Chapter 5 Special: Winter Festival with the Hashiras!

(Author POV) (A/N: In this chapter they know each other + Tanjiro, Inosuke, Zenitsu)

A winter festival that has fireworks, hot pot, food stands, and fireworks is what a winter festival is to normal people, but for the Hashiras,

"WHY? WHY? WHY ARE WE FIGHTING EACH OTHER? No, no, no I'll die! I'm not attending no way, impossible!!" said Zenitsu crying.

"HAHAHA! MONITSU!! I'll WIN THIS TOURNAMENT AND BEAT THE HASHIRAS AND FUROKU THEN I"LL BECOME THE STRONGEST!! HAHA!!" said Inosuke before charging in,

[Beast Breathing, Eighth Fang! Explosive Rush!]

As Zenitsu faints because he got scared,

[Thunder Breathing, First Form! Thunderclap and Flash!]

Luckily, due to Inosuke's beastly reflexes, he was able to defend against Zenitsu's attack then regained his balance and,

[Beast Breathing, Fifth Fang! Crazy Cutting!]

"HAHAHA DIE! I'M THE STRONGEST!!" said Inosuke before knocking out the unconscious Zenitsu out. (A/N: Though he was already unconscious..oh well.)

In the stands

"That was a flamboyantly good battle! But If it was the flamboyant me, I would've flamboyantly bested him flamboyantly easily!" said the Flamboyant Tengen.

"Delicious!" said Rengoku eating his lunch.

"Good Job Inosuke!" said the Tanjiro.

"Waste of time." said Giyu.

"I agree." Tokan said. She and Giyu was alike in certain ways.

Back to the tournament

There were only two rules in the tournament, no killing and to win, either make them surrender or knock them unconscious. The blacksmiths gave them custom made swords to use because if they used their Nichirin Blades, a person will die.

"Next up, Giyu against Tanjiro. Don't hurt yourselves my children." said Ubayashiki-sama. Despite being blind, he was the referee for the matches. Though he was given a seal.

"Good luck Tanjiro. I'll end this quickly." Giyu said. Water Breathing against Water Breathing, interesting match.

"Thank you Giyu-san! Let's have a great match!" said the pure-hearted Tanjiro.

They both rushed towards each other and simultaneously said,

[Water Breathing, Third Form! Flowing Dance!]

[Water Breathing, Third Form! Flowing Dance!]

The battle was beautiful, different forms water constantly going at each other nonstop, an infinite flow of water constantly flowing. In the end, Giyu won by using,

[Water Breathing, Eleventh Form! Dead Calm.]

Entering a state of tranquility by ceasing all body movements and cutting all incoming attacks with imperceptible speed. Pretty unfair.

"It seems like I still have a long way to go to beat you Giyu-san. Thanks for the battle!" said Tanjiro said looking wearied out. Giyu-san looks tired but not as bad as Tanjiro.

"You're plenty strong and you're welcome." Giyu said as he went back the stands.

"Ara~Ara~Have you gotten so weak that a Hashira needed to take almost an hour to beat someone weaker?" Shinobu bullied

"Shut up." Giyu said with a tick on his forehead.

"Next up, Muichiro against Tengen. Good luck to the both of you." Ubayashiki-sama said.

"I'll put on a flamboyantly good show!" said Tengen but he was against Muichiro. Muichiro tends to forget everything.

[Sound Breathing, First Form! Roar!]

and not even a minute into the match, Muichiro had already lost.

"The clouds are spinning." said Muichiro before passing out.

"That was not a flamboyantly good show." Tengen said disappointed.

"Just leave Muichiro out next time. He's weak!" said Sanemi.

"Next up, Mitsuri against Obanai." said Ubayashiki-sama but let's skip that cause we know (spoilers) Mitsuri would never raise her sword against the person she loved and Obanai too. In the end they forfeited. Now then, we have an exciting match coming up,

"Next up, Gyomei against Sanemi. Be careful." said Ubayashiki-sama.

"I pray for your safety, poor soul." said Gyomei.

"SHUT UP! I'll KILL YOU!" Sanemi said before rushing in,

[Wind Breathing, Fifth Form! Cold Mountain Wind!]

Sanemi creates several circular arched slashes that increases in size but Gyomei had other ideas,

[Stone Breathing, Third Form! Stone Skin!]

Gyomei releases a series of slashes with his attacks before bringing his flail and axe by both ends of the chain and swings it towards Sanemi using a two-pronged wide-ranged attack,

[Stone Breathing, Fourth Form! Volcanic Rock, Rapid Conquest!]

Sanemi saw this coming and leaps into the air to create circular torrents of wind blowing the flail and axe away slightly making it miss,

[Wind Breathing, Eighth Form! Primary Gale Slash!]

This went on until Gyomei was able to grab Sanemi's sword and,

[Stone Breathing, Fifth Form! Arcs Of Justice!]

knocking Sanemi out as an axe and iron ball struck him.

"Now for the final battle, a 6-way Battle Royale. Tokan, Shinobu, Giyu, Tengen, Inosuke, and Gyomei. Good luck my children."

"It seems as the strongest, I did not need to fight." Tokan.

"Ara~What are you saying Tokan? You were only reserved for the battle royale." said Shinobu.

With a tick on Tokan's forehead, "So were you Shinobu, you were also reserved." Tokan replied.

"What are you talking about Tokan? I simply requested not to participate since I had a bit of research to finish right Ubayashiki-sama?" Shinobu asked.

"Yes that is correct." replied Ubayashiki-sama. Though Tokan knew she just didn't to participate which added another tick on her head.

"Stop with all this flamboyant talking, let's flamboyantly fight! HaHa!" said Tengen.

"HAHA! I'LL SMACK YOU ALL!! HAHA!!" said Inosuke.

"I pray for the poor souls who are about to be beated." said Gyomei.

"So noisy." said Giyu.

"Shall we start with a warm up?" asked Shinobu.

"Then we shall." replied Tokan.

[Sound Breathing, Fourth Form! Constant Resounding Slashes!]

[Beast Breathing, Tenth Fang! Whirling Fangs!]

[Stone Breathing, Fourth Form! Volcanic Rock, Rapid Conquest!]

[Water Breathing, Tenth Form! Constant Flux!]

[Insect Breathing, Dance of the Dragonfly! Compound Eye Hexagon!]

[Frost Breathing, , Ninth Form! Blessing Of The Blackened Ice!]

They were twisting and rotating their bodies to attack and defend from their opponent's attacks. It was as if all the colors in the world flooded and exploded creating beautiful forms, white meaning sound, grey meaning beast, black meaning stone, blue meaning water, purple meaning insect, and light blue meaning frost. By combining all the forms, it was as if a firework exploded revealing the most beautiful rainbow there was.

It truly looked like a winter festival with the colors and the frost creating a bit of snow. With the help of Shinobu's research, the Hashiras and Demon Slayers were able to make their form's colors explode in the sky creating a firework. Soon after the firework disappeared, the rest of the Hashiras and Demon Slayers revealed themselves and kneeled towards Ubayashiki-sama and said,

"Happy Winter Festival Ubayashiki-sama! May you live another year and let us serve you!"

Thus, revealed the true intentions of the tournament.