Leaving me || Persona 3 Akishinji oneshot || Akihiko x Shinjiro

Without you

October 4th: The date that changed everything 

Everyone was gathered in a circle around the corpse. There was a strong silence, and the ambience was tense. Ken was on his knees, screaming and crying. Akihiko was holding his childhood friend's hand while silent tears dropped through his cheeks.

He wasnt moving at all. He couldnt even start to process what he just witnessed. He was in complete denial. 

"T-this couldnt have happened" The boy thought "This is just a nightmare. Its a terrible nightmare and I will wake up any second now. Yeah, Shinji isnt... He didnt..."

Mitsuru noticed how the sky turned from green, to a dark blue, stars iluminating it. 

-The Dark Hour is over. We should transfer him to the hospital immediatly

Akihiko's gaze lifted up to see Mitsuru's eyes. He couldnt see clearly because of the tears staining his view, yet he could see a compassionate stare from her. The white haired boy shook his head in agreement and got on his knees so he could carry Shinjiro's body. He took a quick glance at him, he was smiling. He died in such a painfull way, yet he still was smiling so they didnt have to worry about him. 

"Always putting others first... You seriously never change do you?" 

He carefully placed his left hand below his both knees wrapping them and the right hand on his back. He got up, tears still covering his eyes and looked at his leader, expecting a reaction. He simply looked at him with a face of regret, and also stood up.

The rest of S.E.E.S. followed and also stood up, except for Ken, who was still sobbing loudly. Makoto went up to him and extended his hand at him, in a sign for him to grab it. Ken looked up to see him, whiped up his tears, and slowly got up with the help of the blue haired boy. 

-Well then, lets go. Said Junpei in a more desanimated tone from his usual one

-I believe there is one near our zone. Mitsuru was trying hard to keep her composture and not look at Shinjiro's possibly lifeless body as she started walking holding back her tears

The path wasnt long, but it felt like hours. Everyone felt regret, sadness and anxiety over if Shinjiro was truly dead or not. 

Akihiko tried looking forward, he tried everything to get off his mind that he was carrying a possible corpse from someone he cared so much about. He prayed that when he looked at his face he would just smile and say "Dont worry Aki, im not going anywhere" 

But that wasnt going to happend, it couldnt happen. Because he was gone

Akihiko felt misserable. What just happened, there was no way it was real. In less than an hour, his bestfriend, the person he had spent his whole life with, who had always been there for him, in every good or bad situation. They were gone, leaving nothing but memories from the past to remember. When he felt he couldnt continue, Shinjiro was there to back him up, or sometimes even fight, but he was there. Now he is gone. Forever. What was going to happen to school? to S.E.E.S? to himself??

But Mitsuru cut him off in his thoughts

-Were here. 

Akihiko stopped walking a bit abruptly and quickly got out of his own bubble. He looked up to see the big building with a red cross on it.  The gang stepped inside the hospital and were quickly meeted by a nurse who took Shinjiro to the emergency section. They sat down at the waiting room, and after some long minutes of wait, the nurse slowly walked outside the operations room.