Spellbound |Kyojuro Rengoku x Male! Reader|

Chapter 45

Chapter title: Upper Four

Third Person Pov
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"What's the situation?" Giyuu asked the three that had already been on the scene. He looked around to see these living objects attacking the three.

"Upper four, can steal the souls of those afraid, taking years or their entire life in order to bring objects to life and make herself stronger." Kyojuro gave a quick rundown as he broke apart a living boulder, only to be attacked by a tree seconds later. Giyuu nodded, quickly joining in the battle.

"Water breathing-"

"Scent breathing-"

"Flame breathing-"

"Frost breathing-"

Throwing attacks one after another at the attacking objects, they only broke into more pieces, having more controlled. Despite more, they were broken apart so they were smaller and weaker. "I'll take care of these things, you go after Upper Four!" Ono stated.

"Alright!" They shouted back

"Do you really think just one child can take care of all of my Homies?!" Upper Four asked

"Of course he can! Don't underestimate him because of his age! Ono is the most talented kid I've ever met! He's going to be a Hashira!" M/N was angry that Charlotte would not take Ono seriously.

Ono was easily and flawlessly taking down everything in front of him. Soon everything was just rubble, causing Charlotte to make new ones. Thanks to Ono, the three Hashira were able to land attacks on the upper ranked demon. She was super strong though, she must have been around 30 feet tall. M/N had no clue how they'd be able to get all the way up to her neck, but they'd find a way easily if they just thought about it. Her neck was the thickest neck any of the demon slayers had seen, it must be incredibly though to slice through.

M/N ran past Kyojuro whispering, "distract him." And went up to Giyuu "launch me and Ono in the air from behind her. We'll slice off her head together. After you launch us, attack her from the front." Giyuu agreed. M/N sprinted to Ono, picking him up and put him on his shoulders. "Here's the plan." He then proceeded to explain what they'd do to slice off Upper Fours head. He agreed, Giyuu pulled out his arms, connecting his hands by his fingers, like a foothold.

M/N placed his foot there "Three, two, one!" Giyuu shiver M/N and Ono up, M/N jumping off his hand as they went up for extra height. M/N got Ono from his shoulders, tossing him off to one side of Upper Fours neck, M/N on the other.

"Scent breathing, Fifth Form: Leather!"

"Frost breathing, Sixth Form: Freezing Point!"

They both sliced through her neck on separate sides. In a swift movement, they had decapitated her. She fell to the floor, starting to disintegrate. "Is it true, you really don't love or miss your Oto-sans, because that's heartless."

Ono looked at M/N, confused, especially after the whole conversation between that demon and him earlier "That was a lie." M/N felt a waterfall running down his face. He couldn't bring himself to lie about his family like that anymore. "They're my Oto-sans. Demon or not, how could I not love the ones who raised me? The ones who showed me love, care, and affection. I miss them everyday. I don't care if they're demons! I love them with all of my heart!" M/N sobbed "They have hearts too! They have love! They have feelings! They care about each other! They care about me! That makes them human enough to love! It's a horrible sun to kill and eat someone, to harm others, but I've seen a side of all of the Upper Kizuki that no one else had ever seen! They ARE my family! They will ALWAYS BE FAMILY!" M/N screamed in sadness, guilt taking over "and I left them... I left the ones I love and I still don't know if that was the choice I wanted to make. I know it was the right thing to do, but was it really what I wanted?" M/N whispered.

Ono looked at M/N shocked. 'His family are demons?! He was raised by the Upper Ranks? He loves those demons? He doesn't know if he really should have left them?' Things were overwhelming for the poor nine year old boy. He wasn't sure how he could take in all of that information about the Hashira he looked up to. "L/N-San?" Ono whispered as he stood next to M/N who had previously called to his knees.

"I'm so sorry Ono, I'm not that cool strong guy you were looking up to. I'm a failure of a Hashira who doesn't deserve a life!" M/N cried

Kyojuro immediately went down on his knees in the muddy ground and hugged M/N. "You're it a failure, you do deserve life. I love you so much, people love and care for you. Just because you were raised by demons doesn't mean that you messed up as a Demon Slayer." Kyojuro kissed M/N's forehead

"Yeah... I care about you. I understand that you care for them, those demons were your family, by blood or not, and you may not know weather or not you wanted to stay human and come back to the Demon Corps after all of those years being missing, but we're happy you came back to us. I'm happy I got to meet you. We all are. I think you made the right choice." Giyuu wasn't one for words but he wanted to help somehow.

M/N felt that he had let Ono down. He knew that Ono looked up to him and now he probably hates him. "L/N-San... if my family were demons, I'd probably still love them. If they loved and cared for me, I'd still call them my parents." Ono tried to assure "I don't hate you, I still look up to you. You're really cool."

"See M/N." Kyojuro lifted M/N's face by pressing his chin upwards softly. He gazed into M/N's eyes and hugged M/N

"Kyo... you're trembling..." M/N was confused, was he scared of that demon?

"Oh- yeah. I'm just really cold. It's freezing outside." Kyojuro explains. That was when M/N realized that they were both still in just their boxers. He suddenly felt very self conscious around Giyuu and Ono.

"Oh! Let's get inside and shower! Then we can cuddle." M/N proposed

"Sounds great!" Kyojuro smiled brightly.

"Goodnight." Giyuu waved and left.

"Goodnight!" The three watched Giyuu leave.

"Can I stay in your place tonight?" Ono asked "I'm still a little sacred."

"Of course." M/N and Kyojuro answer at the same time with no hesitation.

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There's the second chapter for today. I'll try and get a third out tonight. I live in the middle of a desert which gets barley any rain and gets into the 130s during the summer (which is really April-October where I live) but we had a massive rainstorm here! It was also extremely windy (my town is also one of the windiest in the state I live in) so I was literally dead today. It was all the way down into the low 40s and I couldn't handle it. I suffered 😭 I don't want that again.

Like, I love the rain, I especially love thunderstorms, but not when I walk to school. It was mostly just the wind that bothered me. When I got home, I went to comb my hair and there was a bunch of sticks in my hair. 😭

love you all

Ky 💜