Day 3.2: April 22 20XX

Ren was prepared to walk into Cafe Leblanc and see Sojiro and perhaps a few people sitting around in the many booths, sipping coffee, eating curry, and generally just minding their own business as they had done for the almost month she had lived there. She did not expect, however, for Sojiro Sakura to look at her, glance down at his newspaper, then look up once again as if he had seen a ghost. She paused, long enough for his brows to furrow a he let out a long breath.

"Swear I'm getting too old for this." He muttered under his breath as he flipped the page in his newspaper. Ren tilted her head slightly as she watched him do this, prepared to inquire about his odd behavior before simply shaking it off. She may live under his care for now, but that didn't mean that she had to pry into his personal thoughts.

It was an odd thing as well, that Morgana wasn't waiting for her either near the bar or on the stairs leading up to her room. She took them slowly as she thought over this fact, perhaps he had decided to go investigate Momentos by himself, it wouldn't be the wisest thing for him to do but he had claimed he had done so before.

"Why are you just ignoring me! Hey Joker, look at me!" she paused halfway up the stairs after hearing Morgana's annoyed voice. Her lips pulled into a thin line as her eyes narrowed at the sound. He had used her code name, she was sure of it, but he couldn't have seen her and she always treated him as much like any other human as possible. She took the last few steps quickly, throwing her wig and clothes laden bag on the table resting by the top of them as she called out to Morgana.

"Who are you-" she lost her voice as she saw the figure sitting on her bed. It could have been a mirror, the sight of the male who looked very much like herself sitting on her bed sent a warm fluttering to her chest that was soon followed by the feeling of an iceberg being jammed into her stomach. "Aki, What- why are you here?"

"You asked for my help so…" as he dragged out his words he motioned to a duffle bag sitting at his feet, "I am here to help my sister." She opened her mouth to retort, but stopped short when she saw the ernest look in his deep grey eyes. With a sigh, she moved to the bed and plopped down beside him. He wrapped an arm around her shoulder and pulled her into his side as he continued. "I know what you want to say, 'you should've just sent a package Aki, this is too much Aki, what are we going to do if you're discovered Aki..'" She snorted when he imitated her voice and pushed against his side with her shoulder.

"I… thank you for helping me Aki." She mumbled. He smirked at her response and pulled her into a tight hug.

Ren pulled away from his firm embrace and gave what very well could have been the first true smile she had in a very long time. She was surprised with just how much he looked like her now that she was disguised as a boy. All the times that she had joked about them not even being twins drifted away as she studied his features. She could have been looking into a mirror if not for the three solid inches he held over her. Akira had already grown so much in her absence, she found herself wondering if she would eventually catch up with him in the end.

"It's good to see you again." He flashed her a sweet smile as he ruffled her hair, leaning down slightly so that they were eye to eye as he did so.

"I'm glad you could visit." The faint sound of the bell over the cafes door rang through her attic room as they sat down on her bed. It had only been a few months, yet the secrets she now had to keep from even him were already beyond what she could count.

"Did you make any friends while you've been out here 'Akira'?" He asked as he nudged her playfully. She chuckled, covering her lips as she did so, and tilted her head to look at him without turning.

"A few…"

"The two of you are still talking?" Ren turned her attention to the stairs, where Morgana stood stock still as he studied them. Akira was still looking around her room, not yet noticing the black and white cat that was staring at them like a deer caught in the headlights.

She could understand his feelings.

"Two of who?" Ryuji's voice filled the room before she caught sight of his wild blonde locks. She stiffened beside Akira as he stood and slipped his hands into his pockets.

"One of your friends?" He asked. She nodded before looking down at her own hands that rested in her lap. Ryuji was standing beside Morgana now, a shocked look painted across his face and a confused tilt to his head as if he was struggling to figure out which one was the Akira he had befriended.

"Ryuji," She said quickly as she stood beside her brother and placed a hand on his shoulder, "this is my brother…" she struggled with a name for a moment before a proverbial light bulb popped above her head. "His name is Seta." Seta, Akira's old imaginary friend who he would blame when they got in trouble as little kids, a small smile graced her lips at the thought.

"H-hey, I'm Ryuji. Didn't know this guy had siblings." Ryuji was holding his hand out to Akira with a welcoming smile on his face. Akira took the offered hand and shook it willingly as he returned the smile.

"We have one more actually. Our sister Ren. Maybe you'll meet her one day. Good to meet you Ryuji, Akira speaks highly of you." She wanted to groan and cover her face with her hands as her brother spoke, instead she shoved them in her pockets and focused on keeping her features schooled.

"Dude do you tell us anything?" Ryuji asked her. She fought against the urge to raise her brows and gave him a small shrug in return. "I mean after all we've been through as Phan-"

"Seta, you like coffee right? Boss makes great coffee." She cut Ryuji off quickly, telling herself she would have a talk with him about filters soon less he land them in deep water.

"Coffee sounds good, but I don't want you making it little brother." Akira wrapped his arm around her shoulder and flashed her a devious smirk as he did so.

"I'll get Boss to make it." She mumbled as she reached behind them to pinch his back. The hiss that her action pulled from him had him smirking again.

"Akira!" Both of them perked up at the sound of his name being called, a moment later Ann was bounding up the stairs with a bag that rattled with the multiple makeup containers thrown over her shoulder, "since we managed to buy that today, I thought that-" she stopped as she took in the sight of the three currently awkwardly standing in Ren's room.

"Look Ann, he had a brother! Get this, he has a sister too!" Ryuji moved to throw one arm over Anns shoulders as the blonde girl studied the two siblings with narrowed eyes.

"Twins?" She asked without taking her eyes off of them.

"Triplets actually." Akira's quick response had Ren stiffening in his grasp. What exactly was he planning by bringing up the fact he had a sister at every given opportunity. "I stopped by to visit, Ren will come out soon though. Bet she can't wait to meet all of you."

"I doubt it." Ren said as she adjusted her glasses, "she's not really a people person. She's more of a punk." Akira laughed at this and slapped Ren's back hard enough for her to stumble slightly.

"Oh come on Akira, give her some credit. I'm sure she would do all sorts of crazy stunts to make sure the two of us are safe and sound after all." He said around his laughter.

"Heh, you three are close huh?" Ryuji chuckled awkwardly as he watched them interact, his free hand came up to rest on his shoulder as his eyes met Ren's and she swallowed a lump that grew in her throat.

"Coffee…" she mumbled as she looked down and away from his gaze. Ren didn't wait for any of them to respond before she made her way past her two friends and down the stairs to the cafe that waited below. Sojiro was behind the counter, a crossword book in his hand as he waited for the two elderly customers to finish their drinks. "Boss, er, could you make some coffee? I have a brother visiting." She said as she shifted from foot to foot, her eyes meeting everything but his as she did so.


Akira laid out across the uncomfortable mattress that made up Ren's bed. He had his phone raised above his head and was simply scrolling through a chat that she had over a year ago with a group of her friends from their hometown to stave off his boredom. Ren told him not to leave the room, and then promptly snuck out from the window to go to a shop for a reason she wouldn't disclose to him He worried for a while after she left, but he knew that as long as she set her mind to something he couldn't change it anyway.

He was expecting to simply be bored for a couple hours in the afternoon while she was off doing whatever she was doing at the shop, what he did not expect was for Ryuji to come rushing up the stairs closely followed by the cat that his sister had taken in and the blonde girl, Ann. He sat up quickly in the bed, his eyes wide as he fumbled with his phone after it slipped from his grip due to his own momentum, and turned his head towards them.

"Akira! Come on man we got another one!" Ryuji exclaimed as he shoved his own phone in Akira's face, on the screen was something called a Phan Site. At the top was a bar with a percentage and in the center was a pop up of a request with a scrolling wall of text behind it.

"But I-" he began before the cat mewled loudly.

"Mona's right, it's important, come on!" Ryuji exclaimed, grabbing his arm and yanking him up by it.

Before he knew it, Akira was dragged from the coffee shop and to the very place that he had first seen the blonde. The others spoke to the cat as if it were talking back with them which was very confusing for him, were all of Ren's friends mentally challenged? Ann had her phone out and was scrolling through screen after screen of apps as Ryuji aggressively asked the cat if it wanted to fight him.

"Boy's calm down." Ann huffed, turning her attention to Akira. "Oh yeah, is it okay if I do it today Jester?" She asked him, "This job is kinda personal to me after all." Akira had no idea what was going on, they had confused him for his sister, the second time for Ryuji, so he nodded in response to her. Curiosity was a killer apparently because only a few heartbeats later it was as if the entire world stopped. It looked the same, save for the fact that everyone in the busy central station had vanished and a strange red and black substance seemed to be oozing from below.

"Alright." Akira nearly jumped out of his skin when he saw that Morgana had transformed into some large headed, huge eyed, monster cat? The yellow collar was replaced with a scarf and he had what seemed to be a utility belt wrapped around his waist. He touched his chest to calm his heart, biting the inside of his mouth in order not to cry out in alarm.

"Hey man are you okay?" Ryuji had noticed Akira's face grow pale, or perhaps it was the fact that he was still in his everyday clothes while the blond male had taken on the appearance of a biker thug with a silver skull mask covering most of his face. The sight did not help Akira with the panic attack building up within him, what the hell had his sister gotten into.

"Leave Joker alone Skull, maybe he's tired from his brothers visit." He turned to Ann and his heart nearly stopped. She was in a skin tight leather suit that gave her quite a bit of cleavage, not to mention a cat tail like belt and a red mask in the shape of a cat's head. "If you need to rest I can drive Mona." She offered. He had so many questions that he didn't know where to begin, well, he did know but he couldn't ask these people. He needed to find Ren, she had to be somewhere nearby because this had to be some sort of sick joke.

"Come on, you need to sit down for a bit. You didn't tell me it was getting this bad." He was being dragged inside now, too dumbfounded by the situation to resist them. When the cat monster they referred to as Mona transformed into a van, he screamed.


Ren stared down at her phone with a furrowed confuse brow and a slight pout to her lips that brought out her more feminine features. Beside her the shop owner of the model gun shop stared at her with his own brow raised expectantly. On the screen of her phone, and clearly written by Ryuji, was a message stating that the Phantom Thieves were currently on a job, and the requester should see a change within the next day or so. Why would they leave her topside while they ventured into Momentos? Was it such a simple job that the three of them would be fine, or had they given up on trusting someone who couldn't even make it through a Palace without collapsing many many times?

"Akira." she muttered under her breath as the thought crossed her mind. Could they have taken him thinking that he was her pretending to be him? This was getting very complicated. She held her forehead in her palm as the thoughts caused her head to ache.

"What's that?" She gave the shop owner a feigned smile and a small wave before turning towards the door. She had to go down there and find them before something bad happened.


Hi guys, I know it's been a while and I have no excuse. I get sidetracked easily and have many stories going at once. Anyway, hope you enjoy!

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