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Post by mugenginga on Oct 4, 2009 3:30:22 GMT -5
(OOC: You must be invited. By both me and FF, atlhough you can just PM me as we can discuss it over PM. You need to be able to post very much lots and be constructive and literate. Also. Moderate to Extensive knowledge of Persona 4 and Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor is needed. And with developments that have been occuring, soon Persona 3 as well.)
Yuugi had been grateful for the release of trying to help Souji along. The teen was pretty passed out. He looked at his feet. He'd warned them that this is what would happen if they jumped out of the TV World and went back in.
Yuugi was still depressed, but in slightly better spirits as he and K1 made their way back to the Apartment Complex. They were almost there when the thoughts racing through Yuugi's mind fell on one thing. He wasn't sure he would have acted like this for Jounouchi. He would have listened to reason. Why the... his face flushed a bit and he became very focused on the apartment. He'd managed to suppress the thought earlier. It did explain things... he hoped K1 wasn't focusing on him too much.
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Post by Firebreath Fishslap on Oct 4, 2009 4:23:43 GMT -5
After a bit more walking, K1 stopped outside of Souji's door. Souji was... still asleep. Okay, it was very possible he was a very heavy sleeper. Considering some of the noises coming from the floor above...
K1 gave a sideways glance to the door across the hallway. Was that cabbage he smelled?
Souji was across the hall from the enemy?! K1 gained a whole new respect for Souji now. If K1 had been living across the hall from Adachi, Adachi would be dead now.
As it was, though, Souji's apartment was locked, and K1 really didn't feel like going through Souji's pockets to find the keys. Well, at least the COMP solved these kind of problems quickly. After instructing Kikuri-Hime to put Souji's bags down, K1 returned her to the COMP and summoned two Pixies.
"I need you guys to find Seta-kun's keys," K1 instructed. One of the Pixies blew a kiss at K1.
"Anything for you, Master~<3"
"Of course, Master~ <3"
He could practically hear the hearts.
After a couple minutes, one of the pixies dropped Souji's keys into K1's hand. K1 turned to unlock the door, as the pixies floated behind K1, murmuring stuff that's too hot for the internet. He ignored them. The Pixies were some of the worst of the demons he had.
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Post by mugenginga on Oct 4, 2009 4:27:22 GMT -5
Yuugi sweatdropped at the way the Pixies were acting. His first thought was that he was grateful he hadn't tried to befriend one. Somehow he didn't think that would have ended well. The second thought made him flush a bit. He knew all K1's demons called him master, but the way they had said it was embarassing.
Yuugi got even redder as he heard the Pixies whispering. Poor sap didn't realize getting flustered around demons such as Pixies was a bad idea...
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Post by Firebreath Fishslap on Oct 4, 2009 4:37:23 GMT -5
The pixies picked up on how flustered Yuugi was getting and chuckled before flying over to him. They flitted around the teen, looking every which way at him.
"You're a cute little boy~" the first Pixie said. She was floating right in front of Yuugi's face. The other one was sitting on Yuugi's shoulder.
"Oh, indeed. Y'know, maybe we should go have some alone time together," Pixie #2 said. She scooted closer to Yuugi. "You're 16, right?"
K1 turned around as Cerebus paraded Souji on into his bedroom. "Hey! Get off of Yuugi! I thought I told you to stop doing that!" K1 yelled.
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Post by mugenginga on Oct 4, 2009 4:41:31 GMT -5
Yuugi suddenly thought of Mai. Mai when he first met the woman. He tried to scoot away from the Pixies, but they stayed with him as he moved. When K1 shouted at the Pixies, he took the momentary moment of distraction to duck down and get into Souji's apartment. Or closer to K1.
"I-I-I'm not interested!" he stuttered. But he was rather bright red. He looked pleadingly at K1, "Shouldn't you call them back?"
That might have been rude, Yuugi realized. But he was feeling extremely awkward right now. Although he was glad Bakura wasn't there. His friend had trouble with human fangirls, let alone the incredibly forward Pixies...
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Post by Firebreath Fishslap on Oct 4, 2009 11:18:26 GMT -5
"Yes." K1 said, and pulled out his COMP.
"Wait, we were just kidding--"
"Having a bit of fun, that's all--"
"Get. In. The. COMP."
The demons were desummoned by K1, who groaned. "Yuugi, this is why I wish I had a Persona like you guys. At least Personas don't complain about the working conditions and all that fun stuff." Cerberus marched back out of Souji's apartment as K1 said this.
"I have placed the young man in his bed, as instructed, Master," Cerberus reported. "He is still mumbling about cabbage."
K1 glanced at the door across the hall. "Alright. Thanks, Cerberus."
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Post by mugenginga on Oct 4, 2009 13:24:21 GMT -5
Yuugi looked away. K1 didn't know what he was wishing for. The demons may be a bit hard to control sometimes, but they were seperate. It was expected for them to have personalities and such, Persona, on the other hand, were not fun to gain. Even taking Minato's method of summoning into account, the choices were confront a potentially lethal manifestation of your darker side or putting a gun to your head,
"No... you don't..." he managed to accompany this line of thought with, "I-I'm gonna go to bed... I'll get up for the Midnight Channel," a thought suddenly crossed Yuugi's mind, "Oh. I wanna make sure Minato-kun got that note. Its been a while and I haven't heard from him."
It was totally not a topic change on Yuugi's part. If that's true, Adachi's a saint. Right. Yuugi glanced towards the end of the hall. If he remembered right, this was Minato's floor.
(OOC: aka YAY YOU GOT MINATO! XD)
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Post by Firebreath Fishslap on Oct 4, 2009 18:44:57 GMT -5
"Oh. Yeah, good idea," K1 said. For what was the umpteenth time that day, he felt guilty about what he'd said. He was very good at doing this to himself, it seemed.
After walking down to Minato's door, K1 knocked on it a couple times. There was a moment before Minato answered.
"I haven't seen you guys in a while. You had me worried." Minato said. His headphones were half off of his head; obviously he hadn't been expecting visitors. Whatever music Minato was listening to was rather loud too; K1 could hear it from where he was standing. It sounded like some kind of hip-hop song.
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Post by mugenginga on Oct 4, 2009 19:01:28 GMT -5
Yuug clapped his hands over his ears, but seemed to adjust to the music relatively easy. English wasn't one of his better skills, but somehow it seemed the words would be a bit muddled to even native English speakers. He was more into J-Pop and commercial jingles than anything else.
Minato probably didn't miss a few things. Yuugi looked depressed, and his eyes were a little red and puffy from the crying he'd been doing. He also looked really tired. Then there was the sword strapped to his side via a makeshift sheath, and it might lead to Minato noticing he didn't have his belt-like choker. But probably the biggest difference, one who know Yuugi's canon wouldn't miss at all, was the lack of the Puzzle and the chain it hung from.
"I wanted to see if you got my note a few days ago," Yuugi replied. He chose to ignore the comment about Minato being worried, but had a funny feeling an explanation was going to have to occur soon.
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Post by Firebreath Fishslap on Oct 4, 2009 19:21:37 GMT -5
Minato's eyes moved to the puzzle, or rather the space where it normally would be. Yuugi always had the puzzle with him. So why was it missing? Then there was the fact that Yuugi was carrying a sword, and Yuugi didn't fight at all.
Minato got the feeling something very, very bad had happened. In any case, he nodded.
"Yuugi-kun, where's the puzzle?" Minato asked. K1 got another pained expression on his face. Minato's suspicions were confirmed as K1 spoke.
"...Atem was dropped into the TV World," K1 said. Minato looked confused. "...Souji didn't tell you what the TV World is?"
"No," Minato said.
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Post by mugenginga on Oct 4, 2009 19:28:47 GMT -5
Yuugi had expected the question, but K1 had replied before he could find the words. He nodded, "It's... kind of like the Dark Hour I guess. Full of shadows. The Persona work differently there... Oh, right!"
Yuugi reached into one of his four vest pockets and pulled out Nefertum's card. He showed it to Minato. The back was likely something Minato would recognize. After all, the "image" that appeared in one's mind during the founding of a Social Link was that before showing the Arcana. The front, however, showed an entity much like Temu, "The shadows and Persona are the same thing..."
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Post by Firebreath Fishslap on Oct 4, 2009 19:44:21 GMT -5
Minato was a little jealous of Yuugi. Yuugi was a Persona user too. He could deal with that. Minato's very presence seemed to cause people to awaken to their Persona all of the time. However, Yuugi had gotten his though whatever alternate way Souji had, which meant he didn't have to put a gun to his head to summon his persona. Lucky bastards.
"Right, I knew that," Minato responded. "That's why the Kirijo Group developed the Evokers, so they could fight fire with fire."
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Post by mugenginga on Oct 4, 2009 19:48:35 GMT -5
Yuugi glanced back at K1. Neither of them were very awake at the moment. He held back a yawn, "TV World is kind of hard to explain... um, your own shadow attacks you. That's how I got my Persona. It's... not fun... kind of like your inner darkness, your sealed thoughts coming out and making you face them... or killing you... which is why Atem's in trouble."
Being attacked by sealed inner darkness? That comparison was probably not one Minato found fun. In the least. Yuugi yawned, likely missing whatever dread was probably washing over Minato's face. After all, there were certain comparisons to his own history that could be drawn there...
(OOC: DO I SMELL ME SOME FORESHADOWING!? XD)
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Post by Firebreath Fishslap on Oct 4, 2009 20:10:36 GMT -5
((OOC: Smells good.))
That brought back painful memories. Mainly the whole being killed by your inner darkness part. Oh, how close Minato had come to that. He technically had, too, if you wanted to look at it that way.
Though Yuugi missed the look that had crossed Minato's face, K1 did not, and decided to change the topic. Which would probably lead to another foot-in-mouth awkward moment. "Anyways... we've got to get some sleep. See if you can watch that Midnight Channel thing tonight too."
"It'll come on, even with the Dark Hour?" Minato asked.
"Souji-san seems to think so," K1 said.
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Post by mugenginga on Oct 4, 2009 20:14:18 GMT -5
Yuugi thought for a moment, "I'm not sure, but I think it only works when its raining and the television is off..." he paused, "Oh. Um... were you out in that... storm last night?"
Minato would be more than aware of why Yuugi was stumbling if he had been. If he'd slept through it, however, he'd probably be lost. Yuugi looked like he wanted a bath as he mentioned the storm. He visibly shuddered.
And besides all that, Yuugi had just said to watch a turned off television at midnight. Which for those outside of the Persona 4 fandom was a very "what the hell?" kind of suggestion. Watching a "channel". On a turned off television.
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