Promise me.
Reader's POV
sitting in the room with Tanjiro in front of me kneeling, with Urokodaki in the corner of the room, I began to comb my hand through Tanjiro's long hair, humming happily,
It's been awhile since I've really spent time with him like this, huh?
smiling when Tanjiro leaned into my touch, I began to measure just how short I should cut his hair,
"ne, Tanjiro how short do you want your hair to be cut?"
still combing through his hair, I looked down on his when he didn't respond, only to see him gazing at the wall, eyes glazed, as if he was deep in thought, shaking his shoulder lightly, I called out his name softly to his ear,
" Tanjiro. . . Tanjiro? "
snapping out of his thoughts, he looks back up to me confused and bashful,
"w-what was that again? " laughing lightly at him, I began to comb my hair through his hair to undo any tangles, and asked again,
" how short do you want me to cut your hair? "
" oh, is this alright? " Tanjiro said grabbing my hand that was combing through his hair and placed it just where I should stop cutting his hair, just exactly how it was through out the entire anime,
"sure! " nodding my head even though I knew he wouldn't see, I gently took his hand and let him drop it back down to his lap, beginning to cut the tips of his hair slowly while humming, only to laugh with him every time when I showed him the different hairstyles I could do as I was cutting it shorter,
after a while, I finally got the desired cut, he wanted and ruffled his hair shocking him,
"eugh-! "
"haha! here we go!" presenting him his new hair style by lending him my small hand mirror, he touched his hair and smiled,
"T-thank you! this is great" he said ruffling his hair and looking back at me smiling and laughing as I ruffled his hair making lose cut strands fall to the towel wrapped around his shoulders, I carefully unwrapped the towel around him to avoid any of the cut hair to fall on the floor,
" no problem, you should get washed now, you might spread lose hair everywhere " I said brushing his neck and shoulders to get him a little bit clean, then placing them on the towel on the floor, wrapping it up carefully,
"alright, thank you again!" Tanjiro said as he carefully tried to go to to the other room, avoiding stray stands of hair that were on the floor,
" you know, I'm very proud of you. . ."
sitting up straight, I said nothing and held my breath,
"despite not spending a lot of time together, but I just want you to know, that even if I wasn't there for you, I am proud of you. "
Letting out my breath slowly, my shoulders sag down, I slowly nodded my head to see him already half-way of the room, I quickly stood up and rushed to him, letting out a shuddering breath,
" I know, thank you. . . for everything."
feeling him suck in a breath and let it out shakily and slowly, he puts his hand on my head and soothingly threaded his hands through my hair, feeling his tears drop on the top of my head,
"no, thank you. "
~ Next Morning ~
Reader's POV
When I had woken up, placed beside me was an exact replica of Sabito's fox mask, grabbing it I traced the scar on the side of the mask, smiling when I thought of him,
I wonder why Urokodaki-san made it my mask like Sabito's mask?
getting up, I began to get ready for final selection,
~ Present ~
after fixing breakfast for everyone and eating, I began to wrap and pack up the extra rice balls and onigiri I made for Tanjiro and I,
"is that for us? "
stopping my self from packing our separate bag of food, I began to wrap the bento box with the blue cloth (his), and mine with yellow,
"yes, after all we are going to spend a week in there with demons, so were going to need out energy. "
grabbing a satchel, a spare one that Urukodaki-san had bought for us, I began to place his bento inside carefully, along side some bandages, and two guards of water,
"here this ones for you, anddd- this is for me." I said as I finished packing my own satchel , sliding his on his shoulders, I began to fix his bangs as his satchel strap messed it up, not noticing the blush that was on his cheeks, I smiled satisfied as I fixed his bangs,
"I'll wait for you outside, okay?"
leaving him before he could respond, I walked outside, closing the shoji door behind me, I took a deep breath and smiled,
gosh, fresh air is so nice, it really does make it easier to breath. . .
not noticing Urokodaki beside me, about to talk to me, Tanjiro then came out, looking a little distressed,
"don't worry about your sister, I'll take good care of her for you. "
" thank you, for everything."
"Thank you for everything, Urukodaki-san, this too." I said putting on the replica of Sabito's mask on the side of my head, I turned around and ran to final selection, along side Tanjiro who was waving at him,
"were off! see you later! say hi to Sabito and Makomo for us please!"
Tensing up from shock, Urokodaki felt a chill crawl up his spine,
Tanjiro. . . how did you know the name of those deceased kids, and (F/n)'s mask. . . where did she get it?
~ Time skip ~
Reader's POV
Arriving at the entrance of the bottom of the mountain, I smiled wide and kept collecting the falling wisteria petals that was falling around me,
the animation in demon slayer was amazing but actually seeing this in person is, wow. . . It doesn't even look like anything from the anime, its all so beautiful. . .
walking up the steps, I raised my eyebrows as I saw the amount of people who came here, to participate in the final selection, straightening my shoulders I began to scan the crows for '3 certain" people, biting my bottom lip to keep myself from squealing out loud, Zeinitsu and Genya looked intimidating, hopefully they are the same shown in the manga and anime. . .
"Good evening, tonight you have come to enter the demon slayer corps final selection, Thank you for being here."
quickly getting everyone's attention, we looked up to the stairs and saw the Ubuyashiki twins,
"Here in mount Fujikosane, there are several demons that were captured alive by several demon slayer swords men, they are kept here for this event."
"the wisteria blossoms prevent them from leaving, they bloom on this mountain yearly around, and they cover everything around the mountain from base to top."
"but the wisteria ends here, so demons are bound from now on, and they are very hungry."
in order to complete final selection, you must survive for 7 days beyond the wisteria's protection."
"now, your trial begins."
both of them bowing, they let us walk past the last of the wisteria tree's and into the mountain, hearing Tanjiro take a deep breath, I placed my hand on his shoulder and smiled at him,
"I'm afraid, this is where we part."
his eyes widening in shock, opening his mouth about to argue, I quickly ruffled his hair and smiled,
"but don't worry, we will meet each other on the other side of this mountain okay?"
offering him my pinkie finger, I smiled wider and with confidence I said,
"I promise."
Looking me in the eyes, he then linked his pinkie finger with mine, surprising me when he suddenly pulled me into a tight hug,
"promise me you'll be on the other side with me."
slowly wrapping my arms around him in shock, I squeezed back just as tight, smiling into his shoulder,
"I promise."
~ chapter end ~