Cold hearted (KyojuroxReader)

Chapter 30:Hood

~*Kyojuro's POV*~
     "-From what I've already looked at, you should be back up and moving sometime after next week! A full recovery as usual, Kyojuro!" The Insect Pillar jumped off from bed and dusted off her apron with that comment, just now finishing with re-dressing my wound for the morning.

     Only took her a little over 30 minutes to go through the full cycle, barely a sweat. Those expert hands moved like they've done this millions of times before- and they probably have. I'm sure I'd fall right back to sleep if her conversations weren't moving at the same pace as her fingers.

      She picked up her clipboard from the bedside table to jot down a few things, letting me slip my shirt back on. I didn't button the clasps back up immediately, listening quietly to the woman as she went on. "You might have your brother help you with cleaning the stitches once you do return, it's best you don't strain that area near your hip if you can help it..."

     "I'll be back home after next week?" I asked my comrade, sitting up in my place.

     "Indeed! I'd leave training and strenuous movements to the week after you return, but there's nothing serious about your wound. You may've lost a lot of blood, but that's only because the immediate damage was so large." Shinobu relayed the news to me after she was done with her writings, hugging the clipboard her chest while glancing back at me. She looks rather happy, doesn't even amount to the normal smile that she always has.

     "Something's got you excited huh?" I asked her with a gesture to her expression, getting a laugh.

     "Oh, I'm too easy to read..." The slayer discarded her papers off to the side. With a hop, she walked around to my back where she just was, flicking off her sandals. She can barely keep herself professional right now...

     "I can't stop thinking about your condition!! It's quite impressive how quick (y,n)'s thinking was, it couldn't have been more than a second of a window, from what I've gathered!"

     "What do you mean?" I chuckled a little, looking up to face her as my hands fiddled at the bottom of my cover shirt.

     "It takes looking at your wounds to understand; everything she did here was intentional! Well... besides injuring you, of course." Excited, Shinobu jumped back onto the bed behind me and nudged my shirt collar down again to examine the long gash on my back.

      "From the moment she first struck, she had to have known the danger you were in. Otherwise, you wouldn't have gotten away nearly this well..." The Insect Pillar commented as her fingers lined the edges of my stitches once I moved my hair.

     "It's a very complicated place to get damage from- all the vital areas that could've been hit. Skilled can't even be taken into account that she avoided the worst of it."

     "Mind telling me a few of them?"

     "Are you sure you want to hear it? It's a little much to process..." Shinobu leaned forward and raised her eyebrows at my gaze. I shrugged my shoulders at the suggestion. I've already had to take so much and it's only been two days since my altercation the Ice Pillar, who's to say I couldn't use a little more excitement in my life?

      "I'll take that as a yes..." She sighed, pushing my shirt further down on my muscular arms.

     "To name the worst... if she tried to change the trajectory of her swing, she would've hit one of your vital arteries, or worse; your nape and neck combined." The slayer behind me said as her finger traced in the path that (y,n)'s sword could've taken, the line that she drew across my neck making me take a shaky breath.

     "If (y,n) attempted to stop the inertia altogether; the sword would've gone deeper in, to about this point," Her finger stopped at the center of my spine where the gash lays just above, "That would've been... uhhh..."