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Moving on! :)

Brand New Days (Part 1)

She stood nervously outside of his door the very next morning.

Once again, Mitsuru-senpai had asked her to escort the new student to their school. Once again, she had accepted. Only, this time... Yukari sighed to herself and quickly knocked on the door.

"Arisato-kun, are you awake?"

The door opened to the familiar mop of wild blue hair, messly falling over his right eye as he stared back at her, likely wondering why she was there. It was only a guess, since mind reading was not one of the powers she gained.

"Mitsuru-senpai asked me to take you to school today!"

"Alright."

As he walked out, plugging his earphones in, the brunette walked behind him and pretended that she didn't feel like she was being stabbed at the mere sound of his voice, his body living, breathing and walking in front of her.

She bounced up to him when he shot her a questioning look. Making him do so would not do.

- x -

The whole day at school - April 9th, she remembered it all too well - Yukari was busily trying to avoid the other teen after explaining to him where the Faculty Office was. Naturally, with Minato being as stoic and anti-social as he was at the beginning, that was an easy thing to do.

She checked the list for which class she was in, greeting Junpei in a bored manner when he called her 'Yuka-tan'.

The archer was too busy worrying about her other things, such as finding a door outside of Tartarus to the Velvet Room, to care about the class clown. Now was not the time.

Strangely enough, what she didn't notice was Minato staring at her back throughout all the classes.

- x -

After school, Yukari decided to head to Paulownia Mall first. Mainly because that seemed like the most likely place for it to be and she all too well remembered Minato heading into a strange alley after one of their dates.

She waved at some chatting ladies - just like back then - as she looked around, noticing it was the three of them at the Mall. Deciding to not worry about it, the brunette entered the alley way, once more unaware of the cool grey eyes watching her every move.

However, she did feel a cold shiver running down her spine and wondered why.

"Welcome back, Master."

Yukari forced a smile for Theo as she took a seat on the only available chair in the room (of sorts) after having opened the big, wide purple door that was hidden deep in the alley. Of course, it was facing the blonde and Igor, who was grinning at her with unusual amount of gusto.

"Indeed. How does it feel to be back?"

"Weird."

The old man laughed at the blunt response he received. How rare that was, how interesting and amusing. He smirked and waved his hand, causing a whole row of tarot cards to appear on the table in front of him.

"Are those the Arcana?" Yukari questioned.

"That they are." he told her as one of the floated up in front of him, doing a small spin, before stopping to face her as well as causing her heart to nearly stop. It was the Death Arcana - the one she remembered all too well. "Do not fear."

"Y-yeah?" the slightly scared archer asked. The old man laughed again and shook his head.

"Yes. It is typically associated with foreboding and doom, that is true, however it could also mean that a deep change is coming as well as regeneration and cycles. That applies to you, does it not?"

"Well it does but... does that mean that I could save him?"

"That is for your to decide." he waved his hand again, making the cards vanish as something that looked like a contract appeared instead. "Kindly sign this with your name."

"R-Right..." Yukari reached out and began to write down her name.

"... it only binds you to your actions, after all."

- x -

The girl nearly jumped out of her skin when she was met with Minato himself, sitting at the fountain while listening to his music. But how he looked up at her with those grey eyes, made her question if he - maybe - did know after all.

"Shall we go back to the dorm?" the bluenette asked her simply.

"You w-were waiting for me?"

He just smirked in response as he got onto his feet and began to walk away. As she hurried to catch up to him once more, the worry that he might know, just didn't care about whatever he lived or died, ate her up.

The walk back to the dorm was uncomfortably quiet.

So this is Part 1 of chapter 2. Or as I like to call it, the somewhat boring part. So, the Death Arcana has appeared to Yukari. What could that possibly mean? Regrettably, you will have to leave me your guesses in the reviews or pms if you wish to do so.

Stay tuned for part 2 of more awkward Minato and Yukari and some action! (not that kind of action, sorry)