XXXVII

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(2023 A/N: CRINGE ALERT. PICK ME KIYOMI INCOMING. I'M SORRY.)

   "Slow, slow, slow, slow! Your stamina's low as hell! The hell are you people doing?! I got no clue!! If you're gonna be this slow, beating an upper moon's gonna be dream within a dream, okay?!", Kiyomi and the three wives of Tengen could hear him yelling at the demon slayers because of being slow.

   Kiyomi giggled, "Uzui-san really wants to kill them.", She said and the wives could only laugh as well.

   "Thank you for helping us with making these, Kiyomi-san.", Hinatsuru said while making a rice ball.

   "It's fine! I didn't have anything to do anyways, since Uzui-san's still training the male demon slayers.", Kiyomi fiddled her hand before making another rice ball.

   Hinatsuru and Kiyomi were forming the rice into balls, Makio cooked the rice and stuffings, while Suma arranged all the finished rice balls on a big basket.
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   "Hello, Kanao-san!", Kiyomi waved as she walked towards Kanao, who waved back.

  "Are you ready for our training with the hashiras? I'm very excited!", Kiyomi beamed as Kanao nodded in agreement.

   Kiyomi smiled before holding out her hand to Kanao, who was confused.

  "Let's go now, shall we?", Kiyomi bowed while holding out her hand to the girl, like a prince to a princess, and Kanao blinked in confusion before softly giggling.

   Kanao took Kiyomi's hand as they walked to their first trainor, the former sound hashira.
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   "Did you all get that? If so! Then start running from that mountain to here!", Uzui shouted at the demon slayers as they started to run.

   The men were done with Uzui's hellish training, so it was now the women's turn.

   Just like the boys, they ran on top of a mountain and came back to the training grounds including Kiyomi and Kanao, as instructed by their trainor, Tengen Uzui.

   The demon slayers ran as fast as they could with agony written on their faces, while Kanao just had a blank smile on and Kiyomi looked like she was somehow having fun.

   Minutes later, all of them came back with tired and sweaty face. Kanao still had a smile on but this time it was genuine, I guess she had fun. Kiyomi had a beaming face similar to Kyojuro while she was heavily panting and sweat was all over her face.

   'Man.. These girls are a bit faster than them..', Tengen sweatdropped.

  "No stopping! All of you take ten laps from the same mountain to here! Go!", he yelled. Kiyomi forced a cheer and began to run. She was very tired inside but held it in.

   "Let's go!!", Kiyomi cheered as she ran along with Kanao, who was beside her. The others could only glare or sweatdrop at how she still had a lot of energy. Little did they know she was also suffering.

  Days later, Kiyomi and Kanao were ready to go to the next hashira, since they had finished Uzui's training. The both of them went to the flame hashira's estate and got trained by the flame pillar, Kyojuro Rengoku.

   Their training was to strengthen their breathing and make it calm to help stop wounds from bleeding when in battle and use constant concentration breathing.

   Which they failed at.

   "Aghh!!"

   "Lungs.. hurt..."

   "Ahh! My ears are bleeding!"

    "I'm gonna die.."

    Complaints from the demon slayers were heard hours later, and Kyojuro could only encourage them as he kept beaming with his sunshine smile.

   Including Kiyomi.

    Kiyomi probably had a hard time staying awake but still remained awake, because of the pain in her lungs and the feeling of blood flowing everywhere around her body. She pressed her lips into a thin line as she stared at nothing, so she can ignore the pain until it's gone. Kyojuro seemed to notice this and came to her.

   "Are you okay, young Snowflake??", Kyojuro said with his ever beaming voice as Kiyomi flinched a little before slowly nodding her head.

   (A/N: Kyojuro knew Kiyomi's nickname when they were at the butterfly estate and heard Shinobu talk to her with calling her nickname. Kiyomi was okay with him calling her by nickname.)

    Kyojuro notices her lie and just chuckled before making an announcement.

  "Okay! Everyone take a break!", Kyojuro exclaimed as the demon slayers lit up in happiness as they immediately slumped flat on the floor, exhausted from the 'simple' training.

   "Thank you, Kyojuro-san!", Kiyomi thanked before also slumping on the floor, very tired from just... breathing. Huh.

   After the short break, they continued their training and it wasn't long until Kiyomi and Kanao moved to another hashira. (They're waiting for each other btw)

   "Hello, Muichiro-san!", Kiyomi beamed as she waved at the mist hashira who waved back with a bright smile.

  "Hello, Kiyomi-san!", Muichiro greeted back before they started talking for a bit, with Kanao just listening to the conversation. Later they finally started training.

    Muichiro's training was to improve the demon slayers' speed of fighting with their swords, which it was hard to master.

    Every slayers are to duel with Muichiro one-by-one using a wooden sword. And they failed at attacking him.

   Later, it was Kiyomi's turn and the both of them stanced with their wooden swords, ready to duel.

   Muichiro's cold face suddenly turned soft as he smiled brightly.

   "You can do it, Kiyomi-san!", Muichiro encouraged as he kept dodging the attacks Kiyomi unleashed.

   "Thank you, Muichiro-san!", Kiyomi smiled back while concentrating on her attacks.

   The others could only watch them with hopelessness, they noticed how Muichiro suddenly changed his mood when it was Kiyomi's turn.

   Another set of days have passed and Kiyomi, along with Kanao, were finally ready to go to another hashira's training.

   "Are you sure, Muichiro-san?? It's only been like- four days!", Kiyomi said and Kanao couldn't help but nod in agreement.

   "Yeah! The both of you were already fast enough to beat me!", Muichiro beamed.

   "Wah! Thank you for training us!", Kiyomi thank before bowing.

   'What about uuuss?! We've been here longer than them!', The others thought upsettingly.

   "Oh, and Muichiro-san?", Kiyomi leaned towards the boy, " Please don't threaten or torture the others too much.. I feel bad for them since they've been here longer than us.", she pleaded as she glanced at the others with pity. They were touched at what Kiyomi had spoken and they silently thanked her when Muichiro somehow agreed.

   Onto the next hashira, the love hashira.
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   I wanna say I am very sorry for the most late update! 😥🙇

   It's because i've been busy and stuff and I am still progressing other stuff in my brain that my ideas were pushed out and got replaced with other things!!

   I'm very very very really really SORRY!!!

   I promise this won't happen again! But if this does, I'm gonna apologise a million times!

  Although, I think you wouldn't mind because my fanfic is not that good 😞😞

   Anyways, See you at the next chapter and I'm very sorry!

-Melody  


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2023 A/N: Wow I kept making excuses. 😀

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