the two opposites rest

Sora grabs Kei's clothing and sword and hands it to her "Sora, you must learn that not all demons are hateful." Sora looks in disgust at where the demon was, almost like he was daydreaming "Sora are you even listening to me?" Sora flinches awake "yeah, yeah whatever." Sora sheaths his sword and waits outside for Kei.

Kei walks outside fastening the sash on her kimono "well at least I feel way better after that." Kei exclaimed, Sora looks down and smiles "I'm sorry for what I said earlier." Sora said with an embarrassed look on his face "it's alright Sora, we all joined the demon slayer corps for many reasons, you with your wife and me for my cat." "Kei we are both fighting for very different reasons." Sora replied and then the two walked down the path, but they were both interrupted by a familiar voice to Sora "well, looks like someone changed a bit." Sora turns around to see lower rank 2, Sora stands with Kei drawing her blade drawn "Kei stand down, he's too strong." Sora looks at lower rank 2 gritting his teeth, another demon shows their self "oh are these people master wants us to kill?" he asked pointing at them, this demon was lower rank 3 and they were gorgeous, their eyes were a sun yellow, clothes all proper and fancy, shirt buttoned up, pants stainless with a belt holding them up, hair lustrous, long and thick and not to mention not a spot on their smooth face "no Hisa, I and this man have a history together." "you're lovers?" Lower rank 2 sighs "no you fucking moron, I killed his wife." he said "ooh, you should've been clearer, not my fault you can't explain things Kaori." Hisa replied with sass, Kaori's eyes twitched. Sora and Kei watch the two bicker "Kei, use 4th form." Kei rushes the two jumping from place to place like lightning with her sending strong slashes at the demons cutting their bodies but she barely breaks the skin, "back off!" Kaori shouts forming their axe out of their flesh and as Kei goes into the 1st form stance (thunder breathing: 1st form, thunderclap and flash!) she jets towards him but Kaori clashes with their blade, teeth biting onto the steel "Sora!" Kaori looks at Sora to see he's disappeared from his spot, Kaori looks up to see Sora with his blade over his head

(flame breathing 3rd form: blazing universe!) he brings his blade downwards through Kaori's head-splitting it in two "hey Hisa, a little help!" Hisa sits down on a tree stump watching the fight "hmm I'd rather watch, as a sophisticated man I refuse to fight with such barbarians." Hisa yawns. Kaori's spliced head starts to heal, closing the gap and trapping the blade "you little shit!" Kaori absorbs his axe causing Kei to fall to the ground, Sora tries to free his blade but he fails "when you reach the afterlife, tell your wife I said hi!" Kaori turns his hand into an axe blade with teeth, suddenly Kaori's arms are sliced off and his head split down the middle, releasing Sora's sword "Hisa, what was that?" Hisa cowers "it's... its..." Hisa tries to speak "Spit it out already!" Kaori puts his head back together and regenerates his arms, he turns around to see the dawn hashira, with their tied-up dark blue hair flowing in the wind, long purple haori that was like a cape, their eyes were almost calming as you got lost in them with the eyelashes glistening, the sword had a chain with a weight at the bottom of the hilt, a purple mixed with yellow and blue stripes. "godamnit I don't need to deal with you right now!" Kaori grabs their severed arms and turns them into axes, Kaori looks the hashira in the eye, feeling terror "I demand that you two leave." he demanded with a hint of anger in his voice. Hisa looks at the horizon to see the sun starting to shine, Hisa grabs Kaori and leaves the area immediately. "are you two okay?" he asked getting his gourd out, Kei stands up sheathing her sword "I'm fine, just a bit of trouble." she said with a smile "good to hear!" he said grinning ear to ear, they both look at Sora staring down the path (follow them and behead them) he told himself "excuse me, young man, is everything okay?" the hashiras asks "yeah, I'm alright." he tells the hashira "good, now follow me along to a proper place to rest." the hashira leads the two down the path to his mansion.

Sora takes his clothes off revealing a scarred chest with a muscular build, his abs looking like boulders on his body, biceps like the most indestructible shields in existence with sweat dripping down them. Sora grabs his battered sword and starts swinging downwards, sideways, upwards and diagonally. Kei watched on as Sora trained vigorously, "hey Sora, are you sure you don't wanna rest?" Kei asked sitting down "No *huff* I've gotta *huff* become better!" he keeps swinging his blade repeatedly, the hashira walks in and pays close attention to Sora's moves (amazing, he moves the blade-like he's using water breathing) Sora starts to move the blade slowly but he starts to make the movements rapid as if he was igniting a flame, Sora swings their blade and lets it flow like water in a river (flame breathing 1st form: unknowing fire!) he quickly changes his form and swings his blade with sweat dripping down his forehead "bravo, amazing how you combined the movements of water breathing and the attacks of flame breathing." he applauded "thank you, sir." Sora replied with bowing down, "sir may we please see some of your dawn breathing?" the hashira smiles "of course!" the hashira grabs a dummy and prepares to show off "get ready to be amazed!" he slowly breathes in (dawn breathing 1st form: setting sun) he swings the long chain around the dummy's neck and pulls the neck towards the blade, as the hashira continues to show off his 9 forms of dawn breathing, the three then sit down and drink green tea.

"so you taught yourself this technique?" Kei asked "yes, I trained myself night and day without getting a wink of rest." the two are both amazed that they get to talk to a hashira in person and drink tea with them "may I ask why you use a sword and chain instead of a Kusarigama?" Kei asked "well you see I didn't feel comfortable with the scythe not having enough length to defend myself from another sword attack, so I combined the sword and chain, I also added a little trick to it." he grabs the weight and clicks a button on the hilt of his sword *click* a sharp blade comes out of the bottom "for when those demons least expect it." he then clicks the button putting the blade back into the weight. *CRASH* the three of them are shocked, the hashira runs upstairs with Sora and Kei following behind. "Haru!" he walks into his wife's room to be met with a demon holding his wife hostage, the demon had a bald scalp, blue skin, horns on their head, tattered pants and a tattoo on their left arm, their finger and Haru's neck "good morning... now listen Mr Akira, I just need something to eat today and since the sun has risen I need it quick!" the demon slowly pierces Haru's neck

"just an arm please," he begs (dawn breathing 3rd form: gleaming rise!) Akira throws the weight at the demon knocking them back, blood spurting from their mouth. the demon jets their finger towards Haru's neck but Akira pulls the chain upwards, wrapping the chain around the demon's arm, pulling it towards him and slamming the weight onto the hand and then smacks it down, breaking the hand of the demon, Akira pulls the chain back and catches the weight

"Forgive me, I hope we may meet in another life." he sheaths the blade in its scabbard and hoists the chained weight on his side, the demon looks to the rising sun and he quickly runs away

"I must find shelter!" the demon runs faster and faster with his skin starting to burn *SSSSS* their skin starts to sizzle like bacon in a pan, Akira comforts his wife and Kei looks at the demon cowering away "damn that's the 4th demon today and the 2nd one that's been slain." she remarked and then she looks at Sora (total concentration) he then jumps through the hole in the wall and runs down the path "get back here!" the demon looks back and grabs Sora by the arm and starts to absorb him into his body "fine then you'll die with me!" Sora smiles "gladly." he said calmly, then Kei comes out of nowhere like lightning striking the ground and she then instantaneously severed the demons head turning his body and head into ash freeing Sora's arm, but before Sora is truly freed the demon pierces his finger through Sora's arm, pumping his blood into him. Sora's body starts to seize up and to stop the blood from reaching Sora's heart Kei grabs her sash and ties it around the arm holding it tightly "come on Sora hang in there!" Kei tells Sora who starts to foam from the mouth.

Sora looks at their arm "thank goodness I did it in time, otherwise, I'd be dead for sure." the demon muttered, Sora looks to see the demon sitting down, legs crossed "so is your whole blood demon art just transferring from body to body?" the demon nods "and now you're living in my arm." the demon nods again with a snarky grin on their face "but how do you plan on becoming free?" the demon stops grinning "oh." Sora sits down with the demon "so can I use the blood demon art?" "no, I don't think you can." Sora and the demon are baffled "has this never happened before?" the demon shakes their head "no I've got full control over others' bodies before, but since that girl was there to stop the process I'm stuck in your left arm." the demon smiles and walks over to Sora "but I could just take full control of you right now, turning your body into a demon and killing us in the sunlight." Sora's arm turns into the demon's blue arm, with the nails turning into claws but it doesn't seem to bother Sora he seems to be controlling it "huh?" Sora looks at the demon "listen, you need a body to stay in and I need this arm, so how about we make a deal." the demon shows interest

"I'm listening." Sora stands up "you only take control of my left arm, you can transform it, kill with it and do whatever else with it and you just need to not take over my body." The demon holds out their hand "it's a deal and cross my heart and hope to die, that's how you know I won't break our deal." Sora looks over the demon's back "are you crossing your fingers?" the demon shows Sora his fingers revealing he didn't cross them "alright good."