Authors note: I wrote this fan-fiction over 7 years ago when I was 15, To Love-Ru has always been one of my favorite anime's. I've always love reading To love-Ru fan fictions on this website, I apologize in advance for any spelling/grammar/formatting/knowledge errors as English is not my first language., I've always wanted to post this for years but hesitated until now, I have more chapters written up so let me know if you guys want to read more! Thank you. (P/S. I own no To Love Ru characters, this is purely a work of fiction and any resemblance to real life people is purely coincidental, all characters owned by their respective owners. Thanks!)

9 August 2016

Trans America airlines flight 63

"Uh what a weird dream" "lala, lala wake up" then rito realized what he was grabbing on to

"good morning passengers this is your captain speaking we are still about one hour outside of Los Angeles breakfast will be served shortly"

"Rito are we there yet?" Lala said still half awake.

"Still one hour away", then we begin our new lives Rito thought

Flashback 2 weeks ago:

It was a few days after the events of darkness and things were settling back to normal. At the Yuuki house everyone was finishing up dinner

"That was delicious Mikan" Zastin Exclaimed. " Your cooking is delicious"

"I'm glad you liked it, it's been a while since you've come over Zastin, what's the occasion?" Mikan Asked.

"Oh, no reason at all just thought I'd check up on everyone, it's been so busy at your fathers work I haven't had any time for myself."

"Yeah dad does work on his manga nonstop, he never has time to himself!" Rito said.

"Rito remembers to take out the trash the trash truck comes tomorrow." Mikan reminded her brother.

"Ok, no problem, I'll do it right now," Rito replied as he got up.

Zastin then got out of his chair. "Here I'll help you."

Both Rito and Zastin went outside on the curb, it was a hot and humid night, the light from the street post illuminated their surroundings.

"There we go," rito said. Putting down the bins "Thanks Zastin, but, you didn't really have to help me it's not that much"

"don't worry about it" Zastin replied.

"Let's go back inside, it's hot out tonight."

"Wait, Rito, there's something I need to talk to you about." Zastin's voice changed to a more serious tone. "It's the real reason I came here tonight."

"Um, sure, what is it?" Rito asked.

"Listen, me, your father, and lala's father have been talking and well, we think maybe you two should... how should I say this... move away for a while.

"what do you mean?"

"Well it's just the events over the past few weeks have made many people suspicious of this town, especially many government and intergalactic agencies, if you know what I mean, and well we think this town might not be the best place for you and Lala to live anymore.

"Wait, what do you expect us to do, where are we supposed to go, were just kids, we don't have any money or a job or a place to live or anything"

"I've got that taken care of," Zastin reached into his armor for a yellow envelope. "These are plane tickets to a city called Los Angeles 3 days from now, and your uncle Dave has agreed to let you stay with him."

Zastin handed Rito the envelope, inside were two plane tickets, along with two Japanese passports and two small ID cards with both Lala's and his pictures on them. UNITED STATES PERMANENT RESIDENT they read on top.

"Uncle Dave? My dad's older brother, It's been years since I've seen him - since any of us have seen him, to be honest I forgot my dad even had a brother."

"yes, he lives just outside of Los Angeles"

"Zastin you can't be serious, are we supposed to just pack up and leave? For who knows how long, I don't think I can do this."

Rito tried to hand the envelope back to Zastin.

Zastin then pushed him back "Rito you have to understand we are doing this for lala's and your safety, and gid thinks this will also be good for her to learn that actions even those not of oneself, can have consequences.

"I guess you aren't giving me a choice, are you" he says as he takes the plane tickets.

"trust me I'm sure this will be a good experience for the both of you."

**End of flashback**

"Cereal or toast" said the flight attendant

"Oh um I'll take cereal" Rito responded.

"Me too" said lala

They got their cereals in plastic bowl packages

"Thank you"

"So what's your uncle Dave like, does he look like your papa?

"Uh about that, I don't really know, it's been 13 years since I last saw him when I was 4, and I don't exactly remember that well. I do know now he works on an oil rig so he isn't home a lot, so it's probably going to be us two alone for most of the time."

"So it'll be like when we first met" she said starting to blush "does this mean that I'm going to have Rito all to myself" she joked hugging rito.

About half an hour later the pilot came on the speaker

"Attention passengers we have begun our descent into Los Angeles at this time we would like to ask you to please get all your travel documents ready for customs inspection upon landing, thank you"

"Better get our passports" Rito said, as he got up and reached into the overhead bin, "let's see here's mine"

"Lala where did you put yours?"

"It's should be in my bag,"

"umm I can't find it, you sure you put it in here"

"Here let me check," she said as she got up. "Your right is not- " at that moment a jolt of turbulence hit the plane and they ended up falling on each other "Rito don't that's my tail ahh" said lala "I'm sorry" Rito yelled as he tried to get up, but at that moment another jolt of turbulence hit and this time he ended up grabbing her breast "no, Rito that's feels weird too!" "Im sorry!" Rito said moving away from her, as everyone around them was staring.

"Man no matter where I go stuff like this always happens"

After this incident the rest of the flight continued normally.

Shortly before landing the city skyline came into view

"Wow the city is so big," lala thought as she looked out the window. "Way bigger than any city on deviluke" outside window could see the San Bernardino mountains then the many roadways and the thousands of houses below. "Hey Rito how big is this city it looks like it goes on forever, Rito have you ever been to Los Angeles before?"

"Once, I remember it was when I was 4 with my mom and dad. It was before Mikan was born, it was the first and only time I saw my uncle, I don't exactly remember why we visited though."

The plane touched down smoothly onto the runway a few minutes later "Welcome to Los Angeles ladies and gentleman," the flight attendant said on the speaker "the local time here is 9:00 AM, please remain seated with your seat belts fastened until the plane has come to a complete stop and the captain has turned off the fasten seat belt sign, for your convenience our gate today will be terminal 2 gate 26, and our baggage belt will be number 3, we thank you for flying with Transpacific Airlines and hope you enjoy your stay in Los Angeles or where ever your final destination may be."

"um how are we going to get to the house from here?," Lala asked as the plane taxes to the gate "I don't know exactly, I think Dave said he'd pick us up but all I have is his address." he took out a small piece of paper with writing on it 14445 Willow Grove st Santa Fe Springs, CA. "Do you know where this is?," lala asked. "Sort of it's in the south eastern part of the city, hopefully we can ask someone in the airport."

The plane had come to a stop at the gate, "Here's your backpack." "Thanks." Said lala now waiting to exit

The doors now opened and they were able to walk out of the plane to the terminal. WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA large sign read going downstairs. "Rito, when do we get our other bags?" Right after we go through customs, I think."

After a few minutes of waiting in line they were next,

"Next!" Said the inspector "Welcome to the United States, passports please." He then scanned them Rito said first then lala's,

"What is the purpose of your visit," The inspector said, not looking up at them.

"Um, we're here on green cards, staying with a relative" replied Rito.

"Can I have the cards then please " Rito handed both of them To her still not looking up.

"How much money do you have in your possession?"

"About $400,"

"For the both of you,"

"Yes"

The inspector then held both of the passports and green cards up and looked at them and stamped the customs forms.

"Ok, you may proceed."

"Ok great" Rito said "let's get our bags and get home,"

"That was a lot easier than I thought it would be,

There that's my bag," lala said

"I got it, wow this is light, wait a minute, why do you even have luggage, you don't even need clothes don't you have peke?"

"Hehe, um remember the day before we left?" She said smiling.

"How could I forget"

Flashback

"Hey lala have you finished packing yet?" Rito asked.

"Almost, check it out, remember my warp device, I just realized instead of taking a 12 hour flight why don't I just transport us there today!"

"Umm, you remember what happens all the time with that, we end up naked somewhere?" Rito said nervously

"Don't worry, I fixed all clothes now go with it!

Come on let's try it out" Lala said grabbing Rito's hand, before Rito could even respond, let's try the kitchen after a few pushes of the device, in a cloud of smoke they were now in the kitchen on top of the table naked.

"Ahh! Lala you said it works with clothes now! Why are we naked."

"It does work with clothes now, see my bag came with us"

"Rito, are you in the kitchen?" Mikan asked, walking in "Uncle Dave just called and... sorry to disturb you " walking out.

"Please, it's a misunderstanding!" He yelled to his sister.

End of flashback

"Yeah, after that, Zastin said I couldn't take any alien technology with me after that"

"Oh, well that's too bad." Rito's mind "Oh dear God thank you"

As soon as both of them got outside the customs area Lala jumped on Rito

"We made it rito!" Lala said as she hugs him

"Yeah I guess we did," he said, kind of embarrassed. "Oh we better call Zastin and Mikan.

He got out his cell phone and turned it on "huh"

"What is it?"

"No signal, well I wasn't expecting it to work here anyway,"

"Do you see my uncle Dave anywhere he's supposed to pick us up?" Looking into the crowd of people waiting by the exit.

"I don't know, he knows what we look like right?" she asked.

"Yeah, he said he'd wait for us here"

15 minutes had gone by, "Where is he?" Rito said.

"Hey look payphones, can you call dave from here?

"Yeah let's try," he then entered the number and waited for it to ring, "huh no answer"

"You think he's on his way?" She asked

"I don't know, let me try calling mikan"

"Hello?," A half asleep voice said on the other end

"Hey, Mikan it's me,"

"Rito?,Do you have any idea what time it is?"

"Wait, Wha-"

"IT'S 1:30 IN THE MORNING! WHAT DO YOU NEED"

"Nothing I just called to say we landed ,and we made it alright, but..."

" And let me guess dave isn't there to pick you up"

"Yeah, Wait, how'd you know that?"

"That's what I tried to tell you the other day before you tried to make a baby on the kitchen table"

"I told you," he said his face turning red "that was a misunderstanding"

"Anyway, Dave said he got called into work 2 days early so he isn't going to be there for the next 3 weeks"

"3 weeks?,"

"Apparently that's how it is with his company, So he said to take a cab to his house it should be only about 30 minutes from there. Hey is Lala there let me say hi to her

"HI Mikan!", Lala said

"Hi Lala, how's LA"

"Were still in the airport but from the plane it looked really big"

"That's great, good luck to you two,"

"You too, I know how hard it's going to be without your brother there"

"It's ok I can handle it, Lala make sure Rito doesn't do anything shameless while you guys are there!"

"Hehe, don't worry I know he never does it on purpose"

"Yeah but still, I'm going to miss you guys, Well I guess this is goodbye for now"

"Wait Mikan, thanks for everything, I know me and my sisters haven't been the easiest to live with"

"Hey me again, we need to go, so l'll talk again as soon as we can ok"

"OK bye Rito, I love you"

"Love you too"

He hung up the phone, thinking about when might be the next he'd see Mikan.

"Come on let's get a taxi"

"Man its hot out here" Rito said "it's got to be 100 degrees out,

"and it's only morning, well at least it isn't humid like back home"

Rito waved down a taxi

"Where to kid" the driver said. Loading their bags

"This address please," he said getting in.

"Santa Fe Springs, you got it"

"Ahh finally the coldness" lala said about the taxi's air conditioning.

The driver pulled away from the airport and got on the 105 freeway, "so what brings you two to LA"

"Were just visiting family, sort of" Rito responded

"Nice nice, Where you from?"

"A small town in japan"

"Japan, wow that's far, you speak English well though, that's good."

The only reason Rito was able to speak english was because of the one and only successful invention Lala made right before they left, voice-language changer-kun, it let him read write and speak English perfectly. The only downside of it was the person who had it used on them could no longer read or write their first language. Rito thought it could be the one invention Lala could sell and make money off of it, but for some reason she didn't see it the same way.

The taxi driver then kept staring at lala in the rear view mirror?

"Excuse me for asking but miss have I seen you somewhere before?"

"Who me?" Lala responded

"Yeah, were you on tv or something"

"What no, I've never been on tv" she said. "Did the news catch anything that happened" Rito and Lala then looked at each other as they both thought.

"Really I could swear I saw someone that looked like you on the n-."

At that moment the driver slammed on the brakes. The car came screeching to a stop

"That... was... a close one" the driver said catching his breath

"I think I felt my heart stop" Rito managed to squeal out.

"What's going on?" Lala asked

"Fhew, rush hour traffic, as always " the driver said

"I don't know about where you guys are from but here I don't think we've ever had a day when there's not traffic." After about 15 minutes of sitting in traffic

"How much further until we're there, sir"

"Were about halfway right now, tell you what you two seem like nice kids I'll knock off a few bucks at the end." "Really that be great thanks" 30 minutes later they finally arrived at Rito's uncle's house. It was about 11 am and the temperature outside was even hotter. "Well here you go kids 14445 maple st,"

"thanks how much do I owe you,

"umm let's make it 25 even"

He said unloading their bags and put them on the curb.

Rito handed him the money "thanks you two have a nice stay" the taxi driver said driving off.

"Well we made it lala" he said "I guess this is my uncle lives," He said looking at the house. it was a small peach-white colored, 1950s 1 story, 2 bedroom, house with a 1 car garage attached sideways. The front yard was in a very poor state, overgrown with weeds and dead grass which caught Rito's attention right away.

"I think it looks cute" Lala said.

"I guess we should go inside," he said "it's way too hot out here."

"It can't wait to take a bath, Rito want to join me?" She asked cheerfully. "Umm I think I have to unpack first and"... he said trying to get the door to open... "and it looks like we're locked out"

"He knew we were coming why didn't he say anything about a key?!"

"Maybe he forgot?" Lala tried to say.

"Dont you know what this means we're stuck out here.?"

"Yeah but-"

"And it's not just the key, look at us Lala, we're thousands of miles away from home, in a city where we don't know where to where anything is, with no food, you with barely any clothes, living with my uncle who I haven't seen in 13 years that didn't even care we were locked out. One of the things of this is so we could become more independent, but it seems now we're more dependent on my uncle than ever. Moving out here was a big mistake."

"Rito, I'm sorry" she began crying. "I'm sorry we had to move out here, I should have just gone back to Deviluke for a while like Nana and Momo, I thought I was ready to live on my own, but I've never even had a job and I'm expected to become queen of an entire galaxy one day,"

"No its not your fault," he put his arm around her sitting on the porch ", I'm sorry, it's just that the future scares me a little, what's school going to be like here, what grade will we be put into, but I promise I won't let anything happen to you." She began to wipe away her tears.

A few minutes later the door from the house next to them opened "big brother you said we would go now!" Rito and Lala both looked over, a girl about 6 or 7 was standing on the porch of the house next to them wearing a birthday party hat. "Brother let's go!" She said Then out came a boy about Rito's age. "Ok fine let's go, get in the car" They saw the two kids walk to a pickup truck parked on street in front of the house they came out of, the little girl got in first. Then the boy turned around and saw Rito and Lala sitting on the porch.

The boy paused for a moment then said

"Hey, do you two happen to be Lala and Rito?"

"Yeah," Rito said and stood up "um, How do you know our names?" he came over to them "Oh, my name's Carlos by the way and I guess I live next door to you now, anyway you know who Dave is right?"

"He's my uncle, yeah" Rito replied.

"Just what I thought anyways, 2 days ago he suddenly knocked on our door and told us his niece and nephew were coming to live with him cause of some emergency but he wasn't going to be home when you got here, so he gave us a key to give to you"

"Really that's great!" Said Lala

"Yeah, this heat is killing us," said Rito.

"You guys want to come inside for a minute while I look for the key. Get out of this heat for a little"

"um sure thanks"

"Great," Carlos then turned to his sister "Nina I'll be right back I just need to get their key"

"Brother you said we are going to go now!"

"I'll just be a minute!"

The three of them then entered Carlos' house which was slightly bigger with 3 bedrooms, and air conditioning. It was a relief for lala and rito who were sitting outside in the heat.

"Ahh it feels so nice in here," said Lala "hey uh Carlos right? is it like this every day here, the heat I mean?"

"Almost every day during the summer, and fall it gets really hot and dry here a lot." He said as he shuffled through papers and things on the table "You can grab some water, there's some Bottles in the kitchen."

"Thanks," rito said as he grabbed one for lala and himself

"The only thing is I can't find the key," Carlos then replied "I swear I saw my mom throw it on here."

"Ugh you know what, I think she might have taken it with her by accident," then Nina walked in "Brother you said we were going to get my new bike today,"

"I know Nina but we're looking for something important" her brother said back.

"if your not going to take me I'll go wake daddy to take me"

"No, Nina, you know dad needs to go to work tonight," he immediately respond. He then turned to Rito

"Ok,tell you what my mom probably knows where she put it but she won't be home until 3:00, and I know if I call her she'll yell at me" he mumbled that last part "you two want to come to Walmart with us?"

"Wait what?" Rito said.

"Well, I promised my little sister that I'd take her to get a new bike for her birthday today, and I'd feel bad to throw you guys back out into the heat to wait so you want to come with us, I mean you just got here so you probably need food and other things."

"Umm, Sure I guess, If it's not too much trouble" Rito replied

The 4 of them got into Carlos' White 1993 GMC Sierra pickup outside, Lala and Rito both sat in the back row seats. "Nina, these are our new neighbors Lala and Rito," Carlos told the little girl named Nina.

"hi Nina-san," said Lala "Happy Birthday,"

Nina then looked at her "Why is your hair pink?"

"Oh, umm well…"

"Uhh, she colors it like that" Rito said trying to sound convincing.

"Brother, can you color my hair pink?" Nina asked.

"Do you want mom to kill me, cause that's what I just I heard"

"We don't know if we can trust them yet." Rito thought.

"You're both 17 right, that's what Dave said, do you know what school you're going to yet?" Carlos asked

"The local one I guess, are you still in high school?" Riot also asked

"Senior starting in September, you?" Carlos replied.

At that moment Carlos sped up made a fast, sharp left turn at a corner, and Rito ended up falling face first onto Lala,

His face turned red instantly. "You guys ok back there?" Carlos asked,

"ARE YOU EVEN OLD ENOUGH TO DRIVE?" Rito then questioned Carlos as he tried to ignore what just happened.

"umm, yeah I'm 17 just like you. I've been driving for more than a year"

"17? Wait, so you're saying here in America, Lala and I could drive cars?"

"you don't already? Wow you both must be really bad drivers, where are you from anyway?

"We just came here from Japan, you had to be at least 18 to get a license over there."

"Wait you two are from Japan, Wow, that's so cool,"

"Really, trust me if you had my life you wouldn't be able to sleep, literally"

"Carlos what is a Walmart exactly," Lala asked.

"Ok so Walmart is a store that sells basically everything"

So kind of like a convenience store? Lala

"I guess you could call it that, Here we are," Carlos said as he pulled into the parking lot of the local Walmart.

"Wow, this place is huge" lala said

"It Looks more like a warehouse than a store" Rito said

They now were at the entrance, "Ok you two grab a cart and get whatever you need, I'm going with Nina to get her bike"

"Ok how long is that going to take, I mean we don't want to keep you waiting,"

"Don't worry about it, she takes forever picking something out, trust me we'll be a while," "Brother let's go already" Nina said tugging on his arm "oh, one more thing, can you go by the bakery and pick up the cake for later today, it's already paid here's the receipt"

"Sure, No problem"

"Wait, what's your phone number in case you can't find us,"

"umm, about that I don't get service in america, and Lala doesn't have a phone"

"Oh that sucks, umm, here let me see your phone"

Rito handed his phone to Carlos. Carlos got a dumbfounded look when he did.

"Dude is this a flip phone I haven't seen one of these in years"

He then opened up the back of it

"Hey don't break it!"

"Don't worry, ah ha, yours has one " He said pulling out the sim card

"isn't that the network card" lala said

"Yeah you can just switch it out with one from here, They sell some in the electronics department, I can help you pick one"

"But don't you need to be…" rito said

"Brother let's go already"

"Ok fine, just meet me by the bikes"

30 minutes later.

"Come on Nina we've been here for half an hour already I'm pretty sure those two are done already."

"I just can't decide brother what do you think I should get,

"I told you to decide last time we came here" he said checking his phone

"I like the Chinderella one, but also the Dora one"

"Gosh, is it that hard of a choice" he thought,

"Brother why are you being so nice to those two since you just met them, is it because ever since what happened to Alex and Javier secretly have no more friends?" Nina asked,

"Hey I have other friends, it's just that they… don't really talk to me."

"Sure you do." Nina smirked at her brother.

"Hey we're back," Rito said,

"Great, what you get"

"Just some food,"

"turns out they sell some food from Japan here, see Ramen," lala said "Oh and this is Nina cake right?"

"That's the one, Carlos then turned to Nina, Nina look you're getting elsa and on your cake don't you want Frozen on your bike too?"

"Ok, I guess"

"Finally, ok let's go get your sim card" Carlos said

The four of them began walking to the electronics department in the back of the store. However

Carlos' phone then began ringing. The caller ID said mom.

"Hello"

"Where are you, what part of being home by 12 don't you understand!" She yelled at him.

"Wait it's already 3,"

"No Carlos of course it's not 12, it's 12:30!"

"Well, Sorry!"

"I told you to go to Walmart in the morning!"

"It's not all my fault Nina woke up late"

"NO I DIDN'T IT WAS YOU HOW WOKE UP LATE" Nina yelled from behind.

"Whatever just get here now we need to set up for Nina's party,"

"Wait, Dave's nephew is here with me "

"Didn't I tell you to give them the key on the counter when they came!"

"I couldn't find the key,"

"It's right here on the kitchen counter, I got to go, some of the guests are coming, just invite them too, and hurry up!."

"Carlos is everything ok" lala asked

"Yeah, It's the Mexican mom syndrome"

"What does that mean"

" it means it turns out your key was on the table the whole time, and my mom thinks I need to see the eye doctor,..again,"

"Anyway here are the sim cards"

"There are so many which one do you have" lala asked

"Hey this one says first month free," Rito read on the packaging "Walmart Wireless works with any GSM phone, cool it's only $30 a month. But don't you need to be 18 to buy these?

"It's a SIM card not a gun, Rito" Carlos said. "I doubt they care as long as you pay the bill each month"

"Are you sure? It's just in Japan you needed to be 18 to buy your own phone plan"

"So let me get this straight, you need to be 18 in Japan to drive and buy a SIM card? No offense but no wonder you guys lost the war."

"Rito look they sell smartphones, too" Lala said holding a RCA android phone "And they're not that expensive this one's only $45 and first month free. Rito, do you think you could buy this for me?"

"Well you are going to be needing a phone, sure why not"

"Thank you thank you thank you" she said cheerfully then hugged him

"Ahh not so tight!"

"Wait, I'm kind of confused right now" Carlos questioned "isn't Japan known for its technology? Shouldn't smartphones be affordable and high quality where you're from, but you have a flip phone and she's acting like this is the first time she's ever seen one."

"Yeah it's actually kind of the opposite" "smartphones are actually pretty expensive back home, a 4500¥ android is unheard of. And data plans are overpriced, $30 bucks for unlimited everything here that sounds too good to be true."

"Sounds like you guys need some good ol' fashioned freedom" Carlos laughed.

"OK let's go pay because my mom is probably going to kill me if we stay here any longer" The 4 of them finished paying and went out back into the parking lot.

"Wow, only $107 for all the food and Lala's cell phones, guess they don't lie when they say always low prices" Rito said. Looking at the receipt.

"Brother let me try my bike," Nina begged.

"OK but not in the parking lot." Carlos replied.

"Speaking of trying things, try your new phone Lala." Rito said.

"Oh yeah," she turned on the phone and the screen came on WELCOME TO WALMART WIRELESS... YOUR PHONE NUMBER IS: (562) 555 6327 then the home screen came on "cool you can do so much on this."

"Here I'll try calling you" Carlos said

"hello, hey it works!"

"Ok now you're making me wish I bought one too,instead of keeping my old flip phone " Rito said, jokingly.

"Where's Nina," Lala asked "let's take a picture Rito, our first day in America and the new friends we made!"

End of chapter 1

So that's it for chapter one! Let me know what you think! Like i said i have chapters 2-5 typed up, I probably will post them a few weeks later on, haven't exactly decided how i may take the story after chapter 5, if you have any suggestions feel free to let me know what you think.;) Thank you, See ya!