Fate

Chapter 7

Merry Christmas! This story is turning out to be wayyyy longer than I expected. Anyways here's another chapter, Enjoy!

Obanai's pov:
I recognize the place we are now. It's around the Rengoku estate. We are a few kilometres away from it at a big cliff.
I remember this. This is not going to be easy to watch. But this wasn't that long ago so this will probably be over soon since we've never gone back in time from a memory.
Mitsuri's face lights up. She probably recognizes this place too since we sometimes walk around here.
Kamado doesn't seem to know where we are. Suddenly I see my past self come into view. I walk toward the edge of the cliff looking off. Sitting down. Kaburamaru slithers around nervously. He can sense human emotion so I can only imagine how worried he was.
Past Mitsuri comes from the distance. "Obanaiiii!!!" She yells. She takes a minute to catch her breath from running. "I was looking for you!" She continues.
We talk for a little bit. "I was coming to tell you that we have a meeting today. Master asked Ginko to tell you but Muichiro said that she refused to go today so we both came to look for you but I couldn't find you anywhere..." she rambled on.
"Ok." I reply. We chat for a little while longer. I remember feeling really guilty at that moment. She didn't know...
"OH!!! MUICHIRO AND KYOJIRO ARE ALSO LOOKING FOR YOU I SHOULD GO TELL THEM I FOUND YOU!!! See you at the meeting!!" She exclaimed as she ran away.
"See you..." I reply. I thought that this would be the last time that I would ever see her. It would've had it been up to me.

Mitsuri's pov:
Confusion. Why are they showing this memory? It's not bad or anything. I thought that they only showed sad things.
I watch Obanai. He's looking off the edge of the cliff. He sighs. His back is turned from us to the edge of the cliff but his uneven breathing tells me that he was... crying? But why?
He puts Kaburamaru on the ground. He immediately tries to slithers back up Obanai but he lightly shoved him away.
"Hsssssss" Kaburamaru was trying to reason with him in his own snakey way. I know that Obanai understands Kaburamaru. I don't know how though. I try to understand him but it all sounds the same.
"Go away..." Obanai told Kaburamaru. He hesitantly slithered away. Obanai sighed again and looked down from the cliff.
Suddenly he smiled. He took a step towards the edge. I gasped which caused Obanai to look at me. I look at him concerned. He just looks at the ground.
Looking back at the memory I see him steep over the cliffs edge. Suddenly in the blink of an eye we see a blur come by.
Just as he was about to drop something catches him. It was Kyojiro. Kaburamaru was around his neck.
He pulls Obanai up. Immediately he pulls him into a hug. Obanai struggled a little bit but eventually gave up and sobbed into Kyojiro's shoulder.
"Why... just let me..." Obanai tried to speak but was interrupted by Kyojiro.
"I would never let you." Kyojiro firmly stated. "Why would you even think of this?" Kyojiro looked like he was on the verge of breaking down too.
"You know. Everyone would be sad if you died." He told him. "Think of Mitsuri. She would be devastated! And me too. My dad would never forgive himself if he let the person that he saved killed himself!"
I've never seen Kyojiro yell like that before. How had I not known that this happened? This happened just last week too.
They continued to hug (which was adorable but besides the point) eventually they both calmed down.
"Do you still want to come to the meeting?" Kyojiro softly asked.
"Yeah." Obanai replied. They left... then everything started spinning really bad again. But why? Is it done? We can't go much more forward than we already are.
I feel everything go black again. I hate when that happens.

Aoi's pov:
"Shinobu!" I yell to her. I run around the large mansion and finally found her.
"Hm?" She acknowledges me. She's out gardening with Kanao right now.
"Tanjiro is showing signs of waking up soon." I report. She nods. We walk towards the room. I show her how he responds to touch now.
We found that out when Inosuke wouldn't stop poking him. Doesn't he know when to leave someone alone. But I guess he's the reason we found this out.
"Hmm... this is good. Are the others responding to touch too?" She asks. I shrug and walk over to Kanroji's bed. I tap her arm and she moves it slightly. I do the same with Iguro and he gives the same reaction.
Shinobu takes out her notebook and takes down some notes. "Ok. Let's hope that they are ok after this. We don't need any more demon slayers sent to the "hospital" after being hit by this blood demon art." She rambled on.

??? pov:
What was that? I remember getting hit by a bullit in the head. It came from a demon.
"Aaaaaaaaargh" I yell out in pain. Someone comes towards me.
"Hello. How are you feeling?" She asks
"I... what... my... ah!" I can't think properly. All I can think of is demons. Killing people. It's replaying in my head. I can't stop it.
"Hmm..." the person types something on a computer. A few more people come in.
"He seems to be in a trance." The person tells the other people. "It's just like the other patients."
Where am I? What's happening? Why can't I get that scene out of my head? It hurts...

Haha! Yay I finished a chapter. I'm excited to continue so I might make another chapter today but don't expect anything. Merry Christmas all and have a lovely day/night/whenever you're reading this.

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