Love Hina Fan Fiction ❯ Love Hina: Insertion ❯ Chapter 2

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

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Did you know...? When people like each other, and go to Tokyo U, they’ll
live happily ever after!

When we grow up, let’s go to Tokyo U together, okay?

Kei-kun! Bye-bye!

"NO! Don’t go!"

Promise me you’ll go to Tokyo U! We will see each other when we grow up!

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There I was, standing all alone in the bridge, staring at the truck
passing away. It was a memory long ago. A memory, which in this life,
held importance...

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Love Hina: Insertion

All girls dorm with Outdoor Bath: Hot Spring, Hot Girls, and Hot Situations

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/What am I doing here?/ Buds thought as he looked around him. From one
moment, he was in the living room, next, he found himself somewhere in a
foreign land. Looking around, he noticed one thing. /The houses, the
lamps... I recognize this place... Japan?/

A flood of memories came over him, and he grasped his head as it all
played in his mind...

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Flashback:

Everything about my life revolved around one thing. The promise I made
to the only girl who ever loved me when I was still young. A promise to
go to Tokyo U.

I tried to get in to Tokyo U three times. Failed... Why? Am I a failure
as my parents say? That my chances of going to Tokyo U is a D?

I have to study harder! I have to meet my dream girl, and fulfill the
promise made to her!

End of Flashback

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"You have got to be kidding me," Buds muttered. He looked at his hands.
His usual brown color is gone, replaced by a paler shade of tan. He
checked his clothes, and found himself wearing a orange jacket and gray
jeans. Touching his face, Buds found that he was wearing glasses. He
shook his head. /This can’t be happening.../

"H-how could you..." a voice said, female, with the tone bordering anger
and sadness. Buds turned around, and looked at his left.

A young girl, maybe in her early teens, was looking at him, tears in her
eyes, as she held up a notebook. "That’s mean..." she said.

"Uh... I didn’t... I mean..." Buds panicked, looking everywhere. "I
uh... sorry!" Buds replied, before taking a bag from the seat behind
him, and took off.

The girl who held the notebook watched him disappear in the crowd, and
took another look at the notebook. In there was a sketch of her, smiling.

For some weird reason, she felt an urge to do the same thing. Her mouth
twitched a bit as she tried to smile.

Buds bumped into a couple as he ran blindly from the girl. He didn’t
know why, but he felt intense guilt swept upon him. What the heck did he
just do? Broke up with her? Or maybe... Kami-sama forbid, she was a
teen-age mom because of him?

At the thought, he just ran faster until he ducked into an alley. Not
really looking where he is going, he climbed up stairs, until he reached
flat ground, where he gave himself a chance to look up. He gasped.

"Hinata Apartments!" Buds muttered to himself. After a few brief moments
of amazement, he was suddenly hacked with a thought. /Wait a minute... I
have glasses... I am in Hinata Apartments... and... I speak Japanese? OH
HELL NO!/

/If this was THE Hinata Apartments, did that just mean Reiko sent me to
the Love Hina Universe?/ Buds began to panic. /Oh man! I have glasses!
That means I’m.../ *gulp...* /Keitaro?/ Buds looked around. Everything was
so peaceful in the Apartments, but he knew better. He watched the first
four episodes enough to see what will happen. Keitaro was supposed to go
in blindly, looking for his grandmother, and then inside...

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/I... can’t remember.../ Buds thought. Looking around again, he tried to
search his memory, trying to decipher what is happening. He came up with
nothing but blanks. /Dammnit! This is HER fault! I should be looking for
her and Demand that I should be sent back./

And with that thought, Buds proceeded to go in slowly. Opining the door,
he looked around carefully, and sighed in relief when he saw no one.

"Reiko!" Buds shouted as he walked around the Hianta Apartments. "Reiko?
Damnit, I know you are here! You usually don’t go very far from these
types of situations!"

Buds looked around as opened doors to the apartments. "Reiko?" he
called. No answer. "Man, this sucks. What if she just left me here?"
Buds went to a door where he saw a red banner with a big Kanji sign.

"Hmm, let’s see what reads..." Buds thought, and looked at it. He stared
at it blankly. "What the hell? I can’t read it? I can speak Japanese but
I can’t read Kanji? What are you up to Reiko?"

Buds went deep in thought, as he looked at the door. He pondered over
what was in the door, and sighed. The curiosity in him was getting the
better of him, so he proceeded to open the door, where he was met with a
light fog.

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/Huh?/ Buds thought as he walked. /Where am I? What is all this fog
here? What the hell is this place?/ "WHOA!" Buds gasped as he fell his
feet trip into something, and fell over something wet, and soft.

"Ow, hey!" a female voice. "Kitsune! What’s wrong with you?"

"Uh, sorry, I ain’t Kitsune," Buds muttered as he stood up. "Are you
okay mi... WHAT THE!"

Buds look wide eyes as he saw who he landed into. It was a female. A
female with long brown hair. A cute female. A female who was only
wearing a towel...

"Oh shit..."

Naru Narusegawa was confused. Naru became humilated. Naru was now pissed.

A boy, a PERVERTED boy just showed up during her bath, and actually
tried to take advantage of her!

"Oh shit," she heard him say. "I’m sorry... I really am! This isn’t what
it looks like! Honest!"

"SHUT UP HENTAI!" Naru replied, giving off a viscous punch towards his
face. The boy surprised her as he simply ducked and dodged her punch.

The boy backed away from her. "Hey, can we just talk about this!"

"TAKE THIS!" and she gave out another powerful, but much faster punch
this time. The boy sidestepped again, his balance a bit down as he tried
to wade through the waters. "You won’t get away!" and she gave out
something she never did normally. A kick.

The boy blocked her kick, but the sheer strength of it was enough to
throw him off balance, and the boy instinctually tried to regain footing...

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/Man! This sucks! Why the hell do I deserve this?/ Buds thought as he
ducked her second punch.

"You won’t get away!" he heard the girl say, and she gave out a viscous
kick. Buds acted with instinct, using a basic Taekwondo block version to
try to stop the kick. He succeeded, but he didn’t expect the girl to be
very strong as he felt himself go off-balance. He tried to grab
something as he lost his footing, but still fell on the pool.

Buds quickly tried to stand up, in case the girl tried to skewer him as
he fell on the floor. "I’m sorry! This is a misunderstanding! I’ll leave
now!" and he bowed his head.

Buds waited for a curt reply, or a shout of war, but he heard nothing.
He sighed inwardly. /Thank you Lord, she finally is listening.../ "Look,
we just misunderstood," and Buds looked up. "I mean, lets start over...
EEEHHHH!"

Buds realized why the girl didn’t answer or reply in any way. The girl
somehow lost her towel, and was trying to cover up her whole body with
her arms. Buds felt the object he was still holding. It was soft. He
raised his hand to see what it was. It was the towel.

"Uh, you’re going to slap me now, aren’t you?" Buds asked nervously,
trying to chuckle.

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Kitsune was now in her towel, already having taking off her underwear,
and was about to go to the baths when the door suddenly broke and
shattered into thousands of pieces as a boy flew towards her. She could
have screamed. She could have done anything, but then, in fractions of a
second, she realized it was too late. The boy landed already and knocked
the basket where she kept her underwear over his head.

The boy tried to stand up, but he just groaned.

"Hey... who are you?" Kitsune began.

The boy looked stood up a bit, and his eyes widened as he saw her, in a
towel. "Uh, I’m SORRY!" he said, and ran away before she could do anything.

"COME BACK HERE BAKA YAROU!" Naru shouted as she continued chasing the
boy. She grabbed her clothes before she exited the dressing room.

Kitsune realized something. "HEY! MY UNDERWEAR! I’M CHARGING YOU EXTRA
FOR THAT!" and she too took her clothes and ran after the boy.

Buds climbed up the stairs... "Oh shit, oh shit, I’m going to die! I
really am going to die this time! Shit, shit!"

He looked back, and saw the girl with long hair, all dressed up and
still chasing him. "COME BACK HERE!"

"Shit, I am wet, cold, and running!" Buds complained. "I like girls
after me, but this is ridiculous!"

Buds ran and ran, from one corridor to another, until he saw a dead end.
Buds paused a minute as he climbed up the ledge, he saw how high he was.
Time stopped.

Buds looked back and saw the girl chasing after him, all frozen now. He
looked at the ledge, and saw how high he was. "Now what?"

Another Buds appeared beside him, wearing an undershirt, and had
camouflage paint all over him. "Jump" he said.

Another Buds appeared on Buds’ left, wearing a what looked like
graduation clothes. "Don’t! At this height, you may as well brake your
bones, and suffer fractures and may severe your legs. I say we accept
our punishment, and get it all over with."

Survival-Buds the guy with camouflage paint looked at Logical-Buds the
guy with graduation clothes and said, "Are you insane? Take punishment
from a girl? Are you out of your mind?"

Logical-Buds looked confused. "What do you mean? It’s more logical than
jumping blindly! Besides, it’s not that the girl will do something bad."

"Guys, remember what happened when I accidentally walked into Reiko
while she was dressing up?" Buds asked the two. "She was in her
underwear and chased us with a katana. This girl," he pointed at the
frozen girl who was chasing him, "I saw NAKED! What the hell do you
think she’ll do!"

Logical and Survival Buds looked at each other, and nodded. "JUMP!"

"Agree!" Buds replied, and time went by normally. Buds looked behind him
and saw the girl chasing him at top speeds, and he took a deep breath,
and jumped!

"Oh shit! I wish I had Tinkerbell as a pal!" Buds shouted as he jumped
in the air, and felt gravity work against him. He fell down with fast
speeds towards the bushes, and Buds let his hands cover his face as he
landed painfully but safely over the bushes.

"OW! OW! OW!" Buds shouted, and tried to gain balance. He was tired, he
was exhausted, but the adrenaline and the will to live pumped so
strongly in his veins that he stood up and ran.

"HEY!" Buds heard a female voice say. Turning around, he saw a girl with
silver short hair, eyes closed, looking at him! "Panty thief!" she said.

"Oh man..." Buds muttered. He was about to run when he saw dust fly in
the horizon. Checking his glasses, he swallowed as he saw the girl with
long hair running up to him.

"I GOT YOU!" she shouted triumphantly, and gave out tornado kick. Buds
ducked instinctually, surprising the girl. The girl lost her balance on
the air, and fell down, dragging Buds’ head with her.

Buds found himself staring under the girl’s skirt. He felt the trickle
of blood escape his nose as he watched it, mesmerized. He quickly stood
up and blushed. The girl in front of him was also beet red.

"Uh, you are really going to kill me now, huh?" Buds chuckled nervously.

"HENTAI!"

*POW!*

Buds found himself flying horizontally, and with the painful punch in
his cheek inflaming his senses, he could not see what was behind him.
Buds was driven to unconsciousness as he hit the tree.

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X-Zone:

In the darkness where light is not seen, a lone figure was seen floating
in the air. He looked like he was 17, his messy purple hair done in a
pig-tail, and a red scarf was flying behind him. He looked humanoid,
with only his pointed ears indicating that he was not exactly human.

His eyes were closed, and on his right hand held a thin purple sword. On
his right wrist was a gold bracelet.

The figure twitched a bit and his eyes began to move, but then, went
still. No, it was not yet time for him to wake up. But soon...

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Hina Apartments, Entrance:

Buds opened his eyes, and saw the blur around him. He could hear voices
around him.

"Pervert! Pervert!" a kid voice laced in sugar caught his attention
first. "What is ‘Pervert?’ Is it delicious?"

"Su!" another voice replied. "Don’t say things like that! He might get
ideas!"

"I think he is waking up, Naru," another voice said.

Buds could only shake his head to clear the cobwebs in his visions. He
looked up, and swallowed. In front of him was the two girls he had
‘accidents’ on, and another younger girl, who looked like and Indian,
with pale hair. She looked at him with curiosity.

The girl with long brown hair was glaring. If ever she had laser eyes,
Buds would have been already Swiss Cheese. The other girl with short
silver hair was studying him.

"What shall we do with him, Naru?" the girl with silver hair asked.

"A pervert like him deserves to be CRUCIFIED, WHIPPED, SKEWERED WITH A
SWORD, HIS PENIS CUT, and SENT to HELL!" ‘Naru’ replied, her raged
expression was so easy to read. It read: You are so, so dead, and I so,
so mean it.

Buds swallowed at that. The way the girl acted was more violent than
Reiko. He shook his head desperately. "I didn’t mean it! I swear, it was
not what it looked like!"

"You grabbed my towel, seeing me naked, and then look up under my skirt,
and you have the nerve to say it was all an accident!" Naru demanded,
her demon head coming in that would make Soun Tendou jealous.

"Uh yeah!" Buds replied stupidly. "I mean, I didn’t exactly want to see
you naked..."

"You say that I am ugly? Is that what you are implying!" Naru demanded.

Buds tried to pinch his nose. "That is not what I meant!" and he paused
as he tried to feel his arms. He found himself bound in the tree. "HEY!
WHAT IS GOING ON!"

"We are now holding the Hina Case 101: the Hina Apartment Girls Versus
Pervert," the girl with silver hair said, now with English Judge’s
clothes, including the wig. She even had a mallet, which hit on the
wooden table that just appeared out of nowhere. "We find the accused
guilty of creeping in an all-girls dorm, sneaking up on baths with
malicious intent."

"An ALL GIRL’S DORM!" Buds shouted in surprise.

"Yeah, it’s an all-girls dorm," the Indian girl said, pointing at the
sign at the entrance of the Hina Apartments. Buds squinted and tried to
read the sign. He sighed.

"I can’t read it," Buds replied.

"THAT IS STUPID!" Naru shouted. She was on the side of the girl with
silver hair, and had a table of her own. Beside her was the Indian girl.
"Of all the stupid reasons I hear, that is the most stupidest."

"The Accused pleads...?" the girl with silver hair asked.

"Not guilty," Buds replied. "Hey, it was all an accident."

"The jury finds the accused...?" she asked Naru.

"The Pervert looks at me naked and under my skirt. Guilty as Charged!"
Naru replied, giving Buds a hard glare. Buds swallowed. He looked at the
Indian girl beside Naru and pleaded with his eyes. He hoped she would
say not guilty...

"GUILTY! GUILTY!" the Indian girl shouted happily, jumping up and down
her seat. "Uh, is ‘guilty’ delicious?"

"The Court hereby finds the accused guilty as charged," the girl with
silver hair replied, slamming the mallet lightly in the table. "And he
is sentenced to pay me 1 Million Yen in cost of damages and stolen
undergarments." She smirked. Buds’ mouth twitched at that.

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/1 Million Yen!/ he thought

"That is not enough!" Naru replied. "Kitsune, I propose a punishment
with crucifixion, torture, and his member cut off."

"Well, you can do that," ‘Kitsune’ replied, thinking about it. "Of
course, he has to pay first."

Buds was sweating bullets now. Oh, he was dead now. He was dead,
sentenced to death in the worst possible way. He silently prayed for
someone, anyone, to save him. Kami-sama answered his prayers, but in a
different manner.

"What is going on here?" a voice rang in the background. Buds opened his
eyes and looked around.

"Miss Haruka," Naru greeted politely. "We were just discussing how this
pervert we saw sneaking around will pay." And she gave buds a good glare.

"Pervert?" ‘Miss Haruka’ asked, and looked at Buds dead in the eye. "Oh,
Keitaro, is that you?"

Buds gasped as he looked at the woman. She had short brown hair, had a
cigarette in her mouth, but her red eyes gave her away. "REIKO!" Buds
shouted.

Haruka walked near Buds, and gave him a hard whack in the head. "Miss
HARUKA," was all she said.

Hina Apartments, Manager’s Room

Buds sat as he leaned on the wall inside the room, supporting his sore
cheek. This was not his life. Just a few moments ago, he was punched,
kicked, chased, and courted, and finding out that Reiko was going by the
name Haruka, his supposed auntie.

He had to admit, the she planned it good. Never once did he expect this,
and never once did he also expect to make it out alive. Whoever the
girls are in the Hinata Apartment was much stronger than the Senshis
combined... but then, he had two guns at that time.


/What are you planning this time, Reiko?/

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Flashback:

"NANI!" Naru demanded. "This is sacrilegious! No way we can accept a
young man TO BE A MANAGER OF AN ALL GIRLS DORM!"

"Well, it was Grandmother Hina’s decision..." Haruka replied, shrugging
her shoulders. "And besides, he is Tokyo U student, so you can learn a
lot from him."

"HEY! YOU ARE A TOKYO U STUDENT?" Kitsune said, surprised.

"What’s a Tokyo U? Some kind of food?" the Indian Girl asked.

"Yeah, he should be a sophomore now, right?" Haruka asked Buds.

"What the hell are you talking about Reiko, I..." Buds was cut off as
Haruka hit him hard behind his head. "Ow...!"

"Yeah, anyway, that is his story," Haruka replied, smiling a bit,
holding her cigarette in one hand. "He is a serious guy who studies his
brains out, so he’ll probably make a good manager."

"I still don’t like the idea..." Buds muttered.

"I don’t care!" Naru began desperately, shaking her finger on Buds. "No
way a young man, and a pervert at that like him should manage an
all-girls dorm! It’ll be TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!"

Kitsune stood up, and looked at him. "Hey, so what is your major, buddy?"

"How’d you know my nicknam... OW!" Buds shouted as he felt another
painful punch behind his head.

"He is taking Pre-law," Haruka replied.

Kitsune’s eyes widened. "DID YOU HEAR! Did YOU HEAR! A Pre-law at Tokyo
University!" she began turning around with a white fan on her hand. "He
can be a politician, or maybe a bureaucrat, or possibly a lawyer!
Whichever way he goes, he can be totally corrupt, and makes loads of money!"

"Uh, I don’t think that is the way it goes..." Buds replied nervously.

"CAN’T YOU BE MORE SERIOUS!" Naru demanded Kitsune.

"What is the matter Naru? Aren’t you shooting for Tokyo U right? Maybe
you can ask him to tutor you!" Kitsune said, smiling.

"Come on! What’s is a Tokyo U?" the Indian girl asked.

Haruka stood up, and smiled. "Anyway, let him stay for a while, while
you people discuss this over. I have to go back and run the teahouse.
After all, we do need an apartment manager."

Naru sighed, and looked at Buds. Something hit her. "Hey, haven’t we met
before?"

Buds shook his head. "Nah, I never seen you before..."

End of Flashback

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"Man, what a mess Reiko is putting in front of me now," Buds quietly
moaned. "Not only did she make me Keitaro, she also is making me the
manager of an all-girls dorm. This is stupid..."

The door suddenly slid open, revealing Kitsune. "What is stupid?" she asked.

"My life," Buds replied curtly.

"Stupid? A Tokyo U student saying his life is stupid? That is a first,"
she said, smiling.

"Whatever. Anyway, Miss Kitsune, how may I help you?" Buds asked.

She sat down near him and began to lean on him. Buds backed away
nervously, and looked at her. "Oh, you know my name already?" she asked,
her tone teasing. She blushed, and began spinning her index finger on
the floor. "It’s just a nickname actually. My real name is Mitsune
Konno. Nice to meet you, Keitaro, Tokyo U student."

"Uh, yeah," Buds replied surprised. "Nice to meet you too, but I haven’t
actually decided on staying here..."

"Oh about your stay," Kitsune looked nervously at him. "We haven’t
reached an agreement yet, about you staying here. Naru is fighting
against the idea with all her teeth."

"The girl with long hair?" Buds wondered. He shrugged. "Well,
understandable... after all what happened."

Kitsune looked at Buds, her blush was really visible now. "So,
Keitaro-kun, you like girls with long hair?" and she grabbed Buds’ hand.

"Eh? What are you doing?" Buds asked nervously.

"The truth is... I’ve been imagining it already since you saw me in the
dressing room," Kitsune began, her blush was now much lighter. She
brought Buds’ hand into her breast.

"EHH!" Buds tried to back away from her, but her grip on his wrist was
strong, he could not pull his hand away.

"That is worth a month’s rent," Kitsune replied, smiling.

"What? Ehh... NANDATO!" Buds asked, shocked.

"What, you didn’t hear?" Kitsune said, smirking. "A grope is worth a
month’s rent."

"What are you talking about?" Buds asked.

The door opened again, and this time revealed Naru, and the Indian girl
Kaolla. "WHAT do you think you are DOING, sleaze ball!" Naru asked.

Before Buds could even reply, Kitsune was on her knees, crying. "H-he
started it... He grabbed my breasts and went saying ‘You like it here?
How about here?’"

"Uh, that was not what really happened! Honest!" Buds replied desperately.

"Come here Kitsune," Naru said, glaring at Buds. Buds watched as Kitsune
crawled out, and took one moment of smirking back at him before she
exited the room. Before Naru closes the door, she glared at Buds with
daggers. "You perverted scumbag!" and she closed the door strongly.

Buds sighed again as he sat down near the wall. "Damn, this is worse
than when Reiko had a katana. Speaking of Reiko..."

Hina Teahouse; that evening

Buds walked the foggy streets, not really paying attention to the old
men walking around, ringing bells. He stood a few steps from the
teahouse entrance, and waited a bit.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-

/I don’t think there are any more customers,/ Buds thought before he
entered. He sighed, and took a deep breath. /I hope this is the right
Hina Teahouse, and there are no others.../

The old men on the street looked at him. "Beware the world around
you..." they said, and continued walking.

Buds walked into the door, without knocking, and saw Haruka near the
tables, sipping tea. She turned around and looked at him, and smiled.
"Buds, come in."

Buds quietly took the seat in front of her.

"Tea?" she asked.

"Yes," Buds replied.

"Wait, okay?" Haruka, I mean, Reiko said, as she stood up and went in
the kitchen. When she came out, she had a cup of tea ready, and was
smiling at him. Giving the cup to Buds, she took her seat. "So, like it?"

"Like what?" Buds asked quietly, letting the tea slowly calm him.

"The world I sent you," Reiko said, smiling. "After all, if I heard
correctly, you just saw two people naked."

"Only one," Buds corrected. "She tried to kill me, Reiko!"

"That was the point," Reiko began, and sipped her tea. "You insulted my
breasts, and so you suffer the consequences. Bet you didn’t expect this
one, huh?"

"No I didn’t," Buds admitted. "But I think there was something wrong
with the Insertion. I can’t seem to read Kanji."

"Then how did you know that this was the Hina Teahouse?" Reiko asked,
smirking.

"Uh... I read the sign on board... It was in Kanji..." Buds muttered. He
looked at Reiko smirking, and frowned. "You did it. You blocked my
ability to read Kanji so I would enter the baths in the first place!"

"Yup, there you go!" Reiko said, smirking. "I knew you’d remember the
series, especially when we watched it already, so I had to do something."

"You also blocked some of my memory, didn’t you?" Buds demanded.

"Well, of course. Do you think that this Insertion will go on if you
actually know what will happen next?" Reiko replied curtly.

Buds sighed. He fell for everything. "Fine. What is the bet this time,
so you can return me home?"

"Well, its not a bet on who you can defeat. This is not Sailor Moon, an
action series," Reiko replied, and sipped her tea. "This is a romance
series, where the main hero falls in love."

"So that is it? I have to fall in love?" Buds asked.

"Nah, knowing you, you’d use your damn charms and moves to get one girl
to have a crush on you," Reiko said with a smirk. "Nah, you are to
manage the apartment for a given time, and make sure that no one falls
in love with you. They can have a crush on you, but love, well, that is
different."

"Huh? Girls fall in love with me?" Buds scoffed. "Excuse me, as far as I
am aware of my appearance, I am not exactly what you call a looker."

"Don’t be so sure, Keitaro-kun," Reiko smirked. "You are pretty cute
without your glasses."

"Falling in love with me?" Buds asked with a smirk.

"Whatever," Reiko said sarcastically. Both stared at each other in
silence for seconds, until Buds sighed.

"Alright, what is that given time until I can go home?" Buds asked.

"Until you are accepted into Tokyo U."

"NANI!" Buds shouted.

"NANI!" Naru heard Keitaro scream in the teahouse. She quickly, but
quietly went towards to slightly open door, and peered inside.

"Like I said, you have to get into Tokyo U," Haruka said. "I know it was
a mistake saying you made it and all, but you have go in."

"But you already told them that I did go in!" Keitaro replied, frowning.

"Check your memories again, Keitaro-kun," Haruka replied, smirking. "You
have a standing grade of 27th place from the bottom. You want to end
this, you have to study."

"It’s HIM! I recognize him now!" Naru whispered to herself, and quietly
took off. Oh, the boy was really going to get it now.

"Anyway, Buds," Reiko said, smiling as she looked at the slightly open
door at the entrance. "You don’t have much clothes, so if you want,
start cleaning the Hina Apartments, and I’ll pay you enough to buy new
set of clothes, shoes, and things you want."

"Can’t you just give them to me, like how you gave me and Gorby our guns
in Me Against All Odds?" Buds asked.

"Last time I did that, all my plans failed," Reiko said with a smile.

Buds just nodded and stood up. "Fine, I will clean the apartments, but
remember your promise."

"Yeah, just pass the Tokyo U entrance exam, and you are out of here,"
Reiko replied. Buds sighed. He stood up, and exited the teahouse.

Hina Apartments; next day

Buds moved on as he finished wiping the floors and cleaning the windows.
He proceeded to take a broom and a bucket of water with soap in it as he
went to the baths. He made sure that it was empty before he went in and
began cleaning.

He wiped the sweat of his forehead. /Man, cleaning here is so tough.../ and he continued on. He was so absorbed in his work, that he didn’t
realize someone was behind him, until the person spoke out.

"Urashima Keitaro!"

Buds spun around, and met up with a girl with dreadful locks on her hair
and thick spiral glasses. She wore a dirty orange ‘Salem’ Sweater and a
miniskirt. "Huh? Who are you?"

"In Sasaki Preparatory School National Practice Exam, you ranked 27th
from the bottom!" she took out a piece of paper and unfolded it. Her
actions caused Buds’ to receive a new flood of memories…

"You," Buds recognized her. It was the same girl who punched him for
looking up to her skirt just before he went to Hinata Apartments. "You
were the one in Keitaro’s… I mean, my memories…"

"You still don’t recognize me?" she asked, sighing as she took off her
glasses, and let her hair down. Buds looked a bit surprised as he saw
Naru emerge.

"Wow…" Buds clapped sarcastically. "You can really fool people like that."

"That is not the point!" Naru replied angrily. "The point is that you
lied to us! You weren’t a Tokyo U student to begin with!"

"I did not lie," Buds replied, calmly. "As I recall, I was not the one
who said I was a Tokyo U student. Reiko... I mean, Miss Haruka told you
people!"

"And you’re going to blame her?" Naru asked coldly.

"Well, she started the whole mess," Buds said quietly.

"Look," Naru began, taking a step forward.

"NO WAIT!" Buds warned. Too late, as Naru’s feet stepped on the abr of
soap Buds was using, and she slid across the surface, hitting Buds hard
on the chest.

"Ohh," Naru moaned as she tried to clear her head.

"Are you alright?" Buds asked held her up. Naru tried to clear her head,
and when her vision cleared, she gasped as she looked at her situation.
She was staring at his eyes, and he too was taring back at her eyes.
They were in a very intimate situation... "You know, you are pretty cute
without your glasses," Buds said off hand.

"AAAAGGGGHHHH! HENTAI!" Naru shouted, repositioning herself, and giving
a strong punch to Buds. Both fell on the ground, with Naru on top of him.

"What is going on?" Su’s voice asked behind Naru.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TWO DOING!" Kitsune suddenly asked, looking at
the way Naru was on top of Buds. Naru looked behind her, and suddenly
stood up.

"NO! It’s not what you think!" Naru replied. "Honest!"

"Welcome to my world," Buds muttered silently.

"Don’t tell me you are going behind our backs, Naru!" Kitsune accused.
Buds stood up and looked around him. Su was watching with curiosity, and
Kitsune was looking at Naru and himself with weird facial expression.

"The truth is..." Naru began. She looked at Buds longingly for a while,
before facing Kitsune. "Is that wanted to ask Urashima about Tokyo U. It
will be interesting to learn a lot from someone who goes there. I kinda
slipped, and Urashima held me up."

"Huh?" Buds asked, surprised. "Did I just hear what I just heard!"

"I think he would be a great manager, after all, he kinda risked his own
being in catching me," Naru said nervously.

"So you are finally accepting this guy as our manager?" Kitsune asked.

"Yeah," Naru said with a smile.

"Wait a minute!" Buds began.

"COOL!" Kitsune said, smiling. "Let me tell Miss Haruka of our decision!
Come on Su!" and she took the small Indian girl out. "WE have a Tokyo U
student as a Manager!"

Buds watched helplessly as the two females left him and Naru alone. When
they both left, Buds looked at Naru in confusion. "What are you doing,
Narusagawa-san?"

"Hmph, don’t get any ideas," Naru snorted. "You are a liar, pervert,
and… the one who caught me when I was about to fall." Buds stared at
her. "Maybe you are not such a bad guy at all," she said.

"Look, you found out that I am not a Tokyo U student," Buds said,
looking up in the sky. "Just please don’t tell the others!" he begged.

Naru looked at him. She smiled slightly. "I wonder why you seem so
desperate to enter Tokyo U?"

"Well..." Buds began...

-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Flashback:

"If you can get to Tokyo U without making any of the ladies here fall in
love with you, I’ll send you home and forget about you insulting my
breasts," Reiko said.

End of Flashback

-=-=-=-=-=-=-

/No, I can’t say that!/ Buds thought. /I have to find a way to reason
out that I want to go to Tokyo U without making an ass out of myself...
and also make myself unavailable./

Suddenly, Buds remembered Keitaro’s dream girl, the girl who Keitaro
promised to.

"Uh, there is a girl I love," Buds began slowly, looking at the sky with
a smile. "This girl and I made a promise to go to Tokyo U together."

"Oh, really?" Naru asked, sadly. "You already have a girlfriend huh?"

Buds nodded, smiling. "Yeah, she is a beautiful girl, one of the
prettiest actually, and I’m so in love with her."

Naru smiled sadly. "Really? Well, maybe I can understand."

"Huh?" Buds asked, confused.

"After all, you too are cute without your glasses," Naru said.

Buds looked at her, and saw that she was holding them. "Yeah, I have to
change that," Buds muttered. "Thank you for not telling them."

Naru looked at Buds as he took his glasses back and wore them. "Look, I
might accept you as a Manager, as of now, but I’m going to watch every
move you make. Any perverted stuff..." and she made cutting motions with
her fingers. "Get what I mean?"

Buds swallowed. "Uh, you are joking right, Narusagawa-san, right?"

"Nope," she said, and glared at him. "I still haven’t forgotten that you
saw me naked today, so better watch it."

"Fine," Buds replied, shrugging his shoulders. He might be a trouble
magnet, but he was not *that* bad... "Excuse me..." and he took a step
towards the soap behind Naru, and then, tripped.

Tripped...

And fell...

Over Narusagawa...

With his hands...

All over her breasts...

"HENTAI!"

"I swear! It was an accident! Honest!"

*POW*

To be Continued...?

Reiko: Man, your personality is screwing everything up, Buds.

Buds: what the heck happened? Why did Naru suddenly become all friendly
all the sudden?

Reiko: Don’t ask me!

Buds: This is your story!

Reiko: Hmm, she said that you caught her while she slipped. Maybe she
was taken back a bit by your gentleman act.

Buds: huh? That is so out of proportion…

Reiko: Well, it makes sense. She let Keitaro stay because he was acting
all noble.

Buds: But catching her while falling is an accident…

Reiko: Who cares now! Anyway, next Chapter! We introduce Shinobu on Hina
Apartment! NEXT! *2. Hinata’s New Resident, Shinobu: Arrow Signs and
Punching Bags*

Buds: Uh, about the violence... do I really have to suffer all this? And
I don’t like the sound of the next chapter’s title...

Reiko: Oh shut up...