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❁ཻུ۪۪ ━ ❝ The chosen sword

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Fourteen days have passed since Final Selection, and all that (Y/n) has been doing was catching up on all the missing chores that he hasn't done in the seven days that he's been gone. In short, he starting to wish that the demons from Final Selection ate him, putting him out of his misery. 

"Ah, (Y/n)-kun! It's time for your daily skin routine!" Fumio exclaimed happily, appearing from behind the door as he cheerfully skipped inside the dining room. Looking up from cleaning the table (Y/n) groaned, "Fumio-san, can't we postpone? I'm almost done doing my last chore-"

"No! Your skin doesn't have time to wait! We must do it now!" Fumio huffed, glaring down at the tired (Y/n). (Y/n) sighed and nodded, putting away the wet cloth and walking back towards the excited Fumio. "Alright, but please make it quick-"

"Come on!" Fumio exclaimed, grabbing (Y/n) hand and dragging him over towards Fumio's greatly bright and decorated room. Sliding the door open Fumio walked inside as (Y/n) did so unwillingly. 

'Now that I think about it, I don't think I've ever been inside Fumio-san's room-' Squinting his eyes closed as he was suddenly attacked by the brightness of the room, (Y/n) backed away. 'T-Too bright!'

"Welcome, to the amazing-- and handsome-- Fumio's room!" Fumio cheered, dragging (Y/n) over to his pink futon and pushing him down on the comfy exterior. "Now, wait here! I haven't been able to get everything ready due to getting my hair ready and everything, so this might take a minute!" Fumio smiled down at the patient (Y/n) and walked away, heading towards the storage room for only Fumio. 

'Does Fumio-san really have that much stuff?' (Y/n) questioned, glancing around only to flinch as he heard knocking on the closed window. Getting up from the futon (Y/n) looked over towards the window only to see a slightly panicked Keiichi and a really, really panicked Gorou behind him. 

Tilting his head to the side (Y/n) walked over towards the window and unlocked it, letting inside both of the males as they quickly stumbled inside, well, that was Gorou while Keiichi did so gracefully. "You've gotta hide us, (Y/n)-kun!" Gorou cried, grasping (Y/n) shoulders and shaking him. 

"Stop, Gorou-kun." Keiichi demanded, grabbing Gorou's hands from (Y/n) shoulders and forcing them off. Gorou looked over at Keiichi in surprise, "How are you so calm?! We almost got killed by Shigeru-sama!" Gorou wailed, grasping on Keiichi's shoulders instead as he sank to the floor as he was being held onto by Keiichi. 

"Someone has to be the calm one around here." Keiichi replied, shrugging. Gorou glared up at Keiichi in jealousy. "I seriously don't see how you're calm even though we almost died!" Gorou exclaimed, hitting Gorou on the chest making Keiichi willingly let go of him allowing Gorou to fall harshly on the floor. 

"Ow! What was that for?!" Gorou pouted, rubbing his ass. Keiichi sighed only for him to freeze. "He's coming." Keiichi stated, grabbing Gorou and swinging him over his shoulder, running over towards the window only for (Y/n) to stop them. 

"I'm coming, too!" (Y/n) announced, Gorou and Keiichi looking over at him in confusion. "Why? You're not in trouble like us." Gorou asked him, this making (Y/n) shiver at the reason. "Fumio-san is going to do my skin routine that he planned out, and I don't want to go through that torture." (Y/n) answered their question as both of them nodded in understanding. 

"I see... all of us have gone through his torture, so I suppose as your elders we must protect you." Keiichi said firmly, lowering his body to allow (Y/n) to climb up. Hearing two pairs of footsteps heading over towards the door at a rapid speed (Y/n) panicked and climbed on, Keiichi jumping out of the window just in time for Shigeru and Fumio to slide the door open and go inside. 

"(Y/n)-kun!"

"Get back here you idiots!"

"You'll never take us alive!" Gorou yelled in victory, laughing at the end as he looked over at (Y/n). "Welcome to the runaway gang, (Y/n)!" Gorou congratulated him, smiling cheekily. (Y/n) shivered as he could still feel the burning glare that Fumio is giving him. 

"We're still not in the clear, we need to stay away for most of the day and come back." Keiichi announced, thus making the two look over at him. "I suggest that we never go back! Did you hear the death threat that Shigeru-sama gave us?! I rather get killed by a demon- ow!" Gorou cried and pain and looked over at the frowning (Y/n). 

"Ah, Gorou-kun, Keiichi-san- and (Y/n)-kun? Are you two running away again? Along with (Y/n)-kun? I'm used to you and Keiichi-san, but not with (Y/n)-kun." Sora chuckled as he continued to pick out the peaches from the peach tree. 

"Sora-san! Please, help us!" Gorou pegged, looking up towards Sora as he was still being held upside-down by Keiichi. Sora made a humming sound before shaking his head with a sorry expression on his face. "Forgive me, but I think you three should go back. Though, I do believe it depends on the severity of the situation." Sora closed his eyes and made a thinking face. 

"What did you three do exactly?" Sora asked them, making contact with every single one of them. "W-We broke the ancestral vase..." Gorou confessed as Keiichi bit his lip and looked away. 

"I ran away because of Fumio-san's skin routine time. Now that I say it out loud mine sounds like a kid being too scared to eat broccoli compared to yours." (Y/n) snickered as the other two glared at him. "Oh... I see..." Sora sighed and went back to picking out peaches. 

"... well, it's best if you three hide out for the day. I'll try to calm those two down. They are the two oldest so I suppose they should understand." Sora explained to them, smiling over at the three as Gorou was crying manly tears while Keiichi was bowing at Sora in respect. 

(Y/n)? Well, he was saying how much he loved his elder in his head. "Sora-san! You're such a saint!" Gorou wailed as Sora tried to calm him down. "We must go now. The other two will most likely try to catch up with us, and here is where they'll look first." Keiichi stated as Sora nodded firmly. 

"Here," Handing Gorou and (Y/n) two baskets filled with peaches, Sora sent them a warm smile. "you three might need it for the road." Sora finished as the other three had sparkles over their heads as Sora seemed to be shining. 

"Thank you!" Gorou and (Y/n) thanked him as Sora smiled back. Keiichi bowed again and mouthed a small 'thank you' and looked forward as he heard the other two coming towards them. "I love you-!" Gorou yelled, though was stopped short as Keiichi began to run away. 

Blushing at what he said, Sora shook his head with an amused smile. "Hand over those two brats!" Shigeru yelled as he ran towards where Sora was thinking that his disciple might have the two weirdos. 

"As well as my own disciple!" Fumio yelled, running towards Sora. Taking a deep breath Sora began to think of a way out of this problem, as well as for the others. 'Please, please aid them in their fleeing from their punishment, Kami-sama.'

So, he took another deep breath and breathed out, kinda ready to face the two fuming superiors. 

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Hearing the familiar screaming of their comrade the three winced as crows flocked away from the forest where the scream came from. "Shigeru-sama and Fumio-san caught him..." Keiichi whispered, feeling pity for his fallin' comrade. 

"Who knows what kind of torture he's going to go through." (Y/n) shivered at the thought of Shigeru making Sora going out to the market to pick out the groceries where the fangirls are waiting. Oh, and Fumio! He's going to make him try out every single kimono and yukata that he has made, and even help him create more! The pins and needles, absolutely dreadful! 

"He's no snitch, so don't worry." Gorou reassured them, only for him to feel kinda guilt for making Sora go through their lie detector plans. Stopping as they reached the market, Keiichi let go of (Y/n) and Gorou as they landed on the ground, now able to fully walk by themselves. 

"Well, look on the bright side! At least we'll be able to stay in the treehouse for the whole day!" (Y/n) exclaimed as they walked over towards the treehouse that the three made for just themselves. "It's true, we haven't been in the treehouse for a while now, so I suppose it won't be that bad." Keiichi agreed, only for him to stop as someone stumbled onto his chest. 

"E-Excuse me! I-I didn't mean to bump into you I just-!"

"It's fine, excuse us." Keiichi reassured the mysterious man. The man wore a smiling noh mask and was also wearing a sun decorated robe with his hair being kept in a sun decorated cloth. Walking around the man (Y/n) backed away as the mysterious man tried to grab his hand. 

"You're Katsuo (Y/n), right?" The mysterious man asked, this surprising (Y/n) but he quickly masked it. "No, why do you ask?" (Y/n) replied, obviously lying. The mysterious man chuckled and tried to pull something from his back only for him to be held down by furious Keiichi.

"What do you think you're trying to do, old man?" Keiichi questioned him, though the mysterious man just snickered. "I think we should go somewhere more private, no?" The mysterious man asked them. Glancing around his surroundings Keiichi saw that some people were looking and whispering among themselves. 

Nodding his head Keiichi gripped harder on the mysterious man's wrist. "Alright, come with us." Keiichi ordered as he dragged the mysterious man with him, (Y/n) and Gorou following closely behind. Now that they were out of the market and into the woods Keiichi let go of the mysterious man's wrist and looked down at the calm male. 

"How do you know (Y/n)?" Keiichi asked him, holding back Gorou who was trying to persuade him to go with the good cop bad cop scenario. The mysterious man laughed, "I'm his swordsman, so of course I know him. Here, I have your sword." The mysterious man claimed, going to grab the sword only for him to be stopped once again by Keiichi. 

"I'll do it." Keiichi stated, walking behind him and grasping what seemed to be the hilt of a sword, not sure due to the white cloth covering it up. Pulling it away from the mysterious man the cloth fell out as it settled down on the floor revealing an (F/c) sheath that was protecting and covering a sword. 

"Believe me now?" The mysterious man asked, backing away from the male. This time, instead of Keiichi being the one to interrupt him it was (Y/n). "Can I see that, Keiichi-san?" (Y/n) asked him, holding out his hand for the object. Keiichi hesitantly agreed and handed it over towards (Y/n). 

Grasping the object (Y/n) looked at the mysterious male in front of him as (Y/n) thought that he was also staring at him, not sure if he was or was not due to his noh mask. Unsheathing the sword (Y/n) looked down at it as the metal of the sword glinted in the sunlight.

"I suppose you're an imposter. The sword is supposed to change color-" Stopping as he saw it light up, (Y/n) breath hitched as he saw it turn into a swirl of red and white colors, swirling over each other before settling. 

'It kinda looks-'

"It looks like a peppermint!" Gorou laughed and slapped his knee, falling to the ground before Keiichi could stop him. Looking blankly at the sword (Y/n) looked back up at the blacksmith. "Ah, I've never seen it turn into two colors before, red and white the same... wait... red?!" The blacksmith yelled in surprise and ran over towards (Y/n), pulling the sword away from him and began to examine it. 

"Yeah, it's red. So what?" (Y/n) asked him, his expression poker-faced. "Oh, my Kami! The others are not gonna believe this! Yes! Thank you so much! I'm so happy for one of my babies to be given to such a blessed individual such as yourself!" The blacksmith yelled as he went and hugged (Y/n) tightly, pulling away and running away from the other three. 

Staring quizzically at the unsheathed sword (Y/n) shrugged and sheathed it back in, facing his other comrades. "Well, he was weird-"

"Caw caw! Katsuo (Y/n)! Here are your orders! Make your way to a town to the southwest! Young girls have been vanishing there!" Gorou and (Y/n) screamed as they went behind the calm Keiichi, all three of them staring up at the crow before watching it go near (Y/n). 

"Night after night, young girls have been vanishing! Hunt down the demon lurking there and kill it! Katsuo (Y/n), you better not die on me! This is your first assignment... as a Demon Hunter!" The crow announced, flapping its wings before flying over towards (Y/n) shoulders. 

"Go, go!" The crow yelled, flapping its wings. Sighing as he heard this, (Y/n) looked over at his sad companions. "Keiichi-san, Gorou-"

"We finally found you, you little brats!" Shigeru and Fumio yelled as they came running at them with angry expressions, thus making the other three panic. "Gotta go!" (Y/n) yelled as he ran away, now officially in his first mission. 

"Wait, (Y/n)- ack!"

"Finally caught you brats!"

"Uh? Where did (Y/n)-kun go?"

A new adventure awaits you as your drive grows stronger every day; to run away from Fumio.

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