Finally, can write something for this story...
Woops, stupid...take a long for me to upadet this one.
Sorry 'bout that..

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CURSED

Minako hit the tennis ball harder with her racket. She hit it to the wall and hit it, hit it again. She didn't care if her sweat soaked her shirt, she didn't care if her hair got messy, she didn't care if the wall cracked. She wanted to clear her mind. Tried to forget all of the sad things. First, her parents, second, her twin brother and now, her childhood friend, Takumi. Why, why fate showed her the bad side. Because, she and her brother shared a same blood, the curse like their grandfather said or only a coincidence. Or maybe the Wheel of Fortune rotated in the reverse directions, nobody knows.

She continued hit the tennis ball and last, it hit the wall weakly. She had enough for today. She decided to stop her training and went back to her apartment. Took the bottle of mineral water from the bench, she drank it and the wiped all of her sweat around her face and neck. She looked at the empty tennis field. It wasn't her habit, but after that accident. She always came to the tennis field after the club activity over and strated to train or play by herself. Nobody came to this place after the training, so it was only her.

Minako sighed, she closed her eyes for a while and tried to feel the wind, the weather got warm lately, so it was almost the spring. "Takumi-kun..." she whisperred. She smiled a little and took her bag and decided to go home.


It had been two months, since that accident happened. After Takumi's grave nobody dare to ask her about him, because even they knew she hated him, Minako still loved him. Akihiko on the other hand, didn't feel jealous, or maybe yes but he didn't want to admit it because for now, he couldn't take the risk. Confessed his feeling after his dearest one lost her important person again. What a lame person he is, so he decided to stop thinking about it for a while.

After that accident, he discussed with Mitsuru about the SHADOW Operative, he still undecided to join the department. But, on the other said, he knew if he joins he will get more information about MAREBITO and about the SHADOW. It was his another dream right? To use his power to stand up on the justice side and protect the people from harm.

So, until now he held the SHADOW Operative's application form, read it over and over again, or maybe not because sometimes he just stared at it, but he didn't fill it. He hadn't decided it yet. He still though hard about his future, but when he remembered about Minako, he couldn't bear it. He wanted to protect her. And now, in his classroom he sat alone, though about the matter until the janitor came and drove him out from the room.

"It is dark already out there young fella', you should go home now!" the janitor told him.

Akihiko sighed and took his backpack, he dashed out from the room and before he leave he patted the oldman's shoulder, sign that he thanked him to remind him to go home. It was almost spring so he didn't wear his usual coat, only a red polo shirt with a black trouser. Even it had been two months, Akihiko knew that Minako won't forget about this thing easily, maybe she will secession herself especially from him, Mitsuru or yeah..all that related with the accident.

He then remembered when Minako met Kei Nanjo. She gave him a cold shoulder and told him a 'chatty' guy. If he remembered Kei Nanjo's face that time, he couldn't held his laugh. He only chuckled when he remembered that. This night was really quiet, he needed something to distract his mind for a while. He was relieved when he found that Minako was on good shape although that time she was really weak.

Arrived at his apartment block, he saw an envelope inside his post box. He frowned his eyebrows, when he saw the sender's name he smirked. Kei Nanjo. He wasn't blind or what, right? What's going on in the earth that for the first time, the arrogant high-pride little master wrote a letter for him, a letter not an e-mail or the other else with Hi-tech machine. While he searched for his apartment's key inside his pocket, he tried to remember his bussiness with the megane-kun, but he hadn't any.

A he walked inside his apartment and without anything to do, he went straight to his bedroom. Threw his back pack to the bed, he turned on his desk lamp and opened the letter. Never imagine that Nanjo's guy wanted something from him. When he read the letter, he was shocked. That bastard...he though. As fast as he could he took out his cellphone and called Mitsuru, "Hey, it's me. Mitsuru, actually about the..."


Minako hummed some song while she poured a water into some pot to fill it. She smiled, tried to remember something funny and make her happy. With her lovely soft pink dress she walked happily until she stopped in front of some grave. Arata's family grave with Takumi's name craved on it. "Hey, I come again." She said while she poured the water to the grave.

After she done poured all of the water, she closed her eyes and prayed. Hoped that he'll forgive her, hoped that he'll be fine up there, hoped that his death wasn't something bad. After that she kneeled down and put some flowers. "Daisy, you and my favorite, remember?" she asked as if Takumi was heard her or what and then she smiled.

"Hey, I skip the class again today." She started to tell what was inside her mind right now. She chuckled, "Not only today actually. I arrived yesterday so, it's the second. And maybe you can figure it out, Granpa...he was freaking out when I arrived at his home yesterday. Lucky that he didn't get a heart attack. But, I couldn't held my laugh to see his expression and Naoto-chan too. You must see it Takumi. It was the same expression that they showed when you ruined my birthday cake when I reached seventeen." She chuckled again. But suddenly she kept quiet, she knew he wouldn't give her any complaint, reply, even a word. He already dead. "I want to meet you, Takumi.." she turned down her face. "Actually, I though that your death was my sin. I want to apologize to you. You deserve to have a proper life, you have a bright future ahead you...and you deserve somebody else, better than me...why, why you have to die before me?"

Her tears started to come out from her eyes and fell. "I told you that I can take care of myself. But, but why, why you persisstant to proctect me, act like my shield. You're not my knight in shining armor, remember?" even he wasn't too..."I had lost parent, my twin brother, and now...you...why, why this world was cruel to me? Am I cursed? If that true, why, why you didn't take my life instead you took all of the people that I love's life? Why, Kami...I don't deserve anything to get anything from you! I don't deserve this life that you give for me!" she cried. She rememberd the taste of the blood, the scent of the blood that had haunted her since she lost her parent. Even she didn't see any puddle of blood near her.

Am I cursed? just like Granpa said to Minato-nii. A Demon. I'm the lilith, not the angle. I'm the killer, not the savior. I'm the dark one, not the bright one. I'm who should die, back then. Like the MAREBITO said, I had a talent, yeah I have the talent that will bring someone that near with me to die.

"Just, die..." she sobbed. Then she took out a short knife from her little bag. She always carried it after that incident. She looked straight at it and put on her wrist. "Taku...it's the right one...right?" she tried to cut her wrist.


"MINAKO!"

Someone took her wrist and stoped her another hand. She could feel it. The knife cut something, she smelled it, smell of the blood. She opened her eyes slowly and suprised. A pair grey eyes looked worry showed in front of her. "A-Akihiko-san?"

She spotted her knife had cut his left palm hand. She gasped but rather than she said sorry to him. She tried to release herself from his. "Let me go Akihiko-san!"

"No way!" he shouted. "What the hell are you doing Minako?"

"It's none of your bussiness!"

"Yeah it is!"

She couldn't held her emotion anymore, so she shouted "I don't deserve to life! Just let me go or I'll bring the death again!"

"I won't have any purpose to life if you die Minako! You're everything for me!"

Both of them stopped and kept quiet. So, she really...Akihiko though. His right hand held Minako's wrist tightly while he left his wounded bleeded left hand. Let the blolod dropplets to the ground. "Are you trying to suicide yourself Minako?" he asked but she didn't answer, only turned down her head and he knew she was crying. "Why Minako? Answer me..." she didn't.

He caressed her cheek and lifted her face up, "Hey, listen...what's wrong? You can tell me everything, remember? I told you that I'll always protect you, no matter what, so please..." he said softly to her. Knew that his voice was high before and it might scared her.

Minako started to cry again, she felt her hands was powerless she let knife fell from her hand and she threw her petite body to Akihiko and of course he embraced her. With his right hand, he caressed her hair and tried to calm her who cried. "Shhh...it's okay, everything fine...I'm here..."

Why Kami, why? Please tell me the right path...

Akihiko cleaned his wound with water while Minako just sat on the parkbench near the graveyard. Akihiko sighed he couldn't imagine that if he hadn't spotted her stood on that grave, tried to suicide herself. He turned aroud to take a peek of her. She sat there calmly, but not on the comfy way . She looked lifelees. She didn't have any soul, death. Like she said before. Was it true that she was cursed? Same with me...Akihiko though again as he wiped his left hand with his handkerchief and walked straight to Minako's place.

"Am I cursed?" she asked. Akihiko blinked when he heard her strange -or maybe common for her- question. Minako looked at her hands. "Because of me, a lot of my dearest dying..."

Here come again, depressed. "Hey..hey...listen..." Akihiko tried to distrack her mind as he kneeled down beside her. Lucky, there's only two of them this time. "Why, why you thinking like that?" he asked her calmly.

"You know it right? My parent died, but I still life. Minato-nii died, but I still life and now, Taku, he died and I still life. What it is, if it's not a curse. I'm the cursed one...I'm suppose to be alone. I'm not the pure one...the darkness had me and I'm inside it."

"So, it's same with me, right?"

"Eh?"

"I lost my parent too, I lost my little sister, Miki, I lost my best buddy, Shinji and I lost my best Leader, Minato Arisato. We are same right? We are cursed. The God, gave us the curse since we hadn't born yet." Akihiko said sadly.

"You're not Akihiko!" Minako said to, "It was me-"

"No! Me too! Just listen to me first." He said "I'm always remind myself that I had lost most of my important persons. Because of that I closed my heart, tried to not so close to everyone, except Shinji and Mitsuru. I didn't want to feel it again. That sadness, that fear, it haunted me. So what's the difference between us, both of us, we experienced the same thing. That's why I'm cursed too."

Minako shooked her head, "No, just don't address yourself like that..."

"But, after I met you, I forgot it."

Minako disbelief with Akihiko's words and she looked at him. His calm grey eyes. "After I met you, I though what if it's happen again, something bad which will take her away from me. I really want to only see her. It's necessary for me to keep a distance? Because it's different with the other. If I keep a distance from her, I didn't feel relieve like the usual I feel, I felt afraid,afraid to lose her."

Akihiko sighed, "First, I think it's curse but now, I think it's a gift. This feeling, this tears, this smile, this happiness, this joy, this anger, this emotion, this passion that I feel for you it's real not a fake." He reached one of her hand, caressed it and looked at her ruby eyes, "Minako, you're everything for me. You're the gift. We're blessed by Kami."

"B-but.."

"Like I said before, we're blessed by Kami. We have each other for now..." he embraced her.

"But what if something happen..."

"I won't allow it...like I promised to you, I'll protect you no matter what. I'll become your shield, I'll become your sword." Akihiko said while he embrace her more tightly, "Like I said before, I had lost most of my dearest, but not you...I won't, I won't let it happen to us, both of us. I'll protect you..." he sounded determinded.

"I'm really pathetic, right?"

"No, I'll be with you..."

It's the right Kami? Blessed by you with this person. It's not the curse to love him? It's okay for me to give everything I have to him? He is same with me, faithed by curse but we blessed to be together like now. He told me I was the gift from Kami for him. Did I think the same too? He was the gift from Kami for me. It's okay, Minato-nii, Taku...? It's not a curse, it's a bless. So, we're destined and tied by the red string of curse, aren't we?

"So, it's settled then..."


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