(This story happened between The Reflection of HS and The Replacement of YN, but there is no need to read the Reflection beforehand)

One sunny Friday morning I was walking to school minding my own business when some guy on a bike apparently threw something furry into my face. I thought it was a dead furry animal and I was in panic mode for 10 long seconds after I threw it on to the ground. By the time my panic was replaced by anger, the guy on the bike was long gone. A few girls on the street were giggling at my expense on what appeared to be a silly prank. I went over and checked on the object, which appeared to be a wig. It had long black hair that went past my shoulders and there's also a pair of sunglasses taped inside, which originally I thought were bones of the animal. Why would anybody throw them away? The wig was clean and the sunglasses looked pretty trendy. There were no trash cans around me and since I picked it up, I could not just toss it back to the ground as that would be me littering. Besides, for the humiliation I suffered I felt I was entitled to keeping them. Throwing them away seemed like a waste. At least I should put them on to surprise the SOS brigade members - I could pretend to be a rock star.

School couldn't be over soon enough and it's showtime. Haruhi said she would be late. I arrived at the door to the literary club room, put on the wig and the sunglasses then I knocked on the door. The warm and familiar voice of Ms Asahina greeted me.

I opened the door, and proudly announced, 'Holla everybody.' I struck a sexy pose, or, what I thought was a sexy pose, pretending I was strumming an invisible electric guitar.

Good, Nagato and Ms Asahina were there. Koizumi was there too, but I did not care about if he's or not. Nagato looked at me, did not give it a second thought and went back to her books. She probably analyzed my face, and concluded, 'Male subject, known as Kyon. In disguise. Danger level - lower than usual.' Ms Asahina and Koizumi both had a stunned look on them. Then they broke into laughter. Then they went back to looking stunned. That was not the responses I was expecting... wait, I got so embarrassed I forgot what I was expecting.

'Uh, what kind of response is that?' I asked.

Koizumi said, 'If you are trying to look ridiculous, give us a good laugh, then congratulations, you succeed spectacularly.'

'Nobody asked for your opinion.' That was not true, I did ask for it.

Was Ms Asahina going to say something to make me feel better? I could count on Ms Asahina appreciating my effort, right? That's right, I wanted to woo Ms Asahina and perhaps Nagato, and obviously, Nagato was not impressed. 0-1.

Ms Asahina walked over to me and looked at me closer. Oooh, that's a bit too close now I could smell a faint scent of flower fragrance that could weaken any normal man's knees, and I did not mind it at all.

I awkwardly said, 'Uh, Ms Asahina, it's me, Kyon?'

Ms Asahina still looked kind of confused with her cute round eyes. She said, 'Oh, sorry about that Kyon, you looked like someone I met before…'

When you heard a time traveler talking about meeting someone before, it was never clear whether the meeting happened in the past relative to the current time, or the future. One thing was clear, like Koizumi had pointed out, I failed spectacularly. I did not look cool and the girls were not impressed. 0-2. I took the wig and the sunglasses off and I was ready to punish them for the further humiliation by throwing them into the - hold on, we did not even have a trash bin in this room? Reluctantly I put them back into my backpack. Knowing how these girls felt assured me that Haruhi would have felt the same, and I should never show my face in front of her. She would probably laugh her butt off and make worse comments than Koizumi.

'Stop goofing around. You look stupid.' I could hear her say something like that in my head. That's an automatic swing-and-a-miss, 0-3, I was struck out, shamed.

Haruhi came in shortly and the rest of the time in the club room was fairly uneventful. Well, she did say a bunch of stuff, but this was not a story about her so moving along. She left early, followed by Nagato.

As Koizumi was leaving the room he made a comment, 'See you later, stranger.' Was it a jab, or was it supposed to mean anything?

I said to Ms Asahina, 'Ms Asahina, I shall leave now so you can change. See you Monday.''

'Kyon, actually, may I speak with you?'

'Certainly. What about?'

'It's about the look you had earlier.'

'Oh… was it cool?' Why did I still have my hopes up?

'It looked ridiculous, just as Koizumi said.'

Geez, thanks. I could hear my heart broke in half.

She continued, 'Oh Kyon, you have no idea how glad I am to see you in them though. I remembered when I saw that face before. Only that your voice was different, and it all makes sense now.'

'Could you explain what you just said?'

'I met that version of you about 2 years ago. You were wearing those disguises back then.'

'Oh?' The plot thickened. I did not recall wearing them 2 years ago.

'I just communicated with my superiors and they had confirmed it immediately. Your presence at that time plane was required.'

'It sounds like you want me to travel back in time again. What am I, uh, was, no, will I be... supposed to do there?'

'I will tell you when we get there. Also, I hope you don't mind but... we will be staying overnight.'

Staying overnight at some place with Ms Asahina? Sounded like a fantasy of a pervert. Shut up, Kyon's brain. Wait, I already spent 3 years in a room with her before. Oh, shut up.

'Couldn't you just time-jump to the next day or something?'

'That is possible, but I was informed to just do one jump back. Are you uncomfortable with…'

'No no, I'm absolutely comfortable with spending the night with you... uh, it comes out wrong, I don't mean... oh please - forget what I just said please?'

I was told I should go home and put on some casual clothes that I rarely wore, and brought along my uniform, the wig and the sunglasses. Ms Asahina came to my house to fetch me, and my jaw dropped to see her hair cut short and was dyed black… she was also wearing a pair of nerdy glasses.

'What happened to your hair?' I couldn't help it.

'Kyon, don't worry. I am also going to be in disguise. I have a device that could change my hair color back and grow my hair in no time.' She said it in a voice different from her usual voice.

'What happened to your voice?' I couldn't help it.

'Oh, I'm wearing a device that changes the voice. I have one for you. This is so that people we encounter cannot easily recognize who we are by our voices.' She put a necklace around my neck, and said, 'Think of the voice you want to sound like.'

I thought of a while and then said, 'Luke, I'm your father.' It was a deep and manly voice. 'That sounds pretty cool. What do you think?'

Ms Asahina smiled forcefully and said, 'If that's what you prefer…'

She told me there's no need to wear the wig or the sunglasses yet for we would not be meeting anyone right away. Soon after, Ms Asahina used her TPDD thing, and I felt like spinning around in a dryer for several seconds and arrived at a certain time 2 years ago, at the park with the lake near Ms Tsuruya's mansion. It's dark out and the temperature was a little colder than the time plane we came from, so I would imagine it's around March 2 years ago. Ms Asahina told me we needed to hide for a few minutes. I did as I was told for I was still trying to recover from dizziness. I also realized I was such a pushover whenever Ms Asahina made requests. I did not ask her for any details, I just came along. When exactly were we, why were we at this park in the dark, and what exactly were we doing here?

Shortly after a faint light appeared and descended to the platform in the middle of the lake. When the light faded, it revealed to be a girl - it was Ms Asahina, dressed in a cute short dress, carrying a cute rolling luggage. It was like an angel descending from the heaven, traveling in style...

Ms Asahina from my time was excited to see her other self arriving and said to me, 'Kyon, that's me 2 years ago. I just arrived to this time plane by myself. I'm glad you are here to see this with me.'

I said in my deep menacing voice, 'Me too. Ms Asahina. Me too.'

Ms Asahina said, 'Perhaps we should disable our voice change device until we need them.'

I agreed and she showed me how to turn it off.

Ms Asahina (young) was shivering. It was cold out to be in that dress. Not that I was complaining.

Ms Asahina next to me changed from her exciting tone to an embarrassing tone suddenly and said, 'Maybe you should not be seeing the next part…'

Ms Asahina (young) found herself trapped behind the locked fence around the lake. She looked worried. She looked around and around and finally decided she had no other options but to climb the fence - in the dress - which was pretty short.

'Stop looking!' Ms Asahina said to me.

Judging from the sound Ms Asahina (young) made, I figured she was just as embarrassed as the Ms Asahina with me.

I said, 'Should we, perhaps, go and help her?'

'No, because when I first came here, no one helped me at this moment.'

That made sense. I did not know how long it took, but Ms Asahina finally said I could look. When I looked, Ms Asahina (young) was gone but her luggage was left behind the fence.

'Where did she go?' I asked.

Ms Asahina said, 'Don't worry, I knew where she went. Could you do us a favor, please? Could you retrieve the luggage?'

It felt just like one of those times when the adult version of Ms Asahina ordered me around. I supposed the current Ms Asahina was getting a taste of being the boss, and she's going to enjoy giving orders more and more as she grew older.

It was not overly difficult for me to climb over and climb back with the luggage. I couldn't help but notice that the lake was filthy. This would be the lake where Haruhi filmed her infamous movie for the Cultural Festival, and Ms Asahina would sacrifice herself for the sake of Haruhi's art and took a plunge into the lake.

'Ms Asahina, the lake was filthy... I don't remember it was this bad when we did the movie. If you fall into it, it would definitely make you sick... I think everyone will get sick just by being there...'

Ms Asahina had no answer for me regarding the lake; instead she told me it's more important that we caught up with the other Ms Asahina. As suspected, Ms Asahina (young) wandered to the front of Ms Tsuruya's house and Ms Tsuruya just happened to come home. We could faintly hear the conversation from a distance. Ms Asahina filled me in and said, 'Ms Tsuruya asked if I was lost, and I said yes. I said I traveled from far to settle here by myself. Ms Tsuruya gladly invited me into her place for the night. It was a miracle I ran into her.' I thought to myself, of course there was a logical explanation behind this. There was no need for a miracle if the person giving the order already knew the future. We then saw Ms Asahina (young) panicking - she finally realized she forgot her luggage. 'Ms Tsuruya said it's cold out and offered me to go in and she'd send a servant to go retrieve the luggage. The thing was, the servant later said he actually found the luggage at her front gate.'

Some people just had a way to get people to do things and not always had to make it sound like an order. As soon as Ms Asahina finished that sentence I knew what I had to do. Once the ladies went inside the mansion, I pulled the luggage to the front gate, rang the doorbell and ran away as fast as I could. Shortly after a man opened the door, spotted the luggage, and pulled it inside. Mission accomplished.

Ms Asahina said, 'Thank you Kyon. The luggage carried some items that were best not to be left unattended. Also, thanks to you I did not have to explain to Ms Tsuruya why the luggage was behind the fences in the park.'

As if the luggage showing up by itself and ringing the doorbell was not strange. I also wondered what items were in the luggage. Was she referring to futuristic objects, or cute undergarment? Perhaps they were futuristic cute undergarment. If only she said that sooner and I would perhaps take a peek... was it the night of the full moon or what?

Ms Asahina then told me that was it for the day. She told me to follow her so we could have a place to stay for the night. We arrived at the apartment she lived in at our present time. She unlocked the door and we got in. She said the next day young Ms Asahina would be here to rent the apartment, so it was empty that night as it was still vacant. I didn't think I had ever been to her place. She asked that I slept in the living room, and she went into the bedroom. Luckily the place had central heat as the night was pretty cold outside.