This Is Love
By: TheWildFool2011
(I do not own any of the characters, nor do I own the video game Persona 4.)
Chapter 2: A Letter to You
I write this letter to you because…
Naoto paused for a second. In frustration she swiftly crumbled up the paper and tossed it alongside a few other inaccurate letters. Deciding to start over again, she pulled a clean sheet out.
My dearest sweetest beloved friend,
I write this letter, to you my love for-
Slamming her fist against the desk, she cursed under her breath. "I'm never going to get this correct…" she muttered to herself and laid her head on the desk.
"Master Shirogane-san," Kearney came from around the corner with the phone in his hand, "You have a call, from a Miss Satonaka."
Raising a hand up she grabbed the phone from the Irish man, "Hello, Shirogane, speaking…"
"AH! Glad to hear your voice. But, uh…who the hell was that beforehand?"
"Oh, uh, that was my butler Kearney-kun." Naoto took her hat off and sat it down in front of her. She heard a loud gasp from the receiver and another voice in the background.
Naoto raised her eyebrow, "Who the hell is that in the back…?"
"Huh?! Oh, that's Yukiko as always, she says 'hi'. But I didn't know you had a butler! Can I borrow him sometime soon?!"
Naoto chuckled over the phone, "Tell her I give my greetings, where are you two at right now?"
"At Okina City, checking out stuff we could bring to Yakushima!"
"I see…," Naoto muttered to herself. She had nearly forgotten that they were going on vacation.
"Aww, don't tell me you already forgot! You work too much and way too hard. Consider this is gonna be a well need vaca for ya! By the way, you still didn't answer my question…you know 'bout the butler, can I borrow?"
"You're right maybe I do need a vacation. And no, Chie-chan, my butler is not up for 'grabs' nor is he for borrowing."
"You're such a serious downer Naoto-kun. But we love you for being you! Well, gotta go, talk to ya later, 'kay? Bye!"
"Hai, sayonara Chie-chan." Naoto heard a click over the phone after she said her good-byes. Once again, she found herself alone in silence. Not only alone, but deep in thought.
"I wish I could get my mind off you…" Naoto stared at the ceiling. Her phone rang again, without hesitation she picked it up, "Konnichiwa, Shirogane speaking."
"Excuse, sorry 'bout that sir! Ugh, shit…sorry, Naoto-kun. It's me Yosuke."
"It's alright Yosuke, so what's up?" Naoto propped her feet on top of her desk. Yosuke breathed heavy over the phone, in a slightly annoyed way.
"Oh yeah? Really? Well, fuck off salaud! Ugh, I serious apologize Naoto-kun…"
"No, no it's okay, I take it you're at work?"
"Damn straight. And these jackasses are making shit worse…"
Naoto bit her bottom lip to keep from laughing. Yosuke would always turn to Chie, to complain but ever since that last complaint, he was never allowed to call her if it dealt with work. So, the other person he would turn to would be the pint side detective.
"Ah, Yosuke-kun you're an interesting individual. So when did you learn to say bastard in French, eh?"
"Fuck, I forgot, I'm talking to a genius. It was…a while back. Me and Ted both learned it together, from some blonde French guy who said that he promised someone that he'd come to visit him. But, yeah, that's my interesting story for ya, sir killjoy."
Naoto clenched her fist, "Hanamura…" she whispered over the receiver, obviously angered by Yosuke's name calling. She heard nervous laughing from him.
"Ahaha my bad…kinda forgot you wouldn't quite- ahh screw it. I'll talk to you later Naoto-kun. Peace out!"
A click was heard and soon after a long annoying beeping sound. Naoto closed her phone, "Wonder, who else is going to call me for no reason what so ever…"
Her phone rang again. Swiftly she picked it up, hoping it would be an important call. "Hello, this is Shirogane speaking."
"H-hey Naoto. It's uh, Kanji."
Naoto pouted slightly irritated and disappointed that it was once again, a useless call. "Oh…"
"So…yeah."
"What is it you need?" Naoto firmly grasped her pencil as she attempted to continue on with her letter.
"Um, nothing really. Just callin' to be callin' ya know?"
Naoto gritted her teeth as she tried not to go off on her friend, "I see…" she looked at the letter she was writing and noticed that it looked more of a threat letter than a love letter. With one hand she light put her pencil down and crumbled the paper up, with a disturbed look on her face.
"You uh, kinda sound a little pissed. What's happenin'?"
'Hanamura being a complete dumbass is what happened.' Naoto thought to herself as she answered Kanji with a completely different a slightly normal response. "Nothing…nothing what so ever. Just getting a lot of calls is all."
"Eh? That all?! Can't stand through a couple'o calls?"
Naoto held her silence over the receiver after Kanji had spoken. She wanted so badly to hang up on him, or even throw a few colorful words at him. Atlas she did not, she answered once again with a normal response. "I guess you could say that."
She heard a light hearted laugh over the receiver. "Chill out Naoto, I know your over there blownin' some sorta steam. I was just jokin'."
"Me? Blowing steam? No, you seriously mistaken…" Naoto dug her nails into the wooden desk she resided at.
"You just did it again."
"What again?!"
"Gritted your teeth. I heard it. Trust me, I don't miss nothin' 'specially when it comes to you."
Naoto had decided enough was enough. She smiled slyly, "Kanji?"
"Huh? Yeah, s'up?"
"Good-bye." Naoto hung up on him before he could say a word. She sighed heavily, with a blank expression, "That was awkward."
Time passed as Naoto sat at her desk, literally staring down her phone. She had received a total of six useless calls from Yosuke, three awkwardly strange calls from Kanji, and almost ten from Chie, in which she said that the last three was a mistake. Souji had then called her to remind of the trip and then went on and on about Nanako, and not to long after she got off the phone with him, Yukiko called asking about 'fancy soaps'.
"Ugh!" Naoto's head smacked against the desk. Clearly all the phone calls where wearing her down, "All these bullshit calls…not a single one of them important! At least Teddie nor Rise-chan called..." her phone began to light up and buzz again.
"Well damn, spoke to soon…" she opened her phone up without looking at it and pressed the speaker button. "Shirogane here…how many I help you…?" Getting those words out was like watching someone throw a poor defenseless puppy off a cliff.
"Hey, Naoto-kun! It's me, Rise."
Naoto's eyes lit up, "Thank god it's you and not those imbeciles! Wait…why is it your calling me?" Naoto prayed that it was something that she could physically do for her friend and not sit there and listen to them ramble on like an idiot.
"Well uh…"
Naoto jumped from her seat, "Please tell me it's something I can physically do to help you!" Rise went quiet over the speaker, it was only then until Naoto understood why she was so quiet.
"Geez, Naoto-kun you're such a tiger!" There was a giggle over the receiver and Naoto plopped back into her chair with her hand over her face. She knew that her face was as red as a tomato, the heat in her face told it all.
"I apologize so much...you just have no idea…" Naoto was cut off by Rise.
"Nah, it's all good. But I'm here because yesterday you and I both agreed that I was going shopping for you, silly."
"M-me? But what about-?"
"Me, ah don't worry I'm always prepared for some fun! Got everything all nice and packed. But, no seriously come outside so we can get going."
That was when things had got confusing. Naoto didn't remember telling or even explaining to Rise that she wanted to even go shopping for anything, and there was the fact that she was supposedly outside.
Getting up Naoto walked over to her window and looked out to see Rise waving at her along with Teddie standing next to her. "What…?" Naoto lifted her window up, "I don't remember ever telling you that I wanted to go shopping for anything!"
"Ahh, you have a cruddy memory Nao-chan!" Teddie yelled up with a huge smile on his face, "Now come on down before I have to call…uh…call…"
"Shotgun Ted, it's called shotgun."
"Thanks Rise-chan…" Teddie batted his eyes at Rise. She shrugged him off, "Come on! By the way cool butler!"
"Alright, I'll be out there in a little!" Naoto closed the window. She walked over to her desk and wrote on a piece of paper.
Dear Loved One,
You are my everything, and I write this letter to you because, I have no other way of expressing my emotions….
"That looks like a start…" Naoto folded the paper in half and stuck it under her book. She grabbed her hat and headed down stairs, "Hopefully, you'll understand. All I can do is hope…"
A/N: Alright, so due to two reviews I saw, I decided not to mix English with Japanese. No problem with me, it's all about the reviewers. Anyway, with a few changes here and there, enjoy chapter 2! If you guys wanna see what the original chapter looked like just ask and you shall recieve.
(This authors note is old. Not old, old. But old as in like a couple of hours old.) Okay, so get this I wanted to try something different and mix a little Japanese in with the wordings. Some of them I forgot to put the translation. But if you guys would like me to continue in that fashion (mixing) or if you would rather it just be like chapter one's wording. Well, peace out!