KEITARO'S JOURNEY TO HELL A Love Hina fanfic Written by Axel Terizaki (2001 February 6th-March 22th) NARU's Diary: ASUKA's Notebook: http://asukanotebook.tsx.org Drafts bounced back and forth for retooling between Axel and Dave Watson, 2001 2 19-3 21. -=Chapter One: A Stainless Night? GROWN-UP WOMAN!=- It's funny; two years ago exactly, I began to write my first fanfic, Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Child of Love...and now I've switched series and am ready for some fresh work! So far, I've only read up to the 5th manga volume, and watched episodes 1-24 plus the Winter Special. If you notice any mistakes (particularly about exam dates and such), feel free to E-mail me and let me know. This story happens in kind of a different time line in Love Hina. Everyone knows Mutsumi but she hasn't reappeared yet, and Seta and Sara are gone on an excavation for now (but of course, expect them to come back sooner or later :). I think that's all... Oh, of course, needless to say, there is lime content in here. The series is full of slightly ecchi content, so you know what to expect here. :) * * * "Congratulations, Keitaro, for such a high average!" As Urashima Keitaro, almost 21 years old and kanrinin (dorm manager) of Hinata-sou, stepped into the living room, the five residents of the all-girls' dormitory were holding a streamer showing what they just cried in unison at his arrival. Needless to say, Keitaro was very surprised. "Wow, thanks, everyone! I'm really happy about it myself!" "Hey, who thought you could get only 65% after failing twice?" This remark from Mitsune immediately made Keitaro's morale drop. "But still...it's the best you've ever done, sempai! I'm happy for you!" Shinobu immediately exclaimed, trying to cheer him up a bit after Mitsune's puncturing. "Thanks, Shinobu-chan..." "Congrats, Keitaro! That's the way!" The young Kaolla struck a pose, smiling sunnily at Keitaro and holding her thumbs up. Despite her usual childish behaviour, she cared very much about all her roommates, and especially Keitaro. Keitaro just looked overjoyed to see that everyone was happy for him. His eyes were a bit teary from all the excitement around him and the overwhelmingly joyful atmosphere. "Urashima, that score is good, but you'd better not let your guard down, or I'll personally deal with you," Motoko warned him, still in a gentle tone. She didn't like him at first, but learned how to enjoy (or rather, tolerate) his presence in the dorm over time. Looking briefly at him, she then headed for the kitchen, in order to help Shinobu prepare some drinks. Kaolla followed her, jumping up and down as she did. "Keitaro, keep up the good work." That time, it was Naru's turn to praise him a bit. Keitaro wouldn't deny that he liked his study partner very much. Even if she was often mean to him, she sometimes showed him her softer, kinder side. He cherished those rare moments, and always hoped to see more of them in the future. That was one of the reasons why he was trying to get into Tokyo University now: To show Narusegawa that he wasn't a stupid pervert, like she often accused him of being. "T...thanks, Narusegawa! What was your average this time?" "My average...? Err..." "She got only 60%! Five points below you, Keitaro!" "Kitsune! Shut up!" Naru exclaimed, since she hadn't wanted Keitaro to know. "Ah..." He scratched the back of his head. "It isn't really the score that counts, right? I mean, it's okay if you got lower than me. The most important thing is that we get into Tokyo U together, right!?" Naru smiled. Sometimes he spoke wisely, and it reminded her of her Seta-san--always finding the right words for comforting people. In some ways, he and Keitaro were alike... "Yeah, you're right!" She took his hands in hers. "Let's do our best! I promise I'll do better than you in the test next month!" "Is that a bet!?" he asked, suddenly excited. "A bet? What would be the prize?" "Hmm...I dunno." "What's the point of making a bet if there's no prize!? Idiot!" "B-but...!" "Hey, Naru! You could go out on a date with him if he does better than you again!" Mitsune suddenly took part of the conversation, being as interested as she was in such things. Naru just narrowed her eyes at her friend. "That's kind of a cruel punishment, don't you think?" Naru said, in a comically sceptical tone. Keitaro just facefaulted. "What if I win anyway? What do you suggest, Keitaro?" she added. "Huh...I could be at your service for one week? What do you think?" "A personal slave, huh? Sounds good. It's settled, then! Kitsune, you are the witness!" "Count on me!" Mitsune exclaimed, suddenly excited about the idea. Naru just smiled, as Keitaro looked at her strangely. 'She seems to be in a good mood today. That's nice to see. I wish I could see that side of her more often,' he thought. As his strange look switched to a stupid grin, he suddenly fell backwards. A bottle of sake had just hit him in the face with a very loud, resounding *bing!* "She shoots, she scooooores!" exclaimed Kaolla as she jumped up and down, visibly happy about the bull's-eye. "That's the spirit, Su-chan! Let's have a PARTY!!!" Mitsune whooped, too, raising her fist in the air. Shinobu and Motoko poured glasses of sake for Naru and a dazed Keitaro, and then took some soda out of the fridge for themselves. Mitsune knelt down, picked up the bottle sitting next to Keitaro and began to drink straight from it. "Aaah, now that hits the spot! Come on, Keitaro, Naru! Let's drink to your future success in Tokyo U!" Naru and Keitaro just exchanged glances and shrugged before drinking from their glasses together, looking at the rest of the girls getting the party started. Keitaro then rubbed his forehead, right where the bottle had hit him. Naru just smiled back at him. "It's already been a year since you arrived here, ne?" began Naru, as they both sat off to the side of the living room, drinking a bit, and watching the others. They both preferred to not get directly into such parties; Naru mostly because she always wanted to appear serious and studious, and Keitaro mostly because he didn't want to look like a party animal to her and lose her trust in him (maybe it was also survival instinct). "I've never been among so many girls like this in my life. You're all so kind to me, despite the silly things I've done, heh heh..." He scratched his head while saying this, feeling a bit embarrassed by Naru's talking to him like that. "I feel more alive than I ever have in my life since you arrived here. And I think everyone else here thinks the same way, too." "Well, I'm happy just being here you kn..." "Hey, you wallflowers! Get over here and have a drink with us!" Mitsune and Kaolla rushed towards the two with a bottle of sake and refilled their glasses without even asking them if they wanted more first. They both started drinking them immediately, because they knew that Mitsune and Kaolla would leave them alone again after seeing this token gesture of socializing. Unfortunately, they wouldn't this time. They lost count of how many times they had to drink, but didn't pay it much mind. There were no tests scheduled for almost a month, so they could relax a little more now. Naru would scream if she was in this state of mind, as she always had studies and Tokyo-U as goals. But what if it was a slightly drunk Naru, who was in this state of mind? It wouldn't hurt much, she thought. As Keitaro was beginning to get pretty drunk himself as well, he was slower than usual and unguarded; in other words, easy prey. Kaolla noticed this, and, with that swift move of hers, launched one of her flying kicks at Keitaro again, while laughing and screaming, "Party! Party!" like Mitsune, who was chatting with Motoko nearby, had earlier. "Su-chaaan! Leave him alone, will ya!? He's wor...worked-ed hard!" "Naru! You're drunk already?" Kaolla asked. "A-am not!" the girl replied, shaking her hand. She looked back at Keitaro and saw him sprawled out on the floor from drunkeness (and from Kaolla's kick). She then got up, and took his arm in her hand and pulled on it a bit, as if she trying to wake him up. "L...les' go study, Keitaro...we can't s-s-stay here. They won't leave all of you, err, us al-lone!" Naru stammered as she talked to the multiple Keitaros she was seeing. She grabbed another arm and somehow helped all of them stand up at the same time, even though she was not entirely steady herself. He just nodded and followed her, a bottle of sake in his hand. Unfortunately, being drunk doesn't help studying very much. * * * Two eyes opened. Keitaro woke up from what seemed like a long, long sleep. His mind was all blurry, a deep fog covering what he did the night before. The night before...he couldn't remember why; it might have been another obscure reason, but Mitsune and Kaolla, his two fellow tenants and charges as a kanrinin, dragged everyone else into a party. And since his mind was very foggy right now, this must have been quite a party...probably with lots of alcohol, judging from the hangover that sat on his brain like a filthy, annoying cat. It had been a long time since he last felt like this. And it wasn't like he wanted to remember how it felt to be hung over the morning after a party. Actually, his mind wasn't the only thing blurred right now. His sight was as well, when he realized that he wasn't wearing his glasses. The next thing that came up on his realization checklist was the fact that he was naked under the covers. 'Must have been too out of it to put my pajamas on,' he thought. Then he turned his head to his left, as he first looked along the floor. That's where he saw something that caught his bad eyesight... Narusegawa... ... Narusegawa's glasses. "What the...hell?" he heard himself say aloud. He tried to look around, and even if his eyesight was almost as bad as a mole's, he could very well distinguish what he was seeing. Narusegawa... ... Narusegawa's room. "What am I doing here!?" His mind raced too fast for his body to follow, as he laid still under the covers. His brain having processed a total scan of the left side of his present settings, he decided to try looking to the right. Turning his head the other way, his eyes met... Narusegawa... ... Narusegawa's...breasts. Well, it was Narusegawa after all, right? "Na-na-na...Narusegawa!!" he almost screamed. His voice was just loud enough to wake the young female Toudaisei-wannabe up. It was her turn to look around her surroundings. Her eyesight slightly better than Keitaro's, she realized what was happening before he could actually decide on an escape route from his imminent death sentence. "Kei...taro?" Naru asked suspiciously. She sat up, never taking her eyes off him, as she used her sheets to keep her body covered. "..." "Keitaro?" Naru blurted out, all at once this time. "...I-I...I...what the...? What am I doing..." "IN MY ROOM!!!?" she screamed at him, knocking him backwards. She blushed as she saw his male attribute. Realizing this, he grabbed his boxer shorts off the floor, turned away from her, and put them on quickly. The two students then looked at each other for a minute that seemed to last for hours. "Get the hell out of here before I grab something to wear and put you into Pluto's orbit," Naru declared calmly, frowning at him, and then put a hand on her forehead, trying to calm down her own drink-induced pounding. "Ah y-yes!" He quickly searched the room for the rest of his belongings, grabbed them one by one, put his glasses (found on the floor near Naru's) on, and headed for the door. "Naru? Why are you being so noisy this early in the morning?" Keitaro's glasses came into eye contact with Mitsune's all-seeing closed eyes as she opened Naru's door before Keitaro could reach the doorknob. Mitsune looked down at Keitaro's body, noticed the boxer shorts, looked further into the room, and saw Naru clutching her sheets around her nude body. Needless to say, Mitsune came to a quick conclusion. "At last!! I knew you two were doing more than just studying! It was just a matter of time before I found out!" Mitsune exclaimed, with a big grin on her face. "I--it's not what you think!" Keitaro and Naru replied in unison, both confused. "Oh? Then you mean you two didn't have sex last night?" Mitsune asked, with an even wider grin. Both Keitaro and Naru blushed a deep shade of red. "Wait a min-" "Don't worry, I'll go and leave you two lovebirds alone. See ya!" she said before closing the door in Keitaro's face. "Oh, god...I'm dead..." he said, in a deep, doomed tone, two heavy streams of tears running down his face. "Get out...of my room!" Naru almost screamed, throwing her alarm clock at him. He tried to dash out quickly, but the clock bounced off of his head anyway. Keitaro opened the door and stepped outside, then ran to his room to get dressed. Naru didn't know what to think. What could they have possibly done last night? Her mind was so blurry...Mitsune must have made her drink a lot...it might even have been a plan of hers to get them together...then, a thought struck her. Did they do *it*? Did they have sex like Mitsune said? In her head, she quickly put together a theory of probability. If you take into account that they were both drunk, naked, under the same covers, and without their glasses...they *must* have done it. She thought about that for a few minutes, then decided to go take a shower, as she tried to persuade herself that none of this ever happened. Unfortunately, as she got up and inspected her sheets... "Oh, damn..." * * * "Sempai, are you all right?" Shinobu asked Keitaro as they finished preparing breakfast for everyone in Hinata-sou. Shinobu always liked to help Keitaro when it was his turn to cook. Actually, it was often his turn, since Mitsune was always reminding him that he was the kanrinin of the household. She couldn't deny she had kind of a crush on him, even if she was too shy and considered herself too young for him. "Oh, yeah...I guess. Just a damn hangover..." "I see. You drank so much last night." "S...so much?" Keitaro began to sweat. "You and Naru-sempai drank three bottles of sake each, from what I remember. I went to bed early. Why do you ask?" "Three...bottles...?" This time, he added some shaking to his sweat. Now he began to roughly realize what might have happened that night... "Are you sure you're all right, sempai?" "Don't worry. I just have a terrible headache..." "Maybe you should get some rest...I'm worried about you..." Keitaro looked at her, touched by how her expression perfectly reflected her sincerity behind that statement. 'Oh, Shinobu-chan is worried about me! She's so kind and nice to me! Ah, at least there's one good presence in this hostile world...' he thought, smiling a bit. A voice suddenly made him snap and almost drop the kitchen knife he had in his hand. "So, how was your night with Naru, Keitaro?" Mitsune asked, as she walked down the stairs. "Wh-what the hell are you talking about!?" Sweat increased. Pulse rate quickened. "Sempai?" Shinobu asked, puzzled. "Hey, don't tell me you spent the night in Naru's room and didn't do *ANYTHING* with her!" "Don't talk like that in front of Shinobu-chan!" A puddle of sweat began to pool at Keitaro's feet as he turned around. His heartbeat reached a BPM comparable to a good hardcore techno song. How cruel of Mitsune! He was unprepared, his defence wasn't set yet...Damn, it actually felt like he was being judged... --- "Urashima Keitaro. You slept in Narusegawa Naru's room, and sexually assaulted her whilst she was under the influence of alcohol. Do you acknowledge this?" Judge Mitsune Konno asked from her seat, placed so high that Keitaro had to look straight up to face her. She was dressed in an Old Bailey-style judge's robe and powdered wig, to assert her superior position to Keitaro. "I...I...I didn't do that..." "Liar!! We have proof!" She hit the desk with her gavel, and displayed several items on a table, as well as slides on a screen. The first three slides showed Keitaro and Naru drinking sake, the next two showed them both unsteadily walking towards Naru's room. The items on the table were Keitaro and Naru's glasses, and two piles of obviously roughly- discarded clothes belonging to each student. "All of this is overwhelming evidence of your crimes!" Judge Mitsune said, in a scary tone. "Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!" Keitaro screamed, putting both his hands on his head. --- "Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!" Keitaro scr...ahem, came back to reality. "You didn't spend the whole night there? So how come you were in her room just a few minutes earlier?" "Sempai...? You didn't...?" "I don't know! Stop harassing me like this!!" he shouted to no one in particular. He remembered shortly afterward that doing this when Shinobu was talking to him was a big mistake. "Sempai..." Shinobu's eyes began to get watery... "No, no, Shinobu-chan, don't cry!" "Awwwwwwwuuuu..." The youngest of the girls at Hinata-sou couldn't help it. She began to panic. Besides, it's kind of her trademark, isn't it? "Please, Shinobu-chan...! I'm not mad!" Keitaro exclaimed, realizing that he wasn't controlling the situation anymore. And that was bad, especially when Mitsune was there. "But, Urashima-sempai..." Shinobu said through teary eyes, a bit confused by the whole situation. "Keitaro...!" Naru announced her entry downstairs by just calling his name. The last person he wanted to see right now, after Mitsune, was Narusegawa... "Sempai...?" Shinobu said to Keitaro, trying to get an explanation from him. However, she faced nothing but an empty space, as Keitaro was already running to his room... * * * "Dammit, this can't be! I can't have done *that* with Narusegawa!" Keitaro screamed to himself as he beat a quick retreat to his room, knowing he'd find some peace there...maybe. As he opened the door to his room and stepped inside, a familiar foot greeted him by knocking him to the floor face first, resulting only in a slight bruise on his cheek. Being in Hinata-sou for over a year now had accustomed him to physical abuse, somehow. "Hiya, Keitaro! Sleep well?" the little Kaolla greeted the Hinata- sou kanrinin as usual. But she had never dared do that in his last line of defence...uh, room before. "Suu-chan...I don't need that right now. I already have a headache..." "Headache? Is it delicious?" Keitaro's mouth felt like the cat that he'd woken up with on his brain had used it for a litter box while he slept, and his stomach churned like it was trying to make sake butter. "No, no, it isn't. Errr...could you leave me alone for a while? I need to rest..." Kaolla looked at him with puppy eyes. "Keitaro don't wanna play with me?" "...'play'?" He had a bad feeling about this for some reason. Kaolla just grinned. * * * Naru sprayed her curvy body with the detachable showerhead. She had a terrible hangover as well, and thought that maybe a good shower and a bath in the hot spring afterwards would help her get rid of that uncom- fortable sensation. She looked at the ceiling, and whispered to herself. "That's weird, I don't feel like anything has changed...yet." * * * "AAAAAH!!! Stop that, Suu-chan!" "Hiya! You're doing good, Keitaro!" The poor kanrinin was wearing a kind of mechanical turtle shell, and was walking down the first floor hall, but his body was aching too much. He could only move his hands and feet, since the shell covered most of his body...and worst of all, Kaolla was riding him. No, not THAT way, ecchis. "What do you think of my TamArmor-kun, Keitaro!?" "Not very...comfortable...unnh..." Keitaro moaned in pain. They were both passing in front of Aoyama Motoko's room, when the door opened. "Suu-chan, please be quiet, I'm trying to concent...AAAAH!!! TURTLE!!!" she exclaimed, instantly drawing her sword. Kaolla jumped off of Keitaro's back as fast as she could, thanks to her sharp self- preservation instinct. "Motoko-chan, listen..." "Hiken Zankuusen!!!" Another satellite suddenly entered Earth's orbit. * * * L O V E H I N A - Keitaro's Journey To Hell (Above Average?) Not for sale, rent or auction! :P * * * "Sorry, Urashima." Motoko bowed her head. She was sitting next to Keitaro, who was laying in his futon. "That's okay, Motoko-chan. It didn't hurt that much." Actually, it couldn't possibly hurt more than the headache he was enduring. Still, it felt like the pain was beginning to fade. Without a word, Motoko stood up and left the room, only to discover an eavesdropping Mitsune... "Ah, err...Keitaro? Can I have a talk with ya?" Mitsune asked. "Sure..." Mitsune entered the room, closed the door, and leaned against the wall in front of Keitaro. Feeling a bit better, he sat up and listened carefully. Whatever she had to say, it had to be important, if she wanted to talk to him in his own room. Did she want to reveal her true feelings to him? Was she going to undress and give herself to him right here and now? 'No, no way. That only happens in hentai games,' he thought. "So, what's the problem, Kitsune-chan?" "Actually, Naru is the problem." "Ah...I guess I can understand that..." He looked down, his eyes obscured by his glasses. "You know what you did to her, right?" "Err...I'm...I'm not too sure. Actually, I'd prefer to not think about it." "WHAT!? You just had your way with her and you don't care about it at all!? The first time is important for a woman, and you just ruined it for her!" Obviously, Mitsune was winding him up. Such an outburst didn't sound right at all, especially coming from her. Keitaro wasn't going to fall for a play like this. "I...I did...that?" Oh, well, never mind the last comment. "Of course you did! And I'll bet you she's pregnant now!!" The lenses of Keitaro's glasses instantly disintegrated into little shards. Narusegawa...pregnant? How could this be possible? What about Tokyo U? She wouldn't be able to get in, or even pass the entrance exams. Everyone would be angry at him, and the girl of his childhood promise would surely turn him away, considering that he would have a child with another woman, and...most of all, Narusegawa would be upset about what he did, and not talk to him anymore... "Nah, just kidding," she chuckled, as Keitaro's face registered that he was about to faint. "Don't joke about things like that!!" he screamed back at her. Mitsune kept her composure. "Just...think about what you did. I know it's kinda normal for people our age, but still...I won't say anything to the others. They don't need to know...yet." "Thank you, Kitsune-chan!" Keitaro smiled, visibly happy that she finally admitted she was on his side. "That is..." Mitsune continued. "Yes?" "I need 15,000 yen for tomorrow. Can I borrow it from you?" "15,000 yen!? Uuuh...my savings..." "Thanks, Keitaro!" she grinned. "I knew you would understand! I won't tell anyone that you and Naru had sex!" The door of his room exploded and hit the opposite wall, surprising them both. As the cloud of dust lifted away, Keitaro could distinguish Motoko's figure. "Urashima...KEITARO! How dare you take advantage of a girl while she's drunk!? I will never forgive you for that! Fear my wrath! Hiken Fuujin Ran..." She prepared herself to strike at him again, but someone interrupted her. "Please, Motoko-chan..." Naru softly said. She was standing next to Motoko, who gasped in surprise. Keitaro had just wet himself because of the surprise from Motoko's outburst, but, since this isn't that kind of series, it happened out of the viewers' sight. Naru was wearing her usual yellow pullover and dark skirt with matching tights. "It's not all his fault..." Naru continued. "...I'm to blame as well. I shouldn't have drank so much at that party. I was irresponsible as well." "But, Naru..." Mitsune, said, a bit surprised by her friend's reaction. Naru just lifted her hand up in response. "As for Keitaro..." She gave him a dark glance. "M...me?" "...never mind. I'll think about your punishment later," she intoned evenly as she added a wide grin to her dark stare. You know, the really mean kind of grin. She then turned and walked down the hall, out of Keitaro's view. "Naru-sempai, are you alright? Wait for me!" Motoko put her sword back in her scabbard and chased after Naru. Mitsune did the same, after taking a quick look at Keitaro's shocked face. * * * One month had passed since this 'incident'. Mitsune kept the secret well, in exchange of some of Keitaro's savings, of course. Actually, it was pretty useless to keep such a secret, since Mitsune, Naru and Motoko knew already. If you add the fact that Shinobu isn't stupid and kind of guessed, the only ones left who didn't know were Kaolla and Haruka. In a month, though, they both heard the news from one source or another. Actually, Haruka had to question Naru about her strange behaviour with Keitaro for the past month, whereas Kaolla just discovered the fact while surfing the web. Wait a minute...surfing the web? How did this get out of Hinata- sou? "Because I needed money! Naru-Idol's fan club offered me good money for the info!" Mitsune appeared on the screen...err, her words, rather. "Kitsune-chan!!!! I thought you wouldn't tell!!!" Keitaro appeared next to her, screaming at her. "They had more money to offer than you had in your bank account," she explained calmly, crossing her arms over her stomach. "Damn..." Keitaro lowered his eyes, in pure despair. The situation was REALLY getting out of hand. Well, anyway, Keitaro and Naru had a self-test scheduled at a nearby test centre, in preparation for the real Tokyo U exams in May. That was when everything was going to change. * * * Narusegawa Naru was prepared for this test. She had been eagerly waiting for it since her first failure of Tokyo U's entrance exam. She wanted to see if she could do better than last time. Her now-braided hair and thick glasses just reinforced, for her, the feeling that she was prepared for it. Every detail counts, right? Urashima Keitaro was prepared for this test. He had been eagerly waiting for it since his third failure of Tokyo U's entrance exam. Naru teased him by making a bet with him. Could he do better than her? Actually, it was pretty much impossible, considering his unluckiness with exams...still, the last self-test went pretty well. Maybe he would be just as lucky this time. "Ready? Start!" The examiner announced the beginning of the test, and everyone in the room flipped the test textbook open. 'I won't lose! Not only is this test important, but I have to show Narusegawa that all those days and nights of studying weren't in vain!' Keitaro said to himself while frantically reading and answering the questions on the test one by one. He briefly looked at where she was sitting, only to see her reading her paper. She was actually shivering and looked uncomfortable. 'What's happening to her?' he thought to himself. 'Wasn't she prepared? Is she cracking up because of the stress? Oh, no! I might be one of the reasons she's cracking up! Oh, man, she's gonna kill me if she fails!' By the time he was finished thinking, he had his head in his hands. He looked up and saw her seat... ...empty. Looking up further, he caught a glimpse of her as she ran out of the testing room. 'WHAT THE HELL!?' He suddenly put his pencil on his desk. * * * The women's washroom. A light-brown-haired woman was bending over a sink, looking into the mirror. "My face is a mess..." she thought aloud. Her face looked sad through her glasses. She emitted a slight moan of pain next, and then the unpleasant sound of vomiting. "Now it is confirmed...Keitaro, you're dead. Awfully dead," she said, frowning, as she took her glasses off, turned on the faucet and splashed cold water on her face. Narusegawa Naru shook her head in front of the mirror, dried her face with a tissue and left the test centre, unable to finish her test... and unable to look Keitaro in the eye after what she fully realized... --- End of Chapter One ^_^ NEXT CHAPTER: "Havoc at Hinatasou! SPEECHLESS!" Author's notes: So, here's the first part of my newest fic :) I hope you all liked it, because I'm putting a lot of heart into it ^_^ People who have read my previous Evangelion fanfics will scream at me, I know. But actually, the idea seemed so full of possibilities, even more than with Asuka...so I did it :) I would like to thank my beloved pre-readers. They include Alain Gravel, Disaster, Dave Watson, DJ Lesser and Eyes. You've all been great help again :) I will try to write faster for the second part, but it's not as easy as you might think. :) I have lots of other work to do, mostly for school, but also for my other projects. On a final note, I'd like to announce the creation (if you don't know it already) of the first (to my knowledge) Love Hina Mailing List. "Gold" drafts of this fic are posted in this a few days before going to the outside world :). You can also discuss various Love Hina subjects (merchandise, questions about the series or the manga, announcements about your fan works, etc.) In order to subscribe, just send a mail to lovehina-request@ml.free.fr with "subscribe" in the subject field :) See ya soon! Axel Terizaki el, Disaster, Dave Watson, DJ Lesser and Eyes. You've all been great help again :) I will try to write faster for the second part, but it's not as easy as you might think. :) I have lots of other work to do, mostly for school, but also for my other projects. On a final note, I'd like to announce the creation (if you don't know it already) of the first (to my knowledge) Love Hina Mailing List. "Gold" drafts of this fic are posted in this a few days before going to the outside world :). You can also discuss various Love Hina subjects (merchandise, questions about the series or the manga, announcements about your fan works, etc.) In order to subscribe, just send a mail to lovehina-request@ml.free.fr with "subscribe" in the subject field :) See ya soon! Axel Terizaki