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I feel the cool wind burning my (s/c) cheeks, and the warmth of another on my right, as I'm being carried to safety. I look up at Zenitsu with my tired half lidded eyes, and see his serious face, paired with sorrowful eyes. I briefly close my dull (e/c) eyes, but within that short moment I remember beautiful things.
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I skip down the halls of the butterfly estate to see a certain trio, my red ribbon flowing along with me in my (h/l) hair. Approaching the door, I instantly hear the wines of Zenitsu, and a frustrated Aoi. I let out a little sigh and smile as I slide open the door.
"You need to take the medicine! Do you wanna be like this forever!" Aoi tries to reason with him. "But it tastes so horrible! Please no!" He says in his god awful winy voice. A small smile appears on my face, I walkover to him with my hands interlocked behind my back. He turns his head quickly to look at me, ready to spew out his distaste for the medicine to yet another. I interrupt him in time. "Zenitsu, if you drink your medicine, I'll marry you." His entire body shoots to sit up straight. He immediately grabs the cup of medicine from Aoi and chugs it down, slamming down on the tray afterwards. The blonde pulls my hands out from behind my back, grasping them in his which were still a little small. "When is the wedding?" He says with a sparkle in his eyes. "The wedding is whenever you win over my heart." I have to stop myself from laughing at my own cruel ploy. He looks shocked, and betrayed, but then his face becomes determined. "Then I'll make sure you fall in love with me." Heat raises from my face, he was surprisingly charming when he said that. But little did he know, he'd already won me over.
Weeks had passed from when I had tricked Zenitsu, him, Tanjiro and Inosuke were already going on missions. I had just put on my robe, ready for bed. I stepped out of my room to say goodnight to the trio that were down the hall from me. I knock on the door and hear Tanjiro give me the okay to come in. I slide the door open and see Tanjiro sitting in front of Nezuko, and inosuke in bed with is mask beside himloudly snoring. However, I couldn't find Zenitsu. "Oh! Hello (Y/n)!" Tanjiro says sleepily. Nezuko runs to me and nuzzles my (s/c) cheek with hers. "I just came to say goodnight! Um, where's Zenitsu?" I say tilting my head. "He's still outside, you sold tell him to come back in and rest." I nod and gently push Nezuko off me, she eagerly runs back to Tanjiro and gives me a little hum, which I assume was her saying goodnight. I make it outside and shiver at the cold, pulling my robe tighter around me, as I'm doing so I see the blonde gazing up at the stars, he turns to look at me. "(Y/n)-chan! Are you cold? Let's share body heat." I giggle at his silly advance, but end up standing close beside him anyway. Grasping lightly onto the sleeve of his yellow haori, he still hadn't changed into his sleepwear. He falls silent, and his cheeks redden a bit more than they already were as he leans towards me. He almost looks troubled when he shifts his gaze back to the stars above."You should get some sleep, arnt you going on a mission tomor-" I was cut short when he wraps his arm around me pulling me into his warm embrace my heart rate instantly picking up, hoping he couldn't hear it with how sharp his ears are. "(Y/n). Have you fallen for me yet? I can wait, as long as it takes, but I'm not strong like the others, I just know that soon on one of these missions I'll-" my turn to cut him off, I wrap my arms around his neck and with one of my hands I pull him into my shoulder. "Stupid. You're stupid, stop saying such stupid things, your strong. I know you are, Tanjiro knows, why can't you see that. Don't say such sad things." His arms tighten around me, he sinks deeper into my shoulder. I feel his hand reach up to the back of my head. "Your not wearing your ribbon." He changes the subject but doesn't let go. "I take it off when I sleep, my master gave it to me, I wouldn't want to damage it." He hums in understanding. "I like it on you." By now I was absolutely certain he could hear my heart. With the moon and stars illuminating us, I realized how stupidly romantic this setting is, and that I would be a fool if I didn't tell him that I loved him. I take a deep inhale, preparing myself mentally. "I love you." I get straight to the point, but my eyes widen in surprise and the both of us lean back to look at each other, realizing we both said the same thing at the same time. A huge grin appears in his face. Zenitsu pulls me in close one more time to plant a kiss on my forehead, and on my cheek, and another, and another. I could no longer fight back the huge smile on my face. He nuzzles his face into the crook of my neck and let's out a shaky exhale, I could feel him smile into my neck. I gaze at the moon behind his back, and it gets brighter and brighter, almost all of my vision was white, and then, that oh so familiar voice calls out to me. "(Y/N)! Don't close your eyes! please!" ~
Oh, that's right, I guess I was so busy reminiscing, that I had forgot about my current situation. How did I forget, even with the this unbelievable pain in my stomach, and the wam stickiness of my own blood. I look at Zenitsu again, this time he's crying. I'm not gonna make it, he knows it, and so do I. "Zenitsu, stop." He ignore me. "Zenitsu, I'm not gonna ma-" he interrupts me.
"Stupid! Your stupid, why didn't you run the moment you knew you were out matched! Why didn't you, even when you were hurt so bad! Why didn't you-" my turn to interrupt him. "Your right, I'm stupid, and now I'm gonna die, you know it. So please, stop and let me have my last moments be at least peaceful." There was no way we are going to make it to a wisteria house in time, he is lucky enough that he had a mission neer my own, so that my crow could alert him in time. Gradually, he slows to a stop and falls to his knees, bringing me closer to him, his arm that is under my legs moves to support my head. He looks so unbelievably heartbroken, tears spilling out of his eyes one after another. I raise my hand to the back of my head, untying the red ribbon in my (h/c) hair, the smooth fabric glides through Zenitsu's fingers with ease. Holding the ribbon in one hand I weakly grab the wrist of his hand that's holding my head, pulling it I front of me. I sloppily tie it around his wrist, his sobs grow louder, and he quietly calls out my name. "Take, care of it, f-for me. And I don't want you, beating yourself, up over this. None of this, is your fault." The last word said came with blood, that I can't even cough up due to my weak body getting even weaker. I try my best not to cry, as I don't want to leave this world with so much undone, I don't want to die, although I expected to for a while now, due to my job. I pull his strong calloused had to my cheek, nuzzling it with the very small amount of strength I have. "I said that I would marry you once you have my heart. And you won it over a long time ago." His grip on my tightens, as he knew what was comming. "So, Zenitsu, will you marry me?" Somehow he manages to cry even more. "I was supposed to ask you that." He says though his sobs. I faintly smile, and tilt my head to kiss his rough palm. My head becoming too heavy, slowly falls back. As its doing so I manage to get out, "on our wedding, I'll make sure to wear, my ribbon." The last word came out as no more than a whisper, she is gone, her (s/c) finger caught in that beautiful red ribbon.
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Sorry of Zenitsu is ooc this is my first time writing about him. So I waaaaaas gonna finish this with a happy ending but it's 12:00am and I'm tired... If you really want I can give you a part two but it will be really short. Also I don't know why this oneshot turned out so long they won't all be like this.