The Place Where We Belong ( Persona 5 x Reader )

The Clash

"Hey! What the-" Ryuji said as he was pushed to the side. My nails and head started to dig into him as I heard him reacting hostilely. He noticed this and his eyes widened in realisation. He looked at a familiar bald man and saw who it was. It felt familiar to him.

"There's still no update on the case?" Shido asked one of his bodyguards, completely ignoring us. It was good that he was ignoring us, at least for me, but hearing his voice so close again made me flinch.

"N-Not yet..." One of his bodyguards stepped forward. They kept on talking until Ryuji interrupted them.

"Hey! You're cutting in line!" Ryuji spoke up, a mad frown plastered on his face.

"...What do you want?" One of his men spat out as he turned around to look at us.

"We were here first." Akira stated. I looked at him, eyes wide open and tears on the verge of leaving them. They were fighting him off while I was feeling so scared. I was defenceless and feared they'd be too by facing him.

"We're in a hurry." The suit guy replied.

"Oh, so you get to cut in line just because you're in a hurry?" Ryuji stated angrily as all eyes were on us. I gripped onto his jacket on his back, panicking.

"Please, the two of you.... stop...!" I managed to say softly between quickened breaths. They didn't stop, both of them had already understood that the source of my anxiety was that group of men in front of us.

"It seems the customer base has changed since I was here last. Have they started a day care?" Shido asked arrogantly as he looked at the lift doors in front of him.

"What?" Ryuji got into his offensive position and I gripped tightly at his clothes, hoping that he didn't attack Shido or his men. The man turned around.

"Sir, we don't have time for this." He said boringly.

"I know." Shido simply stated. The bodyguard got closer to us and he pushed Ryuji at max force, revealing me behind him. My body froze as Shido turned around and our gazes locked. I felt my body shake as I stared at him and Ryuji got closer to me, I could feel rage itself next to me.

"Don't bother with them!" Shido stated as he looked down on me. "Damn brat." He scoffed at me as they entered the lift.

As they went away, Akira held onto his head while shaking it. I was still frozen as I looked at the lift doors. Ryuji clicked his tongue as he wrapped his arm around my waist, keeping me close to him and making sure I calmed down as I hugged him, calming down.

"The hell was with that bossy guy?!" He asked angrily. "That dick really pissed me off. He wasn't even hidin' the fact that he looks down on everyone!" He released his anger as he called for the lift again. He brushed my hair, my heart beat and breath had returned to normal and I looked at Akira as Ryuji still held me, calming himself down.

"Hey, Akira. What's wrong?" I asked as Ryuji let go of me and I placed my hand on Akira's shoulder. He was holding his head. Ryuji also got closer to us.

"Yeah, what's wrong?" Ryuji asked.

"Don't worry about it." Akira replied as he let go of his head.

"That's only going to make me worry more, you know." He told him as he crossed his arms and looked at him with a worried face.

"He's right, Akira..." We looked into each other's eyes. He was going to open his mouth when Morgana spoke for him.

"I bet it's because he rarely eats well. I'm always stuck with canned cat food too..." Morgana stated. And before anyone else could say anything, the lift came up for us to go down, but I still frowned my eyebrows at what happened with Akira. We went inside the lift. Ryuji and Akira looked at each other and then three pair of eyes were set on me. "What happened back there, (Y/n)? You were totally freaking out, are you sure you're okay?" Morgana asked. I looked at them, they all seemed to have the same questions in mind.