To Our Beloved Reader: I just felt like putting the AN in front of the chapter this time just to tell you to prepare yourself... For a 3400 word epic chapter I had the time, nerve, and patience to write. As you all know my usual length is around 2000-2500 words, but this is a nice surprise for my readers.

I'll thank you when you're done reading. Have fun.

This was indeed the Asahina that I knew from the old world. The birthmark did not lie. Of course everyone would be exactly how they are physically in the reality, but if the Asahina had only met me in a host bar once, she would never in her right mind reveal it to me. It wouldn't be necessary to go and take a closer look for safe measures. No, I mustn't the, the first thing I needed to do was to find out how she knows about Uru, how she got into this reality and why she couldn't find me if I had spent the last half hour looking for her in the hallway.

Asahina realized what she had done and quickly fumbled with her uniform to make herself decent again.

"Do you believe me? You are the real Kyon aren't you?" She asked.

"Of course I am, how did you get here?" I asked.

"Oh no…" She said.

"What is it?"

"Second period has started, shouldn't we be in class? What if we get in trouble, I've never skipped class before." She said nervously.

Apparently she didn't know much about what kind of world this was. You can skip class but there aren't any repercussions, I think. I'm surprised that I haven't tried that myself. I can't wait for class to end though. I had too many questions to ask. Maybe I can skip class just once. I'm the decision maker in this reality aren't I? I should be able to do what I want. Where do we go though? It would be troublesome if we actually got caught by a teacher. I have a pretty good idea where I can go.

"Asahina, skip class with me."

"Wha?"

I didn't have the patience to explain, I wanted to know more about Asahina and possibly find out more about Uru as soon as I can. I guided Asahina through the halls and we arrived at our destination. Both of us, out of breath, were in front of the literacy clubroom.

"Asahina, do you know where you are?" I asked.

"In front of the clubroom."

"No, I meant to ask you if you knew what kind of reality this is." I said.

"This is a world that Suzumiya created."

"That's right" I said taking a seat at the stair case nearby.

"If is this the new world?" She asked.

"No, not the new world. It's a reality built over the original where you came from. Speaking of which, how did you get here in the first place?"

"I time traveled." She replied.

Time travel? You can get here by time travel? I don't get it, that should be impossible. Or could it be? Maybe Uru wasn't the only one affected by the connections that I had made at the host bar last evening.

"Explain." I requested.

"I'll start from the beginning then."

Oh no, here we go…

"It started on Saturday after the Brigade search do you remember?"

How can I forget? It was one of the most frustrating Saturdays of my entire life. That's when Haruhi had created this reality wasn't it? I nodded in response to her question.

"To be more specific it was when you were yelling at Suzumiya. For some reason I wasn't able to contact anyone in the future. Communications became foggy, and then was block altogether. I can't be sure if it even exists anymore, the last transmission I received was to travel into the future as far as I can. I looked over the timeline to see how far I was able to go, for a while there was nothing, as in nothing there wasn't a future to go to. The time plane that all of us were in that Saturday was about to come to a close. After you had finished yelling at Haruhi you walked off and… and…"

"I was hit by a truck I think."

Asahina put her hand on her forehead and shut her eyes tightly.

"I cannot remember that far, all I can recall is going as far into the future as I can… I didn't understand why at first. Every frame in the animation ahead of that time was just gone, disappeared. There was just one window, one frame in the future however. There was nothing ahead of it and nothing behind it. It was a future completely different from the past behind it. I knew what Suzumiya had done. When I had arrived at that set time in the future, I was walking home with Tsuruya last evening without any idea how I had gotten there."

I could kind of work out how she did it, after she had left the host club and the connections were completed, it must have made an opening in the timeline for Asahina to slip through to get into this reality. She must've not been able to before we had made any connections with her first. I thought the explanation was finished but she continued.

"It gets even weirder… This world can't possibly be Suzumiya's new world can it? How can anyone live in a place like this? I can't even remember anyone's faces except Tsuruya's and yours and a handful of other people. Worst of all they seem to be ignoring me as if I don't exist! Why would Tsuruya pretend that I don't exist? She won't even say hello anymore! Why Kyon, why?"

Indeed I expected something like that to happen to Asahina, Uru's using up her existence or saying it in a different way taking away her purpose of being the Asahina for the reality. This makes things a lot easier. It's clear that all I have to do let Haruhi and Asahina meet and have her join the literacy club. Enough thinking, I better say something before Asahina starts crying.

"I can help you with that." I said.

"Really? How?"

Spare the details; I explained how connections and interactions work in this reality. The bigger your purpose so is your presence. On the way I had explained Uru borrowing existence from Asahina. After it all she blinked for a few seconds to process what she had heard, especially the part where she had a doppelganger running amuck the school.

"It might be best not to be in the same place as her. Since we look pretty much the same, it might be strange if there are two of the same people, even in this reality."

"That's a good way of dealing with it. Don't worry. you're not going to disappear."

"I understand… But don't you dare try anything strange while you're living with Uru. That might as well be my body you're living with.

My face grew hot, thanks for making this a whole lot easier to deal with… I hadn't noticed that first period had ended. We were in a usually deserted part of the school so we didn't notice all the people that were probably roaming the hallways by now. It seemed pretty short compared to the amount of time we talked. Classes were supposed to be longer. Asahina and I made our way back to the second year classrooms.

"So… I'll be alright?"

"The best way to make sure you continue to exist in this reality is to be in direct contact with Haruhi. So I'll come your class when school ends so we get you a spot in the Literacy Club."

"I understand… until the end of the day." Asahina said in a rather gloomy sort of way.

"What?" I asked.

There were quite a lot of people in the hallways. Among the bunches of students moving back and forth in the hallway I saw a second year with long green hair chatting with a group of her generic classmates. Asahina was looking her way too and took a deep sigh.

"I see… you don't want to wait till the end of school to talk to her again." I said sympathetically.

"Don't worry about it Kyon. It's only till the end of the say right?" Asahina said optimistically. "And Kyon, please do one more thing for me."

"What is it?" I asked.

"Please don't tell Koizumi about me." she said.

It was a strange request, but there was really no reason not to say yes.

"That's fine with me. I won't say too much." I assured.

"Thank you Kyon." she said.

Then Asahina suddenly leapt forwards as if being shoved by someone from behind.

"Whatcha two doin?" asked Tsuruya as she playfully pushed Asahina in place of a regular greeting. She scanned me with her eyes with interest. "Hey there! You're that guy from the host bar… Umm… Kyon! Am I right?"

"H-host bar?" Asahina said in surprise.

Well it seems like Asahina got what she wanted. It probably would be appropriate to deprive them of my company…

….

I got back in class just in time to enjoy the rest of my free period. I was in a much better mood now that I was in contact with Asahina. In addition I have also recruited her as a potential member, and saved her from disappearing from this reality.

Uru wasn't in the classroom when I had returned. I wouldn't worry too much about that. The only thing left to patch up is that little misunderstanding with Haruhi I had with living with Uru and there will be officially nothing for me to worry about. It wasn't going to be easy though, Haruhi looked sulkier than ever.

"Is there anything wrong?" I asked leaning forward onto her desk from mine to be on eye level.

"Where were you during class?" She asked.

"I was… out sick… with a stomachache."

"So was Uru. She didn't come to class either." Haruhi said in a voice that sounded like she was accusing me of something.

"Really? Well, I have no idea where she might be now. I haven't seen her… erm… around." That was my answer, meaning 'no, I haven't been cutting class so I can be alone with her'.

What was Uru doing cutting class on her own? She's been the type of person to ignore the conforming limits of the reality but cutting class is apart from her usual mischief.

"I'm serious. I haven't seen her at all. Guess what? I invited someone to join the literacy club!"

Haruhi seemed to forget about my class cutting, interested in the new member.

"Just who might that be?"

"She's very nice, and a little shy, but I think she'll be a great addition to our current number of three members."

Haruhi brightened up slightly, but no definite sign that she had forgiven me for cutting class without telling her, or taking her with me.

"Here, I don't need it anymore, thanks for letting me use it." She handed me back my blazer.

"You're welcome." I replied noticing the long sleeves on Haruhi's uniform, it was impossible to tell whether she was still annoyed at me or not.

…

Just as the last bell rang, ending school for all those who had endured through it, my phone went off.

"Hello?" I said.

"It's Asahina." She said.

"How did you get this number?" I asked.

"I don't know, it was just there." She said.

I can't blame her. Things like that happen if you're going to live in this reality. There must have been a good reason for it though.

"I don't think I'll be able to make it today. Tsuruya insists that I start working with her at her part time job."

An even stranger turn of events. Being invited to work by one of the illusions. This was indeed strange, but again I accepted it as a part of how this reality plays out. The problem is predicting what it might be for.

"Alright, I understand." I answered back, slightly worried about getting Haruhi in an even worse mood by telling her the new member couldn't make it.

"Thanks, I'll try tomorrow." Asahina said cheerfully.

"Bye then." I hung up.

Now what to tell Haruhi… Oh no, here she comes…

"I'll be waiting up in the clubroom with Nagato. Make sure you get that new member!" She said in a way that reminded me of the old Haruhi without too much of her energy.

Before I had the chance to tell her what had happened she had walked out of the room faster than Haruhi could ever run in her wildest dreams, and that was saying something. Be that or because my throat had shut down I didn't have the stomach to call out to her after she had told me she would be waiting with Nagato, waiting for that new member that she won't be seeing today. I can just tell her in the clubroom and explain what kind of person Asahina is and why she couldn't make it, but I can't trust that Haruhi would sit down while I try to describe some other girl to her without being irritated or moody.

"Hey Kyon! Whatcha got afterschool? Let's get home!" Uru had demanded.

Not even being the slightest bit fooled by her appearance. I hadn't the slightest desire for her to be a replacement for Asahina. I can always ask Asakura. She might be understanding of my situation. Since Haruhi knows her better maybe she'll be happy about being in the same room with her, without getting nervous or having an air of awkward silence she usually has hanging around her.

"I can't I'm busy… Club activities."

"Hmm? Really? To think you had any skills to be accepted into a club. Now what club might that be?" Uru said haughtily.

"The literacy club."

"Oh ho ho ho!" she laughed a laugh of a spoiled rich princess. "Would you rather go to a stupid book club than get to home? With me?"

An insult to Asahina's image, can't you be more civil and lady like? I ignored her taunting and decided to head toward the clubroom to tell Haruhi we haven't got the new member. If I'm lucky maybe I'll find one on the way there. If I'm even luckier, she'll be in a good mood after I've told her.

"Go home first. You know where I hide all the keys right? Not that you'll need them anyway." I said without a hint of interest.

Uru had abruptly stopped her laughing.

…

It had actually been a very long time since I've been inside the clubroom. No matter how much time passes I'll never be able to forget the away to the clubroom so far off the beaten path. You can blindfold me and I'll still be able to find my way back by tracking Haruhi's stench of idiocy, the reek of her senselessness, the odor of her irrationality, and quite simply, the smell of her stupidity.

"Where the hell is this clubroom!" Uru suddenly shouted down the hall in a yodel like fashion, making jump and drop my thesaurus.

Uru ended up following me to the literacy clubroom to avoid to loneliness of walking back home by herself. She would have nothing better to do there anyway. She found sticking around to annoy me to be a more enjoyable pass time.

Finally arriving in front of the clubroom door I entered the clubroom pulling Uru by the wrist with me to make sure she didn't go further down the hallway than she needed to.

"Yo, sorry for being late, took me a while but I found her." I tugged Uru into the room which she immediately started inspecting.

Nagato sat at her usual spot reading, so was Haruhi at the other table.

"What kind of dingy clubroom is this supposed to be?" Uru started rudely.

"Be quiet." I said in a calm but extremely firm tone. She withdrew in an annoyed manner and kept quiet leaning on the door with her arms crossed. Nagato was trying to shoot lasers from her eyes at Uru for insulting the clubroom. Too bad that was not possible for the Nagato here in this reality…

"Her name is Urukim Anihasa." I said bluntly. Haruhi already knew who she was. I said so for the sake of Nagato. I don't think this would be a good idea. Haruhi was a little hesitant but I'm sure she wanted to give her a try, being classmates and all.

"That's the whole introduction?" Nagato asked defiantly from the back of the room.

"So that's what you were doing when the both of you were cutting class." Haruhi mumbled.

"I wasn't doing that!"

"She's in the club?" Uru said with a sparkle in her eyes pointing at Haruhi.

Haruhi and I looked at each other, both of us were confused.

"I can understand why you're in the literacy club." Uru said.

"Really?" Haruhi asked hopefully.

Uru pointed again at Haruhi with even more enthusiasm.

"Social outcast!"

"…" said Haruhi.

She pointed at me.

"Failure!"

"…" I said…

Nagato suppressed a giggle.

Whoever runs this place is a hack. Look at how rundown it is! Are you two the only ones here?" Uru asked.

Nagato frowned big frown and buried her face back in the book, staring but not reading. Face red in shame. Haruhi and I could only give sympathetic looks in her direction. All of us were at a loss for words.

"Hm… but you're better than I thought now that I see you first hand." Uru smiled.

Haruhi smiled weakly in response, but she wasn't sure she was completely comfortable just yet.

"So what do you do in this club? Do you read all day?"

Uru asked.

Haruhi and I looked at each other again. That's pretty much all we did, there's no question why we didn't have any people who wanted to join. Our club was just… boring.

"We do other things." Haruhi denied. "Like, go on club trips and stuff like that." She said with uncertainty.

"I'll be looking around."

Uru said and started her lap around the room. Haruhi came up close and whispered.

"Kyon, why did you bring her here?" she asked.

"I thought I would be a good idea to bring in some new members." I explained something that should've been very obvious. "You don't like her?" I asked in a low whisper.

"I think she's… energetic, something we need in this club, a little too energetic at that. I don't really think reading is the past time for her." She said.

We both looked around to Uru who had up to now saw Nagato as some sort of decoration for the clubroom. She introduced herself loudly and shook hands with Nagato who tried to crush her hand for insult the clubroom and her leadership skills. It's apparent that Uru hardly felt any pressure from her side. She violently moved up and down as if trying to get water out of a broken water pump. Nagato had no choice, her entire body participating in her arm oscillations. I was afraid that afraid that her shoulder joint might give way.

. "Anyways, I don't think we'll be full with just one new member, I think we should do some more things with the literacy club, and hopefully we won't be stuck with just her."

Apparently Uru's question did quite a blow on Haruhi pride as a literacy club member. These sorts of things are best left for Nagato do decide, even if the chances of her thinking of something that does require a book are close to none.

"What do you want me to do about it? There are only books in this clubroom and all we do is read them."

"I'll try to think up some more activities for the club. We'll have to ask Nagato for the-"

Then from the bottommost corner of my eye, in a sudden flash of movement a pair of hands ripping through the air, came out from behind under Haruhi's shoulders from both flanks and locked themselves onto Haruhi's bosom. Haruhi made a cry of surprise, with a mix of other similar emotions. I can't exactly describe it, but it's best left to the imagination rather than having me ruin it all by trying to put it into words.

Nagato approves.

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