Scars Of Love | Iguro Obanai

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"Break your sword once more and you'll be hearing lots from me!"

You couldn't help but cover your ears as Hotaru screamed his lungs out just to scold you for accidentally breaking your nichirin sword, his hands flying around the air to emphasize how angry he was about it while you stand there helplessly listening to his rants with your hands over your ears and when he saw how you're covering your ears from his scolding made him scream louder than he was.

"Why are you covering your ears?! HOW DARE YOU DO THAT AFTER BREAKING WHAT I MADE!!!" he screamed once again as his fingers pointed at you in a rude manner.

You on the other hand deflated, "I really didn't mean for it to break. The battle was intense, it wasn't going too well for me."

"Of course it won't!" Hotaru scoffed before handing you a new sword to use "Break this one and I'll never make you a new one!"

You couldn't help but giggle at his threat knowing that he'll definitely make you a new one once yours will break, but it took you a week to have a new sword due to how many demon slayers passed the final selection making Hotaru busy with making swords for the newbies. It was also one of the reasons why he was angrier than before, because he had tons of swords to make yet you managed to break one of his masterpiece so he has to make you one. Even though you knew he didn't mind making one.

He was just overreacting with it.

"I thank you for your everlasting service" you thanked him and bowed making Hotaru stop his screaming session with a small grumble of 'It't nothing'.

With one final scold, Hotaru left with his assistant leaving you there with your new nichirin sword.

A soft sigh left your lips as you stare at the sword in your grip and couldn't help but look into the details, you couldn't deny Hotaru's skills in making the finest swords one could ever use. It made you feel lucky to have him as your swordsmith, even though he nags at how breaking his sword means that he'll take your life even though he knows how capable you are in taking him down in a fight.

But that doesn't stop him from screaming hell at you for breaking his precious creations, which was funny for you because he loves his work so much that it made you admire Hotaru. Not in a romantic view, but just plain admiration for someone who does their work with burning passion and strong determination. It made you rethink about yours in the process, did you even do enough like Hotaru?

Did I work hard?

Your mood dampen as you thought about yourself being weak, you knew how stupid it was that your sword broke just because of a demon that wasn't even strong. But you manage to struggle in fighting it that it made the nichirin sword break.

Before your mind gets clouded by negative thoughts, screams of panic reached your hearing which caused your attention to search for the noise.

"[Last Name]-san!" a horrified scream had you turning around only to see Tanjiro's group running towards you in panic, you could only tilt your head in confusion as they surround you.

"What's going on?" was the first thing that slipped off your mouth and silently laughed at how their blonde companion was hysterically crying his heart out.

Your gaze now landed onto the adorable green haori boy who was looking worried and giving side glances as if someone was following them, Tanjiro's lips quivered and his eyes looked up to pleadingly stare at yours.

"W- We manage to got ourselves in trouble, [Last Name]-san." The way his eyes were dilated and how their bodies are shaking while asking for help made you wonder if they encountered a demon on their way to your estate.

Wait, it was almost dark. So it may be possible, but if they went to your estate for help. That meant it might be serious, right?

But before you could even open your mouth and offer your help, a familiar breathing greeted the four of you in return making you jump away from the impact with your eyes wide in surprise. Only for your jaw to drop when you saw Iguro landing over Tanjiro while giving him a hard time and now Zenitsu is screaming his lungs out along with his cries. Inosuke on the other hand kept yelling at Obanai to get off of Tanjiro or he'll have to fight him in order to keep him away.

While you just stood there dumbfounded, "Why the heck is Iguro-san chasing the three of you?"

Zenitsu was first to answer your question as he faced you with tears in his eyes.

"WE ACCIDENTALLY INTERRUPTED KANROJI-SAN AND IGURO-SAN WHEN THEY WERE OUT!! I SWEAR WE DIDN'T MEAN IT BUT HE'S SO EVIL FOR NO REASON! HE KEEPS CHASING US AFTER KANROJI-SAN LEFT FOR A MISSION! HELP US!!! [LAST NAME]-SAN!!! PLEASE!!!!" the blonde slayer screeched in horror.

It only worsened when Iguro decided to land some attacks on the poor boy while you cover your ears from their screech as you asked them to kindly stop since they're in your estate.

And your helpers might be scared from how loud their screams were from outside, but of course you didn't want to talk to Obanai just yet so you decided to not do anything about it.

"I'm sure you guys will figure it out, or maybe I'll ask Oyakata-sama to visit my estate in this hour and complain about how a hashira is harassing poor low ranked demon slayers. Especially when it's under my roof. Don't you agree, Iguro-san?"

The said boy stopped what his doing and glared at you, if it was your naive self who wanted his love so much. You would have melted right there and forgive how rude he is, but with you realizing everything. What he's doing is already giving you the ick.

Iguro on the other hand didn't quite understand the disgust and annoyance in your gaze, it was as if he was used to your soft look whenever you stare right into his eyes. He felt weird, but he ignored it anyways and immediately scoffed at you.

"Whatever" was the only thing he can come up with before letting Tanjiro go, his eyes looked down at the coughing boy before glaring back at you once again.

You only raised your brow at Obanai and gestured him to leave, "You should go follow Kanroji-san already. She might need your help, but of course she's strong enough to defeat high ranked demons."

"But we can't have her in danger, yes?" you ended as you observed his reaction.

The serpent pillar was quick enough to scoff at your words and disappear from your sight making you sigh before looking at the trio, "Be careful next time. I can't always defend you from Iguro-san."

All three of them looked at each other when they were finally calmed down, Tanjiro and Zenitsu scratched their heads awkwardly before looking away from you.

"But [Last Name]-san, I sensed something weird from Iguro-san when Kanroji-san mentioned you during their conversation when we interrupted them. It was kind of sweet, so I thought..."

Your brows only furrowed at his words.

"That's impossible."