So yet another AkihikoXFeMC fic. I am obsessed with this pairing and I have to get it out somehow. All of my readers for my other stories are probably going crazy with me putting up new stories all the time. Haha.

Note: I wasn't sure which block of Tartarus they should be in (I just started a new file so I can't double check) so sorry that it's so vague.

Minako was not your typical high school student.

In fact she was probably not close to your idea of a typical high school student. By day a normal girl but by night, a powerful persona-user who battled evil creatures called Shadows. Yeah. Not a typical girl at all.

Minako shook her head. Okay. She really needed to stop daydreaming in class and thinking of weird narrations that would come out of some anime. There was no way she would fall to Junpei's level. Speaking of Junpei, she took a peek to see what he was doing. Elbow resting on his desk, his head resting on his hand, cap pulled down. Obviously sleeping.

On her other side Yukari was taking notes from the math lesson on the board. Well at least she was a good student. Aigis was the same as Yukari, paying attention to what was going on.

Minako focused on the notes on the board and began to copy them down with half of her brain. The other half was planning the expedition to Tartarus for tonight. She wanted to have a Tartarus expedition today and have them go up a couple more floors than the usual amount. Hmmm, that might not go over too well with Junpei but whatever. She was the leader and she wanted them to be ready for anything. A little training never hurt anyone plus she knew that although Junpei would complain about it, he would follow her orders.

The rest of math class went by quickly and soon the bell rang the signal that school was over for the day.

Junpei stretched in his chair. "That was a good nap." He looked around and noticed that everyone was leaving. "Huh? What did I miss?"

"Class Stupei," replied Yukari. "And don't ask for my notes cause you aren't getting them." She got up and left to go to archery practice.

"Yukari has told me that giving notes to Junpei will not let him learn," said Aigis in her robotic voice. "So I will refuse to give you my notes."

Junpei groaned and turned to Minako. "Please?"

Minako shook her head and tried to keep a straight face. "Sorry Junpei. This is something you are just going to have to deal with."

"No! Not you too!" Junpei collapsed on his desk. "All of you are going to regret not giving me your notes one day. Look out! You'll be trouble and I won't save you because you didn't give me your notes!"

Minako rolled her eyes. "We'll see when that day comes." She was about to head out when she noticed Aigis was getting ready to leave as well. "Oh you don't have to come with me," she told Aigis quickly.

"But I have to remain by your side," protested Aigis.

Minako sighed. Ever since Aigis joined them that was all she was saying to her whenever Minako wanted to go somewhere. It was really bad in the first week when Aigis wanted to go to the bathroom with her. Mitsuru was somewhat successful in stopping that behavior. Aigis now guarded the door from the outside.

"I'll be fine," replied Minako. "Plus I want to run a few errands before heading back. It'll take a while and then I want to go see if Officer Kurosawa was able to get his hands on some new weapons."

Aigis seemed hesitant but she nodded. "Alright."

"See you both tonight!" Minako bid farewell and headed out into the hallway. As she walked to the stairs she ran through her mind all the things she had to get done. It was her turn this week to buy the groceries and then maybe visit Bunkichi and Mitsko if she had the time and then got visit Officer Kurosawa. Or maybe she shouldn't visit the old couple today? Or maybe she should wait a while before getting new weapons?

She was broken out of her thoughts as she walked down the stairs by the squeal of many girls packed into one area. Without even having to look she knew who was near the bottom of the stairs. Oh boy. Now she hoped she could get out of the school today much less get all the stuff she needed to do done.

When she reached the bottom she knew that without a miracle it was going to take a while. Akihiko, star of the boxing club as well as member of SEES was surrounded on all sides by his fangirls. All were clamoring to talk to him but all Akihiko looked like he wanted to do was anything but that.

His brown eyes spotted Minako in her little corner and he waved to her. Minako was about to wave back when she felt evil stares from the fangirls around him. That changed her mind. Sure she could take on a Shadow more than twice her size but fangirls? Those were in another league entirely. So instead of waving she shot Akihiko a quick smile before pushing her way through the fangirl crowd to get out of this situation. Well, at least now the fangirls moved out of her way. They were happy to get rid of her so they could have Akihiko to themselves.

It would have been perfect if Akihiko got the message himself. Instead he was also pushing through the fangirls until he was next to her. "Hey Minako-chan. You heading home?"

Oh boy. Minako could feel the fangirl stares burning her skin off. "No. It's my turn to go grocery shopping so I'm going to do that." Fangirl stares were reaching a whole new level. Minako knew it was time for her to get out of there before she was knocked out of commission. Heck, it was so bad that she thought if SEES could get these fangirls into Tartarus then all of the Shadows would be destroyed without SEES having to do a thing.

"Oh?" said Akihiko, "Maybe I should come with you. Knowing Shinji he probably is asking for a lot." He chuckled and Minako thought she saw some of the fangirls swoon.

"Oh no, I'll be fine," said Minako quickly. She strained to keep a smile on her face even though the fangirl glares were tearing her apart. She forced a laugh out. "Well I should probably get going. Many things to get done tonight!"

Yeah.

Time for her to make her escape.

"Well bye!" she turned quickly and walked away. Fast. She could hear Akihiko calling her name but that just made her walk away faster. It wasn't like she didn't like Akihiko. He was good in the Tartarus battles. She knew she could rely on him. It was just their actual relationship that bugged her sometimes. Especially after the love hotel incident. Her face turned bright red as she made it out of the school. Now that was something she didn't want to repeat. If the fangirls knew something like that happened…well she wouldn't live to see another day that was for sure. She shook her head to remove that image out of her head. Akihiko in a bath towel making sweet talk to her for a few moments.

Well it was a good thing he snapped out of it so fast cause otherwise it would have really gotten messy. She had her evoker and she wasn't afraid to use it. She shook her head again. Why was she thinking about this again? She lightly hit her cheeks. "Right Minako. Focus. Shopping to do now and Tartarus later. No time to daydream." With that firm resolution in mind she headed towards the station.

Linelinelineline

Minako dodged to the left before the Shadow could land a blow on her before she swung her naginata deep into its body. It burst into pieces and she turned to fight the next one. Around her, her teammates were doing the same. They had already gone up four floors today but Minako wanted to try to get more done today.

The others had not complained much, well except for Junpei but that was to be expected. They all knew how importance it was to defeat the powerful Shadows during the full moon. The more prepared they were the better.

She could hear the sounds of evokers being used around her as her friends sent out their persona to take care of an enemy for them. That was fine by her.

Hearing a cry behind her, Minako turned to see Ken getting attacked by one of those creepy lover Shadows with the floating heart for a head. She really didn't like them as they reminded her of that love hotel incident that she really wanted to forget. But that did not change her role as leader at all and like the leader she was, she ran to Ken's aid.

The lover Shadow's fencing foil struck out again but Minako stopped the blow with her naginata. "Move Ken," ordered Minako as she struggled to keep the Shadow's foil from getting closer to her body. "Go to a safe area and heal your wounds."

"But…" protested Ken.

Minako glared down at him. "Go!" she cried before focusing her full attention on the Shadow. She had a problem. This Shadow was not relenting on its attack. Because of this Minako had to keep her naginata in a guard position or risk getting turned into a kebab. It was so strong that she wasn't even sure she could let go with one hand so she could grab her evoker to summon one of her personas to help her out. Not a good situation at all.

"Polydeuces!"

Minako blinked in surprise as Akihiko's persona came to her aid by hitting the Shadow with a Zionga.

"You okay?" asked Akihiko as he hurried to her side. Genuine concern was clear on his face.

"Fine," replied Minako. She blushed slightly and looked away from him. How embarrassing. The leader of the battles in SEES was having trouble with one lousy Shadow.

Akihiko was about to say something when the Shadow returned for a second round. This time Minako was prepared with her evoker and she summoned Sarasvati who she commanded to use Bufula against the Shadow. That killed off the Shadow and Minako faced Akihiko. "Don't worry. I'm not losing my touch. I can still fight." Feeling weird she turned away from him.

"That's good at least," said Akihiko. "Don't push yourself though. You're always working so hard."

Minako knew she was probably blushing like crazy now. Of course she worked hard. They were fighting creepy monster-things here! She had to so she could fufill her role as leader. "We should continue to fight now," she said quickly. "Otherwise the others will get stronger without us." Without a look back she ran to attack another Shadow.

Linelinelineline

Minako collapsed on her bed. She was exhausted mentally and physically from running around so much. And somehow, even with all that battling they still had some time left before the Dark Hour was over.

Burying her head in her pillow she thought over the events of the day. When did it get so awkward around Akihiko? It felt like a situation like tonight seemed to happen a lot. She didn't know why she tended to avoid him now. "What in the world is going on?" she said into her pillow.

She suddenly had a thought and lifted her head up. It couldn't be. Was she actually having feelings for Akihiko? No way. That couldn't be right.

Or could it?

She thought about it. In the beginning she didn't really understand what was so special about him. He just seemed really cocky and arrogant and those fangirls…sheesh. However, over the couple of months she had spent living here she had seen another side of him. A more caring side. He did care about SEES and its members. This was the side that the fangirls never got to see. All the times he had backed her up in fights and that one time when they ate out and he said that her fighting made him angry. She didn't know what he meant by it and she was too afraid to ask. But could that have been?

She buried her face into her pillow again.

Not good thoughts.

Feeling a presence next to her, she turned her head to see a young boy in a striped shirt standing there. "Hey Pharos," she said. She sat up and sat cross-legged on her bed.

"You seem troubled," spoke the young boy. "What's the matter?"

"Nothing," replied Minako. "Just thinking." She laughed. "Strange but I think I might have feelings for Akihiko-senpai."

"Oh?" said Pharos in surprise.

"I know," said Minako as she ran her fingers through her brown hair. "Funny right?"

"No," replied Pharos. "I think it's wonderful." He smiled.

"Well I don't think so," said Minako. Great. Pharos was no help at all. She fell back on her bed. "Thanks for nothing Pharos."

Pharos's smile dropped. "I'm sorry. Don't be mad."

Minako opened her mouth to reply but the Dark Hour ended and she was left in an empty non-green room. Great. She wouldn't get to apologize for sounding stupid until tomorrow and that would be only if he came back to visit.

She stared up at her ceiling. Could it really be true? Did she have feelings for Akihiko? The weird part was, deep down she knew it was true. It was true for a while now but she was just too stubborn to admit it. Too stubborn to change the relationship between them for what would happen if he rejected her? They were members of the same fighting group. She wouldn't be able to get away from him. But still…

She remembered her friend Rio. She had accepted her feelings for Kenji and was now doing everything she could to get the guy to notice her in that way. A smile crossed her face. Well, maybe it was time she stepped up to the plate as well. She was leader after all. She had a lot of confidence.

Who was she kidding?

Something like this a girl could never have confidence in. Maybe she would just take it slow for now. Good idea. She went under her covers. There was school tomorrow-er today after all. She would think about this later. Later would be a good time…