YOUR ORDERS
Chapter 3: You Can Be the Hunted or the Hunter

PV: KEITARO

Ouch, ouch, ouch... My head hurts a lot. I cannot identify where I am, because my vision is blurred. I try to move, but I feel it's impossible to do it... Wait a sec, I can be wrong due to the state of my vision, but the white thing around me looks like ropes... I'm tied! What's... Oh no, now I remember, I was going away from the boarding house, when those silly girls caught me...

I recover some of my vision, and I realize I'm inside of a little closed space. I'm laid on an apparently metallic floor. I don't believe it, they left me all bound into the Seta-mobile load space. What are they gonna do with me? I can't believe it, they're taking a vengeance on me, just because I'd said some truths... At least, those were words stuck at my throat so long ago. I was so serene, I'd unburdened everything that tormented me, and I was finally believing I set myself free from those... those pests. Why do such things happen just to me?

Just a little, I hear voices outside from the Seta-mobile... I think they're discussing something... It sounds they're defining my future. And I just wanted some peace, what a hell. I'm swinging myself, trying to slacken the lasso, but that one was well done. I try to relax, now my life is in the hands of my tormentors. What a damned life...

PV: KITSUNE

Yes... Analyzing better, there was no difficulty to persuade the girls bringing Keitaro back to the Hinata-sou. It seems that all the girls were upset because we were losing one of the best things that happened to our lives (after all, with him, the boarding house was so much funny, he he he!) and the girls agreed to do anything for bringing him back. They were just needing someone to pull the trigger, and I like to see things getting hot...

I convened all of them to the main entrance, and everyone must be properly dressed to the act; after all, we don't hunt everyday, but when we get involved in one, we always try to do a scenic touch – even if some people say we get things too seriously. C'mon, just because we are dressing in old English uniforms suited to the practice of fox hunting... What's the big deal? At least, my suit set me pretty good and it's beautiful – even if the nickname "Kitsune" suggests I'm the target, this case the "fox" is another person, and the person is called Keitaro... Well, coming back to the script, when we're all in the saloon, I announced the plan.

"Fellows, this is a emergency meeting! I state that the Keitaro hunting season is open!", I said it with a command sound.

"Cool, let's bring Keitaro back!", Kaolla shouted.

"But, Kitsune-san, are you planned something?", Shinobu asked.

"Of course I am! We just have to use the Seta-mobile and do the capture maneuver!", I stated, with a great smile.

"I don't know why we are losing time with that needless guy...", Naru exclaimed, crestfallen. It could be just my point of view, but Naru's reaction has some disillusion...

"I agree with Naru-sempai! If he wants to go away, just do it. We cannot force him to stay", Motoko assented.

"Well, by the way, I think the others will like to contest Keitaro's heart...", I provoked, just to see Naru's reaction.

"WHAT?", Naru and Motoko asked, with the faces looking like a red pepper. Oh, this is getting so funny, it seems Motoko also admitted she's into the contest.

"Motoko also likes Keitaro! Cool, it's getting so much funny!", Kaolla shouted playfully.

"Ok, that's right! Su-chan, use your radar to locate Keitaro! Haruka, take the Seta-mobile steering wheel on! I hope all of you are ready for the hunt!", I said in a voice of command. I don't even know how I convinced Haruka driving that hellish thing, but the most important thing is that we'll get to attack.

I saw that Naru seemed to be somewhat upset, and I tried to get her excited. I got closed to her and said: "Don't hide it from me, you wanna chase Keitaro..."

"But why did he go away this way? What did we do wrong?", Naru asked, with the eyes slightly watered.

"I don't know, but I think Keitaro decided to be fearless and unburdened... Now it's your turn, tell me what you really feel about Keitaro", I tried to chat.

"I hate him...", Naru said, staring at the ground.

"So, you must tell that looking to my eyes.", I stated.

"Keitaro... Well, I ha... I ha... I-I-I...", Naru stuttered while she was stared me.

"C'mon, tell me what you really feel! Tell me you hate him out loud in front of me!", I scolded, keeping a very austere look.

"I don't have to say anything... He's... He's a coward... Running away from us like this, as if he's a John Doe", Naru unburdened.

"Well, we'll go after him, and so we'll see what you really feel...", I affirmed, keeping her away from me after finishing the sentence.

We got ready to the hunt. Kaolla played the trumpet and we went away into the Seta-mobile. I thought Keitaro would be gone at the subway station for leaving. Man, how he's predictable... Well, he ought to go to the Tokyo, he wouldn't leave the Toudai. This is something that really disappointed me a little... He even desisted from us, but the damned Toudai. Sometimes, I really can't understand why someone binds himself so tightly to something during the life, as if that thing were practically the breathing air. Well, he didn't delay to feel our presence, and he started to run away in the streets, holding the bags. Keitaro is so awkward he tried to escape from us without dropping the bags.

So, it wasn't so difficult to capture him. Naru hung herself at the door and did a very tight lasso, catching the "fox" into the van. Man, he did beat the head so strong at the bodywork I thought he was into coma... But Motoko early evaluated him and said the life signs were okay, so we breathed more relieved. Keitaro is so lucky for being immortal.

PV: NARU

We didn't delay to come back to Hinata-sou. After all, we needed to discuss what we must do after Keitaro recovering consciousness. The girls were divided, some of them wanted torturing him, while other ones wanted to ask for forgiveness. Sincerely, I had chosen neither to do this nor to do that. I couldn't even understand what I really feel about Keitaro.

Damn, why can't that awkward boy realize how much I'm insecure? After all, we even proved he's devoted and decided – and, perhaps, someone very romantic. There are few men trying to get into the Toudai four times in a row just to carry out a promise made to a little girl almost twenty years ago... The problem is he THINKS the girl is me, but what if I am not the one? Can't he realize such a thing gets me so insecure? I'm afraid he will leave me if he discovers that he hadn't promised to me staying together after entering the Toudai.

Sometimes, people don't know if they're the hunters or the hunted indeed... We're always, some way, mistreating Keitaro... But he have deserved, hasn't he? He just knows to behave that way, as a blend of a sexual maniac plus a flatly circus clown. That clumsy guy doesn't know how to act as a man, how I wish he would have, some day, guts enough to face me and... well... get close. I think he could laugh at me if he knows that I seek the right man to... to... lay down someday.

I must be the "immaculate saint" display, the untouched girl possessed by a sex aversion. That's wrong, I just wanna have my very first time with the right man. Sometimes I thought Keitaro was the right guy. Really, I've already thought... But he's so dumb, he can't read between the lines; I don't have to lay down like this, so easily. And, as that thing has became constant, I'm doubtful if he's the right guy... In addition that the girls keep exciting him and, as he is a pervert, I'm afraid of being betrayed by one of the girls. The last surprise was Motoko, even she's in love with Keitaro?

So long ago, I thought Seta was the right man, but today I found out he's as dumb as Keitaro is. And he set Haruka so sad, 'cos I can ensure she would say "yes" anytime when sensei ask her for wedding. But, how can you take seriously someone that thought, in a workmate wedding, the bridgerooms suits were made to a cosplay contest? Or someone that thinks it's more important digging old pots than coming together to a special person?

And I feel Keitaro is getting the same way. As I'm not sure whether I'm the promised little girl, and he's acting as a depraved beast preferring to dig than get close to me, and now he's gone like this – running away from all of us. I can't believe we are so evil as that... Sometimes, he deserves some ear pulls. Someday, he has to be less of an idiot. He should act as a man, proving that he really loves me and he must give me assurance, that his feelings are real, not based on old promises, things lost into the mist of old memories.

These thoughts are beating into my mind, causing me not to pay attention at the discussion. Mutusmi got close to me and was smiling in front of me. I didn't understand why that girl seemed, sometimes, she's brooding over me.

"Why are you so happy?", I asked, getting a little long face.

"Ara, ara! Kei-kun is back! Now the Hinata-sou is gonna be happy again!", the turtle girl answered. I don't know from where comes so much happiness. Sometimes, I feel she's as naive as Keitaro is... Would she be... It can't be, Mutsumi is the promised little girl? She looks like a counterpart to him, I don't believe that it's impossible Keitaro gave to her the promise. But my Liddo-kun had her name, now I can't understand anything else...

"Well, I think you can race for Keitaro's heart now, can't you?", I answered with a very long face.

"I wish I could, but I know his heart belongs to another girl... Oh, how I wish to be the lucky girl from the promise... But the promised girl seems to be very stubborn...", Mutsumi daydreamed. I take back what I said, she's not as naive as that... She knows how to put wires in others' brains.

I'd make a question about what Mutsumi was intending to say, when the girls realized a noise coming from the van. Keitaro could be recovering consciousness. Geez, he's sleeping so long, and he must be with a aching head. It's the time to decide what we must do with the kanrinrin; after all, the dismissal request isn't received yet. Kaolla and Kitsune took the young landlord out from the van and carried him to the main saloon. According to Kitsune's words, the Keitaro "doomsday" will be made over there. And I won't lose that for nothing in this world...

Chapter written between Oct-21-2004 and Oct-25-2004, and translated at Dec-09-2004. As I'm a Medicine student, I don't have much time for getting attention at the saga. So I apologize if the updatings are delaying.

I wanna thank the reviews inputted in this page, thank you all. All the chapters are revised by beta readers (thank you, Martin) and I'm trying to improve by English, but it's a very difficult thing, because I don't have so many time to practice.

To the Keitaro fans, I'm trying to design him OOC, but I'm trying not to lose his original spirit. He's dumb yet, but not as dumb as in the anime. And he designed him getting some guts... It's too difficult being treated as a slave and continuing the same person – it's what I think, of course.

That's it! Updates will be posted as soon as possible. Keep reading my saga, fellows!