Special thanks to Miss Hanamura for looking and correcting the chapters for errors for me. Also another thing is that I'm planning to add the return of two of the S.E.E.S members that will help Kai and the others in order to stop the new threat. Here are the members that might come back to the S.E.E.S
Aigis
Koromaru
Fuuka Yamagishi
Akihiko Sanada
I'll let you guys decide which two members shall come back. I put up a poll that you can vote up to 2 people to come back and help out the new S.E.E.S and the poll ends at September 1st. Also a little note is that this chapter is going to be based on a lot of detailed talking than some of the main events. Just a heads up.
Well Enjoy :)
Chapter: 5
Renovations
Saturday, April 14 2013
Evening
Evening had arrived and the S.E.E.S. began moving boxes of Daiki's belongings into his room. Climbing up the stairs seemed to be hell for both Rin, Daiki, and Ken when carrying the things. However, none of it seemed to trouble the Fool, as he easily carried them upstairs without breaking a sweat.
"This stuff is heavy! What's in here, anyway?" Rin decided to take a look at the box he was carrying and saw that it was filled with electronics—video games, to be exact. Rin was about to throw the box at Daiki, but was stopped by Mitsuru.
"Hitoshi, please understand the current situation you're putting yourself into..." She said in a cold and scary tone, giving Rin the chills and stopping him from throwing the box at the green haired boy. "I'm glad you understand..." The head of the school smiled. Rin then continued up the stairs, mumbling to himself. Daiki just followed him to his room and Kai was right behind the both of them, having no trouble carrying his two boxes.
"I appreciate your help, Akira." She said towards the turquoise-eyed boy and he simply nodded in response, continuing up the stairs, carrying two boxes. Ken was the last to go up, holding two boxes like Kai, but having more trouble carrying it.
"Amada, are you alright?" She asked the tired Justice, as he was sweating and breathing hard.
"*Huff* Yeah, I'm fine, Senpai. Nothing I can't handle." Ken then slowly went up the stairs while struggling to carry the two boxes, and when he was about to reach the top, slipped and fell down the stairs just like Rin did yesterday.
"Ahhh!" The Justice fell down the stairs, along with the two boxes he was carrying, both of which were open. So, all the contents of the boxes fell over Ken when they reached the bottom floor. A huge thud followed and the trio began rushing down the stairs to see what happened.
"What was that noise?!" Rin was the first to exclaim. They looked at the bottom and saw Ken with swirly eyes and buried in a bunch of electronics. Kai approached him and knelt down beside him.
"Are you dead?" He asked bluntly. Ken, who still maintained consciousness after his fall, shook his head. Kai then nodded his head and began picking up the remaining contents that fell over Ken and put them back into the two boxes, which he carried with him upstairs to Daiki's room.
"Hitoshi, can you please bring Amada to his room? He may be unconscious for the rest of the night." Mitsuru asked Rin. He simply nodded and picked the boy of the Justice Arcana from the ground and upstairs. Mitsuru then turned towards Daiki.
"Ito. Why don't you get some rest? I'm sure you've had a long day." The Hanged Man nodded and went upstairs to his bedroom, passing by the Fool on his way, whom was going downstairs to get a glass of milk from the fridge. The Kirijo head then approached him while he found the carton of milk from the fridge.
"Akira, can I speak with you?" The Fool simply nodded his head and poured a cup of milk before following Mitsuru to the living room.
"What is it that you want to talk about?" Kai simply asked while taking a sip from his glass of milk.
"It's about what happened yesterday. How are you feeling?" Kai understood what she was referring to—when he blacked out back in the Light Hour yesterday and how he met the mysterious woman named Morrigan.
"I feel perfectly fine. I was just tired, that's all." The Fool reassured the Empress who still seemed worried.
"I understand. But I advise you to rest tomorrow. We will be changing the plans to go to that tower..." The Fool then interrupted her.
"Tir Na Nog..." He said.
"Huh?"
"That's the name of the tower. I don't know how I know it's name but it just came to me." He responded.
"Are you sure you're alright?" She asked once again if the Fool was alright and he just nodded.
"Yeah. I must be very sleepy..." Kai said, feeling a bit dazed. He took another sip from his milk and put the right palm of his hand on his forehead, right over his scar. Mitsuru then continued.
"Like I was saying, we will be traveling to Tir Na Nog, which is what you called it. On Sunday, we won't be going to Tartarus this week. So, I liked you to use this time to rest and recuperate." Kai simply nodded and stretched his arms.
"*Yawn* I'm feeling tired. I think I'm going to go to bed." The young heiress nodded.
"Sleep well, Akira." He nodded and headed upstairs to his bedroom and as soon as he reached his room, he felt his body losing control and instantly landed on his bed, falling asleep.
Monday, April 16 2013
Kai opened his eyes and looked at what today was. It was a Monday and Kai was a bit surprised seeing how long he had slept.
'Was I really that tired?' The Fool thought to himself, then heard the sound of his alarm clock and saw that he was going to be late for school. He quickly began to dress up, not even bothering to tie up his ribbon right now and began to run downstairs and out of the dorm, heading to the monorail. He was 30 minutes late by the time he got to school.
'So much for a perfect attendance.'
The Fool thought to himself and rushed towards the entrance to the school, heading inside towards class 2-F and sliding the door open. Everyone, including Rin and Daiki, began staring at the Fool.
"So, care to explain why you are late, Akira?" Ms. Toriumi said in a demanding voice. He looked at all of them with a serious look like it was something urgent.
"I overslept..." He said bluntly, causing the whole class to fall down on the answer he gave them. Even Ms. Toriumi fell down too. She then got back up and told the Fool to take his seat; he nodded his head and took his seat near Daiki. Michiko was not in class today and Kai assumed that she was sick or absent. He then shrugged and continued to listen to Ms. Toriumi, who he thought gave more interesting lectures than Mr. Ekoda.
Lunchtime
First few morning lectures were over and this is around the time when Kai would rush to the student store to grab some lunch. But today, he wasn't in the mood and decided to sleep for the break. The Fool's been feeling very sleepy these past few days. Even when he sleeps for 12 hours a day, he gets even sleepier than usual. Rin approached the sleeping Fool and looked at his condition.
"Dude, are you alright? You look like you haven't sleep for three days." Kai simply made a hand gesture meaning to leave him alone. Rin understood what he meant and headed to the store to buy some lunch. Kai motioned his head a bit upwards to see the time. It was around 11:35. The Fool had thought of just sleeping through the whole day and grabbing something to eat after school. He then put his hand down once again and fell asleep.
Meanwhile, in the Directress' office, Mitsuru was doing a bit of research about Tir Na Nog. She began looking through the web about it and Tir Na Nog on most of the pages she looked through was nothing more than the Heaven in Irish Mythology. Other than that, all she saw were just advertisements trying to make her buy something. The red haired woman sighed.
"There must be something about Tir Na Nog that I haven't found out yet." She continued scrolling down all of the results to find more things about it. But to her efforts, they were useless. She soon gave up and turned off her monitor before going back to her paperwork—mostly school bills and requests from the school board. A knock on the door was heard.
"Come in!" She responded. The door opened and Ms. Toriumi appeared in front of the Directress, approaching her with a stack of registration forms in her hand.
"Ah, Ms. Toriumi. How can I help you?" She asked her. Ms. Toriumi then placed some papers down on Mitsuru desk, displaying the registration of a foreign student from London.
"A registration paper for a foreign exchange student arrived to me and I was asked to give it to you. It seems that the new student will start attending school next week." The brown-haired teacher responded.
"I see... Then I will arrange a room for him at the Kirijo dorm and it shall be ready by the time he arrives." Mitsuru replied. Ms. Toriumi then left and the heiress of the Kirijo group sighed once more. Not only was the Dark Hour back, and the appearance of the Light hour, but she also had to arrange a room for a foreign student back at the dorm. And another thing was the S.E.E.S. He mustn't know about them.
'I should probably let the others know, so they'll prepare for this.'
The red-haired mistress thought and continued on looking at her paperwork.
Meanwhile, back to our Foolish hero. He was still sleeping in his desk, when he began to wake up for no reason.
'How long have I've been asleep?'
The young Fool thought. He looked at the time again and saw that it was already 11:55. Lunch was about to end in about 5 minutes, and the Light Hour was going to start.
'Maybe I'll go see Ms. Kirijo during the Light Hour.'
Kai thought and waited for the Light Hour to start.
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Light Hour
Noon had struck and the Light Hour began. The shades of blue and glowing lights appeared once more and everyone was transmogrified into decorated coffins (they basically look like Thanato's coffins) rather than the black coffins in the Dark Hour; Kai, Rin, and Daiki were the only ones who didn't turn into coffins.
"Looks like the Light Hour strikes once again..." Rin said.
"Yeah..." Daiki replied. Kai then stood up and approached them.
"Hey, I'm going to go see Ms. Kirijo. You guys wanna come?" The Fool asked the two of them. Both had nothing to do, so they decided to tag along. They arrived at the front door of the Directress' office and just as the Fool was about to knock, Mitsuru came out in a hurry.
"Oh Akira, Hitoshi, Ito. What a coincidence. I was going to speak to you three, but since you're here, I thought I should tell you. Follow me into my office." The three them went inside her office and sat on the couch, watching Mitsuru pace back and forth.
"Is something wrong?" The Fool asked the Empress and she decided to face them.
"*Sigh* Yes. In a few days, a foreign student will be moving into the dorms and the problem is that we must keep the secrets of Personas and the Dark Hour from him. So, when he arrives to the dorm. I would like the three of you to hide your evokers and weapons in your room. I'll try to find a way to transfer him into a regular dorm in the next few days after he moves in. I hope you will co-operate with me on this." Both Kai and Daiki nodded their head while Rin shrugged, seeing as they had no choice. With those responses, the mistress then smiled.
"Fantastic! I'll let Amada know about this as soon as he is awake." Kai tilted his head at what she said.
"Do you mean Ken's still asleep?" He asked; Mitsuru then nodded.
"The fall from two days ago knocked him out and afflicted him with a temporary sleeping status. Don't worry, it will only last for a few days. So, Amada should be back in about two more days." The head of the Kirijo group explained.
"I see..." Kai responded, before deciding to head back to the class with the other two and waiting for the Light Hour to be over.
After School
The Fool decided to head back to the dorm and went ahead of the other two. But since he wasn't paying any attention to his surroundings, He accidentally bumped into someone by mistake, making them both crash to the ground.
"Sorry... I wasn't looking." The Fool said and stood up before looking at the girl. The girl had waist-length hair, the the color of faintly blushing roses and eyes the color of a vivid pale green, which seemed to sparkle. But not like Kai's, which were a very bright, crystal green color. She also a rather slender body and small waist, but still had a fair complexion. She also was not wearing the regular Gekkoukan uniform overcoat, but instead a deep blue vest over a long sleeved blouse. She then looked over to the Fool with innocent eyes.
"No, its okay. I wasn't looking either." She responded. Kai then offered his hand to pull her up and she gladly accepted, getting off the ground and standing in front of the Fool. She began looking at him as if he seemed him familiar.
"Oh! Aren't you the transfer student from class 2-F?" The petite girl asked him. He simply nodded his head. "Oh wow, I never expected the transfer student would be someone well-mannered. Most transfer students are like everyone else in Gekkoukan High."
"Well, thanks. I guess." Kai took it as a compliment. The rose haired color girl then took out her hand to shake.
"I'm Enryuu Kuroi of Class 2-E. I'm also known as Enn-san, if you prefer to call me that." She greeted the Fool and he simply shook her hand.
"Akira Kai. Its a pleasure to make your acquaintance." The Fool said formally to her., before letting go of her hand.
"Well, I gotta go. I have some important things to do, but I'll talk to you later, Enn-san." The Fool then left and saw her waving at him. But Kai saw through her mask and saw that she was a bit mad that he accidentally bumped into her, even if it was a accident. He just continued off back towards the dorm. But before that, though, he decided to stop at the Strip Mall to buy some takoyaki at the octopia stand and ate it before heading back to the dorm still feeling a bit tired.
Evening
Kai returned back to the dorm feeling very drowsy. He saw Rin reading a book about supernatural occurrences, Daiki playing a video game on his PS Vita, and Mitsuru reading a magazine about something.
"Welcome back, Akira." Mitsuru greeted him and he waved at her.
"So, how are you feeling?" Rin had asked the Fool.
"Pretty tired..." Kai responded and Rin was a bit surprised, considering how much sleep he got in class. "You sure have been sleeping a lot lately. Did something happen?" He added. Kai simply shook his head.
"No, not really. Not that I know of. I'm just very sleepy, that's all. I think I'm going to go to bed early." The Fool responded and headed upstairs. He decided to go to bed, so he could get ready for the long day tomorrow, since there was going to be a new tenant moving into the dorms and he'd have to move some more stuff. Right before he could sleep, he felt a cool breeze on his face and opened his eyes too see the woman Morrigan appear before him once again.
"Hello, Lugh. How are you?" She asked Kai who she called Lugh.
"It's you again..." He responded with a calm voice. "Is there something you want?" The Fool added in.
"I just came to check on you. To see if you were in danger. But you seem fine for now, so I'm glad." The woman smiled lightly.
"I see..." Morrigan then looked a bit around the room before looking back at Lugh.
"These are some very interesting things you enjoy, Lugh. I remember when you used to love playing the harp. Though, that's all I can faintly remember that you enjoyed to do. It's sad, really." Her expression got darker.
"I played a harp?" Kai tilted his head in confusion. The young woman simply chuckled.
"Why yes, a long time ago. You would always enjoy playing the harp whenever you felt down and everyone would love to hear the sound of your music... I miss the old days." Morrigan said disappointingly and then just smiled once more.
"Well, it's about time I take my leave. I hope you continue to look for your answer and memories." The woman smiled before disappearing again and she didn't leave a feather like last time. Kai was so tired that he wasn't able to pay attention to most of the things she told him and just fell asleep instantly, not thinking about a care in the world.
End of Chapter 5. Also I would like to point out some stuff about Kai. Here are a bit of facts about him.
1: Kai wields the Fool, Magician, and Judgement arcana and one of his arcana is the Magician. Since its unlikely for the protagonist of the Persona to have the Magician as one of their arcana's. Reason for that is because his Magician represents the Upright. Displaying his self-confidence in himself and the right actions he takes even if its stupid. Plus the Magician social link involves the S.E.E.S members outside the conflicts of shadows.
2. Kai has similar traits to Minato(Protagonist of Persona 3). One trait is his huge appetite shown last chapter when he ate the huge beef bowl and another of his trait is that he mostly silent at times but is a bit more open up than Minato.
3. Kai is pretty dense to certain subjects especially Romance.
Thats all I would like to point out about him and don't forget to vote on my poll to see who will be returning back to the S.E.E.S
Well thats all. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and I'll see you guys later :)