A/N: I hope you guys realize all questions go to my sister, right? Just wanted to make it clear. This is the last time I (the account owner) will make the AN. Yes it is yuri, but lemon? Meh, my sis is is 13 -.-
Okay, I'm pretty sure she already discovered lemons (seeing as how often she hacks into my account), but...maybe I'll make a one shot someday.
Anyways about the trolling...MAYBE.
Minako had been early to school again, because she just felt like it. She briefly wondered if her body became resistance to the sleeping medicine. Perhaps changing the mark would do the trick.
She just closed her locker and was about to go into her classroom, when she noticed Kirijo going through the hallway. The 'new' girl tried to ignore her sempai and just walk away. Maybe it would have worked if actually other students were present, but not so much luck for now.
"Arisato?"
Minako stopped in her tracks and sighed before turning around. "What is it, Kirijo?" Minako asked in an icy tone.
"I wanted to ask you if something happened, because-"
"Because my behavior doesn't add up with what's written in my file, correct?" Minako shook her head and didn't even bother looking at Mitsuru's face. She knew the reaction already and decided to turn around.
"Don't you think I've gone through enough already?" She turned her head. "It doesn't take a genius to link your family to what happened to me and my family ten years ago." Minako left without another word.
Today she just felt depressed, actually depressed enough for another spectacular suicide attempt, as in accidently using a real gun instead of an evoker. Well now she DID KNOW that Enduring Soul saves someone even when the brain gets damaged. Not that it mattered anymore. Maybe. Depends.
Hey, something to looking forward.
Again, waiting.
Minako slumped down on her desk in the classroom and waited for the day to be over.
XIII
I didn't commit suicide in order to die again.
XIII
"Sup dude."
Really? REALLY?! Minako screamed in her mind as Junpei approached her during lunch break. There weren't many ways in order to get rid of Junpei. The only way that actually was available without making him your enemy was to close yourself inside the toilet for the rest of the break. The downside was it always caused a bunch of rumors.
"Go bother someone else." she simply said and put on her headphones. It never actually worked, but in all her years there had been always exceptions. She just hoped it would work this time. It didn't.
"Hell~o~o!" He pocked her, causing her to snap immediately. She grabbed his finger and a second later you could hear something break, followed by a high pitched girlish scream, which was even louder than Minako's headphones on maximum volume.
XIII
The worst part is knowing that you'll never see them again.
XIII
"I won't apologize." Minako repeated to her homeroom teacher and the principal. Normally the student council president would be there too, but Mitsuru still needed to be elected.
"If he's angry, then he can go to the police and press charges against me." she continued on.
Both teacher and principal sighed. The principal cleaned his glasses in order to buy some time to think. "Arisato, are you tired?" Touriumi asked. It was a typical teacher approach in order to get to the problem. Only that a lack of sleep wasn't the problem here.
I'm tired of you.
I'm tired of this school.
I'm tired of this life.
"Yeah, I already thought of changing my sleeping medicine this morning, but I need to consult a doctor first." She took out some medicine she HAD NOT been taking and showed it to the two adults. It was made of plants and you didn't need a recipe to get that kind of stuff. It was a tactic to buy time.
"If he would have just gone away, I wouldn't have reacted. I was just tired, nothing more, nothing less. Of course this doesn't excuse my actions, but I would say it can be counted in my favor, can it not?"
"No it can't! Violence isn't a solution."
I thought I gave an explanation already about why I used violence. Meh, whatever.
"So, what now? Anti aggression training? A psychologist? Don't even mention the school nurse, 'cause I'm gonna make an appointment with a professional. You can't force me to apologize to whatever his name is. Did I forget something? Probably." Minako shrugged.
Touriumi and the principal sighed inwardly. They saw this was going to be a long appointment.
XIII
Are persona users ever alone? They got someone inside them after all.
XIII
The solution was a totally childish one: blackmail. One week to apologize or else Minako would have to make some extra work. She didn't even bother listening beyond when they said one week, so she didn't know what kind of work.
There was no telling whether she would be in that school or not after tomorrow night. Most of the times she didn't join SEES she got kicked out, because the only reason for her to be in school was because of the shadow being inside her.
Up until coming back, her grades had been average. Some subjects she had been better and in some she completely failed, like anyone else.
Did she?
She didn't remember.
Now that she thought about it, if she ever managed to live on, she would probably be lost or would go crazy because of everything being new. Good chance she would just commit suicide when it was over. By now there was no hesitation anymore.
Right now she was standing on the moonlight bridge and staring off at the horizon. Why didn't she ever bother making a world tour? Oh right, contract bounded her. Well...
"Tempting isn't it?" Someone put both hands on her shoulders. Despite the voice being still new to her, she recognized it. Maybe she did because it was new. "Jumping, hoping it would all be over." Nyx sighed. "If only I could end a year like you. But Ryoji would never claim me, even if he could."
"Sucks to be the mother of death, huh? Speaking of, can't you just take him out? Like right now?" she asked.
"I could but you would either die or be crippled. In case you die it would simply start all over again and if you're crippled... well I would have time getting more personally accustomed to all of this."
Minako supported herself on her arms and sighed. "Nyx, if it ends with killing us all. Just do it. I'm not in the mood for saving them anymore."
"I think we already established that." Nyx placed herself next to Minako, supported herself on the barrier with her arms.
...
"How can you be so calm?" Minako asked at one point. "Where the hell do you get the patience to just wait until it comes? Is there some kind of secret or do you use some kind of trick?"
Nyx shook her head. "It's just my nature. I mean, I'll never die. It isn't impossible to kill gods, it's just difficult. It's impossible to kill me because of who I am. Not many beings share that comfort or curse, depending on the viewpoint."
"Curse, definitely." Minako raised her arm, like in a vote.
Her stomach decided to make itself noticeable at this point. Minako walked ahead and Nyx followed her immediately. "You know one time I tried starving to death. Needless to say it didn't work and it hurt a lot, but when I woke up with normal body weight and not hungry..." Minako shuddered. "Not going to repeat that, I can tell you."
Both entered Hagakure Ramen and took a table that just got free at the far corner. Minako ordered for the two before sitting down.
"I still remember that one time" Nyx began "Zeus had invited us all for a party, even Hades was there. Since Hades hated Zeus, he did all in his might in order embarrass Zeus. It ended up with Hades hanging from the ceiling of the ballroom in a comically way."
"Did Zeus found out?"
"No, my dad was so bored, he decided to prank Hades. And what better way was there to prank him, than to use the opportunity and let him fall for his own traps?"
Minako choked at her drink. "I shouldn't be surprised with Chaos being a prankster. But isn't that more Loki's thing?"
"You wouldn't say that if you would know my father personally. Actually...the last time I saw him is so far back, even I don't remember. He might know something...or be the one responsible for this altogether."
"Why would he do that to you?"
"As punishment for failing the first time?" Nyx suggested. "But there might be another reason."
"That being?" Minako asked, excitement rising inside her.
"He has dry humor."
Minako collapsed on the table after this statement, her sudden excitement gone like it never existed in the first place. "At this rate, I'm going to go back into cutting myself."
Suddenly Nyx had an amused look. "That remembers me of the time I cut off both of your arms and you said: 'It's just a flesh wound.' And then you grew them back. The faces of the rest are still fresh in my mind."
"Oh yeah. Good times, good times."
"Still, why did you say that?"
"Quote from a movie." Minako explained. Their orders were ready and Minako picked the two bowls up from the counter and returned to the table.
XIII
Death means the end of something old and a new beginning. But without death...
XIII
Minako got back to the dorm, right on the spot of when curfew started. A good reason to get actually out of this place. Speaking off, why was the backdoor always closed? It didn't make any sense in case of a fire. To prove her point, Minako once set the building on fire, carefully making the backdoor the only escape route.
Shinji needed to break through it and funny fact, in the end the door was the only thing that was left. Karma people, karma.
"There she is."
"So, this is our new guest."
"This is not my loop, I can feel it already." Minako muttered under her breath. Despite all she had done, this canon thing still happened? Luckily this wasn't the case as the door opened all of the sudden and Nyx of all people entered, holding something in her hand.
"What are you doing here?" Minako asked.
"You forgot this." Nyx held out Minako's cell phone. "Oh, thanks." Minako put the thing away.
"Excuse me for just entering like this." Nyx turned towards the other two in the room.
"Oh...no problem." The chairman assured. Nyx turned towards Minako. "I'll see you tomorrow."
"Already?" Minako asked, but then shrugged. "Well not like I have anything better to do (like fighting for my life)." Then an idea struck her head. "Thanks again. See you tomorrow, Nyx." The smirk on Minako's face was only visible for a split second, but Nyx saw it. Glancing over to the chairman, she found said man a little distressed.
"Be careful on your way home."
Nyx waved off. "It's not like the shadows are going to jump at me or something." Nyx left the house. Minako walked over to the two sitting on the couch. "Friend of the family." she explained.
XIII
Again? Really?
XIII
Minako threw the camera out of the closed window of the third floor, because she could do it. They actually had the guts to reinstall them this loop. For all she cared, Mitsuru could pay for the window.
She opened the window and looked out into the cold night.
And then the dark hour came. It was hard to imagine a life without it, than with it. She knew for a fact it once had been normal living without it, but her mind and body didn't remember the 'normal' stuff anymore. In fact her brain kept saying there had never been a time without the dark hour.
The last month every year always felt so...surreal.
She looked over to Tartarus in the distance and sighed. The huge tower actually felt more like home, than anything else. Her thoughts trailed over to the Lost. What would it be like, being one of the Lost? Maybe Nyx knew the answer or could her make that way. A zombie Minako would be most likely more like the 'first Minako' than the 'current Minako'.