Snowed In
It was just supposed to be for tonight.
After having Tanjiro come to him, asking if his little sister could stay here in his room until Tanjiro was finished with some night training with the Water Pillar. Of course he saw no problem with his friend's request. After all, it was only for one night and she already was known for never harming human beings so he had agreed to do it.
Besides she rarely came out of her box unless she was around people she knew well. Like her brother, his other crazy friends, Dr. Kocho, the girls in the butterfly house and some of the other pillars. So he didn't expect to see her out and about while here with him since the only time he's actually seen her was in that battle against the former Upper Moon.
So imagine Genya's surprise when he gets a small pat to his face the next morning.
"Huuuh...wha...?" He blinked his eyes open a bit.
"Mmm."
For a moment all he could make out with his bleary eyes was a fuzzy black and pink blob. After blinking his eyes for a few minutes he realizes that the pink he was seeing is a cute pink kimono and the black was long hair that actually had orange at the tips. He slowly looked up...
Poor Genya's whole face turns a bright red when he sees Nezuko tilting her head at him.
In all his time here this was the closest he has ever found himself to a girl. Not just any girl but a cute demon one with the prettiest hair and soft pink eyes. She tilted her head at him with an equally soft smile as she reached up and lightly patted his cheek again. Genya sat up immediately while pulling his blanket with him to hide the scars on his naked chest.
"N-Nezuko-chan you're a-a-awake!"
"Awake" She nodded as she repeated him.
Slowly she stands up from the floor, as he smile widened to show her cute little fangs and she put her hands together happily. Genya gulped heavily at just how sweet and innocent she was being. Was she even aware of where she was right now? Who she was with?
He had not planned to deal with her when she was awake honestly. He just expected her to sleep the whole time and then Tanjiro would come and get her in the morning...
In fact where was Tanjiro? He would usually by here by now...perhaps he was sleeping in? He couldn't blame him, after all he could only imagine what kind of mentor the water pillar could be. Genya sighed as he let the blanket fall, showing his scars and the muscular build he gained from years of training and hunting demons with Himejima-sensei.
"..." Nezuko stared at said scars before she quietly walked over to him and gently touched one on his arm.
Genya froze when he felt her and looked over at her with wide eyes.
She was touching him. A girl. A very cute girl. A cute girl who is a demon was touching him. When his brain stopped screaming and he realized this was in fact reality he practically jumped from his blankets and pressed himself to the screen door behind him. In all his life he has never, ever felt more nervous than right then facing Tanjiro's little sister.
She looked at him in confusion before she pointed at his arm, "Ouch."
"Huh? Oh! These?" He pointed at the scars, "It's nothing, really. No need to worry...um let me go and see what Himejima-sensei is up to..." he looked around for his haori and yukata as well as good sandals so he's not almost naked.
It's been really really cold lately and if it snowed last night then he did not want to explain why he has frostbite where his privates are. As he finished pulling on everything and turned around to face her, Genya blinked when he sees her now covering her eyes with a faint blush on her face. He swallowed thickly again at the adorable sight. Why did she have to be so sweet looking?!
"Uh..it's okay to look now Nezuko-san," he slowly reached out and gently patted her hand.
Slowly she lowered said hands and looked at him shyly.
"Okay okay, um..I need y-you to stay here wh-while I go and um, get use some f-f-food...o-or well me some food since you uh...you don't really eat...at least that's us...that's what your brother told me...anyways I will be right back-"
He slid the doors open, while trying to give her a reassuring smile as he stepped forwards...right into a wall of white, cold snow.
Genya just stood there for a long moment, completely still. Then very slowly he backed away from the snow with some on his clothes and getting on the clean floor od his room and just stared at it. He looked like he couldn't quite believe what he was looking at before he took in the deepest breath he could to calm the rising ire that threatened to turn into a temper tantrum.
Just how hard did it snow last night? Did he sleep through most of it?
Nezuko walked towards the snow, standing beside Genya before she reached out and gently scooped up some of it. Genya immediately felt his ire go down when he sees her studying it like a toddler seeing snow for the first time. She blinked at it a moment before she slowly bit into it. Then she hummed and those pretty pink eyes seemed to just light up in delight.
"Gaaah...it will probably be a few hours before Himejima-sensei digs through all this to make a path...I think I have some mochi to last me till then..." he turned his face away as he spoke.
After all if they were snowed in then it was most likely Tanjiro and the others were too until someone could come and fix their current predicament. That meant he would still be responsible for her until then. He reached up to close the sliding doors only to freeze when she opened her arms as if to hug the snow. Genya felt a vein pop in his forehead before he grabbed her.
"Hmm?"
"No. Not today. Good thing i brought in wood to start a small fire to keep us warm. We'll probably be here a while..." Genya sighed as he closed the doors...then he froze when Nezuko suddenly climbed on to his back and rested her head on his shoulder. She smiled at him and giggled softly.
It was then he felt his heart skip a beat when she suddenly yawned. He felt like he was looking at a kitten who had drunk too much milk or had gotten very comfy in a pile of blankets. Her eyes were already starting to droop and Genya could feel a sensation that only can be described as melting.
He felt a strange softness fill him, something he hadn't felt for a long long time.
"..Well good thing I have a clean futon and blankets you can lie on while we wait for the snow to be cleared out," he started to walk to the closets to get the futons and the blankets as he had stated.
Once the futon was set up he very carefully pried her off and laid her back on the futon before pulling the blanket over her carefully. She hummed in her sleep and hunkered down more with a big yawn that showed the sharp fangs on her top and bottom teeth. Genya swallowed thickly at the sight, because dammit even her little demon fangs were cute!
After a moment of staring and making sure she was definitely sleeping, Genya stood up slowly and then made his way to where his mochi was. As he picked it up he was hit with a sudden urge to share some with her. However that urge was quickly squashed because she wouldn't be able to digest it like he could. He scowled at the thought before he bites into it...before he hummed when he remembered Tanjiro's claim to find a cure.
"...Maybe when you're human...I'll make you a nice plate of mochi to share."
As if she heard him, she smiled in her sleep and snuggled more into the blankets.