Panic! At the Butterfly Estate
sagilarious
Chapter 2
Summary:
this is un-beta'd so i apologize for any errors!
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
It had finally happened: caused by the extreme duress of the career he so bravely undertook, Zenitsu had gone insane. He thought back longingly to days gone by, of all his beautiful potential brides and forlorn love interests crying out for him to return to his former glory...but that would never be! Because his brain had truly, finally given in and sent him a twisted vision of reality, one that simply could! Not! Be!!
Zenitsu had woken up entangled limb and limb with Inosuke, dried cum caked on his skin in two separate places. Two!
In a moment of lucidity his brain rejected the false image it saw, running to the bath to wash away what must have been part of the hallucination of course, only to find it ephemeral and real, and staining the borrowed robe.
So, Zenitsu was crazy.
...He realized unfortunately, many of the demon slayers he'd met were crazy in their own right; the only man who could possibly talk the Corps into honorably discharging him as a feeble minded veteran would be Tanjiro. Yes, his bosom buddy, his closest friend Tanjiro! There's no one who has kinder sound!!
Aoi began yelling at him for running around so much, but Zenitsu wrote off replying. After all, a normal person may not run but an insane one might as well.
"TANJIROOOOOOOO!"
Zenitsu found his savior eating breakfast with the small servant girls of the Butterfly manor. They flinched at his despairing expression, while Tanjiro offered a smile.
"Zenitsu! Would you like some breakfast?" he asked, kind sound that he was. Zenitsu was not here for food—he was here for vindication!
"No! Can't you see I'm distressed?! I need to—" Zenitsu began, before his stomach made a noise loud enough to cut his speech off.
...He had better eat before retiring from the Demon Slayer Corps for good.
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Servants long gone, Tanjiro alone sat with Zenitsu in the dining room now and rubbed his chin thoughtfully. "So...you think you're crazy because you...got off with Inosuke?"
Zenitsu gaped at his friend. His clueless idiot friend! "OBVIOUSLY?" he shrieked, clutching his chopsticks to near breaking. "Who would want to do that with—with someone like him?!"
Tanjiro made a noise of assent. "Well, even if you don't want to do it again, didn't you want to then?"
"NO!!" he screamed.
Tanjiro's expression darkened, "Are you saying that—?" Zenitsu flailed, feeling the sudden rage emanating off his friend and no, misunderstanding bad, "NO, GOD, NOT LIKE THAT !"
Tanjiro deflated, Zenitsu breathed a sigh of relief. He went back to his thinking pose. "So...what you're saying is you did want to then! You're just upset it was Inosuke you did it with." he concluded almost proudly, to Zenitsu's horror.
He was regretting coming to Tanjiro, who knew nothing apparently about anything at all. How did he not get it? "I'm UPSET because it was with a GUY!!! A GUY!!!!" Zenitsu stood, grabbing his friend by the shoulders and shaking. He kept shaking him until the hint of a smile was wiped off Tanjiro's stupid face.
