Love Hina/Fanfic Recs

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Authors and Websites

Bugsy

• Recommended by Bullet Magnet
• Uses comedy and drama while maintaining the core personalities of the characters. The stories Because and Beautiful Dreamer are a good two-for. Defeated has an ending that needs to be read. Has 22 stories based on Love Hina.

rincewind1990

• Recommended by amamoto
• The author using of AU divergence (ie Keiichi dying young in one instance and then him and Kanako being about the same age as Sara after his reincarnation/second chance)for Kid Keitaro is a real treat for anyone who stumbles across. Blends Heartwarming, Awesome, and Tearjerker moments to a very satisfying series of works. Currently at 3 fics for kid keitaro and also to note are his other two fics Sempai, my Saviour, and Ancestor.

General Fics

Stories focused on the family and the friendly relationships of the cast. Plot-focused stories or light day-in-the-life stories. Pretty much anything that isn't focused on romance.

Life After Molmol, Book One: Sisters At War by Gojirob

• Recommended by T-bone61
• Synopsis: After the series' final adventure, the ladies of the Hinata-Sou are at odds not with Keitaro, but each other. Things let go or once forgotten will be hashed out, and feelings of betrayal abound. The next part of their lives begins. Canon-based, Kei/Naru.

Changed by Garasu

• Recommended by Sackett
• Synopsis: A decent Missing Scene fic from when Keitaro came back dressed in Motoko's dress.

Love Hina Next by Kouji Tamino

• Recommended by Ivlivs
• Synopsis: Yamato 'Shima' Urashima, son of Keitaro and Naru, becomes the new manager of the Hinata House.

Keitaro the Savant by GlazedAndConfused

• Recommended by Ivlivs
• Synopsis: Keitaro is an autistic savant charged with running the Hinata House.

Healing Hearts by riderofdragons

• Recommended by Shadic The Hedgehog
• Synopsis: A month after the adventure in the Kingdom of Molmol, Shinobu, returning from a shopping trip, is accosted by a gang known to have beaten and raped a woman when she is saved by a mysterious man who calls himself "Noman." Not long after, the Hinata-sou gains two new tenants: a young girl and her older brother. Their presence brings forth problems from a clan of ninjas determined to start up an old feud...

Stability by Random1377

• Recommended by Akira_Miyamoto
• Synopsis: Something strange is going on at Hinata House...

Contract Labor by Greydon Creed

• Recommended by: Looney Toons
• Synopsis: Keitaro Urashima arrives at the Hinata Inn to take over for his grandmother, but it's not the wishy-washy four-time failure Love Hina fans know and love. This is a man tested by fire, with steel in his spine, quiet and unassuming until pushed to the point of action, and far from easily bullied by the girls of the Inn.
• Tags: Very AU. This is a quietly Badass Keitaro, from a Urashima family which is powerful at a level somewhere between "knows important people" and the Mafia. Oh, and Sarah is a teenager.
• Comments: Despite how it might seem, this is not a Revenge Fic about an overbearing Keitaro who runs roughshod over the girls at the Hinata Inn while laughing evilly at their sufferings. This is a slow, careful fic about a Keitaro who is just as quiet and studious as his canon counterpart, but who won't take crap from his tenants, and who has the experience and maturity to do it well. And as you get deeper into the story, you learn more about those experiences and what made him what he is, even as events head in unexpectedly different directions from the usual plot -- this fic makes no bones about ignoring The Stations of the Canon while telling its story.

Crossover Fics

The Other Girl by Shadows in the Sun

• Recommended by Sithking Zero
• Synopsis: Keitaro meets an old friend...May God have mercy on the girls of Hinata, for she will not.

Hajime no Keitaro by Cizzymac

• Recommended by exewon
• Synopsis: Love Hina Hajime no Ippo crossover! Keitaro, tired of feeling abused and unconfident, meets a group of professional boxers that may have a solution. But the road is hard, and paved with pain. Can Keitaro reach his goals? Rated for language and violence.

Love Hina Double Trouble by Kamen Rider Chrome and Ten-Faced Paladin (Direct link)

• Recommended by fruitstripegum
• Status: Ongoing
• Synopsis: What if Keitaro was Philip's partner instead of Shotaro? When the half-and-half detectives are called in by their grandmother to look after the Hinata-Sou, they must soon work with their female tenants to solve the mystery behind the Dopant crimes in their city, and find the organization responsible.

Shipping Fics

Stories focused on the romantic relationships between the cast.

Justice for All by Earl Colby Pottinger

• Recomended by Sackett
• Pairing: Keitaro/Naru (UST)
• Synopsis: A traditional "The girls wise up to how nice Keitaro really is" story, but without overdoing it like most do; also contains the twist that, apparently, the Universe hates True Love, as Keitaro still can't get a date to go right with Naru. Naru is not depicted as evil or bad for Keitaro- rather the Universe is apparently out to get them.

Loss and Redemption and Aftermath: Loss and Redemption 2, by Hawker_748 (Worksafe, but see Comments)

• Recommended by Chuckg
• Pairing: Keitaro/Motoko
• Synopsis: The plot is a 'What if Tsuruko actually forced Keitaro and Motoko to get married', but its very touchingly handled and well-characterized. The second story, 'Aftermath', picks up shortly after the first, as the now-happily-and-for-real married couple deals with handling the fallout with the rest of the Hinata Inn residents, the arrival of Kanako (who is just a bit Yandere in this one), Motoko's pregnancy, and other plot complications. Very nice WAFF moments whenever Keitaro & Motoko are being a happily married couple, later on. Although its not that easy at first...
• Status: Loss And Redemption is complete. Aftermath is not, and appears to be abandoned after chapter 6. Still worth reading, though.

Last Dance With Shinobu-chan by Project Pegasus

• Recommended by Pregnant Hannah Montana
• Pairing: Keitaro/Shinobu
• Synopsis: A classic, perhaps the definitive, Keitaro and Shinobu fan fic. Shinobu's request that Keitaro accompany her to her school prom has widespread consequences. The story is heavy on the angst and symbolism, but the sharp character deconstruction manages to remain in the foreground.
• Status: Complete.

In Search of her Place by riderofdragons

• Recommended by Shadic The Hedgehog
• Pairing: Keitaro/Kanako
• Synopsis: "Kanako has always been a bit different from others, but no one seems to know why, not even Kanako herself. The answers are about to fall into her lap, but is she ready for them?"
• Status: Complete.