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Who: Seta Souji [

eatsyourscience] and Arisato Minato [

jivitadana]
Where: Sixth Floor, Room 100
When: Wednesday, May 24
Rating: PG for summoning experimentation and Persona talk
Summary: Souji and Minato figure out how to break the rules of Persona summoning, then proceed to discuss the future at home
The Story:

Once was more than enough. It hadn't even happened at home, and Minato thought perhaps he had taken it for granted or it didn't have a chance of happening at all, not with his friends around him who used the same piece of summoning equipment he did. He could've just borrowed one if he had to, though again, the issue never really came up for him.

But here? Minato only had one Evoker on him and when he did have a second one, he left it oh so conveniently by a mirror for someone on the other side to take. He knew that he needed one as well. Minato knew the feeling, that helpless feeling that he'd be unable to do anything in a proper fight or be unable to heal, the latter of which he worried the most about. What if someone needed him? He'd have his Personas, it was true, but they'd be out of reach. There was no point. He may as well not have had them at all. Not there was anything wrong with relying on his own skills and knowledge, but having his Personas was more than helpful in an emergency.

The inconvenience, he had to rid himself of the inconvenience so he wouldn't end up as an inconvenience to anyone else.

Thus Souji had offered to help Minato circumvent the whole using an Evoker method for summoning a Persona. They would need the space but also somewhere confined in case anything went wrong. Minato doubted that it would, but judging what happened the first time he summoned, he couldn't leave things to chance.

Plus there was something else to discuss: Personas. They needed to talk about the Personas themselves and what they meant now and then in the future. Just when Minato thought everything had been taken care of, the future decided it had had enough of peace and quiet. Apparently. He worried, if he could, where Souji would be in that future too and what he would be doing.

But first things first. With Souji's help, Minato had cleared the room as much as possible, moving a table off to the side along with the chairs, folding up the futon and putting it away, ensuring that Tefra and the bunny would be safe and out of any line of fire. Minato was concerned for Souji too if anything did go out of control, but Souji reassured him that it would be fine. Minato had to believe it and reign himself in as much as possible if things did get out of hand.

He wasn't quite sure where to start or how to begin. He ended up sitting on the floor in front of Souji, taking a breath in then out. His Evoker was in its holster, but he had to resist going for it. They needed to start somewhere, somehow, just straight up, almost like he had to go through withdrawals away from his summoning device. Maybe less painful? Who knew.

"... Ideas?" Minato had a couple of those, he thought. He may as well try anything right now.

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Souji smiled and moved closer, sitting beside Minato where he could gather him up in his arms, one hand on his hair.

"You're amazing."

Minato leaned into Souji and whispered his thanks. He was still tired and it was nice to be supported even literally like this right now. It was a little selfish, he thought.

"You are. You did this for me."

"I was just here." But maybe that was enough to be of some help.

"It took a lot out of you. Wait awhile before trying again." Not just a little while, but a day or two at least.

Minato had no intention of trying this again now or even in the immediate future. If summoning Jack Frost without even using a skill took this much out of him now, he didn't know what would've happened if Thanatos or Messiah emerged. He might've been out for longer than a week. Or dead. Kind of ironic.

He nodded and would wait. He leaned a little more into Souji.

"... Let's talk more on the bed."

And Minato had a lot more he wanted to talk about. He might've been tired, but he had some important issues to discuss with Souji.

With a soft affirmative noise, Souji helped Minato to his feet and supported him over to the bed so they could sit down. He didn't mind if Minato laid down either, but he remained seated on the edge of the bed.

"What did you want to talk about?"

Minato murmured his thanks as he sat down on the bed. For this, he should sit. The conversation wasn't exactly casual. He just didn't want to be on the floor for this.

He let out a breath, then nodded once.

"Kurusu-tachi."

Minato thought that should say a lot too about why he wanted to discuss it.

"... How many of them have you met?"

Souji lets out a breath. Those guys. He'd gotten a fairly good impression from them, though Akechi had reminded him just a little of Adachi somehow--even if the two were really nothing alike.

"I met the girl with the flying saucer, then Akechi, Ann, Ryuji, Yusuke, and Akira." He decided to use their given names because in a couple cases he hadn't learned their family names. It was a matter of consistency, rather than familiarity. "I haven't met the cat yet, but Ann told me about him."

"The UFO girl's Sakura Futaba. I met them too except Morgana, who I guess is the cat."

A cat. Not out of the realm of possibility if Minato had Koromaru on his team. Minato quietly gave Souji all of their family names too so they were on the same page.

"There's more. Akechi has two Personas, maybe more. He asked me about the Velvet Room."

But they also had Akira on their team, didn't they? Two wild cars at the same time?

Souji took all of that in, frowning slightly. He'd only seen one of Akechi's Personas, but there was no reason to think he didn't have others. Then again, if he had asked Minato about the Velvet Room, it was possible Akechi had never been there. If that were the case, how could he have created another Persona after his first awakened?

He shook his head a little, dispersing those thoughts. He might get the chance to talk to Akechi about it later, so he made note of those things and then brought his mind back to the present.

"Things are more complicated than they seemed."

"I don't think the others know. I'll let him tell them."

They could find out on their own. It was Akechi's choice and if he hadn't told them at home yet, then it was his secret to keep. It really was complicated and Minato didn't understand all of it either.

"... It makes me worried about you and the future."

Minato let out another breath, slowly recovering physically, but somehow feeling a weight inside his chest.

"Why me?"

Souji could understand worrying about the future--he did too, now that he knew there was another threat that this new group of Persona users was facing, whatever it was. None of them had mentioned there being one, but he was sure there would be. It was just a hunch.

"You're there. I want you to be okay."

Minato believed he would be there too with Souji. But what if he weren't? He only wanted Souji to be happy in that future, whatever was happening. He just worried.

"I think I will be."

Although the world might be in danger again, he thought it would be okay. He didn't know any of the Phantom Thieves well enough to be able to say for sure what they could or couldn't accomplish, but he knew that if SEES and the Investigation Team had been able to do it, then a third group should be able to do it, too.

"The future...I think it's really bright."

Minato could only hope that it was. He leaned now against Souji, wishing that he could be a part of that future for sure too.

"There's something else I have to tell you."

He reached to hold onto Souji's hand. He didn't know what it meant either, but Souji had to know. He deserved to know.

"I saw Kurusu's Mirror. He had a Persona that was red... and looked like Izanagi."

Souji almost pulled away from Minato in surprise when he heard that. As it was, he looked at Minato as though he had to have heard wrong.

"...Red."

Carefully, he disengaged from Minato and got up to go to his desk. Once there, he found the set of cards he'd been given a long time ago and flipped through it, his motions a bit sharp. When he returned, he had a single card in his hand. He held it up to show Minato the Persona on the face side of the card.

"Like this?" His voice was quiet, but hard.

Minato was just as surprised, his eyes widening at Souji's sudden, quick, almost frantic movements. He blinked when he saw the image on the card.

He nodded. It was exactly like that. It was that Persona, no mistake about it. The skills on it didn't matter. Skills changed all the time. But the image of that Persona was unmistakable.

"... I'm sorry."

Souji's hand clenched, though he managed to keep himself from crumpling the card up. After a second he returned to the desk to put the cards away.

"That shouldn't be possible."

For as long as he had known Souji, Minato had never seen him like this. During that Hell event, he saw Souji frustrated, tired, yet sharp, unlike his neutral yet warm presence. But here? Now it was like a slow fire, sparking on its own but too close to a pool of gasoline.

"Souji..."

Minato got his feet to follow Souji over to the desk, his hand reaching to hold onto Souji's.

"Tell me what's wrong."

Souji flinched, but then held onto Minato's hand. He kept his eyes on his desk.

"That Persona belongs to someone else."

Minato almost flinched too but stayed where he was, keeping Souji anchored. He nodded then lowered his head a bit. It wasn't the same as him sharing the same Personas as Souji. Their souls were too close to each other for it to be otherwise.

But this Persona? Even Minato couldn't touch it or be anywhere close or near it. If there were ever a time when he was so far away from Souji, it was now, despite how related Orpheus and Izanagi were.

He squeezed Souji's hand a little tighter. "Tell me."

"He's Adachi's."

Souji wasn't sure he'd call Adachi a friend, but he had a bond with him that couldn't be broken. Even if he'd been given the power to use Magatsu Izanagi through that link, he never had. Magatsu Izanagi didn't belong to him.

Minato wrapped his arms around Souji, still wanting to anchor him to prevent Souji from going too far away from him too.

Having someone else's Persona wasn't the same. Minato had a version of Susano-O that Souji hadn't seen before and he knew Souji didn't have that Persona since it belonged to someone else. But this wasn't the same.

"I'm sorry. Maybe... the future is more linked to us than we thought."

Not that that was comforting at all. But how does one take back a part of someone else's soul? It was what awakened in that other wild card and there wasn't anything they could do about it now, even if they could go back to the Velvet Room and ask anyone in there about it.

It's all wrong. But Souji will have to live with that. It's not something he can change, even if it makes him...

He doesn't want to think that he's angry, but that's probably what this feeling is. But it's pointless to be angry about it.

"I expected some of our Personas to be the same."

But not anything like this. This wasn't like Yousuke having a totally different version of Susano-O from the one Minato had. This wasn't like that at all. This was an exact replica, from what Souji could tell.

But Minato knew not like this. This wasn't the same. It was like stealing, but maybe that's what a thief did. Or maybe that group wasn't even from the world or universe as they were. How could they even tell if they were?

"If I had that Persona and you found out, how would you feel?"

He hadn't let go of Souji, looking up at him and hoping he could help calm the storm inside of him.

Souji didn't think he could blame Akira for any of it. If anything, he probably had Igor and the Velvet Room to blame. But that didn't make it any better.

He let out a breath and shook his head. "The same, I think."

He'd known Minato for a long time, but if, shortly after meeting him, something like this had happened, he couldn't say that he'd be able to just let it go. Even if now, Minato suddenly acquired a Persona like this, he couldn't say he'd be okay with it.

"There's nothing I can do about it."

Edited 2017-06-09 22:09 (UTC)

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