"Do you remember how we became friends?" Junpei looked at their eyes, searching them quickly for an answer he knew somewhere, deep down he wouldn't be getting. Minato and Yukari shook their heads, just like he knew they would. "Just askin'." He said, sweeping his view around the school courtyard.
It really was a great place. One of the greatest people he ever knew gave him the greatest gift he could ever receive here. He smiled to himself, and looked back to his best friend.
"Minato, feelin' good? This is it, man." Junpei smiled as wide as possible, he felt that now-familiar warmth inside when his friends returned the expression.
"Definitely. Graduation, you know?" The blue-haired boy said.
"Mitsuru and Akihiko." Yukari's voice had a sad, but hopeful tune to it. "They'll really be gone, won't they? What'll it be like, without them?"
"Same ol' same ol'. Hey, think Mitsuru'd reconsider me being leader? There would be some vacancies opening up right about now!"
Minato laughed. Yukari laughed.
And Junpei laughed too.