KNY | The Boat Of Humanity (Tanjirou x Muichiro)

Chapter 7 - Two Things In Common

Tanjirou's POV

I was staring at the back of his head again, I'd much rather be staring at the front of his head. But the angle of my seat wouldn't allow it. But in the middle of class he looked back and we made eye contact, I blushed hard and turned down to my notebook. First I wanted to get to know him, and then I would make some moves. But I didn't want to scare him off or anything, or make him uncomfortable.

And in the manual it said that crew members are not allowed to date, but by crew do they mean the test subjects or the men on THEIR payroll. It was quite unclear, so I guess as long as I keep it lowkey it'll be fine.

I was walking the hall towards the lounge with some of the guys, they challenged me to a few board games since the lounge had lots. I agreed to go play some games with them.

As I was walking I felt something wrap around my neck, then slither right off. The feeling sent shivers down my spine. The soft strands ran over the back of my neck and then slithered off.

Muichiro pulled back his hair as soon as it had wrapped around the back of my neck, "Sorry" he smiled innocently as he kept walking in front of me. I blushed a bright red as I watched him sway his hips and held the back of my neck where I had left his hair touch. My skin still tingled, remembering the sensation.

"That guy is laying it on so thick, you need to get with him" Uzui nudged me in the arm as we continued in the hall.

"What? No that was an accident" I dismissed.

"Are you serious, you must have a pretty dense skull," Rengoku sighed from the group, "Even Obanai who's never even had a girlfriend can see it!"

"Stop telling people that I've never had a girlfriend, you don't know that!" he snapped.

"See, if you had had a girlfriend before then you'd say something along the lines of, 'Yes I have had a girlfriend before'. But instead your answer implies that you in fact have never actually had a girlfriend" Uzui laughed cockily.

The guys here were nice, they had no problem with my apparent interest in Muichiro. Some of them were even trying to encourage me to 'get with him' or something like that. Which I appreciated, I've not always been in such a nice environment.

Once at work one of the interns on my service refused to work with me because he could never work with a fag. At that time there was already a rumour going around that I was gay. He was suspended, and then he started telling people I was coming onto him and offering him OR time in exchange for.sex. Which is something I would never do! When the superiors investigated the case he tried to take me to court. It was horrifying, I would've lost everything I worked so hard for and probably even been sent to jail. But on the day of the ruling he didn't show and the charges were dropped.

Then another intern came forward saying that it was all planned and that they had some texts to prove that the guy was trying to ruin me for getting him suspended. He was fired and arrested, but I decided not to press charges. I had enough of the courtroom, and everyone at the hospital was already talking about it.

So the chief of surgery sent me here, they'd been looking for someone to take the spot that the company conducting the test offered. They thought it'd be best for me to take a break and let everything cool down.

So here I am now.

I thought Muichiro had just accidentally flicked his hair in a way that I and only I had seen it as 'seductive'. The way his soft hair ran over my neck felt to nice, it tingled in a good way and it just made me want to grab him by the hair and slam against a wall... but I won't. Because I have self control and human decency.

However, if he were to provoke me in any way that would imply he would be ok with me pushing him up against a wall and making out with him then all sense would absolutely be thrown overboard.

Muichiro probably had no idea how he was making me feel, despite what the others had said. So I had to abandon all feelings for him and just focus on the class I was taking.

I ignored my obscured fantasies and went into the lounge. Where my crush for Muichiro was immediately rekindled when I saw him explaining shogi to Nezuko. 'That's so nice of him!' I thought to myself, I heard him explaining the pieces and their movements. His kindness towards her made me feel something that I hadn't really felt.

It was a longing, much less a desire as it was before. But this feeling made me want to just hold him in my arms. I know that we didn't know each other very well, but I think over the next two months we'll get to know each other better.

Kanao's POV

I watched him as he wrapped his hair around his neck, and I didn't like it. What a shameless scoundrel to do something so vulgar in front of everyone. But I could definitely see why he would go after Tanjirou, he's sweet, good looking and talented. Who wouldn't want to get with a surgeon who's nice and good looking!

He's also a good sport, always participates in class and has definitely caught my attention. And someone like him does not have to settle for companionship.

Although he's definitely quite dense, I heard him say it was a simple accident when anyone could see he was flirting. Even the cold one noticed, I have nothing against gay people. But when they're that shameless I do get a bit uncomfortable.

And the fact that he looks almost identical to a girl is a bit unsettling.

But it's not like he's done anything to me so I don't dislike him, I just prefer not to be around him for a few different reasons.

Shinobu's POV

I laid in bed and stared at the ceiling, I couldn't get out of bed. I felt absolutely horrible, my heart ached and pounded as I thought of all the people I had ever met in my life. They were all dead, and it was partially my fault.

I heard the door open, I glanced over and saw Shinazugawa. I didn't trust him, there was something about him, maybe the fact that he could kill me at any second and nobody would suspect a thing.

"Get up, it's time to stop moping. The world's gone, get over it" he snapped.

"How can you say that..." I started, "so casually?"

"We're both doing this for the same reason you know, and we both have people on this boat" he said, "The earth is gone, a lot of people are dead and that's that. Get over it"

"You're absolutely heartless," I whispered.

"Everything's done, now all we have to do is survive. So get up off your ass and go do some work" he snapped at me before leaving the room, slamming the door on his way out.

He's not a bad guy, I read the file the company had of him. His mother went insane and killed all his siblings, in an effort to stop him while his younger brother made a run for it he had to kill her. And then they were seperated in the system, years later they reconnected but it was never the same. Genya grew up decent and Shinazugawa grew up to be a killer. He was offered a job at the company

My elder sister, Kanae, they dated for about four years, but I never liked him. Then she got hit by a car... she's been in a coma for about a year now. This was while the company was still developing the accelerator. They wanted Shinazugawa on the boat but he declined over and over again to keep everyone under control in case everything went to shit.

But when they heard about Kanae's accident and their relationship, they leveraged her condition to get him on the boat. They already made me the offer of curing Kanae if I went on the boat, so naturally I did. But I had to make Kanao think that Kanae was dead so she wouldn't suspect anything. Which was awful, we had a funeral and everything for her.

Even though we're such different people we had about two things in common, Kanae and our baby siblings.