Chapter Seventeen: Betrayal
"Cassandra, don't…"
"Shh…my love. We'll be together very soon."
Suddenly a dagger appeared in her hand as Kyon began to realize that her body was slowly starting to vanish as Ryoko's did when Yuki had beaten her. Cassandra smiled at Kyon, forcing another kiss against his lips as Kyon closed his eyes in disgust. The dagger was then raised, and so Kyon waited for the blow, saying Haruhi's name one last time.
Haruhi could only look on in fear, erupting one last scream from her lungs as a bright light on her heart began to glow, "Kyon!"
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Cassandra found herself frozen as she stared wide-eyed at the boy underneath her, "Wh-what's happening..?" She felt her body unable to move as it began to vanish still. A massive explosion then erupted, forcing Cassandra to scream as she then began to shake uncontrollably.
Haruhi suddenly found herself through the barrier, staring down at the humanoid with a glare of hate in her eyes as the bright light still continued to glow around her chest, eventually consuming her whole body.
Cassandra merely stared back, wide-eyed as she began to scream, still unable to move, "What the hell are you doing to me!?" Cassandra then closed her eyes as fast, inaudible words flowed from her mouth. She then widened her eyes in shock as the knife in her hand vanished next. Apparently she was unable to stop her deletion.
"No!" she cried, "Stop it! I haven't taken him yet!"
The others, especially Yuki, couldn't believe what they were seeing. The last of Cassandra was about to dissolve into the air, and it was only a matter of time that Yuki finally understood what was happening.
"So…she can control it," Yuki whispered to herself as Mikuru and Itsuki looked toward her.
"She created a wormhole in the system, Haruhi can control all the data that consists in the world with that device inside of her, especially now that the world is now a fully a closed space. It is also possible that it was sleeping inside Haruhi, waiting till it was fully a part of her soul. She directed Cassandra's server to herself and is now taking control of her programming. Unfortunately, unlike what happened with Ryoko, she will have no way of coming back. Cassandra is now one within Haruhi, and once Cassandra tried to undo her own deletion, Haruhi took over and it failed to process. She is unable to force herself from Haruhi."
Cassandra began laughing hysterically as she listened to Yuki's words, the white specs now consuming her whole body as she cried, "This is not over! The Master's won't give up so easily! This world will meet its end with Haruhi Suzumiya alive, and now you're just choosing to end the lives of all the humans here! Don't expect there to ever be a happy ending!"
Cassandra looked to Kyon who had been unconscious at the moment, smiling as tears rolled down her face. She said nothing else, letting that smile be the last thing anyone will see of her.
And with that, she was finally gone.
Haruhi had found herself collapsed on the ground next to Kyon as Cassandra finally disappeared, leaving everyone in a panic as they ran to their friends. Kyon had awoken first, seeing that Itsuki was trying to wake him up. He then sat up quickly as his memory came back, shouting Haruhi's name as he watched Mikuru shake the girl. Kyon didn't know what had happened, but Itsuki had then placed a hand on his shoulder, giving him that old, sly smile. Kyon returned it as he then nodded his head; she was going to be okay.
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It was a brief dream but Haruhi loved it. They were at the beach, the entire SOS Brigade, and Haruhi was desperately trying to take pictures of Mikuru in a sexy pink bikini while Kyon tried to stop her by picking her up in his arms and trying to dunk her. Meanwhile Itsuki was laughing as Mikuru pressed herself against him, trying to keep her luscious body hidden while Yuki was trying to help Haruhi by jumping on Kyon's back. It soon became a team wrestling match that Haruhi was winning when she suddenly felt something grab her by the waist and once she was about to turn around and strike she felt a pair of soft lips on her ear as they kissed her lightly. "I love you," came that all too familiar voice but before Haruhi could turn around and kiss him her dream was suddenly broken as she slowly opened her eyes.
"What the…" Haruhi groaned as she saw a terrified Mikuru leaning over her saying her name over and over.
"Haruhi, Haruhi, wake up, Haruhi, Haruhi…"
"Alright I hear you," Haruhi said woozily as she tried to raise herself but found her head was spinning far too fast for her to move.
Yuki, who was cradling Kyon's head in her lap while examining his wound, looked over at Haruhi in utter confusion. It was a marvel the girl was still alive, what she had done was something not even she could complete and if she had tried she would've died instantly. It had defiantly been something Cassandra had not expected and she deserved it, but something about this terrified Yuki, how far could Haruhi's power really go? No wonder there was a price on her head for the device.
"Haruhi," Kyon coughed while wincing in pain.
At hearing the sound of his voice Haruhi found the strength to crawl over to him and lift herself painfully onto her knees.
"I'm here Kyon," Haruhi said before her voice began to rise a she scolded him, "how could you be such a fool Kyon? What if she had actually killed you!"
"But she didn't," Kyon replied resting his bloody hand in Haruhi's, "it doesn't hurt knowing you sacrificed yourself to save the one you love."
Haruhi's head was spinning again but she was sure she felt a tear run down her cheek as she leaned over and kissed Kyon gently on the lips.
"Common," Haruhi said lying gently on the floor when she could no longer hold herself upright, "we have to get Kyon to the hospital and I really need to find a bed."
"Alright," Itsuki said bending down to lift up Kyon, who wasn't all the heavy, as he indicated for Mikuru to help Haruhi, but as he turned to her he saw her eyes widen and her face go pale.
"Who are you?" Mikuru whispered, her voice shaking.
As Itsuki spun around he saw what Mikuru was so baffled about, there was an old man, the one they had just seen on the computer screen, standing right over Haruhi. While Itsuki and Mikuru looked at him with puzzled expressions Yuki's face illuminated with a big smile as she stood and ran into the mans arms.
"Father! You've been on Earth this whole time haven't you! I knew I could always feel you near!"
The old man chuckled as he wrapped his arms around Yuki and embraced her with a bear hug, "Yes I have daughter, I've always been watching over you and Ryoko, and of course Haruhi."
Itsuki shivered from the way he said Haruhi's name, he had talked about the two humanoids like daughters but something about the tone of his voice when he mentioned Haruhi was too soft and tender. He wasn't the only one who noticed, for Kyon went ridged in his arms and Yuki pulled away from the man and looked at him inquiringly.
"Then why did you tell us that great enemies were after you? I thought for sure that your life was in danger?"
"It is," the old man replied completely pulling away from Yuki and bending on one knee, "it is a very complicated situation Yuki." As he said this he ran a hand through Haruhi's hair.
Kyon then tried to move out of Itsuki's arms and managed to get his feet on the floor but nearly fell as pain shot through his entire body. "Get away from her!" Kyon hissed through his teeth.
Haruhi's eyes shot open and she did her best to pull away from whoever was touching her, she had assumed it was Kyon in her state of mind, but when she heard his voice coming from somewhere else she knew it wasn't him. But whoever was behind her took her shoulder and laid her flat out on her back. When she looked up into a pair of green unrecognizable eyes Haruhi cringed and tried to pull herself up on her elbows but immediately fell back to the ground.
"You're more beautiful up close Haruhi," the man said directly to her before returning his gaze back to Yuki, "You are right daughter, I have been here and yes I have been captured but I have made a deal. The enemy wants to kill Suzumiya to get the device back but I couldn't let them kill my Haruhi! So I've agreed to keep Haruhi safe by removing the device and handing it over to them. That way they will not harm me or Haruhi, it's still a few years to early but I figured we could take her back home with us now Yuki. Won't it be nice to have a mother around?"
"What?" Yuki barely managed to whisper as she suddenly felt like there was a heavy weight on her chest. "Haruhi… you want to marry her!"
"Of course. I was very young when I started my project Yuki and I was so lost and confused about many things, but when I started working with young Haruhi I felt something I have never felt before."
Kyon attempted to move again his face showing his apparent disgust at the whole thing but Itsuki held him back as the old man continued.
"As I watched her grow those feelings evolved Yuki and became love. I loved Haruhi so much that I created you and Ryoko to protect her. I thought everything would fall into place a few years from now. I would tell Haruhi everything and offer myself to her; it all seemed like a perfect plan till someone got in the way," the old man snapped looking up into Kyon's blazing ones.
"I was the one who commanded Ryoko to kill him! I knew what Haruhi felt for him and hoped to see him die. But my poor Ryoko failed, I do not blame you Yuki, you were only doing what your system told you to do, protect those that Haruhi cared for and I didn't have it in myself to reboot your system. So I created Cassandra, I made her think she was in love with Kyon! She was so beautiful I was sure that Kyon would fall for her and leave Haruhi alone, but he just couldn't get the hint. Well young Kyon, I hope you enjoyed your time with Haruhi because from now on she is mine! All mine! She will become my wife…" The old man was practically screaming by now when he felt something hard and painful swipe across his cheek. The impact almost made him fall to the ground but he managed to hold himself as he looked down at a fiery eyed Haruhi.
"I am not yours!" Haruhi yelled with all her strength as her hand hung uselessly in the air, "I've already promised to stay by Kyon's side because I love him! I love him with all my heart! If you even think of touching me again I swear I'll…" Now it was Haruhi's turn to feel the stinging pain of being hit as the old man lost his temper and slapped her hard, making her already dizzy head hit the floor.
"Bastard!" Kyon cried finally breaking free of Itsuki's grasp and darting for the old man, his hands aiming for the man's neck but the pain caused him to fall back to the ground. The old man however, grew angry and was well aware of Kyon's wound as he kicked the younger boy in the stomach and through him against the wall.
"Kyon!" Itsuki and Haruhi cried together as Haruhi began to move for Kyon as Itsuki dived for the old man.
Itsuki had him almost surely as he jumped atop him and prepared to punch the living daylights out of him when an unknown feeling struck his entire body and sent a wave of pain so quickly through his bones that Itsuki passed out in seconds. The last thing he saw before darkness overcame him was Mikuru running forward trying to help him and he tried to say something to stop her but it was already too late.
Seeing Itsuki fall so quickly sent a new emotion through Mikuru, anger. It was so strong that she headed for the old man ready to kill. He hadn't seen her and she managed to kick the electric shock tool out of his hand and her red heel pinned his hand to the floor. She then raised her fist and punched with all her strength making the old pain cry out in pain.
Mikuru was about to throw another when she suddenly lost her balance as the old man pulled on her foot. Mikuru fell to the floor hitting her head roughly in the process but before she could get up the old man, who had his hand wrapped around her ankle, pulled until Mikuru cried out in pain and had tears streaming down her face. She could practically hear her fragile bones breaking and even more she could feel it.
"Stop it!" Haruhi screamed able to get the old man's attention. "Stop! These are my friends! Yuki do something!" Haruhi pleaded looking over to the purple haired girl who was just sitting on the floor starring at the old man with a hurt expression and tears rolling down her cheeks. "Please Yuki…" Haruhi pleaded again as the old man stood and made his way toward her. "Yuki please!"
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Yuki felt the pain and shallow feeling in her chest begin to increase. Why? Why was this happening? Did the many years of loneliness and experimentation grow her father to madness? Yuki felt a wet substance fall down her face as she thought this. This was the second time since her new programming that she had shedded tears, the first being when Haruhi saved her.
Yuki looked over to the pleading Haruhi as her father grabbed the girl's wrists, pulling her against him as she continued to cry out to Yuki for help. Yuki's anger build up them and she quickly rose up from the ground, clenching her fists in what she realized was anger and within the blink of an eye she struck the older man right in the nose, allowing Mikuru to be let go and make her way to Itsuki as Haruhi ran to Kyon, who was still in a distraught amount of pain
"Yuki!" her father yelled out angrily as he covered his nose from the trail of red guiding downwards, "How could you!? I created you ungrateful humanoid! You should damn well do as I tell you too!"
"Not anymore!" Yuki yelled as she stared the man down, "I know deep down even through my programming that what you're doing is wrong, and I will night stand for it! Haruhi is with Kyon and they are my REAL family! I won't let you come between them! I won't let you use Haruhi the way you used me and my sisters!"
"Why you..." The old man growled, quickly trying to stand up as his white robes grew red smudges from the blood he wiped his hands off on, "I deserve her! She is mine to have! I'm the reason she is what she is, I gave life to her and I gave her everything anyone could ever want! The ability every pathetic human on Earth wish they had! She WILL be mine and I WILL marry her Yuki! We will rule this planet together as I take control over her abilities! For so long I let my device in her grow and evolve to its potential, for it needed a human soul to teach it how to be used, and now that my Haruhi had become a beautiful young lady she will give me that power! And you Yuki will be treated like a princess! You will respect your new mother and I won't you?"
"No!" Yuki yelled quickly as she clenched her fists in anger. "I won't let you take Haruhi! I will continue to look after my Brigade chief! You have lied and deceived us all, since the very beginning! And if I must kill you to do so...then so be it!"
"Yuki..." Haruhi whispered as she watched the scene with Kyon in her arms as he rested on her lap now. If Haruhi had the ability to fall in love all over then Yuki would have been her new candidate.
"Haruhi..." Kyon whispered as he looked up at her, "You...need...to get out of here..."
"I'm not leaving you or the others Kyon! I believe in Yuki."
Kyon smiled as he looked over to Yuki, smiling to himself as he looked at his beautiful ex-God's eyes, "Stubborn as always," Kyon laughed as Haruhi smiled. "But you're right."
The old man laughed hysterically almost immediately afterwards, "You DARE challenge your father Yuki? The very man who created you? Do I not have to remind you that I can just as easily destroy you!?"
"If that be it, then so be it." Yuki stated simply as she got in a fighting stance, and swished forward quickly with her fists, that the old man barely avoided. She then used her leg and kicked his side causing the man to yell out in pain and scream as he fell to the floor. Yuki felt a small pain of guilt in her heart as she looked down at her father figure, realizing that by himself he was rather powerless.
The green eyed man coughed as he held his side and looked up at Yuki, staring at her sadly as he looked to have tears down his face, "Why are you doing this Yuki? My daughter..."
"..." But before Yuki could speak another explosion came through the front door, causing Mikuru to scream out in frustration from the sight of her now even more devastated home, "Oh what now!?"
It was only then that suddenly the ground began to shake and five figures came inside, one grabbed Taniguchi, another Itsuki, and soon Mikuru, it all happened so fast that all Yuki heard was the sound of Kyon crying out for Haruhi as he to was taken away. Yuki suddenly turned around leaving herself open as her father then smacked her in the back of the head, leaving her rather dizzy and she plummeted to the ground. She soon to, was picked up and taken away leaving poor Haruhi all to herself with the old man as her friends vanished from her view.
"What the hell!? What did you do with them?!" Haruhi yelled as the man moved closer to her.
The man only chuckled as he looked over Haruhi, making her feel so grossed out and uncomfortable that she could almost feel herself throw up, "It would seem that someone agrees with what I am doing..."
"What...?" Haruhi questioned as she found herself backed up into the wall as he came closer, "Stay back! Get away from me!" Haruhi tried throwing a punch at the man, but a white barrier appeared over him, causing her to be deflected and fall back against a wall hard enough to cause her to slide to the floor.
"Now, now. I wouldn't be stupid enough to give my precious Haruhi so much power that she could bring harm to me. I designed it to do as you and I are both pleased, but you can not defy what I want Haruhi..." The man kneeled before her, bringing his hands to the girl's face and brushing the few strands away from Haruhi's hair.
Haruhi looked at the man with so much hate and disgust that it was the ultimate example of 'when looks could kill'.
"Why must you look at me like that Haruhi? Smile for me, tell me that you love me, and say that you will marry me."
"Fuck you!" Haruhi screamed as she slapped his hand away from her face, feeling a slight hint of regret deep down that it was a huge mistake to do so.
"You little..." The old man cried as he grabbed Haruhi by the throat and shoved her to the ground with him on top of her. Haruhi tried to push him off but realized he was to strong, and felt tears go down her face as she whispered Kyon's name into the air. The old man paid no mind to it however, and slowly bent down to Haruhi's ear as he still held her down.
"If you continue to disobey me, Haruhi, I may just do what you just suggested of me...Or better yet, once this world is mine, I could kill all of your friends and that insolent young man who claims that he loves you!"
"No..." Haruhi begged as she felt her lungs about to burst and her face turn slight blue, it was only then that the old man let go of her to let her breath.
"Let's try this again then. Haruhi, will you marry me?"
Haruhi turned her head away, feeling so disgusted with herself that she couldn't do a damn thing for once! She was always good at getting everything she wanted, but not she just seemed to get a taste of her own medicine. But yet, reluctantly she nodded her head.
"Good girl," he whispered as he kissed the now sobbing girls head. Haruhi only buried her head in her arms as he kissed her forehead gently, he then held her to him as they then, with Ryoko's chip in hand, disappeared into a void, leaving only a destroyed apartment and Haruhi's world behind.
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Kyon and the others had awakened then in what looked to be a snazzy rich person's home, finding that they all were sleeping on a huge bed with bandages and such on their injuries with a tall young man with dark hair in the room.
"Dimitri!" Itsuki yelled in surprise as he sat up, taking then a look at Mikuru who was still knocked out, a cast over her ankle, that was thankfully only slightly sprained.
"Don't worry about her, she's fine," Dimitri said with his usual carefree smile on his face, "Seems you all took quite a number on yourselves."
"Were you the one's who saved us?" Itsuki questioned as Kyon too sat up, rubbing his head as he took a quick look around the room, feeling a wave of panic go through him as Dimitri nodded to Itsuki's question.
"Where's Haruhi?" Kyon asked.
Dimitri's expression then turned to sadness and shook his head, leaving Kyon annoyed and even more scared then he's ever been in his life. He decided to ask a bit more forcefully as he quickly ran up to the young man and grabbed his shirt tightly as he was then shoved into the wall.
"Tell me where she is! Answer me!" Kyon yelled again.
"Kyon stop! He's on our side!" Itsuki cried as he tried to pull the angry Kyon away from his fellow esper, receiving a shove to the ground which caused then for Mikuru and Yuki to wake up as well.
"Kyon! Calm down!" Itsuki tried again, "Let him speak! He saved us so he must know what's happening!"
Kyon felt so much worry and fear go through his body that once he realized what he was doing he let the other man go. Turning his head away and whispered an apology that was barley audible as he took a seat back on the bed, trying to get enough patience to wait for the man's reply.
Dimitri took a breath as he relaxed, taking a seat on a chair as he looked over to the now fully awake group, except Taniguchi who was still recovering from his head wound, that stared at him in a way that almost made the young man wish that he hadn't agreed to give the gang the story.
"Well…" he coughed before continuing, "We realized that you guys were in danger when one of us saw a vision that you were all in harm, we also learned from one of our more powerful espers about the device inside Haruhi. Itsuki, I believe you know who I am talking about."
Itsuki felt the hair on the back of his neck stick up as everyone then stared at him, making him feel nervous as he quickly nodded for Dimitri to continue.
"And well, the leaders of our organization have come to a conclusion. As we realize the true power of Haruhi Suzumiya we agreed that the first option we have is to get the powerful device out of the girl, and if that doesn't work then we too have agreed to..." He turned away, "to destroy her..."
"WHAT!?" Kyon yelled out in pure anger as he stood up, "Are you telling me that you too are willing to just let her die like that!? Did you not say yourself that you would let sleeping Gods lay?! Not to mention but I didn't think that you espers were a clan of murderers!"
"Kyon..." Itsuki whispered as he too tried to calm himself down. For the longest time he thought that his organization knew more of right and wrong as well as morality. But the fact that they would actually agree to this, it began to not make much sense to him anymore.
Dimitri tried to start again, "I understand your anger Kyon, but you must realize that this universe contains many lives, and if she is the cost of billions then..."
"Then what!? You're just going to throw her out like trash! As if she was nothing!? Is it just because you have a grudge or are you just pissed off that the money your cult fanatics spent for your shrines that you decided to kill what you wasted your lives worshiping!? She's more than that!"
"Enough!" cried Dimitri, unable to control his own temper as he raised himself up from his seat, "How do you think WE feel? We spent almost four years of our lives looking after her! And now that we know we can end this all once and for all, we decided that it was best to leave Ms. Suzumiya with the device creator just so we can have him take the device our of her!"
"You left her there!? With that psycho-obsessed freak! Who knows what he'll do to her! Not to mention what he'll do to our world if he uses her powers!"
"But he won't," Dimitri interrupted, "His greed for power grows great, and once the device had completed its evolution process from being inside Ms. Suzumiya then he will take it out of her, but he loves her so greatly that I doubt he'll lay harm upon her."
"You don't know that!" Kyon yelled.
"Don't underestimate us, Kyon. When Haruhi grew stronger so did our abilities, we can now use our powers when we choose and we can better think our strategies. We have an advantage to all this, so I am asking that you have patience with us."
"I won't give you shit!" Kyon yelled angrily, "You abandoned her and I won't forgive that, I swear that if she is harmed at all, I will never forgive this!" Kyon felt so much emotion go through his body that the bright blue light surrounded his body once again, leaving everyone rather panicked that he may kill Dimitri right where he stood, but Kyon only closed his eyes and turned away, leaving the room as he stormed out, trying to find a door through the house to try and get some air.
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Sorry this upload took so long. I had finals and there was a mishap at work about my schedule so I was working a lot of shifts. Plus this whole "Move your clocks ahead one hour," messed up my sleeping habits…
Oh yeah, and Special thanks to Deathscythe767 for letting me use his computer. Mine's getting upgraded at the moment. (He's standing behind me, reading it as I type because he's to impatient to wait for me to upload it lol, he's adorable. No I am not insulting you're manliness xD)
Oh and BTW: I fixed all the errors for chapters 13-16. I'm really sorry; I was soooo embarrassed when I re-read them. I have this really bad habit of reading waaay to fast so I missed them. Sorry! I'll try and be good for the next final chapters.
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