Persona 4 RP Phase 2

"Want me to take over, boss?" offered Karin.

"Hm? How so? If you dont mind me asking." Hideyoshi asked Shinta.


"Aaaaaaagggggh." Masuyo groaned.

"Get up." Yomiko said as she kicked him in the side. "C'mon Tsubasa. Let us surf the web for costumes."

"Okaaaaaaaay." she said as she looked down at Masuyo's pathetic figure.

"Ah sure! thanks!" Kitao said as he handed the hammer to her, "This one's done now though so just start on the next one." He grabbed a panel of plywood and set it down over the frame. "Perfect! Now we put another here aaaaaand. Voila." He kissed his fingers and said in a french accent, "She is ready to be hammered."

"Pfffft." Masuyo giggled like a 2 year old at Kitao's comment. "She's gettin pounded."

"Psssh. Of course you're okay when you hear THAT." Yomiko said contemplating throwing her computer at him

"...." Stefan sat on the couch, waiting for Ami to get out of the shower. He took off his hat, touching his hair up a bit, then putting it back on. ...I guess there's really no point in making my hair look better when I'm just gonna put a hat back on...

***

"Hmm. While you guys are working on this," Rodrigo grabbed a hold of Dahni. "We will work on lights. A play is useless without appropriate mood lighting."

"Um, wouldn't we have to have the script and stage directions too?" Dahni asked.

"No worries, I have a copy of a professional script with lighting directions on my smartphone." Rodrigo held up his phone with pride. "My hands aren't so nimble, so I need you to do wiring. Just be careful though, we wouldn't want you to get electrocuted."

".....Please help." Dahni pleaded to the others.

"Actually I'm the one doing the pounding." corrected Karin as she hammered in the nails. Wait a sec...

"PPPPPPPPPPPFFFFFFFFT. HAHAHAHAHAH!" Masuyo began laughing while lying on his back. A strong force then was applied to his thumb that he had just smashed. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH! WHAT THE HELL!?"

"Shut. The hell. Up." Yomiko said with her heel on his thumb. "Otherwise, i'll start grinding it. YOU WANNA LAUGH ABOUT GRINDING NOW!? HUH!?!?!"


Tsubasa whimpered and shrunk behind the laptop screen.


Ami got into the shower. Hmmm.....what to do. I could always get a hotel but that'll waste my money. I lost contact with that Dahni or whoever chick from school too. Ah well, she didn't seem like she'd be too fun to be around.I could stay here but........I dunno.......that guy out there seems kinda nuts. "Tch. This is more of a pain than I expected. Thanks bosslady." she said as she began to clean herself

Maeko was sitting in her room, staring at the script with a horrified look. "How in the hell am I supposed to memorize this whole thing..I've read the book before, but.." She sighed heavily. "..What if I thought of this as a shadow, and if I dont defeat it, I lose a comrade." Maeko took a deep breath and her expression changed to a determined look, and she opened the script and flipped through the pages intently.

Kitao snickered at the comments and then laughed when Yomiko got Masuyo. He kissed his fingers again and spoke in the same accent, "ahh true love. She is a beautiful sight." He laughed again.

Masuyo laid on the ground silent.

"Anyways........we should look for a dress Maeko wont slaughter us over." Yomiko said. She then thought for a few seconds. "So how does Romeo and the fishergirl sound to you guys? I like the version where Juliet wears fish gear and doesn't kill us for giving her a stage dress."

"Yes, Nobility ran around in fish gear and lumberjack suits back in the da-" Kitao then remembered the harpoon Maeko owned, "And I like my body parts where they are so Fish gear's legit to me." He continued working on the panels.

"Hm...well, far as I know it's original." added Karin finishing off the final nail.

"You're just givng me a better understanding of Mikako, is all." explained Shinta as the two reached the front door of the apartment. "And here we are."

"I can see a kid pointing it out and then she shoots him or her. Then we have to fend off angry parents and the law and all sorts of stuff. Nene why did you volunteer her to be the heroine again?" Masuyo asked.

"Because! She can do it! I know inside of that cold angry exterior of raw fury she has a beautiful heart of a maiden waiting to bloom into-" Nene began.

"Pfffft." Masuyo tried to hold in a laugh. "No sorry keep going." he said failing to keep a straight face.

"Youre terrible." Tsubasa said scowling him. "Right Yomi.......nee......."

Yomiko's face was red and she was covering her mouth.

"You both suck."

Kitao looked at them slightly confused, "Is she really that bad? I mean, yea she was a bit unfriendly at the riverbank but, she wasn't really mean or anything..." He then took a pensive stance, "Then again, I've known her for only half a day now. So I wouldn't know either."

"She has her on and off periods." Masuyo explained. "Sometimes shes actually pretty friendly, others she's ready to kill you just because you're breathing the same air as her. Oh god speaking of periods..........." he said with the most horrified look on his face as it slowly began to get pale.

"Lets......not ponder such a.......lovely trage-er thought shall we?" Hideyoshi said as he arrived with Shinta. "Sorry about the late arrival. What can we do to help?"

"EXISTING IS GOOD ENOUGH SIR. PLEASE SPEAKETH WITH ME, THINGS THAT ARE NOT SUCH BAD THOUGHTS!!!" Kitao said rather loudly and laughing awkwardly loud, while patting Hideyoshi's back. He took a deep breath and said, "Seriously tho, you can help me with this. Gotta line these two panels up and get them attached to each other." Kitao said as he was bending to lift the first panel.

"Alright. And you are? Sorry we havent met yet." Hideyoshi said to Kitao.

"Kitao Shirokawa at your service!" Kitao said offering a hand for a shake, "New guy, Set Building Manager and Professional Tagging Artist extraordinaire! Pleased to Meetcha!"

"I see." Hideyoshi said with an awkward smile. "Hideyoshi.......pleased to meet you." he said shaking his hand. "Is he........." he asked looking at the others.

"Yeah he has one." Masuyo said.

"Is it big?" Nene asked.

"..............." Masuyo remained silent.

"The fact that she could actually be talking about his persona is whats bothering me." Yomiko said. "We don't really have big personas in the group besides what? Lucifer?"

"You're bound to get yourself hurt if you talk like that Kitao." Rodrigo commented.

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"Dum dee dum..." Stefan twiddled his thumbs. ....Someday I'll meet someone who doesn't think I'm a psychopath...then again I do live in a shack in a shrine...

"What do you mean...?" He cocked his head at Rodrigo and then replied to Nene, "Well, I guess he's pretty small. I mean he IS a cat. He's like a samurai though!" Kitao replied, "It's weird though. I didn't know I had it in me... both the shadow and the courage to accept what he was saying..." He said trying to look away. "I know I said I accepted this but I feel like I still got a lot to learn. Both about myself and this Persona stuff going on."

"Yeah yeah thats all nice and gay but you need to know the most important part. THE KILLING PART." Masuyo said. "Can you drop a group of shadows in an instant?"

"Can you even summon your persona? Lets start at step one genius." Yomiko said shaking her head at Masuyo. "Like, its there n stuff but do you know how to call it out?" she asked.

"Umm, u-umm!" Kitao stammered as he tried to figure it out. "I guess not? I mean I didn't know I could summon it or anything... I mean I can try if you guys want."

"Well we ARE in the back. I don't think anyone would see it happen." Nene said.

"But if Mikako has a sensor type of person on her team and they can sense Shirokawa-kun's persona then that could spell trouble for everyone here." Hideyoshi stated. "Why not just take him on a little trip to the tv? Even she cant control everything like she wants in there."

"Hm. Sounds like a good idea. We made better progress than I thought anyways." Masuyo said.

"And we do have four days......" Tsubasa added with a hopeful expression.

"YAY! PROCRASTINATIONNNNNNNNNNNNN!" Nene shouted as she gave the group a thumbs up.

Hideyoshi looked at the others and shrugged. "Sorry. I didn't mean for it to turn out like that. But I suppose he could use to know how to defend himself. It couldn't hurt right?"

"O-okay!" He said nervously, "Umm, can I get a minute though? I wanna make sure I'm at least mentally prepared before I go back into that place..." He shuddered a bit.