Rayquaza45: Welcome back! Sorry for the wait but Master of Johto, my pokemon fanfic, HAS to be completed soon because I owe it to the readers.
It is chapter 8! Here, Takumi takes Misaki, Yukimura, Ikkun and Kurotatsu over to North High to talk to their Student Council President about his role in the kidnapping of Shiroyan. But what they find is not what they expect.
Meanwhile, the SOS Brigade finally performs their dance in their Super Sentai costumes to upload to their website. Who are these intruders!
All unexpected fun and mystery and a bunch of other things as these two gangs meet for the first time and the SOS Brigade finds out the real identity of the one Koizumi calls 'The Absence'.
Please read and review at the end! Thanks and enjoy!
(Play: Haruhi Suzumiya OP - Bōken Desho Desho)
(End)
The Confrontation
I can't even begin describing the embarrassment I felt when I brought in those Super Sentai uniforms to school this morning. The guards checked them to make sure there weren't any drugs or weapons hidden inside them. I swear I heard one of them call me a child for 'playing' with Super Sentai. I tried to get in as fast as possible but that damn box made me stick out like a sore thumb. But I managed to get through the guards afterwards and leave the costumes in the SOS Brigade club room and now that it's nearly twelve thirty, I can take a break from these boring classes and go eat somewhere quiet.
The big problem comes after that, though. Today is the day we're supposed to do that stupid dance in the costumes, record it and upload it onto the website. The only real benefit I can think of with this is that it might cheer up the student body to laugh at us since everyone's a bit depressed after we lost that basketball match against Seika High yesterday. But even more than the match, the players are all in a sour mood thanks to those pink uniforms they ended up having to wear. I heard from Kunikida that one of the players actually burned his on the roof and left it there. But I doubt that, since students aren't allowed up there.
"Alright that's it for today." The teacher finally said with just seconds to go before the bell rang. "I'll see you next week."
*BUZZZZZZZZZZZZ*
Well, all I can say is that it's about time we got out of there. If there's one thing that causes a bigger headache than logarithms, it's the applications of logarithms. I mean, they look like they were used on the NASA Space Shuttle so how are we supposed to calculate them in the time we have on tests?
So as I opened the door into the SOS Brigade Headquarters, I heard the music blasting loud enough to fill the room, but not so loud as to attract unwanted attention. I saw that Nagato, Asahina and Koizumi were already in their Super Sentai costumes but didn't have their helmets on. Koizumi looked a bit more muscular than normal in his green one while Nagato in yellow nearly made her pale face disappear. Then there was the time traveller in the pink outfit, Mikuru Asahina…in spandex…if there is a God, He answered my prayers.
"KYON, GET IN HERE!" Haruhi shouted at me.
Well, she wanted to do this and she's the only one who's not in her costume. I closed the door, cause I was afraid someone would hear the music, and got in. Haruhi directed me to take my costume and put it on elsewhere. She doesn't mind changing in front of me but she won't let me change in front of her? Wait, what am I saying! I don't wanna change in front of her!
I ran to the bathroom and put on the costume. I left the helmet in the club room so I didn't have to carry it around. I put my uniform over the spandex so I wouldn't have to walk around in it and proceeded back into the club room. Walking with that dark blue spandex was a bit difficult since it constricted my movement and felt really tight in a certain area. I think I can now empathize with Spiderman from that Hollywood blockbuster 'Spider-Man 2' in 2004.
It's a good thing I didn't run into anyone I knew all that well. Taniguchi would've laughed his head off at the way I'm walking and Kunikida would've picked up on the double layers of clothes instantly since the neck of the costume kept sticking up and I needed to keep pushing it down to make it stay down, without much success.
So I got back to the clubroom and the music had ended. Koizumi, Nagato and Asahina were all wearing their helmets and even Haruhi had changed into her red outfit and put on her helmet. I can only imagine who was in the room when she did that. She stared pushing all of us into place. She was gonna be in the middle with Asahina on her left and Nagato on her right. I was behind Nagato while Koizumi was behind Asahina.
"Alrighty then," she began. "I've set the camera on a timer and the music will begin any second."
This is the most embarrassing thing I'm ever gonna do.
Before the music started, I ran over to the box and grabbed my helmet and put it on since I needed it to hide.
"Let's go!"
(30 Minutes Earlier)
(Outside Seika High School)
"Is this everyone?" Misaki Ayuzawa, President of the Seika High Student Council asked as she looked at the gang she was bringing with her to North High School.
"Yes, Madame President, it's everyone you wanted." Souichirou Yukimura, the vice president of Seika High answered as he pointed out each individual. "The blue haired boy and the brown haired boy…"
"It's Ikkun and Kurotatsu to you, whimpy." Kurotatsu the brunette told him.
Ikkun, the blue haired one, was carrying a large package with him.
"Is that the box you took?" Misaki asked.
"Sure is." Ikkun said with a strained tone, apparently the box was heavier than he was letting on. His legs could be seen shaking under the weight. Of the three members of the Idiot Trio, he was the only one who was never physically strong.
Kurotatsu turned to him. "Come on, let me-"
"No, I got it!" Ikkun protested. "I can carry it!"
"And…hey, Takumi was here a minute ago!" Shouichirou exclaimed as he realized that the half Brit teen was nowhere to be seen. "We need him to go."
"That idiot." Misaki muttered, face palming herself. "There's no way we can go to North High without him."
All through the morning, Kurotatsu and Ikkun were confiding in Misaki about how worried they were about Shiroyan. After he was kidnapped yesterday by the president of North High's Student Council, they were supposed to go to the abandoned tennis courts by the subway lines, but once they told Misaki about it, she got them to hold off till tomorrow so she and Takumi could come with them to the school. Yukimura was coming in order to get some diplomatic weight. Now that it was time for the lunch break, they would have one hour and fifteen minutes to negotiate.
However, if Takumi didn't turn up soon, they wouldn't be able to get on the bus with him. But as Misaki was contemplating what to do, a silver Maserati GranTurismo MC pulled up in front of the school and opened its passenger side door. Inside it was Takumi Usui, sitting comfortably in the driver's seat and smiling at the Student Council members and the two remaining members of the Idiot Trio.
"Hello there," he smiled. "Sorry about disappearing like that, but I thought this would be a good opportunity to take my new car out for a spin."
"Holy crap, Takumi, this car's amazing!" Kurotatsu exclaimed as he carefully examined every inch of it.
Ikkun set the box on the ground so he could see himself in the shiny exterior of the car. "Sweet."
"It must cost more than the school!" Shouichirou said in a crazed state as he fawned over the car.
"Yukimura!" Misaki scolded him.
"Uh, sorry!" He said as he instantly straightened himself and stopped fawning. "But Takumi, it really is amazing."
"Takumi, tell me, where did you get this car?" Misaki asked. "It has to be foreign."
"It's a sports car from Italy," He explained. "I recently got it as a gift."
"Isn't it a little bit…much?" Misaki nervously asked.
"Are you suggesting that I don't deserve this car?" He asked her with a curious look on his face.
"No! It's not that!" She told him.
"Then what is it?" He asked.
"Uhh…how should I say this…?"
"Guys, please?" Kurotatsu asked, reminding them of their job. "Our buddy."
"We have to get to North High." Ikkun said as he picked up his box.
"Of course," Takumi said, pressing a button on the side which opened the locks. "Hop in."
Without hesitation, Kurotatsu and Shouichirou opened the door and slid into the back seats of the car while Ikkun put the box into the open trunk and ran around to get his seat. Misaki walked around to sit in the passenger seat next to Takumi. The interior had nice leather seats, television screens on the back of the driver and passenger seat headrests, a built-in G.P.S system, cup holders, air fresheners and many more features.
"Careful on the seats," Takumi told everyone as he started up the car. "They're leather."
The roar of the engine was like listening to a lion in the wild. The sound filled the air and gave everyone a sense of wonder and a sense of mystery as to who Takumi Usui really was.
"Everyone ready?" He asked.
"We are." Misaki answered for everyone.
"Alright then," he said as he adjusted his mirror. "Next stop: North High."
As the group drove to North High, they could see a great deal of pedestrians on the sidewalk looking at them as they drove by. It wasn't surprising since Takumi's car wasn't, to their knowledge, available from local dealers or showrooms and had to be special ordered from abroad. For much of the ride, Ikkun practically begged Takumi to turn on the screens in front of his seat but Kurotatsu scolded him for being frivolous at such an important time.
Eventually, they arrived at North High and entered the parking lot. Takumi left his car in an available parking spot while everyone else got out. Ikkun opened the trunk and took out the box he had left in there.
As Takumi pressed the button on his keys to close the car, numerous North High students took note of his appearance as much as they did his car. He shot those in the immediate area a serious look so as to tell them not to get too close to his new ride.
With that, Takumi Usui, Misaki Ayuzawa, Yukimura Shouichiro, Kurotatsu and Ikkun walked in a row of five into the entrance to North High.
While not as large as Seika High, the interior of the North High school was much cleaner. Nobody was making any trouble, at least none that they could see, which was quite the opposite of how Seika High used to be before Misaki became president.
Since asking any teachers for directions would probably result in unwanted attention, the gang decided it would be best to ask a student for help. They made their way up to the second floor of the building since it seemed logical that the Student Council Headquarters would be there since it was like that for Seika High.
"You two go that way." Misaki told Kurotatsu and Ikkun, pointing down the hall as she said so. "Find out if your buddy is in the school."
"You got it, Prez." Kurotatsu said as he grabbed Ikkun's wrist and dragged him along.
As they ran down the hall, Takumi turned to Misaki.
"Why send them away?" He asked.
"Because they'll make negotiations with the President difficult." She answered.
"But sending them running about the school may create problems for us." Yukimura expressed.
"I don't think their friend is being held here, it'd be too easy for a student or teacher to find him by accident." Misaki stated. "They'll look around for a while then they'll check outside."
"So what do we do then?" Takumi asked.
"We find the Student Council Headquarters and talk to this president of theirs." She responded.
Out of a room exited a boy roughly the same size as Yukimura. Misaki decided that it'd be best to ask him.
"Excuse me." She said as she walked up to him.
"Uhh…yes?" He hesitatingly responded.
"I'm the Student Council President of Seika High School." Misaki stated. "I'm looking for the Student Council Headquarters here."
The boy became increasingly nervous as Takumi and the other boy looked at him. They didn't know exactly why he was so nervous but assumed that it was because of Misaki. Finally he spoke up.
"It's over there." He said, pointing to a room in the far corner of the floor.
Misaki looked to her vice president. "Yukimura, call one of those guys' mobile phones and have them come here."
"Yes, ma'am." He said as he started dialing.
"And thank you." Misaki said to the North High student.
"N…no problem." He said as he ran away immediately.
(North High Student Council Headquarters)
As the President of the North High Student Council sat in his chair, reading his book with his glasses between his lips, the door burst open all of a sudden, catching his attention.
"SIR!" A boy shouted as he came in.
"What is it?" The president asked him.
"It's the Seika High Student Council President!" He said. "She came with some people to talk to you!"
"What did you tell these people?"
"Nothing sir. I pointed them to the Literature Club Room when they asked where the Student Council Headquarters were." The boy answered.
"Good job," He told him. "Now leave it be."
"Leave it be? But-"
"Get out!"
"Yes sir!" The boy acknowledged as he exited the room and closed the door behind him.
When he was finally alone, the president got out of his seat and set his book aside. He took out a cigarette and lighter from his pocket and began smoking, staring out the window at the sky.
"Well, this is quite the development." He thought to himself. "I wonder how our supernatural buddies are going to react."
(Two Minutes earlier)
(SOS Brigade Clubroom)
Alright. So now five high school students are in costumes from a show watched by kids. They're about to do a dance that's embarrassing and pointless and they're wearing helmets that, if they're all like the blue one, make you sweat like a pig. The camera is rolling and pretty soon, everyone is gonna know what losers we are.
"Alright SOS Brigade!" Haruhi shouted. "ASSEMBLE!"
Just like that, Haruhi got in there first and stuck her right arm out as she stepped from left to right while the opening melodies played before the lyrics. When the beat got higher she spread her arms apart and went into the middle.
Nagato and Asahina joined her here and their right arms went into the air, to the left, across their faces and on their hips as the lyrics began.
nazonazo mitai ni chikyuugi wo tokiakashitara
Seeing all of them with their hands on their hips swinging around like that made me wanna laugh. But if I did, I'd get thrashed around. I had to make sure I was out of the camera range too, since Koizumi and I were supposed to come in later.
minna de doko made mo ikeru ne
At this point, Nagato and Asahina started rolling their hands one over the other while Haruhi began moving about. Since she had her helmet on, I couldn't tell if she was really singing along or not.
jikan no hate made Boooon!
Asahina in the pink began moving into the middle as Haruhi pushed away Nagato who, for some reason, was not supposed to move. Anyways, they eventually brought her back to the front as the three of them lined up in their original positions.
WARP de LOOP na kono omoi wa
At this point, the three of them moved from side to side before moving their arms around which made it look like they were trying to do the Kamehameha from Dragon Ball. But thankfully, they just bent over and pushed their right arms out before jumping around and lightly tapping themselves on the head.
nani mo kamo wo makikonda souzou de asobou
Crap, time for me and Koizumi to get in this now.
aru hareta hi no koto
I'm in here. Now every one of us needs to do the same move where we put our right hands out in front of our lefts, next to our head and 'sweat it out' before wagging our fingers at the camera.
mahou ijou no yukai ga
Then we have to jump up and down putting up our fists repeatedly like we're about to fight some gay boxers.
kagirinaku furisosogu fukanou janai wa
Put your hands in the air. Move naturally from side to side. Put your hands in front of your face. Point north-east, north-west, south-east, south-west. Now, knock your right arm around as if you're angry.
ashita mata au toki warainagara HUMMING
Now you just have to move your hands about in various positions before moving them around your head as if you wanna knock yourself unconscious.
ureshisa wo atsumeyou
Now we put our hands in front of ourselves like a gang of homeless people before pulling them into a fist and moving back and forth.
kantan nanda yo konna no
Move our hands around like we're about to scold our children before moving our arms up and down like we're balancing a scale. I ought to brain the guy who came up with this dance.
oikakete ne tsukamaete mite
Swim. Swim like the damn fishes that swim in open air in a school in Japan. Stretch your arms wide before bending down.
ooki na yume yume suki deshou?
Left side. Right side. Right arm in the air like a fan with right hip out. This is embarrassing. Left arm high, right arm low. Bend down and showcase Haruhi!
Holy cow. I cannot believe I just did that. It's good thing I had this damn helmet on cause I'd have died otherwise. Okay, can I get up now-
*Creek* Was the sound the door made as it opened up.
There stood three people. One was just a short guy with blue hair. It was the other two people who really surprised me.
One of them was that tall blonde guy from Seika High who played in the basketball match yesterday. He was there when Koizumi said he lost his power or something and termed him 'The Absence'.
The final person was someone I never thought I'd see again, in public. A girl with long black hair, big eyes…and a rockin' body. I thought she was an adult and now I find out she's a high school girl in the same age group as me? And now she's with this blonde guy? If she's the girl Satsuki mentioned who was like me, could this blonde guy be the ones she's with, the reason Satsuki told me not to get any ideas? She would have to be the other person who was there during Koizumi's power loss then.
"Excuse me." The short blue haired guy said.
"Which of you is the president?" The girl asked.
All of us got off the ground immediately when we noticed we were still in the pose that showcased Haruhi. I guess it was this that made the girl figure Haruhi was our leader, or president, as she said. We took off our helmets and dispersed around the room while Haruhi went up to talk to her.
"We need to talk to you." She said. "It seems you and several friends were involved in a brawl with three students from our school, Seika High."
"Evidently, you kidnapped one of them and are holding him prisoner." The short, blue haired guy meekly added.
Understandably, Haruhi was really offended. She'd been at the game yesterday, with us afterwards, and went home after that.
"I never fought with anyone." She proclaimed.
"It would serve you well to tell us the truth." The tall blonde guy said. "Lying is undesirable of a person in authority."
Unfortunately, lying is becoming more and more prevalent among authority figures. I think there are several who are prime examples.
"I'm not lying!" Haruhi exclaimed. "How dare you come in here and accuse me without any proof!"
"Don't worry about proof." The black haired girl told her. "It's coming soon."
I looked back to see how the others were doing just cause either this blonde guy or the girl had to be this Absence or whatever it is Koizumi talked about. Nagato was in her chair looking at the scene, almost like normal, the only difference being that she didn't have her head buried in a book. Asahina looked a little afraid but it's hard to say whether was because of the scene or a loss of power. Koizumi, unbelievably, was not smiling. He stared at these guys very intently.
"Hey, Prez, we're here!" Some brown haired guy shouted as he came in through the door, followed by a blue haired guy who was holding a package.
"Is this her?" The black haired girl asked, gesturing towards Haruhi.
"Her?" The blue haired one asked as he stared disbelievingly at Haruhi.
"No, the president was a guy." The brown haired one told her.
She looked a little speechless at that.
"But everyone pointed to her when I asked who the president was." She whispered.
"Perhaps we've been had." The blonde guy said not so quietly.
The black haired girl turned to Haruhi at that.
"You're not the president?" She asked.
"President of what?" Haruhi responded.
"Of the North High Student Council." She stated.
"Does this look like a student council hangout?" Haruhi asked in disbelief.
"You'd be surprised what some places look like." She told her.
"This isn't some third class school of the needy, you know." Haruhi said. "We're not below any poverty line here."
The black haired girl was visibly offended at what she said, but Haruhi didn't seem to care.
"Not surprising that you'd confuse us for members of the Student Council," Haruhi continued.
"Why's that?"
"I would think decaying rooms are kinda luxurious for Seika High."
At that, the black haired girl gave Haruhi a glare like I've never seen a girl give anyone before. "Take…that…back."
"Why don't you go back to your gh-" That girl immediately slapped Haruhi across the face, and she didn't even have a chance to finish her sentence.
"You're disgusting." The black haired girl said as she looked around and gave glares to Koizumi, Asahina, Nagato and…me?
When she looked at me she was a little taken aback but tried to pass it off as nothing. I recognized her from Maid Latte the minute she walked in, but it seems like she didn't recognize me till just now.
I thought it'd be a good idea to get in between them and try to sort this out.
"Excuse me, I think we've gotten off-"
The minute I got in between the two of them, I tried to put my hand in to separate them, but that blonde guy grabbed my arm and twisted it around like it was licorice. He smashed my head down on the table and held me there.
"Aaargh."
What's wrong with this guy? Is he trying to break my hand? Damn, he's strong! I can't get up!
"Please," the short blue haired guy spoke to him. "I think we're making a mistake!"
"Come on!" The brown haired guy urged them. "Fighting is our job!"
"That's right." The taller blue haired guy nodded.
Neither of them budged for a moment. Haruhi's face could only be described as hiding shock. I don't think she's ever been physically injured before. Ever since I tried to hit her during the production of our movie and got stopped by Koizumi, I knew that hitting her would make bad things happen.
Koizumi was the first of the brigade to step up and try some diplomacy.
"I think we've all had a serious lapse." He said. "Why don't we discuss this matter together?"
"Sounds good to me." The short blue haired guy agreed.
"Care to let go of our friend?" Koizumi asked the blonde guy holding me down. He let me go with kind of a grunt, like a warning not to mess around with him. If he weren't capable of negating people's powers, it'd be an empty threat.
Everyone in the room was still for a moment until the black haired girl turned around.
"We have nothing to discuss here." She said as she walked out of the room.
She was followed by the short blue haired guy who gave us an 'I'm sorry' look. The other blue haired guy who was holding a box put it down on the floor and walked out and the brown haired guy followed him afterwards.
The tall blonde guy stayed and looked at each of us for a moment. Nobody spoke up but the fact that nobody was feeling better would suggest that Koizumi was right; it was him who was 'The Absence', not the girl he was with.
He left after staring at us for a minute and closed the door behind him. Koizumi and Asahina breathed a sigh of relief as if a huge weight had been lifted off their shoulders while Nagato remained frozen in her position.
Haruhi stood still for a moment in the same position she had been in since getting slapped. I guess she doesn't really know how to deal with the situation.
"I'm going." She said as she began to walk out the door.
"Haruhi, wait!" I tried to say to stop her from leaving.
"Leave me alone."
She didn't even look at me when she said it. She just slammed the door and walked off to who-knows-where.
I opened up that box left by the blue haired guy and saw that it contained basketball uniforms with 'North High School' inscribed on the front. These are the ones that our team should've been wearing yesterday. That blue haired guy must've been one of the ones who stole them and switched them with those pink ones.
I turned around to see the three remaining members to figure out what the hell just happened.
"So…I guess that confirms it?"
"Certainly," Koizumi said. "That boy is undoubtedly the one who caused me to lose track of the closed space by negating my powers."
"Asahina, how do you feel?"
"Kyon, it was terrible," She whimpered. "It felt like I lost my arms! I even…tried to Classified Information…just to see if I could but…I couldn't!"
"Nagato, how about you?"
"This being caused my programming to enter a state of unresponsiveness." She said. "While my basic functions were operable, my higher functions seemed to have been obstructed and I was unable to access them despite my superlative attempts. I failed to do anything that humans would have considered extraordinary. While my intelligence was able to anticipate the coming of physical abuse, I was physically unable to prevent it."
"It's just as I feared." Koizumi muttered. "His existence may be counteracting Miss Suzumiya's will and thus prevented us from helping her."
"I felt nothing."
"Well, I believe he has no effect over normal humans." He said. "After all, that girl and those three boys were able to be around him without any visible difficulties."
"Koizumi…how were…how…" Asahina tried to say. "How did you bring yourself to…speak?"
"I assure you it was not easy." He told her. "However, since I did not have access to my powers all the time, unlike Nagato and yourself, I managed to accept the familiarity of not having powers and used it to speak. Still, it was far from easy but the urgency of the situation warranted it."
"Does the Agency or the Time Traveler's Association have any knowledge on this boy?" I asked. "How about the Data Overmind?"
"Not that I am aware of."
"I don't think so."
"No."
I was afraid of that.
"Do you think he knows about his abilities?"
"He does not." Nagato answered. "Just as Haruhi Suzumiya is oblivious about her own abilities, this boy is identical in regards his own."
"I think it would be best if we kept him far from Miss Suzumiya." Koizumi said. "The two of them together in the same vicinity with their abilities could be quite problematic, to say the least."
We left school a few hours after all that mess. Nobody saw Haruhi again after that slap. I tried calling her and Koizumi called later but neither of us got through.
I'm really starting to wonder about this guy. How did he feel when the last two weeks of summer were repeated 15,000 times? What happened to him before that, when Haruhi nearly recreated the world and only brought me? What about when Nagato went haywire and she recreated the world? Everyone was turned into a normal human so what about him? What the hell is this guy?
What could this slap to the face for Haruhi mean for all of us? Koizumi said closed space appears when Haruhi is in a poor mood. When it does, those big blue guys show up and destroy stuff, and the guys Koizumi works for send Espers to stop them. Lately, they've been occurring less frequently, just at night due to bad dreams. If this slap has hurt Haruhi mentally, could they start appearing again? Am I being too paranoid? Did that girl's slap really change anything? I kinda doubt Haruhi's ever been physically abused like that in her life. Nobody with that kind of personality could've been. If she feels bad, this may have just opened up a whole new can of beans.
(Outside North High School)
"We're going to the police with this." Misaki announced.
"What!" "No!" The two remaining members of the Idiot Trio exclaimed in protest.
"If I recall correctly, didn't you say these two could face criminal charges if we went to the police?" Takumi asked.
"Maybe, but if we mention the kidnapping, we can probably have them drop any charges." She explained.
"Prez, I don't wanna go to jail!" Ikkun whined. "Can't we do something else about this?"
"I'm with the otaku; let's just bring our student body here, beat these dorks up and get our friend back." Kurotatsu suggested.
"We will do no such thing!" She responded. "Anyway, the lunch period is nearly over and we need to be getting back to school."
"Yeah, we do." A strange voice said.
The five Seika High teens looked around and saw a figure approaching from the right. It was a tall person with earrings and spiky, blonde hair.
"What's up?" He said.
Immediately, Ikkun and Kurotatsu leapt into his arms and knocked him back.
"SHIROYAN!" They both shouted at once.
The reunited Idiot Trio smashed down to the ground with this maneuver. The three of them laughed in one another's arms at their reunion. Kurotatsu and Shiroyan were jovial about it while Ikkun futilely held back his man-tears.
"What's up, everyone?" Shiroyan asked the Student Council members and Takumi as he got back up.
"Shiro…Shiroyan?" Shouichiro muttered at the sight of the blonde.
"That's my name," He laughed. "Don't wear it out."
"What happened to you?" Misaki asked. "We heard you were kidnapped by students from this school."
"Huh? Kidnapped?" He asked in a confused manner.
"Yeah. Yesterday."
"Don't you remember man?" Kurotatsu asked him from behind.
"We were walking along the park and a bunch of North High students came out and knocked you out." Ikkun told him.
Shiroyan scratched his head. "Really?"
"Yeah, really!" Kurotatsu exclaimed. "They did it all cause of that prank we pulled with the North High uniforms."
"I thought that prank worked out." He expressed. "They had to play the game in them, right?"
"It did, but they got pissed off and kidnapped you!" Ikkun exclaimed. "Don't you remember anything? Where have you been?"
"I've been in my house all day." Shiroyan stated. "I just remember falling down the stairs yesterday and this morning, I woke up with a letter next to my bed telling me to be here at this time."
"That's impossible." Misaki said. "You were gonna be kept captive by the Student Council President till tomorrow unless these guys went to the abandoned tennis courts near the bullet train tracks."
"That's why we brought Misaki, Takumi and the wuss," Ikkun stated. "So we could talk to their president and get you out."
"There's no way they could've known that we'd be here today at this time." Shouichiro conveyed. "And don't call me a wuss!"
"Well, there really is no natural way to know we'd have been here." Takumi commented.
"Are you implying something, Takumi?" Misaki asked, hoping he wasn't about to suggest something stupid like psychics.
"No, I'm not." He answered. "I'm just stating the obvious."
"Well anyway, it's good that you're alright, Blondie." Misaki told the leader of the Idiot Trio.
Takumi was surprised by Misaki's statement. She had once loathed the three of them with every fiber of her being, referring to them as annoying, rude, unclean and numerous other unflattering words. Perhaps it was just that they'd grown on her, which was making her treat them a bit better.
"It's great to be alright." Shiroyan responded. "I actually feel like going to school, if only for the afternoon."
"We came from school man!" Ikkun told him. "Come back with us."
"I think it's time we all get back." Misaki said. "We've still got a few more things to deal with."
The reunited Idiot Trio and Shouichiro walked behind Misaki and Takumi back to the parking lot, chatting it up on the way. They mentioned the meeting tomorrow at the abandoned tennis court by the bullet train tracks and even expressed an interest in going, though Misaki warned them against it.
"Dude, you gotta check out Takumi's new car!" Kurotatsu told the blonde.
"It's sweet!" Ikkun exclaimed.
Takumi chuckled. "You're free to come back to school with me in it, but all four of you are gonna have to sit in the back."
"What." "Damn." "Whatever." "No!" The three idiots and Yukimura complained.
"It's gonna be a noisy ride back." Misaki commented.
"At least it's a ride with more people than the number we came with." Takumi responded.
"I guess the more the merrier."
When the six of them arrived in the parking lot, the sight there was horrible to behold.
Yukimura and Misaki stared on in shock.
Shiroyan was sad but Kurotatsu and Ikkun were clearly tearing up.
Takumi glared at the spectacle, not sure of what to do for the first time in his life.
The brand new silver Maserati GranTurismo MC owned by Takumi Usui was parked in the same spot as before.
But its condition was not the same that it was left in.
It was far worse than imaginable. Broken glass from all the windows was splattered around the ground. The front hood and all the side doors were dented as if they were hit by another car and the back bumper had fallen off.
It honestly looked as if a huge animal had crushed the car and not left any footprints. The destruction to the body was seemingly beyond repair.
While Takumi pondered the obvious questions, the two members of the Idiot Trio who weren't kidnapped; Ikkun and Kurotatsu, furiously seethed at the heartless destruction of the beautiful car.
"This…North High…" The blue haired idiot fumed.
Misaki looked concerned. "What the…?"
"…will be OBLITERATED!" The brown haired boy shouted.
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Rayquaza45: No! Takumi's car is busted. Ikkun and Kurotatsu are pissed. Who is responsible for this violent destruction?
In the mean time, Kyon is worried about Haruhi and doesn't know what to do now that he knows Takumi Usui is 'The Absence', the being that can counteract Haruhi Suzumiya. How will the rest of the SOS Brigade handle this revelation? And what will happen to Haruhi?
But on the bright side, Shiroyan is back and bad! But...why doesn't he remember the kidnapping?
Next time: Chapter 9: A Message from the Future! Nightmares and Security!
A few of our lovable characters start experiencing bad dreams. What is the cause? Who's that girl in Kyon's bedroom!
Till then! Please review! Please!