Hey guys I THINK that this chapter is the one where it all went wrong… As in like where I couldn't think of anything else to write about. But I'm not sure; I have re-read it yet… Ok please read.

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"Wait…" She stopped but didn't turn. Hikaru stood close behind her, placing the necklace around her neck "At least please have this…"
Haruhi touched the small silver pendant hanging from the necklace with her fingertips. The accumulated tears were fogging her eye sight. "Thank you, I'll cherish it forever." She continued walking towards her house, trying her best to keep her tears from falling, just till she could get back home and into the protection and peacefulness of her room.

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Chapter 5; A Broken Mind


06/27/09 – 08/21/09

-Haruhi's P.O.V-

"Haru-Chan, Oi, Good Morning!" Nunnalie waved. Nunna-Chan and the others, except for Chun, had been waiting for me at the school's gates.

"Good Morning!" I greeted as soon as I reached them. I had woken up extremely early today in order to avoid seeing Hikaru, and so far it was all good. There was absolutely no sign of him or his screaming Fan-Girls.

"Haru-Chan, come on we gotta hurry or we'll miss Chun-Kun's morning practice!" Kiara-Chan said cheerfully as she pulled me over to the school's soccer field.

Tamaki, Takumi and I sat on the grass, me in the middle. While Nunna-Chan and Kiara-Chan stood, cheering for Chun-Kun to score a goal. "I didn't know Chun-Kun was in the Soccer Team." I whispered over to Tama-Kun as I saw Chun scoring one goal after another.

"Oh, he's not only IN the Team, he's also the Captain." Amazing, I had seen a couple of pictures of Chun with a soccer ball, but I never truly expected for him to be so passionate about it. I could hear a bunch of girls talking to each other about how great he was and how it was a shame that he already had a girlfriend. I noticed that Kiara had heard them too, but it seemed not to bother her at all.

I shook it off; I was in no position to wonder about someone else's relationship when my own was slowly going down the drain. Last night I had broken up with Hikaru, but seriously I couldn't really call it a 'break up' since we weren't even together, at least I didn't think we were. There's also the whole thing with Tamaki, he confessed to me, twice, but in neither of those times could I say anything. 'I don't know what the right choice is anymore.' I continued watching the game, putting everything that wasn't school work aside.

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-Normal P.O.V-

"So that's Haruhi Fujioka, is it?"

"That's right Ootori-Sensei; she's the one that's trying to throw either Takashi or me off the Top." Ootori-Sensei fixed his glasses as he looked down at the young girl sitting on the grass, from his third floor office.

"And what are you planning to do about it, Haninozuka-Kun?" Ootori-Sensei questioned as he walked away from the window, taking a seat back on his chair, two young students, sitting in front of him. One of the boys looked like an Elementary Student, although he was already a Last Year Student in High School, he had light blonde hair and golden brown eyes; his name Mitsukuni Haninozuka also known as Honey-Senpai by many of his Fan-Girls. The other boy had a more masculine complexion, he looked like a College Student, yet he's also just in his Last year of High School, he had black colored hair and dark gray colored eyes; his name Takashi Morinozuka well known as Mori-Senpai by many people and Fan-Girls. Those two were in truth related, cousins to be more exact.

"That's why we came to ask for your help, we don't know what to do. No one has ever been able to throw off any of the Top Students no matter how hard they tried, but Takashi and I have heard a lot of things about Fujioka-San. Ne, Takashi?"

"Nh…" was all Morinozuka said.

"Well, the only advice I can give you is to… Play Dirty." Ootori-Sensei had an evil expression on his face.

"But Sensei…"

"You wanted my advice, and I gave it to you… If you have anything against it then go on and find your own way of keeping your sorry butts on the Tops List."

"Gomen Ootori-Sensei, we'll try our best to follow your advice. We'll take our leave now." Neither Honey-Senpai nor Mori-Senpai liked to play dirty, and less if it involved a girl. But if it meant staying as one of the Tops then there wasn't much they could do. They left the room and walked over to their class which was only about four doors away from Haruhi's.

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"Mitsukuni this is a bad Idea."
Mori-Senpai said as he sat behind Honey-Senpai, their desks where both placed besides the window and they could clearly see the young girl sitting and laughing with her friends.

"Ne Takashi, if that girl becomes one of the Tops, you'll be the one to be thrown out… Is that really ok with you?" Honey-Senpai noticed Mori-Senpai's expression clearly showing that he had not thought of it in that matter. Mori-Senpai had not thought of the fact that since he was Ranked Number Seven he would be automatically out of the Top List. His expression went back to normal after a couple of minutes.

"Mitsukuni, that is not entirely true…"

"What do you mean, Takashi?" Honey-Senpai looked confused. 'Did he figure a way to stay on the Top List?' He thought with curiosity on his face.

"Mitsukuni all I need to do is study harder and by the end of the month my ranking might increase… There's a 50/50 percent chance that I'm not the one who'll be thrown off the List."

"Takashi but…" He was immediately cut off by Mori-Senpai

"Mitsukuni if you trust in my skills you will not do anything stupid. I don't want to play dirty like Ootori-Sensei told us to… I want to win this with my own efforts and hard work."

"… Fine…" but no matter how much Honey-Senpai trusted on Mori-Senpai, he still feared for his cousin. 'Gomen Takashi, but I too gotta do what's in my hands and doing what Ootori-Sensei said, is the only way to go.' Class started a couple of minutes after and Honey-Senpai saw how the little group cheering, ran into the school, that little group that was destroying everything Takashi had worked for. 'I can't forgive anyone that brings unhappiness into my family.' (A/n; NuNnaLiE18: Ooh, so there's a dark side to the little boy. TeeHee)

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-Haruhi's P.O.V-

We were all so into the game that no one noticed how the time had just gone by so fast.

"Come On, Chun-Kun! You just need one last Goal!" Kiara-Chan kept on cheering for her boyfriend, jumping up and down every time he would score. This was only a practice match for crying out loud.

'I wonder how she acts when it's a real match.' I thought as she continued her cheering, Nunnalie not falling too much behind. I looked over at Takumi, who was lying on the grass, not paying attention to his friend at all. 'So, Takumi's not much of a Sports' Guy, uh.' I looked over at Tamaki, who had a serious expression on his face watching every single movement Chun made. 'I wonder if he's enjoying himself or if he has no idea what is going on…?' Of course, as if Tamaki had been reading my mind, once Chun had scored the last goal, he began to cheer just as crazy and freaky as Kiara-Chan and Nunna-Chan were. I joined in soon after… Chun walked over to us, all sweaty from running and covered in dirt that had turn into mud from sliding to get the ball.

Kiara-Chan was trying to get away from him as he tried to hug her... The bell rang and we all somewhat cursed at ourselves. "Shoot, we're late, this time for sure!" Takumi said as he rapidly stood from his lying position.

"You guys go on ahead; I gotta go take a shower!" Chun ran over to the GYM as the rest of us ran to our class. Having class on the Third Floor had its down sides, and this was one of them. We walked into the room two minutes late; Niwa-Sensei was already taking row.

"Sorry… we were… so late…" I could clearly understand everything they were saying, I had to admit it myself, my Japanese had seriously improved this past days.

"Its okay, I was just about to take row… Please take your seats." Niwa-Sensei pointed over to our chairs and we soon did as told.

"Niwa-Sensei, Chun will be late too, he had to go change." Kiara simply said while taking her seat.

"Okay Tsumiya-Chan, I'll make sure not to mark Imai-Kun absent." Niwa-Sensei continued to take row, a couple of minutes later, Chun-Kun walked in taking his seat next to Kiara-Chan right away. Once she was finished taking row, she announced that we could have a Study period while she went to make copies of our next class's assignment.

That's when a huge imaginary arrow hit me right in the middle of my forehead saying 'Unlucky' in big bold letters. 'What was the whole point of waking up early if I'm still gonna have to see HIM First, Lunch and Fourth period, argh I hate my luck!' (A/n; NuNnaLiE18: Okay, so I went back to the other story and I realized a couple of things, first of all I never truly explained Haruhi's scheduled which is now throwing ME off… So I'll make it clear now. Haruhi's Schedule: Homeroom 8:45am – 9:15am, 1st pd. Japanese Lit 9:20am – 10:35am, 2nd pd. Algebra 10:40am – 11:55am, Lunch 12:00pm – 12:45pm, 3rd pd. Government12:50pm - 2:05pm and 4th pd. English Lit 2:10pm – 3:25pm. Ok each class is supposed to be 1:15 long if I made a mistake please correct me. Lunch is ok, only 45 mins.) I let out a huge sigh, which I knew Tamaki had heard.

"Haru-Chan, are you okay?" He asked concerned about my now gloomy expression.

"Yeah, yeah I'm fine… Uhm, I need to study, sorry." That's when another arrow hit me. I had forgotten the notebook that Tamaki had given me at Hikaru's place. I remember clearly seeing it at his night table 'I'm a huge, enormous Idiot.' I mentally slapped myself a couple of times.

"Haru-Chan, you sure you're okay, is your health ok?" Tamaki said once again, bringing me back to reality this time.

"I'm fine, I'm fine, don't worry." I started reading over Chapter Six on my Japanese Lit book, taking some notes at the same time, just as I had done at Tamaki's house. 'I need to get that notebook back.' Homeroom went on by fast; Niwa-Sensei had returned just a couple of minutes before the end of the period.

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I took in a deep breath as I waited for Hikaru to come and pick me up, as if on cue, there was a knock on the door and as it slid open Hikaru entered. "Kasumi-Sensei, I'm here for Fujioka-Chan." He said with a compose expression on his face as if nothing had happened the night before.

"Sure thing Hikaru-Sensei… Fujioka-Chan you may go now." I saw Hikaru staring at me but again no expression on his face.

"Bye Tamaki, see you in a bit." I whispered as I stood from my chair, Tamaki waving me good-bye.

Our walk to his office was so silence that you could actually hear a pin drop. I placed my hand to my chest as I walked behind him, feeling from over my shirt the small necklace he had given me. I had intended on taking it off last night, but didn't. Something in my mind told me to keep it close to me, close to my heart, and that's exactly where it was. We reached his office and he held the door open for me, he closed it behind him and he motioned me to sit down. I did as told; he soon took a seat on the other side of his desk.

"Kasumi-Sensei gave me your assignment for today, just do as much as possible on your own and if you get stuck just ask me. Oh by the way, here, you left it in my room." He had no expression on his face and his voice had been monotone while he handed me the assignment and also the notebook.

"Oh, thank you." I began on my work, it was actually very easy, the assignment was based on chapters four and five and I had already gotten over them. It was just like a review to me, and the notes I had taken were helping me a lot not to mention the notes that Tamaki had in this notebook were a lot of help as well. (A/n; NuNnaLiE18: Uhm if you're confused by what I mean with Japanese Lit. its just like grammar, completing sentences, correcting punctuations and misspelled words, reading over a story and correcting mistakes done to it.) "Hitachiin-Sensei, I'm finished." It took me about 30-40 minutes to finish the whole assignment it was three pages long, front and back including two stories.

He took the papers from my hand and scanned it over, flipping the pages a couple of times. His face changed from expressionless to astonished, my guess was that he couldn't believe the progress I had made in such a short period of time. "Fujioka-Chan, I'm… I'm truly amazed by your work. You asked me for no help and yet you got everything correct, you're a talented young girl."

"… Thank you…" I was happy that I was being praised by him, but somehow my chest was hurting. It felt as if a thousand needles were slowly piercing my heart, one by one. But why, why was I feeling this way… and that's when I noticed, I had called him 'Hitachiin-Sensei' and it had not bothered him at all and soon after he called me 'Fujioka-Chan'. Was the relationship we once had slowly being erased, was it slowly being turned into something that had never happened? Was it all because of me; because I couldn't decide on what was the best way to end all my confusion and frustration, deciding instead to end our relation?

"Well since we still have about 30 minutes 'till the end of class, would you like to go over another chapter?" He handed me back my assignment. I took it with my left hand as I had my right hand on my chest. The pain wouldn't go away; I clenched onto the necklace from over my shirt as I felt that, that small silver object was now the only connection between Hikaru and me.

"I… would rather go to class. May I?" I place my assignment inside my book, placing the notebook on top of it.

"Yeah, sure…" I stood from my chair walking towards the door. "Oh don't forget we still have tutoring during lunch, since its only 45 minutes long make sure you eat fast. I'll have a few assignments ready for you by then."

"Okay." He was treating me like a normal student and it hurt so much, but… wasn't that exactly what I wanted? So then why was I feeling so… so inferior? I walked out the room with my books at hand, my head up high. I closed the door behind me and took a deep breath before walking back to class. That was until a couple of girls stopped me.

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"You're that new girl, Haruhi Fujioka, am I right?"

"Ayanokouji-San I don't think she understands what you're saying, come on we shouldn't be doing this."

"Shut up, Renge! If she understands me or not should not concern you!"

"That's right, isn't it up to me to decide if I understand what you're saying or not." My reply must have sure surprised both of them; their mouths had been left open.

"Uph, so you do understand Japanese? And here I thought that you were just a pretty face." The one called Ayanokouji-San replied. She had long brown-ish/red-ish color hair and light brown eyes. I don't know what she wanted with me but I wasn't gonna stick around to find out. I started to walk away but she soon stopped me. "Hey, I ain't done talking to you!"

"Ayanokouji-San, seriously we could get in trouble." The other girl with her seemed to be nicer, her name Renge. Ayanokouji-San was planning something bad, and I could tell by one, her attitude and two, the way Renge-Chan was acting to the whole situation.

"Look Haruhi Fujioka, I'm just here to warn you to stay away from The Top Students. Especially Tamaki-Sama! You think you have made friends with them? Well think again because you are not worthy to be called their friend! Also quit trying to be one of them! You're only gonna bring trouble and problems to yourself, if you dare make any single one of the Current Top Students drop their place, I and many other girls who you'll not want to meet will make your life miserable! You got that?" She was really serious about this, she was trying to scare the soul out of me but, it wasn't gonna work. I had made a promised to MY Friends and I wasn't gonna just break it because some random girl decided to threaten me, truth was, I wasn't gonna let Tamaki down no matter how much danger I would bring to myself.

"Ayanokouji-San, was it? Listen, them being My Friends or not is not something for you to decide, now is it? I cannot quit what I'm doing because I'm not a quitter and also because I made a promise to MY Friends that I would give it my best to become one of them, no matter what it takes. I don't really care if YOU or ANY other girl comes and makes my life a living hell as long as my promise is being kept, nothing else will matter to me. You can make it rain a thousand; no, make that a million knifes on me and that still won't stop me from accomplishing my goal. Now if you'll excuse me, I don't wanna be late for class." I walked away from her once more, this time she made no attempt on stopping me. 'What am I getting myself into, seriously? Did I actually talk back at her just like that?' I thought before walking into the classroom. (A/n; NuNnaLiE18: Hahaha, were you guys amazed at how Haruhi talked back? Well she has a gift, its called photographic memory… meaning that she can learn something as fast as the speed of light. Muahahaha… TeeHee)

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I handed my assignment to Niwa-Sensei as soon as I walked in, as she went over it she had the same astonished look that Hikaru had, had just minutes before. "Fujioka-Chan, did you receive any help from Hikaru-Sensei while doing your work?" She questioned in disbelief.

"Actually, I did not. I had already gone over chapters four and five so the assignment was sort of like a review to me. I finished my work in about 35 minutes and asked Hitachiin-Sensei if I could come back to class and then some girls stopped me in the… and you don't have to know that much. May I go back to my seat? Okay, bye." The whole thing with Ayanokouji-San HAD affected me somewhat since I started babbling about it. I went back to my seat and as soon as I did, Tamaki turned to look at me with a concern expression on his face.

"So what was that whole thing with some girls stopping you in the… you were gonna say hallway, right? So come on what happened, what did they tell you?"

"Nothing, nothing they just wanted my autograph don't worry." I shook my hand to his direction, indicating him to just shake it off.

"Haru-Chan come on, don't lie to me. If you can't tell me if something is bothering you, then why am I here for? I'm your friend, aren't I?" He got me there, with the whole 'friends' thing.

"I'll tell you and the gang during our five-minute break, okay? They all need to hear this, too." I put my head on the desk, covering my face with my arms as the insides of my head became scrambled once more, this time adding new ingredients into it. (A/n; NuNnaLiE18: TeeHee, I made a funny.)

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End of Chapter 5!!

Ok so I was wrong about this being the chapter that threw me off… Anyways, I think I might delete some chapters are write something else… make it go differently but I still don't know which ones they are.

In any case, look down, click on the review button and well dah review. LOl