Ok this was a rather short chapter, but the story is moving, and they murder the King Shadow at the end of Yukiko's castle, so I figured it would work. Also, I put quite a bit of effort into the fox quest with the boy with the sticker. Take it to heart! If you have to get a sticker to make friends, they probably will abandon you! I haven't experienced it, but it seems pretty likely!
Chapter 12
(2nd) (Thursday)
Though it was raining, after school Yu went to find the boy that wanted a sticker from earlier. He didn't have anyone else to hang out with, so he had no reason not to.
At the place where the boy was standing yesterday, Yu found him again, sitting in the rain, looking miserable as it soaked him. Yu walked over, positioning his umbrella to block some of the rain away. He looked up. "Hey there mister." He greeted politely.
"You shouldn't sit in the rain, you know. You'll catch a cold. Why are you moping anyway?" Yu asked the boy as he took a seat next to him.
The boy looked through the clear umbrella top, staring at the rain as it came down. "I don't have any friends, and it's all because they won't accept me into their groups because I don't have a dumb sticker. I hate it." He snarled.
Yu sighed inwardly. "Hey kid, getting a sticker is easy. The thing is that if those people won't accept you for you, then they aren't going to be your friends for long. However," Yu pulled out the sticker, holding it out to the kid. "They should do until you can get some real friends."
The boy brightened, gingerly grabbing the stick from Yu's hand. "I can have this?" He asked, clearly not sure of how to react to Yu's kindness. Yu nodded and got up, offering to walk the kid home to prevent him from getting rained on more.
At the boy's home, the mother thanked him for helping her child, as he was quite happy now. Yu just told her to make sure the boy paid the shrine later, as he had seen the ema. (He really had the ema shoved in his pocket, but hey, he wasn't going to let them know that.) The mother told him that she would be sure to pay up, and so Yu left, his business complete.
After he had his dinner, Yu decided to work at the hospital. He worked in a room where he was clearly alone, but he still got the feeling that someone was watching him from the corner. He shivered slightly, but continued his work regardless. He eventually got the strangest feeling that a ghost (possibly of a little girl) was following him around.
A nurse walked in. "Nice work there boy." She told him, while he raised an eyebrow. Yu hadn't expected to have a nurse walk in and complement his cleaning skills. "Oh, I'm sorry, I haven't introduced myself. I'm Sayoko Uehara. It's nice to meet you."
Yu smiled slightly, this girl was quite nice, but not in the way that you had to work for it like Ebihara. The nurse then walked forward, coming a little bit close for Yu's comfort. "I heard that you're a high schooler, right?" She looked him up and down, and then grabbed his hand. "Your skin is so smooth. I like you. When are you coming next, I will adjust my shift accordingly."
Yu was a little frightened by the woman's behavior, but then he got the Devil Arcana. He was annoyed and wanted to yell at whoever was the one who gave him the Arcana's, because he didn't want to deal with this girl almost every night until he could finish the Social Link.
"I'll see you again." The nurse told him, and walked away. Yu wanted to run from the hospital, and never return, but he knew that he couldn't do that. He settled on walking away, and never returning, until he had nothing else to do. He got some money, but that didn't help a lot to make him want to come back. It also wasn't helping him that the ghostly presence was still there.
(3rd) (Friday)
Yu clicked his tongue. He wasn't sure what happened, but all of his Social Links were gone. So he went to hang with the fox, only finding an ema reading, "I wish my life had meaning again." As Yu looked it over, he realized that the man who had written it was the one who gave him the model to finish on the day he had gotten his hat. He rushed home to get the model, as he remembered that the man had wanted Yu to finish the model to give his life meaning again. 'Oops,' Yu thought when he realized that he had left the man hanging for a couple months now.
Yu slipped into the house, not taking off his shoes; because he didn't want to waste the time and have Nanako come home and find him there, not letting him leave afterwards. However, he was leaving a trail of mud behind, but it didn't matter to him as he grabbed the model and ran out the house again.
He ran around until he found the man at his house. Yu held out the model to him, and his face brightened. He took it from Yu's hands and inspected the model up and down. He handed it back. "Thank you," the man said. "You can keep it. Come back anytime that you want another model to put together. Now then, I must pay my offering to the shrine, so if you will excuse me…" Yu nodded, and walked away.
While walking, Yu spied a capsule game, figuring that he had enough money to play with it for a minute. He tried it, but the capsule got stuck, so Yu called the owner out. She was momentarily mad at him, but calmed down and retrieved his prize, giving him a bit of an info-dump on the origins of the machine. Yu inwardly sighed, but didn't say anything out of politeness.
When he got home, Yu found Nanako cleaning up the mess he made earlier. He instantaneously felt bad, and helped her out to finish before Dojima found out. They had managed to finish the downstairs when Dojima got home, so Yu told Nanako to keep her father occupied while he finished up. When dinner was ready, Yu scrubbed off the last traces to the mud he had tracked in.
After he had dinner, he begrudgingly decided to advance the Social Link with the nurse. When Yu had just finished up the room he had been cleaning, Sayoko came up and told him he did a good job, and asked if he had been waiting for her. Unknown to her, he had been, although almost against his will. She flirted with him quite a bit, and it was a tad annoying, but he put up with it. For some reason, he had a feeling that half of the Link was going to be about this.
As he moved to take his leave, he saw an old lady in a mourning dress. "My…" she said, then turned around and left. Yu was confused, but convinced himself that he was just seeing things, and that he should pretend that it never happened. And that is exactly what he did.
(4th) (Saturday)
After school, Yu literally had NOTHING to do again. So he gathered the others to train in the TV. Inside of said TV, Teddie told them, "Hey guys, something has appeared in Yukiko-knight's castle! It's really strong." Yu smiled, exactly what he wanted.
"It's not my castle!" Yukiko shrieked. "And don't call me 'Knight!' I heard that Yosuke joked about you being a king, and now you act like it. Is that really necessary?" She asked him, to which Teddie nodded, silently saying, 'of course it is.' Yukiko sighed and walked off to kick some Shadow butt, no longer wasting the time to argue with him.
At the top of the castle, there was the little prince Shadow, now grown up, and ready to murder. It first erected a shield that Teddie told them was to protect him from fire attacks. Yu sighed and dropped his katana, calling forth the Demon Powers sleeping inside of him, summoning the Persona Makami to Sukunda it, then summoned Samael to Matarunda it.
Chie and Yosuke were on Persona magic skills duty, and Yukiko was to attack physically, and heal anyone who was wounded. Yu was running all around the place, attacking, magic skilling, and everything else.
It didn't even take thirty seconds, and the Shadow was already crouched in its pain. Then it stood straight up, and attacked with what Teddie called out as a "Rampage!"
Everyone briefly wondered why he called it out, but then the Shadow attacked, and nearly knocked them all out. Yukiko quickly healed them to the best of her abilities, but it was hardly anything compared to what the Shadow knocked out of them.
Not having any bright ideas, Yu told them to just attack, and cover Yukiko, who was having some difficulty standing, the attack and healing everyone having taken a lot out of her. They continued to attack, but something was off in the effect that they were hardly making a dent. It was probably the fact that they were all tired after the previous assault. The Shadow shook itself, throwing off Yu and Yosuke, who had latched onto it. It unleashed another Rampage, and only Yukiko and Teddie weren't hurt, because they were out of range of the attack. Everyone drained of their energy; they lay there, not moving.
Yu slowly opened his eyes, only to find the Shadow looming over him, about to impale him with the end of his staff. Yu didn't move, only closed his eyes again, and waited. He felt something stab painfully into his gut, and thought, 'Never thought I would die because a fake king executed me himself.'
After less the five seconds, he heard a shriek from the Shadow, and the staff was lifted from him, the hole it had created quickly healed. Yu opened his eyes again to find Chie beating the Shadow over the head with its own staff, yelling, "Don't. Beat. Up. Our. Leader!" In between grunts, and Yosuke was latched to its face. Yukiko quickly helped him up.
Yu smiled and muttered under his breath, "Thanks guys, I owe you." Then he raised his voice. "Alight, Yukiko, sneak around the back! Yosuke, keep him distracted as long as possible. Chie… you have fun." Chie flashed him a smile as she continued to smash the Shadow with its staff.
Yu awakened the Demon Powers again, and ran forward, slashing at the Shadow. Out of nowhere, Yukiko suddenly popped up, clawing through the Shadow's back, instantly killing in. Yosuke dropped to the ground, luckily landing on his feet. Everyone started to complement Yukiko on her stealth.
It then hit Yu that everyone seemed to have some sort of amazing skill. Yu had shown Chie's leg strength when he had murdered her Shadow, and had also shown Yukiko's stealth. Yosuke seemed to be a bit of an all around type, so he didn't have anything super special. 'Interesting,' Yu thought. The team, drained of all life, then decided to head home.
(At the Dojima house…)
"After a couple days of rain, a thick fog will soon set in the Inaba area." An announcer, well, announced.
Yu sighed inwardly. He was glad they had saved Kanji, but he still wanted to watch the Midnight Channel to see the aftermath. However, he was still wiped from the battle earlier. In the end, he decided to suck it up and texted Yosuke to call when it was time to make sure he was still awake.
Some time later, Yu woke to the sound of a phone ringing. He drowsily picked it up and muttered, "Hello?" Yosuke started talking as the Midnight Channel came on, showing nothing again. Yu smiled, as they had no more people to worry about this time. "Good night, Yosuke." Yu said, hanging up, disregarding the fact that his friend had been talking. He slipped under his covers, and promptly fell asleep.
There was sleeting today, so I have to day off from school. You know, when my first period teacher for day two was talking about how this was "No School November," I don't think this was what he had in mind. For some people, this will come out while they are studying or something. Next chapter might (probably) just be finished and uploaded before the day is done. Unless my family comes by my computer every two seconds. I find it's a little embarrassing to be typing Fanfiction, and I would prefer to not let my family get the details of it.
Quick note: My friend (Quil12) is lazy, and won't type up a chapter of her story on her tablet. (The family's laptop is with her dad, and she generally doesn't live with him) So when she writes a chapter in Freshman Exploration or whatever, I'll be typing it up, so that will probably cut into the update times a little. However, if you want to read more things with my touch (Why would you?) Go find her, I typed up the last uploaded chapter, I took the basic idea, and wrote the whole thing. She mostly has stories about Naruto, and her main project is a crossover of Naruto and Pokemon. Just needed to get that out there, as it will only happen every two months or something, but it will happen. Hopefully. She has a lot of people yelling "Review!" (Wait, that's not right...)
