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(08/02/10)

Much later that very same day…

The party began to start. And the gate-crashers added up as well.

They made really ridiculous claims…

"So… you're my second cousin four times removed from my mother's side?" I said to a 15 year old kid, "You look awfully young to be my great-great-great-great uncle…" I pointed out.

"Uh, yeah…" the kid said hesitantly, "Your uncle Sherm to me to come."

"That's funny! I didn't know I had an Uncle Sherm!" I said and the kid began to sweat.

"Ehehehe…" the kid laughed nervously, "You know, Uncle Sh-Sherm…"

"Gesundheit…" I said, "Incidentally, what's my mom's name?" I asked.

"Uh…" the kid said, "Gotta go!" he said and bolted.

"Thought so!" I shouted after him.

Then, there was another guy.

"Hey, I'm Kenji's sibling." A young girl said.

"Oh, really?" Rio said, "You're looking a bit too old to be 13…"

"Say what?" she said.

"Kenji says he has a little sister, 13 years old…" I said.

"Aw, come on pal!" she cried, "Don't be a lame-o!" she said.

"Go away!" Rio barked.

She scurried off.

I slumped in the chairs.

"The riff-raff outside is getting out of control…" I muttered.

"Yeah, but you can't blame 'em!" Kenji said, "The party's awesome!"

That was true…

Hidetoshi was hooking up with an older looking second year girl, who was assistant librarian at school named Saori Hasegawa.

They laughed a few cups of beer.

Keisuke and Fuuka were laughing at Bebe's dancing and prancing as they ate Fuuka's roast beef and Keisuke's lamb brisket.

Yuko and Kaz were having a conversation about sports, occasionally laughing at Kaz's outrageous jokes.

Quan and Pink were dancing to the beat of Leah's music. They had even begun swing-dancing.

Junpei went down with Chidori and honestly, we were quite shocked.

"I'd like you all top meet the new and improved Junpei Iori."

Junpei went down the stairs and everyone nearby applauded.

I myself wore a white and blue baseball t-shirt, ashy-gray pants and indigo high tops sneakers, but Junpei looked cool.

Gone were the ratty jeans, the dingy shirt, old slippers and ball cap. They were replaced by a maroon polo shirt, black slacks, grey suede shoes and a panama hat that made him look like the Japanese version of either Jason Mraz or Al Pacino.

"Too much?" he said.

"Holy shit…" Minako muttered, "Junpei actually looks human!"

Junpei looked offended, "What's that suppose to mean?" he cried, "I resent that!"

"Well, it's true!" Minako said, "You often look like an ogre!"

"Ogre?!" Junpei fumed.

"Yeah, Ogre…" Minako said, "You should try wearing clothes like that more often so people will think you're human."

They started, as usual, to bicker.

I shook my head.

Then…

Clang! Boom!

I looked at Minako, who was eating lamb brisket while shouting at Junpei and she shrugged.

"What the hell is it this time?" I shouted.

I went with Kenji, Junpei and Akihiko to the basement, where the noise began.

There, a couple of skaters who I didn't recognize were using the stairs as a quarter-pipe to skate.

I saw the ruined remains of our shelf.

"What is all this?!" I cried.

"Yooo…" one seemingly high skater said, "Your shelf broke, bro!"

"You saw to that!" I said.

"Well, fix it…" one said, "We wanna break it again."

"Grrrr! I'll break your face, ass clown!" I growled at them and they cringed.

I grabbed one by the collar and dragged him to the door and threw him out while Kenji, Junpei and Akihiko did the same for the rest.

"And stay out!" I cried as I threw their skateboards at them.

I went downstairs and hastily made a picket sign.

I placed it outside.

It read:

NO ADMITTANCE TO STRANGERS!

GATECRASHERS WILL BE SHOT.

SURVIVORS WILL BE SHOT TWICE IN THE HEAD BY

OUR OVERLY DRUNKEN EX-MILITARY MAID.

-MANAGEMENT

"That should do it…" I said.

I went inside and Quan and Pink were talking with Minako and the entire gang.

They all had a cup of beer and were chatting noisily.

"So… I heard you were about to miss the school meet…" Quan said, "To go to somewhere abroad…"

"I was planning to…" I said truthfully, "But then I decided to go to the meet about the time we were going, so… I sorta jumped out." I said.

"You jumped out of a plane?!" Minako said incredulously, "Or is that another figure of speech?"

"That's what I did; I literally jumped out of a plane…" I said, "Apparently, I wasn't suppose to do that… airport security thought I had planted a bomb and ran after me, but I managed to lose them… the rules are getting really complicated these days… first, they say you can't make a bomb threat, the next thing you know, you can't break a door down to escape airport security!"

"So you broke the rules…" Hidetoshi mused, with a glint in his eyes.

"Not that much… but yeah, I sorta did…" I said.

"Sorta is putting it lightly, isn't it?" Hidetoshi said.

"Oh, come on!"

"What happened next?" Yuko asked.

"C'mon! Tell us!" Kazushi said.

"Alright…" I said, "Okay…"

I took a deep breath.

"I went to the nearest cab, and told the driver to take me to the meet… and he turned around, and the driver was none other than Cato himself… I said hello to him and he hit me in the head with a club…"

"Why did you say hello?" Kenji said, "You should've suspected something the minute you saw Cato behind the wheel!"

"Or ran out!" Kaz said.

"Or subdue him!" Chidori said.

"It didn't seem relevant at the time…" I said, "And Cato? A taxi driver? Seems highly unlikely, no?"

"True… but how could a mere high school student have the resources, let alone intelligence, to pull off a stunt like that? And how could he even get a hold of a taxi cab?" Minako asked.

Quan snorted.

"Underestimating Cato will be the death of anyone… he has extensive connections and rich friends… doing only that is child's play for him… he's devious, cunning, rich and cruel…he's evil to the core. Trust us, Cato has many friends." Quan said speaking from experience as Pinky nodded in agreement.

"You know something? We haven't heard your backstory with Cato yet…" Minako pointed out.

"Really? I thought we'd already-" Pinky said, clearly trying to avoid the question.

"No, you haven't." Minako said, "Come on! I want to hear your story!"

Quan looked as if Minako made his day.

"Y-You want to hear my story?" Quan said in wonder.

Minako rolled her scarlet red eyes, "That's what I just said, buddy!"

"Okay, okay…" Quan said.

Pinky nudged him, "You think that's a good idea?"

"You bet." Quan said.

Quan took a deep breath.

"I used to go to school at an international school in New England, America… the Riverdale International Academy, to be exact…I was already friends with Pink… we made friends with the British Cato Romano, the French Michonne La Monde, the Vietnamese Yo Duc Tho, the Japanese Hide Omura and the Egyptian Hortez Rama… I was the Chinese in the group…"

"How about you, Pink?" Junpei said, "You a China-man too?"

"Junpei!" Chidori chided, "That's racist!"

"Is not." Junpei said, "Well Pink? Are you Chinese?"

Pinky snorted impatiently, "I'm Korean."

"Anyway, we were the elite of the school… until…" Quan faltered, "Until… we were expelled."

Minako tensed, "Why were you expelled?"

"Let's say… Cato's a bad influence… Sorry… a tad bit personal…" Quan said, "Have you seen A Walk to Remember?"

"I like that movie." I said.

"Oh my gosh! That's like, my favorite movie!" Minako cried.

"Yeah, well, what happened is kinda like what the guy did…" Quan said.

Then, Leah went to me.

"Minato, there are gate crashers trying to open the door…" Leah said.

I got up.

"Where are you going?" Quan asked.

"To wring their filthy little necks!" I hissed.

"I'll come with you… you might need my muscle." Quan said, flexing his arm.

"You'll need mine too." Junpei said, getting up.

"WHAT muscles?" Minako said.

"Let's go!" I said.

Suddenly full of fury, I went with Quan and Junpei to where Leah said the gate crashers were.

I peeked at them from the small alley between Minako and my room.

Three guys were trying to piggy-back each other.

"Come on bro, get up on my shoulders! I hear the girls in this party are hot!" the one wearing an awful denim jacket and had a lot of pomade said.

"Yeah, especially the pale chick with the red eyes!" the other wearing an old leather jacket and had a pompadour said, "Me likey!"

"Oh yeah!" another with a cigarette behind his ear said.

I cleared my throat.

"Are we missing something?" I said.

They turned around.

"Who are you clowns?" the one with the awful pompadour said.

"Yeah…" the other one said.

"I could ask you the same thing." I said.

"Damn losers… get your noses out of it!" the one with the pompadour said.

"You don't belong here." Junpei said.

"Yeah? Says who?" Pomade said, "I happen to know Minato Arisato!"

"Hey idiot…" Quan said, "Meet Minato Arisato."

"THAT'S Minato?" Cigarette said.

"Looks like a wuss." Pomade said.

"Let's see, shall we?" I said.

Since a fight was inevitable, we were forced to fight.

But, Quan did most of the fighting, and let me say THAT was fighting.

He busted out some really serious kung-fu… Pompadour's pompadour became an afro.

I, on the other hand, let Quan and Junpei do all the fighting.

Junpei grabbed a branch and did what a barbarian does best: Hitting stuff.

Then, Cigarette hit Junpei and Pompadour and Pomade ganged up on Quan.

Then…

TOOOOT!

A klaxon stopped the fighting.

Standing there was Minako.

"Stop fighting!" she cried.

Pompadour and his friends let go of Quan.

"Ooooh…" Pompadour said, "Thanks for bringing me this tight ass honey…"

"That's what I'm talking about!" Cigarette said.

I shook my head.

"You guys ever thought about pissing off somebody you shouldn't have pissed off?" I said, spitting at them, "That person's me."

Pompadour laughed.

"You better get your dumb ass off here while I still let you." Pompadour said.

"Yeah, before we kick your wrinkly pale ass." Cigarette said.

"I'll count to three…"

I made a gun with my thumb and index finger.

I shot the three of them with it.

"This guy's crazy!" Pomade said.

"One…" I said.

They looked at each other.

"Two…"

They shook their heads.

"Three." I said.

They laughed.

"What now, eh?" Pompadour said, "What now?"

"You gonna shoot us again?" Cigarette said.

"Nope. LEAH!" I shouted.

Leah staggered from the side, holding bottle of Bacardi Dark.

"You bring us a drunk maid…" Pomade said, "Another honey!"

Pomade approached.

Leah took a long drink and pulled out her M1911 pistol.

"Whoa!" he shouted.

"Sorry boys! This party's invitation only!" she said with slurred speech, waving her gun around.

They all ducked.

"Guys, meet my maid." I said.

"H-Hey… calm down, pretty lady…" Pompadour said.

"Shut your fucking face!" Leah snarled in her drunken haze, "You fuckers never listen, don't ya?"

"Way to go, Leah-san!" Quan cried.

"Shut up pussy!" she snarled at me, "What, you think yer Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan or Stephen Chow or something? Ya can't beat three idiots if yer life depended on it!"

"What a woman!" Quan muttered to me.

"We still want to get in!" Pompadour said.

I got really mad.

I punched him and dragged him outside as Quan and Junpei followed suit.

"I don't understand what you idiots don't get!" I cried, "I locked the doors, I put up signs… I have a terrifying gun toting maid! What do I have to do to get some privacy around here?!" I cried as I threw them out.

They scurried away.

I went inside and saw everyone having fun.

But then, I saw some guys I didn't recognize at the door.

"Who are you people?" I said.

"We're members of the Soccer team, we played against Cato, remember?" he said.

"And you?" I said to the guy beside him.

"I'm his friend. I like chili." He said.

"Alright, that's it, get going!" I snarled to him, "All of you, get out! Come on! Let's go! Hapaya! Hapaya!" I waved them off, but in spite of my best efforts, they all rushed in.

I went in and slumped on the couch.

Minako came by.

She wore shutter shades and held a beer.

"Why the long face?" she said.

"Nothing… I swear, these gate crashers will be the death of me…" I muttered.

"Heeey, that's what parties are all about… mingling with people you don't know." Minako said.

"I don't need to mingle with anyone else!" I said, "Besides, this isn't a party anymore! It's become a rave!"

"Wow… Anti-social much?"

"No… You're all I need in a friend." I said.

Realizing the awkward silence, I immediately piped up and changed the subject.

"Uh…" I stammered, "What to do with these damned riff-raff?" I said.

"Hey, don't worry about them…" she said reassuringly, "Have a beer."

"I don't drink much, thanks…" I muttered.

"No, have a drink, you kill joy." She said.

"I'm good." I said.

"Have one." She said through her teeth.

"No thanks."

"NOW!" she yelled.

"Alright, alright!" I said finally, "Sheesh…"

I drank the entire cup.

"There." I said.

"Have another." She said.

"No thanks… my policy is 'One and Done'."

"Policies are guidelines, not rules…" Minako said, "Loosen up!"

"Okay, okay…" I said.

I drank it and I felt somewhat… happy.

Then, with a grin, Leah handed her some suspicious looking Brownies.

"Have one." She said.

Since I liked brownies, I did what she said.

It tasted… wet and numbing and it had a sharp smell to it.

"What the hell is this?" I asked, "It's great!"

"Space cakes." Leah said with a grin.

"Space wuh?" I said.

"Uh… Hash brownies."

"Really?" I said, having more, "I don't know what that is, but it tastes great!"

Then, I felt good and started laughing.

Everything began to have a much more vibrant hue and I felt euphoria.

I had some more.

Then, I took out another beer and drank it and partied with the people.

Meanwhile…

Minako tasted one.

"This isn't a space cake!" Minako said, "This is just any regular old brownie."

"I know." Leah tapped her nose, "Only the first one was a real Hash Brownie…"

She looked at me, doing my crazy antics.

"Leah-nee, you are a crazy genius."

"I'm just shell-shocked." She said with a wink.

Then…

I ran up Kaz and Kenji.

"Dude! We're having keg-stand contest, want in?"

"Fuck yeah!" I cried, "What's a Keg-stand?" I asked, but they already hung me upside down.

I competed against Kaz and Kenji as I drank an entire keg's worth and won.

After that, I was completely wasted, seeing as I danced on the tabletop with everyone.

I sang and danced on stage as Minako joined me.

"So what we get druuuuuunk!" I sang.

"So what we smoke weeeeeed!" she sang.

"We just havin' fuuuuuun!" I sang.

"We don't care who seeeeeees!" she sang.

"So what we go ouuuuuut!" I sang

"THAT'S HOW IT'S S'PPOSE BEEEEE!" we sang.

"Living-" I said as I hold out the microphone to the crowd.

"YOUNG, WILD AND FREEEEEEEE!"

Minako rapped.

"Uh! Uh uh! So what I keep a rolled up? Saggin' my pants, not caring what I shows, keep it real with my homies, keep it player for these hos, and look clean don't it? Washed it the other day, watch how you lean on it, give me some 501 jeans, rollin' joints bigger than King Kong's fingers and smoke em' hos down till they stingers! You a class clown and if I skipped for a day I'm your bitch smokin' grade A!"

I looked at Minako and she laughed, since she just made up some of the lyrics she forgot.

We rapped the rest until Minako and I puked on some girls.

Then, Leah invited us to go out and we went in Akihiko's brand new Outrider truck with Akihiko, Leah, Quan, Pinky, Junpei, Fuuka, Kenji and Rio, leaving Hidetoshi, Kaz, Yuko and Chidori to hold the fort.

Since I was drunk as a skunk, I had no idea why I left my own party.

We loitered at an abandoned parking lot on the other side of town as Leah drank beer with Akihiko.

"I haven't tasted beer this cold since my time as a sentry in northern Afghanistan…" she muttered.

"True that… 'cept I never drink anything not low-fat." He said, "Nor was I a war mongering freak."

Leah snorted.

"Ha! Wuss!" Leah muttered as she clinked her and Akihiko's bottle.

Junpei took a drink at the truck roof.

"Junpei, I thought you always hated drinking?"Akihiko said.

"Who said that?" Junpei said.

"I thought you don't drink?" I said.

"WHO SAID THAT?!" he said.

"Well, you don't like drinking since your dad-"

"I'm not like my old man." Junpei said adamantly, "I can control myself when I drink, but he drinks anything that'd make him drunk." He said spitefully.

Then, three guys in a motorcycle passed us, hooting at the girls.

"Leah-nee…" I said.

"Yeah?" she said.

"You have your gun?" I said, just in case those guys come back.

"Yeah, why? You wanna shoot something?" she asked as she pulled out a gun from her girdle.

"No!" I said.

"I want to shoot something." Fuuka said quietly.

We all looked at Fuuka in surprise.

"Fuuka!" Minako said, "I didn't know you like guns."

"Want to shoot a shotgun?" Leah said, "Hunt a duck or something?"

"Yes, sure…" Fuuka said.

Leah grinned.

"Why hunt small birds? I'd hunt big game like a bear or a gorilla…" Minako said.

"Or a boar!" Leah said.

"Or a rhinoceros or a lion!" Minako yelled.

"Or a human fucking being! That'd get you all jacked up like shit!"

"Isn't that a bit too heavy?" I said.

"I like using a large shell. You can't eat 'em afterwards, but it's fun watching them blow up!"

Akihiko, Junpei and Kenji blanched.

"Yeah, but what do we shoot?" Pinky pointed out, "Nothing here for miles around."

That was true… other than light posts that shed orange lights upon the deserted road, there was nothing else around.

Quan suddenly seemed to have an idea.

"We're in route 416, aren't we?" he said.

"Yeah, I guess…" I said, looking at the sign Route 416.

"That's not far from where Pink and I found you…" Quan said.

"So…?" I said.

"Cato's cab could still be where it is…" he said, eyes glinting maliciously.

"Where is it?!" Minako asked me.

I told them where to find it.

"-but it's too dangerous for a bunch of beauty queens to go look for a cab owned by a screeching lunatic-"

"Let's go find it!" Leah said.

"Yeah!" the girls went off before us drunken males could stop them.

We waited for what seemed hours.

"What's taking them so long?" I said worriedly, "They should've been here hours ago!"

"Meh! They probably stopped to powder their noses at some river or something…" Junpei said, "You know, girls stuff."

"I can never, nor will I ever understand girls…" Kenji muttered.

"Kenji, the moment man fully and truly understands girls, the world would be engulfed in flame." I said.

"Or aliens would wipe us out." Junpei said.

"Or pink elephants would fall from the sky, crushing everyone." Kenji said.

"That's a bit too much, but yeah." Junpei said, "Anyway, I'm also beginning to worry… what if some lunatics capture and eat them like in that movie Wrong Turn?"

"Or do Lord-Knows-What with them?" Kenji muttered.

"Kenji!" Junpei, Akihiko and I cried.

"OOOOR!" A clear voice said, "They could have found the car."

Minutes later, they turned up with a cab with a plate number CAT- 0.

"What took you guys so long?" I complained.

"You took so long!" Junpei said.

Minako shook her head, "We only took twenty minutes, you morons."

I checked my watch and she was right.

We placed several glasses there on the car

Leah handed the gun to Minako.

"Let me go first…" Rio said.

"Die glass Ekoda!" She aimed at a glass and shot it.

"Your turn." She hands it to Pinky.

She aims it.

She shot two in one.

"I'm the best there ever was!"

"Whoa! Double shooter!" Leah said.

"My turn." Minako said.

She takes a deep breath and does a roll.

"Cap your ass!" she shot one bottle, "And your ass!" she shot another one, "And your too!" she shoots another one, "I own you bitch!" she shoots another one, "Ice cold, baby!" she shot another, "I knew I was the chosen one!" she said as she shot another bottle far away.

"Crap, check out 'Special Agent Hamuko!" I said, "Wouldn't want to be caught in your cross hairs!"

"You'd fit in quite well in the corps, Minako." Leah said.

"C-can I shoot?" Fuuka asked timidly.

"I dunno…" Leah looks at us, "Can you?"

She nods and takes the gun, which was probably 1/6 her body weight.

"EEK!" She slips and the gun discharges as she fell backwards, narrowly hitting Akihiko's car and missing Junpei's head by a few inches, knocking his hat off.

"Watch it!" Akihiko yelled, "Be more careful, Fuuka!"

"Yeah! You almost blew my head off!" Junpei cried.

"Not that!" Akihiko said, "You almost hit my Outrider! The bill would've been sky high!"

"S-sorry!"

She takes a really deep breath and shot the car gangster style, screaming while she shot it.

She made several good shots.

"I always wanted to do that…" she panted.

"Remind me never to piss you off…" Junpei said.

Leah took out some vodkas and rum.

She threw it at Rio, who caught it.

"Drench the car." She said and we obliged.

As we drenched the car, Minako muttered: "Waste of good rum and vodka…"

"Why? We have loads at home." Rio said.

Then, Junpei, Kenji, Quan, Rio, Minako and I took some lead pipes, wood clubs and smashed the car up.

Then, after a thorough thrashing, we rolled the car down a hill and ran back where Akihiko had already started the car.

"Where's Leah-nee?" I asked.

"Here." She said handing us a bottle of vodka with an oily rag stiffed at the top.

"These aren't…" Kenji said.

"Molotov Cocktails." She smiled.

We lit it up.

"I regret nothing!" I screamed as I chucked my Molotov at the car.

The hood was set alight as the others threw theirs.

"Fuuka!" Leah yelled as she gave Fuuka a TMP, "Make me proud."

Fuuka nodded and went full-auto on the car, cursing and peppering it with bullets until…

KA-BOOOOOOOM!

The car had exploded in a fireball of metal and flames as we bolted out of there like a bat out of hell.

"Fuuka, you'd make one scary terrorist…" I said.

She smiled.

We stopped at the park on our way home and we parked the car and went out.

We took seven six-packs with us.

We sat at the end of the park.

"Y'know, this is really fun…" I said as I took a drink.

"See what I mean?" Minako said.

Leah suddenly laughed.

"What's so funny?" Akihiko asked.

"Nothing! Hahahaha!" Leah guffawed, "Back in the army, at the Lady Marine Corps barracks, we used to get really drunk and streaked across the town!"

"Where were you stationed?" Junpei asked.

"Russia."

"Whaaaat?!" Kenji said, "You streaked in the dead of winter?!"

"We were bored. And batshit crazy." She said, "Hell, I read yaoi manga 'cuz I was bored with lady magazines."

We all thought about it.

"And this one time, we went streaking and there was a breach…" she suddenly turned bright red, "You can imagine… us, holding our FAMAS assault rifles naked in the snow…"

"How old are you again?" Kenji asked.

"I'm 24." Leah said.

"Still young! Yet older than me…" Kenji mused.

Rio slapped him in the back.

"Yeow!"

"Hmph!" Rio said.

"H-hey! I'm just curious!" Kenji said.

"Hmph!" Leah said as she slapped Kenji in the back.

"YEOW!" Kenji cried.

"Asking a lady for her age is just plain rude!"

Everyone laughed.

Then, Akuhiko's eyes flared with disbelief.

"Hey!" he cried out, "Hey!"

He ran to the area where we parked as we all followed behind him.

His car was being towed away.

"Hey! Why are you doing?!" he cried at the driver.

"Sorry pal, you're parking illegally."

"Can't you give me a break?" Akihiko said, "I don't usually play the celebrity card, but I'm Akihiko Sanada, Boxing extraordinaire."

"Who?" the driver spat.

"Come on! That car's new! Gimme a break!"

"No man! No man! No man!" he said and drove off.

"Aw great! What do we do now?" I said.

"S'good thing I hid the guns in the secret compartment!" Leah said.

Then… we all had the same idea.

It could've been the beer or the rum or the possible hash brownies, but we all had an idea.

"You guys thinking what I'm thinking?" I said.

"Yup." Quan said, "Phone for a cab?"

"Yes… I mean no!" I said.

"We streak home, dummy!" Minako said.

"S-streak?!" Quan said.

With the remaining beers, we drank it and went in pairs.

The rules were boys strip first, then the girls strip but the boys have to run ahead.

"Whoa! That's short!" Kenji jeered at Junpei's… withered, (I won't sugar coat anything,) penis.

"Hey!" Junpei complained, "He's asleep!"

Akihiko was… normal sized.

Quan looked decently sized.

Kenji looked like he had 'morning wood'.

"What's wrong, Minato?" Junpei jeered at the sight of me wearing boxers, "Afraid to show your teeny tiny wiener?"

"Look who's talking!" I shot back.

"Come on! Take it off!" Pink yelled.

I took my boxers off.

Everyone became quiet as Fuuka gasped.

"Wh-whoa…" Kenji said in wonder.

"I've seen many porn flicks in my day," Junpei said, "And I have never seen such a big-"

"God! Junpei!" Kenji shouted, "Watching porn and looking at the guy? That's like going to a bar and looking at the DJ!"

"I do not!" Junpei choked.

"Let's talk about my little friend some other time, okay?" I said.

"Let's go." Minako said.

I strapped my clothes to my calf with my belt.

Akihiko, Quan, Pinky and Leah went together.

Kenji, Junpei, Fuuka and Rio went together.

Akihiko's group would take the first road, the second road was Quan's, leaving the third road…

"What about you two?" Pink asked as she stripped to her bra and panties.

"We'll go alone." Minako said before I could object.

As we went to the third road…

"No detours you two!" someone shouted.

"Who said that? Who said that?!" I said, but Minako pulled me.

When we were a few meters away, she started taking off her bra.

"What are you doing?!" I hissed.

"Relax… this is my only chance to streak and since I'm already drunk, I should just go full steam ahead." She said.

"O-Okay, but…" I stammered.

"Just go with it." she winked and snapped off her bra.

For the first time since the 'incident', I saw her boobs perfectly.

It was well rounded, C-cup and had the pinkest nipples.

Her bottom was well trimmed and supple.

"You shave?" I said.

"Uh, yeah." She said as if that was an obvious question.

"Why?" I said, "I only use a scissor to trim it, but I don't shave…"

"Why not?" Minako said, "Have you any idea how many microbes live in your downstairs if you don't shave?" she said, "Besides, more animals live in forests than in a plain."

I nodded, making a mental note to shave later on.

"Besides, it itches if I don't shave regularly, so…" she rolls her eyes, "Yeah."

"Let's drop it." I said.

Then, we ran all the way home, not caring the least of the biting cold.

We changed our clothes in a bush behind the block and went home.

Back at the party, the tide of people seemed to ebb to Yuko, Chidori and everyone else we know as we went in.

Junpei grinned as we he regaled Chidori about the tales of streaking in his drunken stupor.

"Were you with anyone?" Chidori asked quietly.

"Yep." Junpei said.

"Okay." She said and went to the kitchen.

Then, he saw us.

"Duuuude!" Junpei said, "That was AWESOOOME! Chidori took the streaking news really well and-"

Clank!

Junpei fell down.

Chidori raised the frying pan and wildly hit him ten times in the head.

I wasn't sure if he was still alive.

I touched his pulse.

Still there.

"Aye, he's mine… he shan't remember a thing…" Chidori muttered in a cockney accent while drinking a pint of pale ale and dragging Junpei upstairs.

I laughed and partied some more.

Quan was on the phone.

"-sleeping over, yeah… Yes, I already brought my toothbrush and… Mom!" he complained and said quietly, "I packed extra undies already…"

I laughed and went out back.

We went to the pool area.

Everyone was having such a good time.

We partied for a bit and had some more beer.

I accidentally slipped from the pool, went out and had a drink and remembered no more.

(08/?/10)

My head felt like splitting…

I had an awful migraine and my eyes dimmed.

It was already early morning and I was at my room.

I noticed that I was naked and I shrugged it off, remembering my nightly antics.

But what was uncanny, was the hand that hugged me.

I was afraid, because it held me fast.

I immediately thought it was Junpei… remembering his crazed look when he saw my penis…

Then, it occurred to me that he was bludgeoned near to death by Chidori.

So I took off the sheet…

Then, I saw the sleeping face of my naked friend, Minako Arisato.

Answering Guest reviews:

Guest 1/6/13 . chapter 17 :

Question:

[Earlier, you told me that SEES no longer has their Persona powers. Did you decide to change that? (with Minato summoning a sword and all). The whole kidnapping incident kind of broke my suspension of disbelief. Unless you're Mitsuru, high school students simply don't have the resources to pull that kind of thing off. How would he know Minato was at the airport, or that he would decide to forgo his trip in favor of the sports meet? And how did he get his hands on a taxi?]

I'm sorry, but have we met yet? I don't remember telling you that SEES lost their powers.

Well, yeah, Minato has the power to summon the sword, since it's connected with his Persona, Messiah, being a Holy sword and all...

As for the kidnapping thing, Cato is the evil British version of Mitsuru and I think I made Quan talk about it...

Call it friend's intuition that Minako knew... she didn't know FOR SURE, but she had a feeling.

He bought the taxi.

Again, Cato is rich.

Urtur 1/6/13 . chapter 17

[Hey, one thing: can you make the author's notes bold? I mean, I couldn't tell at first glance whether or not they were notes or not.]

Done and done! xD

If any of you have any more questions, feel free to ask.