Bound by Destiny: A Love Story Written in the Stars

Chapter 6

As Aoi and Inosuke were drying the plates, It didn't take long before Aoi realized how tense the air was, and how mad Inosuke looked. It was weird for Inosuke to look mad without yelling out loud.

"Aoi" he said tensely

"What is it, Inosuke?" she cheered

Inosuke turned around to her "Are you in love with Gonpachiro?"

'Gonpachiro means Tanjiro-kun' she memorized "How do you even know what romance is?" she asked, curiously

"I've met the pink haired lady and Monitsu, I know how love works"

'You don't know the half of romance', she thought "Why do you ask?"

"You like talking to Gonpachiro a lot"

She looked at him and smiled, she realised then she looked like Shinobu, smiling all the time "I do, but I'm not in love with him. Him and Kanao-chan are meant to be"

"Good, him and Kanae seem to like each other I guess" Inosuke shrugged

He turned around to see Aoi looking at him like he had just killed her sister, tears slowly appeared in her eyes and started pouring down her cheeks.

"AOI, WHAT HAPPENED?" Inosuke shrieked

Aoi didn't answer, instead a flashback ran through her mind. She saw Kanae Kocho, her adoptive older sister, talking down to her.

"Aoi-chan, do you want to be a demon slayer as well when you're Shinobu's age?" the beautiful, long haired woman asked a small Aoi

"Of course! Me and Kanao are gonna be best friends in the corps, right Kanao?" she cheered, turning to her adoptive sisters younger form

Small, adorable Kanao nodded cutely

"That's great! And I'll also be your best friend, right?"

"Hell yeah you are, nee-san!"

Kanae Kocho looked at her worriedly "Aoi-chan, who taught you that word?"

"The big man you introduced us to, Uzui-san" Aoi replied innocently

A younger Shinobu with different clothes and shorter hair appeared behind them "Uzui-san told you what?"

Kanae looked worried "Shinobu-chan, calm down"

"Nee-san, I'm going to take a 'walk', okay?"

"Shinobu!" Kanae called out, it was too late, she had already disapeared "Kanao, Aoi, do you want to pray for the man?"

"Okay, nee-san" Small Kanao said

"AOI, AOI, AOI-CHAN!" she abruptly came back to her senses, she wiped tears from her eyes and saw Shinobu calling out to her, surrounded by Kanao, Sumi, Naho, and Kiyo looking at her worriedly.

"Nee-san, it's nothing, I just zoned out to a sad memory"

"What was the memory?" Shinobu asked her, Aoi opened her mouth to speak before being cut off by Shinobu "Don't lie to me Aoi-chan, you can tell the butterfly sisters anything"

Before Aoi could speak she saw Kanao march over to Inosuke "Inosuke, just what did you do to make Aoi cry!?" Kanao seemed angry, for the first time in years she actually looked angry

Inosuke yelled back "I JUST SAID YOUR NAME AND SHE STARTED CRYING"

"What exactly did you say, Inosuke-san?"

"I'm not telling you!"

"Don't argue both of you" Aoi interrupted "When Inosuke said your name. . . he referred to you as. . . Kanae"

The room fell silent "Oh, I see" Shinobu said understandingly

"Inosuke-san, her name is Kanao, please never call her Kanae again, we would appreciate it a lot" Sumi pleaded, it pained her to say the deceased woman's name more than you could know.

"Okay?" Inosuke said, actually feeling bad, but still not knowing why Aoi was being so dramatic about it

"We have to finish the dishes, you ladies can leave" Aoi said

The butterfly girls left the room

Hey everyone I hope you enjoyed this chapter

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I came up with this literally as I wrote it

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