𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚖𝚒𝚜𝚎𝚜 || 𝚃.𝙼𝚞𝚒𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚛𝚘

ℙ𝕣𝕠𝕞𝕚𝕤𝕖 4 - [𝕡𝕣𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟, 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕪𝕠𝕦]

"I promise I will protect you at all cost"

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It's been a while since my last mission

The wounded shoulder was never a huge deal to me, the pain is not hard to bear with

So I reassured Oyakata-sama that I am more than capable of continuing to fulfil my responsibility as a Hashira, which is taking missions

And at the same time, everyone is able to tell that the amount of missions that we are assigned to has clearly increased throughout these weeks

Of course, I have been training with Muichiro for majority of the time now, occasionally with Giyu, Shinazugawa-san and Iguro-san

Sure we all have improved a lot, with Muichiro, I guess this improvement made him less worried about me

..........

"It's been 2 hours, do you want to rest for a bit?"

The young Mist pillar asked, stopping the fighting as he wiped the sweat dripping down his forehead due to the excessive training the two have been going through

"Sure, I'll go get the towels"

We both went to the shadow of the tree, where the temperature is slightly lower, I grabbed the towels that I prepared beforehand and throw one to Muichiro who catched it without any difficulties

I sat down leaning against the trunk of the tree, closing my eyes trying to calm my heartbeat, which was increased rapidly during our previous training

Until I feel someone tugging my sleeves, turning my gaze, I see Muichiro somehow went inside the Hashira Courtyard and got two cups of water, he passed me a cup

"Arigato, Muichiro-kun"

Thanking him, I happily accepted the cup of water and drank half within one go

He only took a seat next to me, sipping on his drink

I woke up too early this morning, because I had to rush to a checkup with Shinobu-chan, for my wounded shoulder

By the time I left the Butterfly Estate, I ran into some of the others at breakfast

Not all of them, as I said before, the amount of missions has been increasing and it is very rare that we can have the all of the Hashiras together

Shinazugawa-san, Uzui-san, Rengoku-san and Iguro-san is on mission so they wasn't at breakfast

Anyway anyway, all I am trying to say is that I am exhausted by this point

So I find myself a more comfortable position leaning against the tree trunk, I closed my eyes

Unaware of the boy next to me, who has been observing my movements this whole time

Shaking his head as Muichiro let out a sigh of disapproval

The next thing I feel, is my head being moved onto something way more comfortable than the tree trunk

My eyes flutter open, only to meet with the eyes of the Mist Hashira that happens to be looking into mine as well

"Rest for a while, I'll wake up you up later when it's around dinner time"

"Arigato, Mui-kun"

The exhaustion surely got the best of me as I drifted to sleep

Meanwhile Muichiro decided that he can't focus on the clouds when he physically cannot take his eyes off the girl resting on his lap