History TearJerker / ForHisOwnSake

** The reason why she was so protective of the Hinata Girls in the first place: she was trying to atone for how she [[MyGreatestFailure failed to help her eldest daughter]] in her time of need. Her relationship with Yoko was extremely strained due to her ControlFreak tendencies; when Yoko came for her seeking help, she turned her away, not knowing that would be their last conversation before Yoko was killed in a car crash. The Hinata Girls became her [[MyGreatestSecondChance way of compensating]], as she tried coddling and protecting them while [[ManipulativeBitch aiming to manipulate everyone else]] into letting her tenants have their way. When Marumi points out to her how this has just enabled the girls, Hina leaves in a huff, [[NeverMyFault refusing to accept the idea she did anything wrong]]... only to realize much later just how true Marumi's warning was.

* Seta discovers that her time at the Hinata Inn made Sarah's SpoiledBrat tendencies even worse, as [[ToxicFriendInfluence watching Naru and Motoko]] beat the crap out of Keitaro left her convinced that she can just ''force'' others to do whatever she demands. He ultimately sends her to [[OffToBoardingSchool a strict boarding school]] in hopes of setting her straight, while constantly being [[WhatTheHellHero told off for his failures as a father]]... and quietly nodding along, agreeing with every word.

** Sarah realizes that Naru, Motoko, Granny Hina and the rest won't be coming to rescue her from her boarding school... and that she likely wasn't as important to ''them'' as she thought she was. What's more, Seta took her angry rejection of him to heart, believing she sincerely meant that she didn't consider him to be her father. She finds herself helplessly crying for him, realizing she might never see him again.

*** And then there's Naru, whom Hina realizes far too late was AllTakeAndNoGive, and repaid all her kindness by [[TheFarmerAndTheViper shamelessly abusing her grandson]], even helping Kagura and Chisato kidnap him. When confronted about this, Naru continues to [[PlayingTheVictimCard play the victim]], insisting Keitaro [[BlamingTheVictim was responsible for everything]] and needed to be punished for [[ItsAllAboutMe upsetting her]]. Hina is left to grieve how she wasted so much time and effort on somebody who took her completely for granted, and turns on her the moment she stops catering to her every whim.

After reading this story, you will find a lot of moments that bring tears to your eyes.

* Out of all the Hinata Girls, Shinobi comes out the most sympathetic; despite everything, she was genuinely happier at the Inn than she was with her parents, as they treated her as nothing more than an object to fight over. Her biggest problem was being an ExtremeDoormat who couldn't stand up for herself... or for Keitaro, who came to resent her inability to [[CannotSpitItOut help clear up]] any of the times where the others accused him of causing problems.
* Seta discovers that her time at the Hinata Inn made Sarah's SpoiledBrat tendencies even worse, as her time around [[ToxicFriendInfluence Naru and Motoko]] left her convinced that she can just ''force'' others to do whatever she demands. He ultimately sends her to [[OffToBoardingSchool a strict boarding school]] in hopes of setting her straight, while constantly being [[WhatTheHellHero told off for his failures as a father]]... and quietly nodding along, agreeing with every word.

*** And then there's [[UngratefulBastard Naru]], whom Hina realizes far too late was AllTakeAndNoGive. After everything she sacrificed for her sake, Naru ''instantly'' turns upon her the second it becomes clear that Granny Hina can't provide everything she demands from her anymore. Hina is left to grieve how she wasted so much time and effort on somebody who ultimately [[TheFarmerAndTheViper repays her love by stabbing her in the back]].

* [[Anime/RanmaOneHalf Ranma's]] unwanted reunion with Akane is one big tearjerker moment from start to finish. Akane attacks Ranma, and it's implied that he won by simply dodging or blocking her attacks until she wore herself out. The next scene shows them sitting at a table and talking things out, with both coming to terms with the fact that they are [[BothSidesHaveAPoint equally to blame]] for the failure of their relationship. After Ranma leaves, Akane pretends to be unaffected--even happy--but then she begins to cry as she walks away, finally realizing that she did love Ranma after all but now they can never be a couple. Ranma, who watches her go, just hangs his head in sadness and berates himself for his own contributions to their break-up.
* The last chapter has several moments of this:
** Mutsumi finally gets some sense about the incredibly idiotic way she acted during the fic... and then [[AllForNothing she finds herself with nothing]], having sacrificed her happiness, her love, her academic future and her relationships in the name of preserving a doomed relationship between two mismatched people who weren't destined to be in the first place. The guilt and shame of realizing that she was caught by the SunkCostFallacy hit her hard. She ends completely depressed, feeling profoundly ashamed of her foolishness, expelled from Todai and having to return to Okinawa. She leaves without even attempting to say sorry or ask for forgiveness to the people she hurt because she knows pretty well they won't even listen to her and for good reasons.
** Yeah, Kagura was [[LaserGuidedKarma punished by her villainy]], but it was because the sister of the boy she murdered took her with her in a MurderSuicide.
** It's implied that Sarah eventually broke when she realized that not only will the Hinata girls not come to rescue her (and that she was never in their protective radar in the first place), but that Seta took the words she told him while in a fit of anger to heart and will not attempt to contact her ever again.
** And a bit of tears of happiness for Keitaro, [[EarnYourHappyEnding as he finally earned his happy ending]].

* Seta realizing that his daughter has pretty much become a monster thanks to the other girls, to the point where he has no choice but to send her away to a strict boarding school. And knowing the fault he has in it too all the while.
** It gets worse in the last chapter. When Seta goes to see his daughter, Sarah says she hates him and disowns him as a father, believing that Naru, Motoko, Kitsune, Su, and even Shinobu will come and rescue her. Seta sadly leaves accepting his relationship with his daughter is destroyed. As he sadly drives away in his van he thinks to himself how he failed to raise Sarah.
--> "I have failed miserably," Seta said with sadness and then he thought about Sarah's mother, "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I was never fit to take care of anyone much less your daughter."
* Suu brought it on herself, but seeing her in the detention center and her sister admitting she cannot help her or ask for her to go home is very sad in the tragedy of it all.
** It gets worse in chapter 27 where Suu finally realizes the damage her actions caused and attempts to call Keitaro to apologize. When she's denied her phone call (as she already used one) she breaks down crying, saying she did not mean to hurt those people in Kuromitsu Inn, and that she's not a monster.
* Near the end of Chapter 23, with Naru's [[BreakingSpeech callous derision of her step-sister Mei]] that breaks the latter's heart and reduces her to tears. Even after that, Mei is still pleading for Naru to come back home with her.
* Nagisa's DarkAndTroubledPast: her old friend Takeru was a lot like Keitaro, but something awful happened: he was murdered. And the ones responsible got away with it.
* Motoko breaking down crying over how much happier Keitaro is away from the Hinata Inn and finally realizing that her problems were her own fault.

** The reason she went so protective of the girls in the first place: she wanted to make up to the way she couldn't reach and help her deceased daughter. Because she was so overbearing with said daughter, she instead turned to a more laissez-faire attitude with her tenants while directing her overbearing tendencies to her relatives and whoever she needed to strong-arm to let the girls have her way. Later, after having unwillingly burned the bridges with every person she cared about, she bitterly realizes that it was her insistence of helping them her way not only exacerbating their issues (ergo not being helpful at all) but burnt the goodwill their relatives felt towards her.
* Watching how most of the girls' {{Fatal Flaw}}s lead to their self-destruction over the course of the story. Yeah, they're bringing it onto themselves with their blatant refusal to learn from their mistakes, but that doesn't make it easier.
** Along a similar vein, if you treasured the girls' friendships, seeing how they break down can be totally painful.
** More on this, it has been shown that friendship between the girls was fake as they turn on each other very easily. The reason is because their issues are not sympathetic once you really look at them, and without Keitaro to take it out on, they switch their sights to each other.
** About the only one that still comes out looking sympathetic was Shinobu, seeing as she lived at the Hinata Inn to get away from a difficult family situation where her parents just used her as a thing to fight over rather than taking their daughter's feelings into account. The sad thing is that she was genuinely happier in the Inn in spite of all its problems. Her biggest flaw was allowing herself to be an ExtremeDoormat to everyone else and never standing up for Keitaro, something for which he grows to resent her, in spite of her being justified in that the other Hinata girls just wouldn't let her talk to defend Keitaro or make herself heard.

* When Granny Hina first learns about the extent of the abuse her grandson has suffered, she's appropriately ''horrified'' and worries that Keitaro will hate her for letting this go on. The fact that this becomes an IgnoredEpiphany just makes it more tragic -- she winds up speeding along the destruction of their familial bond because of how she keeps making excuses for the girls.
** Not just her bond with Keitaro -- she ends burning her bonds with ''her entire family and her best friend'', due to her compulsion to make excuses for the girls. By the end she also destroyed her bonds with her tenants too, as one by one they either realized the error of their ways and get away from her influence (Shinobu, Mitsune, and eventually, Motoko), were caught by the consequences of their actions and became beyond her reach (Su, Sarah and Mutsumi), or, in the case of Naru, Hina realizing that [[TheFarmerAndTheViper she ended enabling the person more prone to betray her]].

** Not just her bond with Keitaro -- she ends burning her bonds with ''her entire family and her best friend'', due to her compulsion to make excuses for the girls. By the end she also destroyed her bonds with her tenants too, as one by one they either realized the error of their ways and get away from her influence (Shinobu, Mitsune, [[spoiler: and eventually, Motoko]]), were caught by the consequences of their actions and became beyond her reach (Su, Sarah and Mutsumi), or, in the case of Naru, Hina realizing that [[TheFarmerAndTheViper she ended enabling the person more prone to betray her]].
** The reason she went so protective of the girls in the first place: she wanted to make up to the way she couldn't reach and help her deceased daughter. Because she was so overbearing with said daughter, she instead turned to a more laissez-faire attitude with her tenants while directing her overbearing tendencies to her relatives and whoever she needed to strongarm to let the girls have her way. Later, after having unwillingly burned the bridges with every person she cared about, she bitterly realizes that it was her insistence of helping them her way not only exacerbating their issues (ergo not being helpful at all) but burnt the goodwill their relatives felt towards her.

* Nagisa's DarkAndTroubledPast: her old friend Takeru was a lot like Keitaro, but something awful happened: [[spoiler:he was murdered. And the ones responsible got away with it.]]

** Yeah, Kagura was [[LaserGuidedKarma punished by her villainy]], but it was [[spoiler:because the sister of the boy she murdered took her with her in a MurderSuicide.]]

* When Ida, Naru's career adviser, explains to Naru how her [[ATragedyOfImpulsiveness assaulting a random man]] [[RealityEnsues has long-reaching consequences]], Naru pulls her [[NeverMyFault usual victim blaming]]. Ida muses about how she'd expected great things from Naru, only to see her acting so horribly... throwing away all that potential.

** Not just her bond with Keitaro -- she ends burning her bonds with ''her entire family and her best friend'', due to her compulsion to make excuses for the girls. By the end she also destroyed her bonds with her tenants too, as one by one they either realized the error of their ways and get away from her influence (Shinobu and Mitsune), were caught by the consequences of their actions and became beyond her reach (Motoko, Su, Sarah and Mutsumi), or, in the case of Naru, Hina realizing that [[TheFarmerAndTheViper she ended enabling the person more prone to betray her]].

** Mutsumi finally gets some sense about the incredibly idiotic way she acted during the fic... and then [[AllForNothing she finds herself with nothing]], having sacrificed her happiness, her love, her academic future and her relationships in the name of preserving a doomed relationship between two mismatched people who weren't destined to be in the first place. The guilt and shame of realizing that she was caught by the SunkCostFallacy hit her hard. She ends completely depressed, feeling profoundly ashamed of her foolishness, expulsed of Todai and having to return to Okinawa. She leaves without even attempting to say sorry or ask for forgiveness to the people she hurt because she knows pretty well they won't even listen to her and for good reasons.