Although this disclaimer is completely unnecessary, I feel that I have to remind people that neither of these franchises are mine. However, I do own the personalities of half the characters, meaning I could turn this into original fiction if I felt particularly original, which I'm not.

Naoya went in and turned on the light in the living room.

"The house is so nice!" Rika exclaimed.

"Well, this is where you're staying, Mizuki. It's closer to my office than our old place, and it's a lot bigger too," he said optimistically.

"So, isn't school starting soon?" Mizuki asked as they settled in the living room. "I mean, Minato and I have to go somewhere, and I need a little brushing up on my Japanese."

"We've already got the whole thing planned. Since Minato already did his exams for another school, and there are no co-ed schools in here for some reason, he'll be going there, while you're going to go to an all-girls school nearby."

Mizuki was mortified at the thought. "An all-girls school? B-but I how am I going to learn about the ins and outs of romance? And the uniforms are—they're—"

"The uniforms are blue, I know. But it looks great, and a lot of the girls there are pretty outgoing. And don't worry too much about the romance stuff anyways; I'll probably reject him the first time we meet."

The spunky redhead sighed in disbelief. "Double standard, much? And I still need to know about brushing up on Japanese, along with my... accent problem."

Maki stepped up to say something. "It's not like we're allowing Minato to date anyone unreasonable either. And I don't really notice an accent, but we did already hire a tutor. Don't just think of it as something for one subject: there's going to be a lot of hard work involved now, both of you."

Right after she spoke, the doorbell rang. "Hey, it must be her!" Mika said.

"Alright, I'll be right there," Naoya said as he raced to the door.

"I don't really have high expectations in the looks department," Minato said.

Maki scolded him for what he just said. "Now, you can't be sure until you've seen her. Besides, looks aren't everything."

Meanwhile, Naoya came back to the living room. "Guys, I'd like to introduce you to your tutor. This is Anna Lindhurst. Don't let looks fool you, she's pretty knowledgeable. Anna, these two are my cousins, Minato and Mizuki. On the other side is my wife Maki and my daughters Yumika and Erika, but we all call them Mika and Rika for short."

The twins were pretty shocked at what they saw. Their new tutor had wavy blonde hair full of volume, and alluring curves from her hips to the plumpness of her lips. Her cleavage-revealing top wasn't exactly helping matters either.

"I can say she's definitely pretty," Minato said.

"Thank you," Anna said, taking a seat in an empty chair. "I hope we get along well."

Naoya gestured over to the kitchen. "Now then, how about we have dinner? After that, we can start up our weekly fighting game tournament!"

Mixuki leapt up from her seat. "All right! Loser has to clean all the dishes!"

Minato shrugged. "I'll probably win anyways."

Anna chuckled. "How about I join in too?"

Now Naoya was pointing his finger towards the sky like a referee. "It's settled then! We'll all verse each other once. Whoever has the most losses has to clean the dishes and massage the winner's back!"

During dinner, Maki decided to ask a question. "Did you hear? Elly called and said she's coming to visit tomorrow!"

Mika and Rika jumped from their seats. "Auntie Elly?"

"Seriously?" Naoya asked. "I haven't seen her in ages!"

"Elly? Don't you mean…?" Anna asked.

"Yep. Eriko Kirishima is coming to Yuuhi-cho."

"E-Eriko Kirishima? As in the model? You were actually friends with her?"

"That's the St. Hermelin's alumni for you. We were just classmates at first, but come stuff happened at our school one day and we somehow ended up being really close. I heard she wanted to visit because of all the weird rumours about this place. Oni, werewolves, haunted houses..."

Anna tilted her head slightly. "Haunted houses? Where did she hear that from?"

Naoya flicked his bangs over to the side and spoke in a deeper voice. "You see, we all heard the rumour from Nanjo a while ago. Apparently, he was at one of those fancy rich people parties in the town across from us. From what I heard, it all went great until he saw someone hiding behind a wall. After he excused himself from his current conversation, he tried to look around the spot where he saw the person, but he couldn't even find a trace."

Anna seemed quite intrigued. "Why couldn't it have been a ninja? If that Nanjo guy is from one of those ultra-rich groups, then it's perfectly understandable. If he went to that party from a few weeks ago, then he must have met Saionji. The Amemiya clan live in this city, and have a bit of rivalry with him. Therefore, there's a possibility that that person was a ninja sent to assassinate Saionji!"

"Umm, that could be a possibility, I suppose."

"Precisely! Besides, even in this close-knit community I can't think of anyone that died recently."

After everyone finished their meal, the family and Anna went to the living room and decided on what to play.

Anna spoke immediately. "I vote on Smash Bros. X."

"But why?" Mizuki asked.

"It's perfect for four people," the American said in her matter-of-fact tone, "and it's practically a tradition, anyways."

They started the match, resulting in a heated battle between Marth, Ike, Samus and Pikachu. Marth and Ike tried to corner the other two, while Samus tried playing defensively in order to stall time. Pikachu decided that attacking quickly was the best tactic, and so he spammed Thunderbolt as many times as possible.

"Oh, you cheap—!" the twins said in unison.

"Looks like it's just you and me, then," Anna said confidently. "Is that really the best you've got?"

"Don't underestimate the power of God Hand Toudou," Naoya replied. "And I never said I wasn't going easy on you."

Suddenly, it felt as though the person Anna was playing against was a completely different being, his eyes changing to a look of determination. His timing suddenly became much sharper as he tried to take advantage of the terrain this time.

Anna smiled faintly. "If that's how you want to play it… Ikuwayo."

Not a second later, they began pressing buttons at inhuman speeds, attacking and blocking with intense precision. This continued for at least another two minutes until they finally entered sudden death. A well-aimed pistol shot fired the poor Pikachu out of the screen, proclaiming Samus to be the winner.

Naoya slumped down in defeat. "I lost…"

"Either way, you're not supposed to have a guest do cleaning," Maki said, shaking her head.

"I never knew she wanted to join in the first place! Besides, Minato got last place, so he's the one doing all the dishes."

Anna chuckled. "Well, it seems rather late now, so I should be going." She took her things and left for the door, only stopping when she noticed something peculiar about the head of the house.

"I didn't think you were the type to have a piercing hole," she said.

Naoya smirked. "Maybe I was."

After dishes were done and minor arguments were settled, the family members went to their respective rooms.

"Nii-san," Minato said, "Can I go out for a while? I don't really feel sleepy right now."

"Just come back before 11, okay?" Naoya replied. "If not..:"

"I know, you'll hunt me down with an SMG and drag me here by force. This isn't the first time you've said it."

As Minato left with an odd half-smile on his face, Naoya decided to check up on the little twins.

"Papa! Read us a story!" Mika yelled.

"Sure, what would you two like this time?"

"Hmm…" Mika thought, "I wanna hear the Snow Queen story again! Your Snow Queen story!"

Rika backed her up. "We haven't heard it in a long while!"

"Alright then." He got a small, dark, leather-bound picture book from the shelf and began to read.

A long time ago, long before you were born, there was a young boy. This boy was bored, and wanted to have an adventure. One day, he heard a tale of a cursed mask hidden within the school. Seeing this as a way to make life more interesting, he went and searched all over the school for the mask, until he found it lying in an abandoned storage room. He went out into the yard, only to be greeted by his teacher. She put the mask on, transforming into the terrifying Snow Queen!

Mizuki happened to pass by the twins' room, and decided to listen in on what Naoya was telling them.

The whole school became an ice palace, and the Snow Queen threatened to make the entire world that way if he didn't free the teacher from the Queen's control. So he went and gathered his classmates to fight her, but she was frozen in place and the mask still wouldn't come off! They were about to give up, until a mysterious masked man came and told them what to do. They were told to defeat the three guardians of the school before time ran out, all of them under the Snow Queen's power. They also had to get the pieces of a magic mirror to free their teacher from the mask. To do so, they were given the power of "Persona", a power that let them use their selves to fight. So they went off to fight the three guardians, defeating all the monsters in their way…

The redhead seemed rather hooked by this part, and tried to lean in closer to the door.

They were at the entrance of the first tower, the tower of Hypnos. Inside was a girl who forced everyone inside to live inside their dreams forever as she did thanks to the Snow Queen. That wasn't right, so they tried to convince her while freeing the people trapped inside. The girl saw that she was running away from her problems, and accepted what the group said to her. To thank them, she gave the team some mirror shards.

Inside the second tower, Nemesis, they met its guardian very quickly. She was a mean-spirited girl who hurt others while making herself look good. She removed the time limit on the tower, but gave the heroes a choice: quickly save their hurt friends by getting to the guardian first, or getting the mirror shard on the other end of the dungeon? The boy knew that saving his friends was more important, and they probably didn't even need all the shards. Unlike the last girl, the guardian of Nemesis Tower was stubborn and wouldn't see the error of her ways.

The last tower was Thanatos, and a difficult one. The guardian of this tower challenged the team by taking away the boy's Persona, meaning he couldn't fight or he'd die! So the group went to Tartarus, where they'd get his Persona back, then went to find all the mirror shards in the tower. When they got to the top, the guardian greeted them by asking if they wanted to die so they could be young forever. The group knew to look forward to the future, and so they fought her, trying to make her see how bright the future was. After, she felt sad knowing that she left her friends and family behind, and thanked the group for helping her see.

The boy and his newfound friends now went to fight the Snow Queen, who then summoned the Night Queen. As the Night Queen would bring the end of the world, the boy's friends went across the whole school to find her. After a long fight, they were able to stop the Night Queen, and everyone realized how strong they really were.

Naoya looked up and saw that Mika and Rika were now fast asleep, snuggling with their favourite teddy bear. What he didn't see was Mizuki sleeping right outside his door, snug in her pyjamas.

"Good night to you both," he said quietly.

Wow, what a case of schedule slip. I don't even think anyone is reading this. (Seriously, who looks at the crossover section anyways?) And while this wasn't a totally unexpected crossover (Persona? In my cheering rhythm action game series? It's more likely than you think,) it's not focused on the newer games, so no fanbase for me!

Why has there been some schedule slip? Main reasons:

- I have terrible working habits. I'm barely keeping up with schoolwork as it is. -_-"

- I don't have much faith in my abilities. I hated the last chapter, so it took me a while to get myself back into writing, even for the beginning of a new arc.

- I was also planning to change mediums into either an RPG or a visual novel. I did at least dig up some old sprites from when I wanted to make an RPG of Dan-su (Which I discontinued due to suckiness. I still keep it around as a reminder to avoid the pitfalls I fell into when I wrote it.) And my rather odd unfinished RPG, which I never got past finishing the second town.

- Recently got into (and finished) some stuff. Cross Channel and Battle Royale stand out in particular, though I've also been playing Trauma Center and Kira Kira Pop Princess. (That last one stood out, I know. I really can't resist cuteness.)

So if there is anyone alive out there, please review this. I know it's not that great, (Chapter 3 sticks out in my mind the most, but I'm too prideful to edit it to make more sense,) but I promise it will get better. I even got OC profiles to help me keep in check for the next few chapters!

*Also, Naoya is a terrible storywriter. He is, however a good foreshadower.