Author's Note: I've been playing this game for waaaaay too long. It's 111 hours in new game +, True Ending. I love this game too much. The MC (Seta Souji-kun?) is too hot for his own good. He's so handsome… Along with Yousuke, they're partner of handsomeness!
A Tribute for Amagi Yukiko… Contain Spoiler until the final farewell. Yukiko, thank you for your not so useful item in Christmas Eve, yet you're still beautiful, and the first in line for the girlfriend hit list for me. Plus, your Persona reminds me too much of Okami… Good thing it's not named Issun XDDD
Disclaimer: All of Persona 4 characters are owned by Atlus.
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A P4 MC/Yukiko Fic
Konohana Sakuya
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Even now I remember
Those nights when I was only with you
Those are wonderful memories for me
I will always remember you
Shihoko Hirata - Never More
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Samegawa Floodplain…
He walked down the lane in silence, hearing the sound of rain pattering on his umbrella. He didn't really know where he was going. He was merely enjoying the serenity of this place, the unchanging scene of tranquility, and the over-abundance of his irreplaceable memories. They used to be here… laughing together, playing… and solving the case. It felt so far away, yet so close… like a dream.
"I will be here."
No one knew he came. He didn't even tell Nanako. No, no one… for sure.
"I will always love you."
He stopped. The bench was still there, shielded by the same old roof… and he stopped merely because of the person that sat there, seemingly unchanging despite the passing of years. He didn't know if it was memory that was playing with his senses… or if she really was… as beautiful as she had always been.
Amagi Yukiko sat unmoving by the bench, watching the rain falls as if in a trance. Long black hair draped her back like a curtain; some fell beautifully on the front of her soft pink kimono. Her dark eyes was clear and strong, the eyes of a priestess. He could remember perfectly how those eyes used to fall before his, gentle and beautiful as herself…
"Amagi."
She snapped from her trance as if someone had run a handgun on her. Her eyes widened in disbelief, her lips formed the name she couldn't forget.
"S-Souji-kun?"
He nodded with a smile, silent as always. She opened her mouth but seemingly unable to find any word. And just like always, he waited, enjoying the blush on her cheek and the familiar confused facial expression of hers.
After a while, she smiled wryly and gave a low sigh.
"As always… you're mean, Souji-kun."
"Eh?"
She looked to another way, a sad smile was playing on her lips.
"When I don't want to see you because of my feelings of wanting to meeting you so badly, there you are, in front of me…" She sighed again. "… You're always so mean."
The gray haired man moved uneasily.
"W-well… I obviously don't know…"
"But I'm glad."
He stopped. She was looking at him again… and how his heart skipped a beat when he saw those eyes again… Those same eyes when she went to her room for the first time…
"Since memories, no matter how complete… just cannot say words to the one I wish to encounter."
She smiled, but her smile wasn't the fresh smile she used to give him in the old days. It was filled with sadness, regret, and apology. He furrowed his eyebrows at the look of her expression but she had averted her gaze once more, clenching her fists by her thigh as if to contain some emotions that she couldn't let out.
"Amagi… Is there something you want to say to me?"
Another sad smile broke her lips. He blinked, trying to figure out what part of his statement that had hurt her. She took a deep breath and sighed again.
"I wonder… how much longer you can call me Amagi… Souji-kun."
He froze. He blinked a few times then said slowly, "What… did you mean by that?"
Yukiko's hands unclenched slowly and she whispered, "I cannot… live as an Amagi forever. Soon enough, I will have to let go of the name and let it be replaced."
What? He was completely frozen now. He strengthened his grip on the umbrella until his knuckles turned white as the revelation came dawning to his mind. She couldn't… no, she couldn't have…
"Y-You're… going to get married? You're going to…"
She didn't answer him back and suddenly his mind went frantic.
"A-Amagi! Y-You didn't mean… You didn't…!"
"I don't know!"
Her sudden burst stopped his heart. A tear suddenly rolled down her flushed cheek as she gripped her kimono tighter.
"I-I don't know! I… I don't… I don't have any choice and I… I don't understand, I… I just… I just don't… know, Souji-kun. I don't know!"
Sadness broke her defenses as tears now streamed down her face. She covered her face as she sobbed, as confusion and sorrow stirred her so violently that she crumbled. And he watched there in the rain, completely dumbfounded by what she had just said.
She was going to get married. She wouldn't be an Amagi Yukiko anymore… No more…
"I… had never heard about this…"
He looked at the puddle by his feet, listening to the rain and her cry.
"Nobody had ever told me about this…"
"O-Of course you hadn't, silly," Yukiko smiled between her tears. Her wet eyes looked deep into his orbs and she smiled again, broken. "You think I have the heart to let you know? And do you think… the others will inform you when I tell them not to?"
He didn't answer. He bit his lower lip and looked down. The sight of her crying was too much and he couldn't bring himself to get closer to her. The rain was their wall… and somehow he would let it be.
"I… I want to forget you," She sent an empty laugh, drying her cheek with the sleeve of her kimono. But the tears just wouldn't stop. "I-I want to forget… how you used to be beside me, how you were always there for me… the way you gave me the courage to stay… B-but the more I want to forget… The more I want to see you… and the more I realize that… that the reason I stay for the inn was you… The cherished memory of the lesson you've taught me…"
He tightened his jaw. Yukiko smiled a broken smile then closed her eyes.
"That thought… somehow pierced me…" she said slowly. "What will happen to me… if the courage that I need to stay here will be erased along with the memories of you? I… I couldn't contain the thought, Souji-kun… It was all too much…"
"Amagi…"
"But then again…" She opened her eyes, looking at the rain. "… It's the only thing that can be done for the Inn to survive… and I have no other choice…"
Yukiko…
The rain felt so cold without the umbrella to shield him. He didn't know when, but suddenly the umbrella was there by his feet, forgotten. He didn't need anything to shield.
"I'm sorry."
She chuckled and erased the tears by her eyes.
"What are you apologizing for, Souji-kun…? These are none of your faults…"
"I should have just let myself be a memory."
And that did it.
It was almost unseen… but suddenly she was there in his arms, clinging to him tightly as the rain showered them both in icy spray. She wasn't sobbing or crying… the tears that rolled down her cheek meant more than what they were just a moment ago. He embraced her back just as tightly, feeling how warm she was… how the world left her unchanged after all those years… She was still fit in his arms like the day he first hugged her.
She whispered his name as she buried her face in his chest… She didn't care whether the lipstick would smear again, she didn't care if her kimono was wet, she didn't care if the staff would question her later… she didn't care. He was here… and perhaps this would be the last time she would get to hug him like a lover would.
"I was… never lying, Souji-kun…"
She lifted her head from his chest to look into his eyes. His gray eyes were always calm and clear… She couldn't think of finding others that could make her fall like him…
"I… I will always love you. Now. And ever."
The rain dissolved her tears… and she was thankful now that he could only see the genuine smile she gave him.
"No matter whom I am married to…"
Pain flashed in his eyes and somehow she loved how he treasured her.
"You will be the only one that I love forever."
Let the rain be their wall… For this one time… please let it be an eternity.
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Owari
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Author's Note: Wargh, that was sappy, so overly sappy! and OOC, among other things XDDD I didn't plan anything, just type and type. I can't believe it came out into this… I've been in a hiatus for far too long, I guess, I've lost my touch.
–SPOILER- Did Yukiko ever say these kind of thing to MC? Oh yes, she did. in the final farewell, when you meet her in her inn, she will say, "I will always love you." Which is… maybe, be the unconscious reason of why I'm writing this fic. –END OF SPOILER-
Anyway, she'll always be my main pairing with the MC... I dunno why. lol.
OK… anyway… bye. Thanks for reading. :D