The Next Sinking of Mikuru Asahina (M) (Complete!)
Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2020 9:53 am
The Next Sinking of Mikuru Asahina
A Haruhi Suzumiya QS Fan Fiction
by DJlurker
(Where am I...?)
Mikuru Asahina moaned as she slowly came back to consciousness... She realized that she was sitting on the floor, her back laying against something hard and curved... as her vision focused, she saw her legs bent at the knees, clad in fishnet stockings and red high-heeled slippers...
"Huh?!" Looking down at herself, Mikuru realized she was wearing her red bunny suit from her high school days from the SOS Brigade! "W-why am I dressed like this?!" Climbing to her feet, the auburn-haired woman realized she was surrounded by curved glass on all sides, like one of those old sci-fi stasis tubes. However, beyond her immediate surroundings, it was pitch-black, the only source of light directly above her. "Hello?! Is anyone out there?!"
"You are awake," stated a near-monotone female voice that caused Mikuru's blood to turn to ice in her veins. Turning to her left, she saw the room light up a little more, revealing none other than the alien interface Kuyo Suo. Her thick, full-bodied black hair was unrestrained, flowing down to her ankles as usual, though instead of her old school uniform, she wore a white lab coat over a black shirt and matching tight pants with platform heels. "Ohayo, Mikuru Asahina."
Mikuru squeaked in terror, beads of sweat forming on her forehead... "Wh-what do you want with me?!"
"Do not be afraid. I will not... hurt you," Kuyo responded, her black eyes betraying no emotion. "This is... experiment."
"W-w-what k-kind of experiment...?!" Mikuru grunted, not reassured one bit.
"Start filling," Kuyo intoned. Looking down, Mikuru saw some sort of black liquid begin seeping through the grate on the floor of her tube, which soon covered the whole area, clinging to Mikuru's slippers!
"Ewww!" Mikuru cringed in disgust, attempting to lift her feet up, only for the black stuff to cling to them with incredible stickiness! It then crept over her ankles, then slowly rose up her calves... "What is this stuff?!" she cried as she gripped one of her thighs to try and pull up, to no avail.
"It is... like tar," Kuyo replied. "Not the same... but close."
"Tar?! Why tar?!" Mikuru grunted as she tried to pump her legs, the tar soon overtaking her knees.
"You sink in... like quicksand," Kuyo explained. "I... enjoyed it. Do you?"
"No! No I do not!" Mikuru protested as she continued to struggle futilely... "Suzumiya-san won't let you get away with this!"
"She does not know," Kuyo countered. "She is _ with _" Frowning, she tried to speak again... "Sex. Kyon."
"She's having sex with Kyon-kun?" Mikuru interpreted. It did make sense that the Sky Canopy Domain interface would take advantage of Haruhi's 'distraction'... But then Mikuru's train of thought was derailed as the tar began to bulge thickly between her legs... "Ooooh..." she quaked with pleasure...
"You like it," Kuyo said with an uncharacteristic smile.
"NO!" Mikuru asserted, resuming her struggles... but she could barely move in the sticky stuff, now sunk to her waist, only able to shift her hips slightly... which only encouraged to tar to press on her g-spot even more, Mikuru groaning as stars flashed in her vision from an intense wave of pleasure that surged from her groin. "Oh yes..." Her nipples had become hard as rocks, her eyes closed, her face flushed... then she snapped back to her senses. "Ah! What am I doing?! Suzumiya-san! Kyon-kun! Nagato-san! HELP ME!"
"Yuki Nagato cannot help you," Kuyo spoke up, turning away from Mikuru... a few feet away, another shaft of light appeared, illuminating another stasis tube partially filled with tar... and in that tube was Yuki herself, sunk to her slight bosom, apparently dressed in a latex catsuit, a ball gag firmly secured between her lips! The lilac-haired interface lifted her head, looking over at Mikuru... though her eyes were glazed over with pleasure, her expression practically screamed 'I'm sorry'.
"Oh, Nagato-san..." Mikuru lamented in despair... only to gasp as she felt the tar in her tube begin to press up on her ample bosom... "N-no...!" She tried to push up, only for her arms to predictably sink in and become stuck... "No! Help! Help me!" She cried as she tugged at her trapped limbs in futility.
"Stop," Kuyo intoned, the tar ceasing to fill the tube, leaving Mikuru trapped to her chest, the thick bitumen groping her breasts, eliciting feelings of pleasure in the bunny girl, who moaned again as her hips bucked against it's thick, sticky mass...
"Oh, yes... oh yes!" Mikuru was unable to help herself, feeling more waves of pleasure as her body betrayed her again and again, humping for all she was worth, the feeling of utter helplessness serving to intensify her pleasure... "I can't... please, I'm going to..."
"Orgasm?" Kuyo finished for her. Just hearing that word was enough to send Mikuru over the edge, crying ferally as wave after wave of heat and ecstasy surged through her sexy body, the tar holding her in place as she tried to thrash around, feeling it pull at every inch of her submerged body, which sent her to even greater heights of sensation...
After what seemed like forever, the waves of pleasure eased off and ebbed away, leaving Mikuru smiling in spite of herself as she basked in the warm afterglow... "Oh, that felt so good... oh yes..."
"Good," Kuyo spoke again. "You like it... as much as Haruhi Suzumiya."
"I wouldn't... go that far..." Mikuru feebly protested, still panting from her earlier exertion. "Please... let me go... I'm thirsty..."
"Thirsty...? Oh," Kuyo comprehended. "Here..." a straw-like tube descended from the ceiling, pushing into Mikuru's mouth, water slowly flowing from it. The bunny girl gratefully took a few swallows, the tube then pulling out and retracting, though a small dribble of water flowed between her breasts and merged into the tar. "Better?" Getting an answer in the affirmative, Kuyo then said, "Good. Excuse me, Asahina-san..." With that, she slid off her lab coat, Mikuru realizing that she was actually wearing a latex catsuit like Yuki was. The raven-haired alien then turned and walked up to Yuki's stasis tube, before abruptly teleporting inside! "Hello, Yuki... You waited... too long..." Though she was now sunk to the same depth as her fellow alien, she had one arm free, which gently stroked Yuki's cheek...
(Is she going to do what I think she's going to do?!) Mikuru wondered, getting her answer a few seconds later as Kuyo began to kiss Yuki around her ball gag, Yuki's eyes sliding shut as they both quaked with desire together... "Stop it!" she spoke aloud. "You can't just rape Nagato-san like that!"
Kuyo broke off the kiss to reply, "Rape? No. She wants it. I want it. We have... had sex before..."
"W... what?!" Mikuru couldn't believe her ears. "No! Y-you lie!"
"Lie? No. Yuki, tell her." Kuyo then pressed a finger to Yuki's ball gag, which suddenly vanished, allowing the interface to speak clearly.
"Asahina-san," she began, "I know it is hard to believe, but Kuyo is not lying... it was the only way we could communicate... understand each other. While I do not approve of her actions toward you, I am unable to intervene... I am sorry." A single tear ran down her cheek at this...
"Oh, Nagato-san..." Mikuru shook her head sadly.
"Enough," Kuyo spoke up, gently gripping Yuki's chin with her free hand. "I did not hurt her. I promised. I kept. Now... kiss me." Yuki promptly complied, her lips meeting Kuyo's, moaning slightly into her mouth... After a few seconds, Kuyo released her grip, her hand gently grasping her lover's shoulder instead as they began to duel with their tongues... it wasn't long before the two began to hump each other, despite being restrained by the sticky bitumen that clung to their bodies...
Mikuru was unable to look away, her own pleasure beginning again as she continued to watch the two interfaces' lovemaking in the chest-deep tar... "Oh yes..." She closed her eyes and quaked as her hips slowly bucked against her sticky entrapment once more...
Meanwhile, Yuki and Kuyo had broken off their kiss to gasp in more oxygen as their mutual pleasure began rising, bucking harder, their bosoms pressing into each other, rubbing their stiff nipples together, the sticky tar pulling at them as well... "Ah! Ah! Sensory- overload- imminent-!" Yuki cried.
"Oh, Yukiiiiiiii!" Kuyo cried as she succumbed to ecstasy, the fellow interface going off soon afterward, the two throwing their heads back as they screamed in orgasm together, straining against their sticky encasement!
The sight was too much for Mikuru, who also screamed as her body was wracked with orgasm once more, bucking hard against the tar that held her, her bunny ears flapping a bit from her thrashing... fortunately her ecstasy eased off a bit sooner this time, likely from fatigue as she panted hard, sweat beading on her forehead and shoulders... as her vision cleared, Mikuru saw Yuki and Kuyo kissing again, gasping for air in between smooches... (Oh my gosh... they... they really are lovers...) There was no way Yuki could fake that kind of passion... or could Kuyo, for that matter. (At least this stuff is pretty warm, compared to that quicksand...)
But then, a door slammed open in the distance, flooding the room with light! "Alright, what's going on here?!" A familiar voice called out, flooding Mikuru with joy and relief!
"Suzumiya-san!" she called out, Haruhi promptly striding into the room, looking over at Yuki and Kuyo with a mixture of disgust and fascination... However, when she looked over at Mikuru, she had a double-take!
"Mikuru?! What are you doing here?!" she gasped in surprise. "No, wait, first things first..." Mikuru abruptly found herself free of the tar and stasis tube, being held in Haruhi's arms! "There we go," the reality warper grunted as she lowered Mikuru to a kneeling position. "Now, what happened?"
Mikuru swallowed before speaking, "I-it was Kuyo! She kidnapped me and experimented on me... sh-she made me sink in t-tar t-to see if I would enjoy it like you did..." Tears of relief streamed down her face and she embraced Haruhi tightly. "I-I tried to resist, but..."
"Okay, say no more, I got it," Haruhi cut her off, hugging her back. "It'll be okay now. Just leave her to me..." With that, she pointed at the other stasis tube, which shattered into pieces, tar flowing over the floor as Yuki and Kuyo fell out, still embracing... Haruhi then waved her hand, forcibly separating the two, Kuyo Suo then finding herself bound up with ribbons, a ball gag appearing between her lips! "That should hold you for a while!"
"Mmmmph!" Kuyo wiggled against her bondage to no avail.
"Thank you, Suzumiya-san," Yuki grunted as she slowly rose to her feet. Raising a hand, she intoned, "Restore utilities room to original parameters." The tar and stasis tubes vanished, the room shrinking in size a bit as it became fully illuminated, showing pipes, vents, and machinery. That done, Yuki waved a hand over herself, her latex suit shifting back to casual clothes. "As you can probably deduce, Kuyo Suo made certain to incapacitate me before forcibly extracting Asahina-san from her proper temporal axis..."
"That'll teach me to fall asleep at my desk..." Mikuru sighed. "Um, Suzumiya-san, could you change my clothes back to normal, please?"
"Aw, and here I was feeling nostalgic seeing you in that bunny suit again," Haruhi teased, accentuating it with a wink. "Alright, restore Mikuru to normal parameters." Mikuru felt her residual pleasure vanish, her bunny suit being replaced with her normal blouse and skirt combo. "There we go!"
"Thank you," the time traveler sighed in relief as she stood straight, stretching her limbs a bit. "But what about her?" she indicated the bound Kuyo.
"Hmm... I think we'll leave her penalty to Yuki," Haruhi decided as she also stood up. "Just make sure there's some pain involved, okay? Kuyo Suo needs to understand that she crossed the line."
"Understood," Yuki nodded, walking over and picking up Kuyo in a bridal carry. "Come, it is time for your punishment." Mikuru took a small amount of satisfaction at seeing the fear in Kuyo's eyes, before the two vanished in a flash of light. Not long after, another familiar face ran into the utilities room...
"You're late, Kyon," Haruhi chastised as she turned to greet her lover.
"Well, excuse me for not being able to teleport!" Kyon snarked back, before realizing there was another woman in the room. "Wh- Asahina-san?! What are you doing here?!"
"Apparently Kuyo kidnapped her from the future to experiment on her," Haruhi explained. "Even went so far as to dress her in her old bunny suit..."
"Really...? Um, okay, I don't think I want to hear anymore," Kyon blushed, turning away. "I'm kinda glad I arrived late, then..."
"Which is exactly why I'm deferring your penalty for once," Haruhi agreed. "Just make sure you come to the next brigade meeting on time, got it?"
"Yes, chief," Kyon nodded. "I'll uh, leave you two alone, then. Have a good day, Asahina-san..." he promptly strode off.
"You too, Kyon-kun," Mikuru called back. "Um, so, what now?"
"Well, given that you fell asleep at your desk, I'm thinking maybe you've been working a bit too hard lately?" Haruhi inquired.
"...well, maybe," Mikuru demurred. "It's mostly, um, paperwork, so to speak..."
"Well, how about before you go back, you relax with us a bit?" Haruhi suggested, putting an arm around her friend. "If your superiors complain, just tell 'em we were helping you recover from trauma caused by Kuyo experimenting..."
"I-I don't want to impose..." Mikuru shook her head.
"Don't worry about it," Haruhi smiled. "Once an SOS Brigade member, always a brigade member, after all..."
Mikuru couldn't help but blush slightly and smile back as they went off together...
*To be continued...*
A Haruhi Suzumiya QS Fan Fiction
by DJlurker
(Where am I...?)
Mikuru Asahina moaned as she slowly came back to consciousness... She realized that she was sitting on the floor, her back laying against something hard and curved... as her vision focused, she saw her legs bent at the knees, clad in fishnet stockings and red high-heeled slippers...
"Huh?!" Looking down at herself, Mikuru realized she was wearing her red bunny suit from her high school days from the SOS Brigade! "W-why am I dressed like this?!" Climbing to her feet, the auburn-haired woman realized she was surrounded by curved glass on all sides, like one of those old sci-fi stasis tubes. However, beyond her immediate surroundings, it was pitch-black, the only source of light directly above her. "Hello?! Is anyone out there?!"
"You are awake," stated a near-monotone female voice that caused Mikuru's blood to turn to ice in her veins. Turning to her left, she saw the room light up a little more, revealing none other than the alien interface Kuyo Suo. Her thick, full-bodied black hair was unrestrained, flowing down to her ankles as usual, though instead of her old school uniform, she wore a white lab coat over a black shirt and matching tight pants with platform heels. "Ohayo, Mikuru Asahina."
Mikuru squeaked in terror, beads of sweat forming on her forehead... "Wh-what do you want with me?!"
"Do not be afraid. I will not... hurt you," Kuyo responded, her black eyes betraying no emotion. "This is... experiment."
"W-w-what k-kind of experiment...?!" Mikuru grunted, not reassured one bit.
"Start filling," Kuyo intoned. Looking down, Mikuru saw some sort of black liquid begin seeping through the grate on the floor of her tube, which soon covered the whole area, clinging to Mikuru's slippers!
"Ewww!" Mikuru cringed in disgust, attempting to lift her feet up, only for the black stuff to cling to them with incredible stickiness! It then crept over her ankles, then slowly rose up her calves... "What is this stuff?!" she cried as she gripped one of her thighs to try and pull up, to no avail.
"It is... like tar," Kuyo replied. "Not the same... but close."
"Tar?! Why tar?!" Mikuru grunted as she tried to pump her legs, the tar soon overtaking her knees.
"You sink in... like quicksand," Kuyo explained. "I... enjoyed it. Do you?"
"No! No I do not!" Mikuru protested as she continued to struggle futilely... "Suzumiya-san won't let you get away with this!"
"She does not know," Kuyo countered. "She is _ with _" Frowning, she tried to speak again... "Sex. Kyon."
"She's having sex with Kyon-kun?" Mikuru interpreted. It did make sense that the Sky Canopy Domain interface would take advantage of Haruhi's 'distraction'... But then Mikuru's train of thought was derailed as the tar began to bulge thickly between her legs... "Ooooh..." she quaked with pleasure...
"You like it," Kuyo said with an uncharacteristic smile.
"NO!" Mikuru asserted, resuming her struggles... but she could barely move in the sticky stuff, now sunk to her waist, only able to shift her hips slightly... which only encouraged to tar to press on her g-spot even more, Mikuru groaning as stars flashed in her vision from an intense wave of pleasure that surged from her groin. "Oh yes..." Her nipples had become hard as rocks, her eyes closed, her face flushed... then she snapped back to her senses. "Ah! What am I doing?! Suzumiya-san! Kyon-kun! Nagato-san! HELP ME!"
"Yuki Nagato cannot help you," Kuyo spoke up, turning away from Mikuru... a few feet away, another shaft of light appeared, illuminating another stasis tube partially filled with tar... and in that tube was Yuki herself, sunk to her slight bosom, apparently dressed in a latex catsuit, a ball gag firmly secured between her lips! The lilac-haired interface lifted her head, looking over at Mikuru... though her eyes were glazed over with pleasure, her expression practically screamed 'I'm sorry'.
"Oh, Nagato-san..." Mikuru lamented in despair... only to gasp as she felt the tar in her tube begin to press up on her ample bosom... "N-no...!" She tried to push up, only for her arms to predictably sink in and become stuck... "No! Help! Help me!" She cried as she tugged at her trapped limbs in futility.
"Stop," Kuyo intoned, the tar ceasing to fill the tube, leaving Mikuru trapped to her chest, the thick bitumen groping her breasts, eliciting feelings of pleasure in the bunny girl, who moaned again as her hips bucked against it's thick, sticky mass...
"Oh, yes... oh yes!" Mikuru was unable to help herself, feeling more waves of pleasure as her body betrayed her again and again, humping for all she was worth, the feeling of utter helplessness serving to intensify her pleasure... "I can't... please, I'm going to..."
"Orgasm?" Kuyo finished for her. Just hearing that word was enough to send Mikuru over the edge, crying ferally as wave after wave of heat and ecstasy surged through her sexy body, the tar holding her in place as she tried to thrash around, feeling it pull at every inch of her submerged body, which sent her to even greater heights of sensation...
After what seemed like forever, the waves of pleasure eased off and ebbed away, leaving Mikuru smiling in spite of herself as she basked in the warm afterglow... "Oh, that felt so good... oh yes..."
"Good," Kuyo spoke again. "You like it... as much as Haruhi Suzumiya."
"I wouldn't... go that far..." Mikuru feebly protested, still panting from her earlier exertion. "Please... let me go... I'm thirsty..."
"Thirsty...? Oh," Kuyo comprehended. "Here..." a straw-like tube descended from the ceiling, pushing into Mikuru's mouth, water slowly flowing from it. The bunny girl gratefully took a few swallows, the tube then pulling out and retracting, though a small dribble of water flowed between her breasts and merged into the tar. "Better?" Getting an answer in the affirmative, Kuyo then said, "Good. Excuse me, Asahina-san..." With that, she slid off her lab coat, Mikuru realizing that she was actually wearing a latex catsuit like Yuki was. The raven-haired alien then turned and walked up to Yuki's stasis tube, before abruptly teleporting inside! "Hello, Yuki... You waited... too long..." Though she was now sunk to the same depth as her fellow alien, she had one arm free, which gently stroked Yuki's cheek...
(Is she going to do what I think she's going to do?!) Mikuru wondered, getting her answer a few seconds later as Kuyo began to kiss Yuki around her ball gag, Yuki's eyes sliding shut as they both quaked with desire together... "Stop it!" she spoke aloud. "You can't just rape Nagato-san like that!"
Kuyo broke off the kiss to reply, "Rape? No. She wants it. I want it. We have... had sex before..."
"W... what?!" Mikuru couldn't believe her ears. "No! Y-you lie!"
"Lie? No. Yuki, tell her." Kuyo then pressed a finger to Yuki's ball gag, which suddenly vanished, allowing the interface to speak clearly.
"Asahina-san," she began, "I know it is hard to believe, but Kuyo is not lying... it was the only way we could communicate... understand each other. While I do not approve of her actions toward you, I am unable to intervene... I am sorry." A single tear ran down her cheek at this...
"Oh, Nagato-san..." Mikuru shook her head sadly.
"Enough," Kuyo spoke up, gently gripping Yuki's chin with her free hand. "I did not hurt her. I promised. I kept. Now... kiss me." Yuki promptly complied, her lips meeting Kuyo's, moaning slightly into her mouth... After a few seconds, Kuyo released her grip, her hand gently grasping her lover's shoulder instead as they began to duel with their tongues... it wasn't long before the two began to hump each other, despite being restrained by the sticky bitumen that clung to their bodies...
Mikuru was unable to look away, her own pleasure beginning again as she continued to watch the two interfaces' lovemaking in the chest-deep tar... "Oh yes..." She closed her eyes and quaked as her hips slowly bucked against her sticky entrapment once more...
Meanwhile, Yuki and Kuyo had broken off their kiss to gasp in more oxygen as their mutual pleasure began rising, bucking harder, their bosoms pressing into each other, rubbing their stiff nipples together, the sticky tar pulling at them as well... "Ah! Ah! Sensory- overload- imminent-!" Yuki cried.
"Oh, Yukiiiiiiii!" Kuyo cried as she succumbed to ecstasy, the fellow interface going off soon afterward, the two throwing their heads back as they screamed in orgasm together, straining against their sticky encasement!
The sight was too much for Mikuru, who also screamed as her body was wracked with orgasm once more, bucking hard against the tar that held her, her bunny ears flapping a bit from her thrashing... fortunately her ecstasy eased off a bit sooner this time, likely from fatigue as she panted hard, sweat beading on her forehead and shoulders... as her vision cleared, Mikuru saw Yuki and Kuyo kissing again, gasping for air in between smooches... (Oh my gosh... they... they really are lovers...) There was no way Yuki could fake that kind of passion... or could Kuyo, for that matter. (At least this stuff is pretty warm, compared to that quicksand...)
But then, a door slammed open in the distance, flooding the room with light! "Alright, what's going on here?!" A familiar voice called out, flooding Mikuru with joy and relief!
"Suzumiya-san!" she called out, Haruhi promptly striding into the room, looking over at Yuki and Kuyo with a mixture of disgust and fascination... However, when she looked over at Mikuru, she had a double-take!
"Mikuru?! What are you doing here?!" she gasped in surprise. "No, wait, first things first..." Mikuru abruptly found herself free of the tar and stasis tube, being held in Haruhi's arms! "There we go," the reality warper grunted as she lowered Mikuru to a kneeling position. "Now, what happened?"
Mikuru swallowed before speaking, "I-it was Kuyo! She kidnapped me and experimented on me... sh-she made me sink in t-tar t-to see if I would enjoy it like you did..." Tears of relief streamed down her face and she embraced Haruhi tightly. "I-I tried to resist, but..."
"Okay, say no more, I got it," Haruhi cut her off, hugging her back. "It'll be okay now. Just leave her to me..." With that, she pointed at the other stasis tube, which shattered into pieces, tar flowing over the floor as Yuki and Kuyo fell out, still embracing... Haruhi then waved her hand, forcibly separating the two, Kuyo Suo then finding herself bound up with ribbons, a ball gag appearing between her lips! "That should hold you for a while!"
"Mmmmph!" Kuyo wiggled against her bondage to no avail.
"Thank you, Suzumiya-san," Yuki grunted as she slowly rose to her feet. Raising a hand, she intoned, "Restore utilities room to original parameters." The tar and stasis tubes vanished, the room shrinking in size a bit as it became fully illuminated, showing pipes, vents, and machinery. That done, Yuki waved a hand over herself, her latex suit shifting back to casual clothes. "As you can probably deduce, Kuyo Suo made certain to incapacitate me before forcibly extracting Asahina-san from her proper temporal axis..."
"That'll teach me to fall asleep at my desk..." Mikuru sighed. "Um, Suzumiya-san, could you change my clothes back to normal, please?"
"Aw, and here I was feeling nostalgic seeing you in that bunny suit again," Haruhi teased, accentuating it with a wink. "Alright, restore Mikuru to normal parameters." Mikuru felt her residual pleasure vanish, her bunny suit being replaced with her normal blouse and skirt combo. "There we go!"
"Thank you," the time traveler sighed in relief as she stood straight, stretching her limbs a bit. "But what about her?" she indicated the bound Kuyo.
"Hmm... I think we'll leave her penalty to Yuki," Haruhi decided as she also stood up. "Just make sure there's some pain involved, okay? Kuyo Suo needs to understand that she crossed the line."
"Understood," Yuki nodded, walking over and picking up Kuyo in a bridal carry. "Come, it is time for your punishment." Mikuru took a small amount of satisfaction at seeing the fear in Kuyo's eyes, before the two vanished in a flash of light. Not long after, another familiar face ran into the utilities room...
"You're late, Kyon," Haruhi chastised as she turned to greet her lover.
"Well, excuse me for not being able to teleport!" Kyon snarked back, before realizing there was another woman in the room. "Wh- Asahina-san?! What are you doing here?!"
"Apparently Kuyo kidnapped her from the future to experiment on her," Haruhi explained. "Even went so far as to dress her in her old bunny suit..."
"Really...? Um, okay, I don't think I want to hear anymore," Kyon blushed, turning away. "I'm kinda glad I arrived late, then..."
"Which is exactly why I'm deferring your penalty for once," Haruhi agreed. "Just make sure you come to the next brigade meeting on time, got it?"
"Yes, chief," Kyon nodded. "I'll uh, leave you two alone, then. Have a good day, Asahina-san..." he promptly strode off.
"You too, Kyon-kun," Mikuru called back. "Um, so, what now?"
"Well, given that you fell asleep at your desk, I'm thinking maybe you've been working a bit too hard lately?" Haruhi inquired.
"...well, maybe," Mikuru demurred. "It's mostly, um, paperwork, so to speak..."
"Well, how about before you go back, you relax with us a bit?" Haruhi suggested, putting an arm around her friend. "If your superiors complain, just tell 'em we were helping you recover from trauma caused by Kuyo experimenting..."
"I-I don't want to impose..." Mikuru shook her head.
"Don't worry about it," Haruhi smiled. "Once an SOS Brigade member, always a brigade member, after all..."
Mikuru couldn't help but blush slightly and smile back as they went off together...
*To be continued...*