Merry Christmas, Gonpachiro | Inotan story | Completed

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Tanjirou's POV

Once Nezuko and I had talked for a while we both head to the living room together. As per usual, Inosuke was yelling about something and Zinetsu was crying about another thing.
I smiled to myself and made my way to the kitchen when I heard a knock on the door. I sighed, and walked up to the door. I slowly opened it and poked my head outside, "hello there- hey!" I stopped midway delighted by who was at the door.

"Hello, Tanjirou" Kanao smiled. Behind her was Aoi and the three girls. I gladly let them in and offered them tea.
Inosuke had stopped yelling and Zinetsu was suddenly happy.

"So, how are you?" I asked from the kitchen, I was brewing some tea for all of us.
"Tired? Since Shinobu had a cold for a little while I went in her place. Just for a few days of course, but the Demon's were insane!" Kanao was a sweet girl. Her face was pretty, her hair fell into to place perfectly, and she was a wonderful friend. Hmmm... Maybe!
"How are you?" She smiled.

"Oh! I'm great! Inosuke and I have been exploring the land around my town some more, just to jog my memory and for him to get used to the area" I said, picking up the pot from the stove. "Hey, why don't you guys stay the night? Even though it's winter, there are some really nice hot springs a bit ways North from here! We can go to get warmed up!" I sat down, passing a cup to everyone. Except Inosuke, he's not a fan of tea.

"Why not? I'd love too! Aoi? Girls?" Kanao turned to her friends. Kiyo Chan nodded while Sumi Chan smiled, Naho Chan threw her hands in the air yelling "yay!"
As for Aoi, she 'hmphed' and nodded, crossing her arms and turning her head. Tsundere I thought as I laughed. "alright then! We'll lend you some of Nezuko's clothes!" I smiled as Nezuko nodded, she loved those girls.

At the hot springs
Zinetsu's POV

"Ahhhh.." I sighed as I sank into the warmth of the hot water. The others had also sat down like dignified people, except Inosuke. He jumped in and gloated about his splash, leaving me drenched. I shook my head disappointingly.

A while later in the hot springs I had noticed Aoi getting a bit to close to Inosuke. I think Tanjirou noticed to and the sadness in his face made me feel like shit! I swam over to him, passing the three girls who were gossiping, Nezuko and Kanao who were catching up, and Inosuke and Aoi who were acting all weird and mushy. Except Inosuke, he was sweating trying to get away from her.

I finally reached Tanjirou, smirking, as I had heard Nezuko talking about how she shipped Inosuke and Tanjirou while Kanao agreed. (Kanao best girl, I take no disagreements)

I pat his back.

"Hey, Inosuke's a bit sick" I whispered to him, so the others wouldn't hear.

Tanjirou's frown got bigger, "oh no! I'll go check on him! Wait- what's wrong?"

"Well I think he's allergic to you, he always get's hot and his stomach feels weird around you. He also wants to protect you a lot and is always talking about you! Wait- why would you protect something your allergic to.." my smug giggling quickly went into deep thought and confusion, quickly broken by the sound of Tanjirou chuckling. I acted like I had no idea what was going on, so when Tanjirou found out Inosuke liked him I wouldn't get the blame.

Tanjirou looked at me, cracking an even wider smile. I chuckled back. Soon enough we were laughing out loud, and I was leaning on him for support. I was falling down from laughter and I was clutching my stomach like crazy. Everyone was looking at us which just made us laugh more.

"Did he really say that?!" Tanjirou laughed, wiping tears from his eyes.

"Yeah that idiot!" I let go of him and back to my own weight. I looked to Nezuko and started communicating to her with my eyes, letting her know the conversation was about operation InoTan. Yeah! I came up with that myself, haha!

She whispered it to Kanao and they gave us a thumbs up, while Aoi rolled her eyes Inosuke cringed.

"Oi, what was that about!" He yelled over, was Inosuke jealous?
I decided to play the game, even though he knew I liked Nezuko, I guess all common sense get's thrown out the window when it comes to Tanjirou.

"Oh nothing, me and Tanjirou were just discussing some important stuff together" I said, wrapping my arm around Tanjirou.
I think Nezuko could tell what I was doing because she snorted. The three girls had stopped talking and had tuned in, I guess this was free entertainment to them.

Inosuke's left eye twitched slightly, as Tanjirou was also giggling. "Hah?" Yeah Inosuke was angryyyy.
I pulled Tanjirou closer, almost breathing into his shoulder and said in a flirty voice, "you heard me~ Tanjirou and I were talking about... Things" I looked to him, he was holding his mouth trying not to laugh.
Inosuke had it at that, he broke free of Aoi's hand, swam over to us, hugged Tanjirou and pulled him away from me yelling, "Stop it! Gonpachiro needs personal space!!"
That idiot was talking about Tanjirou's personal space as if he wasn't squeezing the life out of him.
Whatever, my job was done!

Inosuke's POV

RAHHHHHHHH! How dare that idiot touch Gonpachiro?! I thought he liked that tiny midget?! When I told him I liked Gonpachiro, wasn't that a threat to dtay away from him?!
I marched away with Gonpachiro in my arms and brought him to the other side of the hot springs. When I let him go he seemed really stiff and his face was red. Maybe.. it is 'The blush' ! Did I make Gonpachiro do the blush thing? No, it's just the heat! Right? Whatever, I'll just ask him!

"Hey Gonpachiro?" I asked.

"Um, yes Inosuke?" He looked down.

"Are you blushing? Do you like me or something?" Oh no, was that a bit blunt?

It seemed from that his whole body got all red and he looked up to me. He was extremely hot and he sighed.

"Inosuke! You don't just say that! But..."

Wait... oh no, this is the let down..

"I'm sorry I should go back in!" He yelled, as he got out and slipped a towel around himself. He ran back to the trail towards his house.

Ow...
What was that the thing Pinzetsu told me about? Heart break? He called it Heart break. I clutched my chest around my heart, it was aching a lot. My head also started hurting and I didn't like it! I could take getting stabbed, or shot, even on the verge of death I can take it. But this was different... It was sad and it made me wanna cry! Even sun boy looked sympathetic, and the nice demon girl was frowning. The only person who seemed alright was that Yaoi girl. No sorry, um, Howie.
Whatever, I just wanted to go home...