The Month of Love: Demon Slayer Oneshots

My World (GiyuxShinobu)

Prompt: The characters have switched personalities. 

My friends were being themselves. They were teasing me about a coworker who supposedly had a crush on me, though I knew otherwise. This was a normal day for me. 

Yet I dreaded the day in which I would actually fall in love. 

Because when someone falls in love, someone else is bound to cry. So what's the use of falling in love only to cry at the end? 

Falling in love is a curse that follows people, many years later the suppressed trauma and the mournful cries of what you could never have, rushing back at you, like waves lapping at the shore. 

It'll hit you, over and over again, until you have the courage to stand up and walk along the shoreline again. 

Until the song of the sea lures you to the edge, and the waves will crash over you again and again, and the cycle repeats. 

But then... what if you don't have the courage to stand up? What if... you just let the waves hit you? 

After all, it was young, unsuspecting love. It couldn't hurt you, until the tidal wave drags you into the sea, and you can't get out. 

I want to say goodbye. 

I've lost... so many people. My best friend, my grandparents, my sister, who must've been hit harder than I ever would've. 

So I ask you: what's the use of falling in love? 

It's only going to hurt more if you let it overwhelm you. Just like the sun rises in the morning and sets in the evening, it'll always leave you. And then when it finally comes back, you suddenly welcome it with open arms again, only for it to leave you in the end. 

What's the use of living anymore, if I'm only going to lose more people?

"Is something wrong?" 

I looked up at the sapphire blue eyes of my coworker and leader, Tomioka Giyu. I smiled assuredly. It wasn't like he could help at all. 

"No, nothing's wrong. Just lost in thought." I shrugged indifferently, though the pian hurt more than I let on. 

"It's pouring outside. Where's you ride?" he asked. 

"Around the corner. Thank you for worrying though," 

"That's great. Can't have another important member of the team out because of an illness." he grinned as an excuse. I nodded tiredly. 

"Thank you, Tomioka-senpai. My ride's almost here. You can go," I offered. 

He nodded and left the steps of the office building. I was fortunate enough to have a good workplace, a home to go back to, and loving parents. I had a good education, wasn't drowning in debt, and overall, a good relationship with whomever I came across. 

But I would forever be the third wheel, the odd one out. I would never find love, never find true happiness outside of a life of work. 

Was I destined to just stand here and embrace my fate? If I had only stepped out onto the street a little quicker...

BEEP. 

Tomioka's agitated face was all that I saw as he leapt onto me, pushing me to the ground. Gravity took me, and his face turned to concern as his position above me became intimate. 

"Tomioka... thank you," I smiled, before passing out.

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"Nee-san!" Kanao's panicked voice filled the hospital room with a sense of terror. Sumi, Kyo, and Naho all surrounded the hospital bed, inspecting my arms.