Okay! So... I'm normally a DC fanfic writer, but I'm getting really addicted to TMoHS/HSnY. What can I do? Haruhi's way too cute to resist... And~ since I'm getting SO annoyed with the latest episodes (ugh, ENDLESS eight), I wanna release my stress here, and irritate the fanfic world with MY version of Endless Eight. Just a little something of what MIGHT happen if Kyon would just freaking do SOMETHING!
DISCLAIMER: Nothing belongs to me, expect the computer, and even THAT is property of my parents... Anyway, in this chap, EVERYTHING is NOT made by me. This is just a written version of Endless Eight. I didn't even change OR write ANYTHING. Everything here is what's written on the subs. Well, except for the number of repetitions.
NOTE: text is Kyon's side comments. text is Kyon's thought narratives. "text" is dialogue.
~~~ENDLESS EIGHT: ORIGINAL~~~
Something was strange.
I somehow got that feeling. I was watching a match between two prefectures of no relation to me. I was half-heartedly cheering for the losing side and I somehow got the feeling I'd hear from Haruhi soon.
"Kyon-kun, phone."
"You don't have to tell me that."
"You're free today right? We're meeting in front of the station at 2! Be sure to come!"
I haven't even said anything.
"What is it?"
"I forgot to tell you what to bring. Bring your swimwear and plenty of money. Also, be sure to come on your bike. Over~"
I still haven't said a word.
I somehow got the feeling I knew what Haruhi was going to say. No, that's wrong. More accurately, I get the feeling this had happened before. To put it in words, déjà vu?
Summer's already over huh?
~*~*~*~*~*~
"You're late, Kyon! Put more effort into it,"
"Yeah, yeah. Sorry for making you wait."
"I only just got here too."
"Now that everyone's here, let's head out!"
"Where to?"
"The swimming pool, of course."
I guess it makes sense with these preparations.
"Summer should be like summer, so we have to do summer activities. We can't get back the time we spend now so that's why we're doing this now, during our only freshman summer vacation! By the way, we're going to the pool by bike."
"You guys brought yours?"
"No, yours and mine are the only ones."
"Eh?"
"Listen up Kyon. You can't lose to Koizumi-kun. Alright, commence departure!"
~*~*~*~*~*~
"Hurry up and park your bikes, you two. Kyon, the fun's supposed to start now, what are you doing all tired out?"
Whose fault is that? Whose!?
"The smell of chlorine feels just right for the occasion. Now let's go! It's a race! A race!"
"She seems to be having fun."
"Looks like it."
"A heartwarming sight. It feels very peaceful. Don't you think Suzumiya-san might have learned to enjoy normal pastimes?."
"Calling me out of the blue, blurting everything out at once then hanging up isn't very normal."
"That's nothing from my point of view. Seeing Suzumiya-san enjoy herself like that, one would think there'll be no world-altering events."
"I can only hope. What is it?"
"Ah, nothing. It's probably my imagination. With all that's happened since the start of spring, I'm probably just worrying too much."
Seriously. It'd be better to call this a masses pool rather than a public pool. why did Haruhi pick a place like this?
What's this sensation? That's right… then Haruhi says this: "These two are my subordinates. Go to them if anything comes up!"
"Come join the fun! We're gonna play water football."
Well, this kind of déjà vu stuff happens.
~*~*~*~*~*~
"What is this?"
"A list of things to do with the few remaining days of our summer vacation. I suddenly realized we only have two weeks left of summer vacation. We're going all out from here on!"
All this under two weeks…
"Mikuru-chan, is there something you want to do?"
"I want to go goldfish catching…"
"Okay. Goldifish catching…"
"Excuse me for a second."
"Okay."
"Thanks."
"Was that all?"
"Yes."
"Then, we commence tomorrow! Anyone know of an O-bon festival taking place nearby? A fireworks festival won't be so bad too."
"I'll look into it."
"Don't forget the goldfish catching. It is Mikuru-chan's only request, after all".
"Roger."
Why am I paying again?
"Well that's it for today."
"I'm off then."
"Me too."
"Nagato!"
"Well its nothing but… how've you been lately? Everything all right?"
"I'm fine."
"That's good."
"I see."
"Sorry for stopping you. My bad"
~*~*~*~*~*~
Why? Why did I call out to her?
The next morning, Haruhi's call woke me from my lazy sleep once more. The O-bon festival meeting place had been decided. This evening at the public stadium, apparently.
"Kyon! You're last again. Honestly. Well, whatever. Let's go buy yukatas now!
Haruhi entered the women's clothing store, picked out yukatas for Mikuru, Nagato and herself, and barged into the changing room. After keeping us waiting for about an hour, the three of them finally came out.
"What do you think? Pretty good, huh?"
"Everyone's matches pretty well."
"Of course! I picked them out after all. Especially Mikuru-chan. So cute! Too cute! My expectations weren't wrong!"
"Hai…"
Asahina-san! Nice! Very nice!
~*~*~*~*~*~
An O-bon festival, huh? There's quite a crowd... There it is again. Again. What is it, this sensation?
"They have the goldfish catching game you wanted to do!"
"Should we join them? How about a contest?"
"I'll pass. More importantly, Nagato, want to eat something?"
"What's up? You're interested in these?"
"It's fine. Here."
I get the feeling I owe her, so I wouldn't have minded paying for her at least.
"Thirteen! But we don't need that many so I took just one."
"That impressive."
"You can have one."
"Arigato."
"Huh? Yuki, what's up with that mask?"
"I bought it."
"Is that so… Next up is fireworks. Fireworkds! Let's get everything done in one day!"
It's summer. Summer vacation. So if possible, I would like to forget it but… there was one thing bugging me.
"Yosh! Tomorrow is bug catching!"
"Haruhi. Playing around is fine, but did you finish you summer homework?"
"What do you mean? I only needed 3 days to finish that much."
Three days!?
"Get rid of the tedious stuff first, so afterwards you can really enjoy yourself! That's the only way to enjoy summer!"
Why is this person so smart? People's stat point assignments seem pretty random.
"And so tomorrow is bug-catching! The person who catches the most… lets' see... gets the right to be brigade chief for even a day!"
"Sounds interesting. Any bug is fine?"
"Let's see… cicadas only! That's right! This'll be the SOS Brigade's cicada hunt competition!"
~*~*~*~*~*~
The next day was unbelievably sunny. The SOS Brigade hunt took place under the sweltering heat. Everyone put up a good fight but, unsurprisingly, the winner was Haruhi.
"I guess we should go with the spirit of catch and release after all. If we let them out now, they might to us a favor in the future."
What kind of favor can cicadas do for us?
"Go back to the mountain!"
I sort of feel like Pandora opening that box…
"Welcome!"
The next day, we were somehow gathered together, somehow stuffed into frog costumes, and somehow made to work for the local supermarket.
"Good work everyone."
What's with this difference in treatment?
"You worked hard. The store owner was grateful."
"I don't need his gratitude. Where's the pay?"
"Here."
"I've wanted that costume for a while now he said he'll give this to me on account of Mikuru-chan."
We sweated like pigs for that!?
"Let's decorate it in the club room for commemoration. Mikuru-chan, you're free to wear it whenever you please. I'll allow it."
~*~*~*~*~*~
That night, seeking to steal my beauty sleep was yet another phone call.
"Who is it!?"
"Kyon kun…."
"A-Asahina-san?"
"Yes it's me."
"Something very bad has... If this keeps up I will... What should I do?"
"Umm..."
"Hello. Koizimu here."
Why are you with Asahina-san!?
"Something has come up. Do you think you can join us?"
"What on earth happened, Asahina-san?"
"Kyon-kun… I… I've become unable to return to the future!"
I don't get it.
"Basically it's like this. We've entered an endless recursion of time."
"If you say such unrealistic things so cheerfully, Koizumi... Do you understand what you're talking about?"
"Of course I do. There's no other possibility. I was talking to Asahina-san earlier."
Call me to talk, and I don't want you there!
"As a result we've found the flow of time has become strange. Thanks to Asahina-san, I've confirmed my suspicions."
"What suspicions?"
"We are experiencing the same time frame over and over again."
"You said that earlier."
"To be precise, from august 17th till the 31st. We are trapped in the middle of a never-ending summer vacation."
"Well, it certainly is summer vacation right now."
"This is a completely endless summer. In this world, the future in which September arrives has been erased."
"Who'd believe that?"
"At the very least, you must believe it."
"Could we possibly be trapped in one of those closed space worlds?"
"That's not the case. A section of time has been cut out. Something happens at the night of the 31st, where everything resets and returns to the 17th."
"What about our- no, humanity's memories?"
"Those are also reset. Everyone starts form the beginning."
"More of these time issues, huh… Well, we do have a time traveler with us so I get the feeling it's to be expected…"
"No, this does not involve Asahina-san."
"Then what's the cause?"
"Suzumiya-san of course. She's probably unaware of it herself, but she must be thinking 'I dont want summer vacation to end!' or something."
"What the heck? Does she have any leftover regrets or something?"
"I think that's the case. Most likely, she feels she still has things she wants to do during the summer vacation."
"She always seems to magnify unimportant things to a universal scale. So what do you want me to do?"
"If I knew that, we'd have a solution."
"I'd noticed before, but are you having fun?"
"Aren't you the same? I finally know why that déjà vu feeling has been so common lately. Now that I think about it, those must have been flashback s form remnants of previous incarnations."
"Is it possible the rest of the world feels it?"
"That doesn't appear to be the case. You and I are special exceptions. People close to Suzumiya-san appear to have a higher chance of noticing."
"What about Haruhi? Is she aware of this?"
"It seems she's completely unaware. If she were, things would be troublesome."
"Though, I think that, far from getting déjà vu, there is one person who remembers everything."
"Who is that person?"
"You should know without me having to say."
"Is that true?"
"Yes."
"You remember it all?"
"Yes."
"By the way, how many times has this repetition happened?"
"This would be the 17492nd time."
17492? What on earth, 17492? What do you mean by that Nagato?
"Are you serious?"
"Yes."
"We've been doing exactly the same thing that many times?"
"That hadn't necessarily been the case. In the last 17492 cycles, the O-bon festival was omitted on the 2391st and 11054th occasions. Additionally, goldfish scooping at the O-bon festival was omitted 437 times. Part time work was conducted 9052 times, with 6 variations of work. Besides distributing balloons, there has also been stock-loading, cash registering, flyer distributing-"
"It's okay. I get the point."
The 17492 repetition. That's what Nagato said. Multiplied by two weeks is… umm…about 671 years worth. She spent all that time, redoing the same things over and over, remembering it all?
Nagato… just what did it feel like all that time?
~*~*~*~*~*~
The next day was stargazing. The location was Nagato's apartment. Koizumi prepared the telescope.
"None, is there?"
"What is?"
"Martians."
I don't really want them around.
"When humans first set foot here, I'm sure they'll come out of the shadows to greet us. I'm bored of this. Let's look for UFO's."
"Just what is it she wants to do?"
"What indeed. If we knew we could settle this easily. How about this? Embrace Suzumiya-san from behind, and whisper into her ear 'I love you.'"
"Who would do that?"
"There is no one more suitable than you is there?"
"I love you-my ass! There's no way I'm doing that."
"Then shall I try it? Just joking. I'm not good enough of an actor. I expect it would just make Suzumiya-san unnecessarily confused."
~*~*~*~*~*~
The next place we proceeded to was the batting center.
"Hey Nagato. You knew about the time looping before Asahina-san said anything right?"
"Yes."
"So why did you keep quiet?"
"Because my role is observation."
"I see."
~*~*~*~*~*~
We continued our march through the wave of summer events. Fireworks display, gobi fishing, test of courage, movie watching, sea swimming. We didn't stop once.
Of course I didn't believe it was enough to satisfy Haruhi but even so, I didnt have an idea of what I should do.
And very quickly, August the 30th arrived.
"Well we've finished it off now. I wonder if this was enough… But I guess that's about it. Hey, is there anything else you want to do? Well that's okay. We got to do a lot of things this summer, so I guess that's enough."
No it isn't! You're not satisfied yet are you!?
"Okay, that's all for today. I had tomorrow set aside, but stay home and rest if you want. We'll meet in the clubroom the day after tomorrow."
Wait Haruhi!
"Okay, that's all for today. I had tomorrow set aside, but stay home and rest if you want. We'll meet in the clubroom the day after tomorrow."
There it is again! And with a strength I haven't felt until now. I can't let her go here. If I do, we'll end up repeating these two weeks how many thousand times again. But what should I do? What should I say? There must be a hint in what Haruhi said. But what did she say? What has she been saying up until now? I don't know. I can't think of anyting.
August 31st. Homework: untouched.
I don't care anymore. If we're just going to loop again, there's no point to doing homework anyway. Whether tomorrow comes or not, well, I'll just leave to the me at that time.