Love Hina Fan Fiction ❯ Sempai, My Saviour ❯ Chapter 2

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

By: rincewind2012

Last time on Sempai, My Saviour

Keitaro takes his arm that is not trapped under Shinobu and uses his hand to gently lift her face so their eyes met and to softly stroke her cheek with his thumb.

"Shinobu-chan never think of yourself as a bother or a burden. If you ever need help please just ask, if you're sad, lonely, angry, confused please come see me so I can help you."

Shinobu sees the sincerity in his eyes blushes even more and says "Thank you".

Keitaro smiles and tenderly kisses her on the forehead and says "Anything for you my Angel now get some rest OK."

Shinobu snuggles against his chest in order to fell better and she smiles. She might not know what would happen tomorrow, but right now? She was safe.

------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Chapter 2

The sunlight drifted softly through the slightly open curtains and fell upon a pair of slumbering faces.

Keitaro slowly awoke to the rather pleasant feeling of some one asleep in his arms. At first he dismisses it as Su deciding to use him as a security blanket instead of Motoko and resigns himself to his fate.

'If I'm going to get beaten for sleeping with Su again I might as well get a bit more sleep before all hell brakes lose and I'm punched, kicked and/or slashed for no reason.'

He thinks with surprising clarity by any ones standards for that time in the morning let alone by his.

'Wait, if this is Su then why aren't my ribs being crushed?'

He pondered as he was slowly waking himself up. He decides to risk seeing who is curled up next to him in his arms and seeing who it is he immediately starts to panic. He doesn't even need to see the young girls face to instantly know who owns the blue hair.

'OH MY GOD I'M SLEEPING WITH SHINOBU! How did this happen? The last thing I remember is...oh right she was afraid to sleep by herself.'

Sufficiently calmed down enough he looks down at his friend and thinks to himself

'Beautiful, I wouldn't mind waking up like this every day.' He suddenly realises what he just thought and blushes.' Where did that come from? I don't see her like that.'

Just then Shinobu wakes up and looks at Keitaros smiling face.

"Good morning Shinobu-chan did you sleep alright?" he asks her.

She blushes when she realises that she spent the entire night in his arms and says

"Yes thank you Sempai, again I'm sorry for being such a bother to you."

She looks away from him ashamed that she had inconvenienced him when she feels him pull her closer to him.

"Shinobu-chan I told you last night that you're never a bother to me, remember? And besides I don't mind waking up to see your beautiful face."

Both blush heavily as he says this and Keitaro thinks

'What am I doing? Am I flirting with her?'

Shaking his head he says "We had better get up, the others are going to wonder where you and breakfast are. Do you feel up to doing it or would you like me to do it?"

She thinks for a moment and replies "I think I am."

Smiling at her he gives her a quick kiss to the forehead and says "OK, if you give me five minutes to get dressed I will come down and help you."

Something happens that makes them both freeze and Keitaros blood run cold. Both of them look up in time to see the board that separates his and Narus room slide away and an upside down head poke through.

"Why the hell are you making so much noise this early in the mor-" she trails off as she notices that Keitaro is not alone. Not only is he not alone but he also has a girl in his arms. Not only is he not alone and has a girl in his arms, the aforementioned girl just happened to be Shinobu.

Before either of them could do anything Naru takes a deep breath and yells "WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU PERVERT!"

She drops down from her room and draws her arm back.

Shinobu is terrified, scared witless by the glowing fist travailing very fast towards them, and curls up into a ball to protect herself.

Keitaro is also scared out of his mind but notes Shinobus reaction. He also realises that if Naru was going to hit him with a full powered punch it would likely hit Shinobu as well and while he is miraculously able to survive what ever life at the Hinata throws at him he doubts if the same can be said for Shinobu.

Thinking fast he positions himself on top of the young girl to protect her from Narus wrath.

Naru with no regard for for Shinobu's safety, her mind solely focused on punishing the pervert in front of her, she follows through and lands the punch squarely in the centre of his back but unlike any of the times before, and Keitaro did not go flying out the window but took the punch as if it was nothing.

Keitaro looking down at the scared young girl beneath trembling in fright. His anger starts to rise and he turns around to confront the person who did this to his young charge. "Naru what the hell do you think your doing!? You could have hurt Shinobu-chan with that stunt!" he yells at her and then turns to comfort the young girl.

Naru just stands there confused. This wasn't how things were meant to happen. Keitaro was meant to go flying, she was meant to comfort the poor girl he was trying to molest and he was meant to apologise to her for his perverse behaviour. This was completely wrong and all she could do was stutter an answer "I was... you were... she...”

"Whatever Naru just go." he dismissed her, not even looking up from Shinobu, still trying to calm her down.

"But I was just trying..."She attempted but was cut off.

"I know exactly what you were trying to do, just go". He states not even looking at her.

Naru was shocked, not only had the fact that she could have severely hurt Shinobu just sunk in. She was just yelled at, by Keitaro of all people. No one had ever talked to her this way let alone him!

'What the hell is with this family?! First Haruka-san stops me from dealing with this pervert, when normally she wouldn't even bat an eye and then he yells at me for trying to save Shinobu-chan! What next, some crazy brother-loving adopted sister going to try and evict all of us and turn this place back into an inn?!'

Unsure of how to react to this she simply walked out in a daze totally ignoring her best friend who was woke by the shouting and was at least hoping for a good show as compensation for being woken from a dirty dream she was having.

She peers in to see what has happened and sees Keitaro holding Shinobu. She thinks this is the perfect opportunity for some teasing.

"Well Keitaro I never knew you had it in you! And with Shinobu no less! No wonder..."

She trails off as she gets a look form Keitaro that implies if she doesn't be quiet she will find all her sake poured down the sink and all her rent will be collected by his aunt from now on. It was a very eloquent look.

"OK I get the message" She says as she walks back to her room to start the days drinking.

With Naru and Kitsune dealt with he turns his attention completely to the girl in his arms. He strokes her back until she calms down.

"There, there Shinobu-chan don't worry your safe." His words get through to the young girl and she looks up at him.

"S-sempai? W-what happened?"

He sighs "Naru poked her head through the hole and jumped to the wrong conclusion, as usual" he informed her sadly.

"Oh, I see. Does she know why I was in here?" She asks worriedly

"No, she left before she asked, but Kitsune saw and she will probably ask us some questions later."

"W-what are we going to tell them? They are going to want to know why I was in here."

"Don't worry Shinobu-chan we'll think of some thing." In a moment of inspiration he tells her "How about we tell them that you had a bad dream and you were too frightened to sleep by your self. Do you think they will believe that?"

"I don't know."

"Well I suppose it will have to do unless we can think of something better." He smiled reassuringly at her and she gave a small smile back.

"OK do you still feel up to making breakfast?" He waits for her to nod and says "OK go get dressed and I'll go down and start breakfast".

He waits for the girl to close the door before he starts to get dressed and heads down stairs to wait for Shinobu.

She joins him after not too long and they work together to create a big breakfast for the residents of Hinata Sou.

-------------------------------------------------------

The breakfast table was quiet this morning. Keitaro and Shinobu were quiet in the hope that no one would bring up what had happened this morning. Naru was still trying to process the change that had happened to Keitaro. Motoko rarely talked during meals and today was no different. She made no mention of the incident she heard from the laundry deck. She presumed by the way Naru wasn't glaring at Keitaro that she had given him adequate punishment for what ever perversion he was committing and had no desire hear about what he had done this time. Su... well Su for the most part was Su. She still sucked in all the food that she horded on her plate, paying little attention to what was happening around her pausing only to have a quick sip of her drink. Kitsune was the one Keitaro was most worried about. She had not said a thing since she sat down and had the smile on her face that Keitaro knew and dreaded. What surprised him the most was that she had not said anything about what had happened this morning.

'What's she up to? Normally she would have told Motoko by now and I would be on a free trip to the centre of Tokyo. Hopefully she will just try to black mail me and leave it at that.'

"Well Shinobu-chan once again the meal was delicious, if you girls will excuse me I have some studying to catch up on. If you need me I will be in my room." He smiles at everyone as he gets up to leave.

He is almost to the door of the dinning area when

"Say, Keitaro why were you and Shinobu hugging in your bed in nothing other than your pyjamas?" Kitsune not so innocently asks.

Keitaro stops mid-step as the temperature in the room drops.

"So that's what you were doing this morning you Vile, Perverted Male! I will end your evil ways once and for all! Shinmei-ryu no JakuzankÅ«sen!"

Motoko yells as she gathers Ki in her sword. In one swift movement she unleashes a powerful attack against him which sends him flying out of the building at high speeds.

"SEMPAI!!" Shinobu yells as she sees him fly out the building. She rushes to the front door but by the time she gets outside he is but a dot in the distance.

"Sempai" she whispers. She starts to go after him but gets to the top step and stops.

'I-I can't go by myself. Sempai wont be there to protect me, it will happen again.' She thinks to herself. 'I'm sorry Sempai, I'm not strong enough, I'm too scared to leave without you by my side, I'm sorry I can't help you.'

Suddenly she feels a hand on her shoulder. She flinches and looks up to see Motoko looking down at her.

"Don't worry Shinobu-chan I will protect you from that pervert!" She tells the girl with, in Shinobu's opinion, far too much enthusiasm in her voice.

"But he wasn't doing anything perverted to me. I was..." She suddenly stops herself before she tells them what happened the day before. "I had a bad dream and I asked Sempai if I could sleep with him. He did nothing wrong!"

"Oh" is the only thing she can think of to say to Shinobu's outburst. She suddenly starts to think about what she has done and feels guilty. This being Motoko, of course, the guilt instantly becomes anger and she directs her anger towards the usual target "Well that fool should know better than to spend the night alone with a young girl. It is not appropriate." She says in an attempt to justify her actions.

They both turn around to see a cackling Kitsune. "Ha ha ha I've never seen you hit that boy so hard before. It will take him ages to get back from where ever it is you sent him. Well I suppose I'm gonna head out into the hot springs now anyone want to join me?"

Everyone agrees that is an excellent idea except Shinobu who states that she has some school work to finish.

Shinobu runs up to her room and locks her door behind her. She grabs the weird frog stuffed animal that Keitaro had won for her and hugs it to her chest. She alternates between staring off into the distance and looking out her window waiting for her Sempai to get home with tears in her eyes. 'It's my fault. It's always my fault when you get hurt. I'm so sorry Sempai please forgive me.'

She stays like this for twenty minutes thinking the same thought over and over again staring out into space, occasionally glancing out her window to see if he had returned yet, gently rocking backwards and forwards.

-Knock- -Knock-

The sudden noise makes the girl scream a little and runs to the corner of the room furthest away from the door when a voice calls out

"Shinobu it's Kaolla, I know you're in there I heard you scream when I knocked, I need to talk to you."

-------------------------------------------------------

10 minutes earlier in the hot springs

"Naru-sempai? May I ask something?" Motoko enquired

"Of course Motoko-chan." she replied

"Have you noticed something wrong with Shinobu?"

She thinks for a moment and says "Now that you mention she is acting weird."

"And her last two meals, while still superior to any meal you could find outside Hinata Sou, were not up to her usual standards."

"She's also been acting up around Keitaro." Kitsune put in with a sly grin "And they spent a lot of time together yesterday" her grin widens "And we found them in bed together, you don't think..." She trails off knowing she doesn't have to finish her sentence.

There is silence in the Hot Springs for a moment before it is filled with the sounds of knuckles cracking and a sword being unsheathed even though the focus of their attention still hasn't returned. But then a guardian angel saved him without even realising it

"Nah, don't be sillys Fox-Lady, Keitaros likes Shinobus cooking too much too hurt her. Besides she isn't running away from him shes trying to protect him." Su explains as if it were the most obvious thing in the world, which it was if your name wasn't Naru Narusegawa or Motoko Aoyama.

Naru and Motoko relax when they see the logic in what Su says and Kitsune frowns lightly at the young foreigner for ruining her fun.

"I gota go, bananas to eat and inventions to make seeyas!" Su yells as she runs off

-------------------------------------------------------

10 minutes later

The girls decide that they have had enough of the hot springs for now and go their separate ways. Motoko went out to the kitchen to make herself a cup of tea when she sees her manager walking in the front door.

"Its about time you got back Urashima you have been neglecting you duties."

He just stares at her as if shes gone insane. Isn't the reason he hasn't preformed his duties because She blasted him out of the building?

"Motoko-chan why did you do attack me this morning." he asked for once wanting an explanation not just handing out apologies.

"You know why Urashima, you were taking advantage of Shinobu-chan."

"You didn't even let me explain! She had a bad dream and couldn't sleep by herself, what did you want me to me to do turn her away?"

"That is besides the point, you should know better than to spend the night with an innocent girl. Who knows what you could have done."

He looks at her shocked "Motoko do you really believe that I would, no that I Could do something like that to Shinobu?"

Completely ignoring the tone of voice she says "I honestly have no idea what a pervert like you is capable of doing."

His eyes widen hurt and then narrow in anger "Very well Aoyama-san" he says emphasising the use of her family name as he walks passed her.

Shocked about the use of her last name but more so about the fact that he was walking away from her, she yells after him "Urashima! How dare you walk away from me when I'm talking to you!"

He turns around and says with mock cheerfulness "Sorry, but I'm sure you don't want to be associated with a potential rapist like me." Then continues to walk away leaving a speechless Motoko behind.

'I suppose I should check on Shinobu, she seamed pretty upset when I "left". I hope she's not too sad.' He hurries towards Shinobu's room but stops when he hears raised voices when he realises that they are coming from Shinobu's room he moves faster. He looks in the open door of her room and sees Su standing in front of Shinobu with the girl sitting on her bed with tears in her eyes.

"Su, Shinobu. What's going on here?"

-------------------------------------------------------

A few minutes earlier

Kaolla Su wasn't stupid. She was smart. In fact she is very smart. Most people pass her of as an idiot because she always asks if something tastes good. People often forget that Japanese is not her native language and not only is asking if something tastes good a very important question (up there with how to stop global warming and can I eat it?) it is also very funny to see the reactions of her friends.

Friends. Friends were the one thing that takes priority over eating. If there was one thing Kaolla Su knows besides how to make a Tasty Tama soup it is her friends, and since she came back yesterday her best friend had been acting strange.

While she wasn't doing anything openly strange it was the little things that caught her attention. She was spending a lot of time with Keitaro and hardly seems to be in a separated from him for long. Motoko wasn't the only one who had noticed the drop in quality in the past two meals. She had also seen and heard what had happened last night when Shinobu asked to sleep with Keitaro, while on her way to get a before midnight snack. This by itself was strange seeing as the girl blushed at the thought of being in the same room as the man. However she thought nothing of it at the time. When she said that she was too frightened to sleep by herself it was perfectly reasonable that she would go to Keitaro, after all he was very cuddly and was able to keep away her bad dreams away so why should this be different for the other girls? Besides there was food that needed to be eaten at the time. But now everything pointed to something being very wrong with her friend.

This is what led her to be standing outside of her best friends' room asking to come in

"Shinobu it's Kaolla, I know you're in there I heard you scream when I knocked, I need to talk to you."

After receiving no answer she tries again. "Please Shinobu its really important."

"I'm sorry Su but I'm too busy to make you something to eat right now."

Su, slightly hurt that her friend thinks that's the only reason why she wants to talk her best friend is because she is hungry, insists "It's not about that please let me in."

"I'm sorry but I already told you I'm busy."

Su sighs and pulls out a screwdriver from god-knows-where and proceeds to take the door off by the hinges.

"Su! How did you open the door?" Shinobu asks shocked.

"That's not important what is important is what's been going on with you since yesterday."

Shinobu freezes when she says that "W-what are you talking about?"

"You know what I'm talking about. You've been acting weird since yesterday. What's going on?"

"Nothings going on. You're imagining things Su."

"Shinobu I'm your best friend. I know when something's wrong with you please just tell me!"

"Su, Shinobu. What's going on here?" a voice interjects making them both look towards the open door to see Keitaro looking at both of them.

"Shinobu has been acting strange since you two came back yesterday and I want to know why."

Keitaro looks from Su to Shinobu and sees the tears of worry in her eyes.

He sighs "Su can you give me and Shinobu-chan a minute please"

"But-" She starts.

"Please Su-chan just give us a minute."

"...OK" She said reluctantly as she walked out the room replacing the door as she does.

"OK Shinobu-chan what's going on?"

"Su knows something's going on. I tried to tell her nothing was wrong but she wouldn't listen." She looks down "I'm sorry you got hit again because of me again." She adds quietly.

"Shinobu-chan you must never think like that, it wasn't your fault."

"Yes it was. If didn't ask to sleep with you this would never have happened."

"Maybe, but if Naru hadn't jumped to conclusions, Kitsune wouldn't have found out and if it wasn't for Kitsune, Motoko would not have found out. So you see it was just as much their fault if not more so. So don't worry about it."

"OK" She said with a little smile.

"Now what are we going to do about Su?"

"I-I don't know. She knows something is going on but not what. What should we tell her?"

He thinks for a moment and says "Shinobu-chan, I think we have to tell her."

"B-but I don't-"

"I know you don't want anyone else to know but will you please hear me out?" He waits for her to nod before continuing."She already knows something's going on and I don't think we will be able to lie to her. Also I'm worried about when you have to go back to school after the holidays. I won't be able to be there for you when you're at school. I will be able to walk you there and back if you want but I won't be able to be in school with you and I would feel better if there's someone to look after you when you're at school."

He sighs when the girl says nothing to him "Look Shinobu-chan the decision is yours if you want to tell her or not but just remember that Su-chan is your best friend, she won't think any less of you or love you any less than she does now OK? What ever you decide I'll still support you."

He gives her time to think about what he has said to her. He is about to ask her if she was alright when she said "I-I think I want her to know."

"OK I will go get her OK?" he smiles at her and walks over to the door.

"Su-chan? You can come in now." he tells the girl.

Su walks to the middle of the room and waits for an explanation.

"Before we can tell you anything you have to promise not to tell anyone OK?" Keitaro tells her.

"Of course." She replies

Shinobu takes a deep breath and says "Yesterday I was nearly r-raped"

It takes a moment to sink in "YOU WERE WH-MMMMMM MM MM" she begins to yell before Keitaro, who had anticipated something like this happening, clamps a hand around her mouth.

"Su-chan please you can't yell like that the other girls will hear!" he pleads with the girl. When she calms down he releases her and she rushes over to embrace her friend.

"Oh my god, Shinobu are you OK, please tell me what happened, why didn't you tell me?" Su questions the girl at a high speed.

Shinobu looks up at her with tears in her eyes and says "Because I didn't want people to know! It's bad enough that Sempai and Haruka-san knows about it!"

"Wait Haruka knows about it!? How come she knows about it before me?"

"Su-chan if you calm down we will tell you. OK?"

For the next five minutes Keitaro tells Su how he saved Shinobu from the rapist, how he went to his aunt for help instead of bringing her up here. All the while he is talking to her she never lets go of Shinobu.

When he finishes the story Su thinks for a moment then stands up walks over to Keitaro and gently hugs him, whispering in his ear "Thank you for protecting Shinobu-chan."

Surprised by the gentle hug instead of the rib cracking one he usually gets it takes him a minute to return the hug.

"Any time Su-chan" he whispers back to her. As she leaves the hug she returns to her friend to give her a slightly firmer hug to reassure her.

"Please Shinobu don't keep things like this to yourself. You can always tell me anything and I'll always try to help you."

"I know it's just that-"

"I understand, don't worry about it." Su smiled at the girl and hugged her again.

Keitaro smiles at the two girls happy that they are still friends.

"OK girls I have to get to work fixing the hole I made this morning are you going to be OK?"

Shinobu looks up at him and says "I think so."

Su smiles a big toothy grin and nods her head.

"OK I'll see you two at lunch." he says with a smile before going to repair the hole he and Motoko made.

-------------------------------------------------------

Lunch time quickly comes around and everyone notices that Shinobu seems happier than earlier and also the quality food has returned to Shinobu's usual standards.

"Can someone please pass the soy sauce?" Everyone looked at the sauce next to Keitaro but he doesn't respond.

"Hey idiot you gone deaf Motoko asked you to pass the sauce." Yelled Naru, who had since gotten over her confusion the same way she usually did i.e. by being angry at Keitaro.

He doesn't even look up when he says "I'm sure Aoyama-san wouldn't want anything from me."

Everyone looked a little surprised by the formal address he rarely uses with her.

"Err, Kei what do you mean by that?" Kitsune asks him.

"Well seeing as she thinks I'm a potential rapist I don't think she would want my help."

"I did not say that!" she replied angrily. Feeling slightly guilty over the exchange that happened earlier, but not entirely sure why.

"As good as" he says.

"Stop being overly dramatic you idiot."

"What ever Naru." he says not wanting to get into an argument. "At least some people don't think I'm a pervert." he says quietly to himself.

However he didn't say it quietly as he hoped, as Naru heard and interpreted it as meaning Shinobu.

"Well if you like Shinobu so much why don't you just go out with her?!"

Angry at being drawn in a fight he yells "Fine I will!"

"WHAT!!" Everyone yelled and including Keitaros mind, having just caught up with what his mouth said.

Realising that he would look like a fool even more so than usual if he backed down he turns to Shinobu and says

"Shinobu-chan would you like you to go on a date with me this afternoon?" He asks with a smile.

"R-really?" She asks with her eyes as big as saucers, too shocked by the prospect of going out on a date with her Sempai to blush.

"Of course. Seeing as we have Naru's blessing it won't be a problem. So do you want to go?"

"YES!" She says a bit quicker and a bit louder than she wanted.

"OK how about we leave at 3?"

"That's fine."

"OK I'll be in my room if anyone needs me." he smiles at her picks up his plate and leaves.

Everyone was shocked by this turn of events. Well everyone except Su and Shinobu, the former not paying attention as long as there was some food left on her plate and the latter only thinking 'I'm going on a date with Sempai! I'm going on a date with Sempai!'

Once again Kitsune was the frist to recover "Well that was unexpected wasn't it?" to which Naru and Motoko could only nod.

-------------------------------------------------------

The next couple of hours were filled with Naru studying to block out the feelings of jealousy she was having for some reason, Motoko running through her schools Kata's to get rid of the feelings of guilt which were appearing from somewhere, Kitsune drinking in preparation for the show that was going to start at 3 o'clock, however fell into a drink induced nap, Su was chasing around Tama yelling something about making tama soup, while Shinobu rifled through her closet to find something to wear for her first ever date, and Keitaro was just trying to stay out of everyone's way.

3 O'clock came around and with everyone embroiled with their own activities no one was there to see the couple off.

"Hey Shinobu, you look pretty, you ready to go?" He smiles at the young girl as she comes down wearing a yellow sundress.

Shinobu blushes at the complement and says "Thank you Sempai, shall we go?"

They both walked out the front door together but when Shinobu reaches the first step she freezes, and thinks that she won't be safe if she leaves Hinata Sou and starts to have second thoughts about going out on the date.

She is about to move away from the steps when Keitaro takes a hold of her hand. Surprised at the intimate contact between the two, she looks up at his smiling face.

Keitaro had noticed Shinobu's hesitation and correctly guessed that she was nervous about leaving the safety of the dorm.

"Don't worry Shinobu I'm right here. I won't let anything happen to you."

Feeling more confident she grips his hand tightly and moves slightly closer to him and smiles" OK lets go."

With that they both head off for their first date.

------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Well that's another chapter done. I know there's not much romance yet but I'm trying to build up to it and I should start the romance in the next chapter or the one after. No idea how long this fic will be or when I'll be able to update. I hope you were able to keep up with all the jumping around near the end. Again after a week I will re post this Chapter with improvements, corrections and review comments/answers if there are any or if I post a new chapter before a week I will do it then.

Other things

I think I should apologise for the little Kanako cameo. She's one of my two favourite Hinata girls (the over being Shinobu) but I can't think of a way to work her into this fic so I thought I should give her a quick mention, even if it did make me cringe a bit to do it like that.

Shinmei-ryu no JakuzankÅ«sen is "Lesser Air-Cutting Flash" .

3).When Su speaks in the hot springs chances are the spelling mistakes are on purpose.