Chapter Four:

Crikey!

I placed the gum back in my mouth that I left on my cup during dinner and noticed we were slowing down.

Oh my god! Are we crashing?

"Koizumi, if one of these engines go out and Nagato can't do anything about it, how far do you think the other will take us?" I asked nervously.

"All the way to the scene of the crash, I would imagine"

-_- …You bastard.

"I bet we'd beat the paramedics there by a- ow!"

I punched him in the arm for making that reference.

"I'm sorry, that joke was in bad taste" he said, nursing his arm.

"we are landing to refuel" Nagato said softly

Ding!

"Uh... please put your seat-belts back on uh... we're landing."

I put my seat-belt back on and braced for impact, but my fears were unfounded as the landing was actually pretty smooth. After the plane came to a stop, the pilot gave us the go ahead to get out of our seats and walk around the station.

I walked with Koizumi and had a pretty nasty headache, until I remembered to swallow my gum. My ears popped and I did start to feel better. That was until another headache showed up

"Kyon!"

I turned around to see an excited Haruhi pointing to her phone.

"we went forward by half an hour!"

and your point is?

"That kind of makes us time travelers! Isn't that neat?"

I noticed Miss Asahina perk up nervously during the mention of time travel,

Don't worry, she won't catch on to you, Miss Asahina.

"Meh"

"You're no fun, Kyon!"

She didn't look too happy at my response and stormed off.

Good riddance.

While I'm in Australia, I might as well get some souvenirs, I think my sister would really like that shark tooth necklace.

I sat on a bench next to Koizumi and took my purchases out of the bag to get a better look at them.

"I didn't know you smoked" He said, noticing the Zippo lighter I bought.

"Nah, I don't do that, I just figured that it might come in handy."

Koizumi rifled through his bag as well,

"I suppose you're right, you never know when you'll need a lighter"

I looked over to his bag and asked,

"So what did you get?"

Koizumi pulled something out of his bag.

"Oh not much, just a small combat knife, see the handle is made from an animal bone of some sort, neat huh?"

Get that thing away from me!

"Oh... I'm sorry, is this what Asakura used?"

Something like that.

"Just one thing, how are you going to get back on the plane with that thing?"

"Normally I'd worry, but I asked one of the plane staff, and they said they would hold it for me until I got off the plane, so no harm no foul"

Yeah I guess so. But what would he want a knife for anyway? Is he planning to go psycho and kill us all, like this was an episode of Higurashi?

"So why'd you get it anyway?" I asked.

"Well, I'm glad you asked. I didn't want you to think I was psychotic or anything. I got this in case I have to protect Miss Suzumiya, I doubt it would come to that, but it's a good idea to be prepared, don't you agree?"

I do think it's a good idea to be cautious. I know I bitch a lot, but I don't want anything to happen to Haruhi, or anyone for that matter.

I walked around with Koizumi until Haruhi popped out of nowhere and dragged us back on the plane. I was about to sit down when I noticed Miss Asahina crying next to Tsuruya. I ran to the front as fast as I could.

"It's okay, Mikuru, it's all overs now!" Tsuruya reassured her.

"Miss Asahina, what's wrong!" I asked, concerned for her safety.

Miss Asahina wiped a few tears out of her eyes and forced a smile, ah that smile makes my day, but this is serious!

"Oh, don't pay attention to her Kyon, she's just a big baby!" Haruhi carelessly said from in front of her.

What did you do to her?

It was then that Tsuruya spoke,

"Oh Kyon-kun! Haru-nyan had us get our ears pierced, and wells... I guess Mikuru's really sensitive"

I took a closer look at Miss Asahina and Tsuruya. Just like she said, both girls had their ears pierced. Miss Asahina had some cute hello kitty ear rings, and Tsuruya's were some kind of green gemstones.

"Haruhi." I turned to our brigade chief

"What?" she asked, aggravated.

"You can't just force people to do things like this! You know how easily Miss Asahina can be pushed around!"

"Kyon-kun..." not now Miss Asahina!

Haruhi stood up and glared at me with the hellish fires of feminine fury in her eyes.

She poked her finger right in my chest, pushing me back, damn that hurt.

"Who the hell do you think you are to yell at me? I'm your brigade chief! And I'll have you know she wanted her ears pierced! I even payed for it!" She looked like she was about to smack me when Tsuruya grabbed her by the wrist and did that thing she did to me in that other world, forcing her to yelp in pain.

I need to learn how to do that.

"Now, nows Haru-nyan! He didn't know that, just settle down, okies?"

Haruhi tried to fight Tsuruya off as I got up and dusted myself off.

"Will you let me go? I'm fine now!"

Tsuruya let her go but blocked her path back to her seat, crossing her arms,

"What now?"

"He's right about one thing though, you do push Mikuru around a lot, and I don't appreciates that!"

Wow, I thought I'd always be the one to defend Miss Asahina.

"I've been better about that!"

Tsuruya looked to Miss Asahina,

"Is that trues, Mikuru?"

"Y-yes, she's been much nicer to me lately!"

Tsuruya smiled and turned back to Haruhi,

"Okies then!" and turned to go back to her seat, but then stopped and took a crane stance,

"But if you abuse her again, You'll have to answer to me!" she then started making Karate noises .

I'm just going to leave now...

I excused myself to the back, where Koizumi grilled me for answers about what just happened.