Unexpected Giyuu X Sabito

Chapter 4/ Worried

*This is more of a side ship part, but it's still part of the main story*

Mitsuri's POV

I can't believe I talked Obanai into coming with me to visit Tomioka. Even if me and Obanai are dating he doesn't really like Tomioka. But still we were all surprised with the series of events that happened yesterday. I am actually quite worried for Tomioka. Most of the other hashira's think of him as arrogant and stuck up but honestly he's just introverted and hurt. I actually made him some onigiri as a get better snack because I know he likes them and as well as that he normally forgets to eat.  Obanai and I am heading to Tomioka's place when we pass Shinobu. She looks really shaken. Maybe I shouldn't bother her but I just can't help it. I give her a smile and a wave. She puts her normal smile back on her face and waves back. I'm so glad! We finally reached Tomioka's place, I let go of Obanai's hand to knock on the door. He looks a little upset. Awh that's adorable he must have been happy to go on a walk with me. Giyuu answered the door. *gasp* What's he doing out of bed?! Is he feeling that well already? To be honest he does look a lot better than even before he was sick. I hear some laughing in the background that is slowly dying down.

"Tomioka! I brought you some onigiri for a snack to feel better! You look a lot better than yesterday! I don't think I've ever seen you so happy! I mean you're pretty much smiling!" He just subconsciously nods and opens the door a little more and backs up. Ah he must be inviting us in. I grab Obanai's hand again and walk in closing the door behind us. Tomioka starts walking and we follow him. It looks like he led us to the kitchen. There's the peach haired kid from yesterday. Sabito I think his name was. He stood against the wall smiling, he must have been the one laughing. I'm glad. Tomioka needs happy people in his life. Tomioka sat down at the table and gestured at the other chairs. I let go Obanai's hand once again and sit down although Obanai stayed standing. Hey, why does Sabito look so upset? Tomioka seemed to notice too, and looked at him curiously and maybe a little worried.

"Yuu can't you use your words?" Sabito said and looked at him expectedly.

"No thanks'' Tomioka answered. I'm not too surprised, Tomioka will actually speak quite often if he's comfortable with enough people around although Obanai looks completely shocked.

"So how do you feel Tomioka?" I really do want to know he had me worried. I just realized I was still holding the basket of onigiri I made for Tomioka and put it down on the table.

"I'm okay, a lot better than yesterday. Probably equivalent to the day before that." He told me. I'm really glad

"That's good. I'd say you're almost fully back on your feet then?" ooh I really hope he is

"Hmm no. I'm still sick. If I went out like this I'd probably pass out again." What? He doesn't look happy telling me this. He must not want me to worry to much

"But you killed a lower moon demon in this state" I'm really confused

"Yeah, that was easy. Those are some pretty weak demons." They aren't that weak. They're moon demons after all?! He looks really tired at this point. Ah Shinobu must have been here earlier. That would make sense.

"I suppose so, well I hope you get better soon. We should head on our way. I can tell you're tired." I really don't want to bother him. He's sick, he needs rest. I get up and he does too but while getting up he seems to collapse. Oh no. I guess he wasn't exaggerating that he still was pretty badly off. Sabito catches him. Thank god. Sabito had Tomioka in his arms and he's shaking. I'm really worried. I've never seen Tomioka this vulnerable although it is kind of cute. Tomioka is completely in Sabito's arms and has his face in Sabito's shoulder. It's really rare for Tomioka to break down like this. I think I've only seen Tomioka break down once, it was nothing close to as bad as this. .Sabito gives us a small smile. Ah, I get it. I grab Obanai's hand and lead him out of the house. He looks really surprised. I grab his other hand and look at him.

"You okay?"

"Yeah, I just didn't know Tomioka could be that way." Ah. everyone is used to the cold Tomioka.

"He's actually pretty nice, he just got rid of his emotions."

"Why?" Mhm. I suppose I could tell Obanai, I mean he's trustworthy. I only know because of that one time I saw Tomioka break down.

"Let's go to my place to talk about it." I let go of one of his hands and smile at him. Then start leading him to my place. He laughs a little.

"Ah this is so nice, all the flowers around here are so pretty!" I'm pretty happy

"So this would be a great place to go on a picnic date?" Uh yes!

"Of course, let's put it as one of our date plans." He laughs again. Awh we're at my place. I was having such a nice time with our walk, we even took a detour. He opens the door for me and then closes it behind us. We head to my living room.

"Do you want some tea?" I need to be a good host. It's my boyfriend I'm serving after all.

"Sure that would be nice" I go and make some tea. When I came back Obanai had taken off the bandages on his face. It took a lot of time to get him to feel secure enough around me to do that. He almost never took it off because of how self conscious he is about the scar on his face. Although I think it's kind of cute!

"Here you go." I hand him his tea

"Thank you, so back to the subject we were discussing. What happened to Tomioka?"

"Ah well there was a lot. To be honest I've heard of Sabito before. Although Tomioka only spoke of his past once to me. He was crying. That was it though. It was the first time I saw him cry. He looked so sad and hurt. I felt so bad. We all either ignore him or are mean to him." I pause here.

"That's because we all think of him as an arrogant bastard, so is that a misconception?"

"Yeah, he's a lot like the opposite of arrogant to be honest."

"Now i feel kind of bad for judging him so quickly... Is he humble?"

"Mhh no, it's more like he doesn't feel he's powerful. He thinks of himself as unworthy of being a hashira and that isn't even technically a demon slayer."

"What? He's really that self deprecating?" All I could do is nod. He puts his arm around me and holds me close.

"I'm sorry, this is clearly hurting you." I smile at him and lean into him more. I end up putting my head on his lap and just lay there close to him. We stay there like that together. Both of us fall asleep.

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