The Effect of Flowers
summary: After the Ruby episode, Persona's popularity sky rockets, and fans become even more curious about the mysterious trio. Shachou decides to use this curiosity to her advantage, so she sends them out on a little did she know that the three "boys" would meet three people who would affect the future of Persona.
Author note: Hey, hope you are all having a good start of December. I was lurking around reading some really awesome Mendol fanfics and was inspired to write my own. I probably won't be able to update this for a while because I have a lot of work to do for the next few weeks. But anyways please enjoy. This is going to be rather OOC and AU.
exclaimer: Pretty much don't own anything in this fanfic.
Ch1
Kai stared into the mirror in the men's bathroom adjusting his tie. His phone vibrated noisily on top of the counter, and let out little pinging noises as it received text after text from someone he really did not want to think about. He let out a frustrated sigh as after a minute his phone finally fell silent, 'honestly that woman needs to get a life. She needed to understand he needed some time to himself.' Calmly he went back to his tie trying to smooth it out when his phone pinged again and then three more times making his eye twitch. Then with a growl he snatched his phone off the counter, earnestly flipping it open. The screen flared to life displaying a notification of 80 missed texts from Ray before the little blond frantically mashed the power button. Once the screen was dark he sagged and gently tossed his phone onto the counter watching it slide across the marble and then softly bump against the mirror.
"Why the hell does my life suck!" He leaned over the counter and began to repeatedly drop his head onto the counter. The whole "relationship" thing with Ray was running him ragged.
"Oi Kai, stop that!" Strong hands grasped and forced him to stand up straight. "Don't do that, it is bad for your health." Scolded Riku, who frowning worriedly at the dead looking blond.
"Yeah" Chimed in another person, there was a flush, and Kuu stepped out of one of the stalls. "If you do that you will lose so many brain cells that you will become stupid, and she will easily get you into bed." The dark haired boy added as he cheerfully washed his hands. Kai glared at Kuu wanting nothing but to yell at him, but chose to conserve his remaining energy while Riku shook his head.
"Why don't you just tell her you need some space, and that she can't text you that much." Riku frowned down as Kai turned to face his band members.
"I did." Kai deadpanned, "I told her that, and that is why the texts are so bad now. She used to do just 4 a minute, but now it is like 20 a minute." Riku sweat dropped patting his band mate's shoulder sympathetically. He was really glad it wasn't him dating the insanely possessive Diva.
"It's okay Kai, at least she bakes for you those wonderful cakes." Kuu clasped his hands under his chin recalling the wonderful cake that Ray had made. The blond gagged, clapped a hand over his mouth, and wrapped an arm around his stomach as he recalled the "wonderful" cake.
"Eww Kuu, I can't believe you actually like that stuff." Riku grimaced as he recalled the nauseating taste of the cake.
Kuu tilted his head, "Yes it was super tasty." Kai and Riku gave him disbelieved looks. "What? You didn't like it?" Kai face palmed, placing an hand on Kuu's shoulder, "You are really special." At that moment Riku's phone went off. The brown haired man reached into his pocket pulling out his phone which he flipped open and put to his ear.
"Hello?"
"WHERE ARE YOU BOYS! YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE IN THE RECORDING STUDIO RIGHT NOW!" Screamed Saeko over the phone practically blowing out Riku's right ear drum. The leader of Persona winced a hand clapped over his smarting ear and held the phone away from his ear as their boss continued her tirade. After a few seconds she fell silent and then growled out, "Get over here now!"
"Yes Ma'am" barked out Riku hurriedly flipping his phone closed, and found his band mates staring at him stunned. "Recording studio now or we are dead."
"Crud" Kai grabbed his phone, stuffed it into his pocket and flew out the door with his two friends following. He flew out the door so fast that he couldn't stop himself from colliding with someone walking in the hall. With a yelp he collided into the taller person slamming them into the wall with a thud.
His heart was beating frantically and he could feel something beating just as frantically under his right palm. He breathed in deeply and found his sense of smell enticed by the sweet scent of strawberries, his stress and frustration melted away. He felt really comfortable. Strands of something tickled his face, and slowly he opened his eyes and found himself staring at someone's neck.
"Gah!" He jerked his head back, accidentally squeezing what his right hand was touching causing the woman he had trapped between the wall and his body to gasp. Kai turned a charming shade of red and stared in disbelief up at the woman, who stared back turning just as red.
"Kai!" Riku yelled, breaking the staring contest. Kai blinked his ears turning a bright red and looked down. To his horror he found his hand resting on the woman's breast.
"Gah!" Kai stumbled backwards to land on his but staring up at the beautiful woman, who stood fixed to her spot but her arms crossed protectively across her chest. "Oh my god! I am so sorry!" The little blond scrambled to his knees and began to kowtow repeatedly saying he was sorry. Riku and Ku stared stunned at what they had just seen. Their friend seemed to always accidentally get into weird situations with women. Riku's phone buzzed and he looked down at the screen to see the message roll across the screen, "you are dead - Shachou". Kuu who had peered over the taller man's shoulder to gaze at the screen whimpered and then shot forward grabbing Kai's arm and hauled him off the ground and began sprinting towards the studio dragging the still slightly stunned blond while screaming, "I don't want to die!"
Riku gapped at the backs of his band mates as they disappeared down the hall leaving him to explain to the lady, and to be killed by Shachou for being the last to arrive. Frantically internally he tried to collect himself before coughing politely into his fist to get the stunned woman's attention.
"I am sorry for my band mate's behavior; he did not mean to do that. We were in such a hurry that we lost our manners." He gave a low bow, expecting some sort of answer from her but received none. He straightened up, "Please forgive me but I have an appointment that I am going to be late for." With that Riku walked away elegantly for five steps before breaking out of his Prince like manners and frantically sprinting to the recording room. The brown haired man rushed through the door to find Kuu and Kai on their hands and knees in front of their boss practically kissing her shoes as they cried for mercy. After seeing his friends in such pitiful states, he almost decided to escape through the still open door, but decided against it as Shachou's eyes landed on him. Her lips were pursed into a tight line, and the knuckles of her right hand were white from gripping the handle of her whip too hard. With a sad defeated sigh he closed the door cutting off his last chance of escape. He would fall with his teammates he decided as the click of the door sealed his fate. 'Persona Fighting!' he thought to himself as he turned to face his demise.