Disclaimer: I do not own Persona 4, or any of its characters. The Persona series belongs to Atlus.

"Speech"

"Thoughts"

Greetings fellow readers! After finally having the chance of playing Persona 4 (sadly, not the Persona 4 Golden…yet) I decided to write this story.

The premise of this story is going to be a bit…different. Once in a while, it is a good thing to break the monotony and just try something new.

Oh! Before I forget; this will include some Yosuke x Saki story. I know that Yu is going to be prominent on the first few chapters, but that's just to start things off. If this story gets popular enough I'll pair Yu/Seta with any girl (or girls) depending on the feedback I get.

Now, onto the story...

"I'll think about it"

Looking at the ticket Yosuke gave her, Saki felt the urge to rip it apart and toss it to the garbage bin like it was a foul thing to be holding. Just yesterday, the prince of Junes (as she and most people called Yosuke at his back) gave her the ticket now in her hand and asked her if she would consider going with him. While he nervously ranted about how a break now and then would be good for her to try and hide his painfully obvious attraction to her, she gave him a fake smile and told him she'd think about it, That was enough to put a large grin on his face and hopefully keep him away from her for the day at least.

The sound of tearing was heard as she tore the ticket and tossed it to the bin. Wasn't it enough to have witness Mayumi's body hanging like that, but now she had to deal with this?

Her train of thoughts was interrupted when someone knocked at the door. Expecting to see another cop wanting to question her about today's events, Saki groaned and went to open it and was surprised to find no one on the other side. In fact, the entire street seemed empty at this hour.

"That's weird"

Dismissing it, Saki went to close the door when she felt her body going stiff; feeling almost like someone or something was preventing her from moving. Her eyes quickly confirmed her suspicions that no one was next to her, but yet she was unable to move. Panicking, Saki tried to yell when something invisible slammed over her mouth, preventing any sound to come out and also denying her a breath of air. No matter how hard she struggled she just couldn't budge from whatever was holding her in place.

Realizing she was losing conscious for lack of air, bitter tears started forming on her eyes "NO! I DON'T WANT TO DIE LIKE THIS! SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!"

In her final moments, she saw the faces of her parents, her brother Naoki, her friends and wished she could see them one last time. Even Yosuke, despite annoying her for reasons out of his control, was prominent in the mind. With one final tug, her body went limp and the oppressing force that held her in place released some of the tension around her.

Lowering her unconscious body, the imposing form of Izanagi looked to his other self as he emerged from his hiding spot.

"You did good Izanagi, thank you." Seta Souji sighed as he looked at the sleeping form of one Saki Konishi. Looking at his persona he asked: "Do you think I'm doing the right thing?"

Izanagi looked at him and even when the persona was silent, Souji knew no words were needed. This was the only way to save her.

Noticing that events hadn't reset themselves like before, reassured Souji and so they moved to the next part of their plan. Motioning to Izanagi, the persona carried Saki's sleeping form over his shoulder and grabbed hold of Souji with his free arm before flying off to the hiding place they had prepared. It was fortunate that Izanagi was invisible to non-persona users, and was more fortunate that any person or thing he carried was also turn invisible, or else tomorrow's newspapers would be telling the story of a flying being in the town of Inaba.

Just minutes after they left, Adachi arrived to the place to bring Saki Konishi for interrogation, but finding no one he just shrugged and returned to the precinct. It was a shame for him, after seeing her with Namatame, he had wanted to corner the little slut and have a little slice of what the idiot was having "Oh well, tomorrow's another day".

Back to Souji, the trio arrived at their destination: an isolated house in the border of town that he rented using an anonymous alias to avoid attracting any unwanted attention to himself and his family; he had learned that from the last reset.

You might be wondering what Souji means with reset, well, to explain it one must go back to when it all started:

After defeating Ameno-sagiri it seemed like the case was finally close. Adachi was arrested and Souji enjoyed the relative peace with his friends and loved ones right until the day he was going back to his city.

"Welcome to the velvet room"

He had just closed his eyes and now he was once again in the limo with Igor and Margaret. Thinking they were only wishing him goodbye, he was not expecting what they had to tell him.

"You're kidding…right?" Seeing the straight face on each of them was all the answer he needed "you're not kidding me."

"I am afraid not" Margaret replied.

What Igor informed him was that the mystery was not truly solved, and now the being truly responsible for the fog events was turning time for him, one year to be exact, so he could fulfill his duty. Even when Souji repeatedly asked who was behind this, Igor and Margaret were unable to provide him the answer he wanted, but to him it seemed like they were more unwilling to share that piece of information with him.

The good thing was that apart of retaining the knowledge of the last year and all the money he had amassed on the TV world, Souji had access of his compendium from the start and could now summon his persona in the real world. The downside was that certain events could not be changed, and if he tried to do so would reset him 12 hours to the past each time he tried.

Souji groaned, that means no Izanagi ripping Adachi in half. Not like that would stop him from doing it a few times, just for kicks.

"Well now, if there are no more questions, I believe this is your stop."

As Igor said that, Souji awoke in the real world and found himself back in time just as his train was arriving to Inaba.

"Great…"

One of the first things he did was going to the TV world to try and save the announcer, Mayumi Yamano. But as it turns out, saving her qualified as a reset, no matter which methods he used to avoid her unfortunate end. Giving her a sincere apology for failing her, Seta Souji abandoned the task of trying to save her and moved on to the next victim: Saki Konishi.

There was still the risk that saving her would merit another reset, but after recalling how Yosuke felt for losing her, Souji had to try at least.

Back to the present, Izanagi lowered Saki on the mattress set while Souji prepared for what he was about to do. Opening a backpack he'd stashed prior to getting Saki, Souji extracted several ropes and a few scarves he would be using on her. Looking at her sleeping form he couldn't help but be mesmerized by her allure; Saki's brown hair was spread over the pillow her head rested at, giving her a sexy look, not to mention that since she hadn't changed from her school uniform her long legs were exposed for him to admire. In her current position, her skirt hiked up a few inches above the regulated norm and gave Souji some dirty thoughts, as well as a perfectly normal reaction below the belt.

Shaking his head to clear the bad thoughts he was having, Souji reminded himself why he was doing this "I'm doing this for Yosuke. There's no way I'm letting him lose her again."

Clearing his head one last time, Souji went to work: first order of business was to silence her in case she woke up, so he grabbed a scarf and formed a knot in the middle of it and gagged her with it, careful of not waking her up. Tying it in the back of her head, he grabbed another scarf and covered her already gagged mouth with it in a way he had seen in old magazines where he had seen damsels in distress, a detective gag if he was not mistaken. Maybe he was exaggerating with the gagging, after all there was no one around the vicinity that might hear her scream, but after last reset he didn't want to take any chance.

Next order of business was tying her up; grabbing a small rope from the bundle, Souji moved her so she was face down on the bed while he tied her hands behind her back. Once that was done, he grabbed another rope and tied her ankles together.

Souji was gonna call it a day, but changed his mind at the last moment and decided to further restrain her, telling himself it was for the better even when he knew it was a lie. The fact was that Seta Souji had a fascination with bondage, one that might be viewed as taboo by society, which was why he kept it mostly to himself. No one, not even his girlfriend in the last timeline, knew about it, which was why he wondered how he was going to tell her in this new timeline. Having knowledge of future events guaranteed him they would get together wayyy before end of year, so he still had some time to think of a way to tell her without freaking her too much. Hell, maybe she was also into it if her way of acting was any proof.

Back to the task at hand, he grabbed a lengthy piece of rope and pulled Saki to a sitting position so he could tie it around her body, just below her chest. The idea of having her on a breast harness briefly crossed his mind before he pushed that thought away. He was keeping her here to save her from being thrown into the tv world, not to abuse of her state. Once he was done, he grabbed one more rope and tied her legs some more from below the knees and then repeated the process with the difference of tying it above her knees this time.

As a final act to ensure she remained here, Souji tied a rope to the one tying her ankles and then tied the other end to the bed frame to prevent her from hopping away or something. As he tied the final knot, Seta Souji stepped back to admire his work; a beautiful girl, bound, gagged and at his mercy, it was a good thing Souji was very honorable to even think of something like rape. He considered taking a photo with his cell for posterity, but realized how foolish that would be if someone ever saw it.

"No wonder Yosuke was enamored with her" Thinking of his best friend gave him the resolve of why he was doing this. "You owe me one, even if you never know about this."

Just as he was about to leave, Saki started stirring as she slowly regained consciousness. As he looked back at her, Souji felt a cold dread wash over him when he realized he forgot an important detail: the second scarf was to blindfold her, but he got carried away and gagged her with it and now he was about to pay the consequences.

Back to Saki, the girl was slowly returning to the world of the wake when she felt something on her mouth. Trying to cough to clear her mouth, she heard her voice muffled and realized not only was something foreign on her mouth, but there was also coiled around her hands and feet. In fact, her entire body seemed restrained by something that felt like…ROPE!

Recalling the previous events before losing consciousness, Saki hastily opened her eyes and frantically searched her surroundings thinking she was kidnapped (technically she was) just not for the reason she imagined. Breathing fast, as fast as one gagged could, her eyes landed on Souji and she seemed to calm a bit. She recognized the transfer student from yesterday when she saw him along Hana-chan and wondered why he was here.

"You?" Her question sounded more like an mmph, and Souji couldn't help but feel aroused even when his current situation was against him.

Gulping, Souji said the only thing that came to mind: "H-Hey there"

A.N.

To be continued?

Well, read and let me know what you think about it. As I said before, this is not a rape/abuse story even if it has certain elements that might be considered like that. Anyway, until next time (Maybe).

Demonwithasoul