Yu had thought it over for a while, and he'd decided he really wanted to move to Inaba permanently. He made the best friends he's ever had there and despite living in the city his whole life, Inaba meant so much more to him. He didn't expect it to go over well with his parents but they were surprisingly ok with it. They would be traveling for work a lot and even when they were home they worked long hours, if they had just visited Inaba for holidays they would be seeing their son about as much as they would anyway. On top of that, by the way it sounded, he had been a lot happier in Inaba than he was in the city since he was a little kid.

So there he was on the train to Inaba Yu was already planning how he was gonna tell everyone he was there for good. He was going to say something ahead of time but he couldn't help having a bit of fun with it. When the train pulled in he departed in the familiar station and walked down the path to his uncles house.

He knocked on the door and within a second it flung open. "SURPRIIIIIIIIISE" the entire investigation team was standing there with confetti falling to the floor and a big sign that said "Welcome Home Yu".

Before he could say anything he heard someone come barreling down the stairs. "Wait wait did I miss it? I wasn't finished wrapping his present." He looked over to see Nanako peering around the corner, as soon as she saw him her face lit up. "BIG BRO!" She yelled as she ran over and hugged him.

"Hey Nanako, I missed you." He chuckled patting her on the head. "Hey everyone."

There was a moment of silence before everyone ran over and joined in on the hug nearly making him fall over. After about a minute everyone pulled away. "Heh, sorry for all the theatrics," Yosuke said "but we had to make up for the less than stellar surprise you got last time. Plus you're moving here permanently so we had to do something extra to celebrate."

"W-wait you guys already know about that?" Yu stuttered.

"Yeah, your uncle told us." Kanji answered "Why? Was it supposed to be a secret?"

"Well I was planning on surprising you guys with that but I guess it can't be helped."

Nanako came around the corner again, she must have slipped away during the group hug "Big bro I got you something!" She said excitedly, he could see parts of it sticking out of the wrapping paper. "Sorry the paper is messy, I was gonna finish wrapping it but you got here early and I couldn't wait to give it to you."

Yu took off what little wrapping paper there was to reveal a Jack Frost doll. Nanako giggled "It's just like the one that you gave me when I got out of the hospital, it made me so happy so I got you the same thing so that you would feel that happy too."

"Well Nanako" Yu said "I think I'll put it right on my shelf so that if anyone comes in my room they'll always see it."

Everyone enjoyed Yu's welcome home party. Nanako went to bed early, and one by one they left until it was just Chie and Yu. As soon as Rise closed the door Chie tackled Yu and planted a big kiss on his lips. "Sorry if that was kinda sudden, I've been waiting to do that since I saw you."

Yu found himself blushing, something only Chie was able to make him do. "It's ok... I... I love you"

"I love you too."

There they sat on the sofa red as tomatoes in each others arms. A heavy silence filled the room, but it was a welcome one.

After a few minutes of sitting there just enjoying each others company Chie broke the silence. "So what do you wanna do first? I was hoping it would be just the two of us but if you want to get everyone together that's fine too, it's not like your going anywhere after all."

"I was kinda planning on hanging out with everyone one on one, sorry, I'll make time for you if you want though."

"Oh no it's fine, I'm your girlfriend but I'm not your only friend"

Just then Dojima walked in. "I'm home." He smiled when he saw the two on the couch "Hello Chie." He said trying to hold back laughter.

"H-hi" Chie squeaked in reply. Dojima had known they were dating for a while, they couldn't really hide it as whenever Yu was in town Chie spent most of her time here, but it didn't really matter Chie's family knew already and Dojima promised to keep his lips sealed around the group.

"If you plan on staying the night set something up in the living room where I can check up on you, I don't want any funny business going on."

"Ahh c'mon I knew what you meant you didn't have to say it." Yu whined realizing that Chie wasn't the only person capable of making him blush.

"Heh heh, well you two have fun I'll leave you alone, we can catch up in the morning, Yu." Dojima said as he went into his room and shut the door.

"Sorry about that." Yu said "If you want to stay I can get some sleeping bags out of the closet."

"Sleeping bags? What are we five?" Chie teased.

"Alright then, I'll get myself a sleeping bag, you enjoy the floor."

"Ooooor I can just share with you."

"Whoah there, the sleeping bag is a sacred thing, you may be my girlfriend but I can't let anyone else in the bag."

"Ugh fine get two." Chie sighed. The next morning Yu woke up with Chie in his sleeping bag anyway.

It was a pretty tight squeeze and he couldn't wrap his head around the fact that he didn't realize she was there sooner. He forced his way out of her tight grip without waking her up, giving her a kiss on the forehead before heading into the kitchen.

He picked up his phone which he left on the counter. He had one message from Yosuke asking him to go to Junes with him and Teddie. He thought about his plan to have one on one time with everyone, but he decided to go anyway, Teddie one on one would be tough to say the least.

He woke Chie up to go home, she didn't need to lie about where she was, her parents trusted Dojima to prevent the aforementioned "funny business". She left through the yard though just in case someone they knew happened to be walking by. "Love you!" She called as she walked away.

"Your gonna pay for sullying the sacredness of the sleeping bag!" Yu replied only half joking.

When he got to the Junes food court he saw Teddie and Yosuke were already waiting for him. "Hey Yu over here!" Yosuke was waving so excitedly that he almost looked like Teddie, who was oddly still and quiet.

"Hey guys," Yu said as he sat down at the table. "What's wrong with the bear?"

"Oh well, uhh, his suit kinda got-"

"DESTROYED!!" Teddie interrupted Yosuke's explanation. "MUTILATED, VIOLATED, ALL THE TERRIBLE 'ATEDS"

"Will you relax?" Yosuke moaned, "It's really not a big deal, some kid spilled his TaP on him. I said I'd run it through the wash you annoying bear."

"Not a big deal? It's so terrible, I just don't know if I can BEEEAAAAR it."

"Well you're ok enough to make those stupid puns." Yu added.

"SENSEI" Teddie gasped, "I thought if anyone would be sensitive to this situation it would be you!"

Yu chuckled "Ok ok, we can go to the dry cleaners and get it done right now if you want."

"Really sensei? Oh that would be amazing!" He said returning to his usual perky self.

"Why do you always take his side? He has the most irrational way of thinking of anyone I've ever met." Yosuke commented.

"Well if you try it out, I think you'll find it makes interacting with him go a lot smoother"

Yosuke only mumbled some gibberish in reply.