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It was winter, Giyuus favorite season. However, it seems on Giyuus last mission, he wasn’t clothes warm enough and thus got a pretty bad cold. His nose was stuffy and his temperature higher than usual, but Giyuu didn’t care.
A meeting – or more like a Hashira-get-together – was made, discussing what to do this year with the snow.
He and Sanemi have been dating for a while now, but haven’t told anyone yet, it was just something between them, after all.
‘’Ah, look who finally arrived!’’ was heard from the Sound Hashira, ‘’I already thought Tomioka wouldn’t come! Yet you made it on time, how flashy!’’
Giyuu just nodded and went to his usual place before the Master of the estate would come. He felt Sanemi – or Shinazugawa for him right now – stare at him. That is, until he finally walked up.
‘’Giyuu,’’ Sanemi began, ‘’You look sick, are you alright?’’
‘’Sanemi- ‘’ Giyuu tried to answer before he was ever so rudely interrupted.
‘’Oh my, since when are you two on first name basis? What a pleasant surprise to see Tomioka-san finally making friends, really!’’ Kochou chirped.
Oh.
Oh fuck.
‘’Listen here- ‘’ Sanemi began, however, the Master walked in just then, and everyone got in position.
After a really long meeting, the Hashira were told to eat their lunch and just have a bit fun.
Yeah, fun as in confrontation.
‘’Say, Shinazugawa, weren’t we supposed to hate him?’’
‘’I say that it’s great to see our comrades finally get along!’’
Giyuu felt the anger in Sanemi bubbling up, but knew that trying to calm him down would just make everything worse.
‘’Listen here, shitheads! If y’all don’t shut up right now, I’ll punch everyone so hard you’ll dream of it. And to answer your question, Iguro, I changed my mind.’’
Kochou giggled to herself before speaking up, ‘’My, Shinazugawa-san, you sure are protective of Tomioka-san, are you sure there’s nothing more going on?’’
‘’Shinobu-san’s right! There must be something going on between you two!!’’ Kanroji practically yelled, ‘’Ah, my apologies!’’
Giyuu sighed, looked at Sanemi – who just sighed and nodded too – and decided to just drop the bomb,
‘’Me and Sanemi are dating, for about a year now.’’
Dead calm.
Until-
‘’OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD!!! You two look SOOOO cute together!!’’ (Do I even need to tell who yelled that? I don’t think so.)
‘’Well, we have to go now! See you dipshits!’’
To say Sanemi was flustered is an understatement.
Arriving at the water estate, Sanemi asked Giyuu again, ‘’How are you? You still seem sick.’’
Ah, right.
‘’I feel fine. No need for concern. My nose is just a bit stuffy and I have a slight fever, nothing that could kill me.’’
‘’It could kill you if you don’t rest well! That small cold could easily become serious if you continue training and fighting, so go sleep and I’ll let someone write a letter to Oyakata-sama.’’ (This, my dear readers, is actually true. If you are sick – just a cold is enough – please don’t do sports and get rest. That cold can get to something serious if you don’t rest enough. Take care of yourself!)
‘’Alright, fine. Just because you asked so nice.’’
‘’Ah, thank you.’’
A quick kiss to the forehead and Giyuu is going back to his futon, getting rest. Eventually, Sanemi joined him and the cuddled until both fell asleep.
And if anyone asked Sanemi how he got that cold, he would just say it’s because he didn’t button his uniform up.
Yeah, that’s the reason.