"That fucking dream…' Minato cursed mentally as he drudged his way to school, too tired out from last night.
"Minato-kun!" A familiar voice sang out, briefly making Minato forget about all of his worries. There was only one person he knew that could do that: Hamuko Marie. She skipped towards Minato with a bounce in her step and a cheerful smile, "What's up?"
"Uh, nothing much. I just had this horrible dream last night…" Strangely enough for him, Hamuko was the only person he would be able to talk to about his problems.
Hamuko's cheerful smile vanished and was replaced with a sorrowful expression, "Oh? Are you alright now?" She asked with her voice full of worry. Minato tried to resist the urge to smile again at her. He had to control himself… but goddammit he just couldn't do it.
In the end he did end up smiling, "Yeah, I'm ok now." Seeing Minato give her that radiant smile let Hamuko slip back into her earlier exuberance.
"That's great!" She cheered, "If you have any problems come to me alright?" With that, Hamuko began to walk towards the gate with Minato alongside her.
'Why is she so concerned about me?' Minato asked himself before a vivid memory hit him, casuing him to clutch his head in pain.
A flash of light, a girl screaming in anguish, a burst of flames, unimaginable pain coursing through Minato's body, total darkness, passing out…
"Minato-kun!?" The voice made Minato break free from the trance's clutches, even as he still held onto his throbbing head. He turned to see the worried face of Hamuko who had her grip on his shoulder, "Are you alright?" She asked frantically.
Minato nodded slightly, his voice equally as weak, "I'm okay." He answered quickly, making his way towards the building. Hamuko stood stunned, resisting scratching that itch to cry in front of the school. After a while, she staggered in behind him.
"…da bomb." Ekoda spoke as he marveled at the history of classic literature. Not that anyone else agreed with him.
"That was fucking horrible." Minato stood up from his seat. He had already been in a bad mood all day, and the awful teacher wasn't making it better. Ekoda's eyes lit up as they always did when he was about to scold a student of class 2-F.
"Now listen here you good for noth—" His insult was duly cut off when Minato snapped.
"Shut the hell up! Why the fuck am I here? I lived in London and will be back there once I finish this god awful term, now shove the stupid book you fucking dumbass." Minato completely tore the 'teacher' apart, Ekoda's eyes widening in the process. The rest of the class were just as dumbfounded, only being able to look on in shock and happiness as someone was finally able to shut the old crow up.
Kicking his chair back, Minato stomped out of the room leaving the astonished room behind.
"Minato's a freaking badass…" Junpei muttered amazed by his courage, not knowing that he only did that in a fit of rage.
Minato stormed out of the classroom and walked upstairs to where he was beginning to take to going in order to calm himself down: The rooftop, where no-one would come to annoy him.
Taking a deep breath, he sat down on a bench from which he could see a view that overlooked the huge island, shimmering ocean and blue skies. A wave of anger erupted in him as he eyed that accursed bridge, "Fucking bridge… I hope it breaks down, burns in a fire and kills whoever's on it."
The door that led up to the roof opened. Minato was already fueled by his rage, so as he turned around to yell, "Who the fuck cou—" He instantly stopped his oncoming words as he saw Hamuko standing in the frame.
"F-forget what I said…" Minato muttered, turning back around to face the city view once more. Hamuko slowly walked towards him, settling herself down next to him. He didn't object to it, but remained quiet.
"You…" Hamuko started, Minato fully expecting her to say how much of a rude asshole he was. Yet she said something of a completely opposite nature. "…are awesome, putting that old turd in his place!" She yelled making Minato cringe from the high pitch.
"R-really?" He asked, in utter surprise.
Hamuko nodded, "Yup, that was terrific!" She cheered.
Minato wanted to bash his head on the railing. This girl was such a mystery to him, it made his head hurt. She did exactly the opposite of what people would normally react towards him.
"Why are you like that?" Minato asked, engaging in a staring contest with the ground.
Hamuko gave him only a curious expression, "What do you mean Minato-kun?"
"That was rude. Aren't you supposed to stay away from me?" Minato whispered quietly, "I mean last time I did that nobody came near me at school…" He kept on staring down the floor, remembering the last time he yelled at a teacher. He wanted to kick, scream and shout… What in the hell was Hamuko? Just standing next to her made Minato question his behaviour.
Minato kept looking down until he felt a soft hand on his head. He looked up towards Hamuko who only had a smile on her face, petting him gently on the head. Minato blushed profusely and opened his mouth to speak, only to be stopped when she ran her hand through his hair almost making him purr. It was that he quickly shook off.
"Don't worry," Hamuko smiled gently, "We all have our reasons sometimes…" Minato was again amazed by her words, "Almost everyone wanted to shut that Ekoda up, but I guess you're the bravest among us all… I won't keep my distance from you."
"Thank you… so much…" Minato mumbled, stuttering out his words. He somehow felt relieved that Hamuko wouldn't leave him.
"No problem…" Hamuko grinned.
"…"
"…?"
"You can stop petting me now." Minato said quietly, making Hamuko pout.
"Aw, but I liked that. Seriously, your hair is so silky and smooth." Minato blushed once more, scarlet filling up his cheeks. 'WTF? She's bold…' he mused.
"Let's go, or Mitsuru-senpai will have our behinds," She laughed and walked down quietly, Minato following her with a small smile on his face.
Following the end of the school day Minato and Hamuko made their ways back to dorm. Thankfully for Minato, none of the others in the dorm like that Yukari girl went with the two. He wasn't sure whether he'd have been able to hold his anger against her of all people.
Duly ignoring any of Mitsuru's greetings and only holding his attention on Hamuko, he went up to his room with Hamuko doing the same.
While he was in his room, Akihiko came down from the stairs later.
"I'm gonna go out for a bit." He told Mitsuru, who looked up from her book.
"Will you be alright?" She asked with a concerned gaze.
"Yeah, I'm just going to get in a little practice." Akihiko tried to reassure her. Even though she said to be careful, she wouldn't be able to stand herself if he got hurt.
Akihiko nodded with a competitive grin before walking out of the door. "This isn't a game Akihiko…" She muttered to herself before going back to her reading.
When Minato had fallen asleep, the rest of the others that were in the dorm including Ikutsuki were watching him for any interesting activity while he slept.
Mitsuru sighed, still worrying for Akihiko only to get a transmission from him that just awakened some of her fears. "Damn, I need some back-up this thing is huge!" The boxer shouted.
"Where are you right now?" Mitsuru asked, trying to keep her distress under a tight leash.
"I-I'm almost there…!" Akihiko answered back, panting as he ran.
"He's bringing that thing here!?" Yukari exclaimed.
"We're going to have to get ready for battle." Hamuko sighed, already opening the doors that led out of the control room and going down to get Minato.
During the night that Minato was awoken by this infernal racket that was making him extremely pissed. Couldn't he even get a good night's sleep around here anymore!? His mood only turned sour as he discovered that Yukari was banging against his door, calling for him with, "Hey, wake up! Sorry I'm coming in!"
Minato took it as a cue to at least get dressed. If it really sounded that urgent then…
He opened up the door, only to have a sword of all things shoved in his face. He was about to yell at Yukari for that, only to be interrupted by Hamuko who looked at him intently, almost pleading with him to take the sword and ignore that for now.
"Good, we've gotta get out of here now!" Yukari shouted as another quake rattled the building.
Minato begrudgingly took the sword form Yukari, muttering about pink wearing brunettes and the like. "Come on, Minato." Hamuko urged him with a slight smile, even though the shaking was making the current situation all the more foreboding.
Minato nodded slightly, gripping the sword in his hand. In all honesty though, he would have greatly preferred just to use his fists for whatever the hell was attacking the building. He did fine with just those anyways.
Yukari was leading the two of them down to the bottom floor, only to be contacted by Mitsuru through an earpiece. "Takeba, be careful! The Shadow we're attacking isn't the one Akihiko saw!" She warned.
"What!? Um, alright…" Yukari exclaimed before trying to calm herself down and think of another way they could avoid the wrath of the things that Akihiko and Mitsuru were fighting.
"Let's try upstairs," Yukari suggested after mulling the situation over for a bit. With no other choice and some urging from Minako for Minato to follow them up, the trio ran up to the rooftop like she had suggested.
Worst idea ever.
The time of that strange hour was clearly visible as they looked around the sky above the rooftop. The moon was impossibly big in the dark green sky, wisps of light green clouds being painted across the canvas of green and black. And the stench of metal in the air that could only smell like blood marred the otherwise calm winds. It was that time. That time when those black things appear.
Yukari's classic line of, "We should be safe out here," was only proved completely wrong as the sounds of lurching and splashing alerted them to the presence that was climbing over the roof and onto the ground.
Yukari was scared stiff by this… Shadow… Almost unable to do anything until she tried to grab her new silver gun and was about to shoot herself with it. Columns of fire erupted around the rooftop, making Yukari let go of the gun from the heat, sending it spiralling across the bloodied ground and just in front of Minato's feet.
As if entranced by the silver gun, he picked it up and cradled it in his hands, eyeing the monster that had climbed over the edge. The multiple arms and swords coupled with the eerie blue mask that was carried in one of its arms made it look extremely menacing.
'I'm going to rip it to pieces…!' Minato yelled mentally, starting to move the gun to his temple with the forces of an unknown urge as he stared down the monster in front of him.
Hoshi AN: Sorry, was that a cliff-hanger?
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