So far, everything had seemingly slowed down. Not much had been happening in the past days apart from Kanashi's awakening and Kurow's joining up with SEES. However, Nyx could've cared less about either of those two events. It wasn't as if she was really that involved with SEES' activities, considering how much Minato wanted to keep her out of anything that they were going to do. And she understood why he did, but it was boring and hollow without anything else.

She sighed inwardly, looking up at the ceiling listlessly. Nyx wanted to get some sleep, but she simply couldn't. Why was that? It wasn't as if there was anything else to do besides go on the internet again, but she had grown tired of browsing and watching pointless videos on YouTube.

Or she could talk to Kanashi, but why would she ever talk to Kanashi again?

And then, there were knocks on her door.

"Who would want to be up this late?" she muttered before going to open it up. Nyx usually kept her doors locked, but not many people knew that. It wasn't as if too many people ever came for the express reason of talking to her.

"Yo," Minato said. "I didn't think you'd be up."

"Same could be said for you," she said with a scowl. "What is it?"

"Well I guess I don't have much of an excuse, but sometimes I go up to the roof if I have a lot of stuff on my mind, but while I was going up there, I noticed your lights were still on," Minato answered with a sigh. "You're not usually up now."

"Oh," Nyx said. "Well, why would you care?"

"You're right. Why would I care?" Minato glared at her. "But I'm not looking to wake everyone up with an argument. You seem to have a lot of things on your mind."

"Are you suggesting that you want me to come to the rooftop with you so that we can discuss… well, whatever it is that you and I want to discuss?" Nyx asked, trying to ignore the glare that Minato gave her. But it was difficult. She wasn't used to hiding her worries about something because she never worried about anything else other than herself or her family.

"Yeah, basically it," Minato replied, rubbing his temple.

"Well, I suppose since I'm not getting any sleep now," she said, before turning off the lights in her room.

"Alright," Minato nodded before sipping a bit of his juice box.

…

"How many times have you had to come up here?" Nyx asked, trying to keep her curiosity under wraps.

"Well, I've had to when the people around me were getting a bit much to concentrate on. Both years that I've been here, I've had to," Minato answered. "But honestly, I haven't done this in a while since I'm more choosing to sleep on everything. And since everything's still more tiring than I expect."

"I see…" Nyx nodded to herself. Hmph. No doubt that one part of that 'everything' was simply her presence. She was still fully aware of the hate that Minato seemed to have for her, even though it always seemed like he was patient enough to explain things to her. She sighed inwardly. That heaviness was weighing in once more. Why couldn't it just go away?

Minato sat down once he had gotten to about the middle of the rooftop, and kept drinking. "So, what's been up?" he asked.

Nyx started, "Well, obviously us. But…"

Minato blinked. The girl was learning more and more sarcasm. He wondered whether that was a good thing or not…

"I suppose the thing that has been keeping me up has me wondering. I don't know what it is," Nyx said.

"Can you describe it?" Minato asked. It was another human feeling that he knew well, but he wasn't quite sure yet.

"It feels like there's nothing interesting that I can do, and the things that I have available to me at the moment I get tired of easily," Nyx answered.

"That's restlessness and boredom," Minato replied easily. "Apparently, humans are some of the only things that have something like boredom…"

"Oh really?" Nyx asked, wondering what that could mean for her.

"Because of boredom, we try to find new things to do in order to keep ourselves from feeling it. When you feel boredom, everything just seems exceptionally bland, right? It doesn't particularly feel that great, so it sorta forces us to do something about it," Minato explained.

"So boredom keeps humans doing productive things," Nyx nodded. "Hm, that certainly explains why it isn't often that you'll find a human simply doing nothing."

"Yeah," Minato nodded. "There are people out there who do nothing, but that's usually because they can't do anything about it. But that's a separate feeling altogether."

"What's that?" Nyx asked.

"I suppose they might not be doing anything because of fear," Minato said. "Fear is something that keeps humans alive. Fear of things like dying, fears of dangerous things… they keep us away from things that could possibly kill us or do harm."

"I suppose that I understand, but at the same time… maybe I don't know exactly what fear is because I haven't felt it. Or if I have, I must've forgotten," Nyx sighed.

"Are you sure about that? I'm sure that now since you're in mortal form and everything, you might've felt even a little bit of it," Minato looked to Nyx, once again taking a sip from his juice box.

"Maybe…" Nyx said quietly. Fear. Being scared. Thoughts swam into her sharp mind as she thought about it, and she immediately tried to shake them out of her head. What was that!?

"Uh, are you okay?" Minato asked, seeming the surprised expression on Nyx. Since when had she ever looked that surprised?

"…Yes, don't concern yourself with it," Nyx said slowly, trying to keep those thoughts out of her mind. How could she ever get scared of something like that? How could she get scared at all?

"Are you sure?" Minato said quietly.

"Yes, I'm sure," Nyx said before biting her lip.

Minato had half a mind to ask again, but he decided against it. He wondered what went wrong. But there was something else that he was thinking about. Why was he getting worried over Nyx?

"Minato, do you know who gave me that iPod nano?" Nyx asked, moving onto something else to hopefully get those thoughts out of her mind.

"Oh yeah, I do. I know him well," Minato nodded.

"So you aren't going to tell me who it is?" Nyx sighed.

"Well, I could. You might not believe me though," Minato replied.

"Try."

Nyx looked at Minato seriously. Why was it now that she was showing this much emotion about anything? Minato blinked in surprise. She was getting more worked up about this than he would've thought. "It was me," he answered.

Nyx looked at Minato with a blank expression. "I thought so," she nodded. "You also gave me those earphones so I suppose it makes sense."

"Yeah," Minato nodded slightly before drinking a bit more.

"Why?" Nyx asked. "Why did you give both of them to me?"

Minato stayed quiet for a few moments as he thought about it. He honestly wasn't that sure of the reason. But he was thinking that it was because everyone else in the dorm had something to listen to, apart from Koromaru. "Everyone else in the dorm had something like that. I just used it more than the others, and more people noticed it. I just thought that it wouldn't be a good thing if you didn't have anything so…"

"You were worried about me getting left out?"

Minato's eyes widened as he looked at Nyx's stony expression and voice. "W-What makes you think that?"

"There isn't much of another reason Minato. But it's not like I believe the notion that you actually seem to care about me that you'd give me something like an mp3 player and earphones just so I wouldn't get bored or so that I could have something like music in my ears all the time," Nyx chuckled mirthfully.

"I-I…" Minato stuttered, not really sure what to say. Did he actually give them to her because he cared? But didn't he hate her? He was pretty sure that he hated the… goddess that made him have to separate from his friends before, and would've tormented him until another end of all days if he didn't somehow get out of the seal. "W-Whatever!" he growled.

"But you're getting angry about the fact that I don't believe that you care about me, so maybe I'm right?" Nyx said, her voice trembling.

"I… I don't know…" Minato sighed in defeat.

"What do you call that emotion of yours?" Nyx asked with that stony expression of hers.

"W-What?" Minato blinked, almost not paying attention to what Nyx asked.

"What is it that you call that feeling? You seem not to be sure even though the facts are there," she said quietly.

"Denial," he sighed, sipping the last of his juice box and crushing it.

"Denial… like denying," Nyx nodded. "I see. That makes sense. Well, I don't know what you really feel about me Minato, but…"

"But what?"

"There is something that I'm scared of," Nyx said slowly, as if the words were like a bad aftertaste that wouldn't go away.

"What?" Minato asked.

"I think I'm scared of you in some way. I don't know why," Nyx sighed before standing up. "Anyways… I'm finally getting tired. Good night Minato."

With that, Nyx walked back to her room.

However, Minato was left to his own thoughts. She was scared of him? But why? Was she scared of him? Or was she scared of him doing something? Nyx was beginning to develop all these human emotions. But did it mean anything? Was she a goddess? Or was she a human?

Or was she something else entirely?

Minato shook his head. What did that even mean? What did it mean that she was something else?

Damn… there were so many unanswered questions. What was he going to do?

…he needed some sleep. "The sky has more stars in it than usual," Minato sighed as he looked up at the night. It was warmer and at least a little pleasant since summer was very soon. It was relaxing enough that he could fall asleep right there.

He was a heavy sleeper after all.

AN: Who likes Nyx and Minato CD? *raises hand* You know, before I was going to go on a rant about how romance can really suck if it isn't given enough time, but… eh, never mind…

Yoshikunitsu: Hahahaha *rofls* You've suggested something that is going to mess with the OCs. Well, it's a good thing you read DoSnow.
She don't need no luck! :3
I think she might be talking to you like that because of me. Take whatever meaning you'd like from that.
Hehe. I'll know that I can have fun if the guys that are reading are as well. I'll keep forging on ahead I suppose!

Nights: Yeah, I know! Who would've thought?
Made blatantly obvious. And yes, mysterious, mysterious motives.
Welp, alright then. And I will.

Raidou: Hehe, indeed! And yes. He's going to get more trouble…

Anakin: Hehehe, of course! It's getting closer to Valentines!
Whee, I'll answer part of the last question. To my understanding, there are Persona users that are able to summon more than one Personae, although they will either be limited in what they can summon and what Arcana they can summon from, however this will not mean that they are Wild Cards.

Q/A SECTION

(Nyx) Convo 1: To Yoshikunitsu.

Nyx: Well, I suspect it's because Hoshiro seems to be casting something on me that makes me want to think of you highly. And no, unfortunately I do not know what this 'Crepusculum' thing is.
Oh yes, good luck to me. *sighs*

(SEES) Question 2: Who would you want to catch you underneath the 'dreaded' mistletoe?

Yukari: Oh, I don't know… I don't really want to catch anyone with me under some… Probably Minato though.

Junpei: Chidori of course! She's my girl!

Akihiko: Eh… I dunno. Should I care?

Fuuka: Oh, I don't know… *blushes* Maybe Minato-kun?

Mitsuru: Should I really have to answer to this? But most likely, Minato.

Ken: Why am I here? *Akihiko leads him off* (Hoshiro: imo, I'd say Maiko.)

Koromaru: *bark* (I dunno.)

Kanashi: Dunno. Mitsuru probably. Heh.

Yashiro: I have no idea, but I know there's someone that I wouldn't mind.

Kurow: Yukari or someone else. *smirks*

Nyx: Nobody. *eye twitches*

Minato: I dunno. Just not Nyx.

(Nyx) Question 3: Besides Death, what Arcana do you like most, or would want to use?

Nyx: Intriguing… Perhaps Priestess or Empress.

(Minato) Question 4: What constitutes a Wild Card?

Minato: Well, the special thing about Wild Cards, from my understanding is that they are able to draw powers from the Social Links that they create. No-one else but a Wild Card can do it. But, that's just my loose understanding.