Snowflake Crystals

Chapter 2: A watchful eye

He eventually had to leave because the sun was rising. He knew he couldn't be spotted, yet... He found her sleeping for so peaceful. He never wanted to be away from her. It was a pain to go. No one in a very long time made him feel like this.

But he knew if he wanted to survive, and one day make her his, he had to go. Akaza turned and ran deep into the forest making his way back to the castle of infinity. He was fast, strong, yet people feared him. As they should.

As he felt himself being summoned to the castle, he arrived after traveling to the demon dimension. It had this shiver over him, like this mucus over his skin whenever he entered the forbidden dimension.

Once he arrived, Muzan stood before him, Akaza felt the cold grip of his master before him, it drew him to his knees. He was respectful towards his master, getting on one knee and looking at the ground.

"Akaza."

Veins nearly popped out of his head and he felt his body tense. 'Was muzan aware that he'd been spying on that hashira?' Akaza kept his head down.

"Yes sir."

Muzan spoke with a voice that sent shivers down Akaza's spine, "Give me an update on the blue spider lilly." Akaza's fists clenched. He failed his mission yet again, even after the Mugen Train incident. He didn't even successfully kill that flame hashira.

"I haven't been able to find it sir."

Muzan slammed his foot on the ground and growled at Akaza.

"WHY CAN'T YOU FIND IT???"

Akaza stayed quiet, he knew he didn't have an answer for Muzan. He had to stop watching that girl. But he couldn't help it. Muzan dismissed him with a punch to the back, it was easily regenerated, yet Akaza felt a cold sense over his body.

He knew he needed to find that damn flower, but he couldn't keep his eyes off of that hashira. She filled his head. He couldn't get her out of it if he tried.

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Amiya awoke slowly, she felt that presence again, it felt good and bad in a sense. Yet she payed it no mind. Quietly slipped out of her bed, she showered, and got ready for another day of patrols and training.

She was ordered to report to the insect hashira's estate by noon. Shinobu would insist to check her wounds. Instead Amiya checked them herself so Shinobu wouldn't have to do anything drastic.

She changed the bandages and pulled on her uniform and grabbed her sword, slipping it between her belt and her hip and made her way out of her home and broke into a sprint into the forest.

She was fast, so it didn't take her long to get to the property. She walked down the path and waved to the Sound Hashira and Flame Hashira as she passed by them. She finally arrived at the butterfly estate.

Shinobu stood in the living area with her arms crossed and tapping her foot, Amiya just shook her head.

"I'm not late Shinobu-Chan, what's the rush?"

Shinobu looked irritated,

"Have you cared for your own wounds again Amiya?"

Amiya rolled her eyes, "Shinobu, I refuse your care. I can fix my own wounds. I assure you."

"Yeah? And what if you go up against an upper rank and get a limb sliced off? What would you do then? Some measly string and clippers can't repair a leg."

Amiya sighed, "Kochou, you may be right. But come on."

"No. I won't 'come on' Amiya. Remove your top. I'm bandaging your wounds correctly."

Amiya sighed and clenched her fists, she unbuttoned her top and Shinobu stood behind her taking the bandages off and glaring at the wounds.

"See. Half of your wounds are infected-"

"Yeah yeah. I get it."

Shinobu scoffed and continued working on Amiya's back, Amiya just looked out the window, it was mid afternoon, yet, she felt that presence again, this close? Why?

It was clear that whatever the presence was, was indeed following her. She didn't know what it was though.

Kochou finally finished stitching Amiya's back and gave her the top of her uniform. Amiya slipped her arms through it and looked at Shinobu.

"I want you back in a weak."

Amiya shrugged and saluted.

"Ai ai captain."

With that amiya stood and exited the room making her way out of the butterfly estate. She made her way to the gate after getting a new mission from Oyakata-Sama. She was to eliminate a lower rank that had been slaughtering humans in a nearby village.

Eventually when it got dark, Amiya started to run to the village to patrol there until something or someone attacked. She ran fast, eventually arriving at the village.

The lower rank was stronger than she expected. It was destroying buildings in a rage, killing human after human.

Amiya clenched her sword and ran up behind the lower rank, she jumped up and brought her sword out of it's sheath.

"Snow Breathing, First Form."

She closed her eyes and her body spun fast, almost like a tornado of snow. Small poisonous icicles came out of her sword and stabbed the demon in the back, he screamed loudly and Amiya stopped spinning and slashed off the demons head with ease and landed on her feet perfectly.

"Poisonous icicle tornado."

Many of the villagers ran up to her bowing and thanking her as they cried. She patted each of their heads and the children hugged her knees.

She closed her eyes and smiled while tilting her head to the side, with that she made her way out of the village.

The forest was dark, eery, she didn't like it. The presence hit her again, it was like she was masked with a feeling that made her body freeze.

A crash came from her left and she clenched her sword unsheathing it, but not before she came face to face with a pair of shattered golden and blue eyes that read,

Upper Three.

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