KNY | Met In An Alley (Tanjirou X Zenitsu)

Chapter 16

(time skip to monday cuz I can do that)

Tanjiros POV

I sneakily crept out of the house and started walking down the cracked sidewalk. I messed with my hair, it felt kinda weird since I had styled it to cover my eye. The streets were dark and the air was moist, 'It'll rain today' I thought.

(Author-chan really be obsessed with the rain tho😅🤣)

My body ached from all the bruising, shivers went down my spine as I thought of yesterday, the things Berry said.. It doesnt normally hurt. But this time it did. My arm right was what hurt the most, I had drenched it in cold water but it was still crazy sore, I landed on it when I fell down the stairs. It was a bit swollen and a giant purple splotch covered some of my elbow and my upper arm, I sighed. 'Maybe today will be better...'

I walked up to Zenitsu, Murata and Inoske, "Good day, my good sir!" Murata greeted me, "Heh, good morning" I responded "What's up?" I noticed Zenitsu avoiding eye contact, 'I wonder what's wrong this time' I ignored it and kept talking with them until the bell rang. Although I tried to ignore it, it still bothered me.

I sat next to an easel in art class, I just sat there while Miss Mitsuri explained what we were doing, she said we were to pick one colour and paint whatever it is we want, and we can inly use that one colour along with black and white for the whole painting, we can use other shades of the colour though. I decided to use yellow because it reminded me of Zenitsu, the way he can be so calm yet so sad at the same time. I looked at the empty canvas, trying to think of something. I wasn't always the most creative person, for obvious reasons. So I took the paintbrush in my hand and started to paint, at first I had no fucking idea what the hell I was doing. But after a bit of messing around I started to get an idea of what I wanted to do. I had never really painted anything, but in that moment I felt calm and quiet, being able to create something that was truly my own, it felt fantastic. Playing with all the different shades to make one painting felt like magic, I used a couple different brushes to mess with the shading and texture. I was about halfway done when the bell rang, I felt a little disappointed to have to put down the paintbrush but I did. "Oh wow Tanjiro this looks great!" Miss Mitsuri came over and complemented my painting, "You think so?" I felt a little insecure about other people looking at something I had made "Of course! I think it looks great! You'll definitely be getting an A in this class if you keep it up!" she cheered me on, which felt weird. People dont usually cheer me on like this, "Thank you, that's really nice of you" I said timidly. She nodded and walked off, I wrote my name on the back of the canvas and rinsed off the paintbrushes. I stood next to the sink, ruffling the bristles of the paintbrushes, I heard the door creek open then closed. I turned and looked over my shoulder, it was Kanao. "Hello Tanjiro", she said lowly "Hi Kanao," I said, still turned away from her. "We haven't talked much since our date" she started "Yeah, I've just been a bit busy lately" I was half ignoring her half listening. "Well I was thinking maybe we could go on a second date?" she asked, I really didn't want to say yes, but this is a pretty good cover up. "I guess, I dont know when I'll be available though" I said as I continued to scrub the paint off my hands, she started creeping up behind me. "How 'bout now?" she said "Wait what?" I turned to her and she suddenly came up to me and pushed our lips together. 'WHAT THE FUCK!?' my mind was racing, 'HOLY SHIT WHAT DO I DO!?' I tried to subtly push her off, but she wouldnt budge, and I couldn't move away because I was pushed up against the sink. She wrapped her arms around my neck as I tried to escape her grasp without appearing rude.

"Hey Tanjiro are you-" the door swung open, to reveal a very surprised and hurt, Zenitsu. Kanao parted our lips "Do you mind?" she said sassily "Sorry" he backed out the door while keeping his head low. As soon as the door closed, "Now, where were we?" she licked her lips. "I'm sorry I have to go" I said quickly, I pushed her off and grabbed my bag before leaving the room, I heard her scoff as I left.