(10th part let's go!!!)
"wow...SO DEMONS ARE REAL???" I yell both excited and concerned at the same time,
"eh- yes, demons are real we've established that already Moriko," He says like he's had to explain it five separate times...which he has.
"Oh. my. gosh. that's so cool!!" I say jumping in excitement, I look at his swords and gasp a little too loudly, "Is that why you have swords? you're a demon slayer aren't you??" I exclaim as if I had just uncovered a terrible crime. He sighs, he opens his mouth to explain things further but I cut him off.
"I wanna be a demon slayer! I'll look cool doing it too!" I say making clashing noises with my mouth and swinging an imaginary sword. again I cut Uzui off once more,
"wait! No! I want knives instead of a sword! yeah! and cool bombs and cool guns and..." I trail off naming an unnecessary amount of weapons, finally, Uzui who seems to be done with my shit cuts in.
"I don't want to burst your bubble, but there's only one way to kill a demon, and that's by cutting its head off with a Nichirin sword." He did in fact burst my bubble, my excited look quickly turns to a frown, but Uzui seems to find my sorrow amusing.
"well someone has to find a way! how am I supposed to be ~flashy~ if the only way to kill demons is with a dumb sword!" I yell kicking the pebbles under my feet. Uzui smiles at the way I said 'flashy' knowing that his mannerisms were already starting to rub off on me.
"well, I'm sure someone will. But for now, you're stuck with a sword, but! You can get cool-looking swords like mine!" he smiles pulling out his swords from their bandages. he stands up and starts to spin and flip them around like they have no chance of even giving him a scratch. I can tell he's trying to impress me, I'm not gonna lie it was kinda working...but I wasn't gonna let him know that.
"hmmm...Nah, I'm good!" I smile 'politely' declining his offer, though I know I cut him deep. but it's all in good fun, right? I look up at him and he's stopped spinning them in-fact he looks very un-impressed like he knew I said that just to spite him.
"whatt?? there just not my style." I shrug, a smirk slowly forms on my face, when I see his familiar tired parent look.
"you know...sometimes I wonder why I saved you," he says through his teeth while glaring directly at me. though I can tell he's just joking. Uzui's the type to save someone under any circumstances I can tell.
"Woah! you cut me deep Uzui, you cut me deep," I say with a fake sniffle, smiling afterwards. though It must have been contagious because he smiled right back, he seems to have zoned out, because he just stood like that for a moment.
"anyways, do you want me to help you start training or not??" he says with an excited tone. "I'll make you sweat so much you'll shine as bright as me!" he smiles while beckoning me to follow him, I walk close behind him as he leads me to the training section of the butterfly estate.
I notice simple things like weights and skipping ropes. But then I see a bunch of huge boulders tied together I look at them confused for a moment, but then I see a girl about my age reading under a tree next to all of the equipment, she has longish black hair in pigtails and bangs spread apart on either side, she's just reading but she looks pissed off for some reason.
"one-sec' Uzui" I run over to the tree to greet the girl as I hear Uzui yell,
"It's Uzui-Sama to you!" he says while smiling, in a sarcastic tone.
I climb the tree she's sitting under without her noticing and sit on the branch above her. wrap my legs around the branch and flip myself over so I hang upside down in front of her. Inosuke did this to me a lot and I got him to teach me,
'she still doesn't see me I think.
"hey!" I smile, "whatcha reading??"
she looks at me with an unimpressed glare. "why are you hanging from that tree?" she asks with an upset parent tone.
"I dunno...," I answer embarrassed as I slowly bring myself down. I crouch in front of her and she raises an eyebrow.
"Who are you?" she asks with the same tone.
"I'm Moriko Okamoto!" I smile with a confident tone. that's one of Inosuke's mannerisms that I picked up after living with him for so long, It's kind of embarrassing but, I'm sure Uzui would be proud. she scoffs at my overconfidence and lowers her eyebrow.
'man, she's kind of irritating' I think.
"I'm Aoi Kanzaki" she introduced herself with a stern face.
"Nice to meet you!" I say grabbing her wrist and cupping her hand with both hands, Introductions aren't really my thing but, I was trying to be as kind as possible...It didn't feel natural, to be honest.
"Jeez!" she yells while pulling her hand from my grasp, "don't just grab my hand like that!" she exclaims. It surprised me slightly but I try to reply as casually as possible.
"S-sorry I'm not used to introductions," I rub the back of my neck.
"well then, learn some manners! Why are you here anyway? Lady kocho hasn't mentioned you, granted I haven't seen her for a while." Aoi asks, still irritated.
"Uzui saved me when I got taken from my mountain. I got attacked by a demon and he killed it." I say with a monotone voice, I was half focused on our conversation while I was playing with the dirt on the ground I was crouched one.
"First of all, you must address all of the Hashira's as superiors. Don't go acting all familiar with Uzui-Sama," She explains with her thumb and pointer finger wrapped around her chin and her eyebrows furrowed.
"well Kanae said It's okay," I say quieter than usual with air puffed in my cheeks.
"It's Lady. Kocho. You're such an idiot." she says while standing up and knocking me off balance. She closes her book and storms off in a rage. I sit there for a moment.
'damn, what's her problem?' I think. But then I begin to second guess myself, 'well she's probably right, I've only been here for a week. I don't have the right to be so buddy-buddy with my superiors. whatever that means.' I frown slightly while picking myself up and brushing the dirt off my pants.
I was so caught up in my thoughts I didn't realize Uzui-Sama was running up to me. I turn to him and he places a hand on my head.
"what happened kid? I saw her run away and push you over? Were you being flashy? because sometimes people can't handle that." he laughs softly. I smile back slightly and bow.
"yes Uzui-Sama I tried my hardest," That felt so weird. 'ew' I think.
"Woah what's all the honorifics for? You don't need to bow either we're just talking, is his about what I said before you left? I was only joking," he laughs awkwardly. I lift my head and smile. wide this time.
"That girl, Aoi I think her name was? she told me It was rude to address the Hashira's so casually and I told her that Kanae let me call her 'Kanae' and not 'Lady Kocho' and she got really angry at me." I laugh embarrassed that I let her influence me.
"well Kanzaki is wrong, I've taken a liking to you so, you can just call me Uzui." he thinks for a moment and nods to himself. I tilt my head in confusion as he continues, "But If you would like, you could call me Uzui-Sensei," he smiles genuinely. I laugh,
"what why?" I ask. He laughs right back.
"do you know what a tsuguko is?"
(HEY omg so right now we are almost at 88 reads that might not seem like a lot to you but that's crazy to me! You guys seriously stop me from quitting :) I have so much more planned for this OC, also sorry for not uploading for the past couple of days my MacBook has been acting up for the past few days but I promise I will make it up to y'all! so thank you all for all the support and I hope you all stick with me! :D)
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FanfictionA young girl who grew up in Japan is used as a lab subject by who she could only assume were her parents. she ran out of her home after finding out the terrible truth about them. She loses her friend and learns about these things called demon slayer...
