Minato sighed, leaning back on his chair. He had performed another fusion just half an hour ago and it left the persona user in utmost pain. He felt like someone shot him in the gut and then poured some fine salt into the hole, mixing it around with a rusty pitchfork.
He clutched his gut once again as the phantom pain surged again. Minato bit back the pain, hopping onto his feet he let out a deep breath. Theo wasn't fucking kidding at all.
"Just a few more days," He sighed. "Just have to kill them all and then I can die in peace."
He was alone in the old, stinky apartment and he liked that. He didn't really give a shit where Takaya and his bitches had run off to, but he heard it was some sort of lab. Regardless, he still didn't give a shit so he stayed inside of his room, planning out the next attack.
"Junpei and Akihiko are down," Minato mused. "Leaves that Ice Bitch and that Robot Whore." He clicked his tongue. "With my new personae, I can take Aigis on no problem. I just hope those morons aren't healed yet."
That only left Hamuko. "Ugh..." Minato gritted his teeth. "Using me as a meat shield, huh? She'll pay too."
Minato started pacing around the room since he had nothing better to do. The pain started spreading out once again but he paid it no mind. Eventually, the rage and sadness took over him and Minato let out a deep cry of pure sorrow and frustration.
"GAAAAAAAHHHHH!"
He thrashed around the room, knocking everything in sight, bloodying up his fist because of the relentless punches to the wall. "GOD DAMN YOU!" Minato started pounding the floor. "You cold hearted bitch!"
"Damn you, damn you, DAMN YOU!" He yelled at the top of his lungs and finally collapsed onto the ground.
Takaya was back and he was watching the whole scene play out from the keyhole. Satisfied at his rage, Takaya made his way back towards his friends.
...
Minato went down the stairs and ended up on the lounge... if one could call it a lounge. First things first, he flipped off Tsukio and Keima, snickered at how stupid Jin looked and mocked Takaya for being a naked little hobo.
Takaya took his mocking in stride and gave out a forced chuckle. Jin shook his head and went back to fixing some mechanical shit. The brute and the raven haired girl growled at his snarky shot but they couldn't do shit anyway and so they halted upon Takaya's stare.
"You sons of bitches are missing backbones," Minato said with another cold laugh.
Jin stood up and faced Minato who stuck his tongue out and jerked his head, taunting him to come over.
Jin looked at Takaya and then at Minato and then back to the platinum blonde teenager. He bit back the building rage, gave out a sigh and sat on the seat once again.
Tsukio was trembling from rage. "How long are we gonna tolerate this son of a bitch?!" She said to herself. No way she could say this out loud.
"Boy, this kid has balls," This voice was new, regardless, Minato wanted the guy dead. He turned around and faced whoever was standing there.
"This kid can dissect your intestines in half," Minato shot back, glaring at the redhead.
"Ah!" Takaya stood up. "Minato, I believe you two haven't met yet," He walked over and got in between the new member and Minato since the vibe wasn't a good indication of things to come.
"Sho Minazuki," Takaya introduced the young man to Minato. "He is our new member, please be nice to him."
"Fuck you," Minato replied in a split second and then pointed at the redhead. "Fuck him too."
Sho gave out a dark chuckle. He was taller than Minato, somewhat more buffed than him as well. His cold and crazed eyes were a color of grey and to top it all off, he had a fucking disgusting scar that was like a cross, stitched across his face.
"So, how many times did you kiss his ass to make him join you?" Minato mocked Takaya.
Takaya smirked once again. "He volunteered to join us since he has a dream similar to ours," He continued. "He wants to get rid of the major opposition which is your former team."
"Former team?" Sho blinked. "You mean this emo was a part of them?"
"Better watch your damn mouth, asshole," Minato warned. "Unless you want a deeper scar this time."
"Yes but Minato betrayed them and he's working solely for his ambition and goal, which is eliminating them," Takaya explained and this caused Sho to give out a rather crazed smile.
"So he hates you guys too?" Sho asked.
"Hate? I wish these sumbitches die in a fucking fire," Minato spat out like it left a bad taste in his mouth.
Strega barely managed to control their building rage again as Minato looked at them from the corner of his eye and laughed. "Weaklings."
Sho snickered. "Right, friendship and team is a bunch of bull, ain't that right?"
Minato walked off without a word. "Fuck yourself."
Sho's rage was evident as he stomped the ground and barred his fangs. "Get back here you asshole!" Minato turned around and flipped Sho off before he kept his pace and soon was out of the place.
"You have to excuse him, he's rather mentally unstable," Takaya said with a sigh. "His fighting ability is marvelous, might I add."
Sho calmed down and grabbed a hold of his sword. "Pretty interesting kid." Sho began to follow him, this would be fun.
The Dark Hour hit the world and Minato lost himself once again and this time, Sho was stalking him and the blue haired devil was totally unaware of that. Sho's entire view of Minato changed from a kid who had a stick up his ass to a cold and calculating psychopath.
"... Is he insane?" Sho asked himself with a hint of a smile as Minato laughed, mocked and destroyed whatever came in his line of sight.
Sho followed Minato back into the apartment after he regained control of himself. Takaya greeted both of them and none of them replied to him. Minato went back into his room and began cleaning himself up.
Sho followed him and received a snap from the resident. Sho's nihilistic view of the world fit perfectly with the current mental state of the bluenette. He gave a smirk as he sat face to face with Minato and the two ended up talking about how they view the world.
Minato agreed more than once with Sho, mainly friendship and love being total bullshit.
Minato snapped after 10 minutes and told the redhead to get lose. Sho did so with a snap of his own but he felt kinda happy by meeting Minato. His lust for blood and rage was really marvelous. Sho expected him to be nothing less than a well oiled, greatly maintained killing machine.
As Sho left, Minato's sight fell onto the locket again. He smashed his fist onto the table and cursed out Hamuko once again. "Fuck you."
...
For the first time in a week, Hamuko made her way down the stairs and stepped into the lounge. Junpei was back but he was in crutches, Akihiko's arm was in a sling and overall, the dorm was still wrapped up in thick despair.
Mitsuru caught the junior and bit her lip. "Hamuko..."
The auburn haired girl ignored everyone and made her way towards the door. Yukari saw this coming and she bolted, stepping in front of the door and Hamuko with her arms outstretched.
Hamuko cringed and pleaded. "Please let me go."
"Sorry Hamuko, we can't let you go in this condition," Yukari said softly. "Please rest."
"..." Hamuko took a deep breath. "What about Minato?" The name caused the rest to cringe. "What about him?"
"..." Hamuko looked around the blank faces of her teammates.
"Should he be out in his condition?" Hamuko reached out for the knob again but Yukari grabbed a hold of her wrist. She didn't want to do this but there was no way Hamuko would wander out in her current condition.
"Let me go!" Hamuko cried but her strength was at an all time low so she couldn't wrestle Yukari and bolt out the door. "Please let me go! Minato is dying. I can feel it!"
"... Dammit," Akihiko bit his lip. After the battle that he went though, he was sure Minato had lost loads of years off his life.
"Hamuko," Yukari blinked away the tears as Hamuko dropped to her knees again and began sobbing once again. The team circled around the depressed redhead as she continued bawling.
Junpei bit his lip.
Akihiko looked below at the ground.
Mitsuru was really close to tearing up, for the first time in a long while.
Shinjiro looked on with a sigh.
"Hamuko-chan," Fuuka sobbed. Things were going so bad that it wasn't even funny anymore. The residents of the dorm didn't chat, sleep or eat at all in the last couple of days. They woke up and just kept quiet, walking around like a bunch of zombies with no will or life. Ikutsuki was dead and the school was up in turmoil, Minato had left them, totally crippling Hamuko's mental state. To top it all off, the entire city was thrown into panic.
Aigis didn't know what to do since she couldn't really understand what the rest was feeling but seeing Hamuko in that condition pained the mechanical maiden. She couldn't find the right words to say to her so she just watched from the sidelines.
Hamuko wrists didn't heal and her mind was always a victim of one sick migraine. "I want to die!" She cried out and the team received another bad shock.
"Just let me die, dammit!" Hamuko snarled. "Do you fucking realize what I'm going through!?"
"Hamuko, we," Mitsuru tried to calm her down but it didn't work.
"No you don't!" Hamuko spat. "Do you fools know what he's done for me!?" She pounded the floor with her knuckles. "DO YOU!?" Her mind flashed back to the same haunting scene that happened a decade earlier.
And because of that, Hamuko just couldn't hate Minato. Whenever she saw Minato being his usual douche self, it reminded her that she was supposed to be the one instead of him, yet without even knowing her, Minato took the burden and threw himself into darkness and depression for 10 long years, and it saved Hamuko.
Hamuko's lip started bleeding. "Dammit..." Hamuko said with a helpless whimper. "... Damn it all..." She passed out.
...
"Hamuko betrayed you. Hamuko betrayed you," The voice kept ringing inside him head again and again, hammering his brain with the cold, harsh truth. The words were followed by an amused laugh.
"..." Minato was silent as the voice kept insinuating how Hamuko was a cold hearted bitch who merely used him as a toy and meat shield.
"She's a bitch, and you know it,"
"She's probably shagging around with Akihiko or Junpei,"
"You got played. Minato got played, you pathetic weakling,"
Minato couldn't fight back the taunts and the building levels of rage and sadism. He reached out for the locket and rushed in his grip. "Bitch," The demented blue demon stood up from his bed and walked over to the window.
Minato's lips twitched and a maniacal grin ceased his face once again. "Hahaha, toy with me, will you?"
He went out of his room and faced every member of Strega present.
Minato took a deep breath as Takaya awaited anxiously.
"I'm going to finish this," Minato said slowly, lifting his head up to reveal the same psychotic smile. "Tomorrow, I will kill everyone of them. Including that bitch."
No words could express the joy that Takaya was experiencing. Sho gave a smirk as well as Minato went back to his room.
"Well then, I believe we better start on the preparations," Takaya laughed.
...
Hamuko looked out the window with teary eyes. "I-I know you'll be back Minato," She clutched the photo closer. "You belong with me..."
"I'm gonna finish this!" Minato swore, looking out the window.
"I'll save you from the hatred once again," Hamuko swore.
"Love is bullshit!" Minato growled, further destroying the locket underneath his feet.
"We'll be together," Hamuko gave a faint smile.
"I'll be alone! Just the way I fucking wanted,"
"We'll go back to our normal lives!"
"I hate this fucking world,"
"I still love you,"
"So much,"
"So much,"
The two looked out the window once again and smiled. For Hamuko, it was soft and gentle and for Minato, it was crazed and blood thirsty.
"I promise," The two said in unison even if they were miles apart.
Uh so, yeah, Minato will be invading the dorm next chapter and finishing it all while Hamuko is still a mess. And yes, we have Sho involved as well, ikutsuki is playing a larger role in this story, despite being dead and all. Thanks goes out to Raidou and the group.
I'm kinda losing the passion once again so uh sorry if this goes into another long hiatus like before. :/ Maybe the heat is getting to me.
Anyway, thanks for the read and later.