From: "David Myers" 

Camping Out

A Maison Ikkoku fanfic by David Myers

Maison Ikkoku rights reserved by Viz video and all characters are owned 
and created by Rumiko Takahashi.  This is a non profit story written 
without permission which does not intend to infringe upon those rights.

Maison Ikkoku - The story of a man a woman and the drunks that live to
interfere!

Maison Ikkoku, a comfortable shabby apartment building is home of a 
motley crew of volatile personalities. Yusaku a college student, is 
madly in love with beautiful young Kyoko, the apartment manager.  But 
the recent death of her husband prevents Kyoko from fully opening her 
heart to anyone. While bumbling Yusaku and a dashing tennis coach vie 
for her affections, the other residents can't resist in meddling in 
their business.  Hilarious misunderstandings and poignant drama ensue.    

Authors Note: This story is a continuation of my previous fic "One 
Sticky Date".  However in true Maison Ikkoku style, it's not necesary to 
have read the last fic, to understand this one.  Although it will help a 
lot. It has also been brought to my attention that the plot device used 
in "One Sticky Date" was actually used in one of the eps. in the MI 
anime series. I have not seen the anime, I only collect the Manga and so 
I was unaware of this.  As it turns out this story also uses a plot 
device which has already been used in MI.  But I feel the story is 
suffeciently different enough to be able to get away with it.  Heh heh 
**nervous laugh** Once again my apologies.

Name: Yotsuya
Identity: Unknown
Notes: Yotsuya is a peeping Tom and a mooch.  No one knows what he does 
for a living or how he spends his days.

Name: Ibuki
Identity: High School Student
Notes: Ibuki has a big, big crush on her former substitute teacher,
Yusaku! Shades of Kyoko and Soichiro.

                                ******
Kyoko lies on her back by the table in the managers office.  An image of 
Yusaku appears.

Yusaku Image: Hmph I guess if that's what you think of me.  That I'd do 
that sort of thing to you.  Then... I guess I'm just wasting my time 
with you.  
Kyoko Image: Yusaku... I...
Yusaku Image: I don't want to hear it Kyoko, I need some time to think..

Kyoko:(Thinking) It's been a whole week now since he said that, and I 
have not heard from him since.  He spends all his time locked up in that 
room of his, and refuses to come out.
Voice from Outside: Hello? Delivery....

Kyoko springs up and runs to the door where a man in a post man's 
uniform is waiting with a large box.

Delivery Man: Delivery for Godai, sign here please.

Kyoko signs the document and thanks the delivery man.  She looks at the 
package and then towards the stairs.
                                *******
Kyoko: Yusaku?  Yusaku there is a delivery for you.  It's from your
parents.

She waits a short time.  No answer comes from the door.

Kyoko: I'll leave it here for you.  

Wearily she places her hand on the door and rests her head against the
window.  

Kyoko:(Almost whispering) Yusaku I'm sorry.... 

A tear runs down Kyoko's cheek.
                                *********
Kyoko is in her room preparing a meal.  The "tomp tomp tomp" of 
footsteps can be heard from the hall.  She runs from her room to the 
door, her face full of hope.  It drops, however, when she discovers that 
it is only Mr Yotsuya.

Mr Yotsuya: Greetings, I am departing for work.  Is there something that 
I can help you with?
Kyoko: No....

She looks up at the stairs.  Mr Yotsuya also follows her stare.

Kyoko: Is he....?
Mr Yotsuya: He asks that you respect his need for solitude for a short
while longer, whilst he continues to battle the inner demon's which 
plague his soul.
Kyoko:...

 Kyoko somewhat depressed nods and returns to her room.   Mr Yotsuya
watches after her, and then placing his hat upon his head he departs
for......
                                *********

Kyoko sweeps the top floor of the apartment building.  Taking note that 
the delivery is gone.  She pauses briefly in front his door before 
continuing on.  A short distance from his door she stops.

Kyoko:(Thinking) This is ridiculous..  Is he going to stay in there his 
whole life?

Kyoko: Yusaku? Yusaku this has gone on long enough!  Come out please.... 
I need you're rent soon.  Answer me! Yusaku...... Alright, you win this 
round, but I'm begging you to come out soon. 

                                *********
Kyoko returns from shopping carrying several bags of groceries.  She 
walks sullenly down the path. Completely failing to notice Nozomu who is 
suspended upside down from the roof by a rope which has been tied to his 
feet.  He swings back and forth in the wind with his arms crossed and a 
look of fury on his face.

Nozomu:(Thinking) I'll get you for this Yotsuya!  If its the last thing 
I do!
                                ***********   

Kyoko is once again in her room, but this time Mrs Ichinose is with her. 
Kyoko is pouring a cup of tea for her.

Mrs Ichinose: Wow who died?
Kyoko: Sorry?
Mrs Ichinose: Well from the look on your face, I figured one of your
friends must have died or something .
Kyoko: I just wish Yusaku would talk to me again.
Mrs Ichinose: Yeah... I guess it is kind of wierd that he hasn't sent us 
a postcard.  He has been gone the whole week.
Kyoko: Yes..... 

Kyoko frowns

Kyoko: Postcard?  Why would he send a postcard from his room?
Mrs Ichinose: What are you talking about?
Kyoko: What are YOU  talking about?
Mrs Ichinose: Why would Yusaku send a postcard from his room. He's not 
in his room.
Kyoko: Where is he then?
Mrs Ichinose: Yokohama.
Kyoko: No he can't be.  He just recieved a delivery this morning.  It's 
not there now.  Besides he asked me not to disturb him whilst he is in 
his room.
Mrs Ichinose: Who told you that.
Kyoko: Mr Yotsuya.
Mrs Ichinose:....
Kyoko:.....
Mrs Ichinose: I think I know where Yusaku's care package has gone.
Kyoko: MR YOTSUYA!!!
                                **********
Yusaku Narrating: Hi Yusaku here.  You have probably been wondering what 
I am doing in Yokohama.  Well that's a good question.  You see after 
that little incident with Kyoko...

Yusaku Image:  I don't want to hear it Kyoko, I need some time to 
think..
 
Yusaku Narrating: Well after that   I kind of decided in the heat of the 
moment to go on a little trip.  You see I really do love Kyoko and it's 
difficult for me to stay mad at her for any extended period of time.  
But just this once, I didn't want her getting off that easy.  Call it 
juevanille, but I wanted her to suffer, just a little bit.  
Unfortunately I forgot about one pesky little detail.  

Yusaku is wearing a waiters uniform and is desperately scrambling back 
and forth in a restaurant.  He delivers a large group of glasses to the 
bar.

Man at bar: Godai, those people are still waiting at table twelve.  
Hurry up!
Yusaku: Y..Yes sir.

Yusaku hurries off again.

Yusaku Narrating: You see those concert tickets were not cheap, and I 
was going to be late paying my rent anyway.  Now that I have spent all 
my savings on getting here. I don't really have any to get home.  So for 
the past week I've been working like a dog to get enough money together 
to survive on, and to pay the rent and to get back home.  All in all.. 
I'm still short.  

Man at Bar: Godai! Get to table eight they have been waiting for  half 
an hour!
Yusaku: Y..Yes sir.
                                ***************
Yusaku is leaning against the bar , a majority of the people in the
restaurant have all gone home.  Most of the workers are lounging around. 
Smoking or drinking or taking it easy.  Yusaku and another guy are 
talking.

Yusaku: Man am I beat (Yawns)
Guy: So you still staying in that dump of a caravan park on the west 
side.
Yusaku: Yeah..
Guy: So you got enough money to get home yet?
Yusaku: No not yet, I'm still ten thousand yen short.
Guy: No offense Godai , but you're pretty dense.  Coming all the way to 
Yokohama and not realising until you got here that you didn't have any 
money.
Yusaku: Give me a break.  I got woman troubles.
Guy: Ahhhhh (Nods head sympathetically)  That explains everything.
Manager: Everyone I just recieved word, that there are a bus load of 
high school students who are on a camp are on their way through.  Which 
means they will probably stop here.

Everyone in the restaurant groans.

Manager: Just get to it and do your best.  Godai, I want you to take
tables seven and eleven.
Yusaku: O.K   (Thinking) Gee I hope I can stay awake long enough.

A short time later the bus of students stop at the door.    Numerous 
girls pile out of the bus and start seating themselves at different 
tables. There is a lot of chatter and the waiters are quick to move to 
their respective tables.  Yusaku approaches a table where five girls are 
seated.

Yusaku: Hello, how may I help you?
Yagami: Mr G.!

Yusaku's face drops.

Yusaku: Mi..Miss Ibuki wh.. what are you doing here?
Yagami: We're all on a field trip. What are you doing here?

All five girls are looking at Yusaku intently.

Yusaku: Ahhhh errr... I'm on a .... holiday yeah thats it!  I'm just
staying at the camping park.. on holidays...
Yagami: Wow that's where we're staying.
Yusaku:(thinking) Oh no! 
Yagami's friend 1: Don't you still have University?
Yusaku: Ah my other table is calling. So unless you want to order...

The girls order and Yusaku moves off to the kitchen.

Yagami's friend 1: Wierd being served by a former teacher..
Yagami's friend 2: I'll say.
Yagami: Oh guys he's probably just trying to earn some money while he's 
on holidays.
Yagami's Friend 1: Don't tell me you believe that story of his.
Yagami: Of course not.
Yagami's friend 2:  Maybe he was evicted from that boarding house of 
his.
Yagami: No way..
Yagami's friend 2: You never know what goes on in there.
Yagami: Well regardless, if he's camping at that crumby camping park 
then he must be alone right.
Yagami's friend 3: Yeah I guess.
Yagami's friend 4: Yagami (pained expression)  What are you thinking?
Yagami: Well with that old spinster not around.  Now's my chance to snag 
him.  This is what I'm going to do.....
                                ***********
The camping park is all but silent.  A shadowy figure of Yusaku stumbles 
across the camping ground and disappears into his tent.  Three very 
sleepy looking girls watch his movements as he crosses the park.

Yagami's friend 1: Are you really going to go through with this?  It's
1:00 in the morning.
Yagami:(Looking determined) C'mon you guys this is the perfect 
opportunity to snag him without that old widow around. 
Yagami's friend 2: Well good luck.  But if you get caught you're on your 
own.

Yagami nods and moves quickly across the camping ground.  

Yagami's friend 2: She needs help.
Yagami's friend 1: You're telling me!
                                ***********
The opening flap to Yusaku's tent slips open.  Yagami's naked leg
provocatively appears inside Yusaku's tent. 

Yagami(Seductively): Ohhh Mr G.   (Thinking) I can hear heavy breathing 
it's working. (Outloud) I thought I'd pay you a little visit.

Her leg extends right into the tent up until her inner thigh. It moves
about tantalisingly.  Finally her head appears inside the tent.  Yusaku 
is lying on his back on a futon mattress with a small blanket covering 
his body.

Yusaku: **snore**
Yagami:(Slightly peeved) Great! He's asleep.  All that work for 
nothing.. 

She enters the tent and looks down at his sleeping form.

Yagami:(Thinking) He looks so handsome sleeping like that.  Its almost
like he's at peace.  

She squats down and stares at him.  He stirs for a moment and rubs his
nose before settling down again.

Yagami:(Thinking) Nows my chance! I want to be the first thing he see's 
when he wakes up tommorrow! Its the perfect chance to snare him.

With that she lies down next to Yusaku and grabbing the covers, slips
under the blankets. She smiles briefly before she groans.

Yagami:(Thinking) Darn I wish I had brought a pillow.  (She smiles) Here 
I am sleeping with MY man.  It's so romantic.  Mmmmm He smells so nice.

It's then that she notices his bare chest underneath his pagayma's.  

Yagami:(Thinking) Wow I wonder.

Her eyes begin to pan downwards.

Yagami: (thinking) No I shouldn't. Although it's not like he will ever
know. I mean it wouldn't hurt to just have a quick touch...

Yusaku rolls over away from her.  He is now lying on his shoulder and 
has taken many of the blankets with him.  Yagami lies bare in her 
Pagyma's with no blankets little futon and no pillow.  She looks down 
and notices that Yusaku is now only taking up a small portion of his 
pillow.   Smiling she shifts along until she is lying  against his back.  
The sheets half covering her.

Yagami: Now if he'll just let go of the covers for a few moments....
 
 Yusaku rolls back until he is on top of her.  She makes various faces 
as he lies on his back using her as a matress.  Her right arm and leg 
are free and she waves them about furiously.

Yagami: I.... can't.... breathe.....
Yusaku: **snore**

Yusaku's hand flies up and hits her lightly in the face.  One of his
fingers lodge themselves in her nostril.  She struggles around until she 
pulls her nose away from his hand.  She thumps him twice on the 
shoulder. At which point he rolls back over onto his other shoulder.  
Thereby freeing her.

Yagami: **Gasp**   Sleeping with someone is more difficult than I 
thought.

To her surprise, however, Yusaku rolls over and grabs her in a firm
embrace.  She looks a little shocked for a minute until she notices that 
he doesn't do anything else.  She smiles as he continues to sleep and 
she returns his embrace.

Yagami:(thinking) This is so romantic.  Instinctively his body reached 
out for me, knowing that I am his.
Yusaku:(Murmering in his sleep) Oh.. Kyoko.........

Yagami's eys go wide in shock.

Yusaku: Wha.......... no Kozue I'm not.... wait you don't 
understand....... don't cry please..... Kyoko wait I.....

SLAP!

Yagami storms out of the tent.  Yusaku now awake holds his cheek and
blinks a couple of time.

Yusaku: Wow these dreams of mine are getting more and more vivid 
everyday.
                                ***************
Yagami returns to her tent.  Her two friends stir as she enters.

Yagami's friend 1: So how'd it go?
Yagami: I don't want to talk about it!
Yagami's friend 2: Don't say we didn't warn you.
Yagami: Shut your face!
                                ***************
Yusaku Narrating: The next day Ibuki and her fellow students all left 
for Tokyo. 

All the girls start getting on the bus.  A few of Yagami's friends get 
on waving to Yusaku.  He waves back briefly and then Yagami starts to 
get on the bus.  She looks at Yusaku solemnly for a moment and then she 
joins her friends.  

Yusaku Narrating: I can't say I was sorry to see them go, but I was glad 
that just this once Yagami had not caused me any trouble.

Yusaku can be seen running back and forth at the restaurant again.  

Yusaku Narrating: Finally three days later I had enough money to get 
back and pay the rent.  It was time to go home.
                                ******************
Yusaku appears at the street just outside the apartment building and 
looks at it for a long moment. An image appears in his mind.

Yusaku Image: Well I'm back...
Kyoko Image: Welcome home. I.. I.. I'm sorry about before..
Yusaku Image: Don't worry I forgive you..
Kyoko Image: Oh Yusaku..

She runs to Yusaku

Yusaku Image: Oh Kyoko.. 

Suddenly Kyoko's image is replaced by Mrs Ichinose's grinning face.

Yusaku: Gyaaa!

He holds his chest and wide eyed pants furiously.  

Mrs Ichinose: Hey kid so you're back.
Yusaku: uh yeah hi...
Yotsuya: Greetings..

Yusaku jumps back as Yotsuya in his suit appears behind him.

Yusaku: Yaaa!  Where did you come from?
Yotsuya: Hm so your departure was not as I had assumed permanent.
Yusaku: Who said it was?
Akemi: Hey Yusaku you back already, gee that's too bad.
Yusaku: Whats that supposed to mean?
Akemi:(Looking smugly innocent) Nothing.
Yotsuya: Do you not wish to speak with the manager, she has been most
distressed at your absence.
Yusaku: Really?
Yotsuya: Indeed your rent was after all due last week..
Yusaku: Well I better go give it to her then..

He runs to the door and opening it he steps into Maison Ikkoku.

Yusaku: I'm......

His announcement at his return is cut short as a large pail of raw fish 
falls onto him.  Nikaido is waiting by his door.

Nozomu: Oh Godai you ruined my trap.  That was meant for Yotsuya...
Yotsuya: It is indeed fortunate that I did not spoil my good suit.
Yusaku:..... home..
Kyoko: Ahem.

All the residents turn to see Kyoko standing sternly by the telephone.

Yusaku: Kyoko..
Kyoko: I hope you intend to clean that up.
Yusaku: Well.. I..
Kyoko: Not you Yusaku, if you have a minute though, I would like a word 
with you.
Yusaku: Sure.  

He somewhat hesitently follows her to the mangers office.

Kyoko: I expect that to be clean by the time I get back.

Mrs Ichinose, Akemi and Mr Yotsuya all start heading from their 
respective room.

Nozomu: Wait.. where are you going?
Akemi: Where do you think.  You made the mess you clean it up.
Mrs Ichinose: You don't really expect us to help you clean up the mess 
YOU made.
Yotsuya: What a naive lad you are.

Mrs Ichinose closes the door to her room and Yotsuya and Akemi disapear 
up stairs.

                        ************************
Kyoko: Those people.
Yusaku: Well its good to see some things around here have not changed.
Kyoko: Yes, although I wish you  had told me you were going away though. 
I didn't even know when you would be back.

Yusaku scratches the back of his head slightly embarrassed

Kyoko: Thats not why I asked you here though Yusaku.
Yusaku: I kinda guessed that.  

He moves over to the table facing away from her.

Kyoko: Yusaku.. I'm.. sorry about well before.

She moves over to him and places her hand on his back.  Yusaku turns and 
stares at her intently.

Yusaku: Thats alright, it was a misunderstanding.

He looks deep into her eyes as if about to kiss her.  She smirks for a
minute and then covers her mouth to stop from laughing.

Yusaku: I guess I look pretty stupid huh.
Kyoko: You have a fish tail sitting on your ear.

She brushes it away smiling.  He looks at her for a moment before he
starts laughing.  She joins him and the two stand there laughing 
together.

The End..
  
Authors Note: As always Comments criticism flam Davenader@hotmail.com

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