CHAPTER 8: THE EATING EACH OTHER THING.
Inosuke halted as he widened his eyes in shock.
His "patrol inside the state as he was waiting to be called for a mission because he already could move" ended abruptly.
It was the first time he saw it, and he couldn't understand it.
Maybe, it was because of the blood loss or the big scar on his chest, but his brain wasn't processing anything. Perhaps, he was hallucinating. His whole body was stiff as a rock, as he watched the curious and suspicious scene not so far away from him. He saw how the long-black-haired man pushed softly the purple-haired woman to the wall and opened his mouth before putting their mouths together.
They were trying to eat each other.
Correction, they were fucking eating each other.
Like a predator and his prey.
Like wild demons, and that was rare because he could tell they weren't. However, that was the only explanation his brain could give him.
Each one of his hairs stood up as he hissed menacingly. Shinobu was more important than the black-haired, way dearer to him, so the guy must be the demon. That made sense due to his strength. The blue-haired kid still held a grudge, for the time he was tied up to a big tree at Nagatsumo mountain. Now everything made sense. Shinobu was trying to protect herself. Yes, that was it.
It was thanks to Aoi arriving at the scene that he didn't attack them. Dragging him to the recovery wing, she yelled at him for running around just after his discharge. He yelled back, making a tantrum. He claimed he could do whatever he wanted and that he was fine. Laughing smugly and loudly, he said he had an amazing body, capable of moving his internal organs to avoid vital injures. Clicking his tongue, he shouted again that he was resistant to poison, damn it! Still, Aoi nagged him, telling him the medicines he was taking weren't as good in him as in the others demon hunters. Inosuke got quiet for a second, making the little nurse sigh, relieved he wasn't going to continue their quarrel. Secretly, she had been trying to make him forget what they had seen, but a question that she didn't expect came from him.
"So, loud chibi, why were those two eating each other?"
Aoi looked at him like he was a strange creature from a strange galaxy.
Seriously?
"Huh?"
"TELL ME WHY SHINOBU AND THAT TOKIKAKU GUY WERE EATING EACH OTHER!?"
Hashibira Inosuke, age fifteen, was totally clueless about life.
"WE HAVE TO SAVE HER!"
Ok, Aoi thought at first he was pranking her. There was no way he could be that stupid. But his eyes were so adamant she understood he was serious. It was so ridiculous (for her) that she blushed, thinking about how she will explain to the dumbest guy on earth what they had witnessed. So, noticing they were already in the recovery wing door and before escaping to the kitchen, she pushed him inside and stuttered, "PLE-PLEASE GO ASK ZENITSU SAN OR TANJIROU SAN!"
She ran away like her life was in danger.
It didn't end there because the wild guy, watching the little nurse ran away from him, lost his patience. Exhaling air from his nostrils, he turned to his two best friends, who were looking at the scene curiously. He shouted again, asking why Shinobu and that half haori Tomikaku were eating each other. Gompachirou, who had recently woke up, and Monitsu, who was all good and getting ready to go to a mission, looked at him, blinking for five seconds before reacting (shockingly realizing) to the big unexpected news. The redhead blushed, losing his voice due to the shock his benefactor was in a secret relationship with the butterfly woman, and Monitsu, disgusted, narrowed his eyes. "Are you serious? All this time in the red light district, and you still don't know anything!?" At the silence of the boar guy, the blonde broke in laughs, losing his breath, almost dying at the hands of the green-eyed guy while Tanjirou hid his face in his hands.
"Ohh, Inosuke..."
"WE WERE THERE ONLY FOR ONE DAY, OR TWO, SHIT! ARRRGGG! I DON'T KNOW ANYMORE!"
"Hahahahahahaa, you should have peeped at least once! Hahahaahahaha!"
"ZENITSU!"
"Hahaahahhahahaha, come on Tanjirou, how could he's so stupid!?"
Inosuke vein popped on his forehead. He did a headlock to Monitsu till his unstoppable laughs and the loss of breath got him asleep. Inosuke threw the blond guy to his bed and stomped out of the room, ignoring Gompachioru shouts calling him. His minions were mocking him, he was sure. But Inosuke still didn't understand, and he knew he wasn't going to get anything from his two best friends, so he went to look for answers.
Arriving at his favorite room of the big house, he slammed the door open, shouting.
"HEY, PIPSQUEAK! THEY WON'T FUCKING TELL ME ANYTHING! THEY WERE LAUGHING AT THE GREAT INOSUKE SAMA!"
Aoi knew what he was talking about and rolled her eyes. "Well, I can't blame them," she muttered for herself.
"TELL ME WHY SHINOBU AND THAT TOMIKAKU GUY WERE EATING EACH OTHER, FUCK!"
Aoi sighed, continuing to cut some vegetables.
"HE IS A FUCKING DEMON, RIGHT!?" Inosuke slammed his fist onto the wall. "IF HE IS, WE HAVE TO FUCKING CUT HIS HEAD!"
Aoi once again rolled her eyes. Shinobu wasn't in the State, and the little nurse knew she had gone with the water pillar to who knows where so she let him shout all he wanted. If there was a person dumber than the dumbest person on earth, that was Inosuke Hashibira.
Aoi snorted.
"They are not demons."
"THEN, TELL ME WHY!?"
She sighed.
Inosuke, still ignorant about the complications of life and feelings, stubbornly demanded an explanation from the girl for the rest of the day. When she was cooking, he shouted. When she was doing the laundry, he shouted. When she was making some medicines, he shouted. And the nurse, embarrassed, tired and flushed, threatened to tear apart his boar mask if he wouldn't shut up. The intimidation was a success because he flinched and left her alone.
But she felt bad for him after some time.
Hiding from him in the kitchen again, she started to cook onigiris for him. She hoped the offering would calm him down.
Aoi once again sighed. She had also been a witness of the scene, more than once. But, in her case, she knew accurately what the two pillars were doing and what kind of relationship they had. Aoi knew their secret, she had been paying attention, and she was sure she was the only one who had noticed it. She admitted she couldn't explain it to Inosuke without stuttering, feeling nervous, and wanting to dig a hole and die.
Not to him. Hashibira Inosuke was the only person who she wouldn't explain anything about the sort. One of the reasons was because she knew the talk would take hours and scar them for life. It would be too uncomfortable. Besides, he should have that knowledge for someone of his age. The other reasons, she preferred to maintain it in her heart, but her mixed feelings plus the gratitude she felt towards him and the other boys were confusing her. She sighed. He had nobody who will explain it to him aside from his two best friends and her, and the two best friends, well, they weren't an option. Come on! He had been in the red light district not long ago with the extravagant sound pillar! He should have catch things up! Maybe if she explained the situation to Shinobu and asked her to talk to him...no, no matter how dumb he was, Aoi wouldn't let him have that awkward moment. Besides, the Butterfly lady was sure nobody knew about her little secret.
He should know about it.
"WOMAN!" The door slammed open once again, and she yelped, surprised. "I HID IT! MUAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH!"
"YOU'LL NEVER KNOW WHERE MY MASK IS!"
Aoi arched an eyebrow and sighed, she was sure it was under his bed, but she was tired. She nodded and gave him the food, making his bright green eyes shine at the sight of fresh onigiri, for him only.
"By the way, they weren't eating each other. Well, not in the way you think."
Inosuke's attention returned to the eating each other topic and frowned. "And what way is that!?"
Looking at his curios big green round eyes, she gulped. Great Aoi, you and your big mouth confused him more. Argh, I'm not doing this!
"YOU ARE AN IDIOT! GO ASK SOMEONE ELSE!"
"HAAAAAAAH!?"
He was ignorant, innocent, confused, and kind of curious about it. He had been following her all the fucking day for an answer. He felt she was the one who could answer him honestly. Frowning at the girl who, clear to him, was avoiding the topic and trying to run away, he made his decision. Walking to where she was standing, not giving her a chance to react, he launched towards her. Grabbing her face, he crashed their lips together. The result was a "peck" on the lips with so much force both lips got hurt, tasted like blood, and their noses and teeth clashed painfully. And as expected, Aoi stuttered, with a thin line of blood on her mouth, flushed with a vivid red on her face, and pushed him hard, running away from him and his savage ways, shouting he was an idiot.
Watching her running away, he bit his onigiri, rubbing his face and lip, thinking that what he had done must not be the eating-each-other thing because he didn't feel like wanting to eat her, plus she had run away. Shinobu hadn't been running away from the Tomikaku guy so,
"CAAAWW! HASHIBIRA INOSUKE! MISSION! IN THE MOUNTAINS! CAAAWWW!"
Inosuke shut off his brain, shrugging, and didn't give a fuck about the situation anymore as he ran to the recovery wing to look for his things.
Besides, the onigiri he was chewing on was delicious.
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Inosuke clicked his tongue as he arrived at the State.
He had a very tedious mission with a demon who was an expert at running away, not an upper moon but stronger than average demons. But in the end, his breath style and his hypersensitive senses had made him end the mission with one movement but not before the demon injured him. Though what had put him in a bad mood was that he had run into the eating-each-other-thing once again. In his brain, he had understood it wasn't a bad thing so he had not attacked the couple he saw in the woods. He just left them alone.
But, he was irritated because he still couldn't understand what was so good about the dreadful act.
He was starting to get uncomfortable, not he was going to say it out loud.
He was starting to wonder how humans could eat each other with their tiny mouths.
After been welcomed in the State by the three small girls, he learned that Gompachiro had been in the swordsmith's village, fighting and killing an upper moon. Nemukoko could talk and could stand the sun, and Monitsu had still not returned from his mission. As soon as he heard the news, he went to see his sleeping friend. After making sure he was alive, he went to teach Nekuzo his name, telling her that she should recognize him as a superior being, a boss, yes, boss Inosuke. As soon as he made sure the beautiful demon girl learned his name and who was the boss, he went to the kitchen and happily loudly asked for food.
It was worst than the demon he had fought.
"THERE'S NO FOOD FOR YOU, YOU JERK!"
"HAAAAAH!?" Inosuke evaded a kitchen knife that the "loud chibi" had thrown in his direction. "WHY IS THAT, YOU CRAZY MIDGET!"
"GO TO HELL, IDIOT!" She threw the saucepan, and he barely caught it before it landed on his face. Even wearing his mask, he was sure it would have hurt pretty much.
"YOU FUCKING LITTLE - WHY ARE YOU SO ANGRY WITH ME!?"
Aoi, holding a kitchen cleaver on her hand above her head, ready to make her move, halted and widened her eyes at him, a black aura surrounding her as he gulped. He recognized the quiet exhale of air she made, he was sure she was using the total concentration breath, and for the love of mama boar, he took a step back. He fucking took a step back. Cocking her head a little, she said, "youuuu, are you really asking me why I'm angry with you?"
Inosuke was the King of the mountains, the Boss Inosuke, the Great Inosuke-sama, he will never run away, never. He had taken a step back only for balance, yes, balance. He wasn't a sissy baby. That was Chuitsu's job! But the goosebumps he felt on his body were telling him to run, run before that cleaver land on his head and behead him. Yet, no, he had a pride he was not going to betray, and a pang of hunger he was not going to ignore anymore, so he straightened, and before he roared his answer, they heard the shout that shut him up and made her return to her chores.
"INOSUKE SAN! SHINOBU SAMA IS CALLING YOUUU!"
Releasing a breath he was holding, thanks to the sudden panic and intimidation he had felt, his eyes returned to the blue-haired girl. She had given him her back and had started to cook again, muttering, "go away, caveman. You should get your injury checked."
"You really are crazy, woman." He left her, feeling a rush of adrenaline in his system.
After Shinobu checked him with a smile, she ordered him to rest. Her black aura had given him no time to protest as he quietly obeyed. He didn't eat and got sleepy as soon as his head touched the pillow, the tiredness winning him over. Granted, he woke up at night because he was hungry. Groaning, he slowly got out of his bed and went to the kitchen to look for a delicious meal.
Bad idea.
What the fuck is going on with the people?
He saw the eating-each-other-thing again on his way to the kitchen. They were in the garden, standing there under the moonlight. It was as if the moon and the stars wanted to give them some spotlight. They shined, and Inosuke could swear even the fireflies were favoring them. He widened his eyes, focusing. Shinobu looked like she was happy. Not the usual smile, she looked content with him, with that guy known as the water pillar. The loud, hyperactive kid saw how the long-haired man leaned to the woman's face and captured her lips as she grabbed him by his haori, pulling him towards her body.
Inosuke, like a rock, stood there. He didn't dare to move or breathe neither took his eyes from them. He saw how the eating-each-other thing changed when the water pillar hands took the butterfly woman's haori off. Opening her uniform collar, the grown-up man latched his lips over her neck as she made a strangled sound, like a moan.
That gave the boar guy goosebumps. He felt heat pooling in his stomach.
He was biting her.
The beast breath user panicked so much that he ran away. His face burned, and he acknowledged they weren't monsters neither demons. They weren't eating each other, not in the way he thought they were. His mask was suffocating him, so he took it off. He then remembered the blue-haired girl was so angry with him because he had tried to eat her. His instinct kicked in, and he got interested in the whole thing he had witnessed. Eating each other meant something different to humans. They didn't do it to survive like other creatures. The blue-haired girl came to his mind almost immediately. What would happen if he did to her what that Tomito guy was doing? Would she hit him? Or, like Shinobu, would she make that strangled sound, running her hand towards his neck to pull him closer to her? The heat rose again, curiosity got over him, and he made a quick turn towards her room.
His irrationality overwhelming him as his senses were shouting to him.
His body was itching.
The parts of his skin he imagined she was touching burned.
What the hell was happening to him!?
The eating-each-other thing was really something powerful then.
"What are you doing running around like that!?"
Inosuke watched Aoi walking in his direction, and he stopped in front of her. He looked at her for a few seconds. She was wearing the same outfit as him, a set of white shirt and pants. She was blushing, looking at him curiously, narrowing her eyes at him. He noted she was agitated. Widening his beautiful eyes, he suddenly pushed her to the nearby wall. Surprised by his sudden seriousness, she put her hand on his biceps for support but, deep inside her, she understood his intentions because she had been staring at the same scene on her way back from the bathroom.
Her fingers felt his hard muscles flench, and she blushed more.
Her core made a little twitch.
"What are you doing, you pig!?" She didn't want to shout, it was past midnight, plus she didn't want to call unwanted attention. She was nervous. He leaned to her face, and she got lost in his bright green eyes shining with something she couldn't tell what it was. She tried to push him away from her with all the force she could muster. Why is he without his mask? He grabbed her hands and pinned them over her head as he licked his lips, locking eyes with her. Gasping, she rubbed her thighs together, arching her back.
"Are you still angry with me?" His husky tone alarmed her.
"S- Stop! Inosuke san! You are just confused!" she quietly muttered.
"Huh?" he whispered. "Answer me, chibi."
Aoi gulped, looking at his demanding green eyes. She frowned, blushing. "Yes, I am! You left, idiot! You did that to me and left! I COULDN'T EVEN SLAP YOU!" She squirmed at his heated gaze, clenching her eyes shut. "Maybe it's not important to you, but it's important to me! That was my first time! I couldn't stop thinking about it, jerk! You left in the middle of the afternoon without telling me anything or apologize! I - I- what the hell did you spect me to do!? Welcome you with fried shrimps and onigiris!?"
Inosuke listened to her, not understanding what she was saying, but the rush of excitement and the jolt in his spine won over him. She looked different with her hair down but, still, he knew it was her. His instinct kicked in, and his senses made him understand she wasn't looking at him like she wanted him to let go of her.
"Besides, you only want to do this because Shinobu sama is doing it! I think you should think things more- hmmnf-"
It wasn't like that pain a year ago. It hadn't blood or a clash of noses and teeth. It was a chaste kiss, a push-together lips kiss, and Aoi got startled at the softness of his lips and the way he moved them against her own quivering ones. Before she came to reality, he pulled apart and grinned. He then brushed her long hair from her neck, his callused hand ticking her soft sensitive skin, and put his lips over her flesh. His tongue tasted her skin.
His teeth bit her lightly.
Aoi flinched beneath him as she felt him letting her hands go. She opened her eyes, finding his green ones scanning her stranged.
"Where is my noise, woman?"
Noi- Noise what noise, did he-
Aoi blinked. Did he want for her to moan?
She frowned, focusing on him a little. She saw his mask resting on the top of his head, and his white shirt opened. For few seconds, she focused on the bandages and his muscled chest. Scared by the rush of excitement she felt, she pushed him away from her, not violently, not in the way Inosuke was used to, not hitting him, and turned to her room. She was repeating a mantra on her brain, trying with all her might not blush like a tomato and turn into a pool of goo. Besides, she wondered why he had not fought her and had let himself be pushed. Before leaving, she turned her head to him. "There's no sound for you, goodnight Inosuke san."
She won't moan for him. If he wanted a moan, he would have to work for it.
He will have to learn about it.
Besides, she felt that if she moaned, he wouldn't stop only in that. For some minutes, she had felt like prey under her predator. Aoi was more surprised about her thoughts than about him kissing her.
She then realized he had kissed her, probably without knowing it.
Stupid gorgeous pig. His eyes had made her weak.
Why the hell was he without his mask!?
Inosuke watched her back disappearing and licked his lips, with his eyes closed, concentrating on her taste as he tried to find something that would make him get addicted to it, something that would make him want to eat her. His lips were still tingling. Her lips had felt good, very good. He found himself wanting to bit them...he should have bitten them. But he had focused on her voice, wanting to hear the same sound Shinobu had made. However, even if he had done the same thing as the black-long-haired man, he hadn't heard anything. "Shit, I still don't understand this eating-each-other thing!" He groaned loudly, grabbing his head. Well, at least she wasn't trying to kill him anymore.
His tummy rumbled, and like a switch, he remembered he was hungry.
"Oh damn right, I'm hungry!"
Forgetting what had happened, he literally skipped to the kitchen, his body feeling surprisingly light.
The next day they forgot everything. The two teens acted as if nothing had happened. Well, they didn't have the time or the opportunity to act as if something had happened. Tanjirou awoke, and the beast breath user spent the whole day talking with him about their missions. And the day after that, Zenitsu arrived and tried to murder the blue-haired guy for teaching Nezuko useless things ("my name is first! She should have learned my name first, you dumbest beast!"). Aoi had been busy those days too. Shinobu had called her to start important medical lessons, teaching her how to make very high-level medicines. Shinobu's sudden advanced lessons alerted the blue-haired girl but got her so busy she only played with Nezuko a little on her break. Then, all the demon hunters got summoned to the Pillar training. Expectedly, Inosuke got so excited about the training that he forgot about everything, leaving Aoi without notice once again.
She couldn't blame him, though.
She had things far more relevant to do. Her advanced lessons had only started.
Besides, defeating demons was more important than whatever was going on between them.
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Muzan was defeated with a lot of sacrifices.
Shinobu was one of them, and Aoi couldn't help but took her place as the doctor. She should have known when the butterfly pillar had made her have those advanced lessons. She should have known she was preparing everything for her death.
She should have known.
Even with the help of the little girls, the Kakushi, Uzui's wives, and Yushiro's crucial knowledge, it had been very hard to save the lives of all the injured survivors. She had been busy every day, apart from bearing with the angst and worry the whole situation caused. She had no sleep for more than a week but was satisfied they had succeeded. Physically, and emotionally she was tired. But, one day, her efforts rewarded her when the first one to wake up had been Inosuke, the moment she was beside him doing her checking routine. She had been so happy (and secretly relieved) to hear his hoarse voice demanding food that she had hugged the guy and cried like a baby, thanking God he was safe and alive. Inosuke, recognizing her immediately, acknowledging where he was, and remembering what had happened, didn't stay behind. His tears fell inevitably as he hugged her back, pulling her to sit on his bed, tightening her body against his weak one, tightly fisting the back of her clothes. Hiding his face in her neck, he muttered he was sorry repeatedly.
The blue-haired girl could understand why he was apologizing. She was aware he had beat an upper moon with Kanao and a deceased Shinobu but had not prevented the death of the former pillar. Trying to comfort him, she couldn't help herself. She was so happy and so relieved and so sad and so tired, she wasn't thinking. That was the excuse she had made to her own heart. She sought his lips and kissed him, her hands came to his cheeks, and with her thumbs, she cleaned his tears. Inosuke widened his eyes as a blush crept on his cheeks. It was as innocent and shorter as the time he did it, but Aoi had been the one who had done it this time, and Inosuke's brain finally put two and two together and accepted the eating-each-other-thing was a good thing.
He understood the eating-each-other-thing was full of feelings.
His hand slowly came to her cheeks, and he also cleared her tears, "um-hum I'm - well - It's good to see you save and sound and alive, Inosuke san."
"A-hAh!"
Aoi got free from his arms around her body and smiled brightly, "I will go to get you some delicious food, ok?"
Inosuke nodded, finding himself not wanting her to let go of him. Like a kid, he grabbed her sleeve, and she grinned at him.
"Don't worry! It won't take me much time!" She patted his hand, and he let her go. "Then, maybe, if you want, we can talk about what had happened in your fight."
Inosuke winced at his memories and lowered his head, looking at the sheets.
"Ok."
She smiled widely.
And since then, they were stuck together.
Inosuke was completely aware of his "thing" with Aoi. He wasn't that sure about the name of his feelings, but he realized the "loud chibi" wasn't someone he could ignore, not anymore. After he had awakened and because he had been for a long time the first one capable of moving, they had talked, they had fought, they had shared meals, they had shared moments. She started to teach him how to read and write, and he helped her with her chores. He walked her when she had to buy medicines. When a patient tried to vent his frustration on her, the blue-haired man would stand beside her like a bodyguard, glaring at the poor soul who had dared to talk to "his girl" like that, immediately stopping the ruckus. They hadn't done the eating-each-other-thing again, but he was sure he only had to do it with her. Plus, Aoi also hadn't mentioned anything about it. Yet, she always smiled at him, making him all fluffy inside.
Aoi also was feeling good beside him. His constant yells and tantrums about his injuries and body strength weakening had made her hit him more than once, but she still always sat to explain to him how his body worked. Plus, the always sweet times and talks they had about a lot of things. Inosuke protected her in his own way, and she was aware their relationship was changing. Secretly, she knew what she was feeling wasn't something innocent, but she wanted him to understand his own heart before starting something deep. The truth was that he had taken (and will take) her firsts, and she will have it in her mind and heart all her life. Although, there were some things she also considered important.
Like him telling her about Shinobu's death, and the demon who killed her.
Like him telling her the same demon had killed his mother.
Like him telling her about the blurry memories about his mother.
Like her crying every night because Shinobu wasn't around anymore.
Like her crying for his mother, thanking her that he was alive.
Like him disappearing when he wasn't needed.
As being the first one to wake up (the gree-eyed guy always remarked that as proof he was the number one, the best, Inosuke sama), sometimes Inosuke disappeared from the state very early and returned very late, covered in leaves and dirt. When Aoi asked him why he was so dirty, he always told her dirt was the friend of the mountain king, making her roll her eyes and mutter something about his idiocy yet, she always set a bath for him and made him night snacks. But after following him one day, the blue-haired girl discovered he went to the small mountain near the state. She wondered if being surrounded by nature made him good because he returned more relaxed, talking without shouts and asking if Gompachirou or Monitsu were awake.
"I believe it helps him think!" Nezuko had said one day when Aoi was worried that he wasn't content living in the State for so much time.
After some time, it became a regular thing that Aoi got used to it. She started to leave him a bento on the table kitchen with a note, telling him to eat everything, and when she woke up, the bento wasn't there, but there was an acorn in its place.
Inosuke's disappearances shortened when Zenitsu and Tanjirou woke up. The blonde guy was the first to open his eyes, and Inosuke was entertained playing with his friend. Even if all Zenitsu wanted to do was to be with Nezuko, they talked every day. When the redhead opened his eyes, the blue-haired man almost ran over every person in the state (except Aoi) to get into his room. However, he still went to the mountains to have his alone time. He needed it if he was honest. Even if Tanjioru was safe and sound but with a useless eye and arm, Zenitsu's legs were weak but operative, Kanako was partially blind but walking, and he, well, he had a special plate of food in the kitchen as Aoi fill it every day with different kinds of food, he still felt restless. Shinobu's death had been a big hit to him, her death, and the fact he couldn't have prevented it or save her. Also, the horrible truth the same demon murdered his mother. The only thing Inosuke did in the mountains, not so far from the State, was to look at the sky. Before his friends got up, he stayed there until late at night, looking at the moon and crying a little. Sometimes, he talked with the big white balloon about his mother, his memories, about how he thought Shinobu was like his mother, about his heart and a certain blue-haired girl.
The mountains had helped him understand his feelings after spending some time in the State.
So the mountains would help him to clear the predicament he was in too.
A week ago, Gompachirou announced that he would return to his family house with Nezuko. Inosuke had noticed the sad faces of every girl in the State, especially Kanako. He also had felt sad but, then, the redhead turned to his two best friends and told them they should live together if they wanted. Monitsu had nodded immediately, hugging the sun breather, shouting he was so kind and good and all the nonsense he constantly whined about. However, Inosuke was thrown to a wall to make a decision. After the announcement, Gompachirou told him they should stop being a burden to the girls. They had been living too much time in the State, under their hand. The mountain king wasn't sure of many things, but he knew he liked to live in the Butterfly State. Also, he liked to be with the redhead and the rest. Yet, deep inside his heart, he knew Santarou was right. He'll go where Gompachirou'll go. But he felt a pang in his heart. That night was their last night at the State.
Sighing, he looked at the sky.
He liked Aoi's food.
He liked her presence there.
He liked the taste of her lips.
He liked her smile.
He knew that what he felt for her wasn't something trivial. And thanks to his memories and the motherly love he had received, he understood he loved her.
"Aoi..." Like a bucket of cold water, every eating-each-other thing they had done came to his brain, and he jumped from the rock he was sitting in, feeling a sudden rush. He wanted to do the eating-each-other-thing again before leaving. I'm an idiot! I should have brought her with me! We should be looking at the same sky! And then, they should be eating each other again. The fuzziness he always felt when she smiled at him came to his brain. Plus, his noise! He had never heard his noise! He wanted his noise damn it! He had to return to the State and face Aoi and demand his fucking noise because he deserved it shit!
And because he didn't want to leave her side, but he knew he had to do it.
Because he did understand he had to grow up.
A loud rumble in the sky alerted his distracted senses as the rain started to pour almost immediately after it.
His return to the State couldn't have been more rugged, even if it was close. Firstly, he bumped with a big bear. After staring (menacingly glaring) at each other for more than ten seconds, the boar guy kind of understood (he called it animal telepathy) what the huge animal was thinking.
"OHHH, BASTARD! IT'S ON!"
Like a true mountain king, Inosuke fought the bear to prove his supremacy and the boss title (imposed, of course) in that territory. After winning that battle, he fought with a wild monkey that attacked him when he jumped into the tree branch the little guy had made his home. Falling from the tree, he called it landing with style, he came eye to eye with a small femme boar that immediately started to lick the snout of his mask. The little animal followed him until, in the middle of his way down the mountain, another wild boar, who apparently considered him as his love rival, rammed him. Inosuke had to ram back the boar, angry he got hit by a brother. After some time, he arrived at the state, at midnight, tired, with a big slash courtesy of the bear on his chest, wet dirt all over his body, and bruises and cuts. However, all those events had filled him with energy, and he was in a very great mood.
Finding the State closed, Inosuke jumped the fence and landed on the garden quietly. Letting the water clean his exposed skin, he shook off like a wild animal and started his food search. He erased his presence, remembering Aoi's words about delicacy and silence for the injured. Besides, the boar guy more than once had scared her to death with his sudden arrivals. He liked to scare her, so most of those times, he had done it on purpose. What will he do without her? Scare Nezuko? He sighed. He admitted he didn't have the heart to be in the state that day because he wouldn't bear saying goodbye to the blue-eyed girl. But something told him she was awake, waiting for him. He grinned under his mask, moving through the house like a ninja. But suddenly, he heard a sound that made him halt in his place and turn his widened eyes to the direction of it.
He knew that sound.
That fucking sound made him shiver.
The sound he was eager to hear from a certain girl.
What he witnessed put his feelings and thoughts on a whole new level for him, opening his brain (and heart) in a more deep and mind-breaking sense. A whole-new-level.
This time the eating-each-other-thing had escalated to a different high level.
Completely different.
He couldn't remember their names, but he knew their faces. They were demon hunters, of the few that had survived. They were his companions, a boy, and a girl. Shocked, Inosuke noted she was pinned against a tree as the boy eat her like a wild predator. They were almost naked too, but the green-eyed guy couldn't see details. Dumbfounded, the boar guy noted the girl's legs were around the boy's waist as he was ramming her in a tempo that, surprisingly, the mountain king felt completely improper for the place they were in due to the sounds they both made. It looked like they didn't mind the rain or the sudden spectators. He didn't get what was happening, but his senses told him not to make any sound because those two were doing something they shouldn't.
A sense of lust washed him over.
He heard their voices of pure ecstasy again, and he trembled.
His senses arose.
His body got hot, his skin tingled, his groin reacted.
Trying to run away from the place to go to the kitchen without making a sound, he noticed not so far away from him, at an equally stupefied Aoi Kanzaki, who was blushing like a tomato and had forgotten it was raining. She has really been awake, waiting for me. Inosuke, surprised, took off his mask and narrowed his eyes. He followed her eyes, which were focused on the scene that was happening in front of them, then on her hands, which were holding the now completely wet and dirty white sheets that she had hung in the garden that morning. The blue-haired boy realized she had forgotten to fold the clean sheets. So when the rain started, she had run to it and had found the scene.
And was in complete shock. She was as red as a tomato and soaked to head to toe.
Inosuke's heart started to beat like crazy. She was there, under the rain, with her hair free from her usual pigtails, plastered to her face. Her body was in the white shirt and white pants she always used at night to sleep. His brain recalled everything he had done to her. The first clash of teeth, the taste of blood. The second one, the soft one, the one that ignited in him a fire he had long forgotten and was now burning him up. The third one, the full of feelings one. It had been shorter but stronger due to their bodies hugging.
He gulped.
The moans and grunts in the background weren't helping.
The rain wasn't helping. He was sure he was so hot the water was steaming.
It was like the unknown pair were in their own world, loving each other. For the green-eyed guy, it was obvious that, to them, no one mattered. In normal circumstances, people wouldn't be doing that in someone else garden, not to mention, they were defiling the Butterfly State. However, the blue-haired couple understood the humans' victory, after so much desperation, had pushed those two to do something so scandalous, which at the same time, looked so right.
And then it happened, a pair of dark blue eyes turned and looked at the green ones.
His green, darkening eyes.
"This is bad," Inosuke muttered with his heartbeat on his ears. He approached her quietly and smoothly. Taking her hand, he pulled her inside the house. Neither of them said anything. He could feel Aoi's eyes on his back, and he gulped. Walking in silence, in the opposite direction the pair was, they arrived at the bathroom. Getting both of them inside, Inosuke grabbed a towel and threw it over her head.
"You are the one who treats us," he said slowly softly as his hands came in contact with the towel and started to dry her long blueish hair. "You can't catch a cold."
Aoi reacted to his husky quiet voice. Blushing and trembling, she took another towel and put it over him. She noticed he was taller than the last time she checked. "S-Shut up! I was surprised. This is your fault!"
"Why it took you so much time to return, you moron!?"
"I knew you were waiting for me!" He smirked under the towel and her hands.
"You shouldn't have left, idiot!" Aoi frowned, focusing on drying Inosuke's neck and shoulders. "We made a farewell party, and you weren't here! Everyone was surprised you didn't stay to eat!"
Slowly but firmly, Inosuke put a strand of her wet hair behind her ear. "I didn't want to say goodbye to you."
She finally made eye contact with him. They felt the intensity, the heat, as both of them knew what they wanted. Like a movie, all the scenes they had witnessed repeated over and over again in their minds.
Aoi wondered what would happen if she indulged in her secret desires.
Inosuke wondered how the eating-each-other-thing would change if he touched her.
Will she-he look at me with the same eyes as those times?
Both of them were blushing and soaking wet. Her white clothes were transparent because they were wet, and he was a mess of wounds, torn clothes, and dry blood. However, that didn't stop her from passing her soft fingers across his cheek as he leaned slowly against her face, finally putting their lips together.
They kissed.
Their fourth kiss.
Their first real kiss.
The most satisfying eating-each-other-thing.
Hugging her from her waist, he pulled her to him, and she eagerly accepted. She titled her head to the side to give him more access. Soon his tongue went into her mouth, and her hands let go of the towel to caress his wet hair. When she finally moaned, a rush of satisfaction showered him, and he pushed her against the wall of the bathroom. Aoi's soaked clothes made her more sensitive, and he felt her perked nipples against his naked hard chest. Inosuke growled, eager to do more of whatever they were doing.
He was desperate to feel, to hear, to touch her. He wanted to eat her completely, though he didn't understand what he had to do. Yet, he had his intuition as his biggest ally. He bit her lower lip and pulled it while his hands anxiously touched her wet body. She moaned again, her hands grabbing both sides of his face, not wanting for him to stop his kiss. As he broke the kiss to breathe, she caught his lips again a second after. Desperate, he pulled her shirt open and explored her neck with his mouth. His hands roamed roughly her naked torso and breasts, squeezing them and pinching them as she moaned more on his ear. She passed her hands over his muscled back and chest, and that's when everything stopped because Inosuke flinched, biting her neck to suppress a loud groan as Aoi noticed the slash on his chest was dirty and bloody. However, it didn't prevent her from moan when his teeth and tongue came in contact with her neck.
Pushing him gently from her and immediately missing his warm body over hers, she noticed his wounded chest and focused on his cuts and bruises. He clearly was injured, and if they left the dirt there, he could have an infection. She frowned at him as he was angry she had stopped him.
"You are injured."
"I fought with a big bear." He whispered, biting her ear. She shuddered and gasped.
"Really? A bear? Ah- wai-! I have to treat you." She caressed his muscled biceps and arms. "You can't travel with that wound untreated."
Inosuke groped her breast and smirked, "not that you cared so much a moment ago."
Blushing and fully conscious about her nakedness, Aoi tried to close her shirt. "I - I didn't notice you were that injured!"
"Why close it? I already saw it!"
"Peeping time's over!"
"I touched you! I already have the right to peep!"
Aoi blushed again, not believing the green-eyed had said that, but his smirk told her he was talking seriously. She sighed. Somehow, she knew he was moving from his instinct, not because he knew what he was doing. But until now, he was doing a great job. Not to mention, she got carried away with it. She grabbed his hand, got on her tiptoes, and pecked him.
"I already have prepared your bath earlier. It's still hot." She said with her eyes shining. "Use it and get rid of all the dirt on your body and wounds!" Inosuke arched an eyebrow, but Aoi continued, "don't worry, I will wait for you."
The blue-haired guy understood two things, he was dirty, and she was going to wait for him to clean himself. Turning his head to the steaming wooden soaking tub, he sighed. Narrowing his eyes, he concluded in a matter of seconds, the two of them wouldn't fit inside the tiny tub. Kissing her lips quickly, and without breaking eye contact with her, he started to undress. Aoi gulped, blushing but held his eyes stubbornly.
Before going into the tub, he chuckled at her nervous blush as she muttered, "I will wait outside."
She had seen everything, and he was satisfied with that.
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"Let's take care of your injury first."
"Ok, but let me tell you I'm alright! I don't need medicine, not being in bed and better why don't we continue what we were do- OUCH!"
Blushing, Aoi hit a very clean Inosuke in the head. As he hadn't taken clean clothes to the bathroom, he had a towel around his midsection. The blue-haired almost doctor was already hyperventilating, "Shut up! Injuries first!"
"And after that, the eating each other thing?"
Aoi rolled her eyes. "Stop calling it like that!" Aoi pulled him from his hand again as she resumed their walk. "It's called kissing and sex!" With a lower voice, she said, "Maybe for you it's mating, urgh, I don't know anymore."
Like a light bulb, Inosuke's brain enlightened him. Widening his eyes silently, he finally put all his thoughts together. So that's it! Kissing! Finally! He had heard the word a lot of times before but had never seen how it was done. He knew what it meant, though. Wild boars do it as a licking form on the snout, like the one he had received from the small female boar on his way back. Also, he knew what came after that. After that came the mating part, meaning the sexual intercourse part. He knew about it, thanks to his days living with animals and hearing random people talks. Humans were different but, he understood the theory. He was relieved to discover he grasped the idea. Of course, the mountain king knew about it! He just had confused the names and had never seen how humans did it. He chuckled at his own cluelessness and foolishness, his quiet laugh rumbled in his chest, and for some reason, Aoi felt it directly in her gut. She gulped, knowing she was already wet.
And, she wasn't an expert, but his attitude had changed.
"So, kissing after injuries?" He whispered sensually in her ear as soon as they arrived at the door of her room. He pinned her in it, his chest pressing her body from her back against the cold wood. Lips came to her earlobe and bit her, his tongue playing with the back of her ear and neck, making her moan. His round kid eyes and his husky dark voice didn't match, neither his behavior.
"Ah, I-, sh-hut up, we can't -" She barely could talk.
"Hoooo, I'm leaving tomorrow, woman." His knee came between her legs, and she rolled her hips over his hard muscles without thinking. He's naked. He's naked. He's naked. She bit her bottom lip, trying to suppress a hard satisfying moan as his calloused hands moved up and down her back and torso. He grunted against her neck, feeling her soft skin, and she ground her hips against his leg again.
"Why don't you make some more noise for me, Aoi?"
Smirking mischievously, he decided he was going to eat her from head to toe. He wasn't going to leave the State craving for the girl. Besides, he was sure she wanted him too, and she won't let him leave her before mating.
Yes, she was his mate, now he was sure.
In a matter of seconds, the blue-haired girl concluded his injuries weren't that severe. So, she turned her body to kiss him hard. Her hands reached to caress his neck and face while his tongue entered her mouth. As his body completely hid her against the wooden surface, slowly, Inosuke opened the door and pushed her inside. Before she registered what had happened, she was on the floor, madly kissing the blue-haired guy as he was lying on top of her.
"What - " With his lips kissing her neck, his hands started to caress her breast once again, taking off her wet shirt. "Wait -" She muttered, finding the situation overwhelming but at the same time too addictive. Too hot. Trying to stop him from doing her on the floor, she pulled his hair, but that encouraged him as he bit her breast, and she moaned. "Ah, god, Ino-Inosuke- wait- I" The blue-haired man's hands came to the hem of her wet pants, and Aoi instinctively arched her back, lifting her hips so he could take it off.
"More ready than me, huh?" He whispered over her quivering lips after taking the hateful thing off her. Grinning, he watched her pout while his hands caressed the soft skin of her legs and thighs.
"Only because it's you." She said, blushing but not stuttering, locking eyes with him as she opened her legs for him to accommodate between her.
This time the one to blush madly was him. He was sure she was the one, the mate, his mate. But, hell, hearing her say he was the only one made him have a rush of nervousness and pride that he crashed his mouth against hers. He pushed his tongue inside her mouth, stealing her source of breathing, and giving her a long deep kiss that would compensate for all the time they were going to be separated. Trying to reciprocate the intensity, her hands came to caress his naked back, knowing that touching him was the best way to give him pleasure.
Aoi felt him hard against her wetness, the towel was the only thing between them, and she wondered what kind of miracle had made it stay in place. He bit her lips when she ground against him. Aoi made her mind to made love with him on the floor, but the mountain king had other plans. He separated from her and lifted her like a princess. Aoi immediately yelped, surprised by the sudden move to lift her while he was standing up too. Hugging him around his neck, his lips kissing her temple, she saw how the last piece of cloth, the towel, was falling slowly to the floor like a proud soldier that had done his job without fail.
She gulped.
That soldier was the last restrain between him and her.
Putting her on the bed, he crawled on top of her. "I'm going to eat you, Aoi," Inosuke whispered, making her blush madly as she tried to hit him in the head for saying something so embarrassing. Pinning her wrists to the bed, he kissed her lips before starting to move south of her body, making her arch her back and moan when his tongue came to her wet core.
"Ah! No-"
"No?"
Inosuke sexy voice had his effect on her body, his tongue working over her sensitive clit right after asking.
"Ah! Inosuke!" Aoi moaned, rolling her hips. One of her hands gripped the sheets beneath her, and the other came immediately to his hair as she tangled her fingers in his blue mane. She had read that the first time always hurts. She had heard some female patients talking about their first experiences, about how scary and unsure they had felt. However, she wasn't feeling any of that. Excitement, lust, satisfaction, pleasure, boldness, she had never heard those in the conversations, and she was feeling them all.
Especially love.
It was as if the long wait had ended. Inosuke was the man for her since the moment he had crashed their lips together in the kitchen time ago. When he disappeared after doing it, she had to admit she had felt her heart breaking for the very first time, thinking she hadn't been enough for him.
But there he was, with her, doing things to her that should be considered a sin, immoral, naughty, no proper for a lady, and she was happy for him to do them. In fact, she wanted to be his. She wanted him to do them. She wanted to do that to him too. She was embarrassed, but she wanted to eat him too. Aoi widened her eyes as she felt her orgasm hit her. She shouted his name as he freed her from his tongue. Grunting satisfied, he watched her sprawled form over her bed, noticing the moonlight made her skin glisten due to her sweat as she looked so beautiful with her body flushed red and all his kiss marks. He had bit and lick every corner of her soft body. He spaced out, lost in her breasts moving due to her ragged breathing. If they were lucky enough, the rain sounds would conceal their voices.
Aoi's pleasure voice was only to him to hear.
Suddenly, he felt a hand over his hard-muscled thigh. Blinking, he found a pair of dark blue eyes looking at him curios. Aoi reacted while he got distracted, and she had moved. She was on her knees and hands, crawling to him, and he couldn't help but let come to him, enticed by her.
"You ok?" Her hoarse voice made his erection harder, and he gulped, nodding. Feeling bold, Aoi pushed him slowly, her hands on his chest as he sat on her bed with his legs opened, his strong arms supporting his torso. Aoi reached his face and kissed him, tasting herself on his shining lips. He slowly bent his knees to surround her and get her close to him. Bitting his bottom lip Aoi whispered to his ear, "I want to eat you too, Inosuke."
As soon as she said that, the blue-haired guy understood why she felt so embarrassed when he had said it. Blushing like a tomato but not wanting to spoil her new confidence, he nodded quietly. Aoi grinned, her blush rivaling his own as she kissed him again, her hands caressing his hard skin, avoiding the injure they both neglected but didn't hurt anymore. Inosuke's green eyes focused on her face, on her movements as his hands played with her breasts, pinching her nipples a little making her mewl and flinch before her hands came to his erection.
Her warm hands came to grab him, and he hissed. He couldn't breathe anymore. She moved her hand up and down, and he threw his head back. His hands turned into fists when Aoi leaned and licked his erection from the base to the tip. His low growl was audible, maybe through the whole house. He was sure the others were going to think he was a wild animal. And he couldn't care less because Aoi was eating him. Aoi chuckled sexily, mesmerized by him, his size, his form, his taste, pleased to hear him losing control after making her lose her mind. Once again, she licked him, and one of his hands came to her hair. She was surprised he didn't taste bad as she thought. She even liked it. Aoi this time put his erection into her mouth, slowly sucking him whole. Inosuke grunted hard as he started to see blurry due to the pleasure. It was the first time he felt something like this, a touch that soft, that delicate. The blue-eyed girl bobbed her head up and down, slowly at first but speeding it up quickly when the boar guy put pressure in his grip, and he shut close his eyes and panted hard, delighted.
He'll marry her. She could have whatever she wanted, he'll give her everything. She weakens him, made him use his head too much, and made him lose his coolness in a blink of an eye. Yet, he didn't care. She was important. All of her was important, more than himself. He liked their talks, their shouts war, her nagging, her sweet smile, her sweet taste. Inosuke clenched his teeth to suppress a moan. She gave him a pleasure he never thought was possible. She was going to be the queen of the mountains, and they would be fucking eating each other every day. Even if he goes to Tanjirou's home, he will visit her often, he will return to her. He wasn't going to be able to live without her.
"A-o-i!" Inosuke whispered her name as she played with her tongue, and he growled. Shit! He was feeling the pressure, he knew what was coming. "Shit! Aoi stop -Shit-I - I-" Aoi didn't stop, and Inosuke was sure she was trying to kill him, but he couldn't stop either. He groaned hard, cumming inside her mouth. As it was her first time, Aoi, not aware of what to do, let go of his cock with a loud pop, coughing before noticing it was his sperm. Her fingers came to her lips, and she tasted him.
Looking at him, she saw how he was lost in the feeling after his orgasm. He was panting hard, his strong legs and arms were trembling, and he had his head back, his eyes shut. Aoi stood on her knees, noticing he was still hard, but her fingers came to caress his face. Inosuke hugged her from her waist, nuzzling his face on her breasts. He loved the sensation of her sweaty soft skin against his sweaty rough one. They both were so hot that the chill of the rain didn't bother them. Her hands caressed his hard muscles, and he groaned, still sensible but desperate to have her whole.
"Aoi-I"
"You can," Aoi whispered to his ear. "I love you, Inosuke."
Like a puppy, more precisely, like a boar baby, Inosuke nuzzled his face more against her, and he leaned his chin on her collarbone, making eye contact with her. Blushing like a kid, he grinned brightly, forgetting for a moment his passion and lust.
"I love you too!" Aoi's hands caressed his sweaty bags, smiling sweetly at him.
He slowly pushed her to the bed again, beneath him.
"I love your soft lips." He kissed her slowly, making her shiver from anticipation. "Your skin feels good against mine, too." He said, his hands caressing her body as his fingers went to her core. Aoi was blushing, lost in his husky voice talking dirtily sweet to her, completely uncharacteristic of him, but she liked that side. She moaned when his fingers got inside her. "Your voice is so great, Aoi. I want to hear you shout." Inosuke was like a possessed man, talking like a sexy machine, preparing her for what was coming. She felt the tip of his member against her entrance. Moaning, she hugged his neck, kissing him. "You are so hot, Aoi." He was pushing, and she shut her eyes. It was hard at first, but they managed to do it slowly. "You feel so good, Aoi." He felt she was squeezing him, and his whole body was trembling, yet he didn't stop. Breaking the little resistance he found, he made her shout, but he kissed her deeply.
She was trembling, too. He kissed her face and licked her small tears as soon as he felt all of himself inside of her.
"Y-You are so soft and sensitive I wanna break you."
Even wincing of pain, she loved his voice like that, low, sweet, husky, and his breathing ragged.
He couldn't wait so, Inosuke moved. He wanted to feel her, all of her. He was soft and slow at first, but he quickly put strength into his thrusts, being kind of aggressive with her, kind of savage. Aoi moaned as his hand grabbed her chin, leading her lips to his lips. His other hand grabbed hers, intertwining his fingers. He speeded up, losing every restrain, losing his control, his mind. He was like a wild animal, and she was so mesmerized by his beauty, their feelings, and his voice, she wanted more, asked for more. Looking at his green eyes shining in excitement, she caressed his face. He smirked at her, leaning to kiss her again as his hand pulled one of her legs up to his shoulder, deepening his thrusts. Aoi shouted, delighted. If she hadn't known this was his first time, too, she would have thought he was an expert.
"Ahh-Inosuke!" Her hands came to his back, and she scratched him. He clenched his teeth, grunting. He was getting faster, putting more strength into his thrusts. His mouth came to her neck, and he bit her flesh. Aoi was trying hard to match his movements, but she let him guide her, recognizing his strength. Pulling her to him, Inosuke sat her on his lap, grabbing her by her buttocks, moving with a force and a speed that she couldn't control herself anymore. Up and down, roughly, harder and hypnotizing. Her crying pleading voice, and her bouncing breasts, fueled his fire and desire.
"I love you! God - Inosuke! I - Oh yes- I - I -"
The blue-haired man possessively growled. She was his now. He understood it. She was his mate, his future, his everything now. He loved her too. Her sweaty glistening body under the moonlight, showing to him a part of her he had never seen before, made him growl like an animal. He bit her hard on her collarbone, licking her blood, and sucked her cream skin. Shit! It felt so good, so so good. She was already squeezing him. Her walls were trembling. Her everything was throbbing. Inosuke pressed her clit as he made one last final deep thrust, and she came hard and long.
"I love you too, Aoi." He said in her ear as she clenched to him for dear life as she rode her orgasm. Pushing her to the bed, he pounded into her with much more force as she was already crying from the pleasure. Inosuke was like a beast, taking her like there was no tomorrow, and she was accepting his whole self, even his savageness. He wanted to break her, to make her crave for him till she couldn't control anymore, and he was succeeding. When her second orgasm came, came his own, and they both moaned loudly, emptying themselves into each other.
Once his orgasm ended, Inosuke fell over her immediately, feeling satisfied but wasted, empty, and rolled to her side, falling from the bed to the floor. Panting and sweating hard sprawled on the cold floor, he looked at the ceiling. He closed his eyes, trying to concentrate his breathing to recover his stamina, but Aoi's hand caressed his chest. Opening his eyes, he saw her looking down at him from the edge of the bed.
"Did that hurt?"
"Right now, I don't feel anything except you, Aoi."
The blue-haired girl blushed as her hand came to his face. "Can you stand?"
"You can't?" He kissed her palm.
Blushing again, she muttered, "I'm not confident I- I can."
Proud, Inosuke grinned at her and stood up slowly in all his naked glory. Aoi blushed more, telling him to pull out the big futon that was in the corner of the room, as they both would fit in it. Arguing a little about why she hadn't pull it out earlier and that it was his fault for not given her a break to talk or think or even breathe, Inosuke carried her from the bed and put her gently onto the big futon, both of them in all their naked glory. Noticing the bed was going to break, another proud smile appeared on Inosuke's face as he laughed smugly. She hit him in the arm, snuggling closer to him.
With his green bright eyes, he looked at her peaceful flushed face. He put a strand of her long hair behind her ear as his hand caressed her naked skin, resting it on her waist.
"Wait for me," he whispered, kissing her ear.
"Ok, I will," she smiled brightly, and he hugged her. "But don't take it too long."
Smirking, Inosuke kissed her sweetly. "I can't live without you, Aoi. I won't take long, believe me."
"What are you going to do?" She caressed his chest.
"Grow up to make you happy."
Aoi's heart skipped a beat, and she chuckled as she moved again. Passing her leg over his waist and moving her body over him, she straddled him. Her hands slowly came to his chest as she pushed herself up, smiling. Her long disheveled loose hair cascaded over her shoulders, making the former demon hunter gulp.
"My turn?"
Inosuke smirked, his hands coming to her thighs. "You can do whatever you want to me, Aoi."
All night long, they continued.
The next morning, very early, Inosuke was shining revitalized, Aoi was cooking the food they were going to take to the trip, yawning now and then, but both to them were shining. Tanjirou had a vivid red on his face as he and Kanao couldn't make eye contact without blushing or stuttering or break the things they were holding. Zenitsu had bags under his eyes, muttering that only his ears knew what his two best friends had been doing all night long, and Nezuko and the girls were hugging each other, crying a little as a farewell. Also, a pair of injured demon hunters looked like they were grounded or embarrassed by something only God and Inosuke, Aoi, and apparently, Zenitsu, who clicked his tongue when he saw them, knew.
And after farewells, cries, promises, long kisses, and bear hugs, the Kamaboko guys parted ways with the Butterfly State. Aoi sighed, smiling at their backs as she and Kanao held hands, understanding each other.
"I love you!"
"Sorry, I'm waiting for someone."
And there goes another one.
The three girls thought at the same time while a defeated man came out of Aoi's office. After the demons' era end and the Kamaboko boys farewell, two years had passed, and the State became a local clinic. However, as a place full of beautiful girls, marriage proposals never stopped coming. Not to Aoi, neither Kanao. Though the black-haired beauty refused them elegantly and softly, the blue-haired one was blunt and forward.
Aoi glared at them, Kanao, disgusted, smiled at them.
Black aura included.
And every guy left dishearted and kind of scared.
It was turning into an annoying situation. Aoi's and Kanao's moods were worse with every day that passed. Letters didn't stop coming. Men didn't stop proposing to them. It was for granted, those two beautiful women had not said a word to those two special certain men, even if they exchanged letters every week. They hadn't talked with their loved ones about the harassment they were receiving. The two girls were sure they could handle it themselves. There was no need to call them, making them worry and making them come to the State for something so insignificant. However, after one day that a man came out of the State crying due to the harsh refuse he had received, the little girls noticed there was a big line of men at the State doors, waiting for their turn to propose. Quietly, they decided to act because it was getting ridiculous.
So Kiyo, Sumi, and Naho, grinning one night, decided to be mischievous.
And now, after some a week or so, they were waiting for the results of their actions.
The fourth man of the day arrived at the Butterfly State with roses in hand and a cheeky smile. He didn't notice the line that had formed outside the State was getting cleared up. Entering Aoi's office, with sparkles around him, he shouted that she had to heal his crazy beating heart because a beautiful blue-haired angel had struck him. Said angel rolled her eyes, groaning disgusted. She was about to tell the man to go away when, suddenly, a hoarse smooth cool manly deep voice came from behind the guy. The killing aura threatened the poor man to death but made the young woman shiver from head to toe.
"How 'bout I rip it out of your ribcage, hah? That would stop your fucking suffering, dipshit."
The man felt a strong shiver of fear and shrieked at the boar face that had appeared behind him. Inosuke pulled him aside from his shoulder and threw him outside Aoi's office. "SHE MINE, ASSFACE!" Taking his mask off, his green eyes shone, and the vein of anger in his forehead appeared. With two big steps, he reached her and kissed her hard, making her moan as his tongue rolled against hers. "WE'LL BE FUCKING BUSY EATING EACH OTHER WEAKLING! SO GET LOST SHIT!" Slamming the door hard, with a stupified Aoi behind him, looking at him with happy wide eyes and a blush on her face, the three girls smugly smiled in their direction. Not so far from them, the same thing was happening with a certain dark-haired woman and a redhead mad demon serial killer with a black aura and dark smile that had almost killed a man from a heart attack.
The three girls shrieked happily.
One doesn't betray their big sisters with their boyfriends like that, but, well, they had to be the adults in the situation.
The letters arrived in time, thank god.
Now, the only thing left was the wedding planning.