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Third person pov:
Obanai was confused.
He was very confused about his current best friend mitsuri. He wasn't doubting there friend ship he was questioning himself. This all started about a month ago when in a simple letter from mitsuri. by itself it wasn't strange they exchanged letters all the time when they were off duty but it was what in the letter that made his eyes widen. It was in the middle of a random paragraph she called him and I quote 'quite cute but also attractive especially without his mask on'
That was what obanai was confused about especially the part about him without his mask on. No one has ever called him anything other than hideous without it on. He didn't know how he could be considered 'attractive' to any standard, he had a gruesome scar from both sides of his mouth to his ears for and his eyes were two completely unnatural colours Christ sake.
But the fact that obanai has finally accepted the fact that he had.....some feeling for a specific pink and green love hashira didn't help him much and his emotions where getting in the way of any real critical thinking he'd accomplish so he gave up trying to.
So to save his sanity and peace of mind he decided to do something he'd know he'd surely regret...he asked tengen for help. Ok you have to hear him out first, tengen wasn't a first choice, sanemi didn't want to hear obanai ramble about mitsuri for the 9th time that week and Shinbo was quite busy with that kamados kids group after there recent mission so he decided just to let her be.
Obanai pov:
I approached tengen after his training.
"Hey tengen..." I said. He jumped as soon as the words left my mouth, he mustn't of heard me comming huh "yeah iguro what do you need" he responded looking down at me. I hated it when he did that but he can't really help it he is 6,2 and I'm a mere 5,4 compared to his monstrous height, well it's better than gyomeis 7,2 I guess, "I need your help with something. It involves Mitsuris and I relation ship-" I spoke before he cut me off "SHE FINALLY PROPOSED!" he screamed, louder than I ever heard hell it even gave gyomeis claps a run for for there money,
"No you big idiot I need help with something she said dumbass" I said my yellow and teal eyes going wide, just the way I know scares him.
"Ok ok, I was just joking man! But on a more serious moment what's for you up man?" He said somehow turning more serious but also somehow still himself, more casual or "less flashy" in his own words,
"Well I got this letter from mitsuri a couple days ago and.." I stop waiting for him to say something but...he doesn't he stays quiet. He's actually listening to me. "And she called me cute and attractive" I say avoiding eye contact because if we did met eyes I would surely turn pink like a summer peach " ok ok I hear you, and this has lead you to believe that she likes you?" He asked trying to get a grasp on the situation "yes it is but it's not just that." I say trying to justice something that doesn't need justifying "ok tell me more than, tell me everything" tengen says crossing his legs to be fire comfortable for the long story.
"Well we were just eating lunch together and out of the blue she asked me 'whats for favorite colour?' and well I didn't know what to say so I just blurred out 'guess' and I honestly didn't care for colours that much or know the colours that well since I'm heard of sight to really have a favourite colour....but that was untill she yelled out 'yellow' I don't know why she picked yellow so I asked her why? And she just simply responded 'yellow is a beautiful colour it's the colour of happiness, a fluffy vanilla cake, beautiful flowers that are different in every way, the sun which is the life giver to all earth.....and its the colour of your eye that you don't cover with your hair that much' she said pointing at my eye, really I just didn't cover that own as much because it was the good eye with the better sight" (now yes I know in the cannon his yellow eye is mostly blind and his teal is better but just suck it up for this ok?)
I take a deep breath and continue "but now I can never see yellow the same way that I used to, it's in everything and I mean everything. Everywhere I go I see it, I'm big or small amounts but everytime I think of those words and...I can't help to wonder why she cared that much to notice my eye yet alone give that long and thought out answer like the one she did- and no offence to mitsuri but we both know she isn't the brightest with her words so that just kind of stuck with me, also she cares so much for the little details of myself, she notices what foods I like and learns to make them for me, she picks up on what hobbies I enjoy like painting and writing poetry, and she actively try's them atleast once for me and she's even helped me with those fucked up panic attacks I get and......and she even helped me get more comfortable around her without my mask" I finally spit out, my hand instinctively touching my mask as I spoke.
After a while tengen spoke "can you take your mask off for me?" Now I wask expecting him to say litterally anything other than than, I was expecting him to chuckle, joke, laugh at me or tell me an answer to my problem but no, tengen uzui is never predictable.
My mind immediately went to a quick simple 'no' but something deep inside me wanted to know why? Why does me care? "Why do you want to see?" I counter asked him "well I want to see what the big fuss is about that's all. You've told me it's ugly and that it makes you look filthy and it's a big scar but it can't be that bad right? It won't change how I view you as a whole" tengen said as if it was the most simplest thing and I was just stupid.
"Well for one your underestimating it by a mile, it is that bad and secondly you will not change your view of me but judge my appearance-" no was explaining it to him but he immediately cut me of "do I judge sanemi's looks? Do I judge the big scar mitsuri has on her thigh? Did I judge the one that rengoku had on his lower back? No I didn't so why the fuck would I judge you?" He said in this deadly serious tone that I never heard him speak in "but if your not comfortable with it than keep it on I just wanted to see but you do you" he quickly added to the end and then after a solid few seconds of thinking and throwing out the only common sense I had left and I undid the bandage that I used as my mask and it was out.
That big, ugly, flight reminder of the demon cult I was born into just stuck to my face was right Infront of him. He just stared at it for a solid minute but as I went to cover it with my hand he stopped me and quickly stood up and pulled up his shirt to reveal a big, bad, unevenly heald scar of his stomach it went from mid chest to pelvis bone.
by the looks of it it was old, like really old. "Got this bad boy in my first year of slaying and I hate it. I find it hideous that why I cover it but my gorgeous wife's tell me day in and day out that it's gorgeous and so I accept it. And so the point in getting at here is that we all have big fat scares we don't like, some more visible that others but anyway, their there and they don't go away so we might as well deal with it" he spoke pulling down his shirt and sitting back down.
I suddenly felt alot better about my own scars and so I just started babbling to him, about my past, about my horror family and how I was adopted by the rengoku's and grew up from 8 upwards with rengoku, and most my love for mitsuri we must have spoken for hours because the sun was almost set, thank god we were both off duty that might, and by miracle for the devil himself. Mitsuri was to.
unfortunately tengen heard and saw her before I did and then...he just picked me up by the back of my shirt and said "don't blow it, go ask for her out and treat her real good" before just tossing me in her general direction
I landed on the floor with a loud thud mixed with Mitsuris squeal. She quickly yanked me to my feet and we just sort of just stared at each other untill we both went to speak so it just came out as a big plile of words "oh it's fine mitsuri you can you first" I blurred out but she quickly said in a louder tone "no you go first I insist!" She yelled.
Ok so this is it. I'm going to either gain my first GF it ruin my best friend ship (sanemi is ragging somewhere) but you know what fuck it. I took one deep breath and looked around. The moon light framed the garden nicely but it also showed the fact that tengen was standing behind the door like a small child being sneaky but I pushed that to the back of my mind.
"Ok so mitsuri I just want to say this now I really really like you, or I love you, I've never been good with emotions and shit like that but- I just know deep down that I love you so so much! I love your loud personally, your bubbly tone, your wacky sword, your fighting style, your majestic body type (freak) how your taller than me and especially how you never hide and are so unapologetically yourself it makes me feel less shame in being different and so with all this being said"
"Will you mitsuri kanroji be my girlfri-" "YES YES YES ONE MILLION TIMES YES" she quickly interrupted and jumped and with her taller height and thicker figure than mine she easily tacked me and just held me down, slightly crushing my head with her chest since the height difference but ..I didn't really mind (FREAK).
That was when tengen decided to emerge from the darkness, wold whistling and clapping "congratulations you two love birds, 10/10 confession obanai I knew I did the right thing by throwing you" he said like a proud father and that's when Mitsuri looked at me confused.
"Obanai...did tengen tell you to ask me out?" She said confused "w-well yes but I do really like you and It was most just oeo talk you know?" I said trying not to let the mood go down and that when she said this "he told me to ask you out" and then it clicked for both of us.....he told both of us to ask our the other and that's why Mitsui was in the garden, THAT FUCKER PLANNED THIS OUT.
"TENGEN" we both yell in unison "well it was to make sure you two ended up together! I won't die happy if obamitsu is cannon!" He yelled back. We were about to yell at him and then he quickly changed the topic "how common we've got no time for project sanegiyuu"
"What's sanegiyuu?" I ask.
"You'll find out" they both said Mitsuri dragging me away.
THE END FINALLY!!!!
(Wow 2008 ish words holy shit)