"Oh, Ren. Just the person I wanted to see. Look, I need to talk to you." Yu normally had a happy tune when he saw Ren, but today was different.

"What's up?" Ren turned to face the silver-haired adult.

"We need to talk about this somewhere else."

"Alright."

Inokashira

"So... I got "that" checked out, and.." Yu paused a bit. "Well, I'm on meds now, let's just say that." (1)

"Really?"

"Well, my doctor also said that my abandonment issues aren't normal. So until I find a therapist, I'm on small doses of anti-anxiety medications."

"That's really good!" Ren smiled.

"You think so?" Yu looked at him, confused.

"You should take some time for yourself. Your working too hard to please others." He would know, he was depended on a lot.

"Yosuke also says that all the time." Yu shrugged.

"So what do you think is the root cause?"

"That's... an odd question. When I think back..." He turned his head downwards. "My parents were neglectful to me, It makes me wonder if they knew they had a child. Because of this, I often moved to place to place because of my ' parents' job or something. You could say I was emotionally orphaned. "

"That's some shitty parents." Ren retorted.

Yu nodded back. "That why I'm emotionally cold a lot, and barely talk much. Because that got me through my childhood. Believe it or not, it can be really hard for me to demonstrate my feelings. I've only cried a few times in my whole 22 (2) years of my life."

'That's some serious neglect right there. Kinda like my own parents' Ren thought to himself, but both were as quiet as snowfall. Soon, Yu spoke up again.

But... then I moved to Inaba." He waited a bit to continue. " I was there for a year, and I thought it would be the same story, different day. It wasn't."

"Weird talking this much. Anyways... On the first day of school there, this girl named Chie and her friend came up to me and asked if I wanted to walk home with them. Of course, I said yes. It had been a while scene someone did that for me. Then, the next day, we hanged out again. And again. We had more people join our group. That was 4 to 5 years ago. I still chat with everyone I met. It changed my life."

"In Inaba? Wasn't that-" Ren said before Yu interrupted with "Yes."

"Yu..." Ren had thought it was bad (And his parents, that was bad too)... but to find out that he was in Inaba during that time...

"We hung out almost every day...but I still couldn't...no...even to this day, shake off thoughts like "Am I worth Yosuke's time?" Or "Am I good enough for my friends?" It was hard, learning to trust you too. It's not as bad as it used to be in the past, but it's still here."

"Yu... I..." Ren wasn't 100% sure what to say.

"Weird to see someone older then you break down, isn't it?" Yu sighed. "People say I'm strong, determined, and confident. I'm really not. It's just the persona (3) I developed. I only act like that, because its how I'm used to acting. I'm alright at handling it by myself, but it's still tough. "

"You always have my shoulder to cry on," Ren replied. 'Weird hearing Persona used in a normal context, though.' He also thought to himself

"Ren...Thank You." Yu nodded back. " I was going to tell you last time we hanged out, but...well, you know." Yu sighed. "I wanted to try be some you could look up to...but here we are, talking about this. You really are one of a kind, Ren."

RANK UP! The World Confidant has reached rank 7.
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AN:

Yeesh... Rank 7 already.

(1) Abandonment issues everyone! If you don't know what that means exactly, It means 'A strong fear of losing loved ones. A fear of abandonment is a form of anxiety'. Something of the things Yu does in the Amine line up perfectly with this.

Yu has no problem being alone, but the second even a thought of losing someone like Yosuke comes up? He withdraws into himself, even causing him to lose his cool in the amine sometimes. He views himself as a weak person, as confirmed in Persona Q (by himself). In (almost) every depiction of Yu, he needs to be connected to people.

As someone looking into this stuff, I'm 99% sure that the way Yu acts sometimes is not normal. You do not recoil into yourself after someone brings up the idea once. It normal to have some fear over it, but Yu? It doesn't help when you add in Yu's situation.

(2) Also, P4 happens in 2011, and P5 is implied to be either 2016 or 2015, so theirs that. (My speech is now a Yosuke-level disappointment. But Yosuke isn't a disappointment to me.)

(3) Yes. Yes, it was. I REGRET NOTHING!