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09 - HOME.

Y/N arrived back at the Mist estate mid-afternoon. He had ran very fast, as he was eager to see the others again. He was smiling to himself all the way there, when he managed to get over the fact that he didn't kill the hand demon. He was so happy for himself he could leap with joy at that point. He had not felt proud of himself before, ever. Once he climbed the familiar mist-covered mountain, he was met with the sight of the Mist estate. Muichiro was sat staring at the clouds again, not paying attention to anything around him, like usual. "Tokito-sama!!" The mint-eyed boy heard his name being called loudly, by a very familiar voice. He turned his head to be met with the sight of Y/N, alive and well, running up to him. His eyes sparkled and he was filled with a strange feeling of joy. He wasn't very sure why, but he felt proud. The ravenette got up and quickly enveloped the older boy into a hug, taking both of them aback. Snapping back into reality, Muichiro let go quickly, looking at the (h/c)ette in front of him, who was smiling as if he were the sun itself. "I killed everything. It was fun." The e/c boy said, giggling at his statement. "I heard. It's good that you had fun." The young pillar remarked, nodding. "Um, wait here. And Ginko, go find Shinobu-san, Tomioka-san and Kanroji-san and tell them that Y/N is back." He said to his crow who was on the ground next to him. "CAW! OF COURSE MASTER!" The female crow said loudly, flying off. Y/N just stood in place like he was told, watching as the Mist pillar disappeared into the house. He came back a few moments later, holding his hands behind his back. The newly appointed demon slayer got curious and tried to peak. "No. You have to wait for the others." The ravenette said strictly, making the older boy look away in defeat.

It only took the other pillars a few minutes to get to the Mist estate, all of them looking very excited and holding onto something. Y/N was beyond confused. "Y/N!!" The Love pillar exclaimed, enveloping the boy into a painfully tight hug, but she was soon torn off him by a pissed off Shinobu, who was scolding her about how the (h/c)ette could be seriously injured. Giyuu was silent, a bit further away, but he seemed overjoyed- even if he didn't show it. "Guys... I'm all good, I didn't get injured-" The slayer tried to defend Mitsuri, but he was quickly cut off by the Insect hashira. "Still! You could have been! She can't go around hugging you like that when you could've gotten injured very badly!" The short girl nagged, so everyone just agreed with her in order to calm her down. Once all that was done, the Water pillar suddenly poked the boy. "Here." The older male handed him a navy blue yukata, giving him a tender pat on the head afterwards. Y/N could only stare at the gift in shock- he had never been given a present before, especially something that looked so expensive and pretty. His mouth gapped as he looked up at Giyuu, before pulling him into a warm hug. "Thank you so much, Giyuu-san." He mumbled against the uniform of the other as he felt arms wrap around him back. He pulled away a second later, looking at the others who were staring at him wide-eyed. "Did Tomioka really just hug and smile at someone....?" Shinobu asked quietly, face pale from the shock. "He smiled? That's amazing!" The (h/c)ette said with a grin, looking at everyone, who, one by one, snapped out of their daze. "Right, this is for you." Muichiro suddenly spoke up, placing a small, red box on top of the folded yukata. It looked like jewellery. The e/c boy pulled him into a hug too, resting his chin on the other's shoulder since he was only taller by a bit. He felt the younger's arms wrap around him loosely before he let go. "Oh and this!" Mitsuri cheered, placing a folded f/c haori with white cloud patterns on the edges of the bottom of it and its sleeves. "And Shino-chan brought black nail polish since she said you said you wanted to paint your nails black the other day!" She spoke again, spoiling Shinobu's present for him. "I wanted to tell him.." The shorter of the group said, pouting before pulling out the nail polish. "Let's go inside, I say." The Mist pillar suggested, walking towards his estate, everyone else following him.

The 5 had tea, while Shinobu painted Y/N's nails. He had to let them dry for a long while until he could finally look at all the things his friends gave him, so that he wouldn't get anything dirty with nail polish. Yes, he could call these pillars his friends. They had all grown quite close, plus he lived in the same house as Muichiro, so he considered him a good friend by that point. The extreme strictness seemed to have died down, now that he was officially a demon slayer. After looking at the clothes, he finally was able to look at what was inside the box. It was a small cloud charm earring, made out of moonstone. It was absolutely beautiful, he was definitely going to treasure it. As he finally went over everything, he broke down, too overwhelmed by the happy emotions he was feeling at that moment. Everyone seemed to panic as Mitsuri rushed to the boy's side, who seemed to have been clutching the earring close to his heart. "I-I'm sorry you have to see me like this,, guys.. I'm just.. very happy and- my brain cannot handle s-such great amounts of serotonin.. Don't worry about me.." He managed to choke his sentence between his sobs of joy, immediately putting everyone at ease. The Love pillar hugged him gently and rubbed his back, shushing him. It managed to calm him down, but his tears didn't really stop until way later. "I'm sorry for the breakdown, I've just never been given anything before or been appreciated like this before. I also didn't expect it of you guys at all.. Especially Tokito-sama and Giyuu-san..." He explained, wiping the last few tears that stained his cheeks away, pulling away from Mitsuri's embrace. "Stop referring to me so formally, you sound stupid." Muichiro suddenly said bluntly, taking Y/N aback. "Oh, and I thought you had a change of heart or something." The (h/c)ette deadpanned, earning giggles from the girls and a death glare from the mint-eyed boy. "I'm already starting to regret buying you that earring." The ravenette replied sarcastically, making the boy giggle. "Sure, whatever you say Mui-kun." The room fell silent. Y/N widened his eyes in realization and brought both of his hands to his face, sighing in them. "I'm.. so sorry..." The 13-year-old apologized, already about to cry. "It's fine, I don't mind the nickname." Muichiro said, returning to his tea. That took everyone aback even more, but it definitely relieved the (h/c)ette. "You should go visit Oyakata-sama now. I heard he was waiting for you." The teal-eyed boy said once again, reminding his former student of his task. "Ah, right. I'll see you guys!" Ths e/c boy stood up quickly and waved at everyone in the estate, running out of the door to get to the Ubuyashiki mansion before he was too late.

He reached the mansion in just 10 minutes, but he had to use all his remaining energy to get there in time. A kakushi helped him navigate his way around the mansion, leading him to a familiar white-haired woman he had not seen in around a year. "Konichiwa, Amane-sama. I'm happy to see you are in good health." He greeted and bowed at the woman, who was taken aback by the changes in his attitude. Last time she saw him, he was scared and distant from everyone. It was a good change. "Hello, Y/N-kun. Oyakata-san would like to see you. I'm sure you are already aware, since you are visiting." She said softly, as she walked alongside the young boy, who simply nodded. She led him outside a familiar room, sliding open the soji doors to reveal the man who had requested to talk to the (h/c)ette, himself. Amane left right away to leave the two to it. "Greetings, my child." Kagaya smiled, bowing his head slightly, while Y/N bowed deeply before daring to speak. "Greetings, Oyakata-sama. It is good to see you are doing well." He greeted as he was told by his friends, aka the pillars he was with just 15 minutes prior to his visit to the Ubuyashiki estate. "Please, sit. We have an important matter to discuss." The master motioned to the boy to sit in front of him, the younger male doing as he was shown. "I will get to the point. At Final Selection, you killed over 60 demons. The demons required for a slayer to kill to become a Hashira is 50, but I cannot make you into one yet. I specifically ranked you Kinoe, instead of Mizunoto, but I will be assigning you a difficult mission soon, to see if you would be worthy of becoming a pillar. You will be supervised by a Hashira you are yet to meet, to make sure the judgement of your skill will be objective." The older explained, watching as Y/N's eyes sparkled. "Hai! I will do my best!" The boy exclaimed, smiling at the black-haired man. "The mission will be assigned to you as soon as you get your regular swords and uniform. If you have any special request for your uniform, let the kakushi taking your measurements know. I'm sure you have something in mind." Kagaya informed, earning an eager nod from the teen. "That's all I needed. And don't worry about your past. It is called a past for a reason, so please keep it that way, as well." The master concluded, watching as the boy got up and nodded, bowing right after. "Of course, Oyakata-sama. I wouldn't want to go back to that past, anyway." Y/N nodded at his own statement and opened the door. "I will be going now, thank you for your kindness." The (h/c)ette bowed once again and closed the door.

Immediately, he ran put of the estate, overflowing with the joyous emotion he was feeling again. He ended up reaching the Mist estate in just 20 minutes, but it didn't matter, as he was full of excitement and adrenaline. When he returned, everyone was still there and chatting; all except Giyuu who was being very much ignored. "Hey, I'm home!" Y/N waved quickly, smiling at all of his friends. "Welcome back." Muichiro greeted with his usual monotone voice, as everyone else waved back. "So, what did Oyakata-sama want with you?" Shinobu asked with her usual smile, everyone focusing on the boy who had just entered. "Um, he said he wanted to make me into a pillar, but he can't, because I just now passed the Final Selection, so he will assign me a difficult mission with a Hashira to supervise me, when I get my demon slayer stuff. He wants me to prove that I'm skilled enough to be a Hashira myself." The teenager explained nonchalantly, shrugging. Everyone was very seemingly shocked. "Wait, why does he want you to become a Hashira?" Mitsuri asked, clearly very confused. "He said I killed like 60 demons up on that mountain, but I'm ranked Kinoe now, for my achievement, instead." Ths (h/c)ette explained as if that were a normal thing. Everyone was dumbfounded. "Well, I don't think you're ready to become a Hashira." The youngest pillar suddenly broke the silence, gaining everyone's attention. "Why?" Giyuu asked, seemingly more bothered than Y/N himself. "He isn't ready. He needs more training and more experience. Simple as that." Muichiro explained, his reasoning made the other Hashira in the room upset. "I think you're going a bit too hard on him. I'm sure if one of us spars with him tomorrow, he will be able to put up a great fight,, or maybe even win. I wouldn't know." Shinobu defended, while Y/N was sweatdropping to the tension, from the sidelines. "Alright. Tomioka should fight him tomorrow. I'd like to see my point being proven." The mint-eyed boy said, a smug tone hiding behind his calm voice. "Sure, I'd love to spar aniki." Y/N said in a sleepy tone, not really paying attention to what he was saying- his adrenaline had died down by then. Then again, he would have still called the Water pillar his aniki even without being so sleepy. "You should eat something and sleep, you're being dumb again." The Mist Hashira remarked. "Shut up mist boy..." The older said, walking back to the kitchen to find cold soba waiting for him. Once he got eating it over with, he got up, but immediately fainting due to exhaustion."I'll just take him to his futon..." Was the last thing Y/N heard, not sure from who though.

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A/N: hashira Y/N??  😳😳
Triple update eheheh
I should really use this time elsewhere