notes:

hi, kny fandom. listen: i havent written any fics, but im a solid giyuu/shinobu stan. it's just... you cant just not ship this ball of sunshine called tanjirou with everybody, and before i knew it i was creating an outline for a tanjirou/shinobu fic, so here. as the summary states, this story will have strictly 100 words each chapter & to my estimate, 100 chapters as well. anyway this is all purely self-indulgent in the first place, so... so.

btw, the fic title is from the song Like Slow Disappearing from the band Turnover. do give it a listen! it played a large role in the creation of this fic!

Wide Awake

Within the estate's ward, Tanjirou's mind is alive and whirring. Running through the days' events, recalibrating, decompressing. I have been angry for a very long time now. He sighed.

In the weeks he'd spent recuperating, Tanjirou always wondered why the spicy tang of Shinobu-san's anger, laced through the smell of medicine and wisteria flowers, had always accompanied her. Now that they'd spoken of it, trying to forget seemed like folly, against his better judgment, and he'd no idea why.

...No, Tanjirou knew the reason why. And for the first time in a very long time, he wished to be selfish.