Room Mates { Inozen } (+a bit of Inotan.)

(6) You aren't mine...

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Hmm I wonder what's going on... he's been at the bar for a while... Tanjiro opened my door, without knocking which was unusual for him. "Zenitsu! Have you seen Inosuke?! He just disappeared with no information on where he went!!" Tanjiro yelled, as though he was so worried he couldn't even act normal anymore. I.... oh yeah... I have to come up with a 'really good excuse' for Inosuke. I forgot about that... "Well he left about three hours ago, he said he was going-....... g-going to... see a friend! He didn't give me enough details but I'm sure he'll be back soon." I stuttered. Tanjiro could probably tell something was up with how I said that, but I tried to make it sound like I was just remembering, when in reality I lied. He looked a little bit calmer now. "Well, if he doesn't come home soon could you go get him for me? Since you know where he is..." Tanjiro asked, in a more 'inside voice' tone. I nervously laughed, because I didn't really feel like doing that, but I knew that he wasn't joking. "Yeah, Alright, I'll drive over there and pick him up..." I replied. Tanjiro smiled and patted me on the head. Then with that, he left my room. I took a moment to scream into a pillow, and then I got myself together, to go find out what the heck that pig man is doing.

I grabbed what I needed and headed out the door to the car. I drove down the street, a little bit past the bar, so it doesn't look suspicious. I then got out after parking and went to go get ino. When I walked in there, it felt extremely overwhelming. I had never been in a place like this, and I just wanted to get out as quickly as I could. I pushed through the crowd and finally found Inosuke. He was sitting at a table with a group of people, that I assume, are either some drinking buddies he goes to see every time he comes here, or they are some random people he's talking to for no reason because he's drunk. It doesn't really matter, he needs to go home. If he is drunk, that would explain why he was gone for so long. "Oh, hey Monitsu!!" Inosuke yelled, when we made eye contact, drawing a bunch of attention from people around him, to me. no no no No No NO NO NOOOOO!!!! Please stop.... Stop looking at me! Everyone went back to what they were doing and I walked over to Inosuke. Dammit... you idiot! "Tanjiro wants you to come back home, so he got me to go get you. Get up and let's go." I told ino. He laughed, and took another sip of his drink. "What's Kamaboko Gonpachiro gonna do about it? No one tells me what to do! I'm Inosuke Hashibira!!!" He yelled, getting up and standing on the table.

Ugh, here we go again... he won't stop making a scene. I tried to convince him again. "Well, Tanjiro will do whatever he needs to stop you from going to the bar, if you don't come back! He might put some sort of special lock on the door, so that you can't sneak out again!! because you're already banned, and this is definitely not going to go down well..." I replied, trying to convince him. He thought about it for a moment, but then just ignored it. Not saying anything isn't going to make it go away dummy!!! I curled my hand into a fist and felt ready to punch him, but instead I grabbed the back of his shirt and dragged him out. His friends picked up his stuff and carried it out to the car for me. Inosuke would usually fight against this, but he's pretty drunk.... "thank you, have a great night." I said to his friends as they left. I put Inosuke in the passenger seat, and hopped in the driver's seat. I put my seatbelt on, but he didn't. Seriously is he a toddler?... "Inosuke, put your seatbelt on. I can't drive without everyone being secure." I told him. He grunted in disagreement. I put his seatbelt on for him, and gave him his phone as a distraction. I started driving home. "Why couldn't I stay at the bar?" Ino Asked, with an annoyed face but a, quiet and tired tone. I made a turn away from the road to our house, so we could have more time to talk.

"I already told you why. You don't want to miss dinner do you?" I said. Inosuke huffed "I Was planning on having dinner at the bar.... I could just go home with one of my friends." He replied, disappointed. I stopped the car near a 7/11, and looked at him. "That's so wreckless of you! Sure they seem fine when you hang out, but bad things happen if you go to places when you're drunk. What if you get killed?!" I yelled at him. I was angry at so many things, but especially him right now. Does he not worry about anything? He just dives head first into danger... I hit my face into the steering wheel, and it made a big annoying honk noise. I got up and took off my seatbelt, then I opened the door. "Where are you going?!? You can't just abandon the car here! I don't know how to drive, you know!!" Inosuke started screaming, as I was walking off. I went back over there, to shut him up. "Just... stop it. Inosuke. I'm going to the 7/11 okay? You can go too, if you promise to stop making everything worse." I told him. Ino made a weird face at me, and I realised there would be no promises made, so I just let him out. He scrambled out of the car like a rat, and went inside. If only there was someone here to save meeee.... before I got inside, my phone rang. It was Tanjiro. Nooooo...

Sometimes Tanjiro is almost like a mother, with his proctetive older brother personality.... So that means, if I don't answer his calls, he'll know something is up. I pressed the accept call button, and said hello.

[Tanjiro] "Did you get Inosuke? Are you safe?"

<Zenitsu> "Yes he's with me, we're just stopping to get something."

[Tanjiro] "Well, please make sure you're not out for too long. Sorry about this, i just want to make sure you're both okay."

<Zenitsu> "it's alright Tanjiro." I heard Inosuke Yelling, all of a sudden. "Uh, I gotta go now. Bye!"

I hung up the phone, and ran inside the shop to go see what happened. Inosuke was making a slushie, but the person next to him made him drop it on the ground and it spilt. Luckily it didn't get on anything but the little mat they had at the front of the machine. How is he so irritated right now, when he wasn't like this with me, earlier? I went over there, and grabbed inosuke's arm. "Hey, it was an accident. You can make another one." I told him. He didn't even do anything to me, and just stopped being angry. He took another cup out and made a new slushie. What the hell?!?! How is he just... not being angry? He's the maddest person I know, and he just.... became calm after I talked to him????? I apologised to the random guy and store clerk, for ino's outburst. They said it was alright, and went on with their day. Inosuke turned to me with two slushies, that had every single flavour that they had in the store, in both the cups. "Why do you have two cups?" I asked. He put one of them into my hands. "Oh. You made one for me?" I questioned. It seemed like it might be, but I could be wrong. He nodded. "Oh, thank you." I said. We went up to the register, and inosuke payed for the slushies. When we got back to the car, I was going to start the car again but Inosuke stopped me. Jeez... what's going to stop us from going home now? He went into the backseat and pulled me over there too.

We were both sitting together in the backseat, and he put sun covers on all the windows. I couldn't understand what he was doing... is he going to perform some weird ritual? He turned the roof light on low, and moved his fingers through my hair. This is making me blush... "don't tell anyone about this, alright? I know you're good at keeping promises." Inosuke told me, as he moved closer. What is he doing??

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