O. Iguro; Why I Chose You

10. Saudade

"SLOW! SLOW! SLOW! AND SLOW! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU PEOPLE DOING?! I GOT NO CLUE!!" Y/n shakes her head, aiding her brother in stamina training given as her training doesn't start until sun down.

Letting glowing silhouettes pop up at unexpected times to surprise the slayers with a small sparring session. "YOUR STAMINA'S SLOW AS HELL! THIS IS JUST BASIC RUNNING, MAN. IF YOU'RE GONNA BE THIS SLOW, BEATING AN UPPER MOON IS GONNA BE A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM, OKAY?!" His younger sister laughs while the silhouettes run back into her body to be summoned for some other time when her demon art would be helpful, as a figure sits besides her.

"Obanai-Kun!" Y/n yells out, throwing her arms around him before nuzzling into his chest causing Tengen to look at him with an irk mark embedded to his forehead.

"HEY! HANDS OFF HER SNAKE BOY! If you ever touch her, I'll clip your snake to a skewer and grill him!" Tengen points towards Obanai who adverts his gaze to the side as memories from a few nights ago resurface his brain.

Y/n gets off of him with a giggle while scratching the back of her head which causes Tengen to gasp, "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING WITH MY SISTER? AND WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING?!"

"NOTHING ANIKI!!!"

Knowingly to everyone but Tengen, Y/n has stayed with the serpent hashira since the meeting. He was reluctant on leaving her alone ever since the hashira meeting incident, thus the reason she had been glued to Obanai's side, he did secretly like it.

"It seems as if the two love birds have Uzui-San riled up!" Kyojuro pats Tengen on the shoulder, forcefully pushing him away from the two to prevent anything from happening before hopping onto the shaded engawa with a smile on his face.

"My favorite swordswoman! Y/n-San, how are you?" Kyojuro asks before sitting besides her.

"I'm starting to miss the feeling of the sun a lot more now," Y/n says, looking off into the distance where Tengen was back to yelling at the demon slayers.

"Don't worry! You've got the sun right here!" Kyojuro lets out a heartily laugh before engulfing both Obanai and Y/n into a tight hug.

Obanai getting a bit agitated, opens his mouth to yell at him to stop only to grin to himself. Looking at his lover beside him who smiled genuinely, how it made his heart melt to know she was happy at the given moment. "I suppose you're often bright Kyojuro-San." Y/n says before escaping his grasp.

Smiling to herself, she continues to speak. Obanai and Kyojuro looking at her while listening intently, "After the slayers are done with Sanemi and Himejima-San, I'll be dealing with basic sparring sessions while pointing out everything they're doing wrong, same with Sanemi. But not so many slayers are close to passing. Their lucky getting past Mitsuri-Chan's training, I can see their strained muscles." Kyojuro laughs before patting her head,

"The Kamado boy and his friends are sure exhibiting much talent. They're strong." Y/n hums in response.

"I guess Tanjiro's leg is fully healed then I suppose. I wonder if I'll get to spar with them, I sure do find their company amusing." Y/n mentions causing Obanai to scowl at the thought that he'd have to spend time with those slayers if he wanted to be beside Y/n.

"Speak of the devil!" Kyojuro says, waving over at Tanjiro who had just finished Muichiro's training.

"Y/N-SAN!!" Tanjiro yelled out with a smile before slowing his pace down to stand in front of Y/n who waves.

"Tanjiro-Kun! How are you?" Y/n asked, handing him some cold water which he accepts gratefully.

"I'm well! It's only been fifteen days since we started training but Tokito-San gave me permission to head to the next pillar! So I wanted to find you to tell you!" Tanjiro yells out in excitement.