I… wasn't in the mood to type my story, so I decided to make this chapter a little different. As some may know, I had made a prologue for my Hayate X Hinagiku fanfic. This chapter will be what I thought should happen at first, but decided that it wasn't the best of ideas. This is also great practice for typing. I really hope that people don't get mad at me for this… Skip to the next line if you've read it already. It's slightly different, because I never meant to put the future parts in.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Chapter 21: The chapter that wasn't~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

In the evening, when the sky is orange and half the sun is to be unseen, Hayate walks home, alone. In his mind he was thinking about how to get his own money since his parents are broke and always taking his money. He had about 10,000 yen saved up so far. 'If I keep going like this, I can live a normal life. I just hope they don't find my money again. Gosh, I can't imagine losing all that money.' He smiles and looks at the beautiful sky, still walking home. 'I'm sure it's going to be fine. I'm taking a different route so I should be fine from-' His thoughts were interrupted by the sounds of many footsteps behind him. He checks where the noise had come from but sees no one. 'No. They've been following me?' He quickly hurries along. Rustling is heard to his left, only to stop because of a wall. 'They're going as far as to go into other people's yards. This isn't good.' He reaches a 3 way Y-shaped intersection. He faces the left side and 10 kids jump out of nowhere, surrounding him. "...Why? Why is this only happening to ME?"

Moments later, Hayate lies on the ground, beaten up, along with 6 of the kids. The other 4 had robbed him of his possessions. The other 6 look at him and laugh. "Well, this is typical. We are always left behind." Hayate stares at them in amazement. "What's wrong? Never seen us talk to you? Don't worry about it. Life isn't so bad. But I guess for you it is." The 6 kids get up and stretch. They look at Hayate again and all frown. "Well, don't bring too much things of value tomorrow. We don't have much of a choice, so we have to help them. Sorry." They bow and run away. Hayate stares at them as they run away. 'If only I was stronger. I need to be stronger...' His vision turns dark. He starts to lose his senses. He breath slows. 'I... have to...stronger...' He falls unconscious.

"Shouldn't we have helped him?"

"Help him with what? He deserves this."

"Yeah. You said it."

"But... Shouldn't we at least try to help him?"

"Exactly. We can't just let this continue. We need to help him."

"Fine. But first, we'll have to "Befriend" him."

"Why must we do this for everyone? You never even passed it."

"Well, I'm the one made it up! So we'll test him after getting to know him more."

"I guess it's better than leaving this alone. Let's do it."

The next day, Hayate has a normal day. He didn't get bullied yet, no one took his stuff yet, things were looking up for him. 'Wow. I wonder what happened. People would usually try to take my stuff or pick on me.' At 3 PM, he goes to a playground he often goes to. The people look at him and smiles. The bullies from yesterday give him his stuff back. 'This is new... I... I can't remember what happened...' His head starts to hurt. "Ow." He puts one hand on his head, as if to cover the wound. He starts to wonder what had happened the day before. He could not remember anything, not even his breakfast, his lunch, or being bullied. He could not remember anything, or at least, not enough. He can only remember being chased, and the kids leaving. It was not enough. He starts to walk home until someone stops him.

"H-hey." Said a shy voice. He turns around and sees a pink haired girl with long hair and green eyes. He sees that she was hesitant on talking to him. "I... I need to talk to you." She says as she avoids any eye contact with anyone. All the children stare at her, wondering what she was doing.

Hayate walks up to her. She was the same height as him. "What is it?" Hayate says with his salesmen smile. He had to do his best to make a new friend, whether or not it would work.

"Ah... Uh... My name is Hinagiku."

"Hinagiku? That's a beautiful name." Hayate says, smiling at the blushing pink haired girl. "What did you want to talk to me about?"

Hinagiku looks away. All the kids in the playground look away, knowing full well what was going on. "I just wanted to be your friend. I…" She looks at him in the eyes, still nervous. "I'm not that great with people." She quickly looks away.

Hayate smiles and pats her head. "Sure. I can be your friend. But I'm being bullied so it might not be that great for you." He looks at everyone, seeing that half the people went back to playing, while the other half are still staring at them. "It seems that I'm still not liked."

All the kids now look at them both. They start to whisper. "Do you think…" "He's in for it now…" "I hope he will live." "I can't believe it…"

Hayate notices this, confused. He looks back at Hinagiku, who is shaking. "Are you ok? You're shaking a lot."

"…ching me."

"Huh? What did you just say? I couldn't hear."

"Stop touching me." She mumbles.

"I'm sorry. I didn't hear you. Could you say that one more-"

Hinagiku takes a backpack from a boy next to her and swings it at him. "STOP TOUCHING ME!" She smacks him in the head so hard that he went unconscious on impact. All the children suddenly goes up and stops her from doing more damage. "LET GO OF ME! I'M Going to…"

This is where my ideas diverged. What happened above will be different, so don't start thinking that you know what's going to happen in my next chapter.

Hayate wakes up and finds himself in his room, surrounded by children. He gets surprised and backs into a wall. "Why are you guys here? Get out of here! I don't have anything!" He starts to cry. "Don't bully me anymore…"

From the crowd, Hinagiku and Miki walk to him. Miki pushes Hinagiku forward. Hinagiku stops right in front of him and takes a deep breath and sighs. "I'm sorry for what I did. I didn't mean to do that. I just don't like people doing that to me." She turns around, but Miki points at Hayate while looking at Hinagiku, indicating that she needs to say more. She turns around and pouts. "Don't think that I was bullying you. I was trying to become your friend."

Hayate looks at her, puzzled. "Why… Why the act of innocence?"

She turns her head away, continuing to pout. "I just thought you're the type to be friends with that kind of people." Miki sighs and walks out of the tiny house. All the children follow suit. Soon, only Hinagiku was left.

"Aren't you going with them?" Hayate gets up and starts to cook his breakfast. Hinagiku follows him, watching him like a stalker, not saying a single word.

After this, I gave up. I couldn't come up with anything. That's when I came up with the idea of making it also go into the future. It would allow me to skip through this part and also progress the story more. But I would have to change the beginning also, which I did. In this, it's what I initially did.

Hayate wakes up, wondering what had happened. "I know I had an important dream, but what was it?" He lies on his bed, thinking about what his dream could be, only to be interrupted by the wonderfully hot maid, Maria.

"Hayate-kun. You need to go to school now. It's not like you to sleep this late." Maria says with worry on her face.

Hayate gets up as Maria leaves. He dresses into his butler uniform. He goes out his door, still wondering what kind of dream he was having. He gets to the front door, waiting for his Ojo-sama, still wondering what the dream could possibly be.

That's as far as I went before really giving up. My mind gave up on this idea of him dreaming it. So I went with the current one I have.

Back to my real story.

Hayate and Nagi both land on a mattress. Hayate immediately carries Nagi and scurries to the restaurant that he had been to, hoping that the future Izumi was alright. Behind them were 5 mysterious people that were able to follow them. "Where did they go?"

Hayate barges into the restaurant, only to find that it's empty. "Where is everyone?" He runs back out and looks around, seeing if they are nearby. He runs back in, hoping they're in the kitchen. He puts down Nagi, and then quickly searches the kitchen area. Nagi sighs and sits next to Hinagiku, who seemed to still be injured. "Hello Nagi. It's great to see you again. What is Hayate-kun doing?"

"Nothing much. He's just searching to see if anyone is in here. He's blind to not have seen you here."

"Hmmm…"

Hayate runs out and sees them both. "Hinagiku! Where did everyone go?"

"I'm here, injured, and you just care about them? Sheesh Hayate-kun." She points in the direction of the kitchen. "They are somewhere that way. Seems they were fighting someone with revolvers. He specifically asked for Izumi-chan. I need some fresh air."Hina gets up and walks outside.

"Ojo-sama, are you staying here or going with me?" Nagi just sits there, quiet. "Ojo-sama?" She gets up and walks outside. Hayate sighs and goes with her. When he gets outside, he sees 5 mysterious people in the shade, walking up to them. "Who are you guys?"

The one in the middle grins. "I'm glad you asked. I'm Red!" A person in a red armored suit jumps from the shadows.

"I'm Blue!" They all repeat the same thing.

"I'm Yellow!"

"I'm Pink!"

"And I'm Green!"

"And we are!"

"The Powdered Rangers!" A big explosion of confetti happens behind them, along with small fireworks.

"Oi, Shana. Wake up!" Yuji frantically shakes Shana.

"Yu…ji…" She gets up and looks around. She sees burning buildings and ashes where buildings used to stand. "What happened?"

"It seems that Fritza had-"

Shana punches him, sending him 20 feet back. "Ok, I'm not Nagi so just tell me what happened!"

"Who's this Nagi? And that was a joke I wanted to make." Yuji gets up and walks back up to her. "You were knocked out by copycat's forces and I had to save you again. We can't keep doing this. We need help. We need reinforcements. We need…the A-" Shana hammers his head to the ground. "Sorry. I meant we need some more people."

"It's fine. It's not like he can keep replenishing his forces. Even if he could, it would take a vast amount of power to have them keep their full strength."

"But we can't keep fighting like this! We may die!"

"Shut up… As long as we have these Senz* beans, we can keep going at it."

"Did you take those from Glowku again? Or did he actually give them to you this time?"

"I...I didn't do anything to him! I got this from Pickles, Krill, and Glowku's son. Vegetable and his son, Pants, wouldn't give me any. So tell me, how did this happen?"

"Well, you see... It seems that Copycat had found a way to copy without the need to kill the person. He copied Carmel-san and you..."

"I what?"

"Well, you let your guard down and the copy punched you in the stomach with all it's strength."

"What? What happened to it? Did you kill it already?" Asked the angry Shana.

"Not exactly. It literally used all it's strength and after it punched you, it disappeared like thin ice would. After that, their army had came here and destroyed the place and killed many. I tried my best to stall until your wake, but there were too many and not enough of me to go around." A twinkle sparkles in his eyes. "Heh. They can't get enough of me" He said as he puts his right hand on his chin, chuckling.

"Yuji..."

"Yes?" He asked with a smile. He sees that she had taken out her sword. "Eh? Shana?"

"Yuji no baka!" She starts to chase him around with her sword.

"Ah!" He runs in a giant circle while being chased by the devilishly beautiful Flame Haze. "Shana! I was only kidding around! Don't kill me!"

"Shut up Shut up SHUT UP!"

"Shana!" He runs into a candy store. "Look! Candy! You wouldn't want to destroy these now would you?" He looks around for something she would like. "Shana! Stop!"

"Urusai Urusai Urusai!" She throws her sword at him. He quickly ducks and continues to run. Shana picks up her sword while still chasing him. "Stop running around so I can kill you!"

"What kind of persuasion is that?" He runs out of the store and into a bakery, hoping for some melon bread. "Look Shana! Melon bread!"

Suddenly, someone busted through the wall where Yuji is standing close to. This knocked down and crushed all the melon bread. Shana looked at the crushed bread in horror. She summons her flames onto her sword and points it at the broken down wall. "Who are you and why would you do this?"

Someone emerges from the dust that slowly gets cleared by the air coming from the wall. "You really have no manners do you?"

"Powder Rangers? Never heard of you guys." Commented the Ninja girls.

"Ojo-sama, these guys don't look that tough. Maybe we can get someone else to..."

"Yeah Nagi. Besides, I'm still injured. Fighting worthless battles would be pointless."

The red ranger gets mad. "Who are you calling worthless?" The pink ranger sets up a sparkling background while yellow throws glitter on him. Red closes his eyes as he does his speech. "We've defeated countless amounts of people! We've saved the earth many times! We've-"

"Boss..." interrupted blue.

"They left while I was doing my speech right?"

"Yes sir..."

"Then who are we going to-"

A giant pink blob falls from the sky and lands on them. Eyes appear from the bottom of the blob and oval like feet pop out from the top. Arms come out from the side and a mouth under it's eyes. "Jiggly?" The creature looks around in confusion. "Jiggly? Jigglypaff?"

"Ojo-sama, what happens when they chase us?" Hayate asks his master.

"We'll just have to actually fight them, but I doubt they can get past Jigglypaff." Yuji jumps right in front of them, gasping for air. "Where did you come from?"

Yuji gets on his knees. "Please, you must come with me."

Nagi scratches her head in complete confusion. "Did something happen?"

Yuji gets up and looks at Nagi straight in the eyes. "Shana has been taken away."

"What? By who?" Asked Hinagiku.

"She never said her real name. She had said her nickname was... A-tan."

I wanted this to turn out a little differently, but hey, it doesn't matter. As long as I had fun right? Right? Right A-tan? Hinagiku? Nagi? Ninja Nagi? Anyone?... I'm alone...

Original world:

"Maria? What do you mean what I put you and Hayate through? I treat you guys nicely."

"Is this the time to argue?"

"Yes! I don't want to die without knowing what you mean!"

"Die? What are you talking about?" Chiharu asks, still holding onto her bloodied knife.

"You... You're not going to kill us?" asks the shaken little girl.

"Of course not."

"But... You looked like you wanted to..."

"Oh. I just wanted to scare you two a little." Chiharu says with a laugh. "It was funny, but now is not the time to be playing around."

'But you were the one playing around' Thought both Maria and Nagi.

"There seems to be something out there, wanting to kill us. The student body president seemed to have left for some important matters."

"But why are you wearing that maid clothing?" questions Nagi as she pulls on it. She then looks at Chiharu's face. "And you aren't wearing glasses."

"Th-this is just..." She looks at Maria, who seemed to also be confused. "I was forced to put this on. The president wanted me to wear this until she gets back so I wouldn't look suspicious. Ahaha."

"But you killed these people too. What are you hiding from us?" Maria said out of curiosity.

"Nothing! I'm not hiding anything." She looks outside and sees more people charging straight at them. "Let's get out of here. We need to find people to fight the upcoming battle." She pulls on both their arms and drags them outside of the house. 'I would blow this house up, but it's the president's.' She drags them all the way to what seemed to be a giant 30' box.

"Where did you get this box? It's big enough to be my bathroom." Nagi asked with a hint of comment.

"That's a question I'm not going to answer at the moment. First, we have to get people we know are strong or useful in some kind of way. You two know any?" Chiharu looks at Nagi, disappointed in herself for asking her. She then looks at Maria, hoping a fellow maid would know people.

"No one that we know of..." They both answered.

Chiharu sighs. "You two... Give me some time to think. I may have someone in my mind." She walks to the middle of the box, which has 3 pillows, and she lays on the soft, compact feather bags. "I need a few more pillows. Three isn't enough for a tiny hideout..."

Maria walks up to Chiharu. "Ummm, do you need us to get some?"

Chiharu shakes her head. "This place will be discovered soon. I just come here to sleep for a while. Goodnight."

Nagi walks up to them both. "So... We wait... Maria, you still have those blankets I usually make you carry?"

Maria takes out 4 sheets of blankets and 3 expensive pillows from nowhere. "Yes, since you make me carry them in this new technology that has no name."

Nagi takes two blankets and a pillow, lays down a pillow, lays down on it, and puts the blanket over herself. "Good night."

Good night Nagi. I hope you three find at least one more person. Anyways, this chapter has been brought to you by Foster's Home for Imaginary People(Friends). I miss that show. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and... for those who remember, in chapter 17, I put stats in based on my Final Fantasy game. I haven't touched it since. I will play it again, just for the fun of it. I will become Nagi and finish the game within a week! Or less.