The War of Haruhi Suzumiya – A Haruhi Suzumiya Fanfic
Disclaimer: I do not own the Haruhi franchise or any of its characters. Alas, I am only a crazed fan…
Kyon finds himself in the middle of a cataclysmic war between aliens, espers, time travelers and two girls that have the ability to change the universe… How will he react?
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Chapter 7: White Light in the Darkness
"Our top story tonight: Nishinomiya lies in ruins. A dark-winged figure was seen flying over the city and shooting what seemed to be some sort of energy that seemed to destroy anything it hit. Thousands have been estimated to be killed and scores more have been estimated to be injured. We're unable to get you more than that; camera crews have unable to head to the city due to the apparent risk. One camera crew was active in the business district but we have lost communication with them. We can only hope that they are fine. We can also only hope that this imminent threat to society is taken care of. For insight on what the dark-winged figure could be, we go to our Supernatural expert, Kenji Suzuki. Kenji?"
The following was being watched on a large television in an even larger living room. The viewer, sitting on a lavish couch, was a green-haired girl toying with what looked like a universal remote control in her left hand. Her dark eyes remained locked on the screen. Pressing a button on the remote, she saw the picture change from the local news to a blue screen listing the vital signs for Itsuki Koizumi. His heart rate was slowing down by the second. He was dying.
The green-haired girl who usually had a beaming, radiant smile sat with her head in her hands and tears in her eyes. For years, her mother and father had predicted this war and told her of the great losses that would occur within this day alone.
"Tsuruya-chan, you will lose many of your friends and schoolmates, but they will not have died in vain. The world will be a better place when this war is over." Her mother had told her this statement years ago when she and her husband had initially begun to see the tides of war rolling in.
At the time, Tsuruya did not realize the implications of what would happen on the day the war actually happened.
Most of her school friends were missing, her best friend was killed and another one of her close friends was in mortal peril, not to mention the large number of the friends and colleagues of her parents who died fighting Sasaki, Tachibana, Suou and Fujiwara.
Not counting the three members of the SOS Brigade that were risking their lives trying to defeat the evil enemies themselves.
Tsuruya had told Kyon when he came to her house that her parents had predicted this war, but he was too overcome with emotions to actually decipher what this meant…
The Tsuruya family could have prevented the death, the suffering, the pain, the loss, the grief that this day brought.
The Tsuruya family could have prevented the war.
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Peaceful, white light was all he saw beneath his closed eyes.
What he felt, however, was far from peaceful.
He felt pain to the highest extremes. His nerves were screaming out for mercy and shrieking in agony. His legs were shattered. The lower half of his back was basically a crushed mess of bones and muscles. All he could taste in his mouth was the irony taste of his blood. He knew that he would be liberated from this pain soon and reunited with his friends and colleagues that had perished at the hands of those who would murder him. Using all the strength he could muster to open his eyes, he saw two beautiful girls standing in front of his mangled body. Angels?
Not quite. One was shrouded in an aura of orange and the other was clad in all black with two demonic wings sticking out from her back. Angels of death would be a more fitting term.
Even though it felt like hours to Koizumi, who was clinging to life, it was only a minute or so after he had been crushed into the ground by Sasaki's blast.
"Koizumi, only death awaits you now. You can reunite with all your little Organization pals in Purgatory. The God of Death, Sasaki, will judge you and sentence you to eternal damnation in her realm. Your false god, Haruhi Suzumiya, will be dead and she will join you in eternal suffering. All you have fought for will be for naught."
Tachibana put on a smirk.
"It always makes me happy to kill an Organization member. Without you and Mori, there will be no one left in that pitiful excuse for an esper club that can stop us."
Sasaki put on a smile that was usually reserved for greeting a neighbor or a friend and spoke to Tachibana.
"Kyouko, please finish this. I want to kill Suzumiya already."
"It's a bit hasty to say that, bitch!" A voice rang from out of the heavens. A white flash came roaring from the sky and smashed Sasaki into a building that stood behind the two menacing girls.
"What the… Suzumiya?!" Tachibana's smirk turned into a hateful grimace. "It makes no difference. I guess your death will have to wait, Koizumi." She flew at Haruhi at the speed of light. As Tachibana readied a kick aimed at Haruhi's face, a tiny hand and a small flash of purple grabbed her leg and flung her in the same direction that Sasaki had landed in.
The glowing, angelic figure put on a secure smile.
"Yuki! Kyon! You're safe!"
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Kyon's POV
Of course we are, Haruhi. With Nagato on my side, it's almost like I have the impenetrable wall of Troy protecting me. Are you okay?
"I'm great, Kyon!" Her grin resonated even more with the white aura surrounding her. So this is what an angel really looks like… This isn't the time!
"You're good too, Yuki?"
"Yes." Haruhi's grin intensified. I felt a weird churning in my stomach at this grin. Perhaps the traumatic events from today influenced my stomach to churn at signs of happiness? That must be it. The sound of crumbling building foundations interrupted my thoughts.
"Well, I hate to rain on this parade but you all seem to forget that you're all going to suffer." Tachibana had emerged from where Nagato had thrown her. As she began zooming towards me, I readied my shotgun. She got closer and closer. I fired.
Direct hit! Or at least, it was supposed to be one. The buckshot that had been intended for blowing the evil esper's head off had disintegrated from the intense heat that Tachibana's aura emitted. It was as if an ice cube floating in space had drifted too close to the sun. To my horror, she put on a smile.
"You're lucky you weren't the one I was flying at, Kyon."
On that note, she flew past me and aimed a punch at Nagato. Nagato parried it and sent a roundhouse kick at the crazy esper woman's face. Tachibana blocked it and it became a heated exchange of blows between the both of them. Each countered attack sounded like a bomb going off. Looking back in retrospect, I'm pretty sure that Haruhi has had her share of yelling sound like that in the clubroom. Now's not the time to think of that! But speaking of which, where is Haruhi? Looking left and right, I couldn't find her. I heard what sounded like an electrical storm above me. When I looked up, I saw her in a grapple with Sasaki. Since their hands were too busy grappling, they were trying to send knee blows at each other. Each girl blocked the attacks with one of their own respective knees before trying to land a blow with their other one. The clash caused sparks of black and white to flash in the air, almost like a set of fireworks during Golden Week. This would be such a great catfight if the fate of the world wouldn't be decided by the winner of it. Why am I thinking such impure thoughts at such a time? Damn Kyon!
Sasaki, evidently tired of the grapple, head-butted Haruhi, who wasn't expecting it, and dazed the white-winged Brigade Chief before sending an energy-charged punch into her gut and kneeing her in the chin. Blood flew out of Haruhi's mouth and even more flowed out when Sasaki aimed a kick at her face, sending her reeling towards the ground.
I had had enough of this. Taking out the Beretta, I aimed the pistol right at Sasaki's head. Shaking with anger, I fired. She heard the gun go off and moved with extreme agility but since she was unprepared for it, she couldn't defend herself. The bullet hit her in the side. She jerked when hit by it and remained motionless in the air.
That was until she turned her face at me, where a cute smile was placed on her face.
"Nice try, Kyon. But you'll have to do better than that if you want to stop me. So you won't stop me, then? You should just accept that you and I will rule the world. Tachibana, Suou and Fujiwara will be our personal guard. With me as Goddess and you as my God, the world will be a great place, no?" She landed on the ground and began to walk towards me.
You're wrong, Sasaki. I can see that being completely oblivious to your affection in middle school was a good choice. I should reward myself for that. Wait. This isn't the time. Asahina-san is dead because of your actions. Koizumi is… KOIZUMI!
I looked around for him. Damn it! I should have looking for him and trying to get him help my priority. While I was doing so, Sasaki suddenly was behind me. I felt her soft yet powerful grip on my shoulders. I was unable to move. She forcefully turned me around and her face began to approach mine. Even though I was surrounded in her black aura, I saw a small glint of orange in the corner of my eye. As her lips came closer and closer, the glint of orange grew brighter before a small explosion occurred in front of me. An orange beam had hit Sasaki in the side of the face and knocked her into the remnants of a building.
Retracing the trail of the blast, I looked to my right and saw a battered and bloody Koizumi lying on the ground with his palm extended. Running towards him, I saw a weaker version of his trademark plastic grin. Grabbing his hand in mine, I egged him on to keep on living.
"Hang in there, pal. Just keep holding on. We're going to get you through this."
"Kyon… forget about me. You will win this war… I mean, every war must have its casualties, right?" His voice was barely a whisper. I gripped his hand tighter. Hold on, Koizumi! You can't die! Who else is going to butter Haruhi up? I'm not, for damn sure! His grin became a little stronger. "It's safe to say that she's in good hands with you." He coughed some blood up and his grin widened a small bit. "It's time to see my colleagues, Kyon. I'll see you next time, friend." His eyes drooped and his grip slackened. No. This can't be. First Asahina-san and now Koizumi? I felt a familiar burning anger bubbling in my stomach.
Sasaki, you will pay. So will you, Tachibana.
While looking over to where Nagato and Tachibana were engaging blows, I grabbed my shotgun and reloaded it.
Time to take care of business.
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Yuki Nagato had faced an opponent stronger than her a few hours ago. That was the first time that had ever happened. Now, she was facing an opponent that outclassed her, that was leagues ahead of her. She was equal to Tachibana in hand-to-hand combat, but once energy came into play, Nagato knew that there wasn't much she could do to fight. Her percent chance of winning the fight was a slim three percent. The human interface from the Integrated Data Sentient Entity was trying to calculate and determine the weak points of this esper from the Revelation, but nothing came up. The one glaring weakness Tachibana had was her "personality/ego". Nagato knew that she would have to set off her opponent's arrogance before she could land her ultimate attack, her trump card.
However, Nagato knew it was going to be difficult to set off Tachibana's temper. She was not a "talker" like her subordinate Ryoko Asakura had been. Her best bet was the help of Haruhi, but the potential for evolution was currently trying to delete the cessation of evolution.
Tachibana came at Nagato with a flurry of kicks that Nagato parried. Nagato began to mouth her code.
"Nuh-uh, alien!" Tachibana landed a furious right on Nagato, sending the small purple girl flying. Nagato caught herself and began to mouth her code again. Tachibana lunged at her and missed, leaving an opening. Nagato sent a devastating left hook into the powerful esper's cheek. The impact of the blow was so powerful that a building behind Tachibana collapsed. Blood spurted out of her mouth. But instead of sending the esper flying, the blow made her smirk.
"Integrated Data Sentient Entity, is that the best you can do?" An aura of burning orange energy encased Tachibana's fists. "If it is, I suggest you try some of this!" She cocked back and sent an explosive punch into Nagato's stomach. The blow ripped a hole in her gut and sent a large amount of blood spraying from her mouth and from the wound. Nagato fell limply to the ground.
"NO! NAGATO!" Kyon screamed. His protector and guardian, Yuki Nagato lay still on the ground, in a puddle of her blood. Anger and rage filled his vision. He had lost two of his closest friends and he would not lose another one. Clutching his shotgun, he sprinted straight at Tachibana. Kyon's sense of rationale was down the drain. Tears staining his eyes and blurring his vision, he was shooting and pumping his shotgun blindly at his target. None of the shots hit Tachibana, whose aura continued to disintegrate the buckshot.
"Well, isn't this ironic? Mr. Rationality himself is blindly firing at someone that could kill him in one blow."
Speechless despite his anger, Kyon grabbed his combat knife and lunged at the throat of Tachibana. She easily grabbed his wrist and tossed him into the ruins of a building as if he were nothing more than a dirty doll.
"KYOUKO! What do you think you're doing? Didn't I specifically say not to hurt him?" Sasaki had reemerged from the dust and debris of the building she had been knocked into.
"He got in my way, Sasaki."
"Well, watch out for him next time! I cannot have you touching and/or harming the future God of the universe like that! But I shall pardon you for now. Let me call our comrades."
All of a sudden, a humongous explosion rocked the area. It took everyone by surprise, even Sasaki.
Nagato had seemingly recovered from Tachibana's attack and sent a massively powerful energy punch into the gut of Tachibana. Not expecting it at all, the esper girl literally had been blown apart by the attack. A look of shock was glued on her face. The pieces of her corpse began to evaporate into thin air.
A steady amount of snow slowly began to fall, despite the warm weather.
The bloodied and beaten Nagato opened her mouth and said quietly, yet at a volume everyone in the vicinity of the battle could hear:
"Kuyou Suou, deleted. Fujiwara, deleted. Kyouko Tachibana, deleted."
The purple-haired Human Interface for the Integrated Data Sentient Entity then proceeded to collapse onto the ground.
At that precise moment, a large white flare ignited, bathing the entire area in a shining white glow. A glowing white figure descended from the sky. With the snow gently falling around her, she closed her eyes and took a deep breath before opening her golden-domed eyes and declaring in a loud voice:
"I, Haruhi Suzumiya, timequake, potential for evolution and goddess, will ensure that the sacrifices of the lives and efforts of the SOS Brigade will not go in vain."
Kyon gathered himself stood up and stared at Haruhi, mouth agape, as he realized that even he, a normal human being, could feel the staggering power of the white-clad angel descending in front of him. Sasaki on the other hand, shrugged her shoulders and smirked, puffing her wings out and cracking her knuckles. Haruhi put her striking golden gaze on the other girl.
"Sasaki, it is time for you to perish."
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In an unknown location, two green-haired people, a man and a woman, sat next to each other watching the battle scene from a bird's-eye view on a large monitor.
"Ah, the end begins…" the man said.
"The chimes of war's end start to ring. We draw closer to the finale. Let us see if we predicted this war correctly," the woman responded. "With Sasaki and Tachibana gone, the world will be peaceful."
The man started to chuckle.
"And with Haruhi on our side, the world will be ours."
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(What I've Done begins to play.)
(A/N: Whoa, whoa! Plot twist! This chapter has gone under so many edits and variations but I'm still surprised at the direction I took here. What's next, you may ask? Oh, you'll see! Anyway, review please. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. A couple more chapters to go! I've already got the ending planned. Well, I'm out. Peace, love and bubblegum!)