Mini-Tartarus

The halls of Gekkoukan echoed with the footfalls of Minako's black shoes on the tiled floor. Classrooms flashed past her in a blur as she urged her legs to move ever faster, channeling her embarrassment into a surge of speed to put some distance between her and her tormentor. Running was an awkward, undignified affair as she was hugging her school bookbag close to her chest to protect her from the relentless photos her pursuer was doggedly taking of her mostly naked body. The fact that her lower regions were unprotected and he was no doubt getting some excellent shots of her butt and shaven pussy was not lost on her, but she could only do so much for herself while on the move.

She managed to flee up the stairs of the school faster than at any other time in her entire life. But she skidded to a sudden stop when she reached the proper floor, a new terrible realization gripping her. Making it to her destination meant actually having to enter her classroom, a room she had shared for countless hours with nearly fifty other highschool students for nearly an entire year. Being **** to go through the streets of Iwatodai City completely naked while what was surely hundreds if not thousands of gawking strangers stared, leered and laughed at her was so humiliating she felt as though she would die of the shame. Yet being found in that shameful state by Ken, Junpei and Akihiko had somehow felt a hundred times more humiliating due to her close association with each of them. And here she was facing a similarly dreadful moment of humiliation, entering and attending a whole day's worth of classes while everyone she knew best in the school would be on hand to stare. Minako had developed a natural sort of coping mechanism for her grief and feelings of loneliness, namely to be an energetic and outgoing person who developed easy (though until recently fairly superficial and shallow) friendships. Add to that the strange (one might even say unnatural) charisma all Persona Users who possessed the Wild Card seemed to radiate and she had naturally become one of the most popular girls in the school in general and her class in particular. Her only serious competition in that arena was from her best friend Yukari Takeba, a fact the pair were well aware of and not in the least happy about given their mutual state of public indency.

Alas, Minako hesitated a moment too long. Junpei Iori came barreling up the stairs a moment later, and all at once Minako heard the dreaded sound of a camera phone capturing another moment of her shame and preserving it for all time. Her whole body burning with embarrassment, Minako moaned in protest and quickly backed into a corner, holding her book bag out in front of her. Junpei simply gave a smug smile while he shifted the camera to a lower angle to capture a view of her exposed sex. Immediately Minako slid to the ground, pressing her knees up to her chest and anchoring her book bag so it would hide her breasts and busy from view. Junpei gave a cocky smile, gave her a once over, then took another picture, apparently deciding the vision of her blushing and desperately hiding her body was worth documenting all by itself. Minako glared in silent rage, scrunching her face up at the highschool boy who now loomed over her.

"You suck so much right now." Minako hissed.

Junpei paused, stroking his barely existent facial hair in fake contemplation, then nodded slowly in agreement. And immediately took another picture.

"IDIOT!" Minako squeeked, hiding her face in shame.

"No argument there! And you know you wouldn't have me any other way!" Junpei said happily.

"That just makes me a bigger idiot than you are!" Minako snapped.

She continued to seethe in humiliated frustration as he unabashedly laughed at the response. Then she sighed heavily to herself.

"I really only have myself to blame for this. Yukari knew this place and the people here. I could have just trusted her that first day when she told me about the biggest pervert in our class. I could have gotten to know someone else. Maybe Kenji Tomochika. I bet he would have made a perfectly good Magician. He's kind of an idiot, sure, but he mostly only acts like a pervert around older women. He's not hard to understand. As long as I told him what he wanted to hear and just stood back and let him make his own idiotic mistakes and let the inevitable rejection happen I'd have an unbreakable connection in no time. And then maybe he'd listen to me and I could get him to stop being a complete dumbass and just date poor Rio already..." Minako muttered.

"Uh...Minako-tan? You doing okay over there?" Junpei asked.

"But no. Nope. I had to give the big perverted idiot a chance. I got taken in by that dopey baseball cap he doesn't even take off when he's in the shower and his stupid nice guy routine. And now I've got this unbreakable bond to this absolute pervert and I can't get rid of him..." Minako kept muttering.

"Oh boy. So I'm officially on a lower tier than Kenji now, huh?" Junpei asked.

Minako glared. "Let's just say I liked you better when you were the one who was hunting down the perverts taking creepy pictures of me instead of BEING one."

"Awww. But when I do it its funny!"

Minako gave him a wither glare.

"If it makes you feel any better Chidorita is making me do this to **** me as much as you or the other girls." Junpei said conspiratorially.

"Oh please." Minako scoffed, her face scrunching into a embarrassed little pout.

"Its true!" Junpei said in assurance.

"What about this could possibly qualify as '****' for you?" Minako muttered.

"Well...I mean...you, uh...you don't really need me to explain what happens to a guy when he sees a cute girl in the buff, do you?" Junpei asked, rubbing the back of his neck.

Minako gave him a blank look, an eyebrow raised. Then her face went blank, her eyes widened, and she glanced briefly down at Junpei's waste before slowly looking back up at him in wide eyed realization. With a questioning look, Minako slowly extended her hand and raised up two fingers upwards in a rough caricature of something erect and rigid.

"Uh. Yeah." Junpei said, actually blushing.

Minako stared at her two fingers a long moment, then snickered. "So...so little Junpei's been transformed into a mini-Tartarus?"

"Uhhhh...okay, first off, it isn't that 'mini' so-"

"Oh wow!" Minako giggled. "Of course it has! That's probably been happening a LOT this whole time! I've been so caught up in how humiliating this feels that I didn't even think of that!"

"Right. I know it isn't the same level as you guys, but this is awkward for all of us. You aren't-" Junpei said.

"Oh crap! And a pervert like you can't help but get one really easily with us right there with you all day long! And with our shadows going out of their way to humiliate us as much as possible, there won't ever be any peace for the poor thing! Any chance it would have to calm down..." Minako said, curling her fingers downward. "...one of us will come by and make it spring right back up again! That's going to be little Junpei's whole day!"

"Y-yeah. Y-you got it. So, uh-" Junpei stammered as Minako continued to giggle.

"Oh man. And of course our shadows favorite way to humiliate us is to make us play with ourselves in public. Which IS so humiliating I could die! But I guess we're lucky in a way, aren't we? Being humiliated like this is a huge turn on, and it would be almost painful not to have some relief throughout the day. But we can only get away with doing obscene things like that because we're suffering from 'Eden Syndrome' as far as the school and media are concerned. But guys don't get that condition. So you really won't have any chance to do anything about poor little Junpei until school is over!" Minako said, a huge smile on her face.

"....." Junpei said nothing as Minako continued to giggle madly, waving her two 'erect' fingers about as if this was the most hilarious thing on Earth.

"Thanks, Junpei-kun!" Minako said at last, her smile delighted and devilish. "That DOES make me feel better!!"

"Glad to hear it." Junpei said. "Then you won't mind this next part."

"Huh? Oh no!!" Minako squeeked, a mess of incoherent giggles and dismayed squeeling as Junpei lunged towards her, wrapping a burly arm around the smaller girl and wrestling her out of her strategically positioned hiding place.

What followed were by far the most embarrassing, close up pictures of her body Minako had suffered through thus far. Junpei carefully catalogued every inch of her from utterly degrading angles, her large breasts taking up much of the screen while the next placed the camera mere inches from her exposed clit. The whole scenario was as embarrassing as before, but some giddy feeling had overcome the naked girl that refused to leave. She was a laughing, giggling mess throughout the ordeal, conveying her dismay and embarrassment but mustering no real resistance to the ordeal, opting instead to dissolve into fits of uncontrollable laughter as if she were being mercilessly tickled. By the time the camera phone had ceased, the pair were both sitting side by side, panting hard and smiling like they had just shared a naughty joke.

"Pervert." Minako said, a snicker still in her voice.

"You talkin about me or you?" Junpei asked, idly looking over his collection of nude pictures.

Minako stuck her tongue out at him.

"So feeling better?" Junpei asked.

"....yeah. Yeah, I am." Minako said, a little mystified. "Did you do all that just to make me feel better?"

"Eh. Something was bugging you bigger than this Temptation stuff. So I had to do something." Junpei shrugged. "I mean...that was one reason."

Minako rolled her eyes. "I meant besides being a giant pervert."

"You know you wouldn't have me any other way." Junpei said, still paying attention to his phone.

"That just makes me a bigger idiot than you are." Minako said, this time without any venom behind the statement. "Yeah. Your right. And I take back what I said before. You make a way better Magician than Kenji could ever be."

"You keep saying that like I'm supposed to know what the hell that even means." Junpei noted.

"Sorry. Inside joke. Its a little complicated." Minako said.

"It always is, isn't it?" Junpei sighed.

"When it comes to the Dark Hour? Pretty much." Minako sighed. "I promise it will all make sense tonight."

"Cool. Just let me know when your ready to talk and I'm all ears." Junpei said, getting to his feet. "So, you ready?"

"......." Minako said, looking down. "M-maybe we...maybe we should find Yukari and Aegis. We might get in trouble if they aren't with us. I should probably-"

"Free period is almost over, Minaka-tan. We're gonna get in way more trouble if we put this off." Junpei noted, rising to his feet.

The boy offered a hand. Minako winced as she took it and rose to her feet, her naked breasts bouncing slightly, emphasizing the stiff tips of her nipples. She gazed at the floor as she stood before him, no longer bothering to hide her nakedness.

"They're gonna have to see you like this sooner or later, Minaka-tan." Junpei noted softly.

"I know." Minako whispered. "I'm just not sure how much of this I can take! Minakage won't be satisfied until everyone I know has seen me naked and humiliated!"

"You can take it. I know you can." Junpei paused. "Uhhh...who the hell is 'minakage'?"

"Oh. Uh. My shadow. We talk about her so much I wanted to give her a proper name. So I combined 'Minako' and the kanji for 'shadow' together. Minakage." Minako shrugged.

"That's a little awkward. Why not, I dunno, reverse your name or something."

"....reverse the characters in my name. Mi. Na. Ko. Reverse those. You want me to name my shadow 'Konami'." Minako said blankly.

"Uhhh...okay, maybe that isn't the best association."

"I'm not naming my shadow after a crappy video game company. We managed to get at least a little understanding today. I want to stay on her good side for now. And besides, she's evil but she isn't THAT evil!" Minako declared.

"Hey come on. This is probably just a bad time for them. Give them a few years and I'll bet they clean up their act!" Junpei said.

Spoiler alert: In a few years Junpei would be very disappointed.

"Look. Her name is Minakage. End of discussion. I promise when the darkest part of your psyche awakens and takes control of your body you can name it whatever you want to." Minako deadpanned.

".....your just stalling, aren't you?" Junpei said.

".....maybe." Minako admitted.

"All right, fearless leader, let's get moving." Junpei said, handing Minako her bag.