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Obanai was actually really nervous, like really, really nervous. He had cleaned his whole estate top to bottom, he even mopped his ceilings just in case she happened to look up. Who's she you might ask? Well the one and only Mitsuri Kanroji, the most perfect being to ever exist. She had the most beautiful features , she was kind and sweet, enthusiastic, strong, and she had a big appetite for all kinds of foods. To put it in short she was Obanai's crush. He and Kanroji had planned to hangout quite a while back but with being hashiras, they were really busy so their schedules always clashed. But with a little luck, (And begging Sanemi to pick up his shift in exchange for helping Sanemi score a date with Tomioka. He still honestly didn't know what Sanemi saw in that emo) He was able to take some time off when Kanroji had a day off as well.
So now that leads him to this situation, anxiously waiting for Kanroji to arrive so they could train together, just him and her together. Obanai's face tints a little red at the thought of spending some alone time with her, in the privacy of his own home. Obanai takes a deep breath clearing his head and calming himself. Just as he thinks his heart rate has gone down there was a knock at the estates doors, and he tenses swallowing before opening the door to greet Kanroji.
As soon as he opens the door he's blessed with the sight of her in casual training clothes. Her mouth up turns into a cheerful smile seeing him before lunging at him pulling him into a big hug. "Kyaaaa! Iguro-san! It's been too long since we've been able to see each other!" Kanroji exclaims her voice sugary sweet. Obanai's face is shoved into her chest when they hug because of their height differences, His face immediately flushes red again and he hesitantly returns the hug.
Kaburamaru rolls his eyes at the lovesick man and slithers away to go nap. Kanroji breaks the hug about a few seconds later than considered normal for a friend, but Obanai doesn't seem to mind basking in her attention. "Yes it has been a rather distasteful amount of time since we've trained together". Obanai responds his cheeks still lightly rosy peaking from behind his mask. Kanroji's smile only brightens at his statement her cheeks also seem to redden in a light pink, but that must be from excitement. "Yes! I can't wait to train with you again, its gonna be so fun! I even brought some snacks for us afterwards!". She waves a basket filled up with food in front of his face. Obanai smiles softly behind his mask before inviting her in. "Well come inside". He takes a step back from the doorway and she takes a step in her eyes scanning around his minimalist house. He wonders if maybe he should have decorated more for her, maybe she didn't like it? was it too dark? "Wow, Iguro-san your house is so calming!". Kanroji says brightly admiring his home as she slips off her shoes slipping into more suitable house sandals. Obanai almost sweat drops at his foolish worries, he gently takes the basket of food for her and goes to place it on the table.
Kanroji finishes changing her shoes and follows after him. Walking behind him at a very unreasonably close proximity, yet it was almost soothing for Obanai for her to be so close. He places the basket on the table as Kanroji also looks around his dining room, her smile warm. "Your house is also very neat!, I don't even see any spider webs or anything!" She says thoughtfully. "Thanks, I like to keep my house organized" He says acting like he didn't freakishly clean his home for her. "My house is kinda messy compared to this.". Kanroji pouts her lips in consideration. "If we lived together i'd have to be more in order." She says as if it was meant to be said in her head. "Well if we lived together i'd clean up after you". Obanai says in a hesitant response. There's a beat of silence before Kanroji's eyes widen and her face flushes. "Wahhh! I said that out loud?! Im so sorry I- I didn't mean to!" She waves her hands around before covering her face in embarrassment. Obanai smiles softly again behind his mask patting the girl on her back. "Let's go to the training room then?" He asks his voice almost nervous but he hides it pretty well behind a cough. "Mhm!" She smiles turning her full attention back to him her cheeks slowly losing their red pigment. "Then we can come back here for lunch! I've packed some things I think you'll like". Kanroji says happily clasping her hands together. Obanai just nods leading them out of the dining area and to the training room in his estate.
Along the way through the hallways Kanroji made positive comments about anything that her eyes could see. He slides the doors open with ease, Kanroji makes an awed sound from behind him. The training room had a sparring mat in the middle of the room, some dumbbells with an absurd amount of weight, and some other work out equipment scattered along the sides of the room.
Obanai steps into the room taking in the calming aura of past workouts. Kanroji files in from behind him, her face glowing with excitement. "Eeek! Your workout room is so cool!". Kanroji says with eagerness before turning back to face Obanai a cheeky smile graced her pretty pink lips. "Thank you, I thought it was rather normal no?". Obanai says cocking his brow at her playfulness. She just smiles again in response, Obanai feels his cheeks flush a little. "Come on! Let's stretch then spar together!". Kanroji says cheerfully grabbing his hand and leading him into the middle of the room. Obanai's heart flutters as he's dragged behind her, his face twitching into a love sick smile under his mask. "Alright let's start by stretching our upper bodies!!". Kanroji drops his hand and begins reaching up in a stretch, Obanai is quick to follow her movements.
Entranced with her very being Obanai becomes a copycat, all sound except her voice and laughter seems to escape him. Until he tries to copy her movements into a split. "Oh! Can you not do a split?". Kanroji asks from in her position of a split, holding in a laugh. Obanai's face flushes red in embarrassment looking down from his weird almost split stance. His legs tremble from trying to force the position. "Ah- wait don't force it you could hurt yourself let me try to help!". She says in a worried hurry standing up and placing both her hands on his hips, Obanai tenses even more at the touch swallowing thickly and nodding in response. "Okay! Let's try a front split! I've heard that it's easier for beginners!". Kanroji says warmly from behind him. He just nods in response again too nervous to trust his own voice. She begins pressing his hips down slowly, her finger tips brushing his sides after his shirt rides up a bit. Obanai's body retaliates by jolting back, and he grunts at the sting in his legs because of the stretch. "If you can't right now we can stretch a little more so it might be able to do it easier?". Kanroji says trying to be more reassuring. "N-no I can do it just give me a second." Obanai says tensing again closing his eyes in embarrassment, Kanroji hums in response seemingly thinking.
Instead of trying to press him more down she begins pressing her hands into his hips, before going back to gently pushing his hips down. "You need to relax a little, your muscles are too tense.". Kanroji whispers into his ear her voice suddenly feeling a little more authoritative than soothing. Obanai gulps his heart beating panicked in his ears, her soft lips brushing the shell of his ear caused goose bumps to raise on his skin. "O-okay, I'll try." Obanai responds flushed red, suddenly feeling overwhelmed he takes a deep breath and relaxes to the best of his abilities at the moment. "Good job! you almost have it!". Kanroji says her voice was cheerful again far away from his ear, thankfully.
The hot tension in the air immediately dissipates as her voice wrings through the room. Abruptly Obanai falls forward, unable to hold his position any longer. Kanroji giggles smiling. "Oh no! you were so close!". She says softly patting his back while sighing. He looks down sheepishly trying to get the red hues to leave his cheeks. After he regains his composure and honestly some of his dignity. "Are you ready to spar?". Obanai asks looking up meeting her eyes. An eager smile appears on Kanroji's pretty lips. "Yep! I'm thrilled to see your fighting style again!". She giggles nodding her head and jumping up, holding a hand out for him to take. Obanai hesitantly takes her hand still feeling flustered as she pulls him up.
Obanai and Kanroji take their places on either side of the mat and their wooden training swords in hand. "Ah! wait before we start let's make a bet so we will try our hardest to win!". Kanroji says smiling her body basically bouncing in pent up anticipation. Obanai tilts his head to the side. "Like what?". He asks, a little intrigued at the thought of an award. "If either of us win we will have to tell a deep secret!". Obanai is a little taken aback at the bet he wasn't really expecting her to want a secret in exchange, he thought she would want something food related. But Obanai wasn't really one to say no to Kanroji so he accepted. "Okay, sure". He says getting into a more proper sparring position. "Then let the spar begin!". Kanroji says cheerfully also getting back into her stance.
Kanroji is the first to make a move charging towards Obanai at an impressive speed, He quickly dodges through jumping to the side before trying to strike her on her back. Kanroji easily flips backwards over his wooden sword. She quickly avoids a hit by getting back into a stance blocking his attempt at smacking her again by clashing their swords together. Kanroji presses her sword against his with a lot of force. Obanai's feet begin sliding backwards and he grits his teeth unable to even push her back a little bit. Kanroji had a lot of upper body strength, way more than Obanai could even imagine. Sweat beaded on his forehead, But he was more sneaky and logical, He stuck out his leg and leg sweeped her. "Ack!". Kanroji squeaks in surprise.
This caused her to lose balance and stumble back quite a bit. Allowing Obanai a good opening to her stomach. He lands a hit on her stomach and she grunts hunching over. He almost apologizes to her on instinct, before realizing they were sparring at the moment. Kanroji bounces back into action way quicker than he expected, striking his wrist. Obanai loses his grip on his sword, the weapon falling out of his hand before he can recover. His eyes widen as the sword leaves his finger tips and she smiles before hitting the backside of his knee causing him to fall.
"Kyaa! I win!!" Kanroji cheers in triumph jumping up and down. Obanai huffs from on the floor, a soft smile forming under his mask. She looks down at him mischievously before flopping down next to him as well. "That was so fun! we really should spar more often!". Kanroji reaches over and gently boops him on the nose as she speaks proudly. Obanai just nods his head admiring her still slightly out of breath. Kanroji catches her breath starting at the ceiling for a minute before sitting up to look at him. "Well now you gotta tell me a secret!". She hums interested. Obanai freezes looking over to her, the only secret he even really had was the scar on his mouth. And he never wanted to tell anyone about that because it was part of his past, and he didn't ever want to reveal his face to anyone he was just too awful looking.
Obanai also sits up, leaning on his forearms. "Uh, well Kaburamaru is my best friend". He says hoping that his answer would satisfy her. Kanroji looks a bit disappointed making a pouty face, gosh she was so pretty. "That's not fair! That wasn't even a secret! hmph!". Kanroji whines scooting closer to him making puppy dog eyes at him. "Pleaseee, I won't tell anyone I pinky promise!". She holds her pinky finger out in front of her waiting for his response. Obanai swallows hard, what was he supposed to do? She won the bet so she earned the secret fair and square but.. Hes so ugly what if it scares her? What if she hates him and thinks he's disgusting? Obanai's anxiety inducing thoughts send him into an inner turmoil. Kanroji waves her hand in front of his face her eyes concerned. "Are you okay-? Did I hit you too hard or-?". She blabbered out worried, breaking out Obanai from his daze. "Huh? Oh no- I was just thinking of a secret.." Obanai says feeling even worse for making her stress. Kanroji huffs in relief her shoulders drooping and an adorable smile reappearing back on her face.
"Okay, I'll show you my biggest secret..". He pauses "I'm going to show you what's under my mask.". Obanai's voice is quiet and uncertain of his decision, he looks down without meeting her eyes. Kanroji's smile grows excited to be entrusted with her comrades'secret. "Just so you know you don't have to stay after seeing my face, I won't blame you at all." Obanai says calmly even though the thought of losing his dear Kanroji felt like a stake through his heart. Kanroji almost looks taken aback at the assumption see would judge on looks, but a reassuring smile replaces her usual sweet one. "I swear no matter how you look you're still you to me!". She preaches placing her soft hand on Obanai's shoulder patting him comfortingly.
Obanai takes a final glance at her reassuring smile before starting to unravel his mask. His fingers scratching at the ends of the bandage that conceals his monstrous true self. Kanroji sits impatiently basically glowing with anticipation. As he finishes taking off his mask he swallows fearfully looking up to see her reaction to his scar. Kanroji's face is unreadable, her mouth shut tight in a line of shock. Obanai can physically feel his stomach drop while seeing her expression and for the first time in a long time he felt fear. Tears of hatred towards himself and embarrassment prick at the corners of his eyes. How could he ever think he was good enough for her? Kanroji was so beautiful and bright, he was ugly and dreary. He had to be the stupidest most horrid man alive.
Obanai's lip trembles as he starts to ramble out self destructive apologies towards the woman in front of him biting back his own tears. "I'm so sorry- I shouldn't have shown you- I know I'm so ugly- I'm so sorry-". He hiccups feeling mortified as he rambles like he had just done the worst thing ever. "I'm sorry- I'm sorry- I'm sorry-". The desperate pleas spill out of his mouth, he can't stop his face from twitching into a frown and bitter tears start to spill from his hopeless eyes.
Kanroji suddenly moves, her entire body leaning closer to Obanai in his melt down. Before Obanai can even react she takes his head gently into her hands, Obanai blinks, soft lips are pressed against his chapped slit mouth. He's stunned at first before his eyes uncontrollably close and he's melting into the woman's hands like putty. Kanroji's soft hands caressing the sides of his face is more than enough to further send his mind blank, void of anything but the sensation of her lips on his.
Kanroji is the one to break the kiss, snapping Obanai out of his love sick haze. But she doesn't move an inch from their position continuing to make the moment very intimate. Obanai swallows his brain foggy as he tries to conjure up any sort of words possible. She tenderly strokes the tear stains on his cheeks with her thumbs; hushing him before he could utter a sound. "No, I'm the one who should be apologizing I shouldn't have reacted so blankly, I was just surprised.". Kanroji's voice is soft and soothing treating him like a fragile flower, and God he could not get enough of it. Obanai parts his mouth to try and excuse her and fault himself but she shakes her head seemingly reading his mind. So he shuts his mouth and his tired eyes bore into her kind and loving ones. "You know I think you're the most beautiful and strong-willed person in the world, and your scar is just more proof of how much strength you really have.". She says the words so unwaveringly that it feels like a part of Obanai's insecurities shatter on the spot.
Obanai's lip starts to stutter again and he full on starts sobbing not trying to hold back his loud emotions anymore. Kanroji immediately pulls the man into her chest rubbing his back soothingly whispering sweet words to him while he calms down. It takes a hot minute before Obanai realizes what had just happened, he sniffles softly as the last of his breakdown comes to an end and he sits fully back up. But Kanroji's arms stay around him making him unable to escape her loving embrace (Not that he even minded anyway). "Feeling better?". She whispers her tone so soft and delicate, so warm and comforting. Obanai swallows the lump in his throat nodding feeling too embarrassed to meet her eyes. Kanroji just hums in thought for a second. "Would it make you feel better if I gave you another kiss?". She asks the question as if he was even worthy of receiving anymore of her love, still he can't help but frantically nod in response, she was just too good. Kanroji smiles enamouredly before placing another heavenly kiss onto Obanai's lips.