Love Hina: Kenshin the Keeper.
Now then people, this will be the last chapter before this story completely overtakes LHMNWL and becomes, in itself, the new story.
So let's get on a roll and get on with the last reconstructed chapter of Love Hina: Kenshin the Keeper
Chapter 5: The Morning After
It was early in the morning when Keitaro and I woke up. I hit the snooze button on our alarm clock and sat up. I groggily looked at the clock and saw that it was 3:00 in the morning. Last night Keitaro and I figured that to try and get on the girl's good sides again we were going to have to do something pretty big. That pretty big thing we have planned is simple, yet very taxing. Do all of the chores, and cook breakfast for the Hinata Sou tenants before Keitaro has to leave for his prep school later on. I walked over to Keitaro's futon and began shaking it.
"Keitaro-san, Keitaro-san! Wake up." I said as I heard a yawn come from under the covers and Keitaro stuck his head out of the futon.
"Is it that time already." Keitaro said as he yawned.
"Yep it is, now come on, we gotta get dressed." I said as Keitaro stood up, and began stretching himself out. I walked over to my closet and put on one of my weighted training robes. After taking a few minutes to actually get it on, and get used to the weight, I turned around to see Keitaro try to put on a pair of jeans. He was trying to stick one of his legs in a pant hole, when he fell over onto the ground. I began laughing lightly as Keitaro rubbed his head and then put the pair of jeans on.
As Keitaro finished dressing we both walked outside of our room and stood out in the hallway for a few seconds. We looked at each other, nodded, and then walked down opposite ends of the hall. We decided to split up the chores so we could get them done faster. Keitaro would go down to the laundry room, get the washing machine ready, and take some clothes out of the dryer and fold them. Meanwhile I would sneak into the girl's rooms, and pick up any stray clothing that may be just laying around... I really didn't want to do it, but we flipped a coin... damn...
I walked to Su's room first, I figured that chances would be that she wouldn't kill me, or alert everyone else, if she saw me in her room. The worst she would do is try to give me a kick in the head, and then go back to bed... I hoped. I walked to her door, and left a clothes bin beside her door. I then walked into her room and looked around her jungle of a room. I picked up any pieces of stray clothes that may have been laying around, while keeping an eye out for Su...
I kept an eye out, and a constant watch for ki signatures, I couldn't really trust my ki senses since Su was most likely asleep. I picked up the last, visable, piece of cloth and went on my way out. As I walked outside her room, all of her laundry in my arms, I put it in a clothes bin that I had brought with me. I then walked to the room next door... possibly the most dangerous room, next to Naru's, in the house. Motoko's room, no man's land. I stood outside the door, and put the clothes bin down beside me. I swallowed a huge lump in my throat, for I knew that if I were to be caught by Motoko I would die faster than Ghandi after being shot (OH NO HE DIDN'T).
It was a really simple room when you looked at it. The only really unique thing about it was the samurai armor in the corner of the room. I looked around and saw Motoko sleeping in her futon, with Su in her futon right beside her, looking like she was squeezing the life out of her, so that's why I didn't see her in her room... this scene would have been cute had I not been in danger at the moment. I began sneaking my way through I picked up any stray pieces of clothing, which was considerably less than in Su's room, off of Motoko's floor.
Suddenly as I was almost done Motoko began stirring. I froze and then began looking myself over... I was wearing a brightly colored robe in a pitch black room, my hair is not exactly a color you could hide easily... basically if she even looked in my general direction I was screwed. I began looking around frantically, looking for some kind of hiding place. Then I saw Motoko's samurai armor, and I smiled a bright smile as I sped towards it.
General POV
Motoko sat up with a look of slight anger and determination on her face. She got Su off of her, and then she stood up and looked around her room. She began walking over to a rack that was hanging over her dresser, and pulled the sword off of the rack. She unsheathed her sword, and held it out in front of her. She walked around the room, tapping objects with her sword. She walked over to the samurai armor, and she tapped it. When it shook more than it should have...
"HA! I found you!" She shouted as she cut the head off of the armor. As the head hit the floor, and showed nothing coming out of the top of the armor, no head, no hair, no blood. Motoko raised an eyebrow and put her sword back into her sheath. "Must've been my imagination." Motoko muttered as she put her sheathed sword back onto its rack, and laid back down into her futon, allowed Su to engulf her in a back breaking hug, and fell back asleep.
Kenshin POV
As she snored lightly, my head popped out of the top of the chest of the armor and I looked around. "Wow, it is a good thing I'm so short, that it is." I muttered to myself as I climbed out of the armor, carrying the bundle of clothes out with me. I picked up the last of the clothes and then snuck out of the room. I sighed a sigh of relief and victory as I put the clothes in the clothes bin and began making my way down the hall to Naru's room. I wasn't quite as worried with Naru as I was with Motoko's, the worst Naru would do is punch me square in the jaw and call me a pervert for the next few days. I stood outside Naru's door, put the clothes down beside of it, and quietly snuck in.
I looked around Naru's room, and frankly it looked like it had been hit by a hurricane, no scratch that, make that two hurricanes. There were clothes, pieces of trash, old food, soda cans, paper plates, books, and almost every other kind of mess you could think of scattered around the floor. I sighed as I walked out the door, only to return shortly after with trash bags, and cleaning supplies with me. I quietly made my way around Naru's room, but then I heard the most horrifying sound of my entire life...
"What are you doing in my room?" I heard a voice sounding like Naru say behind the giant pile of trash. I looked above it and say Naru staring at me with a raised eyebrow, she had a few books open. She must've been staying up studying... was school really this hard, I mean what Hiko put me through, I'm pretty sure that other methods of schooling would be easy, I mean reading a book while doing push-ups was hard! I started sweating crazily as I thought of a way to get out of this situation. And then an idea came to me as I smirked.
"Go back to bed, your hallucinating from a lack of sleep due to your all night cram session." I said as I waved my hand in front of my face, like a Jedi, thank God Hiko loved those weirdo American movies, as Naru raised her eyebrow even higher.
"Alright then, prove it." Naru said as I began panicking again. I tried to find a way, a way to come out of this. I then got another idea that made me smirk once again. I drew out my sword, and swallowed it. Naru stared at me with eyes as wide as dinner plates as I put the sword in, and out, in, and out.
"If I were real, would I be able to do this?" I said as Naru just continued staring at me and I turned to her, showing the sword going straight into my mouth.
"Okay yeah, I'm hallucinating." She said as she closed her books and went over to her futon and laid herself down in it.
"Yes you are, now just go to sleep, and not wake up till morning." I said as I once again waved my hand in front of my face as she nodded, and then fell asleep. I chuckled lighly as I turned my head to the side, showing me just pushing my sword up and down my cheek (kinda how you make it look like you swallow an entire knife when you really don't). I snickered as I began cleaning up Naru's room, putting all of her books on the shelf, and all of her trash in the several trash bags I brought with me. I then picked up the clothes hanging around her room, and held them in my arms. As I finished I sighed quietly, very quietly, and then snuck out of Naru's room with filled trash bags, and bundles of clothes hanging from my arms.
I got outside and walked over to the ledge of the hallway, I threw the trash bags over the side so that they landed near the front door, I would take them to the curb when the trash collector would arrive later. I then put Naru's laundry into the bin, and made my way down the stairs. I walked down the halls that normally led to mine and Keitaro's room, but is time I walked past our room, and stood outside the door of Kitsune's room.
I figured that Kitsune's room would be filthy beyond belief so I had already gotten the cleaning supplies I had used in Naru's room and brought them back down with me.
I placed the now, at least, half-way full clothes bin to my side as I stared at Kitsune's room. She wouldn't kill me if she saw me most likely, but she would tell everyone else, and Naru and Motoko would kill me... so I'll be keeping it safe in her room. I sighed lightly as I prepared to enter Kitsune's room, for the second time in my stay at Hinata Sou. As I walked in I noticed that it wasn't as bad as Naru's room, it wasn't perfect, but not nearly as bad as Naru's room. I walked around the room, picking up random Sake bottles, avoiding loose floorboards that would alert Kitsune of me being in her room.
Speaking of Kitsune, I saw her laying in her futon near the other side of the room. Her back was faced to me so I really couldn't make out what she was doing. I collected all of the bottles of Sake, and the clothes scattered about the room, and made my way out the door.
General POV
As I shut the door Kitsune sat up in bed and turned towards the door. She had a Sake bottle in her hand, which was mostly full, so she had to have been drinking before I walked in. She looked at the door with a raised eyebrow and then looked around her clean room. She shrugged and finished off her bottle of Sake, and then threw it into the trash. "Good kid isn't he?" She muttered as she layed back down in her futon and back to sleep.
Kenshin POV
As I made way through the halls of Hinata Sou, to the last room of the night, I stayed ever vigilant of my surroundings. Even though Shinobu in no way would try to hurt me should she see me, she would scream, and that would alert Naru and Motoko, and they would beat me to a bloody pulp. It isn't that I don't enjoy being beaten once a day, it's just I don't think I can handle a beating this early in the morning. Now then, I finally reached Shinobu's room, which was half-way across the house from Kitsune's room, I layed down the clothes bin, and made my way into her room.
Shinobu's room wasn't a room I had seen before, and I gotta tell you, it was pretty clean. Not much other than a couple of cloths laid about the room. I saw Shinobu towards the corner of the room... it was actually a sad sight to see. She was asleep, but there were tear stains going down her face, and she was gripping onto a stuffed animal. I sighed lightly as I picked up the last of the clothes on the floor. I looked up and saw a calender hanging on her wall. It had the fifteenth of this month circled in red marker. I walked closer to it, but there was no sign to indicate what the date was about... I'd have to ask Haruka about it later... I left the room, giving one last glance to Shinobu before doing so.
I put the last of the clothes in the bin, and then picked it up. I made my way down the halls to the last flight of stairs to the first floor. I walked through the halls of the first floor to the laundry room, where I saw Keitaro folding the last of the dry, clean clothes, and then put it into the basket. He looked at me with the bin and then smirked.
"So I guess that everything went without a hitch?" Keitaro said cheekily as I nodded.
"Yes, Naru and Motoko almost caught me when I went into their room but..." I said as I laid the dirty laundry in front of the washing machine. "I managed to slip out without much trouble." I said as I smirked at Keitaro.
"Well then I'll get to work on these, how about you start getting to work on the rest of the house, I'll join you after a while." Keitaro said as I nodded and left the room. I was being worked like a dog... but hey, I am living here for free, besides I'm used to doing chores, Hiko had me do some for training... but only with certain twists... I bet no one else in the world had to hang wet clothes on a drying wire while being hung by your legs over a waterfall...
I made it to the cleaning supplies closet while thinking about the, what could be considered, torture that Hiko put me through during my training. I got the broom out and then began sweeping the halls. I kept on thinking about everything I remembered of Hiko's training... the back breaking beatings with a boken... the straining exercise while studying... the terrible combination of chores and exercise... it was practically hell on Earth...
'Man I'm really trailing off here, better get back on track.' I thought to myself as I shook my head. I found myself on the third floor, as far as I could see the halls were swept clean. I sighed as slung the broom over my shoulder as I made my way back downstairs. I began thinking about the future. The fact that I was the grounds keeper at an All-Girls Dormitory would mean that there was almost a one-hundred percent chance of getting beaten. And I don't mean beaten, but beaten hard, but hey, that's life. I put the broom back into the closet and walked to the kitchen. I saw Keitaro getting out several different cooking supplies, I smirked as I walked over to the counter, now filled with several different appliances and uncooked foods. "You think you can handle this?" Keitaro said as I tied an apron around my waste.
"Well Keitaro-san, I did cook for an Irish bar owner, I'll explain later." I said as Keitaro raised an eyebrow. "For several months! OBSERVE!" I said as I began twirling the cooking instruments around. I first through the whisk at a frying pan, the metal part hitting the pan's handle. The whisk deflected back into my hand, but at the same time the pan flew into the air. I through the knife up into the air, and put the whisk into my other hand as I caught the pan by the handle, and then put it on the stove. I then caught the knife with my empty hand as it came down.
I then threw the knife back into the air I tossed the whisk into a pot of miso soup and began stirring the miso as I grabbed a few eggs with my free hand and cracked them on the edge of the pan, and put the yolks into the pan. I then pulled the whisk out of the miso soup and then began breaking up the eggs. I caught the knife with my free hand and began slicing up a nearby piece of cheese, after I cut three pieces I slid my knife under them and put them in with the eggs, I them used the knife to cut up some ham and put that in with the egg/cheese mix as well, and continued stirring.
I then used the knife to cut up some carrots, first into slices, then I cut those in half, and put them into the miso soup. I stuck the knife into a nearby cutting board and began adding some seasoning into the miso soup. After the seasons were added I grabbed a large spoon on the counter, used it to stir the soup, and then took a taste.
"Bleh! Needs garlic powder." I said as I threw the spoon into the air, grabbed the garlic powder, added a few dashes of it into the soup, and then placed it back on the desk. I caught the spoon as it came down, and then remixed the soup again. I took another taste of the soup.
"Mmmm..mm. That's good." I said as I placed the spoon back on the counter. Keitaro simply stared at me wide-eyed as I took the pan with the, now, ham and cheese omelete and took it over to the table. "Keitaro could you help me set up the table?" I asked as Keitaro nodded and the two of us began setting up the table with bowls, plates, glasses, and utensils. After everything was set up I looked at the time, it was about six, we could start putting the breakfast out.
So I began putting the omeletes onto their plates, and pouring the miso soup into bowls. I also began pouring some juice from a carton in the fridge into everyone's, except Kitsune's, glass. In Kitsune's glass.. I looked around as I opened up my robe to reveal a small bottle of Sake in a pocket on the inside of my robe. It was a original Sake that Hiko sent for me to test out. One of the reasons I was so resistant to alchohol was that Hiko would test all of his new Sakes on me.
Now you may be thinking 'Why would he need to test Sake on a kid when there were plently of adults around?' Well, you imagine if some swordsman cop came up to you and said 'Hey wanna try my own original Sake, it has never been tested on anything before!' Could you honestly say that you would drink it. So Hiko tested it on me, since I was little I didn't quite understand the repercussions of under-aged drinking (mainly me getting drunk in under one drink, and then having a HUGE hangover afterwards).
Despite the hangovers, I actually enjoyed testing Hiko's Sake, most of them were amazing. I held his most recent creation, I was to try it out and then write to him on the results. But hey, why possibly get drunker than a skunk, especially in a place where I could get my ass kicked if I did anything weird, when I could test it out on the resident drunk, Kitsune. I poured the Sake into the glass and then threw the empty bottle into the trash. I then began cutting bananas on top of Su's omelete, and in her miso soup.
"Umm... Kenshin-san." Keitaro said as both of his eyebrows were raised. "Why are you, cutting bananas on that omelete, and in that miso..." Keitaro said as I stopped for a moment.
"Well Keitaro-san, it is Su-chan we're talking about here." I said as Keitaro took on a thoughtful look.
"Good point." Keitaro said as he finished up setting up the table.
Keitaro and I yawned exhaustedly as we looked at the clock. It was 6:20 when we were finished, and we were both tired as hell. "Well Keitaro-san we are finally finished..." I said while yawning, meanwhile Keitaro only nodded while nodding off in response. I looked at the couch and chairs in the living room with a gleeful look in the next moment. "Maybe we could just..." I said as I walked over to the couch. "rest our eyes until the girls wake up." I said as Keitaro nodded and sat on a chair and closed his eyes. The second my body hit that couch I was out like a light.
General POV
One by one the girls, except Shinobu, made it to the second floor stairs, all of them seemingly dazed. They all looked at each other, a raised eyebrow and suprised look on each of their faces. "Were your rooms clean up when you all woke up too?" Naru asked in a shocked tone.
"Yeah." Su said, the normally hyper-active foreigner somewhat hummbled by the, somewhat, strange event.
"Yep, I mean, who could have possibly cleaned up my room?" Kitsune asked in a fake ignorance while she stifled several chuckles. Then all of a sudden Shinobu ran up the stairs, her face containing even more shock then anyone's.
"Shinobu-chan, something wrong?" Motoko asked as she watched the young teen try to catch her breath.
"Yes... kinda... I came down this morning, and the breakfast was already cooked." She said while all of the girl's kinda stared at her. "And the laundry was done..." Shinobu said as the girl's staring eyes grew a little wider. "And all the halls were swept." Shinobu said making the girl's jaws drop (well all except Kitsune). They all then ran down the stairs to see the breakfast I cooked all layed out on the table. Naru ran, no ran isn't the right word, sprinted down the halls. When she came back she was breathing deeply.
"Sh-sh-she's right... the laundry is all done..." Naru said, panting in between her words. Everyone stared at her while Motoko tapped her chin, staring off in a random direction while in deep thought.
"Who could have..." She began saying as the sounds of light snoring came to everyone's attention. They looked over to the living area to where the sounds were coming from. They all walked over to see me, sleeping on the couch, and Keitaro, spawled out on a chair. Soon my arms and legs began twitching as Su stared.
"Awww... he's dreaming that he's running." She said while everyone at that one moment stared at Keitaro's and my prone forms, realizing who did all of this. Then they heard the sound of food being eaten at an inhuman rate. They all turned around to see Su scarfing down her omelete.
"NO WAIT SU-CHAN! Those perverts may have put roofies into the food!" Motoko shouted as Su stopped.
"What are roofies... are they yummy?" Su said making everyone face vault. As Motoko stood up and was about the shout out at Su again when Kitsune began speaking.
"Well they can be depending on what you add them in..." Kitsune said as she got into a thinking position.
"KITSUNE-SAN!!!" Motoko shouted as Su smiled.
"Yay! And these eggs and soup things are really good so..." Su said as she raised her fork and knife high. "TIME TO EAT YOU! YOU LITTLE ROOFIES!!!" Su said as she began diving into the food laid out for her. Motoko and the others (except Naru and Kitsune who knew better) looked on in horror as Su scooped up the omelete and swallowed it in one bite, then grabbed the bowl full of miso soup and chugged it all down in a few seconds, and finally grabbed the glass and chugged down the juice in one second. Then, all of a sudden, Su froze in place, her body completely still. The tenants of Hnata Sou were worried, normally Su would be bouncing off the walls after her meals. Motoko walked up to Su and poked her.
"Su?" Motoko said as she poked Su again, only this time Su fell backwards from her chair onto the floor. "SU!" Motoko shouted as she kneeled down to the body of Su. Shinobu ran over to check on Su too, while Kitsune and Naru stood there shocked.
'Maybe they really did add roofies...' They both thought as Motoko and Shinobu shook Su. Then, as they shook her, a light fell upon Su, and in the light, a little chibi angel Su appeared, strumming a harp as it flapped its wings. The chibified angel Su floated there for a second, with what appeared to be tears of joy in her eyes, as she descended back into her body. Su then shot up, shocking all of the tenants, and had a huge smile with tears coming out of her eyes.
"That was the best meal ever!!! Motoko can I have some of yours!?" Su asked as she jumped back into her chair and took half of Motoko's breakfast and began eating it. The tenants all looked at her with a shocked expression as they all took their seats.
'Is this meal really that great?' They all thought as they sat down and took a bite of their meals. All of a sudden they all stopped, they were frozen for a split second... but after that they dived into their food, eating as fast as Su did. As everyone finished Motoko went for the last piece of her omelete, only to have Su's chopsticks go for it too. They both glared at each other before Motoko hit Su over the head and took the piece of omelete for herself.
"Sorry Su, but I am an heir to a ancient sword style, and I need this more than you do." Motoko said as she was about to eat the last piece of her meal. But then there was a spoon, positioned so she couldn't close her mouth, shoved in and Su had the piece of omelete.
"Sorry Motoko, but I am a growing genius, and I need to get taller. You don't need this, heck you're already, what like 6 feet tall?" Su said cheekily as she was about to eat the piece of omelete, only to recieve a strike on the head from the blunt part of Motoko's sword. Su rubbed her head as Motoko held her piece of omelete.
"For your information I am only 175 cm (that's like... crap...5 foot 8 or 9 inches?) a perfectly good height!" Motoko said as she was about to eat the piece of omelete, only to have a banana shoved in her mouth (no perverted thoughts people, stay with me) and Su holding the piece of omelete.
"Yeah, well compared to you I'm a midget so I need this more!" Su shouted as she was about to eat the omelete piece before Motoko took it. Motoko was about to take a bite before Su stole it again. Then Motoko stole it, then Su, then Motoko, then Su, Motoko, Su, Motoko, Su, then all hell broke loose. Motoko jumped on top of Su, and they began fighting over the piece of omelete. Naru and Kitsune just stared in disbelief at what they were seeing.
"They are acting like kids..." Naru said as she shook her head as she watched Motoko and Su battle to the death over a piece of omelete.
"Yeah, it's a good thing that we are such mature, and wise adults. We would never allow such a stupid thing to happen right?" Kitsune said as she nodded her head.
"Right." Naru said as she went for her last piece of omelete as well, only to see Kitsune's chopsticks grab it as well. They both glared at each other for a time before Naru pulled back on the omelete. "I thought you said we were such mature, and wise adults Kitsune..." Naru said as a tiny vein appeared on her forehead. Kitsune, however, pulled back on the piece of omelete.
"That's right, and as a mature adult you should let me have this, afterall I need the energy to do my freelance writing." Kitsune said as she pulled back on the piece of omelete, while Naru pulled back on it even harder.
"Freelance writing?! Ha! The only thing I see you do is drink Sake and bet on horse races! Besides, I need this for energy to study so I can get into Tokyo U!" Naru said as the vein on her forehead began throbbing and on also appeared on Kitsune's forehead as she pulled back on the omelete piece again.
"Jeez naru give it a rest, you're way to smart for your own good anyway! You get any smarter you're going to be a supernerd!" Kitsune said as they veins on both their heads doubled in size.
"SUPERNERD?! Well you shouldn't eat this, afterall you've been complaining about all those pounds you been gaining. Eat or drink anymore and you'll be fatter than a balloon!" Naru said as Kitsune's eyes shot open.
"Alright that's it! IT'S GO TIME!!!" Kitsune said as she jumped on top of Naru and the two began fighting inside a giant dust cloud.
Shinobu simply stood to the side in fear as she watched the other members of Hinata Sou fight, herself reduced to the size of a chibi-Shinobu. Kitsune jumped quickly out of her could, light bruises covering her face. She brought her elbow up, gave it a quick slap, and then jumped into the cloud, the sound of a solid bone hitting flesh, along with an 'OW' heard inside the cloud. Then Naru came out of the cloud with a huge lump on top of her head. She rolled up her sleeves and dived back into the cloud.
Then all of a sudden Motoko and Su jumped out of their clouds, Motoko armed with her sword, and Su armed with a heat-seaking rocket launcher. They stared each other down before Motoko struck. "Shinmeiryuu: Zankousen (Way of Gods' Cries: Light Cleaving Flash)!" Motoko shouted as she swung her sword and sent a wave a ki towards Su. Su rolled out of the way and armed her rocket.
"HA! Now I'm gonna get you with this HEAT SEAKING MISSLE!!!" Su shouted as she launched her rocket, only to have it do a U-turn and begin following the wave of ki... that was heading straight towards the couch I was on. Everyone stopped fighting as they watched the missle and ki wave slowly head towards the couch I was on.
Kenshin POV
They all heard a yawn coming from the couch as my head peeked over the side, my eyes drooping. "What's with all the racket..." I said as I suddenly saw the ki wave and rocket and my eyes became wide as a dinner plate. "Oh my..." I said as the ki wave and rocket hit me at the same time. The explosion that followed caused me to fly through the ceiling of the room, the ceiling of the second floor, the ceiling of the third floor, the attic, and finally the roof of the house. "WHY MEEEEEEEEEEE!?!!?!!?!?!?!??!?!" I cried as I fly higher and higher into the sky until I was just a little dot. The girls looked out the window the second that I began falling back to Earth. "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I screamed as I fell into the hot springs, hundreds of gallon of water shooting up into the sky.
After a few seconds of being dazed, I shook my head and saw that I was laying on top of an empty hot spring... that was ordinarilly filled with water... I looked up to see all of the spring water going up.. and then slowly start falling down again. "Oh dear God no!" I shouted as all of the water hit the entire area, refilling the hot springs. After a minute my still body rose to the surface, my front facing up. "Uhhhhhh." I moaned as my body just floated on the surface of the water. I stayed there for a second before the tenants of Hinata Sou, minus Su, came rushing into the spring. Su came in a few seconds later... her mouth covered in omelete... cold omelete...
At any rate, they carried my body back to where I had fallen asleep. They laid me down onto the (practically ruined) coach. They heard a yawn coming from the chair and saw Keitaro waking up. Keitaro looked around at the destruction, and then looked at the girls and I with a raised eyebrow. "Did I miss anything?" Keitaro said as everyone in the room, minus me and Su, face vaulted while Su proceeded to tell Keitaro what he had missed.
As Su finished Keitaro's eyes had grown as wide as saucers as he looked at everyone else. "How did he survive that!?" Keitaro said while thinking about everything Su had just told him.
'I thought I was the only one that was invincible...' Keitaro thought as he looked at me, out cold on the couch. Kitsune walked over to the table, which everyone's dirty dishes were still on, and picked up her still full glass of Hiko's Sake.
"I didn't get to drinking this sue to our little fights, so this may help him out." Kitsune said as she had Shinobu and Motoko pick my head up (I still had the weights on) and she poured the Sake down my throat. When all of it went down my throat nothing appened for a few seconds... but then I shot up, my cheeks began glowing red as I shakily stood up and moved across the room. I walked into a lamp, bumping into it and stummbling a bit.
"Ssshorry misshhh, I didn't sshhee you there..." I said slurring all of my words as I continued stummbling about the room, the everyone looking at me with looks of sheer confusion on their faces. I turned to Motoko and got close up to her, so close our noses were practically touching.
"Wh-wh-wh-wh!!!?!?" Motoko stuttered as she blushed and tried to back up.
"What'shhhh the matter Motoko-ssshhhhan? Freezer got your tongue...?" I asked as I stummbled around.
"That doesn't even make any sense..." Motoko said as I began laughing a little.
"Neither doessshhhhhh your face!! OHHHH! You walked right into that one... AAHH HAHAHAHAHA!!!" I said as I began laughing in a drunken stupor and I ran around the room. Everyone just stared at me with a huge sweatdrop on the back of her head.
"Do you think he hit his head a little too hard?" Naru said as they watched me stumble around.
"Maybe." Kitsune said as she looked at the drink in her hand. She took a quick taste before her eyes widened. "This isn't water, or juice! Its Sake!" Kitsune said as everyone just looked at her with a 'And... you're worried about that?' kinda look. Kitsune looked over her shoulder to see a empty Sake bottle. She picked it up, tilted it over, and a tiny note fell out. Kitsune picked up the note and read it aloud. "Five minute Sake hangover, gives you the experience of an all night drinking session in five minutes, no matter how resistant to Sake you are..." She said as everyone sweat dropped as she read it. "P.S. This is for hypnotizing me and my friend into giving him a lap dance (me and my best friend hypnotized our brothers into doing this once... it was ing hilarious) ..." Kitsune said making everyone in the room blush. "Yours truly, Hiko Seijuro XXVII." Kitsune read the final part aloud while everyone heard a sudden thud.
They all turned around to see me on the ground, holding my head with both of my hands, groaning and moaning. "Damn you old man... tormenting me even after I leave..." I groaned out as everyone helped me to a chair and Kitsune prepared a pot of coffee for me. Kitsune handed me the coffee and I began drinking. Even though I absolutely hate the taste of coffee, I needed something to help me with this hangover. We all sat there for a few minutes before the hangover passed. As it did everyone, one by one, thanked us for the meal given to them, and the chores done.
"Umm... Ke-Kenshin-kun." Shinobu said quietly, so my head wouldn't start pounding. I turned to her and smiled.
"Yes Shinobu-chan?" I asked, causing her to blush lightly again.
"I-I was wondering if you would like to switch cooking days every now and then... your food was really good..." Shinobu said as I smiled and ruffled her head with the hand not holding onto my head.
"Sure Shinobu-chan." I said, but Shinobu couldn't hear it over her thoughts about me touching her (no, bad perverts!). As a few more minutes went by Keitaro and Naru looked up at the clock, both of them began panicking and they both ran upstairs. I suddenly heard rummaging around in the floor above us... and then I heard someone trip... and then Keitaro's head popped out of the top of the ceiling, scaring everyone currently in the living room. As he pulled his head up I heard Naru ran in, I couldn't see her leave, since I was looking up towards the ceiling, the hangover leaving me unable to raise my body.
Minutes later I heard Keitaro run down, he was stumbling around as he ran. "Hey where ya headin'?" Kitsune said as Keitaro ran to the store.
"Jah-Jah-Moh Tutor School!" I heard Keitaro say as the door finally closing. I sat up, and then looked at Kitsune, her eyes opened as she stared at the door.
"Is something wrong..." I asked as Kitsune looked at me.. and then started smirking.
"Oh no... it's just that Keitaro-san left his lunch here." She said pointing to a brown paper bag on the counter. "Could you be a hun and get that to him for me?" She asked as she winked at me, and I blushed slightly. "You heard Keitaro, right? He goes to Jah-Jah-Moh Tutor School..." She said as she watched me get up pick up the bag and then make my way to the door. "Wait?! You need to know which train route to take!" She shouted as I turned and smiled at her.
"Well Kitsune-san, I never had the chance to get my morning run in this morning, and I've been around this town so often, I think that I know where to go. See ya later Kitsune-san." I said as I ran out the door, leaving everyone to stare at my back.
General POV
"He's definetly weird..." Kitsune muttered aloud as everyone nodded. Kitsune began heading for the stair, but stopped and looked back towards the door. "Weird... but cool..." She said while walking back up the stairs.
Kenshin POV
I ran through the town with Keitaro's lunch in my hand and the wind in my hair. I took swift turns, twists, and even jumped over some fences, in order to try to get to Keitaro's school. There were a few people I bumped into, those people either stared at me as they watched me move faster than an Olympic sprinter, while others just chose to sling some curses at me for being 'a rude asshole', and other words that I would not repeat. I reached the entrance of the school and looked around to find no sign of Keitaro. After a few minutes I heard a gasp behind me as I turned to see Keitaro just staring at me.
"But you were... and I was... and you were... how did you get here before me?" Keitaro asked as I put the brown paper bag in front of him.
"You forgot this back at Hinata Sou... and it seems you underestimate just how fast I am." I said as I smiled and Keitaro joined in, though his was a bit more nervous. "So this is your Prep School?" I asked as Keitaro nodded.
"Yeah this is it." He said as we both looked up to see the building.
"Mind if I join you today?" I suddenly asked as Keitaro raised his eyebrows at me.
"Why?" Keitaro asked, as I turned and looked him square in the eyes and smiled.
"Well, Hiko-san would hate for me to get behind on my studies..." I said as Keitaro nodded, and I remembered Hiko's threat...
"If you become an uneducated hic like the kids in West Virginia, U.S.,(I can't resist making a joke about where I come from, sorry) I'll personally come over, and force you back into my training/teaching regiment!" Hiko shouted as I became chibi-fied.
I shuddered as I stood there, Keitaro raising an eyebrow at me as I returned from my thoughts. "Besides I really don't have much else to do." I said as Keitaro nodded and we both began running into the school.
"My name is Keitaro Urashima, sorry for being late---!" Keitaro shouted as he threw open the door and began running in.. until he hit heads with a girl wearing... a mini-skirt, a sweatshirt with 'Salem' on it, coke-lense glasses, and pigtails... I had to say it was an... interesting look... Keitaro and the girl stood there for a minute, both of them a bit disoriented by the head bump. "Sorry I was in a hurry, are you alright." Keitaro said as the girl looked up, suddenly blushed, and then ran off. Keitaro and I just watched as she ran, both of our eyebrows threatening to tear off of our faces. "What's up with her?" Keitaro asked as I shrugged.
"Good morning Keitaro, late for Prep Exam as usual... hey, who's you're friend?" We suddenly heard behind us as a tall man, with a 'Tahiti' shirt on, as well as rather small glasses, came over and rubbed Keitaro's hair while a slightly shorter looking version of the tall man, except he had larger glasses, and was wearing a sweat shirt. "Come on Keitaro, aren't you going to at least introduce us?" The tall one asked as the smaller one just nodded and smiled.
"Hey Haitani." Keitaro said turning to the tall one. "Hey Shirai." Keitaro said turning to the shorter one. "This is Kenshin Himura, Kenshin-san these are my two friends Haitani Masayuki and Shirai Kimiaki." Keitaro said as I looked back and forth between the two boys.
"Is something the matter?" They asked at the same time as I rubbed the back of my head.
"Well no, its just that you two look so much alike." I said as Shirai and Haitani looked at each other and laughed.
"Are you kidding? I'm way better looking than this guy!" Haitani said while Shirai looked at him like he was crazy.
"As if, I'm way better looking than you!" He said while Haitani turned to face him.
"No way, I am!" Haitani said while looking at Shirai.
"I am!" Shirai said while they both began glaring at each other.
"Wait! I know how to settle this!" Haitani said as a random girl walked by in the classroom. "Hey excuse me!" Haitani said, catching the girl's attention. "Who's better looking me, or him?" Haitani asked while pointing to himself and Shirai.
"Well to be completely honest, you're both pretty stupid looking to me." The girl said as she walked off, leaving Haitani and Shirai with their jaws on the floor while Keitaro began laughing so hard he fell out of his chair, while I walked over to the two and put a hand on each of their shoulders.
"There, there... everything will be okay..." I said as their heads dropped and they began turning around to get back to Keitaro.
"So Keitaro, what's with the week you took off man? I mean, do you really think you can afford it?" Shirai said as Keitaro blushed and then lowered his head.
"Thanks guys, I missed you too..." Keitaro said sarcastically as Shirai and Haitani just began chuckling.
"Well, you can't blame us dude, just look at the last Prep Exam results." Haitani said as Shirai pulled a huge list out of nowhere and onto the table.
"Here's your name right here." Shirai said, pointing to Keitaro's name which was third from the bottom.
"Ouch..." Haitani said as Keitaro scooped up the list and stared into it for a few minutes. Meanwhile my jaw was a little slack, do to the suprise of Keitaro's... unfortunate ranking. I f these 'Prep' Exams were true... Keitaro would need a lot of help. All of a sudden all of us heard the sound of pencil on paper, we turned to see the girl Keitaro had run into earlier just writing down notes in a notebook. "Man, class technically hasn't even started yet and she's off." Haitani said as we all looked at her.
"What's up with her?" Keitaro suddenly asked as Shirai leaned in closer to him.
"Don't you know who she is?" Shirai asked as Keitaro shook his head no. Shirai sighed and then explained. "She ranked first on the last National Prep Exam. She's actually pretty famous around here." Shirai said as Keitaro's eyes bugged out.
"NO WAY! FIRST IN THE NATIONAL PREP EXAM!?!?!? I didn't think people like that exist... of course they do but..." Keitaro said as I took a look.
"By the looks of it she works hard though. I mean watch, she's working diligently and without even being told by a teacher, or possibly parent. A person who pursues something on their own, without being told to do so, will be able to accomplish almost anything." I said as said girl listened in on the conversation and a smirk adorned her features.
"Her first choice is Tokyo U of course, so I guess when you're gunning for that you have to work hard." Shirai said while Keitaro nodded.
"Well with her ranking it shouldn't really be too much of a problem for her..." Keitaro said as Shirai and Haitani suddenly leaned in to whisper something into his ears, I decided to get in on it too.
"Oh yeah, Keitaro you haven't had a girlfriend in 19 years and 6 months right?" Haitani asked while I raised an eyebrow.
"You actually have the freetime to know that?" I asked as Haitani paled and started blathering out excuses, though none of them could be understood, while I simply sighed and nodded my head. "And you make fun of Keitaro-san, that isn't very fair of you." I said making Haitani slump over.
"Okay, so I haven't exactly had a girlfriend for a while either..." Haitani said while Shirai joined in with him.
"Besides, the 'Four-Eyed Study Couple' might make a good pair." Shirai said making both himself and Haitani going into a laughing fit. I suddenly sensed a disturbance in the area and looked to see the girl they were talking about trembling and actually break her pencil. Something told me that I may want to be careful with this so I decided that, while I was defending Keitaro, might as well defend her as well.
"Now come you two, you really shouldn't say things like that to other people, that you shouldn't. I mean you two aren't to much better than she is, Shirai-san with your glasses, practically the same as hers." I said as Shirai took of his glasses and looked at them and kinda froze, gaining a look on his face that just said 'they are the same...'. "And you Haitani-san, you yourself just said you haven't had a date for a while, so you shouldn't be talking about other's personal lives." I said as Haitani resumed his 'depressed' pose, the smirk on the girl's face growing wider.
"Yeah..." They both suddenly muttered as I felt the girl's ki begin to calm down.
"But..." I said as they all raised their heads. "Keitaro-san, you really should think about that. While I don't agree with the logic of Haitani-san and Shirai-san, it would be good for you. If you keep living for the past instead of focusing on today, and tomorrow for that matter, then you won't live a very healthy life Keitaro-san." I said, feeling slightly hypocrytical due to my own obsession with Enishi... but that was different... I think... isn't it?... of course it is. "Besides you shouldn't judge a person by what they 'first' look like." I said as Keitaro sighed.
"Yeah, but Kenshin-san... I just don't really think it would work." Keitaro said as the girl's ki perk up in agitation once more as I suddenly began chanting in my mind.
'Don't say anything stupid Keitaro-san, don't say anything stupid Keitaro-san. For the love of God, Keitaro-san don't say anything stupid.' I said, suddenly fearing for my life.
"I mean, I don't exactly come off as the greatest guy of all time. I'm not all that bright, afterall I'm being tutored by you!" Keitaro said while Shirai and Haitani looked at me with interested eyes.
"Home schooled." I said as Shirai and Haitani went 'oh' and then Keitaro continued.
"I'm not that good looking either, lot's of people on the street will think I'm still in High School.. and I'm practically twenty. I barely have any money and on top of that I'm a ronin. And what you said may be true Kenshin-san. I mean sure she looks like a bookworm now, but if you take off the glasses, let her hair down, and get her some different clothes, she could be pretty cute." Keitaro said as the girl suddenly blushed, and her ki dropped again and I sighed a sigh of relief, once again.
'Thank you Keitaro-san... thank you...' I thought as Keitaro suddenly sighed.
"I mean, why would girls see much in me, when I don't really see much in myself, you know?" Keitaro said as I raised an eyebrow.
"What do you mean by that Keitaro-san?" I asked as Keitaro sighed again.
"I mean, when I look at myself I see much that I don't like and wish I could change... and not too much that makes me proud, you know what I mean?" Keitaro asked as the memory of the yakuza thugs slaughtering my orphan friends flashed through my mind... that always brought about the feeling... the feeling... of weakness.
"Yes I understand exactly how you feel." I said as Keitaro's head dropped and the girl we had been talking about suddenly looked at us with a look of both pity, and understanding. While Shirai and Haitani put their hands on our shoulders.
"Hey now, come on you two. You shouldn't be putting yourselves down, that's our job." Haitani joked as a grin made its way to Keitaro's and my face.
"Besides, you still got us Keitaro... and I guess you do too Kenshin...san." Shirai said, reluctantly putting the suffix their.
"Yeah, we'll be the ronin... foursome." Haitani said as I raised my eyebrow.
"Foursome?" I asked as Shirai nodded.
"Yeah, if you have been home schooled, without going to college, that basically puts you at our level." Shirai said as I nodded.
"Alright then." I said as suddenly the girl we had been talking about suddenly got up and walked over.
"Excuse me, but can I borrow these two for a second." The girl said as she grabbed Keitaro and I my the sleeves.
"Huh?" We both got out before being pulled onto our backs, and being dragged by the girl.
"It won't take too long, just come with me." The girl said as she dragged us out of the room, leaving Shirai and Haitani with confused looks on their faces. I began panicking around the time she got us to the roof, her ki... it was scary when it was mad... wait, what!? As she dropped us on the rooftop I decided to take a better look at her... auburn colored hair... antennae at the front of her hair... sorta pale... scary ki... oh man... it couldn't be... it just couldn't. Keitaro just kinda stared for a minute before regrouping himself and talking.
"Look... if this is about me bumping into you I said I was sorry..." Keitaro said as I nudged him in the side and he looked at me while I mouthed the name of his two friends, it was hard for him to tell, since I was practically shaking in fear. "And if its about what my... our friends said, we're sorry about that too." Keitaro said.
"Its not what those two said that's bugging me, what you two said was sweet... but what I'm annoyed about is a certain something you two said..." The girl said as she turned to us and the image of a certain auburn haired girl punching me;
1. into the railway at the annex
2. At the entrance of Hinata Sou
And most recently, 3. From the ceiling of mine and Keitaro's room.
I literally lept onto the ground, crawled till I was in front of Naru, and put my hands together above my head, as I bowed by head. "Please, whatever it is we said, please forgive us, me, us. We did not mean to anger you! Please have pity!" I semi shouted as a sweat drop formed on the back of Keitaro's and Naru's heads.
"Ummm... Kenshin-san... what are you doing?" Keitaro asked as I crawled back to Keitaro, and pulled him down to my level.
"Keitaro-san, don't you recognize her?" I asked as Keitaro shook his head no and I began whispering into his ear. "It's Naru-san..." I said as Keitaro's eyes widened to the point where they busted clear out of the lens of his glasses, and he then he leapt in front of Naru and got into the same poistion I was in moments ago.
"PLEASE DON'T HURT ME, US, ME! WE, I, WE DIDN'T MEAN WHAT WE SAID, WHATEVER IT WAS!" Keitaro said as I leapt beside him and got into the same position.
"Please, SPARE US!!!" We both shouted as Naru's sweat drop doubled in size.
NARU POV
I stared at those two as they sat there, begging me for forgiveness. I didn't think they were that afraid of me, but by the looks of it I put the fear of God into them... I don't understand why Keitaro's so scared, I haven't even touched him, but Kenshin... I can understand. I tried to decided what to do, I could just play up the drum of the moment and have them kiss my feet, but it is so sad to see a grown man, and a teenage boy beg and plead. I'll ease their poor minds.
Kenshin POV
As Keitaro and I begged we heard Naru clear her throat, we looked up to see her taking off her glasses. "You two calm down." She said as we backed up back to where we were and stood up again. "You two didn't insult me, it was more or less what you said about yourselves." Naru said making Keitaro and I raise our eyebrows and look at her with a 'Really?' kinda of look. "I mean Keitaro, you're practically your own worst enemy!" Naru shouted as Keitaro who ducked his head. "And you!" She shouted as she pointed at me.
"Me?! What did I do!??!" I asked as she lowered her finger.
"Nothing, you have a clean slate." Naru said as a shiver went up and down my spine.
'Woah, deja vu.' I thought as I was reminded of the night Naru revealed that she figured us out, but I smiled, being spared Naru's wrath would make anyone happy.
"But..." Naru said as she pulled out the last Prep Exam results. "Keitaro, these scores are terrible!" Naru shouted as Keitaro kinda stared. "If I hadn't seen those practice tests you took at Hinata Sou, I would think that you are a complete idiot." She said as Keitaro kinda slumped over.
"But he is doing much better Naru-san." I said, trying to defuse the potentialy dangerous situation.
"Yeah, but the Entrance Exam is in two weeks, its going to take a lot of work for him to be able to get into Tokyo U at this rate!" Naru said as I smiled.
"Well then..." I said as I put a hand on Keitaro's shoulder. "I guess I'll be playing tutor a lot more over the next couple weeks then won't I?" I said as Keitaro raised his head and smiled, and out of the corner of my eye, I could see Naru smiling as well.
"Oh yeah, what are you doing here in the first place anyway Kenshin? Naru asked as I shrugged.
"Keitaro left his lunch at Hinata Sou, so I ran over here to get it to him." I said as Naru's eyes widened slightly.
"You... ran here... and got here before class started..." Naru said as she looked at Keitaro who just shrugged.
"I'm still trying to figure out how he did it." Keitaro said as they looked at me and I just smiled.
"You two just underestimate just how fast I am, and I am very fast that I am." I said as we heard a bell ring. "That sounds like the class bell, you two better get to class." I said as they looked at me.
"What are you going to do?" They asked as I shrugged.
"Well I didn't have too much to do anyway, I think I'll stick around here, Hiko-san does want me to keep up with my studies." I said as they nodded and we all ran to get the the class.
OMAKE!!!!
Then all of a sudden Motoko and Su jumped out of their clouds, Motoko armed with her sword, and Su armed with a heat-seaking rocket launcher. They stared each other down before Motoko struck. "Shinmeiryuu: Zankousen (Way of Gods' Cries: Light Cleaving Flash)!" Motoko shouted as she swung her sword and sent a wave a ki towards Su. Su rolled out of the way and armed her rocket.
"HA! Now I'm gonna get you with this HEAT SEAKING MISSLE!!!" Su shouted as she launched her rocket, only to have it do a U-turn and begin following the wave of ki... that was heading straight towards the couch I was on. Everyone stopped fighting as they watched the missle and ki wave slowly head towards the couch I was on. They all heard a yawn coming from the couch as my head peeked over the side, my eyes drooping.
"What's with all the racket..." I said as I suddenly saw the ki wave and rocket. "Oh great again?" I said aloud as the rocket and ki wave hit me, sending me through the roof of the house and flying through the air. As I went up I rested my head on my arm and checked an imaginary watch on my wrist as I sighed. "This one may take a little while..." I muttered as I disappeared into a cloud. Then I reappeared out of that cloud, but only this time with a game board and little wooden squares with kanjis on them. i began placing the squares in order and I smiled. "There!" I said in triumph as I looked at the board...
"I spelled 'Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu' that should be worth at least fifty points!" The board of Scrabble. As I celebrated I looked down to see me approaching the hot springs. "Well time to pack up." I said as I stuffed the board and wood pieces into my sleeve pocket, and then, in mid-air, got into a praying position as my body hit the water.
END OMAKE!!!!
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