[Sorry about not updating for a little while. I just recently got a game that I was waiting two months for and played it for so many hours straight.]

The Sixth Night

Date: September, Wednesday 23rd.

The time was 9:09 AM. In Minato's room was him and Akihiko. Akihiko was asleep on his back, one arm over his head, with Minato using him as a pillow. The whole night, Akihiko held onto Minato tightly as they slept, embracing his lover's warmth. Akihiko moved his arm down and rubbed his eyes as he let out a yawn. Minato awoke soon after him.

"Mph, looks like we were asleep for more than twelve hours." Akihiko muttered, sitting up. Minato was still clutching onto his senpai, not wanting to get up just yet.

"Uh, as much as I love your touch, could you let go so I could get some clothes on?" Akihiko chuckled a bit. He and Minato were both still nude from the special event that went on the previous night.

"Mm, alright…" Minato moped, releasing Akihiko. Akihiko got up and looked as to wear he threw his underwear and pants. He walked over to near the desk chair as Minato was still laying down, staring at his senpai's gorgeous ass. Akihiko only dressed himself from the waist down and tossed some of Minato's clothes over at him, smacking him in the face. Minato pulled them off his head and glared at Akihiko. He just laughed at the face the younger boy was giving him.

"Do it for me, Aki." Minato whined, handing him the blue and white shirt.

"I never thought that our super powerful leader would act so childish." Akihiko laughed a bit.

"But I'm siiiick." Minato whined.

"Barely." Akihiko took the clothes and dressed Minato. He leaned down and gave him a loving kiss.

They were interrupted when someone began knocking on Minato's door rather loudly.

"Yo, Minato. Akihiko-senpai. You two in there?" It was Junpei. Akihiko answered the door. Junpei was a little surprised seeing how Akihiko was at the moment.

"Um, I figured you'd be here. But, uh, why are you…" Junpei questioned Akihiko.

"I overslept and came to check on Arisato right after I woke up. And it was getting hot in his room. He said he didn't mind." Akihiko answered. Junpei glanced behind Akihiko's shoulder, only seeing Minato sitting on his bed yawing lightly as he rubbed one of his eyes.

"You were here last night too, right?" Asked Junpei.

Yeah, pretty much. Why you ask?"

"Well, I thought I heard some weird sounds last night…" Akihiko felt a jolt rush down his spine from what Junpei just said. Akihiko still held onto a straight face, knowing if he lost his composure, it'd make Junpei very suspicious.

"Okay, what was it you heard?" Akihiko asked.

"I thought you were saying 'Oh shit' or something like that." Responded Junpei. Akihiko needed to think fast.

"We were playing cards and I was saying Oh shit because Arisato was beating me three games in a row. I thought I was gonna win at one point until he did some last minute move that made him win." Akihiko quickly came up, glaring back at Minato to help convince Junpei with this charade.

"Mope all you want, senpai. You know I got you good." Minato said, sticking his tongue out at Akihiko, instantly picking up the act Akihiko was performing.

"W-well, I guess that answers that then. But, next time, could ya not get so competitive, senpai? Sounded like you were punching a wall from some banging I heard." Junpei sighed, walking away after talking to the boxer.

Akihiko closed the door and waited a few moments before going back to Minato. He plopped down next to Minato, letting out a breath.

"Damn, that was way too close." Akihiko said, rubbing the back of his neck.

"How'd you learn to act so well, senpai?" Minato said, chuckling a bit.

"You can't show fear to your enemies, be it shadows or in the boxing ring. You gotta learn how to keep a poker face on at all times." Akihiko said back, puffing out his chest in a display of pride. Minato just started poking at the side of his senpai's head repeatedly.

"Whatever you say, Aki."

"H-hey, it's true. Humph. Anyway, I gotta go get some clothes on and I'm starving from last night." Akihiko said, having a smirk from the last part after swatting away Minato's hand. Minato pulled Akihiko over before he got up to leave and planted another kiss on the muscular boxer's lips.

"Love you, Aki." Minato whispered.

"Love you too. You know, that reminds me: You gave me a pet name, and I still haven't given you one."

"I'm all ears….Aki." Minato teased.

"Um, how about…" Akihiko pondered for a minute. "Maybe Blue Pup?"

"Blue Pup?" Minato chuckled. "Why that?"

"Well, cause… you got beautiful blue hair and loves dogs so much. And you're cute like a puppy." Akihiko informed Minato, brushing the young boy's hair out of his face.

"Aw, that's sweet! I love it." Minato said, having a bigger smile come across his face. Akihiko pulled Minato in again to kiss and pulled him into a tight embrace.

"You're too cute with that smile of yours! I can barely handle it!"

It was about 9:20 AM as Akihiko walked down the stairs, in a different set of clothes. In the lounge was Yukari and Fuuka sitting at the table close to the kitchen, talking to each other. Junpei was playing a game along with Ken, who was looking through a comic on one of the couches. Mitsuru was sipping tea along with Aigis, sitting on the other couch. Shinjiro was standing in front of the message board near the front door office. Everyone had very little to do throughout the week since the storm had started. Though, it seemed as though the storm was passing, seeing as though the rain was not as hard as it has been since it all started and the sky wasn't cloaked in darkness today.

"Good morning, Akihiko-senpai." Fuuka said to him when she noticed him walk by.

"Morning, Yamagishi, Takeba." Akihiko said back, making a 'Hello' gesture.

"Morning, senpai. How's Minato-kun today?" Yukari asked.

"He's pretty much made a full recovery. I just asked him to still take things easy and relax so he doesn't relapse or anything." Akihiko said back to her, having a relieved smile that his Minato didn't have to keep suffering from his illness for much longer. Akihiko went back up the stairs to Minato's room.

"Doesn't it seem like this whole week has been the same routine happening, Fuuka?"

"What do you mean, Yukari-chan?"

"Well, Akihiko comes down later than he usually does, goes get food for Minato-kun, then leaves and doesn't come down for the rest of the day. That doesn't seem kind of weird to you?" Yukari said back. Fuuka tried to keep herself from fidgeting, remembering what Akihiko had confessed to her a while ago.

"I think it's just Akihiko-senpai trying to be a better friend and pass the time since he can't do the same exercise routine he would do every day."

"I still can't help but get a funny feeling about something…"

Meanwhile, the two boys were in Minato's room, when they heard Koromaru scratching at the foot of the door, whimpering to be allowed in. Akihiko walked over and when he opened the door, Koromaru dashed in without any sort of 'okay'. He immediately jumped onto Minato's bed and got onto Minato's lap. Minato laughed a bit and pet the energetic dog's head.

"Heh-heh, I told you that Blue Pup was a good pet name for you." Akihiko said to Minato. Minato picked up Koromaru and the dog started to lick Minato's nose. It really tickled Minato, but he liked that Koromaru was trying to make him feel better in his own doggy ways. Akihiko thought what was happening before him was too cute. He decided to take a picture of it on his phone. He made it his wallpaper.

"Have you ever seen how adorable you can be, my Blue Pup?" Asked Akihiko, showing Minato the picture. Minato started to blush lightly as he held onto Koromaru.

"How can you say stuff like that with a straight face?"

"Because I know it's true." Minato started to blush a deeper shade of red.

"It feels kind of weird hearing that from anybody, really."

"W-why's that?"

"Well, it's because I've been pretty much alone for ten years. I lost my parents, so I've jumped from place to place. People would know about the incident and all I'd get was pity. I'd try making friends wherever I went, but I'd end up leaving them every time. So I just decided to stop trying. I pretty much decided to turn off my feelings altogether. Everyone in every school I attended saw me as that one mute kid. A lot of the time I'd freak so many people out when they heard me say like one word or something. Only time I ever felt anything was through my music. I'd pretty much keep it my ears the moment I got out the front door." Minato was starting to have small droplets form in the side of his eyes.

"I didn't think that things would so drastically change when I came to this dorm. Especially finding out someone like me for some reason. I started to feel things again and I was frustrated for a long time because of it, since I thought that history would most likely repeat itself again." Minato was trying to fight back a choke forming in his throat from talking.

Akihiko suddenly pulled Minato into a very tight embrace.

"Please, don't feel like that. I've seen you suffer enough as it is. You don't deserve to feel like that at all." Akihiko whispered into Minato's ear.

"Akihiko… why… why did you even choose me of all people? I've always thought that of all people, you'd be with Mitsuru-senpai."

"Because you give me reason. Before I would fight so no one would lose any loved ones since I lost my little sister at a young age. Before, I was impressed by your potential for fighting. At first, I thought we'd just be friends. But at some point, when I saw you fight more and more, I started to see an unbelievably amazing combination of strength and beauty. I felt like you were going to be stronger than I thought was ever imaginable. But, I also felt like I saw anger every time." Akihiko held onto Minato even closer.

"I didn't know what the cause of it was, and no one else seemed to have even noticed. It made me so upset to see no one try to help you. I knew how it felt like to believe that you couldn't trust anyone with your feelings before. I would see you alone so much at school, or go right to your room without saying a word to anyone. And when I saw you with someone, you would seem out of it, seeming… annoyed or something. I wanted to try to talk to you to see if I could help, but I felt something stop me. I was confused as to why, that is until I started to think of the real possibility. Soon after, trying to figure out a way to get a smile to come to your face completely took over my thoughts." Akihiko was now having droplets come out of his eyes.

"When…when I saw that smile for the first time when you were really sick, I never felt so happy in my entire life. Knowing that I got to be the one to bring such a joy-filled smile made me feel so special. I felt like… I was meant to be the one to bring joy back into your life. Just like I felt like you'd be the one to do the same for me." Akihiko told Minato through tear filled eyes and a smile across his face. Minato wrapped his arms around Akihiko tightly this time, burying his face into Akihiko's chest until he pulled back.

"You are, Akihiko! You really do make me feel so happy and loved and protected. Because, the truth is… I never thought that I'd have a purpose for staying alive…"

"What?!"

"I felt like for so long that there wasn't a point to anything. I felt like I was just someone in the background. Someone who'd lose everything soon after getting it, being fooled for believing that I found something that made things worthwhile." Minato grabbed onto Akihiko's hand and started to squeeze it.

"I… I never told anyone this, but… the first day I awoke to my Persona Orpheus, I wasn't paying attention to what Yukari was doing when the shadow attacked us on the roof. I was so scared until I noticed her Evoker on the ground. I thought it was a normal gun, so I thought that it was my chance to end everything right then and there by my own hand. So when I thought that I was one of the few that could fight against these monsters, I thought for the first time that I had a purpose. That is until I thought what we were doing meant absolutely nothing. I knew I would never get a chance, so I tried getting the shadows to kill me."

"M-Minato!"

"I thought that you guys would see something was up if I just stood there and did nothing and jump in at the last second to help me, so I tried to put on a little act. Especially because I didn't want any of you to die. But, every time I got close to death, someone would always save me. It made me so mad for the longest time." Minato had streams of tears flowing down his cheeks.

"That is until I started seeing your concern for me in battle. I decided after that to try to stop. And because I decided to stop, I got to be with you, Akihiko. I got to fall in love and be with Akihiko, because… because… you saved my life, Akihiko. You're my guardian angel!" Minato looked up at Akihiko, smiling at his senpai even with the tears cascading forth.

"M-Minato, I'm… I'm so sorry! I should've noticed and helped you so much sooner!" Akihiko wrapped Minato as close to him as he possibly could, waves of guilt rushing through him.

"You're not to blame for anything, Akihiko. What matters is that you're here with me right now, and… and thank you… for choosing me," Minato barely hiccupped out.

Akihiko went down and kissed Minato and put in the kiss as much love he possibly could, wanting for Minato to never doubt his feelings for the younger boy.

"I love you, Minato. So much that you'll never be alone again."

"I love you with all my heart, Aki. I don't have to be scared with you next to me.

The two of them didn't expect for the day to take this kind of turn, but they were so thankful that they had absolutely nothing to hide from each other ever again. They also didn't expect for someone to be aware of what just happened. Standing in front of Minato's door was Junpei. Junpei had come up when he heard Koromaru bark from Minato's room. He figured that Minato was asleep again and didn't bother to think of the possibility of Akihiko still being in there. Earlier, Junpei had slightly opened the door without anyone noticing, but he instantly stopped when he heard Minato talking. He heard everything the two had said to each other. He heard when Minato told Akihiko how he felt weird hearing the things Akihiko would say to him. Junpei had heard every single word from there. Junpei backed away from the door slowly and walked a little bit away.

"D-damn… Never would've guessed that either of them were really like that." Junpei muttered to himself. He left and went back to the lounge.

To be continued.

[Oh my god, writing this along with the song I was listening to made me so close to tearing up myself. T-T]