Everyone stopped what they were doing and stared for a second. Minato almost mechanically stabbed the Shadow they had all been fighting and it screeched and dissolved to smoke behind them. Then chaos reigned. Akihiko called Caesar's name over and over again with no result as Junpei ran for his life, screaming, "DOWN, BOY!"
When Caesar finally ran out of time and dissipated, Junpei collapsed and Akihiko, who had been for lack of a better term dragged along by his persona, crouched and panted with his hands on his knees.
When Junpei got a little of his breath back, he wheezed, "WHY the hell would he do that?!"
Akihiko rubbed his chin. "…what if, last night he thought you were 'attacking' me?"
Junpei's eyes widened. "Oh hell. How do we explain to him…it…what really happened?"
"What did really happen?"
They both turned in horror to stare at Minato, who was wearing his most dangerous 'vaguely curious' expression.
"Uh…" Junpei swallowed and tried to think of something.
"Ultimate fighting." Akihiko said it unblushingly. "We saw it on TV and wanted to try it." His eyes didn't so much as flicker. Junpei stared at him.
"Oh," Minato said thoughtfully, "That would explain all those strange noises last night."
Yukari spoke up. "How could you two do something so stupid? In the dorm?!"
"Er…because that's just how we roll." This time Akihiko sounded a little less natural.
Junpei kicked Akihiko's ankle before he said in a flat voice, "Yeah, that's how we roll, Yuka-tan."
Yukari looked from one of the to the other and then back again, obviously conscious that they were hiding something but completely at a loss as to what it could be. Finally she put her hands on her hips and said, "Well, you guys had better not do any more fighting outside of Tartarus. Next time, Caesar might hurt Junpei!"
"Yeah Senpai, jeez." Junpei walked off. When they were back at the dorm, however, they met up again. "What the hell do we do now?" Junpei hissed. He hadn't forgotten what Minato had said about making noise.
"Well, I've been thinking," Akihiko said.
The next night at Tartarus everyone was happy to see things going smoothly. Caesar and Trismagestus both behaved themselves.
For some reason Junpei kept complaining of a sore lower back, though.