Persona 5-2
Chapter 1: Returning
Akira stared out the window of his train car to watch the outside wiz by. He chuckled in his seat excited about the days to come, he was finally moving to Tokyo, he had just finished his last school year and got top scores on his entrance exam, basically meaning that he could have any college that he wants, so he chose the University of Tokyo, he even found an apartment near LeBlanc. He looked down at his phone and pulled up his messages, the last message he received was from Ryuji, who had let slip that Futaba and Yusuke was dating and was going to tell him next time he saw him.
What concerned Akira was the fact that the message was sent a week ago, since then there was no messages from any of his friends. Akira took a deep breath and told himself not to worry, they probably learned that he was coming over, and wanted to throw a surprise party for him. He exited out of messages to see his background, it was him and Haru on the Ferris Wheel, he smiled excited to see his girlfriend again, being in the same school made it all the better.
Then his gaze shifted to the familiar red eye icon on the top left side of his screen. This symbol stayed on his phone even when he upgraded his phone, although every time he launched it, it just showed the words 'Congratulations on your Rehabilitation'
Akira felt the train slow down and looked out to see the familiar station outside his window like a distant memory he finally caught up with.
"Joker, are we there yet?" asked a child-like voice from his bag.
Morgana popped his head out of Akira's backpack, "It's getting crowded in here. Mind getting a bigger bag"
"Get back in there!" Akira commanded the black cat.
After quickly stuffing Morgana back in, he picked up his bag and stepped out of the train. He picked his luggage and left the station. Most of luggage was already sent to his apartment so he decided to go ahead and get to Leblanc
"So, Joker, what are you going to say to everyone when you see them." Morgana asked excited to see his old team again.
"I'll figure it out when I get there." he walked down the familiar road that he traveled across over a hundred time before, see the coffee shop he entered about that much.
However, that is when he noticed something was wrong.
First, the shop was closed, in the middle of the day, during the lunch rush. Second, Akira could see in the window that there was two people there and faint sounds of arguing steadily grew louder.
Akira and Morgana looked at each other for a moment before reaching toward the nearby plant for the key Sojiro hide away in case he forgot his. He quickly unlocked the door and burst inside.
What he saw was an odd site. Sojiro was wearing his casual cloths and looked older, not just the extra gray hairs he developed over the last year, but his baggy eyes that looks like he hasn't slept and the general look about him that said that he hadn't been taking care of himself. He was standing behind the counter with his hand clenched in a fist. Across from him was Sae who was in a better state, but still with problems, she had the same tired eyes with her mascara slightly smudged around her eyes.
They both took a moment to process his presence, before Sojiro spoke up, "You're here!"
He ran up to Akira and grabbed his shoulders, "Please, you must know what's going on! Where is Futaba? Where is my daughter?!"
"Sojiro!" Sae shouted, "I doubt he knows anything, otherwise he could have contacted us sooner."
Sojiro took a moment to compose himself before letting go and slumped over at the counter before Sae, said "I'm sorry about this, he's been on edge for a while."
"What's going on, has something happened to Futaba?" Akira asked concerned for his surrogate little sister.
Sae looked around for a moment and sighed, "Listen I'm sorry we didn't contact you about this sooner, we weren't sure what was going on at first, and we figured it out we wanted to try looking for them ourselves before making you worry."
"What are you talking about?" Morgana asked forgetting that neither Sojiro and Sae could understand him.
However, Sae took the general meaning and confirming what Akira had feared, "All of the other Phantom Thieves had mysteriously disappeared five days ago."
Authors Note: This is the first fanfiction I posted in about a year. I have written this back then and have the first few chapters made. I am publishing this as my first step back into the fanfiction world. I hope to be able to write regularly again. Thank you very much and remember to wake and get out there.