Library of Peace [Open]

The "royal prince" himself, Tsurinai Naito, would enter the library with his usual school uniform, and school bag. He had turned his phone off, simply because he was in the library, and didn't wish to bring attention to himself. Walking to the bookshelves without looking towards any others in the library, Naito would turn into an isle and begin to examine the books. He was looking for some more information on Personas, and even on the mysterious of "Limbo". Since once a potential Persona-user faced their Shadow, and it transmogrified into a Persona, it was safe to say the two supernatural forces were connected. There was a chance the two were actually the same. Wasn't so hard to believe Persona-Users were just using Shadows against Shadows? Basically fighting fire against fire. When you put it that way, it was rather believable. "Alright, let's see. I'll start first with information on Limbo, and go right into research on the definition of a Persona." The silver haired student made up his mind and grabbed two books relevant to his cause. Walking out of the isle, he'd make it to an empty table and take a seat. Placing his bag and both books on the table, he'd flip open one named The Hope of Salvation. Turning a few pages after scanning the index, the silver haired boy would go to the main page based around Limbo. From that moment, he'd lift the book from the table and narrow his eyes. "In the theology of the Catholic Church, Limbo or the "edge" of Hell, is a speculative idea about the afterlife condition of those who die in Original Sin without being assigned to the Hell of the Damned. Limbo is not an official doctrine of the Catholic Church or any other Christian denomination. Medieval theologians, in western Europe, described the underworld as divided into four distinct parts: Hell of the Damned, Purgatory, Limbo of the Fathers or Patriarchs, and Limbo of the Infants." His voice trailed off for a few moments before he shifted his eyes to their corners for thought. "So maybe this Limbo is another version of hell? Then why does it reflect our inner-selves? And it also seems to be sentinent, so could it actually be a living world similar to purgatory?" There was so much more he needed to learn about the place, so the pale faced teen would bury his face back within the book and continue to read.

In a hidden corner of the library where usually "bad" students do all the things that they can do without no one seeing them, there was a red haired guy sleeping in peace with a book over his face. The red haired man was sleeping in the library since he knew that place was silent like a graveyard. Suddenly a pair of student go near him, without realizing that a lion was sleeping peaceful there. The students raised their voices while reading a magazine, that disturbed the red haired. The red haired, pissed off, quickly take off the book from his face and look at the two students that where reading an erotic magazine. The red haired man quickly stand up still looking at them. One of them slowly realized that a lion hungry for blood was there. I-i-it's H-hikuro!!! The one looking at Gabishi yelled, and quickly grabbed his friend and ran out from the library. Gabishi just sigh and look at the two student that ran away, Gabishi just hoped that they didn't disturbed no one while screaming and ran out of the library. Gabishi decided to leave the place since he was totally pissed off by those two students, but suddenly he saw someone who he knew in the library. He decided to go near the person, slowly trying not to disturb the person. Gabishi slowly look at the cover of the book that the person was reading Heavy reading huh, Naito?. Gabishi asked towards the silver haired guy.

Mio slowly walked toward the large double doors of the library, with her school bag in one hand and her phone in the other, checking the time before hearing the doors slammed open and she stopped completely as two other students rushed through the doors and ran up the nearby stair well. Her eye's followed them as they disappeared, then continued to walk toward the doors putting away her phone in her bag and flipped her braid back behind her. Opening the door, the view of the library was large and filled with different sections for different genres. The reason she's here right now was that she wanted to know more of the history of the land, Hayabusa and Shibukuzoi. Since she's new to the place she would like to know more, from maps to history books she searched through the historical section, bending over to look at the books nearest to the ground. Grabbing about five books and three maps, two more modern and one from two centuries ago, just because it intrigued her. Looked for the nearest table to sit at, because holding the books and bags together was making it a little hard to handle. Soon finding a table near two other male students, she decided to drop her bag so she would have a better handle on the books and placed them onto the table. Giving a large sigh of relief she grabbed her bag and hooked it to the corner of the chair.

Naito didn't look up from his reading as he heard Hikuro's voice. Instead, he flipped the page and tapped his chin with his free hand. "Ogami, I'm surprised to see you gracing our presence here in the library." Naito spoke with a blunt tone as he tilted his head to the side in confusion. "No matter, it's surprisingly good to see you here. Good thing you're attending school, and making the necessary steps of learning the materials to excel in class." Tsurinai spoke as if he was praising Gabishi for going to the library to study for his classes, but in reality he knew the schoolmate most likely wasn't in there for such a reason. However, the dull faced Naito would lean back in his chair and cross his arms over his chest. Finally looking at Gabishi, he'd lower his voice slightly. "So, I take it you haven't been using your Persona in that place called Limbo, correct? I hope it goes without me saying that venturing within that place is asking for sudden death." Once again, his tone was blunt and to the point. Naito surely wasn't the type to beat around the bush to get his point across. Lifting a finger he would point towards the second book he had brought to the table. "Are you aware what a Shadow is? That thing we faced to save your life is the very Persona you're able to use now. Fascinating, isn't it? Almost like we're using the Shadows own power against them. Humorous." Tsurinai gave a thin smile as he narrowed his eyes back towards the book infront of him. "...Even with this power, it doesn't really tell us who created that world called Limbo, and exactly why. Not even those of the Velvet Room have been able to answer my questions about it as of yet." The silver haired boy would pinch his chin between his index finger and thumb while closing his eyes.

Within this time, a young female joined them at the table. His eyes shot open and looked at her for a few seconds. With someone not involved with this case, it would be troublesome to mention it infront of them. Tsurinai did have a public appearance to maintain here, after all. So very subtly, he'd open the second book so the cover was against the table. Didn't need to risk her reading anything she didn't need to know about. Before Naito could continue to address Gabishi, his spidey senses were tingling. Perhaps not that, but he did see a rather large shadow come across the table. It belonged to none other than Kano Genji.

Tsurinai would have given a greeting, but when Genji began his long rambling, the silver haired student simply narrowed his eyes and put on a face of indifference. He surely did know alot of people, didn't he? Once he was done his introductions, Naito simply raised a hand in a nonchalant wave. "Awesome? I expected a more enthusiastic approach to defining what sort of category I would fall in. But I suppose that's fine enough." His tone was bland, as he gave a thin smile and looked back down into his book. "Whatever floats your boat, I suppose."

Y-y-yeah... studying.... Gabishi said while cold sweating since he wasn't there for study but for take a quick nap. To think about it, since he got back at school he didn't really make anything else than sleeping, eating, and looking for a place for smoking but still no luck for that. Gabishi look at Naito as he talked about an important event, Gabishi's awakening. He can't still believe at such place existed in earth.... wait.... was Limbo on earth? Gabishi made himself confused. He decided not to think about it but Naito continue to mention about it. Nuh.... i still don't know how to get there and how to use the power.... Gabishi answered to Naito when he mentioned about going to Limbo all alone. Gabishi can't believe that someone can enter that place all alone and get out in one piece, but maybe Naito already did that. Gabishi took a deep breath and slowly released before talking again, lowering his voice. Shadow? you mean that thing that was trying to kill me? We have the same power as them? Gabishi become more confused as Naito was going deep in the topic. Gabishi still didn't know how to use the power that was already inside him, he hoped that someone will teach him soon. Wait..... Limbo was created by someone? Gabishi was totally surprised when he heard about that, a totally strange land was created by someone else? Was he trying to play god? Gabishi become even more confused about the topic, his heard was hurting all over the place.

Suddenly Gabishi saw a blonde girl sitting not really far away from him and Naito. He quickly become nervous since he rarely talk to girls, but he was totally surprised when he saw how many books she was holding. After looking at her, suddenly Gabishi remembered about Limbo. There where still so many question to be answered about that place. Where the hell did that place come from? Who created? Why normal people like Gabishi and Naito where giving such powers? and how the hell did Gabishi get inside there without remembering???. Gabishi was so much confused at that time as he open his hand and put on his face.

Suddenly Gabishi heard a familiar voice a cross the table. He slowly raised his head and look at the person that quickly talked at the speed of sound. Gabishi just freeze when he saw Genji sitting in front of him. He bet that he was in the library because of the two running student that Gabishi was pissed off. Why it was so easy for Gabishi to get into trouble? Well...... they were reading a mature book back in the corner and they disturbed me.... Gabishi said with a calm face while looking at Genji. Gabishi look at the girl once again, become nervous once again. H-h-hello M-m-mio-san..... w-welcome to t-town.

Mio stretched her hands forward, placing her fingers between each other and cracking them in a rhythm , before taking the first book of Hayabusa, leaving the rest in a large pile and opening the book the first page. Following the table of contents and onto the large lines of writing after, skimming through to find the things she found interesting before getting into anything serious. Grabbing the map to find each place that was said in the book, though some places were changed or remade to fit with modern things roads, new buildings and schools the place hasn't really changed as if it took a different pace then the rest of the world.

She reached for the book of Shibukuzoi, before the sound of the doors had opened again, coming through was Genji-san, who she hasn't seen for quite a while since the tour of the school. He walked toward the small group. He knew the other two male students as if they were friends for quite a while but how he introduced Mio made her kind of shocked but she tried to keep her cool as she held the book in one hand while waving with the other. "Hello to you both Gabishi-sempai and Naito-sempai." She said with a gentle voice though quiet but still able to be heard.

Turning toward Genji, she shook her head when he asked if they all knew each other. "I'm not familiar with either Gabishi nor Naito-senpai..." She said before rethinking her answer. "But that doesn't mean I wouldn't want to!" She quickly said as she scratched her head with a smile. Her glasses slowly sliding toward the tip of her nose before she pushed them back up, and placing the new book onto the table in front of her.

Well wasn't this turning into a lovely little meeting in the middle of the library? The attempt at getting some real research done was basically thrown out the window at this point, but Tsurinai figured he could easily just check out the books and bring them home with him. So instead of being a debbie downer, he'd simply tilt his book up on the table and glance at the pages without any sort of irritated expression. And when the female looked to say hello, he didn't break his glance from the book to return her greeting with an indifferent "Hello." in response. However, listening to Gabishi stutter over his words previously had made Naito almost smile behind his book. "Hmm, Ogami, I wasn't aware you stuttered. How strange. Perhaps because you're speaking to a female? Interesting to know." The silver haired student's words were blunt, and sort of teasing towards his acquaintance. To top it all off, he even add his most used phrase as the icing on the cake. "..How shameless.." Naito gave a thin smile to himself as he flipped the page of his book. With all jokes aside, Tsurinai's eyes would dart to their corners as Genji asked just how long they would be staying. He was actually tempted to say "just leaving", but he refrained himself from doing so. It'd give too much of an oppression that he was the anti-social type, and no Emperor should be anti-social, correct? Atleast, that was the excuse he made to endure sitting there with the small group of students. Without any more thought, he'd respond, "However long I need.", without actually taking into consideration it seemed like he was defending himself for no reason. After saying the phrase, he looked up towards Genji with an indifferent expression. "Excuse my choice of words, Kano. I'll be leaving once I get the information I'm searching for." That was much better. Atleast it didn't make him sound like an ass that time around.

(OOC: Sorry if a short post, im using my ipod since i will not be home until friday. Its totally freaking hard to write in an Ipod.)

Gabishi look at Genji as he said that Gabishi will be not in trouble for scarying the two studend. "Thank you Genji-sempai" Gabishi said with a little smile on his face towards Genji. Gabishi was still kinda cofused about thinking over Limbo but he was also happy when both of his savior where there. He wanted to apologize and thanks both of them, but he bet that Naito will give a damn about it. Gabishi just look around when a beatiful voice not really far from there. Gabishi become nervous and shy as he look at Mio. Gabishi quickly take a deep brath and slowly released it trying to calm down himself. Gabishi give a little pick to the books that she was reading. She was reading about the areas of the town. Well as Genji said, Mio was new in town. Gabishi didn't mind giving her a little tour, but he bet that she didn't wanted to go to Nadashiki. Suddenly Gabishi heaed something that made Gabishi all red. "N-naito!! Shut up!!!" Gabishi can't believe that Naito eassily found one of the weakness of Gabishi. Yeah, Gabishi is extremely weak towards girls, he can't never hit a girl. The problem is also that he almost never talk to girls, thats why he always shy towards them.

Both Naito and Gabishi replied to her hello though Naito's felt more not toward her but just returning the gesture and Gabishi started to stutter a few times while he spoke. "I'm sure they are willing to make friends with you, Mio-san, there's no reason to be nervous. There are plenty of people here to meet, you'll be surprised by the people you'll come across." Genji stated toward Mio, making her feel curious of how his friends acted, though meeting new people is fun and if Genji said they were nice, she'd believe him. She nodded her head toward his direction, with a small smile. "That's good to hear, I'd be glad to hang out with you guy's sometime. You guy's seem fun." She said as Naito began to speak. "Hmm, Ogami, I wasn't aware you stuttered. How strange. Perhaps because you're speaking to a female? Interesting to know." He said making Mio giggle a bit under her breath, as she covered her mouth with her hand.

"N-naito!! Shut up!!!" Gabishi said toward Naito making Mio laugh a little more seeing how close they were. Mio placed her books onto the table and placed her arms onto the table, seeing that she may be here for a while, seeing how fun these guys were and ignoring them would be rude. Though she was curious of how they all met each other. It felt kinda akward being the weird one out and new to the group but she felt like she can get use to them. "So how did you all meet? Was it just in school, being classmates and all?" She asked curiously.

As Genji answered the question Mio asked about how they met, Naito lowered his head behind his book and closed his eyes. Not once did he say these two were his friends, so why they were all sitting together was odd. Though, it was obviously implied the three had a connection. Tsurinai had a hard time when it came to the word friends, simply because his image of a powerful Emperor never had friends. They had subjects instead. This was such a touchy topic for the silver haired self proclaimed prince, and that was obvious by how quiet he suddenly became. Unlike Genji who seemed to have such an easy time speaking up to people and forming a bond with them, Naito never looked for such a connection. Infact, perhaps the only reason he had Ogami and Kano on friendlier terms were because of their potential to use Personas. If it wasn't for that, would he have actually been there speaking to them in such a way? He was becoming to familiar with them. This Limbo investigation team was supposed to be strictly business and nothing more. Atleast, that's what he told himself when he started getting involved with other Persona users.

Tilting his head to the side to get his silver bangs out from infront of his left eye, he'd give a light sigh under his breath. "Student Council must be nice. You know, having the authority to basically order other students around without worry. I can see why alot of upperclassmen are so interested in such a Council. Even the President seems to have a sense of propriety when around his fellow school mates. I'm sure such a title would easily stroke egos." Naito's words were indifferent and rather blunt when mention the student council. He never was the type to mince words, after all. It just wasn't his sort of thing to do. "To be honest, I've been thinking about joining myself my third year. By that time, the president should be long gone. Heh." The over achiever gave a thin smile at the thought.

Gabishi look around for a moment before looking back to the people on the table, he was shaking his left leg since he can't stay calm and become even more nervous. He really need to smoke a cigarette but he can't totally smoke in the school grounds, especially in front of one from the Student Council. He decided to calm down himself by taking a deep breath but it wasn't working so much. He didn't knew that school can be this interesting since he left it because of the stupid rumors about him. Maybe Naito made a really good suggestion towards Gabishi forcing him to go back to school. He was meeting some interesting people in there, even thought a lot of students in that school where scared of him. Gabishi listened to them in silence since they where still inside a library, even thought Gabishi didn't care to follow the silent rule.

Suddenly Gabishi was kinda surprised to hear when Naito was talking about joining the Student Council. He knew that Naito was always aiming to be in the top of something, and that disturbed Gabishi at all.... well, beside making really strange rules, than Gabishi will totally break them and the creator of the rules too. Really? The Student Council? Gabishi always have bad memories with them since his first year until now, well thanks to Genji he can worry less. ..... I was already kicked out from another club..... i totally bet that also the Student Council will never accept me as a member... Gabishi said with a little smirk on his face. Even thought he helped Genji caught a bully, he was still in blacklist.

To think about it..... i both meet you when i was hungry....... Naito in a Sushi Bar in Nadashiki and Genji at school, not far from a vending machine. Gabishi said while he put his hand behind his head and thinking. To think about it he always meet people when he was hungry and near some food, what a strange thing. Well, luckily in this meeting he wasn't really hungry.

Being that they all met each other through some means of school such as the student council or on school grounds, was in fact something that might happen to her as well. Seeing as there are many students that go to this school which makes friend making a little to easy unless treating others in the wrong way. She listened as Naito was speaking of the student council and how he has been thinking of joining them. She didn't know for what reason and didn't think she was in the proper position to ask for a reason. "The student council sounds fun, though they must have alot of jobs to do." Mio stated as he soon finished speaking.

"..... I was already kicked out from another club..... i totally bet that also the Student Council will never accept me as a member..." said Gabishi with a smile on his face.
"To think about it..... i both meet you when i was hungry....... Naito in a Sushi Bar in Nadashiki and Genji at school, not far from a vending machine." He said, making Mio laugh at his way of remembering of their first meetings with each other. Taking another look toward Naito she her eye's were caught by the books that he was reading, and made her curious. "Excuse me Naito-Sempai. What are those books about, that you are reading?" She asked curiously.