"Why are you wasting your time with those kids?" Obanai finally asked her during their Hashira meeting and Tomioka joined them.
"Oh, those three? Ubuyashiki san asked me to train them. To return the favour, they're teaching me their techniques, too," she smiled, "they're very good at it. The hardest one has been Zenitsu's Thunder Breathing and Inosuke's Spatial Awareness. I can't seem to get full control of it yet."
"You can copy their techniques?" Muichiro, who overheard this, was instantly intrigued by it.
"If I study them enough, yes. I've got the basics down and-"
"Fight me!" Muichiro had stars in his eyes, "oh, please. Your Earth Breathing is already wonderful, I want to see how well you can copy the others!"
(Note: Muichiro is not as aloof in this book. He's just a little quiet, generally)
"Only if you promise to teach me your sword skills!" She said and he nodded.
"I'm training after sunset today! Please do join me if you're free," he was excited. He'd been following up on her progress ever since she'd become a Hashira but was too scared to approach her.
"I will see you at the shrine where you train."
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She knew that agreeing to join his training would end up being a humbling experience. And it was.
"Whenever you're ready," he took his stance as his wooden sword slightly grazed the ground before attacking her with his mist breathing. The mist also made it very hard for her to focus.
Muichiro was so agile that she couldn't land a single hit on him, "you're very good at this, Tokito san! I need you to teach me all this."
"You think so?" He had a mellow smile on his face but he was internally squealing since he had the biggest star crush on the Earth Hashira.
"I have the perfect counter for this," she smiled to herself, knowing well how lost she was in the mist.
"Are you ready?" Muichiro asked, and she couldn't tell where he was talking from since the mist was reflecting his voice from all directions.
"Whenever you are," she put her hands to the side to activate the Spatial Awareness that she'd learnt from Inosuke's primitive yet effective teaching.
Her hand reached for her wooden sword and she instantly blocked the swing from his sword, making his eyes go wide. He'd attacked her from a carefully chosen blind spot but she'd managed to see him.
"Earth breathing - fifth form." He wanted to back away the minute he saw her smile, but his footing was way off with how fast she was. He quickly pushed himself off the ground and flipped backwards until he was out of the mist, trying to figure out his next attack. She was getting faster with her sword during his fight with her. She was adapting so quickly that he had to think before attacking her or he'd get hurt.
He saw his thick mist flicker with lighting, and when she emerged out of the mist with her new Thunder Breathing, his body almost refused to function.
"Thunder Breathing - First Form. Thunderclap and Flash."
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Obanai and Sanemi, who were training elsewhere, came running when they almost went blind with the bright light, "what nonsense is this? Keep it dow-"
"We're sorry!" Tokito apologised, "we just realised that we've been a little loud."
"A little?" Obanai pointed at her, "what troublesome technique are you using now? Kaburamaru freaked out."
"I'm sorry, I'm still developing this new breathing I learnt. I didn't think it would be this loud."
"Is Obanai troubling you, Miyuki?" Tengen arrived with Himejima and Mitsuri. He was bleeding a little from training with them.
"We were worried for you two," Gyomei said.
"Oh, you're having your own little Hashira meeting here." Kocho had also come running because of the noise, "is everyone okay?"
Their Kasugai crows arrived bearing news, "Master has asked to see Tokito and Haganezuka."
"Ooooooouuuu, looks like you two are in trouble with Master. Hahahah!" Obanai laughed.
"Crap, I don't want to get grounded again," Tokito said and she just realised what she'd done.
"Oh, come on. Just tell him it wasn't us," she told the crows and the other Hashira looked at her clearly indicating that there were too many Hashiras as witnesses for her to lie like that, "the last thing I wanted to do here was get in trouble with him!"
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"Miyuki SAAAAAAAAN!" Inosuke, Zenitsu and Tanjiro screamed outside her house at dawn.
"What is it?" She poked her head out of her balcony.
"We're here for our traininggg," they worshipped her in unison.
"I can't train with you this week," she pouted "didn't you hear that I'm grounded?"
"You're what???" They didn't understand how a Hashira could be grounded.
"Go away! Ubuyashiki san grounded me because of last night's noise," she said and heard a loud cackling sound from behind her. Tengen still hasn't stopped laughing about it.
"Was that thunder breathing yours???" Zenitsu asked her and she nodded, "Tokito san and I were training last night," she said and they ended up laughing too.
"Since all of you think it's so funny..." she looked at Tengen who stopped laughing immediately and tried to run back inside like the good boy he was, "Uzui san will train you today!"
"NOOOOOO!" All three said in unison, except for Tanjiro, "YAAAY!"
"Give me a minute." She went back inside and Tengen begged her to not make him do that, "you can't possibly be this mean, come on." She pressed kisses on his face, "oh, please, babe. You know I can't go." And he melted.
Tanjiro, Inosuke and Zenitsu saw her push Tengen out of the door, "have a nice day, you four!" And closed it.
Tengen was so mad at them that he didn't know what to do. "Well, since you all decided to interrupt my lovely morning with my girlfriend, I will grind you today" he popped his knuckles and Inosuke had stars in his eyes.
"LISTEN TO ME!" He said, "I AM A GOD! And you three..."
"ARE TRASH! WEAKLINGS!" he was beaming, "If I tell you to bark, you will bark! If I tell you to suck up to me, you will do exactly that! You will worship me as your teacher!"
"Is this how you trained Miyuki san as well?" Zenitsu knew he was off in the head, but now he realised that Tengen wasn't normal at all.
"Nope! It was worse for her."
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Kitty - Sanemi x OC x Tengen
Fanfiction"What if you want to go back to Shinazugawa one day?", Tengen was desperate for an answer, he didn't even bother hiding it anymore. "Why would I want to do that?", Miyuki asked as she nursed the wound on his torso. Her busy hands kept his mind occup...
