@enburn said: we’re up in flames, the both of us. / @tanjiro! v_v
𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐭 || accepting !
The sun starts to set on the horizon and there’s a feeling of ease that begins to settle on his aching muscles. Emerging, quiet. It was a long day and far more intense than any mission he has gone on lately. But if it was a question of how accomplished he felt about it, the answer and much more could be easily spot on the bright smile he carried with him. Large and warm like every color taking over the sky at that very instant. For he felt tired!—there was no denying that. But he also felt hopeful and brave. Safe and restless and scared. Aware of what’s ahead and incapable to forget that every effort, every hour of training draws them closer to a battle that would probably change the world as they knew it, but for an instant, there’s nothing more than this perfect moment beside him. There’s nothing more than the grass beneath them and the river that sings at the distance, and the wish to freeze this minute and live in it for longer than he is allowed.
Yoriichi speaks and he turns to him almost immediately, surprise coloring his expression for just a second and traveling down his body before it melted into something else. Funny, how his presence seemed to leave the world untouched sometimes and how at the same time it changed everything within him with less than one word, one sound. The weight of their shared goal burdens him for a second, but it doesn’t take long before it turns into something iridescent, ablaze. “I know, isn’t that great?” And his eyes go from him to the astonishing sunset ahead, the light touching every part of his soul and making him close his eyes so he could bath in that sensation for a while. “It’s—it’s like whenever I’ve been out there, lately at least. Every time I’ve had to fight with my friends and every demon slayer I’ve met along the way, there’s... always a moment of doubt and fear and—you know, feeling unsure if you’ll make it at the end. But Yoriichi-san helps me believe I’m stronger than I am and I… I like to believe I’ve learned to carry a bit of that fire and light up the way for the rest to go on. In a way! I think that’s the thing about fire, isn’t it? It’s hopeful to feel a flame when most of our job it’s done among the dark.”
Or at least he wants to believe it is like that.