Author's notes: Hey, getting' closer to the hundred reviews mark! You'll definitely love this one… As always, review and read. Not exactly in that order though…
And to Mr. Kinji Ayasaki…
Yeah, the gang of Ken is pretty intense… I would put more details, but it would seem pretty much irrelevant to the plot…
Well, life is okay… currently on leave from my job so as to take care of my kid, Rachel Mina, which I added, a "-ko" in her Mina…
Her mums a big $ %& though… total #$ *&bag that uses my hard earned cash to buy her frickin' shoes...
Oh and don't worry about calling me Nathan, because no one, other than my elementary school friends and my gran-gran call me Nathan, so I won't mind if you comment on Nathan being a b%^&… (Wow, so much profanity…)
I'm really called Maclyn, so I don't mind if you say Nathan…
Nathan Monte Negroe(is that right?) IS becoming more and more of an ass… I'm starting to believe he has ADHD or that he has some serious mental issues…
Well, I have a friend on pills and I understand why he does not like to take his meds, people hate being forced to do it, so I would suggest Marko to secretly put it in his food (Either on a banana or a sandwich.) every time that dude tries to eat.
That poor hooker was seriously banged up…
If you think the Nathan on the TV show is bad, wait till you see MY Nathan!
Yeah, I'm really stoked you like the storm series; I actually experienced that when a hurricane, I think it was called Typhoon Frank, hit the Philippines (4 years ago) at Iloilo city, we were trapped in my friend's house and we talked about our past until the waters subsided.
Oh as for the Persona 4 gang… They will, though not ALL of them will appear VERY soon.
Thanks for the help and just a suggestion, but why don't you make a profile at ? So we could PM or something?
MAPOV
We all sat on the floor mat as we awaited Nathan to tell his story.
"Wait, I'll go get the food so it won't go to waste…" Yukari said.
After a few minutes, she returned with a tray full of food.
On the tray were several types of foods and cold cuts.
"Oh, nice! I'll take some of that Smokey Joe!" Nathan said as he used a fork to get the "Smokey Joe".
"Actually, that's from the U.K. and that isn't what you thi-" Lee said.
"Ah, don't be so damn stingy!" Nathan said as he took a bite.
"Oh! Yum! This is good! I though the food from the U.K. was suppose to suck!" Nathan said as he took four more bites.
"Yeah… the haggis is fresh from Edithburgh, Scotland… it's made from the finest sheep's bladder… quite nice, actually!" Lee said.
Nathan's eyes grew wide as he spat out the haggis in disgust.
"Ugh! I'm gonna go get some brandy to wash my mouth out…" Nathan said.
After he did, he began…
"Well, you won't find my story as wild and crazy as Kenny G. over there," points at Ken.
Ken glares at him, making him smirk.
"Or weepy like Chidori's story…" points to Chidori.
Chidori slowly looked at him with a subtle, yet menacing look.
Nathan cringes.
"Or as pretentious as Lee's story…" points to Lee who speaks up.
"Now, I'm gonna stop you right there, Nathan…" he begins.
"Go on, Caporal!" Nathan said mockingly.
Lee gives him a sour look.
"It's Major… Now, I don't know about you, Nathan, but I sure as hell didn't come down from the goddamn smoky squalor, cross 9,200 miles of water, suffer in the Legion boot camp, fight my way through half of Libya and then jump out of a fucking air-o-plane to have some spoiled brat insult me!" Lee hissed as he seemed to grow menacingly.
Nathan cringed as Lee physically shuddered.
Fuuka touched his hand and he grew clam.
"Don't get in my face if you can't back it up…" Lee grumbled.
Nathan shook his head.
"Well, my past is pretty much everything you'd think of from a guy like me… cool, nice and comfy… and I pretty much had everything…"
His proud smile fades.
"But… there where parts of my life which were the best for me… like when I was young…"
His eyes flashback as he tries to remember.
"My past…"
"When I was a young boy, I used to have two great friends… Lea and Isa… we would get in so much trouble…
Back then, I had a rich golden brown hair that I always took pride on…
Lea, Isa and I used to watch the sunset and eat ice cream together…
We did loads of crazy stuff…
Like this one time, Lea and I put some hot chili on a cup cake that Isa refused to share…
Then this other time, I had a huge fight with Lea when he accused me of farting…
NAPOV
Lea and I were sitting at our classroom…
*Frrrt!*
We looked at each other.
"I didn't do it." Lea said.
I narrowed my eyes.
"Dude, no one asked… you prolly did it!" I accused.
He grew red.
"Did not!" he screamed.
"Did so!" I said.
We went nearer as we growled and then I grabbed his hair as he grabbed my neck.
We threw each other at the floor as Isa cleared away.
I kicked him as he beat my head like a drum…
Then, after a while, I pushed him away.
"Hey, Lea, I feel sorry for you, so I'll stop right away!" I said as I brushed away my bloody mouth.
"Bullshit!" he said…
Nathan smiles.
"Then, I remember when I went with my Momma to the pond…" Nathan muses.
I caught a duck and choked it to death…
So Lea and Isa and I could cook it.
My mum saw that and scolded me…
I ran off and heard what she said.
"What is wrong with that child…?"
After a few stints, the worst of it all happened…"
He pauses.
"….Yes?" Ken asked.
Nathan looked up.
"We did a stunt with fire… I placed an oil soaked orange on Isa's head and I tried hitting it with a dart with fire at the end…"
"Did you hit his eye or something?" Ken asked.
That seemed to annoy Nathan.
"Shut up kid… of course I hit it, but it also dropped the orange causing it to hit our curtain… causing a huge fire that took out our living room…"
He grew silent.
"I blamed it on Isa and Lea… they didn't say anything… they had the look on their faces like they trusted me to come clean… and I kicked them to the curb, after all we've been through…" he said.
"After all that time, I began to be angry at everyone… and now I am an empty shell of my former self…"
He smirked.
"My own mother...thought I was a demon…" he shook his head.
"Do you regret any of it?" I asked, expecting a harsh reply.
He smiled bitterly.
"As I remember everything bad I've done, I can't help but think of a time when everything was so much brighter…"
There was a long, uneasy silence.
Then, thunder cracked and he said.
"Yukari, it'd be fair if you'd say something…" he said.
She nodded.
"Well… I was very young when my dad died… and back then, I was really invisible… not invisible, the other invisible, like no one really noticed me… but they did when I went to Gekkoukan…"
"Please… your past?" I said.
Yukari nodded.
"My past…"
"My mom never had any trouble landing men… she had a terrible job keeping them… at first, I kept track of them, but stopped counting at 28… I just name them all "sprint"" she recounts.
"They'd always say hey Yukari-chan, I'm gonna be your new step dad."
"Let's not get ahead of ourselves, sprint…" she said.
"Um… it's Hiro, kid… why do you keep calling me that?" he asked.
Yukari smirks.
"Because that's what they always do, eventually… it happened so many times that my mom developed a self-soothing treatment…
Eating a tub of Strawberry overload ice cream… or two… or three…
Then we'd pack up our bags and skip town.
Being in my situation all those years ago HAD its advantages…
Moving all the time…
I never had to do any of those "awkward goodbye" things… I was never really good at that…" she said as she looked at me.
Akihiko snorted.
"Yeah, when he left, you practically cried more than you breathed…"Akihiko said.
"Hahahaha! And remember that time when she threw a knife at you when you told her to get over him, Junpei-san?" Ken quipped.
"Who could forget? My ass still has that scar!" Junpei said.
Yukari looked at the floor, pretty much uncomfortable.
"Guys, shut up…" I said.
They did so, with apologetic smiles.
Yukari looked at me with shining eyes.
"And after that, I decided to leave my mom… I went to live at several ladies dorms… every year, my mother sends me a cactus… thanks Kaede-ugly, I really need a cactus to show me love!"
"And well, that's it…" she said.
The rain continues.
"Well, guys, I need to pee… Be back in a while…" I said.
As I relieved myself, I looked out the window and the flood seemed to abate a bit, but still not enough to escape from…
Then a hand touched me.
It was Yukari.
"We had a moment back there..." she said.
"Huh? No, no, we did not have a moment back there!" I denied.
"Yes! We had a moment!" she argued.
"I was right there. Yukari, I would have noticed if we had a moment!" I said.
"Hehehe…" she said as she pushed me to a room.
"We did not have a moment- Ack!" I yelped as she tore my clothes off.
She began kissing me roughly and I heard the doorknob turn.
"Crap!" I yelped as I tried to hide.
Yukari held me fast.
"H-Hey! Leggo of me!" I said.
"They need to know about us!"
"C'mon! Please?" I said.
With a pout, she let me go and I hid under the closet.
Then, Nathan came inside.
"What was all that noise?" he asked.
"Oh, nothing! Why?" she asked.
"Nothing… I just needed to re-check the list… does he have to go?" Nathan asked.
"Huh? Who and what are you talking about?" Yukari asked.
"Minato of course! Do we really have to invite him to our wedding?"
I felt a sword sever my soul from my body.
"Y-Yeah… I need him to be there…" she said.
"Okay… for you honey, but if he steps one toe out of line, I'd know about it!" Nathan said.
After he left, I came out of the bed.
I had an awful look in my face.
"H-Hey… c'mon, don't be sad… I'll cancel my wedding to be with you…" she said.
I smiled as I thought about it.
Then I frowned.
"What's wrong?" she asked worriedly.
"I can't allow you to do that." I said vehemently.
"Why not?" she asked.
"That wouldn't be fair to you or that asshole, Nathan…"
"There's something else?" she asked, scrunching her nose.
"…Yeah… things between me and Mitsuru are getting serious now… I can't let you do that… it wouldn't be right for you, me, Mitsuru, Minako and that jerk-off Nathan…"
She frowned.
"You're already getting married... nothing I can do about that." I said.
There was silence.
"And I love you, I really really do! If you and Nathan weren't together, if this was four years ago…in a heartbeat I'd take you… but now, you changed… I changed… but if I really truly love you, I'd set you free… we need to go our separate ways… get married." I said as I left the room.
"But... I..." she stammered.
"I love you, Yukari... I will always love you." I said as I walked out.
She continued to sob as I went down and listened to Mitsuru's story.
AND SO, THE STORM CONTINUES...
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