Suzumiya Yuki
By Demon Eyes
Disclaimer: There is no way that I own God and the awesomeness that is Yuki Nagato. Absolutely no way.
The – Feelings
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"Good morning, everyone." Shocked silence was what answered the speaker. Suzumiya Haruhi paid no heed to the looks that were being sent her way though. She was just too happy to notice. The energetic girl literally skipped across the classroom to head for her spot at the back of the room. Everyone in the room turned around, eyes following her as if she had suddenly grown a third head. They could all clearly hear the introduction that the girl had given that opening day yet there she had referred to the whole class. What was going on? Did they do something to qualify as unnatural beings?
"What is it Kyon?"Haruhi asked the boy sitting in front of her. She didn't even bother looking up at him. She was happily putting out her books looking in great spirits. The stare that was being sent from Kyon was too sharp to ignore.
"What's up with you today? I don't have to explain to you how weird you are acting, do I? What's with the mood swings?" Kyon had to ask seeing as the rest of the class was still in shock. It seemed he was the translator of what everyone else wanted to say into Haruhi language.
"What is that supposed to mean? I never have mood swings. Those are norm behaviours not mine. Haruhi cutely pouted, not that Kyon would admit it out loud, and after bracing her chin on her up turned palm, turned to look out the window.
"Oh? Then you are not normal? Pray tell then what you are if you aren't Homo sapiens like the rest of us." Kyon raised an eyebrow to the girl as he asked. The thought that the girl might even know of her real identity, never crossed his mind.
Haruhi turned back to the annoying bugger with an almost annoyed expression on her beautiful face. Her had started out wonderfully and looked promising too yet here this cricket was, ruining that. She almost spilled the beans but stopped herself in time, having remembered what she had decided to do the night before. Haruhi wanted to keep the knowledge of her knowing the truth from Yuki, a secret from her members of the S.O.S Dan. Speaking of which, she had best go and tell Yuki that she should not tell the others that she knew of everything.
With that, Kyon, who had listening attentively to catch the ridiculous answer the crazy girl might come up with, was surprised to see her stand up suddenly and head out of the class room.
"Dude, what the hell just happened? That was the same Suzumiya Haruhi we all know of, right? I mean, did she just address the whole class with a greeting? Is the world ending?" It was Taniguchi, one of Kyon's best friends that had spoken. He paused in his speech with a dramatic cry of 'NOOOO!' all the while clutching at his head. "What is going on with that girl? First she kissed Nagato Yuki, I mean Nagato Yuki of all people, in the open, and now..." Kunikida, who was coming in just behind Taniguchi, slapped his friend on the shoulder to make him stop. "Uh-oh." He had let slip what he shouldn't have.
"What did you just say?" Kyon was a sharp listener and he had most certainly heard that. He sounded like he had just heard a dog talk. The two guys, a new comer girl who was the class rep and the rest of the class, turned with their ears at the ready. They had been alerted by the cry from Kyon. A guy like Kyon, who talked to Haruhi leisurely like that, got respect from the whole class. It is only logical for the whole class to give him their full attention if something piqued his interest. Kyon paid no heed to the stared that he received fro the whole class but gave his full attention to Taniguchi, waiting for an explanation. Did he just say that Haruhi kissed Nagato? Where, how and when did that happen?
"I believe he said that Suzumiya-san kissed Nagato Yuki-san from the class next door." It was Asakura Ryoko that answered. The whole class was silent for a second, then the mummers and snickers commenced. "I was there too when it happened. It was in the main corridor hat leads from the hall. They were returning from the concert they did with E-N-O-Z." She put on that famous smile of hers. The girl didn't seem at all affected by what she had just said. Kyon still couldn't believe it but he also knew that their class rep wouldn't lie. Where the hell was he when that happened? Haruhi and Nagato kissing...Haruhi and Nagato were kissing. He felt like he had just missed a book of world records event.
"Oh man, he is totally gone. We had best leave him alone for a while." Said Kunikida as he went back to his seat, followed up by Ryoko.
"I feel for you man, I feel for you," said Taniguchi, who patted the non-responsive Kyon on the shoulder. He still has fantasies about that scene that will be his only memento from High School. Really, even if she was weird, Suzumiya Haruhi was one hot babe. Her physical qualities were a bonus plus too. Nagato Yuki was a legend even with the upper class men. Those two were the top two in the school ranks that went on behind the scenes. They were the most perfect students in the school both in academics and P.E. The only down side that they both, in a weird way had, was that they were terribly, anti-social. Scratch that, they were the very description of anti-social. The bad qualities didn't stop them from making it at the top of the popularity charts however. Sadly for Taniguchi, Mikuru Asahina-san came in third. Sigh, the world was cruel.
"Hey everyone, Sanae-chan has a picture of the kiss." One girl said. She didn't even bother adding 'if anyone wants it' because everyone was on there feet in an instant, mobies set on the ready to receive that memento. Girls were no exception. The words had reached Kyon's ears and he was snapped out of his day dreaming. A Samsung was pulled out and he too went to line up in the queue that their ever active class rep had organised. Kyon too was only human after all. Blame the humanity of him if you must.
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"Oi, what's going on next door?" A boy whispered to his close friend on the left side.
"I don't have a clue mate. I can make out 'picture' and 'kiss' over and over though." The friend on the left whispered back.
The third friend on the right heard them though and decided to join in. "Hey, maybe it's about 'that'." He batted his eye lashes to his friends. His two friends gave him only confused glances. He sighed as he chanced a glance in the front row of the class. One Yuki Nagato sat silently reading a book. He decided to go a little further thinking that his friends were traumatised with the scene. "You know, about the festival, in the main corridor..." Again, only stares were sent his way. The boy decided to elaborate clearly for his two friends. "I heard a rumour that Yuki Nagato was kissed in front of everyone during the festival right after the concert with E-N-O-Z." The two blinked their unbelieving eyes. Which guy was crazy enough to risk death and kiss Nagato Yuki? "...kissed by Suzumiya Haruhi from next door."
More blinks followed then a full blown crack of laughter. What was their friend smoking? Really, if he was joking, he almost had them there but he used the wrong kisser. Yuki Nagato? Kissed by some one? Especially a girl and more so that girl being Suzumiya Haruhi? That was the only event that had an absolute zero percent chance of happening. The rest of the class turned, wondering what was making their two classmates break ribs with laughter. Their laughter was forced to scatter to the winds with what happened next however. The doors to the room burst open and speaking of the devil, Suzumiya Haruhi from the next room stood there proudly.
"Is Yuki here?" 'Yuki'? Not Yuki Nagato, but just 'Yuki'? That stopped the whole class cold. Haruhi ignored the looks as she scanned the room and not even a second later, her gaze fell on the girl she was looking for. "Ah, there you are. I need to talk to you. Come with me." The poor students couldn't get anymore shocked as they saw the energetic girl walk into the class, where Nagato-san had been sitting, and pulled her out of the class. The doors closed behind them. Not a sound was produced in their wake but a pencil hitting the floor.
The sound was so powerful in the atmosphere that the students were brought back to their senses. The two friends looked to their right hand friend, who had broken the kiss news to them, with questioning gazes. 'What the hell just happened?' was the question on everyone's mind at the moment. He too was taken by surprise at what had just taken place. They were rumours after all, weren't they? The three turned back to the doors with their eyes still wide. At that moment, their homeroom teacher slid through them and they all jumped. He looked at them strangely before closing the doors behind him and moving to stand in the middle of the class. "Good morning everyone. The staff would like to thank you all for the hard work you all did during the festival. He didn't get an answer except the shaking of heads. "Alright then, please open to page 123 of your text books."
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Haruhi let go of Yuki's arm when they reached their destination. It was under the tree that was in the yard between the two school buildings. They both stood there in silence with Haruhi still facing forward and the alien girl staring at her back. Haruhi whipped around, sending her hair flying in the wind to face the silent girl. "Thank you for telling me about that Yuki." Haruhi was very not used to this kind of behaviour but she felt it appropriate when with this girl. "I don't feel any different, physically, but I know that something definitely changed in me. Anyway, what I wanted to tell you was that you should keep the fact that I know, from the others, okay?"
Yuki just nodded slowly. If it had been any other person, they would've been surprised by just how well Haruhi had taken the whole truth. Yuki was not anybody though. She knew pretty well the girl that was standing in front of her. This was Suzumiya Haruhi. Really, she shouldn't expect anything less from her. "I am glad that you weren't negatively affected by what I told you. You were expected by many to end up erasing this world were you to know of your true self so soon." Haruhi gave the girl a looks that screamed 'Are you crazy?' so Yuki decided to give an example. "We had thought that once you had found what you were looking for, you would get bored of that and once your ambition was crushed, you'd deem this world no longer worthy hence destroy it." Then something happened, the alien smiled at Haruhi and the energetic girl was sure she was the first ever to have seen it. "I am glad you didn't change."
The first thoughts that ran through the brown hired girl's mind was 'Wow, I've never heard Yuki say so much at once and that smile...' then she got to thinking about what she had said and almost broke out laughing. She stopped in time when she saw something in those deep eyes that held so much information for a human brain. There was something there that no body else might have seen but Haruhi did. It was pride. Yuki was proud of Haruhi for the maturity of her reaction and Haruhi felt glad that she had responded the way she had. It was a pleasant feeling to have pleased the usually emotionless girl – Very pleasant indeed. The silence was killing her however so, "Why would change from something as small as this? It will take something bigger to shake me. Mwa ha ha ha." Haruhi laughed her unease off.
"In fact, I already have our next plan to get our name recognised by the masses. There is a national Baseball tournament coming up and I plan to use it. Once we win it, we are bound to be known all over the world. I will brief you with the others in the barr...err...I mean the club room. Well, we had best get back to class. It wouldn't do us any good if we got suspended." With that said, Haruhi skipped back to class. Her home room teacher hadn't arrived yet but Yuki wasn't so lucky, or was she...?
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Much later in the literature club room, Itsuki and Kyon were the only ones present. Itsuki knew something was up when Kyon agreed to play Scrabble with him. The other guy seemed to hate the game with ah passion. Itsuki really didn't know why considering that his partner had a great deal of words that even he hadn't heard of before. Oh wait, that was it. Whenever they checked the dictionary for his words, they never found them in the big index. Anyway, back to the point, it looked like Kyon had something troubling him. "What's on your mind today?"
"Are you trying to turn into my shrink or something? I hope you don't start asking for payment any time soon." Sigh, Kyon wondered how he should go about asking the smiley guy about what he had on his mind. In the end, it was all or nothing. "Erm, Hoe would you feel if you saw Haruhi kissing Nagato?" It was the quietest he had ever spoken. The words themselves felt alien to him. Any listener would think him a pervert for sure. Koizumi was probably thinking of him as such too. Sigh. Was he a pervert? Oh God! What was he turning into? He had to leave this circle of freaks very soon or he will be a victim. No, he was already a victim. Anytime soon, he would leave. Yes, as soon as he gets Mikuru-chan to be his...
"Oh, so you finally learned of that incident I see." Chuckle Okay, the guy was officially freaking Kyon out. 'I mean what guy in their right mind chuckles? Wait...' "You knew of this? How come you didn't tell me? How did you even know? Weren't you back in class with me an Asahina-san at the time the kiss supposedly happened?" He still remembered how Haruhi dragged the poor alien from the room leaving him alone with Mikuru-chan and the physics freak.
"Yes I was but there seem to have been quite a number of spectators. I heard the news from my classmates. Suzumiya-san and Nagato-san are quite popular with the upper classes it seems." Itsuki made another word on the game board and Kyon followed. "By the end of class tomorrow, I am sure they will be the talk of the whole school seeing as the news has reached the first years. I wonder if anyone has approached either of the two about it!"
"Hah! Are we talking about the same people here? There is no body in their right minds at this school that would go talk to those two, especially about something like this." He formed a word 'Axe' as it was all he could manage. The look Itsuki gave him about what he had said didn't go unnoticed. "Yeah yeah. I already know I am no longer of the sane. Coming to this room day after day is proof enough."
There was knocking at the door which opened momentarily to reveal the reason why Kyon put up with his current life style. His angel, Asahina Mikuru-chan, was in the house. "Good afternoon Kyon-kun, Koizumi-kun. I had an assignment that I had to hand in. I am sorry I am late." She bowed to show how sorry she was. Kyon wanted to cry out 'NOO! You have nothing to apologise for my angel. As long as you grace us with your presence, it would be fine even if you came in at the last second.' He decided to settle for the normal comments though. "It's alright Asahina-san. Are you alright with your assignment though?"
Mikuru blushed a little at the concern she got from Kyon. Y...Yes. It's alright. Tsuruya-chan helped me out so..."She bowed her head again and decided to go change behind the screen to hide her embarrassment. Kyon's mind was somewhere else however. 'Damn you Lolfang-tan. You are so lucky to have Mikuru-chan all to your self all day. Who knows what you get to do with her all alone?' Then a disturbing thought came to his mind. The image of Nagato and Haruhi kissing came to mind but then it suddenly shifted to that of Mikuru-chan and Tsuruya kissing instead. "NOOOOOOO!" He screamed in pain at the thought of losing Mikuru-chan's probably first kiss to the always happy green haired girl.
The other two people in the room started. Well, Mikuru-chan nearly had a heart attack but that girl's heart was one strong muscle. Koizumi only went silent for a while to show his shock but nothing more. The smile was back on his face in an instant. "A...Are you alright...Kyon-kun?" Mikuru-chan popped her head out from behind the curtain. The sentence was stuttered out uneasily. She spared a glance to the esper who just shook his head showing that he too didn't have a clue as to what was going on.
"I am alright Asahina-san. Don't worry about it." Kyon sat back down. He had bolted upright as he screamed. Okay, he needed help real fast. Yes, he would sign up for some alone time with that shrink down town. The entrance of one Nagato Yuki into the tense room didn't help matters any. The quiet girl saw Kyon start when she opened the door. Were she the talkative type, she might've asked what was up with him. The mentioned kind though, she was not. Instead, she just crossed the room over to her spot, put her bag down and after grabbing a book from the shelf behind her chair, sat in it and started to read. She felt Kyon's gaze on her so she looked up. It was annoying. "What is it?"
"Kyon turned back to the game at hand saying that it was nothing. What was wrong with him, really? He was acting like Taniguchi. Oh God! He wasn't turning into the likes of him, was he? Shudder Itsuki decided to cut into the silence with his remarks. "You know, I am starting to think that maybe you aren't normal." Kyon gave him a dirty look so the boy clarified. "You seem to have been differently affected by the situation from the other students. Where they are all excited, in different ways I might add, about it, you seem disturbed instead."
"What do you mean? I don't see you acting any different either. Let's just drop it, okay? It's just..." He trailed off but Itsuki just made another word. The Scrabble game commenced.
"I am actually quite amused by this. Perhaps that's what led to the incident in your class room the other evening." Kyon gave him a displeased look. What was he talking about? Was he being kept in the dark about things when he had practically sacrificed his life to get involved with this strange bunch? "I didn't know about it either. My superiors told me about the incident too last at the meeting." Koizumi continued playing and it was unknown if he knew or not that he was keeping Kyon on edge.
"Tell me what happened in class already." He wasn't having a good day, was he?
"Well, it seems like Suzumiya was attacked after we had our last meeting. Nagato-san came to the rescue so no worries." This was all said in a whisper and he chanced a glance into the book worm's direction. His smile widened even more.
"What do you mean she was attacked? Is she going to be attacked again? Who were they that attacked her? Wait, they weren't evil aliens or demons or something of the like, was it?" Why was the guy smiling? Kyon was getting panicked. No normal person would've attacked Haruhi in school and even required the help of the alien. It had to be someone out of this world that had attached Haruhi.
"So sorry but I can't tell you anything. All I can tell you though is that Suzumiya-san isn't in any more danger." Actually, they weren't so sure about the safety of Suzumiya Haruhi's future. If one of Nagato-san's people could attack her like that, then there was no guarantee that there would be others. She was too special to be left alone. Kyon was worried but they had Nagato on their side after all. They would be fine. Koizumi was no push over too. He was an esper after all. Mikuru-chan was on the stove brewing tea and singing to her self. They had someone from the future too. If something bad were to happen to them, then surely she would tell them before hand.
There was another knock at the door. This time Kyon was justified to get a little racy. Haruhi was the only other person who hadn't arrived yet and there was no way in hell that she would stoop so low as to knock before she entered. 'Could it be a teacher come to check on their literature club activities?' He quickly cleared the table of the game board and replaced it with some books. Mikuru-chan ran back behind the curtains and hid there. A second knock was heard and after some nerve calming, Kyon answered it. When the door opened, he wanted to strangle the life out of the one that had almost given him a heart attack.
"Well, hello there. I come bearing gifts. I challenge you to a due...&£$" The speaker saw stars after he was silenced by a flying kick to his face. Blonde was replaced by brown in a blink of an eye. Kyon blinked several times. Haruhi landed gracefully on her two feet that had been only half a second before, been kissing face. The victim was stopped by the friction between his body and the cool cement floor a few feet away. "Ouch! What was that for you...you Jesse-belle?" It was the best curse he could come up with that wasn't too Sci-Fi for the puny brains in front of him.
The cheeky girl folded her arms over her chest and looked down at the President of the Computer Club defiantly. The other members of the Tech club went to the aid of their leader. "Did I hear you say 'Challenge'? Sorry, I thought you were some rival organisation come to deliver chaos to my order." She flipped her brown hair behind her ear as she turned away from the scared boys. "I don't have time to play with you though so scram. I have things to do this week. Come back in a few days." With that, the conversation came to a stop.
"Huh? What? Wait..." The door was slammed in his face. His head followed his lowered arm in defeat. Just like that – He had been dismissed just like that. Was his existence that insignificant? "You just wait Suzumiya Haruhi. I will get my revenge for taking away my Excellion away from me." His friends supported him as they went back to their club room. The game needed some more tweaking anyway. "We shall make sure you get your precious back Mr. President." One of his friends said and the others all agreed to do just that.
Back in the club room, Haruhi was cracking up on her antics while the others only shook their heads. They could still hear the poor neighbours comfort their leader as they went back to their room. Haruhi made her way to her desk and reaching under it pulled out a new red arm band. She slammed it on the surface and reached for a marker as well. ! I wonder who those guys were! Do you know them Kyon? Ah who cares?" Kyon sweat dropped. This girl was so frustrating. If she didn't want to know there was no reason to ask. Haruhi wrote the word 'Captain' this time on the red band and put it around her upper left arm.
"I have decided on our next course of action. It will take a while this one will. We are going to enter the National Baseball tournament coming up in ten days. We have a week to get prepared but it is enough time." Kyon wanted to scream that there was no way they would be ready in a week to take on people who had been playing it their whole life but he remained silent. "Now as for your positions..." She paused to take a gulp from the cup of hot liquid that Mikuru-chan had placed on her desk. "I will be the Captain, Manager and pitcher of course. Yuki will be the batter. Koizumi-kun, you're our receiver. Kyon and Mikuru-chan, I will be expecting you to get more players to join you in filling up the rest of the positions." She took another big gulp that emptied the cup. "You are dismissed. Yuki, you stay. I have something I wanna talk to you about."
Instead of closing her book and leaving first, Nagato stayed as she had been. Kyon shifted glances between the two girls with Haruhi busy booting up the PC and Nagato lost in her book. He sighed. Even if he wanted to stay and ask a few questions, he was afraid Haruhi would release Nagato on him. Before, he might've have built confidence and asked because he knew the alien listened to him but now, after those rumours, he wasn't so sure anymore whom Nagato looked up to more. Well, if the two wanted to be all lovey-dovey, then he too would play at that game.
"Hey Asahina-san, Could I talk to you for a moment? I will be waiting for you at the main gate, okay?" Receiving a nod from a surprised Asahina, Kyon bounced out of the cursed room feeling successful already. Mikuru-chan stole a glance towards Haruhi expecting hell but strangely, the girl wasn't paying any attention to her. Her face was happily lost in what was going on the screen. Outside in the corridors, Koizumi's grin out-shined Kyon's. "What are you grinning at?" Not that you are never happy. He kept the last line to himself though.
"You're finally going to ask Asahina-san out, aren't you? Sigh. Too bad, I was hoping you would accompany me somewhere I am sure would've loved to go but alas." Kyon didn't know if he was joking or serious. Not knowing that, he didn't reply were the gut to have meant what he thought he did. Kozumi's smile never wavered from the luck of response though. "However, I must warn you. Asahina-san has a great number of fans in both girls and boys. Don't be surprised if you start imagining stones falling at you and other things." Kyon assured him that he knew of the dangers from first hand. His two best friends were great fans.
Meanwhile back in the room, Asahina-san bid goodbye to the other two girls as she excused herself. As the door to the room closed, Yuki did what she should've done back when the others were dismissed but instead of picking up her bag and heading out, she just stood up solo and walked slowly to stand besides Haruhi. Haruhi had been checking on their website and into the mail box. "Nice job Yuki. We have got over a million visits ever since you uploaded Mikuru-chan's pictures. I mean, check out these mails. Too bad they are all asking about Mikuru-chan instead of telling us about mysteries of the world." She started mass deleting everything.
"What did you wish to speak to me about?" Yuki asked the girl sitting in front of her. Haruhi just continued deleting mails until the inbox was empty except for the two new mails that had just appeared. Haruhi turned to look at Yuki and started right into those mysterious eyes that were looking down at her. The girl was the most mysterious thing she had ever come across. Time travellers, Espers and other worldly creatures didn't somehow appeal to her as much as Yuki did. Haruhi felt like she had the most precious thing in the whole world right there in front of her. Just as what someone would want to do to their jewel...
"Come here." She ordered the alien softly. The tone she had used was alien even to her. It wasn't demanding as the usual way she spoke and after some time, Yuki slowly walked forward and let the bigger girl guide her to sit on her lap. The action was a sight to see. Yuki too felt strange from it. The feeling was most definitely not unpleasant though. "So..." Haruhi began to talk once Yuki was sitting comfortably on her lap in that still strange soft voice of hers. "I figured that you, being a creation of alien intelligent life forms, would have a great deal of many interesting abilities. What other cool stuff can you do? Apart from fighting I mean." The now Captain rested her chin on one of Yuki's slender shoulders. Haruhi turned them on the new wheel chair and they faced the beautiful soon setting sun.
"My abilities include matter manipulation but that applies to many functions. Time and space control from time acceleration to stoppage and time travel." Yuki tried to use simpler terms to explain things but she knew that no matter how big the words, or even language, the girl holding her would understand her perfectly. The alien girl felt fingers in her hair, caressing it. She wondered why the other girl was doing what she was. Why did she ask the strange questions even?
"So, what you're saying is that you can go back in time or even travel to a specific period in the future?" The brown haired girl started moving the chair in short distances and it felt like rocking. The alien girl simply nodded her small head as she was rocked in different directions. She felt the motion...no...The whole situation was quite...relaxing. Haruhi wrapped her arms gently around the waist of grey haired girl. Haruhi pulled the girl closer into her body. "Can we go back into the past then?" Haruhi asked as she rested her cheek on the back of Yuki's neck. Yuki was quiet for a while. It wasn't from the question but from the actions of the girl behind her. Before now, no one had ever touched her in that way. No one had ever touched her period. The feelings she got were strange. She had the feeling though that had it been any other person, she wouldn't be as affected as she was by Suzumiya Haruhi's touch.
"When?" Was the alien girl's only answer.
Haruhi knew that the girl was not asking the time they would leave but instead when in the past she wanted to go. "How about the time before the Ice-Age? I want to see for sure with my own eyes if life forms as great as Dinosaurs really existed and how they really went extinct. If it was a meteor that really changed the world, then before it hit? I am sure it will be a sight to see." Haruhi shifted her head and they were cheek to cheek now.
"When?" Again the one word question.
As before, this time too, Haruhi knew what the alien was referring too. This time she meant what time they should leave. "How about, right now?" She was fired up. This will be so cool. She wondered if it would be like being in a movie theatre with a screen the size of the eye's view. A memory of that advertisement of DVDs when they first came out came to her mind. 'The sound so clear, you can hear a pin drop'. – And so on. Well, she would be finding out soon enough.
"Understood." That was the last words that could be heard from the literature club room before everything went silent. The chair and its occupants were no more.
To Be Continued...
