Zenitsu lonely sits on the stairs of his school, black hair in a mess mud everywhere. Tears spring the corners of his eyes.
He starts to let down tears, sniffling. His hands are red and sore and bleeding from the banging on the classroom door.
His throat raw from screaming too much.
He was only 7.
A shadow comes over him, a boy his age along with a younger girl next to him, he remembers them the Kamado siblings. They stay late because there parents work late hours.
They are usually with three other kids, a boy called Inosuke, a girl Kanao and her cousin Aoi.
But it seems they left.
"Are you okay?" Tanjiro asks eyes softening warm smile on his face.
Zenitsu remains quiet staring at the two siblings. He stopped crying but his eyes were red and puffy and tears marks stained his grimy face.
"What happened to you? We need to clean you up now!" Nezuko says. She grabs him and drags him to the classroom.
At the back there is a sink and she grabs towels along with her brother and they clean the blood and place Band-Aids.
He finds his voice again," How do you two know so much about wounds?"
Tanjiro lets out a quiet laugh," We have younger siblings who think it's fun to slide down the stairs every week,"
Zenitsu smiles softly, and the two Kamado siblings start to laugh as well.
"What's your name? I never knew," Nezuko asked.
"Zenitsu... Zenitsu Agatsuma," he says in a quiet voice.
"Alright Zenitsu Agatsuma, why were you crying on the stairs?" Nezuko asks.
"Some kids, that's all, didn't mean to worry you, it's normal," Zenitsu says.
"Um... okay, but would you like to hang out with us, we could be your new friends!"
Zenitsu beams with happiness.
He meets Aoi Kanzaki, Inosuke Hashibira and Kanao Tsuyuri the next day.
They became the best of friends all the way until middle school.
That was the day Zenitsu left.
"Zenitsu, we're moving countries, we didn't want to scare you but, your mother got a new job and we have to move to Australia for it," Masako Agatsuma says to his son.
11 year old Zenitsu looked up at him with teary eyes," W-what about my friends?"
"The flight is today Zenitsu, we can come back here for a visit though if you like?" Masako says.
"I don't want to move schools again, I made some good friends! I don't want to leave them!" Zenitsu starts to cry.
Lelli Agatsuma came to him," Zenitsu, you can make some good friends there too, we aren't going to stay there forever, just for a few years then we're coming back to Japan..." she says.
"Really Mum?" he asks with big eyes.
She nods to him and he agrees hesitantly.
That day at school, Tanjiro and Nezuko were worried when they didn't see him, Zenitsu was never late to school.
They run to ask his grandfather who lives here if he knew where Zenitsu was.
His answer left them heartbroken.
"He moved.... today morning he didn't even know, poor thing," Jigoro Kuwajima says looking sad.
That was the day, they lost one of their best friends....
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Dark Reflections
Fiksi PenggemarZenitsu was coming back to Japan, he left his best friends when they were 10. He's changed. What if they don't like him anymore. That's their problem. Two voices squabbling in his head, can he put an end to this?
