Disclaimer: I don't own The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.
The Week of Haruhi Suzumiya
By: Angel Kamiya
Chapter 1
A few weeks had now passed since the cultural festival where we showed the movie that our club made. I still remembered all the disturbed faces of students that left the showing that day. The video will probably never be forgotten now and will be something that every new students hears rumors about for the next few years. I didn't know what to think after seeing the finished project but Haruhi of course had thought that it was a complete success. Nearly the entire school had heard of our club now, it made us even more well known. If the fliers, the website, and ads didn't help the movie certainly did.
I was walking through the hallway of the school heading upstairs to the clubroom that day. It had starting raining particularly hard and I wanted to stay there for a few hours before heading home, maybe play Othello with Koizumi. What I was also looking forward to was to admire Mikuru in one of her adorable outfits that she always wore during one of the meetings. Usually seeing her made me forget the fact that we all were probably going to get another crazy mission from Haruhi at any moment. The purpose of our club according to it's founder Haruhi was to look for time travelers, aliens and espers wherever possible. I could still remember how I had ended up as a member in the first place, what Haruhi did was pretty much force everyone there to join.
When I opened the door I saw that the only person already there was Yuki. The girl with the short hair sat there by the window reading a book like always. Like all the other female students attending the high school she wore a sailor looking blue and white uniform.
"Hello Nagato."
The girl looked up once and only nodded.
I pulled up a chair and sat by the large table at the center of the room. The heater was on so it wasn't too cold there. The computer that Haruhi had acquired was at the far side of the room on the desk currently turned off like it usually was. In fact if there had been more people there I would have thought that the club room could have almost been an actual classroom.
While I sat there I thought about how much homework I would be having that day. I was not looking forward to it.
The door suddenly opened and a cute girl with long hair walked inside. Like always Mikuru had tried to arrive on time but for some reason she had been a little late. That was what usually happened every afternoon.
"Hey Asahina-san."
Mikuru smiled warmly at me.
"Kyon-kun..." the girl replied, shyly walking over to the cabinet to look through the clothes that hung there. "How was your day?"
"It was great. Nothing bad happened at least."
There was a loud slamming sound that made me nearly get up from my seat as another person rushed into the room. Haruhi looking ever energetic and beautiful glanced around the small room like she was making sure who was actually there and who wasn't. Like always she wore her trademark yellow ribbon in her hair.
"Where the heck is Koizumi?" Haruhi demanded, throwing her backpack onto the floor. "I told everyone to be here today!"
"I don't know. Maybe he is busy with something?"
"What could be more important then this?"
"Can't we get started without him?" I asked, hopeful that she would not argue with me any further.
"Fine. This is too important to keep bottled up anymore!" Haruhi yelled, taking a seat and stared at me. "Do you guys remember when the last time we went looking for interesting things in town and actually found something?"
"Not for a while."
"Exactly! Finding nothing means that something huge is going to happen at any time now."
"That doesn't make any sense." I muttered.
Haruhi gave me an annoyed look and quickly stood up on the chair that she had been sitting at. I had to stare up at her to see that she was serious about this.
"We are leaving now. I hope you understand that."
"Where?"
"We are going to search the town today. Get your things."
"I don't believe this. It's pouring outside!"
Haruhi didn't seem to pay much attention to my complaint. It seemed she was determined to do what she had planned.
"Who here doesn't want to do a search outside today?" Haruhi asked, loudly.
I turned and looked at Mikuru who seemed like she was starting to raise her hand. However she quickly froze when she realized that Haruhi was glaring at her. Mikuru began shaking visibly while putting her hand down. There was no way she was going to argue with the chief.
Yuki was still sitting there on her chair reading. It seemed like she didn't want to disagree either or she had simply hadn't overheard my argument with Haruhi.
"Haruhi, don't you-"
"Well it looks like the club agrees." the girl interrupted, crossing her arms. "Not that the vote would have mattered."
I had to write down the message telling Koizumi where we were going to be at. The four of us left not long after that. Luckily we had two umbrellas with us. The ones that didn't bring them were Mikuru and Haruhi. Mikuru had apparently forgotten to bring hers to school with her. I didn't found out until later that Haruhi had simply decided not to bring her umbrella to experience what it would be like to walk in the rain and see if she would catch a cold or not.
We had decided to split up in groups of two. We didn't have to draw straws this time since for some reason Haruhi insisted on going with me. I tried to keep my mouth shut since I was trying to figure out why she was acting so suspiciously. In fact she had started acting suspiciously ever since I first saw her that morning like she was planning something. For some reason she kept staring at me like I was interesting.
When we were alone Haruhi suddenly grabbed my arm and yanked me towards her. I would have crashed against her if I hadn't been able to stop myself on time.
"What did you do that for?"
"I want to speak to you privately Kyon."
"That's why you brought me to this place? Why didn't you do that before school?"
"I couldn't risk any of the other students overhearing us. Now are we going to talk or not?"
"This better be something important. What are we standing out in the rain for?"
"It is. I wanted to tell you that I'm kicking you out of our club!"
I stopped breathing for a few moments. I wasn't sure I had heard her correctly.
"What... what is this all about?"
"I know that you have been thinking about Mikuru. You have been staring at her constantly and daydreaming. It's been seriously interfering with my duties!"
"You are the one who decided to dress her up in bunny suits and maid costumes to draw attention to the club."
"Whatever. You are free now. I don't ever want to see you again!"
Any other time I might have been too startled to respond but I felt responsible for Haruhi. In fact I now considered her a friend. There was also the fact that Haruhi could be very dangerous with the powers that she didn't know that she had. I didn't want to leave the club since that meant I couldn't watch over her and make sure she didn't get into trouble.
As Haruhi quickly turned to leave, I managed to grab a hold of her arm. Haruhi didn't even turn back to look at me so I didn't see her face.
"Wait! Haruhi what do I have to do to change your mind?"
"I want you to be my boyfriend for a while."
"Wha... what?"
"Kyon! Don't stand there like that like a statue. What do you say?"
I didn't know what to say. Was Haruhi actually serious about this? Was this one of her big jokes that only she got and no one else? This was the last thing that I had expected to happen that day.
