Spellbound |Kyojuro Rengoku x Male! Reader|

Chapter 24

Chapter title: Day One

Third person pov

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This mission is expected to last around four days. M/N wasn't sure if he could go that long without seeing his wonderful boyfriend but he'd try and handle it. 'I'm a man after all. Ill be fine' m/n would think to himself.

Giyuu wasn't much for chatter but he did talk occasionally, with a monotone voice of course, but he often had very interesting things to talk about so M/N enjoined spending time with the Water Hashira. Another reason why he liked Giyuu is because he is also close with Urokodaki Sakonji, the person who taught M/N when he was young. Urokodaki had a thing for taking in orphaned children.

"How are things between you and Rengoku?" Giyuu suddenly asked.

M/N hadn't expected that to be a topic Giyuu would come up with it. "Things are really good between us. He makes me really happy and I just can't help but fall deeper in love with him everyday. I think it's crazy how someone as incredible as him is my boyfriend."

Giyuu nodded. "Yeah, I know how that feels, but he's not my boyfriend."

"It's Sanemi, right? You two seem a lot closer, how are things between you two?" M/N asked

"He asked to be my friend the other day." Giyuu smiled. Never had M/N seen the water boy smile. It looked nice on him "I'm really happy. I never really thought he'd want to be my friend. He asked after I made him ohagi."

"That's so cute~" M/N cheered. "He really cares for you though."

"How? We just became friends like two weeks ago?" Giyuu asked

"Before I met up with you, he told me something about how 'If you let him get hurt I'll make you forget how it feels to walk' or something like that"

"He said that?" Giyuus eyes widened with a pink tint on his cheeks

"Yeah, he really does care for you" M/N restated

"He does?" M/N saw a bigger smile creep it's way on Giyuus face. "I dont think I've ever been this happy."

"I can tell. A smile looks good on you." M/N patted Giyuus back.

"Sanemi told me that too. I told me that it's beautiful." Giyuu informed, now smiling even wider. M/N was so happy to see Sanemi warmed up to Giyuu. M/N's known of Giyuus long time crush on the scarred Hashira. Things were starting to look up for him. M/N really hoped he had a chance. "Hey, M/N?"

"Yeah?"

"How are you coping with losing upper six?" Giyuu asked. M/N was confused why he would be asking that.

"What do you mean?" M/N played dumb

"I saw how you reacted when you heard the news of Uzui killing Upper Six. You looked really hurt." Giyuu explained

"I guess I could tell you about it. The reason why I was so hurt..." M/N sighed

"You don't if you're uncomfortable." Giyuu reassured

"No, it's not good to hide things, especially when it really effects your mental health." M/N took a deep breath "I don't think I should be a ahashira. I don't deserve the title. I shouldn't even be alive. I broke such a big rule. I protected demons... I protected the Upper Moons. I loved the Upper Moons."

"Why? If you don't mind me asking." Giyuu wanted to hear more. Hearing how M/N felt about the situation made Giyuu upset but he also empathized with him.

"They were my family. One day, after my last mission, Upper Two, Douma, came to fight me. I couldn't take him but he spared my life. He wanted to keep me for some reason. He said he wanted a family because he was lonely." M/N frowned "I couldn't refuse because he would kill me and I was scared. I was scared of death, I was only eleven at the time."

"So you lived with him?"

"Yeah, Douma raised me. He and the Upper Ranks raised me as family. Daki and Gyutaro, Upper Six, were my Aneki and Aniki. They were really nice to me. I was almost as close to them as Douma and Akaza. Akaza is Upper Three."

"Didn't Upper Three almost kill Rengoku?" Giyuu reminded

"Yeah, but when I told him to stop and that I loved my Kyo, he stopped and left. He still cares about me. I'm happy he respected that I cared for Kyo."

"He listened to you?" Giyuu was confused

"Of course. He's such a sweet guy, in his own weird way, if you ignore the fact that he eats people" m/n laughed "What's even weirder is that he only eats men. He refuses to eat women out of 'respect'"

Giyuu chuckled at that "no way."

"He would always yell at Douma because Douma doesn't respect women at all. He kills and eats pretty much every woman that is a member of his cult." M/N explained further

"Upper Two runs a cult?" Giyuu sounded like he was amused.

"Yeah, he does. He has a surprising amount of followers but I think a lot of them are there just for Douma. He's what most people consider to be very beautiful. Some may even call him 'hot' but I could never see him in that way. He's my Oto-San after all."

Giyuu found it weird how he still addressed a demon like that. Giyuu despises demons. Giyuu would never find it in himself to care about a demon. Even though he defends Nezuko, it's not like he loves her."what does he look like?" Giyuu asked.

M/N goes on to describe him. Giyuu had been imagining it and he could picture a very hot demon but he wouldn't bring himself to actually be attracted to Douma. They had been having this whole conversation while running to the location. It would take a day to get there, probably a day being there, and a day back. As M/N was running and talking, he tripped on a rock and slammed into the floor, making a little squeak. "God, that's embarrassing." 

"Are you ok?" Giyuu asked

"Yeah, I'm fine, just embarrassed. I'm glad it was you who saw, if it were anyone else, they'd laugh at me. Tengen would never give me the end of it, Kyojuro would laugh too, oh Lord, if Mitsuri were to have seen, she'd have told everyone she knew about that. She can't keep a secret to save her life. She also talks to Obanai all the time and tells him practically everything." M/N chuckled. 

"Yeah, it's not like I'd say anything about this." Giyuu confirmed to which M/N was thankful. 

The rest of the way was quiet, maybe saying a few words here and there or pointing out an animal or something pretty. They made it to a hotel at dusk. They decided to check in and get ready to sleep.

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Sorry for only one update today. Ill try and get in two tomorrow. I just had a really Shitty day but ofc my amazing bf made me feel better. He's a life saver. Also, apparently venting about family trauma and abuse is funny if you're eating a burrito? I'd my friend kept on laughing about how he couldn't take me seriously. But he's a great guy and was super nice about it. Love you all lots

Ky 💜