Minato sighed in annoyance as the three still didn't budge an inch. "Weaklings.." He muttered, kicking Junpei over to observe his condition. And it was pretty bad. He looked over at Yukari and she was as banged up as much as Hamuko.
He could easily heal them but he wasn't going to do that. He wasn't going to give these fools any sort of satisfaction at all. "I have to get back to Mitsuru, then I can call Akihiko to help me with these sacks of crap!" He spat, rolling the two towards the door of the monorail.
Minato sighed again as he rested Hamuko on his shoulder. He wished that he could throw her out of the train but that was a bit risky. Hamuko dying right now would spoil the entire mission.
"I'm giving a fucking piggy back ride to her!" He growled, grabbing a hold of Yukari's collar and Junpei's ankle. He looked around the totaled train once more time and let out a laugh, before making his way out.
"Excellent work," Nyarlathotep congratulated the fallen one. "Crack them from within."
"Oh I will," Minato snickered, not bothered a bit by Junpei and Yukari getting dragged across the ground. He was sick to his stomach because he had to carry Hamuko all the way back but oh well, this was a part of his plan as well.
Midway, Hamuko tightened the hold around his neck and let out a small whimper, like she was clinging onto Minato for dear life.
"TCH!" Minato growled, the intimacy pissing him off. "Grab a hold of yourself, you fucking weakling!"
Hamuko was still knocked out and she only ended up clutching him tighter which made Minato sigh. "Pitiful!" Regardless, he dragged the other two out of the station and stopped just as he spotted the senior redhead who was passed out as well.
Minato released the grip on Junpei and Yukari and tried to throw Hamuko off of him but surprisingly, Hamuko held onto him, despite still being asleep. Like she was hugging a teddy bear during a nightmare.
"I wasn't as weak as this," Minato glared at her. "She's spoiling my image!" He stomped over to Mitsuru and snatched away her earpiece. He tried to power out of Hamuko's grip but to no avail. He could rip her arms off but then again, he wanted her alive.
"Akihiko?" Minato said on the earpiece.
"This is Akihiko. What's up?" The senior replied.
"You might wanna come quickly," Minato said slowly, trying to inject as much sorrow as possible. "... They failed..."
There was silence on the other side for a good minute until Akihiko broke it. "... I'll be there."
Hamuko finally lessened the grip around the fallen one and Minato threw her onto the ground. "Fucking finally!" He growled, turning around to face the weakling. "You are the most path-" He stopped midway as Hamuko was tearing up in her sleep once again.
Minato just shook his head and snickered. Banged up, bloodied and now crying. Could anyone get more pathetic than this?
"This is just a taste of things to come missy," Minato grin over her broken figure. Now to wait...
He gave a sigh and seated himself on the steps again.
Akihiko soon arrived and all hell broke loose. He actually started shaking and bit back the tears. Minato had never seen Akihiko like this, even when Shinjiro died, he wasn't as distraught as this but he couldn't blame him. The train did crash and kill people. Not that he gave a shit about it.
Minato again was forced to carry Hamuko and Junpei while Akihiko handled the rest. This would have been a lot easier if Minato didn't brutalize Ikutsuki but whatever, that asshole deserved it.
The two males arrived at the dorm barely seconds before the Dark Hour ended. They rested the injured persona users on the couches and began to clean up their wounds.
"I could heal them..." Minato said sadly. "But I'm too spent..." Another white lie.
"It's okay," Akihiko sighed, patching Junpei up. "I'm glad they are alive...
"Yeah," Minato bit his lip to stop the chuckle.
Minato sighed and walked up the steps, clearly satisfied at how the mission ended up for him. Soon, all of them would be waking up, enveloped in thick despair and they would feel a fraction of what he was feeling for the past few decades.
"I'm like 100 fucking years old now," Minato growled, looking at his body which was still the same as always. He clenched his fist. "I'm doing this shit for decades now!"
Soon, the door to his room opened and Minato suppressed a yawn and sat up to see who it was. It was Hamuko. She was busted up and still covered in blood, yet she was standing and made her way up the fucking stairs.
Minato looked over at her, fake as usual. "Are you okay?" He tried to step up and walk over to her but Hamuko spoke up.
"I'm sorry..." Her voice trailed off to a whisper. "I'm so sorry..."
Barely audible snicker.
"It's okay..." He bit his lip. "You did the best you could do." Those words sounded innocent but it made Hamuko wince.
"I won't leave you next time..." Minato said slowly and it surely made the redhead feel more pathetic. "It was my fault..." Another shot to her heart.
"NO!" Hamuko yelled out at him and Minato barely held back the urge to wring her neck in half. How dare she?
"It is all my fault!" She yelled again, not noticing the expression shift on Minato's features. "I should have been able to do it but I let my guard down! Someone attack me and the..." He dropped to her knees. "The train crashed!"
Eventually, she started tearing up again. How she failed the team, how she failed Minato. She was the reason that the monorail crashed and people lost their lives. All her fault.
Minato watched on for a few minutes, letting the entire event sink in. Days into the Journey and he already smashed Hamuko with just two strikes. This mission would be burned into her psyche forever but it still wasn't close to what he had endured.
"Bond,"
"Bond,"
"BOND!"
"Dammit!" Minato cussed inwardly, walking over to Hamuko and crouching to her position. He let out a deep breath and muttered a few cuss words as he shakily threw his arms around the battered redhead, locking her in some sort of an awkward hug.
"M-Minato-kun," Hamuko muttered, leaning onto his shoulder.
He suppressed another bitter sigh. This was making him sick to his stomach. "I-It's okay. Y-You made it out alive and I'm glad about that..."
"R-Really?" Hamuko muttered, getting close. Minato was about to puke and pull away but Nyarlathotep yelled at him once again, making the Fool release a barely audible growl.
"I-I wanna stay like this for a while," Hamuko murmured.
"..." Maybe a bond was a bad idea but then again, she had her chest pressed onto his own so it wasn't all bad. Minato resigned to his blasted fate and was still as Hamuko kept clinging onto him.
Did he feel warm at the fact that a really pretty girl was using him as support? Nope, not at all. She smelled kinda nice and had a nice figure and that was it.
Eventually, Hamuko pulled away and gave Minato a small smile which he returned, barely.
"Thank you, Minato-kun," Hamuko stood up, wiping her tears away.
"It's okay," Minato gave a cheesy smile, almost laughing at himself for what he was about to say next. "If you need an ear, just come to me.." DAMMIT!
"This is getting fucking ridiculous," He muttered to himself as Hamuko gave him a small bow and walked out of his room, somewhat at ease after the hug.
First things first, Minato burned the school uniform into ashes since it was wet from Hamuko's tears. Weakling tears. He despised that right now. He ended up flipping the bed over out of rage and let out a deep breath.
"Calm down," The demon said as Minato took a few deep breaths.
"That was fake as hell!" Minato spat.
"You've been a fake all your life," The Crawling Chaos shot back.
"True that..." Minato nodded. "I hate this sentimental crap like hugs and comforting each other. Screwing her is probably the only thing that will bring me some level of joy."
"You dislike her that much?"
"I dislike everyone of those assholes," Minato growled. "None of them remember. Trapped and chained at the end of the world with a beast to pound your face in! Nobody gives a damn!"
"You can end this cycle," The Faceless One spoke. "Just stomach her and create a bond and then everything will be solved."
Minato nodded again. "I will do just that."
...
Mitsuru called for a meeting in the command room. Minato was pleased to see that Ikutsuki was there as well. Oh well, he could have some fun with him to wash away the boredom.
Mitsuru sighed and massaged her temples. "... We failed our mission."
Hamuko looked to the side as the rest of the juniors glared at their own shoes.
"The monorail crashed and lives were lost," Mitsuru bit her lip. "The hospital was damaged a few days ago and I am sure this will throw the entire island into panic."
"Dammit," Hamuko cussed.
"I can't believe this," Akihiko sighed.
"Don't look at me like that bro," Junpei spat. "I did my best!" He looked over at Hamuko.
"What are you saying?!" Yukari growled, coming to the defense of her friend. "Hamuko was the one who finished the shadow off, not you!"
"She couldn't stop the damn thing and look what happened!" The capped teen shot back.
Minato was pleased to see the cracks already making themselves visible.
"Quiet!" Mitsuru spat with an icy glare, silencing the bickering juniors. "What done is done..."
"If senpai wasn't attacked them maybe this would have been avoided," Minato said with a low voice and Mitsuru bit her lip once again. Partly if she was able to hold whatever attacked her off, then maybe Minato would have stayed in the train.
"I was attacked too," Hamuko whispered. "Someone kicked me on the ribs and threw me out." Minato looked away to hide his smile.
"That's a bunch of bullshit!" Junpei spat.
"Shut the hell up, Junpei!" Yukari yelled on top of her lungs and the hostility levels kept rising.
"I SAID QUIET!" Mitsuru cut in once again.
Minato reached out and patted Hamuko who gave his hand a squeeze. "T-Thank you."
Too bad she didn't know. "No problem." He smirked.
"I should be the leader!" Junpei stood up. "The operation failed and we need a makeup!"
"You were about to run off," Minato shrugged. "Just saying.."
Junpei growled. "I would have finished that thing off!"
"At the cost of precious time, correct?" Minato smirked again. "I saved time. Be thankful!"
"It didn't do shit!"
"That's your fault," Minato shrugged, infuriating the capped teen to another level.
"Calm down, bro," Minato chuckled. "I won't leave you guys the next time..." He looked over at Mitsuru. "I just hope nothing attacks senpai again." The words hit Mitsuru hard as she turned away and stared out of the window.
"Are you saying we are weak!?" Junpei yelled at Minato who still smirked.
"Did you save the monorail?"
"It was Hamuko's fault! She isn't fit to be a lea-" This time, Yukari finally had enough. She stood up and slapped the capped teen hard on his face, resulting in a thick, suffocating silence in the command room.
"Did you just..." Junpei clenched his teeth.
"You fucking moron!" Yukari growled. "Look at Hamuko! She didn't do this on fucking purpose!" She pointed over at the auburn haired girl who was struggling to hold her tears back.
"Takeba, calm down and-" Yukari cut Mitsuru off this time.
"If you were strong enough then maybe this wouldn't have happened!" She spat the senior and Mitsuru couldn't respond to that. She ended up gritting her teeth and looking away again.
"I suggest we all calm down," Ikutsuki said through the pain.
"I agree. Chill out," Akihiko sighed.
Minato almost wished he had popcorn. The moments of silence prevailed in the room and everyone struggled to get their breaths out. Eventually, Mitsuru spoke up.
"I couldn't seem them very well," She looked over at Minato. "Arisato-kun, what did those assailants look like? Can you give me a description?"
Minato froze. They were two demons that Nyarlathotep had created to maim Mitsuru. He had no idea how to think of something so quickly but luckily, someone helped him.
"Brown hair,"
"Brown hair,"
"Styled like like some sort of helmet,"
"Styled like like some sort of helmet,"
"Brown eyes,"
"Brown eyes,"
"Fairly tall,"
"Fairly tall," Minato smirked, he did no know where the demon was going with this but he could tell it would be advantageous for them. He adopted a thinking pose and continued. "Yeah, that's it. He was crazy powerful and I emptied my SP in holding him off."
"You have my gratitude," Mitsuru said slowly. "I'll have the police look for him, in every corner!"
"Excellent," The Faceless One laughed.
Ikutsuki stood up once again. "Stop looking at the past and look forward. You all succeeded in defeating the shadows and I've heard reports that the Lost are returning to normal. It's not all bad news."
"Except for your legs," Minato spoke up. "What happened to you?"
Ikutsuki cringed. "Someone keeps attacking me..." He smiled this time. "But I'm sure it will never happen again."
Challenge accepted. "Good!" Minato smiled politely.
"M-Meeting dismissed," Akihiko spoke up and everyone sighed, glad that they were allowed to retreat into their rooms and wallow in self pity and despair. Minato was the only one smiling inwardly and now, he had a challenge to look forward to!
Like always, he altered his appearance and donned on a beanie and his usual blood stained jacket. He followed Ikutsuki's limo and hid himself just outside of his house. No guards this time but he could very well sense two other people in the house.
"Awww, cute," Minato sneered, making his way as Ikutsuki went inside. He bolted like a blur and ended up on the entrance, with a shotgun pointing right at his temple.
"Greetings!" The voice was cold and calm.
Minato hardened his body one again as the ever familiar false Messiah, Takaya grinned and pulled the trigger, unloading a bullet into Minato's skull.
"..." He still didn't go down and the bullet just bounced off harmlessly from his temple.
"How can thi-" Minato grabbed a hold of his throat and smashed him into the nearest window, and since Takaya was always shirtless, blood easily gushed out of his wounds.
"TAKAYA!" Jin was there as well. Minato easily lifted the cut up young man and snickered.
"Catch it," He whispered, throwing Takaya at the nerd. The two friends were sent crashing to the ground and Minato sighed again. Seriously, this was the challenge?
Takaya stood up and clutched his head in pain. "HYPN-" Minato didn't allow him a breather and he dashed ahead and screwed up his internal organs with a single hard punch. Takaya spat out a large quantity of blood and collapsed onto his knees, almost knocked out.
Jin tried to blast Minato with a grenade but Minato teleported in front of him, punched him as well, grabbed a hold of his grenade and threw it into his jumper. He smirked as Jin panicked to remove it but that didn't matter as the grenade exploding, surely scarring his body which would never be the same again.,
"Fucking Strega?" Minato had half a mind to kill them but he decided to let them live. More pain and suffering for SEES.
Ikutsuki was shivering in the corner, the plan had clearly backfired. Minato fixed his eyes on his favorite little bitch and fished his knife out. He twirled it around and he skipped over to Ikutsuki and crouched to his level.
Another feral grin.
...
...
Minato walked out of the house, after leaving some change in front of Ikutsuki who was yelling his lungs out but it was blocked due to a gag. "Poor sucker will never be the same again. He probably needs the cash."
The deranged fool laughed and teleported back into his room. He fist pumped. "I fucking love it!" The past 24 hours were awesome for him. Minus the whole hugging thing but oh well, their chests were still pressed so it wasn't all that bad.
I'm surprised you guys liked the last chapter. :P I was tensed as hell while writing that since I was waiting for my scores to arrive and yep, I did pretty fucking good. *fist pumps* otherwise, I would have locked myself in my bedroom for a year.
Anyway, cookies for whoever guesses what Minato did to Ikutsuki. The poor bastard. And two cookies for whoever guesses who the poor sucker with brown hair. See where I'm going with this?
Thank you a ton for the reviews. 100 reviews in 10 chapters in a record for me and I hope you guys keep at it. :P This fic will be shorter than most so keep on reviewing.
See the tensions rising? I love doing that and this will keep on happening. Yes, Minato does come off as crude and classless but that's exactly what he is. Kinda like Patrick Bateman in American Psycho. He won't go on killing sprees and screwing random girls but his insanity is pretty high right now and he's self centered as fuck.
Mina x Mina : Hahah, thanks! I'd like to point out though, the relationship will be mostly one sided and as you can see, its flirty responses and desperation from Minato to grow a bond and Hamuko's just being Hamuko. I also don't guarantee that it will be sane, maybe Minato develops some sort of twisted love? Who knows but yeah, fluffy moments will be coming, don't worry. :P
MinaxLiz : I feel sad too. D: Elizabeth will get pretty broken during the middle of this story and I won't spoil anything. Bigger Minato x Elizabeth fan than Minato x Hamuko but this pairing works here better than anything. Thanks a ton for the praise, we won't disappoint.
Ashar : Thanks for the review. :P Reaper and Hamuko aren't anywhere close to Minato.
Le me : Glad it took you by surprise. I won't spoil anytime so sorry. :P but that ending does sound pretty cool.
Aizana : He will fight his shadow... indirectly. :P Thanks for the review.
Pipedsthegreat : He can kill her anytime he wants and yes, he did that in desperation so that the mission would fail. He kicked her far enough to safe her from getting smashed.
He won't allow Hamuko to get the Universe Arcana, that is a given.
Kori : Glad you enjoyed it. :P The mysterious guy who offed her will come up in the story fairly soon. Thanks for the review.
Shadow : Glad that you got shocked. :P that's what I wanted. Thanks for the praise dude!
Hahaha, imagine his nose summoning a persona of its own. :P Hamuko vs Minato might happen but it will be far later since there is another obstacle that Minato has to concur. Philemon... hm, I'll see what I can do.
Thanks again mate! Hope you enjoyed this one too!
Again, please review the hell outta this, makes us happy. :P See you all soon/