A persona 5 au where akira and makoto are the same age and are childhood friends.
Age 6:
Akira was a six year old boy with messy black hair. He was walking home from the store holding bags of groceries that his mom had asked him to get. He was walking by the neighborhood park when he sees a group of boys and they are all standing around one girl. The girl looks like she is crying. Akira realizes that the boys must be picking on her and he decides to intervene. He sets down his bags and walked over to the group.
"Hey guys how's it going?" Akira asks.
"Get lost Kurusu!" One of the bullies yell.
Akira did not "get lost" akira stood there with a smirk on his face. He pulled the bully over and simply whispered into his ear.
"Listen yuki I don't care what you do to me but you should leave her alone or I will have to do something about it." Akira says with the coldest stare he could give.
Yuki was almost frightened that Kurusu would stand up to him but he regains his composure and says.
"You know what Kurusu, you're right I should be picking on this girl when I could be picking on you." He then swings a punch in Akira's direction. Akira is knocked to the ground. The girl starts crying harder her red eyes streaming tears down her face. After a second Akira gets back up with an even bigger smirk on his face.
Yuki and the other bullies are furious. "What's so funny Kurusu?"
"While you decide to solve your problems with brute force I choose to solve mine with smarts...and I filmed the whole thing." Akira is now laughing.
The bullies are now all shocked as akira picks up his phone that was leaned against the bags of groceries, the camera pointing at the group. The girl has stoped crying and looking a little happy. Akira with his grin still on his face.
"Next you'll say 'we will break that phone Kurusu!'" Akira says in a very mocking voice.
"We will break that pho- how did you do that?!" Yuki said becoming more confused and more furious.
"All you have to do is leave now and never bother this girl again. And if you can do that I will delete the video." Akira demands.
"Fine we'll go." Yuki says sounding defeated. "Just don't tell our parents." Yuki states sounding more scared. He may be a bully but he's still a kid to. The kids pack up there school bags and left.
Once the bullies were gone Akira turns towards the girl and asks "hey are you ok? Did they hurt you?"
The girl shyly dried the rest of her tears and responded. "I'm ok it's just a scratch." Akira looks down at her arm and sees it's bleeding "I'm more concerned about you, it looked like he punched you really hard."
Akira looking relieved that the girl was ok asked her "would you like to come back to my house and clean up your arm."
The girl started to blush lightly and said "thank you I think I will join you."
"Before we go what's your name?" Akira asks
"Makoto, Makoto Niijima." Makoto replies.
"Hi Makoto, I'm Akira Kurusu."
As the two walked Makoto offered to help carry the bags of groceries but Akira declined the offer saying he did this every week and it was not problem for him. As they walked closer to the Kurusu house Makoto wondered why Akira stood up for her. She had never seen him before but he helped her anyway. There was silence between them with Makoto lost in thought, until Akira decided to break the silence.
"Why were Yuki and the others picking on you?" Akira asks curiously.
"They saw I was reading a book and they thought I was a 'loser' and a 'nerd' because I was reading instead of playing at the park." Makoto frowned as she recalled what had happened.
"But reading dosent mean you're a loser. It means your smart and I like smart girls." Akira casually says completely oblivious to a blushing Makoto her face turning bright red.
They soon arrived at the Kurusu household and walked in. When they walked in the two kids were greeted by Akira's mom. She was surprised to see Makoto with Akira. "Who's your friend Akira?" Akira's mom asked with a mischievous grin.
Akira remained oblivious to his moms tone and simply replied with "her name is Makoto and we need help she hurt her arm and she's bleeding." Mrs.Kurusu looks down at Makoto's arm and cleans up the wound and puts a band-aid on it.
"Hey Makoto would you like to stay and eat dinner with us, I can call your parents and ask if you can join us." Mrs.Kurusu asks. Makoto accepted the offer and Mrs.kurusu called Makoto's dad and quickly realized that Makoto's dad was Mr.Niijima and that they lived on the same street as the Kurusu's. After that day Makoto and Akira became best friends and they did everything together. Akira was soon introduce to Makoto's dad and older sister Sae Niijima. Akira became to little brother Sae never had and she would tease Makoto every time Akira would come over.