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Chapter 11: The Legend of Mizuho Fujisawa

PV: MIZUHO

This is a never stopping world! I thought that was only an imaginary memory from my childhood, those sorts of mementos where we can't distinguish very well what was real and what we created as a way to trying "to complete" the gaps from such old memories. After all, everything happened at a time of life when the cognition and the long term memory still aren't well created, giving place to the imagination.

But, this time, it wasn't just a non focused memory, it was a real memory. I always had in my mind that I promised to a sweet boy that I'd enter with him into Toudai. I remembered vaguely from Hinata-sou, that my parents lived very near from that place. After my father's death, my mother had to go away, searching for a job that could sustain me and my little brother adequately. Otherwise, today my brother isn't as little as that time, he's 18 years old and didn't want to study at some college. He works in marketing, acting as a commercial commissary. He helps me to finish my college, together with my mother. He can earn good commissions from every business he takes part.

I always told him about my promise, that I'd find someday the Hinata-sou's boy for who I promised to have a date if we'd enter to Toudai. My brother always called me a dreamer, that I should seek for a catch. If I let him guide my life, he'd choose a healthy man; after all, he always said that I didn't have to go by all this cash trouble. But I never give a damn for that stuff, I promised my heart to that boy, and I always dreamt of finding him.

Well, I'm studying at the History college, but I have lots of classes in common with Archeology and Political Sciences, and I had never realized that a boy little integrated with the rest of the class could be the boy from my promise. Keitaro Urashima, so you were the boy? I say again, this is a never stopping world! He turned into a very handsome man, those eyeglasses give him some charm…

He walked with some girls that aren't strangers to me too… I think they also frequented the Hinata-sou. One of them even had a Liddo-kun, and the other one had difficulty speaking. I remembered when I said that "you know that, if two people with a real love for each other enter together to Toudai, they'll be happy forever?", both of them stayed looking at me and they also made the promise. At that time, it'd be just a thing of flirting people, but today – if he carried out the promise for the three girls – would be polygamy… And I'm not ready to divide an object of love.

But, do I really love him? After all, this thing happened 20 years ago, approximately… What do I really feel to him now? Kei-kun seemed to be someone very gentle, but is there something beyond that? I don't think so, because it was so many years without seeing him, without feeling him, without touching him. So, why is my heart beating so fast? Can it be the old flame lighting again? I needed to walk more with him, and so I'll be sure of it.

And opportunities won't be missed, because tomorrow I'll go live at the Hinata-sou… Ah, I need to warn my brother and my mother about the changing. I grabbed my cel phone and I called to my brother first.

"Hello, Koichi! How are you, lil' brother?", I greeted him.

"Yeah, I'm fine! I'm sorry, but I'm going out right now to the night… If you want to talk something with me, I think you must be quick…", Koichi said to me.

"There's no problem, I just wanna let you know that I solved my problem! I'm going to live in a female inn, it'll be very nice!", I affirmed.

"Well, how could you solve so fast... After all, you were waiving for a good time the apartment case, and you could find out a female inn so suddenly? What kind of magic was that?", Koichi derided me.

"Ah, there's a colleague that pointed out to me this inn, he's the manager from out there…", I explained.

"Wait a moment, a man is managing a female inn? Don't you think that's a quite bizarre?", Koichi retorted.

"Stop with that, Koichi! He's a very gentle man, do you read me? I know that to make a choice very well, do you copy that?", I answered.

"Is this some kind of an indirect mockery?", Koichi scolded, with an accent full of pain.

"Oh, please... You know I really like you, brother! I didn't have the purpose of hurting you… If you like what you do, that's what really matters to me…", I responded, with an accent of moan.

"That's ok, I forgive you this time…", Koichi replied, with a fake accent of menace. That was something usual from him. So he continued: "But… where would this place with thousands of pleasures be?".

"It's the Hinata-sou! Mom lived near there... It's a very pleasant place!", I answered, very happy.

"I don't remember... Well, I was so small when mom went to Kashima… I hope you made a good choice…", Koichi said to me, with a voice tone somewhat cagy.

"Everything is fine, don't you worry… I'll warn mom, ok? Kisses, and avoid doing anything silly, ok? I'm very afar from you if you need my help to get you out of jail…", I dismissed him, making a joke.

"And since when was I in a chain gang? It's better I hang up, before you send me a curse… Goodbye, lil' sister!", Koichi dismissed me.

"See you!", I said, hanging up the cell phone. Furthermore, this cell was also a gift he gave me… Koichi always gave me everything he could, so my adoration for him didn't come from nothing.

Well, after that, I also spoke a lot with mom... She sounded pretty nostalgic, when I commented that I'd live in Hinata-sou. I think she's missing my daddy. I talked to her a little, because I was very tired and I needed to be ready to make the change tomorrow. And I need to prepare my soul to get closer to Kei-kun.

PV: HARUKA

Even now, I don't understand exactly what Keitaro wants from Hinata-sou girls... He pushed a situation which girls had to make some truce, and he still neglects to get closer to them. And as an addition to make the climate better, he got a new client from nowhere. I've never imagined Keitaro could turn into someone so good for bluffing, and I've even gotten how's the highest tension level he can suffer without breaking himself.

Well, before I could be able to judge the issue, I managed to know even more about the new tenant. I knocked at Keitaro's bedroom door and I begged leave to come in. Keitaro was ready to sleep, but I stayed at the bedroom and I decided to have a chat about the new tenant.

"Keitaro, could you say, to me at least, who'll be the new tenant? Is it someone trusty, at least?", I inquired, very worried, because I don't know if I can trust at my cousin's abilities to make evaluation.

"Ah, of course you can. It's a very lovable girl, who needs some place to stay, because she doesn't have any conditions to keep at her own the apartment where she lives…", Keitaro explain to me. But it wasn't enough for me.

"Right... But, what do you know about her?", I asked, anxious for more informations.

"Let me see... She's studying History, she'll get degree at same year I'll do it, it was my classmate in several classes, it's a person who gets superb grades, she even took part in so many research groups and seminars, and she's very beautiful…", Keitaro said. The last reference said by him can provoke a real revolution in Hinata-sou…

"And what's her name by the way?", I proceeded the interrogation.

"Man, I don't know why so many preoccupations, Haruka-san... I thought we needed some clients, and she's coming at a good time", Keitaro retorted. A new client can be good for financial business, but I don't know if it's something suitable for love business.

"As I said, all this estate belongs to the Urashima family. So, I get concerned about the sort of person that is coming in this place", I explained, without any longer explanations.

"Sorry, Haruka-san, but I've never chosen the clients you may attend or not at the Tea House, and either I'll choose the sort of clientele allowed to come in the next thematic bar", Keitaro retorted, making an authentic checkmate. Since when had that brat acquired so fierce a tongue?

"It's allright, I'll not make any other qustions about it... And if you wanna get apart from me, it's not a problem…", I affirmed, showing I was very upset. I don't admit them treating me like garbage. When I was leaving the place, Keitaro reached me in the shoulder.

"Sorry, Haruka-san, it wasn't my purpose to be rude to you… Forgive me, please…", Keitaro begged, making a sad expression.

"Ok, Keitaro... But never respond to me like you did. I'm a sister of your father, you must be respectful with me at least. When they expelled you from their home, me and grandma Hina gave you a safe place to stay. Learn how to be grateful with people, or people won't be honest with you", I affirmed, making very clear what I thought about his attitude. "And the next time you act like that to me, I won't have any fear of using brute force, got it?".

"I got it, Haruka-san...", Keitaro said to me, very constrained. I think I went too far this time, but he asked for it.

"Well, throwing away our little argument, you haven't told me the next tenant's name, Keitaro", I said calmly, trying to get rid of the previous unpleasant state.

"Oh, yes... Her name is Mizuho Fujisawa, and she told me her family lived around the neighbourhood… Have you ever heard something about it, Haruka-san?", Keitaro said to me. That name, Mizuho Fujisawa. I don't believe it! I was lightly shocked when I heard that surname. It was one of the girls who used to play with Keitaro when he was a very young boy.

"Yes... I think so... I recall a family who had this surname, but the husband died and the widow had to go away… This thing happened many years ago", I explained, clearly omitting some facts. If this girl also made the promise, I believe there's coming a new competition to the other girls from the inn.

"It's funny, I can't remember her… But she's very lovable, and I believe it'll be nice to live with her", Keitaro affirmed me. I didn't think that way.

"You're the manager, if you're right she'll be a trusty tenant, I don't have any against this fact. I think it's better to leave you alone to sleep, because the week is just starting. See you later, Keitaro", I dismissed him.

"See you soon, Haruka-san", Keitaro replied.

Hell, this is a small world... I've thought I'd never hear Mizuho Fujisawa's name. It doesn't mean I didn't like her, but the current status wasn't good. Girls wanted to conquer Keitaro's heart, and a high level rival came from nowhere.

I just wished to see where this story will end up...

Chapter written in Feb-04-2005, and translated between Jun-26-2006 and Jun-29-2006. Putting Mizuho into the saga gave me a new strength to keep writing. She'll be another character to increase a new challenge for Keitaro's heart. Suddenly, new plots will come to involve other girls…

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