April 29, 2011
Forecast… Raining, plus Fog around Midnight
"For the last time Will…" Will was having difficulty understanding what he had seen last night. I was trying to play it off, if he ever heard the rumors about the Midnight Channel, well, if he could ever understand it… I was in trouble. "It was a power surge, it happened the last there was a storm too."
"I've never seen a storm do that to a TV!" He would not let this go! For the love of god… and I didn't have school this day… So what do you do in a situation like this?
"Look," I placed my hand on my forehead. "I have midterms coming up, so I'm gonna study in my room… Just watch TV or play video games, I got plenty of food for the both of us to eat. So help yourself!"
"Fine," I sighed as I walked into my room and locked myself in there, that's when my phone started to ring. I got a text from Chie…
Yukiko will back in school tomorrow! Yosuke wants to try and talk to her after school.
I smiled; I could tell that she was very much excited by Yukiko coming back to school…
See you tomorrow.
Time Change: Morning to Evening
"Due to the weekend rainfall, clear skies seem unlikely in the area." I was actually watching the news for once, yet, it was only so that I could see if anyone else had gone missing. I was gonna have problems trying to watch the Midnight Channel now…
"What'd she say?" Yep, I was going to kill him before the end of the year, all I would have to do is push into the TV and summon my Persona! Still, I had hope… there was little amount of hope, but still hope!
"There's gonna be fog tomorrow."
"Why?" OH MY FUCKING GOD! You have got to kidding me!
"It's just how the weather works here, now SHHH!" I turned my attention back to the screen, hoping to god he would be quiet bothering me until it was over!
"A thick fog is expected to set in tonight and remain until tomorrow morning, with heaviest concentration in the Inaba area." Well, at least we saved Yukiko in time… at least.
Date Change: April 29 to April 30, 2011
Forecast… Sunny (Thank god!)
"I'm so freaking tired!" I yelled as I walked down the stairs getting ready to walk out of the door as Will, was already playing video games.
"Didn't you sleep last night?" It was a simply question with a semi simple answer. No, I did not sleep until after Midnight, why? I was worried about the Midnight Channel.
"I-I couldn't sleep until after Midnight…" I sighed as I walked to the door. "I maybe home after it gets dark today… a friend of ours is back in school today."
"Okay…?" before he could finish talking, I busted out of the door and on my way to school. I was gonna have real difficulty keeping the Midnight Channel a secret until the killer was in cuffs! I was looking into the sky as I walking until I bashed into someone. I was so used to this kinda of thing, that I tried to guess who it was now…
"Ow," I looked down and saw Yosuke… damn you Logic! I think it's now three to five, logic still losing. "Oh, Kreed! Sup man?"
"An old friend driving me nuts!" Yosuke gave me a look like I was insane, which wasn't that far off, but still. "Why are giving me that look."
"You'd think that you'd have mercury poisoning…"
"Why?"
"Cause you are as mad as a hatter!" I was surprised that Yosuke knew what he was talking about.
"I'm worse than a hatter!" I spun on one foot and bowed. Yosuke laughed a little bit.
"Oh, yeah!" Yosuke gained an evil smile as he looked at me now. "I hear that you and Chie have been spending a lot of time together… sooo, what's up?"
"Wh-what!?" I was so shocked by the statement that I almost fell over… "DUDE! I can grantee you that there is nothing going on between us!"
"Yeah right!" Yosuke laughed, I had fallen into his trap now! And I knew it! "I bet you ten thousand yen that you end up dating her before the end of May!"
"You're on!" I shook Yosuke's hand at this point… god, that was the dumbest bet I had ever made! Still, I had nothing against Yosuke, so we continued on to school making jokes on the way.
Time Change: Early Morning to Morning
"Hm? Yukiko-san is back. That's good, I'm glad the cutie in the class was able to return." What the fuck!? I think someone needed to give the girls a rape whistle in this class, this teacher was a pedo! "Wouldn't you guys agree?"
"Not my type…" I sighed as I whispered to Chie, she was kinda confused on how to feel about that. "Hey, Yosuke, doesn't he seem like a bit of a pedo right now?"
"Dude!" Yosuke almost yelled out his agreement. "Don't say that he'll hear you!"
"I don't care!"
"Oooops! I mean, all of you are cute! No, really!" Yosuke and me both facepalmed at that moment.
"Never mind," Yosuke whispered to me. "I agree with you now…"
"Er, please, don't tell your parents that I said that, will ya?" Mr. Yamada was so not helping his case, in fact if there was a trial, he would have been building a case against himself! "I don't wanna get in trouble. Ahem, anyway, I have an interesting topic four you today. Close your books and take a look at the handout."
"I'm scared to look…" I still did what he said.
"Sounds like a good to pick on the city boy, Yu-kun." OH MY GOD! They didn't pick me for once! Yu stood up quickly and waited for his chance to answer the question. "What is the greatest canyon in the solar system?"
"Valles Marineris." Yu didn't even miss a beat to answer the question. I had never heard of that canyon before!
"Wow, you really are from the city!" How did what he just say make him from the city!? "Well, I guess that doesn't have anything to do with it. Hahaha."
"Don't quiet your day job to become a comedian…" I whispered it to Chie and Yosuke, both of them just nodded in agreement.
"The Valles Marineris on Mars is ten times larger than the Grand Canyon!" That was when I lost interest and spaced off. I was only really worried about what I knew we were gonna do after school.
Time Change: Morning to After School
The investigation team was on the roof of the school waiting for Yukiko to get back from cooking noodles. Let it be known that they were instant… thank god! Well, anyway, Yukiko returned to the roof after a short amount of time. "Sorry to keep you waiting. The soba is yours, right Chie?"
"Thanks!" Chie reached up for her noodles, I could kinda smell them at that moment. It smelled okay, not as good as those steak skewers from the last I ate with Chie though! Which helped my stomach not to growl. "Ooooh, that smells so gooood… These instant noodles are just the thing to help me through club…" I had no idea she was in a club… wait, did this count as a club!? "How much longer do I have to wait on this?"
"It still needs a few minutes." Yukiko took a seat next to Chie, Yosuke sat next to Yu who was standing, and I was cross legged sitting on the ground somewhere in the middle. I actually chose to sit like that, everyone offered me a seat, but I still just sat on the ground.
"So," Chie turned to Yosuke. "Why're we here…? Oh yeah, we were going to ask Yukiko what happened."
"Yukiko-san," Yosuke didn't waste any time jumping right into the topic of the murders, after all… I guess he started the investigation team! "I hate to bring up stuff you'd rather not think about… But I need to ask you again. Did you recall anything about when you got kidnapped?"
"If you can't," I butted in, I knew we all wanted to know who the killer was, but it was so unlikely that we were going to get anything out of Yukiko… We waited too long. "It's okay, just anything you can give us will help."
"No… I don't." I shrugged, not like we were going to go back to square one with this discovery. After all, we never left square one! "I thought I might remember something if I let it sit for a while, but as time passes, it only gets hazier…"
"It happens to everyone…" I sighed as I now lay back on the ground, my legs still crossed.
"I think…" I quickly looked up at Yukiko, she actually remembered something! This was good! "the doorbell rang at the entrance… and someone called for me…" That was news to us! This was great actually, now we could start to think of someone who could get away with kidnapping someone by walking up to the door of their houses! "But when I woke up after that, I was already in the castle… I'n sorry."
"No need to apologize." Chie was quick to try and console her friend. This was good, this was awesome, and we actually got somewhere.
"Actually," I sat up and interlocked my fingers, using them to put my chin down on. "Yukiko has actually helped us a little!"
"Oh yeah," Yosuke looked right at me. "How so…?"
"We now know that the killer just walked up to her front door." I smiled up at everyone. "It doesn't really take anyone out of the equation here; yet it does make it easier for us to try and get witnesses if necessary!"
"You're right!" Yosuke looked up for a moment. "If all of this is true, then that's one daring criminal. What kind of killer would ring the doorbell?"
"One that's madder than a hatter…?" Yosuke grinned at me as everyone else just stared at me… Yep… if that is what we were going by, then I was the main suspect! Good thing everyone knew better!
Chie was the one person who actually kept us on track at that moment. "I wonder why whoever it is would do stuff like this."
"We won't know until we confront 'em ourselves…" Everyone else was getting way to serious… sooo, I pulled out a trump card!
"Or," Everyone looked right at me. "We could just have Chie kick the ever loving shit out of them! I'd go for that!" Everyone, except Yukiko started to laugh at the joke, Yukiko seemed like she didn't get the joke! HOW COULD SHE NOT!? Yosuke looked back at Yukiko again, trying to catch his breath.
"Oh yeah, we never told you. Narukami and me are gonna catch the culprit ourselves!" I knew what Yosuke was getting at, and to be honest… it was one of the best ideas he would ever have. "The police are out of their league on this case, but we got Personas."
"Could you lend us a hand?" Yu knew what to do, he was a smart guy… that proven by today's class question! Yet, Yukiko just seemed surprised and couldn't really talk much after that question hit her ears. Chie took this moment to get very much excited about having her best friend on the team. "I'm helping out too! I can't believe someone would throw people into a place like that. I'm gonna sock whoever's doing this! Plus Kreed-kun, is helping out too!"
"Yup," I sat up and gave the evil grin a try. "I'm just your friendly insane Persona-user of an insane puppet! Nothing to fear!"
We all looked around for a moment before bursting out into laughter! After a moment or two, Yukiko spoke up. "Let me help too. I want to know why this is happening… Especially is someone hates me so much they want to kill me. I don't want to run away from myself anymore."
Yosuke hopped off of his seat and folded his arms. "Alright! Then let's all work together and catch this asshole!"
"Agreed."
Yu look surprised for a moment again, and then he went back to his normal look of almost no emotion. Chie started to speak again before I could pursue questioning Yu if he was okay. "But how're we going to find them? We don't have a single lead yet."
"Other than the doorbell…"
"I'm the third one to be targeted so far…" Yukiko broke my train of thought for a moment, wait… okay I think I see a similarity, yet, I think it would be far to have Yosuke run the show for a bit. "But I have a feeling this isn't the end of it. If we had an idea of who might be targeted next, wouldn't we have an advantage over the killer?"
"You can say that again…" I sighed; we really didn't have much to go off of… Hell, they targets could be completely picked at random for all we knew! I just hoped that wasn't the case.
"So we'll outsmart them, huh…?" Yosuke was in deep that about this. It sounded like a good idea. "Yeah, that might work. Okay, so let's figure out what ties the victims together… First, there was that announcer."
"What was her name again…" I wasn't paying attetntion to the news when I first moved to Inaba, so I could only guess really. "Wasn't like, Mayumi Yamano or something like that?"
"Exactly that…" Yosuke shook his head at me… Man I was truly a good guesser. "Second was Saki Konishi… Senpai. Third was Yukiko Amagi."
"All three are girls and have had ties to the first victim." I wasted no time proposing my hypothesis on the kidnappings.
"Bingo." Yosuke looked right at me as the theory left my mouth. This theory pissed Chie off at the… using the news name for him, the Hanged Man Murder…
"How dare he target females!" Chie was truly open with most of her feelings, it was comforting, even if she was one of the most violent girls I had ever seen! "Now that's unforgivable! The culprit's gotta be some kinda pervert…"
"Did anyone listen to my entire theory?" I sighed.
"Yeah," Yosuke turned from Chie to me and back again. "The second and third victims had some sort of connection to the first, like Kreed-san had proposed."
"Hey," Chie was also quick to change some of her emotions, which was kinda funny… "That's right. Yukiko and Saki-senpai both had connections to that announcer…"
"That's true." We were all in deep thought about this entire ordeal, and we were actually making a lot of progress… Man, maybe was should have made it a club… like what the S.E.- never mind, I'm getting off track again. "Then… does that mean females connected in some way to Ms. Yamano's case are being targeted…?"
"Most likely." I looked to the sky again and started to rock from side to side. I had to look totally insane to all four of them… yet, they had seen my past, if I hadn't come out a little insane… then something had gonna very wrong.
"There's another angle we can take, too." Yosuke was responding to Yukiko, yet was also telling this to all of us. He could be a good motivational speaker… if he wasn't as much as a perv. "If another person disappears…"
"You think they'd be on that Midnight Channel?" Chie was actually questioning this…? Well, whatever, I had noticed that too. "That happened right before Yukiko was kidnapped, too."
"As well as Saki and that Yamano!" I pointed into the sky still rocking.
"It's kinda like a ransom note." Now Yosuke was thinking like a hatter! It was an insane theory… but damn did it fit! "We still don't know why that happens, but we'll have to rely on it for now."
"Then, we'll have to wait until it rains again…" I was just thinking out loud at that moment, yet everyone nodded in agreement. "Well, just keep an eye on the weather right?"
"Yeah," Yu was in complete agreement with this plan, hell… I think we all were! "So, watch the forecast as often as possible."
"By the way," Yosuke had finally jumped off of one train of thought, on too another one. "Aren't those done by now?"
"Whoa, that's right!" Now Chie was in "food mode" and nothing was gonna change that. "Chow time!" The girls started to chow down on their instant noodles, I could smell the noodle, I had to plug my nose just so I wouldn't steal the noodles.
"Hey, could I try just a little bit of that!?" Yosuke was asking CHIE to eat her food… bad move dude… bad move! "Just one tiny bite!"
"Hands off the soba, pal!" Chie was now staring daggers his way, I was afraid that they might actually stab Yosuke in the throat and heart. "Go get your own if you want some. Rrrngh… Okay, just one bite, got it?" I was amazed! Chie really was a very mature girl, when you didn't try and talk about food or kung-fu movies… which just about everything got her thinking about her kung-fu. Still, it was fun just to talk to her. She handed Yosuke the noodles and Yu looked Yukiko's way, not "Yu" too!
"Do you want to try some?" Yu nodded at Yukiko and took the bowl from Yukiko, both him and Yosuke took one bite and looked like they were in paradise!
"It's soooo gooood…" Oh no, Yosuke need to stop there or he was gonna eat everything! I knew it was coming! "The aroma, the flavor, and the texture all combined… This is perfect!"
"Quick! Take the bowls ba-" To late… Yosuke and Yu just started to shovel the instant noodles into their mouths; I didn't think that they were even chewing! "Damn…"
Chie jumped to her feet, she was clearly pissed the FUCK off! "Aaaack! What the hell are you doing!?"
Both of the guys stopped eating almost immediately, yet they had still eaten most of the soba noodles, much to Chie's and Yukiko's displeasure! "You ate everthing…"
"M-my fried tofu…"
"Guys!" Both Yu and Yosuke looked at me; I had put on my best "scared for my life" face. "Run and don't stop running until you hit Tokyo!"
Before either of them could react, Chie got in their faces. "I hope you guys understand what this means."
Yosuke was the first to try and sweet talk Chie… "W-wait wait wait! Stop! I'm Sorry! I-I'll buy you steak! It'll be on me! Y-you hear me? The very best!"
Both Chie and me looked right at Yosuke. "Steak…!?" Chie looked back at me, and I at her. "Hey Yosuke! You still owe me a steak too!"
Yosuke knew what had to be done, yet Yukiko was still focused on… "My tofu…" Yeah, that.
"C'mon, Yukiko. There's steak in it for us now." Chie was so into this idea, I started to laugh as I watched my friends go through with this agreement.
"Quickly!" I jumped to my feet and ran to the stairs of the school building. "To the best steak place in town!"
"Filet, filet, filet, fiet mignon!" I head Chie chat in the background as I hit the stairs and practically jumped those fuckers!
Junes
"I said the best," We sat at Junes as Chie, Yukiko, and me all had a steak in front of us. "Not the rest!"
"Man," Yosuke was actually relieved about the fact we were eating at a food court and not Aiya's, WHAT THE FUCK!? "Talk about great timing. We just started serving grilled steak today. We're doing our part to spread this town's specialty dish. Plus, we've already got an excellent grill."
"That's just a yakisoba griddle…" Chie sighed as she looked at the steak in front of us… I started to eat and just about spaced out. "Oh well, steak is steak. It's far from a filet steak though…"
That was the point that I actually started to space for the moment… I was literally lost in the food I was eating. It was okay, definitely not the greatest steak I had ever had… After a few minutes or so, I heard someone address me. "KREED!"
"Huh?" I looked up to see everyone looking at me. "What? Sorry, I spaced… I'll pay attention from here on out!"
"Okay…" Yosuke sighed as all four of us heard a familiar voice walking near the table.
"Man, I thought the countryside would be a snooze, but it's proving to be a lot more exciting than I thought…" Creeper much!? The cop that was working with Yu's uncle walked near us. "Ooh, they updated the menu!"
"Huh?" Chie noticed him too. "Isn't he that detective?"
"Hey, you were at Dojima-san's…" I raised an eyebrow at him, until I realized he was talking to Yu and not me… heh… "Ahaha… I-I'm not… Oh wait! Hey, this is great timing after all. Dojima-san said that he'll be leaving work on schedule tonight. Could you pass that on to Nanako-chan?" Adachi turned to the rest of the gang, including me. "Yo! I'm Adachi, Dojima-san's gofer… Err, I mean, his partner."
"Nice save." I smiled as I put another piece of steak into my mouth. Yosuke smiled at Adachi.
"Are you this busy every day?" Adachi looked like he had been seen stealing, or he was at a court hearing.
"Huh? Oh, well the public seems to be getting a charge out of these cases, but we can't leave it at that." Wait! Was he telling US important information...? Damn, smooth Yosuke, way to go!
"Sorry to but in," I looked up at Chie now, Jesus… my friends knew how to get info! "But could it be that the killer targeted Saki-senpai in order to silence her?"
"U-ummm, you sure get to the heart of the matter. Yikes… Haha." Adachi should have shut up right then and there, but he just kept talking… "Of course, we're also thinking along those lines. She was killed right after the announcer's body was found. If the killer was trying to silence her, there might've been something at the scene only she would have understood." Why was he saying this… why!? "Which would mean that the culprit may be someone close to Ms. Konishi. Nothing like that points to Misuzu Hiiragi, so… Ooh, I might have stumbled across something here…" WAIT, HE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW!? Well, this town is screwed! "W-wait, were you listening to all that!? Crap! Me and my big mouth…" Oh, now he realizes what he was doing! Yet he just smiled nervously at us and kept on talking. "D-don't tell anyone I said any of that, or Dojima-san will flay me alive… Relax, kids, the police are on the job. See ya." With that Adachi walked away from us, and once he was out of hearing range… Yosuke looked at us.
Chie was the first one to say anything though. "You were right, Yosuke. The police are totally useless… Augh! My steak's getting cold!"
"Why do you think I've been eating mine this whole time…?" I smiled at her as I shoveled the last piece into my mouth. Yosuke was obviously a little pissed about the now giant dent in his wallet.
"Could you shut up about the steak for five seconds…?" I couldn't help but laugh, after a few more minutes everyone was walking to the electric department, yet I stopped Chie and Yukiko.
"Hey Yukiko…"
"Yes," She just looked at me, while Chie seemed a little nervous about what I was about to say. "What is it Kreed-kun…?"
"I have a friend who can't speak Japanese and is living with me…" I think she knew where this was going. "Could you help him out that is if you know any English…?"
"Sure," Yukiko smiled as she turned to follow the guys. "I'd be happy to help him; he'd have to wait until the afternoon though."
"Wait…" Chie gave me a look of concern. "He's not a…?"
"No," I smiled as I walked in front of her, leaning down so my face was near hers. "He is not like Yosuke, so he's not a pervert!"
"Oh!"
Shadow World: Entrance
"Wow… This really is inside the TV…" Yukiko came with us into the TV so that we could get her, her one of a kind… Teddie glasses.
"You're surprised by this…?" I smiled as I slowly sat down on a railing so I could see everything that was happening. Teddie wobbled over to us, right in front of Yukiko.
"It's Teddie…" Yukiko didn't really seem shocked by the bear, no surprise there. "Then it wasn't a dream."
"Are you feeling better, Yuki-chan?" Teddie sound a little nervous about something, whatever it was, I will never truly know… "I did what you said! I've been a good bear!"
"Oh, I see." Yukiko was having some trouble with making out the signs that Ted was letting off. Better for her that way. "Good boy!"
"W-well, this bear's part of the reason we want to find the culprit." I facepalmed at my own stupidity… I never realized that Ted was one of the reasons for the investigation team forming.
"What…?" I almost fell off the railing the wrong way. "Was I even here for that conversation!?"
"Not really." Yu just shrugged as I fell down, towards the group, not off the entire platform. The rest of the team just continued on talking with Ted.
"I'm one of the group now too." Yukiko seemed like she was talking to a little kid… well, Teddie did kinda act like one, so maybe she was. "Let's work together, okay?"
"Yep!" I swore that Teddie almost jumped with joy was the words left his mouth. "I was thinking the same thing! That's why I got these ready for you, Yuki-chan!" With that, Teddie walked up to Yukiko and handed her a pair of glasses, they thin framed and light grey.
"Oh," Yukiko put the glasses on and noticed that the fog had completely vanished from her view as she put them on. "So these are what everyone's wearing. Wait, what about Kreed-kun, I thought that he already had glasses, right?"
"Teddie already gave me a pair," I pushed the glasses farther up on my nose, so I wasn't looking over them. "They are better than the old pair I had."
"Oh," Yukiko smiled lightly at Teddie. "Thank you, Teddie. You're right though… It's as if the fog doesn't exist…"
"Hey, tell me something." Chie was giving Teddie a look of confusion. "How come you have so many pairs of glasses?"
"Yeah," I rubbed the back of my head. "I've been wondering that ever since you perfectly fixed my glasses…"
" Excellent question!" Teddie smiled like he had solved the world hunger problem… which was highly unlikely with how much he eats… "Guess what? I'm the one who makes them. And I didn't fix them, I remade them."
"Wait," I was so confused at that moment remade them! What the hell!? "WHAT!? Why!?"
"I've lived here for a long time." Teddie sounded like he was starting to reminisce about some really great memories. "So I came up with some ways to be comfortable here."
"I see." Yukiko understood this a lot more than I was… Well, she was an A+ student. "But don't you need a pair?"
"Oooh, good point." Teddie was really getting into this for some reason or another. "Another great question! Listen to this! My eyes themselves are lenses!"
"That is messed up…" I grimaced as the bear continued to talk.
"You didn't know?"
"Of course not…" Yosuke sighed as the bear finally made the realization that we had no damn clue what he was talking about! Of course, Yosuke's comment ticked off Ted.
"Wh-why are you being so mean?" Teddie stomped his foot for a moment. "You act like you're not interested!"
"I don't think we really are…" I looked away from the bear and tried to look for anything else to keep my focus on. "Though, that does make me question what he is…"
"I'm a really dexterous bear!" Teddie help his hands up and slowly walked closer to Yosuke. "See how smoothly my fingers move!" Wait, what!? I turned and looked back at Ted as he started to wiggle his "fingers" back and forth…
"What the hell!? Now I'm lost!" This was so messed up, in so many ways! Yosuke must have felt the same thing, as he pushed the bear to the ground.
"What am I even looking at!?" Teddie acted like those toys that never stay on their backs and rolled right back to his feet. Yet, not before dropping something. Yukiko and me were the only people who noticed it.
"What the hell!?"
"Hm?" Yukiko looked down at them. "Teddie, you dropped something…"
Teddie turned to look at the items that hit the floor. "Oh, that's a pair I kinda screwed up on."
"How did you scr-" Before I could even finish that sentence, Yukiko put the glasses on her face. Oh, my, god! I started to laugh uncontrably! "Wh-what th-the hel-hell Yu-Yuk-Yukik-iko!?"
"Y-Yukiko?" Chie was just confused by the way Yukiko was acting, I thought it was funny as hell. Okay, Yukiko was cooler than I thought! Yukiko couldn't help but giggle a bit as well.
"How do I look?" The glasses were those gag ones, ya know, the glasses with the big one way lenses that had the hypno swirls in them, and a fake nose and mustache!
"Looks great." Yu smiled a bit, he sounded like he was close to laughing as well. I was having trouble breathing at this point, but I composed myself enough to say at least one word!
"Awesome!" I fell flat on my ass, I was laughing so much! Teddie was taking this a little too seriously. "Y-you ca-can always make the sha-shadows laug-laugh to de-death!"
"Do you like that one, Yuki-chan?" He truly thought that she was serious!
"I want to wear this one." I burst out in an even bigger fit of laughter, everyone was watching me like I had finally snapped! I gave them the thumbs up, letting them one I was okay! "It's even got a nose guard!"
"Oh no you don't!" Chie just about stomped her foot, I was having a blast. I hadn't laughed this much in a long time!
"How bear-y unfortunate…" Teddie, she was JOKING! "That pair doesn't have the right lenses in. Guess I should've made an actual pair."
I finally came down from my comedic high of laughter… "Please don't, I don't want to die laughing!"
"Dude," Yosuke helped to my feet. "Why did you laugh so much!?"
"I have such an easy sense of humor…" I smiled at Yosuke. "I laugh at the most simply of jokes."
"Really?"
"Yeah."
"That's too bad about the glasses…" Yukiko actually sounded depressed about the glasses… why!? She took them off and held them out to Chie… oh no! "Here, Chie. Your turn!"
"Oh no!" I sat back down on the ground so that I wouldn't fall again. Chie sighed for a moment before grabbing the glasses.
"Man… All right, fine…" The moment Chie put them on and she turned to me, Yukiko could still see the glasses though. Yukiko started to giggle, it quickly gained speed though. Both me and Yukiko started to laugh so much, I actually started to ROFL! "How'd it come to this…?"
Yosuke was started to get worried about Yukiko, why not me!? Because I already told him what was happening. "Y-Yukiko-san? Hellooo…?"
Chie sighed as she started to talk. "There goes one of Yukiko's laughing fits… I never thought she'd do it when someone besides me was around. These stupid glasses are useless for investigating!"
"But brilliant for a good laugh!" I stood up and put a hand on Chie's shoulder… we do that a lot… "Come on, lighten up a bit!"
Chie sighed, yet another thing came to her mind. "I would if I didn't have these stupid glasses on! I mean, what the hell's this nose for, anyway!?"
Teddie put on his best "I'm mad with you" face. "Nice work, huh? That's what happens when you guys leave me here and I get bored!"
"W-well," Yosuke was also able to put a smile his face. Hell, the only person who didn't find it funny was Chie! "I'm glad she's in spirits again… I guess…"
"Oh Chie, the look on your face…" Yukiko was still laughing… Even I thought it wasn't that funny anymore… "Snrk… Hahaha, it was so funny! I-I can't stop… laugh- Heehee! Ohhh, my stomach, ahaha…"
"Yeah," I sighed and took the glasses from Chie. "I'm gonna keep these away from Yukiko…"
"Please do!" Chie also sighed, after that moment, we all said goodbye to Teddie and left the TV world.
Time Change: After School to Evening
"I'm sorry you had to see that…" Chie sighed as we walked home from Junes together. I smiled, I had fun today though, so not a bad thing! "She hardly very gets like that."
"I had fun," I shrugged as I started to spin on one foot and hope around with my hands in my pockets. "I haven't laughed like that in years! It felt good, besides… no harm done, after all, Yukiko and everyone seems to be a bit more open after facing their shadows!"
"I guess that's true…" Chie just looked at me as I kept acting like a fool! "What are you doing?"
"Being me," I smiled as I stopped, my face mere inches away from hers, she blushed that light pink color, when I noticed it… I blushed too. "And I've always wanted to be this goofy! Because for me… being as mad as a hatter is fun. I never really got to be that goofy kid, remember…"
"I-I'm sorry, Kreed-kun." I moved away from her and spun so that I was next to her. "I didn't mean to-"
"It's fine Chie-chan!" I smiled, until I realized that I used the chan honorific… I remembered what it meant! I started to freak out! "Cr-crap! I'm so sorry, I didn't… gah!"
Chie was blushing but she laughed! That stopped my freak out… why was she not killing me!? "It's fine, we have been around Teddie for about an hour…"
That was the moment we came to split in the road that we would have to part ways. "H-hey, Chie…?"
"Yeah?" Chie turned to me, I was rubbing the back of my neck and looking to the ground. "What's up?"
"W-wi-will… um," I wanted to ask her, I really didn't care at that moment! Yet, I couldn't find the words for it. Chie's cheeks grew so pink as I stumbled over my words…
"Y-yes…?" I didn't know it at the time, but we were both so nervous about what I was about to say… It was kinda funny how it worked, huh?
"W-will you…" I broke, I couldn't ask her yet… it didn't feel right, so I gave up… God, what a coward right? "Train with me tomorrow, I know it's a Sunday, and we don't have school… Soooo."
Chie actually looked disappointed for a moment. I felt so scared for that time, I almost stopped breathing! "S-sure… See you tomorrow!" The words that left Chie's mouth sounded so sad, I felt like a dick… I could face down a shadow with nothing more but a baseball bat, but I had problems with this!? Chie waved as she ran down the road to her house. I quickly got home and said night to Will as I planted my face into my pillow and lied awake for hours until sleep finally pulled me away from reality…
I'm done with this CHAPTER, YES, took me two days! Well, sorry for the wait! I hope you enjoy
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