Hahahaha! I could say that I'm bored to death after I finished watching "My Heartfelt Sympathy Ninomiya." The story is good, I'll give it that, but, after the series… I felt like something was missing… I feel like writing at least an oneshot for it… a lemon at that…

Enough about that!

I've made up my mind through your votes (though I kinda detest those who voted by sending me messages)! I ain't gonna tell you guys what my character's role in this story until the next chapter; to keep you wondering what'll he do. And, the conversations between me and Shura are based on the conversations held by me and my friend while I'm making each chapter. And, they're just there for the hell of it!

Shura: Hey, where did you get this info on my "Powers"?

Misaki: Oh, that? It's actually based from "Lemuria Impact" from another anime…

Shura: You mean "Demonbane"?

Misaki: Yeah, guess you're right…

Shura: That's cool… but that aphrodisiac mist on the island was waaaay cooler!

Misaki: … yeah… (Walks away)

BTW, I STILL do not own Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu! If anyone thinks I do, then, go cry at a corner!

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Chapter 05: First Encounter

"So, um… why are we here again?" Kyon asked, all the while blankly looking at the place Shura had dragged him to in the middle of their 'double-date' with Haruhi and Sarah.

"Well, Kyon-kun. This place happens to have a wide variety of facilities that offer romantic entertainment such as restaurants, picture booths, carnivals and such," Shura proudly explained. He looked at his Rolex watch and huffed in agreement to himself. "Okay, it's mid-afternoon. Why don't we get ourselves some food?"

Instead of replying, Kyon looked at Haruhi's face, which seemed to be in discomfort. Her grip on his shoulder has tightened ever since they entered the area. 'Something must be wrong', was what Kyon had in mind. Though, he did like the feeling being pressed against his bare arm, he wanted to know what bothered her.

"Hey, what's wrong? Something the matter?"

Kyon took hold of both of her shoulders and looked deeply in her eyes. Haruhi was stunned at his advance. Only her iron will barred her from locking lips with him. The thing that bothered her quickly disappeared from her mind when he saw Kyon's smile when she said she was fine. However, inevitably, her will lost to her desire as she closed the distance between their lips to zero; their mouths now fighting for control over each other, trying to devour the other, not minding the crowd that started to gather around them, watching their happy moment. Even the mild-mannered young man with a girl latched on to his arm, couldn't stop himself from smiling at them. As much as he'd hate to break up their moment, he had to.

"Now, now, save your kisses for later. You two can continue when we arrive at our final destination."

Shura placed his hands on Haruhi and Kyon's shoulder, trying to get them off each other, which they did. Despite the deadly venomous aura being released by Sarah at that moment, his hand felt warm and welcoming. Again, he doubted Nagato and Koizumi's tale of his past.

Without warning, Haruhi's stomach suddenly growled ferociously, angry for being left on empty. Her face took on a bright red color.

"Why don't we get something to eat?" Kyon proposed while offering his elbow. She gladly took it and, with a quick glance, he knew what she meant.

"All right, I'll treat you. Same as always…"

"I know a great place to eat around these parts. The food there tastes really good while still being relatively cheap." Shura looked at the far end of the road and then back to the couple. He smiled his usual, already irritating but, very emotional smile. Taking the lead, he started slowly walking ahead on a direction much likely picked at random.

Haruhi and Kyon soon followed, running for a bit to catch up. When they did catch up, their positions allowed Shura to whisper a warning to Kyon; without letting Haruhi hear a word of it.

"We're being followed," he said. His smile has by now disappeared to compliment the serious look on his face. It creeped him out; not because they were being followed; it was because his face was only about three inches away from him…

…Atacertainfullyoccupiedrestaurant…

"This place is FULL of people!" Haruhi complained, looking around for an unoccupied table. "Though it doesn't smell like human sweat like most fully booked places do…"

"Well then, I'd suggest you two start looking for a table with occupants willing to share it. I'll order and it's my treat." He smiled and pointed at the bustling table area.

Haruhi shot him the 'annoyed' look and headed out to where he emphasized; her walking also shouted 'annoyed'. Kyon deftly followed, but not before grinding to a halt when Shura grabbed his arm.

"Those two hooded individuals under that tree are our stalkers. Recognize any of them?" he asked, pointing his thumb at the two figures outside the restaurant.

"Nope, don't know them," he replied after he took a quick peek. And that was only part true. The name 'Nagato Yuki' crossed his mind when he saw a small pocketbook the smaller stalker was reading. Though it seemed very unlikely that she would be a stalker, he nonchalantly dismissed it as a stranger.

"Tell me, are they bugging you?" he asked again.

"A little, why?" Kyon countered with a question of his own. He wanted an answer but, instead, received his constant smile.

"Oh, it's nothing." Then, as if nothing serious happened, he faced the counter and changed the subject. "What should I order for you two?"

Kyon sighed. He thought something was definitely going on. However, not knowing what it was and what to do, he ignored what just happened as simple curiosity of the mind and answered his question.

"Anything, as long as you pay."

That done, he turned to the table area, wanting to join Haruhi in her quest for shelter. He felt like the day has turned against him; meeting Shura in the middle of the day, just after he was given a dead-serious warning; being followed by who appeared to be stalkers; and getting to eat in a restaurant full of people. Just as he thought things couldn't get worse, he bumped on to Sarah's shoulder as he turned around.

A pair of murderous yellow eyes glared at him… ready to strike a venomous blow at any moment…

"What took you so long!? I've been here and there, looking for a table for AGES!"

Kyon sighed; another moment to ruin his day. Though, it did come in the form of a beautiful teenage girl who has just confessed to him after he had done the same. That fact reduced its impact at its very least.

"Well, whatever. Let's just find a table," she said, also waving it off.

Kyon scanned the room for three unlikely things; one: people about to exit the restaurant; two: people who has a table, but still has space to share; and three: a vacant table, which was THE most unlikely scenario at that time.

"Ah, there, Kyon!" Haruhi playfully yelled at his ear. Ignoring the silent wincing of pain in his ear canal, he looked at the direction where she was pointing.

"Ah, a miracle by her majesty," he thought when he saw a decently large table smack-dab at the middle of the area occupied by only two people. Used to the sight of the unusual, he didn't ask himself why people hadn't thought about sharing a seat with the couple at the table; he was already thinking that Haruhi made it so to suit their needs.

"Excuse me," Haruhi intruded as normally as Kyon could define it. Though, he was also used to that act of hers. "A way to stay out of trouble, I guess"

The young couple at the table didn't hesitate to share the table when asked. They seemed nice in looks, and in conduct. Especially the blue-haired lady, even though Kyon thought her red eyes was producing a mysterious aura around her. Still, she was nice and, obviously, married to the young man across her (she had a wedding ring on her ring finger, duh!)

Taking a seat beside the male, he looked up at the counter to see if Shura had already ordered or was still at the line. Fortunately, he was already paying; food already at-and. Well, not really. Most of what he had ordered was in trays. The only thing in his hand was his drink, which was already half-full from his sipping.

"He still seems normal…"

Looking to Haruhi, he saw that she was already in an animated conversation with the woman beside her. And now, the man beside HIM was trying to spark a conversation of his own.

"A date?" he asked. Kyon looked at him and tried to sniff nothing to his nose.

"Yeah," was Kyon's answer. Feeling in the mood for a quick conversation, he finished with a question of his own.

"And you?"

"Me too…" was the man's answer; brief and to-the-point like his. "Now, do you have a plan?"

"A plan?"

"Yes, a plan. I messed up that part on my first date. But, creativity has its uses. So, do you have a plan?"

Kyon could feel his eyebrows sink in despair. THAT was his problem all day. And THAT was the reason he agreed on the 'double-date', to learn from Shura who, apparently, wasn't a first-timer.

"Nope. No plans here."

The man looked as if he was about to cry in pity. Carefully, as if not letting the women across him notice, he produced a brochure from his pocket and slowly handed it over to Kyon via under the table.

"Here, if you're going to spend your night someplace, might as well spend it here."

Kyon looked at the brochure and paused for a second.

"Are you crazy? This is a hotel brochure!" Kyon fumed in a hushed voice. He looked over at Shura again to see what was taking him and saw him arguing with the store clerk. "He acts normal too; too normal to act."

The man glanced at the brochure and made a short gasp.

"Oops! Wrong brochure," he said as he quickly, if not forcefully retrieved the brochure, fumbled around his pocket for a second and handed him over a new one.

Thinking of the hotel brochure, Kyon's face faintly turned red as an image of them making out ran through his mind. As he realized he was about to get a nosebleed and a drooling session, he quickly shook himself from his dream and blamed his actions on adolescence.

"Here. I know that this IS the right one."

He handed over a purple brochure from a carnival on the area. Kyon looked at it like a baby looked at its first toy. The young man beside him smiled at his enthusiasm.

After a moment of reading the fine print (something like his habit), he looked up at the man to say thanks when he heard Haruhi nervously yelp "Thank you!" to the blue-haired beauty. Of course, being Haruhi, she quickly realized what she had done and blushed like there was no tomorrow; breaking it up with an arrogant "What're you two looking at?!" ignoring the fact that the man beside Kyon was a stranger to her.

The mood was getting thick as Haruhi's glare drowned both of the guys at the other end of the table; the red-eyed lady beside her couldn't help but giggle silently, placing her hand over her lips. Thankfully, due to Shura's constant 'bad-timing', he arrived with a table plate in hand.

Eyes closed and scratching the back of his head in frustration, he said without looking at the situation unfolding, "Damn, they got me the wrong order. We have to wait till the food arrives." Hearing only silence, he opened his dark eyes to see Haruhi's stare shooting bull's eyes at Kyon and the stranger beside him like an arrow.

"Ehm… what's going on here?" he asked. Kyon looked at him with eyes like they saw a ghost. "Ugh… never mind…" he finally said and took a seat beside Kyon, ignoring his inaudible pleas for help.

A moment later, feeling her eyes tire out, Haruhi finally broke the death-stare, leaving Kyon and other to regain their composure.

Finally catching his breath and finishing his drink, he and his wife quietly dismissed themselves, leaving a thumbs-up from the man to Kyon and a wink from the woman to Haruhi. Seeing the parting gestures, Shura couldn't stop his meager curiosity from rising. He opened his mouth to start asking away before stopping, realizing that his curiosity may cost him his head.

Then, Kyon realized something; it was that something was missing. He thought that when Shura arrived, he'd get stared at to death by his partner, Sarah. A question arose when that thought came to his mind. Where IS Sarah?

"Hey, dude, where's Sarah?" he asked ever so numbly.

"Hey, that sounded like a commercial I've gotten fond of…" was Shura's answer, along with a smile. His smiled slowly deteriorated when he saw Kyon's look; annoyed like hell.

"Yeah…" his voice trailed off; his head traveled to his left. "I had her take care of some business…"

Kyon remembered from one of Mr. Okabe's enlightening lessons that, when asked, if a person looks to his right, they are remembering. If they look to their left, they are inventing. He hoped that this wasn't true as he WAS looking to his left.

"By the way, I suggest you move on to Suzumiya-san's side. Sarah's back."

Standing up and sitting beside Haruhi wasn't an easy feat. His head hurt from Haruhi's prior glare and every shaking it took made it hurt like hell. Fortunately, Haruhi noticed it and tended to it, running her hand at the back of his head, caressing it with utmost care. Unfortunately, Sarah arrived a couple of seconds later. She sat beside Shura and immediately grabbed hold of his arm and glared at Kyon again. Apparently, she still remembered Kyon's little 'accident'.

Taking notice of Haruhi's caring action towards him, he finally realized that it was starting to gain consistency. Caring about him wasn't un-Haruhi-ish for her, he thought. Caring WAS becoming Haruhi-ish to her!

Looking beck to his right, he took a quick glance at what Shura was doing; he was now arguing with a waiter again. Kyon processed their exchange of words and found out that it was another ordering mistake. "Still too normal to be him…"

He stopped a reflex of scrunching his face and looked back at Haruhi, who was now growing those 'kind' eyes Kyon has never seen before. Now that he thought about it, Shura WAS arguing with someone. He didn't stop to look at Sarah's face. He felt sure that it would've been priceless.

Then, the most unlikely thing happened. Not like hell just froze or a giant lizard that blows flames from its mouth appeared. Haruhi's gentle strokes of concern and care on his head moved down to his hands. Kyon felt her warmth. However, he also felt something like crumpled paper on her right hand, but it didn't matter.

"Haruhi…"

"Kyon…"

They said each other's names in unison. Upon realization, their face quickly turned bright red.

"You first, Kyon…" Haruhi silently offered.

"No, you go on…"

Of course, this was Haruhi Kyon was talking to. She quickly accepted Kyon's first offer and started first. "She's still eccentric and arrogant as ever…"

She accepted the offer looking confident. But after she did, she quickly shrunk down, a bit too shy to say what was on her mind. Rubbing Kyon's hand with hers gave her a bit of much-needed confidence. Though what really gave her the drive to ask him is when she looked a bit to her left and saw Sarah smiling at her (?)

"Kyon… would you… g…go with m-me to the... carnival?" Her voice, a bit shaky, Kyon noticed. And then, he wondered: "How did she get the same idea?"

Finally, getting too irritated by the paper on Haruhi's warm, delicate hands, he looked at the paper she was holding to see what he would be dealing with.

He felt all hell broke loose when he saw the paper photo-paper that she held. It was the same brochure the man earlier gave him! God's will, maybe? Kyon didn't think so. But, it WAS possible considering she's God and all…

Meanwhile… Shura was still at it with the waiter…

"Haruhi, I'd love to go to the carnival with you…" was Kyon's gentle response. It enjoyed Haruhi greatly; so greatly that she inadvertently threw herself to Kyon, almost knocking him off the chair.

"I never thought running around, building my leg muscles would help me this much," he thought as he gently caressed Haruhi's hair. They stayed like that for God-knows-how-long. Maybe three minutes? Kyon blushed even more as he felt her soft, tender breasts press against his torso. Other than that, she felt very warm and welcoming. He was pretty sure that it was the first time he felt it before. And he was also pretty damn sure that he won't be feeling like that from anyone else. He knew what it was called… 'Love'

Placing himself in a trance of pure bliss, he almost didn't hear the sudden outburst of a middle-aged man behind him…

"Haruhi? Haruhi, is that you!?"

Haruhi looked-up at the man. So did Kyon; but not before seeing her eyes widen in surprise… or shock.

"Father!?"

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Woops! I had writer's block so I haven't written too much this time. I just wanted to mess around your heads when I mentioned Shura arguing with restaurant staff. (No, really, he did) (Rating for supernatural will be verified next chapter up 'til the last)

Shura: Hey, don't you think the last chapter was a bit too… informative?

Misaki: What do you mean?

Shura: I mean, you explained too much about my past on that chapter…

Misaki: What, you want the situation to be explained by a robot that calls itself Terminator MK II? Not to mention he'll be your enemy and he would look like Lara Croft (0o)…

Shura: No… I just wanted to –

Misaki: If not then shut the hell up!

Shura: …