The Swimming Butterfly (Giyushino Fanfic)

Chapter 29

𝚃𝚘𝚖𝚒𝚘𝚔𝚊 𝙶𝚒𝚢𝚞

I exited the bath with only a towel wrapped around my waist, each step towards my room making it fall down slightly. Slamming open the door, I ran into my room, but not before the poorly wrapped towel crumpled onto the floor. Several high-pitched gasps came from the hallway, the sound of women cringing as they caught a glimpse of my bare buttcheeks. 

I sighed, not feeling the slightest bit of embarrassment, but rather irritated at the unfortunate and ludicrous timing. 'At least the silver lining here is that no one was here to see my front side.' 

Bending down to pick up my towel, there were several more gasps, with some giggles thrown into the mix, which I promptly ignored. As I picked up the gray towel, I looked up into a pair of brown eyes. 

A servant of the estate had been cleaning my room and had witnessed the whole fiasco from the front. 

"Have a good night, Master Giyu." She spoke with a polite tone but refused to look up from the ground and into my eyes. Rushing out of the room, she bumped into the doorframe before exiting completely. 

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Lazily throwing my haori across my shoulders, I made my way to the dining hall. I grabbed a metal tray and put the food that seemed most filling onto it before sitting at an empty table, which there were many of. The whole room was relatively empty, with only a few people scattered around the huge room. 

Scanning the room for a certain someone, I noticed a table across the room, where five girls were eating together. When they noticed me, they started to giggle hysterically, some of them blatantly laughing out loud. 

"Rough night, Giyu?" A high-pitched, airy voice asked me. Shinobu set down her tray sat across from me, her smile full of amusement and delight. "I heard you showed several girls a second moon last night." 

She propped up her chin into her hand, waiting for me to respond. Her eyes twinkled as she looked back and forth between the table of girls and me. 

"I... I didn't show them a moon. How would I do that? They simply saw my buttcheeks. That was it." Her grin grew even larger. 

She covered her smile in an innocent manner, but her eyes still sparkling with mischief. "Oh my Giyu, cheating on me already? I'm hurt."

"I... I didn't," I was at a loss for words. I scrambled to create a proper-sounding apology, but my mind was blank. Shinobu held back her laughter as she sat through my stuttering, clenching her stomach to stifle the giggles threatening to escape her. 

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𝙺𝚘𝚌𝚑𝚘 𝚂𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚘𝚋𝚞

Giyu dejectedly looked downwards at his food, moving the rice around with his chopsticks. And by dejectedly, I meant he wore his typical emotionless face. Despite it looking like he was apathetic about the whole situation, the slight downwards tilt of his lips signaled his displeasure and disheartenment. 

 He continued to toy around with his food, still unable to formulate an apology for my playful accusations. Unable to bear his misery any longer, I finally gave up on the joke, apologizing for my actions. 

"Still, it was unfair of you to only show those girls, don't you think?" I got up from the table, blowing Giyu a kiss. "See you tonight," I half-jokingly uttered, giving him a seductive wink.