Nightmares
Characters: Nonbinary y/n, Tomioka giyuu
TW: Mentions of death, blood, scary nightmares, uselessness, ripping body apart, etc.
Y/n is the Blue Flame Hashira
Giyuu being soft?
"Sabito.. don't leave me, please. SABITO NO!" Giyuu sits up from the bed, panting crazily of breath, his hands and body sweating as is if he was in rain, blankets handing off of the bed and onto the floor. His haori on the jacket hanger, not touched by anyone but him, not even his partner would touch it. His dear partner knew how much Giyuu's haori meant to him, never dared to touch it.
"Hm" He says and places his index and thumb finger to the bridge of his nose, trying to get a grasp of himself after having the same nightmare for the 6th time for the whole day. He had taken a break for today, not wanting to train or put up with both sanemi and iguro shenanigans, putting up with them would give him much worse of a headache. Although he missed Mitsuri, seeing her like a sister: there is Shinbou, saying of how Giyuu does not have friends when he does. At least he think he does, he think of tanjiro and the other that way, do they not think of him that way back?
"Hn," either way there is also Muichiro, Gyomei, and Kyojiro, Giyuu and Muichiro have small talk but it ends up with Muichiro forgetting what they were saying. With Gyomei, they would pray together or just pass by nodding head, even though Gyomei is blind he knows Giyuu's movements. Rengoku, ah Rengoku, dear Giyuu and Rengoku each together! But, silently, Giyuu finds Rengoku a bit too buoyant and that makes him nervous, and although Giyuu does not talk much with Rengoku during their time eating, Rengoku always has a way to bring up small talk with him! Mitsuri always ends up joining them, eating whatever Giyuu hadn't finished.
Giyuu remembering everything he has to go to every single day, and that it does not change a single bit gives him a migraine. Giyuu gets off of the bed and walks towards the bathroom he has in the room, he opens the door groaning and walking towards the sink. Splashing cold water on his face he grabs a cloth and wipes the dripping wet water from his face.
"Just why, why today? Why THAT dream, I don't want to remember this..please." Giyuu says into the cloth, slowing sliding down on the floor his legs giving up on him while he starts to shake. Sobbing is what Giyuu starts doing the next minute, taking off the cloth from his face to wail softly, his wails echoing off the bathroom wall and through the house.
He continued to sob to himself, blaming and saying harsh things to himself, he knew his partner was not home. They had left for a small mission they had, they being the blue flame hashira had fled just this morning and won't be back until three hours, midnight. While Giyuu is busy sobbing and saying brutal things, his lover comes home.
Before Y/n showed up home:
Y/n was running, hurrying up to the house after hearing from Mitsuri how Giyuu had not shown up at the estate today. Y/n sweating already from their mission and running home, they get there breathless but recovers from it quickly. Opening the door they call out to Giyuu, "Tomioka! I'm home, are you okay?!" Giyuu does not answer considering how he was wailing in the bathroom, the wails start to get louder echoing across his estate. "Huh? Tomioka?!" Y/n runs where the wails and sobs are coming from, heart racing quick and thinking of how their lover may have gotten hurt, of how something horrible happened while they were gone.
Atlas, they are standing in front of the bathroom, the source of where the sobbing is coming from. Giyuu still lost in his mind, continues saying things, things that may not hurt him but hurts y/n. Giyuu sniffles, being curled in the corner of the bathroom "god why, why did it have to be him!? It should have been me, I-I should have died! I shouldn't be here, a hashira, HE should be in my place...it's all my fault, I should have trained to be st-stronger..for him. I should have helped him maybe then would he be alive! He-" Giyuu hiccups while he continue to speak to himself unaware of y/n.
Y/n frozen in place, speechless about what their lover was saying. Did something happen, was his friend really dead? Why did he blame himself, no he shouldn't be doing that, he's good, he's a good hashira. Good enough, he's strongā Tears start to form on their waterline, not wanting to hear Giyuu talk bad about himself anymore y/n opens the door and stands straight, huffing and puffing while looking down at Giyuu. He looks so broken, hair messy, and everything. Resemblance of a lost, broken puppy..
Giyuu flinches and look up shocked to see y/n in front of him, he thought they were supposed to be back in three hours? He looks at the clock beyond y/n figure, seeing that an hour as passed. Looking back at y/n he sniffles confused at why they are still back so early by two hours. "Why, why do you talk to yourself like that? You...did something happen while I was gone Tomi?...please, I want to know."
Y/n had said while they walked towards Giyuu and sit on their knees taking his hand into their arms, placing a soft kiss on his hands. Giyuu gasps for air and continues to stare at you, tears already dried up but his eyes all puffy and red from crying. Seeing this hurt y/n, placing their hand on Giyuu's cheek whole keeping the other on his hands, they slightly rub his cheek with their thumb.
"Please tomioka, speak to me. I need to know in order to help you, I love you, and I will always be here for you so please..please tell me what happened?" Says y/n tilting their head slightly while giving Giyuu a warm smile, a smile that warms Giyuu's heart up. he slightly nods and takes a deep breath in. Already nuzzling into your hand feeling comfort, he starts to speak.
Saying on how he was with a dear friend named "sabito" in the final exams. He and Sabito were close friends after Giyuu had fled from where he was. They trained to become the best demon slayers and soon learned about the hashiras, saying how they both should train hard and pass the exams so then they both would become hashira together as one.
But when the final exams came Giyuu was scared about the demons showing up and eating him alive, Sabito being the kind and strong friend he was saved and protected Giyuu from any demon coming both their ways. That was until sabito went up against a morphed demon that had desire to kill all of their masters trainers: sabito tried cutting the demons head butā"but his nichirin blade broke and the demon ended upā his head, sabito's head was smashed against the demons hands."
Hearing this made y/n feel guilty for their beloved one, how they had to experience this at such a young age. "I'm so sorry that happened to you Tomi, I'm very sorry but..I would like to know how long has this been going on I just don't want to see you like this anymore." Giyuu shivered and mumbled a yes looking at y/n, he takes a shakey breath in and out answering their question seconds later. "It was only today, 6 times has it happened today" ...."Tomi..I'm sorry I wasn't here to help you."
As y/n helps him get up from their uncomfortable position Giyuu dusts off dust from his clothing. "Let's go cuddle, do you want to?" Giyuu rubs his eyes as he nods "Yeah would feel better to have you by my side" Tomioka and Y/n head to the bed connect to the bathroom and bedroom, y/n gets on the bed first letting Giyuu know he would be the 'little' spoon for tonight.
As he gets in after y/n they are already waiting for him with arms wide open, closing them when he gets his comfortable position. Smiling y/n kissed the back of Giyuu's head runs their fingers through his hair until they both fall to bed comfortably and leaving Giyuu know he is loved and in safe hands.
Sorry for not putting a lot of words into this, I'm used to 3rd person writing :')