Hand & Tail

Hand & Tail is the one hundred and forty-third chapter of the To LOVE-Ru.

Plot
One day, Lala show Rito her new room which is separated from her laboratory. When Rito look around, he think that if the room were to be put in proportion, its a pile of junk since Lala's room is filled with her inventions. Rito then spot one of Lala's inventions, Clingy-Clingy Glue-Kun, lying on the floor and try to pick it up. However, when he touched it, he suddenly got electrocuted which cause him to fall and accidentally grab Lala's tail. Rito apologize and Lala tells him to let go her tail. However, Rito's hand won't come loose.

Later Mikan, worried Rito hasn't come back from going up to see Lala, went to Rito's room. She then overheard Lala's moaning from inside Rito's room and Rito's voice. This made Mikan blush and suspected that Rito and Lala are doing something perverted. She storm in Rito's room, blushing extremely, and aske what they are doing. She then see Rito and Lala sitting on the carpet and try to find a way to free Rito's hand from Lala's tail. Mikan is surprised and flustered because of what she was thinking.

Afterwards, Rito and Lala explains to Mikan that due to a malfunction in Lala's invention, Rito's hand became stuck to Lala's tail. Peke explains that a strong magnetic field will be created on whoever touches that invention and that that's what caused the sticking effect. She does not know what caused the malfunction, but she assured them that the effects will wear off soon. Then, Rito accidentally tightens his grip on Lala's tail which caused her to moan to which Rito immediately apologized for. Lala, blushingly, tells Rito that he has to do it softly, or else she's going to feel it. Lala's words stunned Rito and made him blush. Then, Nana and Momo walk in the room. Momo amlmost say that she is jealous of Lala's situation, but she immediately corrected herself. Momo asks for permission so that she can analyze the item and Rito agreed.

Later, while Lala and Rito are watching television, Lala tells Rito that she need to go to the bathroom. They went to the bathroom, but Rito stay outside and Lala forbade him from peeking. Peke gives Rito a helmet that blocks vision. Rito tries it on and wondered how the situation was going to last. After a while, the dinner is ready. Unfortunately, Rito is having a hard time eating since he can use only his left hand. When Lala noticed Rito is having difficulties, she offer to feed him. Rito became flustered and accidentally grip Lala's tail tighter. This cause Lala to moan and accidentally throwithe bowl of hot soup into Rito's face, to which Lala apologized for.

After dinner, Lala took a shower while Rito stay on the other side of the door. Rito became nervous since Lala was taking a bath despite their "sticky situation". Suddenly, Lala steps out of the bathroom, naked, since she ran out of soap and want Rito to get her more. Seeing Lala's naked body made Rito more embarassed and flustered which caused him to grip Lala's tail tighter. Again, Lala blushes, moans and, weakened, fall onto Rito. Nana heard a sound and look where it came from. She then see a naked Lala lying on top of Rito. Nana accuses of Rito for taking advantage of situation and he trt explain that it is a misunderstanding.

Then, its already time to sleep. Rito askif they were supposed to sleep together too and Lala said that they have to since they haven't been separated yet.In the bed, Rito think that although he has awoken many times with Lala beside him, but its the first time that he let Lala sleep beside him. Lala tells Rito that even though the day was terrible, she is glad that she got to spend the day together with him. She then says that it would probably be better if the situation will last which Rito asks what she meant, but Lala says that she was just kidding. Lala then says good night to Rito and quickly turned her back on him.

Morning came and Rito was not able to sleep. However, he's glad that Lala did not wake up half-asleep, being naked. Then the effct finally wear off and Rito let go of Lala's tail; he rejoices waking Lala up in the process. Rito then happily runs out of his room and met Momo and Celine on the hallway. Momo says that she was unable to understand the structure of the machine and apologizes for it. Celine then runs towards Rito, while holding the Clingy-Clingy Glue-Kun, and jumps onto Rito's face and became stuck. Rito comically says that he gives up.

Trivia

 * When Rito's hand was stuck to Lala's tail, he was still able to control his grip over Lala's tail (how tight or how loose). This is because Rito's hand wasn't actually "glued" to Lala's tail. They were just polarized then attracted magnetically. This allowed Rito the ability to loosen his grip. However, he is not able to resist the magnetic pull back to Lala's tail.

Anime
The chapter is adapted in the OVA 6 of first anime and is the last story used for first anime before Motto To LOVE-Ru.

There are several changes made for the animated version:
 * Lala's reaction to finding out Rito's hand is stuck on her tail is less shocked.
 * When Momo is about to say she is envious, Nana looks at her causing her to correct herself. In the manga she corrected herself immediately.
 * It is shown that Rito and Lala are watching Magical Kyouko.
 * Nana and Mikan are added to the final scene, where before it was just Rito, Lala, Momo and Celine.