Surprises

Ann was sitting in class half listening to the lecture because she was getting annoyed by Carmen's constant sighing, "Will you stop sighing already? I get that you miss Arsene but constantly sighing is just annoying me."

"Well excuse me for missing my love."

"Well I miss Akira as well but we're going to see him after school. I'm more worried about his talk with Sojiro. What if he doesn't forgive him…"

"Then have him stay with you."

"I already told you. Dad isn't going to let boys stay at my house because he doesn't trust guys since that whole thing with Kamoshida."

"Well why don't you have Akira meet your parents? You two have been together for months now. Maybe it's time for him to meet your parents."

"Meet my parents…I guess that would be the next step in our relationship." Ann smiled, "Yeah! I should have Akira meet my parents! Let me just text him if he would like to." Ann was about to text Akira when he texted her first.

[Hey! I got a surprise for you! Come to Leblanc after school!]

Ann looked at his message confused, "He has a surprise for me and meet him at Leblanc? Did he actually get Sojiro to forgive him!?"

[Did Sojiro forgive you?]

[Well you're just going to have to wait, Anki.]

[Aw that's not fair, Akiree.]

[Trust me, it will be worth it.]

{Alright then, I can't wait to see this surprise.]

[Good to hear, I'll see you later. I love you.]

[I love you too.]

Ann put her phone away and smiled, "I wonder what this surprise is?"

"Maybe he's going to walk around naked when you two are alone from now on."

Ann blushed still smiling, "Thanks Carmen…now I won't be able to pay attention to the lecture at all…"

Leblanc Cafe

Ann hurriedly walked through the door and saw Akira as well as Futaba sitting on stools by the counter and Sojiro behind the counter talking.

Akira heard the entrance bell and looked over at the entrance seeing Ann. He instantly got up and walked up to her kissing her on the cheek, "Hey Anki, are you ready to see the surprise?" "Hello, my sweet Carme."

"Yeah but wait a minute." Ann looked over at Sojiro, "Are you two okay now?" "Oh I missed you so much Arsey!"

Sojiro laughed, "Yeah we are, but I'll explain it after Akira shows you his 'secret'."

Futaba got up and walked up to them both, "I want to go too!" "Yeah I want to see Ann-chan's reaction!"

Akira laughed, "Well are you two ready to head out then?" "It's only been a few hours Carmen, but I missed you too." Both girls nodded and they proceeded outside.

As they were walking to the end of the road, Ann was starting to get anxious, "So where are we going?"

Akira smiled at her, "You'll find out soon enough."

"Ugh, fine then." But as they were walking, Ann realized that they were walking towards Sojiro's house, "Wait. Why are we going to Sojiro's house?"

"You'll see."

Once they made it to the gate, Akira took out a key from his pocket and unlocked the gate opening it. He also did the same thing with the door.

"Sojiro actually gave him his keys?" "Ooooo, this is very interesting."

Once inside and after closing the door, Akira walked to his room door and stopped, "Well here's the surprise." Akira turned the knob and opened the door.

Ann walked into the room and looked around, "So why are we in a room…and why is Morgana on the bed sleeping…" Ann's eyes went wide finally realizing what he was trying to show her, "Oh my god! Did Sojiro actually give you a room in his house!?" "This is actually a great surprise!"

Akira beamed, "That's not the only thing…I'm actually a Sakura now." "So that means Akira is going to be staying here then."

Futaba smiled, "See Ann! He has a family again!" Necro started crying, "It still makes me happy hearing it again!"

Ann hugged Akira, "I'm so happy for you!" Carmen started crying as well, "Stop it Necro…now I'm crying!"

Akira hugged her back, "Thanks…" He let go of her, "Well we should get back, Sojiro wanted to tell you about the disownment." "It makes me feel bad for accusing Sojiro of hating you."

"Oh, okay. Are we still going shopping afterwards?" "Yes! I love shopping even though I can't buy or use anything…"

Futaba looked at Akira, "Can I come with?" "Futaba-chan! We should let them have some alone time together! How else are we going to have Ann-chan be part of our family!?" "Well when they get married of course."

Akira laughed, "That probably won't be for a while Futaba and Necro." "Why not sooner? In my time, people got married right away." Arsene whispered. "This is a different time Arsene plus I'm sure Ann wants to be an action star before getting married."

Ann looked at Akira with a side glance, "He's thinking about marriage as well!" "You should name one of your kids after me." Carmen whispered.

"Anyways, don't worry about it Necro, I actually want Futaba to come with. I did say I was going to make it to her for what I tried to do. So I'm going to buy you anything you want."

Futaba smiled, "Really!?" Akira nodded making Futaba hug him, "Thank you!" "I knew you would keep your promise, Akiree!"

Akira hugged her back, "You're welcome Futaba." "You should know that know that by now Necro." He let go of her, "So where do you want to go?"

"Akihabara. They have a new game that came out." "Oh! You mean DarkBourne, right?" "Yep."

Akira laughed, "Well let's go get you that game then." "The future is interesting, now that you can control the characters on a screen."

Akihabara

The group got off the train and started walking towards the electronic store. Ann was still thinking about what Sojiro said, that she was supposed to tell Akira earlier about his disownment, "I can't believe I was supposed to tell you earlier about your disownment…" "I knew we shouldn't have kept it a secret."

Akira his hand in her hand, "The three of us handled it the wrong way, and we should all just look past this." "That is correct Akira."

"Yeah, you're right; I guess I'm the only one still thinking about it..." "Well that's just means it affected you deeply."

Futaba looked up at Akira, "You better not do it again, Akira." "You heard her, Akiree."

Akira rubbed her head, "Don't worry I won't." "Well not out of sadness, but from protecting somebody hopefully it doesn't come to that." "Didn't I do that against the Reaper?" "Yeah…I try not to remember that…"

The three made it to the store but it was busy. Akira looked at Futaba worried about her being around many people, "Are you going to be okay Futaba?"

"Y-Yeah, I'll be fine. I want to go alone though." "Do you think you're ready for that Futaba-chan?" Futaba nodded, "Y-yep. This is like the final dungeon."

Akira smiled at her, "I know you can do it Futaba." "I don't know what you mean by final dungeon but I know you can do it as well."

Ann smiled at her as well, "Good luck Futaba!" "You got this darling!"

Futaba nodded and hesitantly headed to the game section while Akira and Ann stood by the entrance.

Akira smiled, "She's really changed from the first time we met her." Yeah. She's slowly starting to be more comfortable around people."

Ann nodded, "Well she did go to the beach and our school, I'm sure those two things made things easier for her." "I do hope that she's able to do this by herself."

Five minutes later

Ann started thinking about their situation with Akechi after everything that happened she almost forgot about him, "You know, everything that happened, I almost forgot about our situation with Akechi…I'm worried." "I wonder what his persona is like."

"Don't worry about it. Everything will be fine." "Yeah, now that I think about it, his persona hasn't talked at all." "Remember he's acting like he's never been to the Metaverse, we just have to play along."

"Let me guess…you're not going to tell me what you are planning?" "I don't get why you hide important stuff from us…"

"I'll tell you when we're alone. I promise." "Yeah, it's better to do it private."

"Do what in private?" "You know, their love time Futaba-chan."

Akira turned around and saw Futaba holding the game making him smile, "You actually got the game by yourself!" "Congratulations Futaba!"

Futaba beamed, "Hehe, I beat the dungeon all by myself!" "Yay!"

Ann smiled at Futaba as well, "I knew you could do it!" "You're finally becoming more and more mature."

Futaba was practically glowing from the praises, "Thanks guys." "Mission completed! Now let's go home and enjoy our reward!"

"Well let's go pay for this and head home then."

The girls nodded and they headed to the checkout

Sojiro's House

Akira's Room

Akira and Ann walked into the room. Morgana stayed at the Leblanc Café because he still didn't want to see them together.

Ann sighed, "When is he going to get over me?" "When Zorro stops staring at my chest…"

"I…have a weird idea on how to deal with that actually." "He's going to get a female cat with fur the same color as your hair…"

Ann gave Akira a disgusted look, "Yeah…that's not creepy at all…" "That's actually a great idea." "You actually agree to this!?" "If it makes Zorro realize that he will NEVER have a chance with me then I'll take anything."

Akira laughed, "Well do you want him to get over you?" "It seems like the best option."

Ann still was fighting it, "How do you even know that he will fall for a cat when he keeps thinking he's human?" "Don't care, still trying."

"That's why we're going to test it out." "We have a lot of yen to spend anyways."

Ann sighed, "Ugh, fine…anyways, now what's this plan you have with Akechi?" "You did promise to tell us."

Akira shrugged, "It's nothing big as of now but the reason why I needed to talk to Futaba was because she's going to bug Akechi's phone so we can find out what he's planning. I was going to wait till after we bugged his phone to tell everyone so we can all listen in to his conversations and work from there." "Basically we went from thieves to spies."

"So, we just have to wait till Futaba bugs his phone then?" "I guess you were right about it really being nothing right now." "Anyways, Arsene's right though, we are kind of like spies. Like were in a movie." Ann smiled mischievously at Akira, "So after we get Akechi…do we get to do the highly anticipated love scene afterwards?" "I definitely agree to that!"

Akira chuckled, "Well some of those romance or spy movies have a romance scene in the middle of the movie." "Well prepare to be pounced on." Arsene whispered. "Huh?"

Ann smirked, "You know…you're right." Ann quickly pounced onto Akira pushing him on the bed straddling his hips and hovered over him with each hand on the each side of his head, "You're mine now…" Ann started leaning down about to kiss him when her phone started ringing, "Are you kidding me!?" "Why does someone or something always stop you from the love making!?"

Akira laughed, "I guess I'm not yours right now." "Maybe you should put the phone on silent next time."

Ann sighed, "I usually do…" Ann took out her phone and noticed that it was Shiho calling, "Oh! It's Shiho." "Dear Shiho!? It's been a while since she called you." Ann instantly got off of Akira and answered the phone putting it on speaker phone, "Hey Shiho!"

"Hi, Ann! I'm sorry that I haven't called in a while. I've been busy with school."

"Don't worry about it, I've been busy too. Akira's here, do you want to say hello to him?"

"Oh! Hello, Akira! I'm sorry; I didn't mean to get in between your time together."

Akira got into sitting position on the edge of his bed and laughed, "Don't worry about it. It's good to hear from you again."

"So how are you doing Shiho? Are you feeling any better?"

"I'm doing better. I'm actually going to gym again and doing volleyball tryouts next year. I also don't have nightmares about 'him' anymore so I'm finally able to truly smile again."

Ann smiled, "I'm so happy to hear that Shiho!"

Akira smiled as well, "It's great that you're able to truly smile again."

Shiho laughed, "Yeah and it sounds like you two are doing great as well. Actually it's good that you're together right now, I wanted to talk to Akira."

That surprised Akira, "Of course, what do you need?"

"Actually Ann I know this is going to sound weird but can me and Akira talk privately?"

Ann had a confused look on her face, "Um, okay…" Ann looked at Akira and saw that he was just as confused, "Well I'll go talk to Futaba then." Ann gave her phone to Akira and got up leaving the room.

Akira turned the speaker phone off and put the phone to his ear, "Okay she's gone, so what's up?"

Shiho laughed, "I'm sorry Akira, I know this is weird but the reason I wanted to talk to you privately was because its Ann's birthday next Sunday and I wanted to surprise her by coming to visit her and throwing her a surprise birthday party."

Akira's eyes went wide, "Her birthday's next week!?"

Shiho laughed again, "Wow Akira, you should have known Ann's birthday by now especially since you two have been together for months now. Anyways, I should be coming back this Sunday so we can start preparing then. But, the problem is, is that mine and Ann's parents are friends so they want to visit them. Maybe you should ask Nijima-san if she can take Ann somewhere."

"Wait, how does she know Makoto and that she's friends with Ann?" "Maybe Ann told Shiho about her." "Yeah that would be a good idea. Just let me know when you're about to come back on Sunday."

"Will do, so let's exchange contact info and chat id then." Akira took out his phone and they exchanged contact info and chat id, "Well tell Ann I said bye and I'll text you tomorrow so we can sort out the details about the party so we have an idea on Sunday then."

"Alright, sounds good. I'll tell Ann that you said bye. Good night."

"Thank you Akira and good night to you as well." and Shiho hung up.

Akira removed the phone from his ear smiling, "I'm glad that she's doing better now. She finally moved on from what happened with Kamoshida and she's trying out for volleyball again." "I'm glad that everything is working out for her and its all thanks to you and Ann for being there for her." "Yeah. Well now we should get Ann a gift tomorrow after school, I can't believe I didn't ask her when her birthday is." Akira brought out his phone and texted Futaba to tell Ann she can come back.

Ten minutes later

Ann walked through Akira's door, "Sorry it took long, Futaba was in the middle of a boss battle before she saw your text. That game really gets you angry easily, she almost broke her controller." Ann sat on his bed, "So, what did you and Shiho talk about?"

Akira smirked, "Can't tell you, it's between me, Arsene, and Shiho. By the way she said bye." "Don't you put me into this."

Ann glared at him, "Oh? So you're going to hide things from me that involves one of my best friends?" Ann then smirked at him, "And her I was going to let you touch my body…all of my body." "That goes for you too, Arsene."

Akira smirked back, "That does sound tempting but nah I rather keep it a secret." "Well that's too bad Carmen because Akira said the next time we go to the Metaverse. We can have our 'alone' time finally."

"Nevermind Arsene, you can touch me all you want." "Really Carmen? Aren't you supposed to be the teaser?" "Well it's your fault, if you just let me make love to Arsene earlier, then I wouldn't be sexually frustrated." Carmen whispered. "Fine…wait a minute, did Shiho tell him my birthday is next week!?" Ann smiled at Akira, "So Shiho told you that my birthday was next week didn't she!?"

Akira pretended to be shock, "You're birthday's next week!? Why didn't you say anything or give me a hint!?" "Nice acting." Arsene whispered.

Ann looked at him confused, "So it's not about my birthday…actually I never did tell you mine but now you know. So when's your birthday?""Are you trying to get with dear Shiho behind Ann's back?" "Actually now that I think about it, how do we not know each other's birthdays…"

Akira sighed, "Really Carmen? Shiho's the one who wanted to talk with me and my birthday is in December, Ann. Anyways, Shiho just wanted to know how we were doing together and I told her about what happened a day ago. She was not happy and kind of yelled at me." "Yeah it was pretty bad."

Ann sighed, "Why did you tell her that? You said that we should look past it." "That's because you shouldn't hide things from each other."

"Well I guess I should tell her about Kawakami's massages…I just threw myself into the corner…""Yeah Carmen's right. So I should tell you about Ms. Kawakami. Well she used to give me massages after our trips to the Metaverse so I could go to the gym or go work." "This is between you two so I'm just going to be quiet."

Ann glared at Akira, "…for how long and were you clothed?" "You were cheating on Ann!" "Carmen! Quiet!"

"For about a month after we changed her student's parents' heart and yes, I was fully clothed. I only did it after our trips to the Metaverse. We stopped because she didn't feel right doing it since I was with you even though it wasn't sexual in anyway and I agreed with her."

Ann thought for a moment, "I guess I shouldn't be mad. I trust you when you say it wasn't sexual and you were both fully clothed. But, if you were really tired from the Metaverse trips then you should have asked me to massage you then."

"Arsene told me I should have asked you but I thought you would think I was trying to be sexual or forceful."

Ann laughed, "Are you serious Akira? Now I have a perfect excuse to touch your body. I should ask Miss Kawakami to teach me how to do a good massage and maybe you can be the dummy."

Akira laughed, "Well I wouldn't mind that."

"I'm sure you wouldn't." Ann then looked down, "Well I have something to tell you as well. When we were getting dropped off to our houses after we left Haru's house, I was thinking about how glad I am that Emily betrayed you and you got a criminal charge on you." Ann didn't look up because she was afraid Akira would look at her with anger but she felt his hand on her hand making her look up and see saw him look at her with a gentle look to show her that he wasn't mad.

"I know there's a reason why you would think that so don't be afraid and tell me because I trust you to have a good reason for it. I owe you anyways for not believing you before."

Seeing and hearing that he was willing to listen to her reason made her heart skip a beat, "Because if it wasn't for you…Kamoshida would still be around…Yusuke would have been taken advantage of by Madarame…Makoto would still be a pawn to the school and wouldn't find her own path…Futaba would still be trapped in her own room and still blaming herself for her mother's death…Haru would have been forced into marriage with an complete asshole… Sojiro would have lost Futaba to her uncle…Miss Kawakami would either still be a maid servicing men blaming herself for her student's death or quit teaching giving up her dream…and now we're going to stop Akechi whose been causing the mental breakdowns. Not only that, all the requests we did for the people on the Phan-site we helped. So basically what I'm saying is, is that if it wasn't for you being falsely charged, this whole city would be even worse. So maybe you should think about the false criminal record as a blessing instead of a curse."

Akira looked at her in surprise, "You're right. If I didn't get a criminal record, I would have been happy. But then you would all be suffering. Yeah, I lost my blood family but now I have Sojiro and Futaba. I lost my old friends but I have the others. Not only that, I have this power that can be used to help people in need and became friends with them as well. So you're right, I should look at this criminal record as a blessing instead of a curse. Besides, I can work at the coffee shop and I have multiple jobs already." Akira lifted his hand from Ann's hand and put it on her cheek caressing it making her lean into his hand sighing in content, "But, above everything, I may have lost Emily but I have you and you're ten times better than Emily." Akira leaned in and softly kissed Ann who instantly kissed him back. He pulled back still caressing her cheek, "So do you want to do your request today and stay over?"

Ann sighed, "No…I rather wait till Saturday that way we don't have to wake up and go to school the next day." Ann then smiled at him, "So I want to change my request to staying over every Saturday instead of just one time."

Akira smiled, "Hmm, I can either accept the request and spend every Saturday night laying with the warm and soft body of my girlfriend or I can deny the request and go to bed lonely thinking of my girlfriend's warm and soft body. I wonder what I should choose."

Ann smirked, "I can even sweeten the deal and at random Saturdays I might 'accidently' take off my underwear allowing you to hold my naked body against you." Ann put her hand under his shirt and put her finger on his neck trailing her finger down his chest and down his stomach making him shiver the whole time, "All…night…long…"

Akira blushed deeply and turned his head away coughing nervously while crossing his legs to hide his 'excitement', "Yeah…um you can definitely stay the night every Saturday." "Let me guess Carmen, you taught her that?"

Carmen laughed, "Of course I did, and I'm just surprised she did it without hesitating and so well for her first time. I knew my dear Ann would have the natural talent for teasing." "Good." She kissed Akira on the cheek and got up, "Well I guess I should get going." She smiled innocently at Akira, "I'm going to say bye to Futaba so you can have some time to 'calm down' just text me when you're ready to walk me to the station." Ann opened the door but before she walked out she looked back at him and winked she then left.

After she left Akira stared at the door in shock, "Does she have a secret button that turns on the sexy because she got embarrassed for getting aroused yesterday but now she just got me aroused with no hesitation." "Well they call changing from happy to angry and back quickly, bipolar. Maybe we should call Ann's abashment to unabashed and back quickly, Annpolar." "Yeah…I'm definitely going to call her that."

[End Notes: Now you're probably wondering that now that Ann convinced Akira that his arrest can be seen as a blessing if he's going to be pissed off at Shido well don't worry he is but I'll explain why he's still going to be pissed off at Shido besides the who false accusation. So who's ready to see Shiho again and yes, I know Ann's birthday in my story would seem cliché because it's the day before the PT and Akechi go to Sae's palace and Akira gets arrested. At first, I was going to have Akira visit Ann's parents but I'm going to wait. About the whole, Akira getting a female cat that has the same hair color as Ann, I think it would be hilarious.]

FalconPuncher: Haha don't worry the attic is still going to be the hideout and I just thought why don't we do something different than the usual.

Cosmic Guardian: Yeah family is important so why not have Sojiro and Futaba be his family since they both technically act like a father and sister to Akira in this story. And yes I had a good Christmas (yes I know its way late).

Angryboy: Those are good suggestions but I like the way I did mine and yes, I thought about doing that but that's making it obvious. Maybe you can use those ideas for your own story. But, about Akira being a little bitch, well I rather make him have more character than the typical, nothing fazes me, Persona main character and he only ran away once. Not only that, he fought the Reaper by himself when he could have just ran away, I'm pretty sure a little bitch wouldn't do that.