Sister of the snake - Tanjiro X Reader

CHAPTER 3

Obanai POV Flashback:

I got up to continue my rehab training in the Butterfly Mansion training hall. The training was deathly painful, but nobody had dropped out yet.

I moved to the first station, where people would give me and the others torturously painful massages to get my bedridden body back into shape.

Once I had done that, I had to try to throw medicated water on some assistants, but, as usual, I absolutely failed.

After that, I would basically play tag. I couldn't beat the hashira or their direct assistants, but others I could beat.

During the afternoon and night, I would train myself extra to master Total Concentration Breathing - Constant.

One week later...

Y/N still hadn't woken up, but the nurses and Shinobu said that something weird was happening. Apparently, even without hashira training, Y/N was in a constant state of Total Concentration Breathing, a feat that, until now, only the hashira and their tsugoku has achieved. Also, she had an unusually high fever, her body temperature at over 39 degrees Celsius, her heart rate over 200 bpm.

I smiled and continued blowing into a huge gourd, trying to burst it.

Flashback end:

Y/N POV:

Obanai just finished telling me all about our battle against Muzan and his training, alongside my condition during my unconscious time.

I was brought to the training Center for rehab training. The stretches went by quickly.

I was told to try to splash medicated water on Shinobu while stopping her from splashing some on me. She tried, but I effortlessly stopped her hand and splashed her.

Thinking it was a fluke, she asked me to try again. This time, I understood better what I was doing. Starting a second before she moved, I could see through her. I could perceive her muscles, her brain, her heart, her internal organs, her bones. I perceived her movements, and I knew which cup she was going for.

When it actually came to blocking her, time seemed to slow down. Giyuu's talking became slow and inaudible, and Shinobu's arm seemed to be moving at the same speed as a snail. My arm moved on its own, blocking her, then picking up the cup next to the one she was going for, splashing her face and drenching her hair in the medicated water.

"Wow."

Giyuu's voice snapped me out of my trance.

"What was that?"

I shrugged, but then an assistant walked in, saying:

"It's time for the semi-annual hashira meeting, Shinobu-sama. Ubuyashiki-sama has requested that you bring the mizunotos with you to meet him and the other hashira."

She bowed as if worried Shinobu would scold her, but Shinobu was too entranced by what had happened to complain. She got up and signaled for me, Giyuu, Obanai, Sabito and Makomo to follow her.

We did so without questioning her.

Shinobu brought us to a mansion even bigger than the Butterfly Mansion, and we bowed in front of a few people who I assumed were the other hashira.

Once introduced himself as Himejima Gyomei, the stone hashira. Another was Kyojuro Rengoku, the son of Shinjuro Rengoku, the person who saved me and Obanai, the flame hashira. He also introduced me to his tsugoku, Kanroji Mitsuri, who has made her own derivation of Flame Breathing called Love Breathing. Another one was Shinazugawa Sanemi, the wind hashira. Shinobu apparently has a sister, Kocho Kanae, the flower hashira. Uzui Tengen, the sound hashira, was the last one.

"Attention, everyone."

A pair of kids spoke up in unison.

"The master has arrived."

As they said that, a man with medium length black hair walked out from the house, smiling kindly. His upper face was purple and he was evidently blind, but his smile was filled with kindness and understanding. He clearly understood what me and Obanai went through.

"Hello, everyone, and especially you, mizunotos. My name is Kagaya Ubuyashiki."