O. Iguro; Why I Chose You

4. Orenda

Tears well up in his eyes as his own sister begins to attack him. His hands forcefully having to pin her against the dirt floor as her newly grown fangs started to grit in anger once she finally gains conscious after being unable to breathe for the longest of time.

"Y-Y/n... I-it's me! Tengen!" His tears began to fall onto his sisters cheeks as his voice starts to strain terribly. Watching as his only blood relative had been squirming, trying to free herself from the hold of both sound and wind hashira.

Obanai can only stand above her with a mixture of feelings.

And for the second time in Tengen's life did he hear her heart crushing. How much it hurt him to hear as all he wanted to do at the given moment was cover his ears roughly with his hands, for he did not want to hear his sister in so much pain mentally. Currently cursing his supernatural-like hearing ability as he himself had felt his whole life tumbling in front of him.

She slowly stops fiddling around and soon Tengen covers his ears in attempt to block the noises out before lifting his weight off of her legs slowly with caution as Sanemi releases his hands away from her wrists. Only for Obanai's eyes to widen as the feeling of her arms wrap around his neck, letting a small hiccup escape her lips as she digs her face into his uniform.

Yet, her words were strained. She couldn't speak at all, in fear of Muzan hearing her, for now his cells were in her body and she know what he was capable of. She stays within Obanai's arms while Kuburamaru tries to help the upset girl with a few tickles to the face as everyone would know how much joy that sparked in her no matter how hard she tried hiding it. But this time, it was different. The feeling of a small flicker to the face did not even make her blink, her lips that would curl up into a wide smile was still gone causing the others around her to look away in pain.

Kyojuro especially. Guilt washing upon his usual smile as he adverts his one good eye to the side.

For now, their usual kind spirit and happy hashira being brought to such circumstances. How dreadful and upset Obanai was to watch Y/n go through this new phase.

'Big brother... help please.' Tengen isn't able to hold in himself up high as he hears her mentally cry for him in his mind. His knees now meeting with the dirt floor with Y/n soon following after him, hating how this had made such a confident man crumble as if it was him, who had been brought to such misfortune.

Holding her hand tightly, she can only then stare up at Obanai and Sanemi with sadness filling the eye that was still eligible to keep open as she slowly goes limp once again in a sleeping state.

"Is she gonna be okay Uzui? She'll be okay, yeah of course she will." Tanjiro says with a low tone, not wanting to upset Tengen even more.

"I don't know. Just... help cover her up so we can get her to Kocho." Tengen says with much pain laced inside of his voice as he looks off to the kakushi who were helping Kyojuro whose heart also ached for their favorite hashira.

Despite Obanai and the kakushi volunteering to carry her back, Tengen shifts Y/n onto his chest. Hugging her tightly as she breathes slowly, closing her eyes while departing with both Obanai's haori and Kyojuro's cape covering her body as the sun rose up brightly.

Obanai can only scowl at the demon slayers presence as he couldn't have found any other to put his emotions on. He was angry. Angry at Kyojuro, angry at Y/n and angry at himself.

If only he had gone with her.

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Upon the sibling arrival, Tengen rushes past Jigoro who had gotten the message from Tengen's crow, Nijimaru that was sent thanks to his three wives hearing of Y/n's sudden 'death'.