You were a person who absolutely loved herbs and medicine and was a traveling medic/merchant. It was probably to the help of your merchant and medic parents that you picked up on it. So you've basically never had a home before. What you considered your home was your wisteria charm you've always had to ward off demons. One place you would visit very often as a kid was a house on the mountains. That had a whole bunch of kids on of which was your age. So your parents often made a stop there and rested there in which you were told to play with the boy that was your age named Tanjiro Kamado. He was often telling you how you smelled nice and was always playing with his siblings. Tanjiro was the one that you found the strangest. From the experience you've found most kids would only scream and want things. He however would only give things to you. You had a very close relationship with him and Nezuko. One of the moments you remember vividly is when you and all his other siblings were playing tag. You were hiding and he had spotted you hiding. Of course you ran as fast as you could so that you wouldn't get tagged when you had tripped on a rock creating a bruise on your leg.
"Are you ok?" He asked worriedly.
"Y-yeah." You replied weakly with tears in your eyes as you tried to fight them back.
He dropped everything he was doing and grabbed out the tiny bag of herbs and other medicine you had in hopes to find something to help you and he did find something.
"You don't always have to be strong. You know that right?" He told you as he applied the medicine.
"What do you mean?"
"You were about to cry right?"
"... thank you. Ah! I guess you've got me right?" You reply just after he was done applying the medicine avoiding the question he had asked.
After that you and your family went there around 2 more times and then saw the graves of Tanjiro's family members. It made you extremely sad. You however didn't see it with your own eyes you had just been told by your parents. It made you incredibly sad and you cried a lot assuming Tanjiro was also dead. Switch back to current you. You had moved on from Tanjiro's so called "death" and had gone on with your life. Your parents's and you are still doing the same old traveling medic/merchant. Except you have been going out more on your own due to them staying at home most of the time and yes you finally have a home. However, you still feel like that isn't home. In fact you found that "home" was just a place you'd be stuck at forever. So, here you are traveling to your way back to your parents to bring back money for them. Now your wisteria charm your parents had given you was now broken as the flowers had now died. So you had to be even more careful. You decided that sleeping in the woods wouldn't be a good idea so you found a village inn to stay at thinking the village was safe. It was in fact not. A demon had come and was eating humans left and right and you yes you were terrified. You had never in your life been in this kind of situation. Blood had gotten all over your clothes, hands, and face. The demon had eaten basically everyone and you were the last one left. You were next you could feel it. The chill in your spine as he approached you.
"Ahh I love pretty humans like you. Your pretty faces always give out the best expressions when tortured.~"
You couldn't say anything your throat was dry and closed up from how scared you were. The demon was slowly approaching you. Picked you up by your arm. You were anticipating it being bitten off, however the pain never came. Your eyes closed and you heard a swift sword slash. Falling on the floor and opening your eyes you had saw that the demon was now dead and turning into ash. You looked to your right seeing who had just saved your life and you couldn't believe your eyes when you saw him. It was Tanjiro. The boy who you had proclaimed dead was standing right in front of you.
"Tanjiro?" You exclaimed a little louder than what you expected.
"(Y/n)?"
After that you both went to a bathhouse just to clean yourself up from the blood you had on you. Yes the people did look at you weirdly but they knew that you were probably one of the survivors of that attack. After you had cleaned up and finally went out. Tanjiro could do nothing but stare at you. You had become extremely good looking. Not only that but he had thought you were dead. He had heard a rumor about a young girl traveling as a merchant/medic being eaten by a powerful demon from the past town he went to. He couldn't do anything about it. It just made him sad and worry about it the time he was traveling to the next town. Seeing you was an absolute relief. So you guys decided to spend the night at an inn and this inn did not have any separate rooms left so we shared a room. In which led to us talking about what had happened in our life. Also you saw Nezuko which had become a demon. She had her hair down,her kimono was looser on her, and he now had a bamboo piece on her mouth. Now that she had saw you she would cling to you. "Did she remember me?" You thought.
"(Y/n)." Tanjiro said with a weak voice.
"Yea-" before you could finish your sentence he had hugged you immediately. His warmth surrounded you. It was a comforting warmth he had engulfed you in. The hug was just gentle yet firm all in the right sense. His body had definitely changed. You felt a wet substance on your shoulder. It was his tears. Why was he crying for you?
"I was so worried! I thought you had died I thought I had lost you too! It scared me. I was trying to get my mind off it so badly yet you were all that came to mind."
You didn't know what to say back to him. He had thought you died?? How? And why?? It was the first time you had seen him cry. All you could do was hug him back. You could only imagine how much he was trying to hide it when he saw you how painful it must have been. It was only right to let him let out all of his pain. You both had stayed like that for a bit longer. Until he had put back his smile on and act as if nothing had happened.
"You don't always have to be strong. You know that right?" You stated as he was wiping his tears.
"Huh?"
"Just cause your the oldest or just cause you've always been the one that people can depend on doesn't mean you can't depend on people." You bluntly told him. But all he could do was give you a soft smile. With his eyes slightly puffy and nose and cheeks all red.
"You really are strong. That's why I love you."
"What??"
"Zzzzzz"
"Tanjiro? Tanjiro wake up!"
And with that statement you both fell asleep.
