ghost of you | giyuu x shinobu.

intro

• GIYUU •

Eventually I got closed to Kochou, all because she keeps poking me and told me to be her friends, I didn't mind and being friends with her.

Sometimes every after mission with her, we would go get dinner at the district city and grab a bowl of ramen, mostly she would do the talks and I would just listen to her quietly, maybe speak to her whenever I felt like to.

I hate to admit but I enjoy talking to her, a lot. Among all the Hashira, she's the only one I'm not afraid to say I'm close to yet I didn't want to catch myself getting attached to her as a friend because anything could happen especially demons around.

She would always tease me whenever she has the chance to which is kinda irritating but I got used to it somehow, I tried to tease her too but I'm nowhere as good as her as I fail the attempt of teasing her.

I have known her for three years, I was eighteen when I got to know her since her sister, the Flower Hashira died due to the encounter of the upper moon two. In which, Shinobu became the head of the butterfly mansion at the age of fourteen but I barely knew about it and only found out about it after one year which is when she's fifteen.

After one year, she became the Insect Hashira at the age of sixteen and that's where I started to get paired up with a lot of missions with her.

I could always tell that Shinobu has a fake expression across her face, it's just to cover up as a gratitude for her older sister yet she's willing to put a fake smile on her face and keep inside her anger, well, sometimes I wouldn't sense her anger, I don't care.

I slurp the ramen and Shinobu is still talking god knows what she is talking about, "I was thinking we should grab something home" she said as I softly raised my brows with a clueless expression.

"what?"

"for my sister" Shinobu corrected and I just nod my head, "how about I just buy some mochi for them? they like sweets" she stated out and is still considering what to buy for her sister.

"I might need your help to help me carry-" before she could finish her word, I already cut off her words, "no" I rejected because I knew she would just tell me to carry all that stuff while she carried nothing.

"ah, no wonder no girls like you, tomioka-san! you don't help after a girl, you aren't a gentleman" an irk mark appears on my head when she said that and I didn't know what to answer her as my blue eyes look at her innocent yet evil purple eyes.

At the end of the day, I help her carry all her stuff back to the butterfly mansion and she's just blabbering nonsense all the way home, sometimes a smart girl like her would spit out something useless is quite surprising to me but not anymore, I got real used to it.

With two paper bags in my hand, I just kept walking straight until she suddenly told me, "the moon is beautiful, isn't it?" she stopped on her track and so did I as I turned my back on her.

"what are you doing, Kochou?"

"what? I'm just applying the moon looks lovely tonight, look above" she exclaims and I look at the dark sky above me, she's right, the moon indeed looks calming yet beautiful at the same time, it's full moon today.