KNY | The Boat Of Humanity (Tanjirou x Muichiro)

Chapter 23 - The Birds

Tanjirou's POV

"I'm really sorry Mitsuri, I was being blackmailed. I really didn't mean anything by it" I said as I scrubbed down the dirty plates.

"Oh Tanjirou, you're too much" Mitsuri laughed, "I forgive you, I know someone like you wouldn't do something like that with ill intentions"

"I'm glad, that was super embarrassing and then Obanai beat me in your honor, and then Mr. Quackers imprinted on Muichiro" I said, "It's just a whole deal. I have a theory that he was plucking out peoples hair to see which head he liked the best and then decided he wanted to make his nest on Muichiro"

"He does have some good hair" she sighed, "I kinda want hair like that"

"Your hair is nice too" I assured her.

"Yeah but I want super long luscious locks like him" she exclaimed with a smile.

"If we're really never getting off this ship then I'm sure you won't have any trouble growing your hair out" I said.

"Do you really believe that?" she asked suddenly, "That we're never getting off this ship, because after all that's been happening I'm maybe starting to think that they might not be completely lying"

"I know what you mean, but just stay hopeful and I'm sure we'll get somewhere eventually" I said, "And if we really are gone for too long then someone's bound to send help, like a search party or something"

I finished up with the dishes and went back to the cabin. I wanted to check in on the others. Mainly Muichiro and Mr. Quackers.

"He keeps messing up my hair!" Muichiro yelled, "He keeps moving it around and pulling it and ripping it out. I'm gonna go bald at this rate"

"It's not like he'll come off, maybe if you try to take a shower he'll come off" I said.

"Yeah because water would totally bother a duck TANJIROU" he rolled his eyes.

"Come on, it's not that bad" I said as I tried to make him feel better.

We did our nightly routine after dinner as we usually do, and Muichiro was right. Mr. Quackers was not even remotely bothered when Muichiro tried to shower. Muichiro insisted that we get the duck off his head by any means possible, but both me and Zenitsu didn't want to risk touching him.

It had already nicked my finger and that hurt, I guess Zenitsu also got spooked.

And when he laid down the duck just shifted to the side of its head and settled its head down on his cheek. I think maybe Muichiro was starting to warm up to the duck because he didn't say anything when this all happened. And Nezuko really wanted to pet him but I had to warn her that it wouldn't be such a good idea in case he bit her.

I think it was about midnight when the screaming down the hall woke me up, it was quite gradual, but then to accompany that there was some sort of pecking on the window. It was weird, it woke me up and kind of freaked me out.

My eyes blinked open as the pecking intensified, I looked over to the window, there was some sort of weird flutter all around the outside of the window. But then suddenly the window cracked, that perked me up suddenly.

"Hey you guys wake up" I said as I started getting out of bed. Although the others were asleep, they didn't exactly hear me the first time, "Hey wake up!" I said louder.

Zenitsu groaned in his bed, "Shut up, go back to sleep"

"Get up, there's something at the window" I said as I went over to wake up Nezuko, the window continued to crack as I tried to wake everyone up. The duck on Muichiro's head fell over in a squabble when he sat up.