Karma (Kimetsu No Yaiba x Reader)

Two moles and a goblin

The Kamado family feel exceptionally heavy as you carry each one of them to their grave.

When you had arrived back at the house it took Tanjiro everything he had not to break down and you couldn't bare to see him struggle against his own shaking limbs to try and bury his slaughtered family. 

With firm hands you pushed on his shoulders until he was seated and then you went to work, he tried to protest as you looked around for a shovel but you continued to ignore him when you gave up and started digging with your hands. It took you six pain staking hours to dig the five graves but Tanjiro didn't dare interrupt you anymore, every time he did you would just lead him back to his spot and shove him back down.

Covered in dirt and the family's blood, you wrapped each of them in a blanket and carried them over your shoulder. You weren't lying to Hanako when you said you could carry three of them. You can faintly hear Nezuko grunting behind her muzzle as she watches you with cat like eyes and your nails feels like they're about to fall off as you cover the fallen family with dirt. When everything is done you drop to your knees.

 "Tanjiro-" His maroon eyes widen when you finally talk. "I'm done." Your voice is soft and you feel like if you raise it anymore you wouldn't be able to keep it together. He stands up, his footsteps sound loud against the snow but you know he's stepping as quietly as he can. He drops to his knees next to you and Nezuko stands on your other side, Tanjiro only bows his head slightly in contrast to the way you press your forehead into the snow and clasp your hands together in front of your chest.

He briefly wonders why you're bowing like your asking for forgiveness.

When you finally leave, it's because Tanjiro gently pulls you up and you bring nothing with you besides your knife as you start their journey, your journey.

No one says anything the first two nights, Tanjiro and Nezuko sleep during the day and you keep watch without them knowing.

On the third day you sneak away from the cave of the day and search the forest until you find a rabbit being chased by a fox. You help the rabbit as much as you can, you do everything. You kill the first fox and you spend two hours fending off a hawk that tries to swoop in on it while it sleeps, the second fox comes and you kill that one as well.

The rabbit doesn't look hungry but you wont take any chances so you find some wild grass, the rabbit refuses to eat so you keep searching for something it might like until you settle on the same wild grass you started with. You have to opens the rabbits mouth and place the cuttings on its tongue. About an hour later another fox comes to hunt your rabbit and you find it's eyes unnerving as you behead it.

Later on you take the rabbit to a river so it can drink but all it does is try to drown itself. You're starting to hate this rodent. As the sun the sets the rabbit gets deathly ill in about half and hour.

It's hollow eyes stare at you as it passes.

Despite the fact that it was healthy as a rabbit could ever be, despite you feeding it, saving it, defending it, the rabbit still manages to die and you find yourself extremely upset with how your experiment ends. It seems that no matter what you do to the main plot or a rabbit, they will still die in the end and all you can do is watch from the sides. You don't look at Tanjiro for the next two days but he can tell that you're mourning.

It's the day the Kamado family were supposed to die. Tanjiro wakes up in the middle of the day for the first time in a while and that's when he sees you on your knees in the sun, nails digging into your shoulders until you left marks as you hugged yourself and sobbed. All he can do is gently pry your hands away and press a light kiss to your bruised knuckles, you fall into his open arms instantly.