Please, make this wish work again.
Reader's POV
~ Flashback ~
It had been at least 2 month's since I've been with the Kamado family, it's funny that I used to think of me being in this huge lucid dream, but having all these scars prove me wrong, having helped the Kamado family as I stayed and had no where to go, I had grabbed the spare hatched they had and cut wood in the morning to lessen Tanjiro's work, but when he had woken up looking for me, slamming the shoji door open and screaming my name, the pile of wood that I had cut behind me had fallen over me, thus leaving me with the first scar, on the side of my right palm was a small gash where I had nicked myself form the hatchet when the wood had fallen over me, to this day Tanjiro looks apologetic to me when he looks at my hand even if I continuously flick his forehead and pat his head,
the second scar I had was when I was cooking with Kei, her teaching me some words of some of the utensils and food that we were using to cook, but then the kids ( Rokuta running from Hanako ) had been running around the kitchen bumping into Rei, and her bumping into the hot pot of soup, I had quickly shoved Rei and the kids away from the falling hot pot, only for me to fall stepping on the front of my yukata, the pot had fallen on my left leg, burning it and me stepping in the hot soup, giving me a blotchy scar on my left leg and a little on my feet, Rei and Nezuko had scolded the kids but I had still smiled and patted their heads despite the pain and said in broken Japanese " (f/n)-chan is okay " crying and holding onto me kept saying sorry but like Tanjiro I had only patted their heads and said it was alright as much as I could in Japanese to them,
the third was when me and Tanjiro had been in the village selling coal to the people, a drunken group of men of four had been disturbing a small ramen shop, and broke some of the ceramic bowls on the floor as they had been grabbing the man on the other side of the cart, Tanjiro being the kind soul he is, had put the bag of charcoal from his back to the ground and tried to defuse the situation, me helping him, only to be pushed by one of the drunkards down onto the broken ceramic bowl shards, thankfully only having 3 small shards embedded in the back of my right arm, never in my life had I seen Tanjiro so mad, that he had knocked out four of the drunken men, the other three with punches and kicks but the one who knocked me over with the iconic "head-but" the sound was so loud I winced for the man and not for the wounds I had just acquired, Tanjiro had wrapped wrapped a handkerchief ( thanks to one of the villagers ) around my right arm to stop the bleeding, feeling guilt that he forced us to go home early, the next day I had left the house early to sell the left over coal from the other day and went home, halfway up the mountain a side I ran, well Tanjiro ran into me, toppling us over, him talking rapidly to me and checking me over and shaking me back to back, sounding very worried, feeling guilty as is already I had flicked his forehead and shoved the pouch of money to his face huffing and pouting, saying " I got money " pointing to the empty basket behind me, Tanjiro speechless he had, made a confused sound and had dot eyes, holding the money pouch, he then hugged me tightly patting my head, talking to me as if he was saying that "I didn't need to do it", he pulled me up and made me ride his pack, carrying me halfway up the mountain,
from then on to this day Tanjiro and the family had been cautious around me being clumsy around the place,
~ Present day ~
Always being the first one up I had already made the family small breakfast of rice with grilled fish and fresh orange juice on the side, sitting outside the house on the engawa, drinking the left over orange juice I had, watching the snow fall covering the trees around us, I had started thinking to my self while humming,
The snows been getting harsher for a few months now, it's just a matter of time before "that" event happens, and I really don't want it to, I haven't done much to help anyone survive, maybe I can convince them to all go to the village to eat out? or to buy what ever, maybe I can-
"always the early bird (f/n)-chan" sitting beside me Tanjiro said as he was also holding a cup of orange juice, he leant a little towards me, our arms against each other, smiling at him I just nodded to what he said and continued to hum, trying to keep myself occupied and not think about "that" event.
"ne, (f/n)-chan lets go inside, wake everyone up so we can go and sell coal and come back home early" standing up Tanjiro offered me his hand, and we walked inside, waking everyone up so they could eat and start the day.
~ after breakfast ~
walking outside of the engawa, wiping my wet hands on the stomach of my yukata I looked up to see Kei kneeling in front of Tanjiro, wiping his face with her sleeve, she spoke to him,
freezing on the spot, I started to feel light headed, feeling cold sweat run down the side of my face as I continued to stare at the scene in front of me,
just as I had started to think about the "event" then it just happens, what am I supposed to do?!?! Kei agreed to bring the family down next week into the village, but the "event" is about to happen tonight!
" are you alright (f/n)-chan? you can stay home if you don't feel well you know" Kei said, no longer kneeling in front of Tanjiro, but standing beside me, hand against my forehead feeling if I was, indeed sick, snapping out of my panic induced thinking, I shook my head "no" and smiled at her,
"I'm alright, just got dizzy for a moment" I said grabbing her hand away from my forehead and patted her, giving her a big and tight hug, shuddering lightly when she hugged me back,
I wont be able to hug her like this again anytime soon,
"what's gotten in you (f/n)-can! it was as if that hug was the last time you would see us, haha!" Kei said as I let go of her, smiling and walking out and putting on the spare fukagutsu, I walked over to where Tanjiro, Shigeru, Hanako and Takeo were and gave them all a bear hug together, squeezing them with all my might, laughing with Tanjiro when Takeo complained, letting them go I patted their heads and picked up the smaller straw bag full of charcoal, I walked a little bit more forward when Shigeru and Hanako started complaining to Kei about not being able to go with us to the village,
I wont be able to hug anyone of them like this. . . ever again
" leaving already (f/n)-chan? oni-chan? I had to put Rokuta-kun down for a nap or he would make a scene when the both of you leave for the village, he misses dad a lot after he passed away" Nezuko said, snapping me out of my sad thoughts I walked towards her and hugged them both gently, letting them both go after a while Tanjiro walked towards them and patted Rokuta's head and bid her goodbye,
"see you guys both later!"
Waving back at them both, Tanjiro and I walked side by side each other down the mountain, silent as I thought about everything that was just about to begin,
"are you sure you are alright (f/n)-chan? you've had this sad scent coming from you since we had breakfast with everyone"
"I'm alright Tanjiro-kun" smiling at him, and looking forward again,
god, if your out there, please, don't take them away from us.
~ at the village ~
Third Person
Arriving at the village Tanjiro was teaching (f/n) words as they walked, only to be stopped by an old lady who was sweeping the front of her house,
"ah it's Tanjiro and (f/n), you both still come down the mountain in this weather? you're both so hardworking! don't get sick both of you okay?"
" Were both okay in this weather, want to buy some charcoal? do you have enough at home?"
As she was about to reply Tanjiro was interrupted by someone else,
"Hey! Tanjiro! (f/n)!" looking towards where their names were called the man continued,
"I want to buy charcoal, you both helped me fix my door and kitchen last time, thank you"
"I also want to buy charcoal!" chimed in another woman who was with her friend, as (f/n) and Tanjiro were about to go to the first customer of the day, they stopped at the sound of a door quickly slamming open behind them, a lady pushing a pretty beat up boy in front of both of them, holding broken pieces of glass in a handkerchief.
oh, its this scene. (f/n) thought to herself, as she walked towards the old man, giving him the amount of coal as she left Tanjiro to deal with the problem himself.
"augh! Tanjiro, (f/n)! you guys both came at the right time! I was treated as the culprit who broke the plate, please help me! smell it!" shoving the broken plate near Tanjiro, he sniffed it, looking back up at the mad woman, he said
"I smelled a cat."
"I told you!"
"My goodness, it was the cat's fault"
"I told you it wasn't me!"
(f/n) sighed shaking her head, the old man beside her chuckling from the scene unfolding in front of them, she grabbed her spare handkerchief and walked to the beat up man, helping him up and bringing his face to her level, wiping his bloodied nose and chin tisking at the old woman, she gave her a death glare, in broken Japanese she said,
"don't be so quick to assume, violence is not the answer" before the old lady could even reply, the man she helped grabbed her hands, and started simping
"uwaaaaa, (f/n)-chan is an angel, standing up for me and cleaning me up, will you-"
fuming before Tanjiro could entire vine, someone else called out to the duo,
"eh Tanjiro, (f/n)! could both of you help me move some stuff?"
quickly grabbing the (h/c) girls hand he brisked walked towards the man, face super red and heart pounding,
this is going to be a long day isn't is? (f/n) thought to herself sighing.
~ sun down ~
Reader's POV
stretching for the second time as we walked up the mountain, I looked up to the sky,
There's still light, maybe if we rushed up more we could be home and I could do som-
"it's already late" looking down from the sky to Tanjiro, he continued
"But thank goodness, we were able to sell all the charcoal we had today." smiling at me I nodded at him absent mindedly, grabbing his hand I made my decision, we were to run up to the house even if it made us tired, I could warn them all and maybe do someth-
"hey Tanjiro, (f/n)! are you both going back to the mountain? it's too dangerous, don't go"
Freezing as I was about to drag Tanjiro with me, we looked to the side to see Saburo-san peeking out his window looking at us,
"I have a good nose, we'll be fine"
"you can both stay here tonight, come"
shaking my head and tugging Tanjiro's hand I started to sweat lightly,
"No no no, no need-"
"just come already! before the demons come out"
~ inside the house ~
Reader's POV
after changing into sleep wear that Saburo-san had provided for us, Tanjiro and I were sitting side by side, eating the meal Saburo-san prepared for us,
"thank you for the meal" I said to Saburo-san, gathering both out dirty dishes and shooing Tanjiro away to help Saburo-san set up the futons,
it's happening tonight, even if I run out to the cold i wont be able to see anything and might get killed on the way up by "him", or Saburo-san and Tanjiro would stop me, god please, let them be okay.
Sighing as I washed all the dishes, I wiped my hands against my sides and walked back to the room where Tanjiro and Saburo-san was, giving a small thank you again to him as he turned off the lights, I laid down on the futon beside Tanjiro and sighed, and closed my eyes,
please, don't let it be today.
~ unknown to her, as she slept, Tanjiro had grabbed her right hand that was out of the covers, gently squeezing, as he tried to comfort the sleeping girl, as she had been emitting the sad and fearful smell all morning, sighing to himself as he felt her relax a little bit, he closed his eyes and fell asleep with a smile on his face. ~
~ Morning ~
Reader's POV
Quickly getting dressed and waking Tanjiro up, I had rushed him into leaving the house fast, pushing him up the mountain as he screamed back a "thank you" to Saburo-san
"slow down (f/n)-chan! we don't need to rush, we have time to walk up and greet everyone-"
stopping in his steps i could push Tanjiro anymore, knowing what it meant I ran ahead of him dropping the straw bag I carried on my back
God please! please don't make it true!
Tanjiro's POV
Frozen in place I couldn't move, watching as (f/n)-can run towards the direction of the house in haste, I continued to
"it. . . smells like blood."
Breaking into a sprint, I followed (f/n)-can to the house.
~ Chapter end ~