The Girl Who Fell From The Sky (chapter)

The Girl Who Fell From the Sky is the first chapter of the To LOVE-Ru manga series.

Plot
Yuuki Rito, the male protagonist, is looking at his crush Sairenji Haruna, while she is walking along the hallway. However, his friend Saruyama Kenichi grabs Rito and teases him stalking the girl. Rito defends as just looking for opportunity to confess her.

After school, Rito awaits for Haruna at the gate of Sainan High. However, he is not bold enough to confess her, as he ends up hiding in the bushes.

When Rito gets home, his younger sister, Yuuki Mikan tells him that their father would be coming home late, but he is too depressed for his failure of confession, so he is very indifferent to Mikan's words, and Rito goes upstairs into his room where he calls up Kenichi and discusses the event in the school.

Kenichi has expected that Rito would fail his confession as Rito gets mad at the remark. Kenichi explains how it has been in his pattern already, as Rito is usually aggressive, but when it comes to girls, he is pathetic. Kenichi also adds that Rito is a naive guy as he easily faints for curves of a girl in a swimsuit, but Rito denies that it was long years ago as he no longer behaves in this way. However, Kenichi then dares Rito to imagine Haruna in a swimsuit, which brings about Rito blush extremely. Kenichi humors that Rito hasn't changed yet. and Kenichi advises him to build up his confidence in talking to girls prior to confession.

Later on, Rito takes a bath. Rito ponders on the conversation with Kenichi, although Kenichi does not have a girlfriend, he still does have a point. Rito reminisces how his life has always been just filled with fun and video games except girls, until Haruna came to his life. However, he unexpectedly imagines Haruna in a swimsuit, and he gets flustered again. Rito considers how he can manage resistance to girls. Meanwhile, the water filled in Rito's bathtub suddenly began to fizzle and exploded, as Rito surprises.

After the explosion, a naked girl appears and exclaimed, "Escape successful". Seeing a naked girl before his eyes was too much for Rito's weak resistance to girls, and so he ended up screaming, as it alarmed his sister Mikan approach to the bathroom. Mikan finds Rito lying by the threshold of the bathroom. She asks what's wrong, and Rito stammered that there was a naked lady in the bathtub. Mikan checks the bathtub, despite there was no one but Rito insists what he saw there. Mikan smiles and tells that he should be able to put away his regard from fantasies.

While pondering about the events in the bathroom earlier, Rito has gotten dressed and was drying off. He is sure that he saw a naked girl in the bathroom, other than it was merely a fantasy.

When Rito goes back to his room, the girl he's seen in the bathroom is sitting on his bed wrapped in towel as she borrowed his. This surprises Rito back away and cover his eyes, meanwhile he asks the girl. The girl calls Lala who came from Planet Deviluke. as she affirms as an alien. Then, Lala reveals a long black tail of a spade-shaped tip at the base of her back hidden in the wrapped towel. Again, this makes Rito blush extremely. Lala explains although she has the tail, she does not transform when she sees full Moon. Rito asks Lala to hide it away already. Lala notices that Rito is blushing as it seems very cute.

Rito wonders how Lala appeared in the bathtub. Lala shows up her bracelet, Pyon-Pyon Warp-Kun. invented by Lala, as it moves anyone living a short distance without situating its destination. Lala says that when she used it in her spaceship's bathroom, it warped her into Rito's bathroom. Rito then wonders why Lala would warp from her spaceship, to which Lala replies that she is being chased. She tried escaping to Earth, but her pursuers followed her. Then, when she was about to be taken to their ship, Lala warped away. Then, Rito blushes again, and asks Lala to hurry up and get out, since it was too stimulating for him.

Then, something called for Lala, then a robot flies inside Rito's room from the open window. The robot greeted her, and Lala expressed her joy that the robot was able to escape as well. The robot then asks Lala who the dull-looking person is (pointing to Rito), and Lala explains that he is the one who lives there. Lala then realizes that she has not asked for Rito's name yet, so Rito introduces himself, and Lala introduces the robot as Peke, a costume robot that she invented. Then, Lala threw away the towel she was wrapped in (which made Rito blush again). Peke then transforms into a silly-looking costume for Lala to wear. Peke and Lala then discussed on what they should do from there on. Lala says that she has a few ideas.

Then, two men in tuxedos with long black and pointed tails jumped through the window, which surprised RIto and Lala. One of them complains that Lala is a troublesome lady, and that they should have restricted her movements until they have left Earth. Lala then gets angry at Peke since she figured out that the men must have followed Peke to get to her. At the corner of Rito's room, Rito watches the scene and comments that the pursuers Lala was talking about seemed strong. Peke suggests Lala uses the bracelet again and warp away from her pursuers, but Lala reveals that after the bracelet is used, it needs a whole day to recharge. Then, one of the men grabbed Lala's hand, to which she tried shaking off, but to no avail. Meanwhile, Rito wonders why a serious scene is happening inside his room, and comments that the visitors were trampling his carpet with their shoes. Downstairs, Mikan wonders what Rito is doing, and why he's making so much noise. Suddenly, the man who was holding Lala got hit by a soccer ball, which was kicked by Rito, and lost his grip on Lala. Rito then took Lala's hand and led her out of his room's window then over the roofs of the adjacent houses.

Lala asks Rito why he did that, to which he answered that he didn't know. However, he could not stay quiet when a girl is being kidnapped before his eyes. Meanwhile, Haruna was taking her dog out for a walk when she noticed the silhouettes of people running on the roofs. At first, she thought it was a thief, but then she recognizes it to be Rito and wonders what he's doing. Later on, one of Lala's pursuers threw a giant truck in front of Rito and Lala's path, blocking the only exit. The pursuers warned Rito not to interfere, but Rito remains brave and threatens to spit on the pursuers if they come any closer. One of the men then talks to Lala and begs her to stop running away from home, to which Lala quickly objects. Rito was about to support her when he suddenly realized that Lala was just running away from home, and not being kidnapped. Lala exclaims that she doesn't care if she's a successor or not, she does not want to meet any more future husband candidates. The pursuers tried reasoning with her that it was her father's will, to which Lala states that she doesn't care about her father. Then, she brings out a mobile phone and summons a giant vacuum. The pursuers then started getting scared at the sight of one of Lala's inventions. Then, Lala orders her machine to suck them up, which it does. However, it continues to suck everything in its path, like the trees and the objects in the park they were in. Eventually, it began to suck Rito too. Rito begs Lala to stop it, but Lala did not know how and it ended up exploding. Later on, she apologized to Rito (who got stuck on a tree) since she forgot how to use it. Nevertheless, she was grateful to Rito for saving her.

The next day, Rito was covered in bruises from the night before and he complains about Lala, saying that if he had known Lala had an invention like that, he would have never tried helping her. However, Rito realizes that if Lala had used the vacuum machine in his room, the outcome would have been a lot worse, so he was happier it ended the way it did. Rito then tells himself that he does not want to get involved with Lala again, and calls her a runaway alien. Then, Rito was greeted by Haruna who was standing by the road Rito was walking on. Rito was surprised that Haruna talked to him, and he stammered to greet her as well. Haruna thinks about the events she saw before where Rito was running on the roofs. She tried to ask Rito about it, but she was cut by Rito, who saw it as a perfect chance to finally confess. Rito was blushing extremely and stammered to confess, so he closed his eyes and shouted his confession, "Since the first time I saw you, I've liked you. So please go out with me". However, at the same moment, Lala dropped in front of Rito, and Rito's confession accidentally got directed to her. Lala responds positively and says that she feels the same way. She then asks Rito to marry her, which surprised Rito.

Meanwhile, in a spaceship flown outside Earth, anyone defeated by Rito and Lala reported to their boss. And the boss shall go to the Earth next, as he calls Lala a troublesome princess.

Character First Appearances

 * Yuuki Rito
 * Lala Satalin Deviluke
 * Sairenji Haruna
 * Saruyama Kenichi
 * Yuuki Mikan
 * Zastin
 * Maul
 * Smutts

Inventions used

 * Pyon-Pyon Warp-kun (first appearance)
 * Peke (first appearance)
 * Go Go Vacuum-Kun (first appearance)

Trivia

 * When Lala showed her tail to Rito, she made a reference to Goku in the Dragon Ball series about transforming at a full moon.