I've been getting into a whole lot of black spaces. If I remember correctly this would be my third time. I can only imagine how many more times I'll have to go through with this before I'm back to the old world. I guess it would be inaccurate to call it the old world. It would be the very old world considering how long it's taken and how long it would be. Now that I think back on it. I didn't Fujiwara and Haruhi follow us up. But what does it matter. I don't know where I am, I don't know where Fujiwara and Haruhi is.

Those were my thoughts after I had passed through the eye of that swirling black cloud. Now that I'm stuck in this black space once more. I can only wonder where I'll wake up next.

"Kyon…"

At the sound of my name I opened my eyes and looked around. I was in my bed, in my room. I was wearing my pajamas as I would have at any time in the old world. I noticed that it was really cold in the room. I checked the clock and the date. My hopes fell.

It was seven in the morning, Monday. No exact date year or number. At least it told me it was December. I was still in the reality. But what was this? I remember Koizumi telling me that the reality was finished. I have to find him.

I interrupted Fujiwara while he was delivering the code. His goal was to destroy Haruhi, her powers, and everyone related to it. Of course I would still exist, but the fact that I remember that and Koizumi as well as everyone else means that they still exist to some level. I stood up but then fell back on my bed. I sat on it remembering Nagato.

That's right… she was shot. I couldn't help but have a moment of silence alone. I sat there for a few minutes wondering. Wondering what? I'm not sure. A lot of things.

Koizumi is still out there. We went in together and so did Asahina, along with Nagato. On the Reality's standards I'm where I would be according to the time and day of month. That means Koizumi should be at his house right about now. We would meet up at school, he would be thinking the same things I am right now. He would also logically choose the school as our point of meeting. Heck Asahina just might be there too.

I ran to the bathroom to get ready. It was all very fast and it was over before I knew if. This was for sure the reality, fast forwarding the trivial. I got dressed and ran down the stairs when something small bolted right past me. Or should I say through me. I stopped dead in my tracks and looked back.

What the hell was that? What just happened? She passed right through me. I touched my abdomen. Solid as can be. She just whizzed through me like I was a ghost or something. Enough of making an idiot out of myself, I chased after the little girl. I heard the door close and I followed the sound to my little sister's room. I could hear her humming inside.

Hands trembling I reached for the knob and wrenched it open.

There sitting at her desk packing her bag, was my little sister. After being away from her for such a long time, there were many things I wanted to say. Things like 'I missed you' or 'it's been too long' but that would be awkward. To her, she might as well have seen me just the night before. I should stick to something simple. As non-existent tears of joy ran down my face I ran to her and hugged her from behind.

"Good morning!" I said to the chair.

It happened again. She got up and waltzed right through my arms and out of the room. I stood there holding the chair for a few minutes, utterly speechless.

"What in the world…" I said to myself looking at my arms. They're were as solid as the chair I was holding right now.

Nope… think logically Kyon. Koizumi is probably going through the same thing I am right about now. I should get to school and find out what this is.

I flew out of the room and down the stairs I passed my little sister was she was in the hallway.

"Turn off the lights when you leave the room!" I said in reflex. Of course, she couldn't hear me.

I slipped on my shoes which were by the door as they usually were. My little sister did not notice them move as I put them on. I left the front door and began to jog to school. There were other students outside as well, walking their schools.

"Hey." I said to a nearby group of girls as they passed by. They didn't reply, or even see me for that matter. I tried waving my hands in front of their eyes but it was as if they saw right through them. Then I noticed something unusual. These people didn't look anything close to an illusion. They were too detailed. I looked away for a few seconds and looked back. There they were right in front of me. Stranger yet I remembered their faces. This made me jog even faster towards the school.

In a few minutes I was running out of breath. I didn't remember the trip to school being this long. In the illusion this part of the trip was usually by bike. Unless… I'm back in the old world?

"What the hell?" I yelled out loud taking advantage of my situation.

It took forever but I finally snapped and 'borrowed' a bike I happened to pass by. Of course for comedic effect, it was a little girl's bike, bright pink with butterflies in the spokes. Was I really out of the reality?

Despite the fact that this bike only had one gear, I finally made it to school, dumping the bike somewhere in the middle of my journey to continue my route on foot, as I did in the old world. My hopes were confirmed when I saw Koizumi standing in front of the school gates. He was obviously looking for me because he waved before I did when he saw me.

"Kyon! Thank goodness you are here. I was starting to think that you had gone from existence." Koizumi said.

"You too." I said. "Can other people see you?"

"Just like you Kyon, others cannot hear, see, or touch me.' Koizumi said.

"Why?" I asked.

"Cause we are dead Kyon. We are ghosts." Koizumi said.

"What?"

"Just kidding." He shrugged and smiled, ducking my punch instinctively.

"Goodness, be serious for once." I said. "I saw my sister. I don't think we're in the reality."

"We are not Kyon." Koizumi said picking up a dried leaf from the ground and crumbling it. "This world is too defined to be a cheap illusion of Suzumiya's. The people, this environment, is the old word." Koizumi said.

The old world. Of course, that was one of my assumptions, but everything is so mixed. It's hard to be sure.

"You must remember that you interrupted Fujiwara's code as he was delivering it to Suzumiya. This world is an incomplete version of Fujiwara's intended universe." He said. "He was going to wipe us all out from existence, but did not finish the job from the looks of it. He was hoping for his world to be a mixture of the reality and the old world, thus resulting in a half and half of both. While pertaining reality like elements this is indeed the old world. We have returned, Kyon."

"Then where is Fujiwara in this world?" I asked.

"I am not sure. This is all that I can base on what I have in front of me. We will have to explore."

"What do we do now?" I asked.

"We must get back to the classroom and see what has become of Suzumiya. If we exist, then I'm sure she does as well as Asahina."

"And Nagato?"

"Let's not… get our hopes too high." Koizumi said heading towards the school.

"How do we fix this? Is it even possible? We can't see or hear anyone." I said.

"Kyon, I know Suzumiya. Even if Fujiwara's code commands her to create a whole new world, I am sure her personal preferences will allow us, a way out." Koizumi said heading up stairs to the classroom.

We were in at the back door of my classroom. I looked towards Koizumi.

"Do I?" I asked.

"Illusion or not Kyon, you have always been the choice maker." Koizumi smiled.

"How can you be so confident?" I asked.

"I am not as confident as you think. There is too much that I don't know. There is one thing I'm sure of, you can still give her your code Kyon."

I wondered what the actual form of the code would be. Is it some kind of message? Something that'll grab her attention like John Smith?

"Koizumi, just to be sure. What is the code?" I asked.

"You'll know when. Now… are you going to open the door or not?"

I took a deep breath and opened the classroom's back door. I was expecting the feeling that thirty sets of eyes will dart straight at me as soon as I appeared through the crack. I was wrong. They really didn't notice me.

I had just walked in on first period. Sitting at the very back row was Haruhi at her usual seat staring out the window. Something was different about her. She looked darker, her hair longer, it was as if all the cheeriness she had in the reality didn't follow her here. She was… basic. The Haruhi I had said hello to during my first day in the reality. I walked up to her regardless of whether or not she can see me. Koizumi also looked on with interest.

"Haurhi." I said to her. She didn't turn her head but continued to stare out the window. "It's no good Koizumi."

"It appears so." Koizumi said.

The front door of the classroom opened.

"Late on the first day?" the teacher asked.

The first day of school? Homeroom has already happened, that means the introductions were already over.

"I forgot it was today"

"Get to your seat before you get to be the first person I keep after school this semester." The teacher scolded.

"Now, now, we can't have that."

It was Fujiwara. A slow burning anger began to boil up from inside. Koizumi grabbed my wrist.

"We can't do anything Kyon." Koizumi frowned.

Fujiwara took the seat right in front of Haruhi.

"Get off my chair you bastard." I growled.

"Hello there." Fujiwara greeted Haruhi casually.

Haruhi, being as she as she was in the first day of school did nothing but blush and look away.

"Koizumi… What the hell is this?" I asked.

Koizumi stared as well, a hint of dread in his expression.

"Fujiwara has taken your place in the old world." Koizumi said gravely. "He has wiped out his ally fractions, having nowhere fit to go he has positioned himself in the place most advantageous to…"

Koizumi thought for a few seconds. Trying to figure out why Fujiwara would try to be me.

"He's going to finish the code." Koizumi concluded.

"Excuse me?" I said in disbelief.

"And at this rate, I fear that there's not much left before he does so." Koizumi said. "This current Suzumiya in vulnerable to any code that is delivered to her.

This can't be true. This was too much of a head start for Fujiwara… and I was so close too.

"What can we do?" I asked.

Koizumi looked around the classroom. I did so as well trying to find out what he might be thinking. There was nothing that stood out, except, to my disappointment, Asakura's empty seat.

"There is a possibility…" Koizumi said.

"What? What is it Kyon?" I asked him.

"We have to find Asahina." Koizumi said.

"How? Why?"

"It is, what you may call, a long shot. But if it exists we might be able to travel back in time before our existences were diminished the way they are now." Koizumi said.

"You mean, if we go back in time, people can see us?" I asked.

"If it exists." Koizumi said. "We can go back in time to find Suzumiya-"

"And I deliver the code!" I said.

"That is impossible." Koizumi said eerily reminding me of someone… "Suzumiya isn't like she is now. She won't be able to take any kind of code."

"If we can't give her the code… Then what can we do?" I asked.

"We… can make connections." Koizumi smiled. "In any way possible."

"Where do you think Asahina is?"

Koizumi smiled and shrugged.

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