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Hardworking Hayate has a plan to pay back the yakuza--who are now the legal owners of his body parts: he'll kidnap someone and ransom them for a mountain of money! But things get tricky when his would-be kidnappee--who as luck would have it is the daughter of a mind-bogglingly wealthy family--mistakes Hayate's actions for a confession of love, and subsequently hires him to be her personal servant. At least his employment future is secure, or so he thinks...

Plot of Hayate The Combat Butler

Volume 1

Hayate is given a job as a butler by Nagi Sanzenin, who is the heiress of the Sanzenin family and extremely rich, after saving her from kidnappers and falling unconscious from injuries that were garnered during the rescue. He has an embarrassing incident with Maria after regaining consciousness involving the bathtub of Nagi's mansion and a misconception of being in the afterlife. Following this, he accidentally reveals to Maria that he was trying to kidnap Nagi, and he pledges to protect Nagi with his life when she enters the room, embarrassing her because of her misconception that he confessed his love to her. Maria is ordered to fire him by Seishoru Klaus, the head butler, though she is reluctant to do this due to Hayate's unfortunate circumstances and amazing cleaning skills. However, after finding Nagi's self-drawn manga in the study, which Maria was supposed to tell him to avoid, and calling it a picture diary to Nagi, Hayate leaves the mansion after misinterpreting his Ojou-sama's orders. This leads to him being captured by the yakuza, and being saved by Nagi, who pay's off Hayate's debt with the yakuza. Hayate is then presented with a repayment plan covering forty years of working for Nagi.

The next day, Klaus, who wants to fire Hayate, arranges for a strength-aptitude test to make sure that Hayate is strong enough to protect Nagi. Hayate is fights against the Nursing Robot Eight, and wins by electrocuting both himself and Eight. This convinces Klaus that, for the time being, Hayate can stay. The following morning, Hayate encounters Tama, a white tiger from Africa, while going to wake up Nagi. No one can control Tama except for Nagi and Maria, revealed with Klaus is slashed in the face by Tama. Nagi and Klaus for Tama and Hayate to fight by threatening him with being fired, but the fight is interrupted by Maria. Tama and Hayate had been fighting in her flower garden, which she had taken great care to cultivate. Using her amazing insight ability, she deduces exactly what happened and proceeds to treat Hayate's wounds while Nagi and Klaus await their punishment. After telling Hayate how Tama came to be living with Nagi, which was similar to how Hayate came to be living with Nagi, Hayate remarks to Tama how similar they are and lucky they are to have been adopted by Nagi. Tama though, having learned the human language, tells Hayate that he shouldn't be classified as a similar type of loser as Hayate, and goes on to tell him to die because Hayate's face has "poor written all over it."

Sometime later, Hayate is forced to crossdress in a catgirl uniform by Nagi and Maria, and is attacked by Tama, who he beats in a single move. He is also attacked by Klaus, and both times, he is mistaken for a girl. After the incident, back in his regular butler uniform, Hayate is asked by Maria whether he like older or younger women. This is because Maria knows that Nagi has fallen in love with Hayate, though Hayate himself doesn't know this. Hayate hasn't yet told Nagi that he was trying to kidnap her when they first met, and himself has a crush on Maria, leading him to remark that older women make better love partners. Nagi wants to help Maria following the early morning battle that killed Maria's flowers, and agrees to go get new flowers. However, this leads to a talk in a secret backyard flower garden where Nagi believes for sure that Hayate has confessed his love, while Hayate really meant that she was important to him because she saved his life. The chapter ends with Nagi picking a flower, which leads to the cliff that the garden was on breaking, with Hayate falling off. They return to the mansion with a single flower, and a muddy, dirty Hayate.

Volume 3

It is revealed that Wataru is actually Nagi's fiance from an arranged marriage, even though they don't like each other at all; Wataru is actually in love with Isumi. Angry that Isumi is much more interested in Hayate than in him, Wataru challenges Hayate to a duel, which Hayate throws to make Wataru look strong. However, Isumi sees through this and bluntly states so out loud, which results in Wataru throwing a tantrum and leaving. Feeling the need to apologize to Wataru, Hayate tries to take the subway to apologize in person to him. Nagi and Isumi are fascinated with the idea of an underground train (it's implied they're both too rich to be aware of the existence of subways) and tag along. Isumi gets lost immediately after leaving the mansion. Nagi and Hayate find her inside an under-construction tunnel where they're attacked by rats. Isumi scares them off with a charm (explained in volume 5) and everyone goes home, having forgotten about apologizing to Wataru. Hayate tries again (by himself), and runs into Saki while in town. It turns out that Wataru lives in and runs a video rental store that specializes in rare animes. Unlike Nagi and Isumi, Wataru is not rich and his parents only want him to marry Nagi for her money. Hayate tries to become a member of the rental store, but it's revealed that Hayates father had once been a member; instead of joining, Hayate gets an additional 1,500,000 yen of late-return fees added to his existing debt. Sakuya and Nagi get caught up in the latest fad: Mushiking. Nagi always loses and throws a tantrum; eventually Sakuya and Nagi face off with Hayate as the prize for the winner, they play so much that Hayate is completely forgotten and ignored. Nagi takes Hayate to her personal amusement park that her grandfather bought to mock her; Nagi is too short to ride any of the rides. The only thing they can both go into is the haunted house. The robot Eight tries to attack Nagi again inside the haunted house, but the long-suffering mascots who work inside the park, overjoyed that someone is finally visiting, gang together and beat up Eight. Tama breaks the boiler while he and Hayate are in the bath and causes Hayate to almost flash Maria. Tama convinces Hayate to try and fix the boiler to atone for his shame. The whole boiler system breaks while Maria and Hayate are inside (thanks to Tama again) and the boiler room floods. Hayate saves Maria and all is forgiven. Isumi comes over again. This attracts Wataru, and Hayate and Tama see him taking a sniff of Isumi's stole (a garment girls use on their shoulders). Hayate prevents Tama from spreading internet rumors about Wataru and gains Wataru's trust. Sensing an evil spirit inside the necklace that Hayate wears, Isumi does something that reseals the necklace that has her get up very close to Hayate. In front of everyone, she tells Hayate that she likes him, which stuns Wataru and Nagi. Nagi is kept up all night thinking about Isumi's apparent confession to Hayate. Maria tells Nagi to ask Hayate directly, which she does. Due to the vague wording that Hayate uses, Nagi believes that Hayate is "playing with" both Isumi and Sakuya (Hayate was referring to Mushiking)and runs off to Wataru's house in a rage. Hayate goes to Isumi's mansion to ask if she knows where Nagi is; Sneaking around, Nagi and Wataru see Hayate helping Isumi get something out of her eye, and Nagi's melodramatic mind once again interprets this wrong. In a rage, she offers to sell Hayate to Isumi for 150 million yen; Isumi accepts immediately. Nagi tries working at Wataru's video rental and its not working out. Meanwhile, Hayate seems dazed and confused in Isumi's mansion. Maria comes and compares Nagi to Hayate's parents; Nagi realizes how cruel she was to Hayate and starts crying, shocking everyone. Maria goes to check on Hayate and finds him in a garden with Isumi, where Isumi tells Hayate that he reminds her of someone who departed this world recently and begs him to stay by her. As Maria tries to figure out what kind of manga genre Hayate the Combat Butler is, Gilbert shows up at Wataru's store. Gilbert devises a plot that Nagi agrees to; they'll fake a kidnapping and see if Hayate responds. Sakuya arrives and tells Nagi she was "playing" Mushiking with Hayate and not "playing" in the way that Nagi thought they were. Gilbert uses a large robot (made by the same scientist who created Eight) which malfunctions and tries to actually hurt Nagi. Nagi screams out Hayate's name; Hayate suddenly disappears from where he was with Maria, Isumi, and Wataru. Isumi casually says that Hayate has gone to save Nagi. Nagi is about to be punched by the robot when Hayate appears and saves her.

Volume 5

Azumamiya's butler is named Nonohara; however, Nonohara attacks Azumamiya for being a coward instead of a man. As Hayate wonders whether a butler can hit their master, the butler who stole his tie from the previous day appears and tells Hayate that a butler's duty is not just to serve, but also to rear their masters to be outstanding members of society. Hinagiku stops the beating and tells Nonohara that Azumamiya is weak and needs protection. Stung by those comments, Azumamiya decides to fight Nagi while Nonohara fights Hayate. Hinagiku again intervenes and steps in as a replacement for Nagi; she defeats Azumamiya without much effort. Hayate is then subject to a huge and powerful attack from Nonohara called a "mortal blow" which acidentally hits Azumamiya. As Nonhara fretts, Hayate defeats him from behind. At the end of all this, Nagi decides that she's not interested in the kendo club anyway because the equipment smells of sweat.

Nishizawa is in Wataru's video store returning some action movies she borrowed. Wataru recommends that she rent the first season of Sailor Moon, but Nishizawa leaves without checking anything out. Hayate was also in the shop; Nishizawa sees him exit the store and chases him, dismayed that his walking speed is faster than her running speed. She chases him until she gets to the gate of Nagi's mansion, where she is apprehended by the security for snooping around. While security tries to confirm who she is with Maria, Nishzawa escapes and runs into Tama on the mansion grounds. As expected, she runs in terror, while Tama chases her because his blunted killer instincts makes him want to lick his prey. At the last minute Hayate, who is practicing making his own "mortal blow", flies out and kicks Tama away. Before Nishizawa can explain herself to Hayate, Nagi shows up the two girls have a stare-down, which Nishizawa loses. Vowing to bring a stronger metaphoric animal next time, Nishizawa leaves and goes to Wataru's store to rent the first season of Sailor Moon. Nagi questions Hayate on whether he's going anywhere, and Hayate responds that he's not.

Hayate asks Maria if she has a mortal blow; Maria replies that she doesn't. Nagi joins in and the conversation about mortal blows tangents to a point where Maria gets irritated. Hayate then goes to Hakuou at night to get Nagi's notebook. Once there, he's assaulted by Yukiji and finds out that she lives on campus so that she can save money because she doesn't get an allowance from her family anymore. Hayate meets three of his classmates, Akigaze, Miki, and Izumi, who are all staying overnight with Yukiji studying (its also implied they're student council members). Hayate moves on to look for the notebook but accidentally steps into the old school building instead of the new one. Hinagiku arrives at Yukijis room and hears that Hayate is wandering around on campus. Worried that Hayate would get lost, she runs after him into the old school building where shes attacked by a ghost in the form of a human-anatomy sculpture. Cornered, she screams out Hayates name, and Hayate immediately appears and defeats the ghost. After composing herself, Hinagiku finds time to flirt with Hayate; Hayate notes that Hinagiku is similar to Nagi in her refusal to lose at anything. Hayate figures that he can use "spirit force" to create a mortal blow, a point which Maria also thinks of at home. The same ghost from just then attacks again, but this time Hinagiku grabs a pipe and beats it. The ghost tries to "transform", but ends up breaking into pieces. As Hinagiku and Hayate leave, Isumi is seen with her servants entering the old school to exorcise the ghost. Hayate returns home and gives Nagi her notebook.

Hayate goes into the Sanzenin family library, which Nagi had been using as a den to read mangas and play video games. Maria then helps Hayate find a book called "How To Perform Mortal Blows" which was written by Himegami, the butler previous to Hayate. Nagi and Hayate go outside to practice spirit force, but once Nagi sees a chapter which claims to help the person you like return your feelings, she forbids Hayate from reading the book and instead runs to to try and read it herself. Distracted by the first recommendation of the chapter, Nagi runs off a cliff but has her fall padded by Hayate. Nagi finds the spirit force section Hayate wants, but then Hayate lets slip that he wants to learn spirit force for the sake of Hinagiku. Greatly angered, Nagi burns the book and then hits Hayate. Hayate then asks Maria if she knows any mortal blows to defeat Nagi's temper.

Nagi temporarily runs away and fumes about Hayate paying attention to Hinagiku. Maria and Hayate go outside to look for her. On the street, Nagi runs in Nishizawa. They recognize each other, but when Nagi tries to blow her off, Nishizawa challenges her to a karaoke sing-off. Nagi agrees, and the two girls go while Maria and Hayate tail them. While Nagi marvels at how small the karaoke room is, Maria and Hayate rent the room behind them. Nishizawa goes first and scores a 35 (machines in Japan give you scores out of 100). Nagi goes next, and it turns out she has a wonderful voice and scores a perfect 100. Nishzawa ends up paying for all the expenses and vows to challenge Nagi again at something else. Nagi responds that she will just beat Nishizawa at that too. Meanwhile, Maria and Hayate are still singing in their room.

Wataru notices that Saki seems depressed and deduces that shes acting this way because nobody celebrated her coming-of-age ceremony. Wataru feels guilty that he also forgot, he borrows a huge amount of money from Nagi to buy Saki a lavish furisode. However, Nagi ups the ante by calling Isumi and telling her to go to Wataru's shop. Faced with the decision of giving the furisode to Isumi or Saki, Wataru chooses not to give it to Isumi and to keep it for Saki.

Nagi decides that she needs to be proactive in making Hayate love her and only her. She decides to play the "hard-to-get" card and tries to develop a colder attitude toward Hayate, although Hayate's kind nature makes being intentionally cold to him difficult. To make it so Hayate will have to depend on her, she takes Hayate and Maria with her on a cruise on Sakuya's Titanic-esque cruise ship. As Hayate gets excited, Nagi succeeds in blowing him off once when he asks her a question. As Sakuya and Nagi come to the conclusion that a terrorist hijacking is the only thing that can sink the ship, terrorists hijack the ship. Meanwhile, Hayate is wandering alone and is lost in the vast ship. Coincidentally, Isumi, who was also invited to the cruise, is also wandering alone, lost as usual. On deck, Klaus and Sakuya's butlers easily defeat the terrorists, who reveal that their target was actually Hayate. In desperation, the terrorists blow a hole in the hull of the ship. Hayate is cut in the head and also has to save Isumi, who was being washed out of the ship by the ocean. Nagi goes downstairs to look for Hayate and finds him in between the jaws of a shark. Nagi tries to help, but as soon as she gets in the water another shark assaults her. Hayate then takes the shark who's biting down on him and judo flips it onto the second shark. Spent of energy, Hayate collapses and sinks into the ocean. He is saved by Klaus, who coldly tells him not thank him for it. Being ignored while Klaus and Hayate talk, Nagi wonders why Hayate seems to be turned on by Klaus' uncaring attitude.

Characters

Main characters

Hayate Ayasaki (綾崎 ハヤテ/Written in Kanji:綾崎　颯, Ayasaki Hayate?)
Voiced by: Ryoko Shiraishi
Age: 16
Height: 168cm
Weight: 57kg (Body fat ratio is under 10%)
Blood type: A
Birthday November 11

Hayate has had to work to support his parent's bad habits since the age of nine, always moving from job to job as he is found out to be underage. The experience does mean, however, that he of all characters possesses the most extensive practical knowledge as to how the world operates. Hayate's dad has refused to get employed and his mother has been a compulsive gambler, which led to their bankruptcy - they abandon Hayate after selling his organs to the Yakuza to ease their financial burdens. With not many choices left to him, Hayate thought to kidnap someone to get ransom. He found a girl, Nagi Sanzenin, and told her that he would kidnap her. However, Nagi mistook his words for his confession of love, so later he was employed as Nagi's new butler.

Characters in the series are always remarking that he looks poor and seedy (for example, Yukiji does so when Hayate tries to enter Nagi's school in Volume 4 of the manga or Episode 4 of the anime), and he has terrible luck. He believes that everyone hates him except children, though he doesn't think about children being any other than friends, including Nagi - he does genuinely want to impress Nagi for giving him this new job, but the person he has a crush on is the more mature Maria. As a butler, Hayate is capable of all aspects of houseworks and can even play the violin, but it is his ability in repelling attacks from almost anything, including butlers of other families, despite his bad luck that makes him what a "combat butler" is all about. He once demonstrated a skilled use of fire-arms (capable of wielding a HK MG3 single-handed) and is essentially invincible.

In addition to looking poor and seedy, Hayate can also appear to be extremely feminine. This has led to him being forced to wear girl's clothing or cosplay in very girly roles (usually some kind of catgirl), mostly at Nagi or Maria's behest. Later on in the manga, this female alter ego is given a name: Hermione Ayasaki (綾崎 ハーマイオニー, Ayasaki Hamaioni?), which is probably a reference to the main heroine of the Harry Potter series.

Nagi Sanzenin (三千院 ナギ/Written in Kanji:三千院　凪, Sanzenin Nagi?)
Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya
Age: 13
Height: 138cm
Weight: 29kg
Blood type: AB
Birthday: December 3

Nagi is the only heir to the Sanzenin fortune. She is a tomboy and has an otaku hobby with manga and anime, and draws her own manga. She is good at finance and likes to learn. She has a crush on Hayate, and has misunderstood that Hayate loves her since they first met. Nagi is afraid of dark places and has absolutely no sense of direction, and her only surviving family is her grandfather, whom she doesn't like. She regards Maria as a mother or older sister figure, and warns Hayate not to touch Maria in any indecent way or she will never forgive him. She totally lacks experience for cooking and accordingly is prone to making mistakes (such as mistaking dish-washing detergent for cooking oil) when she attempts to cook. She has a pet tiger, Tama, whom she refers to as a cat.

Maria (マリア, Maria?)
Voiced by: Rie Tanaka
Age: 17
Height: 158cm
Weight: 42kg
Blood type: O
Birthday: December 24

Maria is Nagi's maid and surrogate older sister/mother, both appearing and acting in a manner more mature than people typical of her age. She is the character with the most common sense in the series, and is the only one who understands the problem between Hayate and Nagi. She appears to be the one in charge of everything in Nagi's manor, since everyone from the head butler to the SP either obeys or fears her (or both in some cases). She's good at general housework and likes games of all kinds, though she is scared of "the dark life-form that exists in the kitchen and other places". She also proved capable of self-defense techniques in times of need.

She has no last name because she was an orphan who was found next to the statue of St. Mary at a church, which is where she got her name. Not knowing anything about herself, her birthday was decided as December 24, the day she was found. She is the unfortunate one who always has to clean up everyone's messes. She has seen Hayate naked several times, and she sees the effect he has on other girls, many of whom are attracted to him for his kind nature although she has trouble determining if herself is one of them due to her lack of first-hand experience with interpersonal attractions. Maria is also legendary throughout the school for having graduated high school at the age of thirteen in just three years while maintaining the position of Student Council President for all three years.

Supporting characters

Sakuya Aizawa (愛沢 咲夜, Aizawa Sakuya?)
Voiced by: Kana Ueda
Sakuya is a friend of Nagi's, and like her, Sakuya is very rich and has a similar personality — loud, arrogant, abusive of servants, and unwilling to accept defeat in anything. Nagi is one of the only people who can stand up to her, once again showing their similar personalities. Her cousin Gilbert is one of the people who is constantly harassing Nagi for her fortune.

Isumi Saginomiya (鷺ノ宮 伊澄, Saginomiya Isumi?)
Voiced by: Miyu Matsuki
Isumi is a black-haired girl who is always wearing a kimono. Another one of Nagi's close friends, she and Nagi met at a party a long time ago.

When all the other children, Sakuya included, laughed at Nagi's first attempt at writing her own manga, Isumi took interest in it and asked Nagi how it ends; Nagi then asked Isumi (in a childish sense) to marry her. Like Nagi, Isumi is very rich. Unlike Nagi, Isumi is soft-spoken, kind, and can cook well. While she does not have an awful sense of direction, she constantly gets lost due to the fact that she is apt to forget her destination, and the fact that she can disappear from people's eyes instantaneously only complicates the matter.

She displays a high level of empathy for Nagi's feelings; however, she does not recognize Wataru's love for her, a fact that Nagi, Maria, and Hayate comment on. In volume five of the manga, it is revealed she can perform exorcisms. She has feelings for Hayate and does not wish to see him sad.

Wataru Tachibana (橘 ワタル/Written in Kanji:橘　亘, Tachibana Wataru?)
Voiced by: Marina Inoue
Wataru is Nagi's fiance. He is the same age as she is, but they have no feelings for each other; Wataru claims his parents arranged their future marriage entirely for the money. He is in love with Isumi. He lives and runs a video-rental store in the city. He first hates Hayate for accidentally stealing Isumi's affection. But later he looks up to Hayate and strives to be as good as he is.

Saki Kijima (貴嶋 サキ/Written in Kanji:貴島　沙希, Kijima Saki?)
Voiced by: Saki Nakajima
Saki is Wataru's maid. She is significantly older than Wataru and lives with him in his video-rental store. Her biggest fear is that Wataru will start watching porn when he reaches puberty, which he denies. She also reacts strongly whenever Hayate touches her anywhere, such as tapping her on the shoulder or carrying her away from danger, worrying about whether or not their physical contact will affect her chances of getting a husband later in life.

Klaus (クラウス, Kurausu?)
Voiced by: Kenta Miyake
Age: 58
Blood type: A
Birthday: April 18

Klaus is head butler of the Sanzenin family, who is usually away on business. His real name is Seishirō Kurausu (倉臼 征史郎, Kurausu Seishirō?), and is fully Japanese. He has a low alcohol tolerance, doesn't do well with tobacco or women, and likes cars and bikes. He initially distrusted and disliked Hayate when he was first hired.

Tama (タマ, Tama?)
Voiced by: Juurouta Kosugi
Tama is a white tiger from Africa, who was rescued by Nagi as a cub, and was raised on Matsuzaka beef and expensive tuna fish, making it incapable for him to go to the zoo or back to the wild. He can speak the human language, though he does not reveal this to Maria or Nagi because he doesn't want to shatter the young girl's dreams. He will lay his life down to protect Nagi, because his situation was a lot like Hayate's. To him, Maria is the highest power there is, followed by an impassable wall, Nagi, then himself, and everyone else is below him.

Despite the fact he is a white tiger, he is depicted in the manga to have been found by Nagi while Nagi is exploring Africa. Usually when Tama is speaking or involved in a comical situation, he looks rather cartoony and, when standing on his hind legs, is about human size. He appears this way in most of his appearances, although he will occassionally be drawn in his actual size and appearance.

Eight (エイト, Eito?)
Eight is a robot in love with his creator. He was created to be the ultimate nursing robot by the Sanzenin Technology Division. He is equipped with "nursing missiles" and rocket boosters.

Ayumu Nishizawa (西沢 歩, Nishizawa Ayumu?)
Voiced by: Mikako Takahashi
Ayumu is a girl from Hayate's school before he became a butler. She always had feelings for Hayate and is happy when he pays his old school a visit. She violently lashes out at anyone who badmouths her and Hayate, including a teacher who called Hayate a dropout because his parents had refunded all his school fees the day Hayate was sold. She confesses her feelings to Hayate, but Hayate rejects them after getting a vision of Nagi. Undeterred, she tries to talk to Hayate when she sees him a week later, but she runs into Nagi and is shocked that in terms of metaphoric strength that Nagi is represented by a dragon while she is represented by a hamster. Nishizawa retreats, vowing next time to bring a stronger hamster. She later challenges Nagi to karaoke, only to lose.

Hinagiku Katsura (桂 ヒナギク/Written in Kanji:桂　雛菊, Katsura Hinagiku?)
Voiced by: Shizuka Itou
Hinagiku is the current student council president, and kendo club president at Hakuō Academy, the school that Nagi, Isumi, and eventually Hayate attends. She is fifteen and is an expert with swords, specifically kendo. She first meets Hayate when he gets lost on the huge Hakuō campus and ends up rescuing her. She had been helping a baby bird who had fallen out of its nest, but due to her fear of heights, had become stuck without her realizing it. Hayate ends up helping her down the tree, and then promises that he will come help her should she ever call for him. In gratitude, she invites him to the top of the clocktower, where only student council elites are allowed. She allows Hayate to call her by her first name and also seems to be infatuated by Hayate and his attractive personality. Her family does not show any signs of being rich.

However, in Volumes 9 and 10, it is revealed that Hinagiku suffers from a past nearly identical to that of Hayate's - she, along with her sister, had also been abandoned by their biological parents who left them with a debt of 80 million yen (approximately $660,000 US) shortly before Hinagiku's sixth birthday. Following this, her sister, Yukiji, managed to pay off the debt (albeit through what the manga depicts as rather dubious means) and the two of them went to live with the Katsura family, as Mr. Katsura had been Yukiji's elementary school teacher.

When Hinagiku finally sees the beautiful view from atop the clocktower on the night of her sixteenth birthday with Hayate's help, though, she finally realizes that she actually loves him. She had been afraid of admitting this to herself because she thought that he would have abandoned her like her parents did if she fell in love with him. She likens her feelings to the scenery atop the clocktower: she had been unable to see them because she had been too scared to. When Hayate asks her if she's still scared, she replies that while she is, it's not a bad feeling, which is a possible response to both her fear of heights as well as her fear of abandonment.

Hinagiku's problems are not over yet, however; in Volume 8, when Nishizawa and Hayate were staying over at Hinagiku's house, she promised Nishizawa that she would support her in her relationship with Hayate. Now having fallen in love with Hayate herself, she must come to terms with her feelings of betrayal as she tries to find a way to tell Nishizawa about her feelings. In addition, Hayate himself doesn't seem to think that Hinagiku could have feelings for him, although Nagi seems convinced otherwise.

In most of the colored scenes as well as covers of the manga, she is depicted with pink hair; however, on the color page cover of chapter thirty-seven she has strawberry orange hair. The anime has given her pink hair, which seems to correspond with the fact that the sole exception to her hair being pink is on the previously mentioned color page cover.

Yukiji Katsura (桂 雪路, Katsura Yukiji?)
Voiced by: Hitomi Nabatame
Yukiji is the twenty-eight year old sister of Hinagiku. She is a teacher at Hakuō Academy and doubles as a twenty-four-hour gate guard. She refuses to let Hayate enter the school when they first meet because she is afraid that letting unauthorized personnel on campus will result in a salary deduction for her. Her attitude softens after Hayate first saves her from falling off the clock tower, but she still almost causes Hayate to be rejected from Hakuō by unnecessarily making him anxious during his entrance exam. She repays Hayate by telling everyone in her class on Hayate's first day that he is a super cool person. She has a group of underachieving students who hang out with her a lot. She lives on the Hakuō campus; she tells Hayate that she does this so that she can save rent money and use that money to buy alcohol instead.

Himegami (姫神, Himegami?)
Himegami was Nagi's butler before Hayate. He has yet to make an appearance in the manga, but judging from the way Nagi and Maria speak of him, he quit due to a problem related to Nagi's personality traits. Neither Nagi nor Maria seem to want to elaborate on his departure. He wrote a book on how a butler can acquire a one-hit kill technique. Maria addresses him with the title "kun", which means he is probably around Hayate and Maria's age.

Yakuza
The Yakuza are represented by three katana-wielding men in suits. One of them sometimes carries a chihuahua around. They are first seen taking Hayate away to harvest his organs until a mysterious hero called "Mask the Money" (actually Nagi in disguise) stops them and buys Hayate's debt off them. Later, they run into Hayate after he saved Isumi and told him that they actually like him for some reason. They then get into a fight with Isumi's bodyguards, which then evolves into a free-for-all after Hayate tries to leave without helping them.

Mr. and Mrs. Ayasaki
Hayate's parents, who appear as faceless shadows with the characters "Mother" and "Father" scrawled on their faces. Hayate's dad has refused to get employed (on the ground that he deserves no less than highest-paying jobs) and his mother has been a compulsive gambler, which led to their bankruptcy. They abandon Hayate after selling his organs to the Yakuza to ease their financial burdens (a debt of 156,804,000 yen, or approximately $1.3 million US). Later on, Wataru and Hayate find out Mr. Ayasaki was a former member of Wataru's video store who owed Wataru 1,500,000 yen in unpaid late fees.