(Includes Sanemi Angst!!! Also, Some spoilers maybe...)

It was getting dark. The sunset had come to its end.

Giyuu found himself sleeping in his room, and decided to get up.

Where are the others...?
Giyuu shook his head and walked out of the room.

He went inside the bathroom and splashed some water on his face. As he stared at his reflection on the mirror, he thought about Mitsuri.

Can I really trust her? Does she know that I love Shinazugawa-San? What if she already knew about this? What if she tells everyone once we get back?

Giyuu shook his head and decided to not think about it.

"Sigh... Everything should be fine, I am worrying too much."

Giyuu opened the door and walked out.

He walked pass Mitsuri's room and heard noises coming from the inside.

"KYAAA! this is so exciting! I really can't wait for it! Once I get back, I will tell Iguro-San all about this mission!!!"

She really likes him, doesn't she?
Giyuu smiled and walked up to Sanemi's room.

He knocked on Sanemi's door. Sanemi didn't reply. He continued to knock on the door. Without any reply, he finally decided to open it.

Sanemi was still sleeping.

In the back of Sanemi's mind, he heard a voice, very familiar. He knew he had heard that voice before. The voice of his own brother, Genya.

'You murderer! Why did you kill her?
She was our mother!'

Sanemi was dreaming of the unhappy times in his past. He pictured Genya crying in front of him and his mother, who was not breathing anymore. He had killed her.

"Mo-ther..."
Sanemi mumbled in his sleep.

Misery, sorrow, loss and pain, that too, at a very young age. All these feelings mixed up and crawled onto Sanemi's head. Tears formed and rolled down his cheeks.

As Giyuu walked in, he heard Sanemi weeping.

Giyuu immediately walked up to Sanemi. He looked at Sanemi who was shedding tears.

Is he... Crying?

Giyuu put his hand on Sanemi's forehead and gently patted him.

Huh, who is that? Mother... is that you?
Sanemi thought.

Sanemi slowly opened his eyes. He could see a blurry image of Giyuu.

"G-Giyuu?"
Sanemi let out a shaky breath.

"Sanemi... Is everything okay?"
Giyuu asked in a worried tone.

"Yeah..."
Sanemi sniffed, wiping his tears. He got up.

"Was it a bad dream?"
Asked Giyuu.

"You could say that..."
Replied Sanemi.

"What happened? You can tell me, you know?"
Giyuu asked Sanemi.

Sanemi's eyes opened wide as he remembered what he was dreaming about.

His family, his past, his...misery.

He remembered the unhappy, far off things which came back to haunt him.

"I-I..."
Sanemi stuttered. Tears formed in his eyes. He hugged Giyuu tightly, squeezing him.

Giyuu's eyes open wide.

"Sanemi... I-Is everything okay? Tell me, what's wrong?"

"This- This feels so bad! Crying feels so bad! I-Its pathetic!"
Sanemi wailed. Crying uncontrollably, unable to stop.

"Sanemi! Crying is fine... Don't feel bad, let it all out..."
Giyuu hugged him back.

Sanemi kept crying.

"What did you dream about?"
Asked Giyuu.

"I dreamt about my.... past!"
Sanemi sobbed.

"What happened in your past?"
Giyuu asked calmly.

"I-I..."

"I... once had a very... happy family."
Sanemi said shakily, in the middle of crying.

"Hm?"
Giyuu hummed.

"I had a family of seven children. I was the oldest child. My father... He wasn't a good man, he was an asshole. No one liked him either. He was a jobless man. My mother, in order to provide food for me and my siblings, worked very hard all day."

Sanemi took a deep breath.

"My father would beat me and my siblings. When my mother would step in the middle to defend us, he would beat her too. One day we received a news that someone had killed my father. I didn't feel bad at all that day. But a family needs a father figure. A figure that protects the family..."

"I had a younger brother, Genya. We promised together to protect our family. But, one night..."

Sanemi stopped abruptly.

"What happened?"
Asked Giyuu, worried.

"One night, my mother was late in returning home. It was night time and she was never that late. Darkness had set in and all my siblings had fallen asleep. But my brother Genya and I were awake. I told him to take care of our siblings and I went off to search for her. On my way, I found a menacing creature. It was dark, I couldn't recognise what it was. It seemed like a wolf...

It went in our house and I ran after it. I jumped inside my house and even if for a few seconds, I saw my little siblings covered in blood. Genya was still alive. He would've been dead if I wasn't faster. The 'wolf' then went after Genya. I pushed it away, out of the house. I took it outside, it was injured badly. The sun slowly came up. And then, I recognised who that 'wolf' was...

It was my own mother."
Sanemi began to cry once again.

"Soon, Genya found me and my dead mother. He cried and sobbed and called me a murderer. If I didn't kill her, he would've been dead..."

Sanemi sniffed and hugged Giyuu tighter.

Giyuu's eyes widen.

"From that time onwards, I avoided contact with Genya."

That must've hurt so much... I wonder how Shinazugawa-San must've felt that time...
Giyuu thought.

"Take a breath, Shinazugawa-San!"
Giyuu said as he patted Sanemi's head again.

"There, there."
Giyuu calmed Sanemi down.

Sanemi continued crying.

"Shh... It's okay Shinazugawa-San, everything will be fine."
Giyuu comforted Sanemi, who seemed to calm down a little.

Both the Hashiras sat that way for a few minutes.

Sanemi had calmed down. Giyuu played with Sanemi's shiny white hair and asked him calmly,

"Do you feel better?"

"Yes..." Replied Sanemi.

Giyuu's haori was all wet. Sanemi let go of Giyuu's embrace and kissed Giyuu's cheek.

"Thank you, Giyuu!"
He said.

"I feel so much better, and that's because of you!"
He added.

Giyuu blushed slightly and smiled at Sanemi.

"I am glad you're feeling better."
He said.

"Giyuu?"

"Hmm?"

"Shall we leave for the search now?"
Asked Sanemi.

"Yes. Definitely."
Replied Giyuu.

"Okay then, let's go."
Sanemi said as he got up.

"Mhm..."
Replied Giyuu as he stood up too.

Giyuu... You are a blessing in disguise. An Angel... No one can compare with how much I love you. The comfort I find in you, they are incomparable!
Thought Sanemi as he walked out of the room with Giyuu.