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"Your bedding." The old woman was on her knees, behind her were 4 futons, one of them was a bit further from the others, it must be yours.
"There she is, the monster hag-"
Zenitsu's cries were silenced when Tanjiro bonked him on the head. The old lady nods her head before leaving the room. Inosuke grins before jumping to the futon closest to the one separated by the others.
"First come, first served!" Inosuke pats the futon, "I'm taking this one!"
You smile slightly at his antics before sitting down on your futon, crossing your legs and pulling your backpack off and setting it on your lap.
"That's fine. Sleep wherever you want." Tanjiro smiles at Inosuke.
"Where do you want to sleep, Zenitsu?" Tanjiro asks the blonde.
"Uh-"
"AAAAAAAH!"
You look up in time to see Inosuke throwing his pillow at Zenitsu's face. You laughed, holding your stomach, ouch. For Zenitsu and your ribs. Well, you hoped the doctor would come and give you good news.
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"Here is the doctor." The lady comes into your guys' room with an older man.
"This is the doctor, he will be checking your injuries." The lady tells you.
"Hello." He greets.
Zenitsu, Tanjiro, and Inosuke sat on their knees, holding their robes open for the doctor to check their breathing. You sat on your knees as well, but you were told to keep your robe closed for obvious reasons.
"Yes. Severe!"
Ah. Is that so?
——
Zenitsu lied on the far left, then Tanjiro, then Inosuke, you laid a bit further away from Inosuke, but earlier you had moved it closer to him so you were in equal distance with him like everyone else.
You all were quiet, depressed from the news you all received from the doctor. You four were just staring up at the ceiling in defeat
"Who would've guessed that all four of us had broken ribs?" Zenitsu mutters.
Zenitsu actually had 1 rib broken this time, you had 2 broken ribs, Tanjiro had 3, and Inosuke had 4.
How nice for you all to go in order like this. Now you can all be in pain together!
You turn your gaze to Inosuke when he pulls his bangs back, a huge bump vibing on his forehead.
"This knot hurts more than my ribs." Inosuke says quietly.
"Sorry," Tanjiro apologizes.
"Hey, you'd better apologize to me and (Y/n)," Zenitsu says, "It really hurts, you know. And I bet it hurts her too. Her getting pounded to a pulp like that. Say you're sorry to us."
You turn to look at Zenitsu. Why did he say your name? Was he talking shit?
"(B/n)," Inosuke calls out to you.
You hummed in question, waiting for him to continue.
"Sorry."
If it weren't for the room being completely silent, you would've missed it.
You wanted to say that your understanding of Japanese was *Chef Kiss* impeccable (That was debatable). You knew what sorry meant, but there was no way in hell Inosuke was apologizing to you. You must've been mistaken.
"Um, okay...Inosuke..." You trail off.
"Hey. What about me? Say you're sorry." Zenitsu complains.
"I'll pass."
"Say you're sorry!"
"I'll pass!"
You laugh before groaning, your ribs were going to be a pain in the ass. But now you can tell your (F/n) you've broken some ribs from a fight!
(And that you totally won! You were not about to be upstaged by some boar kid from the mountains!)
(F/n) would never believe you but...
You frowned. You wondered how he was doing, or if he missed you at all? You can't remember what happened before you woke up here, but you're sure (F/n) must be worried at least. He was always kind of weird about you getting into trouble that lasts for more than 10 hours.
You sit up and reach for your backpack that sat next to you.
"Just say you're sorry!" Tanjiro pesters.
"If you're gonna be like that, we're not eating with you anymore." Zenitsu threatens.
"Huh? What's up with that?" Inosuke raises an eyebrow, "It doesn't matter! (B/n) will still eat with me."
You ignored whoever just said your name and opened your backpack searching for your phone.
"We'll tell her not to!" Zenitus spat.
"Hey!"
"Meals always taste better when you eat together, you know." Zenitsu says.
"He's right about that." Tanjiro agrees.
"Did you guys hit your heads or something?" Inosuke mocks.
"Who are you to talk?!" Zenitsu spits out.
"Is there something I can help you with?" You hear the old lady ask behind the screens.
"Monster!"
"Hey!"
You couldn't find your phone! What the hell?!
You panicked and started to take everything out. Your empty water bottle was first. Then, your four notebooks, one red (English), one green (Biology), one yellow (Organic Chemistry), and one black (Forensics).
Your grey pencil bag was actually filled with like 5 lead pencils, a small box of .5 lead, and the rest were color pencils and colored Sharpies. Your black school binder filled with notes from your four classes, your laptop charger, your laptop, and phone charger. You left your personal hygiene bag in there, but where was your fucking phone?!
You opened all the other pockets before lifting it upside down and started to shake it.
Your hygiene bag fell out, and even your earphones that you haven't seen in months!
But not your phone!
"(Y/n)? What's all that?" You heard Zenitsu ask, but you ignored him.
Tanjiro, Zenitsu, and Inosuke sat up to watch you, but you were too focused on something else to care.
You shook the bag harder before a shiny, black box flew out, landing all the way on Zenitsu's lap. You all stared at it for a silent moment. None of you were making a move.
"My phone!" You cry out in joy.
You jump up, hissing in pain from the movement, but it didn't stop you. You hopped over Inosuke and Tanjiro, but you tripped over the redhead's futon, causing you to fall. You landed harshly on your hands and knees next to Zenitsu.
"(Y/n)!" Tanjiro wails, "Are you ok-"
You reached forward and snatched the phone, standing up, you began to spin with the phone in your hands.
"Ah-hahaha! Oh my God!" You cackle.
You haven't been this happy since...um...oh wow. You've never been happy before.
"(Y/n)?" Zenitsu calls out.
You look at him with a grin before running to him, and in a fit of happiness, you take his face in your hands before kissing his forehead. You backed up and began to dance again. Zenitsu ran a jet-lag, before bursting into a deep red hue, almost looking purple.
"(Y-Y-Y-Y-Y/N)!!!"
He hides his face in his pillow before squirming around on his bed, giggling to himself.
You turned on your phone, the bright screen reflecting off your face as you entered the pin to unlock it. The date was still not there, and you still had no signal. The time still read 3:27 and the battery percentage was still at 86%. It concerned you, but not too much.
Immediately, your phone started to give out small bell noises with every notification you had received, it vibrated for every message as well. You made sure that in your settings, your phone wouldn't show messages you missed when it was locked.
"Ah! What's it doing?! How is it making that noise?!" Zenitsu cries as he hides behind Tanjiro.
"(Y/n)! Is that safe?!" Tanjiro asks.
Inosuke was quiet, but he was also hiding behind Tanjiro.
You looked up at them when you heard your name and smiled in reassurance, "It's okay, dudes."
Right when you said that, the notifications stopped. You walked over to the Kamaboko Squad, turning around and sitting in front of them. You waved your hand in gesture for them to look. Hesitantly, they moved to huddle around you, looking over your shoulder.
You pulled down the notification bar to see what you missed.
58 of them were from Youtube. You had 4 messages on Instagram, 3 from Snapchat, 27 missed calls, and 10 messages on Messenger.
You pouted before clearing it all; you can just check from the apps. You never had this many people contacting you, and all it took was for you to go missing, huh?
You hesitated before opening up Instagram. All it did was force you back out, saying that Instagram has stopped. You tried this for the other apps as well, but it was all the same. You pouted before opening your call history. It didn't force you out, but it kept freezing on you, you couldn't scroll through or call any one, only letting you back out of the app. You sighed out of your nose, maybe this was for the best. You doubt you'd be able to see what others were saying without breaking down.
You prayed to whatever God or whatever thing sent you here, that at least this certain app you wanted to try would still work. You were a teenager from 2020, you didn't pay for music, you pirated them so you could listen to all your downloaded music offline! You opened Google Play Music and hOLY SHIT ALL YOUR MUSIC WAS THERE!
You scream out in joy, standing up, you start jumping up and down in excitement.
"(Y-Y/n)! Is everything alright?" Tanjiro asks as he stands up in concern.
You grin at Tanjiro, and in another fit of happiness, you took his face into your hands and kissed his left cheek, admittedly, a little close to his mouth, but it's not like it would matter to him.
You let him go and started scrolling through your playlist.
Tanjiro had more or less the same reaction as Zenitsu, but he only got excited at your happiness rather than breaking down.
You can hear them talking, but you ignored them for now.
You, unsurprisingly, only had the Demon Slayer opening soundtrack: Gurenge by LISA, as the only anime ost in your whole playlist of over 500 songs.
You honestly skipped the anime's opening every time no matter what anime it was, but you really liked the vocals in Gurenge. So you made the conscious effort to learn the lyrics and what they said.
Would it be creating paradoxes in this world if you played the boys the theme song for the anime they didn't even know they starred in?
You turned your volume down a bit: "Tanjiro, Zenitsu, Inosuke."
They looked over to you with a curious gaze. You showed them the screen and placed your index finger on your mouth. They didn't speak so you took this as a sign they were listening.
You took in a deep breath before pushing the play button.
It was silent for only a second before the familiar sound of the opening piano to the song played softly in the room.
Zenitsu gasps and learns forward at the beginning, the melody so sweet and gentle he couldn't believe it was coming out of the box that you seem to adore so much.
Inosuke was a bit spooked at first. How the hell was that singing coming out from there?! But then he was so interested and curious, how was that singing coming out of there?
Tanjiro stared at you with wide eyes as you bobbed your head along with the music, a grin adoring your face as you started to bounce side to side. He was so enthralled by the music, what else was he supposed to look at other than something just as enchanting?
"Tsuyoku,
Nareru,
Riyuu wo shitta.
Boku wo,
Tsurete,
SUSUME!"
Cue the drums and electric guitars.
They all jumped at the sudden change in tone of the song, but they completely got over it and started to lean forward, as if it'll make hearing it any better.
You started to get more confident in dancing along with the music.
You hated dancing, and the closest you've ever got to it was bouncing from side to side with the bomb ass music.
But as the song played, you ended up putting the phone on the floor faced up and took Tanjiro by the hands and tried to get him to horribly dance with you.
He only laughed in embarrassment before indulging you with your cute quirks. You were both terrible dancers, and Zenitsu and Inosuke would laugh at you two whenever one of you did something stupid and/or corny.
You tried to get both Zenitsu and Inosuke to join you two, and it worked!
You guys were constantly bumping into each other, laughing over the music. All your faces were starting to hurt with how much you guys were smiling and laughing. And your ribs were hurting too, but that was hardly important to any of you at the moment.
You don't remember the last time you had this much fun with your friends. You were always too embarrassed to ever do anything like this with them. Whenever they invited you to parties (mostly your dude friends), or to go out dancing (mostly your chick friends), you always refused because you knew they would try to force you on the dance floor.
Sooner or later, they stopped inviting you altogether. Only taking you out for hang outs, movies, food, fuck around at the store, or to watch you commit crimes.
Not that you minded that much, but you felt so free with these three, you couldn't help but dance with them!
The song ended way too soon for any of your guys' liking, however. You were all panting from the unexpected and short dance party.
You and Tanjiro started to laugh as you came back from the high of dancing. Tanjiro laughed because you looked so happy, and you were always keeping to yourself ever since he found you.
Tanjiro wants to keep that look of happiness on you for as long as he can help it.
"Ah..." Zenitsu squeaks.
You and Tanjiro looked over to the blonde to see the reason behind his sudden mood change.
Zenitsu was holding his ear, staring at Tanjiro's box.
You tense up a bit.
"What is it, Zenitsu?" Tanjiro asks.
"I meant to ask you earlier, but I kind of got distracted. And since no one else is going to ask, I'm going to myself." Zenitsu didn't turn around, "Why are you traveling with a demon?"
You furrow your eyebrows together and looked at Inosuke, but he already had his boar's hide on and was laying on your futon.
Tanjiro smiles, "Zenitsu...You knew about that and still protected the box, huh? You really are a great guy, you know that? Thanks!"
Zenitsu's cheeks turned red, "You...You really shouldn't heap so much praise on me!"
You giggle at the blonde as he dropped to his futon and rolled around, but you immediately stopped yourself.
What the fuck.
You don't giggle.
You don't.
"I've got a keen sense of smell. I knew from the start," Tanjiro points to his nose, "How kind you are, Zenitsu...and how strong..."
"That's a little gay," You say quietly, remembering that Tanjiro praised him.
Zenitsu's mood changed to a depressing one at Tanjiro's last comment.
"No, I'm not strong. Don't give me that. I haven't forgiven you for stopping me from bringing Shoichi along."
Tanjiro was at a loss for words as Zenitsu stared him down.
You laugh before patting Tanjiro on the head. He blushed before sitting down at his futon. You guess since Inosuke took yours, you'll have to sleep in his.
You snapped your head towards the box as a loud scraping sound was emanating from it.
Zenitsu jumped before shooting up and standing next to Tanjiro: "It's trying to come out! It's trying to come out!"
"It's all right." Tanjiro reassures.
"How can it be all right? Huh? Huh?"
"Shush! It's the middle of the night, Zenitsu!"
The box opens.
"AHHHH! Oh my gosh! It's not even locked?!"
"Shushhhh!"
"P-P-Protect me! Someone please protect me!" Zenitsu ran behind you, "(Y/n), you have to protect me!"
You cock your head to the side in confusion before getting up, dragging Zenitsu with you as you walked to the box.
He sobs as your two got closer to the box.
"NO! NO! NO! NO! THIS IS NOT WHAT I MEANT, (Y/N)!"
The box opens wider, Nezuko's hand hits the ground softly.
Zenitsu squeaks before scrambling away to get away from the pretty box, "It's out!"
He pulls open the closet door: "I gotta hide! I'm so scared!"
Nezuko's body pops out, staring at you with blank eyes.
Your shoulder rose up as you could hardly contain your grin. She was so fucking SMALL! Tanjiro got up and stood beside you.
"Nezuko!" The redhead smiles.
You watch in amazement as her body begins to get bigger to fit her clothes. She fucking SPARKLING! And Tanjiro wasn't lying in the beginning of the season! She really was beautiful!
Tanjiro turns to you then the blonde: "(Y/n)! Zenitsu...Nezuko's my-"
"Tanjiro..." Zenitsu says in a familiar cold voice.
You both turn around to look at Zenitsu, he was hunched over, and his choppy yellow hair covered his eyes.
"-Listen to me."
"Z-Zenitsu?"
Oh yike.
"Listen to me." He lifts his head and you shot your head to the side to hide your grin, "Just who do you think you are?!"
"So, you've been traveling with a girl this cute? With a girl this cute in tow, day after day, AND with (Y/n), you've been traveling, and you've been on cloud nine the whole time, huh?"
Wait, why is Zenitsu the one to always bring up your name in "plot relevant" dialogue?
"Zenitsu, it's not like-"
"Give me back all the blood I shed!" Zenitsu screams, "I...Listen, I...I didn't give it my all just so you could spend time in La-La Land, making out with TWO GIRLS! That's not why I got pummeled and kicked by that weird, wild boar, right?!"
"Zenitsu, calm down! What's gotten into you all of the sudden?" Tanjiro frowns, blushing a bit.
His heart suddenly jumped at the thought of doing something so intimate with you.
You only sat and watched with amusement. You couldn't understand what was being said exactly, but you remember this episode, but Zenitsu is always adding extra things now that you were here.
"DEMON SLAYER CORPS IS NOT SOMETHING YOU'D JOIN FOR FUN!" Zenitsu screeches, "GUYS LIKE YOU GOTTA BE PURGED! IMMEDIATELY!"
One moment he was close to Tanjiro, yelling at him.
Then you blink.
And the next moment he was unsheathing his blade.
"Come to think of it, there's also the crime of thwarting my marriage," He drew his sword, "And sending Shoichi home."
You raise an eyebrow before jumping at his sudden raised voice.
"PURGE IMMEDIATELY!" He charges at the redhead, "DON'T EVER UNDERESTIMATE THE CORPS!"
The rest of the night was spent...well, not well spent.
You had to put on your earphones you had found earlier and tried to sleep with the sounds of Tanjiro and Zenitsu not-really-but-probably fighting to the death.