Greetings, I don't know if any of you missed me after dissapearing for quite a while. I guess I faced the usual writer's block and 'oh I don't feel like writing' feelings. I would like to give the usual thanks to reviewers both to both old friends and new faces on the fanfiction community. Anyway, here's another chapter for you. Pretty long one this time. Enjoy.

Very familiar music plays.

'LUCKY CHANNEL RU!!'

The screen, with Lucky Channel written on it in Kanji drops to reveal… no one.

The camera shifts to the assistant, Minoru Shiraishi instead. He attempts to imitate Akira's personality and flair.

"Oha Lucky!"

The camera was zoomed and focused on the assistant, so only his upper body was seen.

"Welcome to another episode of Lucky Channel. I'm Akira-sama's assistant, Minoru Shiraishi."

The camera suddenly zooms out to reveal another person beside Minoru.

"The assistant, Daisuke Ono."

The other assistant immediately turned angrily to the one who just introduced himself, "Huh?! That's my seat! Since when did you get here? I'm Akira-sama's assistant!"

Daisuke calmly replied, "Ah, its Shiroishi-kun isn't it. Seems that you are in a pretty bad mood today."

"Of course I'm in a bad mood! How come everyone gets my name wrong!? Shiroishi! Sebastian! I'm Shiraishi! I'm supposed to be on that chair, not you!"

"Technically, you were replaced by me. Akira had plans to bring me back as the assistant and replace you since last week. Also, you're in Akira's seat as well. So it seems you've replaced her as well."

"Shut up! You're not supposed to be here. Aren't you supposed to be voicing someone?"

"Not right now. I'm myself for the time being. I guess you can voice yourself as well, since Mr. Wa-wa-wa-wasuremono isn't around here… Anyway, Akira is still in the hospital due to her broken leg, so Lucky Channel still needs a navigator."

"Wait… so that means… I'm… the navigator… Yes! Today is the start of a new age of Lucky Channel. With me as the navigator… I shall transform Lucky Channel and lead into a bright new dawn and up the popularity ratings! For I am the navigator… Minoru…

"Shiraishi!" A familiar voice screamed down the studio.

Daisuke took a glance in the direction where the voice came from, "Oh dear, looks like someone got out of the hospital early.

The new navigator was petrified to see Akira slowly hobbling her way on screen and towards him. Her face seemed to be in great pain, but she was willing to ignore that to attempt to painfully torture the usurper.

"How dare you even try to replace me on screen?! I'm going to knock you down a few places in the popularity polls!"

"Urr… Akira-sama…. I can explain…"

Minoru slowly backs away trying to appease the enraged Akira and the two end up in a low-speed chase leading off camera.

The assistant was the only one left on screen. "Looks like we're out of time. Next week I think we will have a guest on Lucky Channel. Bye-nii."

The screen lifts up again to cover the camera lens.

The studio is suddenly filled with cries of pain and cries for help.

"How does that feel?! I'll make you wish that you never switched animes!"

Blackout.

"I wanted to say this to you for a long time. But I'm still not sure if I should ever tell you how I feel."

"Huh? Why are you saying that to me? We're best friends remember? There is no reason for us to be hiding anything from each other…not even our feelings."

"No… I'm afraid that you will not accept what I'm going to tell you."

"Please… if it is your feelings, I can always accept them."

"I… just feel that I…"

Tsukasa came through the door. "Sis, can you help me with this?"

"Tsukasa!"

Kagami's attention was dragged away from the TV.

"Huh? What did I do?"

"Never mind… all that dramatic build-up for nothing…"

"Sorry, sis. Was that a really good movie?"

"Not really. I just felt some similarity to it for some reason… So what did you want me to help you with?"

"Nothing much, just a little homework."

"Osu, Konata". Kagami did her usual greeting coming through the door "How was school today?"

"Dead boring." Haruhi rudely answered the question instead of Konata.

"Ah, Kagami. You're just in time to tell Haruhi and Kyon of your family."

"Huh? What does my family have to do to them?"

"Actually… nothing much. It's just a 'know each other better' thing."

"I get it. You already told her of your family?"

"Well… Haruhi has been living with me for a while already, so she knows a lot about my family already…"

"Fine. I have two parents, they're quite nice. I have two older sisters who help around the house and a younger twin Tsukasa as you can see here. Good enough for you?"

Haruhi made no reaction at all and maintained her melancholic expression. "Seems like your ordinary Japanese family. Can I ask you one thing? Do you think your family is special and unique in any way?"

"I guess so. Every family is supposed to be unique."

"That's wrong. Do you know how many people there are in Japan?"

"Yeah, over a hundred million people. Why is that important?"

"You have to realize this. Your family is just a common occurrence and just a drop in the sea of ordinary, uninteresting people. I changed schools to hopefully find someone living an interesting life that wasn't ordinary. I thought I found some interesting people. I guess I was partially wrong…"

Kagami did not reply. She immediately left the room looking hurt and almost in tears, leaving her friends shocked. After a moment's pause to realize what was going on, Konata ran after her hurt friend.

"What was that for?" A serious Kyon approached Haruhi was still sitting on the same chair. He was an eyewitness to all that happened.

"Why do you ask that? I was just simply telling her the truth, that's all."

"Look, not everyone is going to just sit there and be like 'Okay, sure' and believe everything you say. Many people are content with they think about things already and it's just not right for you to force your opinion upon them. Some people may be hurt if what they feel and believe in suddenly becomes false to them."

Haruhi did not reply to that.

"Think back a little, it happened to you as well. How did you feel about your life and family before you went to that baseball stadium?"

"I was happy… content with everything and my surroundings seemed so colorful."

"How did you feel after the baseball game ended? After you went through your little stupid realization of how insignificant you were and all that…"

"Everything… started to feel boring…"

"There we go. Think about it a little. Was it right to do what you just did?" Kyon left the classroom soon after.

Konata followed Kagami to an empty hallway filled with light from the falling sun.

"Kagami, you ok?"

"I'm fine. I just couldn't accept what Haruhi told me. I don't want to believe her, but after hearing what she said, everything felt ordinary as well. Everything… my family watching a quiz show together… guessing the answer… Tsukasa coming into my room to ask for help with homework… My other sisters trying to help as well, only to say that they forgot all the stuff… Konata, do you think that the things my family does together are simply ordinary and uninteresting?"

"No. You're right Kagami. Every family is unique. Cousin Yui coming home drunk… Dad with his perverted high school girl fantasies… Nobody's ordinary and uninteresting Kagami."

Kagami sobbed a bit, trying to prevent herself from crying. However, tears of joy started flowing down Kagami's cheeks as she quickly moved forward to embrace Konata. "Thanks, Konata."

Konata was initially surprised when Kagami suddenly hugged her, but she soon accepted the moment and found herself holding her friend as well. Kagami looked up to see Tsukasa and Miyuki finally smiling with relief.

That day, the SOS Brigade clubroom remained empty.

"Why are we supposed to be here?" An annoyed Kagami slumped down on the chair in the clubroom.

"Well… Haruhi called an 'emergency' brigade meeting, so we are supposed to be here." Konata answered.

"I realize that. Even though I've forgiven Haruhi and all that, but it doesn't feel right being here right now. It's like something bad is going to happen."

"Maybe you're right. Haruhi disappeared during sixth period. She didn't say where she was going or what she was going to do."

Kyon interrupted into their conversation, "I'd feel worried if I were you. If Haruhi disappears during the middle of the day, something bad and embarrassing happens to a certain someone."

"Mikuru-chan, you can continue after that. What does Haruhi do to you nearly every day?"

Mikuru attempted to hide a slightly sour face as she remembers too many embarrassing incidents. "Well… Suzumiya-san does like to…"

"Ya-hoo!"

Haruhi burst through the door carrying four plastic bags to everyone's surprise. She immediately dumps a piece of paper in front of Kyon and ran to Miyuki.

"Miyuki-chan! Do you remember what I said to you when we first met?"

Miyuki still kept her cutesy smile even with Haruhi inches from her face. "Not really. Was it something to do with costumes?"

"Correct! Say, have you ever worn a costume before?"

"Not really…"

"That's a shame… but it's never too early to start!"

Kyon never got the chance to read the sheet of paper Haruhi gave to him when he was distracted by Haruhi pulling a bunny girl costume out of one of the plastic bags. "Oh boy…"

"Ta-da! This is for you."

"You expect me to wear this!?" Kagami immediately reacted when Haruhi gave Kagami a black-coloured costume.

Konata slyly answered instead, "I've long awaited for this day. I've always thought lonely Kagami to be like a bunny. Besides, it's your favourite colour as well."

"What did you say!?" Kagami's face turned red with embarrassment.

Still quite red, Kagami asked Haruhi, "W-Where did you get these?"

"I ordered them online of course. I went to pick them up today."

"I thought you didn't have any money."

"Of course I don't, but a certain someone has provided me the money I need to buy the costumes in exchange for something." Haruhi shouted to outside the room just as she finished handing out the four costumes. "You can come in now!"

"Konata! You won't mind if I take pictures of your friends after they've changed?"

"No problem dad!"

Kyon immediately got up and started to push Konata's dad out of the room. "This is just wrong…"

"Wait! I've haven't even brought out the camera I've bought especially for this!"

Kyon locked the door after pushing Konata's dad out of the room. The banging persisted for a very long time.

Tsukasa was proved right. She was worried that her friends and herself would one day be forced to cosplay. She asked Haruhi, "Urr… why do we have to dress up in these bunny-girl costumes?"

"Don't you know already? Kyon, read the flyer I gave you earlier."

Kyon returned to his seat to read the flyer. "The new proclamation of the SOS Brigade creed… Those flyers again?"

"That's right. We're going to distribute flyers using these costumes."

"Isn't the same thing going to happen? Can't you remember being stopped by teachers?"

Haruhi ignored that. "We head to the classrooms in the school building first, and then we proceed to the front gate to distribute the flyers to the students heading home."

Mikuru's expression immediately became frightful. She was going down the embarrassing trip along the school again in a bunny-girl costume.

Kyon closely eyed the flyer. "Aliens… espers… time travelers… Mysteries… Come see us… What's with the 'new' proclamation? Isn't it almost the same as the one you made months ago?"

"Of course it's new! We need a new creed and policy for a new school." Haruhi paused for a second. "No more time to be wasted! Students are leaving by the second! Get changed! Get changed!"

Haruhi made her way to her first victim, Mikuru. "Come on, get changed! Take it all off!"

Cries of "No!" and "I don't want to!" filled the room as everyone sat watching in awe. Kyon the pervert remained staring at Mikuru even though cries of "Don't look!" joined the chorus. He finally regained his senses as he self-ejects himself from the room. He dragged a desperate Soujirou ready to rush into the room with a camera out with him.

"Good evening. How's everyone doing?" Koizumi walked down the corridor to see Kyon waiting at the door after Konata's dad decided to go set up trap at the front gate. "Might I ask what's going on?"

"The usual costume stuff with Mikuru, but add four to that. But where were you? With two non-pedophile men at least we could've stopped Haruhi."

"My apologies then, for not being able to lend assistance. I was at a TV show."

"TV show?"

"Correct. I guess I was temporary assistant."

Mikuru cries for help finally stopped.

"I suppose they are finished now."

As Kyon reached for the door, the door somehow opened automatically for him. Bunny Haruhi already stood at the door.

"What do you think? This should be perfect for attracting attention right?"

Kyon was speechless and stared blankly into the room.

"Just as I thought, perfect reaction!"

I thought I had enough of bunny girls, I was wrong. At least Haruhi was so busy with Asahina-san that she forgot to force anyone else to change.

"Kagami looks cute in her costume, doesn't she?"

Tsukasa and Miyuki seemed to agree.

"Really?!" Kagami immediately reacted to Konata's comment.

"Yup, you really could attract a boyfriend wearing that."

"Well… it's not like I want a boyfriend though… the problem is that I…"

"Could use a larger chest though… like Miyuki"

"What was that?!"

Haruhi started to drag Mikuru out of the room. "Come on, let's go! No time to waste! Brigade members shouldn't be slow!"

Just as the brigade made their way out of the clubroom, Tsukasa stopped when she came across Koizumi who was still waiting at the door and seemed to pay no attention to the bunny girls coming out of the room.

"Urr… how do you think I look?"

"I am not certain actually, but I'll say that you look quite attractive."

Tsukasa shrunk a little in shyness. "Really? I see…"

Kagami brought Tsukasa back to her senses, "Tsukasa! What are you doing down there! We almost left you behind!"

"Urr… we are the SOS Brigade… we deal with mysteries… if you have a mystery come see us… something like that… urr… here's the proclamation of the SOS Brigade creed… urr… thanks…"

After quickly rushing through what she is supposed to say and handing out the flyer, Kagami ran out of the room.

"Ayano, am I hallucinating? Or did I just see Hiiragi in a bunny costume?"

"I'm not sure Misao, I wasn't really paying attention. What was going on?"

"I think I just saw Hiiragi in a bunny costume hand something to us."

The two read the flyer that was given to them and had really no idea about what it was talking about.

"Misao, what's a SOS Brigade?"

"I dunno. Must be something to do with emergency services. Hiiragi's with the fire department? Since when do firefighters wear bunny costumes?"

"Urr… Izumi… what are you and your friends doing wearing that?"

Konata was obviously surprised to see her homeroom teacher in the school corridors. "Ah! Kuroi-sensei… urr… you see… Haruhi bought these costumes and…"

"So, Izumi… you're finally decided to get a boyfriend?

"Huh? Sensei, what do you mean?"

"Well… dressed like that, you'll attract someone no problem!"

"Well… I do have to attract a lot of attention, and there are sure a lot of boys staring right at us now… Oh yeah, why won't you wear a bunny-girl costume like us and finally get a husband!"

"Urr… whatever… sure…" Kuroi-sensei started to walk down the corridor again and seemed to feel melancholic.

Haruhi threw down her bunny ears on the chief's desk in anger. "I can't believe those teachers stopped us! I thought this school would be different and would let us freely hand out those flyers!"

Mikuru started sobbing like usual. However, these tears were caused by people who decided to take the initiative in trying to obtain the untouchable flower on the mountain.

Haruhi sighed, "Dismissed! I thought this would work out perfectly, but it didn't. At least we handed out over half of the flyers this time."

Kyon and Koizumi calmly walked out of the room expecting Haruhi to being to undress next.

Abuse was expected when cries of Mikuru began leaking out of the room just when Haruhi declared, "Come on! Undress! Undress!"

"You guys can go on ahead; I still have a thing or two to pick up from my homeroom first." Kagami called out to her friends just when she finished putting her school uniform on.

"What do you think of today? You know, handing out flyers and all?" Haruhi suddenly asked Kagami when everybody else had left the room.

"What do you want? Why are you asking this?"

"Nothing much, I just wanted to know how people felt about today's brigade activity. Even though it was generally a failure… we still succeeded in handing out some of the flyers."

"Yeah I know that."

"I thought an event like today and the bunny costume would work out as an apology… I guess things didn't work out so well…"

"Apology? What are you talking about?"

"Well… after giving it some thought, I realized the act with me trying to force upon you my opinion of things was wrong I guess. So I thought up a way of trying to make an apology to you."

"Wouldn't saying sorry directly be a lot easier?"

"Maybe, but that would be certainly boring and uninteresting."

"I guess… handing out flyers with boys from all over the school staring at you is certainly a unique experience. Anyway, thanks for the bunny costume. I guess its apology accepted. I have to catch up with my friends now."

"I see…"