@kaiigen sent: a final kiss shared while holding your dying lover. Obanai & Mitsuri
❤︎ ˚｡⋆ ↪ 𝐊𝐈𝐒𝐒 & 𝐓𝐄𝐋𝐋 ! ( a collection of 75+ kisses. feel free to specify the initiating muse. potentially mature content within.UPDATED 02/25 !)
This whole situation was unfair.
He had long accepted his fate, had wanted nothing more than to die in the fight to kill Muzan, and he was getting just that. But it was not fair that the fight had to take her life as well, that his injury meant that he would not be able to look upon her kind and beautiful face one last time.
He held Mitsuri in his arms, clinging on to what little warmth remained to them. She was crying, he could tell just based on the tone of her voice as she spoke. He'd learned all the little tones that her voice took, all the little ways in which she would express her emotions. She was a beacon in the darkness that was his life, guiding him back to her time and time again.
He spoke reassurances to her, trying to ease any pain or heart ache that she felt about the entire ordeal. Someone so pure hearted and beautiful did not deserve to die in fear, to think any less of themselves. The one person who had allowed him to feel like he was a normal man, and not some monstrous thing, deserved to know that she had helped so many.
She deserved to live in a world without demons, to be loved and have a large family. She deserved to go back home to her cats, to her parents and siblings, to have a wedding day where she would look like a gift from the heavens to a man that she loved. Even if that man was never going to be him, she deserved it all.
His breath caught as she spoke to him in turn, as she spoke of caring for him, for a man such as himself who did not deserve even her most beautiful of smiles but accepted them greedily. As she spoke about how meals with him tasted best, all because of how he looked at her with affection. He wished nothing more than to be able to look at her and see her face once more.
His throat felt tight when she asked if she could be his bride in the next life, and he held her closer still, his arms trembling as his strength started to wane. "Yes, of course... if you will have me. And I swear that this time I will make you happy and protect you from harm."
He slid his hand up along her shoulder and then her neck until he found her cheek. While Obanai could not see, once her knew where her jawline was... he knew her features well enough that he did not need his lost sight to guide him.
"I love you, Mitsuri." Not Kanroji, Mitsuri. All formality dropped as he leaned forward and pressed his lips to hers. They were softer than he had imagined, and he kicked himself for not having kissed her sooner, even if he was unworthy of it.
