Day 4

Hello again!

Like I said, this chapter will be for day 4 of Zennezu week, the theme is 'Confessions – White || Gardenia (a crush, a secret love)'.

Note: AU of the current arc of the manga.

With that said, I hope you enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own Kimetsu no Yaiba.

It had been three months since the battle at the Demon Fortress and while Muzan had managed to escape, the Demon Slayers were able to defeat two of his Upper Moons and miraculously force the remaining ones to retreat. There were several casualties and even those that survived would probably be forced to retire due to their injuries.

Nezuko, now a human thanks to Tamayo's medicine, and after crying her eyes out with her brother, thanking him for everything he did as well as properly mourning her family, is now doing her best to help around the Butterfly State with all the injured.

She doesn't have any medical knowledge of course but she is able to go around getting everyone what they need as well as helping out with other tasks such as making food.

It was exhausting, to say the least; she repeatedly has to run from one place to the other, often going back the way she came from to get something for another person but she wouldn't complain. As tiring as it was, complaining was the last thing from her mind, the closest thing was when she asked Aoi for a second to get her breath back before nodding and running to get the next thing required.

Luckily, the day's activities were over for now.

'So tired.' The former demon thought, sitting on the porch of the Butterfly State and looking at the setting sun. 'I'll just… close my eyes for a while…' With that thought, she soon fell asleep as her body demanded rest after all the day's work.

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'Nnggh.' The black haired girl groaned as her eyes slowly opened, there was barely any light outside so it was still the middle of the night. 'I must have fallen asleep.'

"Oh, are you up Nezuko-chan?" Her eyes went towards the source of the voice and saw Zenitsu.

"Yeah, I must have fallen asleep without realizing." She said as she moved to a sitting position, noticing the yellow haori wrapped around her frame. "Thank you." The black haired girl said with a smile as she wrapped the haori tighter around her body.

"D-don't mention it." The blond said with a stammer while scratching his head.

The two then began to talk, more like listening in Zenitsu's case as Nezuko told him about how she had to go running around the place non-stop.

"Hehehe." Nezuko giggled all of a sudden.

"What is it?"

"I just thought that our roles were reversed, it's usually you who is telling me about what you've been doing while I listen." She answered. "I'm happy; when I thought 'I can finally talk with Zenitsu-san properly' I couldn't help but laugh."

'So cute!' The Breath of Lighting user yelled in his mind, unable to form a proper sentence.

"Nee, Zenitsu-san."

"YES?!" The blonde… shrieked, for lack of a better word.

"The… the moon is beautiful tonight, isn't it?" Nezuko said, looking to the ground to try and hide her blush.

"Eh? Nezuko-chan did you…?" The swordsman trailed off, the answer to his unspoken question coming from Nezuko scooting closer to him and leaning her head against his shoulder.

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'I'm glad for them.' Tanjiro thought.

He had been looking for his sister after realizing she wasn't in her room and found them around the time Nezuko talked about 'the moon', making him smile at the scene.

'I'll give them some space.'

"Hey Monj-" Inosuke didn't get to finish his sentence, since the Kamado had suddenly closed the distance and head-butted him hard enough to knock him out immediately.

"Don't ruin their moment." He hissed before dragging an unconscious Inosuke back to Aoi, since he is sure he just escaped from her even though she keeps telling him to rest.

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Under normal circumstances, Zenitsu would have definitely heard the commotion, his nigh super-human hearing allowing him to catch his two friends' footsteps.

But this weren't normal circumstances, hearing Nezuko say that phrase to him and then having her lean against him had pretty much shut down his brain, his mind had gone completely blank save for the thought of enjoying this moment.

And that's it!

I hope you enjoyed my little contribution to the Zennezu week.

Until next time.