KNY | The Boat Of Humanity (Tanjirou x Muichiro)

Epilogue

Muichiro's POV

I fiddled with the ring on my finger, the turquoise sea glass wrapped in thin gold wire that was twisted to fit my slim finger.

I was standing in the water, the soft sand rolled between my toes. I looked off into the horizon and reminisced, months ago the world had ended, I was kidnapped and almost eaten by birds. Now I am married, Mitsuri had a baby with a tight ass and Nezuko beat me in shogi.

I looked at the makeshift fish catching system in the sand. There were still a few fish caught but I had enough in my basket to bring back to camp. The system was quite simple actually, there was a metal box filled with water buried in the sand away from the water, a plastic tube led from the water, through the sand, and into the box. The fish couldn't get out, some managed to wriggle upstream and back to the ocean but not all of them which still left a bunch for us to eat. We'd also secured a net over the metal box to keep the birds out, we'd learned that the hard way.

I hauled the basket back to the village with writhing fish smacking their bodies together and threatening to jump out of the basket.

I walked through the sand and back to the small makeshift village we'd set up in the forest, originally we put it on the beach. But after a few weeks of painful sunburns we just decided it was easier to move everything.

I walked into the village, Mitsuri and Obanai were sitting under a few large leaves hanging off trees and cutting fruit on a rock slab. Their baby was wrapped in Obanai's black and white striped sweater on Mitsuri's chest. The baby girl they'd named Sakura, after Mitsuri's hair incident with the sakura mochi so many years ago, had Obanai's dark hair with pink tips and Mitsuri's bright green eyes.

"I brought the fish, I'll just leave it here and then come back later to help you" I told Mitsuri as I set down the fish next to the rock slab.

"Sure!" she nodded eagerly and went back to talking with Obanai as Sakura babbled incoherently.

I kept on walking and passed Shinobu talking with Aoi and Kanao. Rengoku and Himejima were draping thick, large leaves over the frame of a hut, they were building a new 'house'.

"What happened? Did one fall down or something?" I asked as I stopped in front of them.

"Uzui's going to be needing a new place when his baby's born, he was here earlier but he's with Hina and Tanjirou right now" Rengoku said.

"It's pretty big," I said.

"He's planning to have more than one baby, at least four he said," Rengoku told me.

"Right" I nodded and started to move on.

I walked past a large clearing where Inosuke, Zenitsu and Rui were all plowing the ground with rocks attached onto sticks. Inosuke hadn't changed and was still harassing the others around him and throwing around dirt.

I waited outside the small medical building, I heard Tanjirou's voice speaking with Uzui and Hina.

Then the two of them left, though I did get to speak to Hina and Uzui for a few minutes. They seemed really happy about having a baby. Something funny though, Hina reminds me a lot of Tanjirou. They just seem so similar.

I entered the small hut and went to sit next to him on the grass covered ground.

"Hi Muichiro, how are you?" He smiled and planted a soft kiss on my forehead.

"Im fine, just the same as I was an hour ago when I last saw you" I cooed.

Although there was something off about him, he seemed unsettled almost.

"What's wrong Tanjirou? You seem off" I said.

"I guess - no it's nothing" he mumbled.

"No, tell me what's wrong" I told him and grabbed his hand reassuringly.

"It's just, I guess with the others having babies and everything it kind of reminded how I used to want kids" he said with a small blush, "Maybe I'm a little jealous"

"I'm sure we could figure something out," I said.

"How would we do that?" He asked.

"Surrogacy" I blurted.

"You'd seriously... you'd seriously have a kid with me?" He asked.

"Yeah, I would," I said.

Tanjirou's POV

I was a little stunned, I kind of got the impression that Muichiro didn't particularly like children. But now that I thought about it, he would make a good parent.

"Who would we ask though?" I told him.

"Someone who isn't seeing anyone" I said.

"Yeah that sounds like a good idea, you think Kanao would do it?" He asked, "She seems to like you"

"Yeah, but I don't want to take advantage of that" I mumbled, I knew Kanao maybe liked me. But she seems to have lost interest since I got married to Muichiro.

"Fine," he sighed, "We'll figure something out. And if not then we can just adopt some abandoned baby monkey, it's practically the same thing"

I laughed, "Maybe we could find and domesticate a baby leopard to be our guard leopard"

"Alright then, that'll be our next goal. We need to find an infant to take care of, whether it be a human, or an abandoned animal" Muichiro nodded seriously.
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Me and Muichiro sat on the beach, at the edge of the water. Staring at the horizon and setting sun.

"Shinobu really said she'd do it?" He mumbled as he leaned against me.

"Yeah, she said she'd have a baby for us," I told him.

"Even though we can't give her anything?" He asked.

"She said she'd always wanted to experience the miracle of childbirth, but she'd never found the right guy and she didn't think she could raise a kid in these conditions all but herself" I said.

"What are we going to name it?" He asked.

"She isn't even pregnant yet, and you're already thinking of names" I chuckled.

"We need to make a list," he said.

"What about Kei, if it's a girl?" I asked.

"I kinda like that, where'd you come up with it?" He asked.

"It was my mother's name," I told him, "What about your parents? Their names might be good too"

"I can't remember my parents names, after they were killed I couldn't remember anything" I said.

"Right, sorry I forgot" I apologized.

"Don't be sorry, it's not a big deal anymore" he smiled up at me.

The sunlight made his pale skin glow, and his blue eyes reflected the ocean waves.

"Muichiro, I love you" I mumbled.

"I love you too Tanjirou"

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This story has come to an end! If you made it to the end then I hope you all liked it, and enjoyed reading it ❤

-Author ~ Chan