Hello! Sorry for the loooooong, looong update. I know, I'm being a sucker – nearly a year without an update and goes with this little chapter here, but I really having a hard time with this. And it didn't help since there's no way to spark my interest like in the past, so I'd try my best with this.

I want to thank :

April : Thank you so much for all those suggestions! Looks like I bored you…sorry. Please considering checking this fic if you have time.

Ominae: Thanks for reviewing all this time. Those mean a lot.

Superviolet : Same goes for you. Thank you very much! You reviews are really encouraging.

Lucia4 : Thank you very much, you're the first reviewer after the long gap of posting the previous chapter! Thanks for your suggestion about the CD, but looks like I still can't get it from e-Bay…

Tatsu-chan16 : Thank you! I'd try my best, I hope this chapter won't disappoint you!

Disclaimer (also for the latter chapters, since this is tiring) : I don't own Persona 2, if I do own it, Tatsuya, Maya and Katsuya will interact muuuuuuch more than in the game.

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"Thank you for everything.."

"Please don't forget me…I do love you."

"I believe in you…"

"I don't want to forget what happened! How can I forget Guys, don't go...Don't leave me alone...Please no, please no. No!!!"

"You won't forget, or say goodbye. Just thank you."

"We went through a lot, but I'm glad we meet again…"

"We are connected by this ocean. We…can…meet…again…"

"Please…forget about me…go on without me…"

"Maya-nee!"

He wakes up, bathing in sweats. That dream again. His mind rushing through his dreams, trying to identify each of it, but to no avail. Something he reminisces dearly, but he can't put exactly what it is. His heart aching, like something important is missing from his life.

"…What was that…?" He tries to calm himself, even though couldn't help pondering why does her that he called.

Ever since the first time when Katsuya-aniki introduced her to him, he felt that he already knew her for long. Not just her, Ulala and Baofu also…but the particular one that keeps intriguing him is her. In just quick glances, he already knew that his brother has feelings for her – it doesn't take for an idiot to realize it. Even though it's not their first meeting. He never get the chance to ask her about their first meeting though, but is it important?

He scrambles his already messy hair and looks at his watch. 2 AM. Still too early to do something.

Might as well driving alone near the beach for fresh air.

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Katsuya shifted a little from his position, and drinks the remaining in his cup. Looks like he's going to reach his limit.

It's not that he doesn't know about his brother's problem. Tonight's disappearing is also one of them. He was trying to pour some coffee to relax his nerves when he saw Tatsuya got his bike on gear and drove somewhere. He might already asked about his destination if he didn't see the looks on his face.

He knows better what is intriguing his otouto. Those fragments of memories started to fleet by, entering his piece of mind and stops when he's about to grasp something. Every night Tatsuya would wake up in cold sweats, panting hardly, calling his former friend's name, even though he maybe didn't recognize who's the one he's calling in his dreams. Katsuya knows all of it, even he always called as a dense man by his companions, he's become more aware about Tatsuya. After all those journey that made him to see him in different light.

But he couldn't do anything. As much he really wanting to tell to him, he just couldn't. He still remember that Tatsuya, the one who claimed from the other side and was a different person, although Katsuya stubbornly calls him as his brother, no matter what. That person may has the same complexion as Tatsuya and similar in traits, but he's different. As he's the type to carry his burden alone – he witnessed all the times when his brother asked Philemon to erase all his past comrades memories, and right at that time, he felt as Tatsuya was a lot more mature than him and carried the heaviest burden among of them. And now, all he can do is playing his role as brother, to repay all the past mistakes he done.

In one way, he couldn't help to feel so selfish. He knows better, as he didn't want his long-lost brother to be hurt again like in the past, one particular person is hurting as much as he thought. Even though she always smile-no matter what happen- every one of them know what does she really feels. And he doesn't know either, if he should be aching or what with her feelings. He already knows, she won't ever turn to him, but every single of his cells refuse to give it up even though his mind screaming to stop.

He empties his last drop of coffee, and shrugging his way back to his room, wondering what time it will be when his brother comes back.

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Maya lays her back on the soft sand; her head rests on a pile of sand within the landscape. As her eyes lays softly at the oceans, watching its cycle repeating again and again; her mind flies away a little.

His vision became more blurry and blurry as he starts to disappear. As she tried so hard to fight her feelings, his final words became less and less hearable. But she still can catch this:

"We…are connected by this ocean. We…can…still…meet again…" was his last words to everyone, before disappearing and presented this side Tatsuya, Katsuya's 'real brother' without a trace of memories they all shared.

She still can't figure out what does his words mean. Connected…by the ocean? What ocean? I…can't understand…at all.

She knows, she's still looking at the past and refuses to move on. This isn't just like her; but she can't get rid of that thought that still entering her piece of mind.

She's well aware of her comrades worries – she prefers to call them as comrades because they're simply are more than just friends- but that's not the problem. As she calls them comrades, they become know her really well; that she feels as smiling couldn't hide her feelings anymore from any of them.

She sometimes just feels really strange – all those journey are like dreams; the one that only exist in tales. But she knows it isn't – she feels her alter ego, her persona dwelling in her as another side of her. Whenever she closes her eyes in silence, all those days come fleeting by one by one.

And about him too – sometimes she feels like stupid; chasing something that not possible, and shouldn't be done. She even doesn't realize what her feelings toward him is – after all, he suits as her brother more than anything because of his ages. Well, of course personality doesn't count – he acts much more mature than her, even though he also acts like a normal teenager, who needs adult to watch over him.

After all, she smiles sadly; he's a normal teenager who holds too much burden than his limit.

Maybe after all what she wantedis to meet him, and having normal life with him, Ulala, Baofu, and Katsuya. But that would be much too selfish, because this side Tatsuya also deserves the kind of normal life.

Inhaling the soft scent of sea, she decides to stop reminiscing about the past and gets up as she dusts her clothes and skirt. After all, it's already past midnight and it isn't like she doesn't have any work tomorrow. Tons of it are waiting.

Just as she begins to walk her way back, a familiar voice calls her from behind,

"…Maya-nee?"

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Sorry, cliffhanger again. Yes, it's really short, but please consider this as a connecting chapter to the next one. I promise the next one wouldn't be as long as this one. Please, please, read and review. Your thoughts are all welcome.