Cycle // Giyushino

Catch-Up?

"Nee-san, don't leave me!"

"Giyuu, go now!"

"Nee-san! NO!"

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"Sabito? Where are you going?"

"I'll be back, stay there. I'll be back, I gotta help them, okay?"

"Oka- Watch out Sabito behind you!"

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"Kocho! Where are you!"

"She's here~"

"Hey! What do you think you doing? You- !"

"What was that?!" Tomioka silently checked and asked himself as he woke up in cold sweat. "Am I awake and back to the cruel reality?"

He took a quick look around the familiar setting he was in. "The dull room with a small table on my right and a dim-lighted lantern on my left. No, my room with a small table on my right and a dim-lighted lantern on my life. Hmm, I was awake and back to reality. What another "great and beautiful" day to be alive and breathing," he thought to himself.

He continued to take a few deep inhales and exhales as I got up and changed into my Demon Slayer Uniform. He then reached out for his red/scarlet haori. My haori... Nee-san... Her's...

For a few minutes, he reminisced the memories they both had together. Visiting the lake they used to go by every day. Watching the fishes swiftly glide from one spot to another as both of them tried to catch them. The memories they had were cherishable and Giyuu hoped for more to come... yet he can't. Unfortunately :(

He silently stood there until he felt his arms growing tired from reaching out, looking at his haori for a long time. He then shook his head to clear back into reality and proceeded to put it on. He slid open the brown door that led him into the main room and there stood in front of him. "My breakfast?"

"Good morning! You sure did have a restless night." He announced as he gave me a tray of my fascinating and mouthwatering food.

"What makes you say that?" Tomioka asked as he took the tray of food from Sabito.

"Well," he sat down right down next to his best friend, "You still look sleepy. You have dark circles, I mean, eye bags, and red eyes and you were moving a lot last night."

Tomioka glared at Sabito while chewing on his food. "You went into my room and watched me sleep?!"

Sabito let out a soft chuckle. "Why would I? The wall between my room and yours are pretty thin. I heard a lot of shuffling over there on your side."

Tomioka huffed out of relief. "Yeah, I guess. I did wake up right next to the table when clearly, I knew that I was closer to my lantern when going to sleep."

Sabito then sighed softly and laid down next to his roommate as he continued to consume his well-prepared meal in tranquil silence. After a while, they were set to go.

"Let's go?"

"Yeah."

At the Butterfly Mansion at the same time--

"Yes, you are doing well now. You may rest until the afternoon for the Rehabilitation Program!"

"The Rehabilitation Program?"

"Well, the Rehabilitation program is for demon slayers who injure themselves during their mission to prepare to return into the field!"

"I know what that is but I'm not injured at all?"