Fluttering Hearts Unveiled

Chapter 11

After an incredibly awkward session of just sitting next to Tanjiro and telling him to Shut the f**k up whenever he spoke, Sanemi walked back down the corridors of the butterfly mansion, trying his hardest to not get lost on his way back to the lounge

"Shinazugawa-san! You're back! Did you see Aoi on the way"

"Yes, she hit me on the back of the head." Sanemi said bitterly

"Well, if she did. I'm sure she had a reason" Shinobu  said, closing her blue hand fan swiftly

"Wind Hashira-sama, are you done speaking with Tanjiro?" Aoi came back

"Tanjiro?" Shinobu repeated

Aoi blinked "You came to speak with him, yes?"

"That was a cold-hearted lie, I came to see you and Kanao. Rumors have it that three others are a part of your little 'Family' now"

Aoi's eyes gleamed "There are! Naho-chan! Sumi-chan! Kiyo-chan!" Aoi called out

After hearing a few small footsteps Sanemi saw three small girls wearing butterfly clips and matching dresses

"These are your new sisters?" Sanemi asked

"Yes, they're absolute darlings so don't worry" Kanao reassured

"I don't mind, just thought they would be a bit older..." Sanemi said to himself

"Kocho?" a man peeped in

"Tomioka-san? Come in" Shinobu called out once she saw his face

Sanemi scowled 

"What's Shinazugawa-san doing here?" Giyuu asked

"What am I doing here!? What are you doing here, asshat?!" Sanemi asked

Giyuu scowled slightly "I just wanted to see Kocho and Aoi"

"Well you've seen them, now leave." Sanemi growled

Aoi bonked him on the back of the head again "be respectful, would you?"

He clenched his teeth together "Fine" he mumbled

"Tomioka-san, are you sure that's the only reason you came?"

No answer came from him, he bit his lip and debated weather to leave or not, he decided to stay.

The rest of the day was spent just talking, about people they knew and cared about, about things they loved, one talked less than the other two, but they still wanted to stay around each other, the memories the Hashira made with one another, they were precious in a way Somehting worth fighting for.

The day itself felt beautiful, the word beautiful seemed to have been made for it. Shinobu could only dream about how gorgeous the night made people feel.

Sanemi got up "I'll leave now, it's been nice talking to you Kocho" he said completely ignoring Giyuu's existence.

'I'm here too y'know' Giyuu rolled his eyes to the sky, he didn't mind being alone with SHinobu after all

They had nothing to speak of "Tomioka-san, would you like to get some fresh air with me?"

He shrugged and got up, they walked out to a garden and Shinobu saw a nice tree with pleasant green leaves, she jumped up and got on one of the branches, her light body weight made it less dangerous. Giyuu hid a smile as he watched her get onto the branch and leaned on the foot of the tree

"Hey, Tomioka-san"

"What"

"Say the war was finished in our favor" she referred as demons vs humans as a war

"Yeah?"

"What would you do with your life?"

Giyuu  pinched himself to stop himself from saying something along the lines of "I wouldn't have a life" being a Hashira was one of the things keeping him from dying, the other ones included Shinobu and Tanjiro, the rest of the Hashira were also on the list "I'd try to live out the rest of my life alone"

"Really now?"

"What about you?"

She had a true answer that she wouldn't say 'I'm not going to be alive' instead she said "I'd focus on taking care of the girls of course"

Neither of them spoke the entire time afterwards, all they saw was one another and the beautiful atmosphere

Shinobu whispered to herself "I'm going to miss this once this butterfly dies" she said, her sister would often refer to herself as a flower, saying 'This flower will have to wilt away' when she died in her younger sisters arms, ever since then Shinobu would call herself a butterfly. People agreed that she was a butterfly, light, fragile, beautiful, and poisonous.