Tengen lungs would be burning, his legs screaming for him to stop. Yet he wouldn't allow himself to stop. He couldn't stop. Not when your life was at risk. Tengen had been carrying your unconscious form on his back while you two activity bleed out.

Tengen mind flashed to earlier when you two had been paired up to investigate a village. Where a uppermoon had been supposedly residing under the identity as a geshia.

Since it was suspected to he a rumor, Tengen saw it as a chance to rekindle your relationship as brothers. As you two were never close. That how you had to survive the flamboyant hashira dragging you all over the village that was currently having a festival.

*The reason for your bad relationship was because of your childhood. Where you were raised to become shinobi at a very young age, pitted against your other siblings that ended in a bloodshed and you at the end of Tengen blade. Almost being killed if it hadn't been for your parents stopping it. Because of this, you never really trusted Tengen, even though you both changed your ways after meeting Ubuyashiki *

It was a very messed up time in your shared childhood and guilt that never left either of you. Yet he couldn't even mend the relationship if you died here in his arms. The so-called rumors would be true, leaving you and Tengen to face and slay uppermoon demon, not without suffering critical injuries.

Tengen snapped out of thoughts when sensing you moved a bit on his back, mumbling unintelligible words. Leading to Tengen speaking to you in a frantic reinsuring and concerned tone.

"It all right! Everything will be alright! Onii-chan is here... we're almost to my estate!"