The First Day - Chapter 2

{April 11, 2011} {Cloudy/Rainy}

"U-Uh...it's been a long time…" Yu quickly told Dojima nervously shaking his uncle's hand, Nanako looked somewhat curious of Yu, as she never met her cousin before.

"You're telling me...I haven't seen you since you were a little kid." Dojima replied with a soft expression to his grown nephew.

"Oh I forgot! This my daughter...Nanako." Dojima moved a little aside, revealing a shy Nanako was behind him. The young girl was nervous in meeting her older cousin. Yu lowered himself to meet her.

"Hello Nanako..." Yu said remembering fondly of her from his last journey, he gave his cousin a nice smile.

Nanako's cheeks flushed at Yu's sudden gentleness, and quickly hid behind Dojima again.

"Why are you acting so shy?" Dojima chuckled at her reaction. Nanako hit her father from behind in embarrassment as Dojima began to laugh. Yu began smiling at his second family's humorous squabble.

"I guess starting over won't be so bad." Yu thought rather happily about this, also trying to stay calm about the situation.

On top of the train station, The Personas of the Investigation team were closely watching Yu and his family's first "technical" meeting.

"Yeah! He's not your uncle, he's your mother's younger brother!" Jiraiya began laughing at the oddity of Dojima's words. Izanagi stood next to him along with the other Investigation Team Personas watching Yu's arrival play out. The Wild Card was unable to see them as he was not a Persona user yet.

"Oh hush...he was merely greeting him..." Izanagi said to Jiraiya who was still laughing.

"...But it is a little odd to say it like that…" The Japanese God quickly added.

"Anyway...it'll be a while till we get to reveal ourselves to the others." Tomoe stated to the group.

"Maybe it's best to stay with our users until it's time…" Konohana said as she started remembering she was once a shadow, and at that moment every persona began to recall the events of their birth, knowing they would soon revert back to shadows as time demanded it.

"...I think you may be right…" Izanagi told her in response.

"B-But can't we hang out until then too?" Jiraiya wondered as well as changing the heavy subject.

"Of course." A caring Izanagi laid a hand on partner's shoulder comforting him.

"What do you have in mind?" Izanagi asked the thinking Ninja Frog.

"Can this really be happening?" Yu thought as he sat in Dojima's car on the way back to his residence after a long trip.

"Is it truly the beginning again? It seems that no one remembers about anything that happened over the year. I also don't have Izanagi right now..." Yu checked his phone.

"I don't have any of the guys' numbers...maybe…I am in the past..."

Dojima pulls up to Moel gas station, with Yu not taking notice.

"Welcome to Moel!" Says a gas station attendant running up to the car, very close to being bashed by it too.

"Can you get to the bathroom by yourself?" Dojima asked Nanako while Yu is still in deep thought.

"Uh-huh." Nanako assured her dad. The father and daughter got out of the car, with Dojima walking up to the attendant.

"It's in the back to the left. You know which way is left? The side you don't hold your chopsticks in." The Attendant playfully instructed Nanako, she rolled her eyes slightly.

"I Know...Geez." An annoyed Nanako commented as she ran off to the bathroom.

"Taking a trip?" The Attendant asked Dojima.

"No, we just picked him up by the station, he's from the big city." Dojima pointed over to Yu.

"Give it a complete fill." Dojima told The Attendant as he looked around the station.

"Yes Sir." The Attendant replied and then started walking over to Yu who just got out of the family car to stretch his legs.

"Good time for a smoke..." Dojima walked outside the station, and began lighting a cigarette.

"From the big city huh? I'm sure you'll get bored here pretty quick since there is not much here. You may want to be doing part-time work or hanging with friends if you want to avoid that." The Attendant advised Yu as he technically is a newbie in this town.

"You know...we might have a spot for you here. Give it some thought. We don't mind if you're in school." The Attendant gestured for a friendly handshake with the city boy. Yu absent-mindedly shook the attendant's hand since his current situation was on his mind too much. Suddenly Yu started feeling ill, feeling like his mind was split open. Yu held a hand to his head in pain.

"Think I might be exhausted from the long trip and this whole thing going on." Yu was trying to find a reason for feeling like this. The Attendant left immediately as Nanako came back from the bathroom. The young girl of Justice gazed up at Yu...who was a little fatigued.

"You okay? You don't look well." Nanako remarked to her cousin as she looked up at his face.

"...You're right...but I'll be fine." Yu told his young cousin and removed the hand from his grey hair.


[Dojima Residence, Daytime]

"Back here again, huh..." Yu sighed to himself gazing up at the family house. He quickly followed Nanako and Dojima into their home. Later, Yu sat down for dinner in the living room with his family that lived out in the country.

"A Toast." Dojima raised his drink seemingly trying to make Yu feel welcomed. Dojima stirred up a conversation.

"Your parents are working overseas huh? Must be tough getting moved from place to place all the time because of them...Anyways it's just me and Nanako here and it seems nice to have someone like you around so make yourself feel at home." Dojima told his grey-haired nephew.

"I'll do just that." A sitting Yu remembered what he had told Dojima before.

"Good...now let's eat!" Dojima was about to dig in with his family, suddenly he got a phone call.

"Dojima speaking…yeah...I see...where is it?" Dojima was on the phone.

"Okay." He ended the call and got up from the living room table.

"Sorry, I got a call from work… I'll be a while...you guys can eat without me. Nanako help your cousin out okay?" Dojima told the others before leaving.

"Okay..." Nanako in reply to her father, she sounded sad. Dojima left the home, Yu knew where he was headed, knowing there was never enough time to stop such an event from happening. Yu became a little bitter about it in his mind until he found himself alone with Nanako...again, A weather report shows on the screen indicating rainy weather coming later on.

"Let's eat." Nanako dug into her dinner.

"What does your dad do for work?" Yu asked Nanako only out of making conversation since he already knew the answer.

"He's a detective...he investigates crimes and catches bad guys." Nanako in response to him asking about her dad. The news comes on, telling the story of secretary Namatame having an affair with local reporter Mayumi Yamano and his wife enika singer Misuzu Hiiragi is pressing charges against him.

"This is boring..." Nanako switched the channel on the TV in the corner of living room mindlessly with Yu staring at her with a sad expression, unable to tell her how much she will be involved in the case.

"Man this sucks..." Yu thought sadly. The Junes commercial comes on with Nanako singing along to it.

"Everyday's great at Your Junes!" Nanako sang happily making Yu forget his troubles with her cuteness, it gave him resolve to save her quickly when certain events will happen.

"I'll be prepared for it when the time comes..." Yu thought confidently.

"A-Aren't you going to eat?" Nanako was staring at Yu who was staring at her fondly resulting in creeping her out a bit.

"Y-Yeah..." Yu nervously from his actions, He later helped The young girl clean up their home right after...

"House work goes much faster when there's two people!" Nanako said happily as she watched TV in the corner of their living room, a tired Yu went up to his own room after calling it a day...


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