Persona 5 x persona 4

chapter 1

Yu slid into the well-worn benches that dotted the Junes food court. The nostalgic smell and atmosphere returned his mind to a time years ago when he was a younger man. It all felt like a lifetime ago that they were all teenagers investigating a world they knew very little about, coming face to face with shadows and murderers. Both suspect and real. Yu was blessed Dojima had been so busy that year working on the same case as he had been. If his old uncle ever had a clue of how much danger he and his friend had put themselves in, it would have meant the case might have never been solved. Still, even with all of that danger, there wasn't a moment he would have done differently. That year had been life-changing, to say the least. This wasn't time for such nostalgia, if the file Naoto had sent him that morning was anything to go on, then a new adventure was just around the corner.

The phantom thieves of hearts... Yu mind wrapped around the idea.

"Hey, partner." An all too familiar voice snaps his attention away from his reminiscing.

Yu looked up at his best friend; offering Yosuke a smirk. 5 years hadn't done much to his best friend's appearance. Yosuke still sported much of his teenage looks except for the addition of a goatee that gave his youthful face a bit more of a mature edge to it. No longer was he the prince of Junes but reigning as its king after his father moved back to the main offices 2 years ago. There had been others that wanted the manager job but none more qualified than him to take the role. A good word from his father helped too. The store as far as Yu knew was doing great, both helping to build up the community around it and giving job options to anyone who needed it. Junes had become loved in Inaba and Yu won't put it past the Hanamura line for doing a lot of that work.

"Yo," Yu responded.

Yosuke tucked into the other side of the bench across from Yu. "I gotta get some out here to repaint these things..." Yosuke offhandedly commented before turning his attention back to his best friend. "So what's this I hear about all the crazy stuff going on in Tokyo?" Looking around Yosuke also perked up. "Don't tell me we are the first one here."

Yu gives a brief nod. "There is a lot to talk about but we should wait for the others."

Yosuke sighs. "I told Ted we were meeting up a few minutes ago but there were some hot chicks that entered the TV department just as I told him." There was a depressed tone that followed Yosuke's statement.

"What's this I hear about you talking about hot girls, Yosuke!?" a new voice announced from behind Yu.

In a flash of blue, a wraith descended upon Yu's best friend. If the voice hadn't been familiar to Yu, he might have done something to protect Yosuke but he knew his partner had to deal with this situation himself. In a flash, Yosuke was in a headlock pin and Yu could only watch the defeat appear in his best friend's eyes as his body went limp. Yosuke knew better than anyone that struggling wasn't his best option in this particular situation. Yu offered him a sympatric look from across the table.

"In his defense; he wasn't looking at other girls," Yu said pointedly as his gaze locked onto the police officer that was holding his best friend captive at the moment.

Chie like Yosuke hadn't changed much in the past 5 years. A few inches taller, a bit more toned but same haircut and personality. Well, Yu chose to follow down the same path as Naoto for justice, Chie ended up taking her path. She had become a star in the Inaba police force, as due to the rural nature of the town most of the officers where near twice her age when she first joined. Her young spirit and thirst for justice even caught old Dojima's eye and Yu knew it wouldn't be too long before Chie became an investigator in her own right. In her personal life, the captain of the old basketball team, Kou Ichijo had worked up the courage and finally asked her out. He had left Inaba and had only returned last year, a bit of a more determined man that went after what he wanted. One of those things had been Chie. Something Yu was happy for both of them for. They had been going steady for the last almost a year now.