36th "Oh shit..."

[slave_of_suzumiya]

[Today, Kyon has encountered Yuki Nagato who is a lot more lively than usual. ... However, her eyes are dead. The bright spark behind that unreadable mask was gone, leaving nothing but an empty shell behind.]

No... Nagato... It can't be...

Uh... It's Kokutou. Yuki Kokutou, remember? Are you feeling okay?

Just go away!

[A: And Kyon'll leave school, running through the halls. He's not really looking where he's going so he might run into you.]

[B: Upon reaching home at 915 Bilko Boulevard, he'll boot up both his desktop computer and laptop simultaneously and attempt to open a certain program...]

No, no, no, no... Respond dammit!! Ugh...

[And he'll slam his head into the desk.]

[Later, outside the library he may be found...

C: Shouting and beating his fists on the wall.

D: Sitting slumped against the wall, completely despondent, his hands scraped and bleeding...]

... Why her? Why!? Nagato...

Comments

[forgotten-titan.livejournal.com]

O...K...well, I'll be sure to be careful not to get too involved with what she does. But I wouldn't mind meeting here though.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

She's not too bad if you get her in small doses.

[forgotten-titan.livejournal.com]

Right. Well, if I see her, I'll stop by and say hi.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

Just be careful she doesn't take an interest in you.

[forgotten-titan.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm as normal as they get, so I don't think I have to worry too much. I'm just your average student who wants to get to college and graduate. There isn't anything supernatural about that.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

Well, nobody can explain why I'm one of the ones roped into her nonsense either, so...

[forgotten-titan.livejournal.com]

Well, maybe because she likes you. I mean, not in THAT way, but some people do get along even though they're totally different from each other. And you seem like a great friend to have too Kyon.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

I suppose that's a good point there.

(Besides, it's at least partially my own fault anyway in persisting to talk to her before she founded the Brigade... And despite how much I complain about her, I really don't have any regrets in regards to that.)

[forgotten-titan.livejournal.com]

But...I guess if I DO get dragged in...it'd still be fun to hang out with people. Do you think she'd mind if I tagged along? If anything does happen, we can both have each other's backs.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

Well, Haruhi's reaction to anything is generally unpredictable, but I suppose you probably could if you liked.

[forgotten-titan.livejournal.com]

Great. When do you usually meet up with her? After school or something?

[slave_of_suzumiya]

Yeah, generally. We've got one of the empty rooms in the school building picked out as our clubroom.

[forgotten-titan.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's a club? What's the name of it then?

[slave_of_suzumiya]

... The SOS Brigade.

[forgotten-titan.livejournal.com]

"SOS Brigade"? Why is it called that? SOS is something that people say when they're in trouble, right?

[slave_of_suzumiya]

She was the one who named it. Supposedly it's an acronym for the "Spreading Excitement all Over the World with Haruhi Suzumiya Brigade". I'm not entirely sure what happened to the letters starting the rest of those words.

[forgotten-titan.livejournal.com]

That's...a really long name. I think I prefer The SOS Brigade. It sounds nearly like a superhero team, actually. It's pretty cool. What do you guys do?

[slave_of_suzumiya]

Largely just follow Haruhi around, get conscripted into her crazy nonsense and clean up the mess she leaves behind.

[forgotten-titan.livejournal.com]

OK...then what is it that she does that's crazy? I mean, it can't be THAT bad, right?

(Ah ha ha, Tara you have no idea.)

[slave_of_suzumiya]

Alien hunting, baseball, investigations, swimming, fireworks, making a movie, challenging other clubs to a duel... It's honestly a matter of what whims she has on a given day.

[forgotten-titan.livejournal.com]

Well, I think the baseball, swimming and everything sounds pretty neat. But...alien hunting? I thought aliens didn't like Earth. The only ones we have at home are the super heroes, like Superman. But there might be aliens in Mayfield though. Actually, I met a space pirate hunter at school, her name's Ruri and she's a really nice person as well.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

The only aliens that seem to be anywhere back home are the ones under deep cover, silently gathering data on the human race without making themselves known. Needless to say, she hasn't found any yet.

[forgotten-titan.livejournal.com]

Wow. How do you know then?

[slave_of_suzumiya]

Well, one of them went rogue and tried to kill me once?

(Okay, so that isn't exactly the full story, but still.)

[forgotten-titan.livejournal.com]

What!? How did you manage to get away then!?