The Cresent Moon.
A.N : Let's start off this fic with the infamous jiji, Mikazuki Munechika.
One day, (Y/N) was busy in the citadel, arranging all the chores and the front battle teams.
As she was busy with that, the dear old ancient sword steps into the room.
She knew it was him because of his trademark laughter.
"Aruji san, you are truly a busy person. Do you need any assistance?" Mikazuki asked.
"I'm about to finish, jiji. So it's ok..." she replied.
"Ok then~" he said, but he was not leaving her alone. He sat down right beside her, smiling.
(Y/N) was a little uncomfortable about it, so she turned to look at him and smiled before saying...
"Jiji, don't you have something else to do?" she asked.
The old sword looks at her, and with his carefree smile, he shook his head as a reply.
"I have not much to do, since aruji told me that she doesn't need any assistance..." he said.
(Y/N) looks back to her assignments and quietly does it... until to the fact that she couldn't stand Mikazuki staring at her with his carefree stare. She turns to him again, this time to chase him out to do one of the citadel's chores.
She assigned him to do field work, since he has been messing up in a few of the other chores - like, horse keeping. Even (Y/N) doesn't understand why did the horses tend to chew on his hair, maybe it was because of Tsurumaru or something. Kitchen, heck. He was banned to go into the kitchen after Tsurumaru almost tried killing him with weird food, and mostly jiji was burning all of the food.
"At least he's good in something in the citadel..." (Y/N) thought to herself.
Mikazuki wasn't a good gardener and all, but he took care of the field real good. "It's like nurturing your love ones..." that was how he described it with his infamous, "ha, ha, ha..." laugh.
(Y/N) stretched out as she was done assigning the citadel and battle teams for a week, it was tiring to do it everyday, so she tries doing it a weekly thing.
Her eyes opened and saw jiji sitting by the patio with Uguisumaru, drinking green tea and admiring the environment. They were chatting, so she left them be and head over to the kitchen where Shokudaikiri was there.
By this time, a pair of dark blue eyes followed her moves.
"Shoku-" (Y/N) started, but was stopped by Shokudaikiri.
"Aruji sama, please, stop calling me that. It's an uncool name..." he said.
"Ha ha, I'm sorry. Mitsutada, do you need any help?" (Y/N) offered.
"Oh, aruji sama can help out in peeling the potato. Ookurikura isn't good at that yet..." he replied and points to Ookurikura who was by the counter, peeling a potato slowly.
(Y/N) smiled as she sat right next to Ookurikura and starts peeling, while Mitsutada laughed at the sight of Ookurikura blushing.
Time passed by, and the trio was done with lunch.
They called everyone to the main hall, where each of the tantous fight their seat next to (Y/N), but all of them failed.
To everyone's surprise, it wasn't any of the younger members.
It was the old man himself, Mikazuki.
"Oi, jiji. We fought for that seat..." Midare said.
"Now, now... I'm the oldest, let me sit here for once..." he replies and laughed after saying that.
"Midare, back down.." Ichigo said and placed his lunch in front of him.
"I almost forgot that Midare is a boy..." (Y/N) thought while staring at the blond tantou.
"Alright now, let's dig in!" Tsurumaru exclaimed and everyone started eating.
(Y/N) has noticed Mikazuki being by her side, too close. What does he wants? Why is he doing this? Questions flies in her mind, and her hand has stopped moving.
"Aruji... aruuujiiii..." a voice snapped her out of her thoughts.
"Y-yes?" she answers and turned to stare face to face with Tsurumaru, the mischievous sword.
"Why aren't you eating?" he asked.
(Y/N) nervously laugh and started eating, while those pair of dark blue eyes staring at her again.
After lunch...
The sage was helping Mitsutada once again, clearing the hall and kitchen, while the rest of the other swords rest before heading out for their chores.
However, this time.
(Y/N) has notice someone looking at her from a distance. She turns and looked to the direction where she felt it, but there wasn't anyone.
This has lead Mitsutada to look at her, he tapped his finger on her shoulder with a worried look on his face.
She shook her head, and told him it was nothing, "just an imagination..."
"Just an imagination?" Mitsutada repeated what she said.
She laughed sheepishly and said that she was tired from arranging the chores and everything for the swords.
"You know, you can count on us. So, if you feel tired... let Hasebe kun to arrange it for you. To be honest, he's pretty good at it..." Mitsutada said and pats (Y/N)'s head.
"Hasebe will whip everyone to work..." (Y/N) replied and she laughed, and as soon Mitsutada joins in her laughter, the sound of a familiar laughter was heard.
Both of them turned around to the door entrance, and saw Mikazuki standing there.
"Ha, ha, ha... aruji san is such a jokester..." he laughed.
"Nuh uh! You stop right there!!! You're banned from the kitchen old man!" (Y/N) shouted at him while pointing a brush at him.
"It's ok, aruji... Tsuru isn't here..." Mitsutada said as he tries to calm his master down.
"Ha, ha, ha... I see aruji san is very closed to Mitsutada dono..." Mikazuki said, and both (Y/N) and Mitsutada stared at him.
"What are you talking about?! Are you drunk in the middle of the day?!" (Y/N) shouted again.
"No? Oh, my mistake..." the old man giggled again.
"Ah~~~ I'm going into my room!" the sage stormed off, leaving the two swords behind.
"Mikazuki dono, aruji and me aren't that closed. So why did you say something to make her mad?" Mitsutada asked him.
"Well... you see, Mitsutada. It's what I notice, that's all..." he replied and smiles at him, before leaving him to finish his work in the kitchen.
The sage stomped her way back to her room, scaring almost all of the swords in the citadel.
No one knows what had happened, or why she was so mad, but they were cowering somewhere, out of her sights.
Bang!
She slams the door to her room. The sage was angered, and she was getting a little paranoid. As she sat at her writing table, her senses let's her acknowledge the presence again.
(Y/N) turned her head around, but no one was there. She ignored it and started reading her book. Then once she felt the presence again, she quickly turned around. The door was slightly open, however, the culprit wasn't fast to hide from this. The side of his hakama was showing, and as anger built up into courage, she stood up and walked towards the door.
"What are you doing?!" she shouted and slides the door open.
"Ha, ha, ha... aruji san just caught me..." it was Mikazuki.
"What do you want, jiji?" she asked in annoyance.
"Well... I want to apologized to you, but I saw you being busy with a book. So, I didn't want to disturb you..." he replies.
"I wasn't busy... sigh... come in..." she said and let's him into her room.
"And aruji san, I wanted to tell you something too..." Mikazuki smiles while shutting the door behind him.
Mikazuki sat beside (Y/N) at her table, his smile was not seen on his face anymore. He has a more serious expression, but not his serious battle expression. Somehow, it looks calm and collected.
(Y/N) saw this, and turned around to look at him before asking if he was ok.
"Hm? Oh, my apology aruji san. I was thinking of how I should put my words together before telling you, so that I don't anger my cute aruji..." he smiled.
"Cute?!" she jumped at the word.
"Ha, ha, ha... can't get enough of your expressions..." he laughed.
"So, what do you want to tell me, jiji?" She asked.
"Aruji san... what do you do, if one of us have express his feelings towards you?" he started asking.
"Huh? Like I said, Mitsutada and I aren't closed!" she jumped again at the question.
"Ha, ha, ha... I know. But, what if it's another person than Mitsutada?" he asked again.
"Err... depends..."
"Depends?"
"Yeah, depends if I have the exact same feelings for him..." she replies and look away after staring at Mikazuki's eyes, she blushed as she notice them.
"What if... it was me who confess to aruji?" Mikazuki asked and slowly crept next to her.
"Y-you?! Hah! That's impossible! You're so perfect, I don't think you'll like someone like me..." she laughed.
"But... (Y/N), I've already did..." he whispers at her ear, making her blushed even more.
"Eeeeeeh?!?!?!?"
"(Y/N), don't worry. In time, I'll make you mine and mine alone... I'll make you fall in love with me..." he said and kissed her cheek, before standing up and went out of the room.
(Y/N)'s face was bright red now, she even had trouble breathing when she felt the impact of his lips. She threw her blanket over her and hide in it, thinking over and over about what he said...
A.N : the end. I will leave the ending as it is, so I can leave it all to your imaginations. Or, maybe I will continue it in another chapter.
But for now,
I need to end this...
Next up, I will write someone else!