Chapter Text
Mitsuri sat in Tomioka's dimly lit, surprisingly cozy apartment, on his couch facing him, her fingers tracing the rim of her tea cup, lost in thought.
‘She is my friend. She is just a friend.”
Mitsuri told herself, even though it felt like a lie the moment it appeared in her mind.
‘Well, an incredibly cute friend…. No. I can’t’
she shook her head a scowl plastering onto her face ‘
‘oh I don't know. Either way it’s hopeless. There’s no way she likes me back…..’
It was her weekly dinner with Giyuu where they had tea and Ohagi while gossiping, and on special occasions drank a lot of demon blood, aka vodka with red food dye.
“Mitsuri, why are you so quiet?”
Giyuu asked, his voice soft and barely making its way into her thoughts
shifting his legs so he was facing her, legs against his chest and his chin on his knees.
“Oh! Well tomioka-”
Giyuu gave her a small, rare smile.
"Giyuu." he corrected softly.
She nodded, twisting the end of her braid around her finger and setting her tea on the coffee table next to them, in front of the couch.
“well Giyuu… I have a confession…”
Mitsuri raised her hands up towards her face to hide any possible flush.
“I like someone who is like the sun, beautiful, calming and radiant but just….. Just out of reach, and- oh! I'm so sorry we should be eating, not worrying about my love life!”
Giyuu shook his head with a knowing look
“I asked first, I'm sure this sun likes you too.”
he turned toward his tea and Mitsuri barley heard him murmur
“I seem to be falling for someone as well”
“Who?” Mitsuri asked curiously. Giyuu hesitated
“I’ll say if you do”
“Uh, a butterfly” Mitsuri reluctantly replied in a whisper
“The wind…” Giyuu said, barely audible. Mitsuri didn't hear him but she didn't dare ask again, not wanting to push him even if she was curious.
Giyuu sensed her hesitation and repeated himself louder.
“I like the wind.”
Mitsuri gasped and almost kicked her cup off the table.
“SANEMI SHINAZAGAWA!?”
She asked, her eyes widening when Giyuu nodded.
~Meanwhile~
Across town in a slightly bigger apartment Shinobu angled her needle along her left arm, her hand didn't shake, but a bead of sweat accumulated on her brow as she focused.
she sat in her little lab at the back of her home, it was a simple medical testing set up and it was cozy enough.
suddenly A gruff voice cut through the silence messing up her focus but not enough to affect her task majorly.
“OI insect i thought we agreed you’d stop pumping literal poison in your veins, if I argued with the bastard Tomika less”
Sanemi grumbled, swishing his coffee mug with his recently bandaged hand as he leaned back on her door frame. Shinobu paused at the insect comment her eye twitching but she didn't look up
“ara~ ara~ sanemi-san, we made that agreement but it seems neither of us have stuck to it! I saw you insulting Tomika not even an week after the agreement we made, that was a month ago”
her voice lacked its sweet tone and Sannemi grunted into his coffee mug as he chugged it down.
"you'll rot from the inside out kocho”
his voice sounded almost scared even though it didn't lose its edge
“Then we’ll be a matching set, I'll be the poison, you be the flame”
she replied with a sing-song tone,
Sanemi let out a sharp laugh, “kocho you are a fading shell of your self, or rather a ghost mourning one lost a long time ago. I miss her two so I may be a ghost ”
shinobu turned with a sharp glint in her eyes, setting the needle down on a small cushion in its box with a soft thud, she smirked
“Is that so? You sure are loud for a ghost”
sanemis eyes narrowed at the retort and shinobus smirk widened
“oh~ are you gonna yell~”
she said, poking his side as he growled slightly, while shinobu was up sanemi lunged and grabbed the needle box and put it on the highest possible shelf all the way to the back.
~Meanwhile~
“I just don’t know what to do, he's…too good for me…”
Giyuu trailed off, drifting his eyes returning to his tea cup as he rested his face back onto his knees. And staring into his cup. He motioned towards the ohagi a silent
‘Are you hungry?’