🌸Taken🌸

Care - 3rd POV

👋💘Hi guys, I'm sorry I'm posting late, this chapter is a little rushed, but I hope you guys enjoy! (Hah! It's finally Christmas break, take that school! Also, stay safe and quarantine!)🤩🤜🤡

Back at the Butterfly mansion, everyone was buzzing around Tanjiro. Many were from the clinic, but the ones who weren't were either the Hashiras or Tanjiros friends from the Butterfly mansion, Zenitsu and Inosuke. Despite his surroundings being filled with noise, and everyone gathering around him, Tanjiro did not budge, he did not speak.

"Tanjiro! You're back! Are you okay?" Kanao ran up to Tanjiro.

Still no response from Tanjiro. He didn't so much as bother to even look at Kanao.

"Tanjiro?" Kanao tried to grab Tanjiro's attention.

"I'm sorry dear Kanao, but Tanjiro has had a rough time being trapped for so long. He might want to be by himself a little bit." Shinobu cut in.

Kanao nodded disppointedly and walked away quietly. Once she left, Zenitsu quickly ran to Tanjiro and shook him as hard as he could.

"Tanjiro! What the hell do you think your doing? Do you know how lucky you are to have such a cute girl care for you? You scum!" Zenitsu yelled while Tanjiro kept quiet.

Inosuke kicked Tanjiro in the gut. "Kamabo Kambado! Zenistu's right in this case, and I hate it! You filthy first bag."

Inosuke's kick was a hard kick, and caused Tanjiro to fall to the floor. Many people held back Inosuke, and tried to help Tanjiro up, but he was unresponsive. 

Nobody knew what he went through for this to have happened to him.

Shinobu sighed. "This is worse than I thought. Muzan really did get to Tanjiro."

Both Inosuke and Zenistu gave blamk stares at Tanjiro before they ran to him and started balling their eyes out. "We're sorry Tanjiro! We should've never judged you on what kind of girls you're into, and we should have never left you alone!" Zenitsu exclaimed.

"Weak Tanjiro. I always knew you were weak, but not that weak!" Inosuke yelled into Tanjiro's ear.

Of course Tanjiro didn't reply. His eyes were dead as if he had no meaning in life anymore, and nobody could tell if he could hear but didn't respond because of the hell he had gone through, or because these words simply could not process. With that, they knew they had to fix this. They moved Tanjiro to a room that was dark, changed his shirt, and noticed his ribs sticking out of his stomach.

"God! Gross! Tanjiro! You can't get skinny, or you won't become attractive to women anymore!" Zenitsu screeched.

"Hm, seems like Muzan didn't feed Tanjiro at all during Tanjiro's stay at Muzan's house. It's a good thing Tanjiro lived on a mountain with a huge family, and not very much money, it helped him indure this time." Shinobu remarked.

Nezuko came out from her little box, walked up to Tanjiro, and gave him a hug, but still no response.

"Huh, he's not even reacting to Nezuko, and Nezuko was his whole life!" Zenitsu said. "Snap out of it Tanjiro, or else you'll never kill Muzan-" Tanjiro flinched "-and turn Nezuko into a human. And if Nezuko never turns into a human, I'll never get to marry her!"

Nezuko gave Zenitsu an exasperated look, while Shinobu noticed Tanjiro's reaction to Muzan's name. "Interesting, it seems that Tanjiro's consciousness is still there, but it has changed drastically. Muzan-" Tanjiro flinched again "-really did some intense damage the months he kept Tanjiro"