Spellbound |Kyojuro Rengoku x Male! Reader|

Chapter 46

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Third person pov

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M/N and Kyojuro let Ono shower first. Senjuro had somehow managed to sleep through the entire fight? Yeah, that'll always be a mystery. He must have been really tired. Kyojuro went to go check on his little brother while M/N reset the futon Ono had slept on earlier in their spare bedroom. He made sure the fitted sheet was on right, nice and tight and the comforter was hugging the corners. M/N fluffed up the pillows before neatly placing them in the center. He took another look at the bed, satisfied. He finished just as Ono made his way into the room "thank you, L/N-San."

"You can call me 'M/N'"

"But you're a Hashira!" Ono was nervous

"But we're friend." M/N smiled sweetly at him and fluffed up his hair.

"Friends?" Ono's eyes widened and a big smile grew on his face. "You think I'm your friend?" He sounded excited

"Of course! Why wouldn't you be?" M/N chuckled

"It's just, ever since my mom's died, I had trouble making friends. No one takes me seriously because of my age, and because I'm so young, no one else is really my age and I don't know how to get along with them." Ono explained

"I see. Well, I think you're very strong, and anyone who doesn't deem you a worthy opponent isn't worth your time. If someone can't take you seriously, forget about 'em" M/N sat on the edge of Ono's bed as Ono got under his warm covers. "You remind me a lot of myself. I like you a lot."

"Really?"

"Mhm."

"Thank you L- M/N." Ono smiled as he adjusted himself to get comfortable in his futon. He almost called M/N by his last name but quickly corrected himself. It made M/N happy to hear him call him that.

"Why don't you check your rank? You just beat Upper Four." M/N stated

"Good idea" Ono checked his rank, his eye widened. He had gone up a rank to be "I'm a kinoto now!"

"That's great! Just a few more step until you're a Hashira!" M/N cheered. It was a great accomplishment to become a kinoto. There were only three at the moment, one of them being Ono.

"I'm so close! Ill make my Mothers proud no matter what!" Ono had a giant grin.

"I'm sure they're already very proud of you. I don't know what kind of parent wouldn't." M/N looked at the time on his clock, it was now around one in the morning, he'd only have four hours of sleep. "Goodnight, Ono. I need to shower and get to bed. I have to wake up at five to make everyone breakfast."

"Can you stay here tonight?" Ono asked with pleading eyes. M/Ns expression softened as he nodded. He stood up and left the room, making sure to tuck him in.

"Kyo, I'm back." M/N clued out as he entered the bedroom to gather a new pair of boxers. "I'm going to sleep with Ono tonight. He asked if I could, is that alright?"

"That's perfectly fine. Don't worry about it. I would join you but there wouldn't be enough room for three." Kyojuro laughed as they made their way into the bathroom.

M/N turned the nib of the shower onto hit, that's how Kyojuro liked it. It wasn't M/Ns perfected temperature, but he still enjoined it. "Sorry."

"Don't apologize. You're just doing what any parent would." Kyojuro smirked as they got under the warm water.

"But I'm not his parent." M/N sighed

"Yet." Kyojuro added which turned M/Ns face red.

"Oh! Ono's rank went up! He's a Kinoto now!" M/N exclaimed while washing the mud from his shins and knees.

"That's wonderful! He sure has a lot of promise!" Kyojuro had his bright smile. He would love to have a new Hashira among the ranks.

They finished up the shower and dried off. "I still feel bad that I'm not going to sleep with you after I said we'd cuddle." M/N sighed as he used the blow dryer on Kyojuro hair.

"It's fine, Love. You can make it up some other time. Or way~" Kyojuro smirked at M/N. M/N blushed as he unplugged the hair dryer, wrapping the cord and placing it away in the cabinet.

"Oh-" M/N looked down then right in Kyojuro eyes "and how might that be~"

"That's for me to know and for you to find out" Kyojuro winked.

"Alright, I do like surprises." M/N tucked Kyojuro into bed like a child and pulled him in for a deep kiss.

"Mmm" Kyojuro hummed into the kiss and they held that position for a while, enjoying their sweet kiss. "I'll see you in a few hours. Go get some sleep." Kyojuro stated after breaking the kiss. M/N pouted when their lips parted, not ready to end the kiss yet. "I love you."

"I love you too." M/N held onto Kyojuros hand. Kyojuro lifted M/Ns hand, placing a kiss on the back of it before lowering it back down. Kyojuro slowly let go of M/Ns hand, allowing him to leave. But being honest, it was more like pushing him to leave. M/N understood that he couldn't leave Ono waiting too long and left, glancing back at Kyojuro the whole way, almost bumping into the wall. Kyojuro had to hold in a laugh when M/N narrowly avoided the wall by stopping right when he made it to it and turned to see it was just centimeters in front of him. M/N had turned red from embarrassment before taking a sidestep to the left in order to be aligned with the door and walked out.

M/N walked into the bedroom Ono was in. He could see the small boy rolled into a ball, trying to sleep. M/N quietly got under the covers on the side of the futon not being taken up. "L- M/N?" Ono mumbled

"Sorry, did I wake you?" M/N asked worried

Ono let out a soft "no" in response. It left a little relief that he hadn't waken the Breath of the Scent user but made him a little worried that he had left Ono waiting this past half hour.

"Sorry I took so long." M/N apologized

" 'T's fine" Ono slurred out before yawning. "Thanks for staying"

"No problem." M/N gently stroked Ono's soft hair. Ono scooted closer to M/N and hummed, getting comfortable and quickly falling asleep.

The sight was endearing to M/N, having a small child all cuddled up with him, it was really like he was just comforting his son who had a scary nightmare. M/N smiled fondly at the small slayer curled up next to him. 'When this is all over, ill ask Kerun if I have his blessings to adopt Ono. I'm sure he'd say yes, but I should still ask because he is the one who took in Ono...' M/N thought to himself. He let out a sight 'now not the time to think of this, now's the time to sleep. You have a big day tomorrow.'

Ad with that, M/N wrapped his arms around Ono like a protective mama bear and went to sleep. For the next few hours, he had a nice deep comfortable sleep.

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