Kimetsu no Shipping || Demon slayer One-shot

Is That A Fake Smile You're Displaying?

I'm sorry for last chapter was an angst one.

There are some manga spoilers in this chapter, I suggest that you probably read chapter 143, the beginning of 144, 204 and 205.

Giyuu x Shinobu

"Tomioka-san!"

Kochou Shinobu, a small girl. The only person that I could call a friend at that time. She would be teasing me, saying that I was quite, blunt, etc. But it was fine, we were friends... friends.

"Hey, Tomioka-san!"

"Hm?"

"I made salmon daikon for you, and I brought my food. Do you want to eat together?"

"It's poison..."

"No, I swear! You think too far, Tomioka-san. That's why people dislikes you."

We have something in common, our sisters were both dead. She would never showed her true self to anybody, she would put on a fake smile on her pale face.

"Is that a fake smile you're displaying?"

"What? This? Fake smile? You must be seeing things, Tomioka-san, maybe that's why people dislikes you."

Her cooking was tasty, she'd be cooking me salmon daikon herself instead of one of the girls. Everytime I ate her cooking, she'd also ate her food. It was nice for a while. It felt like, I finally had a friend around, even though the friend was a little annoying sometimes, but I saw nothing than that, a good friend.

"Stay sharp!!"

"Got it!!"

Me and Tanjiro ran across the infinity fortress as it pinned around us, as if it was alive. Last battle with Muzan, our last battle with demons were going to end tonight. No more demons, no more suffering, and maybe I could say my true feelings to-

"Kaaaw! Deceased!! Kochou Shinobu is dead!!"

My world almost stopped, she was dead. The one who was by my side once and a while, my only close friend at the time, the who'd teased me, the one I have feelings for, was dead.

"She fought with an upperrank demon moon and died!!"

She fought an uppermoon?! She knew that she was going to die if she did so. How will her girls will react? She left them without guidance. My skipped a beat and continued the run until, upper moon three showed up.

After the fight was over, we all healed up at the butterfly estate. Her estate. I shared memories there with her, eating her food, healing up, and just payed a visit. She's gone now... it felt so different. At least I still have Tanjiro around but the feeling that I had with her and with Tanjiro was different.

When only Kanao came, the girls didn't sobbed. They welcomed their sister with a teary smile as they hugged her. 'Did they learn how to seal their sadness too?'.

"Kanzaki-san..." I called the blue butterfly girl, she turned to me. Even though they were not related, she looked like her and had a similar aura as her. "Do you miss Kochou?" She was brought to tears after I mentioned her name. She nodded and left me.

"Hello there, Tomika-san!" Kanao passed by me as I was zoning out. I couldn't helped myself but to ask her the same question to her, she was tearing up as well. She died in front of her.

I finally healed and went to Urokodaki, my old master. I knocked on the door to be greeted by the Tengu masked man. "Giyuu?" "Long time no see." I gave him my smile after eight years. He broke down into tears and welcomed me with a hug.