And so begins the final chapter of "A Disturbing phone call"! It was fun writing it, I'll be honest I've been having a lot of "DUUUUHH…." Moments while writing this, I mean, I knew how I wanted it to start and how I wanted it to end. But coming up with everything in the middle… boy that's the hard part XD. Well, I hope you guys enjoy the final chapter. I enjoyed ending it.

"What the hell is going on here?!" The brunette shouted.

"N-Naru!" Mitsune stood up, "H-Hi!" She waved awkwardly. "Boy… You sure look pretty today!" The fox faced girl laughed nervously. "Listen, why don't you head on back up to bed and rest that pretty little head of yours?" She purposely stood in front of the group, doing her best to hide the actions going on.

Naru ran down the rest of the way and looked at them angrily, Naru's eyes shifted to the floor where a bruised, beaten and mangled Keitaro lay on the floor. Her eyes grew wide as she looked at her friends with anger. "What are you doing to Keitaro?!"

"W-We were just trying to find out whatever blackmail he had on you!" Motoko shouted.

Naru had a confused face on, "W-What are you talking about?!"

Su jumped over the group and landed in front of Naru, "Well today you looked real sad when you were going out with Keitaro and when we went into his room we saw that you had two beds set up! So we all assumed that Keitaro had some kind of information about you that you didn't want to get out! So you did "favors" for him so that he wouldn't tell anyone!" She smiled innocently.

Everyone was quiet for the moment; Naru had a disbelief face on. "…A-Are you all INSANE?!" She clenched her teeth with rage and took a step forward.

There was a short pause.

"Kinda…" Mitsune muttered.

Naru rushed passed the group and pushed them out of the way, "Please, just get out of the way!" She helped Keitaro out of the chair and onto a nearby couch. "A-Are you OK?" She frowned.

Keitaro smiled, "Yeah, yeah I'm fine Naru, don't worry about it."

She sighed and had small tears in her eyes. "It's all my fault…" She sniffled.

"Hey, don't worry Naru, this is nothing!" He smiled, "C'mon, don't be like that."

"Keitaro I have to tell them the truth… Look whats happened to you! It's my fault!"

Keitaro looked at her for a moment and then looked at himself; his threshold for pain certainly did a good job at lessening how much he actually felt during the "interrogation". Keitaro's eyes shifted back to Naru as he began to frown. "Naru… you don't have to say anything if you don't want to. It's not as bad as it looks." He gave her a reassuring smile that soon faded back into a frown. "I wouldn't want you to do anything you didn't want to…"

The brunette looked at Keitaro in complete surprise, "Even after dealing with all this, he still didn't want to say anything?" She couldn't help but smile. "Keitaro… what you did for me was one of the nicest things anyone's ever done… but I can't let that go on anymore… it wouldn't be right." She gave another small smile and kissed his cheek.

Naru gave a large sigh and stood up. She slowly turned around and looked towards her friends. She wasn't mad at them and she knew that they were just trying to protect her. Naru looked back at Keitaro one last time and smiled. "Everyone… Keitaro did NOT have any kind of blackmail on me. None of what's been happening to me is his fault…" Her head hung down low. "The reason I've been acting so strangely lately is because of a call I got about a week ago…"

Mitsune took a step towards her friend, "What's wrong hun?"

"My little sister called last week… She told me that my mom had just passed away…" Naru was struggling to hold herself together. She could hear Keitaro shifting around on the couch and was about to try and comfort her. She held her hand back, signaling that she was ok.

The rest of the group lightly gasped. "That's awful!" Su shouted out.

"Are you alright Naru?" Motoko walked over to her friend.

"I'm fine… but… I was having trouble dealing with it by myself… When I got the call the first person I went to see was Keitaro… and I'm sure you can guess why."

They all looked at each other and soon nodded. "But the thing is… all that week that I was beating up on Keitaro… He knew about it!"

Their faces all turned into a surprised one as they looked over at the beaten Keitaro on the couch.

"He didn't say anything because he knew what I was going to do… and for that whole week I felt nothing but guilty about beating up on him." She looked over at Keitaro with sadness. "I'm really sorry Keitaro." She frowned.

He gave her an awkward smile.

"After that week… Keitaro told me that he knew about my mom, and I… I kind of just broke down." She laughed nervously and rubbed the back of her head. "After that I didn't want to sleep by myself that night." She rubbed her arm and looked over her friends reactions. "B-But nothing happened! He even pulled the beds apart so that we wouldn't be near each oth—"

"Wait… you moved into his bed?! We didn't know that you actually slept in the SAME bed!" Shinobu burst out suddenly. She quickly put her hands to her mouth to silence herself.

Naru's face was beet red at this point. "I-I…" She took a nervous step back after she suddenly realized she had unwittingly admitted sleeping next to Keitaro. "W-Well I mean… I-It was cold last night a-and I-"

"It was REALLY hot last night!" Su jumped, "I was sweating so much that it felt like my skin was gonna come clean off!" She giggled.

"Well… I umm…." Naru looked back at Keitaro, who also had a surprised look on his face.

Mitsune walked over to her friend and placed a hand on her shoulder. "If there's something you'd like to say Naru, I think now would be a good time to say it…" The fox girl smiled. "S'not like there's anythin' wrong with it."

Naru looked towards the fox faced girl and back to Keitaro. "I…" She was fidgeting with her hands while trying to come up with something to say. "I… I don't…" She hesitantly took a step towards Keitaro. Her legs were wobbly with anxiousness; she looked over to Keitaro who was still lying on the couch, watching her every move.

Naru looked in all directions of the room and back to Keitaro. "I-I want to thank you for all the help you've given me Keitaro and I'm sorry that you were hurt in the process!" Naru quickly bowed and burst from the room.

"N-Naru! Wait!" Keitaro tried jumping up from the couch but was stricken with sudden pain in his legs. "Geh… I must be hurt more than I thought…" He tumbled onto his stomach as he watched Naru run out the door of the Hinata Sou.

Naru ran as fast as she could down the stairs of the girl's dormitory, small tears escaping her eyes as she did so. "I can't do it! Why can't I just say it?! Why can't I tell him?" Naru began hearing footsteps behind her as she continued to run away from the Hinata before she was quickly cut off. Motoko stood in front of her, her wooden practice sword held in front of her.

"Naru, where do you think you're going?"

The brunette stopped in her tracks as Motoko stood in front of her, "I can't face him! I just can't!"

Motoko's eyes narrowed, "You cannot simply run away from your fears Naru-san." She held her practice swords towards Naru. "You need to face your fears head on! You need to tell Keitaro how you really feel about him! I'm not letting you leave until you do!"

Naru took a step back from Motoko, she suddenly heard steps being taken behind her. She turned around to see Keitaro, along with Mitsune, who was helping him down the stairs. He looked at the girl with concern. "K-Keitaro…" Naru looked back to Motoko, who still had her practice sword drawn.

She gulped and ran over to him, "This is how I feel about you!" She grabbed his face and quickly kissed him. Time seemed to slow down for the two as the kissed got deeper and more intense. Soon, Naru slowly pulled away and broke the kiss and looked back at Keitaro. "That's how I feel…" She breathed heavily and smiled.

Keitaro gave a nervous smile back, "I feel the same way…"

Motoko's eye twitched, "I didn't need to see that…" She groaned and put her sword away, "I was expecting a confession… not a full out make out session…" She walked past the two and made her way up to the Hinata.

"It took you long enough." Mitsune smiled and started climbing up the stairs.

Naru laughed nervously and looked at Keitaro, "Sorry about leaving like that."

He smiled, "It's no problem. And, I'm sorry about your mom Naru… I never had a chance to say that…"

Naru sighed, "I am to… I wish I could have talked to her one last time." Naru looked up at the Hinata. "I think we should head back now." She winked and put his shoulder around her, "C'mon, I'll help you up."

"Thanks." Keitaro smiled at her as they both made their way up the stairs. He couldn't wait to tell everyone the good news, especially after everything Naru just told them. A little good news will do everyone some good.

I hope you all enjoyed this little fic of mine! Sorry it took so long! ^^; Thanks for all the reviews and support you've given me!