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Persona 4 Fan Fiction

Title: Persona 4 – What if Ryotaro Dojima had a shadow?

He drove. He drove as fast as he could.

I mean who could stop him anyway HE was the cop.

"Chikako. Chikako. Please just wait for me."

There were no cars. It was another rainy evening.

Well that was to be expected. It was Inaba after all.

He wondered whether he should pick Nanako up. She was probably waiting.

No. His wife came first. So he drove on into the heavy rain.

...

He awoke with a start.

Drawing in deep breaths of cold air he inhaled and exhaled slowly.

His training took over and he reached for his gun.

"Damn. Where the hell am I?"

"Awake are you Dojima-san?" came a voice.

A voice that sounded like his.

Out of the darkness the figure came.

"What...?"

"Who the hell are you?" he pointed his revolver at him.

Literally. Him.

"Why I am you. Didn't you figure that out already?"it said.

"The hell you are!" he shouted and fired.

Click. Click. Click.

"Well...I'm pretty sure THAT's empty." And the figure opened his hand and let the sound of metal hit the floor.

Ryotaro stared. What in the WORLD is going on?

...

"MOVE!" Yosuke shouted.

The party moved out of the way as he casted Garudyne on the Shadow. It crumbled.

"Nice Yosuke." Souji patted his back.

"Rise. Are we on the right floor yet?" Chie asked. "We might be too late to save Dojima-san..."

"NO. He's alive...He has to be." Souji mouthed. He thought about his cousin and how sad she would be if something happened to her father.

His Uncle.

"I...think I can sense him...He's with at very powerful source now. We have to hurry!" Rise's voice came and told them.

"Right!" they cried and the team marched on into the darkness...

And the door busted open.

"Souji! What are you doing here? Get out it's dangerous here!" Ryotaro shouted at his nephew.

"Ah Souji...how nice of you to join us. Me and myself were just having a nice chat..." the figure spoke. "Maybe you should get them to leave. We don't want the same thing happening twice. Remember Chikako-san?"

"What do you mean!" Ryotaro shouted.

"What do I mean? Well I'm sure you know since it was your fault that she died on the night. Oh how you cried when you found out. You even left your DAUGHTER to wait at pre-school while wondering what happened to her parents. If THEY leave now maybe you wouldn't be killing anyone tonight." The figure cackled.

Souji stared at his uncle. Chikako-san his aunt who was caught in a hit-and-run accident who's culprit was never found.

"I...they...IT WASN'T MY FAULT!" Ryotaro shouted.

"Oh it wasn't? Maybe if you protected this shit-hole town a bit more carefully accidents wouldn't happen would they?

"Maybe if you care more about your family."

"STOP IT!" Ryotaro stared. The voice wasn't his own. It was his nephew.

"Dojima-san is a great uncle. He protects us all!" Souji shouted.

"My dear nephew. If you only knew half the things I did..." then the Shadow Dojima said in a weak voice. "Oh if only she didn't pick up Nanako...If only she wasn't at the pre-school." It laughed harshly. "I'm blaming my own daughter, THAT is how weak I am."

"No! I don't blame her. I can't!" Ryotaro shouted desperately. He looked at the bunch of kids. "You've gotta believe me!"

"Save your breath Ryotaro. What I say is true and deep down in your shitty little heart you know it."

"No...you aren't me..." Ryotaro said.

"DOJIMA-SAN DON'T!" Yukiko shouted.

"YOU AREN'T ME!"

The Shadow started laughing as it reached for his holster where his gun was kept.

"That's right Ryotaro. I'm not you. YOU are ME."

And then darkness enveloped him once more.

Before he slept he heard a voice calling him.

"Ryotaro..."

"Chikako...forgive me." he mouthed.

...

Ryotaro woke up and saw his nephew looking at him with worry in his eyes.

"Dojima-san! Are you alright?" Chie asked.

"I'm fine...that thing... that isn't..." he trailed off.

"Stop Dojima-san. Saying that again will make things worse. A LOT worse. I've already ran out of Soma." Yosuke groaned.

"It's fine Dojima-san... that WAS you. It IS you. We all have our dark sides...even me." Souji told him.

Ryotaro stared at his Shadow.

Stared again into it's penetrating yellow eyes...

"You are...me?"

The Shadow nodded.

"And I am you." The shadow's voice trailed off into the distance leaving an echo.

Blue light shone upon the room.

He just noticed how much it seemed like the police office.

He smiled abit.

He opened his hands. He didn't know why. It just felt right.

A card fell into it.

The card showed a roman number five on it.

The card of the Hierophant.

Somehow he felt Chikako watching him.

"Chikako...I will watch over Nanako...so watch me."