"So I killed the last thing and, and, and!" Hamuko panted, trying to catch her breath because she was talking nonstop for the past few minutes. Minato was fairly happy as he entered the club but his mood took a nosedive when the old monk brushed past him and walked out of the building. The fallen one was about to order a drink but the yell that came from upstairs made sigh in annoyance.

The red eyed female was in the club as well and she just latched onto Minato, forcing him to listen to her story.

"And then, it rained!" Hamuko continued. "Took care of the fire and made me smile."

"Uhuh," Minato nodded.

"I killed those things, resolved the issue with Junpei and best of all, we got a new member and she's a monster in battle," Minato rolled his eyes but Hamuko didn't catch that. "Ain't that awesome!?"

"Oh yeah, totally," Minato nodded again. "Badass and beautiful, you're a total package."

Hamuko giggled in return, looking away to hide her blush. "Thank you."

"You're welcome," Minato leaned back on the couch. "But wow, who the hell could have done such a thing? Destroying a mansion and killing people?! Psychotic asshole."

"I know, right?" Hamuko clenched her fist. "Despicable. I have a feeling it was the same one who attacked you Minato-kun."

Minato's eye twitched at the memory which was a cruel reminder of the veterans that he still had to deal with. "Must be yeah, he was crazy powerful as well."

"I know, firsthand," Hamuko pouted. "Punched me on the back."

"You poor thing," Minato said sadly.

Hamuko sighed sadly. "I hope this and the Dark Hour ends soon."

"Next time you get attacked, lure that guy towards me," Minato said. "I'll hit him 20 times for the 2 hits he landed on you."

Hamuko blushed and held his gaze, smiling softly. "You really mean that?"

"Hell yeah!" Minato declared. "Hurting cute chicks is a crime and I refuse to stand for it!" he said that despite beating Hamuko to near death during the previous full moon.

"Y-You flirt," Hamuko mumbled, still smiling.

"Just speaking the truth," Minato defended himself.

"Aww Minato-kun," Hamuko giggled. "You're such a gentleman at times."

Minato smirked.

"Mysterious but a gentleman nonetheless," she poked him on the ribs. "Although, you scare me at times."

"Scare?" Minato frowned. "If you're talking about the batt-"

"No, no," Hamuko interrupted. "Whenever you're angry or fighting. Your aura becomes so suffocating for me. I'm glad you're a friend because I think I'd crumble against you if you were an enemy."

Minato was delighted at the confession, seemed like the entire night wasn't a waste after all. "Impossible, I won't hurt you ever again."

"I know," Hamuko smiled again. "And I'm glad. Dunno why I feel like that towards you though."

"My charm," Minato shrugged.

Hamuko laughed. "I don't want to be on the receiving ends of your almighty attacks or fists. Been there, won't ever happen again. Thanks to you."

"Oh, you're taking them? Good girl," Minato nodded at her with a smile.

"Yeah, whatever to keep our friendship intact!" she fist pumped. "I think if we work together, we can wreck everyone of those punks."

Minato had to admit, Hamuko would have been a great alley but the risk was too high. "Hell yeah!"

"I still don't know you though," Hamuko lamented. "I mean, I know your name and stuff like that but further than that, you're a complete mystery. Hell, you even crossed off the details on your student profile."

"Secrets and dark past," Minato replied curtly.

"Will you tell me?" Hamuko asked. "I'm not forcing you or anything but..."

"Eh, maybe some other day," Minato shrugged. "Kinda too happy to be depressed right now."

"Okay!" Hamuko cheered. "Can I at least know the name of your parents though? or what type of parents they were."

Minato sighed internally. "Okay, my parents were cool and all, and their names were..." Minato opened his mouth to speak further but his brain rattled when he tried to think about his dead parents. "Uh... the names were..." Minato couldn't believe it but he couldn't remember the names of his freaking parents!

"Shit!" the fallen Messiah cussed. "Their names were... Were... UM!"

"Minato-kun, are you okay?" Hamuko said worriedly as Minato started to fumble once again.

"Just wait a second," he demanded. "Let me remember... remember the names of my parents..." he trailed off.

"It's okay," Hamuko stood up. "We'll talk another day. Take care, Minato-kun and um..." she took a step back. "I'm sorry." with that, she ran away, leaving Minato fuming on the couch.

"The hell," Minato still couldn't believe it. He remembered the accident that happened decades ago but in the rather vivid memory, his parents faces were blurred and their voices muted completely.

The fallen one stood up and walked down the steps. "I can't believe this shit... I forgot their names..." he growled.

Minato eventually made his way out of the noisy club and tried to remember once again. "Are you serious?" he question, looking at the skies above. "Is that a slap for me defying you?"

"Tch!" Minato teleported away from the mall and ended up in his apartment. "This is ridiculous." perhaps this was just trailer of the things to come, which meant. "I gotta end this thing quickly." he pulled out the skull from his pocket. "Time really is ticking. Gotta end this before I go completely insane.." at the moment, the Dark Hour hit the world and Minato stood up, pulling on his hood.

"Oh, going are we?" the Dark God said.

"Yeah, I gotta get a damn photo of that kid," he said, referring to Tatsuya. "Help Mitsuru send the police after him. Finish the police prick and finally kill that female so I can fight Naoya alone."

Minato teleported out of his apartment and took a deep breath. "This is risky but I can't waste time anymore..." the fallen one set his tracks towards Sumaru and ran at full speed.

Stepping into the city made him aware that his enemies were completely healed. He made a mental note to be stealthy, avoid being ganged up since that would mean death.

"This shit hole still hasn't recovered," he commented, changing his appearance to something random once again.

"Locate him for me, I forgot the way to his house," he ordered, keeping his steps quiet.

"Alright," Nyarlathotep responded and went to work.

Minato kept walking slowly, cringing slightly at every noise he made since he was extremely cautious about the whole deal. Mid way during the walk, the powers he was sensing disappeared. "Eh, they probably went to sleep..." he said.

"I've located him, he has changed locations once again," The Crawling Chaos said. "Turn left and..."

Minato followed his directions but something seemed off, Nyarlathotep sounded a little too excited about this. The fallen one shrugged this thought off quickly and turned right, on the Dark God's direction.

Soon, Minato found himself on the outside of a decently sized house. The nameplate at the side was clawed out due to some reason, Minato pondered on that briefly but shrugged once more and stepped inside.

He was having trouble sensing Tatsuya but proceeded forward anyway. He opened the door and stepped inside the house.

Minato started walking once again, he was about to enhance his vision once more but halted when he heard footsteps. Someone was racing down the stairs. It was probably the weak brunette who was absolutely no trouble for the blue haired teen.

However, the male coming down the steps was not Tatsuya, it was the last persona user Minato wanted to face right now.

"Naoya!?" the blue haired Fool growled as the older persona user growled upon seeing the familiar teen.

"You're a dead man!" the black haired persona user bolted, hitting Minato hard on the cheek, making him stagger backwards.

"How can this-" Minato blocked his kick and aimed a punch which was way off target, giving Naoya an opening to hit him on the face once again. Minato grunted in pain and backtracked to regain control of his senses.

"Tch!" he couldn't believe it but it seemed that the Dark God had stabbed him in the back. "You piece of shit!"

"I-I can't believe it myself," Nyarlathotep stuttered. "T-This must be Philemon's doing... he interfered with my powers!"

Minato ducked underneath another punch and nailed Naoya hard in the gut, sending him backwards with a grunt of pain.

The two persona users glared ferociously at each other, remembering what the other had done. "I'm gonna cripple you!"

"Try me," Naoya dared, rushing forward.

Minato caught his wrist, eating a jab which he shrugged off and replied back with a jab of his own.

"Thana-" Minato was about to summon but the older persona user headbutted him hard, his attacks were far more powerful than before, indicating that he trained, unlike Minato who just slaked off in the past few weeks.

"I need distance," Minato ate another strike, causing his lip to bust. He tasted his own blood and snarled in hate. "Damn you!" the fallen one dug a knee up Naoya's gut and sent him into the wall, face first.

The black haired persona user stood up, still glaring daggers at the bastard. "I still what you did to the two."

"I'm gonna do worse to you, you bastard," Minato snapped, charging forward to get a couple of shots on the older male.

Naoya blocked a few and ate some but returned the strikes. The two groaned and took a step back, clutching his faces to ease the pain.

"Damn, he's gotten insanely strong," this was true, as the Naoya recovered faster and sent Minato crashing through the glass door with another hard strike. Minato cringed as his skin opened up from the crash but he stood up immediately as Naoya charged for him once again. Minato expelled a few fireballs from his hand, all of them were dodged with ease.

"Dammit!" Minato took a few steps back and switched to Lucifer. "I'm gonna blow the damn place up!" Naoya was avoiding summoning since this was HIS house and summoning would probably wreck the place and he wasn't as rich as Katsuya to get another one.

"Stop!" Naoya stomped hard on the ground, summoning up a tornado of buffeting winds that cut up Minato further. The fallen Messiah yelled out in pain, charging up a Megidola into his veins and letting loose a massive amount of almighty energy that crashed right into Naoya's gut, making him release a pained grunt.

"That's it," Minato taunted. "You fucking suck!" he was about to hurl a couple of more insults but Naoya recovered quicker than expected and the moment Naoya got back to his feet, he was in Minato's face.

"UGH!" Minato was hit on the gut once again and retaliated with a punch of his own which Naoya caught.

"Shut up," the older male demanded, looking to rip away Minato's hand from his wrist.

"Prick," the teenager growled, hitting him on the gut this time. The two kept bashing each other with strikes but neither one of them backed away this time.

As Minato grappled with Naoya, the door to the house opened once again. Minato barely had time to turn around and see who it was when something hit him on the back of the head, hard. Hard enough that his vision blurred momentarily.

Naoya followed the attack up with a vicious uppercut that rocked Minato once again, leaving him dangerously close to losing unconsciousness.

"NO, I can't afford," he tried to hit the black haired male with a punch but it was easily dodged since it was so sloppy. Naoya sent him staggering backwards with another strike. Minato turned around and readied himself to summon Helel and Satan to blow the place up but halted when something flew in his face, and Minato hit the limit.

"NO!" Minato's knees wobbled and his Universe powers began to fail him once again, reverting his appearance back to normal. The blue haired teen tried desperately to teleported/run/hide/yell but it was too late as the next strike finally silenced him up and sent him crashing to the ground, and he was out like a bulb.

Naoya panted. "Man..." he took a deep breath. "Thanks Reiji."

The male clad in a business suit looked below at the teenager who was knocked out. "Seriously? You called me for this? PFT!"

"He's crazy strong," Naoya replied. "I think your strike caught him off guard entirely."

"The result would have been the same," Reiji shrugged. "So this little punk is the one who blew the city up?"

"Yes," Naoya replied. "And wow, his appearance changed once again..."

"Some voodo shit," Reiji said. "Anyway, lets chain him up and beat the shit outta him to get answers."

"Plausible," Naoya lifted the unconscious teen by the back of his head. "Go and call the rest."

"Tch, ordering me around," Reiji scoffed but ran out of the house.

Naoya dragged Minato out. He knew just the place to torture the hell out of the bastard.

And he's caught. Haste makes waste. Expect Minato to get the shit beaten out of him the next chapter and how will he escape? Read and find out.

Thank you for the reviews guys. Reason why I was able to upload so fast. Please keep the support going, all I ask.

Also, I have an idea about a one shit which explores Minato's past Journeys, like a background to his current personality. I have some nice twists lined up so tell me if you want to see a one shot like that and do mention the pairing (excluding Hamuko (of course) and Elizabeth)

and well, later.