Love Hina: Kenshin the Keeper
Hey there, this is Arganaut with the latest chapter of Love Hina: Kenshin the Keeper. Anywho, sorry this took me so long to update, I've been a little sick recently so I needed to rest a bit. I'm still a little sick, but I think I can force out another chapter of this story. All five of my faithful reviewers reviewed last chapter, but I'd like to see a lot more people reviewing... so review dammit! Plllllleeeeeaaaasssseeee?
ANOUNCEMENT!!!!!!!!!!!
Alright then people, as most of you should know, I have posted yet another story. Its a LH story, and its called Love Hina: Switch. Now then, due to the introduction of this story, I'll be lowering the amount of words per chapter in this story to at least 5,000. I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but hell, I think I'm not that kind of author... besides... less words means more chances at cliff hangers... heheheehehehehehehe...
Anywho, onto the reviews:
unlovedepacifist- Well, you'll just have to wait and see.
Infinite Freedom- Hmmm... well, that'd be a little too... well, blunt if you ask me. And the fight idea... Hiko will fight people, but I haven't planned on making it Tsuruko.
Raenef the Elf- It could be something important... or it might not be... you'll have to wait and see.
charles ho- Man, you're just a fountain of creativity aren't you? Anyway, I'm keeping what I have planned mostly under the rug, and I won't tell you all any of the details till we get there... though your ideas are most appreciated.
paintball-gamer- Hey, the fact that you reviewed at all is good enough for me. So thanks for reviewing my story dude.
Anywho, that's all of the reviews for the last chapter, now let's move onto the next chapter of Love Hina: Kenshin the Keeper!!!
Chapter 12: I Hate Valentine's Day
Hinata Dorms
Kenshin POV
Well hello there, it has been quite a while now, hasn't it? Guess what, tomorrow is the fourteenth of February... and you know what that means... it's going to be Valentine's Day! You may ask 'what is the reason I am so excited about Valentine's Day?'...and you have a point. Before, with Hiko, I was home schooled, and I didn't get out much because of training... so you could say that I've never really celebrated a Valentines' Day with anyone besides myself... Hiko doesn't count since he's my father.
But now, I'm living here at Hinata Sou, with all of its tenants... and I can celebrate Valentine's Day with them. I'm going to have to buy quite a bit of chocolate for everyone... but I think it can be done. Well, anyway, time to get back on task. Naru, myself, and Keitaro were walking up the steps to the dorms. Naru and Keitaro were discussing the results of one of the tests they had just taken, while I, on the other hand, was picking up some supplies for the kitchen that we needed.
"Darn... didn't do so well on the exam..." Keitaro muttered, looking over his score as Naru shrugged a bit.
"With you, that kind of score is pretty good isn't it?" Naru asked as Keitaro sighed a bit and I nodded.
"Well he is improving, that he is." I said as the dorm manager looked at me with a look of thanks upon his face. Naru suddenly sighed as she looked upward slightly.
"Tomorrow's already February the fourteenth... we need to get to work..." Naru said as Keitaro suddenly froze up, a very dismal expression on his face. Naru looked at him, a look of slight concern on her face. "Something wrong?" She asked as Keitaro was about to say something before I sighed a sigh of content and looked at them both with a slight smile.
"Why, nothing should be wrong, after all, how could something be wrong when tomorrow's Valentine's Day?" I asked as both of them looked at me with a weird look, Naru muttering 'oh yeah, tomorrow is Valentine's Day' quickly as she stared at me.
"Why are you so happy Kenshin-san?" Keitaro asked as Naru nodded along with him, most likely curious as to the reason of my happiness.
"Well it's actually very simple Keitaro-san." I said as he kept on walking up the stairs. "Before, I always had to celebrate Valentine's Day on my own. I was home schooled so I never met any girl's at a public school, and most of my free time was taken up by training." I said still smiling slightly. "I couldn't celebrate it with Hiko-san... that would've been very odd." I said as they nodded, seemingly in agreement. "But now..." I said as I turned to face them.
"I can celebrate Valentine's day here, with everyone at Hinata Sou!" I said as my smile widened slightly. "So why should there be no reason for me to be excited?" I asked as both Naru and Keitaro nodded before we finally reached the top of the stairs, Kitsune waiting for us at the front door. After we entered, each of us went our separate ways. Naru went to her room, Keitaro went to the kitchen, the supplies I bought in tow, and I went to get back to doing what I was doing before I was sent off...
Helping Sanosuke fix the hole in the wall that was made a few days ago due to a little accident involving Sanosuke, Naru, and the hot springs... for which Naru has said that she was a bit sorry... and Sanosuke sort of accepted it. At any rate, the sounds of a hammer crashing into wood resounded through the halls as I grew closer to where I knew Sanosuke would be.
Sano POV
BAM... BAM... BAM... Ba "OOOOOWWWW! THIS MOTHER BEEPING SON OF A BITCH!" I shouted as I quickly shoved my thumb into my shirt and applied pressure, trying to cut off the flow of blood to it so that it would numb. Right now I was working on this damned hole in the wall that Naru and I made during a little… accident. Kenshin was supposed to be helping me... but the little bastard got off when they told him to go pick up some groceries.
I heard footsteps as I turned my head to see Kenshin, smiling at me slightly as he walked over. Anyone else and I would've assumed that smile was formed because of amusement to my pain... but this kid just smiled a lot... so I let him off the hook. He knelt down beside me, picked up a hammer, and a few nails, and began helping me again. After a while, the pain numbed and I was able to get back to work along with him.
"So, tomorrow's Valentine's Day, eh?" I asked him, trying to strike up a conversation so that this job wouldn't be so boring. Kenshin gave me an odd look, probably wondering why I'd try to start a conversation, before promptly giving me one of his smiles before turning back to his work.
"Yes, it is actually, and I can't wait to celebrate it with everyone here!" Kenshin said as I nodded slightly before continuing my hammering. "And don't worry Sanosuke-san, I'm not giving you anything tomorrow... that would be weird." Kenshin said as I raised an eyebrow and looked at him.
"Wait, why would you give anyone anything in the first place?" I asked as Kenshin blinked at me.
"Well, tomorrow's Valentine's Day... the day everyone exchanges Valentines to one and the other... right?" Kenshin asked as I nearly face-vaulted.
"KENSHIN, THAT'S WHAT WHITE DAY'S FOR!" I shouted as Kenshin looked at me with a confused look.
"Oro?" He said as I shook my head.
"Girl's give boy's chocolates on Valentine's Day, but boy's give girl's chocolates on White Day! Don't you know that?!" I shouted as Kenshin just blinked at me a few times.
"Wait... what's the point on making two different days for the same activity if you can just as easily do it on one day?" Kenshin asked as I was about to shout at him... till I realized I didn't have an answer either. I tried to think of one for a few moments... only to find that I couldn't think of one. I shrugged, and he shrugged, as we went back to work hammering the boards in. "Sometimes our holiday traditions can get confusing eh?" He asked as I nodded.
"Damn straight." I said as I continued doing this god awful, and dangerous (well, dangerous to my thumb at least) job. After a while, we finally finished nailing in all the boards. We sighed as we smiled at our handiwork. Kenshin looked up at me with a small grin as he stretched out a bit.
"So, should we get some food?" He asked as suddenly both of our stomachs began growling.
"Well... nobody's going to cook after dinner... so I don't see why we can't sneak a bit of food out of the fridge." I said, Kenshin and I both grinning as we began making our way to the kitchen. We made it all the way there, and we opened the door... to see Keitaro just staring into the little oven on the counter, doing absolutely nothing but staring. Kenshin and I just glanced at each other, giving each other a confused look, before I smirked a bit.
"Shhhh..." I said as I slowly began sneaking over to Keitaro's position. I could almost hear Kenshin chuckling into his fist as I sneaked closer and closer to the bookworm. I was right behind him, and I looked back to Kenshin with a devilish grin before turning around... "RRRRRAAAAAWWWWWRRRRRR!" I roared as suddenly Keitaro squealed like a little girl as he jumped up into the roof... his head going all the way through the ceiling.
"Wow Sanosuke-san, you really scared him." Kenshin said, walking up beside me as I gave an amused chuckle.
"What did you expect? I'm Sanosuke Sagara, and this was way too easy for me." I said, my ego growing with each and every single word I said. After a moment, I pulled Keitaro down from the ceiling, and set him down on the floor. He shook himself a bit before glaring at me... he did so until there was a small beep moments later. Keitaro smiled as he put on some oven mitts... Kenshin and I looked at him with a raised eyebrow.
"Keitaro-san, what are you cooking?" Kenshin asked as I simply nodded my head... I was mildly interested in what the little nerd was cooking. Keitaro merely chuckled as he opened the door to the oven.
"Well... you see... Valentine's Day has never been a good day of the year for me..." Keitaro said as he sighed. "I've never gotten a Valentine... and every year my friends show off their Valentines... and rub them in my face." Keitaro said as we both nodded. All of a sudden, Keitaro pulls out this huge chocolate cake from the oven, a huge grin plastered on his face. He put it on the counter, and it seemed to glow... like some kind of holy object...
"HERE IT IS! Keitaro's special Valentine's chocolate cake '99! With over one-hundred different ingredients... and even almonds!" Keitaro shouted as he took a bit of the cake, and then tasted it. In the next moment he picked the cake up and held it above his head. "FABULOUS! Girl's can't make this kind of chocolate!" Keitaro shouted as tears of happiness seemed to stream out of his eyes. Keitaro chuckled lightly as he brought the cake down slightly.
"Because I never receive any chocolate... I make my own every year..." Keitaro said... Kenshin and myself stared at him as if he were a mad-man. "MY SKILLS CAN EASILY MATCH ANY REAL CHEFS! Let's see who can laugh at me this time!" Keitaro shouted as he busted out of the kitchen, and began running down the halls, laughing hysterically as he did. Kenshin and I stared at the door in which Keitaro left... both of us with widened eyes.
I merely sighed as I shook my head. "Idiot..." I muttered as I looked at Kenshin, hoping that he wouldn't try to defend Keitaro... I mean, how could you defend that?
"I think Keitaro-san may have just gone a little insane..." Kenshin said as I looked at him with slightly widened eyes. Kenshin usually never said anything bad about anyone... he must've thought that Keitaro was seriously screwed up to have said that. But, Keitaro's sanity was not what we originally came in here to check up on... "Besides... if he's going to give himself chocolate shouldn't he give it to himself on White Day?" Kenshin asked as I sweat dropped.
"I mean.. if he's a boy and boy's are supposed to give chocolate out on White Day then he should give it to himself then... but then that would make it look like a boy gave it to him and that would be awkward so to make it look like a girl gave it to him he would give it to himself on Valentine's Day... but since he's a boy and he's giving it to himself he should... oro, oro, oro, oro, oro, oro, oro, oro, oro, oro, oro, oro, oro..." I sighed, then I slapped Kenshin across the face, knocking him back to his senses.
"Let's just get some food and get out before that crazed idiot comes back." I said as Kenshin nodded solemnly. We got to the fridge and began raiding it, taking just about everything we could carry. We reluctantly walked back to Keitaro's room... the reason I saw reluctantly is because we really didn't want to be around the lunatic. Fortunately for us, when we got to the room he wasn't there, most likely studying with Naru.
We quickly at the food that we brought up with us before laying down in our futons, feeling slightly exhausted from the day's labor. We fell asleep before Keitaro came back... and I was definitely thankful... that boy's one fry short of a happy meal.
Valentine's Day - Night
Kenshin POV
Well, today's finally the day... Valentine's Day! When I woke up this morning, it was the first thing on my mind. I got up and got dressed as I began doing my chores, waiting for the Valentine's to be given to me... though I was sent to the store by the girl's before they could give me any chocolate... apparently they found out about me and Sanosuke raiding the fridge... and since Sanosuke was already out I had to go get groceries.
It was late when I got back, problems at the tram station delaying my trip. As I approached the steps to the dorms I saw Sanosuke and Keitaro approaching as well. I smiled as I ran up to them, the groceries I had in a bag. "Hello there Keitaro-san, Sanosuke-san, how are you two?" I asked, noticing Sanosuke carrying a few wooden boards, and Keitaro carrying his cake in a box.
"Well, this little thing here got me out of another Valentine's Day of being made fun of." Keitaro said, pride obviously lacing his voice. Sanosuke merely let loose an annoyed sigh as he looked at me.
"And I was just making sure that we have some wooden boards for the next time one of us gets blown through one of the walls." Sanosuke said as we all managed to climb up all the stairs. We began walking into the door, and both Sanosuke and I noticed Shinobu hiding behind a wall. As she was about to exit...
"HIYAS!" Su shouted as she jumped forward. All three of us had our mouths hanging open as suddenly she jammed a piece of chocolate into each of our mouths. I personally chocked the chocolate down, the spicy flavor making it difficult. It was Keitaro who voiced our confusion.
"Why is this chocolate so hot!?!?" He shouted as we nodded... and suddenly he froze, a slightly dumbfounded look on his face as he muttered 'My first Valentine's Day chocolate...'. Su merely giggled.
"It was my curry flavored Valentine's Day chocolate!" She shouted as I smiled, Keitaro continued giving a slightly stupefied look, and Sanosuke just shrugged.
"Well Su-chan, thank you and I'll see you on White Day." I said as the foreign girl gave me an off look.
"What's White Day?" She asked as Keitaro and Sanosuke face vaulted. I kept a smile on my face as I scratched the back of my head.
"Well Su-chan, apparently in Japan, one Valentine's Day isn't enough, so they split it up so that on Valentine's Day girl's would give boys chocolates. On White Day boy's would give girl's chocolates, understand?" I asked as she looked at me with a raised eyebrow.
"Why not do it on the same day?" She asked as I shrugged.
"That's what I wondered too..." I said as she giggled and ran off. I was about to walk off myself till Motoko approached me.
"Kenshin-san." She said strongly, a blush on her face. "Since you are the Grounds keeper here... and I'm a tenant... and, though I don't really celebrate too many modern holidays... it is your first year here so... here you go." Motoko said as she pulled out a bag of instant chocolate mix. I smiled as I took the bag, and bowed my head slightly.
"Thank you Motoko-san, it is nice to know that you were thinking of me." I said as she merely grunted, her blush deepening slightly. "And I promise to get you something on White Day." I said as I bowed slightly. "Happy Valentine's Day Motoko-san." I said as I rose up, only to find that her blush had increased slightly. She muttered a quick 'Happy Valentine's Day' before walking off... well, walking into a wall, and then walking off.
I smiled as I turned towards the corridor... to find Shinobu standing in front of me. "Ah, Shinobu-chan, are you having a good day?" I asked as she blushed and nodded... and it was only then I noticed the small box in her hand. "Shinobu-chan, what do you have there?" I asked as her blush deepened before pushing the box into my hands before running off.
I, and I assumed, everyone blinked as I opened the box. I smiled slightly as I saw a piece of Valentine's Chocolate in the shape of my sword with the kanji for my name on the blade. "Thank you Shinobu-chan!" I shouted, thinking that she would hear me. Suddenly Naru popped her head out. "Ah, Naru-san." I said as nodded my head at her before walking off.
Sano POV
I stared at Kenshin as he walked off, a little creeped out by what just happened. I had never seen so much Valentine giving in any five minutes of my entire life. Sighing, I began walking towards the kitchen... I wanted something to drink. Before I could get there, Kitsune suddenly popped out of one of the corridors, a small smile, not a smirk, on her face. "Well hello there stud." She said as I sighed.
"Happy Valentine's Day." I said as I half expected her to begin smirking... when she didn't, I looked down to see a small box behind her back.
"Speaking of which…" She said as she reached behind her and brought out the small box of chocolates. I looked at the box of chocolates, and then her, with eyebrows raised. "You should be grateful; normally I only get ten yen chocolates for the other guys." Kitsune said as I took the box of chocolate, only one eyebrow raised.
"Kitsune-san... thanks, I'll be sure to get you something on White Day." I said as suddenly her smile turned into a smirk.
"Oh, you don't have to." She said, her voice filled with something that made me suspicious. "Instead, how about you go out and buy a few bottles of Sake and bring it to the kitchen later so we can have one of our nightly drinking sessions!" Kitsune said with a wide smirk as I shook my head.
"Fair enough," I said as she kept on smirking at me while running off to the kitchen, muttering a small tune about Sake. I sighed as I shook my head, I should've remembered, when Kitsune gives something to you, you'd better be ready to be buying her drinks.
Later That Night - Kitchen
I stepped through the kitchen door, carrying a couple of bags with Sake in them. I had bought about eight bottles of the stuff, having seen Kitsune's rather impressive ability to put the stuff down when she really wanted to. Speaking of Kitsune, she was sitting in her usual seat at the table, looking at me with a huge smirk. "So you didn't bail out on me stud." She said as I merely laughed lightly before sitting down in the chair across from her.
"Like I'd ever bail out of drinking," I said as I picked out two bottles of the good stuff, handing one to Kitsune and the other to myself. We popped off the corks on the top and just gave a pretty tired look to each other.
"To Valentine's Day," We both said as we clanged the bottles together and began drinking the stuff. After taking my first drink I raised the bottle up.
"And to Saint Valentine... who must've been the Patron Saint of nasty tasting chocolates, overpriced cards, and people jumping all over you for a date." I said as she laughed a bit and clanged her bottle with mine as we took another drink of the Sake. As she set her bottle down she sent a grin my way.
"Didn't know you didn't like Valentine's Day, stud." She said as she took a drink. I scoffed slightly as I drank more of the alcoholic liquid.
"It's not that I don't like it, but it wasn't all that great around my neighborhood." I said as I shrugged. "When I was a kid the girl's were still in their 'boy's are so gross' stage... and in my other neighborhood when I was a teenager, the girl's were in their 'boy's are so rape-able' stage." I said as Kitsune nearly spat out the Sake she was drinking as she began laughing like crazy.
"Hahahahaaha... my ribs..." She said as she slowly but surely got herself under control. "So you're telling me that..." The fox-girl began as she began giggling to much for her to stop.
"Yep, the girl's there were as perverted as Motoko and Naru seem to think most men are." I said as she nodded. "I mean, get this, they were so... 'easy' that one day I was actually able to get this close to them." I said as I leaned over the table so that my face was barely six inches away from Kitsune, making her flinch a bit. "Put on a cheesy grin." I said as I put on that exact same cheesy grin. "And said..." As I tried to force the sexiest looking expression I could onto my face.
"Do I make you horny baby?" I said as Kitsune blushed a bit as she stared wide-eyed at me... maybe she couldn't hold her Sake as well as I thought she could if she was already getting a blush from the alcohol. I scooted back and sighed as she seemed to relax a bit. "And I swear to you she would've done the horizontal monster mash if I had asked her to..." I said as I leaned back, took a drink, and sighed. "But, I never dated one of them... but I kept messing with their heads." I said as we both began laughing, Kitsune a little less than she would normally, as we took another drink.
"I know exactly how you feel." She said as she reached for another Sake bottle. "You see, I was an early and pretty big bloomer." The fox said as she smirked. "So the guys were pretty much my slaves." Kitsune said as we both chuckled. "And I would always get tons of chocolate on Valentine's Day... I could get even more depending on how I dressed or what I did during the day." She said as I raised an eyebrow.
"For example, if I felt like getting a lot more of those sweets than normal... all I'd have to do is, well you know, hike up my skirt, wink a lot, not wear a bra, you know, those kind of things." She said as I nodded.
"Yeah, I get it; it's not all that different from my own tricks." I said as she looked at me. "You know, wear muscle shirts, or no shirt at all, tight pants, the whole deal." I said as we both began laughing.
"I'm not sure if we were born unlucky or lucky there, stud. On one hand we get more attention than anyone else in this world because of our bods." She said as I nodded.
"But at the same time we get the kind of attention we don't really want." I said as I leaned back in my chair. "Yep, these bodies aren't smart bombs. We may hit the target we want..." I began as she smirked and leaned back.
"But we're also going to hit everyone else in the vicinity." Kitsune said as we both began laughing, as I reached for my third bottle and she reached for her fourth. "You know stud, you make a way better drinkin' buddy than the otherssssshhh..." She said, slightly starting to slur her words. "... I mean you CAN drink sshho you're already be-better than the rest of 'em!" She said as she began laughing loudly and I chuckled.
"Well Kitsune, you may not be the first drinking buddy I've had." I said, little slur in my voice thanks to years of drinking, plus the fact I was bigger. "But you're definitely the most amusing." I said as we both laughed again. We both took another drink, finishing the bottles of Sake we had been drinking. We both reached out for the last bottle, and both our hands touched the other as we reached for it.
I looked calmly at Kitsune, her alcohol blush deepening for whatever reason as I pulled my hand back. "You can have it, don't feel like drinking too much tonight." I said as I smirked. "Besides, one of us has to be partially sober so we can find the rooms." I said as I chuckled a bit and she just smiled a bit, taking another drink.
"Thankshh, shtud." She said as she finished off the last of the Sake. "But I don't think I'll be needing any help to get up sshhome shtairs." She said in a slur as she tried to stand up out of the chair, only to fall down onto the ground. "Ow... I don't normally fall after a few bottleshh of Shhake... the shtuff you got musht've been pretty shtrong..." She said, her head spinning in a slight circle. I sighed as I stood up and walked over to her.
"Looks like I'm going to be the designated walker this evening." I said as I bent down. "Alright then, and up you go." I said as I hoisted Kitsune to her feet, helping stabilize the fox girl by putting her arm over my shoulders while I placed one of mine around hers. "Alright, you ready?" I asked as she merely nodded her head. We began walking at a pretty slow rate, myself trying to keep the drunk woman next to me from falling.
It took several minutes of walking, helping stand back up, and even waking up, but we finally reached Kitsune's room. I opened the door for her, only to find Kitsune not moving. "Hey, Shtud... I think I may need shome help getting into the futon thingy..." She said, her eyes only half-way open. I nodded as I helped Kitsune over to the small bed. She turned to me and gave me a drunken smile. "Thanksh shtud... couldn't have gotten here without ya..." She said as I merely shook my head.
"Well, what was I going to do, leave a drunken damsel in distress?" I said with a chuckle as she slapped my shoulder.
"Hey... I'm not as think as you drunk I am... oh... hahahaha..." She said as we both began laughing a bit. When her giggles died down she slowly got off of me, and began guiding herself to the futon. Before lying down, she turned to me and smiled. "Goodnight shtud..." She said as I nodded and left while she began getting into the futon. I exited the room and shrugged my shoulders. "Well, looks like this Valentine's Day was a bit better than the others." I said as I began making the short trek to my own room.
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