Chapter Text
Yuri’s POV
June 13, Saturday, 1:38
After a short walk, (Monika lives quite close to the mall in my AU) we arrive at Monika’s house. It’s a 2 story house with a nice garden in the front filled with beautiful flowers. I go over to Monika’s quite often, her house is calming and she has a comforting presence.
Sayori runs in and flops onto the couch, it’s seems like she comes over quite frequently as well. I follow her and sit on the edge of the soft, gray couch, setting my bag on the floor next to me.
Natsuki just stands for a moment, observing her surroundings before taking a seat on the ground next to Sayori.
“You are welcome to sit on the couch, Natsuki!” Monika says with a soft smile. Natsuki just shakes her head. “I’m fine here” Monika nods and turns to put her bags away.
Sayori lets out a long sigh. “I’m soooooo tireddddddddd” Natsuki responds by rolling her eyes. “Then why suggest coming here if you’re soooooo tireddddd” she says, half mockingly. “Becauseeee I can sleep later, but now I wanna hang out with my friends!”
Sayori pouts and I smile. Sayori turns her head to look at me. “Soo, Yuri! What’s your favourite colour!” I look slightly confused and think for a moment “hmm, probably velvet red”
Sayori looks surprised but before she can respond, Natsuki intrudes “Ew, isn’t that like..the colour of blood. Of course that’s your favourite.” She looks away and Sayori gasps. “Natsuki! Be nice!” Natsuki pouts. “I’m just telling the truth!”
I look away. “I think it’s a beautiful colour..” I say, quietly. After a bit more chatting, (Natsuki and Yuri arguing while Sayori try’s to stop it) Sayori looks up, towards the stairs and frowns, eyebrows furrowed. “Monika’s taking a while, ima go help her out!”
Sayori looks at us and gives a small smile and a nervous thumbs up. “Don’t like kill each other while I’m gone, ok?” I nod and smile. Natsuki turns her head and grumbles before nodding along. “Ok! Brb!”
Sayori practically runs up the stairs, almost knocking off one of the hanging pictures of Monika and Protag.
With Sayori gone and nothing to fill the silence, me and Natsuki just sit, awkwardly. After a bit, Natsuki breaks the silence. “I refuse too believe you haven’t heard at least ONE of my songs!” I look at her and tilt my head. “I don’t recall hearing any.”
Natsuki walks over to me and sits on my left, pulling out her phone. It has a red phone case with a red haired anime girl on it, her hair tied in a ponytail…didn’t she just say she hated red. I point to the character.
“Who’s this?” Natsuki stares for a moment before replying. “Kyoko Sakura from Madoka Magica! Aka, the best character of all time!” She smirks, and I nod. “Oh….nice”
truly, I’ve never been a fan of anime. I found it a bit boring, but I feel if I say that out loud, I might cause a scene. Natsuki glares at me. “The hell is that supposed to mean?!” My eyes widen at the sudden shift in her tone and i stutter out a response.
“N-no! I..I didn’t mean it in a bad way!” I look back in guilt and Natsuki stays silent for a moment before replying, kinda annoyed. “Whatever, let me show you the videos”
I turn back to her and she pulls up some clips of her, she wears something different in each video, but every outfit is somewhat similar, the common patterns being pink, lots of bows and ruffles, and puffy.
But I noticed something..odd. In every clip, she’s smiling sweetly and being kind to others. “Do you…fake your personality?” Natsuki looks at me, as if I just asked if the sky is blue. “Uhm duh! You think I could naturally be like that!?”
I look away. “So…you’re whole thing is a cute idol with a sweet voice and pretty face.” I say, still avoiding her gaze. “W-well that’s not ALL of it..but..yea kinda, if that’s what makes me famous!” I look back at her and see a slight sadness in her eyes. It’s small, but there.
“You don’t seem like the type of person to listen to what others want- not in like a rude way!” I stammer. And Natsuki crosses her arms and leans back, closing her eyes with an annoyed expression.
“I’m not! I hate keeping my personally a secret! But I love being an idol! And I love being cute and stuff!” She waves her hand and opens her eyes to look at me.
“Sooo, whatcha think of my music.” Natsuki looks at me expectingly and I overt her gaze. “Well, you have a nice voice but…it’s not my style, your emotions seem forced and the lyrics are kinda shallow, even childish. Also I feel you rely on your visual-”
before I can finish, she cuts me off. “W-WELL you don’t get it! Being a world famous idol is hard and you have no place to talk!” She shouts, defensively. I look panicked and try to muster a response “Wait! I’m not saying it was bad! I-it’s good but-”
she interrupts again. “But what! You just can’t handle art!” I stay silent and look away. “…sorry” Natsuki pouts and doesn’t respond.
We stay silent for a moment before Sayori comes back running downstairs with Monika. “We’re back!!” Sayori sprints to the couch and sits between me and Natsuki.
Monika sets down a try of cookies and looks at us, apologetically. “Sorry we took so long, I got a bit distracted. I hope these make up for it.” Sayori wastes no time and grabs a cookie.
“Did you know that Monika has a whole pantry in her room! I mean, I already knew, but I didn’t know she kept cookies in there.” I look at Monika and she lets out a sigh.
“Well, it’s more like a closet that I store random stuff in, but I keep my best snacks hidden there.”
She smiles and I reach for a cookie. “Thank you” I say, softly as Monika takes a seat, facing us.
“Of course!” We talk for a bit more before it becomes dark out. Natsuki looks outside and stands up. “I’m gonna head out, gotta get home.” Sayori looks sad, her blue eyes drooping.
“Awwww, time went by so fast….” She gets up and follows Natsuki to the door, but turns back to look at me. “Hey Yuri, are you staying longer?”
I smile and reply. “Actually, I’m staying for the night.” Sayori pouts and closes her eyes. “Whatttt! A sleepover! I’m so jelly!” Monika just chuckles “we can have a sleepover as well, ok?”
Sayori lights up “sounds good!” Natsuki and Sayori say they’re goodbyes before heading out.
What an interesting day that was.