Yashiro and Kanashi seemed to be the worst and the best duo all at the same time.
Yashiro was the cool and collected one, and he always tried to keep his thoughts to himself. Kanashi however, was the fiery and heated personality that wore his heart on his sleeve that countered Yashiro's breezy one. And when there was a fight between the two of them, it always seemed to end with a whole lot of injuries, cursing and a draw on both of their parts.
At the same time, there were a lot of things that were the same about them. They never seemed to want to talk about themselves at all, and kept their pasts cryptically hidden from the people around them. There were things about them that you never would've guessed from just looking at the two of them.
However, not talking about themselves suited them fine. They always seemed to find something else to talk about regardless, even if it involved a lot of fighting.
Needless to say, the two of them were closer than usual to the others around them, and they hung out a lot, regardless of Yashiro's chagrin and Kanashi's delight.
And like all the other times, another argument had broken out. It was partly because Kanashi couldn't stop messing with Yashiro. It was also partly because Yashiro couldn't resist snapping back at Kanashi. They threw punches, sometimes kicks on Kanashi's part, lots of elbow strikes, even some headbutting, although it was difficult because of Yashiro's cap, the repeated curses, the cloud of dust that was scattered by their bickering, and then they calmed down, kissed and made up…
No, they didn't actually do the last part, but yes, they made up after that.
Kanashi panted heavily. Again, they had calmed down, but they were still tired as all heck. Yashiro was trying to regain his breath just like Kanashi.
"Nothing ever happens when we start fighting each other, it always ends the same way," Yashiro sighed. He wouldn't admit the other part of what he was saying, but that was supposed to be a secret to everyone.
"Yeah, pretty true," Kanashi laughed. "But it's funny, and fun!"
"I question your definition of fun," Yashiro said, rubbing his temples.
"Awww, don't tell me you didn't have fun when we were trying to beat the shit out of each other!" Kanashi said with a mock hurt voice.
"Yeah. Because that's a fun activity!" Yashiro said, sarcasm lacing his voice like venom.
"Mmhm, I'm glad you agree," Kanashi said. However, his happy expression broke off when he heard and felt something. Something menacing. Something menacing and moving fast towards where they were.
"Holy fuck, a razor!" Kanashi yelled to Yashiro.
Yashiro turned around and jumped back, seeing a razor with a seal of some sort on it. Kinda like the kunai in Naruto with the exploding tags on them. Imagine if they had the same effect…
"Uh… why am I feeling three people instead of two?" Kanashi asked himself nervously.
"You feel three people!?" Yashiro said, his eyes widening. "Dude, we're still injured from the fight before!"
"Yeah, I realise that emo high on sugar brat," Kanashi growled as he dodged another razor. "There isn't anyone around, right?"
"Nope," Yashiro answered. "There wouldn't be anyone else anyways! These guys need the place clear in order for them to attack!"
"Oh right," Kanashi chuckled before he started to rummage through his bag, finding a cold, metal gun in his grip. "Haha, let's shoot the shit out of these guys!"
"What!?" Yashiro yelled back.
"Exactly what I said!" Kanashi said cheerfully before he pulled out a black gun, as opposed to a silver one and started taking notes on where the razors were coming from. "Bang, bang mothercanuckers!" he grinned before shooting in the direction of where the razors came from.
"Dude, they're not coming from that way!" Yashiro warned. "They're coming from that way!" he said, pointing at where he saw another razor come from.
"Eh, whatever you say!" Kanashi growled as he shot another bullet off.
"Did you even listen to me? I told you they're this way!" Yashiro sighed as he dodged another razor.
"If you're so smart, why don't you try shooting?" Kanashi said with a frustrated tone.
"I don't know how to shoot a freaking gu-, WHY DO YOU EVEN HAVE ONE!?" Yashiro yelled. "Guns are illegal in Japan you know!"
"Huh? You mean they don't have the same gun laws as America?" Kanashi blinked as he stepped out of the way of another razor.
"Well duh!" Yashiro replied. "Why do you think no-one has them, and why do you think Mitsuru senpai put an emphasis on hiding your Evoker?"
"Oh shit, I didn't know that!" Kanashi said in surprise before putting his gun away.
"Can you just summon your Persona or something, and just… burn everything?" Yashiro asked.
"Better idea," Kanashi said in a panic. "Uh…" He rummaged through his bag again, finding his Evoker buried at the bottom. "Persona!" he yelled. "Agni, Agidyne!"
A shot and a flurry of blue mist later, the two faced, golden toothed Persona shot a series of flames towards… "There's one mothercanucker!" he grinned before shooting the Agidyne at a bladefist wielding assassin.
The Agidyne was dodged, and Kanashi felt one of those damned, fucking razors in his back. Goddamned scrawny pencil ne—
"Look out!" Yashiro called.
"Wha?" Kanashi blinked as he saw a black and silver blur come towards him.
"Get out of the way!" Yashiro growled as he punched the blur hard, knocking it from its previous trajectory.
"Uh thanks dude," Kanashi said quickly to Yashiro before picking up the downed assassin, and kneeing her hard in the stomach. "Aaaaand… a Gigantic fucking Fist to you!" he grinned before throwing an SP enhanced uppercut to her chin.
The assassin slumped to the ground and tried to recover, but even though she found the strength to stand up, she couldn't feel her legs co-operating. "Red, pick me up!" she muttered.
On cue, the bladefist wielder, or the newly known 'Red' zipped to her side and picked the knife wielder up. Yashiro blinked. "You should be more careful Illusion," Red growled. "Raz, ain't your Sukunda doing anything?"
"Hey dude, they got a Masukukaja on them somehow! I can't do anything about that!" The razor wielder replied lazily.
"Those are some pretty shit names," Kanashi commented.
"Shut up," Red growled.
"Oh wow, the hoodies can speak! Sound the applause!" Kanashi grinned. "But I care about this much!" he said before shooting another mental bullet and summoning his Persona.
"Be careful Kanashi. Don't you remember what Minato said about overusing your Persona?" Yashiro warned.
"I know, I know," Kanashi nodded as he stepped back from a row of razors. "Magnedyne!" he yelled. Agni raised his fist, and spikes of earth surrounded Red before a large spire shot up from beneath him.
Red jumped to try and avoid the large spire of earth, but it wasn't enough.
"Hmph." Illusion jumped from Red's grip and pushed the both of them from the Earth spell, leaving them unscathed.
"She's a quick one…" Yashiro mumbled, but not before he turned to find Illusion behind him with a knife in her grip, about to stab him. "C-Crap!" he growled, managing to dodge the brunt of the attack. However, his long sleeved shirt was stained with trickles of blood around the area of his arm.
"T-Tch…" Yashiro gritted his teeth, and he tried to move away from the assassin, but he found that his legs couldn't move away. Goddammit! Move! It was the same, wasn't it?
"You aren't going to fuck with me," he muttered. He instead pushed forward and threw a hard hitting kick to her side, throwing her off guard and dealing some damage. Yashiro smirked as he landed the blow, and he stepped back a small distance before throwing a hook to her temple.
Illusion's legs wobbled as she stepped back from the incapacitating blow, and Kanashi's eyes widened as he found that the targets from before disappeared.
"True to your name, aren't you?" Yashiro grinned before he stepped in close and kneed Illusion in the stomach.
"What the fuck?" Kanashi mumbled before he felt some razors that he didn't even know were there before stuck in his back. "How the hell did that happen!?" he winced, feeling more pain racing through his body.
"It was all… an illusion," Yashiro mumbled before pushing Illusion to the ground. "So you're wounded, I'm wounded a little, and there are still a couple more assholes to deal with. Doesn't that sound like a screwy situation?"
"Yeah, kinda does," Kanashi smirked.
"Mmhm. But I'm not planning to lose here," Yashiro promised. "Look out!"
Kanashi reacted to Yashiro's warning, and he sidestepped Red's bladefisted strike. "Damn guy's annoying and persistent, ain't he?" Kanashi said as he tried dodging again, but only barely. He still got a slight cut in his neck.
"Aren't they all?" Yashiro asked. "You're slowing down Kanashi…"
"Well, I have gotten stabbed multiple times and hit with more than a couple of razors all over my body, kinda makes sense, doesn't it?" Kanashi snapped.
"No, no, makes sense," Yashiro nodded.
"Oh fuck," Kanashi grumbled as he saw Red push off from the wall and jump straight towards him, brandishing his bladefists.
"Oh fuck," Yashiro blinked before shoving Kanashi to the ground. "Why does the space around here have to be so thin?" he complained, getting an injury from the heated bladefists. He gritted his teeth and pushed Red off him, also dislodging the bladefists from his shoulder.
"Why'd you save me!?" Kanashi growled.
"I honestly don't know," Yashiro said, biting his lip. If it were any person else he would've left them on their own. But why didn't he? "But… I think the wind's in our favour now," he grinned. "Per… so… na…"
"Wha?" Kanashi's eyes widened as a blue light began to emanate from Yashiro, the same as the blue that came off Kanashi when he summoned Agni.
"Vayu," Yashiro mumbled.
"Vayu?" Kanashi blinked.
From the plumes of rumbling mist, a green, humanoid figure clothed with a tornado of vicious wind emerged, releasing gusts of cutting wind in all directions. "Magarudyne," Yashiro commanded.
"Maragidyne!" Kanashi said as he summoned his Persona.
The two Persona released their spells in tandem, and the wind that Vayu released mixed with Agni's fire, amplifying it. Viscous mixtures of fire spewed all over the walls and roofs, and by the end of it, neither Yashiro nor Kanashi could feel the assassins' SP signatures anymore.
"So, how was that?" Yashiro asked as he finally found the fatigue from summoning his Persona for the first time catching up with him.
"Pretty epic," Kanashi nodded. "That was pretty awesome, how the spells combined, and they kinda worked together?"
"I think so too," Yashiro nodded.
Although he was left with the question to whether he considered Kanashi to be a friend for the first time in what seemed to be forever, he didn't really mind at that moment. Yashiro at least thought that they could help each other if they needed to, at any time.
AN: BFMV references are EVERYWHERE. People who know this band will know what I mean. Fits for Yashiro though. Watch out for the Q/A section since I know some people here read Days of Snow. *grins*
Plz box meh yo thoughts and imma see ya guys later.
Yoshikunitsu: Oh there'll be more fluff. *grins mischievously*
I'll think about it. It's not as if it was something that I would bother to act on…
Sure will.
Raidou: Someone's excited! Hehe, I'm glad you like it. They're hard to write… Sure will.
RomanceDagger: What's the scouter say about Nyx's tsundere levels? *lamejokeislame*
Law77: *holds onto cap* …
Nights: You know, she probably should do that. If she's bored, then she should.
Whee, it'll be lots of fun.
Indeedly so. Unfortunately not for this chapter, but there'll be more coming.
Thanks and I will.
Q/A SECTION
(Kanashi) Question 1: Hey, you look mighty familiar. Why do I have the sudden urge to call you out to be an annoying trolling jerk?
Kanashi: Wha—What's your name?
The name's Ruby.
Kanashi: *blinks* Why do I have the urge to call you a violence loving brat?
Ruby: …
Kanashi: …
(Yashiro) Question 2: Hello there. I was just about to comment about how similar we look to each other…
Yashiro: Uh… what's your name?
I'm Terry.
Yashiro: …did someone hit the paradoxical button here?
Terry: Quite possibly.
(Kurow) Question 3: Yo, you my friend, look good there.
Kurow: Compliment taken. What's yo name punk?
Mah name's Sora.
Kurow: *eyes widen* DUDE. You are awesome.
Sora: You too punk.
(Yashiro) Question 4: Heyo. Just saying, uh… you look a hella lot like Terry.
Yashiro: So I've been told by the man himself. What's your name?
Ruby: Well, you can call me Ruby. But second thoughts… why do I have extreme urges to tease you?
Yashiro: … *gulp* Uh… I dunno… *runs out of manliness points and faints*
Ruby: …hm.
(Nyx) Convo 5: To Yoshikunitsu.
Nyx: Ah. That makes sense… hm… well, it's nice talking to you as well.
(Nyx and Minato) Convo 6: To Technodude.
Nyx: Oh please. *sighs*
Minato: Come on, just humour him. But for the record, I have no feelings for Nyx whatsoever.
Nyx: Neither do I. Now… considering on Valentine's it would be the girls' turns… I don't know. Hypothetically, chocolates are the norm after all.
Minato: I guess this question doesn't really work since we don't like each other and therefore, would never put any effort into getting each other decent gifts for Valentines' OR White Day. Chocolates is normal too.
Nyx: And I should care because? I don't even know what those movies are. Yet again, something that I didn't need to know about.
Minato: *sighs*
(Kanashi) Question 7: Why do you like kids so much?
Kanashi: Because kids deserve respect for the shit that they go through. Besides, they're cool and cute, so that's a plus.