Shinobu x Mitsuri oneshots

・❥・Shinobu's nurturing side

Shinobu and Mitsuri taking on a mission of defeating a giant baby demon.

"Shinobu! Ack—Shinobu!!" Mitsuri ran right towards her, with a hard leap into the air, she held her sword in hand as she swung at the demon with all her might. "Get away from her you nasty demon! Don't hurt her!!" She pouted as it screeched from pain, the material that made up Mitsuri's sword was completely different as it was sharp yet pliant. Deep cuts began to form on its body as it scurried several steps back behind the trees.

"Mitsuri!" Shinobu sighed with relief as the said demon slayer landed right beside her lover. She ran her worried look all over Shinobu's body. "I'm so glad you're here. There are some demon slayers that was wounded by it." Mitsuri took a glance to them behind Shinobu. "Luckily the demon's not so bright, I'll distract it while you take care of them, alright?"

"But Shinobu, I want to fight along side you!" She whined. Shinobu attempted to mutter out something when she suddenly held her breath and grunted, pressing a hand to her chest. This made Mitsuri gasp with worry, "You're injured!"

Shinobu tried to give a smile, "It's not that bad—"

"Wh—what do you mean it's not bad!? You're literally grunting from pain!" Mitsuri snapped back, eyeing warily at the demon that cowered behind the trees, its glowing red eyes inspected the whole scene meekly. Mitsuri could hear it whimper. "I think I can stall enough time for back-up."

As Mitsuri started to stand, Shinobu suddenly grabbed her wrist. "You've noticed it right?"

Mitsuri wasn't sure, but could it really be true? She's never seen anything like this before. "That demon, is it a child?" That can't be true, it was completely massive. At least a house tall! But—its figure, it seemed just like an infant. Why? She watched as it blinked its eyes and whined again—was it crying? Mitsuri couldn't tell before, and it wasn't likely, but could that demon own humane emotions?

"No. Not just that, Mitsuri, look at its movements. It doesn't want to hurt us, it's scared." Shinobu corrected. Now that she mentioned it, it was true, the demon was trembling and fumbling for something—it's confused and afraid. It's just like Shinobu said, Mitsuri was always amazed by her immaculate ability to observe.

A sudden surge of pity collected in Mitsuri's chest, "Oh that poor demon. How could Muzan Kitbutsuji do such a thing..." Shinobu smiled at her as she slowly got up, stroking at Mitsuri's back comfortingly.

"It was just a feisty child. Really. I'll distract it while you carry all the injured demon slayers out, alright?" Shinobu asked, holding her hands and rubbing her thumb across them in a calming manner. Her warm fingers grazing against Mitsuri's skin is enough to make her face redden, even in this chilling weather... This—this has to be manipulation, but Mitsuri could never claim that she hated being manipulated by Shinobu like that. "You got this, sweetie." She said as she gave a familiar gentle smile—it's her signature smile. One that she wears all the time for Mitsuri.

Ahh, she called me sweetie! I got to do a good job to impress her! Mitsuri gave a furious head-nod and a bright smile before she rushed off, pumped with her newly-found energy.

"Yes Shinobu! I will do my very best!" She shouted out as she ran.

Mitsuri is strong, she is able to carry two demon slayers at a time—and it never slowed her running speed. It has only been a couple of minutes before Mitsuri completely evacuated everyone to a safer place before she could check up on Shinobu again. She was over-joyed; she couldn't wait to be next to Shinobu again! As she made her way to her lover, she could see Shinobu's katana placed down onto the ground as she was gently stroking the infant's hand.