ghost of you | giyuu x shinobu.

epilogue

• GIYUU •

Watching my kids and Tanjiro's kids playing in the backyard while Kochou is feeding our newborn milk, it's a baby girl and she looks exactly just like her mother which made me proud and relieved because I don't want another kid that looks like me again.

"nee-san, I have something to tell you" Kanao said to her sister and Shinobu has her ears on her.

Tanjiro on the other side looked excited and I kinda expected that they are going to announce Kanao's pregnancy for some reason, "I am pregnant!" she squeaked and I knew it.

"oh my! we need to celebrate it next time!" Kochou exclaimed and was more excited than Kanao as she is happy for her own sister.

"what baby name should we pick for her or him, Giyu-san?" Tanjiro asked me and I didn't know how to answer his question, it's not even my baby for me to name.

"dad!!" I heard a familiar voice called for me and I turned to the sound, I saw my boy was running toward me.

"be careful" I said and he jumped into my thighs with his stoic face and I noticed there was a flower on his little hand, "you brought this to me?" I asked and he looked at the flower with his blue eyes.

"I brought it for mummy" he said and Kochou held in her laugh, so what's the point of calling me if he is going to give it to mummy instead of me.

"you little.."

"Tomioka-san" Kochou faked a cough and continued to tap the baby girl on her arm lightly, "-rascal" I finished my word and the boy on my thighs just giggled.

We spend the rest of the day with Kamado's family, talking and eating since it's a good and chilly day to hang out and plus, hearing their good news about the pregnancy.

The night came by as usual, after our kids fell asleep and Kochou looked at both of them while I leaned on the door silently, watching my wife and my two precious kids.

"you should rest, Kochou" earned her reaction and she got up from her seat, told me to keep quiet as we walked out of the room.

Her foot steps to the balcony and she sits on the wooden floor silently, I follow whatever she does and sit beside her as her head leans on my shoulder, "I'm tired" she mutters and I wrap my arm around her shoulder, giving her the warmth she needs.

"I'm sorry if I'm not quite a help" I told her and she shook her head, slightly chuckle, "you did more than me, you clean the house and cook, taking care of the kids as well, you did more than enough already so don't be sorry" she stated out and I nod my head.

Shinobu just gave birth and I need to take more care of her, she can't do heavy stuff or tiring stuff and I know giving birth is tired and painful at the same time, she needs more rest so it's understandable anyways, my job of helping her is nothing, she literally made a baby inside her little tummy, compare to what I did is incomparable.

"the moon is beautiful, isn't it?" she asked, the familiar question brought me back to the past, to the day where we used to slay demons.

I remembered how we used to get assigned as a partner together throughout our every mission and after that we would grab dinner, sometimes sushi and especially my favourite which is salmon daikon, she knew that is my favorite dish so she would teased me and grab it as a dinner to see the smile that grows on my face while eating.

If there is free time, we would often hang around in the district area for fun but mostly she's the one who would drag me there and do the most yapping, all the memories filled in my head eventually.

"I love you too" I said and scooped her waist closer to me.

I take a look at her and it suddenly shocks me for a second.

Blood all over her face, her lungs crushed and her body laid on me helplessly because she broke her spine, her mouth is dripping out of blood, her head is bleeding endlessly and her beautiful eyes are filled with blood shot.

A blink of an eye takes me back to the ghost of her, the outcome of what would happen if I didn't save her in time, the outcome of my suffering in a life without her and remembering the nightmare of her being dead, it creeps me out because no matter how hard I try to forget, my bad dream would come back out of nowhere even though it's not real because I had what I wanted already.

Maybe because I'm too scared to lose her, I just want her to be with me forever and life would be meaningless without her, it all depends on her at the end of the day, I'm too in love with her and my heart attached to her, I don't want to lose her like how I lost my best friend and my sister.

"Tomioka-san?" she called me and waved her hand in front of me that caught me off guard.

Her figure changes back into the same her again, no blood but with stitches all around her lungs, with the same beautiful purple violet eyes that I love the most.

"are you alright?" she asked me and I couldn't find myself talking as I hugged her without any hesitation.

My grips on her small body start to get tight, "thank you" I uttered out in her ears that seem to catch her attention.

Thank you for always being by my side throughout my thick and thin especially my hardest moment in life, people would tend to ignore me except for Shinobu who would stay by my side even though she always teased me yet I know sometimes she didn't mean her word, it's just genuinely sarcastic.

Thank you for not hating me for who I am and giving me two beautiful children, made me feel more motivated to live my life and not be depressed like I used to anymore, especially thank you for making me move on from my past and be the purpose of my hardest way to live in this somewhat cruel yet beautiful world.

Her finger slowly wrapped around my waist, I could feel her breath hinged and a smile lingered on her face.

"thank you" she said back to me.

I fear not of ghosts, for what is more haunting than love? Losing her.

- THE END -