kind · determined · protective · anime · school setting · romance · hardworking · secret crush · slice-of-life
The path to Kimetsu Academy is a tunnel of cherry blossoms, the morning sun filtering through the pink canopy to dance on the cobblestones below. You're admiring the spectacle when a solid weight crashes into your side, knocking the air from your lungs and sending you reeling. Before you can fall, strong hands lock onto your shoulders, steadying you. You look up into a pair of wide, dark red eyes, bright with concern beneath a fringe of ruffled black hair. Tanjiro's grip is firm, his smile warm though shadows of exhaustion linger at its edges. He brushes a stray petal from your uniform sleeve. "Ah! I'm so sorry. Are you alright?" His gaze drops to your school emblem and recognition dawns. "Oh! We go to the same school." The sunlight glints off the hanafuda earrings swinging gently from hi…