Longest chapter yet... More thanks to the same people: Maximilian and Fallenangel-vamp. Also good to see new faces: lonelygirl123 and MarroTekatsu... Forgot to use " instead of ', forgive me.

--- means a censored word, can't use asteriks in this... Enjoy.


Kagami woke up rubbing her eyes. She still felt tired after sleeping many hours in a comfortable bed. It was obviously much more comfortable than the desks in the brigade clubroom. Her bach still ached from leaning forward too much on the desk when she slept.

Despite how much sleep she got from nodding off in the brigade clubroom with her sister, she still felt tired. Maybe it was due to her sister bothering her all night because she didn't sleep. Even though Kagami had gone to sleep already, Tsukasa spent many hours complaining to herself that it was either too hot for her to fall asleep or too cold.

Tsukasa obviously slept much more than Kagami in the clubroom waiting for Haruhi to arrive.

For once, it seemed that Tsukasa had woken up before Kagami on a weekend. Kagami was brought slightly out of her sleepy, tired state soon after waking up by noises coming from Tsukasa's room. For some reason, Tsukasa seemed to be panicking for some reason. Heavy stomping, running noises eventually made their way to Kagami's room.

Tsukasa, still in her pajamas, came busting through the door, Kuroi-sensei style. Her face was obviously full of panic. 'Onee-chan! We're late!'

'Late? Late for what?'

'Yes! Yes! We're late! Look at the time!'

A sleepy and tired arm went to the alarm clock next to her bedside. She had not set the alarm last night.

'8:00 AM… so what?'

'We're late! We need to get changed to get to school now!' Tsukasa descended into a greater sense of panic. She almost ran around the room in circles screaming in panic.

'Late for what?' Kagami was more awake now. Obviously, no one would stay sleepy while having a panicking, screaming sister next to her.

'We're… We're late for school! I… I don't know what the teacher will do to us?'

'Eh? I don't think Kuroi-sensei would be the type to punish any student for anything. Except for Konata.'

Tsukasa gave a slight nod. She obviously understood that, but still imagined what horrible things could happen to her.

'She's not Haruhi… also… it's Saturday.'

'But we normally have school on Saturday…'

'Not today, check the school calendar…'

Kagami got out of bed and sent to her desk and quickly grabbed one that was standing on her desk next to a few textbooks. 'Here…'

Tsukasa gave it a quick scan.

She stared at it for a moment. 'Oh… sorry… I'll go back to sleep…'

She quickly exited through the door to avoid her sister's wrath.

With no Tsukasa or sister to expel her irritation at, she slumped back on her bed and sighed, 'Tsukasa, since when did you get this from Konata? You were much less clumsy and forgetful a year ago….'

Her mobile phone that was surrounded by a few books on the desk rang. It was your ordinary ringtone, unlike Konata's anime openings or endings.

Kagami didn't hesitate and quickly went to pick it up. 'It's probably from Konata… I guess she wants to copy my homework again.'

She picked up the phone. 'Moishi, Moishi. This is Kagami…'

'Get your --- right here right now you lazy -----!'

She immediately pulled the phone away from the ear and pressed the 'End Call' button in shock. 'Who was that?! The voice sounded familiar…'

The phone rang again.

'Look… I don't know why you called someone to insult them like that… It's…'

A different, more familiar voice responded down the phone, 'Kagami? Sorry about that. This is Konata. Haruhi wanted to call you, not sure why though…'

'It's okay, Konata. Where's Haruhi right now?'

'Oh. She's giving another try on the PS2. I beat her easily several times and she got bored and went to sleep.' Konata gave a yawn after that.

Kagami giggled slightly on the phone, 'You beat everyone easily… You sound tired for some reason? Did Haruhi keep you up?'

'No. I said that she went to sleep… I decided to do an all-nighter on the computer. Kuroi-sensei was on as well. I really wanted to hit the sack this morning, but Haruhi demanded that we go out, have a meeting, or something…'

'What? Now? This morning?'

'Yeah… I don't really feel like it though.'

'Where could she possibly want to go to on a Saturday morning…? I guess I'll grab Tsukasa and come over. See ya later.'

'See ya Kagamin.'

'Wait, one more thing.'

'Yeah? What is it?'

'You don't want to copy my homework or anything right?'

'Since you've reminded me… bring your books. I'll try to think of the answers first then ask you if I don't know this time.

'Shut up. You just want to copy my homework…'

'Aww… You don't trust me Kagamin?'

'Whatever… I guess I'll bring my books anyway. Try harder to do the questions before you ask me this time.'

After placing the phone back on the desk, she thought for a moment, 'She called me Kagamin again? Since when did she give me that nickname…?'

She made her way to Tsukasa's room. Tsukasa was obviously asleep on her bed again. 'Come on, wake up. We're going to Konata's house.'

Tsukasa cried out half asleep, 'Onee-san… Just five more minutes…'

An annoyed look crossed Kagami's face, 'That again?'

She thought for a moment and then shouted out, 'Tsukasa! We're going to be late for school!'

Tsukasa immediately got out of bed, 'Oh no! I completely forgot there's school today! We need go get…'

Her trail of panic was stopped when she ran into a very cross sister. Kagami's cross face didn't help to calm Tsukasa much. She simply smiled innocently at her.

Kagami smiled back at her sister, 'Late, aren't we?'

Tsukasa kept smiling at her sister expecting some kind of wrath.

The door bell rang.

'Oi Konata… How do I trigger the flag thing you were talking about again?'

Konata made a slightly sour, annoyed face as her attention was brought away from her MMORPG again. After quickly typing 'brb' on the keyboard, she got up to help Haruhi and headed towards the TV screen.

'It's really simple.' She pointed to the screen. Haruhi got back to staring at the controller and Konata wasn't really sure if she was really paying attention, hence Haruhi asking the same questions again and again. 'Just choose this option. It should trigger the flag and lead to the scene with the hen…'

Konata's dad started to shout from downstairs interrupting her, 'Konata! There are a few people who want to see you and Haruhi! Should I let them in?'

Haruhi immediately dropped the controller and quickly headed out the door, 'It's about time they showed up. Let them in!'

Konata was left standing in the room to get hold of the situation, 'I just finished talking with Kagami a while ago. They're here already? Or maybe the people here are…'

'Urr… is Suzumiya-san here? Sojiro opened the door to be very surprised. His eyes immediately examined Mikuru's face and then went down to Mikuru's chest.

He stood staring for a moment, let a painful sigh out and quickly welcomed Mikuru in. Nobody heard him complaining to himself, 'Flat has become increasingly rare these days…' He gave a slight sob.

Haruhi spied Mikuru's entrance. She smiled to herself at the arrival of her brigade members and ran upstairs again, past Konata who was just coming down the stairs.

'How did you get here? I didn't tell you where my house was.' Konata asked. Mikuru smiled back at that. It would seem that she had no idea.

'Ask Yuki-chan.' Kyon was annoyed by Sojiro's weird look he gave him when he came him. 'She's the one who did the magic on her laptop.' He sighed a bit, 'I asked if she has any idea where Konata would be and off she goes…'

Kyon noticed Yuki coming through the front door with Sojiro's eyes fixed on her, probably her chest. 'Care to explain what you did? Might as well sit down, this could take a while.'

Yuki's straight face gave Kyon a blank look. She sat down at the living room and then turned to Konata, 'Yesterday I gained access to the Saitama railway computer systems. There was a packet of data sent through the network containing information on Konata's arrival at the train station precisely at 5:28 PM. I was able to trace where the packet was first created and where the packet was sent to and where it was deleted.'

Konata was obviously confused, 'Do you speak Japanese? I didn't understand that.' She looked around to see if anyone else understood that. Kyon made a strange face trying to comprehend Yuki's explanation. Itsuki kept his eyes closed and didn't budge.

Yuki replied keeping her blank expression: 'Yes. I basically found out which station you boarded and which station you exited.'

'Okay… but how did you get here anyway?'

'Trial and Error.'

'Huh?'

Kyon answered that, 'We visited quite a number of houses… We hoped we might come across where Haruhi might be or might come across someone who has an idea where Haruhi would be. We came across the Hiiragi residence.'

Before Konata could answer to that, Kagami with her sister came through the door. 'Osu (Yo) Konata. I've brought my books.' 'Ohayo Kona-chan!' Kagami walked to the living room where they were sitting and held the books forward to Konata.

Konata reached out to receive them but couldn't quite reach them sitting down. She made various noises like a child as she tried stretched to try to reach them. Kagami had intentionally kept her books just out of Konata's reach.

She asked, 'Are you sure you're going try doing the work yourself first?'

'Yes, yes. I'll try to do the work first this time.'

Kagami lowered her books slightly and Konata didn't hesitate to grab them. She gave an evil but sheepish smile to Kagami before running upstairs, presumably to start leeching off Kagami's hard effort.

Kagami sighed, 'It's like this every week.'

Konata made her way out of the living room up the staircase. She suddenly crashed into Haruhi when she just finished running up the stairs who wanted to use the staircase in the opposite direction. Books flew everywhere.

Haruhi rubbed her head in pain, 'Geez… you really know how to stop someone's momentum. I was just running downstairs excited.'

Konata was obviously in the same amount of pain. Her eyes came across the orange armband that Haruhi was holding. It had 'Brigade Chief' written in Kanji. 'What's that?'

Haruhi held the armband up, 'This? I had been searching everywhere in my bag for that. With the entire brigade here I thought I should wear this. This is the Chief's armband.'

She picked up several books that were around her and gave them to Konata.

Konata simply smiled 'thanks' as Haruhi got up and continued downstairs.

Haruhi shouted to the entire household as she arrived downstairs, 'SOS Brigade! Meeting!'

Konata quickly finished picking up the rest of the books and rushed to her room to dump them. She completely lost the urge to copy Kagami's homework.

Haruhi stood on the table and eyed the members that were assembled in front of her. She pointed to Tsukasa, 'Do you know the duties of the SOS Brigade?'

Tsukasa was shocked by the sudden question. She turned away and stood thinking for a moment, 'Find aliens, time travelers, and espers…?'

'Wrong!'

Tsukasa was confused, 'But that's what you said yesterday…'

Haruhi obviously didn't hear that, 'The SOS Brigade searches for the mysteries of the world!'

Kyon sighed. He now had an idea of what the whole day would be like. It would be their usual routine of investigating mysterious phenomena that didn't exist on a Saturday again.

Haruhi stood thinking for a moment with all eyes still fixed on her. 'I still need to familiarize myself with this city… Anyone have any idea where could we search?'

Konata quickly raised her hand, 'I know! Maybe Akihabara would be a good idea!'

Kagami turned around to shout at Konata, 'What do you mean Akihabara! That's in Tokyo and we have to board the train for a while to get there! You obviously want to go shopping for more anime goods don't you.'

Konata smiled.

Haruhi was still thinking, 'Hmm… Nah… I'll prefer not to take the train again. We'll have to search somewhere close.'

Konata let out a sigh, 'I guess I'll pick up something from Gamers then…'

Haruhi got back to eyeing her brigade members, 'There's someone missing… But I can't quite work out whom…'

'Miyuki-san! I completely forgot to invite her here!'

'Then get her lazy ---- here then!'

The rest were shocked by Haruhi's use of rude language, with the usual exceptions not surprised.

Konata was slightly twitching at Haruhi's insult to her friend, 'I guess I'll call her then. I'll tell her to meet us… wherever we will end up.'

Haruhi jumped down from the table and started to head out the front door, 'Then let's get going then!'