Rayquaza45: Yep. Time once again for another update to the first ever Haruhi Suzumiya and Maid Sama crossover on this site.

The Idiot Trio is planning something, what is it? Haruhi reveals some details about her plan with the Super Sentai outfits Kyon is getting made.

And the day of the Seika High/North High basketball match is soon. Everyone is getting geared up for it but something has Kyon's friend Taniguchi concerned.

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(Play: Maid Sama OP - My Secret)

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Chapter 5: Protect the Scoreboard at all costs! The Idiots Invade!

(Wednesday at 2:55pm)

(Seika High School)

As usual, the idiot trio, of Seika High consisting of Shirokawa, also known as Shiroyan, Kurotatsu and Ikkun, was lounging around the schoolyard even though classes were going on. The group only attended roughly half of their classes and goofed off the rest of the time. Today, after lunch, they skipped their afternoon classes and relaxed on campus.

Under the stairs next to the boxing club arena, the three of them were sitting in a circle and discussing the plan that Kurotatsu had come up with yesterday for the basketball match against North High School tomorrow.

"So tonight, we get into their gymnasium and 'steal' their scoreboard?" Kurotatsu said. "Right?"

"Oh yeah, it's gonna be hilarious when they realize their 'scoreboard' is missing!" Ikkun laughed.

Shirokawa snickered. "The best part is, they're gonna be totally humiliated without 'it'!"

None of them were able to speak effectively while they were laughing. Thankfully, nobody was nearby or they'd have thought the three of them were drunk, high or both.

"Hey, you two," Kurotatsu started as he settled down a bit. "how did the conversation at the mini-mart go?"

"Oh, it was fine." The blue haired boy told him. "They don't suspect a thing, I bet."

"Would it make any difference if it did, though?" Shirokawa asked seriously.

Kurotatsu gave it some thought. "Nah, I don't think so."

"There was nothing in their reactions that suggested they knew anything more than necessary." Ikkun said.

"Since when did you learn to read faces?" Kurotatsu laughed.

"Huh?" Ikkun blurted. "What's that supposed to mean?"

"He's insulting you!" Shirokawa whispered in Ikkun's ear.

"Hey, are you calling me stupid!" Ikkun shouted upon realizing what Shirokawa meant.

"No, no, you just surprised me a bit by being intelligent." Kurotatsu said.

"If you underestimate someone, you're gonna get pulverized." Shirokawa warned him.

"Are you implying something about those North High kids?" Ikkun asked.

"We won't underestimate them!" Kurotatsu proclaimed with his fist in the air. "We've pulled out half the stops and the rest will be pulled out by tonight!"

"We rule!" The three of them exclaimed at once with their fists connecting in the air.

"Well, well, well." A voice repeated near the boys, putting all of them on alert. "What do we have here?"

The idiot trio looked up at noticed the presence of Misaki Ayuzawa, the student council president of Seika High and maid at Maid Latte. While the three of them hated Misaki at first due to her strict nature and extreme feministic behaviour, once they found out about her position as a maid in Maid Latte, they had developed and infatuation and become her biggest fans, next to Takumi Usui, of course. But, as expected, she didn't care much about their infatuation and was still extremely strict with them.

"How long have you slackers been here?" She asked with fire burning in her eyes like the devil.

"We haven't been here that long, Misaki!" Kurotatsu nervously replied. "Not long at all."

"LIAAAAR!" She shouted as she comically knocked him a dozen yards away with her fist.

"Oh, that's so hot." Ikkun thought, coming up with various scenarios in his mind.

"Now, let's try again." She said as she turned back to the other two members of the idiot trio. "How long have you been cutting class?"

"An…hour?" Shirokawa said submissively as he nudged Ikkun to confirm the lie.

"Yeah, just an hour." The blue haired otaku said as he understood what the nudges were for. "Just since 2:00 o'clock!"

"If you three ever want to graduate, you need to stop skipping!" She told them. "Graduate, and for God's sake, get out of here!"

"Yes, Misaki!" Ikkun and Shirokawa said simultaneously.

"Yes…" Kurotatsu said weakly from his spot a dozen yards away.

"Good, now go home." She told them as she walked off.

When Misaki was out of sight, Shirokawa and Ikkun went over and helped Kurotatsu get off the ground at last. He was still a bit shaken up from the hit. Misaki was an expert at aikido and could physically outmatch any boy other than Takumi Usui. It was for this reason that the males of Seika High looked to him as a kind of 'savior' and guiding light while Misaki was going nuts.

It was no secret that she favoured the female student body and regarded most guys as pigs. Her policies were much stricter for guys and if they were ever caught harassing the girls, from her point of view, she'd punish them. Kurotatsu remembered the story about one guy who got locked in a gym closet for belly dancing near the girls. After about an hour, Takumi showed up and knocked down the door, setting that guy free.

"Alright guys." Kurotatsu said as he dusted off his clothes. "Take me to my house so we get can get our equipment."

"What about the others?" Ikkun asked.

"Use my house's phone and call them." He responded.

"Let's go show 'em who's boss!" Shirokawa exclaimed as the three of them walked off.

(Wednesday at 3:30pm)

(SOS Brigade Headquarters)

"Hmm?"

Haruhi, Koizumi, Asahina. They're all staring at me for some reason.

"What is it?"

"You're much chipper than usual." Haruhi exclaimed.

Once again, Koizumi was way too close to my face for my personal comfort.

"You seem to be a bit happier than usual." He observed.

"Get away from my face, now."

"Kyon, you do seem different." Asahina commented.

Yeah. The SOS Brigade is psychoanalyzing me. Nagato is the only one who hasn't lost her mind. Yeah, I'm a bit happier than usual. The truth is; I can't stop thinking about that girl from the Maid Café yesterday. I'd ask for her number or something, but I think that's against the rules these Maid Cafés have. You're not even allowed to bring cameras into some of these places.

I'd tell them this, but Haruhi would be asking me what I was doing there and after what happened with me and Asahina back when we first met, it'd be better if Haruhi didn't know, given that she'd probably destroy the world…again.

"Guys, there's no reason to worry." I assured them. "I'm fine."

"Who's worried?" Haruhi asked.

Aren't you? Isn't that why you're grilling me?

"Anyways, I gotta go for a minute," Haruhi said as she ran out the door. "I'll be back!"

Take your time.

Koizumi finally sat down in front of me and Asahina went back to making tea.

Then Mr. Esper started looking at me a bit differently than usual. His look indicated something along the lines of uncertainty.

"Kyon." He said. "I've got something to tell you."

"What is it?"

"Three days ago, I was investigating closed space which had appeared in the city. I don't know how it appeared, but it did." Koizumi said. "I was en route but somehow, I lost track of the space only to regain it a few moments later."

"So what? Maybe you just lost concentration."

"No, I highly doubt that. When I lost track of the space, I concentrated harder and harder but it didn't come back for a few moments."

"Maybe your powers are just messing with you?"

"I was being messed with, but I don't believe it was by my powers."

"Who then?"

"There were two teenagers, a girl with black hair and a boy with blonde hair. When they came close to me, that's when it happened. When they were gone, my abilities came back."

"So you think they're espers like you?"

"No, I've never heard of espers with powers so radically different from my own. Whoever they were, one or both of them had completely rendered me unable to use my powers."

"What kind of being could do that?"

He's looking at me kind funny. What's he thinking?

"I advise you to keep a look out. If my suspicions are correct, whoever did this to me has powers on par with Miss Suzumiya."

"You're kidding me. Another 'God'?"

"Maybe not, but the energy I felt was almost like the closed space itself, and Miss Suzumiya is the only one we know about who can create it."

"Why are you telling me this?"

"For the same reason I'm talking about this within range of Nagato and Asahina's ears. I want you three to take care of yourselves because we are necessary for Miss Suzumiya."

Does he always have to call her Miss Suzumiya? Even when she's not around?

"Yeah, I guess, but what do these guys have against us? The way you talk, this was just a random encounter and may never happen again."

"You could be right, but I'd advise caution all the same. Whether it was both of those two or just one, they cancelled out my abilities and could do the same to others."

"I don't have any powers. Shouldn't you just be warning the girls?"

"Nagato, Asahina, that means you two."

Asahina turned around with the kettle in her hand. Clearly, she'd been listening pretty intently to what Koizumi was saying and seemed a bit worried.

"Thank you for telling me this Koizumi, I will take extra precautions." She squealed.

Nagato? Are you worried about this?

"Nagato. I'd advise you to take caution as well." Koizumi said.

She just lifted her head out of her book for a moment and gave a nod.

Truthfully, if the one who negated Koizumi's power were to find Nagato, would her powers be erased? Would she turn into a normal human or would she disappear altogether? If not, what about her personality?

If they were near Asahina, would she lose her ability to time travel? I thought she only realizes her power when she tries to use it, so would it really matter? She can't time travel when other people are nearby anyways.

"Tell me something; wasn't the negation of your powers based on range?"

"Well, that's how it seemed to be. When they were nearby, I lost them, but when they were gone I regained them."

"Koizumi, what would you say the distance was?"

"Probably about 10, maybe 15, feet."

"So as long as you stay out of their range, wouldn't you be alright?"

"It seems to be so, but I'd be worried about repeated encounters and we should be grateful we haven't encountered them before-"

Just then, the door opened up and the key to evolution slash time ripple slash God slash psycho or whatever was back.

"Let's go over our plan for this Friday." Haruhi said. "Koizumi, the lights!"

Just like the suck-up he is, Koizumi shut off the lights as Haruhi turned on the computer and flipped in a CD.

The rest of us gathered around so we could see. There were five rangers from Super Sentai there. Red in the middle, green and blue on his left and right, yellow and pink behind those two.

"This is almost the format we'll use this Friday."

Almost?

"Pink and yellow will switch places with blue and green but red stays in the middle." She explained. "Blue and green come in half way."

"Half way through what?"

"The dance, of course."

"Dance!"

"Yeah. We're going to do a dance and put it up on the website."

Thank you for deciding all that without asking any of us. Well, I guess it's not that surprising but it does suck still. What kind of dance is this supposed to be exactly?

"What dance are you planning, exactly?"

"A fun one." She responded.

"Look, is there any way I can get out of it?" I asked. "These Super Sentai costumes are one thing, but doing a dance in them is just too much."

"Nobody's gonna know it's you, Kyon." She said. "You're gonna be wearing that helmet."

"I doubt the helmet is gonna make much of a difference! There are only gonna be two boys in the group and one of them has to be me!"

"Maybe you'll change your mind after you hear this?" She said as she clicked on the windows media player.

nazonazo mitai ni chikyuugi wo tokiakashitara
minna de doko made mo ikeru ne

Thankfully, after those lines, Haruhi paused the song.

"So how about it?" She asked.

"You're not serious, are you?"

"Of course I am!" She exclaimed. "We're doing this in our costumes, putting it on the Internet, and hoping it goes viral!"

"Why exactly would you want to do this?"

"Because it's gonna be awesome!" She shouted. "Now everyone line up! We're gonna start practicing right now!"

This is just great.

(Wednesday at 5:00pm)

(Maid Latte)

As usual, the idiot trio was eating at Maid Latte after school. Of course, eating was the secondary reason to come, the chance to gawk at Misaki Ayuzawa in a maid costume being the first. They had just arrived and been seated by the manager herself and had seen Takumi come inside, since he was apparently working today.

Though the school hours technically ended about two hours ago, Misaki always stayed behind for a while due to her responsibilities as the student council president.

"When do we head out?" Shirokawa asked.

"Soon. First we get the equipment from my house, gather the others at night, and then we go." Kurotatsu explained.

"I can't wait!" The blue haired Ikkun exclaimed.

"Hey, calm down." Shirokawa told him. "You know if this backfires we'll probably be expelled."

"Only if they catch us!" Ikkun pointed out.

The blonde turned to the brunette. "Was it really necessary to go with the information to the minimart? I know it's like misdirection but-"

"It's about humiliating them! We're gathering the others to be our cover, help out and make an alibi." He told him.

"I guess there's no turning back now." Ikkun observed.

"Masters, may I take your order?" A red haired maid asked as she came to the table.

The three of them noticed that the maid was not Misaki, but her coworker Erika, the college girl with red hair. The three of them were surprised at first, given that even though Misaki dislikes them, she was always the one who took their orders.

"Is…uh…Misaki…?" Ikkun stuttered.

"I'm sorry, Misaki isn't working today." She apologetically stated.

At this, the three of them comically flat lined. Their disappointed faces smashed into the table as they began to jokingly weep.

"Oh, please don't do that, Masters." Erika pleaded. "I'm sure I can help you."

Shirokawa was the only one of the three to lift up his head at the offer and wipe his face. "Can we just have the Moe Omelet Rice?"

"Absolutely, Master." She said as she wrote it down on paper. "Will there be anything else?"

"Nooo…" Ikkun wearily answered in Shirokawa's place.

"Very well then." She said as she curtsied and left.

"Ikkun, are you nuts? You expect all of us to share rice with each other?" Shirokawa angrily asked. "I'm not gonna be your girlfriend!"

"I'm not even hungry!" He whined. "I just eat for the sake of being where Misaki works."

"Oh that's pathetic!" The blonde exclaimed. "Even by your standards, you otaku!"

"Low…blow!" He tiredly commented.

(5 minutes later)

Shirokawa was still the only one with his head above the table while Kurotatsu and Ikkun still looked like they were dying out.

Then, the curtain opened up and Erika walked over to the table of the trio and presented them with their rice.

"Here you are, Masters." She smiled. "Is there anything I can write on it for you?"

"Feelings?" Shirokawa asked.

"Certainly." She said as she took a bottle of the specialty sauce and wrote out wording on the rice with it.

Ecstatic

"There you are, Master." She said. "Is there anything else I can do for you?"

"No." Shirokawa said as he looked at the food.

"Very well then." She said as she left.

"Well, Misaki only ever writes 'annoyed'." Shirokawa remembered.

"Shirokawa?" Kurotatsu asked as he lifted his chin off the table a bit.

"Get over yourselves, you dorks." He said.

(Wednesday at 9:00pm)

(Kyon's house)

Man that's a ridiculous dance Haruhi's making us do. Swinging hips, moving around the stage and jumping? I've never heard of anything so ridiculous. It's a good thing I only have to come in half way through cause if I had to swing my hips like Asahina has to swing hers, the Super Sentai helmet isn't gonna do anything to protect me from embarrassment.

Compounded by the fact that the dance, once we record it, is going up on the SOS Brigade website, this is gonna suck. The only relief for me is the fact that practically nobody goes to our website.

Let's not forget the-

KYON!

Was that my sister?

When I got downstairs, I could see her directing me towards the living room. When I got there, I could see Kunikida and Taniguchi sitting on the chairs, looking at me.

"What are you two-?"

"Sorry to come here at this hour Kyon, but we've gotta tell you something." Taniguchi interrupted me.

"What would that be?"

"It's about school." Kunikida started. "Yesterday, we were at a minimart when we heard some students from Seika High talking about how they were gonna steal our scoreboard tonight."

"Seika High? Aren't we gonna have a basketball match against them tomorrow?"

"That's right. I'm one of the players." Taniguchi said. "A few of us are going down to the school to guard the scoreboard."

"Will you come with us?" Kunikida asked.

I've heard of inter-school rivalries, but for one school to try to steal another school's scoreboard? What's that about? What would that accomplish?

"Me? Wouldn't it be better for you to just take the basketball team and guard the scoreboard yourselves?"

"I wanted you to come because a lot of those guys are no fun in normal situations." Taniguchi said.

The last thing I would classify this situation as is 'normal'.

"So we're just gonna sit in front of the scoreboard all night and talk?"

"Well…yeah." Kunikida said. "But you don't have to stay there all night. Just keep us company for a little while."

"Wouldn't you get in trouble?"

"Nah, we'll be covered by the dark of night." Kunikida laughed. "Some other guys even arranged alibis if we need to escape."

"What about me?"

Taniguchi pulled out his cell phone. "We'll call them on the way and let them know."

"You want me to go right now?"

"Better now than later."

….

"Fine. I'll get my coat."

When I was heading back upstairs, not surprisingly, I was stopped right there by my sister and Shamisen, the adopted cat who once had the ability to speak. Did I say that right? Damn, I'm losing my mind.

"Kyon, where are you going!" She asked.

"I'm going out."

"It's late at night, you can't go!" She cried. "Mom and Dad are gonna be here any minute!"

"Look, I'll call them on the way so you won't be alone. Give them a few minutes."

"Please don't go there!"

"I'm sorry. When you're in high school, you'll understand."

When I walked off, I knew she was still worried. Even if we she were in high school she probably wouldn't understand. Even I don't really understand it myself.

Damn it. I still can't figure out why I should even bother. Is it a matter of school pride or just a desire for the uncertain? As if I don't get enough of that from hanging out with Haruhi and the SOS Brigade.

(Wednesday at 9:25pm)

(Outside North High School)

I told Taniguchi and Kunikida to go on ahead and I'd meet with them later. I couldn't leave my sister alone, even for a minute.

My parents did eventually arrive a few minutes after those two guys left and I told them I was going out. I just said they needed my help at school for the upcoming match. It's not technically false since they do need my help and it is about the match tomorrow. Even though it was a school night, they let me go since it was for school, as far as they knew.

I caught up with Taniguchi and Kunikida across the street from school and told them I'd stick around for a while. They were alright and we walked over to meet some of the other basketball players. But there was one person who wasn't on the team…at all.

"HEY! KYON!" A green haired girl with a rather prominent fang-like tooth called out to me.

"Hey, quiet, you're gonna get us found out." A boy from the soccer team whispered, gently nudging her.

"Tsuruya, what are you doing here?"

"I found out about what those Seika High gorillas are planning so I came along to guard the scoreboard."

As much as I'd hate to admit it, she'd probably be better at me than guarding the scoreboard. It still embarrasses me to think about the time in the other world when she restrained me in confrontation without much effort. Even if I didn't give it my all.

"Well, we can't guard it out here. Let's go inside."

The gym was completely unguarded for some reason or another. Does that mean the watchmen are lazy or that they aren't here tonight? We didn't even see them outside.

It was a bit warmer in the gym that outside given that it's still January and the temperature is pretty typical. Tsuruya was the only one smart enough to bring something to eat. A bag of American pretzels which she passed around to each of us.

"These are pretty good."

"Yeah." She agreed with me. "Maybe we should use them to lure the Seika High gorillas?"

"So tell me, why are they gorillas?"

She actually looked a bit confused when I said that. "You mean you haven't heard?"

"Heard what?"

"Seika High has a population that's 80% guys, and for those 20% girls, they say their lives there are hell!"

"How can it be that bad?"

"Well it used to be an all-boys school but they went co-ed a few years ago." She explained. "But boys are still the majority and they're totally crazy. They've even been in the news sometimes."

"For what?"

"I heard some students got into a fight with a couple of guys from Miyabigaoka High School."

"You mean that school for super rich kids?"

"Yeah." She said. "They say that there was a threat of lawsuits. A few months later, they say there was a property battle between a student's family business and some establishment in the next town over."

"And all that came from some useless street fight?"

"Yeah!" She exclaimed. "Seika High students are really crazy."

While I won't really agree or disagree with her, I need to point out that pretty much everything she said against that school was 'I heard' or 'they say'. If she hasn't experienced or seen anything first hand, she really shouldn't say anything so accusatory.

Of course, now I was a bit more curious about these guys. Maybe some of them are a bit crazy, particularly if they're gonna come to a rival school in the black of night and steal a scoreboard.

How were they planning on doing that anyway? It's electronic and it's bolted to the wall about 20-25 feet higher than anyone can reach, even with a ladder. To remove it you'd need some kind of electrical engineering qualification or you could get injured. You'd also need a car or a truck to move it. And you'd need to do all of that in secret.

So does that make what we're doing here pointless? Did they just make it up to get us to stick around the gym in the cold of night to make us look silly? Those guys are probably in bed right now with their hands in their pants.

(Wednesday at 10:05pm)

(North High School Gym)

"Guys…I'm gonna take off."

"You're leaving?" Tsuruya asked.

"Yeah. We've got school tomorrow and if you guys wanna play a good match, you'll go home and get to sleep."

"He's not wrong." Taniguchi said as he looked around at his teammates.

"But what about the scoreboard?" A guy asked.

"If we leave now they could come in and steal it!" Another guy said. "Then we'll be the losers who let their school down."

"Well, you could stay here and just take turns on lookout."

"Works for me."

"Me too."

I dusted my clothes off and got up so I could leave. Tsuruya got up too but Taniguchi, Kunikida and the other guys sat where they were. She lived in the opposite direction far away from me so she started walking away.

"BYE!" She shouted from afar!

Doesn't she realize that they could hear her if they really are here?

"Yeah…so, see you later, guys. Good luck in the game tomorrow."

"Yeah." "See ya." "Good night." Were some of the responses I heard as I walked off.

Sometimes I wonder. If I were in a city which came under terrorist attack, would any of my so-called friends worry about me? I mean would they call me or e-mail me to ask if I was okay? As much as I like being alone, it's nice to be wanted.

(Play: Haruhi Suzumiya End - Tomare)

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Rayquaza45: So that's the end of this chapter here. The Idiot Trio was not seen by Kyon or the players so where could they be? What are they up to?

Next time: Chapter 6: Remember the Comedians

The day of the North High/Seika High basketball match is here! Who will be victorious?

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Till next time!