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[If there were not previously hot springs in Lunatia, there are now. If there were, great! Tanjiro is in them. Probably the same day they'd first yelled about him being a dragon, but late evening, and he sends Konoha a video post with his device propped up a safe distance from the water, draped over a rock and looking hilariously sour.]

...sorry to bother you so late in the day, but would you be up for a chat?

[Oh, it’s Tanjiro! Oh, it’s Tanjiro not wearing the cute new wing-friendly kimono she made him. Oh, it’s Tanjiro in the bath... so it must be serious???

(Weirdly enough the fact that meant he was basically messaging naked doesn’t seem to be the problem.)]

It’s not a problem, I’m just making dinner... Is everything alright?

[He's half underwater, it doesn't matter too much... He wouldn't just message her completely naked and on display, he actually cares about some degree of modesty.]

[Sometimes.]

[Unless we're talking about persimmons.]

[Anyway.]

[He grumbles softly and sprawls a little farther on his rock, careful to keep his lower half underwater.]

I dunno if Sanguis just makes me crabby or what, but... I'm crabby. And the reason is dumb. [He frowns, sticking his tongue out for a moment and skating the pawpads of his good hand across the water's surface while the other kind of dangles half-in, half-out of the water. He's basically never this sour and he hates it.]

[Look, she’s from 1620, used to bathing in a river, and she works around a bunch of men in loincloths. Unless his dicks out it’s all good.]

“Crabby”...

[Admittedly, not a mood she usually sees on him, making her hum as she fishes pickles out of her bran mix.]

Well it might be Sanguis... Gonta gets really irate sometimes. What’s the reason?

[His expression scrunches, and his ears turn red.]

...probably not something I should say over voice message, now that I'm thinking about it. [Given the timing, that may or may not explain most of the issue to Konoha without him really specifying.]

[She... pauses, up to her elbow in a rub of rice bran pickles.]

... d- do you need to talk to a man? I could try and find Mikuni... ?

[As much as she loves him Gonta is Not the One for what could be embarrassing sex? talk? or maybe body? changes?]

[He snorts, curling forward around his rock to laugh for a moment, his wings unfolding and resituating themselves a few times before he looks back up at the screen.]

It's-- no, I'm mostly just bellyaching. I'm sorry to startle you like that.

You don’t have to apologize... everyone should get to bellyache now and then...

[But at least maybe then it wasn’t as personally embarrassing as she feared, so-]

Should... we talk in person instead, then?

[He grumbles again, oozing forward off his rock and schlorping surprisingly gracefully under the water for a moment. Somehow, his hair doesn't fall in his face when he pops back up closer to where the device sits.]

That... definitely requires me to get out of this spring, which might be all that is keeping me from being a complete grouch.

I’ll come by the springs, then.

[For Tanjiro, that answer is just automatic.]

Just let me eat dinner and don’t get too pruny!

[He closes his eyes and withers onto the rock bank.]

You spoil me, Konoha. [He feels a little guilty for making her come out to him. But he's... so comfy.]

[And comfy he will still be whenever she gets there, though he's perched carefully in a dry rock cluster in just about the middle of the spring, coiled in on himself like an human-sized reptilian cat with his chin resting on a slightly higher rock so he can watch for anyone approaching.]

[Except it looks more like he's taking a nap, even if he rouses when she gets close enough to smell over the spring itself, staying curled but picking up his head. Sanguis makes him startlingly animalistic, that way.]

Nonsense! I like taking a bath at night.

[Especially in Lunatia where it doesn’t mean heating up water herself or going down to a cold river!

When she gets there she’s got her bathing items in hand, laying aside her towel and- geez, this new look is going to take some getting used to! She got so accustomed to the Cordis one...]

Sorry- Did I keep you waiting long?

[So did he, honestly. It takes him a minute to effectively reboot, and he lays his upper half atop the rocks to smile dumbly at her.]

Nope, these rocks are just super toasty so I got sleepy. I hope you didn't rush through your dinner.

[He seems to be contemplating how to get down while without flashing her or just jumping, and eventually clambers awkwardly down the back side of the rocks to avoid any accidental embarrassing displays. A moment or two later he comes around to her, swimming more with his wings than his arms and legs.]

Mmm, not at all.

[... Well, maybe just a little, but. Not enough to make a deal of as she starts to strip out of her kimono (well, just the outer layer, the pale juban stays on), twisting to remove her skirt. She wasn't in heat this moon cycle, so she could count on her tail to stay down and preserve her modesty.]

Are you getting the hang of those wings?

[Apparently enough to swim with them???]

[Swimming with wings is a lot easier than flying, but he comes up to the edge of the spring and folds his arms over it with only minor difficulty (he seems to have finally perfected the art of gracelessly throwing his left arm around to get it to go where he wants it to), closing his eyes and grinning slightly.]

A little. The tail helps, here. How've you been? [You literally just talked to her like a few hours ago.]

[Nice try, mister. Asking how she is, when that’s not the issue today? Shaking her head with a little amused snort, Konoha lumbers down by the wash area to start rinsing off before getting in.]

Isn’t that my question, Mr. Crabby?

[He scrunches his face up, caught, and leans forward to set his chin on the rock bank.]

Right, right... It's just-- have you... Mmn. [He's gotta figure out how to phrase this that isn't just... vulgar? Especially considering who he's asking.]

Have I... ?

[Not quite sure what to expect, Konoha just goes ahead and asks, sudsing up her flanks.]

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[He puts his face flat against the rocks.]

I mean, you're married and clearly very in love with your husband so some part of me doubts this but have you ever just... Had a really disappointing sexual experience. [He will not be looking her in the eye anytime soon, except-- He picks his head up and immediately raises a hand to cut her off before she responds.] This was not Inosuke, as a possibly important distinction.

[Well, that definitely isn’t the answer she was expecting. She thought it might potentially be sexual, but she’d thought it more likely to be like... maybe being upset because his downstairs had changed??? Or something????

So she’s a bit shocked, a bit pink in the cheeks, but. She still sort of laughs a bit when he adds the addendum.]

I, um... yes.

[Lunatia has made her so lewd that she can actually have this conversation... ! But also just because it seems that. It might make Tanjiro feel better if she understood what problem he was having and boy... has she had some disappointments.]

M- Mostly not with Gonta, of course! That was only when we first started and didn’t know what we were doing, but with- with some people in Lunatia... “yes”...

[... she has to add her own addendum too, though. They’re both dumb.]

[Both dumb and hopelessly in the corner of their respective choices. Tanjiro makes a grumbling whine of a sound and stretches his arms forward.]

It like-- wasn't even the actual thing, just... Everything else? I mean there's probably a lot more than can vary from one instance to another and maybe I'm just biased? That's a thing, right? I can totally just be biased and not wanna go the full moonlace with anybody else. It was just me the whole time, I'm just fussy. [He like. Actually hates being crabby.]

[Everything... else... ?

Konoha is listening, she swears she is, even though she is distracting herself from how lewd the nature of the conversation might become by twisting about to keep scrubbing at her flanks. But at the end of what he says she... can't help but look back at Tanjiro a bit helplessly.

He's biased? Just fussy? That didn't seem right-]

... What happened, now?

[She doesn't get it, and even though it's a bit awkward... She's going to need details, maybe.]

[He sprawls himself a little against the rocks, tail lashing in slow-motion across half the spring for how long it is, and makes a funny growl of a sound that is about as intimidating as Simba trying to roar for a moment.]

I tried to help a friend of mine out, he's Iris. He's always been... real down on himself, resistant to any kind of positive view, super jaded. He's been through a lot, I get it, but it gets tiring, you know? It's... [He grumbles again, mashing his forehead into the rocks.] This is literally so stupid. I think I'm just mad because I don't really know how much it helped, and Sanguis is apparently all about the dominant... stuff, so my own frustrations for not being able to help a friend are magnified in the worst possible way.

[Making sure she sudsed up and rinsed her coat has never been very important! Tanjiro was... something like a little brother, somewhat like a nephew? An adopted... something?

Something family-like.

But he was troubled, so she'd listen, because she'd been his boss and then his friend before she became that, frowning a bit as she watches him fuss about it.]

Did you... actually end up doing it, though? And he was still... whatever sort of way?

[His shoulders bunch up near his ears.]

I almost didn't, because he kept being weird. He pretty specifically wanted to make sure I wasn't gonna ditch him, which-- I mean, I couldn't very well have said I wasn't going to just to ditch him, you know? Even if I'm still a little mad he'd lump me in with someone who might. That's not who I am, so... yeah. I made sure to show him I wasn't gonna ditch him.

video; hinokami-- backdated to the end of triple moon

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