Shizen no Kokyou. (Shinobu x Male Reader) [COMPLETED]

Chapter 3

It had been a few days since Y/N had become a Hashira, as it was night and we see him sitting on top of a roof, admiring the moon, when he hears someone's voice.

???: Yoo-hoo!

Y/N keeps watching the moon.

???: Yoo-hoo!

He suddenly feels someone land beside him. He turns around and sees it was Shinobu and she was inches away from him.

Shinobu: *smiling* Hello! I see you're too busy on staring at the moon.

Y/N jumps back and blushes as he looks away.

Shinobu: Ara, what's wrong?

Y/N shakes his head.

Shinobu: So... Admiring the beautiful sky all alone, are we? Don't you feel lonely?

Y/N: No... I'm used to it...

Shinobu: You really are like Tomioka, huh?

Y/N: The Water Pillar?

Shinobu: *smiling* Yes. He's all quiet and broody as well, and has literally no friends.

Y/N looks at her and keeps staring for a while.

Shinobu: *smiling* What are you looking at? If you're thinking something perverted, I will surely beat you up. ^_^

Shinobu looks at the sky.

Shinobu: I dream of a day when we can be friends with demons.

Y/N nods.

Y/N: Koucho...? Why are you angry?

Her expression completely changes to one of surprise.

Y/N: I felt it the day we first met too... You're angry about something... Even though you're always smiling...

Shinobu looks at the sky as her smile fades away.

Shinobu: You're right. I'm angry. Ever since my beloved older sister was slaughtered by a demon, everytime I see the tears of those who've lost their loved ones to demons, everytime I hear their cries of despair, the anger keeps building up inside me, and continues to swell.

Y/N silently listens.

Y/N: But... Demons need to survive on flesh, don't they?

Shinobu: Yeah, so what? They can't just go around killing innocents, right?

Y/N: They can't... But... I believe there is a way to achieve your dream. A utopia where demons and humans co-exist... It's probably possible.

Shinobu gets up.

Shinobu: Don't bother, L/N. You're a nice guy and all, but don't go around saying such things when you can't understand how the other feels.

Y/N: ... I do.

Shinobu looks at Y/N.

Y/N: My father... He was devoured by a demon. But... I was told he didn't resist, it was probably because he knew that mother was working on a way to have the demons co-exist with us humans.

Shinobu sits back down and listens intently.

Y/N: My mother believed that she could create a medicine. A cure. One that allowed demons to survive on human food.

Shinobu: What happened then...?

Y/N: When my father was consumed, mother started to overexert herself. She wanted that nobody else felt the pain and despair she had felt at his death.... But one day, she grabbed me and put me in a closet, kissed my head, covered the area around me in wisteria and closed the door while crying. That was the last time I heard from her, or saw her...