Shinobu keeps true to her promise and keeps sending him flowers and Giyuu is not okay with this and her intentions behind these flowers.

Or

Giyuu greatly misunderstands Shinobu's meaning behind the flowers and is internally screaming.

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Giyuu is not okay with this.

No, not at all. Not one bit.

From an outsider's view, it'd be cute, a woman getting a man flowers? That's not a thing you see often, how sweet! And it probably would be to anyone else but not him! No!

He's screaming right now.

Internally at least, if he were to actually scream he has no doubt that the girls that help Shinobu out in the would-be reasonably freaked out and probably sedate him. That does not sound helpful at all to his current situation and the red and purple flowers sent by a so-called 'secret admirer' starring him down at the foot of his usual medical bed are not helping that either. So he's just at a loss for words like most of the time.

He's probably misunderstanding things, he does that a lot.

But if glares could kill, his certainly would, those flowers would be reduced to dust, and he wishes they were.

This needs to stop, he's really not ready for this, at all. 

He ends out getting dispatched a day later, flowers being greeting him when he wakes up. They need to talk about this, they need to talk about.

They need to.

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Maybe they shouldn't have talked about this. 

"Oh, OH!" She's laughing, he can't believe she's laughing at him right now. This is not a joke, how dare she think of this as a joke- "D-Did you really think that I-" Hunched over, laughter escapes her lips and he just stares at her as she continues to laugh at him as he wears exasperated expression on his face. Eventually- thankfully!- she stops laughing, wiping the tears the corner of her eyes away as a mirthful smile is painted on her lips.

"Now Tomioka-san- or should I say Giyuu-san now that we're alone," He ignores it, but it's still strange hearing her call him by his first name. "I don't know where you got that from, from me just giving you flowers, but I can assure you that that wasn't my intent at all, although I can't say I'm objected to the idea." His face deeply flushes but he hates that she has that much control over him to do this but she does and boy is she extorting it.

"However, we're not even in a relationship so if you really want to move that fast don't you think we should be in one first?" She crosses her arm with a smirk.

"No!- I-"

"So you want to skip the relationship part? I didn't take you for that type of guy Giyuu-san, looks can be conceiving I guess,"

"No! I don't- no!"

"Then what do you want Giyuu-san, communicate with me here,"

"I don't- no. I don't want..." He felt like he was choking on his words. What did he want? Did he even want this? No, he didn't want to get married, but isn't that what it meant? When his sister fiance proposed to her got her flowers, he got her flowers when he asked her out too. Is there something he just doesn't understand- it doesn't make any sense! That's what his sister said at least when you love someone very much you get them gifts like that. His sister was never able to get gifts since they didn't have that much money so when they got or gave gifts they were specials. So is this just not the case?

Maybe people were right and he is just stupid. And maybe somewhere along the way he got some brain damage along the way too. He's usually wrong so maybe just maybe this is another case.

"I..." He faltered, what was he even saying? "I don't know,"

"I don't understand,"

Shinobu shrugged, "I don't understand either. Let's start from the beginning, why do you think these flowers mean that? That's the last thing you should think when someone gives you flowers,"

"Because..."

"Because what?"

"Because gifts are supposed to be special! Very special,"

"Of course they're special, but that doesn't explain it,"

"They're special when you can't afford them,"

"But you can afford them Giyuu-san, you understand that right?"

"I couldn't once, I can but they're still special,"

"You were poor?"

"You can't just ask that question Kocho, but yes, once."

"Oh..." She voices in acknowledgment. 

"So they're special to me, and they might mean different meanings than it is to other people."

"Ah..." She stares down at the ground, kicking at the dirt. "Now I feel kinda bad now,"

"It's fine,"

"So this entire thing has been a misunderstanding?"

"Yes,"

After a few beats, she spoke up, "...Do you want to marry me though?"

"S-Shinobu!" He spluttered, "What? I'm curious!"