Suzumiya Yuki

By Demon Eyes

Disclaimer: The common characters aren't mine.

The Festival

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Haruhi set down the bag that she had brought in with her in her chair and turned around to stare at her audience with a big grin on her face. Maybe she wanted to let that little thing called suspense to get to them but for all her trouble, Koizumi-kun was all but smiling at her always waiting and Yuki was not to be disturbed from her exciting book she was reading at the moment. Mikuru-chan was alternating glances from the bag on the chair behind the PC to Haruhi's face and she was getting even more un-settled. Kyon decided to spare her or himself the ongoing dream and decided to entertain her, "So, what do you have planned to do on the festival which is tomorrow by the way?" He decided to refrain from asking how she got permission from the events teacher but knowing her, she had probably blackmailed the poor guy.

What Kyon didn't know was that he was very right about that for Suzumiya Haruhi had as he said blackmailed the teacher. Do not acquire as to how she found out about his naughty hobbies of feeling up students on the train but she got evidence of him holding a certain student's ass in his sweaty hands on her camera. Only one scare of exposure is all it took for the teacher to approve of her participation in the festival as well as letting her use the class she attends as the location. Not that she would really tell on him, nope. What other people did were not her business anymore. She gave up being involved in everyday incidents a long time ago. This did not mean that she wouldn't use them to her advantage of course as you see. At this very moment the said teacher was in the rest rooms crying his eyes out and praying that that evidence never goes out for his wife and high school daughter would leave him all alone for sue.

He reached for his pockets and pulled out a portable video player that incidentally had an embedded camera inside and started to review his work that he had done that morning on that Tokyo express. He sniffed dramatically as he browsed his collection of panty shots under girl's short uniform skirts. This would heal his wounded heart, yes most definitely. Meanwhile, back in the S.O.S- brigade room, Haruhi was reaching into her bag to pull out something. That made Mikuru-chan flinch knowing that that bag contained only one thing and one thing only, her dress-up clothes. She took a step back but she was surprised when instead Haruhi pulled out a piece of paper which she forced into their view. It had everyone's roles on it for the festival and these were the;

Haruhi – Manager, Supervisor and organiser.

Yuki – Fortune teller.

Mikuru-chan – Mascot

Koizumi-kun – Fiction to Fact translator?

Kyon – Security.

"What does that all mean, all I understood was yours and Asahina-san's roles. Could you explain ours please?" Kyon wasn't so sure that Haruhi didn't know of her true self or else, how can someone kiss their own ass so much! Haruhi saw his ignorance and decided to save him the migraine and explain to him their roles properly. "Well, yours is as it sounds. With Mikuru-chan in the costume that I prepared for her, we ought to have many customers – male customers. Your job is to put them in order or else who knows what they might do to poor Mikuru-chan! As you might have surmised, Mikuru-chan went completely blue at this. "Wha…What costumes are you planning on making me wear, really?" She began making it towards the exit in back slow steps. Haruhi just smiled wider because as Mikuru-chan soon found out, the door was locked shut and the key was hanging from Haruhi's fingers.

"Just sit down and relax Mikuru-chan, I promise you that it will be one you won't want to take off - believe me. Now as to what Koizumi-kun is doing," here she turned towards the only other guy in this group of five. "You are going to try and explain every extraterrestrial event ever known to the curious bunch and try to make it seem so scientific it's real. I made a list for you here." She put it forward and Itsuki stepped out receive it. Kyon asked him what was on it. "Do you really want me to answer that!" Is what he answered with a smile. Kyon knew not to ask if even Itsuki put it that way so he settled for shaking his head. "Yuki will be telling fortune as the list says, is that alright with you Yuki?" Haruhi turned to the still reading girl. Yuki looked up from her book when she felt many eyes on her and simply nodded. Kyon was on other thoughts though. Why did Haruhi ask Yuki Nagato if she was alright with her job! Was there some standing in the club that he didn't know about, unbe-fuckin-lievable!

"Well since there seem to be no more questions," she turned to Mikuru and then the changing part of the room his by a curtain they decided to put up to save poor Mikuru-chan some dignity. The said girl whimpered but slowly made her way, hesitantly towards the shade all the while her head facing down. Haruhi went in after her with the bag and the horrors began. Well, to Kyon they weren't horrors but something completely different to the point of opposite. He was enjoying the resisting screams Mikuru-chan made and the images flashing in his mind didn't help a bit. He really envied Haruhi who got her hands full with Mikuru goodness wherever she wished. Sigh, being a god is bliss. The crying stopped and Haruhi came out all happy and pleased with her self for some reason. Kyon decided to keep his thoughts about her enjoying Mikuru-chan's body by herself to himself. The moment he had been waiting for finally arrived as Mikuru-chan stepped forward from those damned blinds and came into full view.

This was it. This was the thing that he was looking for – since when he didn't know but he knew he had found it at that moment when he laid his eyes on Mikuru-chan at that moment. Mikuru-chan + Chinese dress Heaven. Yes, he be in heaven at that moment. Any guy would be even the ever cheerily Itsuki had a serious expression on his face when he looked at Mikuru-chan. He managed a felt, "Wow Asahina-san, you are looking great there." Mikuru looked like the little goddess that she ought to be. Her body was not that of a high scholar but of a middle scholar. Her cuteness was the only thing that Kyon and Haruhi have ever agreed on. She was the definition of the word 'Moe'. Were it not for Mikuru-chan Kyon knew she would've left this dump as soon as it was formed but alas. He can't resist that lolicon face accompanied by that full burst that puts Haruhi's to shame or those curves that defined her – after all, he was only human. You try and resist that. Add on the great tea that she makes and all those costumes that she wears and futile is what the resistance would be.

Even Itsuki whom he had presumed to be totally gar, was a little taken by the being standing before them in that red dress. It wasn't that he had anything against being gay as long as Itsuki never hits on him. A thought came to him of Itsuki coming onto him and he was shocked to find that he would have no proper way of refusing his advances. That didn't mean anything, right? He was straighter than the Tokyo tower. Yep, he had nothing to worry about. He was hot for Mikuru-chan's body and not someone's ass. "You look good Mikuru-chan." She blushed at his remark and lowered her head where as she just didn't respond to poor Itsuki's praise. He didn't let that bother him though as it seemed that he was actually not expecting any. He sat down in his seat.

Haruhi was already in her chair and was checking to see if their site had received any more visits. Itsuki seeing that their leader was preoccupied and that there would be no activities today laid down a game of scrabble and motioned for Kyon to join him. Seeing that he had stared a moment too long, Kyon agreed to let his blood cool down a bit. Haruhi having found no more than ten visitors since yesterday knew the reason why. Their site was very plain that even she found it unpleasant to go at it. If only those pictures of Mikuru-chan were up then it would be a hit. She decided to check the hard drive and see if they had made a mistake and not delete them after all. She still had the negatives but it seemed a hustle to go back down town to get them developed.

By forces unknown which she came to a conclusion as Kyon's idiocy, she came across the said pictures after a full computer search. The idiot seems did delete the folder but forgot to empty the recycle bin. She grinned to herself and restored it to whence it was but when she went to open it and instead was asked for a password, knew full well what was going on. Kyon was no idiot but a clever bastard. He was keeping the pictures in the bin purposely and now that Haruhi saw it, he had renamed the folder too to Mikuru. That sneaky snake. She thought of what a guy like him would name a folder containing goodies of Mikuru in it and named by her name and it wasn't difficult to figure out. She wasn't like everyone else, she was proud of her intelligence. It seems she was right and it took her only one guess to get it right. It was so typical of him to make the password Mikuru's special feature – that being 'Moe'. Maybe she should have some payback for him sneaking up on her like that.

"Kyon, could you get over here, I have something I need to ask you." Kyon looked up to her with confusion but made his way to her anyway. Since Haruhi seemed to be staring at the screen then he surmised it was most possibly about their site. He bent over her shoulder to take a look and everyone in the room heard him gasp and swallow, hard. Haruhi gave him one of those scrutinising gazes of hers daring him to lie his way out of this one. He tried, really tried to act innocent and even though he too knew he was fooling no one, he decided to go with it anyway. "What are those doing here? I thought we deleted them. You didn't get others did you? I told you no pictures of Asahina-san will make it to that site." Haruhi just continued staring at him.

He lowered his head to Haruhi's ear level and try to whisper to her, "come on, you are glad that I kept them right, we can use them for something more useful and less demeaning of Asahina-sempai. Anyway, how did you figure out the password?" He looked at the pictures and enjoyed them once more with a conscious. "Who do you think I am? There is no activity going on in this school that I can't do. Those guys in the computer club do hacking or something it's called and I know it too. That is what I would like to say but in your case, it was simply that you are so un-advanced that I knew what kind of password you would come up with." She also wanted to mention that she would not be listening to his say in things from now on but decided to keep that to herself. Next time she decides on a project that would need use of Mikuru-chan, she would do it in absence of him.

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(Next Day – Festival)

Other grown up people from outside and students from nearby school were swarming the school grounds as it was the day of the festival. Different clubs and other groups of students that were taking part were all scattered across the grounds and every class room. Some had more visitors than the rest and those included the food and drink clubs. Haruhi found this out on her way all over the school trying to see how her rivals were doing. She had decided they were rivals for some reason. Now she started wondering if she should've added Mikuru-chan's tea as an activity. They did have more than expected number of customers thanks to Mikuru-chan and she found that Koizumi-kun was doing a well job. Yuki too was doing okay though it seemed to her she was telling futures and not fortunes.

Haruhi didn't know why but she knew that what Yuki was telling the people were true about their futures. That was absurd of course but she just could not help it. There was something about her and Koizumi-kun that made her senses tingle. She decided she was being silly and left it at that. She was walking in the corridors and up ahead near the music room seemed there was some commotion going on. She attended the music club once and she had acquaintances there and if they were in trouble, as all signs showed, then she might as well see what was going on. She found two of the older members of the club Mizuki and Mai if she wasn't mistaken talking to the Haruhi and Kyon's class president and events supervisor for this festival due to popular votes, Asakura Ryoko. Mizuki saw her approach and ran to her, "Ah Suzumiya-san, you have to help us. We are in trouble."

Back in their class where they held their events, things were going smoothly with Itsuki doing what he does best and Yuki working on her part. They were both dressed in strange costumes with Yuki similar to how she dressed during the filming of that film and Itsuki, well, let's just not comment on that one. A small part of the room was hidden behind blinds and that was where Yuki's station was. The rest belonged to Itsuki and maybe for good reasons. Kyon had complained about that when Haruhi was setting up the plans but now he saw that Itsuki had more people than Yuki should need at a time. Around thirty students mainly were around sitting and listening to Itsuki's knowledge of the unknown. Mikuru-chan was standing out in the corridors waving a large sign with words written in two different colours.

"HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE UNKNOWN?

COMEON IN.

WANT TO KNOW YOUR FORTUNE?

THIS BE THE PLACE"

SOS-DAN.

So it read, but most of the guys came here to take a sneak at Mikuru-chan's sexy body accompanied with that lolicon face in that alluring red dress with cut thighs. This was like a trap of course as they were all forced to go inside and be victims of the mysterious duo inside. Though Kyon's visitors stayed to listen to this amusing person talking of the mysteries of the universe like a PhD holder, Yuki's were not so lucky. Case in point, the couple who were inside with her right now were coming out screaming at each other with the guy having gotten a black eye from his girl friend. It seemed moments later that Yuki had said that in a few days, the guy would fall for another girl in a club somewhere and break up with the current. The poor guy went after his girl friend to try and explain but all in vain.

Kyon decided to go to her and explain a few things about fortune telling but just before he made his way to her, he heard Mikuru give a cry and a crash of the flash, camera flash. He turned back and went to her to find a very geeky guy taking pictures of her everywhere. He literally kicked him in the ass and told him to go to the second floor if he needed cosplayers to shoot. The guy grumbled but fled none the less. "Mikuru-chan, are you alright? I'm sorry I left you alone here." Mikuru sniffed and looked at him with watery eyes and Kyon froze. Damn, she looked so complicated like that. Her hair braided in a single wave down her back and those big eyes that made him melt. Sigh, life was good.

"What are you two doing? Get back to work." It was Haruhi who spoke and they jumped even Kyon. He usually didn't mind her but he was really caught into Mikuru now that he was surprised. Their wandering hearts were spared though as they saw that she paid them no more attention but just slipped inside the classroom. The looked at each other and went in after her to see what she is up to this time. They found her removing her top all the while walking towards the booth that Yuki was using. They wondered how she knew that there were no customers but Kyon knew that even if there were she would still go in. The guys who were at Itsuki's side had nose bleeds and were suddenly glad to come over as they were given a glimpse of white bra. Sadly that's all they got to see as now Haruhi was already under the protection of the blind.

Rustlings were heard and she came back out in her bunny costume but that was not all. She was dragging a non-resisting Yuki with her and they went outside. They went to the door and almost bumped into Tsuruya-sempai, Mikuru's best friend. She was nick-named Lolfang-tan for her laughing about almost every thing but mostly everything about Mikuru made her laugh the most. She was dressed up as a maid and Kyon surmised that she was one of those doing the café drill. "What was that about?" She asked as she eyed the departing duo. "Don't know, but what are you doing here Tsuruya-sempai?" She turned to them while answering Kyon's question. "I came to see how my best pal was doing. So how…What's wrong Mikuru-chan, why have you been crying?" She still had those wet eyes from before.

Kyon explained that some geek from out of the school came and took pictures of her. She remembered now seeing some weird guy at her café taking pictures of her girls, maybe that as him. But still, she thought of Mikuru-chan shielding herself from flutters as if she could do anything about that and she bust out laughing. "Wha…what is so funny? He is probably going to put them on some display for all the people to see." She looked on the verge of spilling more tears and that made Tsuruya laugh even more. So much so that she bent down on the floor on all fours and started pounding it with her fist. "Only…Only you can attract a guy from miles away to take pictures of you but who could blame them?" She got a hold of herself and looked Mikuru over. "You look really sexy in that outfit. Even I would be tempted to take pictures." Mikuru blushed at that. She felt something when her friend was looking at her like that so she made no comment. Kyon raised an eyebrow.

It was raining outside and most of the people went to seek shelter in the biggest place around which was the gym. Incidentally, the music groups were performing there. From opera's to rock groups. Most of them were finished and it was time for the last one. It was well known in the school and it usually played on parent's day or other occasions. The students loved all the girls that made up the band and most especially the leading two beauties but those same students were in for the shock of their fantasy as their idols were not to be playing today. The band EONZ was introduced and the two familiars Mai the bassist and Mizuki the drummer came in first. All hands joined for them and they waited for their idols to follow but were they so taken back by the presence of one Suzumiya Haruhi the school freak and more so Yuki Nagato.

All in the audience went silent including the two personally appointed greatest fans of ENOZ Taniguchi and Kunikuda, Kyon class mates and best friends. They shared looks and their faces gave off an air of horror when they aw that the two leads were not to come but to be replaced by Haruhi as the lead singer and Yuki as the guitarist. They were about to shout for her to get of the stage when Haruhi adjusted the mic to explain their presence. It seems that the ones they replaced had practiced so hard that their hands got cramps in the morning and were no at thee doctors they she speaks. She told them the song which they would be singing first and to all that knew her, she was a completely different person. They wondered what drugs she was given to act as humanitarian as she did now!

None of them knew of course her past with the lead of this band. If she had anyone she called friend, it would be her. During their child hood, she received help from the said girl and she found her interesting as opposed to the rest of the masses. She knew how important the band was to her it seemed that she would profit greatly from performing on this festival. So Haruhi saw no reason to refuse helping out. They started tuning their equipment and after that, Haruhi introduced everyone around and they were off. It began with Yuki playing some tune on her guitar and eyes began to rise in the audience of those who knew her. The drummer came next with her experienced hands and Haruhi levelled off with the first stanza of the song. When it came to the chorus, the bassist joined in the crowd went wild. The ENOZ fans in the front had forgotten about their misgivings it seemed as they were jumping around or was it dancing to the music that the band was playing so professionally it was impossible to think of them as high scholars.

When they finished after playing a few more songs, people were in awe and recordings were greatly in need of but they had to come to more of the band's performances to do that which would have the original members by then. In the back of the curtain, the other members of the music club were deeply expressing their gratitude towards our girls but Haruhi having not been used to helping others and thus being thanked, felt unusual so she left and Yuki being who she is, just followed Haruhi. The girls who were left behind could be heard screaming congratulating Mai and Mizuki on their great job. Haruhi was still impressed by Yuki's ability to learn. She had said that she never played before but one look at the sheets and a few tries and she was perfect. Haruhi kept being amazed by her during the performance that she kept stealing glances at her.

Maybe Yuki felt her staring even now that she turned her head towards her as if expecting Haruhi to say something and just stared. Haruhi didn't know really why but when she looked into those eyes, she felt her heart start. She had never looked at her really as she did now and she saw that her face looked much younger than Mikuru-chan's did. And then she remembered that kiss that Yuki had given her in the middle of the street. She felt the need to feel those lips in front of her again and this would be a prefect way to thank her for her great performance even though she had forced her into it. She hadn't known why but she just knew that Yuki was the only one who would be fit to help her out. The people, who were standing in the corridor that joined the main building to the gym sheltering from the rain, turned to the scene playing out before them. The girls that were playing in the band as the singer and guitarist were there in front of them, kissing like there was o tomorrow.

"Thank you for your help. You were great out there Yuki." Haruhi said - her breath deep. A few many whistles were heard all around but were ignored by the two girls and Haruhi walked on in her bunny costume back to class. Among the spectators were the two friends of Kyon's. They were grinning like idiots to themselves. A familiar face was among those who were witness to this kiss but where others looked amused and passed out on the floor, she was looking to the girl left behind just standing there staring at the way Haruhi had gone. She was Asahina Ryoko, the class rep of Kyon's class.

To Be continued…