BUTTERFLY : SHINOBU KOCHO (PART ONE)

Intermission: Inosuke the Tsuguko; Yaguchi Kari

Inosuke was completely shaken, backing away with every step the giant of a man stepped into his room.

Inosuke wasn't good with numbers, but he made a rough estimate that the man standing in front of him was a good 190 cm tall, with long black hair falling down his black, with two strands falling down the sides of his face, with sharp, black eyebrows, and an amused grin on his face.

The man wore a black shirt that hugged his body like the shirt didn't even exist in the first place, barely being able to contain his gigantic frame. The man's ruby red eyes pierced right through Inosuke's mask like a knife through tissue paper, making him feel like he was being crushed under an immense weight even he couldn't lift.

W-W-W-W-What's with this intense pressure, I feel like I'm being eaten alive!!

Most amazingly of all, though, was that the man clearly did not have a left arm, the black shirt he wore being tied up at the shoulder.

"SO,"

When the man spoke with his deep, chilling voice, Inosuke immediately straightened up and felt a shiver run up his spine.

"YOU MUST BE MY SON'S LITTLE APPRENTICE, ARE YA~?!" The man boomed.

Inosuke immediately furrowed his eyebrows.

"Huh?! What are you talking about?!"

"You are Sakusa's Tsuguko, are you not?!" The man repeated himself a little louder this time, "I don't like repeating myself, so don't fucking ask stupid questions again, got that?!"

"I STILL DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO YOU ARE, BIG GUY!!" Inosuke retorted with a huff.

"Oi, boar boy, shut up."

"Huh?!"

Both men in the room suddenly turned back towards the entryway of the room, and there stood Sakusa, leaning against the doorway with his arms crossed.

Inosuke barked back first. "Oi! Don't tell me to shut up, asshole! You shut up, how about that?!"

A barking match between the two hotheads erupted, the duo hurling insults back and forth like rabid animals.

It was only stopped when the man in the middle of it all cleared his throat, and silenced them with one simple word, shaking the entire mansion in the process.

"....Ahem......QUIET!!!!!!!!"

Both boys promptly shut up, standing straight like a couple of sticks in the ground in the face of the towering man in front of them, even if he and Sakusa were practically identical in height.

The man let out a huff, and turned towards the Rage Hashira to his left.

"Well, aren't you going to introduce me to your new apprentice, boy?!" The man boomed.

"Hmph, he probably already knows, Father...." Sakusa mumbled under his breath, before letting out a sigh and turning towards the dimwitted boar boy beside him.

"Alright, Inosuke,"

"Meet my father, Yaguchi Kari."

It took a while, Inosuke had to glare at the two giant men for a few seconds, before he finally crossed his arms with a huff and nodded.

"Right."

"You're totally lying. That's your twin brother."

"W H A -

It took quite a while, but finally, after the trio sat down in the boar boy's room, Inosuke began to realize that Yaguchi was in fact Sakusa's father.

Yaguchi himself took it as a compliment, proudly declaring that he still had his youth.