A.N.- This time, I will try not to jinx myself. As soon as I said I would try to keep a schedule, a million different things happened that prevented me from doing so...

I'll try to be good this time, but a schedule...maybe not...

But while that was happening, I stumbled across a wonderful peace of artwork that someone drew that was inspired by this fic! dlartistanon . tumblr .[ c om] /post/111134216428/read-a-short-fic-where-rise-bought-naoto-a-cowboy (without the brackets and the spaces.)

Thank you DL for the art! And that you Dakat for the support (though I am female)!

May Fortune Smile Upon You All!- CrookedMouse

I don't own Persona 4 or its characters.

Kidnap

"Rise…" Naoto sighed as her girlfriend planted herself on her lap. "I cannot work like this…"

Rise giggled and wrapped her arms around Naoto's neck before kissing her. "I know~" She tugged at Naoto's tie and smiled. "But you've been working all day."

Naoto sighed again before being cut off by another kiss. "C'mon, I even found the Featherman R movie!" Rise beamed at her, making Naoto hum in thought.

"…I really do need to finish this paperwork…" Her mumble made Rise pout which, in turn, made her give in. "I suppose I could use a bre-"

Before she could answer, Rise made her stand up and began dragging her out the door.

"Y-you don't have to- w-wait!"

Gallows

A smile given and a soft hand gently squeezing hers in assurance, that's what made Rise nod back and halt in her attempts to stop them from opening the box.

Of course, the feeling of chains surrounding her neck and the room growing colder and colder did not go away, but she knew that they wanted to tackle this foe to see how far they've come.

The darkened aura blasted out of the box and Rise immediately focused to try and scan it.

And she realized they were no match for it.

One after the other, her friends fell trying to gain some ground against the reaper.

She tried to call out to them what spell the reaper was doing next when she saw the blood-stained gun aim right at Naoto's head.

And fire.

The next thing she knew, everyone was gone and the reaper was slowly floating his way towards her.

She couldn't do anything but reach her hand out towards Naoto's body and wait for the end.

The deafening sound of the bullet leaving the reaper's gun made her close her eyes.

"Rise," a voice called to her. "Rise, are you okay?"

She opened her eyes to find Naoto, alive and well, looking at her with concern. "You just suddenly stopped, are you feeling well?"

Rise shook her head and nervously smiled at her girlfriend.

"Ah, I'm fine… Just a headache…" Naoto nodded and squeezed her hand as Yu smiled at her.

"You know, I don't think it's a good idea to take it on just yet…" He gestured everyone to keep going.

Rise let out a sigh of relief, which Naoto heard.

"…Are you sure?" Rise gave a more relaxed smile and nodded, ignoring the image of the bodies still imprinted in her mind.

For now, they escaped death.

Comedy

"…At least they meant well?" Naoto tried to offer as she and Rise both sat underneath the gazebo on the top of the hill. Rise just sighed and thought back to their date.

It was their first official "date" and apparently their friends decided to follow them and make sure nothing went wrong…which made everything go wrong.

It was easy to see their close friends trying to tail them, especially with Yosuke angering Kanji, but after that, bad luck just seemed to follow the couple as well.

"I suppose we should leave before it gets dark and one of us ends up tripping on something." Naoto hummed and moved to stand up before she heard a sniff.

Rise rubbed at her eyes and laughed quietly.

"I'm sorry…" Naoto felt herself getting flustered as she mentally berated herself for being insensitive.

"N-no! I-it wasn't that bad! Um…It was just…a bit of bad luck!" Naoto rubbed Rise's back.

Rise laughed a little louder and looked up at her. Her face looked a little red, but she seemed happy otherwise.

"I hope so, but to be honest…" Rise broke into another laugh which caused more tears to roll down her face while she reached a hand up to Naoto's hair and brushed something out. "You had some food in your hair."

Naoto's face went red, though she wasn't sure if it was from embarrassment over the food piece or the little space between them.

"U-umm…I-" Rise cut her off with a peck on the cheek.

"It may have not been a fairytale, but I had fun~"