As soon as I got home, I flopped onto the bed like a fish out of water. Who was that kid? And why did he ask if I could see him? As I was thinking this, I was also putting on my pajamas. I shrugged it off and flicked the light switch, turning the room dark. Who-or more like whatever he was, I was just hoping that he wouldn't come back. I climbed into bed, trying to sleep but found myself staring at the ceiling above me. I couldn't believe in fantasies like that anymore. He wasn't a ghost. Or, he didn't look like one at least. He looked solid and alive. I guess I could be mistaking him for a cosplayer.

My eyes slowly closed, and I drifted off into dreamland. If I wasn't used to the extraordinary by now, I guess I should just deal with it. After all, what was going to happen next changed the course of my history. For good.


Toshiro growled and unleashed the full force of his bankai. That kid...how could he see me? His reiatsu wasn't very high from what I could tell, and he acted like he could see me perfectly. There's something fishy about this whole thing. And not to mention that earlier I sensed a large reiatsu that spiked for at least five seconds. Whoever that was, I hope they're friendly to shinigami such as myself. The arrancar was stabbed through the gut by Hyorinmaru and vanished. The white-haired captain simply scoffed and attempted to trace the strange boy's reiastu from where he was standing. It wasn't too hard, since he was quite familiar with it, but Toshiro's choice was going to be a bad one, and he knew it.

He decided to go to the kid's house.

The kid didn't live in a bad neighborhood from what he could see. His house had a gate in front of it and seemed large enough for a small family. Toshiro entered through a window and congratulated himself for picking the right one. He was sleeping. The room didn't hold much. Just a drawer, a nightstand, and a small bed that sat pushed against the wall. The room had a soft blue carpet and some wallpapers pasted onto the wall along with a desk and some books that sat on a shelf nearby. It seemed like a standard high-schooler's room, nothing particularly interesting. Unfortunately for the shinigami, he hadn't seen a thick book that was on the floor and kicked it against the wall.

"W-What?" Great, now the kid was awake and would probably assume that he was robbing the house or something. "Who's there?" He asked picking up a flashlight that was conveniently on his nightstand. Toshiro didn't have time to escape when the kid flicked the switch on it. "It's you. That guy I saw earlier." He said. "Who are you?"

"So, you can see me." Toshiro said. "That's incredible, and from what I can see your reiatsu isn't particularly high."

"What are you talking about? And why the hell are you in my room in the first place?"

"I'm here for a mission. From what I heard, someone in this town has a large amount of reiatsu. So, I was sent here to investigate." Toshiro crossed his arms over one another and shifted his weight from one foot to the other. "You can see me, yet you're not very special." The kid calmed down a bit, knowing that he wasn't here to rob his house.

"How many times I wish I heard that." The kid said. "If you're just going to stay in my room all night, would you at least tell me your name?"

"Hitsugaya Toshiro. And you?"

"You can just call me Kyon." Kyon gritted his teeth at the name. Well, at least they shared something in common. "Who-or what are you? Are you part of Koizumi's little agency?"

"No. I have no idea who this 'Koizumi' is, and I'm a shinigami." Might as well answer Kyon's questions instead of acting hostile when he was the one who broke into the house in the first place.

"A shinigami? What is she trying to make my life harder?" Kyon said this mostly to himself. "Sorry. You must come out of a fairytale book or something. Haruhi's probably up to something again." Haruhi? Was that the enormous reaistu he sensed earlier?

"I can assure you that I am not from a fairytale. And who is this Haruhi?" Toshiro sat down on the floor with his legs crossed. He should learn more about this town and its people while he could. After all, he was going to have to enter a gigai soon, and people would think it odd if he didn't know anything.

"Haruhi is some type of entity, time anomaly, and or God according to my friends." Kyon explained. "She has the power to alter the universe with just a single thought." The captain's eyes widened. To alter the universe with a single thought...that was on a high caliber even compared to Aizen. "The catch is that she doesn't know it. Therefore anything altered by her is a subconscious thought."

"She...doesn't know of her powers?" That was logical. Even the most modest of people could turn into the most-power hungry. Example: Aizen. Well, he wasn't even modest in the first place.

"No. And I think that we should keep it that way otherwise she just might destroy the whole world in a matter of minutes." He paused as if thinking back on something. "Wait, you said you were here to investigate, right?" Toshiro nodded, not exactly following his thoughts. "Are you here for Haruhi or are you here for the others?"

"The others?"

"Haruhi is a student that goes to my school. She believes in espers, aliens, time travelers, and who knows what else." He sat up straight instead of explaining this laying down. "Itsuki Koizumi is an esper, and his organization believes that Haruhi is a God, and therefore have to obey her every wish. Asahina Mikuru is a time-traveler from the future. She believes that Haruhi is some sort of time-anomaly or something like that. And Nagato Yuki is an alien...I guess who thinks that Haruhi is a step in evolution. Yuki's leader is some sort of Integrated Data Thought Entity or something." He sucked in a breath.

"And what do you believe that Haruhi is?"

"I think Haruhi's just Haruhi. Nothing more, nothing less to it." At least this guy was decently normal. Even after knowing that these espers and time-travelers were real. "She runs this club called the SOS Brigade, and I won't tell you what it means yet because you'll burst out laughing." Toshiro quirked an eyebrow, but continued to listen. "Yuki, Koizumi, and even Asahina-san all think that I'm some sort of key to Haruhi. I don't even understand what that means, but whatever it does, it's bad news."

"You are a key? As in a key factor to her control over her powers?" This was getting interesting.

"I guess. But Haruhi just makes life bothersome." The captain could see why. "So, who are you here to investigate?"

"Considering what you just said is true, then I'll have to wait and see." Toshiro said. "Of all the people, you are the most interesting, but yet the most normal."

"If I had a nickel for everytime someone told me that." Kyon said. "What are your problems?"

"I am a captain of the Gotei 13 Protection Squads. Our enemy is Sousuke Aizen, a betrayer along with Ichimaru Gin, and Kaname Tousen. They are planning to crush Soul Society and eventually have rule over everything." Kyon simply blinked.

"So, basically you were sent here to make sure that Haruhi doesn't fall into the wrong hands." Kyon said. It did make sense after all. Why were the arrancar here, why Aizen was suddenly interested in this town, and why this Haruhi and Aizen shouldn't team up. His explanation explained the whole concept of this mission to him. "

"That is a good explanation, but we do not know for sure." Toshiro uncrossed his arms. "If what you say is true, that this Haruhi can alter the world with a thought, then Aizen shouldn't be able to get his hands on her."

"You mean that figuratively right?" This question went unanswered. "So, Toshiro, if you were really sent here to protect Haruhi, I think that you should stay out of her way before she recruits you into the Spreading Excitement All Over the World with the Haruhi Suzumiya Brigade." Insert another quirking eyebrow. Now, Toshiro had to admit that that was a pretty lame name.

"And if I actually wanted to, how would I go about this?" Kyon winced. Toshiro actually wanted to be in the SOS Brigade? He'd better prepare for hell.

"Not to be rude or anything, but the way you look would immediately get her to ask-force-you to join." Well that made things easier. "But, if you do join, you'll have to do everything Haruhi says. She's a real slave driver. And also be prepared for the stupidest things that you're going to have to do and the wasted weekends patrolling the city for 'anything supernatural'." Kyon could've droned on and on, but he was tired, and sleep took over his actions.

"Kyon?" The boy suddenly stopped talking for a moment. "Kyon?" Toshiro leaned forward to see that Kyon was already fast asleep. He sighed and walked towards the window, putting a hand on the wooden frame, thinking about the events that he had just learned. Maybe it was fate meeting this Kyon guy, and whatever happened next would change the course of history. Toshiro pushed himself out of the room, leaving everything to lapse into silence.