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"Hey, you!!" Tanjirou bellows, pointing at a poor startled student. "Wear your tie properly!!"
Beside him Zenitsu sits on a chair, watching his boyfriend point haphazardly at students who are probably too sleep deprived to handle loud noises."Tanjirou." He calls, tugging on the redhead’s sleeve in the hopes to calm him down. "You don't have to scream at them."
"But they won't hear me through the crowd." Tanjirou replies, looking down at the blonde in confusion.
Zenitsu sighs, why did he even agree to let him help with this? "That's why we call them over--ah." He flinches to attention when he finds someone with unnaturally colored hair. "Hey! Uh--" He tries to catch her attention with a few waves of his hands, she doesn’t turn his way though, only walking away hastily.
Inosuke, who’s also apparently helping out with his morning duties, jumps forward and screams. "The punk with the green hair!! Dye it back to black!!"
And before his friend can practically maul the innocent girl into obeying, Zenitsu shouts at him. "Like you're one to talk!! Close your shirt, Inosuke!!"
Zenitsu runs a hand over his face when Inosuke runs off to chase her, if only he wasn't immobile right now.
Zenitsu, due to an accident from running after a shirtless Inosuke, tripped and has gotten his foot sprained. He was brought to the infirmary by a guilty Inosuke and a concerned Tanjirou, who materialized out of nowhere in the middle of the hallway.
Zenitsu appreciates the concern, but they didn't have to do a two person arm carry!! From the looks he got when the two idiots where manhandling him to the clinic, it seems that he's never living this down. They probably looked like idiots screaming down the hallway earlier.
"You won't be able to walk properly for a while until the swelling goes away." Shinobu observes, ignoring the wince Zenitsu would give when she'd turn and inspect the swollen area. "I suggest you take some school days off. Maybe a day or two."
"Days off?!" The blonde parrots back in surprise. He can’t do anymore days off!! Zenitsu’s just recently called in a few days absent because of a recent bout of flu. He can’t risk missing more school days, especially with the midterms coming up!! Even if it were just two days, he needs to catch up!!
Beside him, Inosuke perks up at the mention of having a break, and immediately turns to Zenitsu with a wide grin. "Monitsu!!" He screams in his face, much to the blonde’s chagrin. "Break my legs!!"
"Why?!" The blonde shrieks in reply, backing away to retain some semblance of personal space.
Inosuke huffs, "So I can take days off too!!"
Zenitsu stares at him, feeling dumbfounded. Tanjirou helpfully replies to the outrageous remark for him, "Inosuke you can't!!"
"Yeah!! Why would you even--"
"We can't let Zenitsu get in more trouble! I'll do it for you!!"
Before Zenitsu can tell his friends off, that no, breaking legs is not the only way to get decommissioned out of school Inosuke please, Shinobu speaks up from her place on the desk.
"Absolutely no one is breaking anyone's legs here," She says, voice leaving no room for any objections. "Agatsuma, if you're planning on still attending class, then just make sure you don't put any pressure on your foot."
With that said, she stands and motions for Inosuke to come. He follows submissively and they both leave the infirmary in tense silence. Poor Inosuke is probably off to the offices again for another record.
Zenitsu sighs into the bed, finally earning some peace and quiet. The subject of his sprained foot still bothers him, but with exhaustion taking over his body from all the panic earlier, he just wants to sleep it off.
"What should I do?" He mumbles vaguely, not really expecting an answer from anyone.
Beside him Tanjirou stares, hand on his chin, thinking.
"Kamado delivery!!"
The whole class whip their heads at the direction of the door, clearly confused to see a sparkling Tanjirou carrying a mortified Zenitsu bridal style.
Tanjirou, sweet, sweet Tanjirou, had decided that he was going to be carrying his boyfriend around the school until his pain was tolerable enough to walk on. Now, Zenitsu initially had tried to protest, but Tanjirou won him over with his usual spiel of ‘i love you so please let me do this’.
Zenitsu covers his face, hiding his growing blush. He’s really whipped, isn’t he?
"Right on time!!" Rengoku bellows with hearty laughter, and Zenitsu doesn't know whether or not to be relieved at his nonchalance or appalled. "Please put Agatsuma down his seat!!" He gestures, his usual grin not ever leaving his face.
Tanjirou complies and lets the blonde feebly slip from his arms to his chair, careful not to get his injury knocked on the feet of the desk. Zenitsu is about to croak a weak reply when Tanjirou decides it’s an apt time to press a sweet kiss on his temple.
"I'll be back later, okay?" The redhead murmurs to him, looking down at him fondly as he tucks a hair behind Zenitsu’s ear.
Before one of his classmates can raise their phone and record their excruciatingly sweet moment, Zenitsu ushers the redhead out, stuttering all the while.
Rengoku kind of just laughs it off, as he usually does with anything, and continues on with class.
“It’s been two hours and you guys are already trending.” Murata says as he scrolls through his phone. “Amazing.”
Zenitsu, already aware that this whole day is probably documented on the internet by now, asks wearily. “Trending on what--Tanjirou stop!!” He swats the spoon inching his way weakly, “I can eat on my own!! It’s my foot that’s sprained not my hands.” He ignores the redhead's wilting look.
“Oh, a new post.” Murata muses, showing Zenitsu his phone.
It’s a picture of the pair feeding each other, well, more Tanjirou feeding Zenitsu. Zenitsu turns around to see a bunch of girls giggling among themselves. Murata hums in amusement. What fast hands.
Zenitsu groans and plants his face into the table with a thud, he doesn’t hit the table directly though, because Tanjirou’s kind palm saves his forehead from colliding with hard plastic.
Thankfully, after a few more embarrassing entrances to his classes courtesy of his boyfriend, dismissal comes before he can pass out from all the shame he's been through. Tanjirou at least has the decency to not carry him bridal style when they walk home, instead he’s carried by the back, arms looped around the redhead’s neck.
“Don’t tell me you plan on doing this for the rest of the week.” Zenitsu grumbles out.
“Not the whole week.” Tanjirou adjusts him on his back with a smile, “You heard Shinobu. Just for a day or two.”
“ Tanjirou .”
“We shouldn’t put pressure on your foot.” The redhead cheerily replies to his biting tone.
Zenitsu slumps on to him, too tired from all the events earlier to really keep his anger going. His foot’s starting to throb again, too. “But you don’t need to keep carrying me around.” He mutters, starting to feel guilty. Maybe he should just sit out these remaining days like Shinobu's suggested. That's really the only reason why Tanjirou's doing all this. “This is going to tire you out.”
“It’s my duty as your boyfriend to help you out with this, you know!” Zenitsu blushes at the declaration, hiding behind Tanjirou’s nape as he keeps talking. “Plus, if only I was there to catch you in the first place, you wouldn’t be with that.”
Zenitsu scoffs to hide his fluster. “You couldn’t have possibly known that I’d trip then and there.”
The conversation ends there for a while, with the both of them just staring at the sunset in the sky. As shameless as Tanjirou can get, he's really only looking out for Zenitsu, and the blonde appreciates that. Zenitsu's not used to someone openly being affectionate with anyone though, and the fact that Tanjirou is literally ready to just shout to the world that he loves him is something he can't handle.
“I just want to help, you know.” Tanjirou says softly, breaking through his thoughts. It makes Zenitsu feel guilty for reprimanding him the whole day, but still, being paraded around like earlier wasn’t easy!!
“You always help me.” Zenitsu says, frowning. And Tanjirou does, throughout all the times that Zenitsu's acted like a brat, the redhead didn't leave him. “I think you should take a break too, sometimes.”
“Not a choice!!” Zenitsu has to hold on to Tanjirou’s shoulders tightly as the redhead jerks up in defiance. “Plus, you make this really sweet smell when I spoil you. It’s nice.”
Hearing those words makes the blonde flush yet again, and Tanjirou hums when he sees it from the corner of his eye, endeared. Zenitsu reaches to clamp a hand over Tanjirou’s mouth when the redhead aims for a kiss on his cheek. Tanjirou just laughs Zenitsu's embarrassment off.
The rest of their walk home is uneventful, and they reach Zenitsu’s house fairly quickly. Tanjirou passes Zenitsu off to Kuwajima, who doesn’t look too pleased to see his grandson hobbling about, but is thankful for the redhead’s help. The blonde steals a quick kiss before he goes inside, much to Tanjirou’s delight.
“Hop on, Zenitsu!!” Tanjirou greets the next morning when he comes to walk to school with him, squatting in front of the Agatsuma doorway and looking up at the blonde expectantly. Nezuko's with him, standing on the side and excitedly patting her brother's back.
“I’m going to kill him.” Kaigaku mutters as he supports Zenitsu by the arm, staring down at the pair menacingly.
Zenitsu just sighs, “Please don’t.”