*Authors note: I had a friend help me with this and it's a simple Haruhi Kyon romance I'm not sure if my prior readers will like this or not, but don't expect too many romances from me and try to have fun!*
"I have arrived." Kyon said in an under dramatic way. He walked into the SOS Brigade room to find Haruhi at the computer, Mikuru was already in her maids outfit and Yuki was, as always, reading. Haruhi was behind the computer clicking away and drinking the tea that Mikuru had made.
"Hey Mikuru be sure to trip and spill the last tea all over Kyon!" Haruhi said delightfully. Kyon walked over and quickly grabbed the tea before Haruhi got up and pushed her.
"Thank you Mikuru, I'm sure it'll be delicious as always." Kyon said giving Haruhi a glare.
"Hey! She's suppose to spill the tea all over you like the clumsy waitress she is!" Haruhi glanced over and frowned.
"I am going to ignore you." Kyon sat down in the nearest chair when Itsuki walked in with Othello under his arm. "Set it up." Kyon said sipping his tea. "Delicious as always Mikuru, thank you."
"No problem, sorry Itsuki, Kyon has the last tea." Mikuru said shyly. Haruhi was mumbling to herself in a spiteful way and had her arms crossed.
"Any aliens?" Kyon asked as Itsuki set up the last Othello chip. Haruhi sighed and turned to look out the window.
"Of couse not, I don't have that kind of luck!" Haruhi said in a menacing way.
"What's the point of the website again, besides making annoying me and making me fix it?" Kyon said laying down the first Othello chip with a clack.
"It's a place where anyone can tell us about weird happenings and I decide whether or not investigate!" Haruhi said whipping her head around and slamming her hands on the desk. Haruhi slammed down her hands so hard she made the whole desk shake and knocked down the SOS Brigade leader template. Mikuru looked worried and Yuki simply kept on reading in her little corner.
"OK Haruhi, just calm down." Kyon said shuffling away slightly even though he was halfway across the room. Haruhi slammed down her butt into the chair.
"I am calm!" She shrieked. Kyon pinch the bridge between his eyes and simply sighed and went back the game of Othello, occasionally glancing at pouting Haruhi.
"I am leaving." Yuki said suddenly and left without another word. Haruhi shot up out of her chair and grabbed her bag.
"Yuki has the right idea I'm leaving too!" Haruhi grabbed Mikurus bag and grabbed Mikuru herself by the collar "Once you change out of that outfit, your walking with me down the hill!" Mikuru yelled for help but it was too late, and Haruhi slammed the door behind her. Itsuki glanced at Kyon and chuckled with his eyes closed.
A few minutes go by like this, in complete silence, aside from the occasional clack, clack of the othello chips. Itsuki finally looked up after laying another othello chip, he smiled with his eyes closed and chuckled.
"So do you uhm, have something to say?" Kyon said knowing Itsuki had something on his mind.
"It seems like lately you have made it a hobby to keep my job complicated." He chuckled waiting his turn.
"Sorry, anything I can do to help with that?" Kyon said without a hint of sarcasm, knowing what "keep my job complicated" meant. Itsuki finally opened his eyes but kept smiling and playing the game.
"Why is it you have such a hard time letting her win? If she wins she's happy and if she's happy, the closed spaces diminish." Itsuki chuckled "So what I'm saying is, appeal to her interests."
"Sorry, I guess it's in my nature to pick Haruhi's brain like that." Kyon laid down a final chip and flipped over about half the board. "I win." Istuki smiled and nodded.
"I can never seem to win against you." Itsuki chuckled.
"Riight, want to play another game? Or talk about these closed spaces more?" Kyon said clearing the board off.
"Hm, how about we do both?" He laughed and set up the game again. "What amazes me most however is how much you fight, and yet only half the time a closed space is created."
"Well I suppose Haruhi enjoys the challenge? Finds it weird?" Kyon laid down the first chip and flipped over another.
"Well, that's true I guess she does." Itsuki laid down another chip. "But what I'm truly puzzled by if you want to ignore the true meaning of what I just said, is how miss Suzimya is hardly like a girl in anyway and yet she's not a tomboy either. Quite weird, and that's what she was aiming for I guess." Itsuki closed his eyes and smiled.
"That's the whole idea of Haruhi Suzumiya, to be as weird as possible." Kyon said indifferently. "What are you getting at?"
"Well, she is a young woman none the less I often wish I could journey into her mind to see if there is any thought that is occupied by a normal womans interests." Kyon looked up not understanding what he was getting at. He was sure his grin was sarcastic.
"Whatever do you mean, and by the way you have to pass this turn." Kyon said laying down a strategically placed chip. Itsuki looked down at the board and placed his hand behind his head.
"Looks like you are right my friend, I indeed pass." Itsuki chuckled heartily and closed his eyes again. "What I am talking about my dear Kyon I wonder what kind of typical thoughts a young female like Haruhi would have, like make up, shopping, and, of course boys." He smiled widely and opened his eyes to record Kyon's reaction. Kyon laughed loudly and leaned sideways.
"Your kidding right? Haruhi was probably just using those guys she dated as an experiment! She dumped all of them in no time flat. As for shopping unless it's for a miniature aliens I doubt she cares." Kyon said staring at Itsuki with the biggest grin ever. "You should be a stand-up comedian that was so funny." He flipped over about half the board yet again as the last of the chips are being laid down. Itsuki sighed and his smile disappeared for a fractionth of a second as he foresaw his losing yet again.
"Come now Kyon, Suzumiya is a beautiful young woman, and maybe the other boys just didn't spark her interests, I mean she does have a very odd and specific resume she wants met." Itsuki laid down an Othello chip knowing he was going to lose.
"What human being doesn't have a specific resume? Even the ugliest and people who have to be least critical are still quite picky because of the ubundancy of humans, and last move." Kyon said laying down a final Othello chip. Itsuki looked around the game mildly bored and sighed.
"Looks likes I lose again." Without losing his smile. "It's is true that it is in our human nature, we all have our own criteria or "turn ons" I guess you could call it, but how often do you hear of another whose interests match Haruhis'?" Kyon pushed the Othello board aside, now focused on the conversation at hand.
"Hm, it is true most girls regardless of who they are or what they do tend to gossip about who they like and who's cute and who's ugly, etc. etc. Haruhi however, barely lets a sound out with out the word 'weird' in the sentence." Kyon said pondering.
"Exactly and that leads us to the mystery of who Haruhi has feelings for, if she even has them for someone now." Itsuki said glad Kyon was enaging in the conversation.
"Itsuki we sound like a bunch of gossiping girls ourselves." Kyon leaned back in his chair and let a out a slight chuckle. "Interesting mystery, my bets would be on E.T.!" Itsuki laughed a little louder than he should have.
"Come now Kyon, don't you think that's just a little harsh? No I have my own thought on miss Suzumiyas preferences on the opposite gender." Itsuki said opening his eyes just slightly.
"Oh," Kyon said leaning in resting his chin on his hand "do tell!"
"Well who's the gossiping schoolgirl now Kyon?" Itsuki said opening his eyes slightly.
"Your the one who brought it up Itsuki I'm just making idle conversation." Kyon said smirking.
"Haha if you say so, well i believe the human heart cant change how it develops attraction. It's just an emotion that overwhelms said person and changes the way they are at that oment. whether it be stuttering or blushing or simply being quiet, so my guess would be Haruhi is attracted to whoever changes her normal attitude..." Itsuki let that hang in the air. Kyon took a moment to think.
"Well, my first guess would be Mikuru, Haruhi is always making her dress up and what not haha!" Kyon said still joking around a little bit.
"Only someone with your mind would come to that logic Kyon. But I think that is a form of Suzumiya creating a form she wishes to live in, like things she reads. No I think this person has to change her personality and by proxy change her actions." Itsuki explained.
"Hm, well the only person I can think of is..." then Kyon bursted into wild laughter. "No, no way, impossible, illogical, improbable, going against everything that is Haruhi Suzumiya. Are you say she likes, well, me?" Kyon leaned in grinning.
"But of course Kyon! I mean I may behind the dating scene but all signs point to that conclusion, from what you and the others have told me, before Haruhi's arrival at this high school and the start of this club, she has been a loner, hardly having any friends and always dating a new boy." Itsuki pointed out. "Yet, ever since you engaged her in conversation you told me about, she didn't brush you off like anyone else, she complied and talked to you and ever since everyone has been baffled at her attitude adjustment when around you! Not to mention I don't think she has a dated one boy since coming to this high school, even though there are a-many more more boys to choose from."
"Uhm, well, that could be easily explained by the uhm. . .maybe the club opened her heart or something?" Kyon's smile was disintegrating. "Not to mention she uhm, changed her hair?"
"Hm, that is true, actually I have been wondering about one thing though, Haruhi only changed her hairstyle once since my arrival, and it was after the incident that almost ended the world. I believe she wore a pony tail?" Itsukis smile was wide and insistent at this point and at some point the subject matter had grown very serious. Kyon at this point had turned red and began shuffling in his seat.
"Let's just go back to our game of Othello all of this is irrelevant!" Kyon said quietly.
"Oh? It seems I've hit something right on the head (I think the phrase goes like that) so why was that Kyon? Did it have something to do with the incident, which reminds me, you never did tell me how you managed to get her to change her mind?" Itsuki said chuckling all the while his eyes very open for a change, Kyon coughed loudly.
"Don't push it Itsuki, unless you want me to make Haruhi lose some more." Kyon said a menace in his tone.
"Oh, well I guess that would be bad, but then again maybe then you would get to do whatever it was that stopped her the first time?" Itsuki said closing his eyes again tilting his head.
"Itsuki I told you not to push it. You know what I'm out of here this conversation is stupid!" Kyon said the red re-appearing in his face. But before he could storm off Itsuki spoke up again.
"Come now Kyon, no need to get irritated like that, I mean we are friends are we not? It is my understanding that male friends often share experiences like this, or is it what happened on that night that supports my thoughts of you liking her?" Itsuki leaned in much closer, curious.
"Don't be so close to me, don't sound so serious, don't breathe on me, and your freaking me out! Haruhi Suzumiya is a weird high school girl who forced me into helping make this club for her nothing more, nothing less! And by the way males only share these expirences in stupid high school dramas!" Kyon said sounding slightly embarrassed and angry at this point.
"Really?" Itsuki gave a puzzled look. "Well up until the point where I suggested Haruhi liked you, you had no problem discussing things like that. Besides, you could have always said no to miss Suzumiya." Itsuki said leaning back, complying to Kyons demands.
"Have you ever tried saying no to Haruhi? You wern't here when we got the computer so you don't know how ugly it gets. By the way it became uncomfortable because you brought up something that could never happen." Kyon said slightly calmer.
"Unless you have anything further to discuss Itsuki, I'm leaving!" This time Kyon really got up and started walking towards the door.
"So you are saying no attraction could exist between you and miss Suzmiya?" Itsuki said very serious. Kyon paused at the door made a few audible stutters and left. Just before he left something reached his ears.
"I take that as a no, so I have your permission to win over Haruhi's heart?" Itsuki said just loud enough for Kyon to catch. Kyon turned around, walked back to the club, slammed the door shut, and walked up to Itsuki still in his chair. Hairs shadowed his face and he spoke in an assasin like tone.
"Sorry, didn't catch the whole thing, what was that Itsuki?" He said very quietly. Itsuki closed his eyes, tilted his head, and smiled broadly.
"Haruhi, do you think I could try to win her heart?" Itsuki spoke quite calmly.
"NO, you don't have my permission to do that! The day I let you do that is the day you beat me at Othello!" Kyon shouted quite loudly and blatantly angry. Itsuki held up his hands in defense.
"Easy Kyon, I only jest. But you see the human heart often overcomes the mind, but that only happens at certain moments just like my powers, so in order to hear what your heart truly was saying, I had to produce the right scene for it to due such" Itsuki said still smiling.
"T-THAT WAS A DIRTY TRICK! Why would you? Ugh!" Kyon did his trademark face palm and pinched the gap between his eyes. He sat down in a chair near Itsuki. "I fell for the oldest trick in the book." Kyon said calmly this time around. Itsuki shrugged and his smile vanished looking like he was on a mission.
"Perhaps, but still nonetheless what's said is said, it can't be unwritten, now all is left is to see what you do next." Itsuki for once said something seriously.
"So, all you did was expose me and now won't help me? Thanks I'm really glad we had this male experience." Kyon said groaning looking ready to leave.
"Kyon, when did I say I wouldn't help you I'm the person who can perhaps offer the best advice! Two things:" Itsuki said matter-of-factly "Haruhi has been proved in the past that she is not easily swayed by romance. Two: You need to catch Suzumiya off guard, under certain pressure I believe she will get flustered easily. Do it in a way she wouldn't expect, walk up behind her, wrap your arms around her and whisper "I love you" pressure is applied." Itsuki said this like he knew Haruhi inside-out.
"You've been watching to many high school movies!" Kyon said chuckling for a change, he pause slightly. "Really want to know what I did to save the world?" Kyon said grinning broadly.
"Please do tell!" Itsuki folded his hands and rested them on his chin.
"Just think about what you already know, you should be able to figure it out haha!" Then Kyon left quickly before Itsuki could protest.
Itsuki sat alone in the room chuckling for a few minutes, then gathered his things, and left.
*Well that's the end of chapter one, expect chapter two sometime in the future, and I hope you enjoyed chapter one!*