This world is cruel, but at least I still have you. (A Genya x Muichiro story)

Chapter 7

Yuichiro had finally dragged the unconscious Gyokko into Akazas car. He was insanely drunk, not even waking up when Yuichiro smacked him with a broom.

"Thanks kid." Akaza was weirdly nice to the twins, he barely injured either of them, or bothered them at all. He usually just ignored them.

"Mm-hm."

The car drove away, now it was a one to find out where Muichiro went.

"Maybe he already fell asleep." Yuichiro thought, he closed the garage door and went back inside. He was quiet as possible while locking up, his uncle was asleep on the couch, he was more of a tired drunk, who was just in a daze. Yuichiro cleaned up the alcohol bottles and anything else they left behind, he started to walk into the kitchen when he saw something in the hallway.

"The fuck is that?" He thought, he put down the trash and leaned down to see the object.

He picked it up and audible gasped, it was a knife, and had a slim splash of blood on it.

Yuichiro frantically started to search for his little brother, where was he and what did Gyokko do to him? He first checked the closet in the hallway, nothing there. The next place he thought Muichiro might be was in the kitchen.

"Mui?" He saw the clumps of hair on the floor, it was definitely Muichiro's judging from the teal ends. Along with the hair, he saw a few small drops of blood.

"Mui? Where'd you go?" He said a little louder, he still didn't want to wake Kokushibo up, but he started to get extremely worried.

That's when he heard a small tap by the sink,

"I'm here." Yuichiro heard his younger brother whisper, he let out a relieved sigh, walking towards the cupboard under the sink.

He opened the door to see Muichiro curled up and crying, his hair was an absolute mess, some parts down to his shoulders while others were barely above his chin. A small amount of blood was seeping through his shirt around his stomach area.

"How do you still fit in there?" Yuichiro mumbled, he held out his hand so he could help Mui out, he didn't reach out for it.

"Cmon, you can't stay in there all night. Plus, you're bleeding," Muichiro sat there for a few more seconds before accepting Yui's help. He grabbed his hand and Yuichiro pulled him out of the cupboard, he had just noticed the pain in his stomach.

Yuichiro sighed when he saw his brother wince in pain,

"We still have some bandages upstairs, I'll need to buy some more though," he dragged him upstairs and into the bathroom where all the first aid was.

"Let me see."

Muichiro slightly raised his shirt up so the cut was visible. It was still bleeding, barely. Yuichiro used a wet towel to wash off the blood before wrapping up the cut in a bandage.

"You're lucky that it wasn't too deep. You should've looked for me, ok? You can't just hide when you get hurt."

"Yeah, I know."

"If you knew you should've done it." Yuichiro snapped, Muichiro looked down at his lap when Yuichiro finished.

"Sorry."

Yuichiro just sighed as he stood up, he put the bandages away.

"Just don't do it again."

Muichiro was still looking at his lap, clearly upset. Yuichiro didn't exactly know what to say, his brother was clearly upset and he had no idea how to comfort him. He took some scissors out of the closet and faced Muichiro again.

"Hey, your hair looks terrible. Let me cut it better."

Muichiro just nodded.

Small time skip-

"So, are you gonna tell me what happened?" Yuichiro was doing his best to cut Mui's hair even.

Muichiro just sat in silence for a few more seconds before answering.

"Gyokko was drunk, he came into the kitchen while I was washing the dishes. He went on on how I looked like a little girl with long hair. So he cut it."

"And how did you get that cut on your stomach?"

"I don't remember."

Yuichiro just sighed, of course he didn't remember.

"If it makes you feel better, you never looked like a girl. Hair doesn't equal gender at all. Think about it this way, when Tanjiro had long hair, did anyone call him a girl?"

"No."

"And Genya's hair is kind of long, even though it's in a Mohawk style, and no one says he looks like a girl either."

"I know that it's just," he looked like he was contemplating on whether to say what was bothering him or not.

"It's nothing, never mind."

"You can tell me what's wrong, did something else happen?"

"No, it's not really related to Gyokko. It's just that I don't really feel like a boy, but I don't feel like a girl either. It's weird and I don't really understand it."

Yuichiro was shocked to say the least, how did he not even notice Muichiro having a whole gender identity crisis.

Muichiro saw his expression and panicked a little,

"Never mind, just forget what I said, it doesn't bother me." 

"One, you're terrible at lying so I can tell it does bother you."

He could see Muichiro's hair in the mirror, it was about chin length in the back while being a little longer in the front of his face. It looked nice in his opinion.

"How long have you been feeling like this?"

"For a while I guess, maybe since last year."

"And you didn't say anything?"

Muichiro flinched slightly,

"I didn't know how you would react, or how anyone would react to be honest."

Yuichiro chuckled slightly,

"Kanao and Tanjiro are both bi and we both know neither Inosuke or Genya is straight, why would you think we would react badly."

Muichiro blushed slightly from embarrassment,

"I just did ok? Don't judge my sacredness."

Yuichiro just laughed again,

"I'm done with your hair by the way, so what do you think you are?"

Muichiro felt their hair, it wasn't insanely short, but still too short for their liking.

"I think, maybe non-binary? I'm still not sure but I think so? I'm not sure, it's all confusing."

"You don't need to figure it out just yet, if in the future you don't feel comfortable with it anymore that's fine, but for now if you want to be non-binary that's fine too."

"You're so corny."

"Shut up." Yuichiro slapped their head, not hard enough to hurt of course. He yawned before leaving his twin,

"I'm going to sleep, it's too late already. Whenever you go to sleep turn off the hallway lights."

"Ok, night Yui."

Muichiro looked at themself in the mirror for a little longer, Yui accepted them. They didn't know why they were so scared that Yui wouldn't understand, but it was all fine now.

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Ahhh thank u for reading! So sorry for the long update and that this chapter is a bit shorter than the others but I hope u like it! I started school again and I have volleyball practices every night so I don't have much time to write 🥲
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