Anime x reader one-shot

(Demon Slayer)🎶 Tanjiro x Reader

Deep in the forest mountain was a scared crane, caught in a trap set by a hunter. No matter how much it thrashed and pulled at the rope it could not break free. Its leg was bloodied and stretched, it ached to stand, and its wings were too tired to flap anymore. The crane finally gave up and surrendered to its fate.

As it laid there, it heard the footsteps of an approaching human. Looking up it could see it was a human boy with ruffled, black hair with burgundy tips, combed back to expose his forehead, with wide dark red eyes. He was wearing a checkered, black-and-sea-foam-green haori.

He looked down at the poor bird with his kind eyes as he knelt and freed its leg. Yet it was too tired to even move, as it laid there in the freezing snow. 

Tanjiro quickly picked up the cold bird and rushed back to his home, were his mother and siblings were waiting for him.

"What a pretty bird!" Hanako said in awe. "Can we keep it?"

"It's just a dumb bird," Takeo sighed.

"No it's not," Hanako argued.

"No, we are not keeping it. It deserves to roam free, I'm just holding on to her till she gets her strength back," Tanjiro said as he gently stocked the bird's feathers.

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Tanjiro kept the bird wrapped in warm cloth as he gently feed the crane. His younger sister watched in awe as it slowly walked over to her brother and rested on his lap.

But the next morning he had to set it fee, the crane spread it's wings and took to the air.

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(9years later)

It has been many years after the fall of Muzan, and know days Tanjiro lives in a small town not to far from the butterfly mannor. He sadly lost his sight in one eye and the feeling and use of one arm, forcing him to retire early . Yet he does not live alone, he was taken care of by a lovely H/c haired woman, with sparking E/c eyes. His lovely wife Y/n.

The powdery snow So fluttery flow

it's painting so brightputs the mountain in whiteand inside a house decayingtwo souls remain 

holding tight, in the night
because it's cold there once again

"I'll never forget it snowed when we met," Tanjiro murdered with a smile.

Tanjiro remaniced when he first laid eyes on her. It was a could winter and he was having some trouble bringing home some produce. It was snowing heavily and it made it difficult to walk, when suddenly a kind young woman appeared and helped him home.

you showed me a smile
when you lowly told me that line
just to hide my face in crimson
i'd turn to you
and with your sleeve
i do believe you were my aid anew!
and with a single breath of joy
just singing of the day when the
spring returns with all the flowers
and the chirping birds

Y/n sang in the warm spring sun as Tanjiro sat in the shade with a gentle smile on his face, as he watched his lover sing to herself.

"Hey I think your voice is beautiful" Tanjiro told her, and that alone, just those words, made her so happy.

"If someday I no longer have this voice
that you told was beautiful.
Would you really?
Would you even love me how you surely
did before?"

"But of course" Tanjiro said, smiling gently, as his large hand softly stroked her cheek.

And then one summer day
we'd work our day away
but then you collapsed
from that one illnes that you had
and because we were so poor
in our married state
we could never quite afford a cure
so you just had to wait
the day after that, and further ahead
i'd sit with the aim

The couple lived a simple life, and didn't own much, and Kanao was too busy most of the time. But the medicine man that lived in the town didn't sell his herds for cheep. Since Tanjiro could sell his choarcal, and his sister was currently busy taking care of her own children.

only to weave in your name
I would never ever want
that your life should end
Just like the leaves
on autumn day, just fall and fade away.

Day and night Y/n would weave beautiful cloths, even if she was damaging her fingers.

with the seasons flowing by

the sound of all the lifethat surrounds us slowly end the summeras they cry

"Hey I think your hands are beautiful"Tanjiro told her, gripping her wound-covered hands, but his were too cold...

"If someday I no longer have these hands
that you told were beautiful
Would you really, would you even
love me how you surely did before?"

"but Of course," Tanjiro said, coughing as his large hands caressed Y/n's hurting fingers.

Weaving day and night
I don't want to stop weaving,
just for your sake
oh, how i feel the breeze of dusk
just hurry, hurry now
I need to buy the only cure
Swaying to the decaying and fierce
fruits flame
Listen, just a little more,
just a little more, right
before the leaves are falling
Until it goes out...
out for eternity
Until my hands can't move, until all
the feathers are gone for all eternity

As she weaved Y/n with a hesitant breath plucked her and weave it into the beautiful cloth she would sell in the town.

"If someday, I no longer am the girl,
that you told was beautiful
Would you really, would you even
love me how you surely did before?"

But the truth that I so dearly feared

was then left to be untold Then I drew,just for you, the final feather alone.

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"But of course,"
Tanjiro said and looked at her
with the gentle smile it brings.

'Cause I promised I'd embrace you
when you surely
would lose your faithful wings
And the crane that had so gracefully
taken flight upon that day
I still know and remember,
even now so far away And just so forever
and it is true, I'll forever love you," Tanjiro smiled as he pulled her into a passionate kiss.