Blackeclipse: Alrightie then~, here goes a chapter of when they are on the beach~
Disclaimer: I do not own bleach……-begins to cry-
Chapter 10: Summer in Winter,
When Serein opened her door, there appeared an excited Yukari,
"We're going to the beach!!"
Serein blinked, did she sleep that long that she had skipped the whole year and woke up at summer??
"….Huh?" She asked her.
"Come on and get packed!!"
Before she knew it, she was already in a boat setting sail for Mitsuru's beach house and her father's residence,
"Wow….look at the huge ocean! It's huge man! Huge!!!" Junpei called out as he looked out to the sea,
"Uaaah…~" Fuuka exclaimed as she looked far out as well,
"Uuuggghhhh….." Shinjiro grunted, complaining from the heat, "Damn this heat….it's not winter here, there's something wrong with the weather…"
Akihiko laughed, "Hahaha, Shinji, in this part, they don't have winter…"
"I don't freakin' care." Shinjiro muttered angrily,
Serein sighed as she leaned on the railings, "Why don't you remove your pea coat and winter clothes??"
Shinjiro gave her a glare, "HAH? And what makes you think I'll follow you, Leader?"
"Either that or have a heat stroke,"
"Tch." Shinjiro muttered as he looked away, then he noticed someone else looking at him. It was Minato, "What do you want Arisato??"
"…..You're here…"
"?? HAH? Of course I am, sheesh, you and Aries are alike at times…" Somehow when he said that, he felt a slight jealousy for some reason, Akihiko did to but chose to ignored it.
Things really are different… Minato said as he looked around the boat, the whole event changed, even the place and season…even the people…A smile appeared from Minato's face, he was happy, …I wish…When I first came here, it went like this…
Minato?
Minato's eyes widened as he jolted, he looked to see Serein looking at him,
"W—what is it?"
"You're smiling for no reason…what's going on in your head?"
"*sighs*" he was glad she didn't hear the rest of his thoughts. "It's nothing, I just like…uhh….the lake."
"Ocean."
"Ocean.." He smiled again to her, and did too, have a slightly chuckle which easily caught the attention of Akihiko and Shinjiro who looked at both of them.
"What's so funny guys?" Akihiko asked with a smile, "You're both pretty quiet"
They both replied with a grin, "It's a secret."
Which left Akihiko out of words again and Shinjiro feeling sick,
++++++++++++Kirijo Residence++++++++++
"This so….so…so…….WOW…..!" Junpei's eyes widened from just the look of the entrance of the Kirijio's residence,
"This is so wow'?...Tch…lame…" Shinjiro remarked as he looked away,
"I can't believe sempai is this rich……!" Yukari and Fuuka both said as they looked up, Minato too, even though he did come here before, it still amazed him.
Serein on the other hand, wasn't that surprised, she knew her most respected Senior was this rich, "It's beautiful…" she just said.
Akihiko was looking around, looking up at the balcony's ceiling, "Why is it…….so tall….??"
"It seems you have come here precisely at the time I expected…" A manly voice came from the door,
"Father, good after noon to you….." Mitsuru said politely, greeting her father, who looked like a general and had a eye patch as well.
Everyone froze, know they knew where her intense aura was inherited.
"Kirijo, Takeharu……It's a pleasure meeting you, I am Mitsuru's father…" He introduced himself, "You must be the S.E.E.S. members, keep up the good work with your duty…."
"A—ah, y—yeah…..Thanks," Junpei replied. "Um, Well, sin--"
"I am very busy," Mitsuru's father said before hearing what Junpei had to say, he turned around. "I have some important matters to attend to, so please enjoy your stay here for awhile till I return…." And in other words, he just left.
"…………………"
Akihiko turned his eyes to look at Mitsuru, he could hear her sigh a bit, and looked down at the floor as well.
"…..Don't mind it….he's always like that…." Mitsuru said to the others, knowing they heard her too.
"Kirijo-sempai…." Yukari muttered worriedly.
+++++++++++++++++BEACH+++++++++++++++++++++++++
"Ta~ dah~! And here commence our fashion show!!!" Junpei announced pathetically as the boys gathered in the beach, "Come on Aki-sempai! Minato~!!"
"Shut up Junpei! We're coming!" Akihiko called out, he sighed, "sheesh……" he turned to Minato who seemed to looking around, as if he was searching for something…..or someone. "Arisato, is there something wrong?"
Minato turned to his senior, silver eyes looking at him which made Akihiko pause for a bit,
"THERE'S NO FUCKIN' WAY IN HELL I'M GOING OUT THERE!!!!!!!!" Shinjiro's frustrated voice yelled out as they saw Junpei being punched to the ground and stepped on by him.
Shinjiro was forced to be in his swim suit, just trunks without his beanie hat, it made him somehow feel self-conscious.
Oh, and one more thing.
Shinjiro hates to swim.
"Come on Shinji, the sea can't be that bad" Akihiko smirked as he approached him,
"It ain't fuckin' scared of the freakin' sea…." Shinjiro snapped at him,
"Huh? Oh they're here already…"
"Huh?" Akihiko and Shinjiro both looked behind them, as Junpei rose up like a zombie, liking the sounds he heard, and Minato walking to his side.
"You guys are really fast in changing…" Yukari said as she came in with Fuuka,
"Wow~ Yuka-tan~….you look so awesome~!!!" Junpei said, "Yo, we have our contestant no. 1~!"
"What the heck is that???" Yukari asked irritatedly,
"Yukari-chan, have you seen Aries-chan?? She isn't here…yet…" Fuuka said blushingly as she approached them.
"Eh~ Fuuka-chan is so cute~!" Junpei gave her the weird smile, "And it looks like you are very, very slim~!"
"E—Eh?!" Fuuka blushed.
While Shinjiro and Akihiko sighed, another of Junpei's stupid hobbies, flirting, Junpei continued on,
"Alright! Fuuka-chan's contestant no. 2~!" Junpei smiled,
"E—Eh!?...w—what…??" Fuuka gasped as she hid behind Yukari,
"? What's wrong?" Mitsuru asked, as she entered,
"WOW……SEMPAI…." Yukari's eyes widened,
"UAAAHHHH….!" Fuuka looked at her in amazement, Mitsuru was very beautiful in her swim suit.
"Sempai, your just amazing…amazing!!" Junpei blushed as he drooled to see her,
"O—Oy…!" Mitsuru blushed a bit,
"Kirijo-sempai's contestant no. 3~~~~~….!!!!" Junpei looked like having a nosebleed for some reason. "Hey, hey!! Where's Serein-chan!? Huh!? Huh!?!?!"
"Be quiet, I---I---I'm coming already….." Serein's voice could be heard as she approached the, she left her hair flow, and pushing her bangs away with a flower,
Everyone froze, she rivaled Mitsuru, Shinjiro and Akihiko both looked to see why the sudden silence, and somehow wished they hadn't.
Their eyes widened a bit, and their mouths were left open, their faces redden,
"W—What's everyone looking at???" Serein blushed, feeling awkward.
Shinjiro scowled as he moved his head away to avoid looking at her, his face all flushed up.
Akihiko didn't know what to say, but in his mind, he just wished he didn't look stupid to make his reactions noticeable, because he doesn't know what I looks right now.
Minato too was surprised, he looked at himself, then her. I can't believe that the 'me' who would be a girl……was so hot…
"Amazing, Sempai and Aries-chan…are just amazing…" Fuuka said in total defeat, Yukari just nodded in returned.
"Bing bing!! We have a winner!! Hug me Serein-chan~!!" Junpei called out as he went towards her to give her a hug,
Serein just moved to the side, leaving Junpei to fall flat on the sandy ground.
"You okay??"
"no`….."
"Good…"
====A few minutes later===
As the girls played in the beach, and Mitsuru reading as book under a beach umbrella,
Although Serein stayed at the shallow part, she didn't want to go beyond that.
Akihiko was once again captured by Junpei's extremely stupid questions, Shinjiro had to cool off as well, before he would kill and tear Junpei's guts off.
"So Sempai, doesn't Serein-chan look awesome?" Junpei grinned as he kicked some sand, "Fuuka-chan and Yuka-tan looks great, but man oh man! Kirijo-sempai and Serein-chan together?! That's one hot day!"
Akihiko blushed a bit. "………"
Junpei smiled, "So, you think she's hot too right?"
Akihiko suddenly felt himself nod, WHAT THE?! MY BODY JUST MOVED!!!!
Junpei, though, felt victory, the kind that feels like you have won over the last shadow.
"Ahaha!! I knew it!!!"
Akihiko got pissed, "Shut it!! They'll hear you!!" he looked to the sea and sighed from relief, they were still playing around, till his horror rose.
He didn't see Minato.
…..He looked behind him.
Minato was looking at both of them.
"DEH…!?" Akihiko mouth jolted.
"M-MINATO!?" Junpei gasped when he noticed his Sempai's reaction.
Minato just looked at them, To think…that my other self which is a girl…. Will also have many suitors…. Not to mention, I never expected Sanada-sempai to fall in love with the girl version of me……. It somehow feels………………………scary. In my point of view.
"T—this is…!" Akihiko knew there were no other words that would fit anything best, and he sighed. "….uhh."
"It's alright, I knew already." Minato grinned.
"?!"
Junpei sighed, "Phew, Sempai……the silent types…are always scary…"
Akihiko had to agree with that. "…Just please, don't tell…"
"Don't tell what? Huh? Aki??" Shinjiro's voice suddenly joined in as he joined the guy's group, feeling weird on being the only guy at the sea.
Akihiko lied, "It's nothing Shinji,"
Shinji knew he was lying. "Tch…whatever" but didn't choose to force it out from him.
It wasn't long before Junpei destroyed the mysterious setting again,
"Let's go on a chick hunt!"
And in no time, Shinjiro and Akihiko punched him to the ground,
"…Is he dead?" Akihiko asked plainly.
Shinjiro kicked the head of Junpei slightly, "…..wait…" Shinjiro stepped on Junpei's face once more and buried him with sand. "…Now he is…."
Meanwhile,
"Hey look, they're burying Junpei-kun!" Fuuka smiled, thinking of it as a game.
Yukari smiled, "Hey Junpei! That look suits you!!" she called out.
"…??" Before Serein could also response to the happy occasion, she felt like someone's watching her. She looked around,
Minato felt it too, he and Serein made eye contact, "…Don't mind it too much…"
Serein nodded a bit, knowing he knew what might come next,
Minato nodded in return, but felt something weird…..it wasn't the same as before but….
………………The sound of the waves and laughter of the S.E.E.S. members, not to mention Junpei's tormented screams have made him calmer, the feeling had both left the Wild Card wielders.
=======================2 hours later========================
After for awhile, the S.E.E.S. have went into groups to look around the island, and this part, somehow, was very different.
"Hey Serein!! Where are you Serein?! Serein!!" Yukari called out but to no avail,
"I wonder where could she have gone??" Fuuka asked worriedly as Mitsuru finished talking with the Chairman, that somehow appeared out of no where and talked about something coming up as the new members of the S.E.E.S.
Serein somehow was always a loner, and there she was relaxing under a tree as the wind blows,
She smiled up as she looks at the leaves covering her from the heat, it was somehow very peaceful here. She somehow wished she brought a book or her sketch pad, and she was now regretting on leaving her mp3 player and headphones at her room,
Then she heard something, footsteps? Perhaps it was them, she didn't really care, she was slowly being absorbed into a nap, so let them c—
"…I have found you….." A voice came, it was a guy's voice.
Serein slowly let her eyes open, a guy in white and black pants was before her, but with weird metallic and a weird kind of headphones that were tilted to his back. (Like Aegis design but it wasn't like in a form of a head band,)
She soon found her eyes to look into deep ocean blue eyes, she soon found out this wasn't human, but this was somehow an android, it was obvious.
"??" Serein fully opened her eyes. "Who are you?"
"…..Your protector…" He replied.
"HAH?"
My what..??? Serein thought of it as a joke, but it seems he isn't joking.
"Raigis, desu….." He introduced himself as Raigis, and be bowed politely, he seemed so perfectly human, and Serein was a bit confused. "Brown long wavy hair. Red crimson eyes. Female. Sensing incredible energy source within her. Without a doubt. I have found my goal……"
"Um..I shall say it again…Hah??" she asked again,
"There's no need to worry, Aries-san" a calm and carefree voice of the chairman came in,
Serein turned to see him, "Chairman Ikutsuki."
"Serein!!" Yukari called out as the other followed, "Woah…Serein, do you know this guy?" she asked in surprise, and also wanted to add 'Oh my gosh, a hottie in a hot beach~!' but she rather die.
Serein shook her head.
"Eh?!" Fuuka gasped in surprise.
"Allow me to explain, this is the 2nd model from the Kirijo company that was made to help fight against shadows, he too has a persona…" Mitsuru came up in an orderly fashion, again that astonished them all.
"Persona? A android?" Serein asked her. But it wasn't answered from the numerous questions that Fuuka and Yukari begins to flood in.
"………………………." Raigis was just looking at Serein.
"………………………." Serein was looking somewhere else. He's watching me…I just know it……………Great……………a body guard…………….
Meanwhile,
"Junpei, what's the meaning of this?!" Akihiko yelled out to the young kouhai,
Junpei sighed in return as well, "I don't know either….Sanada-sempai…"
Shinjiro smirked. "Keh. Told you it would be a painful waste of time….they just don't listen don't they Arisato?"
Minato wasn't really paying attention to any of them, he was still looking for something out in the open, he clenched his fist a bit, Anytime now……she has to be here……
"Oy ARISATO! You listenin'?!" Shinjiro snapped at him,
"!?! Ah…sorry about that Aragaki-sempai." Minato thought he was going to have a heart attack then,
"Uwah…~" then suddenly, words Minato was eager to hear, he turned to see Junpei looking at the girl by the deck, and Akihiko asking him what was wrong.
"Who's that?" Shinjiro asked.
"Ai—I mean…I…I..I don't know…" Minato quickly covered as he looked at them, "Hey, guys, I'll ask her something so wait here okay?"
Junpei was astonished, "Woah dude! I never knew you were that---"
"I'm going to ask her what time is it….." Minato said plainly which Shinjiro and Akihiko knew was a lame excuse. But they followed him anyway,
Minato walked to the deck as the other boys hide behind a huge rock,
The girl had blonde hair, adorned with a light blue dress as she looked back at him with deep blue ocean eyes, she had the same design headphones things as Raigis.
However it was different this time, she wore it like a headband,
And they knew each other.
"Minato-san!" She said out loud, but before she went to hug him, he shook his head.
"Not here…Aegis…" He looked at her firmly, making sure he was not heard, his voice was low and silent, it was a good thing the sound of the crashing waves were loud enough. "Not here…"
Aegis looked to the rock into where the others were hiding, and she noticed Shinjiro which had surprised her. But she knew that the times has change, and she can't afford to ruin what Minato had done,
"Pretend you don't know me…And let's just take it from there…" Minato instructed her with a smile. He then added, so it would not add any suspicion "Say, do you like the ocean?"
Aegis looked at him, and blinked. "It is understood." "Ocean?....It is very wide and made of liquid substance populated by sea creatures, the ocean is 75 % of the earth…..In other words I cannot state if I like or dislike how it is…."
"Is that so?......" Minato grinned at her gently, "It's been a long time…."
Aegis nodded a bit, then she looked to the others, then back at him, "Arisato, Minato, 2nd year in Highschool, a Leader of the S.E.E.S…..I have located you….."
"Located?" Minato asked questioningly.
"Located'?? Dude, this girl is weird…!" Junpei stated as Akihiko his the back of his head for him to quiet down. "Ow!"
"Ssh!" Akihiko told him as Shinjiro watched them both.
Before they knew it, the sound of the other girls were fast approaching,
"Ah, it seems they also found the 1st model…" The Chairman's voice was like a fire alarm to Akihiko and Junpei.
"Chairman!?" Akihiko gasped as he jumped up, then behind him, he saw everyone gather, even Minako and the guy beside her.
Minato and Aegis to came, if you would compare the pairs, with was scary.
Minato's eyes widened to see Raigis, and it was the same thing when Serein saw Aegis.
"Minato, who's that?? She looks just like Raigis…!"
"I am Aegis, desu."
"S—SHE can even communicate like us this way!?"
"Wait, first, the first question….I was going to ask you the same thing with the one you call Raigis, and 2nd….I shall explain later.."
It was like a panic attack in the 3's minds, which made the group grow silent.
"Chairman, they are??" Akihiko began to ask.
"Oh, this is the 1st model, made to fight along side and a protector of the leader of S.E.E,S, and the young man that looks like her is the 2nd model…however, it seems they have their own sensors in sensing the leaders don't they? Ahahah!" the Chairman smiled, as he gestured his hand to the 2 androids.
"Aegis desu," Aegis introduced herself to all of them,
"Raigis desu," Raigis too did as well, they were like twins to be honest, but Raigis seemed like her older brother,
"Sugoy…. I never knew that androids could even contain personas….!" Fuuka said in amazement. (Sugoy= Amazing)
Yukari began to sigh, "Ikutsuki-san…is there any other surprises you are going to pop up this time??"
Then suddenly something hit the Chairman's mind, "Don't pop out the sigh with a pop out fish! Bwaahaha!---!" before everyone went pale with a lame joke, Mitsuru went infront of him.
"Anyhow, there are still a few hours left till sunset, I shall accompany the Chairman to my father's residence, in the meantime, all of you please have a good time…" Mitsuru said, having the affect of hearing a nonsense joke from the Chairman clearly shown by her tone.
+++++++++++Beach+++++++++++++++++++++++
"GAH!!! NO! NO YUKA-TAN!! NO!! N—BWAAAAHHHH!!!!" Junpei was helpless as the Yukari pounded his back in the water when he accidentally made her swallow salt water.
"Alright everyone!!! This is our chance for an All-Out-Attack!!" Yukari called out with a smile as Fuuka joined in.
"BWAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!" Junpei screamed pathetically as he was drived down the water, having the thought of 2 hotties in the beach with you is nice…but somehow…for them to drown you….is a bit scary as well.
"Kh….just how long do we have to stay under this damn heat..?!" Shinjiro complained as the sun beated his head.
"About 3 hours, 32 minutes and 46 seconds…." Raigis and Aegis both said at the same time.
"Shit…" Shinjiro muttered as he stood up and went towards the water where the breeze was colder.
Serein was being pulled towards the water by Yukari beside him, she felt like killing her now.
"I said I can't swim!! Hey let go!!" Serein struggled to say,
"Come on Serein! You're the leader so it is impossible for you not to know how to swim!!!" Yukari smiled, "Come on!! We are drowning Junpei! Come and join us!!"
"Yukari!!!" Serein was now helpless as she was being dragged deeper and deeper to the water.
In the meantime, Akihiko was watching from under the beach umbrella and smiled, "They seem to have a great time killing Junpei there…….?" Akihiko noticed the silence over whelms him as he looked down at the sitting, deep in thought Minato.
"Hey, Arisato….what's wrong?" Akihiko asked him.
"??—Oh…It's nothing." Minato shook his head at his Senior, as he returned his gaze to Aegis. He looked to Raigis next who seemed to be watching Serein's every move,
"Minato-san…may I ask…Who is that girl?" Aegis began to ask him as she looked at the same direction tactically,
"She's me, in this life……She's this time's protagonist……"
"So she's you…?"
"Yes."
"…But then…Why am I here?"
"……It's the same thing with me…It seems, when my life was reborn, it changed thanks to my gender here…For me, turning to her, it somehow changed events…We even made an Arcana…."
"So everything would be different?.......... I can't deny the fact it is, Aragaki, Shinjiro shouldn't be here at this time yet … And our meeting place and events seem to have changed as well…"
"It is because, she's writing the story now…"
"..??"
"…Or rather…We…Are writing a new story now……" Minato began to grow a smile, remembering the times he was in Serein's room, making that new Arcana. "……To be able to change events before things happen…I could…No…We could avoid deaths from happening before they occur…It is like… A second chance…"
"…A Second Chance…" Aegis repeated, then she began to smile. " I remember, my last days in the Velvet Room……. Elizabeth would tell me that I could still fulfill my promise to you… and it seems she was right……."
"Aah…" Minato closed his eyes, feeling the summer breeze, and the sounds of laughter, the cursing of Shinjiro, the sigh of Akihiko and the screams of Junpei seemed so nostalgic. Minato's eyes slowly opened again, softly. "……I couldn't have had a better life like this……"
Aegis looked at Minato and smiled as well, "Hai…" she replied softly, then she turned to her other self as well, Raigis. …Being my other self, will he too come to the same tasks I fulfilled…?
Raigis felt her eyes and looked at her, "…What is wrong?"
She shook her head, "No, there is nothing wrong."
"I see." Raigis went on back to watch Serein again, it seems like he is only focused on his task.
Aegis knew exactly how it felt, before she met Minato, she was, just a robot, an android, with no emotions, but as she grew closer to them, then things become clearer,
She knows that Raigis too will discover this, and also to feel the same delight and pleasure as she did with the others before, she knows that he will also feel pain and suffering, but it is all a part of living.
"?!!" Raigis's eyes suddenly widened as he stood up, before Minato, Akihiko and Aegis asked what was wrong,
"SEREIN!? SEREIN!!!" Yukari cried out.
"ARIES-CHAN!!!" Fuuka screamed.
"SEREIN!" Junpei did as well as it seems, it was revealed that they had ventured to far off the from the shore to some of the deeper parts, and some of the waves has engulfed Serein within the water. "Oy!!! Where are you!?!"
"Shit! The hell were you guys even thinking?!" Shinjiro called out, but before he went to the water he froze, he too recalled that he couldn't swim.
Akihiko and rest ran beside him, "What's going on?!"
"Those damn brats brought the kid to the deepest parts, and now a wave just swallowed her whole…!" Shinjiro told Akihiko as Raigis ran pass them.
"Wait idiot!! Aren't you a andro---!?!" Before Akihiko halted Raigis, he was already running swiftly above the water and began to dive in. "…T—that's…!"
"We androids of this model are made to be exactly human like….meaning we are water proof from both in and outside…" Aegis has explained to him,
"I'm going in as well!!" Minato said to them as he ran in, but only to trip and also drown in water, Aegis had to come up to him and pull him up too. "*Cough* *cough*!!....Thanks, Aegis…"
"Please be reminded that you too couldn't swim." Aegis reminded him.
"Then I shall go in and help as well!!" Akihiko said as he ran off to Yukari, Fuuka and Junpei were and began to dive in too.
Shinjiro felt useless there though, "Shit.."
"This is my fault, this is all my fault!!" Yukari blamed herself for this,
"Yukari-chan, no it isn't!!" Fuuka tried to calm her down but it wasn't helping, Junpei too blamed himself for this, and her.
"SHUT UP STUPEI!" Yukari slammed her fist to his face.
_______Underwater____
K…Kh…!... Serein opened her eyes, water, she was under water, and she didn't know how deep she went off, but it seemed really far.
She panicked at first, until she learned she loses more breath that way, she looked up and saw the sun's light was sparking in the water, rippling and beautiful.
………………
She felt her breath running out, but she didn't seem to be scared anymore.
She opened and close her eyes again, the light that seeped within the waters, and the blueness of it's waters.
It felt like she wanted to rest in this unknown world, it felt so nostalgic to her, till she remembered her time when she was young.
She let her body sink deeper and deeper to the water, till mouth opened slightly, letting her see bubbles floating out,
Honestly, it felt like flying here, it wasn't scary.
…………………………….
She could hear something from above.
"SEREIN-CHAN!!! SEREIN-CHAN WHERE ARE YOU!?!"
….Yukari….? She thought, recognizing it, but the sound was so faint that she knew she was too far from the surface.
The day was weird, happiness, then it suddenly twisted into this.
But somehow. She was happy to be in this thing. She didn't know why.
Her eyes was feeling heavy, as it slowly closes, she saw something going towards her,
She absentmindedly reached out for it,
She saw blue, deep ocean blue eyes that blended with the water, it was glowing, and a smile arose from the handsome face of Raigis that darted towards her,
Then her eyes closed as she drew out her last breath and as Raigis grabbed hold of her and boosted up like a torpedo
Akihiko gasped for air as he came out of the water,
"Did you find her!?" Fuuka asked frantically, but before he could reply, something burst out from the water and landed at the shore, everyone rushed to the thing that landed at the shore's deck.
It was Raigis, he looked at them, then putting Serein gently down the ground, she was pale.
"Sona….!" Yukari covered her mouth, "She's…She's not…!!"
Fuuka panicked, "S—Someone….Someone call the Chairman!! Sempai!! Anyone!!!"
"Shit…!!" Shinjiro cursed as he looked away, "I'm going ahead to call Kirijo!!" he said as he ran off.
"I'm coming with you!!!" Minato and Junpei replied as they ran with Shinjiro out of the beach, Aegis also followed them, as Yukari broke down and cried.
"I…I should've have forced her to play with us!!!" Yukari cried out,
"Yukari-chan….!" Fuuka was also beginning to cry as they looked at Serein.
Raigis though seemed calm as he looked at her, then he got hold of her gently.
"Wait…Raigis-kun, what are you going to d--!?" Before Fuuka asked, and Yukari asking the same thing, and also Akihiko, Raigis had planted his mouth to hers,
"What the!?!" Akihiko gasped, his hands clenching.
When Raigis removed his mouth from hers, Serein began to cough out water,
"*Cough* *Cough*!!! *cough!* *cough!!!!*" Serein coughed, but she wasn't opening her eyes,
Yukari and Fuuka felt relieved, while Akihiko had a mixture of jealousy and gratefulness.
"She's alright…However she had swallowed a lot of water…She needs some rest." Raigis said, somehow he felt strange after doing that, but he chose not to mind it.
"Aries!!!" The Chairman called out with the rest, and it seemed they though gave out a sigh, seeing to it that she was breathing, "We have to bring her inside now….Raigis!"
"Understood." He replied as he already carried her in his arms and darted off back to the Kirijo residence with the Chairman and Mitsuru, Akihiko, Yukari, Fuuka and Junpei soon followed them as well.
"Come on Aegis, will go with them t--"
"Don't worry……I'm alright Minato…"
Before Minato ran of after them, and brought along Aegis with him, Serein's telepathic voice both rang within them,
They both felt relieved, "…What's wrong? I can swim…" Minato asked her.
"………I can swim actually……but let's say, when I go deeper and deeper within the waters…I get trauma and my body wouldn't move……"
Aegis felt herself blink again with confusion, Serein's voice didn't shake.
"Aren't you scared when that happened? When you were within the depths of the water?" Aegis began to ask her which caught the attention of Minato.
First there was silence, nothing from her, Minato thought that Aegis question was somehow hurtful, but then, he could feel Serein take a breath.
"………I wasn't scared at all…………It felt……so…."
"So?..." Aegis asked. Curiously,
"………………It felt so Peaceful there……it's like Death……a weird death if Raigis wouldn't have saved me………It was scary at first but then……I become aware of my surroundings………and till……I began to feel so calm………So peaceful……Like I was close to something………Close into 'grasping'……that……'thing'."
"…And what is that thing?"
"Aegis…" Minato halted her, but Aegis did not respond.
"……I don't know……I don't know what is that 'thing' that I was about to 'grasp'……Perhaps…"
"Perhaps?"
"Aegis!!" Minato said louder, but still she did not respond.
"It's alright Minato……She's just asking anyway."
"However!...." Minato then shifted his attention to Serein's voice.
"……I felt like I have felt or knew this, or gone through it all over again…this 'thing' that I was about to 'grab' hold on…………Ugh…Now my head hurts…I'll take a rest.."
"Ah…Okay…………Hey Serein?"
"………………………"
"Serein?" Minato called out again, but he felt her silent, and at rest, he sighed. "….We both know what she meant……Don't we Aegis?"
Aegis looked back at him sadly, and nodded, "Yes….Very much."
He nodded back and casts his eyes down to the ground. "….The Answer….."
++++Hours Later….+++++++++Bedroom+++++++++++++++
Serein reached out her hand to the light of the room as she stayed in the….enormous and a very, very soft bed.
It seemed like she had woken up, and her head ached a bit with the long distance and unconscious telepathical conversation she had with 2 people at once, before, when it was only to Minato she didn't have a headache, she was still practicing, it seemed it must be a su----
"Sheesh…Your finally awake!" A harsh and annoyed voice had stopped her thoughts, before she to the side, she felt something shoved to her face.
"?!!—bwah--!" Serein sat up and removed it to see Shinjiro looking at her, she looked at the thing shoved to her, it was her clothes, a simple long english shirt and shorts, "?...Aragaki-sempai.."
"Hurry up and get dressed you little b---bb---i---t---….Ugh…!" Shinjiro scratched his neck again, he can't say it. "…Just get dressed!! The others are worried sick, and Takeba is looking like the suicidal self again and Iori looked like you just died, and also the two have been arguing like cats and dogs and are bound to kill each other by just yelling and glaring contests, Yamagishi is frantically worried and I'm getting pissed off by now because I have been worried sick…!!!" Shinjiro shut his mouth, but it was too late, his face went red when he saw Serein blinked and looked at him. SHIT…SHIT! SHIT SHIT!!!
"How about Raigis, Minato and Aegis?" Serein asked him, having no clue why he's so red. "Do you have a fever??"
"I-IDON'T HAVE A SHITTY OL' FEVER!" Shinjiro yelled out at her,
"Sheesh…. Alright, alright you don't..!" Serein said with a sigh.
++++++++++++++Lobby+++++++++++++++++++
"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Serein moved aside, missing Yukari's flying hug and cries as she towards her like Serein was some kind of shadow.
"~~~~~~------------------CHA~~~~~~~~~~~~~N-------~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
She moved to the opposite side again, avoiding the same thing but with Junpei.
Both of them, popular and idiot stayed at the floor, holding their faces with pain.
"……..You guys alright…..?" Serein asked them plainly.
"No~" They both replied.
"GOOD" Serein glared at both of them from behind.
Even though Yukari and Junpei cannot see it, they can feel her eyes and aura, like they are being stabbed so many times from behind, this is what you call, the aura of the Wild Card Wielder.
Or, their beloved Leader of S.E.E.S
"It's better for you two not to do that, she has just recovered from drowning…It was a good thing Raigis did CPR on you Aries… If not, it might have been too late." Mitsuru said from the sofa, standing up.
Raigis was beside Serein, (Somehow, popping out of no where), and he bowed his head slightly.
Serein blinked, "Oh he did?"
"YES HE DID….." Shinjiro and Akihiko both said at the same time, a heavy dark aura eminated from them, everyone just wonders what's going on through their heads.
Yukari and Junpei, who knows their feelings, Yukari knows Shinjiro loves Serein while Junpei knows Aki loves Serein, very much now realizes, with they realize that if Serein wasn't forced to be with them in the water, she wouldn't have drowned, if she wouldn't have drowned, Raigis wouldn't have done CPR.
They are now worrying about their m----
Yukari and Junpei suddenly felt another set of eyes piercing them, even more.
IORI………………………………………..TAKEBA………………….Shinjiro and Akihiko both glared at them, both thought at the same time.
OH SHOOT………………………..THEY FINALLY REALIZED IT………!!!!!!!!!!!!! Junpei and Yukari both shivered.
But the epic scene was broken when Takeharu, Mitsuru's father came in,
"I have someone, that one of you knows very well…" He said firmly, and another guy came in, with the same coffee colored hair as Yukari, although looking a bit fragile.
Yukari knows him very much, "O…TOU…SAN…!?" and her eyes begin to water and she stands up and runs towards him. "OTOUSAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"What the?! Yuka-tan's dad!?! Seriously!?" Junpei stood up as well as to his surprise, everyone had the same reaction.
Seriously, it was him.
Minato and Aegis both looked in shock. BUT…D—DIDN'T YUKARI'S FATHER JUST DIED….!?!!.. He went pale, everything was different. It was too different that he doesn't know what else to expect.
He was happy, he was happy that his girlfriend…well, he doesn't know if she is anymore, since she has forgotten.
Yukari's father came back, that he was alive.
But the very fact that, he did die when Minato was the protagonist, is where Yukari found strength, it is because of herself, seeing her father say he loved her before he died, gave he strength, made he stronger, and her persona had transformed.
DON'T TELL ME…THAT NOTHING…. Minato both feared 2 things.
is that everything shall seem so happy that, no one will evolve, no one will grow stronger, because conversions are not made, because through painful ordeals, after you have faced those, you will become stronger…
The second part is, what if, her father will die?.......But this time….for a more tragic death that she might……….and not only her…….
Minato looked at Mitsuru's father, at Shinjiro and the people that shall be affected, Akihiko, Mitsuru and he thought of Ken,
If the deaths, are going to be even more worst that it was in this time, much more now, the pain shall be endured.
He feared it, all these changes, all this new things that are happening, what if……
"?? Minato?" Serein noticed him. But before she called him again, Minato ran out. "MINATO!?!" Serein ran after him.
"Minato-san!!" Aegis called out as she ran with her, but before she exited, Raigis halted her by her arm.
He shook his head, "….I believe, when it comes to feelings of the Human heart…that is one thing we cannot protect them from….."
Yukari and the rest both looked surprised and worried.
"Arisato-san…." Fuuka muttered worriedly.
"…Minato-kun…?" Yukari said as well, the atmosphere grew silent, but soon, Junpei tried to cheer on the group, since her father was back.
That was the only thing, that has to be done.
Aegis knew why, Minato had run.
And it is her duty, or well as her promise with him to protect him.
But Raigis was right, she can't protect Minato from himself.
She looked at the S.E.E.S. group, smiling a bit, but she knew they were still all worried, she tried to cheer on a bit, making their impression on her a bit more positive,
…That's right……I can't be my old self anymore…Even with different ordeals…This is still, the second chance…I shall never get again. Aegis told to herself.
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