I opened my eyes. I was laying on Koizumi's coach in Koizumi's studio, and beside the couch there was Asahina-san kneeled down gazing at me worriedly. On the chair there was Koizumi looking quite bad and on the floor there was Haruhi with her legs crossed, muffling on a waffle.
"Kyon-kun, are you okay?" asked Asahina-san.
I reluctantly nodded.
"Did he break something?" asked Haruhi.
"He seems to be fine… Does it hurt anywhere?"
"No, I'm fine." I said.
I didn't understand a thing.
"However, this was quite a powerful earthquake… I was afraid ////// wouldn't wake up…" said Koizumi with his usual dumb smile.
"No, he was made resistant…"puffed Haruhi. "You've worried us to hell Kyon, you'll have to pay back!"
What the fuck is happening here?!
"Kyon-kun, could it be that you don't remember what happened?"
No, I don't really…
"We gathered at Koizumi-kun's house in order to stargaze. It was a very powerful earthquake and I think you hit your head to something – you slept for 2 hours. Now it's 11 o'clock and I have to get home because my uncle is coming to visit, so we won't be able to stargaze anymore. Koizumi got hit a bit and stretched his arm, but he'll be fine. Yuki is on the roof and checking damage. End of story."
Thanks, Haruhi, now I'm even more confused. Was everything a dream, or is it this reality that's the dream?! Looking at Koizumi's face, he doesn't look like he remembers anything, and there is nobody else who knows about the situation… Wait, I have an idea!
"What about the Manga Club?" I asked.
"What's with that? Kyon, are you sure you're fine?!"
I see… So nothing happened… I said I wanted to get some fresh air and climbed up on the roof. The darkness was overwhelming and there wasn't even a trace of a star or the moon. A familiar silhouette was on the edge of the building, and I got closer to it.
"Nagato."
She turned and faced me, without a word.
"Do you have any idea of what happened just now? Do you have any recollection of Haruhi accepting a request from the Manga Club?"
After a few seconds of processing, Nagato answered:
"Magnetic earthquake caused by a closed space being destroyed and exploding into the previous timeframe. Alternative timeframe being created, no recollection of existence or proof of the previous one."
So it looks like I'm the only one who remembers anything…
"But did the previous timeframe really happen in reality?"
"Impossible to answer, but there is an 86,004% chance of it having happened."
So there is a 86,004% chance of me having slept with Koizumi in order to get some sort of revenge on Haruhi who made me model for the Manga Club. Just great. In order to make sure…
After everybody left, Asahina-san suggested I should rest a bit more before leaving, so I remained with the fake Koizumi in his studio.
"If you need anything, just tell me. If you feel too weakened, you can stay the night, there's no problem." Koizumi said in his courteous voice.
"Koizumi. Do you remember anything from the earthquake, do you remember me, you and Haruhi going to a closed space together?"
"I couldn't remember something like this, because no closed spaces have appeared for the last half of year. I guess it was just a dream, thank God for that." Koizumi lightly laughed. "I had been really at peace because Suzumiya-san had been enjoying herself so much."
Wait a minute… Nagato said the earthquake was caused by the explosion of a closed space… which means the previous timeframe did happen, since there are no closed spaces in this timeframe! I remembered everything clearly, but nobody else did… My feelings from that timeframe, they had been real and yet they vanished away. Could it be that it was me who made Haruhi rewrite the past and start over? Did the closed space explode because of Haruhi's anger determined by Koizumi? Did Koizumi plan this from the beginning and did everything purposefully? There were lots of questions I was to never find the answer to.
But 'tomorrow' existed. It was right here, in my hands, to use it as I pleased. Haruhi still hasn't disappointed me in this timeframe, so I tried forgetting the memories in which I hated her. However, the fact of having admitted loving her remained in this timeframe as well. Asahina-san was still here. I had seen the real Koizumi, and even if in this timeframe I presumably don't know him, I think the real him I saw is also his real self in this timeframe. I found out his secret, and also his despair hidden under that smile. But that can't be helped. Because, in this whole world, there's only one Haruhi. And I don't ever want to see her crying again, because she will never be alone. I'm right here.
Thank you for reading!
Sorry for the chapters being split up so strangely, but I split them so while thinking about the content and not the lenght. Originally, this had been written as a whole, but I figured it was way too long to be a oneshot. Maybe it will be a prequel, if anybody asks me so. There are still some things which weren't cleared, so I figured maybe I'll tell that story as well. That would be more concerning Asahina-san and the story of Shuu from the Manga Club. Hope nobody's angry for turning this KyonHaruhi in the end, but I love Haruhi too much to just leave her alone.