Under the Sky
Chapter Two
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Not beta-ed; if you find any typos, grammatical errors, or any errors, please tell me as soon as possible. Thank you.
A/N: Please expect a time-skip in this chapter. And oh, a sudden POV changing, ehe.
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"'A study group'?" Said the matriarch of the Satonaka family in disbelief tone of her. She glanced at her husband—in which he replied with a shrug—and the last time she checked, their daughter is still in kindergarten—so, where did she learn about the word of 'study group'?
"Yes, a study group," repeated their child with a grin. "Everyone thinking that the school is boring. And, um, Nanami-chan said that unlike in the States, we didn't have a law about skipping class. So, until we find something else, I guess we'll learn the higher materials to engaging our minds. Well, that's what she said, though," She paused for taking a bite of her dinner. "Sooo, what do you think, Kaa-chan, Tou-chan?"
"Well," She paused, making an eye contact with her husband. "Let me and your father has a discussion first, alright?"
"Okay!"
"I think my parents are surprised when I said about the study group," said Yukiko when they have their daily meeting before the class start. "Well, I think it was expected. I mean, this is our third day of school, after all."
"And we are still in kindergarten." stated the second-in command of Investigating Team.
"So, anything else beside we might broken our parents' mind that we might displaying how smarter we are than the rest...?" asked the green jacket wearer.
She hums. "Did you have a talk with your parents about yesterday?"
"Um, about how we hesitated when saying your name?" asked the black haired girl. Seeing the nod from the Leader, she continued. "Uh, yes."
Chie and Yosuke also nodded, agreeing with what Yukiko has said.
"Same with me," She said. "My dad thinking that you three bullying me."
The brown haired girl sighed. "Let's hope that there will be no more misunderstanding in the future..."
As a teacher, she has seen a lot of things. But, this is the first time she has witnessed four children greeted at each other like an old friend they haven't meet for a long time on their first day of school.
After the school is done, and every children has been picked by their parents and guardians, Ayumu checked the papers. The four of them has different address. Tsukimori might a small town, but not that small, and this four children staying in different district. For example; from the kindergarten, that Kato child's address is in the west, the Hanamura is in east, the Satonaka in north, and the Amagi child is in the south. And if the parents bring their children to the park, they probably will bring them to the nearest one.
That night, she sent an email to each other parents, asking if their children once meet each other before they entered the kindergarten.
The answer? Unsurprisingly, no. The parents are pretty sure that their children haven't meet each other before.
So, how? How they know each other if this is their first meeting?
Saturday, Kato Residence
"Welcome to Kato residence," greeted Tsubame when she opened the door and find three children and three parents on her door. "Come in, come in. Nami-chan is in her room. Just go upstairs."
"We brought gifts," said the mother of Chie; Satonaka Emi. Beside her are Hanamura Izumi and Amagi Umeko.
"Oh my, there's no need to bring that," She accepted the gifts from the three mothers. "But, thank you."
After many days of persuading the parents, they finally relented their children to have a study group. As long as the place for study group will be rotated between Kato; Hanamura; Satonaka; and Amagi. And let the parents to stay until the study group is done.
As the mothers exchanging tips of food recipes and telling the motherhood experiences, the children were immediately pulling their respective books.
"You said about we will starting from the elementary, right?" asked Chie as she placed the books on the table. "So, I, uh, bought every books from first grade to sixth grade...?"
"Oh, you too?" Yukiko looks surprised when heard that.
"Well, me too." said Yosuke as he, like the rest, placing the books on the table.
"Okay, which one do you want to start?"
Six months since first meeting, midnight
"Um, sorry for disturbing your sleep, but..." said someone. Someone who is speaking to her head. Startled, she throw her blanket away.
"Rise?!"
"Rise-chan?!"
"Uh, hi...?"
Hanamura Department Store; Food Court
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"..."
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"Wow," exclaimed a copper haired girl in two pigtails, her eyes are wide, sometimes glancing between them.
Seven children were seated, circling a table. Those children are: Kato Nanami, the brown haired girl; Hanamura Yosuke, the brown haired boy; Satonaka Chie, the brown haired girl in green jacket; Amagi Yukiko, the black haired girl; Tatsumi Kanji, the black haired boy; Kujikawa Rise, the copper haired girl; and the last but not least; Shirogane Naoto, the blue haired girl.
"Rise," She called, when everyone is still shocked despite the copper haired girl has breaking the silence. "How you can contacted us?"
Yes, how? There's no Midnight Channel in here. No Midnight Channel, no Shadow World, no Persona.
Hearing the question from her, it's bring everyone to the reality.
"To be honest, I don't know," answered the once idol. "I just arrived in this town yesterday along with my family. The moment I stepped inside this town, I felt familiar presences in my mind. Without thinking; I thought; 'Oh! That's Senpai, Yosuke-senpai, Chie-senpai, Yukiko-senpai, Kanji-kun, and Naoto-kun,'" She explained, automatically went to reporting mode. "I'm still aren't aware back then. When the midnight came, I realize it. So, uh, I tried to contacted you guys like usual. Um, I focused my feeling like before, and... that's how I contacted you guys last night."
"Have you tried to summon your Persona?"
She shook her head in negative. "I haven't try it."
"Good," She sighed in relief. "We don't know what will happen if you summoned your Persona in the Real World." That is if the Persona is here as well. They don't know if they capable summoning Persona, but they also can't disregarding about Rise's capability either.
"Now come to think of," Everyone focusing on Yosuke. "Remember the first day of school?" Seeing the nod from the three girls, he continued. "Back then, I aren't aware of Chie-chan and Yukiko-chan were in the same class. But, the moment you stepped inside of the class, something in my mind tugging me. Like, I know this feeling. Somehow, I followed it, and when my eyes found you, the first thing I thought was; 'oh, hey. That's Partner,'"
"Me too."
"Same as me."
Everyone went silence once again.
"Anyway, Rise-chan," called Yosuke. "Can you tried to sense Teddie?"
"I'll try," Closing her eyes and clapping her hands together; she concentrated to trying to find Teddie's location. "Sorry, Yosuke-senpai," said Rise after three minutes of silence. "I don't think Teddie is in this town..."
"So, we wait?" asked Kanji for once.
"We wait."
"Then!" Chie clapped her hands loudly. "Let's talking! Man, it's been awhile since we met."
All of them chuckled.
"Let's start with you, Naoto-kun." Rise said, pointed at the blue haired girl.
She smiled. "Well..."
End of Chapter Two
A/N: Thank you for reading!