May 17, 2011

Forecast… Sunny in the morning and Cloudy later in the day

"Has the target arrived at school!?" Chie whispered to the five of us, which were crowded together… in a corner… in the open… by the school gate…

"There is no way he will not see us…" I shook my head as we waited for Kanji to leave the school building. "And if he doesn't, well then… fuck the world!"

"Shhh!" Yosuke was also into this idea, even though Yu seemed to agree with me. "And yes, Ma'am! Visual ID confirmed! Target arrived in-zone near the end of his mess break, with mother-issued rations in hand."

"Can't we just say lunch?" I sighed, this was kinda ridiculous… but I was trying to be serious, and have some fun… we didn't all hangout very much, so this was a good chance to try to.

"Would you be quiet!?" Yosuke was definitely getting mad now. "Current status: In the bathroom, fixing his hair. The target was acting nervous. I left my position before he had a chance to pick on me!"

I face-palmed, Yosuke was a really idiot! Before I had a chance to tell him that… Yukiko spoke up. "I wonder what kind of plans they made… It didn't seem like he knew that boy very well."

"Well," Chie tilted her head and scratched her head. "I think there's something more subtle- Oh, he's here!"

Yosuke and Chie tried to move closer to the wall. "Ow! Yosuke watch my foot!" We finally settled down as Kanji came out of the school gates and looked around… he didn't see us… what. The. Fuck!? How did he not see us! It was impossible not too! You know what, screw it… everyone is insane! End of story… lesion learned good bye…

Sorry about that… anyway, as we stood there, I noticed that Kanji seemed a bit nervous the whole time, especially when the cross-dressing girl started to walk up to him. And of course… she didn't seem to notice us either, I couldn't really hear anything that they were talking about, because… pain shot through my foot as Yosuke again stepped on my foot! "Son of a- Yosuke! Stop moving!"

"Be quiet!"

"I'll be quiet when you stop stepping on my freaking foot!" The two started to walk away and the moment they were out of hearing range… I pushed Yosuke away and started to hop up and down holding my foot. "God damn! What do you keep in there, bricks!?"

I kept hoping for a moment until Chie put her hand on my shoulder. I settled back down, then the serious conversation. Yosuke started it, surprisingly enough… with an almost insulting comment. "Wh-what in the world was that…?"

"Anyway!" Chie was starting to freak out as the two started to get out of the line of sight. We need to split into two teams, and fast. Otherwise, we would lose them, but the only problem was… we didn't really… pick the teams to begin with so we had no idea how to split it… which could have been a problem… "We gotta hurry after them, or we'll lose them!" Yosuke also knew that we need to split, but again… we had no idea how to do it.

"Okay… Then let's split up into two groups. One team will follow Kanji, and the other will stake out the shop."

"R-roger that!" Chie and Yosuke we kinda flipping out for no reason here, it was a small enough town that we could easily find them again. "How should we spilt the teams?"

We all looked at Yu, he just shrugged and pointed to Yukiko… didn't even say ANYTHING! That could really be annoying at times, but we just all nodded and Chie vocalized her opinion. "Sure… that's fine with me."

"Okay, Kreed can go with you guys." Yosuke did not just suggest that! There was no way in hell I was gonna let him go alone with my girlfriend! Even Chie glared at him. "Wh-what!?"

"Come you two come on!" I grabbed Yosuke's wrist and Chie's hand, we all ran after Kanji and the girl… This day was gonna be fucking weird as hell… I just didn't know how weird at the time.

Flood Plain

Chie and Yosuke were taking this whole thing a little too seriously… as per, every time there was something to hide behind, the hide behind it. I simply hid in plain sight; I walked slowly behind the two with my headphones in, only… I wasn't playing any music. We got to the flood plain and they hid behind a tree at that was on the side of the road, making it really obvious that they were following the pair…

I sighed as they did so, and just about punched Yosuke for how he was hiding behind my girlfriend. "Dude back off a bit…"

"S-sorry!" Yosuke held his hands up in defense, but I didn't punch him. Chie was so focused that she didn't even notice it.

"Man, this is weird…"

"Yeah…" Yosuke sighed as he still tried to hide behind the tree. "We definitely stand out."

"No, I mean THEM!" Chie seemed confused, well I guess I was the only one who wasn't confused about the girl's gender… "I get this weird feeling about them…"

"Weird? What about them's weird?"

"Umm…" Yep, this was terrible. "I don't know how to put it… Maybe it's just my imagination…"

She was about to continue on another speal, until all three of us heard a low sound eminatting from my stomach. All three of us stopped… Yosuke raised an eyebrow at me. "Dude, what was that?"

"I-I, uh… forgot to eat lunch today…" I rubbed the back of my neck in embarrassment. In truth… I could not find the damned cafeteria! No matter how hard I looked, it was like it was mocking me! "So, I like really freaking hungry."

"Really!?" Yosuke started to raise his voice… we had completely forgotten why we were there for that time. Me and Yosuke started to argue until we heard Chie next to us.

"Hello!" I looked down, and I face-palmed… she was on her phone, but with who… I had no idea. "Yes, I would like the steak bowl…" WHAT!? I stopped and almost took the phone out of her hand. "Actually make that three, no four!"

"Why are you ordering so much food!?" Yosuke was shocked at this. "I don't want anything!"

"This isn't for you!" Chie pointed at Yosuke. "It's for me and Kreed!"

"Please tell me it's Aiya's…"

"It is."

"YES!" That yes, was the biggest mistake I made that whole month, at least on a certain scale… still, we uh… kinda let Kanji hear us at that moment. "Wait how are they gonna find us?"

"I don't know…" Chie finished that sentence and then we heard it… someone cleared their throat next to us… We all froze and turned to meet the glare of one ticked off Kanji Tatsumi… Chie and Yosuke gulped, I waved awkwardly.

"H-hi Kanji…" I started to rub the back of my neck. Boy our cover didn't last very long… there was no way in hell that this was gonna end well for us… and if it did, I would pray to god for the next week!

"The hell are you three doing…?" Kanji looked and sounded pissed… I wasn't too worried about him killing us, but I was worried about him beating the crap out of us… Yosuke started to freak out and panic! I wish he would have thought something better to say…

"Oh, well, you see…" I turned to Yosuke, because, he seemed like he had a plan… boy was I wrong. "We're… We're just two crazy lovebirds and their friends!"

"WHAT!?" I was ready to kill Yosuke at that moment! The world would feel Yosuke's pain as I made it impossible for him to reproduce. "Yosuke… run!"

"Whaddya mean bird!?" Chie was pissed too, which was a good thing, but… it was only about him calling her a bird… That worried me, just a little bit.

"Play along, birdbrain!"

"No, this is bull crap!" I was furious at him for this! "This is the last straw!"

"Didn't I see you guys yesterday…?" Kanji started to walk towards us… I took a few steps back with Yosuke and Chie.

"A-ahahahaha…! C-c'mon, it just so happened that we were walking behind you guys." I cut Yosuke off.

"You are done talking!" I yelled at him, I was five seconds from beating the life out of him. "You are causing more trouble than you are worth!"

"Um, look, we weren't planning on getting in you guys' way, and there's nothing strange about it either…" Both me and Yosuke turned to Chie, this was not her finest hour in life… it wasn't for any of us. Kanji suddenly got all flustered because of Chie's comment.

"S-strange…!?" I knew we were screwed…

"Why can't you keep your big mouth shut!?" I slapped Yosuke on the back of his head for that comment.

"Why can't you!?" With that, all of us ran for it! We didn't stop to look. "This is all your fault you know!"

"W-wait, damnit!" Kanji began the chance after us. As we ran down the street we heard Kanji yell after us. "This ain't what you think! Y-you got it all wrong! Hey! Are you listening, damnit!? It seriously ain't like that!"

We kept running until we made our way back through the shopping district. I was worried what would happen if we stopped running and Kanji was able to catch us… so… we didn't stop, in fact, we made our way, so how, back to Kanji's house… Yukiko and Yu saw all of us running back. "What is going on!?"

"Sorry we brought trouble!" Yosuke yelled as we passed their hiding spot!

"Wait, I said wait up! You are dead, you are all so frigging dead!" Kanji just wouldn't give up the chase, I could have sworn at one point, someone took a picture of us, but I was too busy running for it!

"Ah crap! He's gonna get us all at this rate!" Yosuke and all of us were kinda freaking out. "Hey Chie time for you to shake him off our tale!"

"Why me!?"

"Why my girlfriend!?" My and Chie both did not like that idea one bit. Yet Yosuke knew the way to get Chie to do something.

"You the line in the movies?" Crap… I knew this wasn't going to end well… "You keep going and I'll handle this guy!? Well now's your chance to say it!"

"Well you gotta point there…" I face-palmed as we ran for it, I did not like were this was going!

"Hey Yosuke, you know the line from the internet meme!?" I ran next to Yosuke as we were running. "The about the zombie version of the end of the world!? Your my best friend, but when the zombies come, I'm tripping your ass! Don't make me use it now!"

Yu yelled at us, that's when he noticed Kanji still running after us. "Just don't stop running!" We kept running form Kanji was still yelling at us still, I was trying not to focus on that.

"I said to stop running from me!" I didn't surprise that Kanji was still on our asses. Yet, what surprised me most was when a blue haired girl in a uniform for a restaurant rode up next to us on a moped with a box on the back of the thing that said Aiya's. "Huh!? What the hell!?"

"I got your order here." The girl was as calm as if this was a normal day! What the fuck was wrong with this town… Yosuke and me both nearly fell over when we saw her, this was ridiculous! But kinda awesome! "four steak bowls"

"What the fuck!? We didn't even tell you where we were!" I didn't think she would find us at all! But ya know, some people are just that good!

"Your total is thirty-two thousand yen." How was this normal!? You know what, I gave up at that moment, there was no way in hell logic won the battle today… so STFUGTFO logic! The girl grabbed a tray with four bowls on it. So again, logic, get the fuck out of here!

"This is just weird!" Yosuke was complaining about this, but I gave up.

"Hey Chie," I pocked her shoulder as we kept running. "Here's my half."

"Thanks!" Chie reached in her pocket and looked back at the girl. "Sorry, you got any change?"

"You're really gonna do this!?" Yosuke was still flipping out about the whole ordeal, but and again, logic had left the building.

"Why not, I'm still hungry." I shrugged at Yosuke as Yukiko spoke up behind us.

"Chie, here's one hundred yen." Yukiko pulled out her purse and held a coin out to Chie. Yosuke was still pissed at the moment.

"Save it for later!"

"And when you're done…" The girl gave Chie the tray and started to drive faster. "Just leave the bowls."

"This is awesome!" I rubbed my hands together not wanting to wait for my meal! "I can't wait to eat!"

"Where the hell do we leave to bowls!?" Yosuke yelled at the girl as she drove ahead of us and disappeared around a corner.

I had no idea where we were, but we were in an underpass, me and Chie were already on our second bowls while everyone else was trying to catch their breath. Yosuke was amazed just to be alive. "I can't believe we really ditched that guy. It was close."

"Chie, Kreed?" Yukiko turned to us as we were just about to shovel the food into our mouths! "Is it good?"

"Hell yes!" I started to shovel the food down my throat as Chie took it a little slower.

"Yeah, it is." Of course that could be because she was talking at that moment. "It's delicious!"

"Man this sucks!" Yosuke started back on the topic that we needed to be on at that exact moment… Kanji and the Midnight Channel… "We totally failed on our first mission!"

"I thought… thaf the fursf mifoin…" I tried to talk when food was still in my mouth, but I quickly swallowed it. "Sorry, I thought that the first mission was rescuing Yukiko?"

"He's gotta point…" Yu shrugged his shoulders at Yosuke.

"We might as well give up…" Yosuke started to walk away. Yet, Yukiko pulled the ultimate trump card on him, at least it should have been… the guilt card.

"But, then what will happen to Kanji?" Yosuke stopped walking, but his demeanor didn't change at all.

"That guys' gonna be fine on his own." He looked back for a moment before tilting his head and closing his eyes. "He won't let anyone take him down without a fight."

"Let's still keep an eye on him, just a bit longer." Yu started to talk a bit, which scared me. But I was eating with my girlfriend, so I didn't give a damn.

"Alright sure, but we are DONE for today!" Yosuke sighed as he walked away for real. At that moment me and Chie finished out bowls and Chie had a brilliant question.

"Hey guys?" I looked at her for the moment. "Where do you think I should leave the bowls?"

I shrugged, but one thing was for sure as I heard a slight rumble in the distance… the storm was coming…

Time Change: After School to Evening

Just before Midnight

"Dude I do not have time for this!" I was arguing with Will, apparently he did some digging and found the fucking connection to Mrs. Yamano and the damned Midnight Channel! "It's almost Midnight! I need to sleep!"

"But you need to hear this!" Will was trying to show me his phone as I tried to push the bastard out of my room. The dude was like a freaking brick wall! "That announcer who died a while ago was on the Midnight Channel and the girl who died after that! So was Yukiko!"

"Yeah, I know!" I stopped, well I just dropped the fucking ball…

"You what!?" He didn't get any further in his question as Em slipped into my room and was on my couch when the TV suddenly came on.

"WHAT THE FUCK!?" I pointed at Will and Em, it was Midnight, they needed to leave my room NOW! "Em how did you get in here! Know what!? I don't care, get out please!"

"Good evening darlings!" That was when I stopped… oh, god no! The screen was clear, Kanji had been kidnapped! Yet before I could say anything again, I stopped at the voice and Kanji, well his shadow in… WHAT THE FUCK!? HIS SHADOW WAS IN NOTHING MORE THAN A FUCKING TOWEL! "Today we are going to transcend the sexes in a place for those seeking the most subliminal love there is, my sweets, I will lead you on this journey, I am Kanji Tatsumi, darlings! I am so hot, I am on fire! You know I gotta smoking body, what should I do with it, my blood is boiling, it makes me wanna grove, and shake my thing! Here I go!"

I counted my blessings that this one ended quickly… but again, the damn image changed, only this time, I saw that the person was a female and she had a guitar in her hands. Then the TV shut off… All three of us just stood there with our jaws dropped, that was the most fucked up thing we had ever seen… that's when my phone went off. I looked at it, and was surprised to see that Yu was calling me. "Hey Yu, did you see that…"

"Yep."

"So then you saw…?"

"All of it." There was a slight pause before Yu spoke again. "You wanna copy?"

"Good bye!" I flipped the phone closed and flopped on my bed, I didn't eve care that Will and Em were still in my room. "Good night, that was disturbing, I'm gonna sleep it off!"

This, this is my absolute favorite part of the animation, so yes, I used the anime of Persona 4 for the chase scene…so yes, it is a pretty good anime! Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed and please send me your feed back.