YN pov
The next morning I woke up early so that I could remove the chair to make it less suspicious when Douma came to get me.
I layed back down in my bed and pretended to still be asleep. After waiting a while Douma came in and went over to me. He shook me lightly to get me to wake up.
"Wakey wakey~" He said. I acted like I was just getting up and looked at him with the best sleepy face I could make.
I got up and got ready for the day. I went into the main room and there Douma was on his chair. I decided to sit right by him since Mori wasn't there to take me anywhere. In Douma's hands held a plate with breakfast made for me on it. It was eggs with toast and sausage.
I just stared at the plate. May he thought I was really up and done something to this meal. Even thought I was hungry I didn't trust it one bit.
Douma looked at me confused. "Are you not hungry right now?" He questioned.
He set the plate aside and said, "Well it will be right there when you get hungry. I had to prepare some meals for you today since my servant boy left." Great.
The day went on as usual, but ever once and a while Douma would catch quick glances at me. Was he trying to catch me slip up? Why was he staring so intensly at me?
I excused myself to my room and closed the door. I was getting to nervous being that close to him. He killed a woman as far as I know. I had the right to be scared of him.
And every time he would offer me food I had to refuse because it was made by him. So I ended up having nothing to eat today.
I soon heard a tap on the doors that lead outside. I opened it up to see a note with a piece of bread.
'Dear Yn
It's me Mori. I wanted to write you a note saying that I got to my trainers residency alright. They let me borrow their crow to send letters back and forth.
I got lucky enough to be train by one of the higher ranks called Hashira. The one I'm training with is the Sound Hashira. I heard that he use to be a ninja at one point.
I hope you enjoy the bread I had sent to you as well. I also hope you write back to me. I will try my best to write back as often as I can to update you on my training progress.
Once you are done just call out the name Nijimaru and the crow will appear.
Hope you find this well
Your friend, Moriyama.'
How sweet of Mori to do this. I took a bite out of the bread. It was crunchy and tasted so fresh. I pulled out a paper and a ink feather and began to write a letter back to Mori.
'Hello Mori,
I'm glad you made it safe. Also thank you for the bread. I'll be sure to make it last for a while.
Congratulations on being selected to be trained by one of the higher ups. I'm sure you will be great and become a demon slayer in no time.
So far everything is going alright. Douma luckily hasn't found out my secret Iand I plan to keep it that way. I also will be happy to write you back often as well.
Best of luck to you
YN. '
I stepped outside and called out the name that was stated in the letter. A crow came flying down infront of me. The crow wore some beads as well as scarf around it's neck. It was indeed a very flashy bird.
"Get this to Moriyama for me please." I said handing the bird to letter. I took the letter and flew off.
'Maybe I should have told Mori about what happened last night. No, he needs to work hard if he is going to survive.' I thought. I also need to be strong if I'm going to survive this.
*Time skip to a few months because I'm lazy and can't think of any filler and plot needs to move on*
It was now winter time. Me and Mori have been sending letters for a while now. Each letter I kept in a box hidden in my room.
Mori said he had grown and was moving along with his training fast. His instructor was surprised to see him learn new techniques so fast. Mori even created a new form of Sound breathing.
Mori said that he would soon go into final selection. Where he would stay in a forest full of demons for 7 days and nights and have to survive. And when he did he would become a demon slayer.
He also mention other people he had talked to as well. And his remarks were as followed
"Gyomei is very nice. He's like a gentale giant. Sanemi is very scary and sometimes I get sent on missions with him. Uzui is either very nice or to harsh on the style of my breathing styles. Kanae is very nice but her sister can be very mean. And Giyuu........ he's weird."
I laughed at every thing he told me about his higher ups. I enjoyed many of out conversations that we had over letters.
I however haven't had a letter form my parents in a while. I even stopped seeing them coming to the temple. Maybe they where sick and took a break.
Kotoha kept coming back and I would help her take care of her wounds and help her out with Inosuke. Me and her became closer ever time she visited.
Douma on the other hand still kept me on edge. He would always come up with things for me an him to do. Sometimes he would even let Kotoha join if she was around.
He was making me uncomfortable. He even offered to once help me wash up. Which I declined and made sure to lock the door every time I went into a room where I needed privacy.
"Your hair is very soft Y/N. That conditioner I got you works really well." Douma commented. He would always insist on brushing my hair to make sure it was perfect. He even would braid what hair he could braid.
It was about 8 or 9 pm and he was doing his daily routine with me. After he finished with my hair he took me outside to the lake where the lotus flowers grew. They where in perfect condition and looked perfect.
We would sit there near the pond every night when I ate food. I made sure to make my own food so I knew what went in it. Douam asked dwhy I did this and I said so it wasn't any trouble to him.
After a while we started to hear something in the woods. Douma stood up and got infront of me. As much as he made me nervous he would protect me from any harm.
It wa the middle of winter time so it couldn't have been any animal like a bear. I peeked out from behind Douma to see what it was.
Soon a person came out of the woods. The person was limping and looked do be holding something. It was Kotoha. I pushed past Douma and ran toward Kotoha and caught her before she fell.
She was obviously weak in the legs and was extremely tired. I carried her over to where Douma was.
"Please, let me and Inosuke stay here till we can get on our feet. Your the only other person I know who I can go to." She said weakly. She was slowly getting tired.
"Yes you may. You and Y/n can share a room. Now let's get you inside before enough freeze up like a popsicle." Douma said and helped me carry her into the temple.
I helped her and Inosuke get washed up and tooken care of as Douma got her and Inosuke's beds set up.
As soon as she hit the bed she was fast asleep. I stayed up with Inosuke and helped him fall asleep. I soon fell asleep as well only getting up when Inosuke woke up. Tonight was a very eventful night.
Douma's pov
"I hope that he doesn't find out. Or else he might harm you in some way." I read from the letter.
"Trust me, I don't think he suspects a thing that's going on."
As I was setting up the bed in Y/N's room for Kotoha I found a box full of letters. Apparently Y/N and the servant boy had been sending letters without me knowing. How could I have been so blind not to notice a crow?
"Guess I was right. The pretty girl can hear after all." I set down the letter. I began to laugh.
"Oh how stupid of me! To be fooled by a human! And a woman for that matter! Oh how exiting this is! How should I break the news to her? How should I tell her I found her secret letters? Or should I keep the secret to myself? All the choices I can choose from." I said to myself.
"Y/n L/n is truly, a remarkable woman. A pretty, smart, and remarkable woman. Maybe I will spare her life after all. I might just have to introduce her to Muzan someday even."
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The amount of research i did for this chapter! So if you haven't figured out. This sort of takes place when Sanemi became a Hashira. It took me forever to figure out who exactly was Hashira at the time but I did however figure it out. I did leave Rengoku and Mitsuri out of it since Rengoku and Mitsuri trian together at the Rengoku residence. (If you haven't seen the fan made manga go check it out. It is pretty interesting.)
Anyway i hope you enjoyed this chapter. And as always, have a good day/night.