(Man, it's been a while... Like two months or something? Anyway, I apologize for the wait for those of you who were... Please enjoy and review!)

The Realization of Haruhi Suzumiya

Original Author: Tanigawa Nagaru

Fan Fiction Author: NagatoYuuki14

Chapter 5

"Everything will be according to plan." The President said, sounding like someone from a presidential election speech. Manikin like figures began to form in front of us in a big number. Oh man… We are so in it now… "Kimidori-san?"

"Understood." She raised her hand with a gentle, but assured smile on her face. It glowed with a bright emerald and shone all across the room. I looked around, and noticed all the materialization froze. Thank goodness… That was a good sign. "I have temporarily frozen the transfer of interfaces in the jurisdiction of this area. You may proceed through the main door, as the President will instruct you to." She suddenly twitched, again, looking in pain.

"Kimidori-san, are you sure you're going to be alright?" I asked.

"Yes…" she coughed once. "… Please… Hurry!" She seemed to have taken great effort just to say those words. I decided to bother her no longer and nodded as a response. Thanks, Kimidori-san. Please, hang on there. We started to sprint pass the completed interfaces, but for some reason they all froze. I am guessing another work from Kimidori-san, or maybe the President, I can't be sure. But thanks to that, we got passed the first obstacles.

So far, everything is going smoothly. We heard nothing but our panting and footsteps as we moved through the halls. I've expected some kind of weapons like laser beams or small nano machines coming through the walls and start attacking us, but I must be over reacting to things… It does seem a bit suspicious, though.

"Wow!" Haruhi suddenly said, sarcastically excited. "This is so easy… Is there anything else more threatening than just running a mile?" Don't ask for trouble! I already have a lot as it is.

… And it seems that her wishes were granted… Suddenly the room darkened in a blink of an eye. When everything turned to normal brightness, guess what we found… If you guess more interfaces, well, I'm sorry to say you were wrong. Well maybe partly right. Well, whatever… I don't think animals count as humanoid interfaces. It was pretty obvious from the name, right? But I wasn't aware that they were going to come up with beast like interfaces, or whatever they call it, too.

Now, let me ask you another question. What do you think was in front of us? A lion? A pack of hounds? Or a school of floating sharks? … If you picked any of those choices, you were wrong. Man, I thought this only existed in mythological stories. How I proved myself wrong by seeing what the things in front of me are.

The first beast was black with six pairs of eyes, separated by three giant heads attached to a burly enormous body of a dog. Its breath can be heard from a half court of a football field, maybe further, and it stinks too. You would think that they will keep the sanitation of their pets more up to standards… A Cerberus stood in front of me.

The creature on the right was pretty much as terrifying as this giant dog thing staring at us right in the eye. It had glowing gold eyes, with spiky eyelashes (freaky…?). It had a pair of horns on top of its semi-triangular head. Razor sharp teeth were shown from its mouth. Web-like wings sprouted from its back and a tail, too. Scales were pretty obvious, too, and so were its claws. And did I say it was enormous? Well, if I did, let me rephrase that into a sense you would understand. It was ginormous (an unusual term from a guy from my age, I know)! Its' breath did not only stink, but it stinks of burned gasoline, or something rotten. Have you guessed what it was?

Yeah… Based on my explanations, we were facing a genuine living dragon… What terrible luck we have… And I must compliment this so-called entity for conjuring up these ideas. It was really unexpected…

The only bizarre thing about is not that these creatures appeared in front of us… Actually scratch that. It was bizarre, but I was more surprised to see myself as my calm self. I was not shivering, nor frozen by fear. I guess I finally got used to it. Asakura is the only thing that will probably scare me in my whole entire life. I noticed an awkward, but bright smile on Haruhi's face and normal expressions you would expect from Koizumi and Mori-san. Haruhi… It's not the time to be amazed…

"Oh, don't worry about these creatures." The President suddenly said. Wait, what's not to worry about (not that I was worried… Wait, I'm contradicting myself…) "Kyon."

I sighed. I still don't like being called that name… "What?"

"Think these creatures gone."

"Huh?" After I made my lame statement, one of the Cerberus' heads lunged at me, and I did mean, lunged. He head was had the momentum of a comet, and I am not kidding. Not that I have seen a comet falling down on Earth or anything, but I had a pretty good idea of what it was like. Anyway, I'm going to be frank. That hurt like hell! If I didn't conjure up a force field of some sort, and I didn't even know how I did it, I would have been a seasoning to some type of pet food… I was thrown maybe fifty yards from the place I was hit.

"Kyon!" Haruhi shouted, wiping the smile off her face. Suddenly she… glowed? I am not kidding! I'm getting surprised all over here! Or maybe I shouldn't be… Anyway, she's glowing gold, and I think her eyes must have been gold, too! "You have no right to hurt a brigade member of my group!" She turned violently and pointed at the beast. That's not going to do anything Haruhi! Get the hell out of there…!

…Or not? As soon as the Cerberus tried to eat Haruhi, it disappeared and sparkled like a thousand miniature stars.

"Or Suzumiya Haruhi can... Either one…" The President said, while shrugging. "… So this is the data produced by such a creature…" He said quietly while putting his index finger on the bridge of his glasses.

Haruhi was looking at her hand. Her face was telling me "what in the world just happened?" Or something along those lines. Either way, I can tell she was pretty surprised. If I was in her position, I would be, too.

"Finally, Ms. Suzumiya… You have a taste of your power as a goddess…" Koizumi candidly said, as if it was just a normal thing. To call someone a goddess isn't really a normal thing to say. "Don't you agree, Kyon?" He shouted to me. No words of concern? Thanks.

"Yeah, I'm fine, but…" I stopped noticing the gigantic reptile. "You might want to turn around for that dragon behind you."

"Oh, we have no problem with that." Koizumi, again, candidly said. Wait what? Also, where's Mori-san? Wasn't she standing right in front of you?

Roar!

That's the only sound I could hear for at least two minutes, continuously… And the answer to my previous question was granted. I didn't think she would be this dynamic. As the dragon's head raging down to the ground, there was something else shining on its head besides its silver metallic horns. With the dragons head on the ground, you can hardly make out what's behind all the clouds of dust that is coming out of the dragon. A few minutes later, there appeared our dragon slayer, striking a pose as if she beat came out of an ancient samurai fight, delivering the finishing blow. I was tempted to clap in applause, but it wasn't the right time. It was Mori-san with a katana striking the ground.

Wait… This reminds me of something… Well never mind…

"This sword that Ms. Nagato us will surely help our cause." She said while taking out the katana from the floor.

"That katana is equipped with nano machines that contain viruses to terminate or rearrange the data structure of an interface lower than a humanoid's. It was also at homing mode, I think that was how Nagato Yuki put it." The President said. That was easy enough to understand… I think… "Please keep it with you at all times."

"I won't be planning to lose it soon, that's for sure." Mori-san smiled gently and we proceeded jogging.

For some reason, Haruhi was looking lethargic, despite her form in her running. I approached her… Man, there's something wrong with me today. Come to think of it, my stomach hasn't settled yet…

"What's wrong…?" I asked.

She jumped, noticing I was next to her. "Whoa, Kyon! You can teleport, now?"

"No, I just slowed down to see you…" It's not like I can control this ability by will anyway. "Anyway, you look awfully down. What's up?"

"…" Silence. "Do you have a fever?" She said.

"Haruhi!"

"Just trying to bring up the mood. That's my job as a Brigade leader…" Yeah…? You're not doing a very good job on it. "Anyway…" She sighed. "… Kyon, can we continue our conversation earlier?"

"What conversation?"

"The one on the roof this afternoon."

I cleared my throat, trying not to reveal the redness in my face. "Okay…? What about it?"

"You asked whether I was worried, right?"

"Yeah? And you said you weren't." The expressions on your face say otherwise, though.

"Well, I lied." I knew it. I'm not really trying to push anything, though. Just putting it out there. "I am worried."

"About what? You just kicked that monster's ass if you asked me." I said, trying to bring up a smile on her face.

"… That did feel good…" She revealed a small grin, which she never shows. She usually smiles brightly, or scowls. She returned to her weary looking face. "… But there's something bothering me…"

"What is it?"

"All this time… All this freaking time…! I had these abilities all along? Why didn't I know it sooner?"

"You were probably hard headed at the time."

"Shut it, Kyon! I'm not trying to be funny here!" She shouted mad. "I'm being serious! I mean if you were in my situation, what would you do? What would you feel?"

Problem is I am already nearly in your position. "Well, I would probably feel the same thing. But there's nothing I can do about it." I offered my quickly put together statement. "But Haruhi…" I paused, trying to sound as dramatic as I could, which I failed miserably. "… You can decide what to do with those powers. After all, you were referred to as a goddess, right? Or maybe a source if auto evolution. I don't know… But either way, you have the choice to do whatever you want when you want it." I sighed and looked forward. "I don't know why, maybe I should thank you." I said without thinking.

"For what?"

I thought of what I said quickly. The answer was pretty obvious, though. "When I was a kid, I've been dreaming of everything that is happening right now. Fighting evil syndicates, finding aliens, time-travelers, espers, weird things, those are all the things that I thought that could never happened." We were still jogging. "But based on what everyone said, it was thanks to you that everything happened this way." I smiled out of reflex and turned to her. "Thank you, Haruhi."

Her face suddenly turned into a puzzled look. No matter what angle you look at that, I got to admit that was the most adorable thing that she has ever done around me. "Wha- What are you saying, Kyon?" She said, shifting her eyes in every direction but mine. I hit the spot. She's embarrassed. Score one for Kyon! … Great now I'm calling myself that… "A-Anyway, let's move on!" Her blushing face was also very cute… I wouldn't mind her in a maid outfit right, now…

What am I saying?

I sighed… Anyway, let's move on!

There was a thunderous roar that sounded behind us. I hope Kimidori-san was okay…

We reached the elevator in the end of the hall. I didn't look much different from the elevators back home except maybe it was, again, pure white with an electronic neon lighting flowing down.

"How do you work this thing?" I asked the President. He pointed at my pocket as a response. …Of course… I took out the bookmark that Nagato gave me and swiped it in some sort of laser scanner like one of those convenient stores. The elevator started to move on its own, and it had its own elevator music. Weird…? Last time I checked, aliens aren't interested in these kinds of things… Well, since when did I actually check? Ah, this is pointless…

We reached the second floor and a few meters away from us was a giant door. For once it wasn't white. It was shining silver with fancy designs on it, like what you would see on a gate of a mansion.

Things are being easy right now… Maybe too easy…

"You guys ready?" I asked and everyone nodded as a response. I swiped the bookmark on the small swiping area and the door slowly opened. I can hear someone saying "final stage" in my head. Well, this is the final stage. Despite the quickness of our rescue mission so far, I think things are about to get tougher. The door fully opened.

For some reason, something was bothering me about the room as we entered it. Everything was gray… The atmosphere is as cold as Haruhi being depressed, and you have seen how she can be when she is depressed. I couldn't even tell how big the room was, but it was huge. Maybe as huge as Tokyo or something like that… It's almost like a…

"Sealed Reality?" Koizumi said with a puzzled look on his face with his smile also intact. "I did not expect this."

"I concur…" The President said. "It seems that the entity prepared everything, including this data space…"

I'm a tiny bit confused. "What's going on?"

"The Entity has created a sealed reality out the data that Ms. Suzumiya creates on Earth. Is that simple enough?" You don't have to insult me like that. "And if there's a sealed reality…" He continued. "There are…"

I think I know what he was about to say. But before he finished his statement, something hit him. To be m more specific, big giant red ball of electricity hit him.

"… Espers." He finished. Yes… Espers of the same attire as us were transformed into big balls of visible red aura.

"I see… So this is what they have planned." Koizumi said, and started glowing. "… This is getting interesting. Don't you think Mori-san?"

"I agree." They looked like people from that (bleep) Ball show that I saw when I was a kid. The guy even looked like one of the characters. Cosplay much? Once he dropped his foot, a dozen more espers came into view. Oh crap…

"… Leave these to us." Koizumi said with a smile in his face.

"Eh?" Haruhi said. "Wait, why…? What can you do to fight these guys?"

You have no idea, Haruhi… "Please trust me. We'll take care of these." He had a calm smile on his face.

Haruhi looked like she was deciding whether to let him go or not. In the mean time, the President was protecting us by putting up a barrier.

I grabbed her hand. "Trust him, Haruhi. You seriously have no idea what this guy can do."

"How do you know?"

"… Ah… Well…"

"Did you guys have a fight?"

Sharp… "A little…" She suddenly poked me and Koizumi strongly on our foreheads. "Ow! What did you that for?"

"Fights aren't allowed between brigade members! Remember that for the rest of your lives!" Haruhi shouted. I felt myself grin, and usual, Koizumi's annoying smile was still on his face. It's amazing how this girl is still like this in the middle of an emergency. "Fine! But I won't allow any failures, you got that Koizumi? You are the most responsible next to me, so you better not fail me!"

"Yes, Ms. Suzumiya." And with that Koizumi started glowing. I saw Haruhi's eyes widening while stumbling on my arm. "I'll be off then. Mori-san?"

"Yes." Mori-san, unlike Koizumi, smiled gently and both of them created a shield of red aura. Again, Haruhi's widened even more.

"Kyon!" He shouted while starting to float.

"Yeah?" He pointed at me, and then something hit my head.

"You better not let her be harmed of any way, unless you want to be eradicated." He said while smiling. That was creepy, like Asakura creepy… "And please, as a friend for me…"

"…Got it." I saluted and grabbed Haruhi's arm. "Let's go." She nodded as a response, and at the same time, the barrier was turned off. There was a big flash of light behind us. Probably Koizumi going in the speed of light, or something, because when I turned around, there was a giant dome of red, being created by them surrounding the other espers. Lighting and thunder claps can be heard from the inside.

"Those weren't in my calculations…" The President said, sounding a bit worried.

"What weren't?" I asked while turning to him.

"The Entity using Espers to block us off. To think they would use creatures like them… "

"You say as if they are lowly creatures that never should exist."

"I am not saying that… It's just I am wondering why…"

"Don't ask me… To be honest, I don't know, either." I looked forward. "But that doesn't really matter does it? As long as save Nagato, we could just get the hell out of here, right?"

The President grinned. "I suppose."

I grinned back. "Then let's go finish this thing."

He nodded and both of us looked forward. Haruhi was looking forward as if she didn't hear any of our ramblings. This time I just hope that there is no dragons or Cerberus in our way. I deeply do…

A few minutes later, I saw the other giant door that the President was talking about, probably a half a mile away. It was about the size of the door before, so there was no surprise except for its hugeness. A second later, the things that I deeply hoped not to appear appeared. Well, not exactly. I didn't mention floating sharks earlier, did I? Of course I didn't imagine them with lasers on their backs, either. Well anyway, there's no use of just standing here, right?

Hell… Run!

"Really?" I said, while breathing heavily. "Sharks that float?"

"I completely had no idea that these even exist!" Haruhi said.

"Those are the defense mechanisms acting up. Please be calm" The President calmly replied.

"Be calm? My… Never mind… Anyway, can you like, I don't know, make them disappear or something?" I said.

"That is supposed to be your job, Kyon."

"How am I supposed to do that?" We were still running.

"I thought you already knew." The President calmly said.

"What? …Oh right…" I reached for my pocket, which I didn't know I had, and got a miniature gun… How nostalgic… It looked like the same gun that Nagato gave me during the time when the world was altered by, according to her, astray self. Well, I have no time to feel nostalgia right now, or feel relieved. I have to shoot these things I guess…

Bang!

I only fired once, but the bullet, which was a ray of light, divided itself and hit every floating shark… Homing laser missiles, huh? Can be useful… Well, it's no use now, because it just disappeared into small cubes of crystal and eventually disappeared in the air… Oh well.

We reached the doors. I swiped the bookmark to the identification laser, or something like that, and the door slowly slide open. Inside was about the same room as before, except it was, again, white. We heard nothing but our footsteps when going inside, which made everything seem slower than it is. We reached the center of the room, and suddenly I couldn't help but feel uneasy…

"Run." The President said.

"Eh?" I said.

"Run!" He shouted. That's when I realized that why he said that. In reflex, I pushed Haruhi away, leaving myself in the middle of it. If you are wondering what "it" is, well, it was the ceiling crashing down on me.

"Kyon!" Haruhi shouted, which I barely heard. Damn… That freaking hurt! I'm sure now that if I didn't have Nagato's powers activated, I would have been squashed like a tomato. Anyway, now I have to figure out how to get out of this thing… As I struggled to get the ceiling off my back, I felt like there was another thing on top of it. I really wish that I have a giant sledge hammer on my hand…

… Ah… No need for wishing… It's already there…

Wait… How the hell am I supposed to use this thing? And with that thought, the sledgehammer disappeared. I wanted to sigh, but the way of the ceiling on my back isn't exactly comforting for the lungs. Man I wish these things would just go and disappear somewhere… Why didn't I think of that before…? You pretty much know what just happened.

With all the ceiling pieces off my back, I saw everything that was around me. Let's see… Giant objects that looked very similar to a bazooka, small white rifles that looked like lasers, and about a hundred people, no, interfaces surrounding me. No I'm serious. Some were standing, some were floating. But if I can trust what my guts were saying, yeah, there were a hundred. Don't ask why I know I just do.

"Well, I'm glad that you got out." The President said.

"Yeah, thanks for the help… Anyway what are we going to do?"

"We're going with the plan of course." He raised his right hand and with a flash of light, it felt like everything but us stopped.

"What just happened?"

"In layman's terms, I have frozen everything in this space but us." The President calmly said that. Was that supposed to be an insult.

"Ah… I see that." I replied. "But I'm guessing this won't last that long either."

"No it will not…" He paused. "Hurry and get through the exit. You have exactly a minute."

"Alright… Wait…" As I turned around I saw the interfaces blocking the exit. "Um… I thought they were supposed to be frozen."

"Ah… Shoot…" The President said. "They weren't in range. I'm guessing you have to fight them, Kyon."

"What the hell? How am I supposed to do that?"

"You have Nagato Yuki's abilities equipped don't you?"

"So? I haven't exactly practiced. And my fight with Koizumi was just a fluke."

"Hah! So you two did fight!" Haruhi said. Are you not worried about our current situation? "You are so going to get it later!" She pouted. I'm amazed how she could still be herself in a situation like this… Of course, again, it's Haruhi we're talking about. There's nothing out of the ordinary of what she's doing.

I sighed. "Geez… I'll accept that punishment later. We have other things to worry about."

"You mean those things going towards right now?"

"Yeah… Wait what?" Before I realized it, they were racing towards my direction like they were some comet from a distant galaxy being called by their grandmother for a prize who's going to win. … Does that even make sense? Ah whatever. Here goes…

I suddenly started saying something… But I wasn't moving my mouth by will at all.

"Unrecognized interfaces coming from thirty yards. Threat level is very high. Requesting for permission to terminate interfaces approaching in dangerous speeds.

"…

"…

"... Downloading offensive data to organic life form host. Initiating in 3… 2… 1…"

I really sounded weird saying that, especially in monotone and in a ridiculous speed. I felt like my jaw was going to fly out its socket or something. Anyway, before I realized it, I started moving on my own. The two interfaces impacted the ground where I was standing, and I suddenly saw myself about fifty feet above ground. Holy crap! Then I suddenly raised my hand and threw it like I was throwing a baseball for 180 km/hr or something like that. After that, about millions of small particles of crystallized ice flew out of nowhere, homing for the two interfaces.

Damn, they dodged it. By the way, whoever is controlling me, take it easy! My body isn't that flexible you know! They raced towards me again. Crap. Now what? Suddenly I said something again. My jaws are already aching, dang it!

"Materializing thin concentrated light on wrists. Applying data for increase in speed."

…Wait, what? Concentrated light? Speed increase… That doesn't sound good. I suddenly went upside down and pushed my legs upward, as if there was some kind of flat form there, which there wasn't. But I sent myself off anyway like about in the speed of sound. Then right about the time I reached the two interfaces, I stretched my arms out like a plain flying by and drove myself straight in the middle of the two. It didn't feel like anything at all, but after I landed where I originally was, I said, "Termination complete," then I saw a large flash of lights on the ground. I'm sorry to brag, but that was cool!

"Good job." The President said with his tone sounding like his in pain. "Now you may want to hurry. You have ten seconds until the data set in this room expires."

"Alright. Let's go… Haruhi?" When I looked at her, she had a huge smile on her face. "What's the matter…? Ah whatever, tell me later. We have to go now!" I carried her, bridal style and jumped like a quarter mile far. "President, hang on okay? We're going to be right back!"

The President nodded and with that, we exited the room. The door shut closed behind us.

"Kyon…" Haruhi muttered.

"Yes?"

"You can put me down now." Her face was slightly red.

"Ah! Sorry…" I put her down. "Now, what was it you were going to say?" We started running.

"Oh right… That was the most spectacular thing I've ever seen!" She suddenly shouted.

…Wait, what? "What are you talking about?"

"What do you mean 'what am I talking about'?" She pointed at my face. "You were like this and that." She waved her hands around. "And then you were like this, and that…"

"I have no idea what you're doing Haruhi."

"Ah, whatever! That was cool! I can't believe that I was being ignorant of everything around me! Darn it!"

Yeah… Even your other self in the alternate dimension believed me easier than you. Well maybe I should have mentioned the name John Smith…

Her so energetic face turned dull in an instant. It was a bit disturbing.

"… Why?"

"Why what, Haruhi?" We were still running.

"… Never mind…" She looked away. I wonder what she was going to say. Well, I won't ask… I don't want to trouble her more, although I get the feeling she's more excited than troubled.

We were running through the seemingly endless hall. Neither of us were tired nor had any signs of any difficulty breathing. Haruhi's naturally athletic, but I guess the thing that's keeping me up is this power. My body still hurts, especially my jaw. How can they manage to talk like that? Speaking gibberish that fast…

A few minutes later, I saw a tiny blue dot starting to grow larger. Wait… That's the hall where Asakura and I walked over. We're almost there Nagato!

Suddenly…

Boom!

A sound came through the crashing wall and smoke arose from the impact site. As the smoke faded, I saw a familiar figure. She made it…

"Kimidori-san… You're alright." I said.

"Whoa! Emiri-chan!" Haruhi shouted in surprise.

The smoke faded. "Don't you think that breaking the wall was unnecessary?" I said as sarcastically. "Anyway, let's get going. Nagato's waiting-" My sentence was interrupted. There was a shiny object pointed at my throat. "… Kimidori-san?" She was pointing a short sword at my throat.

She smiled brightly. "I acted well, didn't I…?"

"Wait… What?" Out of reflex, I jumped off the way of the sword as she sprung to me. "Kimidori-san, what are you doing?" I shouted.

"What's going on…? Emiri-chan?"

She put the tip of the sword on her shoulders. "Do you think I would help you humans get your hands on our prisoner?" She was still smiling. "You were much bigger fools than I thought…"

"… Kimidori-san? Are you saying that…" I started.

"That I was just being a false ally? Are you going to say that I am a traitor?" She put the tip of the sword on her lips. "That is such a great joke…" She giggled then rushed to me. In reflex, I dodged again. She slashed sideways afterwards, which caused me to duck. She lifted her sword towards the ceiling and slashed down furiously. I stepped back before the blade reached me.

"Oh? You still have the energy to dodge? Surprising… Well, maybe I should activate that…"

That?

"Initiating effect of stagnant matter inside host's body. Temporary deactivation of interface abilities is initialized." She said in a speedily. Then I suddenly began to feel something in my stomach…

…Damn… Damn! That freaking hurts! Sh…

I collapsed on my knees. I started sweating like I just ran a twenty mile marathon in thirty minutes, as a normal human that is… I'm exaggerating, but it felt that way… Crap! What the…?

"I didn't expect it to have an effect that quickly. Well, it's good for me I guess…"

"What are you talking about…?" I said while struggling for air.

She giggled. Stop with the damn giggles already! "You surely are slow. I have expected you to feel something stagnant in your stomach in the past hours."

"Stagnant…? You mean…?"

"Yes. To put in your terms, poison."

But when did she put… Don't tell me… The tea? Oh man, that is just sneaky… But that's not the case here.

"Kimidori-san…" I struggled to get up. "… Why are you doing this?"

"Why? Well, it's only logical. Observing Suzumiya Haruhi is obviously not an available option now. It's been far too long. Five Hundred years too long…" She smiled and walked towards me. "But if I kill you now, Haruhi Suzumiya will certainly have a reaction." Where have I heard that before? "Especially…" She turned to Haruhi. "… When the subject is present." She turned back to me and stopped about five feet away from me and Haruhi.

Haruhi was just standing there, almost frozen.

"Kimidori-san…"

"Show no sympathy for me. It is not needed, nor do I feel it. You have more to worry about yourself." She turned her knife towards Haruhi. "How about I kill her first?"

Silence… Wait… Isn't that contradictory of what you're saying? You're supposed to observe her not kill her. "Well, I'll take that as a yes." She quickly got into a stance and lunged towards Haruhi. It's not the time to not move damn it!

I quickly got up and rushed towards Haruhi, grabbed her fifteen feet away from Kimidori-san and crashed on the floor… It's good that I saved her, but that came with a great cost… As soon as I know it, I was throwing up on the floor with unknown acids coming out of my mouth. And trust me, you don't want to be me right now…

"Oh, you still had the energy to move? Well, that's surprising… Well, it's over now. Your efforts are futile since you are going to die here."

I was still wondering about something… "Kimidori-san, answer one question… For me…" I coughed.

"Last words? Sure."

"What was… What was the reason that you attacked Haruhi in the first place…?" I struggled to get up.

It was silent for a few moments, as Kimidori-san's expression began to change into a frustrated one instead of her usual smile. "To be honest, I don't know…" She put the tip of her short sword on her index finger. "… It's just frustrating to see our entity wasting our time in such a creature is all… But I must thank you for saving her, because I had no hesitation of stopping right there. You have saved me from inevitable deletion… But…" She pointed at us. "Your existence will be erased in this moment." She went into a stance that she is about to lunge again. I stood up, still struggling from the poison. She lunged. I closed my eyes.

… Crap… Am I going to die…? Is this how it is going to end? I didn't fulfill my promise… I'm sorry Nagato… I'm sorry I can't save you… Sorry everyone… I failed…

…

…Huh? What's going on? I'm supposed to feel something cold in my body, aren't I? I opened my eyes…

You will not believe the irony that just happened… Even I don't and it's right in front of me. Blue hair fluttering in the air, holding the tip of the short sword that Kimidori-san was holding with her bare hand… It would have felt nostalgic if it was Nagato, but it was different this time.

"Asakura-san, what do you think you're doing?" Kimidori-san asked.

"Nothing." The figure standing before me giggled. Asakura Ryouko, the girl who has tried to kill me, has saved my life. You're feel what I'm feeling now, right? "Just interfering is all."

"You know you are going to be punished, right? Next time it may not just be suspension of contact to organic life forms, but it might be complete deletion."

"I am fully aware of that risk." She candidly said.

"Then why?"

"Hm… It's not that hard to think about isn't it? It's more interesting this way." She giggled and turned her head towards me. "And also…" She turned back. "I believe that he is the key to our evolution."

"Nonsense. This human cannot be the key to our species' evolution. He has no special attributes whatsoever." Gee, thanks. "He doesn't have any ability to manipulate data. He cannot even time travel. You, yourself, has tried to kill his man and was tired of this stalemate. How can he be the key to our evolution?"

"You will understand." Asakura just left it at that and raised her open hand. She threw her hand in a fast motion, and suddenly, ice-like spikes went towards Kimidori-san. She dodged it and went back at least thirty feet. "Kyon…" She took her hand and suddenly appeared a small needle. She stabbed it to my neck.

"…Ow! What was that for?" I said... Wait… Why am I feeling better?

"That should counter act the effects of the 'poison.' Hurry up, and take Suzumiya with you. Take the path on your right." She said.

"How about you?" I'm actually worried about her?

"I will be fine. I can par with her abilities."

I contemplated there for a moment and decided I should trust her. After all, she just saved my life. "Alright… I never thought I will hear myself say this, but thanks, Asakura." I grabbed Haruhi's hands while she was on the ground. "Let's go."

"Oh, and Kyon." She called.

"Yeah?"

She showed that gentle smile of hers that means that she is going to kill you. "… You better save Nagato-san… If you don't…" she took her military knife out. "I will kill you a million times, got it?" She giggled. Somewhat relieved, I waved.

"Don't worry. I will." I don't exactly want to be killed even once anyway. I carried Haruhi and dashed away. I could have sworn I heard Kimidori-san shout "wait," which was probably accurate, but I heard an explosion afterwards so I guess I should ignore it.

I looked over Haruhi's face. Unlike earlier, she didn't have that embarrassed (extremely cute… ahem…) face… Instead, she has a puzzled one.

"Hey what's wrong?" I asked while feeling the air rushing to my face.

No reply.

"Hey!" I said louder this time.

"Huh?" She said, snapping out of staring off space. Man, that's also a rare thing to see on Haruhi. "Oh, what is it Kyon?"

That's all you have to say? "You were staring off like you're bothered by something."

"What do you think?" She said boldly. "Won't you be bothered by the thought of someone trying to kill you?" Of course I would. You have no idea of how many times that has happened to me, though. Let's see… Two times first year… Two more times last year… "Well?"

"Of course I would. Normal humans react that way."

"Well, you're not a normal human right now. But that aside, what did Emiri-chan intend to do after she killed me? Was there any reason for that?"

"Well…" I tried to recall what Kimidori-san said. After a few moments of silence, I came up with something.

"Hey Kyon."

"I know. I was just thinking of something." I looked forward. "I'll tell you later. We're almost there."

"…Okay." She replied. We were almost at the door. Nagato, we're almost there! As I looked out the clear window, I saw the Earth seem to just sit there and do nothing. I am so jealous of view… You get to just sit there and orbit around the sun… Well maybe not… You had to have the right attributes to allow us live… And a lot more than that… Never mind… I have a lot more things to worry about our planet.

We reached the gigantic doors. I found a swipe slot like we did previously and took out the bookmark. For some reason I looked at it as if it was the last time I was going to see it. I turned to Haruhi.

"Ready?"

With her determined face on, she nodded. Okay, here we go!

I swiped the book mark, and in a few moments, it actually disappeared. It was a shame… I thought I was going to keep it as a souvenir. The door creaked open… No, it was actually quiet, but I just imagined it had a loud noise. The whiteness inside bursted out of the room.

After the door was completely open, Haruhi and I walked in slowly, only hearing our footsteps. Isn't this a bit too dramatic of a scene? And wasn't this room a bit, no, a lot bigger than before? Anyway, after a few more steps closer to the center, I started to see a small figure sitting in the middle of the room. Her silver-lavender hair was reflecting off the light. She was wearing the attire the same as Haruhi and everyone else in this place. I can't help but start to run and shout her name.

"Nagato!" I shouted. Her head slowly turned towards me and stood up. She still has that expression. This is definitely the Nagato I knew. "Come on, Nagato. Let's get out of here!" I grabbed her hand. She didn't move.

"You shouldn't have come…" She quietly said. I paused.

"…What are you talking about, Nagato? Don't you want to get out?"

No response. Instead she took her hand at her side and took out an object. An object I've seen before. The needle gun that was used to shoot the so-called corrupted Nagato. It would have felt nice to see it, but I had a different feeling.

Bang!

Without hesitation, Nagato fired the gun. Do you have any guess who? I don't think I need to tell you. Me.

… What the hell just happened?

"Yuki? What are you doing?" Haruhi shouted behind me.

"Naga-" I was going to say "Nagato," but I was round house kicked in the face and crashed towards Haruhi, making the two of us fall on the ground. I stood up.

"Nagato! What is this?" I shouted in wonder. What the hell was going on? Well, the shot of the needle didn't feel a thing, but that sure scared the crap out me.

"I have warned you not to come…" The gun in her hand started to glow, and liquefied. "… I have tried my best to protect you…" The liquefied blob suspended in mid air turned into a military knife. "… But you did not listen, therefore I must go through with my assignment."

"Nagato… What are you talking about?"

She took the knife across her face to her shoulder. "Character in subject of termination is present." She bent her legs. "Commencing termination."