Love Hina Fan Fiction ❯ Koihina Musou ❯ A Promise Fulfilled ( Chapter 15 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Koihina Musou (A Love Hina x Koihime Musou crossover)

Disclaimer: Love Hina is property of Ken Akamatsu. Koihime Musou and Shin Koihime Musou are properties of BaseSon.


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"It's good to be back!" said Keitaro, now back in Hinata City.

"Yes- Uh oh!" gasped Touka.

"What is it?" asked Keitaro.

"My father is here" said Touka, pointing to the black Mercedes parked at the base of the stairs leading to the Hinata Inn.

"Oh"

"I think I'm in trouble now"

"Touka?"

"Yes Kei?"

"I'll stick by you no matter what"

"Thank you, Kei" said Touka as she blushed. "Let's go and get this over with" she said, taking Keitaro's hand and going up the stairs.

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"Hello Touka" said Mr. Ryuubi, seated on the couch in the common room with his wife. "I see you didn't make it in to Tokyo University."

"We had high hopes for you" said Mrs. Ryuubi.

"And they mean nothing me!" snapped Touka.

"Now listen hear young lady!" growled Mr. Ryuubi. "You will do as I say because you are my daughter!"

"Yes, I am your daughter, not your slave!"

Mr. Ryuubi fell silent.

"Touka, you would rather live an ordinary life with this three time ronin here," pointing at Keitaro, who stiffened. "Than be one of the most powerful women in the Japan, adored and respected by many?"

"I can take any hardship with Keitaro." said Touka. "It's enough for me to be together with the man who accepts me for who I am, not as someone he wants me to be. And besides, I heard power corrupts"

"You could have anything in the world..."

"And all I ever wanted was to be a regular girl who could enjoy her life! And Keitaro gave me a chance to experience that!"

"I see" said Mr. Ryuubi. "You would give up everything just for him?"

"Yes. I would" said Touka proudly, holding Keitaro's hand firmly. Keitaro responded by holding her hand firmly as well.

"Even going to Tokyo University?"

"It wouldn't matter to me as long as I am happy with Keitaro. However, I am still trying to enter, just for him." said Touka, making Keitaro blush.

The Ryuubi couple looked at each other, and then smiled, catching Keitaro and Touka by surprise.

"Very well" said Mr. Ryuubi. "You can come out now, Hina-obaasama!"

"EHHH???" gasped Keitaro and Touka.

"Grandma!?"

"Granny Hina!?"

"Hello Keitaro, and Touka" said Granny Hina, who came out from the kitchen door, accompanied by Haruka. "Quite a spectacle here"

"Ah, good day Granny Hina" said Touka, bowing respectfully.

"Very nice job taking care of the inn Keitaro." said Granny Hina. "You're quite a capable landlord."

"Ahh, thank you!" said Keitaro, rubbing the back of his head.

"And Touka, very well said" said Granny Hina to Touka. "You would truly pledge your life to my grandson?"

"Yes I would Granny"

"I'm happy for you child." said Granny Hina, then she turned to Keitaro. "By the way are you still wondering who your promised girl is?"

Keitaro froze. "Um, well..."

"Silly boy! Don't you know she's been standing right beside you all this time?" said Granny Hina with a smirk.

Keitaro and Touka gawked at the revelation, and then slowly turned to face each other. Once eye to eye, they yelped "EHHH???"

"I guess since you were so young you didn't remember" said Mrs. Ryuubi wistfully. "You two made the promise to go to Tokyo University together fifteen years ago."

The two Tokyo U aspirants blushed.

"That's why we pushed you to try for Tokyo University in the first place" said Mr. Ryuubi. "So that you would fulfill that promise."

"Y-You mean all that stuff about being your successor..."

"Was just an excuse to push you" said Mr. Ryuubi. "Of course it would be nice to have that ambition"

"Mou!" moaned Touka.

"It's alright Touka" said Keitaro, putting his free hand on Touka's shoulder. "You chase after whatever dream you have. I'll support you all the way"

Touka blushed, while the older people in the room smiled.

Keitaro then had a nagging thought, and turned to Haruka. "You knew about this too didn't you?"

"So what if I did?" said Haruka. "It was up to you to fulfil the promise. Besides, Touka wasn't the only girl you made a promise with, though hers was the most significant"

Keitaro boggled. "I had more than one promised girl?"

Haruka just smirked.

Then Touka collected herself, and enigmatically called out to the stairway. "Okay girls you can stop hiding now" surprising everyone.

A series of loud thumps and thuds came from the stairway, followed by Aisha, Sei, Sui, Rinrin, Shuuri, and Karin, tripping over each other and eventually falling in a heap at the base of the stairs.

"Ah youth" said Granny Hina.

Haruka just smirked.

Touka facepalmed. "You guys!"

"Ahahahaha" laughed Sei.

"Ahh... Touka-sama" said Aisha embarrasingly.

Sui was too embarrassed to speak.

"Heeheeheehee" giggled Rinrin.

"Hawawawa!" babbled Shuuri.

"Onii-chan" murmured Karin.

"Touka?" said Keitaro.

"Yes Kei?" replied Touka.

"I love you" said Keitaro.

Touka Blushed. "I love you too Kei" she said.

After a few moments of gazing at each other, Keitaro and Touka closed the gap between them, and kissed each other on the lips.

"Awwww!"

"Woooo!"

"Ahhhh!"

"Hiiiiiiii!"

"Hawawawa!"

"Ahem!"

Touka and Keitaro quickly broke off the kiss after hearing Mr. Ryuubi clear his throat.

"Can't you two save that for marriage!?" said Mr. Ryuubi. "OW!" he yelped, after being clonked on the head by his wife.

"Shush hon, can't you see they're in love?" chided Mrs. Ryuubi.

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Six Years later, at the Hinata Inn Grounds...

"Please sign here!" said Shunran as she was seated at a table with Shuuran and managing the guest book.

"Of course" replied Sheren.

"Um, you don't happen to be single, are you?"

"Ehehehe! Well, I am, but I'm taken, by this lady with me" said Sheren, indicating Meirin, who was right next to her.

"And you better keep your paws off her if you know what's good for you!" said Meirin menacingly.

"Just asking!" said Shunran quickly.

"Please excuse my sister" said Shuuran.

Shion and Kikyo, who accompanied the couple, laughed at the exchange, while a pair of identical looking young girls, Daikyou and Shoukyou, who were accompanying them giggled.

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"Hey! You're going to hit the buffet table!" yelled Shuuri.

"Hahahaha! Gangway!" yelled Rinrin, riding Napoleon, with several kids running along side.

Hinari sighed, while Haruka remained stoic and Riri looked on in curiosity. Ren and Kii simply kept on eating.

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"Um, is my dress alright?" asked Sui nervously.

"Of course! You look stunning!" said Sei.

"Mou! I'm not that gorgeous"

"Oh come on! Keitaro-kun would think so too!"

"Kikikiki!" stuttered Sui after hearing the name of the man that sent her heart aflutter for the nth time. She eventually remembered the nice young boy who helped her after she fell at a playground when she was a child, and made a promise to her to be her friend for life. And to this day, Keitaro still is.

"Mou, onee-chan, you should have more confidence in yourself!" said Tanpopo Batai, Sui's little cousin, who was a splitting image of Sui, but with Rinrin's age and stature, and having none of Sui's issues with men.

"Oh brother!" said Karin.

"Oh, how wonderful it must be" said Pairen, who served as the wedding planner, her mind in dreamland and wishing for a wedding of her own.

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"It's been a long time coming" said Touka, who just finished putting on her wedding dress. "I can't believe I've forgotten about you."

"Yes it's been long" said Renfa.

"And to think I was the one you were talking about before, you know the girl you promised to go to Tokyo University with?" said Touka. She learned from Renfa that the two of them, plus Keitaro, actually made the promise to go to Tokyo U together as kids, but Renfa knew Keitaro was happier with Touka, so she decided to make the promise only with Touka, so that Keitaro was free to go after Touka himself.

"Hahahaha" laughed Renfa.

"Oy! Aisha-chan?" said Touka.

"Um, Touka-sama?" replied Aisha meekly.

"You should be happy. Kei-kun was special in your life too"

"Yes" said Aisha wistfully. She finally remembered the boy who decided to play make-believe and pretend to be her older brother while she was grieving at the death of her real brother. And now she can't help but think of Keitaro as her own "Anii-chan".

"And Enya-chan?" said Touka.

"Yes Touka?" replied Enya.

"Did you really have to pummel Kei-kun that much?"

Enya sighed. "Well, my case was one promise he didn't keep, at least back then" she said with a bit of hurt. She too remembered the boy who promised to meet her again the next day after making friends with her at a park, only not to show up on the appointed day, leaving her heartbroken. When she realized Keitaro was that boy, she nearly strangled him to death if not for Touka's intervention, after which Keitaro then repeatedly apologized to Enya about the whole thing. Enya still hasn't quite forgiven him, but decided to at least remain civil, if just for Touka.

"Touka!" called Mr. Ryuubi.

"Father!" replied Touka, walking to her father and giving him a hug.

"You look really beautiful my princess"

"Thank you, father"

"I'm very proud of you. Anyway, it's time to start"

"Okay" said Touka. "Well girls, this is it"

"Hai!" replied all the other girls.

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"Well part-timer, this is it" said Keitaro's best man, Noryasu Seta, the professor Keitaro and Touka met back when Keitaro took his third examination attempt, now his superior in Tokyo University's Archeology department, and since three years ago, Haruka's husband. "Nervous?"

"Well, yes" said Keitaro. "And very happy."

"Geez hotshot" said Shaoren Sonshouko, a young girl with pink hair, and Seta's legal ward. "Who've thought a dork like you could get married to such a hottie?"

"Ehehehehe" laughed Keitaro. At first the little bundle of trouble got on his nerves when he started working part time for Seta, but she eventually grew on him.

Their conversation was interrupted by the wedding march. The bridesmaids consisting of Sei, Sui, Rinrin, Shuuri, Hinari, Enya, and Renfa came first, followed by Aisha, the maid-of-honor. Soon, Touka, in a beautiful wedding dress, approached, accompanied by her parents.

Keitaro is awed at the sight of his bride. He thought back to the promise he made many years ago with Touka as children, his heartbreak at their separation, his struggles in school, and then his struggles to get into Tokyo University, before his reunion Touka (though he was initially unaware of this) upon inheriting the Hintata Inn, then his rather awkward meetings with the tenants, his "dates" with them, his third failure to enter Tokyo U coinciding with Touka's first failure, then their running away together to Kyoto, where they confessed their feelings to each other, their fending off the other girls' affections for Keitaro, especially his adopted sister Karin, and then their confrontation with Touka's parents which ironically led to the revelation of Keitaro's promised girl, and then their passing the Tokyo U exams and entering Tokyo U (soon followed by some of the other girls), their graduation, and finally Keitaro's proposal to Touka. Now, his dreams were about to be fulfilled.

Touka practically glided down the makeshift isle at the outdoor wedding, her proud parents on each side of her. Once they reached the altar, Mr. Ryuubi customarily gave Touka away, and the ceremony began.

"Do you, Keitaro Urashima, take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife, for better or for worse, for richer or poorer, so long as you both shall live?" asked the minister.

"I do" replied Keitaro.

"And do you, Touka Ryuubi, take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband, for better or for worse, for richer or poorer, so long as you both shall live?"

"I do" said Touka.

"Place the ring on her finger if you will, Keitaro"

Keitaro does so, and says "With this ring, I be wed"

"By the powers vested upon me, I now pronounce you, Husband and Wife! You may kiss the bride"

The couple kissed.

"May I present to you all, Mr. and Mrs. Urashima!"

Everyone cheered.

Then Touka threw the bride's bouquet. To everyone's surprise, it is caught by Aisha, who blushed at the subsequent attention.

"Woooo!!!" cooed Sui.

"Nice catch!!!" said Sei.

"Well" said Karin. "Looks like you're next in line?" she added seductively.

Aisha blanched.

Keitaro was now escorting his newly wedded wife to the van so they could be on their way to their honeymoon. Just as he was about to get her on board, his clumsiness kicked in, and he ended up tearing a part of the wedding gown's skirt, revealing Touka's pantyhose.

"KYAAAA!!!" yelped Touka.

"GWAK!" blurted out Keitaro.

Reactions from everyone varied from laughter, to smirking, to disgust.

Keitaro thought quickly and just shoved Touka into the van's passenger side, before hopping into the driver's seat.

"MOU!" moaned Touka. "Couldn't you be more careful!?"

"I'M SORRY! LET'S JUST GET OUT OF HERE!" said Keitaro, gunning the gas.

"YAAAAAAAHHH!" yelled Touka at Keitaro's wreckless driving. "WHO TAUGHT YOU HOW TO DRIVE!?"

-Fin


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A/N: So it's finally ended. I know this was rather short, but I just had to complete it for reasons stated in the previous chapter. To all those who read and reviewed, thank you.