Mitsuru blushed as Minato peacefully slept on her shoulder. She looked up to sky, it was still the dark hour.

"So much has been happening." Mitsuru mused "Father died…Nyarlathotep is back along with Sakura." Since her early days of fighting the shadows, she always managed to reach the core of the situation and find a solution…..But now it just wasn't working, Nyarlathotep was ridiculously powerful, seeing that he could summon an entire army.

"Can I live through this all?" Mitsuru muttered, obviously scared, the thought of facing Sakura hammered her head again and again, making her limbs go numb.

She was really scared to the core, the blood red eyes of Sakura made her shiver uncontrollably. Something even more terrible clicked in her mind….Her father dying in front of her eyes….While she was powerless to stop it.

"Daddy." Mitsuru cried out as the memory of her protecting her father from the shadow flashed inside her mind. This was just too much even for the Ice Queen. The cool wind was finally getting to her along with the pent up emotions and grief. A gust of wind blew and she let out a gasp, clutching Minato who was still asleep tightly.

She shivered again and snuggled close to Minato, hoping for some heat.

"It feels warm." Mitsuru muttered as she strangely felt comfort while hugging close to Minato. Mitsuru buried her face into his shoulder still hugging him.

"Don't worry.." A soft voice reached her ears, she looked up to see Minato smiling at her. She flushed a deep shade of red and wanted to pull away…..but she just couldn't.

"Nothing bad will happen to you as long as I'm here." Minato continued even though his eyes were heavy from the sleep. He returned the hug and Mitsuru felt a lot more calmer than before, her deep erratic breathing returned to normal.

"A-Arisato.." Mitsuru mumbled, snuggling even closer for warmth. She was never this close to anyone and never even imagined it. Her image of the cold and perfect Ice Queen would have been blown to smithereens if anyone saw them but right now she just didn't care about anyone finding out.

"I never knew the dark hour would be so romantic." Minato thought as he gazed up to moon that like normal was glowing yellow.

"Arisato.." Mitsuru whispered drawing closer, Minato instinctively drew closer as well, he wasn't sure where they were going with this, but his mind was too hazy to ask questions.

"Hey!." Junpei yelled causing both of them to scramble away from each other.

"HEY GUYS!." Junpei said as he stopped in front of them.

" . ." Minato repeated over and over.

"Dudes everyone is worried sick about you two." Junpei exhaled "Why did you run off?"

Minato stood up and then dusted himself "Senpai was feeling down so I took her for a ride…We met Sakura here and she blew up the bike and then she summoned a trillion robots that attacked us." Minato said while pointing to the trash at the side. Junepi's eyes widened "You killed them all?"

Minato nodded "Yup."

"Hardcore." Junpei muttered "The others will be here soon." As if on cue, the others minus Ken and Koromaru came running towards them. Mitsuru slowly stood up, now that she separated from Minato, the usual dread took her again.

"Can we go home?" Mitsuru muttered rubbing her arms "We can talk once we go there." Minato nodded "I'm sleepy so no discussions until tomorrow night or else I'll haunt you in your dreams." He spoke, giving a half ass sadistic smile that made everyone shiver except for Aigis of course.

Fuuka gave a knowing smile to Mitsuru who was confused "Even senpai is falling for him." She giggled, probably she knew that because of Juno.

"Sakura is such a bitch." Minato muttered as he walked "I don't think I would ever curse a girl but man she really deserves it." He shook his head "She isn't a girl anymore and thanks to that I won't have problems bashing her face in."

"Kyoto huh?" Minato asked himself as he laid on his bed, he could still feel Mitsuru's heavy breathing and her warm arms wrapped around him. Minato thought about it hard and then blushed "Dammit she's freaking hot." He sighed "But I shouldn't do anything further she just lost her father." With that he slowly closed his eyes.

….

The next day, Minato was on the monorail, ignoring the stares of girls which had almost become a norm for him, humming The Enemy by Fozzy, his mind instantly jumped to Sakura "She sure is my enemy." While he was humming a pair of hands blinded him from behind, Minato didn't panic thought, he quickly grabbed the arm and then twisted it, punching whoever was blinding him right across the face, it wasn't Yukari for sure since the hands were actually quite rough unlike the soft ones of Yukari.

Minato turned around with a glare which quickly changed to a confused look, as he saw Ryoji's face being smashed against a pole.

"Well shit." Minato muttered as he shrugged the glare Ryoji sent him. Ryoji stood up rubbing his face, Minato smirked "Hey there playa."

"Shut up man you almost broke my beautiful nose." Ryoji cried and Minato smirked again "It isn't my fault that you came up with the most stupidest way to surprise me."

Ryoji gave a hmph " Whateva!." With that the two began talking about all sorts of things in the monorail.

"Ryoji?" Minato sighed hoping to stop his babbling.

"And then she asked me what is my fa—"

"RYOJI!." Minato yelled this time, stopping the black haired boy from continuing any further.

"What? This is the fun part of the convo." Ryoji pouted and Minato glared "You've been talking about girls and nothing else than that."

"B-But." Minato waved dismissing the conversation "Forget it the schools here." Minato sighed and then got up, walking out of the monorail.

"Minato?" Yukari softly shook Minato to which he didn't budge.

"Minato?" She was answered by a snore this time. A vein popped on her forehead.

"Damn it you idiot wake up." She grabbed him by the hair and slammed his face back onto the desk, making him yelp in surprise.

"The fuck is wrong with you?" Minato groaned as he rubbed his forehead.

"That creep Ryoji." Yukari spoke a string of anger in her voice "Tried to hit on both me and Mitsuru senpai." She curled her hand into a fist "Even though you should he wouldn't."

"Why that little." Minato fumed "Nobody hits on Mitsuru-senpai." He thought inside. The rage on Minato's face quickly turned into a sweet smile as soon as he saw Ryoji standing near the door, rubbing his red cheek probably from Yukari's slap.

"Hello there Ryoji." Minato greeted him with a warm smile and Ryoji gulped, he broke into a run with Minato behind him "Get back here you son of a…." In the end Minato indeed did catch up to so Ryoji got a nice shiner on his face as the end result.

"Are you excited for the trip Arisato?" Mitsuru asked, she was trying to give off a good vibe because of Yukari's conversation in the morning. Minato shook his head "Not really."

Mitsuru's gaze softened "You don't have to worry about my feelings, I hope you enjoy the trip."

"You're still not okay." Minato mumbled "I can see it in your eyes." Mitsuru looked down "Time heals all wounds.."

"I guess.." Minato replied back. Mitsuru tried a cheerful smile "Don't worry about me okay? I'm fine." With that she walked off.

"You're not." Minato muttered behind her back. Slowly Minato made his way to bed and like usual a horrible nightmare plagued his dream.

…..

"Step up." Minato taunted as he smacked the obnoxious black haired girl in the face brutally.

"I told you even Nyarlathotep isn't gonna make you win." He taunted again as a bolt of electricity electrocuted Sakura but she didn't even scream.

"Damn you." Minato yelled as he rammed her head onto the ground, before stomping on it, but like before there was not a sound.

"Do something." Minato said annoyed and Sakura instantly got back up "With pleasure." Sakura stood up and her body twisted and turned.

Minato's eye widened in horror as he slowly back away.

"H-Hamuko?" He choked out as he eyed the redhead in front of him.

"Hello bro." Hamuko gave a sick sweet smile, before shoving Minato onto the ground "Come on fight me now." Hamuko taunted as she kicked him across the face.

"I can't." Minato muttered.

"Pathetic.." She spat before taking a knife out and plunging it into Minato's stomach who screamed out in pain.

She grabbed Minato by the hair roughly "I FUCKING HATE YOU FOR LETTING ME DIE."

….

"Ugh.." Minato woke up, covered in sweat. He wanted to curse but he didn't, this was just a norm for him ever since he met Nyarlathotep. Realizing he was still in his uniform and it was the dark hour, he got up feeling restless.

"Damn that guy." Minato sighed "Hamuko would never do something like that." He looked down at the ground "But I wonder if she hates me for the fact I was powerless to stop her die."

"I shouldn't think about it." Minato muttered as he opened his window and jumped out, he would die of boredom if he stayed in his room. Charging a Rakukaja into his legs, he jumped out from the window and landed on his feet.

"I need some air." Minato mused as he ran away from the dorm and towards the commercial area of the island. Minato stared at the tallest building in the whole island the Kirijo enterprise.

"I hope senpai can save the group." He shook his head "No she will.." He crushed The World and simply wall ran up the 1000 feet building in a couple of seconds. Minato reached the top of the building and stood at the end soaking everything around him in. He could easily see tartarus towering over everything.

"This is my city." Minato declared as a gust of wind blew, slowly since he came here he started to love the place he once hated "No way I'm gonna let Sakura destroy the place where my sister steeped foot on." The city looked like it was dead during the dark hour, a line of coffins dominated the streets.

"She doesn't get it." Minato said as he switched to Archer, enhancing his vision, he looked far and wide towards everywhere and could see pretty well than a normal human being "The city got it's soul cut off." His eyes widened as he looked down the moonlight bridge, the bridge was quite far so he couldn't get a clear picture but he swore he saw someone standing there looking up to sky.

"The hell is that?" Minato muttered as he squinted his eyes to see clearer but the figure disappeared into thin air.

"Archer did you see what was that?" Minato asked to the silver haired bowman in his psyche "No but I could sense deadly amount of energy from him." Minato gritted his teeth "I hope it's not another problem."

Minato felt a dreadful aura for a milli second behind him, he quickly turned around and stared into the glowing yellow moon, which looked like it was mocking him.

"Don't worry I'll get rid of you soon." Minato glared at the moon which was somewhat closer to him "But first.." He heard a couple of bangs and tilted his head down to see a couple of hundreds robots shooting in his direction. An amused chuckle left his mouth as he stared back to the moon "I have to take out the trash." With that, his body glowed blue as he jumped off the 1000 feet building, his face twisted into a sadistic smile as he aimed for the robots on the ground.

"Thor!." Minato yelled as he summoned Thor in mid air, the Norse god readied his hammer to strike. Minato jumped down onto his feet as Thor smashed his hammer onto the ground, shaking the whole area, columns of electricity shot up from the ground, engulfing the robots making them burst from the deadly lightning.

"Hmph…" Minato yelled as he tore the last robot into his pieces by his bare hands "Things may look difficult, but I won't give up." He swore "the dark hour, tartarus and Nyarlathotep I'll get rid of all of you."

With that he walked away from the carnage he left behind, the Last Battalion was dead in a couple of seconds. He was very close to the dorm but he abruptly stopped in the middle "Come out." He ordered.

"Hmph." A cold voice answered as Minato turned around to see Sakura glaring at him "You bitch don't you have anything to do than to stalk me?"

"You bastard." Sakura cursed back and Minato chuckled "It's hard to believe you're the same one that was shaking in fear when I caught you last back then." Minato shook his head "And the same one who got demolished at the moonlight bridge."

"I'm not the same bitch you found that day." Sakura hissed "You're not talking to only Sakura, this is the shadow of humanity."

"You make my skin crawl." Minato said with unimaginable hate in his words, like it left a bad taste in his mouth.

"Ahh.." Sakura gave out a low hateful scream in response.

"Scream all you want." Minato spat "That's the only thing you can do against me." He looked her dead in the eye "When you finally grow a pair of balls, when you finally do fight me then you'll realize the cold reality."

"What is that?" Sakura asked and Minato smirked "You're alone Sakura." Minato spat "All alone, it will be devastating when you clash with reality which is you can't beat me." Sakura gritted her teeth in response.

"It's gonna be like it was before." Minato declared as the memory of Sakura driving a blade into his shoulder flashed in both of there minds "You'll gather up what you have and ran and tackling me to the ground but only to see me get back up."

"Shut up!." Sakura screamed in response "You think gritting you're teeth and charging at me will get you somewhere?" Minato raised his hands and then clasped his hand together "In the end you'll see I've got my entire team behind me while you don't and that makes a difference, reach out into your soul, you know its true." A blue mist exploded from Minato as Sakura back away. Every persona of the word appeared behind him, ready to strike. Sakura shook is fear as she stared up a peculiar persona with a red body and blonde hair looking emotionlessly at her.

"Ahhh.." Sakura readied herself as Minato smirked, charging ahead of her, she tried to bash him on the face, but he just went through her fist. Sakura quickly turned around to see Minato behind her "Pathetic as always." With that he broke into a run.

"Knowing full well about the things I said, you still intend to fight me Sakura Tachibana?" Minato spoke loud enough for her to hear him "Well then get ready this will all be over soon." With that he jumped into the shadows and disappeared as Sakura screamed out in hate "You bastard just watch."

"Good luck with plaguing me with those dreams again." Minato shouted from the shadows "But that won't change a damn thing."

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Short chapter but hey it did build up a little things so yup read and review please!