Oriane's Pov
With the upcoming days I found myself becoming unbearably exhausted, sleep was always my go to activity now, that and or training to the brink of exhaustion, most days Makio even gave me days off, I would just head to the garden to train. She taught me all basic skills of well fighting, defending and as well as protecting others.
I stepped back for a moment holding the six ninja stars between my fingers quickly tossing them fast watching them soar roughly into the air before they quickly smacked into the large wood stand hitting a few targets. A small scoff left me but they hit more then last time.
I wiped the beating sweat off my forehead, yanking the ninja stars from place, about to head right back in place before a loud yelp left me in shock, feeling I was being lifted up bridal style.
"Tengen? Oh you scared me, hello love." I muttered trying to calm my already erratic heartbeat. His fuchsia eyes bores into my own, he squinted at me making me a little nervous yet still curious, feeling his large hands were holding the back of my exposed thighs with ease.
"Your heartbeat pattern has been messed up for a month now. So is your sleeping and breathing. You are overworking yourself Oriane. " I squinted back at him, being quick to shake my head no fast.
"No I'm alright, I've been eating and sleeping and I think I'm doing fine." He sighed roughly sitting down across the large garden stones, placing me to sit in his lap. Forcing me to gaze into the deep blues that was of the large pond. I sank back into his embrace growing quiet at the peaceful sight.
"Eating one meat bun, and getting three hours of sleep doesn't count as rest, and you know that my beauty. How unflashy it would be for you to pass out and worry all of us. Including me. Part of the training is to take breaks and rest." I found the sound of the water lillies and the water stream was so nice of almost made me so sleepy.
"Tengen?" I heard his quiet hums feeling him press his head to rest on top of my own, his sways easily making me ten times more sleepy.
"I can hear the score of your body.. I never noticed it but your score has changed it used to be so anxious ridden. You hide away but why is that my love?" I fluttered my eyes gently sinking into his arms a bit speaking quietly.
"Fear I believe, just silly fear of messing up. This is my first marriage where I have not just a husband but three wives. A marriage that's equal. Everything is so different everyone with different backgrounds then you have me. With such a simple background of being raised the perfect house wife." I chuckled in my own amusement before finally actually speaking my own fears.
"I know there's no such thing as perfect relationships. There's fighting, I've seen jealously a lot of the times. I suppose in a way I thought hiding myself away from the affection it would get better but I see, you see through me easily." His soft chuckles rang through feeling his hands gliding all over my arms the warmth mixed with the beating sun felt relaxing.
"I actually can understand why you've hidden yourself all this time. It's quite hard adjusting to something so brand new. And when I had met you were even more shocked to learn about Makio, Suma and Hina, I just didn't wanna scare you away." I shook with my own laughter hissing slightly when his fingers glided over tender muscles hearing him mutter quiet apologies under his breath.
"Tengen what's it like being a Hashira?" He paused rubbing his knuckles for a small moment but I could feel the smile on his face hearing him take in a breath.
"Its hard most of the times. Seeing families and many people destroyed by demons.... I despise demons to my core but a part of me knows they can't exactly control their life. being a Hashira is a lot more then a shinobi. All us Hashira's come together all with higher skills then each other different breathing styles so we can become the best demon slayer to help others. At the end of a hard day our master taught us it's not about who's the strongest but coming together to help." I found myself smiling at his explanation muttering sleepy like.
"Now you just make it sound cute." He groaned out a soft laugh slightly moving my head playfully his hand dropping down to play with the ring.
"Oh shut up Oriane, I wish you could have seen the master in his prime.. That curse is taking over his body." He started mumble rambling his husky tone making my eyelids flutter. That's right sleep... I needed I swayed in Tengen's arms hearing his voice was trailing off but I then heard for a moment his trail off pausing his words before I felt his lips pressing onto my cheek his arms securing around me firmly.
"Rest up my little orange... You need it from all the hard work you've done. So proud of you we all are but I'm so worried about you... They don't know how fragile you are how sensitive your score is. Let's nap pretty girl."
