Yay! Chapter 7 isn't extremely late! Hooray! I'd like to take this tim to thank you readers, for sticking with me thus far, as this story ( in my opinion) is losing it's coolness. BUT I WILL keep writing it. I've set a personal record to give this story at LEAST 30k words before I end it. So far, every chpater has had about 2k words, so about 13-15 Chapters if I can keep the same pattern. (I'm not counting words in the author note, but instead the word in the document itself.) So, Chapter 7 - GO! Enjoy.


I stared at the eccentric girl across the room from me as she made her announcement, not knowing what to think. Ok, that's a lie, I thought she was crazy.

"W- What do you mean a time machine?" She let out a huge sigh and put her hands on her hips.

"Geez, Kyon, don't you understand anything at all? Since we can't find what we're looking for, we'll just become it." One problem, genius. Three out of five of us are already what you're looking for. Too bad I can't tell you that, though. Dammit.

"Come on Haruhi, how are we supposed to makethat? Do you honestly think a group of high school kids can get materials to make a time machine?" Ms. Asahina stared devastatingly at me. Yeah, that makes it sound like I know time travel is possible. "Which, can't be made anyway…?" I added hastily.

"Uh, yeah, Haruhi, I agree with Kyon…" Ms. Asahina tried her best to make a smile. "I don't think time travel will be possible until the future, if it will be possible at all, that is."

"Come on you guys, think about how much fun this is gonna be!" Great, we're going to screw with the world because you're bored again.

"I for one think it sounds like a brilliant plan." Of course you agree with her you suck-up.

"There's the enthusiasm I'm looking for! As expected from my second-in-command, I'd give you a promotion if I could." What enthusiasm? That's what he always sounds like. I looked around the room at my fellow club members. Koizumi was smiling, seemingly content with this new plan. Ms. Asahina was on the verge of tears again, probably dreading the idea of making a time machine. And Nagato was still reading her book, but with the slightest smile across her face. I think she liked that the club was back to normal, although we never actually changed, but you get what I mean. I let out a small sigh and smiled to myself. At least she knows what normal is, too.

"Alright, fine, I'll help you build your time machine." Please forgive me Ms. Asahina.

"Then it's decided! We'll all meet at the usual place on our next day off, don't be late!" She grabbed her bag and walked out the door, with Koizumi following her.

"I'll be off too, so see you tomorrow." He shut the door behind him, leaving Ms. Asahina, Nagato, and myself alone. Isn't this the situation we want to avoid at all costs? Nagato sighed and closed her book, standing up to get her bag.

"I will be leaving as well." She walked by me just as Ms. Asahina turned around to put the tea kit away, and slipped me another one of her little notes. 'Meet me outside the gates. Don't do anything while I am gone.' Jealousy, huh? I smiled at her as she shut the door. She was just so damn cute.

"Um, Kyon? I think I need to talk to you." Ms. Asahina hadn't turned away from her tea kit yet, but struck up a conversation anyway.

"You don't think it's a good idea either, huh?" I rocked back in my chair a little, still staring at the Shogi board, thinking about a next move. Koizumi had surrounded my King with his Knight and Bishop. I know there's a move I can make…

"Yes, it's one of the things my company warned me about. They said that I shouldn't let her try to build one."

"What will happen if she tries and succeeds?" Here it comes everyone.

"That's classified information." Of freaking course it is. I looked out the window, concluding that there was no way out of losing again, and saw Nagato walking to the gates.

"Oh, shi- Ms. Asahina, we'll have to talk later. I have to go." I grabbed my bag and ran out the door without even waiting for her to respond to me. I must have seemed really suspicious, but Nagato was more important at the present time. I ran down the stairs and down to the large rows of shoe lockers. I ran right past Taniguchi and Kunikida, brushing off their greetings. After getting my shoes on and walking out the door, I dashed by the SOS Brigade clubroom window. Luckily, Ms. Asahina had closed the curtains so she could change, so she couldn't see me run to Nagato and start to walk with her. At the time, only four people knew about me and Nagato's relationship, Ms. Asahina wasn't one of them.

We walked for about ten minutes until we had put a good distance between ourselves and the school, and took our hands in each other's. Holding hands with Nagato never would have crossed my mind about two weeks ago, and now I looked forward to it every day of my life. We usually split apart after I got so close to her house, but since Ms. Kimidori had already found out about us, it was safe to walk her all the way home.

When we got there, I saw a flash of green up on the balconies in the corner of my eye, but when I looked nothing was there. Nagato walked to the door and swiped a little card through a scanner, immediately opening the door and letting us in. Then I got a text from Koizumi. 'Watch out for Ms. Kimidori.' Like I needed too, she already knew that she couldn't kill Nagato, or, terminate her data link. But, isn't that the same thing as death for a Data Entity? Why am I trying to figure that out?

"Hey, Nagato?" I flipped my phone closed and put it back in my pocket, ignoring Koizumi completely. "Is it ok if I tell my friends that I'm dating you?"

"Who are you referring to?"

"Oh, uh, Taniguchi and Kunikida. They both pretty much steer clear of Haruhi, so I don't think it'll hurt anyone. Besides, I don't like not telling them where I am, they're just about my only real friends."

"If you think it won't be a problem, then I don't see any reason not to." Always so sullen when you talk, aren't you Nagato?

I stepped into her apartment and kicked off my shoes, looking out the door to make sure nobody followed us, Emiri Kimidori, Mikuru Asahina, or other forms of priers and/or Data Entity aliens. Concluding that there was no threat, I shut the door and walked into Nagato's living room. I hadn't changed much since we started dating; in fact it hadn't changed at all. She really doesn't have any sense of decoration does she?

"I will go make us some tea." She turned and walked into another room with her slow, 'silent character' walk, as Haruhi called it. I had still never been in her kitchen, and could only imagine what it looked like. No table, no chairs, no appliances, no… well anything. It was kind of sad. I sat down at her little table in the living room and thought about the club's next 'project'.

"A time machine, huh?" I sighed at the thought. Ms. Asahina had told me that Haruhi shouldn't be allowed to try to make one, because she might actually succeed. Then again, we couldn't just tell her 'no', that would make the world end. I'm sure we won't be able to make a time machine, not even Ms. Asahina knows exactly how to build the Temporal Plane Destruction Device.

"I have made the tea." Nagato walked through the little doorway leading to the room I hadn't been in yet, carrying her little tea set and setting it down on the table. She looked really cute, but it was missing something, something I had never thought of before. "Is something wrong?"

"Oh, uh, no, I was just thinking." I grabbed one of the cups and leaned back on my arm, sipping it slightly. "Hey, could you do something for me?" She responded by nodding. "Could you, put on an apron?" I know it's a little cliché, but a guy can't help but have fantasies you know.

"Very well… I will re-write the data." She blushed a little, seemingly embarrassed by my request, but still did it anyway. Her uniform started to glow a with the light that told me she was re-writing data, and then her clothes disappeared, replaced by nothing more than a red apron and black stockings. Again, anime nosebleed.

"N- NAGATO!" I turned away, my face as red as a tomato. "Wh- what are you doing?"

"Naked Apron."

"Yeah, I can see that, but that's not what I meant when I said apron, not that I'm not grateful or anything, but…" Yeah, I'm stumbling over myself at this point, but you would be too. "You didn't have to do all that…"

"Kyon…" She wrapped her arms around my back and pulled me against her. I could feel her body heat since she was practically naked. Now, I don't want to sound like a perv or anything, but it felt good. "I love you…"

"I love you too, Nagato." Okay, now here's the part where I put my hand over the camera lens and tell you to go away for about an hour.

I woke up with a sleeping Nagato next to me on the floor. She wasn't wearing the apron anymore, so I went to get a blanket to cover her with. I looked at the clock and noticed that I had been there for over three hours. My sister's gonna kill me. I let out a sigh, which seemingly woke up a very sleepy Nagato.

"Morning." I smiled at her and she smiled back. I'm not sure she got the 'morning' joke, but she never asked about it, so maybe she did. "I'm sorry to do this, but I have to go home or my sister will never forgive me."

"Understood." She smiled and stood up, looking down at herself. Then she turned extremely red and fell back down, covering herself back up with the blanket. I smiled again at her shyness and started to get dressed. I didn't bother putting my uniform coat on because it was warm outside, presumably because of Haruhi's current happiness. Koizumi hadn't actually told me why the cold front came in, but I didn't think it was important.

As I walked down the street, I saw the same flash of green from before on a balcony. I looked up, but still saw nothing. So dismissed it as my eyes playing tricks on me.

Bzzt.

My phone buzzed, signaling that I had another text. It was Koizumi again. 'I need to speak to you. Come to the park.' I sighed and turned around, heading to the park. If I had known I wasn't going to be able to go home, I would've stayed with Nagato.

And so, very reluctantly I walked to the park in the north of town to meet the ever-smiling Esper named Itsuki Koizumi. Now, I don't want to sound like I don't like Koizumi, or anything like that. He's just a bit creepy at times. There was one thing that I always thought of when I thought about him, except his creepy smile, that is. It was actually the Reverse Koizumi that sprang to mind. He had told me that he was in love with Haruhi during the time that Nagato had re-written the entire world. After that happened, I always thought that maybe the real Koizumi liked Haruhi too, but didn't act on it because of me. But I was with Nagato now, and he knew that, so if he was in love with her, why not tell her now? Maybe it was because Haruhi viewed all men - except me apparently - as sacks of potatoes, as in they're pointless.

As I contemplated whether or not Koizumi might like Haruhi, I had arrived at the park. I had a lot of visits to this park. Most of them were with Ms. Asahina, so it seemed like our own little spot. A little spot that was being infiltrated by Koizumi. Not that it mattered much anymore, but still.

"Ah, Kyon. I was beginning to think you wouldn't show up." Koizumi stood up from the bench he was at and greeted me with his 'smile'.

"Yeah, well I guessed it had to be important, so here I am." I wasn't too thrilled about being there, but I really didn't have a choice. "I'm also going to guess that this is about the time machine."

"You'd be guessing right. It seems Ms. Asahina isn't all that happy about Ms. Suzumiya's latest project for us." He began to walk to the railing that overlooked the small river that ran through the park and leaned back against it as he spoke.

"That's because she's a time traveler, remember? If the basis for her job is created before it's supposed to, something bad is bound to happen."

"You have a good point. I have to tell you right now, that The Organization told me to go through with helping her build the machine. In fact, we might have the means to actually make it with their help. Regardless of what Ms. Asahina's company may want or do, my orders are to ensure Ms. Suzumiya's happiness at all costs."

"I really don't understand what this has to do with me. I understand that if Haruhi invents time travel, something bad will happen. But I really don't get what I would be able to do to stop it. You guys are the ones with powers, not me."

"Well, maybe so, but I figured I should keep you in the loop. The world may well enough revolve around Ms. Suzumiya, but the queen can't make any moves if the king is defeated, can she?" I didn't really understand what he meant, and my face must have shown it too. "That means that without you, Ms. Suzumiya might not ever have the need to reshape the world." Yeah, still not getting it.

"By the way, I was thinking of something."

"And what would that be?"

"Last Christmas… do you know what really happened to me?" I was being vague to see if he knew what had actually happened without telling him outright and sounding crazy. After all, for all I knew, only me and Nagato knew what happened.

"What do you mean? You fell down the stairs and slipped into a coma for three days, right?" He phrased it like he didn't know, but the way he said it meant he was probably hiding something.

"You know damn well that's not what I mean." I was a little agitated now. He always tried to hide things from me even at important times.

"Oh, you mean when Ms. Nagato re-wrote the world. If that's the case, then yes, I know what happened. Why do you ask?"

"Do you, remember anything about what happened?"

"Of course I do, you slipped into a coma after falling down the stairs."

"Be serious!"

"I assure you that is the truth. When Ms. Nagato re-wrote the world, she actually created a separate dimension. This in turn created two of each of us, just a little different. Time in the second universe had already progressed as far as the original, but with different events occurring. However, since she wanted you to make the choice of which world you wanted, she made it so you blacked out. I have no memories or idea of what my second self did. I assume that that's what you wanted to know?"

"So, even though you were the same person, you were still two separate beings. So does that mean you share the same feelings and views and personality?" Yeah, personality was the same alright. But I didn't know about the other two.

"Why do you ask?"

"You told Ms. Kimidori that you had a plan in case Haruhi found out about me and Nagato, what kind of plan were you talking about?"

"Ah, that. First, what exactly did my second self say to you in the second dimension?"

"You told me you were in love with Haruhi." He laughed, seemingly to himself, like he thought it was a joke. But, that wasn't the case.

"I see. That is rather strange, isn't it? But, what if I were to say I was in love with Ms. Suzumiya?" Hey genius, I just said you already did. Even if it wasn't technically you.

"I really wouldn't care either way."

"Interesting. Well, I suppose that's natural then." He stood up and walked right passed me. "You do have Ms. Nagato after all. I have to go now, Kyon. It seems a minor Closed Space has opened, and I'm the closest operative, so I have to deal with it." He walked on ahead, out of the park and down the street. Then I realized something.

"Hey! You didn't answer my question!"


So, I tried to get a bit fluffy in this Chapter, but didn't want to go too X-Rated, so just cut it out. (Lol Naked Apron) So I hope you enjoyrd this little piece. This is actually my longest Chapter to date! HOORAY! The document is about 2.7k, so hopefully it'll help me reach my goal! Hope to see you in th next Chapter!