AN: I own nothing related to Haruhi Suzumiya, regrettably.

I haven't made any names up. Suzuki is in the partial list of names in the fourth book, which no longer has a translation on the internet. But I do have the translations. Amusing, isn't it?

"This is a joke, right?" A tall female classmate asked, Suzuki-san. She was quite pretty and unsurprisingly seemed confused. Quite pretty didn't really cover it, why was our class full of pretty girls? Did Haruhi subconsciously arrange to have as much eye-candy available as possible? If so, it had worked. I wondered how many of the girls were interested in same-sex relationships, if it wasn't for Haruhi I might have tried to find out. Wait, why would I do that? I've never been looking for relationships before, I'm not Taniguchi!

Yes, this is a-

"No it isn't. Why would it be a joke?" Haruhi replied haughtily, ruining my chances of making new friends outside of the SOS Brigade. I was now permanently associated with her to a much greater degree than before. Brilliant.

"Oh, yeah, it's you…" Someone replied, presumably male, before they were left alone in a widening circle of people and attacked by Haruhi, in the first time I had ever seen her respond violently to an insult.

Minutes later Ryoko and I were holding Haruhi back to stop them causing any more damage to the boy, whilst everyone present hastily expressed that they found absolutely nothing wrong with homosexual relationships, presumably to prevent Haruhi from having any reason to attack them. From the way two boys were holding hands at the back of the crowd it wasn't being faked by everyone.

When lunch was over, Taniguchi sidled back into the classroom before the teacher arrived and tried to avoid being noticed by Haruhi. He failed but before he was attacked the English teacher came in and spent the first five minutes berating Haruhi, Taniguchi, the boy who was attacked and I for fighting. I was also commanded to remove the armband for the duration of the lesson, drawing everyone's attention to it and making sure everyone in the class knew and that rumours about Haruhi and I would spread throughout the entire school by the next day.

It came as a relief to finally be able to get to the clubroom at the end of the day (armband put back on at Haruhi's demand), with Haruhi saying something about finding Ryoko and bringing her along. Thus when I arrived at the clubroom it was lacking in its Brigade Chief, who had gone to find someone who was seated with the permanent brigade members and beating Koizumi at chess.

"Asakura-san told me what happened in the classroom. It seems to add weight to a theory of mine that otherwise has no real backing." Koizumi said as I came in, smiling like always. Would it kill him to find a less unnerving facial expression?

Asahina-san handed me some of her tea as I sat down next to Ryoko and looked at the board. It was Koizumi's move and whilst he still had his queen most of his other pieces had been removed from the board.

"Do you mind if I explain my theory?"

Go ahead, you'll find some time to do it anyway if I don't let you now.

"The most basic premise of my theory is simple: Suzumiya-san doesn't own the power, rather it is operating through her at the behest, conscious or not, of the power's true owner. Therefore Suzumiya-san is the queen on a chessboard – undoubtedly the most powerful piece but not irreplaceable, being less important than the king." Koizumi explained, illustrating his point by sacrificing his queen for Ryoko's knight and getting a pawn to the eighth row, promoting it into a queen. The analogy would have worked better if the new queen hadn't been instantly taken by a bishop, however.

"This also explains how Sasaki-san could have once held Suzumiya-san's abilities. She would have been the previous choice but for some reason was deemed unsuitable and the ability to change reality would have been transferred to Suzumiya-san."

That all makes sense but who holds the powers in that case?

"I thought it would have been obvious that it would be you. Suzumiya-san gained her abilities shortly after you met Sasaki-san, possibly because nothing was being done with them. This makes more sense when you consider that until you met and spent time with Sasaki-san you wanted to take part in the impossible as much as Suzumiya-san does. It would also explain why you have been the one to take part in the events resulting from the use of Suzumiya-san's abilities and why you have made no attempts to change the world back to how it was before the fictitious became real or even before Friday: the world can only be changed if the change is something you would accept. Tell me, have you ever wanted to be a girl?"

Never! Your theory also has a flaw in it: I don't have any abilities or powers, you even declared me completely normal! As for making no attempts to change the world back, everyone keeps encouraging me to persuade Haruhi to maintain things as they are. With that as a main goal influencing Haruhi seems like a bad idea. And why would I make the same summer loop thousands of times?

"I admit that my theory has flaws but so does any other theory, such as why someone with the power of God can lose that power or how they cannot consciously exercise their own abilities."

"Checkmate, Koizumi-kun." Ryoko declared, putting a stop to our conversation by declaring me her next opponent. It was certainly more challenging than facing Koizumi but for someone so intelligent she seemed inappropriately bad at chess. By the time Haruhi eventually made it to the clubroom, only a few minutes before Nagato stopped reading, I had beaten both her and Koizumi several times.

"Good evening, Suzumiya-san." Ryoko greeted brightly as Haruhi walked in.

"What are you doing here? I just spent the whole afternoon looking for you!"

"I came here to invite you to dinner with nee-chan, Yuki-chan and I. I was worried that Yuki-chan would forget."

"Since you've attended a brigade meeting uninvited, you should be punished. But since you're inviting me to dinner… the punishment will be waived this time. Don't attend unless asked again!"

Brilliant. It looked like I was going to be forced into spending yet another evening with Haruhi.

AN: Who knows if Suzuki will have another appearance? :O

Just changed the name, gave a more accurate summary, changed one of the genres, improved all of my previous author notes, added disclaimers to every chapter and gave the chapters names summing up the interesting points in each chapter. Maybe I have an interesting storyline in mind? :O

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