Though Uzui did retire, he and his wives would stay around the butterfly mansion with the excuse that they are still 'recovering', though everyone knows that they just want to play around.

The bad part of this, is that it always ended up in a mess if they were to be in the same room with Y/N and the kamaboko squad.

“Y/N, if you come with us, you can have sweets every day~”

“Really?!” She was about to run in the direction of the girls, but Zenitsu grabbed her.

“Y/NNN! DON'T BE SOLD! RESIST IT! WAAAAA!!” Zenitsu screamed exasperatedly while holding her in a panicked attempt of stopping her from leaving.

“I CAN'T ZENITSU! IT'S STRONGER THAN ME-”

A silent war of Uzui and his wives trying to convince Y/N to go with them while the others tried to convince her to stay was happening, though the center of the war itself seemed to only care about eating for some reason.

But I mean, she did manage to seduce three people by only saying 'mochi' before, what can you even expect from her at this point?

“INOSUKE, I WOULD APPRECIATE A LITTLE HELP HERE!”

He was too engrossed in eating his breakfast to care. “YOU TRAITOR-”

“Come on Y/N! We can do each other's hairs, sleep in the same futon-”

“I'M GOING! BYE ZENITSU, IT WAS FUN-”

“NOOOOO! DON'T LEAVE-”

“STOP HOLDING HER BACK, PISS HAIR-”

“SHUT UP, ONE EYE-”

“WHO ARE YOU CALLING ONE EYE?!”

Their screams were interrupted by someone entering the room.

Tanjiro was walking in weak steps with a gloomy aura, Y/N quickly scurrying away from their grasp to go over to the burgundy boy with a worried expression.

“Tanjiro, are you okay? Your complexion doesn't look good- HUH??”

In response to her worried question, his body seemed to have given in, as he suddenly fell onto her, his face burying into her chest.  “GYAAAAAAA!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO Y/N?!”

“I KNEW IT! I KNEW IT! HE'S TOO DANGEROUS!”

“WAAAAAAAH!!”

Ignoring the screams in the back, Y/N placed her hands in his cheeks and delicately lift his head to get a better look at him.

“Oh! He's burning!”

… So, this will be the fever chapter?

                         『••✎••』

“What should we do?? waaah-” The three girls were crying as they watched Tanjiro breathing heavily in the bed, barely managing to keep his eyes open. “Why did this had to happen in the day Shinobu isn't home??”

Because of his constant training in order to master the hirokami kagura, Tanjiro often had fevers, however, none of these fevers were bad enough to make him collapse like this, so no wonder everyone is so worried.

“Everyone, let's calm down! We should just treat him like we would treat a normal fever, no need to panic so soon!” Y/N quickly took control over the situation.

Shinobu had been designed to a mission, and Aoi was also outside to buy something, so the only ones available for medical attending were the three kids, but it's not like they were professional medics, so it's understandable for them to panic.

“Sniff… Okay… okay…” Naho said while rubbing her eyes.

“You guys know how to treat normal fevers, right? So, what should we do first?”

“He's probably sweating a lot, so we have to clean him, so he won't be uncomfortable…” Y/N nodded, signalizing her to keep going. “We also should put a cloth with cold water in his forehead to help him cool down, and make him eat something easy to digest, since the fever also affects the appetite….”

“I see… well, let's start with the basic things first! I clean the sweat, can you guys bring the cold water?” They nodded, hurriedly leaving the room.

As Y/N approached Tanjiro's collapsed form on the bed, she suddenly saw herself in the middle of an impasse.

'…how do I undress him without looking I'm trying to take advantage of an incapacitated person…?'

“Hm… Tanjiro…? Are you awake?” She carefully asked him, noticing that his mouth was moving, she approached his face more in order to be able to hear whatever he was trying to say.

“… I'm… I'm awake…” He answered weakly.

“I'm going to take off your shirt.” She blurted out so fast that it had the same effect on Tanjiro as if she had ripped a curative off him without a previous warning.

“WHAT-” He sat up in bed with an exasperated expression, his face so red that his hair was looking pale in comparison.

“I-I know it sounded weird, but you're sweating a lot, so I need to clean it, you know? If you feel uncomfortable with me doing so, I will gladly ask Zenitsu or Inosuke to do it, I just don't want you to stay like that, okay?”

“… C-can't I do it myself…?”

“What about your back?”

“… Oh.”

“I'm going to ask one of the guys to do it, hold on-” She quickly turned to leave, but he grabbed her hand.

“I-It's fine… you can do it.”

“Are you sure?”

“Yeah… I can't help but having shivers if I imagine Inosuke cleaning me-” He hugged himself with a dark expression. Well, it's hard to see Inosuke as a caretaker after all.

“Okay! Then…well- excuse me…” She sat up close to him, reaching out to the front buttons of his shirt.

“Y/N… do you need help?” Tanjiro sweat dropped at the girl, her fingers were shaking so much that she wasn't even able to unbutton the first button of his shirt properly.

“I-I can do it! Be quiet!” Y/N knew very well that being embarrassed was only making the situation worse, but she can't help it.

As she was looking down, concentrating in finishing taking off his shirt, she could feel his curt and ragged little breaths against her forehead, it was probably hard for him to even be sitting up right now, so she decided to push back her shyness and finish doing this as fast as possible, so he can lay back down again.

“There! You can take the rest off now!” Y/N commented as she got up to grab a clean cloth from the drawer beside the bed.

As the girl turned back to Tanjiro, she couldn't help but frown after seeing his back. 'so many scars…'

She shook her head, there was no point in feeling sad about things that already happened, she should know that better than anyone.

Y/N then delicately proceeds to rub the cloth against his back, the boy immediately gasping as soon as it entered in contact with his skin. “I'm sorry! Did I hurt you??”

“… No… it's just… give me a signal first before doing it…”

“Oh- Then, I'm going to start wiping again.” He weakly nodded in response.

They just stood in there in silence, probably because of their embarrassment, both of their faces so flustered that you couldn't even tell who was the one with the fever.

“Phew! I finished wiping it Tanjiro, you can wipe your chest now......” The girl frowned as she noticed that he wasn't responding, leaning over to check on his face. “Tanjiro? Are you sleeping?”

“No… I'm awake….”  He weakly said, leaning back to rest his head on her shoulder. “Can I stay like this for a bit?”

“Uhm!” She smiled gently, patting his head.

They stayed in this position for a while with a comfortable silence, until Tanjiro suddenly said :

“I…my nose isn't working very well… so I can't tell what you're feeling…. can't you tell me…?”

“Tell you?”

“Please? I really… want to know…”

“Well, I'm worried.”

“Worried?”

“About you, I mean. You don't look too well, and I don't know what to do to help, so of course I'm worried!”

“… Don't be, I'm fine… it's just a fever…”

“Okay, now I'm feeling mad! You're the sick one, stop worrying about me! You say it's merely a fever, but you can barely stay up right now! You have to take better care of yourself!”

“… I'm sorry…”

“Nooo! I don't want an apology! Did you even hear what I said?!”

“… Haha… Thanks for… Telling me all that…”

“… You really don't even hear me…” She mumbled with a pout, resting her chin in his shoulder.

“Y/N…”

“What is it? Do you need something…?”

“It's nothing…just… let me… sleep… for a second…”

“H-here?!” Y/N said back with a red face, since he was still leaning on her shoulder.

“zzzz-”

'he really slept fast-'

“YY/NN! WE BROUGHT THE COLD WATER!” The girls ran through the door, Y/N quickly getting up from embarrassment, Tanjiro falling back onto his bed as his support left, luckily, he was sleeping too deeply to notice it.

“Okay, so we need to change the cloth every five minutes to keep it cold…”

They nodded, as Y/N put the wet cloth in Tanjiro's forehead.

“…his forehead is so thick, should I put four cloths instead?”

“Y/N! Don't make jokes in a time like this!”

“Sorry- Well, what should we do now?”

“Since he's resting, let's make something for him to eat when he wakes up!”

“… You guys mean… like cooking?”

They nodded.

“Uh… It's kinda late to say this but… I can't cook-”

“Uh- We can't really cook things other than rice balls too-” They started to tear up.

“W-We will manage it! Let's just help each other, okay?” Y/N exclaimed exasperatedly, she wouldn't know what to do to if they started crying on top of Tanjiro being sick.

“Sniff… okay-”

                          『••✎••』

“Guys… I doubt that's eatable-” Y/N sweat dropped.

Since he's sick, they tried to make porridge but…

“This look like something you would give to your worst enemy-”

“D-Don't be sad, Y/N! I'm certain that the taste will be better than the looks!”

“I appreciate you guys trying to make it better, but please don't try eating this-”

“But-”

Y/N stood in the corner with a dark aura. “I knew it- Even before, every time I tried to cook something it looked like it came from the deepest places of hell- I really am a failure-”

“Y-Y/N! Don't lose hope! Let's just try again-”

“Yeah! Even if you can't cook, I'm convinced that your future husband won't mind it!”

“Naho, Kiyo, Sumi, let's make something clear. I'm not sad that I can't cook because my hypothetical future husband would be mad, I'm sad because cooking is a survival skill that everyone should have! And I don't have it!”

“Huh? Really?”

“She's not saying the truth Naho, Y/N is trying to make herself feel better, I feel so bad-”

Even if Y/N told them all of that, it's still a complicated concept for someone who was raised in taisho era and taught that a girl should be good in cooking and cleaning in order to be a good wife, so to them, it only looked like she was trying to justify herself.

“No, I really meant what I said-”

“I'm sure it's not that bad! Let's give it to Tanjiro to cheer her up!” Kiyo commented with a childish smile.

“WAIT-”

The three girls proceeded to grab the plate with the demonic porridge and left the room.

“No way- There's no way that they are thinking of giving that thing to someone whose sick-”

Y/N sat in the floor with a sigh, convinced that they were just joking to cheer her up, but after some seconds staying there in silence, her calm expression went back to exasperation.

“NO, THEY DEFINITELY ARE GOING TO GIVE IT TO HIM!!” She screamed to herself, getting up and running after the three kids.

The girl almost kicked down the door as she screamed : “DON'T GIVE THAT TO HIM!”

Unfortunately, the scene that she saw when she entered the room was Tanjiro sitting in the bed with the spoon already in his mouth.

“Y/N! He tried it! Yay!”

“NOOOOO! SPIT THAT OUT!” Y/N tackled him, starting to panicky try to pull the spoon off his mouth. “DON'T EAT THAT! IT'S POISONOUS! YOU'RE GOING TO DIE! DON'T SWALLOW IT!”

In response, Tanjiro only looked blankly at her, before gulping down the food in his mouth. “WAAAAAAAAAH! WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?!?!?”

She grabbed her head in panic. “that's it… I poisoned the protagonist- that's the end-” she mumbled to herself, comical tears seeping out from her eyes.

“Yay! Y/N is so happy that she's crying!”

“YOU GUYS ARE NOT HELPING!!” As the girl started to complain to the kids, who were still not understanding at all what was going on, Tanjiro suddenly started to take another spoonful of the porridge.

“WHAAAAAAT ARE YOU DOING??” She ran up to him, grabbing his hands before he could eat another bit.

For a second, she actually believed in what the kids said before about the taste being good despite the appearance, but judging by the way that his face was turning blue, that was definitely not the case.

“Are you crazy?! Don't eat more of that!”

“but… but you made it for me, didn't you?”

“Tanjiro, even if your nose isn't working properly right now, everything about that food screams dangerous, you can't eat it just because I made it!”

“But I want to!” He said back while pouting like a child, and in response, an irk mark appeared on Y/N's head.

“WHO CARES IF YOU WANT TO! JUST DON'T EAT THAT!” She angrily grabbed his hair. “OUCH! OUCH! DON'T HIT ME-”

“Tanjiro! How are you feeling?” Zenitsu entered the room, looking around before his eyes settled in the plate with the porridge laying on Tanjiro's lap.

“GYAAAAAH! WHAT IS THAT THING??? TANJIRO! THERE'S A DEMON ON YOUR LAP!!”

Y/N stopped hitting Tanjiro, turning to look at Zenitsu and slowing starting to tear up.

“Y-Y/N?”

She didn't respond to him, walking over to the corner of the room and sitting there while hugging her knees with a gloomy aura.

“Zenitsu! How mean!”

“Yeah! You idiot! Y/N made that!”

“Rude! Rude!”

The butterfly kids were quick to defend Y/N, but the damage was already done.

“Y-Y/N, I was just joking! I-it doesn't look that bad-” Zenitsu walked over to her, gently placing his hand on her shoulder.

“Don't lie to meee!” She started to cry even more loudly in response.

“I-IT'S TRUE! TANJIRO, GIVE IT TO ME! I WILL EAT IT!”

“WHAT?? NO WAY! IT'S MINE!”

“WHY ARE YOU REFUSING?? I'M TRYING TO SAVE YOUR LIFE-”

“WAAAAAH!”

“GYAAAA- I WAS JOKING Y/N! DON'T CRY MORE!”

“ZENITSU IS BULLYING Y/N AGAIN!!”

“WHY IS EVERYONE SCREAMING IN THERE???”

Inosuke entered the room, looking around to see Tanjiro holding up the plate with the porridge like it was Simba from the Lion King, Zenitsu exasperatedly trying to grab it from him while the three kids were booing the boy with angry expressions, and Y/N crying in the corner.

“The fuck-”

“Inosuke! You have to help! Zenitsu is bullying Y/N and is trying to take away Tanjiro's food!” One of the kids said.

“YOU GUYS ARE DISTORTING WHAT'S GOING ON IN HERE!”

“HAAAAH? HOW DARE YOU BULLY UNDERLING??”

“ARE YOU LISTENING???” Zenitsu screamed back as Inosuke ran up to them in an attempt to tackle him, but after he saw the plate Tanjiro was holding, he froze and stopped his attack attempt.

“What's this thing?”

“It's Y/N's special porridge!”

“..... I SEE! She made a perfect recreation of the poison of the mountains to give it to Tanjiro in order to strengthen him! As expected of my underling!” He said with a proud expression.

“I WASN'T TRYING TO RECREATE ANY POISON! WAAAAAAAH!”

“That was so mean, Inosuke! Y/N poured all of her love in this food!”

In response, Inosuke only looked blankly at them and went to pat Tanjiro's shoulder, even though he was using his mask, you could almost see his expression of pity.

“Sorry Tonbirou, it seems like underling hates you.”

“INOSUKE! DON'T MAKE THINGS WORSE!” Zenitsu screamed back.

“LET ME TRY IT!” Inosuke said while ignoring Zenitsu's screams, taking off his mask and eating a bit from the plate, his face immediately turning purple as he fell onto his back with his mouth foaming.

Everyone just looked exasperatedly at him.

“… Didn't he had a very good resistance to poison…?” Zenitsu expression was pale from fear.

“Then how come did Tanjiro didn't die when he ate it?”

They all looked over to the burgundy boy with scared expressions, who just smiled back without answering their question.

Inosuke suddenly jumped from the floor. “MY SOUL LEFT AND CAME BACK AGAIN! UNDERLING REALLY IS GOOD AT MAKING POISON!”

“I DIDN'T MEAN FOR IT TO BE POISOOOOON-”

The three butterfly kids, tired of the mess and the screams, suddenly exclaimed together with angry expressions : “IF YOU GUYS ARE GOING TO BE MEAN TO TANJIRO AND Y/N, THEN GET OUT!!”

And that's how Zenitsu and Inosuke were kicked out from their own room.

Tanjiro then finished eating it, surprisingly. How did he even manage to do it without dying was a mystery.

Y/N considered that maybe he wasn't feeling the taste and that's why he managed to do so, but judging by the way that his face would slight twitch at each bite even though he was doing his best in trying to remain expressionless, he really did was feeling it.

It's not like she would be mad if he didn't eat it, so why?

“I told you to not eat it, you idiot…” Y/N said with a pout, as she changed the wet cloth from his forehead.

“I'm sorry for worrying you, I was just happy…”

“Happy?”

“It's been so long, you know? Since the last time someone took care of me when I had a fever…”

“…!!”

“… I'm really happy that you're here… Y/N….”

Perhaps it was because of the fever, but Tanjiro seemed to had lost his filter for his words and was just saying whatever was at his mind at the moment.

He suddenly started to sit up, Y/N grabbing the cloth before it could fall in his lap.

“I'm really… Happy that you're staying by my side…”

“Really? Even though I seem to be always bringing trouble?” She said back with a playful smile, but in response, he suddenly grabbed her wrist, the wet cloth she was holding falling to the ground with a splash sound.

“I don't care if you bring trouble…” He leaned into her hand, nuzzling against her palm. “You're allowed to do whatever you want, whenever you want.”

“Ah- Ahaha! If you say things like that, it would look like you wouldn't complain even if I said that I wanted to take over the world or something-”

He only smiled at her in response, Y/N's smile slowing getting more strained the longer the lack of an answer remained.

“T-Tanjiro…? That's the part you deny-”

“Hmm?”

'Now that I think about it, he did accept it scarily easily when I said that I wanted to bring Daki with us, but-'

“Y/N… can't you marry me? Please?” He looked at her intensely, leaning into her hand even more.

“Marry…? Really? Even after that pathetic display of how much of a failure of a housewife I would be?” She responded with a small smile, referring to the whole cooking incident.

“… It's okay if you can't do something… in fact, even if you were to be the most useless person in the whole universe, I would still want to be with you.”

“H-Huh?”

'Another marriage proposal…?! And so soon??' She thought in complete shock, it's not like she was complaining, but she just didn't know what to do to with all the affection people seemed to suddenly be showering her in lately.

“If you… really meant that, then… can I give you an answer another time…?” She doesn't even know if she will be alive after they fight Muzan, accepting it now could only bring pain later, for both of them.

“fine…” He answered, letting go of her wrist and finally laying back in the bed.

Y/N robotically went to grab another clean cloth, looking at the hand where he was leaning in before.

She… kind of missed his warmness.

                             『••✎••』

“Y/N- I'm deeply sorry! I-”

Everyone was eating their breakfast in the next day, but Tanjiro was apologizing with a completely red face.

“I really- I didn't mean the things that I said-” He was looking down while saying this, probably to hide the expression he always does when he lies.

“Aaaaw, really? Even the part where you said wanted to marry me?” She teased him, his face exploding in red in response, Y/N, please stop doing this before the poor thing passes out-

“This sly fox, using his sickness to get closer to Y/N-” Zenitsu said while biting a handkerchief and crying tears of blood.

“HEY UNDERLING, CAN'T YOU MAKE MORE OF THAT POISON FROM YESTERDAY? IT'S PERFECT FOR TRAINING!”

“You're lucky we eat with chopsticks and not tableware, if we did, I would've had thrown a knife at you-” She smiled at him with a menacing aura, making him cower and silently grab Zenitsu's shirt like a kid.

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Hi! Author here!

My boy Tanjiro hasn't been getting many chances with Y/N recently, so here's a chapter just for him! Hope you guys liked it!

Also, I noticed some of my readers panicking about not knowing with whom they wanted to end up it, and I wanted to say that you guys don't need to worry! Sakura Blossom will be a multiple ending book and each love interest will have their own ending, so you guys can just enjoy the story and the romance without worries!

I hope you guys had a nice day, and until next chapter! <33