/Heyyy guys! Constructive criticism is my best friend btw! I don't own Persona 5 or the Persona series./

"I CAN'T TAKE IT ANY LONGER!" The woman with long chestnut brown hair and dark red eyes screamed madly tearing at her hair.

"Mother," whispered the similar looking young boy beside her. When the woman raised her hands to push her son away, her sleeves were raised revealing multiple cuts to her wrists. The woman slapped her son hard in the face. He felt tears forming in his eyes. He couldn't even hear the words his mother was screaming at him. They all blurred together, the colors, the shouts, the hugs, the hits, and all the insults. Then the woman suddenly jumped to her feet.

"M-mother?" She walked slowly but surely up the steps to her room. She was now quiet, and it was this quietness that was scaring him more than when she was in one of her rages. The boy stayed where his mother had left him on the ground. Only when he heard a slam on the door and a scrape of a key did he swiftly make a move to follow her.

"Mother?" He repeated. The boy turned towards her room.

"If you want to redeem yourself and become a more useful human being, then you would kill him, kill that bastard who robbed me of my life, only then I might forgive you for being such a worthless son!" The boy felt his eye's widen. He heard the loud bang of a gun and a thumping noise, and his mother was no more…

Goro awoke with a start. He had been having these same nightmares for sometime now. The bed was covered in sweat. He looked to his alarm clock.

The time was 6:30. Goro got up with a gasp,

"Shit I'm late!" He quickly put on his usual detective outfit. Grabbed his suitcase, and was about to run out of the door when he realized. 'I forgot my gloves,' Goro looked down at his hands, there were small scrapes at his wrist. Small scars they were, but he still didn't anyone to see them. He ran to his room and grabbed the gloves. He put them in his pocket, not wanting to waste any time. And ran out the door.

….

"I think I'll pass on the puke rides," said a squeaky like voice. Goro walked over to find three students in Shujin uniforms. They turned to look at him.

"Excuse me, I couldn't help but notice your uniforms. Are you students of Shujin Academy?" Of course the detective knew for a fact that they were from Shujin with all the buzz about Kamoshida everywhere, but he didn't want to seem intruding.

"Yeah whaddya want," The blond one said. It was clear to see he was a delinquent, what with the harsh blond that was his hair and his shirt that read, "No mo' rules."

"I happened to be passing by, so it seemed polite to greet you. We will be filming together, after all," Goro decided to give it to them straight. To put it frankly, Goro didn't know how to talk to kids, and they looked to be of his age.

"Ah, where are my manners? My name is Goro Akechi," Goro said politely. He looked, no observed each one of them.

"Akechi...," the blonde girl said. Akechi recognized her right away from those flimsy model magazines. Ann Takamaki.

"Filming? What, you a celebrity," The rude blonde said. It was obvious to see that he wore his heart on his sleeves, a habit that would not bid him well in the end. Goro chuckled pleasantly, it was easy to read him.

"Only to the extent of appearing on T.V a couple times," Goro said wanting to seem modest. Takamaki's eyes widened.

"Ohhhh!" She said softly. Goro quickly checked his phone. 1:00 pm.

"My apologies, I truly was just passing by. I must be going." Goro said. He looked at the black haired boy with grey eyes. 'Is that…. A cat' he thought.

"There's a briefing for tomorrow's recording I have to attend," Goro honestly would have liked to find out more about the students lounging around, especially that black haired boy whose eyes seemed to capture his effortlessly. Then he remembered the part of their conversation that he eavesdr- I mean, overheard.

"So, you're going to have cake now?" Little did Goro know that saying that one sentence would change his life for ever. The black haired boy's strange grey eyes narrowed. 'Did I say something wrong,' Goro thought to himself. He almost faltered, he almost wiped that smile off his face.

Almost.

"I missed lunch today so I am quite hungry myself," Goro said. He almost never ate, just like his mother. Takamaki and the rude blond were confused. But that black haired boy looked at him straight in the eyes. Goro felt that this boy knew something he shouldn't. The rude blonde interrupted Goro's thoughts.

"Huh? Cake..? What're you talkin' about?" Oops… Goro's eyes widened.

"Oh, am I mistaken? I thought I heard something about delicious pancakes…" Goro said. (a/n: my boy messed up real bad :)

"No matter. Welp, see you tomorrow," Goro said as he escap- I mean left the students.

…..

Goro walked home from the train. He had smiled so much during the briefing, his mouth hurt. He felt like taking a looong nap. His phone rang. It was Shido.

"Hello, is this Goro Akechi?"

"Shido san?"

"Come over to my office, now," Shido sounded serious.

"Right away, Shido san," Goro said. There was a pause in between what Shido was going to say next, Goro could almost imagine him frowning.

"And stop calling me by my name," Shido said angrily before hanging up. Goro sighed deeply, it was going to be a long night.

/This is my first persona fic! :3 I tried to stay as close to the original as I could, the dialogue during the T.V station part is all part of the original dialogue in the game :333 More chapters will be coming out!/