Frozen Butterfly (Male Reader X Shinobu Kocho)

Down Time (Chapter 4)

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(Y/n) POV

It's been around a month since Kanae and Shinobu took the three of us in and we have all improved greatly. 

In this time Kanae and Shinobu had also taken in a few other little girls.

The first one named Aoi Kanzaki was a girl a bit younger then (MB/n), she has deep blue eyes and black hair, she seems a bit shy right now but hopefully will open up to me and the others later.

The others are Kiyo, Sumi, and Naho, they're all very young and although they looked like sisters to me when i first met them, they aren't and it's really sad to see such young kids lives nearly destroyed by demons.

The thoughts helped push me and my brothers to train harder to the point that Kanae has already sent (MB/n) and (YB/n) to meet their cultivators. She has not sent me to mine yet though since im still catching up with my training since my wrist was broken.

Right now im outside with Shinobu training with my sword movements. 

Shinobu had started out being really grumpy around all three of us and while she had still pretty grumpy towards (MB/n) and (YB/n), she was much nicer to me compared to the other two.

So far i've improved my sword skills highly as well as being able to keep up my total concentration breathing for longer periods of time. 

i take a deep breath and slice the bamboo in front of me in half

"Good strike (Y/n)"

Shinobu says looking at me with about a half smile, and while to most that would seem like i had done something only adequately due to her less excitable demeanor, after training with Shinobu long enough i've realized that that is likely going to be the most praise i'll get out of her

"Thank you, Shinobu, whats next?"

I asked with a small smile as i look over at Shinobu and it took her a second to think before saying

"Lets work on your breathing techniques a little bit, i know you have trained them more then either of your brothers so i want to see how far you really are with them"

I nod and sheath the sword i was using to practice and walk over to her as we sit on the ground and start to really focus on our total concentration breathing. Im able to keep it up for hours at this point and can do it through pretty much the entire day with some effort by now, but i still can't do it when im sleeping yet.

Shinobu however, can do it effortlessly. its very interesting when i watch her train, I try to focus on her movements and breathing and have even attempted to mimic her breathing style before. It's quite complex and hard but i've memorized the way to breath to do a few of them, though never actually done it. 

"I think thats enough working on breathing for now (Y/n)"

Shinobu says and my eyes snap open and look around and i realize we have been working on total concentration for around and hour. I nod and stand up as Shinobu tells me that training is over for the day and to head inside.

As i walk inside i see Aoi and Kanao cleaning the kitchen and i smile at them and say hi, Aoi replies with a quiet "hi"  and Kanao just simply waves but thats good enough for me as i go to take a shower.

After my shower i put my light blue haori back on over my clothes and walk out into the kitchen where Aoi and Kanao have helped Kanae make some food. They decided to make Shinobu's favorite food today, ginger simmered in soy sauce.