Tanjiro's Diary

Nightmare

𝘐 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘮 𝘯𝘰 𝘰𝘸𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳; 𝘒𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘴𝘶 𝘯𝘰 𝘠𝘢𝘪𝘣𝘢. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘥, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘈𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘦/𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘢. 𝘈𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘝𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘹.

-𝘑𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢 𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘪𝘵 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘗𝘖𝘝 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘥 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘐 𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘴.

Kanao POV

Kanao ran through the dark oak trees, stumbling and trembling. She ran as fast as she could in her current state, which wasn't very fast. Bleeding, scratched and bruised she made her way through a field of tall grass, but when she came out the other side...

She fell down, tripping over something. Kanao looked down, horrified to see the pale and lifeless face of her close friend and crush, Tanjiro Kamado.

Kanao gasped and stumbled backwards only to stumble into... Tanjiro?

His back was turned to her, but something was... Off. He seemed more, ominous. More...

Bloodthirsty.

He whipped around, barring fangs. Snarling, he rushed Kanao and tackled her to the floor. There he pinned her arms to her side, and prepared to bite her throat. Kanao was petrified, feeling his cold breath on her neck, she shivered. With a growl, a short-lived scream, and a splatter of blood, it was over.

Kanao shot up out of bed screaming. Shinobu dashed into the room, pale. "Kanao!" She said with an urgent tone, "Kanao!" Kanao took three slow breaths, relieved to be safe inside her extremely well guarded home filled with people. "I'm sorry to wake you. I guess I just had a bad dream, and couldn't stay quiet." Kanao apologized, unknowingly making Shinobu angry. But of course, Shinobu kept her head and gently replied, "It's alright, but what was the dream about?"

Kanao hesitated, then told her the whole story. "I see..." Shinobu offered to let Kanao sleep in her room for the night, which Kanao politely refused. "I'll be fine, really." After saying this quite a bit more times, Shinobu left her to herself.

A few hours later, Kanao was still thinking about the dream she had. What if it was real? Demons can only control their hunger for so long. Think of it as a human refusing to eat. Very, very little choose to starve to death. Most, when they start to starve finally chose to eat.

Kanao was almost sure that Tanjiro would die, incident one and two proved that much. But what if something happened? Something...

Different.

Different than starving, different than just "not eating".

Oh well, it was just a dream, after all.