911 / Mr. Lonely 《 、IntoTan 、 》

「Chapter II」

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  "Tanjiro! Slow down!" Nezuko shouted as she jogged after him, "What's gotten into you- you usually stall for like twenty minutes on the way to school.."
  Tanjiro paused and his sister cuaght up to him, "Huh, I don't know."
  "Whatever happened I like it! We might actually be on time today!"

  The walk was pleasant and Nezuko would stop talking about this girl she had met from her home room. Tanjiro tried to listen, he really did, but it was hard, his mind kept wondering off into unrelated subjects.
  As they crossed through the courtyard a loud cry erupted from behind a tree, Nezuko stopped as well as tanjiro.

"Noooo! Don't touch me!!"
"Dude seriously it's just a cricket.."
"ITS FUCKING EVIL."

Nezuko giggles inching forward to the scene, A blonde boy laid scrambling to get off the grass floor while a girl with black pinned up hair hovered over him, a cricket in her hand.
   "Shinobu!" Nezuko shouted happily, tanjiro just watched as he was dragged over. The blond kid bickered with 'Shinobu' and Nezuko giggled.

   "Oh so is this your brother Nezu?" Asked the slightly taller girl.
  "Yep, Here he is!" She pushes him forward and he smiled sheepishly, scratching the back of his neck as he began to speak.
  "Ah- I'm Tanjiro. It's nice to meet you."

  "So polite!" She chuckled and shook his hand which he had previously outstretched.
  "This is Zenitsu," she paused pulling her hand away and pointing to the golden haired boy who was frantically blowing at the cricket who had jumped on him.
   "Ah nice to meet-him too?" Be smiled slightly, he's always hated being in this situation, it didn't matter who with, introducing himself, was more or less hell for tanjiro. Don't get the guy wrong he loves having friends and people to discuss ideas and topics with, but sometimes it just felt like a bit much.

  "You should've told me he was handsome I would've done my hair!" Shinobu chuckled ruffling nezukos hair, they began to chat and soon enough so did Zenitsu.
  He was listening, or at least he tried to. It seemed he couldn't shake the feeling of loneliness that amplified in his mind. It didn't seem to matter where he was or who he was with. Who I'm with? That's wrong because the other day..
   He was shocked out of his own mind by a hand grasping his shoulder, "So you gonna eat lunch with us or what?"
  "Er- what?" He took a moment, "No I don't think so, I planned on eating with someone else.." he mumbled receiving a disappointed sigh.

  "Next time then, Alright?" Shinobu smiled and tanjiro smiled back, "Alright Nezu~ let's get to class! Cya around Tanjiro!" Kochou waved and so did Nezuko.
  Tanjiro directed his attention to the golden boy, "What class are you in?" He asked only to receive a confused glance, "I'm in your class.." zenitsu mumbled.
   "Oh-! My bad I wasn't really paying attention yesterday.."
"No worri-"
Just as Zenitsu started to speak tanjiro caught sight of the boy from the other day, he smiled instantly, "Hold that thought." He interrupted the golden boy and jogged off over to where he'd seen the boy from before.
"What but he was right here.." tanjiro mumbled to himself as Agatsuma caught up to him.
"Dude- why- why do you run so fast how is that humanly possible?!" He huffed and tanjiros smile began to dwindled on his face.
"Sorry I just.. I thought I saw someone."
"Ppfft. Your weird.. let's get to class yeah?"
He nodded his head slowly as he was led to his homeroom.
Surprisingly Zenitsu sat right infront of him and he hadn't noticed. The blonde boy was ranting about something Shinobu did when the teacher walked in and began calling role.
"Quite down please. There's no reason for me to have to tell you this. Just because it's your last year doesn't mean you get to slack off, Eyes forward and stand when your name is called."
"Starting off..." The teachers voice trailed off and tanjiro began to stare out the window, his eyes focusing on something in the courtyard. He couldn't exactly make it out but he was almost sure someone was fighting out there.
"Dude she's called your name three times stand up.." Zenitsu whispered.
  "I-oh- here!" He stood up.
  "You're Tanjiro Kamado?"
  "Yes ma'am."
  "Right, sit back down."

He nodded and the teacher started to call on more students until she got through the list the last name called, "Inosuke Hashibira."
  She sighed and put the name list down, "Of course.. does any one know where he is?"
  "I'm pretty sure he wasn't here yesterday- maybe he died or something." A female student suggested.
   "No I saw him earlier today he's at school dunno where though." A male student pitched in.

  "I know exactly where he is." Tanjiro mumbled to himself his eyes focused on the fight outside of the window. The figure he knew from previously was squaring up against a much larger man.

   In his mind he wanted to go down there and stop the argument but he knew it wouldn't matter if he tried.
  Instead of listening to his teacher talk about the syllabus, he watched the fight play out below him. At first he was sure that Inosuke would lose immediately. It wasn't that he didn't have faith in him it was more like. 'Wow that dude is buff. He's going to die.'
   But he was quickly proven wrong because, Inosuke had the larger boy on the floor in a matter of seconds. Tanjiro watched in disbelief as Inosuke continued to, for lack of better words, beat the shit out of this guy.

The fight was over as fast as it had started, or at least that's what tanjiro thought. But in the next second the big guy was back up and swinging. It seemed like something straight out of a movie.
A fist collided with Hashibiras jaw and he fell back, only to get right back up and knock the other guy down for good.
(No not death.)

Tanjiro has spent his entire hour watching this fight go down, he didn't regret it at all either. It was worth it because in the end, wether it was fate or just coincidence, Inosuke looked up at the window he was watching from and smiled, a bloody smile as his lip was busted but, it was still a smile.
  And for some reason I'm that moment tanjiro didn't feel completely alone. But, a moment is a moment for a reason and in seconds he was stripped from his elated state by someone slamming a book on his desk.
   "So tanjiro are you eating lunch with us?" Zen asked.
  "What- did you not hear me earlier.. no I'm busy with someone else."
  "Oooh! Do you have a girlfriend already?" The golden boy seemed extra excited by his own twisted thought.
  "What-no I- shit.." tanjiro looked out the window but Inosuke was gone.  Zenitsu leaned over his shoulder and looked out the window  "Huh? Woah that guys taking a nap in the courtyard that's bold.." he trailed off.
    Tanjiro put on a polite smile and chuckled, "Yea I guess he is."
  Zenitsu smiles at his gesture and patted his back, "Alright well Ms M said it's fine for our next class so I thought I'd walk you to yours!"

    Sounds like today's gonna be a long day.