31_days | [22-Sep-2006] [Love Hina] They Don't Check Out

Title: They Don't Check Out
Challenge: 22-Sep-2006 "between Cinderella or Kafka's cockroach"
Based on: Love Hina
Characters: Keitaro, Naru, Suu
Type: Humor; 200 words
Warnings: Slapstick violence and creepy adult humor.
Notes: The latest glue joke. This takes place after the cockroach scene in episode 12 of the TV series.

Love Hina © Ken Akamatsu / Kodansha / Love Hina Onsen Kumiai / TV Tokyo / Bandai Entertainment.

Naru walked up to the Hinata House kitchen, took a step into the kitchen, and suddenly realized that her raised foot was bare. Her house-slipper was stuck to the floor behind her.

Naru scowled, and made the mistake of trying to pull the slipper up with her foot. She lost her balance, and fell flat on her face with a shriek. She immediately stuck to the floor like a fly on fly-paper. Even her face was partly glued down, which made shouting for help rather difficult.

"*mmmph*," Naru shouted.

But then, she heard Keitaro and Suu walk up. "...I know we have a cockroach problem," Keitaro said, "but you can't just cover the entire kitchen floor in trap glue."

"Why not?" the child-genius Suu asked innocently. "...oh. Poor Naru."

"Can you make a solvent for that stuff?" Keitaro asked.

"Nope," Suu said. "We'll have to cut those glue-soaked clothes off her, rub her naked body down with canola oil, and slowly peel her up off the floor—"

Keitaro suffered a massive nosebleed, passed out from the sudden loss of blood, and fell face-first into the glue next to Naru.

Suu giggled. "Now that was just stupid!"

"*mmmph*," Naru said again.