YOUR ORDERS
Chapter 19: The First Day from the Rest of Our Lives

ATTENTION: A special chapter, where some girls recalled the experiences obtained working at the thematic bar. Use the chapter as an attempt to enjoy more details from this saga!

PV: KITSUNE

This was a good idea, wasn't it? The thematic bar was a big success! A merry environment, attractive waitresses, everything that people full of money and energy liked. In the end, people that liked to enjoy the best things offered by life, and they're able to pay for that kind of mimes.

We didn't have to wait any longer to be shown on the main Japanese guides for night entertainments; our bar was even the cover story to the Japanese Cosmopolitan (1)! It's luxury, we're cover from the said magazine, beyond the fact there were many pictures of us illustrating the story (including the cover). Our little enterprise gained the country. I took advantage of my pop star moment, because being famous in Japan is as ephemeral as a butterfly's life, so I entered deeply in the business world.

With the time passing, new girls entered in the inn – after all, what girl didn't want to be associated with a fashion place, with a fame of lodging beautiful girls? Fine clients, new tenants; the thematic bar was a nice idea. It was an interesting experience, because I wouldn't study in a college: my interests were business, my dear…

Obviously, our suits were sources of hilarious moments… There was a funny boy that tried to beset Motoko, but he just tried – our fencer offered a treatment for the inconvenient client, making that guy fly away with a Zanganken… I thought that episode would ruin us, but the opposite occurred! The audience went crazy, even a cinema producer wanted to make a tokusatsu (2) with Motoko! Could you imagine our Motoko as television's heroine?! She was so ashamed; she didn't even come back to the attending.

Something happened at that moment and it was a source of envy to the other girls. Motoko was crying in the kitchen, because she thought that everything was pushing her to the limits, and our Keitaro tried to calm her down. He said to her that working on TV was a great opportunity, but just Motoko on her own had the right to decide if it's a good idea to invest in a artistic career or not. Keitaro had those moments of endearment, and maybe this facet from our beloved fool was the most attractive thing on him for us. I mean, just Keitaro could be able to do such things.

Out bar also passed thru many styles, in an attempt to avoid the nuisance. There was a weekend when all of us attended wearing housekeeper's clothes, very alike to the cosplay that Haruka lent to Motoko when Tsuruko disobliged her own sister from the family duties.

Another weekend was contemplated with the girls using cosplay from King of Fighters characters, it's something really funny… Even Haruka got the climate, travestied as Vanessa. The top girls were Naru dressed as Mai Shiranui and Mutsumi as Yuri Sakazaki; two luscious women with winsome suits attracted men's attention.

Speaking about lustful women, the most commented weekend was when we decided to do a different suit after the Cosmopolitan's reporter. We took advantage of that reporter's success and that our bar was a summer's point to wear suits somewhat audacious.

Naru gave the idea of using beach suits for the attending. But it shouldn't be any suit at all; we should wear high fashioned maillots, chic stuff… Each one of us would choose a style and a color for her own maillot. Shinobu got somewhat red, and Motoko refused – she was afraid of getting a new fight with the clan.

Shinobu wasn't at all hard to persuade; we just put Kei-kun in the chat. But Motoko was very hard to be convinced. Haruka said to her that the clan couldn't interfere in the choices that make people happy; there were some moments when the groups where we'd live weren't able to choose things that could make our souls satisfied. For that statement, Motoko retorted that our decision couldn't be convenient to her, too.

So I had to give my contribution. I approached Motoko by her back and handled her breast, murmuring: "But, Can you imagine if you choose the right swimsuit for you? Can you imagine Keitaro enjoying your curves, ahn?".

Motoko took my hands off her body, but I maintained myself touching her, and so I said: "All of us will show our beautiful bodies to Kei-kun. What a shame, Motoko-chan doesn't want Kei-kun amazed with this body forged for years of kendo…".

Motoko got apart from me and, after looking to the floor for some minutes, she got erect. Something changed inside her; the look was proud and confident. Her grimace showed an attitude more demonstrative than her usual look. Someway, she changed herself that day; she was more daring than her usual. I recalled when Motoko looked to the infinite and stated: "Yes, I'll show what I'm able to do. Everybody will contemplate my beauty!".

The fencer's words provided happiness for all of us. There was a moment of vibe, so we hugged our kendo girl. Despite the fact we're contesting the same man, there was no fun if one of the contenders wasn't ready for the contest. Women like to compete, because a man's choice was similar to a beauty contest. And there wasn't anything more important for a woman than being desired, or even better, being able of provoking a man's desire to the detriment of other women that wanted to have the same objective. If one of the contenders was out, the achievement wasn't as funny as it could be.

That weekend was very torrid. Each girl chose her own maillot, using a pareo (3) to have a sober touch – as if a simple pareo was able to obstruct obscene looks for all of us. Naru played as if she was at home; she didn't walk, she did a parade among the tables. I should admit that Naru was a force of nature, and places where beauty was appreciated were the ideal ecosystems for our fatal redhead. There were lots of work propositions, including high fashioned male magazines as Playboy.

The thematic bar allowed us, doubtless, to open other work fronts. Naru started to gain extra money as model and singer; Motoko assumed the TV career (she needed extra money to pay studies and the inn) and she became a great idol taking part in a fight program; there were lots of dating propositions for Shinobu and Kaolla – all of them obviously denied, because one of the bar's targets was drawing the attention from a very special man. I started to know better the world of night entertainment – as I said, I had no intention to enter in a college, so I had to learn in practice how to manage commercial enterprises. Beyond that, I gained extra money posing naked for some male magazines (due to my physical gifts and my ability to make good negotiations).

Kanako took advantage of the good vibes to put the new tenants into new enterprises. Since she couldn't be able to do everything alone, she asked Mizuho's help – which was out of the bar due to reasons I preferred to forget – to take care of those parallel business. Kanako had no other ambitions but taking care of family enterprise and conquering Kei-kun.

Speaking about Mizuho, I noticed she was out from Keitaro's contest. Exactly the girl that arrived in the inn bringing a big noise gave up fighting – and I couldn't understand why. That girl was strange; she hid things in a way that no-one was able to speculate what she really intended to do. She was able to spoof anyone as few people could do it, even better than me.

But the time passed away, and some of the involved people would leave us. After all, Naru, Mutsumi and Keitaro would graduate at Toudai, and they'd have to leave the enterprise. What a shame, because it was a great adventure that all of us did together, beyond the fact it was a chance to get closer to my love.

PV: NARU

It's the last day of Toudaiseis in the thematic bar. A party to recall good moments with lots of nostalgia. It was a closed party, just for VIP guests and the inn tenants. Not all the Toudaiseis would leave the enterprise: Motoko-chan finally got success to enter in Law College and she'd stay in the business.

Looking to everything I passed, I considered I profited from all these facts. I could show several facets of mine to Kei-kun. In the end, the bar served to gain extra money and to show itself as the best choice for him. That man was very lucky, because when would a fool guy have so many beautiful girls crazy to make a pair to him? And, without any naivety, go to the bed with him; the sexual desire was part of the love between a man and a woman.

I recalled when we used swimsuits as bar cosplays. It's an authentic summer party. I decided to bet everything: I chose a white maillot with a pareo almost transparent, and this had the color of my skin when browned. Beyond the swimsuit, I had lots of artificial bronzing sessions using minimal swimsuits – I didn't want so evident marks of bronzing and, look for that, it was Mutsumi's advise… So I found out how the turtle girl had such a beautiful skin – she confessed she enjoyed the solitude of the beach where she lived in Okinawa and she stood naked in appropriate hours to have a bronzing. Those were details showing that the watermelon girl wasn't as light-headed as she seemed to be: she was very proud of herself and she knew very well what she wanted to have.

And, speaking a little more about Mutsumi, I recalled how she was at that specific weekend. She was shining, with a very light beige maillot, and a chequered pareo with black-and-white pattern. That swimsuit showed very well Mutsumi's curves and projections. She was gorgeous with that swimsuit, beyond the fact she was using a very curly ponytail; simply divine. No doubt, she was my main contender in the topic beauty; beyond she had a catchy sympathy. Several men, some of them full of great power and money, offered the possible and impossible to the right of having a night of sex with her. Gingerly, she refused all those indecent offers, continuing to serve with an always captive smile. In the deep, I realized that she was very upset with that kind of man – and I gave all the reason to her.

In a determined moment from that day, it was very rushed 'cause there was a great amount of orders, so me, Mutsumi and Motoko were taking a rest, going to the kitchen to drink something fresh. So Mutsumi decided to show up her feelings. I noticed that some tears were running thru Mutsumi-san's face, and such an image didn't fit to her. I was very worried and I decided to interfere, enquiring her: "Friend, what's wrong? If some client mistreated you, I'll teach him a good lesson!".

Motoko also assured, saying: "That's right. We don't let some playboy offend such a special girl.".

Mutsumi smiled and faced us fondly, asking: "Even if I desire the same man that all of you want?".

Motoko softened the grimace and answered: "Don't confuse things, my dear... We're friends, and the contest for Kei-kun is frank since when all this uproar started. I believe no-one can be angry with you. At least, I can't do it.".

I completed: "Of course, Mutsumi-san! We're pretty, hot and intelligent girls. We don't need those assholes to say how special we are. Let's go back and show them that they're just clients, not demigods! We're the goddesses over here!".

After a good laugh from all of us, Mutsumi got on her own feet shyly and left the kitchen with us. When she got closer to me and Motoko, she said with such an enigmatic smile: "I love you two. Indeed…".

Some times, the watermelon girl could take strange attitudes. She got closer and gave a kiss in Motoko-chan; I used to see that act naturally, because this was the way she had to greet people familiar to her. The problem was when she got closer to me and kissed me. She gave me a passionate kiss, a French kiss! Me and Motoko were paralyzed for a brief moment, quite thunderstruck… And to complete the scene, she went forward and, before opening the curtain that separated the kitchen from the saloon, she faced us and gave a brief blink, followed for a malicious smile. So she said: "Mainly you, Naru-san…".

After Mutsumi left the kitchen, I faced Motoko and was just ablet to comment: "Did you get something? She was upset with the indecent propositions from our customers, but she acted this way with us? I… I just can't understand it.".

Since out fencer girl became a Toudaisei, she got a brand new attitude about some subjects from life. She showed that when she answered, after she reflected a little about what recently happened before: "Maybe she doesn't like to be treated as an object you can buy and sell, but this doesn't mean that she must hide what she feel about some people. She's sincere, maybe she faces sex in a natural way. She got upset, probably, because there were people that treat some subjects as mere goods; those people can't see beyond the lechery. I believe this was the point, beyond the obvious…".

The last sentence puzzled me. Before I got apart from Motoko, I pulled her by the arm and questioned her: "And what's obvious? I'm sorry, but I can't see anything as obvious as the fact that Mutsumi-san loves Kei-kun…".

Motoko's explanation fall as a bomb: "Fighting for Urashima-senpai helped me to understand and watch some facets contained in the human feelings that I used to deny. Can't you realize it? She loves you the same way she loves Kei-kun!".

At first, I answered that Mutsumi loved anything that was able to move and beam any kind of sound. So Motoko gave me an alert: it wasn't a generic love, it was a special way to show love. That thing fall as an atomic bomb; I couldn't see Mutsumi as a bisexual. Motoko completed: "Maybe it's a very difficult task to accept some things as usual facts, but they didn't cease to happen. She is sweet, free of rancor and somewhat light-headed, but she knows what she wants.".

I replied: "I know. She wants Kei-kun, as all of us want him.".

"Naru-san, that's obvious to anybody, but some people can't note that there're others ways to love. They cannot be biologically proficient ways, but they're ways to show love. Do you have prejudice about alternative relationships, Naru-san?", Motoko said. I was without any reaction for some time, even when I arranged the ideas and I tried to speak something.

"Maybe I have. I don't consider that as natural, albeit I agree that this thing seem something natural for Mutsumi. She's so full of sweetness, of human heat. It seems natural that she loves several people.", I answered. Motoko gave a look with gravity.

"But you do understand that, I repeat, there are several ways to love. She has a great brotherly love for all the people she knows. But what we know as passion, as hard-on, she has two targets. One of them you knew it. The other one you're knowing now, Naru-san…", Motoko responded.

"It's me, isn't it?", I retorted.

"Do you feel disgust?", Motoko asked, somewhat rubicund.

"Not disgust, but I have some dismay. You… Do you love another woman, Motoko?", I questioned. I felt as garbage when I did the question, but I needed to know it.

"No, but I already had the very same doubt, and I had an experience that clarified me a lot about the different ways of love.", Motoko said, facing me calmly when she sheltered my hand between hers. After that, she pulled me and conducted me to the chairs where the girls used to rest during the work time.

"It was in the college. I'm in the first degree, so everything seems glaring. Everything is different, you glimpse the place where you'll learn the occupation you wanted the most, not to mention that the Toudai has so many places to have fun. You already knew it, didn't you, Naru-san?", Motoko said, full of nostalgia. I knew what she meant, it's the same feeling every rookie had when it entered to Toudai.

Beyond, it's a party when Motoko entered to Toudai; our kendo girl finally got one of the things she wanted the most. Well, there was also the superstition about getting the truly loved one when you passed thru Toudai's gates, but I preferred not to think about that. I recalled the party we did in the bar; we drunk 'till late night with several guests. It was the moment when we knew others members from the Aoyama clan, and they weren't as friendly as Tsuruko was…

My thought line was broken by Motoko, when she continued to explain: "When we are in the routine, we can notice some peculiarities from certain people. Generally, the academic students are quite party goers, some of them living from bar to bar… Well, I prefer to put my efforts on my studies, because I have the bar to attend in the weekends. So I formed a group of studies just with girls; we didn't discover any levelheaded boy among our colleagues. Paying attention, Naru-san?".

"Of course, colleague! I want to know this experience changed your concepts!", I clarified jovially. And I really was very interested.

"So there was a girl... You didn't meet her yet, I never brought her here – and even she doesn't like to attend to social events a lot. She's named after Yuuko. She entered to the Law dreaming of being a public defender. Gee, she's a dreamer… She wishes a lot to work in public causes, in the defense of minorities… A different person in all senses.", Motoko reported, laughing when she said the last words.

"She really seems it.", I pointed.

"So, she's a confused girl, very thin, wears her hair long to the thigh, and wears glasses with spherical lens… What else… She isn't more than 160cm tall, she's the most intelligent person from the class, and she has a look pointed away a little… She's not in the top list of girls from the class… The only physical things that really exceed on her are her breast, because they aren't so small as we can suppose – how she is almost clapboard, they really exceed a lot, even though they aren't the 'melon' style. She's only popular in the class when we're in the tests period, when the riches annoy her a lot.", Motoko told.

"What a pity on her... People just remember her when they need to exploit her…", I commented, sore due to Motoko's report. I recalled of my selfish colleagues.

"Our group was a place where she discovered people interested about understanding her. I even invited her to know our bar, but she got red and reclined. So I noticed she was getting apart from us. Man, we're just in the first degree in our college and she was cloistered… If she continued to act like that, she wouldn't be able to finish the college.", Motoko reported. I noticed, by the tone, that Motoko had a worry about that girl.

Motoko sighed deeply, and continued: "One of these days, I saw her sitting in the Toudai's Central Square, on those cute banks next to the garden. She was crying… I asked her what's happening to her. So she explained to me she was tired of being just an amulet for lazy students… People that never could be able to understand how deep a person can be…".

I noticed I was crying too. I recalled when I was a motto for mockery because I couldn't speak. I was the "ugly little duck" from my class in the childhood. I had my revenge in the youth, when I became a beautiful woman. I was able to snob all those offensive boys, 'till the moment I was ignored by Seta-san. It was the first clue that the true love wouldn't be easy to find. Motoko wiped my tears and inquired me: "Is everything fine to you? Can I go on?".

I responded her: "Of course you do, it's just because I recognized the problems from that girl as mine… I also was an 'ugly little duck'.".

Motoko smiled and got an irony: "Who could say it, eh, Naru-san… So you know what Yuuko felt… But today you look like Snow White a lot…".

"Alright; keep up the story, wise guy…", I scolded quite red.

So Motoko told: "The strangest thing was what she confessed after that. She knew she hadn't favorable physical gifts, but what disturbed her was a non-orthodox behavior… I asked her to be clearer, and she just said 'I love you'… This way, very low… That line left me very puzzled… I knew that my clan would think that as unforgivable. I said to her that she would meet me another day, in a place more reserved. There wasn't the place. I accepted to go to her house… After all, me and our little group of partisans were the only people that visited her…".

"Yuuko knew that the society wouldn't forgive her for being so different...", I concluded.

Motoko amended: "Exactly! I thought I should give some strength for her. At the appointed day, I went to Yuuko's home. She lives alone in a small cubicle. She was waiting me with a little dinner. She wore a lilac hobby, quite plushy. So I had an idea, because I even had a doubt about what feelings I had for Yuuko…".

"And what's the point?", I asked full of curiosity.

"I saw, some time ago, a movie somewhat shocking, where a male psychotherapist had sexual relationships with female clients. No loving implication; the therapist from the movie simply fucks and, during the patient's climax, he used it to release the traumas from the clients (4). I was full of pity about Yuuko and, I didn't know really why, decided to do the same.", Motoko confessed.

"Motoko-chan, that's a thing that I never would imagine you'd be able to do...", I said gaping.

"Neither would I, Naru-san... As I told you before, there're some moments when you face the challenge or simply contour the situation. I chose to face the problem. I'm a samurai, what the hell! I must do what I think is right and convenient according to the situation. I decided to play that psychotherapist… Despite the fact I wasn't able to keep Kei-kun off my head, I considered that something mandatory. Let's say that I needed to have an experience of that kind…", Motoko unburdened.

"I see. And how did it work?", I inquired very curious. It's the very first time I'd heard about sexual therapy. At least, of that way. And imagining that Motoko had ever wanted to lay down with another woman was more amazing than anything else.

"I made the proposition for Yuuko. I said to her that's not passion, it'd be an attempt to know what tormented the most, beyond the fact I wished to know what's the sensation of having sex with a woman. Well, how she was crazy for me, it's not difficult to achieve it. We fucked all the night. Every time she was getting an orgasm, I said to her a keyword and Yuuko should tell me what that keyword meant for her, during the moment of climax. I must confess this procedure is dangerous… During the orgasm, a person releases its inner self thru the pleasure. If this act is badly conducted, this person can enter into an uncontrollable psychotic attack. I could see that in front of me; sex is a powerful force. Literally, Yuuko was in my hands.", Motoko described. That report impressed me a lot.

"And did it work?", I wished to know.

"To Yuuko, even better than usual. Yuuko released herself that day, and I discovered my business is about man indeed. And a special man, don't you agree?", Motoko responded, nudging me and giving me a blink.

I smiled in agreement. And I found out later who was Yuuko, and she got a boyfriend; she was dating a chamber's pianist… In the end, Yuuko was afraid of getting hurt in a sexual relationship… And Motoko was able to guide her accordingly, because it's terrible when a person tried to be what she wasn't. A risked therapy, but it's efficient.

Motoko concluded: "Think about it, Naru-san. I learnt lots of stuff… With Urashima-senpai, with all of you, with Tsuruko's madness, with everyone I met at Toudai. I learnt, more than anything else, tolerance. All of you said that my clan wouldn't guide me in all moments of my life. Due to that, I learnt to show what I really think about a giving situation…".

I questioned: "What's the deal?".

Motoko just tilted and gave me a sweet kiss in my lips. It's seconds as enlightening as all of explanations. After that caress demonstration, Motoko stood up and went to the bar. She turned to my direction before passing thru the door and said, giving a blink: "Do you get it now? What do you think that my kiss means?".

"Yes, everything is clear now! It's a kiss from a great friend!", I said to her smiling. We should be receptive to the caress exhibitions. And to know when we should have intimacy for certain demonstrations, because we didn't have the right to abash the others one with our friendship displays. For me, that chat was the most important moment I lived in the bar. I carried that moment in my heart. Saying goodbye for that enterprise was difficult, but it's necessary; in the end of year, I'd graduate and begin a new journey.

I just didn't know what to do with the love that Mutsumi had for me. But, in first place, I should worry about conquering Kei-kun. Maybe the goodbye party would light my ideas about all this problem.

PV: SHINOBU

It's almost a year, and our enterprise was more successful than I really could imagine. The main lesson I had in the bar was challenging my timidity in moments of confrontation; some problems with drunken clients served me as proof camp for my professional future.

It's a shame that the thematic bar would lose three special people, because they'd graduate in Toudai a few months from that. What left me somewhat sad was the fact that Kei-kun was one of them; I'd miss the others girls. Another lesson: everything had an end, either the bad things or the good ones. Due to that, we always should have others subjects to fill our happiness. Even the maxim declared: "Rolling stones don't raise mud".

One example was Motoko-san... She finally entered in Toudai that year, satisfying one of the things that certainly would bring personal achievement for our fencer girl. The entrance at the Law class left Motoko so… So expansive! It's as if a new Motoko was born from ashes.

That new Motoko excited me to pursue new goals. She advised me to take part in the management, as Kanako's sword arm. Keitaro's sister was always exhausted in the end of day, worried about costs and anything else, a Motoko affirmed that I had a talent to help others people to reach their goals.

That's really inspired me. I asked for Kanako that I and Mizuho would make the new tenants' reception, including asking that the tenants followed the inn's statutes and took part in tasks. Kanako adored the idea, because she would have more time to take care of business and money that way.

Why did I choose Mizuho? Well, I noticed that she was attacked in the thematic bar's story, feeling that she was a dead weight in the inn. She had a gift for public relations – I believed that she'd be a good teacher in the future, because she knew how to communicate using a creative and efficient way –, and requesting her help would be a way to say "welcome to the team".

About Toudai, I and Kaolla didn't have the same success that Motoko had, but we're in the fight. Motoko's success was a fuel for our hope. In the moments out of the work, both of us studied a lot, and we tried to keep a good rate to try a great mark in the end of the year. By the way, all the new tenants inflated the "new ronins" group; the fame about any girl that lived in the inn would be successful in the Toudai and an acceptation at the Hinata-sou would be almost a beauty attest were the mottos from the great demand. The beauty fame came from the thematic bar, surely…

With so many tenants, I and Mizuho – with a little help from Kaolla – enjoyed the new and growing fame from Hinata-sou to create parallel businesses to the bar: a girls athletic team (with teams from several sports and martial arts), a rock orchestra and a team to manage social events. Always half from the profits were destined to social projects, giving a look of solidarity to our enterprises. All the stuff were ways to take advantage from the tenants beauty to earn money, always avoiding not to expose them to the grotesque. Involuntarily, we're practically a models agency. We managed, however, to integrate all the girls, even the girls that didn't have a profile to be a model – the sports team sheltered girls that didn't take part in the social events, together to some beauties that had sporting talent.

And speaking about beauty, Naru-san was obviously the most presented with all that stuff. Despite the fact she wasn't in all events (because there were appointments related to the Toudai), she always was the source of all the attentions. She aroused jealousy from women and awoke men's greed. It's not bad for who was Miss Toudai representing the Math School just when she was a rookie. She was a differentiated person, 'cause she had a beauty and a style that always contrasted in the crowd.

She got lots of propositions, indecent or not, but she rejected almost all of them... She ended up making some works, but the love she had for Kei-kun blocked her from higher flies. Naru didn't want to be away from Urashima-senpai no matter what. That man was the great subject from her life.

About me? I was in a situation similar to the Naru's. I got several invitations, but show business wasn't one of my interests. I wanted a simple life, with the man I wished the most. I'd realized I didn't have any condition to compete with sacred monsters as Naru, Motoko, Mutsumi or Kitsune. The others girls would be always eternal little girls for our kanrinrin, and it's hard to live together in the same place where also lived someone that you've desired the most.

While I was arranging the saloon to the goodbye party, I thought about everything I uttered before. Some day, Urashima-senpai will choose somebody, and so my heart finally will be free to search another man. While he was alone, it'd always have a last hope to conquer Kei-kun, and that uncertainty was corroding me the most. If I wasn't busy with others tasks and subjects, I'd be lost.

The only thing I had was to search the happiness for my own efforts, whatever the way.

PV: HARUKA

Well, a goodbye party in the thematic bar. Albeit I'd taken part in that enterprise, I didn't have patience to attend so many social events; I couldn't live the glamour world, the high society. I could enjoy some refinement, but since it wasn't something quite complex. I was too sincere and poor to be chic.

The only thing I didn't have any moan about was the fact that the girls have matured. When you put all the efforts in this kind of enterprise, you should make choices and assume the consequences. If you weren't a determined person before beginning a business, you'd just survive if you'd learn to be hard when it's necessary and flexible when the alternatives you thought didn't solve the faced problem. The girls, in this issue, grew up a lot.

The girls made everything they could to join me again to Seta, using the bar as an environment, but it's one of the few flops they'd collected in their trek as businesswomen. That jerk was useless at all… Why couldn't he be say "I love you"? He didn't take anything seriously, except the archeology. We had a very terrible fight; it's one of the few times when Seta got off from the line. Keitaro had to interfere, or blood would flow.

In that moment, I felt everything was over. I was tired of waiting for a guy so egocentric and irresponsible. I was downcast about weeks, having Keitaro as my confident. It was when I noticed why a light-headed guy as Keitaro was desired… My nephew was so sweet, understanding… And handsome; I'd never noticed to the features from his face… And the daily practice of exercises plus fight trainings had forged his body. Keitaro was always very discreet when he helped anyone with troubles, and this also was something that conquered the confidence from the others. In the end, my nephew was a good match that hid himself behind an awkward and light-headed man.

With my disruption with Seta, I needed to discuss with Keitaro how Sarah's situation would stand in the inn and the thematic bar. Keitaro guaranteed me he would have a conversation with Seta and Sarah to know what we could do. In the end, it was settled that Sarah could stay with us. I noticed that Sarah got feelings for Keitaro… She was growing up, entering in the youth… I thought that the little North-American was, despite the appearances, having a passion to Keitaro…

Look what acquaintanceship was able to do... Beyond Sarah, some of the new tenants also started to look the kanrinrin with desire… I didn't know if Keitaro-kun noticed that or not, but I didn't noticed that he gave hope for any kind of relationship deeper than friendship. Keitaro was more worried about he would do after the graduation than loving relationships; he was aware that some of the girls would do anything to catch him. In the end, I became a shield, a shelter where Keitaro was free of having any disorder; she knew the girls wouldn't do anything to indispose me against them. I protected him from girls attack and he consoled me from the sadness I felt after my disruption to Seta.

It's a shame that some of the girls would leave the several projects that were running in the Hinata-sou. Anyway, they were winners. They knew how to overcome difficulties, to deal with difficult people using actions conforming to the situation demanded… As anything wasn't perfect, they just needed how to deal with passion, but this was a fact that the time would teach… I hoped so, because even I wasn't able to deal with passion!

Chapter written between 28-Dec-2005 and 27-Jan-2006, and translated between 30-Oct-2006 and 06-Nov-06. Man, this chapter is kind of lengthy, isn't it true? Next chapter, there will be a conclusion for Naru, Mutsumi and Keitaro's goodbye party. Mizuho is saying goodbye to the inn, too. Now, the explanation to the notes:

(1) Cosmopolitan: It's a USA female magazine world-wide known. The Brazilian version of Cosmopolitan is called "Nova", that's the female word for "New" in Portuguese (the most part of words used in languages originated from Latin have gender's flexion).

(2) Tokusatsu: It's the live-action Japanese TV series, containing the very famous Japanese special effects… Usually, the series involve fights between heroes and monsters.

(3) Pareo: it's a kind of cloth used by women after taking a beach bath, what's usually wrapped around the hip and usually used like a skirt. This piece of cloth usually has colored stamps or just one color.

(4) This movie is called "Bliss", and the uttered therapist is played by English actor Terence Stamp.

King of Fighters is a trade belonging to SNK-Playmore, even as the uttered characters from this game. By the way, the idea of Love Hina's girls using KOF's cosplay I watched in a gallery of LH images, and I found it out interesting. Have you already noticed that many of my ideas came from images (as the original ones as fanarts) that I found in the Internet, haven't you?

About Mutsumi's sexual preference, I wished to introduce some kind of minority in the story, using the main characters, because I wanted to have a discussion about that. It's a polemic subject – and I adore polemics. I'm waiting reviews from everybody, ok?

Oh, I'd like to thank about Major Mike Powell III, Hunter-Killer360 and Black Robed One about the reviews. And I'm having Martin Gradwell as beta-reader. And prepare yourselves, because the next chapter will be hentai, people!