It's spring break...sure doesn't feel like it! I'm freezing, I have no internet, I'm all alone and I just feel like everything sucks. I want warmth and sunshine and happiness, not coldness and misery. Anyways, I felt like making a new Junpei/Yukari fanfic to cheer me up. It'll be a nice change of pace from Lovers Arcana. In this story, Minato is gonna be supportive, rather than an antagonist. I plan on making this one relatively small, at least when compared to LA. They really are my favorite shipping, after all. Listening to "Burn My Dread". Anyways, happy spring break to everyone else. Also, the title means "Teacher Of Love". Finally, my Latin classes are useful! Yay!

Magistri Amo

Chapter I

The Tower

What courage it must take to stand before the ghastly glow of the full moon. What nerve is required to bask in its noxious green light. My name is Gina, I am Igor's assistant. Perhaps we have met before, in some distant reality. The tread of time there is continuous, who knows when it may end? The end of this existence, however, has been predetermined. My brother and sisters work with my master in the Velvet Room. They are the keepers of the Persona Compendium. I, however, am the keeper of the Archives Of The Velvet Room. I keep record of all the actions of those who step foot in the Velvet Room, as well as the record of all their Social Links and those involved.

I recall one specific guest of the Velvet Room with remarkable blue hair. He constantly had his hands in his pockets as well. About this visitor, there are indeed many great tales I could tell about him—some involving my elder sister Elizabeth. However, there is one tale involving members of one of his social links that always intrigued me. Their names were Junpei Iori and Yukari Takeba...

Yukari watched uncomfortably as her school once again transformed into that eerie tower, Tartarus. It happened every night during the Dark Hour, the time hidden between one day and the next that only a select few—such as herself—were able to experience. As the great tower grew taller and even more deformed, she looked over to her new teammates, Minato and Junpei. This was their first time ever seeing this. Mitsuru, Akihiko, and herself had seen Tartarus form many times before, though she hadn't seen it nearly as much as her senpai. Even still, it was always a disturbing image, as she recalled while seeing the reflection of the tower in their eyes.

She felt herself feeling sorry for the both of them. She recalled how terrified she had felt when she first experienced the Dark Hour. Looking at their faces, she felt even more unnerved. Minato had always been the cool, calm, collected guy. Nothing got to him. He was always staring off into the distance with a wistful, sentimental look. To see him with the expression he wore now, one of shock and disbelief was flat out disturbing. When she looked at Junpei, she was used to seeing his stupid smile and self-proclaimed title as a lady killer. Now he was stricken with a look of pure terror, barely able to stutter out a gasp between shallow breaths. All the color was drained from his face and he was sweating, even though he was shivering. For some reason, seeing him like that made something inside Yukari twist up and her heart sunk. That look just didn't fit Junpei.

She couldn't manage to make herself look away from Junpei. It was like her eyes were glued to him. Her heart began to beat faster and faster as she continued to look at him. She couldn't control her own body as she slowly and silently began to step closer to him. He didn't even notice her, though. He was still watching their school turn into that wretched tower. She felt her face grow warm as she began to blush. Why was she blushing? It was just Stupei. Despite that, she could tell her face was growing redder and redder as she drew closer to him.

Soon she was close enough to smell his cologne, all while Tartarus was still forming. Her face felt like it had caught fire, to the point where she had actually began to sweat. Her insides knotted up again. She took a deep breath. What if it wasn't despite him being Junpei but, rather, because he was Junpei that she felt like this? She shook the thoughts from her head. That couldn't be true. If it was, that would mean...

The air was silent and heavy. The labyrinth nest of the shadows stood tall in front of them, glowing in the green moonlight. All eyes were glued to it. All except hers. The shadow of Tartarus hung over all of them, encasing them all in darkness. No one saw her hand slip into his under the green moonlight and the shade of the tower.