The next day, the final day of exams…
"Well, today's the final day of the exams for us and how did you do in yours, Minato-san?" asked Ken curiously to Minato as they leaned against the wall and waited for their train in Shibuya station.
"It was a breeze and what about yours, Ken?" replied Minato before he asked Ken a question.
"Obviously, Minato." said Pharos sarcastically to Minato.
"Yeah, thanks for that, Pharos." sighed Minato mentally at Pharos.
"Not bad, Minato-san." replied Ken.
"That's good to hear and I'm sure my sister and our old friends will surely be happy too once you tell them about it, Ken." said Minato as he smiled and nodded to Ken (who smiled and nodded back to him) before they saw Akira, Morgana and Ryuji approaching them.
"Good morning, you two." greeted Akira politely to them.
"Yeah, good morning, Akira-kun." greeted Minato back to him while Ken nodded.
"Yeah, morning, you guys. So sleepy…" said Ryuji as he yawned tiredly. "I ended up pullin' an all-nighter once I realised that today's the last day of exams."
"You? Staying up studying?" said Morgana skeptically to Ryuji after he popped out of Akira's bag and leaned against his shoulder to glance at him.
"Nah, I gave up on the exams. I was playin' some games, then before I knew it, it was morning." sighed Ryuji as he slumped his back a little.
"Why are we not surprised that you would choose to do that over studying, Ryuji-kun?" sighed Minato as both he and Ken shake their heads at Ryuji.
"I know what you mean but if you keep doing that, you're going to failed, Ryuji-kun." said Akira sympathetically then matter-of-factly to Ryuji.
"Eh, it'll be fine. Nobody's expectin' anything of me, so I don't gotta worry about grades." said Ryuji as he shrugged his shoulders.
"How could you say that! Grades are important to us!" said Ken in disbelief at Ryuji.
"He's right, you should be worry more about your grades." said Akira in agreement with Ken at Ryuji (which make him scowled at them).
"Morning…" yawned Ann as she approached and stopped in front of them.
"Yo, look who else is yawnin'." said Ryuji with a huge grin on his face as he, Akira, Morgana, Minato and Ken turned to glance at Ann.
"Exams are almost over, so I thought I'd make one last effort across the finish line." said Ann.
"Impressive, Lady Ann. You, Akira, Minato and Ken are all on a different level than this stupid blonde monkey we know." said Morgana approvingly to Akira, Minato, Ken and Ann.
"Yeah, at least you hit the books and study like us, unlike Ryuji-kun." said Minato in agreement with Morgana.
"Huh? Don't gimme that crap. Your brain's tiny compared to mine and who do you think you're in saying that, Minato-san?" snapped Ryuji as he glared at both Morgana and Minato for talking bad at him.
"Size is meaningless if there's nothing inside, you know." said Morgana smugly to Ryuji.
"What was that!?" growled Ryuji as he stepped closer and glared at Morgana.
"Ugh, will you please shut up!? You're gonna make me forget everything I memo-" Ann began reprimanding Ryuji before she stopped when she felt someone watching her, turned and look around for the person to no avail. "Am I imagining things…?" whisper Ann under her breath as she furrowed her brows.
"Hm? What is it, Ann?" asked Akira when he noticed Ann looking around for something or someone.
"I don't know, Akira. I felt someone watching me…" replied Ann.
"Someone's watching you?" said Ken concernly to Ann.
"What? You see a groper or something?" said Ryuji.
"Minato, whoever's watching her is the same one that I sense watching us after we came out of Mementos a few days ago." said Pharos.
"Really? The same one you sense watching us a few days ago, huh?" said Minato.
"No, that's not it. It's… nothing." said Ann as she shake her head while Morgana had a frown look on his face.
After a few seconds, the train that Akira, Ryuji, Ann, Morgana, Minato and Ken have been waiting for arrived in Shibuya station and they went into the train with the other passengers and they head off to Aoyama-Itchome station. Once they've arrived in Aoyama-Itchome station and got off the train with the other passengers toward the escalators, the person who's been watching Ann and the same one that Pharos sensed got off as well and followed them.
"Oh my god, that guy got off!" gasped Ann after she turned around and finally spotted the person that's been watching her before she glance at Akira. "Isn't this bad…?" added Ann concernly to Akira (who turned around and saw the person that's been watching her and following them, same goes for Minato and he widened his eyes in surprise then joy as he recognized the person who's watching her and following them now).
"Minato, don't tell me that he's…" said Pharos in disbelief at Minato.
"Yeah, it's just like you think, Pharos. It's my, Minako and Naoto's younger brother and cousin and I wonder what does he want with Ann that he's following-" said Minato.
"Don't you mean stalking her, Minato?" said Pharos dryly to Minato (which make him let out a small sigh).
"Hey! At least act like you care!" said Ann in annoyance at Ryuji when she saw that he started yawning.
"Fine… Come on." sighed Ryuji before he walked past them up the escalator and they followed after him.
After all of them stepped out of the station, Minato told and convinced Akira, Morgana, Ryuji and Ann to go ahead to Shujin first while he and Ken stay behind to confront the guy that follow them.
"Are you two sure about that, Minato, Ken? What if he attacks you two or something?" said Ann concernly to both Minato and Ken.
"We'll be fine so don't you worry about it and go already." said Minato reassuringly to Ann.
"Yeah, trust us and go already." said Ken reassuringly to Ann as well.
"Fine then, if you guys say so. Let's go." said Akira before he, Morgana, Ryuji and Ann walked away from them toward Shujin Academy.
Soon after Minato and Ken watch them leave, both of them heard the sound of footsteps and keys jingling approaching from behind them and they immediately turned around to glance at the person that's been following them and they saw that the person is a tall and lean, fair-skinned, short dark blue-haired, dark grey-eyed, pretty-looking guy wearing a long sleeve white dress shirt, long black fitted pants (with some keys hanging out of his pants pocket) and black loafers on his feets before the guy instantly stopped and glance monotonously at them.
"Excuse me. But may I ask you two on where the girl that's with you two and two other guys gone off to?" asked the guy politely to both Minato and Ken.
"We told her, Akira-kun and Ryuji-kun to go ahead to school without us. Now it's our turn to ask you some questions, who are you, why are you stalking her and what's your intention to her?" asked Ken suspiciously to the guy while crossing his arms.
"Stalking her? That's an outrageous claim from you. Rest assured that my intention to her isn't nefarious and that I wanted to ask her to be the model for my next art piece because she's the girl that I've been looking all this time! As for who I am…" replied the guy quite passionately to Ken.
"You're Yusuke Kitagawa. The last pupil of Ichiryusai Madarame, the famous artist and a second-year student at Kosei High's Fine Arts Division." said Minato, cutting off the rest of the guy's words. "You haven't changed a bit. You're still the same eccentric boy who loves art as much or even more than Aunt Shiori, Yusuke." added Minato with a small smile on his face to the guy named Yusuke Kitagawa.
"Y-Yes, you're right about my mother'a name, my name, Sensei's name, my love of art and the school that I go to. But how do you know…" said Yusuke in confusion to Minato, same goes for Ken.
"You know this guy, Minato-san?" asked Ken in confusion to Minato, cutting off Yusuke's words the second time.
"You don't recognized me even though I'm standing right in front of you now? Has it been that long and have you really forgotten about me, your older brother? Come on, Yusuke, surely you're not that forgetful of people, especially family." said Minato in disappointment at Yusuke for forgetting about him.
"It can't be… Aniki?" gasped Yusuke as he widened his eyes in shock and disbelief at Minato after he remember and recognized him.
"That's right. It's me, Minato Arisato and I'm glad to see that you finally remember and recognized me, Yusuke." said Minato as he smiled and slowly opened his arms and Yusuke immediately rushed forward and enveloped Minato in a brotherly hug while the confusion look on Ken's face slowly disappear and he smiled at the scene in front of him.
"My god! It's really you and I've missed you, aniki! You're here and you're alive!" babbled Yusuke in joy and relief to Minato before he stopped hugging and step back from him.
"Yeah, I know and I missed you too, same goes for Minako and Naoto too after I tell them about you…" said Minato happily to Yusuke.
"Really? You…" said Yusuke hopefully to Minato before he got cut off the third time by the sound of a car honking nearby them and they glance and saw a black-coloured luxury car parking next to them on the road before the tinted window of the car rolled down to reveal a long grey-haired (tied up into a ponytail), elderly man wearing a dark blue kimono with a light brown jacket over it.
"My goodness… I had wondered why you left the car. So this is where your passion led. All is well that ends well." said the elderly man as he smiled good-naturedly at them before he started laughing heartily.
"Oh, sorry about that, sensei! And sensei, you'll not believe who I just met and reconciled with today!" said Yusuke apologetically then happily to the elderly man.
"Sensei? Wait, is that elderly man Ichiryusai Madarame-san, the name of the famous artist that you just mention to Yusuke-kun, Minato-san?" asked Ken as he glance at Minato.
"Yeah, he is and I did, Ken." replied Minato blankly to Ken.
"Hey, Minato. Isn't he the same guy that Shadow Nakanohara told us about in Mementos that day?" Pharos told Minato.
"Yeah, he is, Pharos." said Minato.
"You can tell me later, Yusuke. Right now we need to go!" Madarame called out to him from the car.
"Alright and I'm sorry, Sensei. I'll be right there!" said Yusuke as he glance apologetically at Madarame before he glance sadly back at Minato.
"I'm really happy to see you again and I hope that I'll see you, Aneki and Itoko and I also hope that you'll come to Madarame-sensei's exhibition that will begin at the department store near the station tomorrow. I'll be there to helped out on opening day. Please come by, you, Aneki, Itoko and your friend here. Also, it'll be great if you could find and give these additional 3 tickets to the girl and your other two friends…" said Yusuke as he pull out 7 tickets from his pants pocket, gave one each of both Minato and Ken then the other 5 to Minato for the others.
"Sure and thank you for the tickets, Yusuke." said Minato thankfully to Yusuke as he took the tickets from Yusuke and put the other tickets in his pants pocket.
"Well then, I hope to see you all there tomorrow, aniki!" Yusuke bade farewell to them before he turned, went into the car and the car drove him and Madarame down the road away from them.
"I can't believe that neither you, Minako and nor Naoto never told us that you 3 had another sibling, Minato-san. Why didn't you 3 tell us about him before?" asked Ken as he scowled at Minato.
"That's because none of you ask me, Minako and Naoto about it so we didn't say anything, Ken." replied Minato.
"…Fine, whatever you say, Minato-san. Now we better hurry and go to school or we'll be late!" said Ken concernly to Minato before they quickly walked to Shujin.