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[Splish--splish---splash.

That was quite the event. Minato was relieved that it was over when it was over. After he got some rest, he had to check on his friends, check on anyone who needed it, and then just find some way to relax. Try to get back to normal.

So he found himself out at the beach, doing something mundane. The ocean was still enough that he could do this: Skipping rocks.

Splish---splish------splash.]

Someone once said that Hell is on your last day alive, you meet the person you could've been.

What's Heaven like then?

[It couldn't have been as simple as not meeting them. There had to be other interpretations.

Splish----splish----------splash.]

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Minato had sent Souji a private message before he made it to the beach. It was a simple, short, video message asking Souji to meet with him. It wasn't a text message since it would be better for Souji to hear his voice and see him instead of just reading some text that could seem so impersonal. For any issue, but especially this issue, Minato couldn't be that casual or impersonal.

He thought the most appropriate place for something like this would be outside. It shouldn't be inside because of those mirrors, for one, and then anyone else could overhear them. The comm devices along the walls and their own could turn on at any time too without their knowledge.

But he did want to talk outside because it meant something then. It was where Minato had shown up the first time, perhaps the other times too, and it felt right to talk where it had all started.]

[When he got Minato's message, Souji had quietly responded that he'd come.

He was relieved when he'd woken up and everything was over. It had all felt strange, but it had felt natural, too. Even if he'd wanted to keep it in and had known he should, it had all come from him. From somewhere deep inside himself that never saw the light of day, not even through the voices of his Personas. Was that truly the core of who he was?

He didn't want it to be. Even if it wasn't, it was still there. There were people he needed to apologize to, and Minato was one of them. It would be a start.

It wasn't long before he found Minato on the beach, skipping rocks on the water. He gathered up a few himself before coming to stand beside him.]

Will you show me how?

you'd have to convince some people it exists first

[Tim included.]

[Minato offered Souji a small yet encouraging smile. He was really glad and relieved that Souji had decided to meet with him and was actually here. There were a lot of things they should discuss, things that even for Minato made him turn toward inside himself to learn more about who he was.

He nodded. Of course he'd show Souji how to do it. It was something he picked up while at Yakushima with his friends.]

Like this.

[He showed Souji how he gripped the stone and then how he used his wrist when he sent that rock skimming across the water in three splashes. He was good at three, sometimes he got four. Not really or less than that.]

You try it now.

[That's right too. Minato forgot that he shouldn't have thought about it in just black and white.]

Point taken. Should it exist?

[That was slightly different than if it existed or not.]

Edited 2016-12-07 05:48 (UTC)

Kid, what the fuck.

i don't know.

[That's the truth. He's got no clue if it should, or if it even does.]

some say you have to go to heaven since this is already hell

[Also true. No other way to go than up, or something like that.]

Shouldn't there be a way to fix "this" so that it's not like or is hell?

[Is that the optimist in him? The idealist?]

[Have a headtilt. Then a blink.]

Something wrong?

[Curiosity pinged.]

it'd take a lot to fix a place like this pal

[If that last event was any indication of the magnitude of what goes on here plus all the things he's heard about it previous to his arrival, then okay, yes, probably like hell to some extent.

He hoped the following wasn't too invasive. He just needed something to compare.]

Is home any better?

yours or mine

[Hell if he's talking about his own. Never pays to talk about this kind of thing when someone could be listening...]

[Fair enough. Minato didn't have to take too long in how to answer, but he did think about if he should. May as well, though he didn't know if it would help.]

Mine was hell, but better now.

[Something like that. "Better" though is so broad a scale though, it's really almost an unfair assessment.]

Sometimes people put themselves through hell to make things better for other people.

so that makes this heaven comparably?

[He doesn't respond to that last statement. He knew one too many people who put themselves through hell to make things better for others, only for it to backfire miserably.]

[That's... actually a really good question. Here he had been asking what Heaven of some sort might be like, but what about for him personally?]

Can I think about parts of it being heaven and other parts hell?

[That seemed like a copout answer, but he didn't think that this place was just strictly one or the other then. Even home had its downsides.]

you can think what you want dude
i'm not the thought police.

[That works. At least his answer wasn't shot down.]

Is there something I can help with so it's not so much like hell for you here?

why

[He's probably safer not knowing. Safer not getting into it. And why would he want to? He doesn't know Tim. Probably wouldn't want to after a time.]

[Souji tries, and the rock plops into the water. So he tries again, and the same thing happens. He pauses, reassessing what he's doing, then tries a third time. The stone skips once before splashing down through the surface.

He'll take it.]

Thanks, senpai.

[He feels like he can use that term with Minato. He can show his gratitude that way.]

Why not?

[The obvious response. If they were all in this together, then shouldn't he do his part so that it wouldn't be so bad for someone else?]

[Minato smiled, nodding after seeing that Souji had gotten it on the third try. It wasn't easy, but Souji caught on.

He touched his hand to Souji's arm, then indicated toward the dock.]

... Let's go sit down over there first.

[They could practice some more afterward. Or during the talk. It might be away to have Souji let out anything he was feeling.]

Edited 2016-12-09 00:56 (UTC)

not much you could do one way or another
the place has been this way for a while the way everyone tells it

I can't change the place. But if you need someone to talk to, then I'd be okay with that.

[He could offer that. He wanted to.]

thanks but i'm already seeing a therapist

[Uh. Sorta.]

you're like nine, ease up on the e-existential crisis.

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