please, I just want you to come home, I promise that everything will work out, please," Tetsuhiko pleaded.

"Your words mean nothing to me, leave and I don't ever want to see you here again, good bye."

Tamaki walks away and Tetsuhiko tries to stop her but he was stopped by Nagisa.

"That's enough, stop bothering your sister, leave here right now," Nagisa said.

Tetsuhiko gritted her teeth and glared at Nagisa, "This is your fault, if it wasn't for you, Tamaki would be home with me right now."

Nagisa shook her head, "You're so pathetic."

Tetsuhiko pointed his finger at Nagisa, "You're going to pay for this Nagisa Aoyama. Mark my words; you're going to pay for your blatant meddling in the affairs of siblings."

Tetsuhiko left the apartment building upset and Nagisa looked at Tetsuhiko and then headed for her own destination.

Meanwhile in the Aoyama family apartment, Keitaro and Kazuya met with Etsuko and Motoko.

"Grandmother," Kazuya greeted happily.

"Hello Kazuya," Etsuko greeted happily, "how's my wonderful grandson doing?"

"I'm fine, Grandmother, I'm glad to see you," Kazuya looked at Motoko with a serious expression, "Motoko."

"Hello Kazuya," Motoko said and then looked at Keitaro, "Urashi-, um, I mean, Keitaro, hello."

"Motoko…" Keitaro spoke.

"Keitaro Urashima," Etsuko said.

"Um, yes," Keitaro responded and bowed, "You're Mrs. Etsuko Aoyama?"

"Yes."

The door opened and Nagisa walked in the apartment.

"I'm home," Nagisa said as she stepped inside with the bags of groceries.

"Welcome back Nagisa," Isana greeted.

"Hi Nagisa," Keitaro greeted happily.

Nagisa was surprised to see Keitaro, "Oh Keitaro," Nagisa then noticed Etsuko and was surprised, "Grandmother."

"Hello Nagisa, how are you?" Etsuko greeted.

Nagisa smiled, "I'm fine, how nice for you to visit," Nagisa then saw Motoko and frowned, "Oh Motoko, you're here."

"Hello Nagisa," Motoko greeted.

"Keitaro Urashima, I would like to have a word with you," Etsuko requested.

"Um, okay, sure," Keitaro said.

Ikebukuro Police Station

A police officer went to the cell where Naru was held and tapped on the bars and brought Naru to attention.

"Hey, you have visitors," the officer said.

"Huh?" Naru replied, "Visitors?"

The officer turned to his right and motioned the people to come to the front of the cell and Naru was surprised to see her mother, Saori, her stepfather, Hiroshi, and her stepsister, Mei.

"Well, here you are," the officer said.

Saori nodded at the officer, "Thank you officer."

The officer left and she as well as Hiroshi and Mei looked at Naru.

"What are you all doing here?" Naru asked, "How did you know I was here?"

"Your father called and told me what happened," Saori answered.

Naru frowned at that response, "He's got some nerve…"

"So Naru, you're here in jail for assault…in the inn where you were working," Hiroshi commented.

Naru was silent.

"Naru, what in the world were you thinking?" Saori asked disappointed in her daughter.

Naru looked away, "It wasn't—"

"I sincerely hope you're not going to say in the line like 'it wasn't my fault, it was that guy's fault'.

Naru looked at her mother angrily.

Saori continued, "Naru, again I ask you, what were you thinking?"

"I was trying to do my job!" Naru responded defensively.

"By sucker punching someone?" Hiroshi asked.

"Well, you weren't there so you don't know."

"No, but I did get details from your father, who got it from not only from person you punched and his wife but also from the owner of the Kuromitsu Inn," Saori explained, "Naru, the way you do things is not normal at all."

"What the way I do things?" Naru asked offended.

"How you respond, how you react when you see something going on with knowing the situation, it's not normal, it's embarrassing. Naru, you can't just go up and attack people like that, not even getting your facts straight and even if you did at that inn, it was the wrong way to respond."

"Naru, any other person would see what was going and responded in an appropriate way or inform the owner of the inn or both," Hiroshi added.

Naru gritted her teeth and turned away feeling bitter.

Saori sighed, "Naru, yesterday I had a little talk with your ex-boyfriend, Keitaro."

Naru was shocked and looked at her mother, "What were you doing talking to him?"

"I wanted to know what had been going on with you Naru."

"What's going on with me?" Naru asked and shook her head, "And you decided to go ask 'him' about me? Unbelievable…"

Mei went up to the jail bars, "Naru, do you really hate us so much?"

Naru was shocked and looked at her stepsister, "What? Mei, I don't know what you're talking about."

"Do you hate us so much and that you would just look for any reason or excuse to not see us?"

"Mei…it's…it's really…"

Office of Japan's Prime Minister

Amalla Su was not having a good day. Not only was she unsuccessful of retrieving her younger sister Kaolla but she was hearing accusations of the Kingdom of Molmol had been plotting against Japan. She was sitting in front of the desk of the Prime Minister and was pleading with him.

"I told you Princess Amalla, I cannot release your sister to you," The Prime Minister said.

"Why is that?" Amalla asked upset with the response.

"You know why, besides, I had told you beforehand that if you didn't get to her first before the authorities, it would be out of your hands and it is, it's out of your hands now."

"Isn't anything you can do Prime Minister?"

The Prime Minister shook his head, "No, there isn't. Before, I could make it so that even though they had caught your sister, we could have that after everything was settled, we could have your sister return to you with the condition that she never set foot in Japan again, but unfortunately, the situation is a lot more serious."

Amalla was getting a bit frustrated, "Because of what happened at the Kuromitsu Inn in Ikebukuro?"

"It's not just the incident in Ikebukuro."

"Huh?" Amalla asked confused.

"The police went to the Hinata Inn where your sister was staying and they found things in your sister's room, things that are a serious cause of concern."

"Wh-What would that be?" Amalla asked nervously.

The Prime Minister sighed and frowned, "They actually found a few nuclear reactors in her room."

Amalla was shocked as she knew that it was not allowed in Japan.

The Prime Minister continued, "They also found what they appeared to be mind controlling helmets and they found various lethal weapons, tracking devices and more of those machines use to kidnap people and other dangerous materials are illegal in Japan."

Amalla was in complete shock and had her hands on her face, it completely disturbed her that her sister Kaolla had those things in her room and feared what she would have used them for.

"Can you understand now?" the Prime Minister asked, "Letting her go to go back to you, back to Molmol is just simply out of the question. I do that and I would…well, simply ending my career and I'll be honest with you, I enjoy being Japan's Prime Minister and I have a duty towards the citizens of Japan. I'm not willing to compromise all that."

"Prime Minister Matsuzaki," Amalla spoke upset.

"I will tell you this, an investigation has already started."

"Really? An investigation?"

"Yes, we're looking into how and why some of the items and materials were allowed to pass and we'll be asking questions to some of the people who lived at the Hinata Inn. Starting with the two previous owners, Hinata Urashima and her grandson, Keitaro Urashima as well as looking in the owner of the Hinata Teashop, Haruka Urashima. We'll be also asking questions to the tenants that lived there as well."

"I see," Amalla said and stood up, "then in fact, I believe that they should all be held accountable as well. In fact, I believe that I should be issuing an indictment on them for failing to stop my sister and failing to report on what she was doing."

Prime Minister Matsuzaki simply sighed, "You're serious?"

"Yes, I am."

"Princess Amalla, it is not your call to be issuing indictments or anything here in Japan, besides, you and your country are at fault as well, as it turns out that some of the dangerous materials that passed through came from your country as well, in fact, they were delivered from the Royal Palace of Molmol. Care to explain how that was allowed to happen?"

Amalla had a bitter expression, "I don't know."

St. Clavius Academy, Headmistress Office

Seta was sitting in the headmistress office of the St. Clavius Academy and behind the desk was a stern looking old woman with glasses wearing a dark blue suit.

"So, you wish to enroll your daughter in the academy?" the old headmistress asked.

Seta nodded sadly, "That's right."

"Hmm, may I ask your reasoning, why here of all places?"

Seta paused for a moment before answering, "I honestly don't really want to do this but I feel that my daughter's attitude is unacceptable and the problem is that she thinks she can do whatever she wants anywhere. It's my fault, I didn't really do a good job as a parent and when I had to go to work, I left her with people who were really not a good influence on her."

"I see, so, you want us to basically fix your mistakes, right?" the headmistress asked in an unpleasant tone.

Seta flinched with the tone it was said, "Um, well…"

"No matter, it makes no different to me, you are aware on how we do things in St. Clavius Academy, are you not?"

"I am and my daughter knows but…well, she thinks that…well…"

"She thinks that she won't be intimidated by us and that she can beat through how we do things here, well, that's okay, she wouldn't be the first to think and act that way coming here, but by the end, they realize that we don't tolerate such rude behavior and their attitudes that have won't help them. So Mr. Seta, if your daughter wants to think that she can behave in the way she wants, she'll be in for a rude awakening. Anyway, let's bring her here."

Seta nodded and got up from the chair and opened the door of the headmistress's office and saw Sarah who was still feeling grumpy.

"Sarah, come in," Seta said.

Sarah looked at her father with a glare and went inside and Sarah sat in a chair and Seta sat back in the chair.

"Hello Sarah," the headmistress greeted.

Sarah looked away, "Papa, why did you bring me here?"

"Sarah, you know why," Seta answered, "one simply thing, one simply thing Sarah and you just refuse. I didn't want to do this but you left me with no option."

Sarah gritted her teeth, "I hate you!"

"It's too bad you feel that way."

Shichimura Apartment Complex

In Keitaro's apartment, Keitaro was sitting on his couch and across him who was sitting on another couch was Etsuko Aoyama.

"So tell me, how is it for you working for my son?" Etsuko asked.

"It's been great and I'm very grateful for Shinsuke for what he has done for me and giving me the opportunity," Keitaro answered.

"I see," Etsuko paused and then continued, "Keitaro Urashima, based on what I and the members of my family as well as the members of the council have heard, we owe you an apology for the disgraceful acts that my granddaughter Motoko committed towards you."

Keitaro nodded, "I see."

"There is something that I do want to ask you."

"Um, sure, what is it?"

"Keitaro, regardless in how it happened; you accepted the responsibility of being the manager of your grandmother's inn. Now, there are questions that I have for your grandmother and my question to you is did you have a real clear understanding of what it meant to be in charge of an inn?"

Keitaro was silent as he couldn't immediately answer.

Etsuko continued, "The reason I ask is that from what I was hearing, it sounded like it was really my granddaughter as well as two other girls who were living there were running inn, or acted like they did. Not to mention, the constant attacks on you and not really doing anything about them and simply allowed them to have their way and from what I also heard, they would always follow you in where ever you went on your free time and have you do the cleaning and repairs and you were threatening to be kicked out of the place if you didn't do it even though they had absolutely no authority to do that in the first place with most of the damage that they themselves caused but wouldn't take responsibility and clean up their own messes. Keitaro, please explain this to me, because these factors enabled my granddaughter's disgraceful actions and her arrogance."

Keitaro shook his head and he was ashamed of the things that his boss's mother who was also Motoko's grandmother before he answered, "To be honest, I'm not sure if I can give you a clear answer. I really didn't have a real understanding, I allowed myself to be taken advantaged of for no real reason and frankly, I need my damn head examined."

Etusko sighed, "Well, don't beat yourself up too much about it child. You were an inn manager, not their guardian and truth is that I had my doubts that it would do any good for my granddaughter to leave Kyoto and stay at the Hinata Inn but I didn't really put much effort to it and besides, the one I'm really upset with is your grandmother for the way she did things and for breaking her promise and I'm upset with myself, I'm ashamed of myself."

"Wait, what promise?"

Meanwhile in the Aoyama Family Apartment, in Nagisa's room, Nagisa was writing her paper for her class in college. It was then that Motoko entered Nagisa's room.

Nagisa sighed, "Motoko, don't you ever knock anymore or has your time in the Hinata Inn have you disregard such simple manners?"

Motoko went to Nagisa, "Nagisa, I need to talk to you."

Nagisa looked at Motoko annoyed, "Motoko, do you not see that I'm busy? I have a paper to write and I don't need you distracting me."

"Yes, I understand and I apologize but please hear me out."

"Motoko, I don't want to hear anything from you, get out of my room."

"But I need to talk to you about Urashima."

"About Urashima? You mean Keitaro?"

"Yes."

"What about him?"

"How…how is it having him live and work here in the building?"

Nagisa smiled, "Great, best thing that ever happened. You know, he's not as bad as you and your so called friends at the inn make him out to be."

"No, he is," Motoko insisted, "he's a cowardly perverted male and a liar."

Nagisa shook her head, "Motoko, you're so pathetic."

Motoko was offended, "How rude…"

"Motoko, you believe that all males are cowards and perverts. Yes, some are, no doubt about it, but not all males are horny dogs. Motoko, this stance of yours is a fraudulent front that's only based on the fact that Tsuruko got married and decided to spend her life with Hayato."

"Nagisa, you don't understand."

"No Motoko, it is you who doesn't understand. Hayato has been nothing but nice and courteous to you when you met him but repay him by being rude and going on and on of how he's not fit to be with Tsuruko. We would have thought that you of all people would be happy with Tsuruko since you were so close to her but instead, you had nothing but resentment and let me tell you something, Tsuruko didn't turn her back on you, you turned your back on her. As far as I'm concerned, anything you say has no merit and that includes Keitaro."

"Urashima has destroyed everything," Motoko insisted, "ever since he came to our lives, we had been annoyed with his perversion, in fact, when we first met him, he lied about already being a Tokyo University student, it was pathetic that he was kicked out by his own parents. Nagisa, the reason I'm asking you about Keitaro is because he's not really reliable. He ran from his duties as manager of the Hinata Inn and everything fell apart. I'm trying to warn you that Urashima will most likely do it again here, when he sees that he can't handle the responsibility, he'll just run away, just like he always does."

"I will say that there are things that Keitaro should have done differently when he was the manager of the Hinata Inn, one of those things was to have you arrested and or evicted for branding a real weapon on him and for stupid petty reasons."

"I was defending the purity of my other dorm mates," Motoko insisted.

"You don't really look at situations and you just assume the worse because you simply want to and don't want to admit your mistake. Motoko, you are an embarrassment to our family and I'm glad that you were stripped of being the successor of the God Cry School and you were evicted out of the Hinata Inn. I'm also glad that people are seeing what we have been saying about you all this time."

Motoko was getting angry with what her cousin saying, "I tried to help you and get you to understand but it seems that I was wrong."

Nagisa nodded, "Yeah, you were wrong all right and it's because it's you who failed to understand. I can't take you seriously in anything you say and as for Keitaro," Nagisa smiled, "I am positive that Keitaro is not really a bad person, naïve at first, not really understanding things, yeah, true, but he changed for the better and in fact, I'm going to spend the day with him tomorrow."

Motoko's eyes widened and looked at Nagisa surprised, "Wait, what?"

In the dojo, Keitaro arrived and was bringing out the mats as there was going to be a class later on in the evening and it was Ranma who was teaching the class. As Keitaro was getting things ready, Motoko came by and looked at Keitaro very upset.

"Motoko…" Keitaro said not happy to see Motoko.

Motoko looked at Keitaro with death glare, "Urashima, you foul perverted scum."

Keitaro rolled his eyes, "Really Motoko?"

Motoko saw a bokken on a wall and went and grabbed it and got in her stance, "Face me Urashima. I'm amazed that you would dare try to claw your perverted ways into my family!"

Keitaro shook her head, "This is old, really, really old. Pervert this, pervert that, cowardly male this, cowardly male that…Motoko, it's old."

A Maximum Security Prison

Su was pacing around in her cell and was under strict supervision. She was waiting her sister to come back so that she could get out of prison and then find a way to get to Keitaro again. Su convinced herself that she wasn't the bad one in the situation that happened in the Kuromitsu Inn and that she believed that there was no real harm and she also wanted revenge on two people, one was Kitsune for ruining her fun and the other was Shinobu as she felt that Shinobu betrayed her. Su heard footsteps and she saw her sister Amalla coming to her direction.

"Big sister," Su called.

Amalla stood in front of the bars of Kaolla's cell, "Kaolla."

Su smiled, "Great, now I can finally get out of her."

Amalla shook her head and Su didn't like the response.

"It will not be possible, Kaolla."

"Huh? What do mean?" Kaolla then giggled, "Oh, I see, it's a joke, oh big sister Amalla, you're such a kidder."

Amalla was not amused and was in no mood for jokes, "Kaolla, I'm not joking. The situation has not left me to be in a happy mood."

Su's smile dropped, "What?"

"Kaolla, you're in more serious trouble then I imagined. Nuclear reactors, mind controlling helmets, weapons of mass destructions, more devices that you made to kidnap people, Kaolla, these are serious offenses and the destruction you caused in Ikebukuro, thank goodness there were no casualties for what you've done but unfortunately, the government won't release you to me to bring you home."

"But…but, I'm a princess of Molmol," Su argued.

"Kaolla, you being here in Japan was a sign of good faith and good relation between Japan and Molmol and you destroyed it. Honestly, I thought you came to here to study and get better so that you can come back to Molmol soon to fulfill your duty, but that was never the case, was it?"

"What?"

"You came here to actually run away from your responsibilities and you believe that if you acted like a child that you could avoid responsibility, well too bad, this time after what you've done, there will nowhere for you to run and hide."

Su fell on the floor and was shocked, "But all I wanted, all I wanted was to have fun and play and do fun things with friends. Staying at the Hinata Inn has been so fun for me and I had friends and…and…"

"Kaolla let me tell you something right now," Amalla said with anger in her tone, "those people from the Hinata Inn are nothing more than rotten people as well, that include that stupid old woman Hina Urashima, and that pathetic grandson of hers, Keitaro."

"Hey, don't talk about Granny and Big Brother Keitaro like that!"

"Those girls from the Hinata Inn as well, are not good friends as well, honestly, I should have been more forceful to have you come home when I arrived…well, I will do something about that now."

"Huh? Amalla, what do you mean?"

"I'll be going now Kaolla," Amalla said as she left.

"Amalla? Amalla?" Su called, "Sister, where are you going? Don't leave me here, please!"

"I can't release you out of here," Amalla called back, "there has to be some way I can bring Kaolla home."

Ikebukuro Police Station

"Mei, it has nothing to do with you," Naru said.

"It has nothing to do with me?" Mei asked.

"That's right, it doesn't, okay?"

"But it does, especially since we're getting an understanding of how you feel because of what Keitaro said to me when I met with him," Saori said.

Flashback: Yesterday

Keitaro thought about for a minute, "Well, I'm sure by now that Naru was saying this because she was just being selfish but…Naru did say something about how she didn't feel like she was loved and that she felt that she was casted aside."

"What does that mean?" Saori asked shocked of what she heard.

Keitaro shook his head, "Ms. Narusegawa, I'm sure now that Naru was just being unreasonable…just like I was with my own family and even when your daughter Mei came to talk to Naru and to convince her to see you all, Naru said that she felt that she was being drifted aside and when and that things changed when you remarried."

"When I remarried?"

"Yeah, it's silly, I know. I'm now sure that you really care about Naru and that you, as well as your husband and your daughter miss her but Naru was just being, well, unreasonable and she felt that she needed to be the center of attention and if she doesn't get that, she deludes herself in thinking that the person or people don't really care about her and she turns her back on them or like with me, she would act violent."

"Center of attention…" Saori said as she started to get a conclusion about her eldest daughter.

Flashback End

Naru was shocked and felt disgusted.

"Naru, if you believe that the reason is off then please explain it to me," Saori said.

Naru just shook her head, "Mom, I am appalled, I am disgusted.

"Appalled and disgusted…"

"Yes, I am, you had no right to be asking Keitaro about me. No right at all."

"Naru, you were not willing to tell me anything at the Hinata Inn on the bases that 'I wouldn't understand' and since you seem to talked to Keitaro about yourself a lot it seems , I thought he might give me a clue and you know what he did and I finally understand."

Naru felt annoyed, "Oh really? So tell me Mom, what is that you understand?"

"Naru, after your father and I got divorced, I put all my attention you and was willfully did everything and anything for you and this went on as you were growing up. What I failed to realized in what I was doing was spoiling and sheltering you. My focus was all on you but that was no longer the case when I married your stepfather and Mei came along as well."

"Naru, do you actually find me as a nuisance?" Mei asked.

"Unbelievable, you are unbelievable," Naru said, "Mei, so because I don't see you as you would like, you think that you're a victim in this. Mei, you don't have a clue about anything that's going with me, you never did. You never understood me and yet, you had the nerve to come to the Hinata Inn and try to convince me in coming back. If you really were much of a sister to me like you claimed to be, you would have left me alone and not come by trying to tell me that you wanted to be a family."

"Naru, you have no right to talk to your sister like that," Hiroshi admonished.

"Oh sure, everyone is being nice and sweet towards Mei but when it comes to me, I'm accused of being a selfish spoiled brat. You see, this is why I left for the Hinata Inn, to not only get my studies done and go to Tokyo University, to get away from this family, more specifically, to get away from you Mom. I had tried, I really did."

"To get away from me, you say," Saori said losing her patience, "You never tried to work things out with us and you give that excuse that we wouldn't understand. How could we not understand if you are not willing to explain anything? You use that phrase whenever you can't give really give an explanation and then you just run away. That's all you really do."

"Mom, you promised, you promised that you would always be there for me after Dad left but you didn't keep your promise, you decided that he, that man," Naru pointed at her stepfather Hiroshi and then Mei, "and her were more important than you than I was."

"Naru, you know that's not true. You were have and always were precious to me. For goodness sake Naru, you're my flesh and blood."

"It doesn't feel that way to me."

"Is that the same nonsense you told your father at the Kuromitsu Inn?"

"Naru, please…" Mei pleaded.

Naru chuckled, "You know Mom, you are just like Dad and Keitaro and Kitsune, you pretend to care about me but it's all an act, that's what you are Mom, you are a fraud."

Saori was shocked and hurt and Mei and Hiroshi couldn't believe that Naru just said something so hurtful to them.

Naru continued pointing her finger at each of them, "It is has always been cleared to me that none would ever understand and not even try to understand. Mei, you want to know the truth, fine, here it is, yes Mei, you are a nuisance."

Mei was starting to panic, "No Naru, you don't mean that."

"I do, I tried to be nice but you just keep pushing and pushing and you know what I had enough and I've had with all of you."

"Naru, you better really and I mean really think about what you're saying because as of right now, you are seriously burning the bridge here with us," Saori said upset and furious.

"That bridge was burned down long ago, just leave me alone and get out of my life, all of you."

"Get out of your life," Hiroshi said angrily, "Naru, you are sitting in a jail cell right now. How are you going to get out?"

"Granny Hina will get me out," Naru said with confidence, "I'm sure she will."

"What makes you think that woman will be able to bail you out?" Saori said irritated.

"Granny Hina always comes through for me and she always understood me, something that none of you here would ever do."

"Do you really think that woman will always be there for you when you need and actually care about you?" Hiroshi asked.

"She does," Naru said with confidence.

The police officer showed up, "Hey young lady, it seems that you have two more visitors."

"Really, two more?" Naru asked.

Hina and Mutsumi showed up and had concerned looks for Naru.

"Naru, are you okay?" Mutsumi asked.

"I am now that both of you are here," Naru said softly.

Hina looked at Naru's family, "Oh, my you came to see Naru as well. I must say I'm surprised you all came here as quickly as you did."

Mutsumi walked to Saori, "Ms. Narusegawa, we overheard your conversation and I have to tell you that you're wrong about Naru. You just don't understand what Naru went through."

"Mutsumi, I'm this close of going ballistic with you," Saori said with a death glare and then she turned and Mei and noticed that Mei was crying.

Hiroshi noticed that his daughter was crying as well, "Oh Mei…"

Hiroshi went to hug Mei and Saori shook her head.

"You know, there so much that I can't and I can't deal with this anymore," Saori said, "you know what Naru, you want us out of your life, fine, we'll leave."

Mei shook her head, "No Mama, please, I want Naru to come home with us."

"I don't want have anything to do with you Mei and it's your fault!" Naru said angrily.

Saori couldn't take it anymore and struck Naru between the bars of her cells surprising Naru, Hina, and Mutsumi and afterwards, Saori had tears streaming in her eyes.

"Naru, you're the worst," Saori said, "you have no conscious, no respect, you are just plain cruel, how dare you, you ungrateful despicable brat."

It was then that Hiroshi and Saori had completely given up in trying to reason with Naru and left the Ikebukuro Police Station with Mei still crying and pleading Naru to change her mind on the things she said. Hina and Mutsumi just looked on as Naru's family left and then they just looked at Naru.

"Um, well, Naru, I'll bail you out," Hina said.

"Thank you Granny, I really mean it," Naru said feeling grateful.

"Naru," Mutsumi said, "it will be okay. It really will, you see."

Mutsumi smiled and Naru simply sighed

"What an ordeal," Naru commented.

Hinata Inn

A few buses arrived at the Hinata Inn and the guests of the Kuromitsu Inn came out and checked the building with the area around the Hinata Inn. In one of the buses, Kitsune came out as she was with the guests and consoling some of them from the trauma from Su's destructive inventions. Kitsune looked at the place where it was not so long ago; she was evicted from the place along with Naru, Motoko, and Su. She had told Hikaru as well as Sosuke earlier that she did not like the idea of being back of the Hinata Inn, mostly because of the things she had done, mostly with Keitaro that she now regretted and was worried of how Marumi would react that she had come back to the place that she was evicted from.

Flashback

"Are we really going to the Hinata Inn?" Kitsune asked Hikaru.

Hikaru nodded, "Yes, the new owner there is willing to put the place up for our guests and so we can continued serving our guests."

"I don't think it would be good for me to go back there," Kitsune said with a sad expression.

Hikaru got concerned, "Mitsune…"

"I did some terrible things when I was there, not only that, it was just yesterday that I was evicted from the place…I don't think Marumi would be happy for me to be there."

"But Mitsune, we really need your help, you have been so helpful with the inn and helping our guests and most of our guests really want you around. They really like you, especially the children since you saved them from being hurt from Kaolla's inventions. You're a hero to them."

"Um…well…"

"If you want, I can talk to my wife," Sosuke said appearing in front of Kitsune and Hikaru.

"Would you?" Hikaru asked.

"Absolutely," Sosuke then looked at Mitsune, "relax Mitsune, yes, my wife is firm and can be harsh, but she's not heartless, when she hears what you've been doing and how you protected those kids, I'm sure she won't mind."

"Can you really be sure?"

"I'm positive, I know my wife and how she is. I can say with confidence that I know and understand her better than her own mother."

"Granny, right?"

"Yeah…"

Flashback End

Kitsune arrived back at the Hinata Inn and she saw Marumi looking at her, "Um…um…"

"Hello Kitsune," Marumi greeted.

"Um, hello," Kitsune greeted nervously, "look, I know you may not like the fact I'm here but—"

"No need," Marumi interjected, "Hikaru and my husband told me what you did. You did a good thing, if it wasn't for you helping in stopping Kaolla Su, things would have gotten a lot worse and besides, you're here as an employee of the Kuromitsu Inn and all employees are to be here so there's no problem."

Kitsune was surprised, "You're really okay with me being here?"

"As long as you're doing your job and serving your guests, I see no reason to prevent you from being here. So, up you go, you have guests who I'm sure will be happy to see you there."

Kitsune was so happy and she felt like she was going to cry, "Th-Thank you so much Marumi."

"You don't need to thank me; it's all you, go on now."

Kitsune nodded happily, "Yes, just watch, I won't betray the trust of you, your husband, and Hikaru."

Kitsune went up the stairs of the Hinata Inn where she was already being happily greeted by Hikaru as well as some of the guests as well as the children. Marumi watched as Kitsune went upstairs and suddenly her husband Sosuke wrapped his arm around her waist.

"Thank you Marumi," Sosuke said.

"No need to thank me dear, it was only natural for me."

Sosuke kissed Marumi on the cheek, causing his wife to blush, "You really are a kind woman."

Marumi smiled, "Oh Sosuke."

"You know, I'm off for the rest of the day, why don't you and I spend some time alone together after you have everything set in the Hinata Inn for the day?"

"Hmm, I like that idea," Marumi said happily.

"By the way, where's our son?"

"Yoshinari is in the attic, he's actually looking into something."

Meanwhile in the attic of the Hinata Inn, Yoshinari was looking through old things and he found a book and he saw that it was a journal that belonged to his great grandfather, Keisuke Urashima.

"Great grandfather's journal," Yoshinari said.

Within the inn, Kitsune was serving the Kuromitsu Inn's guest and was surprised to see someone in the kitchen helping in the kitchen and it was Shinobu.

"Shinobu?" Kitsune called.

Shinobu turned and was surprised to see Kitsune, "Kitsune, wh-what's going on? Why are you here?"

Kitsune simply chucked, "You know what, I'm going to take some of the trays to the guests in the third floor and when we both have time, I'll tell."

"Mitsune, are ready to get the trays to the third floor?" Hikaru asked as she came by.

"Yes, Hikaru, I'm ready," Kitsune answered.

"Good, I'll help you with the trays."

"Thank you."

Kitsune and Hikaru took the trays and went up to the third floor with them.

"Young lady," Todo spoke, "do you and Mitsune know each other?"

"Um, well, actually, yeah and I have to say, I'm surprised," Shinobu answered amazed and impressed, "I never would have imagined."

Next Day, Tokyo University

Naru was walking with Mutsumi as they entered the campus.

"Naru, please, reconsider, I know that everything has been unpleasant for the past few days, but I promise that things will get better," Mutsumi said.

"Forget it Mutsumi," Naru replied, "I'm sick of it all and I'm fed up with Keitaro. He has done nothing but giving me grief and it's not worth it, I'm sick of him just I'm sick of my parents and that leech of a brat Mei."

Mutsumi shook her head, "Naru, surely you don't mean that."

Naru turned to Mutsumi with a glare, "Mutsumi, I'm so sick of you going on and on of how things between me and Keitaro will get better, but they won't. Keitaro doesn't care about me and I don't care about him."

"But Naru—"

"Just stop Mutsumi!" Naru demanded and was disgusted, "God, just how annoying can you be?"

Mutsumi was shocked, "A-Annoying?"

"That's right; I keep telling that I don't want anything to do with that perverted idiot Keitaro but you refuse to listen, I mean seriously, how stupid can you be? You're so deluded that it's appalling."

"N-Naru…I can't believe you would say that."

"The only thing I want to concentrate on now is my own studies and graduating from Tokyo University and become a teacher, I don't need Keitaro in my life anymore just I don't need my so called family anymore since they don't really care about me. I'm going to see my advisor."

Naru left in a hurry and Mutsumi was in complete shock.

"Naru, please wait!" Mutsumi called but it did no good for her and she was feeling sad, "Naru…"

In the hallway of the college building, Naru was in front of the door that read Ayumi Ida. Naru opened and saw Ida sitting in her desk doing some writing.

"Ida," Naru spoke.

Ida looked up and saw Naru and sighed, "Naru, you're here."

Naru nodded, "So, when will the university teacher be here so that he can help me for my career path?"

"Naru, about that…there's something you need to know," Ida said with an unpleasant tone.

Naru was confused, "Is something wrong?"

"Naru, sit down, I need to talk to you on something."

Naru sat down in a chair that was in front of Ida's desk, "What is it?"

"The university teacher has changed his mind and refuses to be anywhere near you."

Naru was shocked, "W-What, why? It doesn't make sense."

Ida was frustrated, "It's because you attacked him."

"Attacked him? How? I haven't even met him yet so how did I actually attack him?"

"Think yesterday Naru, you were working at the Kuromitsu Inn, you punched a man who was with his wife because you assumed he was being, well, what you considered, 'perverted'."

Naru realized and was shocked, "Wait, you mean that the person who was going to help me in my career path as a teacher is…"

Ida nodded, "That's right, Kyoji Yojimaru, the one who was with the group that was staying in the inn you were working, the same man you punched yesterday and as a result, you were arrested for assault and spent some time in jail."

"But…but how…why…?"

"Do you really need to ask how and why? Do you really Naru?"

Naru frowned and shook her head, "No, I guess not."

Ida sighed and was upset, "Naru, I just talked to you about this yesterday. I said be mindful of your actions."

"…It's not my fault," Naru said in a low tone.

Ida raised her eyebrow, "Excuse me?"

"I said it's not my fault. If anyone who is really at fault are him and his wife. He was acting all strange when he was talking to her and they both gave the wrong signal."

"You're blaming the victim and his wife for your choice of action," Ida said appalled, "Naru; I don't expect that from you."

"Ida-sensei…"

Ida then sighed and continued, "Naru, you need to understand that—"

Ida was interrupted when her phone rang and she picked up the receiver, "Yes?"

The person on the other line talked and Ida nodded.

"Yes, she's here in my office right now," Ida said looking at Naru.

Naru wondered what was going on why she was mentioned.

"Okay," Ida said, "understood, I'll have her go right now."

Ida hung up the phone and sighed heavily.

"Um Ida, what was that about?" Naru asked.

"Naru, that was one of the members of the Board of Tokyo University, they want you to see them at Room 413."

"For what exactly?"

"About yesterday's incident, it seems that Yojimaru-sensei spoke with President himself about what you did in which resulted in your arrest."

Naru was shocked and upset, "This can't be happening. Ida, this isn't right."

Ida raised her hand in front of Naru's face, "Naru, I suggest that you just go. Just go…please…"

Naru was shocked and then stood up and left to go where she was requested. Ida was very disappointed and had her hands on her head and felt shame. Ida had faith in Naru who considered her to be a very hard working and bright student and believed that she would be an excellent teacher and contribute greatly to society but after hearing what had happened yesterday and hearing her blaming the person she attacked, her faith in Naru gradually shattered.

"A total shame," Ida said sadly.

Meanwhile Naru was bitter and angry as she was on her head to where she was requested. On her way, she saw someone who was familiar and she saw that it was Keitaro and when she saw the person she was talking to, she was shocked as it was Chizuka. Naru couldn't believe what she was seeing.

"So Keitaro, I looked over the sketches that you did and I have to say, I'm impressed," Chizuka said.

"Thank you Yojimaru-sensei," Keitaro said feeling happy.

"Keitaro, have you ever thought about being an architect?"

"An architect…well, actually, I did when I was a kid but I didn't stick much to it."

"Well, you have a natural and if not an architect, there are other possibilities you can go for."

"Thank you so much Yojimaru-sensei," Keitaro said happily rubbing the back of his head.

Naru was watching and hearing the conversation and it just made Naru even angrier.

"You…you…" Naru said in a quiet and angry tone.

That's it for this chapter. Next chapter: Naru meets with the Board of Tokyo University in regards her actions and Keitaro spends the day with Nagisa.