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Tooth Ache

Agere! Inosuke & Agere! Genya & CG! Tanjiro (Plus Shinobu)

A/N: My first KnY oneshot! I'm honestly really pleased with this one, I will definitely be posting a part 2 as soon as I can. I'm completely smitten with agere Inosuke, he's just so cute.

TW: Mention of wisdom teeth extraction, partially detailed description of teeth extraction, mention of anaesthetic, mention of blood, mention of crying.

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When Tanjiro woke, it was to the sound of heaving, brittle sobs, the smell of despair and pain tainted the air, pungent.

He blinked against the light shining through the open windows, swipes a hand over his forehead when he leans up and is greeted to the sight of a positively distraught Inosuke, sat criss cross, fat tears dripping down his chin, one hand held by a worried Genya, who was knelt next to him, the other hand clenched over the tatami.

Inosuke whimpers, shrill and pained. Tanjiro lurches forward, pressing a hand to the back of the younger’s head.

“Ino, piglet, what's wrong?”

Inosuke breathed in heavily through clenched teeth, his eyebrows furrowing and eyelids fluttering in what Tanjiro can tell is overwhelming pain.

“Hurts!”

He croans, his voice slurred and his words softened. Tanjiro leans further forward, frowning deeply at his baby.

“What hurts little dove?”

Genya bumps Inosukes shoulder, he ever so slightly trembles in worry, calling out before Inosuke can strain himself any further.

“Ino’s gums and teeth hurt, we were playing and he said his gums popped, there’s all blood at the back of his teeth.”

Genya pulls a disgusted face, but still sits with Inosuke, petting his larger hand over Inosukes, a sweet attempt at comforting the boy.

Tanjiro frowns, rubbing a hand along Inosukes shoulder. He places both of his hands either side of Inosuke’s neck, his thumbs gently resting on the boy’s chin.

“Can you open your mouth and let me see please?”

Inosuke complies, if a little slowly, he opens his mouth as wide as he can, and Genya is right, blood pools at the bottom of Inosuke’s mouth and his molars are coated in a red sheen, Tanjiro winces at the gore, rubbing his thumbs over Inosuke’s chin, sympathy clutching at his chest.

“Good boy, thank you.”

He pulls away, scrunching his eyebrows up at the sad display in front of him, the best move would be to get Inosuke medical attention and hopefully some quality pain relief.

“Ino, we’re gonna pay Shinobu-san a visit, how does that sound?”

Inosuke just continues to whine and cry, Tanjiro hums in sympathy, he turns to Genya briefly, running his hand over the boys hair.

“Thank you Gen, it was extremely brave of you to bring Inosuke here and to help him. We’ll have something nice for dinner later, yes?”

Genya beamed, smiling widely at Tanjiro.

“Can you keep an eye on Ino for me while I get dressed?”

Genya hums, pulling a still sobbing Inosuke into his arms in a sweet display of affection.

Tanjiro stands, running his hands across both of their heads before he pulls on his uniform. And before too long he’s ushering Inosuke and Genya out the door, sliding it closed behind him, hefting Inosuke up onto his hip after the boy tugs on his haori sleeve with a sweet pout on his teary face.

He walks as quickly as he can to the Hashira’s room, mindful of the young girls that rush around every corner of the estate, happily greeting them.

Genya stands awkwardly beside Tanjiro and Inosuke while they wait for Shinobu to greet them.

Tanjiro moves swiftly when a calm voice calls out a “come in!”

Tanjiro bows his head towards the woman, running careful hands up Inosuke’s back.

“I’m sorry to intrude Miss Shinobu, but Inosuke needs medical attention.”

She rises from her seat, smiling gently, her hands are featherlight and barely there when she guides him to put Inosuke down, the boy sat on the tatami, She crouches down, her hands clutched together, she smiles at Inosuke.

“Hello there. What seems to be bothering you?”

Inosuke blinks weakly, and opens his mouth as wide as he can, showing off the red mess that has become of his teeth.

The Hashira seems taken aback, her thin eyebrows furrow and her smile fades. She hums, standing before walking over to a basin and washing her hands.

“His wisdom teeth have ruptured, I know a small amount about dentistry, but enough to safely remove them. Are you okay with me taking them out?”

Tanjiro blinks, nodding quickly, he’d hate to see Inosuke in prolonged pain if it wasn’t necessary.

The Hashira pulled out a canvas roll containing various dentistry tools that made Tanjiro pale and silently pray to anyone that would listen that he didn’t have any issues with his teeth in the future.

“There’s nothing to worry about, Inosuke will be under an anesthetic when I perform the surgery.”

Shinobu lays out a white sheet, pressing Inosuke down onto it, the boy is surprisingly willing, Tanjiro assumes that all the pain and the crying had puffed him out enough for him to be pliant.

“Inosuke, I’m going to sedate you now, you’ll wake up once the surgery is finished.”

Inosuke nods, dazed.

Shinobu smiles at the boy as she wets a cloth with ether, gently pressing the cloth to his nose and mouth, speaking words of soft praise as Tanjiro runs his fingers through Inosukes hair.

Tanjiro turns to Genya once Inosuke goes limp.

“Would you like me to get Aoi? Or would you like to stay here with Ino.”

Genya shook his head, crossing his legs when he sat.

“I can stay?”

Tanjiro pets a hand over his head

“Of course you can, you want to see Inosuke when he wakes up?”

Genya hums, watching the younger with concerned eyes.

“Inosuke will be fine, he’s just in a bit of pain right now.”

Genya still watches him, silent. Inosuke’s hand twitches and a low pitched whine cuts through the air, Shinobu pauses, pulling her tools out of his mouth, movements careful and precise. Tanjiro continues worming his fingers through the boys hair, his breathing slow and his gaze worried.

“It appears as well as a resistance to various poisons, Inosuke has developed an immunity to anaesthetic.” Shinobu muses, her expression tinged with intrigue.

“Is that a bad thing?”

The Hashira blinks

“It’s not good, necessarily, it means young Hashibira is mostly aware of what is happening at the moment, he’s conscious.”

Tanjiro hummed, frowning down at the boy, smoothing through his hair and over his forehead.

“We’ll just have to take extra care that he isn’t distressed when he properly wakes, I will be finished soon enough and will guide you on how to care for him.”

Tanjiro nods and bows his head

“Thank you Shinobu-san, I appreciate you taking time to help Inosuke, I’m sure he’ll be thankful as well.”

The woman smiles graciously, shifting the tools in her hands.

“It’s my job, Kamado, Besides, Inosuke is a valued member of the Demon Slayer corps, it would be cruel and dishonourable of me to refuse him.”

She pauses, turning back to her work, prodding into the boys tender mouth. She speaks up again, her words quite, but loud enough for Tanjiro to hear.

“And, I must admit, I have grown to be quite soft on Inosuke, as wild as he is, he reminds me of someone.”

Tanjiro smiles, grateful to see the Hashira so open and calm.

“I’m glad to know Inosuke has imprinted on at least one of the Hashira’s.” He laughs lightly, rubbing a hand behind the back of his head.

The woman smiles slightly.

“Don’t let them fool you, behind their tough facade, all of the Hashira have grown to form somewhat of a soft spot for all of you, Inosuke seems to stand out to them though, his naivety and boldness intrigues them.”

Tanjiro nods along, Genya silently listening, splitting his attention between poor Inosuke and the interesting conversation.

“I’m sure with a bit of time with them, Insouke will have them all wrapped around his finger.”

Tanjiro smiles, Genya silently snickering behind him. They patiently watch the woman work, Genya has taken to petting over Inosukes forehead while Tanjiro busies himself with detangling the cobalt strands,

Shinobu works much quicker than Tanjiro anticipated, considering she’s not well versed in dentistry.

She delicately winds a needle and thread through Inosukes gums, cutting off the thread and staunching the blood with bundled pads of gauze, She pulls the gauze away, and Tanjiro blanches at the blood soaking it, it’s dark and it covers most of the pad. Shinobu seems to notice his pale skin and wide eyes.

“Not to worry, mouth wounds tend to bleed substantially, especially the tooth extractions, I’ll pad out his jaw so he’s not in too much pain and I will inform Aoi that he needs a dose of pain medication before each meal.”

Tanjiro nods, watching as the woman stands from her post, and walks over to a separate basin to cleanse her tools.

“He will need the stitches to be removed in 10 days, if I am here, please bring him.”

Speaking of the devil, Inosuke blinks his eyes open blearily, a whine prattles out of his throat and Tanjiro lurches, turning his body so he’s within the boy’s eyeline.

“Piglet, are you feeling alright?” His eyebrows furrow in worry

Inosuke coughs, clenching his hand in Tanjiro’s uniform

“It hurts!” His words are slurred and come out wonky

Tanjiro smiles sympathetically, leaning down to press a kiss to the boys forehead

“I know, I know, Shinobu-san had to take out two of your teeth, they were hurting you sweetling.”

The boys eyes welled up, the auburn haired boy sat looking down at him gently cradles his cheek in his palm, his touch featherlight so as not to disturb the open wounds, he thumbs away at the youngers tears

“It’s okay, you’ll have your pain medication in a minute and everything will feel better, okay?”

Inosuke made a clicking noise with his mouth, leaning into the affectionate touch.

“Look who came Ino, he wanted to stay and see you when you woke up.”

Genya shuffles over, pulling Inosuke into a soft hug, nosing against his cheek. Inosuke cries out in joy, his face flushed and happy.

Shinobu gives Inosuke the all clear to go rest up after she administers a dose of pain medication and reassures them that their breakfast will be in their room soon so the medication can absorb.

Inosuke is sat on Tanjiro’s hip on the way back to their room, giddily chirping and babbling away at Genya, who keeps up pace next to them and is surprisingly following along to every sound Inosuke is making.

Tanjiro is content, Inosuke is no longer in agony and is happily sounding out his thoughts and feelings, and Genya appears more confident and self assured than this morning, Tanjiro assumes it was Inosuke’s pain that had him in such a state of anxiety and worry.

They hunker down, settling Inosuke under a thick blanket, slipping his favourite stuffed boar toy in with him, his eyes tired.

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