"Yuki, what do you do in class?" Kyon watched her, carefully.
She turned to him. "What do you mean?"
"In class? I mean, what do you do? You probably already know all this stuff; it has to be pretty boring for you."
She looked down at her book and then up to the wall in front of her. "I do not know everything. It is impossible to do so."
"Well, I mean. Do you just sit there and learn stuff like the rest of us? What would be the purpose of it?"
She blinked. "There is nothing else for me to do but to learn like the rest of you." She looked to him "It can be quite interesting at times."
"Really?" He turned in his chair.
"No." She looked back to her book and flipped the page.
He stared at her for a moment and then sighed, looking down at the beaten up table in front of him. "Can't you like…go somewhere else? Like in your mind? Or like how the classroom turned into a computer program like it did. Couldn't you do that for the period to kind of get away?"
She thought for a moment. "…No." Looking at him, she said. "No, I couldn't. I don't think you are understanding how this works." She looked back to her book. "But if you are that bored right now, and are trying to hint that you wish to do something like that, then you might be able to persuade me into doing something of the sort." She flipped a page, again.
He got out of his chair and walked to her. "What do I have to do?"
She kept looking at her book. "I do not know…"
"Come on, Yuki." He looked out of the window. "It was so interesting to see those rooms turn into whatever you wanted them to. I just want to see that again, only…in a good way."
She blinked a few times. Then, she closed her book and looked to him. "Okay."
He smiled. "Really?"
"Yes."
"Do we have to go back to the same classroom?"
"No. I have a room in my apartment." She stood. "Follow me."
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Yuki closed the door behind them as they walked into a completely bare room. "We are here." She turned to him. "Now. Where do you wish 'here' to be?"
He looked around the room. "Oh, sheesh. I don't know." The room was so white, so empty. There was nothing in it to spark any sort of imaginative…anything.
She took his hand. He looked down at it. "Come on." She pulled him to the center of the room. "Pick somewhere, anywhere. It does not matter."
He looked around the room. Now that he was here, he just couldn't think. She was looking at him, and it was just making everything worse.
Then, before he could think anymore there was a sudden blast of light and then pure darkness. He closed his eyes and sunk to the floor to try to keep a hold of his body, but she still held his hand. After everything had settled she spoke.
"Open your eyes."
Finally, he did.
"Aaa!" He gripped her hand, tighter, as he nearly fell over.
"It is fine, you will not fall. Now, stand." She looked down at him as he looked up at her. Finally, he stood and she put her hand around his side to steady him. "Are you alright?"
"Y-yes…"
"Good."
All around them was nothing, but, everything. The universe, the stars and planets. It was beautiful and overwhelming at the same time. He wasn't sure where they were, exactly; he couldn't place any of the stars or constellations. No planets looked familiar. They must have been in another solar system completely.
"It's gorgeous." He finally spoke.
"Yes." She looked around. "I suppose it is."
He turned to her. "Do you really think so, Yuki?"
She slowly turned to him. "What do you mean?"
"What do you really think of all of this when you look at it?"
She blinked. "I…"
"What are your thoughts? Do you think it's beautiful or ugly? Or boring?"
She looked down. After a few moments she looked around at it all. "I suppose…I think it's…unnecessary."
He laughed. "Unnecessary! Yuki, it's the universe, how can it be unnecessary!"
"It is a waste of space. Only a few planets let alone solar systems or galaxies are actually used. Why have so many?" She looked around some more. "Yes…I think it's a terrible waste of space."
"What else would be done with it, though?" He laughed.
She turned to him. "Words cannot express that to a human."
He looked scared. "Oh…"
"Come on." She took his hand and started walking. "This way."
"Wait!" But once they started he saw it was just as though they were walking on regular ground. "Oh." It was so strange… How was this possible?
"Here," She pointed to a planet. "Here is where we will go."
He looked at it. "Why?"
"It is where I was born."
"Born?"
"That is what you humans say. It is where I was 'created'."
The lights of the stars all collided around them, making a vacuum of air and space, until all he could see was a vortex of time. He closed his eyes because of it. "Nagato!" She tightened her grip around his side.
"It will be over soon, Kyon. Just wait."
And then they were there. There was quiet.
He opened his eyes. "Yuki?" She wasn't beside him anymore. He hadn't noticed her hand's disappearance from his side as a purposeful thing; it was like it had just… gone. "Yuki?" He looked around himself, quickly. "Where are you?"
He was in a large field, and on the outskirts of the field was a forest of some kind. The field had to be about 1,000 feet in diameter and so he shouted his question, frightened. Then he got very quiet - afraid of who else could be here - remembering all the movies he had watched and all of the times the protagonist had done the same thing he had done and attracted some bad guy/creature to their side who then caught/ate them. He put his hand over his mouth and sank to the ground.
Where had she gone?! Why had she left, it made no sense!
"Kyon."
"Aaa!" He turned and moved backwards, pulling his body with his arms and pushing with his feet. Then, he saw it was Yuki and let out a long sigh. "Yuki…why…don't…what…where did you go!?!"
She stood, silent, then put her hand out to him to help him stand. He looked at it for a few moments, then took it. "I lost you." One he was standing he brushed the dirt off of himself. She watched him do this. "I am sorry. It took me a while to find your scans. I thought I might not find you. But then you started yelling…."
He looked down. "Yes, well." He brushed off the last of the dirt. "Thank you for finding me."
She turned. "Follow me." They started walking.
"Where are we going?"
"To my home."
She began walking and he followed her. "Home?"
"Yes."
The building was quite large and made of glass, which made it stick out painfully against its surroundings, but then when Kyon looked at it again, it seemed as though it didn't show at all. He looked terribly confused and Yuki pointed this out. "Well, it's just…everything seems to change in this place. Why?"
"You just have to get use to it, that's all." She opened a door on the side. "At first glace, things are exactly what they seem." He walked in. "Then, they change into what they were meant to be."
He looked at her as the door shut. "That makes no sense."
She watched him, carefully. "I know they will not to you." She started walking forward. "Follow me." She took them into a large room that was centered on a waterfall which spilled into a chasm in the middle of the floor. "Here." She pointed. "Look down there." He walked out and put his hand on a railing that was placed around it, peering below.
"What am I looking at?"
"Just look and you'll see."
He stared down into it, again. Opening his eyes, wide, he couldn't believe what he saw. "Oh, my. Is that?"
"Yes."
The waterfall fell down and ended in a deep black abyss, but once he looked harder he saw that the abyss held star after star, and finally, a quiet blue planet. He smiled. "That's Earth?"
"Yes."
"That's amazing." He turned back to her, leaning against the railing. He put his hand up to his forehead. "But, Yuki. Why did you bring me here? Of all places."
She thought for a moment. "It's…my favorite place."
He stood still, thinking about this. Nagato…had a favorite place? He looked back to the waterfall. And she wanted to share it with him. He smiled. Looking back to her, he took her hand. "Then I'm honored."
She blinked a few times and looked down at her hand being held by his, and then back up to him. She nearly looked flushed. Was she…emotional over this? Embarrassed? Happy, excited, anything? What was she thinking? Kyon watched her.
"I am…glad you like it." She walked to the edge and gazed into the abyss. "Yes. Glad."
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They returned to the SOS club room without much time passing, and soon Yuki was back in her chair and Kyon was sitting at the table. They were silent for a few moments before Kyon finally spoke.
"Thank you. Yuki." He tapped his fingers on the table once. "That was really cool."
She slowly turned a page. "Of course." Then, she looked up, slightly. "If you ever want to go again…don't hesitate to ask. I wouldn't mind going, either."
He smiled.