𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐘 | 𝐤𝐧𝐲

質 | quality

~仕始める~

You can't remember the last time you cried to the point where you were unable to breathe. It hurt your lungs and your throat, but you tried your best to stay silent. The beauty of a human's life was that no matter what, they would ultimately die.

Yushiro was by your side when the letter arrived, he was by your side rubbing your back to comfort you.

Sanemi Shinazugawa, the former Wind Pillar, had passed away. A strange illness had become of him, destroying all his muscles until he could hardly stand on his own. It happened all in less than a month, he passed away quietly in his sleep by his lonesome.

Despite only interacting with Shinazugawa only a handful of times, usually he was trying to kill you or cuss you out. As a surviving Pillar he was already put into a special place inside your heart. What hurt the most is that you couldn't attend his funeral, not that you nor Yushiro had plans or anything of the sort. He was going to be buried in Akita, his supposed hometown Yuzawa. Despite Kiriya Ubuyashiki insisting that he had a burial in the Demon Corps. Burial grounds, his spouse decided against it.

Sanemi was to be buried where the rest of his family had died and where Genya's belongings were. You agreed fully as to where he should be spending his eternal rest. The thing that really shocked you the most about this entire thing was the fact that it had only been a few years and people were already dying, you knew this would happen eventually. It always happens eventually.

You make friends with humans, and they grow old or die somehow else. Sanemi was never your friend exactly but he was still a life that took part in your life. He was still a soul. Something about seeing life fade away and be reborn never failed to make you cry, but there was a sweetness to it in the long run.

How endlessly bittersweet...

"You're spacing out again," Yushiro's voice cuts your mind off.

It was for the best, the more you overthink it the more you'll end up in an endless cycle of grief. You needed to remember the reason you were alive in the first place.

"You okay?" Yushiro's voice again.

"Yes! Sorry, I was thinking about stuff." you replied with a worried smile, waving your hand around to hopefully relieve him.

Yushiro had hummed in response.

If there was something that Yushiro had always wished he could do was take away your pain and burden it himself. No matter how cheesy it may have sounded out loud or in his head. He's had the thought of going through your mail for you to prevent you from going into grief or attached more than you were before. But even Yushiro knew that wasn't his place to make that action, you deserved to know what was going on no matter how much he wanted to protect you from it.

He didn't know what to do.

~休憇~

"What the-"

If there was anything Yushiro hated more than anything it was unwanted visitors, so when he woke up to strange men scattering all over his living area. Yushiro almost never napped or slept, mainly since he didn't need to. He always woke up cranky, like some weird old man, so when he woke up he woke with the intent to kill.

With a quick glance at the clock sitting on the hallway wall he saw it was 5pm.

Your voice snapped him out of his newfound rage, "I'm so sorry for the rush I promise they won't be here long! They were helping me set something up!"

You stood right next to him as all the men rushed out of the home and flooded the exit and the entryway to put on their shoes. Yushiro turned to where the men were flocked around where a large shiny black box stood across the low table, against the wall.

"Come sit! Come, come!" you egged him to sit next to you, patting down on the pillow next to you.

Yushiro didn't move, "What the fuck is that?"

"It's a television! Te-leh-vih-shion~!" you sang out, scooting towards it and messing with the dials.

"Don't touch it!" Yushiro suddenly warned, "It might explode!"

You brushed his complaints off, fingers hovering over a button that made the front of the television light up with a black and white standard cartoon.

He stood in the hallways in shock at the moving pictures, "What the hell..."

The look on his face when you stepped back to see the full thing made you burst out laughing. You weren't making fun of him, just surprised to see he was so hooked.

You turned up the volume a little so he could hear the background music, which was mainly classical instrumental.

"Woah!"

Slowly, Yushiro came out of the dark hallway and settled into watching the moving pixels. Absolutely enamored by the moving pictures and characters, the way the music went alone with the movement. He was amazed.

"Human technology never fails to amaze me..." he said, his jaw completely dropped.

It was nice to see him out of his little room finally, but for some reason he insisted he always sat 3 inches away from the screen.

"You can sit back, you'll hurt your eyes like that dummy." you let him know, while you were brushing through Chachamaru's fur.

Yushiro ignored you, he instead focused on the moving pixels with his eyes wide. You couldn't help but laugh again, but you began to worry a bit about how intently he was staring at it... You slowly scoot towards him, putting Chachamaru to the side softly. You pulled his collar backwards so he'd notice your efforts to break his intense concentration.

He ended up falling backwards on you, you immediately took the opportunity to wrap his body within your arms.

"Get off me bozo!" He quickly started to protest.

"You're on me!" You quickly butted back, wrapping your limbs around him more tightly.

After a few more seconds of struggle he eventually settled in your arms and melted into your embrace. The back of his head was against your chest, and he looked up and the underside of your face.

"You really are beautiful from every angle..." Yushiro mumbled.

You both remained silent for a few more seconds before you softly screamed and kicked him off of you.

"You're so weird!"

~終了~

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