Right, I don't know what to say, other than chapters two's UP!

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I'm missing something aren't I?

Akira: headslammer owns nothing of persona except me, the OC.

Gad…. Anyway on with the story

Chapter 2: Gekkoukan

I saw two teenagers in school uniforms on a roof of a building, a boy and a girl. In front of the two teenagers were a huge creature, but I couldn't really make out what it was.

The creature got closer to the two teenagers and they backed up. Suddenly, the girl drew out something, something on her thigh.

A pistol.

The boy, confused, begged her to stop as she placed the gun to her head. He shook the girl, unaware of her true intentions, begging her not to commit suicide. The girl made no answer as she trembled, nervous.

Afraid.

With a quick motion, the creature casually swatted her to the side. As she lay, injured, the boy picked up the pistol and glanced at it with a curious eye.

Then on instinct, he placed the gun at his own head. The monster, sensing a threat, charged towards the boy. The boy closed his eyes, not looking at the creature.

His breathing calmed.

He stopped trembling.

His fingers relaxed on the trigger.

A smile crept over his face as he uttered

"Per…so…na".

(Akira)

"Ah!"

I shot straight out of bed, perspiring profusely and heavy breathing.

"A dream?"

I looked at myself, at my palms. The dream felt so real. The gun, the girl and the monster. It felt like I was in control. It felt as if my body was natural in that dream.

Maybe, too natural.

"Akira?"

My thoughts were cut as I heard a voice at the door.

"It's me, Hamuko! Minato and Yukari are out here too," oh, its just her, "you ready for school yet?"

School? Oh yeah.

I pulled of the in-built room calendar and looked at the date. Yeah, day one at my new school.

"In a minute," I called back as I stripped of yesterday's clothing and put on a fresh new uniform I took from the cupboard.. I gave a rough scan through my suitcase in case I needed to bring anything to put inside that dorm provided school bag I found while taking my uniform.

"Hmm, clothes, spare battery, charger, thumb drive with music, a dirty old notebook…" I mumbled unconsciously as I threw everything on the floor.

Wait a second.

A notebook?

I don't remember bringing one.

I flipped through its contents. It was a pretty thin book, but with countless words written on each page. I read through the first two pages.

A story?

"Hey? Are you done yet?"

Right, everyone's outside.

I quickly grabbed the empty bag and went out, not bothering to put anything inside.

(Hamuko)

"We gotta take this train every morning if you want to get to school," Yukari attempted to strike up conversation between the four of us, "I bet your old school wasn't like that huh?"

I nodded absently as I stared at Akira and Minato, who were standing side by side. It was really creepy, those two. They looked practically the same, even their mp3's were the same model. The only differences were probably only the eye and hair colour. It's like those two were cloned or something.

The air around us was getting pretty tense. I could tell Akira wanted to talk to, but the atmosphere made it so damn hard. Plus,Yukari said that the train ride wouldn't really take long but, it felt like it was taking FOREVER. That's one of the reasons why I hate trains and monorails, time seems to slow down when you were inside them.

Luckily, we managed to get to school without anything else weird happening.

The train made the stop at Port Island Station, the four of us made our way out of the train and walked to the impressive white structure in front; Gekkoukan High School. It looked really rich and prestigious. Damn, I wonder if we were in the right place. Looks kind of like the place only Mitsuru-senpai would attend.

Then again, I heard Gekkoukan High was built by the Kirijo group.

"Well, here we are. Welcome to Gekkoukan High School! I know you're gonna love it here," Yukari turned to us as she spoke, a little too excited, "Um, I sound a little over enthusiastic right?" Oh well, she tried.

"Not at all, Yukari," I smiled to her. She seemed a little relieved when I did that, but what can I say, I can understand how awkward it would be in her shoes.

"School huh…?" I heard Akira mumble, and was that some contempt in his voice? But he is right though. No matter how it looks, its still school.

Best not get my hopes too high up yet. Don't wanna be let down later on.

(Minato)

Yukari gave us some brief guides and directions of the school as we swapped shoes at the lockers, "You can handle yourselves right? Go and check your class list first, then you should probably report to your homeroom teacher in the faculty office. Our classrooms are on the second level since we're second years, but the teachers will show you there soon enough. Any questions?"

"What class are you in?" Hamuko asked as she silently crossed her fingers behind her back.

"Honestly, I have no idea. I have some archery club stuff to check on now so I'll catch you all later," just as she turned to walk away, she quickly pulled us together and whispered, "about last night, don't say anything, 'kay?" We nodded our heads as she ran towards a bunch of other girls.

"Let's check those class listings first," Hamuko suggested. The three of us walked over to the posting board, it was filled with papers and papers of class listings. Behind our backs, I could hear students whispering.

"Hey, who're these three? I've never seen them around here before."

"Probably transfer students."

"Did you see? They came to school with Yukari, damn those two guys!"

"Hey, check out that girl, she's one hell of a looker."

"Who cares, I'm not into girls her age."

"You really wanna try your luck man?"

"No way, what if she's as scary as Yukari?"

Those guy, they need to learn to shut the fu- hey, I found our class. Tapping the other two on their shoulders, I pointed to three names on the 2-F class list; Minato Arisato, Hamuko Arisato and Akira Arisato.

"And Yukari's here too," Hamuko exclaimed, a little too loudly. The murmuring started again.

"Yes, I'm in their class. This is gonna rock!"

"Shut up, they can here you, Kenji!"

"Hey, Kaz. I bet you're glad Yukari's in our class huh?

"Hey, what is THAT supposed to mean?"

We ignored the prattle from the crowd an moved onto find the faculty office. As we navigated our way, there were some…interesting students. A guy in a PE uniform (everyone else wore the standard uniform) and a darker girl yelling at him. Nearer to the faculty office was a teacher with a samurai helmet (holy cow…) and a French transfer student conversing.

The French guy had pretty bad Japanese, but at least he's making decent effort.

And then we found the faculty office right behind them.

"Oh, the three transfer students!" a rather short teacher with fair brown hair greeted us, "Minato, Hamuko and Akira Arisato right?" She flipped through the files as she talked to us, "All three of you are siblings right?"

"Um…no actually," Hamuko glanced uneasily at Akira, who too was a little fidgety, "I just live in the same dorm as Akira here." The teacher raised an eyebrow at us, checked the papers and put them down.

"Oh well, guess there must have been a mix up," she shrugged and smiled a little, "I'm Ms Toriumi, I teach composition. Have you seen the listings, all three of you are in my class." We bowed and greeted our new sensei. She commented on our enthusiasm and told us to go to the auditorium for a opening ceremony.

Which means its gonna suck, really bad.

(Akira)

As you begin the school year," the principal began, "I'd like each of you to remember the proverb, 'If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well.' When applied to student life, this means…"

Boring. Piece. Of. Shit. I thought as I glanced around at the students in the auditorium. Most of them were either whispering softly or busy snoring away. Poor souls, trapped inside here with nowhere to go but listen, I can empathize. Like the other two, I clipped on my headphones and tried to sleep.

It's exactly what I do at every opening ceremony anyway.

I drowned in my music as the principal droned on.

I believe, so strongly.

That tomorrow never falls away.

Tsukibikarishita.

It still awaits.

It still carries on through its old ways.

Till this moment of ti-

"Psst…hey."

Go away.

"Psst, hey dude," the person started tapping me. Bloody hell, let me sleep. I turned around to face the inconsiderate sleep-killer.

"Hey, you and that blue haired guy came to school with the brunette and Yukari right?" Oh great, a stalker fan boy. I nodded my head anyway. The guy started to get more pumped, "Yeah. So I was wondering, are they taken yet? I mean like, boyfriends?"

Bugger.

"Yukari's mine, stay outta this." I said defensively. Man, this guy's really pissing me off.

"Oh…I…"

"I hear talking from Miss Toriumi's class!" an old bag spoke up. Ms Toriumi on hearing her name, quickly shushed us.

Wait a moment.

Oh gosh!

What did I say about me and Yukari!

Morning

Introductions were the same as always. New kids stand up front and say your name, interest and random stuff.

In other words, been there and done that.

Lunch

Minato and I dropped dead on our tables.

After School

Basically? Yay.

'Sup, transfer students?"

At the end of school, the Arisato twins and I were greeted by a capped student. From my lying-down-on-table angle, I could see that he had a shaved head and a stubby goatee. But one look and I could tell; he might look like a mature dude on the outside, but he had 'class clown extraordinare' written all over his grinning face.

"What do you want?" Hamuko asked, a little rudely.

"Oh right, I left out intros. Ahem…" he cleared his throat triumphantly and stretched his hand out, "I'm Junpei Iori, but you can just call me Junpei. It's nice to meet you." The three of us shook his hand gratefully.

Turning back to Hamuko, he gave a her a goofy grin, "Man, you're like a deer in headlights. I could spot you down the hall a mile away!"

"Why, thank you!" she giggled.

"I know how tough it is to be the new guys," Junpei continued, "That's why I wanted to come over and say 'hey', I can be a pretty nice guy huh?"

"Sure you are, Junpei," a sarcastic and dissatisfied came from the back of the class which I recognized as Yukari, "Hitting on a girl and being overly and dramatically friendly, really, don't you ever think you might be bothering someone?"

"Oh come on Yukari," Hamuko pouted, "he was just being nice! Right Minato?" her twin brother looked at them both, and nodded his head in agreement.

"Oh c'mon, don't you all gang up on her," I piped up, "I'm on Yukari's side." The Junpei guy looked pretty shocked.

"Damn man, first day and you're hitching up on the popular girl. You got some skills, buddy!"

Tch…typical assumptions, but whatever.

"Hey, ya got a problem with making friends?"

"Uh…"

"Whatever," Yukari shrugged, "Hey, turns out we're all in the same homeroom, what surprise huh?"

"Must be fate," we all caught Minato mumble.

"Fate!" Hamuko couldn't help but crack up, "Minato, since when were you a sage?" Minato looked at his sister, as if he had never said anything at all, then went back to staring into space.

Oh man, that guy, is creepy.

"But still, what coincidence huh?"

"HEY! I'm a person from class 2-F too you know? Don't leave me out!" Junpei waved at the four of us, "Moreover, something reminds me. I heard you four came to school together in the morning. What's up man?" What was up? What was up! You should tell me. People talking about us around the school, whispering behind our backs…

"What do you mean by that?" Hamuko asked him.

"I mean, two suave men and two cutie girls like you two coming to school together? There's bound to be something a little more…dark and intimate to it," the capped boy raised his eyebrows, wiggling them, "C'mon, gimme the lowdown. What's the secret?"

"WHAT!" all of us shouted simultaneously shouted at one go.

"You idiot!" I yelled the loudest, knocking him on the head. Minato just banged his head on the table.

"Wa..wa… Minato's my BROTHER!" Hamuko was too shocked to find proper words until she finally shouted at him.

"JUNPEI!" Yukari shouted at him, turning crimson, "We just live in the same dorm and Mitsuru-senpai asked me to bring them to school today. WE JUST MET!" This is bad… It's only the first day in school, and weird, possibly dirty, rumors are popping up about us already? I thought these things could wait till…hell, why do these things even happen anyway?

Typical High School students and their sex jokes, damn it.

"This is bad…" Yukari muttered. Suddenly remembering a rather important point, she pulled us guy mates aside and asked, "Hey, you guys didn't tell anyone about that…thing last night did you?"

Minato simply shook his head. But I knew, deep inside, we were both thinking the same thing.

SOMEONE is so going to misunderstand that. And of course, right on the spot, Junpei overheard us, and gave us a horrified look.

"Two guys…and a girl….last….night…?

"YOU IDIOT!" Hamuko, Yukari and I shouted.

By this time, Yukari had gone from red to pale to the rest of her body. The blood seemed only to go into her face, "Listen, Junpei Iori. The four of us just met last night, there is nothing between anybody here! Look, I've got archery club stuff to take care of now, if you spread one word about that rumor, I WILL stick an arrow up your butt!"

With that, she walked out of the classroom, obviously pissed.

"Thanks a lot man," I said as I punched him in the ribs, "Day one and our rep is ruined."

"Not really," Junpei replied, "it's just day one and you're already getting your names spread around! Believe it or not, Yuka-tan's pretty popular around here. If you guys are even so much so as her friends, that already brings you up ten levels on the pyramid," Junpei praised, "This years going to be a blast, I can feel it!"

More like if I can take a whole year of his sex jokes.

Nothing really eventful happened after that. We just made with some small talk and went our ways, though I have to admit that I almost punched Junpei a few times.

"Welcome back," Mitsuru-senpai stopped reading her book to notice that the three of us had come back, "How was your first day?"

"It was well…um…."

"It was pretty good and all," I jumped in to save Hamuko from her dilemma, "I'm pretty surprised that we fit in so well. People were friendly around us and stuff, so it was kind of cool." I glanced back at the twins, who gave me the silent stares treatment.

Hey, it was the truth to a certain extent alright.

"Really? I'm surprised to hear you all getting accustomed to the school so quickly, but its good that you can adapt," senpai nodded and went back to her book. Bored out of my mind and curious about what she was reading, I bent down a little to get a closer look of the book.

Huh…it seems like some form of physics book.

"Oh this?" Senpai caught me glancing at her book, "Its basic physics for college students. I think it's a good idea to learn just a little more."

"Riiiighhhhtttt…..you do that senpai, I think I'll be heading to my room, thanks," I said as I made my way back up to my room. I took a shower and once again, got changed and jumped straight into bed. I started to think, again. I think this is becoming a habit; whenever I'm in bed, I start to think about things.

About school.

About rumors.

About that weird cell phone strap.

About Junpei.

Action, initiative, self-confidence, manipulation and power to harness one's talents.

The Magician.

"Huh…"

Stupei…