Fool's Reason
AN: I don't own SMT: Nocturne or Persona 3,Atlus does. Anyway I will update whenever possible, usually weekends.
6:00 P.M.
The tired bluenette could only make out some abstract shapes; the feeling of the world shaking was not unfamiliar to him, it reminded him of the ambulance ride in that fateful crash ten years back.
Yes.
Minato Arsato remembered clearly what had happened.
It was the day of the graduation at Gekkoukan High, the Wild Card felt tired, so very tired. Only Aigis seemed to have any memory of everything that had gone on. But that wasn't important; they both had a promise to keep. Thus, the bluenette made his way to the rooftop of the school that became Tartarus every night.
To Minato's surprise, the mechanical maiden was not the first to greet him after his long trek. In fact, the first one to burst through the door was the last person he expected to come running…
"It seems that you beat me to it, Minato-kun..." the heiress to the Kirijo name struggled to catch her breath.
"I take it you remember as well, then? Or... did you never forget to begin with?" a pained look enveloped her face.
"Our nights filled with battle... The miracle that happened..." the redhead closed her eyes and remembered the fond memories of their time at SEES.
"How you and I... felt about each other..." Mitsuru's face slowly flushed.
"I'm so angry at myself for not remembering earlier!" a tear escaped her usually cold, unexpressive demeanor.
"I lived without a care in the world for over a month..." regret seethed in her voice.
"All the while, ignoring the most precious person to me in the world!" she held the boy close to her, her breath bouncing off his skin.
"Can you... forgive me?" she allowed the tears to flow.
"... No, You don't have to answer that... I have no intention of letting go." she gave him a small smirk.
"We'll have to build our love from scratch again..." Mitsuru looked the bluenette in the eye.
The rustling sound in the distance could only be their friends, a little later than planned.
"Can you hear that? Everyone else is worried about you, too" both gave each other brief, but meaningful smiled of approval.
The sun's rays gave a radiant shine to her and the boy in her arms.
Minato's eyes grew heavier with each passing moment.
The bluenette fought his instincts to keep the girl in focus.
"Come what may... We'll be together." the Kirijo heiress whispered lovingly to the boy's ears.
That was the boy's last clear memory before the sound of blaring sirens filled his restless mind.
"Why aren't we going to the hospital Chidori is in?" Junpei Iori scratched his head as he tumbled when the ambulance hit a bump in the road.
"It's loaded with people recovering from Apathy Syndrome," Fuuka Yamagishi informed her teammate.
"He wouldn't appreciate us knocking someone off the place to stick him in there," Yukari Takeba added.
"Besides, the facility in Shinjuku is quite vacant," Mitsuru glanced away from the group to hide her sadness.
"I am certain that this isn't how it should be," Aigis retorted as she hid her face from view, pain overcoming her voice.
"Aigis!" Akihiko Sanada growled low, shocking Junpei and Fuuka.
"This…This isn't enough to keep him down," the boxer continued.
"Sanada-san, he doesn't need this right now…Shinjiro-senpai would agree with me here," Ken Amada brooded with a whimpering Koromaru in his hands.
"Ungh…" the bluenette gave a zombie-like groan.
The members of SEES stared at their leader and stopped their in-fighting for his sake.
Later at Shinjuku Medical Center…
"What do you mean you can't keep them out?" a man rubbed his temple.
"Bu-but Hikawa-san…" the underling stuttered over the phone.
"Kirijo? Since the split with the Nanjo-group, they've been a painful nuisance in our plans." the man known as Hikawa sighed.
"What should we do sir?" the underling asked his commander.
"I will deal with them in the Vortex World," a sudden seriousness consumed Hikawa's voice.
"Godspeed sir!" the loyal underling cut off the radio communication with the man.
The members from Gaea who followed him to form the Assembly of Nihilo were quite loyal, if not zealous in their new goal.
"Shijima will come into fruition very soon," Hikawa took a bottle of whiskey and toasted to what was to come.
At an unknown location…
"An interesting new pawn has come to this chessboard of ours," a little boy with blonde hair and blue eyes smiled towards a shapely woman in black.
End Chapter 1.