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Hanahaki (better written)

I decided to write this because let's face it, my first Hanahaki fic was SO BAD- I think I've grown from that so I'm giving it another shot.

For those who don't know, Hanahaki is a fictional disease that makes the victim grow flowers in their lungs and cough up the petals. It is caused by unwanted/one sided(or almost guaranteed one sided) love. eventually, if left to be, the flowers will grow too much and you will suffocate painfully.
The only two ways to get rid of it are:
For your crush to return your feelings
Or
To remove the flowers by surgery (the side effect is that the romantic feelings for your crush disappear along with the disease)

⚠️WARNING⚠️ angst and mentions of blood.
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Oleanders and yellow tulips... Of course, it wasn't bad enough that the flowers were killing her, they just had to mock her, too.

From what Shinobu had gathered from the books she had, Oleander meant romance, desire, and destiny. These wouldn't be so bad alone, but the tulips crushed any hope she may have had about her crush on Tomioka.

For a yellow tulip means hopeless love.

Shinobu didn't know whether to cry or to laugh. She had been so persistent on not falling in love, because she wanted to devote herself to demon slaying and researching. Now that she had inevitably fallen for someone, fate had the audacity to make her feelings unrequited and unwanted. She knew it was rare to have two flowers at the same time, but it only made it worse. shinobu prayed every time that the oleanders would stop appearing, because even if oleanders were the kinder ones in their language, the flowers were toxic and burned horribly when they spilled out of Shinobu's mouth. She prayed that her disease would stick to tulips, but of course, she wasn't that lucky.

So life goes on, the ticklish feeling in her throat and tightness in her chest painfully reminding her of the ticking timebomb in her lungs. Each petal that spews out is another moment of life slipping away from her grasps. She swears she can see the future she won't have, the life she could have lived if only she didn't feel anything.

Why had she not gotten the surgery? I think we all know the answer to that.

Shinobu read every book she could find on Hanahaki. It had been a disease well recorded throughout history, but no cure was found for it other than the surgery, and even that was risky with the Taisho era medical practices. (No germ theory y'know?)

She read the stages again, though she knew them by heart already.
1. The victim feels a fever coming on, along with a cough that remains after the feeling of fever goes.
2. The flower starts to grow in the lungs of the victims, slowly growing and sprouting petals.
3. The victim starts to cough out petals of the flower. This is the best time to seek treatment because the disease is still in the early stages.
4. If left un-removed. The victim will feel shortness of breath and chest pains along with the increase of petals.
5. The victim starts to cough out blood with the petals and the petals grow to full flowers.
6. The lungs are beyond repair, surgery is near impossible. The victim will get weaker and weaker until they can hardly even stand. They will feel cold no matter how many layers they wear or what season it is.
7. If left alone, the victim will suffocate on blood and the roots of the flower will cave the lungs in, resulting in death.

Shinobu knew she was in the early stage 4 of the disease. It was the part where she could still remove the flowers, but the surgery was risky. Shinobu wanted to enjoy her life however long it may last with the flowers reminding her of her inevitable doom.

Shinobu does her best to go on as normal. But her declining health is not unnoticed by her friends. She of course insists that she's fine, believeing the lie to be kinder than the truth.