Love Hina Fan Fiction ❯ Third Crowd ❯ Chapter 10: " Exposed" ( Chapter 10 )

" I should be leaving" Matthew said as he double-checked his things.

" Can't you stay a little longer Matthew-San?" Keitaro asked

" As much as I want to, I still have some business somewhere."

" Oh, then please come back here when you when you're in the area Matthew-San"

" That I'll do" Matthew goes outside.

" Hmm? Matthew-San you're leaving?" Naru happens to pass by the entrance.

" Yeah, but I'll try to visit some other time."

Rem was outside waiting with Sato. Matthew stops near Rem and…

" You know I saw him yesterday." Rem said without looking at Matthew

" I didn't expect to see him here, in any case don't try to over do things."

" Can't promise that…Dad try to…"

" Don't worry, If I see him I'll avoid him"

" Be careful Matthew-Sensei" Sato gives a wave of good bye.

Matthew continues walking and goes down the stairs, after that Rem and Sato talked about something.

" Rao, frah femm fa damm dra udranc?"

" E tuh'd ghof…"

" E drehg fa cruimt damm dras cuuhan un mydan…"

" e kiacc…"

" Remathias, ra'c…"

" Tuh'd ctynd fedr drad ykyeh…"

" hehehe cunno =^_^="

" E cina fecr fa lyh damm dras huf…"

" Fro tuh'd oui? ^_^"

"……"

Then they just went inside with the others. As Matthew reached the bottom of the stairs he sees a woman wearing traditional clothes, he stops while the woman walked past him. He said…

" There are a lot of people I didn't expect to see in one place…"

" Fate can be playful sometimes " the woman said

" Tsuruko, I hope you're not going to do what I'm thinking." Matthew's eye sharpened

" And if I am? What will you do?" Tsuruko turns around and faces Matthew

" ….."

"….."

Both of them just stood there and stared at each other neither one losing focus. Then…

" You do what you want, but remember, if anything bad happens…" The wind reveals Matthew's right eye to be scarred, then he opens his right eye and Tsuruko sees the Blood-red colored eye.

" It's the second time I saw your right eye, and still it's the only thing that gives me this cold feeling down my spine.

" I'm leaving"

" Sensei…" Tsuruko goes up the stairs.

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Hinata Grounds: ( 4:37 pm)

At the inn Keitaro was being chased by Su with some new weapon of destruction. They ran around the Hinata grounds and Keitaro noticed Tsuruko going up the stairs.

" Tsuruko? What could…GWAAAAAH!"

Before Keitaro can finish Su fired the large rifle and sent Keitaro flying.

" Bull's eye!"

Tsuruko stops near Su and Su looks up at Tsuruko

" You have some new residents here right? Where are they?"

" Huh? Oh you mean Sato, Rem and Yaite? Wait I'll go look for them" Su starts to run but Tsuruko stopped her

" Wait, I'll go look for them."

"Oooookay! ^_^" Su went to look for Keitaro instead.

Tsuruko comes inside the inn and finds Kitsune on the sofa

" Huh? Tsuruko? What brings you here?"

" Nothing really, I'm just here to…"

Tsuruko then sees Sato coming down form the stairs, she goes near him and

" Hey? You look like Motoko =^_^="

Tsuruko then threw a paper at Sato's face, it sticks to his face and Sato falls down on the floor.

" SATO!" Kitsune shouted

"…."

" Hey, what's this paper? =^_^=" Sato instantly stood up and asked while the paper still sticks on his face.

" Eh? Sato are you all right?"

" Yeah, Why? =^_^="

" Not him" Tsuruko walks towards the dining room.

" She could be…" Sato's smile faded as his face turned serious.

Rem is in the kitchen preparing lunch when Tsuruko went inside the dining room

" Hmm? Motoko? No, you just look like her, who are you?" Rem asked Tsuruko as she stares at him

Tsuruko also threw a paper at Rem but Rem was able to grab the paper

before it hit his face.

" Hmm, I didn't know these things still exists, these are used to determine a spirit or demon from a human right? It also seals the power of the said being if I'm not mistaken."

" It's not you too, only one left"

" Hey, why are you trying to stick this on my face?"

" That's none of your business" Tsuruko moves on another room.

" Heh, and I thought I'm the only one who's obnoxious around here." Rem looks at Tsuruko leave and crumples the paper.

Clothesline Area

Yaite is at the clothesline area, looking at the sea, when Tsuruko appeared and…

" …" Yaite just looks at Tsuruko

Shinobu came there too, shortly after Tsuruko to dry the laundry. She noticed Tsuruko and…

" Tsuruko-Sempai?" Shinobu puts down the laundry basket and walks towards Tsuruko.

" Tsuruko-Sempai? When did you arrive? You want to…" Shinobu stopped because Tsuruko's eyes were fixed at Yaite, and Shinobu can see anger in them.

Tsuruko throws the same paper at Yaite and Yaite grabs it before it hit his face, but unlike Rem and Sato, the paper reacted when it came in contact with Yaite. Yaite was suddenly enveloped in electricity caused by the magical paper.

" Ungh!" Yaite's face shows signs of severe pain

" Yaite-Sempai!" Shinobu was surprised to see Yaite electrocuted.

" It's you, you're the one."

The other gang then just heard the noise and went to see what has happened, Rem and Sato saw Yaite and shook their head. Motoko was surprised to see Tsuruko and was confused of what is happening.

" One-ue! What are you doing?"

Tsuruko just gives a quick look at Motoko and looked back at Yaite and said.

" I'm just taking care of this thing that's not suppose to be in this world."

" What?"

Yaite then just laughed an evil laugh and looked at Tsuruko

" hahahahahahaha, you think this piece of paper will be enough to defeat me?" Yaite grips the paper harder

" What's going on here?" Keitaro asked.

" Then let me tell you." Tsuruko started

" This man, is not what he looks like, this man is a demon." Tsuruko points at Yaite

" What's that? A demon?" Everyone said in surprise

" Yeah, I'm a demon so what?" Yaite's continues to be shocked with electricity

" Rem, what she talking about?" Naru looked at Rem with concern

" I knew some day it will come to this."

" Rem, let me explain" Yaite started

" I'm a demon, I belong to another world. IM NOT HUMAN."

" Shinobu just stood frozen like the others.

" W-what do you mean?" Keitaro refuses to believe

" Didn't you hear me? I'm a demon!"

" And demons need to be disposed of, just like evil spirits." Tsuruko draws out her sword.

" ONE-UE!"

" Wait, Yaite hasn't done anything wrong! So why should he have to be disposed of?" Naru protested

" Even so, if he stay here, it will cause imbalance in the natural order of things."

" Hehehehe you think you're strong enough to take me on?" Yaite grips the paper harder this time, burned in his hand and the electricity disappeared.

" Ugh.." Tsuruko was surprised to see he was able to get free from the seal.

Tsuruko shifts to her fighting stance and Yaite crouches down with arms extended, palms open. Then in a split second Yaite was near Tsuruko and attacked, he reveals gauntlets on both arms and the back fist of the gauntlet let out blades that glows red. Yaite attacks Tsuruko with spinning slashes and thrusts. Yaite's speed was incredible but Tsuruko evaded them.

" Yaite! Stop it!" Sato shouted

" She started it, so she should end it!" Yaite moves in for another attack

" Tsk! Tsuruko, stop this!" Rem tried to knock some sense in her

" Sorry, but things that don't belong in this world must be removed!"

Tsuruko lunges forward and attacks Yaite with a vertical slash, the attack hit Yaite at the shoulder, Yaite moves back for a while.

" Heh, you're good let's see if you can escape this."

Yaite just stands straight and Tsuruko waits then Tsuruko felt something terrifying. She suddenly felt the whole surrounding to be dangerous, it prevents her from sensing Yaite's aura. She looked back at Yaite but he was gone. Motoko also felt the unusual aura and feels uneasy.

" Tsuruko, you can't win now, please stop this!" Rem insisted

" What? Surrender? Never!"

/ Where is he? I can't feel his aura, just the surroundings /

/ Why di I feel scared?, I can't stop my body from trembling/

" You know why you can't sense my aura?" Yaite said at the back of Tsuruko. Tsuruko just stood frozen waiting for Yaite to finish what he said.

" It's because, what you're sensing now IS my aura…" Yaite prepares to deliver an attack.

But then Sato blocked his attack using his battle gauntlets with blades on the side that resembles the wings of a bird. Rem also blocked Tsuruko's attack with his sword.

" YOU! Don't interfere!" Yaite pushes Sato away. But Sato just stood and said

" Stop it, before you hurt someone beside from Tsuruko"

Sato then points at Shinobu with tears continuously flowing from her eyes. Yaite stopped momentarily then lowered his weapon. And looks away from Shinobu.

" You, don't meddle in my fight! Or else!" Tsuruko said angrily

" Or else what? You know I can easily slash your arm off in this position so if I were you I'll lower my weapon before something bad happens."

" Grr.." Tsuruko then lowers her weapon

" You don't know what you're doing, if he stays here…"

" Of course we know that, that's why he's been trying to stop himself from using his power here."

" Yeah, we have his back =^_^=" Sato added

Yaite just looks at Shinobu then moves his focus to the other girls. And said

" I'm sorry, I kept this from you guys. I'll leave immediately"

" Wait a minute!" Shinobu said who is crying

" Why do you have to leave?"

" It's for the best, I don't want to endanger your lives."

" You know what I think, That sucks!"

" Eh?" the group was surprised to hear Shinobu used such a term

" Shinobu?" Yaite's eyes started to show signs of sadness

" I don't care if you're a demon or just a reincarnated animal or something! What I care about is you Yaite-Sempai! The person who I know…"

" Yeah, who cares about what you are, as long as you pay the rent you're always welcome ^_~"

"KITSUNE!!" Keitaro and Naru shouted

" Hohohoho I'm just kidding ^_~"

" Yeah, what's important is you're our friend and that's all that matters!" Motoko confirmed

" I agree. ^_^" Mutsumi smiled

" Yaite may be quiet but he's nice and plays with us sometimes! ^_^"

"Yeah!" Sarah added

" H-hahahaha"

" Yaite-Sempai?"

" Sorry, I just remembered someone who said almost the same thing." Yaite tried to hide his face, because now tears were flowing from his eyes.

Then it was silence, for a few moments the entire Hinata Sou was silent and then Rem said…

" Tsuruko, I tell you, Yaite's stay here will not cause any problem, I promise"

" What?" Tsuruko just stayed quiet for a while to think then

" Fine, He could stay, besides I can't fight all the ones who hold him dear."

Tsuruko looks at gang who was laughing with Yaite.

" Don't worry, everything's gonna be fine. =^_^=" Sato holds out a peace sign.

" Hey, which reminds me, who was the guy who tried to wreck the Ferris wheel the other day?" Kitsune just brought up the subject.

" Yeah, and Sato-San was able to jump that high and fix the Ferris wheel" Naru remembered the things that has happened at theme park.

" Well, I guess we can't keep it from them forever…" Rem gave out a sigh.

" Hehehe let's gather everyone at the living room then =^_^="

" H-hey! Should we tell them already?"

" Yeah, as of what happened today, I think they're ready. =^_^="

" Fine…"

-Chapter 10 End-

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Tsuruko left after what happened and the girls were gathered at the living room to hear the whole story from the new guys. At last the truth will be revealed to the group, will they be able to take it? Find out in the next chapter.

Hope you guys don't mind if it gets a little serious in this part, I'm just trying to reveal the reasons why the guys are there and all that stuff, don't worry

I'll try to update and make the next chapters more enjoyable. I didn't expect a lot of readers to be reading my fic even, if they just browsed over the chapters, I'm glad to know someone reads my work

Thanks a lot ^_^

Silver Frost