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Chapter 2: A Saturday To Remember!
I hear a door burst open and pull my blanket over my head, hiding from my little sister. This, however, does nothing to stop the little assassin, as I am pounced on and dragged out of bed.
"Kyon-kun! It's time to wake up!"
I mumble something at her and open my eyes, only to find that I am now on the floor… staring at the ceiling. My little sister let's go of my arm and rushes over to the other end up the bed, grabbing Shamisen.
"Time for breakfast Shami!"
I struggle to stand up and head over to the bathroom to brush my teeth. I yawn as I look at myself in the mirror, only to see the clock. 6:30 A.M. WHY AM I UP SO EARLY!? IT'S A SATURDAY!
I grumble as I begin to brush my teeth. It's already too late; I'm not going to be able to fall back asleep now.
I get myself dressed, casually for today, and head downstairs for breakfast. I guess I don't get to have breakfast often, usually rushing off to school. I sit at the couch with a piece of toast stuffed in my mouth, flipping through the channels on the T.V. until something catches my eye.
Well, it didn't particularly catch my eye, but I'm sure it would've caught Haruhi's in a second.
"There have been a string of rumors regarding the disappearance of several people in the area," Says the reporter of a local news station. "The police are currently investigating, and we will bring you any updates at 11:00."
I sigh. If I told Haruhi about this, she would want to do a city-wide search for the alien that abducted these people. Or whatever the cause was anyway. I turn the T.V. off and finish my breakfast. I have a few hours… I wonder what I should do.
I decide to head off to Asahina-san's Hou—wait! I don't even know where that is!
I guess I'm stuck heading to our meeting place two hours early. I'll at least be guaranteed to be first… and I won't have to pay.
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A few hours pass and Asahina-san, Koizumi and Nagato arrive at our destined meeting spot, but Haruhi seems to be missing.
"H-have you heard from Suzumiya-san this morning, Kyon-kun?" Mikuru was the first to ask.
"Nope," Was my only response. I for one kind of hoped we would get a break, and she wouldn't show up, though my hopes were doused a few moments later.
A smiling Haruhi waved towards us as she was walking toward the group. Behind her was someone I should probably recognize… though I think I've only seen him once.
The two of them crossed the street and stopped at our huddle. "You should already know him Kyon, but for the rest of you, this is Fujiwara Kato, a transfer student from Kyoto!"
"It's nice to meet you all," The stranger said, offering his hand. "You're… Kyon, right?"
I sighed, taking his hand and shaking it. I felt a static shock as our hands touched. "Ah…" I pulled my hand away. "Yeah, that's my nickname."
"That's Yuki over there" Haruhi says, pointing at the bookish girl. "That's Mikuru, our cute mascot, and over there is Itsuki."
Kato nods at the three of them.
"He's going to be joining the S.O.S. Brigade on Monday, and he's here for our city wide search!" Haruhi announces.
You should run while you can, Fujiwara. If you join the brigade… well, you don't want to know what's going to happen to you.
My thoughts unfortunately go unspoken, as Haruhi has decided to split us up into groups of two, once again using the straw method.
Lady luck, as I said earlier, seems to be taunting me today, as I am going to be searching with none other than the brigade leader herself, Suzumiya Haruhi. Koizumi was paired with the new guy, and Mikuru and Yuki were paired together to search out the strange phenomenon.
Why couldn't I be paired up with Asahina-san? That would've made things so much easier. I was hoping to talk to her privately about this anyway. I sigh, looking over at Haruhi, who seems to be especially excited today.
"Alright Kyon, we're going to find something today, I'm sure of it! If we don't, it's the death penalty for you!" Haruhi beamed as she stood there proudly. The rest of the brigade silently snuck off to begin their search. Hey, where are you going? Don't leave me here alone!
Haruhi and I begin our search through the city.
"What makes you think we're going to find something today, when we haven't found anything at all since we've started these searches?"
"We have another pair of eyes looking out for us. At least he pays attention to his brigade leader, Kyon! You'd better be serious about this!"
"Yeah yeah Haruhi." I respond unenthusiastically. Haruhi glares at me in response, but quickly gets over it.
She seems to be in override mode, as we're moving double the pace we normally walk. I guess she doesn't realize that, even if we're moving faster, we're just going to tire out and have to rest. We're going to cover the same ground either way.
An hour passes, and soon enough, another one passes. We haven't found anything out of the ordinary, and there were no leads on the rumor of people disappearing. That's it. We're stopping. I'm tired. Haruhi! Wait up Haruhi!
I tried to up my pace a bit, but Haruhi seemed determined, moving twice as fast as me. I couldn't take it anymore, so I stopped at a nearby bench and sat down.
What is she, one of those energizer bunnies or something? They keep going and going and going and… ugh!
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PoV Switch: SUZUMIYA HARUHI
That Kyon! He's so slow. If we don't hurry up, we're going to miss them, I'm sure of it! Something strange is going on around here.
"Hey Kyon, hurry it up, will you?" I turn around to yell at Kyon, but he's not there. All right, where the hell did you run off? It's capital punishment if you don't get back here right now!
I retrace my steps back, calling out Kyon's name. Damnit, where did he go?
"You're starting to piss me off Kyon! Where did you go?" I yell out, getting some weird looks from the passerby's, but I don't care.
All right that's it, he's going to get an earful. I take out my cell phone and dial Kyon's cell phone number.
"We're sorry, the number you have dialed is out of your service area. Please try again later, thank you."
"Alright Kyon, very funny. I bet you turned off your phone to try and scare me into worrying about you! Well it's not going to work!"
I paced around the entire neighborhood. He had to be hiding here somewhere. Maybe he's in one of the stores. He was probably in one of the restaurants, stuffing his face while I'm out here doing all of the hard work. That lazy bum!
That's it Kyon. You're somewhere around here, I know it. I'm just going to take a quick break here. I slip into the coffee shop nearby and order myself some tea.
I pull my cell phone out again and redial his number, only to get the same response. It's going to be the death penalty for you, abandoning your brigade chief like this!
I dialed Koizumi's phone number. I'll get the whole brigade looking for you if I have to Kyon!
"Hello, this is Itsuki."
"Koizumi! It's your brigade chief."
"Oh, Suzumiya-san, what is it?"
"Kyon's run off somewhere, and I can't reach him with my cell. I need you to keep your eye out for him. Tell him he's in for a capital punishment when I find him!"
"Will do, Suzumiya-san."
I hang up on him. I relay the same message to Yuki and Mikuru-chan. Kyon's in for a beating when I find him. Nobody will recognize him when I'm done.
I finish my tea and head back outside. I'll continue my search alone. If Kyon wants to run off and do something on his own, fine. He has to come to school sometime, and when he does…
It's been five hours, and still, Kyon is nowhere in sight. No leads on the mysterious disappearances from the news either.
…….
Wait!
Could… something have happened to him? Damnit, I knew I should've kept a closer eye on him. He may be Kyon, but he's part of my brigade. I have to keep my members safe.
I immediately begin dialing the number for Itsuki, and then Mikuru, calling them to the park for an emergency meeting. I decide to try his cell phone again, but get a new message:
"We're sorry, but the number you are trying to reach has been disconnected."
Then I'll… call his house! Yeah, I bet he's home, sleeping or something, that lazy, good for nothing…
"Heya," Chimed a cute voice from the phone.
"Hey, you're Kyon's sister, right? Is Kyon there?"
"Hold on, Haruhi-chan! I'll check!" I heard the phone being set down and Kyon's name being yelled.
A few seconds passed. Was he there or not? Damnit, pick up the phone Kyon!
"Sorry, he's not here."
I hung up the phone. I was literally running to the park. Something happened to him on my watch. I won't forgive myself. That bastard got himself into trouble, and now I have to bail him out.
My brigade was gathered together at the center of the park, under the largest tree there. All except for one.
"K-Kyon-kun's really missing?" Mikuru-chan exclaimed. She sounded a little worried.
"Don't worry Mikuru-chan, we're going to find him and bring him back no matter what."
"Suzumiya-san, how exactly did this happen?" Koizumi spoke up. He sounded a little concerned, but he was still smiling like usual. We need more people like him, keeping the morale of my brigade up.
"We were searching, as planned, for two hours straight. Kyon's way out of shape, so I guess I should've expected him to be out of breath, but when I looked back to yell at him for it, he was gone!"
Koizumi's smile faded into a serious look. Damnit Koizumi, keep the morale up!
I look over at Yuki, but she's walking away.
"Yuki, where do you think you're going?"
…..
There's no response. It looks like she's whispering something, but it's too low. Damn girl, speak up!
I head over to her, letting the rest of my group talk amongst themselves. Maybe they'll come up with an idea. I rest my hand on her tiny shoulder.
"Yuki, what're you doing?"
Her head snaps back, looking up at me in an instant. Woah!
"Nothing."
"Well then c'mon! We need to find Kyon, and we'll need your eyes to do it!"
So I pull Yuki back toward the group, and she finally starts walking on her own. Geez, this is going to be harder than I thought.
Suddenly, I see him, walking out from behind a tree. That lazy, good for nothing Kyon! He looks up at me as if nothing was wrong and starts walking toward us.
"It's capital punishment for you, Kyon! The death penalty! YOU'RE IN SO MUCH TROUBLE!" I yell at him relentlessly. He's going to get it. He'll be paying for our lunches for weeks to come for making his brigade chief worry!
"I'm sorry, Haruhi-san," He says to me, looking apologetic. I don't believe him for a second. I bet he was out with some girl just having fun.
"Don't give me that Kyon! You're… you're…" I trail off. Something's not right. I don't know what it is, but something just doesn't feel right.
"Whatever…" I mutter. "We're going home for the day. Your punishment will wait until tomorrow."
END CHAPTER