Ch.1 Awakening spirit

Disclaimer: Persona 4 is owned by Atlus and Bleach is owned by Tite Kubo

This was inspired by a fan fiction created by pokecharmer007

Update: thanks to Pearlglimmer for reviewing my first chapter, I decided to edit it to see if it's an improvement

July 10 - Daytime

"Now approaching Karakura Station, I repeat, now approaching Karakura station."

I begin to stir from my sleep as I begin to awake from visiting "that place" again. Apparently, it seems that another destiny lies before me...again. I feel as though I should be expecting this as I continue onward with my life, awe well. As long as I remember what's important to me, I think I'll get by, who knows, maybe I'll make some new friends along the way.

I get up and grab my stuff from the luggage compartment and begin to prepare to leave the train.

A mid-size city with an average population: Karakura Town. Currently I'm in the Karakura honchou district where the old Karakura train station resides. I look around and the first though that crosses my mind is: "It feels almost like Inaba."

I begin traveling to my new apartment, on the note in my hand it says that it is located in the kitakawase district.

On my way to my apartment, something caught my attention. A girl with orange hair with snowflake hair pins picking up her spilled groceries on the sidewalk. I couldn't just leave her like that so I picked up an orange that was next to my foot, picked it up, hold it out to her. She seemed to notice and turned in surprise. She then smiled, takes the orange and says with a cheerful voice "Thank you very much, you're a lifesaver." I nod and replied "It's no big deal." She nods as I put my stuff down and help her pick up her groceries.

After we pick up all the groceries and put them in her bags, I pick up my stuff and she says "Thank you again." I replied "Anytime." She smiles and ask "Are you new here, I've never seen you before." I replied "Yeah, I just transferred here today, I'm Yu Narukami." She nods and replies "I'm Orihime Inoue, I'm a second year at Karakura High School." I nod and reply "I'm a third year." She nods and says "Well, I guess I'll see you tomorrow Yu-kun." I nod and we separate to our specific directions. I'm only here recently and I think I've already made a new friend, I guess it ain't as bad as I thought.

July 10 - Evening

I make it to my apartment, I'm living on the third floor. I enter the apartment and I see that the movers got my stuff in, all I have to do is unpack.

After an hour and a half of unpacking, I made it through most of the boxes. I decided that was enough for the night and began to relax on the couch. On the coffee table in front of me is the section of Karakura Town I'm currently located in with all the spots of importance like the school, store, river, and the park. I look up, sigh, and say to myself "How did it happen again?" The weird coincidence that not only are my parents are doing another out of seas thing again, but that they thought I might fair at another different school. Sometimes the little things baffle me. On the bright side, I'm closer to Inaba, so it takes less time when I go there for vacation.

Suddenly, I get this strange feeling in my stomach, like an ominous feeling. So by instinct I pick up my katana that I keep in the corner that I brought in case of emergencies and proceed outside.

When I reached the road, a familiar sense I thought I would never feel again has returned: the sense of danger heading in my direction. I turn around and found something that looked familiar but I knew it wasn't the same.

A large black creature with a hole on its chest that you can see through and a mask that reminds me of a fish. The creature stares at me and I begin to feel nervous since I don't have my powers. Although as it begins to attack me my instincts force my hand up as if to crush something. Suddenly, the next thing that happens next surprised me to no end.

Suddenly the familiar blue glow and my original tarot card of the fool appear on my hand. I immediately crush the card and I feel the familiar sensation of summing my special power, and I say the familiar word that always roll off my tongue "Persona."

Crush* *Shattering of glass*

The feeling of a blue flame that come forth and surround me, which surprised the creature. Immediately I turn when the flame cooled down to see my original persona that I come to be familiar as if it was myself, which it was.

Izanagi, my persona, which I enjoy its intimidating appearance. The familiar naginata, The metal mask with yellow eyes, the same appearance I always use, the open up shirt for my school uniform, and the tall metal geta.

I turn to face my still shocked enemy, hold my hand out and yelled with intensity "IZANAGI!" Immediately, my persona dashes towards the creature and cuts the beast in half, including the mask, and it disappears in a black smoke, like shadows. I release the breath I didn't know I was holding as my persona disappears back into my soul.

I breath deeply to relax my fast beating heart from all the excitement. This is going to be another interesting year, with probably another dangerous situation. I immediately check and I still have all of my personas from each of my arcanas, including the world. I usually save that against more tougher enemies.

After checking my surroundings, I proceed back to my apartment. I have my first day of school, and I need all the sleep I need. Especially if I have to fight another of those creatures again.

July 11 - morning

I thought of reaching the school early in order to get myself acquainted when suddenly I noticed something strange. A very pale girl with a small chain attached to her chest standing next to a light pole with a small empty glass milk bottle with a white flower in it. I notice some early students are passing by without even taking a glance.

I approach her and she seems to smile that I noticed her. I say "Hey." She replies a little weakly "Hello." I ask after a few seconds "Are you perhaps...dead?" She seems to frown a bit and nods. I then say "Sorry." She shakes her head and replies "It's okay, you noticed me, and there was this nice guy who picked up the bottle with the flower after beating up some mean people who knocked it over." I nod and reply "Well that's nice of him. Well, I hope you pass on soon." As I walk and look back I see her waving at me, I wave back and I continue onward to school.

July 11 - lunchtime

The morning section of school was nothing special as it was standard procedure, at least without king moron. But at lunch, I was paid a pleasant visit by a familiar face. Orihime figured out my class and wanted to ask me for lunch on the roof with her friends. I agreed since I'm curious about her friends, I can feel a vibrant and innocent aura coming from her, almost like Nanako, except with a wild imagination.

Immediately when I saw them I knew she had some interesting friends from their varying appearances and personalities if I guessed right. She got in front of me and begins to introduce her friends "Yu-kun, this is my best friend Tatsuki Arisawa." She waves with a straight face and says "Sup." I could tell, even if she doesn't show it, that she's a hothead who cares about her friends.

Orihime shows her hand to a brown haired laidback teen and says "Keigo Asano." He holds his head and says "heya." with a goofy smile, he seems familiar to me, but I can't put my finger on it.

Orihime continues to a black haired boy next to Keigo "He's Mizuiro Kojima." He innocently smiles and says "hello."

Orihime next introduces a large Mexican man with hair that covers his eyes "he's Yasutora Sado, but we call him Chad." We stare at each other, I think, and as if by some odd connection I can tell what he's saying. Orihime looks at both of our unmoving faces as if she kinda expected this.

We both nod at the same time and she continues to the final two people that she introduced "He's one of my closest friends besides Tatsuki, Ichigo Kurosaki." The man known as Ichigo seems to have the one known feature that's almost like me, he has bright orange hair. He stares at me with a sort of serious, almost scowl like face and waves his hand, I replied by waving my hand with my usual strait face.

She continues to the final person, a girl with black hair with a small smile on her face "She's my newest friend, since May, Rukia Kuchiki." Rukia smiles and says "It's nice to meet you." I reply "likewise." She seems to have this aura of seriousness that kinda reminds me of Naoto. Orihime then appears in front of me and asks "So what do you think?" As I process what I should say, as Orihime stares at me with that pure smile on her face, all of her friends that she introduced stares at me with a curious look on their face.

After about two minutes of silence and anticipation, I said with a small smile on my face "It's just as I expected." Everyone, including Orihime, stares at me with a confused look on their face, except Chad who seems to always has a straight face on. I explained "I had imagined what your friends were like, and it's just as I imagined." There were varying reactions, from confusion to acceptance as it was a compliment, although, there was one reaction I had a feeling would happen.

The person as Ichigo who has stands close with an angry scowl on his face as he asks angrily "And what's that supposed to mean?" It seems that he gets defensive when either he or his friends are probably insulted, that is something I can admire, though in this situation, I think I should clarify. So I say "Orihime seems like the kind of person who makes friends with very unique people, and you all look like nice people, and that's what I imagined." Ichigo continues to stare at me with a glare, though I don't feel intimidated, thanks to all the dangerous situations I've been, so this feel like a walk in the park by comparison.

After a minute of awkward silence, Ichigo scoffed and return to his seat on the roof. Rukia looks at Ichigo with a frown on her face and says "You know, you can't take every comment as an insult." Ichigo looks back with an angry scowl on his face and replies "Who are you, my sister or something?" She replies with a just as angry look on her face "WHAT! Like I would be siblings with an idiot like you." This was only the beginning of a kinda long argument. The way they're arguing kinda reminds me of Chie and Yosuke's arguments, which makes me smile.

I then proceed to sit down to a spot close to the group as they converse among themselves, sometimes I say my two sense if they asked what I think. Though I can't help but get distracted at something that captures most of my attention. An extremely pale women wearing a white kimono who has a cold aura to herself, and I meant that literally, floating close to Rukia. She noticed me with surprise and continued to observe me in curiosity as we continue the random conversations that pop up as we eat our food.

Suddenly, as Rukia was distracted with a conversation with Ichigo and Orihime, the snow spirit got closer to me and says "It seems for some reason you are able to see me. I nod and start looking at both Rukia and the snow maiden to feel a similar aura coming from both of them. As if sensing this, she says "She cannot see me, at least, not at this moment." I contemplate this and ask quietly without drawing attention "How come?" She answers "After a series of events, she has temporarily lost the ability to connect with me, even though it's slowly building back up, it's not enough to establish a connection."

I thought about what she said and I couldn't help but feel sorry for the both of them, I know that a person and persona are two half's of a whole. It must feel terrible to not be able to not see or hear each other.

I then say in a quiet whisper "I know you'll speak to her again soon." She smiles, bows, and says "Thank you." I nod and whisper "Anytime, by the way, I'm Yu Narukami, you?" She smiles and replies "I'm Sode no Shirayuki, it is a pleasure to make your acquaintance Narukami-san."

July 11 - evening

As I wander around the park, contemplate all the information I was told, I try to look around to take in my new surroundings. As I look around I see that I'm all alone. Suddenly, a roar catches my attention and I turn to see another of those large black creature surprise attacking me with a claw swip. I immediately summon Ari Mitama to defend myself as I take out my katana and begin to attack the creature.

When Ari Mitama disappeared back into my soul, I begin to attack the creature. Judging by its appearance, I have a feeling that I should attack the mask as it stands out from the rest.

I immediately summon Izanagi to attack it to keep it distracted as it go for the kill. Izanagi immediately goes overhead and down swipes it's naginata to attack the creature as it blocks to defend itself. I instantly rush in a swipe my katana on the mask to quickly take care of the problem.

The attack made contact and was able to take down the giant creature, as its mask broke and disintegrated along with the body.

Later

I reach a bench so that I can relax after that surprise battle, if this is going to be a continuous thing I'm going to have to be on guard more.

July 11 - nighttime

After that long day I begin to head home in order to try to rest, I'm keeping my guard up in order to not fall for a surprise attack again.

After being near my apartment I turn and say "Okay, you can come out now, it's rude to stalk someone." I immediately turn to find the person that's been following me. Apparently my stalker is a man with a dark coat with geta and a striped green and white hat which covers his eyes besides his light blonde hair. I now know how Rise felt when I was followed her to give her back her cell phone. He then says "Sorry to startle you, I'm just walking around observing the town at night, though, it's kinda rude to say that I was stalking." That makes him feel even more suspicious, I then ask "Who are you?" He then replies with that smile on his face "Me? Well I'm just a simple candy store owner." I feel as though that's all he'll tell me about himself. I also noticed the floating crimson queen like spirit next to him, unlike Sode No Shirayuki who seems to personify elegance and beauty, she has this aura of ferocity and majestic lethality. I can feel the intense stare of gray eyes that are covered by an elegant veil. I then proceed to turn around and go to my apartment. I feel as though this isn't going to be the last time I will see him.

Third-person

Kisuke continues to observe the silver haired teen enter his apartment. He can't help but be curious at the interesting spiritual energy emanating from the teen. He then smiles wider at the many theories that appear in his head. He then turn to return to his shop and says "It seems like he's going to be an interesting person to study."