Before I move on, I wish to inform all of you about the whole "Kyon live with Haruhi" bit. For those of you that don't know, that was a prank by me with several other writers that were on the inside. I truly hope that most of you laughed with us and didn't take it the wrong way. In any case, I've since removed the offending material, seeing that the admins for the site were likely to remove it eventually, and the joke was dead anyway. Thanks to all those who helped out.
As for this omake, this will be about how Oruki and Naru met and got together. The starting scene takes place between the 30th chapter and the epilogue. Bear in mind that the narrative perspective will change between Kyon's and third person during this omake. I'll try my best to make the transitions as easy to identify as possible.
For some reason, I imagined young Oruki to be a mix between Harima Kenji of School Rumble and Hanamichi Sakuragi of Slam Dunk. There are also four more OCs that play the role of Oruki's friends. You'll learn more about them later. I also went and gave Naru a maiden name, realizing that it was needed.
Without further delay, let get on to the final installment to this fanfic.
A Meet the Suzumiyas Omake: There's Something About Naru (Part 1)
It was your average, completely ordinary Saturday evening. It's funny that my idea of an ordinary evening was in fact the rarest kind of evening that I usually experienced these days. Fortunately, today was an exception. Absolutely nothing happened today that would be in anyway classified as extraordinary, and that to me was a good thing. Sure, I do enjoy the occasional adventure once in a while, but the events of those horrible five weeks were among the most taxing in my life. I needed a chance to recharge my batteries, and when you're living with a family like the Suzumiyas, you tend to treasure every second of normalcy you can get.
Nevertheless, life was good right now. The four of us were now sitting in the living room after eating dinner and cleaning up, watching TV. There had been a romantic comedy on that apparently exited Naru-san enough that we were all talked into watching it together. The story was nothing out of the ordinary. It was about some guy coming home after finishing college only to run into the girl he was in love with in high school. Needless to say, hijinks and hilarity ensue while this guy attempts the impossibly stupid in order to win her love. It had a few moments that were genuinely funny, although I'd be lying if I said that I hadn't seen better. Naru-san, being as easy to please as she was, seemed to enjoy it immensely, while the rest of us seemed content enough to enjoy it somewhat.
Of course, as all romantic comedies do, the movie had a happy ending, and the guy won the girl. Naru-san appeared especially pleased with the ending, clapping away when the movie ending.
"I love happy endings," she said with her usual amount of sugary sweetness. "So romantic."
"It was alright," said Haruhi as she sat up and stretched a bit.
"Of course in the real world," spoke Oruki, "if a guy like that tried to do all those things to get a girl's attention, he'd probably get a restraining order."
Leave it to you to kill the mood, Oruki.
"Hey, I'm just saying. In real life, women don't like guys who are like that."
"But I like it when you're like that, Oruki-kun," purred Naru-san as she leaned onto her husband's shoulder.
"You don't count. You're not like most women."
Did he just say what I think he said? Yes...yes he did...wow...
As if immediately realizing how poorly he chose his words, Oruki immediately tried to backpedal. "Uh...which is to say that...it's a good thing that you're different. Norma...I mean...average women are boring."
Nice save...
My reaction was reciprocated with a nasty glare from the male Suzumiya. However, Naru seemed to have bought it and responded by hugging him.
"I know what you meant, Oruki-kun."
With those words, the small amount of tension that was in the air diminished. How the hell was Oruki so fortunate to have a wife that was so easy to get along with. Lucky bastard!
I heard the sharp sound of someone clearing their throat to my right, and I turn toward it to find that Haruhi was now glaring at me. What? I...I'm a lucky bastard, too.
"Whatever," she said with an obvious amount of discontent before getting off the couch. "I'm getting something to drink."
"Me, too," said Naru-san as she too got up. "Anyone else need anything?"
"I'll like some juice," I responded.
"I'm good," said Oruki as he slid back into his spot on the couch. He waited a few seconds until both girls had left the living room before he spoke in a low voice. "I'm going to get it."
"Huh," I responded in confusion. "What do you mean? She didn't seem angry."
He sighed heavily before responding. "You don't quite know her as well as I do. She's...very passive aggressive. She might seem okay right now, but next thing you know, she'll 'accidentally' drop my dinner on the floor, or she'll 'suddenly misplace' something important to me. Stuff like that. She doesn't like direct conflict, so she finds other ways to get back at me when she's mad."
I began to imagine Naru-san sitting quietly in the kitchen deviously planning on how to exact her revenge in her husband, all with an evil grin on her face. The idea of it was so ridiculous that I decided to remove the image from my mind immediately. There's no way she could be like that, right? For some reason, I realized that I probably would prefer an angry Haruhi over an angry Naru-san. At least when Haruhi's mad at you, the whole universe knows it. It's much easier to deal with issues like that when they're out in the open. The idea of not knowing when my girlfriend would exact revenge on me was rather scary. Wait, is there something wrong with me for thinking that? Probably...
It was then that I remembered something about Naru-san and Oruki. "Hey, didn't you guys tell me that you two met in high school?"
Oruki blinked in surprise when he heard the question. "Did we tell you that? That's funny." He then yawned deeply and put his hands behind his head before continuing. "It's true. It's hard to believe that so much time has gone by."
Against my better judgment, I decided to ask another question. "How did you two get together?"
Oruki sighed upon hearing me. "I'd rather not get into it. It's a long story..."
However, I noticed Naru-san pop her head from the kitchen. "Oh! You want to know how we got together? Wonderful!"
Oruki immediately put his hand to his face. "Oh no. Not again..."
Naru soon bounded from the kitchen with the drinks meant for me and her. "Come on, Oruki-kun. Please tell it! You tell it so much better than I do!"
"I'm not in the mood," said Oruki as he looked up at the ceiling.
Naru-san grabbed her husband by his shoulder and began to shake him back and forth. "Do it. Do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it!"
"No!" yelled Oruki in annoyance.
However, when he did that, Naru-san's expression went from excitement to sadness, and she began to pout. I could see her eyes start to water a little, and her lips began to quiver. She genuinely looked like she was about to cry.
I could see that Oruki was beginning to crack from the pressure, and before long, he finally gave in. "Alright fine! I'll tell the damn story!"
Almost immediately, Naru-san's face brightened as she gave her husband a hug. It was then that I realized that Naru-san was actually putting on an act the whole time. I understood now that while Oruki was usually the one with the power in their relationship, Naru-san knew how to push his buttons in order to occasionally get what she wanted.
I then heard a voice behind me. "Aw man, don't tell me that you're going to tell that stupid story again." It was obvious that Haruhi had heard this story more times than she would have liked to.
"Well, your mother and boyfriend want to hear it," said Oruki, "so just sit back and listen." He then rubbed his eyes a bit as if trying to think back to when it all happened.
After about a minute, he took a deep breath and began speaking. "It all started during my second year of high school..."
Twenty years ago...
A young man with a well-toned body laid back on a old, ruined couch in the middle of a messy apartment. His clothes were shoddy and torn, and his hair was styled in a pompadour that stuck out a few inches too far from his head.
"I can't believe I ever thought that looked good on me," said Oruki with obvious embarrassment.
"I thought it looked cute on you," giggled Naru-san.
"Right..." responded Oruki before continuing his story.
In the room with him were four others. There was a lanky kid with blond, spiky hair named Murazaki; a short pudgy boy with dark, messy hair named Toshi; a large, well muscled young male with extremely short, brown hair named Hideki; and lastly a youngster with a well-toned body that had a sandy colored pompadour named Shino. All five minors were lounging around in the run down apartment, some looking relaxed, others looking bored.
"Your friends, I take it?" I asked.
"Yeah, I met them during my freshman year of high school, with the exception of Shino. I'd known him from middle school."
It was then that Murazaki spoke up. "Oruki-kun. You do realize that you missed your first week of school, right?"
Oruki didn't respond to the question, preferring to put on a sour face first. "Idiot! I know that. Who cares? School is for losers."
"The irony..." said Haruhi a bit sourly.
"Hey, I was a stupid kid back then, alright?" said Oruki with a shrug. "More then anything, I was just pissed that I was forced to go to a new school. I figured that I'd spite my mother by not going."
"I'm just saying," said Murazaki. "I mean, you barely managed to make it through your freshman year, and now your well on your way to flunking out of school altogether."
"Pfft. My mom thinks that putting me in a new school would help turn me around. I didn't want to change schools."
"Why? Is it because you miss us?" asked Shino with a smug grin. His grin didn't last long before an empty soda bottle clocked him in the head. Shino responded by getting extremely annoyed. "What was that for a#$%^! Are you saying you want a rematch?!"
A second later, Oruki was on his feet, and the two teenage boys had their foreheads against one another, staring each other down.
"I'll take you down anytime I want!" yelled Oruki with a devilish grin.
Shino returned the grin with one of his own. "You got lucky the last time, Oruki-kun! This time, I'll be the one to overthrow your evil reign!"
"Stop fighting, you two." yelled Murazaki halfheartedly. "We barely have any furniture as it is. The last thing we need is to have my dad kicking my ass just because you two have to continue your stupid rivalry."
"Murazaki is right," said Toshi while holding onto his stomach. "Instead of fighting, we should be getting something to eat."
"You're always hungry," said Shino with annoyance. "And too bad for you that I'm broke."
"You're never broke," said Toshi suspiciously. "You're parents are loaded."
"Yeah well they cut off my allowance until my grades start shaping up. Besides, why should I always pay?"
"Because you're the only one who ever has any money," said Oruki with a chuckle.
"Well I guess that means we're screwed now," said Shino while crossing his arms.
It was then that the well-muscled Hideki finally spoke while moving towards the door. "I'll pay..."
The other four appeared shocked, partly because the young man actually said something.
"Wait a minute," said Shino. "Since when did you get some money?"
Hideki didn't respond as he walked out the door.
Oruki chuckled some more at his good fortune. "Leave it to Hideki-kun to come through for us once again."
It was then that the remaining four left the apartment.
"Interesting group of friends," I said.
"I guess," responded Oruki as he continued to reflect. "They were all different from one another. Shino was a bit like me, which was probably why I was friends with him for so long. He liked to think that he was my rival, but he was more bark than bite when it came to fighting. Murazaki was the one kid in our group with a decent head on his shoulders. If it weren't for him, I suspect that I would've been in jail by then. Toshi was a strange one. He loved to eat, but what made him special was his fearlessness. He was more like a badger. He wasn't the strongest, toughest or quickest, but he was ridiculously ferocious in a fight. You'd never know it unless you'd seen him in one, though. And Hideki? He barely ever said a word, but he was fiercely loyal. He was probably the only one of the group that I actually didn't want to ever get into a fight with."
"Whatever happened to them?" I asked. "You still talk to them?"
Oruki was silent for a few seconds. "I'll get to that later. Anyway, after we all ate, I decided to leave and head home..."
Oruki was now walking the streets while patting his stomach. There are few things in life more satisfying than a good bowl of ramen with beef. As he rounded into an alleyway so he could get home quicker, he suddenly heard something in the distance. It sounded like a girl yelling along with some evil laughter from a guy.
Nearby, a young girl with brown hair that went just below the shoulders was struggling to hold onto her purse. A large, bald, fat man was pulling on it with one arm, an evil grin on his face. He was clearly toying with the young girl.
"Let go!" yelled the young girl.
"I'm afraid I can't do that, missy," said the evil man with a nasty chuckle. "Although I may change my mind if you give me something else in exchange. Tell you what, you either give me your body or your purse. Take your pick."
"No!" yelled the girl as she continued to pull with all her might.
"Stubborn, aren't you? Fine, I'll just take bot..."
The man was unable to finish his sentence before a foot collided with the back of his head. He immediately let go of the purse as he tumbled forward into a nearby wall. It was then that the owner of the foot was revealed.
"I didn't think you were such a coward to pick on young girls, Kazishima-chan," said an extremely confident Oruki.
The large man grunted a bit before lifting himself off the ground and rubbing his head. "You attack me from behind and think you have the right to call me a coward?!"
Oruki crossed his arms in unwavering arrogance. "Fool! Like it would matter which direction I attacked you from!"
The fatso got to his feet and cracked his knuckles. "I'll teach to sneak attack me and call me '-chan!' I refused to believe that you live up to a name like 'Lightning Demon Oruki Suzumiya!'"
"As you may have figured, him and I fought, and I obviously won."
"Let me guess. That girl you rescued was Naru-san?" I asked.
Naru-san giggled a bit. "Yup. That's me."
Oruki began to look a bit uncomfortable. "Don't get me wrong, I wasn't trying to be a hero or anything. I was just looking for an excuse to fight that fatass."
"And were you really called the 'Lightning Demon?'" I asked, feeling a bit suspicious.
"He's making that part up," said Haruhi.
"I am not!" spoke Oruki loudly. "I had quite a reputation when I was young. I didn't take crap from anybody. Anyway, I soon won that fight against the big lard mouth without even so much as taking a hit..."
"I remember you getting hit a few times," interrupted Naru-san.
Oruki grunted upon hearing that. "Uh...okay, so I did get hit a few times, but they were grazing blows, and didn't hurt..."
A few minutes later, the fight was over. Kazishima was now on the ground face first, completely knocked out. Oruki began to wipe some of the blood from his lip, completely satisfied with his victory, although he began to feel his stomach feeling weird. It usually a bad idea to exert oneself after eating a large meal.
He was about to walk away when suddenly the girl he rescued shoved her purse right in his face.
"Did Oruki-kun want to take my purse, too?"
It was at this point that I lost it and began to laugh hysterically. I was blown away that the first thing she ever said to him was THAT. I mean, really? Really? What a way to start a relationship.
"It get's worse..." said Oruki as he continued.
Oruki stood there dumb-founded at her question. It took him several seconds to come up with a response. "Idiot! Why would I want your stupid purse?!"
"Oh, so he must want to have my body instead," said the young Naru, looking confused.
Naru-san covered her face in embarrassment. "I was so confused. I had never been rescued from a mugging before, so I didn't know how to thank him."
I laughed a good minute before finally recovering enough to breathe. Seriously, only Naru-san would think that was an appropriate response to being rescued.
After I was done laughing, Oruki cleared his throat. "Anyway, as I was saying..."
"Idiot girl!" responded Oruki loudly. "Get the hell out of here before I change my mind and take whatever I want from you!"
The young Naru smiled brightly, bowed politely and ran off. "Thank you vary much, Oruki-kun!"
Annoyed, Oruki yelled one last thing before she was out of sight. "Moron! Stop using my name with that honorific! You don't even know me!"
"And that's how we met," said Oruki with a bit of embarrassment.
"I'm assuming there's more," I said. "You didn't even get to the part where you two get together." I think a part of me wanted to know more because I knew it was embarrassing for Oruki.
Oruki rubbed his eyes with his thumb and index finger. "I really don't want to."
"Aw, come on, Oruki-kun," pleaded his wife. "You aren't even close to the best part!"
With an exasperated sigh, Oruki forced himself to continue. "Fine, you win...anyway, I completely forgot about the incident until about two days later..."
It was now a Sunday, and Oruki and his buddies were once again relaxing at their hangout, doing absolutely nothing productive. Oruki was flipping through the channels on the TV, hoping to find something interesting while the others watched on in a complete blasé.
It wasn't long before Shino spoke up. "This is stupid. Why don't we go downtown and show the Alley Monkeys who's boss?"
"We do that every week," said Murazaki. "It's almost cruel to pick on them now."
Shino had another idea. "Let's loiter down at the park and pick up some chicks!"
"Girl's are stupid," responded Oruki with complete disinterest.
"You only say that because you've never had a girl," said Shino smugly. "I on the other hand have had three."
"Yeah right," said Toshi while rolling his eyes and eating some Pocky. "And I'm only big boned."
"Well, if you guys don't do something soon, I'm leaving to find my own adventures!"
"Go ahead," responded Oruki, not even bothering to look at him.
Just as Shino was about to leave, a knock was heard at the door. Curious as to who it could be, Shino made his way to the door. When he opened it, he was surprised to see a beautiful young girl on the other side.
"Hello!" greeted Naru politely. "Is there someone here by the name of 'Lightning Demon Oruki Suzumiya?'"
Shino was baffled for a second before he regained his composure. "N...no. He's not here. Perhaps you've heard of me, though. I'm known as 'Shino of the Searing Fist.'"
"Nope," responded Naru simply.
Trying not to get flustered over the fact that she hadn't heard of him, Shino leaned against the edge of the door to try and look cool. "Well you've heard of me now, sweetie. Trust me when I say that I'm way cooler than that other guy..."
It was then that a hand grabbed Shino by his shirt and yanked him back with great force, nearly causing him to fall on his ass. "Get out of the way, you moron!" yelled Oruki as he approached Naru. "What the hell do you want? And how the hell did you find me here?"
"Oh, there's Oruki-kun!" said the girl cheerfully. "I merely asked everyone in town where 'Lightning Demon Oruki Suzumiya' was. I would have been here yesterday, but it took a while to find someone who knew. I eventually found someone who said that they knew of some delinquents that lived here, so here I am!"
"So here I am, thinking 'Great! Now the whole town knows about my stupid nickname and that some strange girl is trying to track me down.' I mean, did you really have to ask everyone?!"
"Well, it worked, didn't it?" asked Naru-san innocently.
Oruki took yet another deep breath before he continued...
After Oruki had enough time to process what the strange girl just said, he narrowed his eyes in annoyance. "Well you found me, okay? Do what you came here to do and beat it!"
Naru then held up a bag. "I decided that the best way to thank Oruki-kun was to make him a lunch. I had to remake it since the one I made for him yesterday got old, but this one is nice and fresh!"
Oruki grabbed the bag from her and eyed it suspiciously. "Is that it? You interrogated the whole town just to give me a lunch?"
It was then that Shino decided to be a smart ass. "Oh, I get it. No wonder you didn't want to go looking for girls in the park. You already had a girlfriend!" Shino's remark earned him a welt on his head a second later.
Oruki turned back towards the girl sourly. "Well, now that you're done, go scram. I didn't ask for a damn meal. And stop calling me 'Oruki-kun!' You don't know me!"
"Hey, Oruki?" asked Toshi. "If you're not going to eat that obento, can I have it?" Toshi was instead fed a foot to the face.
"Okay, Oruki-kun!" said Naru as she waved happily and began skip away down the hall.
Before he completely lost his temper, Oruki slammed the door and marched back to the couch with the bag in hand. "Idiot girl!"
"Have to admit that she was cute, though," said Shino while rubbing his head. "You're just lucky that I don't get violent in front of cute girls or I would have laid you flat."
"I don't care if she's cute," said Oruki as he began to open the bag. "She's annoying. It's as if she's missing a screw or two in her head."
"Well, you know what they say about..." Shino didn't finish his sentence before he noticed something about Murazaki.
Soon the rest of the group noticed something wrong with him. He was deathly pale.
"Dude," said Toshi, "what's wrong with you?"
It took a second for him to respond. "I...it's her...It can't be..."
"Who? That girl just now?" asked Shino. "What about her?"
"Don't you know who she is?" asked Murazaki in a light panic. When no one nodded, he yelled loudly. "That's Naru Shikamoto! You can't tell me you guys haven't heard of her!"
"I have..." said Hideki quietly.
When the others merely shrugged their shoulders, Murazaki took a deep breath before relating the horrible truth...
"Stop it, Dad!" yelled Haruhi with obvious annoyance. "You're clearly exaggerating."
"Maybe a little," said Oruki while shrugging, "but he was clearly unnerved when he saw her. Apparently, he was the only one of us who knew her from junior high. He started telling us about all the crazy stuff that she did back then."
This is starting to sound really, really familiar...
"Shikamoto-san is infamous among anyone who went to our school during junior high," said Murazaki. "The girl is obsessed with three things: ghosts, spirits and demons."
"No wonder she likes you so much 'Lightning Demon,'" said Shino with snark.
"Shut up!" said Oruki harshly.
"Seriously, it was the only thing she focused on back then," continued Murazaki. "One time she hung up bats all over the school in the hope that it would attract ghosts. Another time she started stacking desks and chairs on the roof of the school to try and reach the heavens. And then she started drawing summoning circles on everything you could imagine, saying that she was looking for the perfect location to summon 'The King of all Demons.' I'm telling you that she's out of her mind. Don't even think about going out with her."
"Moron! Like I'd want to be anywhere near her!" yelled Oruki with a frown.
"Good! I rather not have to talk about the guys who asked her out. Let's just say that none of them lasted more than a week before they dumped her. No girl, no matter much cute she is, is worth that much trouble."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah," said Oruki as he opened the obento to see what was inside. It contained some rice balls, sushi and an egg sandwich.
"I'd be careful," said Murazaki nervously. "I wouldn't trust that food."
"Whatever," said Oruki nonchalantly as he bit into a rice ball. To his surprise, it was absolutely delicious. "Mmm!"
Noticing his friends enjoyment, Toshi began to pout. "Come on, man. Can't you share some?"
"Go away," said Oruki rudely. "If you want some free food, go save your own damsel in distress."
"Looks like she's trying to win you over by appealing to your stomach," said Shino with a smirk.
"Yeah right. I seriously doubt I'll ever see her again."
"More irony..." said Haruhi.
"Did you chase after her for more food?" I asked.
"No!" asked Oruki. "I didn't go after her at all. She went after me!"
Naru-san giggled. "I'm afraid I acted a bit impulsively that day."
"It happened when I left the hangout that evening..."
Oruki was walking back home, secretly hoping that his mother wasn't home yet. She always let him have it whenever she found out that he'd been out with his buddies. It was fine by him if she was, though. He wasn't afraid of her. At least, that's what he told himself every time he walked home.
But tonight, he wasn't going to go home right away. On his way back, he spotted a girl standing in the middle of the street. It was dark by now, so he wasn't able to make her out right away. He was going to just walk around her, but just as he got to her, a hand suddenly grabbed his wrist. Before he knew it, he was being pulled towards some random direction.
It was only then that Oruki realized who it was. "You again! What the hell do you think you're doing, idiot girl!"
"No time! Oruki-kun needs to follow me!"
"In case you haven't figured it out by now, Naru-chan had a really bad habit back then of referring to everyone in the third person, including people she was directly talking to."
Naru-san rubbed the back of her head in embarrassment. "I was a bit socially awkward back then."
Oh, like anything has changed...
"So against my better instincts, I decided to follow her. Why? To this day, I still have no idea. I think it might have been morbid curiosity, or maybe I was happy to find any excuse I could to not have to go home. I mean, she was only one girl. How dangerous could she be? I'd taken on guys four times her size, so I wasn't really scared or anything. In any case, we eventually came to where she wanted to take me..."
The two of them finally arrived at their destination: a old, condemned apartment building. Oruki stared suspiciously at the building as Naru pulled him towards it. After a second, Oruki pulled his hand away.
"Hold on! What that hell do you think you're doing?!"
Naru turned around, a bright smile on her face. "We're going inside to find ghosts!"
"The hell I am!" yelled Oruki. "Why the hell do you need me to do that?!"
Naru blinked a bit before answering. "Oruki-kun is the 'Lightning Demon,' right? He can protect me if the ghosts attack."
"I'm not helping you with anything!" yelled Oruki. "And for the last time, stop calling me 'Oruki-kun!'"
Ignoring the last statement, Naru scratched her head. "Is Oruki-kun afraid of ghosts?"
"No!" yelled Oruki in pure frustration. "Why the hell would I be?"
"Good!" cheered Naru as she grabbed Oruki's arm again and pulled him into the condemned building, ignoring all the warning signs stating that it was dangerous to enter.
As they made their way inside, Naru pulled out a flashlight from her purse and began to look around. Oruki reluctantly followed, cautiously looking around for anything that might be dangerous. In truth, he was far more afraid of the building collapsing on top of them than meeting anything supernatural. He didn't believe in any of that stuff.
After a about a minute or two of seeing and hearing nothing but the obvious signs that the place was falling apart, Oruki decided to speak up. "So...when are we leaving?"
"I never leave a place until I've checked every single room. When searching for ghosts, one must be diligent. Ghosts are good at hiding."
"Idiot..." said Oruki under his breath. "Have you ever actually seen one?"
Naru shook her head. "Nope."
"Then how the hell would you know anything about them?!"
Before she could answer, the floor under Naru's feet gave way, and she fell through. Luckily for her, Oruki reacted quickly enough to catch her just before it was to late. Unfortunately, Naru dropped the flashlight, causing the room to fall into complete darkness. Ignoring the fact that he could no longer see, Oruki pulled the young girl to safety.
"See why we shouldn't be in here?!" yelled Oruki irately.
Despite not being able to see her, it was obvious from her voice that Naru wasn't the least bit flustered. "Oh my, it sure is dangerous here."
"'No kidding' is what I should have said," spoke Oruki while looking at his wife. He then looked at me while pointing at her. "She nearly fell through a hole and got seriously hurt, and she doesn't show even the slightest sign of fear. It's amazing!"
You aren't jealous, are you?
"No!" said Oruki before sighing a bit. "Okay, maybe a little. I just wonder how she does it."
"I just don't get scared," said Naru-san with a proud smile. "I've always been that way. It's only when someone else is in danger that I feel and fear."
"Anyway," continued Oruki after giving his wife a squeeze with his arm, "since we could no longer see where we were going, it became obvious that we had to get out. Too bad that leaving a condemned building at night without any light is ridiculously hard..."
The two of them continued to try and feel their way around in the dark, using the cracked sheet rock as the only source for guiding them in the right direction. After about a minute of them wandering in the blackness, Naru spoke up.
"I heard Oruki-kun didn't go to school during his first week."
Oruki was rather surprised and annoyed that the girl would know this. "How the hell did you find that out?"
"Oruki-kun goes to the same school as me. I hear rumors about him from other girls in my class."
"Is that so..."
"I wish Oruki-kun would come to school. It would be a shame if he got expelled."
"I don't really care if that happens."
"Why?" asked Naru with confusion in her voice.
"School is for losers. I got better things to do."
Naru was silent for about a minute before responding. "It would make me happy to see Oruki-kun there."
"Why is that?" asked Oruki apathetically.
"Because Oruki-kun is a good person."
That statement threw the young man off. He'd been called a lot of things over the course of his life, but never once had anyone ever told him that he was a good person. The statement embarrassed him, and he was glad that the room was too talk for her to see him. "You got me all wrong."
It was at that moment that the two of them found some stairs and made their way down. Unfortunately, the stairs broke a bit, causing the two of them to tumble down the rest of the steps. Before long, Oruki was lying on his back with Naru on top of him. He struggled not to enjoy the feeling of her weight on top of him, but he was easily failing.
After Naru realized what had happened, she laid her head onto Oruki's chest. "This is nice and comfy. Maybe I'll go to sleep."
"I...idiot girl..." said Oruki as he become more and more uncomfortable. "G...get off of me!" He then started pushing her off of himself.
When Naru realized what he was doing, she quickly got off of him. Surprisingly, She wasn't upset by his behavior. In fact, she was actually feeling quite the opposite. "See? I knew it!"
Oruki sat up, feeling confused. "Knew what?"
"Oruki-kun is different from the others. The others in the past would only follow me because they thought I was pretty, but Oruki-kun didn't follow me because of that."
"I didn't follow you at all. You dragged me here!"
"Oruki-kun is strong. He could have pulled away if he wanted to. But he didn't because he wanted to come with me."
"Could you do me a favor? Can you please stop talking about me like that?"
Naru blinked in confusion. "Like what?"
"Stop saying 'Oruki-kun' and 'he' when you're talking to me. It's weird. Try using words like 'you' or something. It's not that hard."
Naru was silent for a minute, feeling a bit shy. "No one has ever said anything about how I talk before. I always thought it was okay."
"You thought wrong," said Oruki as he got to his feet. "Let's get the hell out of here."
After about another minute, the two of them finally found their way out. Feeling much more relieved to be out of there, Oruki took a deep breath.
Naru then turned towards Oruki and flashed him a million-watt smile. "Thanks for helping me with my search, Oruk...uh...I mean 'you-kun.'"
Oruki was so distracted by the brilliance of her smile that he didn't even notice the obvious error in her statement.
A second later, Naru began running off, waving Oruki good-bye. "I hope I get to see 'you-kun' at school tomorrow!"
This time, Oruki caught the mistake. "You idiot! That's not how you say it!"
"Come on, mom," said Haruhi. "Really?"
"I was doing it to tease Oruki-kun," said Naru-san, "but I don't think he got it."
"Yeah, right," said Oruki has he stared at her suspiciously. "In any case, the next day I ended up going to school. And no, it wasn't because of Naru-chan. My mother had forced me to go this time." He ignored his wife's giggling and continued the story...
Oruki was now sitting at his desk for the first time since the school year had started. He was wearing a black gakuran and a sour expression. His teacher was quick to hand him all the assignments that he'd missed, telling him that if he didn't turn them all in by the end of the week that he'd fail the classes. He was also annoyed to hear people talking about him in class, saying stupid stuff like "Oh my God, he showed up!" or "Is that that Suzumiya kid who gets into fights all the time?" Very annoying.
Of course, none of these things prepared him for his biggest surprise. It became obvious to him when a pair of hands slammed down onto his desk. He looked up to find out who'd have the nerve to do such a thing only to discover a horrible reality.
Naru was one of his classmates...
"Good morning, 'you-kun!'"
There's more to come, but I felt that this was a good place to stop. I knew that the Omake would be long, so I was prepared to spit it up.
Anyway, I hope this Omake was enjoyable. Have an awesome day!