Infinity With You | T. Muichiro

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Chapter 10
ANGELICA

"Look and behold!"

The Love Hashira proudly showcased one of her breathing forms to you.

"Love breathing, third form; Cat love shower!"

She performs multiple, releasing long-winding arches, akin to a whipping motion, cutting the target dummy at multiple angles, immediately destroying it into pieces.

'Cat love...shower? What does that mean? Is it a cat shower that drops down like water droplets?'

You grimaced at the name, pursing your lips. However, after seeing your Master looking at you for some sort of reaction, you clapped loudly, beaming.

"That was awesome, Master! Another one please!" Although your Master may have questionable taste in names, you do admit that she looked pretty awesome performing her breathing forms. The young woman happily complied to your wish.

This goes on for a while.

After a while of training, you managed to muster up courage and tell your wish to your Master.

"Kanroji-nee, I want to develop my own breathing style!"

Kanroji seemed surprised before she started jumping in excitement. You joined in and now, there were two crazy people jumping around in front of the Love Estate.

"I believe in you, (Name)-chan! You can do it! I am so proud of you for being such an excellent Tsuguko!" She squealed delightfully and rubbed her cheeks with yours affectionately. Thankfully, she does not seem to suspect a thing.

'I absolutely cannot say I just don't want to yell out those cringe names while fighting to my Master, absolutely not!'

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You came back from training and decided to visit the Mist Estate. It has been a few days since you last saw him, with both of your schedules full and busy.

You smiled happily when you saw Muichiro sitting near the porch, seemingly busy with something. He was folding Origami, it seems. Overcome with joy and exhaustion, you quietly approached him and wrapped your arms around him from behind, burying your face into his neck and breathing in his calming scent.

Muichiro paused, surprised but then relaxed into your embrace.

"Mui-kun, Mui-kun, Mui-kun." you murmured, feeling a sense of peace wash over you.

"Hm?"

You tightened your hold, and stayed like that for a while. These kind of moments with Muichiro made your exhaustion melt away like the snow under the sun. You didn't need to hold a conversation, nor felt the need to. You were content with just the silence.

"Mui-kunnnnn..."

You sway a little while hugging him, starting to feel sluggish, exhausted from earlier training. Muichiro let out a hum at your constant sighing of his name.

"Say, what're you doing?"

"Oh, I am just recharging my energy."

A giddy grin appears on your face when you see Muichiro pause.

"I thought you needed to eat or sleep in order to recharge your energy." He mumbled out, glancing at your form for a second before re-focusing on his task.

"But I can feel my energy returning, Mui-kun is just special like that huh?"

You answered with a question, giggling a bit at the boy's slightly taken aback expression.

"What're you folding?"

Before you can take a look at the paper in his hand, he covered your eyes. He just used your own move against you, noticing this you felt an odd urge to laugh.

"I will show you when I am finished."

With that promise, you decided not to press him further.

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'Breathing forms huh...'

You paced around the training grounds, lost in thought. You had asked Muichiro to perform his Mist Breathing techniques for you, hoping to gain inspiration. Now you understand how both Love Breathing and Mist Breathing worked.

You also had the genius idea of visiting the other Hashiras to ask them to showcase their Breathing styles. However...;

'No one seems to be available...being a Hashira sure is tough.'

'Let's just make notes about the ones I know first.' you scribbled down on the notepad in your hand.

'I also saw Kanao perform Flower Breathing before as well, I should add them too.'

After reading the notes several times, you tried to recall their movies inside your head. Then, you tried to imagine the moves you could pull off.

'Hey...maybe I can pull this off.' Beaming, you stand up and walk in front of the training dummies.

You focused on your footwork to spin and dash towards random directions, using the tree as a boost, you spin and unleash a complete 360° cut, completely destroying the wooden dummies in one-go.

"I did it!!!" Overcome with accomplishment, you jump around excitedly. You could feel the excitement urging you to push yourself more, and more.

'I did it! I did it! I am so hyped right now I could create one hundred forms!' The rest of the training went smoothly, much to your delight. In one evening, you created six forms in total.

'Good job, (Name)! You should spoil yourself rotten for this accomplishment!' Cheering on yourself, you leave the training grounds, and walk towards a village, hoping to find a good restaurant nearby.

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The moon hung low in the sky, casting its silvery light across the tranquil night sky.

'Huu..I am stuffed, it was so delicious.' heading back to the Mist Estate, you rubbed your tummy in satisfaction.

"It's already this late, Mui-kun is usually out on missions during this time." Both of you were also busy during daytime. When it was nighttime, Muichiro is even more bombarded with missions. 'Since it's usually this time demons are out and about, after all.' you think sadly, you hoped to spend more time with him, since you were only free during nighttime.

'I guess it can't be helped. I will just have to try my best to catch up. Then, if I were to finish my missions earlier, I can spend more time with him.' Lost in thought, you looked up at the lone moon, smiling subconsciously.

'I have to be stronger before that.'

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Taisho Rumors

(Name) decided to name her Breathing style 'Star Breathing' after she was reminded of Yuichiro through the star-patterned handkerchief he gifted her.

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Author Notes

If you don't remember, in chapter 2, there's a scene of Yuichiro giving (Name) a handkerchief, she had kept it with her ever since then.