Time Tells • KNY (DISCONTINUED)

•Chapter 11•

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•Joyous Laughter•

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2 more weeks passed as you and the Rengoku family seemed to bond more, especially Kyojuro and Senjuro being the young children that they are and only having each other as company who is actually young before you came.

Ruka's illness wasn't getting any better and the whole family including you knew that. They were starting to fear for her, not wanting to lose her just yet and everything. You felt bad, you really did but there was nothing you could do.

You let yourself get attached knowing that they were trustworthy unlike the demon progenitor. But speaking of which, you learned that you changed a lot due to your failed mission.

Starting with the fact that Senjuro was born sooner, making him just 5 years old and Kyojuro being 11 years old. Besides that, you also learned that women with H/C hair, E/C eyes, S/C skin or Female Doctors in general had more likability to survive a demon attack and you knew exactly why.

Your presence and role alone affected Muzan and his morals, besides that 'he was forced to become a demon in this reality you've made so it was more likely that he had at least more morals than his original self (despite it only being towards women that share characteristics with you).

It creeped you out but you also couldn't help but pity him when Shinjuro told you how Muzan was waiting for a human woman to reincarnate with an unknown reason. Of course you knew the reason, which made you pity him even more.

"Y/N-San! I promise to keep you safe and I'll keep that man away from you until my final breath!" Kyojuro swore to you after you found out about Kibutsuji's thing towards women with same characteristics as you. It amused you but you replied with a slight chuckle and smug smirk.

"You won't need to do that because one day, I'll be strong enough to protect myself from that man!" You declared as determination basically oozed from your figure.

"Now now, don't be too overly confident you two, if you want to defeat Kibutsuji then both of you need to train harder you hear?" Shinjuro cut in with a small smirk, trying to encourage the both of you as it seemingly worked seeing how the both of you radiated determination and immediately ran outside to train more.

He snickered before he shook his head and started walking away, towards his wife's room.

He opened the door gently as he was met by the sight of his wife dozing off by the engawa. He smiled softly before he silently walked towards her and sat beside her.

Ruka closed her eyes as a small smile made its way to her face as she looked beside her to see her beloved husband. "Shouldn't you be training the children, Shinjuro?" Ruka said nonchalantly but it was as if she was teasing him.

Shinjuro scoffed with a grin on his face, clearly fond of his wife's attempt to humor him despite being sickly. He couldn't look at her at that state as it hurt him every time so he was staring at the sky instead, Ruka knew that as they sat in a comfortable silence.

Shinjuro let out a sigh as his smile fell, now looking at the dirt ground with furrowed brows. "Why can't everything remain this way.." he muttered loud enough for Ruka to hear.

Her small smile fell as well, a sad look in her eyes as she looked at the dirt ground as well. Silence engulfed them yet again before faint laughter was heard. They both perked up, knowing it was Kyojuro and his training companion.

The laughter was followed by panicked screaming, They knew it was Senjuro trying to check on his elder brother and elder friend.

Shinjuro huffed in amusement as Ruka formed a small smile on her lips. She was fond of that girl, she liked how she brought more laughter and happiness into their home despite her blunt and serious personality.

-with the children

A booming laughter was heard from Kyojuro as you laughed along. Both of you were sparring when suddenly a crow came flying by, screaming about a mission and this scared the living daylights out of you causing you to accidentally hit a pressure point on Kyojuro and momentarily paralyzed him. But as he was sitting there blinking in confusion as to why he couldn't move his arm, you were panicking and asking him if he was alright.

What you didn't expect was for him to burst out laughing, you were confused for a moment before you slowly laughed along 'with a sweat drop on your cheek. Before Senjuro started screaming out of worry and caused both of you to laugh harder.

"WH- WHY ARE YOU BOTH LAUGHING!! ESPECIALLY YOU ANIKI!! CAN YOU MOVE YOUR ARM?!" Senjuro screeched as the both still remained as a laughing mess, tears starting to fall from their eyes as both leaned onto each other's backs as support.

Amidst their laughter and Senjuro's panicked screaming, You couldn't help but let your mind wonder as you opened one of your eyes, still laughing.

'Wow, I haven't laughed like this in ages. When was the last time someone made me laugh this hard? Since when was my humor this broken?' Just how long did i let myself live without human company' your laughter slowed as it turned into chuckles, wiping tears from your eyes as your hand clutched onto your aching stomach.

'Damn, don't tell me I've been lonely most of my life. That's just sad.' You thought to yourself as you shook your head and snickered.

Kyojuro's laughter started dying down as well as he laid down on the dirt ground trying to recover. His arm was limp as Senjuro was trying to figure out how to undo whatever you did to his brother's arm.

"Y/N-San!! Please fix my brother's arm! He can't be a demon slayer with only one arm! He'll die immediately!" Senjuro begged you as you stared at him in amusement before looking towards Kyojuro who was beside you, still snickering and wiping tears from his eyes.

"OI, Kyojuro. Cut it out i need to fix your arm" you said as you snickered at him. He turned to you with owlish eyes and a large grin on his face before sitting up instantly and turning to you.

You blinked at him before shrugging and tilting your head to the side as Kyojuro copied your actions. You did not have any idea how to fix his arm, all you knew was it would go back to normal in a few minutes.

You informed Kyojuro about the lasting effects about his pressure point being hit as he listened intently with amusement and interest in his eyes as Senjuro was relieved that his brother didn't need to get his arm amputated.

"Y/N-San! Teach me more about pressure points! Please!" Kyojuro asked as he basically slammed his head down to the dirt ground to bow at you. You hummed before looking up to think about it.

The two shrimps heads stared at you with suspense as they waited.

"No one is learning about pressure points until you master your swordsmanships! And you can't do that if you're hungry so dust yourselves off and head inside. Dinner's ready." Shinjuro said after he popped out of nowhere, which caught the other shrimp heads off guard except you who was still thinking if you should teach Kyojuro or not.

You were lost in thought before your stomach growled rather loudly causing you to snap out of your thoughts and catching the other shrimp heads attention.

You blinked with dotted eyes as you rubbed your belly. "oh that's my bad, sorry bout that" you said and just like that,

Joyous laughter was heard like a sweet melody. Oh how you'll miss these times.