“Y/N, good timing!”

“Huh?” As Y/N was once again ditching Uzui's hardcore training to pet a stray cat, Makio ended up finding her.

Uzui's wives were responsible for the lunch, they were the ones that provided the food for the slayers.

“Help us distribute the food! Will ya?”  Makio approached her with a mischievous smile.

“Eh? But-” She dropped a basket filled with onigiri in Y/N's arms, not even giving the girl time to protest.

She weakly walked over to the training ground, sad about having to leave the cat behind.

“Lunch breaaaaaak…” She gloomily called them over for lunch, realizing too late that she was like a rat who stepped inside a lion's den.

In less than one second, countless people were swarming her to grab the food, now she got why Makio's threw this task to her! She was going to be squished to death like this!

“HEY! STOPPING ACTING WILD AND MAKE A LINE!” Luckily, Uzui quickly put things in order.

They formed a line with annoyed expressions, and Y/N started to gave them an onigiri one by one. “Here it is! Have a nice day, Akira!”

“Huh?” The slayer she just gave food froze from shock.

“What is it? Is there something wrong with the onigiri?” Y/N confusedly tilted her head.

“No, it's just… you called me Akira-”

“But that is your name, isn't it?” She frowned.

“It is, but I introduced myself, like, two weeks ago-”

“Yeah, I know!” She smiled brightly.

“N-no way!” He grabbed the arm of the person behind him and pulled him to stood in front of her. “What about him?! What's his name?!”

“That's Hiroshi, right?”

“A-And him?!” He frantically pointed to another guy who was passing by.

“Itsuki.”

“What about her?!”

“Minami.”

“N-no way- She really knows everyone's names-” At this point, they were staring at her like she wasn't a thing from this world.

“I mean, everyone from the corps is a precious comrade! So, I should at least know the names of the people I fight alongside with, shouldn't I?” Y/N smiled at them.

'A-AN ANGEL-!!'

Before Tanjiro could even start participating in the hashira training, Y/N had unknowingly already started the process of dominating the whole corps.

                          『••✎••』

“GOOD MORNING, GIYUU! TODAY I FEEL LIKE EATING UDON, AND YOU'RE COMING WITH!” Y/N and Tanjiro once again invaded his house with no previous warning.

Today was the third day of the endless nagging for Giyuu to open up. Now that Y/N remembered, in the manga, Giyuu gave up in the fourth day, so they were already close.

Though, to Tanjiro, it seemed like she was using this entire thing as an excuse to ditch training and eat out.

“Giyuu, do you hate udon?” As they were walking over to the udon place, Y/N asked Giyuu with a frown.

“I don't particularly hate it, why do you ask?”

“It's just… you look specially gloomy today-” She sweat-dropped.

“… It's the contrary, actually. I'm happy to go out with you both.”

“Is that so?!” Tanjiro brightened up.

“Really?!” Y/N's smile also widened.

'…these two are really alike-' Giyuu stared at them, surprised.

“Sorry, it's hard to tell when you're having fun because you never smile! I'm happy you don't mind us, though.” She completed.

“Oh…” After she said this, Giyuu face started to contort weirdly.

“What's up with that expression? Are you constipated?” Y/N didn't realize that he was trying to smile, so she ended up blurting out this.

“PFFT-” Tanjiro looked away from them, covering his mouth while shoulders trembled.

“Why are you laughing-? Did I miss something?” Y/N approached him with a frown. “Just so you know, constipation is a serious issue!”

“Y-Y/N, I think he is- pfft- trying to smile- pff-” Tanjiro responded, you could tell he was having a hard time attempting to hold in his laughter.

“Is that so?” They both turned at the same time to stare at Giyuu again.

“BWAHAHA-” Though, Tanjiro immediately broke down in loud laughter after only taking a single glance at his face.

“T-Tanjiro! You shouldn't laugh at his sincerity!” Y/N said, though she was biting her lips to hold down her own laugh, the corners of her mouth were also twitching to get up.

“I'm sorry- I'm so sorry-” He took a deep breath to calm down and finally looked up.

“PFFT-” Only to immediately break down again after glancing at Giyuu's face another time.

'He's been laughing a lot these days.' An irk mark appeared in Giyuu's head, as he started to walk away and leave them behind.

“Aaaah! Giyuu, waaaiit!” They ran after him, Y/N quickly getting in front of the poor guy.

“I know it's hard to smile when you're not used to it! But don't worry, we will help you!” She said with a determinate expression.

Y/N then proceeded to point at her own face, smiling in order to show an example to him. “Like this! See? See?! Did you learn it?”

“I doubt that's how it works.” Giyuu commented while staring at her, the sparkles that seemed to come out from the girl's smile were hurting his eyes.

“I didn't learn anything besides the fact that you're unbelievable cute.” Tanjiro also said with a straight face.

Her face exploded in red, you could almost see the smoke coming out from her head.

“We will work on that later! Let's go get udon!” Y/N turned away from them, starting to storm off.

'Oh, she got embarrassed.' They both sweat-dropped.

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“Delicious! So delicious!” Y/N was eating udon now, kicking her feet from happiness.

“I'm surprised by how easily your mood changes…” Giyuu commented, staring blankly at her.

“I'm used to it.” Tanjiro nonchalantly said, going back to slurp on his noodles.

Just as Giyuu was about to eat his, Y/N interrupted him :

“Giyuu, you know that pepper?” she pointed to the pepper glass besides the salt. “Ten shakes, and you get the perfect spiciness!”

“Y/N, I don't think that-” She suddenly took a bunch of noddles from Tanjiro's bowl and shoved it inside his mouth, stopping him from talking.

“Go on, Giyuu, it's fantastic!” She smiled at him as Tanjiro exasperatedly tried to chew the food in between chokes.

'That smile- No way, is she trying to take revenge for the manju?!' He thought as Giyuu innocently reached out to the pepper.

One shake, two shakes, three shakes…

“Ah, no, you're shaking it too lightly! From the start!”

One shake, two shakes, three shakes…

“Now you're shaking it too strongly! From the start!”

One shake, two shakes, three shakes…

“Now that I think about, maybe the way you were shaking before was the correct one, from the start!”

After a while, there was probably more pepper than udon in his bowl. “Go on, Giyuu! Now it's perfect!”

“G-giyuu, you can trade your bowl if you-”

Despite Tanjiro's suggestion, Giyuu still took some noodles and ate them. “It's good.”

“What?!” Both simultaneously exclaimed.

“I have a feeling it was way more than seven shakes, but it's good nonetheless. Thanks, Y/N.”

“O-oh- no problem…” She awkwardly said, starting to feel bad.

“No way- he really is immune to spice-” Tanjiro stared at him in complete shock.

“WAH- NO WAY, THEY HAVE CHOCOLATE HERE?!” Y/N suddenly got up from her spot, she seemed to have spotted chocolate in a store across the street.

“Huh? Y/N, what do you-”

“I'm going to get some! Watch my udon!” She quickly left.

“….”

“….”

As expected, the silence was awkward.

“Good… day… today… isn't it?” Tanjiro attempted to strike a conversation.

“Its nighttime.” Giyuu wasn't trying to be rude, he only stated the obvious as he went back to eat his pepper that happened to have a bit of udon.

“…oh.”

'He's cold outside, but I can tell from his smell that he's having fun, that's great!' Tanjiro smiled to himself.

“The smiling thing we talked about before…”

“Huh? What about it?” Tanjiro asked, happy that he attempted to hold a conversation first.

“I think that maybe it would be easier to understand if you explained it instead of Y/N.”

“Well, uh… it's easier if you think about something you like!”

“Something… I like…?” Giyuu tilted his head.

“Yeah! Like, your favorite food or someone that your affection for.”

“I see. When you smile, what do you think about?” He asked.

“About my friends! Oh- and my sister! And…” Tanjiro's face suddenly started to get red, from his reaction, you can probably already tell who he was thinking about in the last part.

“I don't have a favorite food, and a person....I don't think I have someone like that too.” He coldly said.

“Well, who's the closest person to you?”

“I think… currently… the person who talks to me the most is her.”

“Her…?”

“Because she's always smiling and happy, it's easy to approach her. But it's also hard to talk, maybe it's thanks to the fact she's pretty, so it makes it hard to interact with her without getting nervous.”

'Wait… that description… isn't that person-' Tanjiro's eyes widened.

He gulped, and even though he felt like he wouldn't like what he was going to hear if the conversation kept going, he still asked : “B-but, how do you feel when you think about that girl?”

“Like vomiting.”

“Oh…” Tanjiro sighed from relief, he really was worried about no-

“It also hurts a lot, like I'm going to have a heart attack. And even though it hurts, I still end up thinking a lot about her when she isn't around.”

“I see…” Tanjiro nodded before staring down at his udon again, after a few seconds of silence, his eyes suddenly widened from realization, and he abruptly got up from his chair. “WAIT! If it is like that, doesn't it means that you like Y/N-”

“I'm back! And look, I got a lot! Let's share it with everyone when we go back!” Y/N interrupted Tanjiro.

“Here, have some, Giyuu!” She happily ran over to him, dropping some chocolate on his hands.

“…” He stared down at the sweets, and then looked up at Y/N again, smiling softly. “Thank you.”

“W-wow! That was such a wonderful smile! I knew you could do it!” She exclaimed, feeling giddy and ending up giving him more candy, it started to pile up on his hands.

“Y/N, can we go back?” Tanjiro suddenly tugged at her haori.

“Huh? Why? You look kind of pale, are you okay?”

“I-it's nothing, can we go back?”

“Oh…okay then.” She turned to Giyuu, smiling brightly at him. “Until tomorrow!”

Tanjiro delicately grabbed her wrist and pulled her along. "But I didn't finish the udon, though-"

"We can get more another day."

“Oh, fine. But are you sure you're okay? Why did you want to leave so suddenly?” She stared at his back with a worried expression.

“I'm okay! I was just feeling a bit tired, I'm sorry if you wanted to stay longer.” He looked over his shoulder, smiling gently at her.

Y/N sighed from relief after seeing that he seemed to be fine, happily humming a random song while they went back to the butterfly mansion.

'Today's onigiri was really good, I wonder what's lunch going to be tomorrow!' Y/N, of course, was thinking about food on the way back.

While Tanjiro…

'My rivals… I can't bear it if it increases once more- AAAARGHH!'

He was having a hard time, as you can see.