Twas All For Love

Chapter 2

"Greetings, my children" Ubayashiki Kagaya stepped forward

All Hashiras bowed respectfully.

"Greetings Master" Lady Kocho started

"Raise your heads, my children"

They did so, one of them may have fallen over in the process.

"Tokito-kun, are you alright?!" Mitsuri shrieked

Muichiro raised his head, a wound on his forehead with blood dripping from it followed.

"Ahhh! Somebody. Get a doctor!" Mitsuri shrieked, forgetting that Shinobu was a doctor

Lady Kocho steps foreward "Let me see, Tokito-san"

Muichiro opened his mouth "Kocho-nee, I'm fine. I think" he said cutely

Lady Kocho promptly wiped his forehead with a soaked napkin "There, good boy" She cheered

Most Hashira were normalized with treating Muichiro as a child, he was the youngest person to ever become a Hashira followed by Lady Kocho who did so at sixteen.

"I presume Muichiro-kun's okay?" Kagaya asked

"Yes, Oyakata-sama" Muichiro said promptly, giving him a thumbs up, forgetting entirely that Ubayashiki was blind.

Shortly after the meeting ended, the Hashira stay there for a bit longer.

Muichiro walks up to Mitsuri and Gyomei "Himejima-san . . ." He forgot Mitsuri's name "Love Hashira, why is Snake-man sitting in a tree?" he asked, forgetting that Gyomei wouldn't be able to see it

"He just wants to experience what it's like to be tall, here you go" Sanemi interrupted, patting Muichiro on the head, he handed him a bento box.

"Thank you, wind-guy" Muichiro said

"I may be half blind, but I can hear you perfectly, Sanemi. And, HOW. DARE. YOU. I sit in trees since Kaburamaru enjoys it"

"Then let him go alone" Sanemi said at the corner of his mouth

"I don't trust you lunatics to not throw him into a puddle!"

Sanemi gasped sarcastically "You called Kanroji and Shinobu-chan lunatics!"

"Wait, no, not Kanroji or Kocho-san. I mostly meant you or Tengen, but he's retired now" He said defensively

"Shinazugawa-san, why do you hand Tokito-kun lunch at the training grounds recently?" Mitsuri asked

"I'd like to know as well" Kocho stated

"Same" Iguro was suddenly on the ground

Sanemi sighed "Mui left, so I guess I could tell you guys"

They stayed silent

"Kyojuro saw how light and short Mui was, so he brought him lunch at training grounds once a day. It might be scary for him, given he's so young, to learn that he had died. I started bringing him lunch so he wouldn't notice in case he had forgotten about his death."

The Hashira fell silent

"That's surprisingly nice of you, Shinazugawa" Iguro commented

"Are you suggesting that I'm heartless?" Sanemi asked

Iguro nodded

"I hate you"

Giyuu came in, "That's really kind of you, Shinazugawa"

"No one asked, rat-face" Sanemi said bitterly

Mitsuri looked to the ground "Rengoku was extremely kind, was he not?"

Muichiro appeared out of nowhere "What are you talking about?" He asked, radishes in his mouth, eating out of the bento box Sanemi gave him

"Nothing, Tokito-san" Shinobu assured with a kind smile.

Kanroji had left promptly

Sanemi and Obanai were talking with each other

"What's up with you?" Sanemi asked, irritably

Obanai looked up at his scarred 'friend' "I'm thinking of asking Mitsuri out"

"Oh no, love shit again" he breathed in "Don't include me in any way, go ahead" Sanemi said, looking as if he was about to barf

Obanai looked up angrily "Like you've never been in love!"

"I haven't, no one's good enough for me" Sanemi boasted

"Tengen said you once were" Obanai stated

Sanemi froze "That monkey has no idea what he's saying!"

"I think the guy with three wives would know about this kind of stuff"

"Would you let him advise you on how to ask out Mitsuri?" Sanemi asked

"Hell no" Obanai said

"Exactly"

"That's because he would be insufferable, he should know about love in general" Obanai clarified

Sanemi grunted "WELL HE CLEARLY DOESN'T, I WAS NOT IN LOVE WITH KANA-" he slapped his hand over his mouth

Obanai froze "Wow, Sanemi, I thought better of you" Obanai shook his head

"Wait, what?" There was a long pause "Who do you think Uzui thought I liked?"

"Isn't she like fifteen of sixteen?"

"Wait, what?"

"Kocho's Tsugoku, Kanao"

Sanemi looked as if he were actually about to puke at this "NOT HER YOU IDIOT, DO I LOOK LIKE A PEDOPHILE TO YOU?"

"I don't know how to answer that."

Sanemi pouted "It isn't Kanao. Period. It's someone entirely different"

"Who?"

"It's Kanae" Giyuu said

"Rat-face, where did you come from?" Sanemi asked

"And more importantly, who is this Kanae person?" Obanai asked, looking for excuses to bully Shinazugawa.

"Kocho has an older sister, her name was Kanae Kocho. It isn't Kanao, Shinobu wouldn't let him in the vicinity of a little girl. It's unsafe" He said coldly

"UNSAFE? I wouldn't have thrown her off a building!" Sanemi shouted

Giyuu looked at them blankly "You say that as if it was your plan all along"

"I hate you, rat-face"

A flicker went in Obanai's mind "Is that why you're so polite with Kocho-san?" The heterochromic smirked under his mask

"Half the reason, now shut your trap, rat-face" Sanemi said bitterly

"Wait, you said her name was Kanae Kocho. Did she change her name?"

Giyuu thought back and shook his head "She passed away, Shinazugawa was in love with her, but now he only shares a close-ish bond with Shinobu"

"Oh . . . ." There was a moment of silence "Wait, wouldn't Kocho kill you if she knew that you were in love with her sister?"

"She almost did" Giyuu said coldly

"PFFT" Obanai snorted

Sanemi looked as if he were about to kick Giyuu into the afterlife "Keep talking and I'll wring your neck"