“Y/N, how are you feeling? It's still a long way until we arrive, maybe it's better if someone carries you.” Shinobu asked, noticing Y/N's tired state.

“Pff- I'm fine, I could walk all the way to the sea without breaking a sweat right now!”

“Is that so?” She tilted her head with a sweet tone. “That's great! I was going to ask for Giyuu to carry you, but since you say that you're fine-”

“Now that I think about it, I'm tired! Like, really tired- Like my legs are going to explode if I take any other step-” As you can see, Y/N didn't make any effort in at least trying to sound believable.

She happily settled down on Giyuu's back, though Shinobu felt a bit bitter about asking him to do it, Y/N's health always comes first.

“Hihihi-” And at least she looks happier now… her smile looks a bit creepy, though.

“There, there! Sleep a lot and get better!” Kyojuro said, patting Y/N's head.

“Sure! Zzzzz-” How can someone sleep that fast? Who knows.

Shinobu silently checked Y/N's face, as she confirmed that she really was asleep, she said : “Do you both think she will be fine? She has been acting a bit off these days, the kid's deaths are taking a heavier toll on her than expected, maybe it's better if she-”

“She's doing her best to keep acting like always, we need to respect that.” Kyojuro interrupted her.

Shinobu bit her lip. That's why she didn't want Y/N to stay as a demon slayer.

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“Y/N, we arrived!” Shinobu's sweet voice took her out of her slumber.

Giyuu let go of her, she rubbed her eyes as they started to walk inside the butterfly mansion.

“UNDERLING!!” And she was greeted with a headbutt. I mean, she almost was, the fighting spirit made her reflexively dodge, so the victim ended being the poor Giyuu who happened to be standing behind her.

“WHOAH! DID YOU SEE THAT, UNDERLING? I DEFEATED HIM!” Inosuke proudly exclaimed, pointing to the man silently looking down while trembling a bit.

He started to unsheathe his sword, Kyojuro pushing the blade back inside the hilt before they could notice the water hashira murderous intentions.

“Oh, right! Look, Inosuke, the acorn is still with me!” Y/N said, looking around her pocket and giving it to the boar.

“It helped me a lot, thank you.” She slightly lifted his mask, placing a gentle kiss on his cheek.

He froze in the spot, a pink aura forming around his head.

He angrily pointed at her, exclaiming : “You! You are using underhanded techniques again!”

“Do you want another?”

“Yes!”

What happened to the 'underhanded techniques'?

“YYYYY/NNNNNN!”

Oh yeah, that cry is easy to detect. “YOU'RE FINALLY BACK, I REALLY-”

Zenitsu was about to tackle her into a hug, but froze right in front of her.

“What happened?”

Unexpectedly, he started to tear up. “Zenitsu?! Why are you crying?”

“WAAAAAH- WHY DO YOU SOUND SO SAD?? WHAT DID THESE BRUTES DO TO MY ANGEL?? WHAT HAPPENED??” He hugged her, crying loudly while nuzzling against her cheek.

Wait, the hashira are the brutes he's talking about?

“Jeez, it won't be a good reunion if you instantly start to cry.” Y/N said in response, awkwardly patting his head while still stuck in his grasp. “In time like these, you need to smile!”

He then finally backed away from her, cleaning his snot with his sleeve, he looked as if he was about to calm down, but then his yellow eyes fixed their gaze on her shoulder. “AAAAAAH- YOU GOT HURT! WHAT HAPPENED?!”

“I was-”

“WHAT'S THE POINT OF HAVING THREE HASHIRAS IF THEY DON'T PROTECT YOU?? THEY ARE COMPLETELY UNHARMED, TOO-”

These words pierced the present hashiras like swords, and the worst part is that they couldn't even be angry at the blonde because he was right, it did was their job to protect her as her superiors, but she ended up having to face the demon by herself.

“Y/N! Shinobu-sama!” The next one to appear was Kanao, happily running over to them. “You guys are back! I'm really, uh- I'm really happy!”

“Y/N!” And finally, there he was, Tanjiro in all of his glory was running over to the crowd that was starting to form.

Just like Zenitsu, he also suddenly froze when he got close enough to her, his nose twitching like he was smelling something.

“Did something happened?” He tilted his head with a worried expression. “Your smell is a bit sad.”

Damn them with their privacy invading abilities! Come on, it sucks to be around people that can always smell or hear your emotions!

“Nothing much.” She shook her head. “I'm really happy to see you again!”

“Hey! You guys interrupted my kiss!” Inosuke stepped in.

“What are you talking about? Is your head not working? Why would Y/N kiss YOU?” Zenitsu said, looking at Inosuke like he wasn't a thing from this world.

“For your information, sparkling, she already did!”

“Sparkling?! WAIT- SHE DID??”

“On the cheek, it was on the cheek!” Y/N tried to butt in.

“THAT'S UNFAIR, I WANT ONE TOO!”

“I want one too!” Kanao exclaimed. “Me! Me!” And Tanjiro.

Y/N's is starting to have flashbacks to when she first arrived at the mansion.

Except.....

She could feel the sparkles in their eyes almost stabbing her face, did they really want a kiss that much? It looks way worse than it was back them.

“Uhh… then, one by one, I guess?”

And with this, they started a small Rock-paper and scissors match to see what would be the kiss order, Kanao's face looked so serious it was almost unbelievable she wouldn't even talk until some months ago.

Seriously, what was this? Y/N was starting to notice that maybe she broke a lot of characters from this anime-

Zenitsu ended winning first, he commemorated quite loudly at that. “Come on Y/N! Right here!” He pointed at his cheek with a happy smile, he kind of reminded her of a puppy when he acted like this.

“Fine, here we go then-” With a sigh, she approached his cheek.

“Oh, wait!-” He turned again with the intention of saying another thing, making Y/N accidentally kiss his lips instead.

Everyone, including the two, froze.

What happened next could only be described in one word : Chaos.

“IT WAS ON PURPOSE! IT DEFINITELY WAS ON PURPOSE!” Inosuke said, grabbing Zenitsu by his collar and harshly shaking him, unfortunately, he was too love-struck to notice.

“Use that to clean your mouth Y/N, it would be bad if it left any germs-” Tanjiro said with a dark smile, handing a handkerchief to the frozen Y/N.

“I thought that I only needed to be aware of the sleep one, but as I thought, the awake one is as dangerous-” Shinobu mumbled while biting her nail, her expression looked quite…scary.

Giyuu didn't know how to react, he never really stopped to think about how he felt about Y/N, but then, what was this slight aching feeling?

Kyojuro was frozen. He seems to always do that in these situations.

Kanao glanced at Zenitsu being beaten up, then at the Y/N looking down with a flustered expression.

She puffed her cheeks. No way! She finally decided to take action, there's no way she will lose to that guy, of all people!

So, she silently approached Y/N.

“K-Kanao?” Tanjiro questioned, starting to feel like something…. troublesome was about to happen.

“Y/N!”

“Huh?”

Kanao grabbed her cheeks, forcing Y/N to look at her eyes.

Her legs were shaking, her face looked as red as tomato, but she needs to tell Y/N how she feels!

It's fine if she likes someone else, but at least once, she wants to be sincere with her feelings.

“I like you!” She blurted out these words, and after panicking about what to do next, she ended up kissing her too.

“AAAAAAAH- NOT AGAIN!” Inosuke let Zenitsu down, making him harshly fall into his butt.

“HER TOO?!” Kakushi 1 and Kakushi 2 (But honestly, who even remembers these guys?) Who definitely weren't there to see Y/N after they heard she was back, exclaimed after seeing the scene.

'I was kissed… again-'

“THAT'S NOT FAIR! NOW I NEED TO KISS UNDERLING TOO-” Inosuke said, menacingly approaching Y/N.

“W-wait, Inosuke!! I don't think Y/N can handle another one-” Tanjiro exasperatedly grabbed him.

'I- I did it-' Kanao thought, she wasn't exactly planning to kiss Y/N, she ended up doing so at the heat of the moment, she hopes Y/N doesn't hate her for that-

“Y-Y/N, I'm sorry, I know I should've asked for your permission first but-” Kanao approached her, feeling like tearing up.

“I… I…- Mochi.” This experience ended up awakening Y/N's most foolproof and embarrassing mode, the mode that activated when all of her other brain activities shut down….

“What?”

“Mochi.”

“Oh no- Y/N got so flustered that she unlearned Japanese!” Naho, Kiyo, and Sumi, who seemed to arrive at the worst time possible, exclaimed with worried expressions.

Y/N started to tear-up, was it from embarrassment? Well, 'mochi' was a cursed word for her, even though she promised to herself she wouldn't ever say that again-

Nezuko and Daki curiously peeked from inside the mansion, they couldn't go outside because of the sun, but Zenitsu could feel their glares stabbing his back, come on, it wasn't even his fault this time!

But- accidentally or not, he kissed Y/N!

Zenitsu was so happy about the kiss that he forgot to worry about the fact that Kanao also kissed her.

“Y/N, do you remember how to count to three? Come on, you need to remember!” Kiyo said.

“Mochi.”

“Oh no! Oh, no!” The kids started to panic.

“It's fine, guys, she will remember after resting.” Tanjiro reassured them with a bright smile, pushing Y/N to go back inside the mansion.

“Mochi-” Her expression was blank, honestly speaking, it didn't even look like her consciousness was still there.

“Oh! Wait, Y/N!” Shinobu exclaimed, making them stop before going inside.

“Huh?” She glanced over her shoulder.

“I know you're tired, but we need to report to the master before that, and since you were the one that fought with the demon-”

“Oh.”

….WAIT. REPORT? TO THE MASTER?

“Caw! Good luck! Caw!” Shiro flied above her in circles, was she mocking her?

Let's just get this over with.