Thursday, you know the drill. Morning jog was quick and short. After a mediocre breakfast we went on our way to school.

"Where did you go off last night that you needed to rush off before I dismissed you?"

"No where special I was just hanging out with Kyon." I lied.

"Eh? Then I won't ask what you idiots did last night…"

What was that supposed to mean? Anyways from there, school was normal. No need to say anything more about it. After school we met up in the clubroom and got ready for the afternoon training. The all Brigade except Nagato and Haruhi were still fatigued from the last training session. Koizumi looked especially tired.

"Not feeling too good Koizumi?"

"Don't worry about me I'll manage."

If he says so, but just to make sure I better tell Haruhi to go easy on him today. She was warming up with Asahina. My god the amazing stretches Haruhi was making Asahina do. I was a crime just to interrupt them.

"Hey Haruhi."

"What? Are you going to leave again?"

"No, it's about Koizumi, he doesn't look to good."

She turned around and looked at Koizumi doing his warm up exercise, looking beat but still pushing his limits with that smile on his face.

"Now that I think about it he does seem under the weather. Fine, I guess I can excuse him from most of the training today. He can rest after he finished his warm up."

Kyon overheard us talking while helping Asahina up from the ground.

"No fair! I'm just as worn as Koizumi is, why does he get to rest?"

"Because he's the Deputy Chief and you're just a low rank member!" Haruhi pointed to Koizumi then to Kyon. We looked at Koizumi wiping off his s sweat with a towel smiling and waving back at us. Kyon had nothing else to say.

Just after I saw Asakura walking over from the far end of the field, she saw me and came over.

"Hi Alan, practicing for the sports festival?"

"Yeah, would you like to join?"

"Not today I have somewhere I need to go, see you tomorrow!" with that said she went on her way.

For the next two hours we ran the track while Koizumi watched. I hope you're happy, you owe me one. Everyone besides Nagato and Haruhi collapsed the moment the end of training was announced.

"Today's training was a big success, everyone worked really hard and I see some small improvements here and there, dismissed!"

Haruhi dashed off, Nagato swiftly left the field, Kyon left along with the exhausted Asahina. Koizumi came up to me.

"Thanks for allowing me to rest. I didn't think I could take two hours of running. If we lose this it might mean a lot of work for me."

"Don't push yourself too hard. Even if we aren't the best runners in the track competition it doesn't mean that we'll lose. With Haruhi and Nagato running, there's no chance that we'll lose."

"That may be so, but there have been a lot of closed spaces coming up. I have no idea what's bothering Haruhi."

Koizumi's phone rang.

"I'm sorry, excuse me for just a moment.

He turned around and answered the phone. A few seconds later he hung up and turned back.

"There's another closed space a bit away from here." He sighed.

That's strange, closed spaces? Haruhi's excited about the sports festival, plus our training's been going all too well. There shouldn't be any stress for her to relieve.

"Would you like to come?" he asked

"Are you sure? I'll just get in the way."

"By all means follow. I can tell there won't be any work to do this time. These recent closed spaces have been appearing and disappearing without any traces of shinjins whatsoever. A very strange phenomenon, but as espers we can't leave it unchecked."

I walked with Koizumi for a few blocks. He stopped in held out his hand.

"Hold my hand."

With a small feeling of disgust I took hold of his hand.

"Now close your eyes."

C'mon let it be over quick.

"You can open them now."

I opened my eyes, it was colorless and grey everywhere. The sky looked as if it was painted over neatly with a shade of grey. I looked around but there were no people. We went into a building nearby and went on the roof.

"So when's the action going to start?"

"As I have said before, there most likely won't be any shinjins. The space should collapse on itself after a few moments."

I passed time by staring out into the distance and staring at the sky. This greyness… No matter how long you look at it, it never fails to give an eerie feeling of claustrophobia. Suddenly there was an explosion afar, and smoke pillowed out from the source. Apparently this wasn't supposed to happen because the relaxed Koizumi suddenly got up and took off.

"Stay here Alan don't go anywhere else. I'll be right back."

He blasted off in the direction of the smoke. There were other red glows converging at the source as well. They must be his friends. After a few moments red glows returned to their original locations, moments after Koizumi flew back. The landed elegantly on the roof top but he wasn't smiling.

Koizumi? Not smiling? Not a good sign. Any person with a reasonable sense of logic would ask what the problem was.

"What happened?"

"One of my colleagues has been injured in that blast. There shouldn't be anything combustible in the closed space."

Nothing can combust? Well, I guess if shinjins started destroying buildings you'd get to see some explosions or something, but since everything just crumbles I guess not. It's hard to even imagine anything warm with all this greyness.

"It must be someone from the outside…"

"A traitor? How badly was your friend injured?"

"If this wasn't a closed space, and he wasn't an esper he'd be dead. Luckily he only needs a few days in the hospital. Nobody from our fraction caused that blast. Our powers don't work that way."

Just then the greyness started to fade from everything and returned to normal color. Koizumi wasn't surprised. Closed spaces were supposed to shatter.

"Quite a quandary… Anyway Alan it appears that the closed space has faded. It's quite unusual to disappear as so but it has been like that for the past few days…"

The sun was setting and it was getting dark. From the roof top I saw Asakura a bit from the building where I was.

"It's getting pretty late, would you like a ride home?"

"No thanks I need to take care of some business beforehand. You should rest up. I don't think Haruhi would let you rest next time."

"That's for sure. Then see you tomorrow Alan." He flicked his hair and went down the steps. I watched as he got into his black taxi that just happened to pass by. That's Koizumi for you…

I went down the steps myself. I thought I saw Asakura from the roof top, she should be around here. I took one last look around for Asakura then ran down the stairs to go find her. I looked around to where she was but nowhere to be found. Just then from behind the trees.

"Wah!"

I jumped.

"Hello Alan! I saw you on top of that roof talking to your friend. So I followed you."

What a surprise, Asakura found me… She was in her regular clothes. Pink shirt with a bunny and jeans. For a person with no memories it was fitting. I finally recovered from the scare.

"What are you doing out? Are you coming back from whatever you had to do this afternoon?"

"I thought I can remember something if I walked around a little. Nowhere too far or else I'll get lost. I thought about going home before it got too dark but the weather was too nice to pass. I was going to head home pretty soon."

Now that I think about it we're pretty close to her and Nagato's apartment.

"I walk you back then."

"That would be nice."

From there was a casual walk in the evening. Something you might find in a nice romance novel. We talked about many things, and even took a detour into the park. The lights illuminated our paths along with the quiet cool breeze. It felt as though we were the only people on earth. A nice ending for the day. Compared to the rest which was pretty exhausting.

One of the things I might regret bringing up, was when we just left the park and was nearing the end of our route to Asakura's apartment. I was rambling on about school, then the brigade, then...

"Things get really crazy with Haruhi. You never know what's coming up next. With her charisma, there's fat chance we're going to lose the track race anyway. On top of that she probably has something planned for Saturday as well, events like these don't get in the way of our club activities. It's exhausting!"

"My, that sound like fun! I'd like to see what it's all like. Is it okay if I drop by tomorrow and see the club? It's the first time I'll be in anything like this! Can I?"

She's pretty excited. As much as I would hate to see Asakura die of overexertion, rather than spending her time getting her memories back, it would better to make some memories. She can start new and make friends again. The brigade might be a great help. As nutty as Haruhi can be, she along with the rest of the brigade can be extremely fun to be with. Kyon has forgiven her for trying to kill him and even enjoys her company. It'd be stupid to think Nagato would mind having her fellow interface thingy friend back as well. Asakura's dinner was the first time I saw her eating so much. An amazing sight that I'd love to be able to see again. Maybe I'll even bring Mikuru over so they could work on a dinner together! That'd awesome! I bet she brews great tea as well! It'd be great having two maids in the clubroom! She might even have something to share with Koizumi as well! All these things being a member of our stupid brigade! Of all things I'd hate to be the person to deny her from that… with regret and uncertainty I answered.

"Sure, if you're up for it, you can drop by the clubroom tomorrow, I'll show you there and introduce you to the members."

We arrived in front of her apartment.

'I'll be looking forward to it! See you tomorrow."

I watched as she typed the code and walked past the sliding door. Before disappearing around the corner she turned around and waved with a bright smile.

To Our Beloved Reader: Not much to explain in this chapter. I just wrote what I had to write for the story. The final part was something I'm hoping the readers to connect with. I have but only one question this time.

Was it an enjoyable chapter?

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