So... I didn't think the Persona community, at least the Persona 4 one, would be as dead as an freaking mouse who got caught in an trap to get some cheese. I know that over 100 people, which is a pretty good number for an first story on this matter, just looked at it and probably left again.
You know it's really strange from going to 12,000 views and over 100 favorites and follows to 1 review and follow, (Thanks Pilot 8! I hope you're the first of many.) just because of an different community, which I thought was still pretty popular as we speak but I think it declined a little since 2014? That's what I'm seeing when I go to some stories from Persona 4, which are not an lot as well!
It's quite sad really if you ask me. All I wanted was an original, creative, flowing story that would get everyone's attention, (Interested in these pairings of course,) to check it out and see what they have to say about it.. Guess that's not gonna happen? I don't know... I'm confused and to be honest pretty frustrated. I don't want to be angry or anything but it's just like nothing I have ever seen before here on
Anyway I think I'm rambling on so I'll get to the questions and begin the second chapter of Persona 4: Summer Mysteries! If you guys and girls could give criticism, ideas, or just outright tell me what you like and don't feel free to let you're creative imagination take you away in the comment/review section. :D
PhantomDark: Yeah we all have our idea's and perspective's about who we want to see with who, I respect your opinion and I'm glad you do the same with me! Just for you I'll get an small bit of Yu x Chie in it just to tease Yosuke at the beginning. Sounds good no? It's an deal!
Hope all of you enjoy chapter 2!
"Where is it, where is it?!" A female voice said as she staggered tiredly, looking for her pink handbag that she kept around here somewhere. "My house Is not big at all! I should have found it by now!" The female voice said again as she staggered down her stairs, seeing the pink handbag lying on the dark green sofa. That thing was so old she didn't even have a clue about when her grandmother bought it.
"Here you are! I have been frantically, and pretty maniacally, been searching for you!" The girl ran up the stairs again and came back with her larger bag at hand, cramming the pink handbag fine until it finally fitted.
"That should be all I need, OH WAIT!" The woman once again ran up the stair s and came back with an photo in her hand. The girl had been keeping this photo since her friends, and pretty much love idol, had been going there own ways. She was so hyped when she heard they were all coming back this summer to go to an luxury hotel together that she had even paid all the money for Teddie and Marie to get in, since they had no way of making enough money in time to pay for the expensive hotel.
"Oh, Senpai.." She quietly sighed as she started to glance an little to the right of the picture to see her self, smiling like she had no other day. "Off all the things that Risette has accomplished, I'm surprised that the one thing that I still don't have is you.. Narukami-kun.." Rise sighed as she picked up her heavy bag and lifted it with a shaky balance, just enough to put it on the back of her also pink scooter and tie it up.
Rise took one last glance at the tofu shop that her grandmother owned. She had said goodbye yesterday night since her grandmother wanted to sleep out this Monday. Rise put an big smile of happiness on her face as she tore through the narrow streets. Her destination? Food curt Junes it was.
"Are you sure you have all your belongings that you want to take along on this journey, Marie?" Margarett said as she had an static look in her eye's that somehow scared the shit out off Marie this time. "Y-yeah, I'm pretty sure I have everything! Thanks again for letting me go for the week to be with my friends, for new memories as well no?" Marie put on an small smile as Margarett chuckled an little and said, "Just don't go overboard with our guest Narukami Yu okay? Don't want master Igor to put his long nose in you're business right?" Marie was blushing fourishly as Margarett was just chuckling to the point of bursting out in laughter.
"Y-you, you shut you're stupid trap you damn woman!" Marie said with an irritated expression as she left the velvet room, completely embarrassed, cause she knew it was true. "Say hi for me!" Margarett exclaimed as she went back to her usual business of looking at her book, searching for the next possible holder of the wild card.
Kanji looked around him, he thought that they were meeting at 12 PM so when he woke up at 9 AM he went straight for an walk to get his head carefree for the weekend, as even he couldn't wait to get to this so called 'best hotel in Cinnabar.' Kanji was wearing his usual summer clothing that he pretty much always wore when it got to heated up in this town, especially during summer breaks.
Kanji was hopelessly analyzing the place to its fullest in hope of seeing someone arrive already. Then suddenly, he got an sinister feeling of something being behind him as he turned like an tornado to see Naoto standing there. "W-wait! How long have you been standing there?!" Kanji frantically asked as he looked away from Naoto's eye's trying to contact his.
"Actually I was already here before you were standing here waiting for someone to come," Naoto kind of sheep like replied as an small grin came on her face. Kanji now looked down at the ground and said, "So what are you're plans come this weekend?" Kanji said trying to keep his composure around her for once. It was already bad enough that he had thought that she was an boy to begin with..
"Me? Well, I do have some personal, plans.." Naoto's cheeks went o so small red as she looked behind her to see Chie, Teddie, and Yukiko.
"Hey! Have Yu and Yosuke already come down here?" Chie panted, as she hard just sprinted about 3 and an half KM in an instant to get here as fast as they could.
"Wait, where are you're scooters? Were not gonna walk over there if that's what you th-" Kanji couldn't finish his sentence as Chie smacked him across his cheeks. "Wh-" Kanji looked at Chie and for one of the first time's in his life, was actually scared of someone.
"Listen here! You arrogant piece of fluffy manly hood! We just practically run 3 and an half KM to even get here! ARE FUCKING SCOOTERS WHERE STOLEN BECAUSE SOMEONE!" Chie putted emphasis on the word someone as she pointed her finger at Teddie, who guiltily and nervously whistled around.
"I-" Teddie didn't get to say anything as Yukiko stood between Chie and Teddie, spreading her arms, forming an human shield.
"Chie, please, look at yourself! You're so angry that you're forgetting who the person was that saved all of us by letting us travel back to our own word when the murder case was still going on." Yukiko exclaimed as she tried to calm her best friend down.
"Maybe so, still doesn't me me forgive him for forgetting to get out the keys when I specifically asked for him to do it!" Chie tried to get her composure back together as she slowly walked at Teddie and patted him on his head, even if he wasn't in his costume.
"Teddie, I'm sorry." Chie then walked off, supposedly going through all the beef bowls that Junes had to offer, even though she already knew them like the back of her hand.
While Yukiko was cheering Teddie up an little more, the others were questioning if something happened with Yu, Yosuke, and Rise. Marie had already said that she'll meet them by the hotel as she didn't have anything to drive with and it would be easier for her to be dropped off straight out of the velvet room.
"Well maybe if Rise-Chan comes here we can borrow some money for new scooters?" Naoto suggested, as the group nodded and most of them waited patiently for there friends arrivals.
"So apart from me looking like an garbage can, what did you want to talk about? It sounded pretty serious when you called me yesterday about it." Yosuke pondered as he let the uncomfortable Yu into his home, well his parents home.. But they were not here the whole day.
"I didn't want to say it bluntly over the phone so I wanted to talk about it in person, face to face." Yu said as he tried to keep his composure from all the things that could happen to them if this was true. Yosuke looked taken back by Yu's statement and said, "Damn no need to get so serious about it." Yu took a seat at the table in the living room as Yosuke sat on the opposite side of him, looking intrigued as to what his partner was about to state.
"Have.. Have you heard the news about the missing girl in that hotel?" Yu suddenly spoke up as Yosuke's left eyebrow went up as his face was now of pure horror. "No, Yu! Don't tell me!" But Yu put his hand on his friends face to not make him yell it out.
"Shhhh, Yosuke! This is just an theory, nothing is sure as of yet!" Yu tried to keep his friend calm but Yosuke struggled as his arms went in all the directions possible, he couldn't keep his cool of course, even though Yu found it hard to do that himself with this theory of his going wild inside his mind.
Yu finally let go as Yosuke calmed down an little. it looked like he was staying open minded about this for the time being.
"Okay, okay. So... What's the info you've got that can confirm this?" Yu looked at his friend an gave an assuring nod, while the rest of his face went completely serious. "I've actually gotten some late intel about it from my uncle himself, since he works as an detective." Yu calmly said as Yosuke nodded to encourage him to keep on.
"About an week ago an girl went missing in an hotel right? However, they never mentioned what hotel it was, no?" Yosuke nodded while he went to get a class of water quickly. "Because my Uncle is an detective he of course went to the crime scene were everything was set off, as they were looking at possible getaways while interrogating the man that had seen everything.
My Uncle looked at the hotel were the crime had taken place and quess what?" Yosuke now stopped fulling his class of water which was halfway and stared at him with desperation, trying to convince himself that his partner wasn't gonna tell him what he thought he was gonna tell him. "Hotel Kunshin's masterplace! That's right, the same hotel were gonna be staying at!" Yu said while Yosuke looked in disbelief and horror, this couldn't happen could it? "No, no way!" Yosuke makes an no gesture with his hands but Yu just simply nodded in an matter of fact style.
"It's true, there's no way around it Yosuke, the hotel were staying at is the same one where the supposed murder happened an couple days ago." Yosuke suddenly let his glass of water fall as the half full glass began to pour out on the floor beneath, but Yosuke didn't care.
"I...I..." "It's okay Yosuke, I know that this sounds traumatizing as hell, which is an phrase I don't usually use, but the things that you're thinking of are 100% not gonna happen!" Yu said with determination as Yosuke looked up at Yu again. "What makes you think that Yu?" Yosuke let himself slowly fall on the brown couch next to them as he put his hands in his face.
"Yosuke, the police and detective's are still all over the hotel area, there's no way anything harmful can happen to us with them there. I'm not denying the fact that this does seem out of this world at the moment but I'm sure there's an complicated an explicit explanation as to what has happened back there, besides, were with 9 people all together! Don't be so baggy. There's no way anythings gonna happen to us." Yu bluntly stated as he went to sit on the couch as well.
"Then why did you tell me partner, why?" Yosuke slowly groaned as he put his hands of his face and lifted his head up an little. "I just know Yosuke, I trust my Uncle doesn't tell stupid lies as an quirky joke to taunt me, this did happen Yosuke, right over there.. But, there haven't been any signs of strange activity and so the hotel opened up 2 days ago after an 5 day search for the killer." Yosuke looked at him and slowly said, "I hope you're right then, I trust you Yu!" Yosuke said as he felt determination and responsibility flowing through his veins.
"That's the Yosuke I know." Yu handed him his hand to shake as the two partners shake hands and left the house together, with Yu actually dragging Yosuke's bag with Yosuke just dragging the snacks for underway.
-With Rise and the others -
"Hey guys and galls!" Rise screamed as she neared her friends with her scooter, she quickly stopped the scooter from moving as she grabbed the keys and put them in an zipper in her large bag.
"What took you so long?" Chie curiously asked as she ate her beef bowl, while Kanji looked the most annoyed out of everyone.
"I was just running late, you know, with me being an celebrity it's not gonna go as slick as you want it to." Rise exclaimed as she walked to her friend's other bags and put hers down, but she swiftly saw that Yu's nor Yosuke's bags were there! "Uhm? Guys?" She said to the group as they all looked at her, (except Kanji,) and gave her an assuring grin to speak her mind.
"Were are Senpai and Yosuke?" Rise questioned as the group shrugged, letting her know that they didn't know more than her as well, while she sighed and sat on her humongous bag, thinking of what her plans were to intrigue Yu into doing "things" with her alone when they were at the hotel. She suddenly got an eerie feeling as she thought about her possible competition in Marie-Chan, and wasn't Naoto looking at him an lot longer then usual? What is he- she I mean, hiding under that boy's clothing?
-about 10 to 15 minutes later-
"CHIE! WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO WITH YOU'RE SCOOTER?!" Yosuke yelled in frustration and anger as he practically growled at the woman in the green tank top, who because of her usual character personality went wild in rage as well. "THE HELL YOSUKE! TEDDIE DID ALL OF THIS SHIT!" Chie fired back as Yu face palmed while Rise was going o so slowly to her Senpai to grab his arm. "You will just have to ride with one of us you three," Yu simply said as he began to walk a little closer to them, which lead to Rise almost falling flat on her face if she hadn't tried to keep her balance at that exact time.
"WHAT? THAT'S NOT FAIR! I TAKE DIBS ON SENPAI!" Rise quickly yelled as Chie began to go in argue mode.
"NO WAY! YOU'RE SCOOTER ISN'T EVEN BROKE RISE!"
"WELL IF YOURS IS STOLEN THEN YOU CAN TAKE MINE FOR THE TIME BEING!"
"WHAT?! YOU JUST WANT YU FOR YOURSELF DON'T YOU! ADMIT IT!"
"THAT"S NOT WHAT THIS IS ABOUT!"
"THEN TAKE YOU'RE HIP SCOOTER WHILE I'LL DRIVE WITH YU, TEDDIE CAN GO SIT WITH KANJI OR SOMETHING WHILE YUKIKO CAN GO WITH YOU."
"Stop it! Both of you!" Yu declared as the two bickering woman stopped and looked at him. "This isn't gonna help any of us this way so I found an solution while you two were fighting over me." Yu stated as Rise's face went all red, blushing while Chie just merely shook it off.
"So what's you're solution?" Naoto asked as Yu gave her an all knowing grin.
"Rock, Paper, Scissors." Yu dramatically said as most of the crew began to nod there heads while Rise head an one of with Naoto, who didn't even look back in response. "That Bi**h" Rise exclaimed as she quickly jogged to the rest of the group who all began to sit at an table.
"So who's going first?" Kanji erupted the silence as Yu calmly said, Yukiko and Chie!" They both looked with an expression of, 'I'm gonna kill you for this,' while they began to play.
"Rock."
"Paper."
"SCISSORS!" They both hold out there hands as Yukiko had rock while Chie had scissors. "Yes I win! Now its you and me Rise, no excuses!" Chie barked as Rise walked up to her with an mischievous grin on her face. "I'm sorry Chie, but I must sincerely tell you that you're fired from this competition." Rise began to shake her hand as she prepared for her next move.
"Rock."
"Paper."
"SCISSORS!" Now the both of them had paper, which of course no one could make an winner of so they continued for two whole minutes, playing all there 'cards' right the same.
"Yeah sorry not sorry but this is going no where." Yosuke groaned as he picked Rise up and although her clear protest with her arms flying everywhere, Yosuke was able to put her at the scooter of Kanji while he put Chie at the scooter of his own. "And Teddie and Yukiko?" Kanji asked while Naoto suddenly put her hand up, cheeks all red. "I-I could go with Senpai so Yukiko can ride my scooter with Teddie behind her." Naoto fast as hell said as Yu had now an grin on his face and said, "Sure thing."
Not two seconds later and an adrenaline rush to be with Yu had kicked in.
"No Senpai! Choose me, I can give up my scooter!" - Rise
"Naoto! You sneaky son of a-" - Chie
"I thought you liked me?" - Rise
"I'm not going with this low life!" - Chie
"Well th- Hey!" - Yosuke
As they all bitched and moaned Yu put them on their respective scooters as they went along the highway, with an pouting Rise and Chie with them.
So now that that's done I can finally focus on the actual hotel itself. Don't worry! It does exist, It just took two whole chapters to even get close to it, now, with the second chapter done with about 3,400 words I think its about time that I am able to actually insert the schedule that I originally planned, since it took about an week each for one chapter, ps this is probably the largest chapter I've ever typed up. :D
Anyway If you enjoyed it would be o so greatly appreciated if you could leave an follow, review, or just an plain old golden favorite! As always this is Catch, signing out, of this writing chapter that is.
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