Tanjiro's pov

I woke up around 6am due to my alarm. I sat up and turned it off. My head was pounding and spinning horribly "god I shouldn't have drank so much yesterday, I don't even remember most of the things" I thought to myself and went immediately to the bathroom. I opened the door to the bathroom and went to the cabinet to get some pills.

Suddenly Nezuko walked into the bathroom. "Good morning" I greeted her. She didn't even look at me, grabbed her toothbrush and left. I was confused why she wasn't talking to me but it didn't bother me that much, it was probably because Zenitsu didn't send her a good morning text or something.

After I was done changing my clothes I grabbed my bag and headed to Muichiro's house. I texted him multiple times today but he didn't even read the texts.

I waited in front of Muichiro's house for over 15 minutes with no sign of him. "Maybe he's not going to school after yesterday?" I asked myself. Right when I asked myself that Yuichiro walked out of the house. He just looked at me with an annoyed and mad look before just walking past me.

"Hey! Is Muichiro going to school?!" I yelled out. He just kept on walking, without any answer. I rolled my eyes and assumed that Muichiro was not going.

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When I got to my class, I sat down at my seat and all I could hear was quiet laughing from others. It didn't bother me so I just tapped on Mitsuri's shoulder and greeted her.

She turned to look at me and asked "what do you want?" clearly annoyed about something. "Geez, why is everyone acting like this today?" I thought to myself and asked Mitsuri the same thing.
She turned on her phone and showed me. "Wait it and you'll understand" she said and turned on a video. There was me and Muichiro fighting, with tons of people watching us.

My heart sank as I watched the full video. "Be ashamed of yourself Tanjiro, I can't believe you would do something like this," Mitsuri said, grabbing her phone before turning away from me.
"So that's why Nezuko and Yuichiro were acting this way too... oh god I am so stupid, I shouldn't have gotten this drunk.." I said and placed my arms on my desk before burying my head in them.

All I could now think about was Muichiro's voice, how he yelled back at me. The pain and sadness in his voice made me feel horrible. "What am I supposed to do now!? It's not like he will talk to me now after what happened... and if he would, Yuichiro would just block him and won't let him get any closer to me..." I thought and sighed.

Muichiro's pov

I laid in my bed with my head fully buried in my pillow. I felt terrible, not just physically after all the alcohol but emotionally too. I was completely drained from yesterday. I didn't even have the power to even get out of bed.
Suddenly my phone started ringing, I quickly picked it up and looked at it. Tanjiro, he was calling me. My eyes immediately filled up with more tears as I just ended the call and dropped my phone back on the night stan.

I picked up my blanket and threw it over my whole body. I just kept on crying harder and harder as the seconds went by. The only thing I could hear was Tanjiro's voice, yelling at me. "Pathetic!" "Useless!" "Ungrateful!" that wall all I could hear.

Couple minutes later I was just in my bed, quietly sobbing with no tears left to cry. I pulled the blanket down and checked my phone once more to see several texts from Tanjiro and multiple missed calls. I didn't bother reading them or calling him back.

I just sat up and walked to the bathroom. I closed the door behind me and looked at myself in the mirror. My eyes were all puffy and red from crying with big black bags under them and with my whole face still pale from the nausea.

I opened a cabinet and searched for some pills to calm the nausea down. I grabbed a little box with pills and gulped down two of them before going back to bed.

I laid down and closed my eyes, wanting nothing but to sleep to escape all these problems.

Tanjiro's pov

"Come on! Pick up! Pick up!" I repeated in my head, hoping Muichiro would answer my calls with no success. I sighed and buried my face into my palms.
"What now!? He will never talk to me after this! What the heck am I supposed to do?!" I panicked. Suddenly I saw Nezuko walking through the hallway.
I ran up to her and quickly stopped her. She looked at me with an annoyed look and said "what do you want?". "Nezuko! You need to help me! I messed up so badly and I don't know what to do!" I yelled out.

Nezuko : You saw the video huh? Well I don't know what has gotten into you at the party but I am not helping you with anything, you messed up and if you want to get Muichiro back, I am not helping you anymore" she said before turning away from me.

Tanjiro : Come on! Please! He's not answering my texts or my calls-

Nezuko : Maybe if you did something more than just text him or call him, he would answer. Do you really think he would forgive you for such things you said to him? I don't think so, besides Yuichiro already knows about the whole thing and has seen the video too, I would be surprised if he would even allow Muichiro to look at you

Tanjiro : Please, I beg you! You need to help me get him back! You are with Yuichiro in class so maybe we c-

Nezuko : No Taniiro, there's no we, there's only you and you only. If you want to get Muichiro back you need to try harder than this

She said before walking away. I stood there, watching her leave. My eyes built up with tears as I asked myself one more time... "what am I supposed to go now...?"

Nezuko's pov

I walked into the classroom before sitting down on my seat. Yuichiro turned to look at me and said "what took you so long?". I rolled my eyes and answered with "Tanjiro stopped me, he wants me to help him get Muichiro back".

I expected Yuichiro to immediately yell out something like "oh hell no! I am not letting him near Muichiro again" or "yeah, in his dreams maybe, I'll make sure he won't even lay eyes on Muichiro ever again" but no, he just looked at the floor and said

"You know, Muichiro really likes him, if it was for me then I wouldn't let them get close to each other anymore but Muichiro is so attached to him that I don't know what would he even do without him"

"I see... so what do you have in mind?" I asked. "Well, I say that we can try to get them together somehow?" He said.
"How about this..."

Tanjiro's pov

I sat in the locker room, not even slightly bothered by the fact another lesson started. The only thing that was on my mind was Muichiro. His voice kept on echoing in my head constantly. I wanted to see him so badly and apologize for all those things I said.

I sighed and looked at my phone once more. No notifications or missed calls... he didn't even read those texts. "Here you are, I finally found you" I looked up to see Mitsuri. "What are you doing here?" I asked her and looked back on the floor.

"Teacher noticed your bag is in class but you're not there, so she asked me to go look for you" she said crossing her arms.
Tanjiro : I am not in the mood for that, just leave me alone... I don't care if I get into trouble

Mitsuri : Is this because of that thing with Muichiro?

She said before I just slightly nodded. She sighed and sat down next to me.

Tanjiro : I don't know what has gotten into me... I would never say such things to him even if I was that drunk...

Mitsuri : well... I've seen you drunk a couple times and you never acted this way, you got mad easily but... never yelled at anyone this way.

Tanjiro : That doesn't matter now... I just want to apologize to Muichiro and work it out with him again... but he won't even answer my texts or calls.

Mitsuri : Did you talk to Yuichiro about it?

Tanjiro : He won't even look at me...

Mitsuri : I see... Well Muichiro is not at school today... Maybe when he is you'll be able to talk to him again and apologize.

She said and grabbed my shoulder, smiling.

Mitsuri : don't give up so easily... I know what you feel towards him and I understand that it must have hurted you too when you saw that video... but I am sure Muichiro will forgive you, you are his best friend after all.

Tanjiro : thanks Mitsuri... I appreciate that...

Lunchtime - Yuichiro's pov

"A sleepover? Are you serious?" I said taking a bite of my sandwich. "Yeah! We can play some games there and make Muichiro and Tanjiro work in a team together or something like that, do you have a better idea?" Nezuko said smiling.

Yuichiro : Nope I don't, but I doubt that Muichiro would want to go... how many people do you want to invite there?

Nezuko : well... Muichiro, you, Tanjiro, me, Kanao, Inosuke and Aoi... that's not that many, Muichiro already has met most of the people there so I think it would be okay.

I shrugged and looked up, seeing Tanjiro come to the rooftop. Nezuko noticed him as well and called out for him. He looked at us and slowly walked towards us.

"There is something we want to tell you, sit down," Nezuko said, patting a spot next to her. Taniiro sat down next to Nezuko, clearly confused.

"We were talking about the thing with you and Muichiro and decided to help you," Nezuko said. Tanjiro's eyes lit up as he almost yelled out "w-wait really?!"
We both nodded.

"Thank you so much! You don't even know how much I appreciate this" Tanjiro said quietly before looking at me "I was already preparing myself for you to beat me up" he laughed.

I groaned and closed my eyes "if you keep talking like this I will". Tanjiro quickly nodded and stayed silent.

Muichiro's pov

I woke up around 4pm due to Yuichiro shaking with me. "Was I asleep for so long?" I asked myself and rubbed my eyes.

"How are you feeling?" He asked. I looked down and forced a little smile. "It's... better, I took some pills so the nausea went away and the headache is better too"

"I am glad, did you eat anything?" He asked. I shook my head "I couldn't even look at food in the morning because I was feeling so sick... when I took those pills I just went to sleep and woke up now haha..."

"I see, well are you hungry? I am gonna cook something for us before uncle comes back from work" he said. I thought about it for a second but nodded anyway.

...

I sat down at the table and looked at my phone to see more messages from Tanjiro. I sighed and laid my phone back on the table. "You okay?" Yuichiro asked, laying the table with food in front of me. "I am fine just... Tanjiro keeps texting me.."

"Oh I see, did you read those texts?" He asked. I shook my head "no... after yesterday I am just... worried what else he will tell me... if I open those messages and look at them... I am worried that I might see more insults than apologies..." I said, looking down.

"That's nonsense, he asked about you in the morning if you are going to school and only asked about you... maybe you should call him back" he said, sitting down next to me.

Muichiro: I-I can't... I-I feel like I can't even face him after yesterday... I thought that we were friends... best friends... and then he says all those things about me... all I can think about is if... our friendship was even real...

Yuichiro : Of course it was... Muichiro listen to me, he was drunk and from what I heard from Nezuko he's acting like this sometime when he had too much to drink ma-

Muichiro: I doubt that it was only from alcohol... let's just.. not talk about it no more.. I am not in the mood for it..

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