Persona Q is really close now, but the mail person will come some time after noon, so I decided to throw out a rather short chapter for you people that are still reading this. I could have done better, I'm sure, but it wouldn't be any better than this. I'm way to anxious to get my premium version!

Chapter 25

(3rd) (Sunday)

Yu only had one thing in mind today. He was going to hang with the old lady down at the river. He had all day, every Sunday, so unless something came up, he would be done a lot faster than a lot of the other Links that he's had to go through.

At the river, Hisano invited him to sit with her, so he did. It seems that she had been thinking until she said out loud, "But still…" Yu tilted his head to look at her, confused at the words. "The more I look at you, the more you look like him. His eyes were smaller, his hair was shorter, and his nose was a bit lower… He was a handsome man." She didn't say who 'he' was.

"Um, who are you talking about?" Yu asked.

The woman smiled. "My husband. He was a kind man. Quite an attractive one to." She was speaking in past tense. "My husband passed away recently." Yu felt sorry for her. "Do I look like Death to you?"

Yu looked up in surprise. What the heck was with this woman? "No way, you don't!"

"I see. You mustn't become Death, Yu-chan." She smiled sadly. "When I'm with you, I feel like he's forgiven me. Course, that can't be true. After all, I'm the one who…" She trailed off. "I'll see you later."

Yu wanted to talk to her some more, but she pushed him away. He decided to come back a little later that day.

(Sometime later…)

Yu walked over and started to talk to Hisano, who nearly had a heart attack because she hadn't been aware of his presence. He took a seat beside her. "Scare you?" He asked.

"Yes, you did, please, don't do that." She replied unhappily. "Watching the river sure brings back some fond memories. Before I was a wrinkled old lady. I met my husband here. He was part of traveling actors, so they came here every year, and I met him by this river one year. He fell in love with me, and the same happened to me. He quit his job with the actors, though he was quite good at it, and moved here, taking up fieldwork. He wasn't very good at it though. He was quite proud of what he could do regardless."

"I'm jealous." Yu admitted. "Not everyone falls in love and gets married to the first person that they met. I wish I was that lucky."

"I'm sure the day will come where you will find the one that's perfect for you. I have no doubt." She sighed. "Right now, all I want is to be by his side. But I know that I never will. There is no doubt he went to Heaven, and that I will surely go to Hell."

"Don't say that!" Yu yelled. "You're a nice person, and you don't deserve to go to the place where murderers go!"

"I wish that were the case. I think that is a story for another day, however. I must be going. I hope to see you again, Yu-chan." The old woman got up and walked away, leaving Yu confused, and a little scared.

(4th) (Monday)

After school, Yu decided that it was time to pry some info from Naoki. He joined the health club again for the hell of it, and found the place to be a complete mess once again. At this point, Yu was annoyed, so he launched into a half an hour long rant about how someone needs to learn that not cleaning up anything will kill someone soon.

Now out of breath, he left to have some ramen with Naoki. "Dude, this place is amazing. I need to remember to come here every time that it's raining. The Rainy Day Mega Beef Bowl is awesome, and so worth the 3,000 yen." Yu muttered through a mouthful of ramen noodles.

"Yeah, same. I forgot how amazing it is here. After middle school started and everyone started to expect me to live up to the straight A's that my sister had, I guess I lost the will to come. Man, I'm an idiot for that." He smiled briefly. "Everyone expects me to be as amazing as my sister, but I can't do that! I'm not as good as her, and I can't be, but no one sees that."

"Are you trying your hardest though?"

Naoki nodded. "I am, but I'm not that sort of person that can just do school work effortlessly. My sister's good with that, but I'm not her! I'm sorry, I got carried away. You did say that you would be trying to pry information from me. Looks like you succeeded." He got up, leaving his money on the table for the owner to pick up later.

(5th) (Tuesday)

Yu was running out of things to do, so he went with Naoki again. This time, they went to eat at Souzai Daigaku for the hell of it. Naoki was currently telling him an embarrassing story (for another student) that happened a couple days ago in 1st period. "Then Masaya made up an excuse for why he was late. He said that the 'wind had been really strong.'"

Yu chuckled, the boy could have said that a teacher just needed his help with something, not that the wind had been strong. What happened, his supplies flew away?

"The teacher got really pissed at us for it. He yelled, 'Everyone, shut your eyes, right now!' He started to scold us. No one had any idea of why we had to close our eyes though, and it felt awkward. After he was done scolding us, he started class again and yells out, 'Masaya, answer the question on the board!'" Naoki chuckled. "Masaya replies with, 'Um, but I can't see the board with my eyes closed though.' The teacher lost it and ran out the room in a fit of rage. The rest of the period was ours."

The two laughed, and then Naoki wanted to know of a failure that he had been a part of. He decided on the Babe Hunt in Okina City. "OK, you want to know one? Just don't tell anyone else this story, OK? This is something that happened after Yosuke and I got our scooters. This was Yosuke's plan, and the very reason we wanted the scooters to begin with. He originally wanted a motorcycle, but he couldn't afford one only working at Junes."

So Yu launched into the story of the Hunt, accounting even his petting of the cat that made him forget what they were doing to being with. Finally, he reached the end. "And so Hanako jumps to sit on the scooter. I swear, time went into slow-motion as Yosuke tried to stop her. It was too late though, and there was a crunch as parts of the scooter went flying everywhere. Hanako looked at the wreckage and said, "This scooter's broken." She jumped off and walked away, leaving Yosuke devastated and with no way to get back to Inaba."

Naoki was practically in tears at the hilariousness of the fact that even Yu had a bad time trying to pick up a chick. "Oh God, that's good." He had to take a couple minutes to catch his breath. "Oh, when was the last time that I laughed like that?"

They started to eat their food again. Some housewives came to get some grub as well and started to whisper when they saw Naoki. Thanks to Yu acute sense of hearing, he heard it all. "That's Saki Konishi's brother, right?" One of them asked.

"Yeah," The other answered. "I hear that he isn't as good as Saki-chan though. I wonder what happened. His sister's so smart."

The two got their food and left. Judging from the boy's expression, Yu guessed that Naoki heard it. "You heard what they said there, didn't you?" Naoki nodded. "Don't let them get to you. You're smart in your own right. Maybe not in school, but you have other talents that can make up for it."

Naoki didn't seem happy with that. "Like what? I don't have anything that my sister doesn't!"

"Sure you do. You have just yet to find it. When you find what you're good at, then you will surely know, without any doubt."

Naoki nodded. "Thanks for today. I honestly can't remember the last time that I laughed at some of the stupider things in life. The last time that I ENJOYED the stupid, small things."

Yu smiled. "Anytime. Though, I will probably avoid telling you anymore embarrassing stories like the plague. I'm glad that you got a kick out of it, but it was at my expense."

I think that I am slowly worsting on my endings. I mean look at that. That is horrible. Not like cruel, 'Oh my God, what is going to happen next, I can't wait for the next chapter' sort of bad, this is just bad.

Whatever man. I can't decided on whether King Moron should die or not. Think I should. If he doesn't then he will be removed some other way, and most of the time where everyone is all 'Oh God, King Moron, Mitsuo!' That will probably be replaced with a sort of Mini Arc (Like Naruto filler episodes) where a previous one of Yu's girlfriends comes to Inaba to get him back, though he doesn't want it, and from there, complications ensue. That is probably what will happen. Most of the Social Links that take up that time are done, so I have to fill the void somehow.

Also, during that time, I will try to work on the pairs that I said that I would add in, but never really did much about.