Intertwined Disclaimer: I don't own Atlus or the characters of Persona 3 if I did I wouldn't be on this site in the first place … ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As I walked through the crowded streets I turned the volume up on my mp3 to the point that I could only hear the buzzing static and the incoherent words of the song. I hated being in a crowd of people, made me feel like I was suffocating, preferring my solitude and my music to be my only comfort.

But maybe this longing to be alone is why I had no friends in the first place. I have moved from school to school so many times from getting into so many fights I had already made the decision that if I was going to be expelled in this new high school that I would just simply drop out of school and help my grandparents with their multi-million company and that would be the end of that. The reason for my constant fights with my fellow classmates was because of my grandparent's wealth and that made them envious and full of contempt towards made me and that made me just shy away from everyone, they mistook that action as; 'being too good for them' or being referred as a 'stuck up rich kid'.

After dodging and swerving out of people's way I finally reached the train station, taking in an empty seat and setting my luggage by my feet. When I got comfortable I pulled out a folded piece of paper from the inside pocket of my black jacket that I was wearing and I unfolded it, and in its contents, it contained the info of the new high school and the directions to the dorms that I was heading for and seeing that I was going in the right direction, folded the piece of paper and stashed it back inside my pocket and looked out the window, watching the city lights quickly pass my line of vision.

There was still a shred of hope still left, maybe just this one time I could get along with others and if I was lucky I would acquire one true friend I could rely on… 'Who was I kidding with? Maybe I was forever cursed to live my life all alone.' My thoughts immediately disappeared when my song stopped and without realizing I quickly turned my head to the side pretending that I was looking at something else was caught staring at a boy who was around my age.

I felt my face burned with embarrassment 'how come I didn't realized it sooner?' I cautiously looked back and saw his attention was towards the window and like me; he was also listening to his music player, I carefully studied him and thought he was quite handsome with his bright blue hair, his long bangs covering his right eye he was wearing a uniform and he had a bag like I did. He probably noticed a pair of eyes watching him intently because he turned to look for the source and for a couple of minutes we locked eyes and I was the first to look away almost afraid that he was looking deep within the depths of my soul that I wanted to hide from the rest of the world.

I was quite relieved when the train came to a stop, I hurriedly picked up my belongings and stepped out of the train I walked forward for a couple of feet and abruptly stopped to take out my cell phone to check the time and noticed it was quite late 11:59 'I hope they don't get upset with me for being so late… I just lost track of time.' Once midnight came around the atmosphere took a dramatic change. Everything became eerily quiet not that it bothered me but when I noticed the coffins, the red substance that looked like liked blood and this green liked mist that covered the whole vicinity like a veil was starting to unnerve me. I looked at my mp3 which had turned off on its own accord 'why did it turn off? It was still fully charged …oh well…' I began walking once more seeing no signs of life beside myself until I began to hear footsteps I quickly turned around to see the same guy from the train I sighed inwardly 'it's only him'. I waited for him to stand right in front of me and when he did I cast my eyes downward feeling really flustered, 'who would of thought I would meet him again…maybe its fate…' I finally had the nerves to look him in the eyes and shyly said; "H-hi a-aren't you the guy I saw in the train?" he just smiled and nodded.

I felt myself blush again "Can I ask for your name?" "Ryou Yamada" I honestly didn't think he would have answered me but I was quite happy and thought I should do the same " My name is Amaya Shinomori, so where are you heading for? Maybe I could walk with you part way." 'What was I getting myself into!?' I was surprised with myself; I was quite bold considering that I was talking to a complete stranger.

" I' am heading for the dorms." "You are? So am I .If you want we can head to dorms together." Ryou agreed and we both began to walk in a comfortable silence I've never felt before thinking to myself 'maybe he could be the friend I always wanted. I just needed to wait to see."

After twenty or so minutes we arrived at the dorms, Ryou opened the door and allowed me to enter first and he closely followed me and was standing by my side we both gazed at the what looked like the lounge to see no one but when we both at left to see a peculiar looking boy with odd looking clothing " I've been waiting for you for a long time." I instantly began apologizing to the boy he had made it seem that he was waiting for a very, very long time he simply laughed at my sad attempts of an apology. He then pointed to a contract that lay on a counter saying that the contract was made so that Ryou took responsibility for the actions he makes. Ryou looked puzzled but signed it nonetheless.

After he finished signing his name the boy retrieved the contract and when he flipped it to the side it disappeared and said the most peculiar thing that made me think about the phrase 'memento mori' "No one can escape time, it delivers us all to the same fate. You can't cover your eyes and plugged your ears."

While the boy said this, the darkness appeared to have a life of it's own and began inching closer to the point where the boy was swallowed in its depths and disappeared. The sequence of events went very fast, the once lit room turn very dark and in that darkness I heard what sounded like a girl shout out " Who's there!" I looked towards the source and a couple of feet away I saw a figure of a girl standing there threateningly and watched as she slowly reached what looked a gun.

But before she was able to even able to pull it out of it's holster, that was attached to her thigh, another voice was heard in the darkness "Takeba, wait!"

At that moment the lights turned back on and my mp3, which had turned off without reason was playing a song that I had been previously listening to began playing once again.

The light revealed two girls around my age, the one with long red hair was the first to speak " I didn't think you'd arrive so late." I said nothing to this I was too speechless to say anything after all you probably wouldn't to say anything I someone attempted to pull a gun on you.

" My name is Mitsuru Kirijo. I'm one of the students who live in this dorm." "Who are they?" the girl in pink asked. "They are both transfer students. It was a last minute decision to assign them here." "…Is it okay for them to be here?" It was really starting to get on my nerves that they were talking about us like we were not even there. "I'll guess we'll see have to see…"

After their short conversation their gazes were back on us " This is Yukari Takeba. She'll be a junior this spring just like you guys." I nodded in acknowledgement " ...Hey" she looked kind of nervous or maybe she felt awkward with the incident with the gun.

" What's with the gun?" Ryou asked " Huh? Um well it's kinda like a hobby… well… it's not really like a hobby." ' That's some hobby' I inwardly said. Mitsuru cut in to the conversation and said, " It's for self- defense. It's not a real gun, of course." " Could of fooled me…'

It's getting late, so you should get some rest, your rooms are on the 2nd and 3rd floor at the end of the hallways…Your things should already be there." "O-okay" my voice slightly shaking.

"Oh … I'll show you the way. Follow me." Ryou and myself trailed behind Yukari and followed her to the 2nd floor first and went down the hall where we stopped at the very last door on the right side.

" This is it… pretty easy to remember huh? Since it's right at the end of the hall. Oh yeah, make sure you don't lose your key or you'll never hear the end of it…" We both answered her by nodding. "So any questions?" "What's that contract for?" "I've been wondering about that myself." I added quite curious about the contract the boy had Ryou sign.

Yukari looked at us with a confused look plastered on her face, I faced Ryou who in turn did the same " She doesn't seem to know what you're talking about." I whispered so that he could only hear. "Yeah…"

"Um…Can I ask you guy something?" We turned to Yukari and listened to what she had to say. "On your way here from the station was everything okay?" "What do you mean?" Ryou answered for the both of us "You know what I-- …Never mind." It seemed to me that she wanted to say something more but refrained herself from doing so.

"Well we better get going…um… I'm sure you still have other questions, but let's save them for later, okay? Goodnight." And she left at that note, before I left to follow Yukari I turned to Ryou and smiled "Goodnight." and quickly left to follow Yukari before I lost track of her.

I arrived at my room, which was located on the 3rd floor at the end of the hall on the left side. When I entered the room I found the rest of my belongings inside. I dropped my duffel bag and began to rummage through my belongings to find my sleeping attire, which consisted of a tight black spaghetti strap and a pair of loose black sweatpants, I slowly dressed into them and climbed into bed slightly nervous about going to school the next day.

This is the end of the 1st chapter, if you haven't figured it out I change Minato Arisato's name to Ryou Yamada.