The Plan

Day after the Surprise Party

The phantom thieves were currently sitting in the Leblanc's Attic because they just heard that they had a bounty on them of three million yen.

Ann looks down worried, "I cant believe we have a bounty on us for that much yen…" "Were we doing bad when we thought that we were doing good...?"

Ryuji shook his head, "Damn…this is crazy! Why are we getting treated like criminals!" "Arrrr, you should be proud to have that much of a bounty on you."

"This isn't a good thing Kidd!" Carmen says freaking out a little.

Akira sighed, "Calm down you two." "Relax Carmen and yes, this isn't a game Kidd." He looked over at Makoto, "It seems like your sister is getting really desperate."

Makoto sighed, "Yes…but I'm also thinking that we were setup to be popular and brought down by being hated." "So Madarame, Kaneshiro, Medjed were all to get us popular and then the principal and excuse me for saying this Haru-chan but Haru's father were killed to bring us down?" "That's exactly what it is."

Ryuji slams a fist on his thigh, "Dammit! Did we really get played!?" "Arrrr! We need to find whoever this and hang him from the gallows!"

Yusuke glares at him, "This is why I told you that we should've been careful instead of just rushing into things!" "You both are numbskills!"

Ryuji glared back at him, "What!? We should've just let Haru get used by her dad!?" "Watch what you say, landlubber!"

Haru looked down in shame, "I-I'm sorry…it's my fault." "Well yeah, it kind of is."

Yusuke glared harder at Ryuji, "Don't you dare put this on her!" "You are a despicable person Sakamoto!"

Futaba looked at Akira, "Stop them..." "Arney…they're scaring me…"

"Enough! Blaming each other is not going to solve anything!" "That goes for both of you Kidd and Goemon!" "Look we got played, there's no denying it, but if we just blame each other then we lost for sure." He looks at Ryuji and Yusuke, "You two are friends before you're phantom thieves, understood?""

Ryuji sighs looking at him, "You're right." He looks back at Yusuke, "Sorry about that man, I know I screwed up and tried to blame it on Haru." "Aye, I'm sorry about that my other ship-bro Goe."

Yusuke sighed as well, "And I too, am sorry. You are right, sometimes we have to jump in without planning." "And I am sorry, my ship-bro, Kidd."

Akira smiled glad that they stopped fighting, "Now there's only one person that could do this and that's Akechi because he obviously tried to hide the fact that he knows about the Metaverse, so obviously he's hiding something." "You're not going to tell them that he may be the black mask?" Arsene whispered. "No…I don't have any evidence besides him knowing and being in the Metaverse as well as having a persona. If I start blaming him then I would be no better than the police right now besides wouldn't it be easier to just kill us?"

Morgana jumped on the table, "That would make sense because he's also always trying to discredit us but what could he be planning?" "So we just have to take down this pendejo and find out who's his boss."

Akira nodded at Morgana, "Yeah, but we have to wait and see what he has planned for us and work from there. But I know one thing and that's no matter what, we will get back at him. So lets just go along with whatever he has planned and work from there." "When you get tricked, the best thing to do is to act like you don't know the persons plans."

Ryuji smiled, "Hell yeah! It's time we get payback for that bastard playing us!" "Aye, I like that plan better than my usual way!"

Ann smiled, "Yeah! We're supposed to be the tricksters right? "We will not be caught!"

Yusuke nodded, "Yes, we shall become the tricksters that we were meant to be." "We must get payback for his transactions."

Makoto smiled, "I will make sure he knows that I'm not as useless as he thought I was." "I always wanted to get payback for what he said to you."

Futaba grinned, "I can't wait to see the look on his face when we trick him" "He is gonna be surprised!"

Haru looked at Futaba nodding in agreement, "Yes, he will probably be really upset." "How dare someone trick me!"

Akira smiled proud of them, "Don't worry guys, we've been through worst and come out on top so how's this any different?" "That's exactly the mentality that we all should have."

An hour later

After everyone left, it was just Akira and Ann with Ann sitting on the couch with Akira's head on her lap.

Ann started running her hand s through his hair, "You know, your hair is so soft that it feels nice in my hands." "They do look like a bundle if feathers."

Akira laughed, "And you running you hands through my hair feels nice." "He spends a lot of time washing it." "Yeah and I still feel awkward when you talk during my showers."

Ann laughs, "I thought it was weird at first about Carmen doing that but then I remembered that she's technically been with me since Kamoshida started going after me. So I just go with it." "You know, I was always surprised that Akira didn't start ravishing you when he first saw you in your bikini but then I remembered that he's a gentleman that cares about your comfort before his desires."

Akira laughs, "Thank you Carmen. Speaking of body, when I first saw you in your summer outfit Ann, I nearly had a heart attack." "Didn't you use your body just to get me?"

"Really!? No wonder why you kept looking away from me for the first two weeks when it started getting hotter!" "I know that my Arsey, I was just used to using my body to attract men."

Akira laughs again, "You just realized that?" "I was upset by that because I was in love with you but you treated me like those other men."

Ann smiled, "Well it's because seeing you shy is so cute that I didn't even think about it!" "That's why I asked Ann if I can watch her love movies to help me win your heart the normal way."

Akira smiled, ""Well you're the only one who can bring that side of me." "Seeing you be like that won my heart more, my Carme."

Ann laughed, "And that's a skill that I'll always be proud off! Anyways, do you really think that we'll trick Akechi?" "And it felt so right to do it that way."

Akira smirked, "Of course, I do. Once we find out what he's going to do, we just work it out. Besides, we have one thing over Akechi and that's him not knowing that we knew he was a persona-user before telling us so we now know that he is planning something." "And being with you is the greatest thing that happened to me besides having kids."

Ann nodded, "Yeah, I can't believe pancakes will be his downfall. But I wonder what his persona is" "Arsene…I love you so much."

Akira nodded, "Yeah, he did say that his persona wanted to wait till we go to the Metaverse to introduce himself." "I love you so much as well Carmen." "Anyways, since tomorrow's your birthday, do you want anything special?"

Ann shrugs, "I don't really want anything, you already gave me a promise ring and a birthday party, so I'm fine." "Wait dear, ask for a body massage, they feel so good." Carmen whispered." "Okay!" "Wait! I want a free body massage!"

Akira blushed, "A-A full body massage!?" "Well things are getting interesting,"

"Time to mess with him." Ann looked away softly crying, "What's wrong Akira? You don't want to feel my body? You don't want me to feel good?"

Akira quickly got up panicking, "I-I never said that!"

Ann got up still not looking at him, "Yeah right…you were just joking in saying I have a beautiful body all those times…"

Akira lightly grabbed her shoulder letting her know that he wanted her to turn around which she did and instantly started kissing her after a minute he pulled away caressing her cheek, "I'm sorry I made you feel that way... I will give you a body massage."

She instantly stopped crying and pecked his lips and started walking away, "Good."

Akira shook his head, "Wait did you just crocodile tears me!?" "Well she already mastered the fake tears."

Ann smiled innocently, "I don't know what you're talking about! Bye!" She quickly left. "Great job, dear!"

After she left, Akira shook his head and smirked, "So she wants to play that game huh? I should ask Becky for her to give me some tips to know the right spots to make her feel pleasure and when she does, Ill stop." "Stopping when your significant other that is feeling pleasure from your actions is a terrible thing to do to them but Ann does deserve it."

The Next Day

Leblanc Attic

The group were sitting in the attic. They just got done listening to Goro's plan to change Sae's heart so that she will call off the bounty and he will say that they disbanded after he catches the true culprit.

Akira sighed, "So he wants us to change Sae's heart so she would call off the warrant and it will get the police off our backs but we'll have to disband afterwards. To be honest, if we didn't know the truth about him, he would have got us." "Even the smartest of minds can make mistakes." He looks over at Makoto, "Are you okay with that?"

She was looking down but nodded, "Yes, but there's something I should tell everyone…I knew my sister had a palace and it's also the reason why I continued to be part of the group." Everyone looked at her surprised.

Akira shook his head, "Why didn't you say anything?"

"Because it would be selfish of me to ask for you for help and I was too scared to investigate more..."

Ryuji sighs, "Now I feel like an ass for asking you guys to help me with Hifumi..." "Aye, but we should help each other like a real crew!"

Akira laughed, "Kidd's right, we're all friends here so never hesitant to ask us for help." I'm always glad to help out a friend."

Ann smiled at Makoto, "Yeah, we're supposed to be besties! Besties always tell each other secrets!" "Especially when they involve men but not in this case."

Everyone else nodded in agreement

Makoto smiled at all of them, "Thank you everyone, I'm sorry for hiding it for so long." "I told you there was no reason to."

Akira smiled at her, "Don't worry about it, everyone hides something that they are too scared to say, I was the same." "And now you feel better about now." "Yeah."

Ann looked at Akira, "Actually, on the subject of hiding stuff, did you see it when Akechi talked about adults being terrible? It looked like real anger."

Akira nodded, "So I wasn't the only one, I guess it makes sense since he would visit here sometimes but there's this one time when he talked about his mother being thrown away by a no good man that she was so upset that she killed herself by destroying herself."

Ryuji looked down, "Damn dude…" He looked back at Akira, "So he's like us?" "Maybe we should convince him to join us!?"

Akira shrugged, "Maybe but it seems like he doesn't want to join us, only use us." "But that begs the question, why build us up then bring us down? If he knows that adults could be cruel then why not join us?" "Well that's what we're going to find out now." He looks over at Futaba, "Do you think you can bug his phone?"

Futaba looked at him surprised, "Bug him?" She shook her head, "It will be difficult though…"

Morgana sighs, "So you can do it?" "You're the useless one this time."

Futaba growls, "I didn't say that, I just got to make an app." "You're the useless one, jerkface!"

Akira sighed, "Anyways, when we go to the the courthous, you're going to pretend to check out his phone and then you'll install this app." "And Futaba's quirkiness helps out with that."

Ryuji smiled, "Man, we sound like spies now!" "Ain't thieving and spying supposed to go together?"

Yusuke looked at Ryuji nodding, "Seems like it but it will be risky, if he finds the bug, we will be arrested." "Yes Kidd, we must spy before we can thieve but we have to be cautious as well. "

Morgana jumped on the table, "No matter what the risk, we have to do this." "Are you two starting to wuss out now. Ha, no wonder why Milady doesn't want you."

"You better shut up about Goemon furball! Before I fill you with holes!" Everyone looked at 'Milady' in shock, "Uh, because he's a weak minded fool that cant protect himself so I have to do it!" Shen then whispers to herself, "What is wrong with me…" "You don't have to fight your feelings for him." "I will say this again, I don't like him…"

Akira shook his head "Um, okay. Well we all know the game plan so we'll wait till tomorrow to enact it." "Let's all hope that everything goes to plan."

Kasumi Kazeki

The phantom thieves and Akechi arrive at courthouse.

Makoto looks at the building, "So this is the courthouse?" "It's a pretty big building that your sis works at." Anat whispered.

Goro looked at her, "I've only met her a few times. But I have a grasp in what she's doing and on the 20th, she will go to Shujin and the Sakura household and do a forced search."

Akira looked at him confused, "Wait why would she go to my guardian's house?" "Also, how does he know that she would do it on the 20th unless that's what his plan is." "That's got to be it, there's no way for him to just assume that from just meeting her a few times." Arsene whispered.

Goro looked at him, "Because she suspects you because of your criminal record."

Akira sighed, "I should of figured…"

Ann glared at Akechi, "That's not fair though!"

Makoto shook her head as well not liking the idea of Akira getting blamed for everything, "I don't like it either but sis would be able to use his false record as excuse to blame him without anyone questioning it."

Yusuke nodded, "Then that means our deadline is on the 20th."

Goro nodded at him, "Yes, however, they'll be coming at full force, so we have to do it before then."

Makoto nodded, "Okay, so let's focus on figuring out her palace."

"I agree." Goro brought out his phone, "Let's get to it sooner, having people like us here is a little unnatural."

Futaba looks at Akira for the sign to enact the plan and once he nods, she looks at Akechi's phone, "Ohhh, that's it!"

Goro looked at her and then his phone noticing that she was looking at it, "What about my phone?"

Futaba quickly grabs it and 'looks' at it closely, "Ah! This is the model I wanted! It's so nice…"

Ann laughed, "Sorry, Futaba takes a bit to get used to her quirkiness."

Goro chuckles, "I heard from Sae about most of it."

"Ohhh…" That was the sign that Futaba succeeded and he returned his phone.

Makoto then brought out her phone, "Ah yes, I almost forgot, you should probably trade contact information with us."

Goro nodded, "Yes, I should."

Inside of the Casino

They ran into the main lobby and saw Shadow Sae standing in front of the elevator smirking.

Ryuji started freaking out, "Did we get found out!?" "Arrr, but we just got here!"

"Well, well, if it isn't the phantom thieves. I see you've come to take my treasure."

Goro stepped forward, "It seems like you already know what we're after and that's your treasure."

S. Sae chuckled, "Of course I have. But instead of forcing you out, I'm going to let you try and take my treasure fair and square. Though I hope you treat this game like I do with my court cases and win by any means necessary. I'll be waiting on the top, don't disappoint me." She then got on the elevator and went up.

Queen looked down in sadness, "She treats her court case like games and wins them by any means necessary…she's wouldn't do that before…" "It will be okay once we change her heart."

Joker put a hand on her shoulder, "Are you going to be alright?"

She looked at him, "No…but we have to continue."

He nodded, "Okay, let me know if you need to take a moment."

"Thank you."

"Of course." They then ran downstairs to the elevator but got stopped when a Cruel Leopard appears.

Akira looked at it confused, "Just one? That's kind of surprising."

Akechi walked forward, "Let me show you my power! Robin Hood, bless them!" "Its about time I get to show myself to my new merry crew!" Robin Hood appeared out of him and drew back his bow firing multiple light arrows piercing the shadow and destroying it. After destroying it, he turned around and bowed, "Greetings my merry crew! I am Robin of Sherwood and Loxley." All the personas came out of their partners and he walked up to Arsene and offered his hand, "Since you are the leader, I shall call you, King Richard."

Arsene shook his hand but looked at him confused, "Uh, why are you calling me why me King Richard?"

Robin chuckled, "It's simple really, because I was most loyal to King Richard in my time."

Arsene laughed, "Well I would be lying if I said I didn't like to be called King."

"Good to hear!" He walked over to Carmen, "Ah, your beauty is as magnificent as my lovely Maid Marian!"

Carmen stuck her nose up, "I'm sorry but I will never be Maid Marian if she was your love. I am taken forever by Arsene or in your case, King." "Carmen, be nice."

Robin bowed, "My apologies, I did not mean to insult you."

Carmen was surprised by him apologizing instead of bugging her, "No, I was being a bitch. You can call me any name but no one that was your lover."

Robin looked down, "I'm sorry but I only know one female and that was Marian…" His head shot up, "Ah! I know, how about Queen Berengaria, the wife of King Richard?"

Carmen almost faitined hearing wife and Arsene's nickname from Robin in the same sentence, "I approve of that name!"

"Excellent!" Robin Hood then went to the others naming Zorro, Little John; Captain Kidd, Prince John; Anat, Eleanor; Goemon, Will; Necro, Alan even though it was a male name it didn't matter to Necro, she just wanted to be named someone and lastly, Milady, Marian because he said that she was more pretty than her thus being more beautiful than Carmen to him.

Akira laughed, "Well welcome to the team Robin."

Robin Hood bowed, "And it's a pleasure to work with you all."

Akira nodded, "Good but maybe we should get out of here and wait for things to go down so we can start fresh." Everyone nodded in agreement and they went back outside the casino to go to the real world.

Once they reached the real world, everyone went their separates ways to not make the people outside of the courthouse suspicious.

Akechi frowns while on the train, "You're pathetic. Making friends with idiots."

"Why? Because I actually felt happiness ever since you threaten to kill me if I cancel our pact after you got him…?"

"I didn't force you to do anything…I just gave you an option. Either keep working for me or die. You chose to work for me."

"Because I wanted to bring you back to the path of righteousness…and I don't want to die again…"

Akechi had to stop himself from laughing out loud, "Bring me back to the path of righteousness? I'll admit it, you could have but then I got a someone who gave me a greater purpose to bring that man down even if I have to kill people for him."

Another voice appears, "Righteous people are such foolish creatures, they act like they're doing good but they're just trying to make an excuse for their actions. Not only that, they are easily fooled by a person's kind words. That's why the idea of friends is such a foolish matter."

"Too bad, Robin is an idiot that doesn't understand that."

"Then just let me go…"

Goro smirks, "Fine then, how about this Robin…you keep tricking those idiots and then Ill let you go once I kill Akira. Deal?"

Robin sighed not wanting to follow him but if it was the only way to get rid of him without dying, he was all for it, "Deal…"

Sakura Residence

Akira sat on his bed with Morgana since Ann didn't come over

Akira started thinking about what happened today, "Is it just me or did Robin Hood's excitement to meet us seemed real?" "I was thinking the same thing and he seems like an honest guy because he didn't keep going after Carmen once she turned him down."

Morgana looked at him, "If that's true, then why would he be working with Akechi still?" "He may be this honest guy but he still wants the glory of capturing us. I would do the same."

Akira shrugged, "I'm not sure, maybe he's being forced to?" "Could he be threatening Robin to work with him?"

Morgana looked down, "I didn't even think that anyone would be that crazy enough to do that…" "That is a scary thought…"

Akira shook his head, "That's what confuses me, why is a persona scared of a human? Arent you guys supposed to be stronger than us?" "Yeah, maybe he's like you and has multiple personas." "That could be it…"

"That seems possible…let's just wait till we hear from Futaba before coming up theories."

Saturday

Leblanc Café

Futaba messaged everyone to come to the hideout because she got disturbing information from bugging Akechi's phone. Once everyone got there, she played the recording of Akechi's phone conversation.

"So then I'll bring the police to the palace and arrest the thieves in the midst of their crime with their methods, once we've caught them, I'll take care of them. Same thing as before…In the interrogation room inside the police station, stealing the pistol from the guard and committing suicide? How about that on the first day, the public safety will investigate. In that special investigation room, my job will be easy and the terrible criminal that caused a lot of people to become shells will end their own life.

Everyone gasped hearing that he was planning to kill Akira and placing the blame on all of them for all the breakdowns and death.

Akira's shivered hearing Akechi's true intentions, "He's going to kill me and make it look like a suicide…" "Not only that, this proves that he's the black mask."

Ann quickly held his arm, "No! We won't let him!" "We have to come up with a way to stop him!"

Morgana looked at Akira, "Carmen's right. We need to talk now on how to turn the situation around." "Of course my beautiful rose would say something smart."

Makoto shook her head, " So this is was his plan all along, he'll probably bring special cars and equipment as well." "Its sad that they don't agree to go this far with actual criminals…"

Ann looked at Makoto, "So he's going to frame us for his crimes including Akira's…" She looked down shaking her head, "You were right…this really was orchestrated for quite a while…" "We thought that he was just doing this to get fame but he's just a monster…"

Morgana nodded at her, "Having us crush a fake Megido. Forcing us to get carried away. Having us target Okumura and killing him at the same time we change his heart." "He may be a murderer but I do respect his cunningness."

Haru looked down shaking her head, "I saw the culprit my foot! It was him! He-He killed my father…!" "I say we torture him till he bleeds to death!"

Futaba looked down in sadness, "Akechi was the one to kill my mother…" "I want to probe him over and over again!"

Ryuji gritted his teeth, "Damn him! He was the black mask the whole time and we did nothing!" He looks over at Makoto, "Cant we just get him arrested? We can give them the recording!" "A future tool can stop that evil scallywag!"

Makoto sighed, "No…we can't. Akechi is the one that commits the crimes. The real mastermind is the one he was talking to on the phone." "I wonder who this person can be then?" "Honestly, I don't know, but this mastermind is incredible enough that he can take the steps to kill a suspect inside a police building…"

Yusuke looked at her, "But if we don't stop him, Akechi will continue on a rampage everywhere." "This is why we must do it quickly."

Haru looked at him, "Is there a way to figure out who the mastermind is?" "I told you we should torture him."

"At this point, getting Akechi to say it is the only way. However, if we force him to say it, we'd end up the same as if we reported him to the police." "So I guess torturing him is out of the questions."

Makoto was thinking during their conversation, "Actually we don't have to do that." Everyone looked at her confused, "The reason the mastermind hasn't had us killed right away is because we're valuable to frame for the crimes

when he thinks that's not possible anymore, he'll dispose of us."

Ryuji sighed, "Then we have to accept Akechi's offer of fighting together." "Aye, but I feel wrong doing it."

Ann gripped Akira's arm tighter, "But if we go to the palace like he says then…Akira will be arrested…and in the prison, Akechi will…" She looked away not wanting to think about Akira dying again but unable to be revived again since it was the real world.

"Palace…" Futaba said thinking out loud, "Palace…" "Um…are you going to tell them your plan, Futaba-chan?"

Makoto looked at everyone, "Actually there's something I wanted to talk to you guys about…"

"That's it! Palace!" Futaba interrupted her.

Ann looked at her confused, "What's with you suddenly?"

Futaba looked at Ann nervously, "T-There is one way…" "Um, Ann-chan…don't get mad please…" "There's one way to let him get away with it and not get targeted by the mastermind and still find out who he is…"

"Futaba…what are you suggesting…?" "Ann calm down, we should just listen to her."

"…That if he wants to kill us, let him do it…inside the palace." "Don't be mad at us!"

Makoto quickly spoke up before Ann could start freaking out, "So you're thinking of letting him kill Akira's cognitive self?" "Killing a fake Akira? Based off of what we learned about Akechi is that he's full of himself so he wouldn't do a double take, that's only assuming of course."

Futaba nodded, "That's right." "But we can try anyways!"

Makoto smiled, "Looks like that's the only way." "Don't worry Necro-chan, that's all we can do."

Akira nodded, "Then it's settled, he kills 'me' in the Metaverse so then how are we going to do it?"

Makoto looked at him, "Remember what Akechi said? The special investigation room. The data that I got from my sister is that there is underground interrogation room, I think that's what Akechi is talking about. What if we check out the room in my sister's palace?"

Futaba push up her glasses, "Yeah! Since we don't wear our outfits outside. it can be the same in the interrogation room."

Akira smiled, "Well then, when we go back to the palace we know what we have to do then. But one more thing, so how would we get to the Metaverse? Because I know that Sae wouldn't give me the phone even if I got her to trust me. Also, how am I supposed to get out?"

Futaba had a big grin on her face, "Don't you worry about that. I got it."

Akira laughed, "Alright, I'm trusting you little sis." He looks at everyone, "Alright, everyone, we know the plan. Let's wait till Monday then." Everyone nodded.

After everyone left, Ann was still on the couch looking down, "I can't believe it…he's going to kill you…" "I still couldn't believe it either."

Akira sat down next to her, "Yeah…I was honestly surprised about it too, but thanks to Makoto and Futaba, everything should be okay." "That's if our plan comes to fruition."

Ann sighed once he said Makoto because she wasn't able to help him, "I'm sorry, that I'm not smart enough to help you." "Don't say things like that dear."

Akira puts his arm around her, "You already do help me. Just having you around is good enough for me." "Akira would be lost without you."

Ann put her head on his shoulder, "Okay…"

"You're worried aren't you?"

"Of course, I am…"

Akirs sighed because he was too, even though they had a plan, anything can go wrong but he felt like he had to be strong for her, "I understand why, but I'm sure everything will be okay." He wanted to change the subject and he knew exactly how so he took out his phone pretending to see a message, "Oh crap, I forgot. I got to go pick up something. Can you hangout with Futaba for a bit? I got to do some stuff real fast, it will be quick and I'll see you at the house." ""So you're doing the massage, I think that will make her forget about Akechi's plan for a bit." Arsene whispered. "Yeah."

Ann looked at him confused, "Um, okay?" "You're not going to ask why?" Carmen whispered. "No, Shiho is right, I have to trust Akira more."

Akira smiled, "I'm sorry, it will be quick. I can walk you there."

After Ann nodded, her and Akira headed to Sojiro's house. Once she entered, he instantly started heading back to the café.

Once he got back, he saw that the last customers had left, "Hey Sojiro, can you close up a little earlier? Its Ann's birthday and I want to make her dinner."

Sojiro chuckled, "Yeah no problem." He then smirked, "Just don't make too much noise."

"Too much noise?...oh." Akira coughed nervously, "Y-Yeah, thanks." Once Sojiro left, Akira went to the light switches and dimmed the lights. He then ran upstairs and grabbed a bag of candles then he set them around the room and then lit them. After that, he found some soothing music and started playing it, "So Becky said that this will make the massage better? I guess it makes sense." "I do feel bad for her, she looked depressed the whole time teaching you." "Yeah…even though I'm surprised a teacher fell for me. Anyway, I need to text Ann." "He brought out his phone and texted her.

[You can come back now.]

[You're not coming here?]

[Nope, I got something to show you.]

[Okay, Ill be there in a bit.]

A few minutes later

Ann walked through the café door and looked around noticing the dim lighting, "So why did you dim the lights?"

Akira smiled, "Well come upstairs and see." He walked upstairs.

Ann following him and once she got up to the top, she saw lit candles around the room and heard smooth music playing, "Wow...so what's this about?" "Wow Akira, so this is what you were doing?"

Akira looked at her, "Well I was going to wait till tomorrow for you massage but after what we found out today, I know that your worried so I thought a massage would help you relax. Do you still want to do…" Ann interrupted him with a kiss.

She pulled away, "Of course I do and thank you." She looked around again, "So this all this is supposed to make it better?"

Akira smiles, "Well I asked Ms. Kawakami to teach me, with a mannequin, and she said that doing this will make the massage better."

Ann nodded, "Okay! I got to go back and grab my bag real fast." She ran downstairs.

"So are you ready for this?" "I think I am." A few minutes later, Ann walked upstairs wearing pink sweatshort shorts and a white tanktop which made Akira more nervous, "Just stay calm…" "Good luck with that."

"So, am I supposed to lay on my stomach or back?" "Ooooo, go on your back so he can massage your chest." Carmen whisper. "I don't want to show all of me till Christmas." "Weren't you going to sometimes sleep naked with him?" "Y-Yeah but that's under the blanket…"

Akira coughed nervously, "Well, um, I guess we can start with the neck and shoulders then." He walked over to the makeshift bed and sits down.

Ann smiles and walks to the bed and sits between Akira's legs, she turns her head and looks at him, "Well Akiree, I'm waiting." Carmen squealed.

Akira nodded, "Alright." He put his hands on her shoulders and used his thumbs to find her muscles between her shoulders and started lightly rubbing with his thumbs in a circular motion. Once he did, he started moving his thumbs along her muscles finding any knots or tightness in them and when he did he put some light pressure on them. After a minute, he started putting a little bit of light pressure and went from doing circular motions to all the way up to the back of her neck back down to between the shoulders. After another minute, he then put his hands on her shoulders and lightly pinched the muscle while using his thumbs to go in the circular motion on the side of her neck. After a minute of that, he started to massage her upper arms to the shoulders and back again, "Um, how does it feel?"

"Goooood…" Ann started to feel a lot better when he loosen the tightness from her shoulders and neck but with the lights dimmed, candles, soft music, and Akira doing the massage she started to feel more, "But I want you to massage me someone else."

"Okay so where would you like me to massage you next then?" He started to feel more comfortable doing the massage after she said that it felt good.

Ann smirked, "Well my legs have been stiff lately and it would be better if you massage them so I don't get a cramp in our Metaverse trips."

Akira gulps, "Okay." He scoots back and gets off the bed. He then goes to the end of the bed and climbs on it. He puts both of his hands on her calf and started rubbing it going all the way up to under her thigh. Once he got there, he heard her gasp, "I'm sorry! Did I go too far!?"

Ann quickly shook her head, "N-No, it felt great! Um…p-please continue."

Akira nodded and proceeded to continue massage her right leg. After his usually time, he then rubbed her calf gently up then down to her ankle and back up. He then went up to her thigh but when he started rubbing her inner thigh, she started lightly moaning.

Ann closed her eyes, "Y-You're right Carmen...this feels so good…" "Told you dear, wasn't it a good idea?" Carmen whispered. "Yeahhhh." But she opened her eyes when she stopped feeling his hands and looked at him panting, "W-Why did you stop?" "Ooooo, are you teasing her?"

Akira smirks, "That's all you get till tomorrow for your birthday." "She looks like she's going to attack you."

"W-Why!?" "Ooooo, you are a tease."

"Well that's what you get for using crocodile tears on me. So that's why I stopped." "Was getting her back worth it though." "Yeah."

Ann gritted her teeth, "Oh no, you're not getting away with this!" She lunges at him knocking them both on the floor making a big thud and shaking the attic but that made one of the candles fall from the windowsill…right on Akira's arm.

"Owe! Really Ann!?" Akira quickly got up and took off his shirt to get the wax off.

"Oh my god! I'm so sorry!" Ann quickly ran downstairs to get a wet towel. Once she got back, she quickly put it on his arm, "I-I'm so sorry, I didn't mean for that to happened!"

Akira sighed feeling the wet towel on his burn, "What were you expecting to happen?" "Akira calm down, she wasn't trying to burn you."

Ann looks down close to tears, "I-I'll take you to the clinic then I'll go home…" "He hates me now…" "Ann dear, he's just mad about the burn." Carmen whispered,:

Akira sighs, "I'm sorry for yelling, it was just the pain from the burn." He smiles at her, "I really made you feel that good that you attacked me for stopping?"

Ann let out a breath from him not being made at her, "Yeah…it felt really good that I didn't want you to stop so I guess I lost control of myself." "That's what happens when you're aroused dear."

Akira laughs, "Well too bad, you ruined the mood this time because I have to go to the clinic real fast." "I was expecting Carmen to ruin it."

Ann sighs, "Yeah…I'll meet you at Sojiro's house." "I thought the same thing."

Akira smiles and walks over to her. He then wraps his good arm around her waist and starts kissing her which quickly turns into a deep on. After a few minutes, Akira pulled back and whispered into her ear, "Next time I give you a massage, I won't stop unless you tell me because that was just a taste of what I learned that will make you feel like you're in heaven." "Well that would make any girl want you."

Ann felt weak in the knees after he said that, "O-Okay…" "I would feel weak in the knees as well after hearing that!"