Ｐｒｏｔｅｃｔ ||Tomioka Giyuu X OC||

Forty-Fifth.

Giyuu's POV.

I had a dream. 

A strange dream to be exact. There is a girl in my dream, but I am not sure who she is. She has a beautiful smile, but I can't see her eyes. Her hair is long that it covers her cheeks whenever she look downwards. 

She often called my name.

Giyuu.

She smiled at me, but I don't know who she is. She reached out to me and I unconsciously reached out to her too. Her open arms welcomed me to a warm hug. And that is where I woke up.

I remembered I reached out my hand to the air when I woke up. The next thing that came to my mind is that girl from my dream. The strange thing is that, I feel like I know her. I wanted to protect her. 

Her appearances doesn't reminded me of anyone. But somehow, I can say that she reminded me a bit of Hanabi. My precious flower. Her smile is the same and her vibes are the same. But I can tell that their character is different. She is not as strong and brave as Hanabi, and her features are not build to wield a sword. She has red hair while Hanabi had black one.

Black, that's right, she had a black hair once. Her hair, her smile, her caring behavior, she often reminded me of Tsutako-neesama. I can see nee-sama in her because of her braided hair and her smile. I wonder if that is why I fall for her. 

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"Why did you choose that name, Giyuu?" Urokodaki asked me while we are having a chat in his house on the mountain.

"What do you mean, sensei?"

"Your eleventh form, why did you choose that name?"

I kept silent, think about it for awhile. My eleventh form,  Lull 凪 (Nagi) is a form of technique in the Breath of Water style that I created by myself. When someone created a new style, they are free to named it anything as they like.

Right, why did I came up with that name?

"To be truthful to you, sensei, I don't even know myself," I said to him. "That name...it just came up from my unconscious mind."

"Hmm, I see. How's Hanabi? Did you two get along well? "

I stayed silent.

"Did you two fought?" He asked again.

I nod slightly.

"I see. You two are already adults, I hope you two can fix this matter of yours wisely."

"I understand."

The conversation continued, but my mind keep wondering off about the previous topic.

Why did I came up with that name?

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We fought yes, and I mostly feel terrible about it. I started it, that's my fault.

...

Actually, no. It's not entirely my fault. She kept going on and on about how she hate that I was acting on my own that I risked my life. But isn't that what she did too? She face a demon without any sword, an Upper Moon to be exact. Of course I was mad.

I was mad not because she go against her words but because she did something so stupid that can ended up with her losing her life. If that were to happened, what is the point of those promises that we made?

...no, that's not why I was mad. I was mad because I was afraid to lose her. 

*Sigh*