1(Author's Note: Welcome back to Across The Stars y'all! Yeah, this weekends gonna be a busy one for me, cause I got lots of fics to update! And moving back into the topic at hand, I said at the end of last chapter that Keitaro was gonna find out more about his forgotten past? Well, it looks like that will be postponed. Both figures from his dreams return to join him in the golden land! Now, in the course of writing this, you may notice the overall mood of this fic is constantly changing, and I like it. But to stop babbling on and give you what you want heres chapter three of Across The Stars, entitled Our Own Love And Peace!)

Across The Stars

Chapter Three: Our Own Love And Peace

The paradox that was life for Lord Keitaro Urashima of Canteroil seemed to always keep Keitaro on his toes. One minute he would be nice and comfy and the next he has crazy women taking up residence in his palace, crazy, beautiful women. Isnt life just a bitch? In the course of his few days in Canteroil, Keitaro had been nearly killed ten times, shot at eight times, and kicked countless times, all by the princess and one of his own bodyguards And when he wasn't getting the tar kicked out of him, Keitaro was constantly being seduced out of his money. Good for Kitsune, bad for Keitaro. But then again, as time had thus proven when you have a title like Lord Keitaro Urashima of Canteroil, your just begging for some weirdness in your life, and that doesn't even begin to describe the next chaotic chapter of Keitaro's life...

"Hmm, I wonder what the Lordy Lord is up to.", asked Su, looking over at Motoko. "I need to find him fast! I need him to test my new combustible gloves!"

"I have not seen his lordship all day.", replied Motoko, taking a sip of tea. "I would assume he is out on some very important business."

"You got it all wrong!", laughed Kitsune, who was on her second bottle of Sake for the day. "He is out looking for the voices in his head."

"How dare you mock the mental stability of the man who was kind enough to put a roof over your head!", said Motoko, glaring at Kitsune. "I have a hard time believing that someone with that kind of responsibility spends his days chasing figments of his imagination"

Su, who had been quietly pondering her course of action suddenly jumped up and smiled a big grin. The kind of grin she got just before she tortured Keitaro.

"I know how to find him now.", grinned Su. "Thanks fox lady! You just made my life a whole lot easier."

Kitsune smiled her foxy smile, while Motoko quietly went back to sipping her tea.

Of course, Kitsune in all her inebriated wisdom was sadly right about Keitaro, he was out looking for the girl who had been talking in his head.

/Nobody said it was easy. Oh its such a shame for us to part. Noone ever said it would be this hard. Im going back to the stars.../

"Okay, she is singing again.", thought Keitaro. "I will admit she does have a rather good taste in music."

/Oh ho, you wont find me. You will however find some old friends./

"Old friends?", thought Keitaro. "You don't mean..."

/Maybe I do, maybe I don't. That's for me to know, and for you to find out. And oh yeah, look out behind you./

Keitaro wheeled around.

"Oh god!", shouted Keitaro. "Its Koalla! And she's out for blood!"

"Nah! Nothing like dat, Lordy lord!", smiled Su. "I just wants you to put this glove on."

Keitaro hesitated. "Put a glove on?", he asked. "Eh, what could it hurt."

Su smiled inocently. "Nothing, Lordy lord. Just puts the glove on and tell me what you feel."

Keitaro took the glove from Su's hand and put it on his left hand, dropping it to his side.

"Now, what do you feel?", asked Su.

"It feels like my hand is on fire.", replied Keitaro, a look of panic in his face. He brought his hand up to his face and sure enough, it was on fire. "HOLY SHIT IT IS ON FIRE!" Keitaro ran wildly around waving his hands, trying to extinguish the flames. Throwing all caution to the wind, Keitaro took off in a flat run at a furious pace, waving his hand in a vein attempt to stop the burning. In his efforts to put out the fire, Keitaro did not notice at all the pair of girls he was running toward. Plowing both girls down, Keitaro and the two girls fell into a orgysque pile on the ground.

"And just what to you think you doing to two helpless women?", asked the girl with auburn colored hair. "Trying to rape us?"

Keitaro looked up with a look of horror. "N..no mam! Nothing like that! You see the princess gave me this glove and lit my hand on fire and I was simply trying to put the fire out!"

The other girl with black hair laughed. "Aww! That's so sad! Was your hand really on fire?"

"That has to be the lamest excuse I have ever herd from any perverted lech such as yourself.", snarled the auburn girl.

"But you have to believe me!", pleaded Keitaro. "Its all just a big misunderstanding."

"But nothing!", exclaimed the auburn girl, balling her fist. "Your nothing but a sexual deviant out to get his kicks on helpless women! BAKA!" The girl took one mighty swing which sent Keitaro soaring across the skies of Canteroil.

"Oh my!", gasped the girl with black hair. "Did you really have to hit him that hard?"

"Forget about it.", said the other girl.

Su came running up to see the source of the flying Keitaro.

"Wow lady!", shouted Su. "You really sent old Lordy lord flying! How'd you do that?"

"Oh did you hear that Naru!", said the girl with black hair. "Your just sent the Lord Of Canteroil screaming across the sky! Isnt that fun!"

"Sweet chocolate christ.", muttered Naru. "You cant possibly be serious. Theres no way I just... uh ooops."

:::Moments later, in the Citadel.:::

Motoko sat quietly sharing lunch with Jessica. A feint scream could be herd growing increasingly louder.

"Do you hear something, Motoko?", asked Jessica.

"I think so.", replied Motoko. "It almost sounds like..."

With a thunderous bang, Keitaro came crashing through the window and onto the table, breaking the table and sending him skidding across the floor to a crashing stop at the wall.

"I was correct.", said Motoko, finishing her tea. "It did sound like Lord Urashima."

Jessica walked over to Keitaro, who was still in a heap on the floor.

"You okay, my Lord?", asked Jessica, handing Keitaro a band-aid.

"Yeah, I'm fine.", groaned Keitaro. "Thanks for the band-aid."

Motoko, realizing just what had happened went over to check on Keitaro.

"What happened, my Lord?", asked Motoko. "I have seen many things, but that was a new one even to me."

"I accidently bumped into these two girls and one of them flipped out.", sighed Keitaro. "Before I had a chance to explain I was eating a fist and flying across the sky."

"I must say that is impressive.", said Motoko. "I have never herd of a person sending someone flying by fist alone."

Keitaro groaned after a futile attempt to get to his feet.

"She is right, my Lord.", said Jessica quietly. "Its very impressive to see that you got whooped with one punch."

"No that just means he is a weakling!", said Kitsune with a hiccup, who had walked in to investigate the loud crash.

"Are you implying that Lord Urashima is an unfit ruler?", asked Motoko with a slight tinge of irritation in her voice. "Do you think he is too weak to rule?"

Kitsune grinned her foxy grin. "Don't be so defensive. Its almost as if you have a thing for Urashima."

Motoko was now very angry. "Its my duty to guard his lordship! I don't have time to have a thing for him!"

"Easy now you too.", said Jessica, trying to step in and stop the impending carnage. "You don't wanna kill each other. Just back off, one of you is drunk and that isnt making you think clear go sleep it off."

"Fine, fine!", sighed Kitsune, shuffling off. "I got some horses to bet on anyway." After finally pulling himself up off the floor to a sitting position propped against the wall, Keitaro asked, "Su, how did you find me?"

Su gave a wide grin. "I looked for your brain patterns with a machine I built."

"Lord Urashima, perhaps I should get you to a doctor?", asked Jessica, looking down at Keitaro. "Your not in the best of shape."

"Nah, its nothing.", replied Keitaro with a wince of pain as he stood up. "I'm feeling better already."

Jessica gasped in shock. Even in Canteroil, people don't usually heal that fast. "Okay.... That was incredible. Five minutes ago you couldn't sit up and now your walking again."

"Don't ask...", sighed Keitaro, walking off. "I'm going to sleep it off now, okay? If you need me you know where to find me. Don't disturb me unless its important."

"Right.", muttered Jessica. "So, Princess Koalla, tell me. Have you ever seen anything like that?"

"What? Ol' Lordy lord?", asked Su. "Nah. Never have, never will probably."

"Which is fortunate.", remarked Jessica. "Any more of him running around here and this place would do a downward spiral into chaos."

A loud explosion was herd in the Citadel as a booby trap went off in Keitaro's room. Su had set a trap on his bed that had sent the Lord for a second journey across the skies.

"We don't have to think of what it would be like.", muttered Motoko. "We are on the spiral to chaos as we speak."

If Keitaro's problems couldn't get any worse, Keitaro landed once again in a dog pile with the two girls from before.

"YOU AGAIN!", shouted Naru. "Oh you are so dead..."

Coming Next Chapter:

Things get even more chaotic at the Citadel! More and more interesting people are flooding around Keitaro as he struggles to keep his sanity. But with the onslaught of voices in his head coming to a climax when he meets the voice face to face, Keitaro is in for a whole world of chaos. All this and much more coming in the next chapter of Across The Stars!