Kimetsu Academy! | A Tanjiro x Kanao Story

Chapter 3 {This Strange Girl}

Tanjiro slowly made his way up to look at this person's face to see that they were looking down to him in kind of a weird way...

Tanjiro: "oh it's a girl...She's smiling but why does her face look so empty at the same time...?" Tanjiro thought to himself still looking at each other. "Ah! U-uh sorry about that". He quickly realized this and picked up the Mountain Dew then sprung up from where he was kneeling.

The girl was wearing the Kimetsu Academy Uniform but she wore a pin on her shirt which looked like a wisteria flower, although Tanjiro didn't get a good look at it because he didn't want to look like a pervert because it was around her chest area. She also had thin black hair tied into a ponytail on the right side of her head which was fastened by a pink and green butterfly ornament.

The Girl: "...." She just kept on smiling at him without uttering single word. It was almost as if she was a statue. Well, that's what Tanjiro thought until she turned back the refrigerator and took out a water bottle from it.

Tanjiro didn't know what to do or say, he just pondered about it in his head and was ready to get Nezuko so they can both go to the cash register and then to school, but then something struck his mind.

Tanjiro: "Ah- excuse me, but are you going to Kimetsu Aca-" He paused mid way through his question when he realized that the girl he was trying to talk to was gone, and not just from in front of him, but from the store itself, which means she bought her things and left the store in under 50 seconds.

Nezuko: "Nii-Chan, what's taking you so long ?" She walked over to him rubbing her eyes in the process.

Tanjiro: "O-oh! Sorry Nezuko, I got distracted...hehe." He scratched the back of his head and laughed awkwardly.

Nezuko: "eeeeeeeeh...?" She tilted her head to a side trying to read him but soon gave up after about 6 seconds because she remembered they still had to get to school in time. "We should probably get out of here now, we don't want to be late on our first day." Nezuko said while walking over to the cashier.

Tanjiro: "O-oh yeah!" He began to follow behind her.

Nezuko and Tanjiro made their way over to the cashier and then bought their snacks and drinks. Afterwards the began to continue walking to school, they both finally made it to school and are greeted by two little girls at the front gate, at least, that's what they thought. One girl had white hair and the other had black hair and they were both pale with a set of large, dark plum eyes.

Girl 1 and girl 2: Good morning Kamado Tanjiro, Kamado Nezuko.

Tanjiro: "Th-They know our names...?" He thought

Nezuko: "well I'm officially creeped out now..." She thought

Girl 1 and girl 2: "Welcome to Kimetsu Academy." They both spoke like they didn't have a soul inside of them.

Tanjiro: "Oh um, thank you for letting us into it!" He bowed. "Th-Thank you!" Nezuko followed after Tanjiro. The two girls walked over to Tanjiro and Nezuko and then gave them books which were titled 'Kimetsu Academy: Student Log book'.

Girl 1 and Girl 2: "please use this book from time to time, it has a map of the school and all of the rules inside of it, now please make your way into the classrooms, the first bell will ring soon." They said still standing still with their eyes staring into the abyss.

Tanjiro and Nezuko both used the log book to see the map of the school, they headed to classrooms they were meant to be in at the time and lucky enough for them, they were both still early but this meant that they had to go their separate ways, Tanjiro went to right side of the school (senior side) and Nezuko went to the left side of the school (junior side). Tanjiro opened the door to the classroom but the moment he did this, everyone began to look at him for about 10 seconds but it felt like 10 minutes to Tanjiro but then they all went back to whatever they were doing.

Tanjiro: "guah...my heart is pounding, that was so awkward..." he thought to himself. He looked for seat that he wanted and then laid his eyes on one of the best seats in a classroom, the window seat. Tanjiro quickly walked over to the seat he wanted tightly holding on to the straps of his bag wishing that no one would look at him awkwardly again, at least for today. He sat down in his seat trying his best to blend in and not look weird when not too long after, a boy sitting to the right of him with scared-looking eyes that faded from soft brown to gold. He had short, yellow hair of varying lengths, cutting off squarely at the ends where it fades to a darker orange color, that fell in front of his face in uneven bangs. "Hey, your new here right...?" The boy asked.

Tanjiro: "Ah- um- yeah, I am." He said shyly while putting one of his bag straps on the chair he was sitting in. "Well I hope you enjoy yourself here, the people here or either crazy or plain out weird. And then there's him." The boy replied and pointed at the kid behind him. The boy behind him had a some kind of mask or hat that looked like either a boar or a wolf head, Tanjiro didn't get a good look at him because he having an arm rustle with someone to the right of him so he wasn't facing in Tanjiro's direction.

Tanjiro: "I take it he's the 'weird' one in this class ?" He asked. "Oh no, no, no, no, no, he's just an idiot. The weird one is over there." The boy pointed at someone that sat a seat away from him in the same row as both Tanjiro and the boy. The person he was pointing at was reading a book and had a face that would be quite familiar to Tanjiro, it didn't take him very long to realize this.

Tanjiro: "ahhhh, it's her." He smiled.

The boy: "But what the heck, Kanao's one of the prettiest girls in the entire school so if your like me you would know that you can't stay mad at he-. I'm sorry what ?"

Tanjiro: "huh ? Oh I met her at the stor-" he was cut off by the boy who just 'teleported' over to his desk and is now in his face. "DID SHE TALK TO YOU !?!?" The boy screamed in Tanjiro's face. "C-calm down and no, she just smiled at me." Tanjiro tried calming him down trying not to get to many faces to look at them.

The boy: "Well that's nothing out of the ordinary..." he sighed. "Eh? What do you mean by that ?" Tanjiro asked. "Your just like everyone else who tried interacting with her, Kanao doesn't speak to anyone, she doesn't even use any hand gestures and she's not deaf either so I don't know what's wrong with her." The boy answered.

Tanjiro: "so she doesn't speak to teachers either ?" He asked.

The boy: "nope...not a single soul...well everyone except for Ms. Shinobu that is."

Tanjiro: "Ms. Shinobu ? Is she like a therapist or something?"

The boy: "well not exactly, but she's a nurse in training, so when someone's hurt they would go to her first before going to the school nurse. Oh and she's also Kanao's older sister I hear."

Tanjiro: "for real ?"

The boy: "yeah, say, we've been talking for a while but I don't know your name yet. Care to share ?" The boy asked. "My name is Tanjiro." Tanjiro responded. "Nice to meet you Tanjiro, my name's Zenitsu." He stuck his hand out to Tanjiro for a hand shake. "Nice to meet you, Zenit-" Tanjiro was cut off mid way by a crash coming from the classroom door.

Everyone in the classroom had gone quiet and looked directly at the door to see a leg is the thing that swung the door open and made the noise. Then out came a man in dark blue tracksuit with black and dark blue running shoes. The man had medium-length, messy black hair tied back into a low ponytail. He also had thin eyebrows and sharp, dark blue eyes.
The man uttered two words which would send shivers down everyone's spines...

"...Good Morning..."