Uru signed her club admission forms and was now an official member of the literacy club. I wondered what it would be like if Asahina came to the club tomorrow as well. Two Asahinas in one clubroom, with complete polar opposite personalities. That would be some interesting chemistry to watch unfold in the dull clubroom that reeked of books.

Haruhi kept mostly to herself after Uru's assault, crouched under the table with few a books that she hadn't bothered opening, neither looking gloomy or angry at the fact that she had been violated. She was taking it worse than Asahina did when Haruhi had decided to grope her back during the start of the SOS Brigade. Now the shoe was on the other foot.

Nagato seemed to be enjoying Uru's company though. It was as if she had adopted a stray animal she kept her close by, teaching her about the many manga books she had in stock. Uru sat next to her mildly interested in the content and keeping her pacified so that she didn't focus her attention on Haruhi who was the last person who needed it.

After a while the sun had started to set. I had just about decided to leave after finishing one last chapter in my book when Haruhi had finally emerged from the table.

"You alright there?" I asked.

"I wonder…" She said. "Is there anything fun a reading club can do?" She asked with perplexed look on her face.

"I don't know. There's nothing I can think of that has anything to do with reading at the time…" I admitted.

Uru left Nagato's side as Nagato decided to pack her bags and call it a day. No longer being tutored by Nagato about manga she glided over to the two of us. Apparently she had overheard our talk of other club activities. Not surprising as this is a very small and quiet room, almost anything can be overheard.

"How about a nice day out on the town?" She suggested. "If you really wanted it to be about the reading" She winked at Nagato. "We can always stop by at the library for a minute or two afterwords."

Nagato shook her head.

"Reading isn't a requirement. I feel that we do enough of it in the clubroom. Feel free to suggest anything that comes to mind."

I really didn't feel like taking another trip in this reality. Who knows what kind of messed up stuff might happen during the event…

"Do we really have to go? This kind of thing takes a bit of planning you know…" I attempted to get their minds off of the subject. Changing it would've have worked better…

"It doesn't really need anything. All we need to do is to pick a place to meet, then we just wing it from there." Uru said.

"Sounds easy enough." Nagato said.

"So when are we going?" Uru asked.

"We have until the weekend to think about it…" Haruhi said.

Thank goodness, it was Monday. Well isn't this a surprise… A weekend club meet, I hope it'll be better than what we did in the old world…

…

"I like this literacy club." Uru said blankly while we were walking home. "

"Really? I find it to be somewhat normal." I said leisurely.

"What do you want to do when we meet up together at the weekend? Maybe watch a movie or go to a cake shop?" Uru thought off the top of her head.

I didn't even know we had cake shops in this reality to being with. I've never seen one in these part of town. We'd have to go pretty far to find one.

"I don't know, we should stick as a group and walk around, do whatever is available." I shrugged. "Don't ask me, I have no clue. What're four people going to do out downtown anyway?"

I really didn't have any idea what we were supposed to do. I've never seen anything worth spending money or time on here. Not that I had any money. Time I had, but it flies by if I don't make use of it.

"You'll have to do better that than Kyon." Uru said.

"Let's talk about it tomorrow in the clubroom when we're all together. I really can't think of anything right now." I said.

We were nearing our house. The sun was setting and evening was upon us. There were more things to worry about than what to do at the end of the week. Things like dinner.

It took a while for me to sleep that night. I thought about the old world and the weekend searches we did. It wasn't really much of a trip. We were forced to look for any mysteries that we might find wandering around. Who are we kidding? We didn't even know what to look for. If we were looking for some legendary creature that roamed the streets of our quiet city, we would have somewhat of a clue what to look for.

Forget it. I'm just going off again. I could write a book about how stupid the searches were. Now that we were planning a meeting that didn't involve looking for mysteries, I was even more stumped to come up with what to do instead of searching. What exactly was Haruhi looking for going around the city? Did she have something specific she wanted to find? I really don't remember, but we were paired up just once when the rest of the brigade couldn't come along. We were just… together. I don't remember actually being serious about finding an alien, do I even have to remember? I'm one hundred percent sure that I had no interest at the time. I can't be sure that she was actually searching too. We just walked around and ate, more like she ate.

Maybe I can suggest stopping by at the library, or a nice walk in the park to view the autumn scenery. I could pass a bit of time staring at the red and orange leaves and enjoy the wind. These are probably new things that this reality's Haruhi hasn't done before.

Anything but looking for mysteries…

…

"Did you have a nice morning Kyon?" Koizumi asked as we both cut in line in front of a whole crowd of people who did not protest because they were illusions and could not even order or eat anyway.

"So so… Anyways did you learn anything about Uru?" I asked receiving a tray from a lunch lady not concerned about what I had ordered. Koizumi followed shortly behind, and sat at a table which deserted itself as we came close. Neither of us cared anymore.

"Uru is very strange indeed. I cannot determine what kind of presence she has in the reality, but she is definitely here."

"So your powers don't work as well with her?"

Koizumi seemed reluctant to say. "I believe so… Nonetheless I'll have to continue watching, there will be signs of what she is whether or not my powers are as effective or not."

"What about Asahina? Can you feel anything from her?"

"I can from time to time. Her presence comes and goes. Sometimes she is there and sometimes I can't find her." He smiled.

"Are your powers even reliable anymore? You're losing your touch." I said.

Koizumi didn't show any signs that he was offended in anyway, he continued smiling.

"Anything you would like to tell me about Uru, Kyon? She seems to be becoming more active recently."

"We let her into the literacy club." I replied.

"Is that so?" He asked suddenly interested in the subject. "Did anything happen while she was there? Any new activities the club will be participating in?" He asked.

Just how Koizumi knew was a complete mystery to me. Let's just hope that it's his powers that give him the knowledge or I just won't feel safe walking down dark alleys in this reality anymore.

"There is just one…" I started. Koizumi leaned in closer making me uncomfortable. "But her haven't decided what we were going to do for it."

"Tell me everything you know about event. Is it another trip, Perhaps a gathering someplace?" Koizumi said.

"Yeah it's somewhat of a gathering… We're going to meet somewhere on Saturday. I don't know what we're going to do after we've gotten together, but it's something that'll work itself out." I roughly explained.

There was a twinkle in Koizumi's eyes. He had an idea, something that would be at my expense of course.

"Kyon… I need you to do me a favor."

"Yes… what might that be?"

Koizumi ignored his lunch which was getting quite cold at this point leaning up closer to me than ever. Sheesh, why don't you just climb onto the table?

"This might be the single most important connection we make!" He said with overflowing enthusiasm.

The case being that we are finally doing something so familiar from the old world would merit considering this weekend trip to be somewhat of a big deal. I should ask Koizumi what I should be doing on that Saturday.

"What should I do? Are you going to help?" I asked Koizumi.

If it was going to be the most important connection we make, I believe Koizumi should be involved as well, perhaps an invitation to the literacy club?

"How about you join the literacy club? That way we'll be a full set and I should have some effect on the connections, right?"

Koizumi thought for a moment.

"I don't really think the number of members has anything to do with what you are to do this weekend." Koizumi said.

"What are we going to do this weekend?" we have no plans, how is this supposed to be a connection if we have no plans? We'll at least have to arrange something that everyone in the club, mostly Haruhi would be able to enjoy.

"I want you to suggest that the literacy club, go on a mystery search this following weekend for you club event." Koizumi smiled.

"Excuse me?" I said politely pretended and hoping that I had misheard him.

"Go looks for mysteries."

"Why? It's a perfectly good chance to do anything else but that. Why waste another second of my weekends searching?"

Koizumi laughed.

"Fine then, think of one thing you guys can do besides look for mysteries." He said.

"We can… umm… we'll…" this was strange. There was nothing, absolutely nothing for me to hold on to. It's as if I had lived a thousand years under rock and I had no idea of what people do around town to have fun anymore.

"Umm…" I continued stupidly.

"I expect the other club members to think the same" Koizumi said. "Go look for mysteries Kyon, I'm sure it'll get Suzumiya much closer to returning us back to the old world."

Was I really going to do this? By suggesting that we go on a search, I would be validating Haruhi's desires to look for mysteries. We'll be closer to being stuck with the old Haruhi, at the same time closer to the old world.

"Will it really work?" I asked with uncertainty. "I don't want this Haruhi to go on searches when we could be doing something else much more enjoyable. Someone has to show her that there are more things than doing just that. How am I supposed to change Haruhi if we're just going back to the same old?"

"I believe," Koizumi started "that it would be best for us to take the shorter route to the old world. This search will bring us closer to it than ever. However I have no power over your decision and anything you decide on will be final. I am merely suggesting the possibility that all of us return to our normal everyday live like we used to have." Koizumi said in a business like way.

Take the short route? Than what would all of this been for if we're just going to keep Haruhi the same old? It would be impossible to keep Haruhi an almost normal person if I suggest this search. Then again, I'll be out of this place, much sooner. Right now, suggesting the search seemed to yield more results than slowly build Haruhi by spending time with her. I daresay we've come to a halt with our current relationship, she's a closer than average friend, and that seems to be the end of it.

"I'll join the Literacy club if you do go with my plan." Koizumi said. "This is the one of the rare opportunities to really change the direction of this reality."

"Sure then, I'll come by your class as the end of the day." I said getting up from my table only half finished with lunch.

"Of course, I will be waiting." Koizumi said also getting up.

"Haruhi will be thrilled to learn that the Crimson Superball will be joining her little group. Remember that I'm supposed to make the real connections Koizumi."

To Our Beloved Reader: Here is another chapter for our Verse of Autumn. The weather here is also getting very cold, and I'm already finding the need to break out my long sleeves/leg clothes fit for the temperature (although it gets somewhat sunny and warm afterwords). Anyways about the story. I have the feeling that the story is almost 3/4 finished (to my estimation and my current plot mapping) although it gets harder and harder to get the final pieces of story together (which feels very much like having few moves to make when cornered in chess) I am sure I'll be able to pull through some how. I'm actually surprised I even got this far.

Anyways, keep on reading, cause you people are the only reason I've written this much up to now. One word in a review can become hundreds for my stories. A writer needs every bit of feedback and hopefully complements and word of mouth to keep his/her writing life force strong!

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(After Edit)

Wow I really did have a whole bunch of little mistakes in the first half. I think I've done off most of them...