A/N: I love writing what-if scenarios, that's why most of my fanfics are based around that. This babe mostly followed the canon with changes you'd notice here and there. Please do tell me what do you think of this fic, okay? Tootaloo!

Disclaimer: Nobody owns Persona 3 except Atlus

Chapter 1

Butterfly Net

In the history of Gekkoukan High School, there's one legend that stand out among other things. The legend says that, if you put your ears on the rooftop door after school and listen carefully, you will hear a beautiful singing voice that exceeds even the singer of the Music Club. But when you want to see the person beyond the door, you can't move your hands to open it, as if an unseen force blocks any attempt to do so. Thus, the Muse of Gekkoukan legend was created.

Today, the Captain of Boxing Club waited behind the door. He closed his eyes peacefully, forgetting his earlier misery when girls flocked around him hungrily. They circled around him with hearts in their eyes, vying for his attention. Well, it's not like he'd understand them, anyway. He knew he was saved by the time his eyes spotted Minato and Junpei, the newest addition to their team. He quickly shuffled to the two juniors, dragged them to Kurosawa-san's office and left them to decide on their weapon after he gave them the money from Mr. Chairman.

Akihiko returned to the school after that and waited patiently behind the rooftop door. The faint singing voice lulled him to sleep and he nearly stumbled on his back when the door opened suddenly, revealing the smiling face that crouched near where he sat. "Oh, Miki, you scared me," he got up from the floor and affectionately patted the hair of his only sister, the only blood relative he had left.

The girl smiled softly as she opened a notebook in her grip and wrote quickly.

' Let's go back! Oh, but I want to try the mystery ramen that Shinji-san recommended yesterday,' she held up the notebook for her brother to see.

"You know that I won't be able to refuse your request," Akihiko sighed in defeat and held his sister's hand as they left the school together. Yes, the Muse of Gekkoukan was his dear sister. It somehow sticks to her like a secret identity, though.

"I wonder why you don't tell everyone that the Muse of Gekkoukan is you, heck I know I'll be proud of it," Akihiko puts his hands behind his head as they walked through the shopping district. He glanced through the area and saw an old couple talked animatedly with Minato who was busy eating his melon bread.

A pair of stormy eyes noticed the Sanada siblings and Minato smiled. He turned to the old couple and handed them a leaf. The wife was teary-eyed as the couple bid Minato a farewell, he jogged to the siblings.

"Eating ramen again, senpai? I thought you don't eat anything other than protein pills," Minato joked, which earned him a smack in the head from the boxing captain. Minato laughed quietly and winked to the quiet girl, "Hi, Miki-chan," Akihiko glared to the Field Leader as Miki wrote quickly on her notebook, "Hi, too, Minato-senpai."

It was an unwritten rule to never, ever try to flirt with the younger Sanada especially if her big brother is in the vicinity.

Minato led the way to the ramen shop and opened the door for Miki, "You're such a gentleman, senpai," Akihiko pouted at the sight. If his fangirls saw that pout now, they'd glomp him and compete against each other to be the one who comforts Akihiko first. It was a haunting experience.

As if sensing the discomfort of her brother, Miki's pale hands reached Akihiko and pinched his cheeks, she grinned heartily. Akihiko quickly ushered her inside the ramen shop and ordered two mystery ramen that Shinji recommended for them. Minato, who had became a somewhat popular figure in the shopping district, didn't say anything to the shop owner, the man already knew what his order was. His constant visits to the shop with Kenji, the gourmet king, and Kazushi certainly earned him the reputation.

Minato and Akihiko chatted with hushed voices over matters that only the SEES are privy to between eating as the tantalizing aroma from the ramen wafted through the air. The soft ruby-eyed girl beside them ignored their talk as she worked her way through the delicious, fulfilling treat. She noticed something was amiss and she wrote a question on her note,

"Where's Shinji-san?" Miki put her chopsticks in front of her lips as she chewed furiously. Her long, silverette fringe that hides her scarred jawline followed the line of her boys stopped chatting and looked over her.

"Who's Shinji?" Minato asked. Ah, he never heard about them, then. Miki breathed a sigh of relief and wrote back, "Never mind," Miki smiled innocently. Just like how they kept the matter in SEES from her as much as possible, Miki would keep the past to herself as much as possible.

They don't have to know anything.

Akihiko helped dismissing the topic as he stole the naruto from Minato's bowl. Minato, however, was deeply unimpressed and threaten Akihiko that he'd go out with Miki, approved or not. Everyone knew that Miki was practically Akihiko's ultimate weakness, aside from Bufu and Mitsuru.

The dorm life was great. Miki was glad that Yukari-senpai had stopped giving her that pitying face after she heard about the accident from Akihiko. Junpei-san would offer her baseball practice from time to time whenever Mr. Chairman visited the dorm. Mitsuru-senpai was studying Advanced Economics. It'll be great to discuss capitalism theory application with her, maybe if she's patient enough to wait for her to write everything.

And then, there's Minato-senpai. He'd get the evil eyes from Nii-chan whenever he tried something at her, but honestly? He's the one who made more effort than anyone else to cheer her up after he transferred here about a month ago, second only to Akihiko. That was around the time when she was released from her yearly treatment.

Damn, they're reasons she'd be unable to wear skirt shorter than 5 cm from her knees. Sucks.

Miki glanced through another victim of Apathy Syndrome on their way back to the dorm. Her earlier musing forgotten as she ran ahead from the two and approached the victim. She opened her mouth but disappointed to find no voice escaped her throat. She opted to reach for a water bottle inside her bag and guided The Lost to at least drink a gulp from the bottle. The victim stared at her unconsciously and let out gurgles of incomprehensible words before Miki gave up and put the bottle to his side.

"Don't worry about them, the number of victims would decrease after we beat those Shadows," Akihiko put his arm around his baby sister's shoulder and looked at her eyes determinedly. Oh don't get her wrong, Miki did knew about Shadows, Persona, Dark Hour and all those general knowledge about them. Everyone in SEES just put her in the dark about their fights. Other than that, anything is fine.

Miki hugged him back, too small to reach Akihiko's shoulder so this will do. Minato smiled softly beside them. The very epitome of understanding and calm different from his playful self minutes ago.

Which one is the real you?

They walked to the common room, just in time to see Junpei swung around his new katana while Yukari and Mitsuru observed from afar. Minato sighed and took Junpei to the rooftop to practice his swinging technique. One glance and everyone knew that it wasn't how to swing a double-handed sword. That was baseball, all right.

End Note: First off, I'm not soo gonna make Miki as pure as freshly-driven snow. Second, I like Minato who's not an overpowered psycho or a cool dude. Nope, not a chance. Everyone in SEES is human, no matter how god-like or special they may be. His strength will grow accordingly. I hope I made my points across. Oh, and do think of Miki as an OC or a canon however way you want since she (unfortunately) didn't join us in the game. Bye for now :)

One question, how do you spell silverette or silverete?