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FANFIC BY MAYA BLANCHEFLEUR (TWITTER: @m_blanchefleur)
ORIGINAL STORY AND CHARACTERS BELONG TO KOYOHARU GOTOUGE
SORRY FOR ANY MISTAKES. ENGLISH IS NOT MY NATIVE LANGUAGE.
The Sun and the Little Bud
Tanjiro exhausted after a solo mission, was on his way to rest for the day at the house of the wisteria crest, the same one of that lady who once took such careful care of him and Zenitsu and Inosuke. Arriving there, he did not fail to smell a familiar scent. It was a sweet fragrance of flowers. After a few steps through the house he came across a girl with beautiful violet eyes and long loose black hair. She was wearing a white yukata.
It was she, that girl who joyfully held her hand asking her to follow her heart. He was seeing not a fellow member of the same Demon Exterminator Corps, but a normal girl. He hadn't seen her like that until then. His face flushed and his heart beat fast.
"Kanao...?"
She was also surprised by this sudden encounter and shyly greeted him only to quickly walk away afterwards. It was lunch time, the two were called by the old lady to sit down to eat. So they did, facing each other. They slowed their first move. Tanjiro didn't want to make the atmosphere there so heavy and tried to make conversation.
"Kanao, are you here post a mission as well? When did you arrive?"
"... I arrived a few hours before you. Tomorrow I'll return to the Butterfly Mansion."
"I see! I'll spend the night here tonight too. Was it a difficult mission?"
The conversation slowly unfolded, Kanao was also becoming more at ease by those gentle, sunny rays she was receiving directly from him. It was a warm and comfortable feeling in her chest. At sunset time, Kanao found herself in the garden of that house, it was spring and various flowers she gazed at and felt their fragrances, while cherry blossom petals surrounded her through the wind. Those fiery red eyes spotted her. It took him a minute to realise that he was staring in wonder at such a sight and he turned away embarrassed.
The next day at sunrise, their crows were already calling them for their missions. But this time different, a mission together. Secretly they rejoiced that they could spend some more time together. That white flower bud gradually blossomed in the constant presence of water and sun. And that sun gradually favoured its warm rays on that little bud.