Forbidden Love | 炭治郎

03| final selection

"Tanjirou!" I shouted and pushed him out of the way, causing the demon to fall face-first into a tree. "You need to keep your guard up if you want to stay alive!"

"S-Sorry!" We both stood up with our swords in hand.

The demon stood up and came dashing towards me, but I quickly slashed through its neck before it came in contact. I sighed and pat Tanjirou's head with a small smile.

"Let's just focus on surviving for now. We're not going to get answers from those demons who haven't eaten in a while." I said in a soft voice. "We'll probably get to see Nezuko awake from her deep slumber if we make it out alive."

Tanjirou smiled and grabbed my hand and held it tightly before leading me to the direction of a male scream.

Time skip~~~

"Tanjirou!" I exclaimed and rushed over to him after slashing one of the demon's arms.

I picked him up and I could feel myself tearing up a bit as anger rushed through my body. I gently placed him back down onto the ground and slashed through its head, then rushing back to Tanjirou, who was now conscious. I smiled and embraced him tightly as I fell to my knees and my eyes started tearing up again.

"I'm so glad you're okay." My voice cracked a bit as I spoke.

Tanjirou rubbed my back as I pulled away and we both stood up as I wiped my tears away. Tanjirou petted my head with a gentle smile and gripped my hand and we both started running to avoid getting devoured by demons.

10 days later~~~

I sighed in relief and almost collapse to my knees once I saw Mr. Urokodaki's house from above the hill both Tanjirou and I were on. The door suddenly got kicked down and we both see Nezuko walk out, fully awake. I started tearing up as Tanjirou started running down, but fell from exhaustion. I stumbled my way down and helped Tanjirou up as Nezuko ran over to embrace him and pet my head. Urokodaki saw us and dropped his logs to come embrace all of us. My heart felt warm and I felt myself shaking a bit as I tightly embraced Mr. Urokodaki.

Time skip~~~

I looked at my sword curiously. Both Tanjirou and I got a black blade, which upset Mr. Hotaru a lot since he wanted to see a bright red sword from Tanjirou and a bright yellow one from me. I had no idea where he got yellow from since it may have just been based off my haori. I placed the blade back in the saya and let out a small sigh.

"Maybe you'll eventually find someone with those colors of a blade." I smiled at Mr. Hotaru. "There's always next time!"

"Those next times will probably never come since so many children die trying to take the Final Selection!" He exclaimed, causing me to break into a cold sweat.

"W-Well, you aren't wrong about the Final Selection part..." I said with a nervous laugh and cleared my throat. "A-Anyways, I think it's almost time for you to go, Mr. Hotaru."

"Ah, right." He stood up and left after saying goodbye.

I let out a sigh of relief once he left. Although he was nice at times, listening to him blabbering about things is too much. I stood up and went to go make some onigiri before we leave for our missions.