The Zanpakuto Gets Unfavored Every Day [Reborn!]

A Yamamoto Takeshi x female reader story, written in 2021. There are actually many more chapters after this, but the further I read, the more childish they seemed. This was the first long story I ever wrote. If possible, I'd still like to finish it properly and publish it properly, and find the right moment to go back and do a major rewrite from the beginning. Any later chapters will be published as extras, if there are any.

[When the fog clears, everyone will know she favors you.]

My name is Kien, and I am a Zanpakuto.

My master is a monster who fought her way out of Rukongai. A Soul Reaper in the Zero Division, she keeps a blank face and her hands behind her back, as if she couldn't care less about anyone.

Only I know that every particle of spirit energy in her is filled with a ferocity utterly at odds with her temperament. Her soul is hot as magma, born to fight and thirsting for battle and bloodshed.

As fellow monsters, I'm extremely satisfied with her.

A Zanpakuto is a Soul Reaper's other half, inseparable. Our hearts are linked, and we've relied on each other for hundreds of years. We are each other's closest companions...

Yeah, right!!

Ever since she met that brat named Yamamoto Takeshi, everything changed. (Lights a cigarette without changing expression.)

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My master was left behind in the human world with him, and the hands that had crushed countless Hollows learned to make rice balls and gently ruffle a young boy's hair.

She hardly ever picks me up anymore, sob.

A treasured old blade should never be cast aside. I cried, threw tantrums, and went hysterical over my lost love. "You said I was your sweetheart, your darling, your precious baby! Sob! Don't you love me anymore?"

All I got was my stinking master's icy reply: "...Maybe you should watch fewer romance dramas."

...That cold tone, that evasive attitude.

Case closed.

I! Have! Really! Fallen! Out! Of! Favor!

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As time passed, the little fox grew up safe and sound under my master's attentive care, and to my envy. But the distance that I expected to grow between a sister and brother in an ordinary family never came. And...

Maybe it's just my imagination.

But I keep thinking the little fox's gaze at my master is getting more and more suspicious??

Until one day, he happened to find out that I'm male and that my master usually brings me along even when she takes a bath...

With a dark look, he snatched me from my master's hands. Before long, he was knocking on the bathroom door with an innocent smile. "Sis, want me to scrub your back?"

A bolt from the blue.

In that moment, I understood.

What do you mean, little sun, Master? Open your eyes and look at him! That's a wolf who wants to devour you whole!!!

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My name is Kien, and I am a Zanpakuto.

Ever since my master met Yamamoto Takeshi, I've been falling out of favor every day.

Damn it.

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A top-tier fighter, a double-standard, brother-obsessed heroine who fiercely protects her loved ones x a cheerful, guileless baseball boy, age 80 (x a snarky, drama-queen Zanpakuto)

They dote on each other, a warm, nurturing story, one-on-one romance, all sugar and no angst

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[The Rain Guardian is the precious boy held in the palm of Lady Shiranui's hand, her untouchable weakness, a youth she has protected and cherished since childhood. He is her guiding light, her little sun. Everyone in Vongola knows it.]

Theme: A Katekyo Hitman Reborn! fanfic, anime, lighthearted comedy with lots of snark, and a coming-of-age story