Character Profile: Mikuru Asahina

Mikuru Asahina just happens to be one of the students that Haruhi Suzumiya drags into membership into the S.O.S. Brigade, which at the time Haruhi formed to find aliens, ESPers or time travelers. Although a very buxom girl, the boys in the school stay away from her because of her innocent attitude. This doesn't stop Haruhi from using the poor girl in many of her hare-brained schemes, from dressing her up either as a maid, a bunny girl or a nurse while in the Brigade's club room.

It wasn't until later when she confided with Kyon the truth about her. It seem that Mikuru was a time traveler herself, and was on a mission to find out why time travel was not possible past a certain point in time – which was when Haruhi found she was as insignificant as any other person. But when Kyon tried to press the girl into proving her story, all he got from Mikuru was the facts he was asking was classified.

But on the same day Kyon escaped death at the hands of Ryoko Asakura, he received a note from Mikuru, asking to meet him in the S.O.S. Brigade's club room. But when he got there, he was greeted by an OLDER version of Mikuru. It seemed she had gotten permission to travel back in time and ask Yuki Nagato to accompany her younger version in order to relay to Kyon some information relating to Haruhi that could save the world. But while she was there, she also inadvertently revealed a fact about herself that Kyon had yet to discover – she had a small, star-shaped mole on the inside of her left breast, and that she hadn't noticed it as a student until Kyon had told her. After she had told the information she needed to say, the older Mikuru left.

Kyon wasn't the only friend Mikuru had made during her visit to the past. Another student, Tsuruya, is also her friend.