Low Tide (Rengiyuu)

Chapter 3

*mentions of self harm*

"It's a miracle he didn't catch on earlier!" Rengoku exclaimed, "I told him many times that Kanroji and Kocho are the only 2 women in the Hashira!" He laughed.

"Yeah." I said.

We walked through the woods. There was light mist even though it was very hot today. It was like a fantasy world.

"Oh wait! We forgot to pick up our swords! Let's head to the sword smith village!" Rengoku exclaimed.

"Oh yeah!" I said.

We took the route to the Swordsmith village and made it.

"Actually, Kyojuro, we could have our date here!" I suggested.

"Really?" He said, "Alright! I'm up for it." He said putting his arm around my shoulder.

We made it to the sword smith.

"Swords for Rengoku and Tomioka." I said.

"Alright here you go!" The man handed us our swords.

"Thank you!" Kyojuro said.

"Have a nice day!" I called out.

"Okay, follow me!" I said and I started running, he ran behind me.

"Okay! We're here!" I said.

It was the ledge of a cliff that had the perfect view of a waterfall and under a cherry blossom tree. The grass was green and the picnic was already set up.

"Courtesy to the villagers for setting this up for me." I smiled.

"I love it!" Kyojuro ran up to me and hugged me. I almost fell down because of how fast he ran. We spun around and laughed. We kissed.

Then finally we sat down and ate.

"I love you." I said.

He kissed me on the forehead. We had a great time. We had headed back to the main mansion to group up with the other Hashira for the usual meeting but today had a different plan for us.

Shinobu POV

We were all laughing at the table when someone who looked very similar to Rengoku showed up and came up to us. There were only 6 Hashira including me, since Muichiro was out with Tanjiro, and Rengoku and Giyuu were out as well.

"Hello. I am Kyojuro's father. I was wondering if any of you know a Tomioka Giyuu." He said.

"Oh yeah, he went out with Kyojuro, I have no idea where though." Uzui said.

"Yeah, him and Rengoku have been hanging out a ton now." Mitsuri added.

"What? Tomioka....is a man?" He looked like he was about to pop a vein he was infuriated.

"Is there a problem?" I said.

"Nope! I was just wondering if any of you knew....*him.*" He completely changed his tone tone and started to head towards the gates but he didn't leave.

"Did we do something?" Misturi said cautiously.

"I think we did." Uzui said.

"What are we going to do now?! Tomioka and Rengoku and supposed to come here. If they run into each it's over." Iguro said.

"I'm staying out of this. I'm going to the bathroom." Sanemi said.

Giyuu POV

We walked through the gates to meet up with the other Hashira. Since our relationship was public we held hands.