Chapter 3
*screams* I didn't mean to not update for so long!
I do not own Free!.
Haruhi yawned, lifting herself out of bed and heading into the bathroom. Along the way, she noticed a text. She picked it up, and saw it was from Nagisa.
"Rei and I need to talk to you. Meet us at my house" she read aloud, and below that was his address...
Not that she actually needed it.
At first, Haruhi felt slightly panicked, considering she didn't think they'd figure out something was off so quickly. But then she remembered that her Superiors had given permission to get help from outside forces...
Oh, this would be fun.
When Haruhi arrvied at Nagisa's home, clutching a picture in her left hand, she was shocked to see that Nagisa and Rei were waiting outside for her.
"Hello, Nagisa, Rei. Is there something I can do for you?" she asked, dropping the 'cool and emotionless' act, considering it would all be blown open soon. The two boys noticed her change in behavior, but ignored it. Nagisa blurted out their question,
"You're way too similiar to Haru-chan to not be clone! Who are you- WHAT are you?!"
Ordinarily Rei would have scolded Nagisa for saying it like that, but he was just as curious so he let it slide.
Taking a deep breath, Haruhi held out the picture, pointing at one of the many girls in the picture.
"That's me, when I graduated from the True Love Agency Academy, or TLAA for short"
Rei and Nagisa took a closer look at the girl in the picture.
This girl had blonde hair in pigtails, smallish brown eyes, and freckles running across her nose. Her smile was large, genuine.
It looked nothing like Haruhi.
"How can this girl be you?" Rei asked suspiciously.
"I'm a True Love Agent. Only a B-rank, but if I finish my mission here then I'll get upgraded to A-rank" she explained, as if that would tell them everything. They only responded with blank stares, so she sighed and explained in more detail,
"True Love Agents can change their forms to whatever they need in order to get a couple together. Makoto and Haruka are at the top of the Risks chart, but since all the higher-ranked Agents were already on other missions, they sent me out. My name isn't even Haruhi- It's Sumiko" she said. Rei and Nagisa looked at each other, then back at 'Sumiko'.
"Suppose we believe you. What exactly can we do?" Rei asked.
"And what's the 'Risks chart'?" Nagisa added.
"The Risks chart is the graph us Agents use for calculating the Risk of a particular couple not getting together. See, we have these things set up called 'windows', and when they hit a window, one of the people in the couple should realize that they're in love with the other. If they don't, then the window stays closed and they have to wait until the next window approaches before they can realize their love again. If they realize it though, then the window opens and stays open until they confess. If they don't confess within six months though, then the window closes and they can't get it open again, even if they confess. If they don't confess before the six months are up, then their love won't be returned. And Makoto and Haruka have missed every single one of their windows by not realizing their feelings, so that's why I'm here"
She waited a moment to let it sink in before continuing.
"And I'm sorry, but there's not much you could do. If Makoto finds out that I'm an Agent, then that will completely compromise my mission. All you can do is get either him or Haruka to realize how similiar I am to Haruka. That's all. According to my Superiors, Haruka opened the window last night, so all that's left is to get him to confess"
It took them a moment, but finally Rei responded,
"Well, it wasn't what I was expecting, but it seems to be true. I doubt you could make all that up on the spot" he admitted.
"Yeah, we'll help!" Nagisa agreed.
Sumiko smiled. With these two helping, she may actually have a chance.
