I admit I cried, I hope I have written everyone's name correctly since it's my first story in the fandom .
See You Soon
- Chapter 1 -
Death is just a part of life ..
Zenitsu guesses they could not escape it forever like they thought .
But who can blame them they were young, they just won a war and finally could enjoy a bit of life like they wanted too .
He even wrote a book !
Even when everyone thinks he is crazy and are laughing behind his back, it doesn't matter only Nezuko's proud loving eyes were enough for him .
Many of them have settle down and gotten kids, Zenitsu remembers Inosuke's first child born loud crying his little lungs out .
Inosuke was 17 barely 18 but they promised to help each other however they can .
Tanjirou soon followed in fatherhood, and then it was Zenitsu's turn he felt so scared but just as soon his child was in his arms he forgotten his worries .
Oh how sweet and soft a babies heart beat felt .
Life was good .
And ..
Inosuke was the first to leave the group .
Too soon, so soon none of them realize what yet had happend .
His fourth child was barely a month old, and the loud boar man fell ill, puking blood wherever he decided to go .
They found him outside the porch .. Uzui comments since he was raised by boars he may had the idea to die somewhere alone .
If Aoi was not quick enough Zenitsu may had broken his nose .
She cried for months, even now some nights Zenitsu could hear her cry .
Inosuke was 25 at the time .
Giyu became restless for a while after that, so he went more and more out .
Tanjirou comments how the bags under his eyes became bigger, making the other glare at him but the glare was so dull and none of them could really feel threatend by it .
It was winter and Giyu went out as usual .
He never came back .
It was in March when some farmers told them they saw someone looking like Giyu fallen down the frozen lake, the ice was so fragile they could not get to him .
They still held a funeral for him .
Uzui was not there this time, as his wives needed him more at him . Especially one of his wives (Suma) died while giving birth .
Zenitsu never saw the man look so defeated, and even when he still dislikes the man he could not help but admire him still able to smile and love the little girl despite looking like a mirror image of her mother .
Sanemi was next to go .
Died of a heart attack while he slept . Zenitsu holding Nezoku close how hard she cried for the man who was only cruel to her when they first met .
6 years passed and one morning when Zenitsu got up, he has a feeling that today would be a bad day .
He walked to the door when an almost silent knock sounded, as he opens it he got greeted by a Kanao .
Zenitsu still has nightmares of how dead she looked, how slow and lifeless her voice sounded when she told him Tanjirou passed away .
Zenitsu could not accept it .
Still to this day he could not accept that the strongest person he knows, died in his sleep his heart just stopped and he left the world of the living just like that .
There was not even a goodbye .. Nezuko did her best to comfort her sister in law and their youngest child who just turned 9 a week after .
Zenitsu still could hear the child screaming why it's father was not there .
It did not surprise Zenitsu when a year after Kanao died .
Aoi declares from a broken heart .
Uzui who just lost his second wife (Makio) did not comment this time, the funeral went on in silence .
Life just went on .
So when Zenitsu returned home and saw his wife, oh his beautiful wife Nezuko puking blood he knows .
How hard he wept, promising her everything will be okay, she will be alright .
She just smiled and told him how much she loves him, thanking him for always loving her in return even when she was a demon .
She fought for years to wake up, some days she could not leave bed, sometimes she could not talk but her eyes never lost their shine and life .
Until one morning .
Zenitsu has so many nightmares how he found her dead in their bed, eyes open looking unfocused, dead, so dull ..
Just few moments ago they were saying much they love each other .
Why did he ever bother to get some tea ..
Years went by .
Seasons change, Zenitsu saw the world change bit by bit .
Uzui lost his last wife (Hinatsuru)
Uzui never lost his sharp tongue, always making fun of Aoi or Zenitsu but honestly to Zenitsu he looks like shell of his former self .
Zenitsu almost admits it's like looking in the mirror .
Their children grown up and leave the nest one by one, looking for their place in the big world .
Zenitsu looks with a heavy heart as his last child walked off, waving at him with a big smile promising to make him proud .
Oh but Zenitsu was already proud of the kid .
So they were left with three .
Zenitsu never thought he would spend his last days with those two, Aoi never stops making comments of his lifestyle (which is fair since Nezuko died he got careless of his health) and Uzui never stops making fun or commenting on both of them .
Zenitsu just rolls with it .
This is life after all .
So when Uzui turn came both Aoi and Zenitsu know their turn will come soon .
They took care of the man as much as they could, so when his time came they left him alone in his room .
Leaving him with a bit of his pride he has still left (Aoi thought it was stupid, but Zenitsu kinda understood how the man felt)
Aoi and he became older, and weaker by the day so their children tried to get them to live with them in the city .
How much Zenitsu wished to live in the city close to his children, he doesn't want to die somewhere far away where his friends and his very first family died .
Aoi said the same thing she and her daughter fought for days on end, stubborn and pigheaded like her father Aoi comments .
(Zenitsu knows she said it with a heavy heart)
So when the time came Zenitsu took it upon himself, because of their fight the two haven't spoken to each other since .
Zenitsu told her with a calm voice her mother passed away .
Zenitsu had to hear an other cry their hearts out when their loved ones passed away, he has to see an other funeral, he is all alone now .
Alone .
Completely alone ..
He never been this alone before ..
For the first time he heard nothing .
Everything was silent, he always wondered how it sounded .
Silence .
Now he just wants to tear his ears off and cry .
Scream .
Just to hear something .
Years go by again, and he came to see the birth of an other grand child, a little girl this time .
Oh how beautiful she is, black hair and eyes like her grandmother .
He wished to be alone for a moment, they understood as they watched him leave .
People who walked him by, saw an old man crying on the bench, just kept on walking not for being cruel some even stopped wondering how to help him .
But none know how to comfort a broken man .
Zenitsu is happy nobody stopped anyways, because he fears he will never stop crying .
So when his time came he knows, he could hear his heart going slower, and his breathing was almost none existed .
He told his children how much he loves them, how proud he and their mother were, how beautiful their children are .
He pays a last visit to a dead peach tree, staring at it for hours before he went back inside . Slowly climbing in his bed and ..
He was gone as well ..
The sounds of birds chirping woke him up ...
First thing he noticed how light everything felt .
The smell of fresh grass shoke him completely awake, as he stared at the colorful flowers and a whole field of trees .
He looked at it in shock and slowly got up turning around, staring at everything with a confused feeling but
He did not feel scared at all ..
More peaceful, yes he felt at peace .
The first person he saw was Rengoku, the man waving at him with a big smile . Saying how good the food here was, and should join him and Mitsuri who was walking in the fields with a happy smile with Iguro .
Zenitsu was not sure he was dreaming as he just nodded and walked on, he saw Giyu next who was in a heavy discussion with Shinobu . Next to Shinobu a beautiful woman standing next to her with a fond smile, behind Giyu stood a boy and a girl just watching amused at the duo .
Zenitsu waved at them as they nodded at him .
Telling him the others are waiting for him .
Waiting ?
Next he saw Sanemi and Genya he quickly said his hello and left .
He did not see both of them in years, and they still scare the crap out of him !
He just scoffed at Uzui who comments him for being late, before the man left with his wives to wherever .
Zenitsu is not so happy to see him, but he guess he is happy for him to be with his wives again .
As he came across small houses looking around feeling someone is there he knows .. He almost screamed in pain when a man with a boar mask hits his back with his head .
Inosuke's welcome is something he always hoped to skip .
It seemed never to bother the other he died first, claiming he won the match to arrive here first .
Aoi smacked him on his head calling him an idiot .
Zenitsu who still laying on the floor in pain, suddenly saw a hand reaching out to him . He will admit he almost cried when he saw the smiling kind face of Tanjirou .
Kanao beautiful as ever, happy as ever standing behind her husband . Both greeted him with small hugs .
Zenitsu felt his heart go heavy and he sniffles a little, telling them it was no fair they left him behind .
They gave apologies but he did not accept it, he was happy enough to see them again .
He looked around as he wonders ... Tanjirou gave him a knowing look and told him to look by the lonely house with the peach trees .
Zenitsu run off knowing he would see her there .
And he did seeing her sitting on a bench like she was waiting for him, calling out his name as she saw him running to her . She got up running to him as fast she could, leaping in his arms as he holds her close .
Smelling lillies and the peaches on her being, oh he missed her so much .
And he tells her so .
He tells her how much he missed her, he missed her so much, telling her how beautiful she was, and more tears came out .
She tells him she missed him as well, keeping him close to her .
But then she moved away telling him there is someone who wants to meet Zenitsu for a long time .
He felt confused but inside he feels he knows who it was, he felt his heart beat faster and he starts shaking .
He did not feel ready but oh how much he wished it would be that person .
Nezuko looked behind her as he follows her gaze, tears started to roll down his cheeks, he looked in shock mouth open as the person walked closer .
The man still looked the same as Zenitsu remembers him .
His voice still the same as Zenitsu remembers .
Telling him it was good to see him .
Zenitsu with all his strenght he runs with his shaking legs to him, and as he finally closed his arms around the man he cried .
