Act 2: Resolve of Young Slayers

Rise of the Demon King Tanjiro VS Demon Slayer Nezuko

**Originally posted in Fanfiction and Archive**

Published: 04-24-20 - Finished: 07-16-22

Summary: Muzan passed his whole Identity to Tanjiro and is now the New Demon King. He Escaped, people who were present at that day would never forget. How Kamado Nezuko swore back to her brother 'Oniichan, I will definitely, as Your Little Sister...Will Bring you back to normal!' And thus New Pillars and New Twelve Demons are About to Rise upon The Sun Demon King Kamado Tanjiro! Muzan Is always with lonely, isolated Tanjiro.

Kanon58: Hello,im surprise it got good feed backs. Im so happy, i really put my feelings for KNY character the best I could. Sanemi will play a big part here, spoiler? Nahh, btw chap 203 is out guys! I knew the Manga is ending...! So sad it ends too soon when you were so hype! So hope you guys drop ur thoughts in reveiw section! Lets fangirl on KNY before it dies...huhu cant wait for moviiiee yeeez.

YES AM UPDATING CUZ NEXT WEEK I WONT...so ya better make me excited to update :3 GREEDY

As Said English sucks so do Not Except it to be written beautifully or whatever. I'm doing this out of pure fangirling and fantasy.

No Flames you are not a Breath Flame User xD

COME ON BARE WITH ME IM SORRY D:

Im just doing this cuz of Quarantine, But once everything is back to normal I will be busy on my Work again as an Adult. SAD ADULT FAR AWAY FROM ANIMES HUHU

REVIEW To inspire me to update. ROLF

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'Oniichan, I will definitely, as Your Little Sister...Will Bring you back to normal...!'

The Sun is completely up.

After Tanjiro escaped. Everyone who survived was sent to The Butterfly estate. Aoi Kanzaki counted all the patients. Everyone is there except a certain red sunshine smiley boy. Murata who sat onto his own hospitalic bed shooks and told Aoi the terrible news besides the fact that Obanai,Mitsuri,Gyomei died as a hero. Included the special person who took her in -Kochou Shinobu. Aoi knows Shinobu will die eventually and the fact that they all knew Shinobu intended to be eaten to revenge who killed Kouchou Kanae...it was anticipated. But not that boy. That person-

Aoi was...was just too shock.

"Tanjiro...he, he got turned into A demon at the last moments of Muzan." Murata started to have teary eyes that eventually became an actual Cry. "...Aoi-san, Tanjiro he isn't coming back. The antidote Kanao stab him did not work...It was not enough." Murata sniffs.

Aoi is still in a shock...and mumbled " Huh..? That...Tanjiro is? Really?" She suddenly recalled that sweet promise Tanjiro made for her only.

'Whenever Im in Battle, I will always think of you Aoi-san, to carry your feelings with the battlefield with me! See you later!'

"EH...?"

Slowly Aoi's leg gave a way, she put her hand onto the nearest pillar of wall so that she can keep her balance. "Noway...Tanjiro is too kind to be a demon. You must be kidding me..." her voice and sight darkened. Demon means evil right? It always had been. Sure Nezuko was a kind demon but, the fact Tanjiro did not come with them hinted he isn't the Tanjiro they knew. Tanjiro escaped after all.

Murata rubs his face and faced her with concern. "A-Aoi-san you ok? Hey-"

Aoi fell down on her knees with cold blood. "What did Shinobu-sama died for? What did...Kanao-sama became blind for...?" She gasp out her thoughts out loud as her lips trembles. It feels icy.

'I'm, I'm a just a coward who survive the Final Exam with luck. Ever since then I was too afraid to even fight or lift an actual sword.' Aoi began to tremble, Murata started to try and comfort her like patting her back with slightly shaking her to keep herself collected. "Hey."

Aoi ignores the other as she was blaming herself. 'If only I was not a coward, If only I can yield sword like how I was trained before taking the Final exam. The death would have been lessen?'

Right, Aoi thought she is better off dead than Shinobu and Tanjiro. Aoi felt useless. Aoi felt like she is just here cuz she got adopted by Shinobu out of pity. Sure she learned medicine, she is a very good nurse and teaches surviving Slayers some therapy battle exam. But the fact that she knows how to fight and survived the exam she did had experience killing a demon but decided to stop because she is a coward.

Aoi knows she may die the moment she try to grab a sword in her hands. They were frozen.

Cold...cold as an Ice.

"What should I do...? Shinobu-sama...?" Aoi started to cry, Murata is surprised the strong Aoi is weak now. Murata decided to respect the girl and kept quiet.

Aoi covered her mouth with her cold hands that is still trembling. "Tanjiro, he is gone...is that it?" She questioned, Murata fisted. "I'm not sure Aoi-san...am not sure."

The two continued to grieve as if Tanjiro just died and worst than the deaths of the following heroic Pillars.

The drama was interrupted when the triplets Butterfly girls guided other Kakushi whose carrying The Wind Pillar Sanemi unconcious.

Sumi, Kiyo and Naho stopped their tracks upon seeing a weak Aoi on floor with Murata seem to be calming her. "Aoi-chan...whats the matter?"

Aoi who realize this is not the time to actually self blaming. She got to get to work. "N-nothing." She wipes her tears and forced a smile as she got up. Her legs feels like an ice covered on it but manage to walk towards the guests. Murata decides not to mention the news for now and complied to sit on his bed and laid down.

"The Wind Pillar , he is alive right?" Aoi checked the man, Kakushi still holding him up. "Yes, just broken ribs and missing fingers. He is out of danger."

Aoi nodded in acknowledgement and pointed on the free bed. "Please put him there gently, we will treat him if it needs more care." Kakushi nods and laid the sleeping Sanemi covers up in bandages.

Sumi, Kiyo and Naho were smiling. "We already put the rest to the other rooms to be laid on ,But where is Tanjiro niichan?" The trio asks.

Aoi is taken aback and does not know how to tell them without crying or loosing composure of what they must do right now. But Aoi knew these girls will eventually grow up as responsible women in replacement of Shinobu's care-taking for all.

"Listen, Tanjiro is alive. But..." she straighten her eyes for contact. The three girls could sense its something not good. "He was turned into a Demon like Nezuko-san."

Gasp.

"Noway! Tanjiro nii is strong-"

Aoi interrupts and told them some positive statement. "Worry not! Remember when Shinobu-sama made an antidote? We can make again...according to the Demon Guy...ehrm forgot his name but he visited here before."

Sumi,Kiyo and Naho said in union happy beam "Oh! We can cure him as well...! Great!"

For now Aoi did not told them what Murata shared that the antidote was not that effective to Tanjiro unlike how it did to Nezuko.

'I can't loose. I survived, I got protected. It is now my turn to return the favor!'

With that Aoi Kanzaki took a step out to check on other injured people needed treatment.

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On the other side of the room Tsuyuri Kanao contemplates her blurry world. Her hair is not tied up. They were long.

'My eyesight is now this poor. I cannot fight anymore do I..?'

Is what Kanao thought. But then it clicked to her. She is not completely blind...does this mean she still has something to do?

Kanao looked at the ceiling. She breath in a slow pacing. After all she was stabbed at her chest. The stab Tanjiro made is fortunately not within her heart's reach. That is why she is alive.

And becuz she is alive and not fully blind, somewhere in her beating heart wished something. 'I want to still fight. Even if it means to use that technique once more just to bring back Tanjirou-kun.'

When her hands fisted, a voice echoed on the room.

((KANAO~))

Kanao jerks up and find a clear figure of Shinobu. "Master...?" Kanao could tell she is having illusions. But she did not care, atleast she can see her sister who save her from slavery.

((Kanao, the battle is not over. I did told you, there is a purpose for having those precious eyesight.)) The spirit of Insect Pillar talked to her. Kanao is not a person who believe in spirits since she never encountered them. She could tell her mind is playing games with her.

((With eyesight or not, you can be a powerful Pillar like Gyomei-san.))

Kanao tilted her head and wondered... 'whose is Gyomei again?'

An image of a tall big guy that is always praying with budda beads.

"Oh...the Stone Pillar."

Kanao properly sat up this time on her bed. "Master, the Stone Pillar is blind the moment he was born. There is a huge difference between someone who used to have an eyesight that fights and a person becoming blind...Am troubled if I can even actually fight properly. Even a low rank demon may eat me." Kanao said to her imaginary Shinobu.

The imaginary Shinobu smiled, ((So you are planning to just wait here until Tanjiro-kun reverts back as a human? What if it never happens...? Hm? Kanao, you are a strong girl ,my Tsukugo.)) The kind smile changed into serious ones(( I did not train you to be bedridden because of a simple defect. Fight and stand Future Flower Pillar Kanao!))

It was a commanding voice.

Kanao who is now realizing that becoming blind is actually scary...Kanao touched the butterfly pin that was laying on the desk beside her right side. "Yeah...Right...it is not over. For Nezuko-chan sake... I will fight...!"

'Becuz I wanted to see Tanjiro-kun again..!'

Kanao had hoped on her own accord.

...Speaking of Nezuko, She had a bandage on her body to cover the wounds on her left shoulder and claw marks on her back. Then her hands that had some scratches and ripped off nails has also been covered by the bandages.

Nezuko sighed.

'It's been a while since I felt pain.'

Nezuko closed her eyes to repeat the memory when she was a demon. She got kicked, punched, some demon slash her forehead, another demon cutt's off one of her legs, then a spider web almost sliced her like a grinding meat.

She felt those pain but not as painful when she embraced the attacked of her big brother. It hurts like hell, because she is human now...but she bared with it to carry the weight for the eldest kind brother she ever had.

Nezuko also recalled the part Tanjiro buried their family by himself and is crying before sending them off with prayer.

Nezuko has not able to pray that time because she is not at herself.

"Okasan, Hanako, Takeo, Shigeru and Rokuta, Im so sorry..." Nezuko was not able to produce tears this time, instead just felt so alone. "Big sister was not able to save you...and that I survived on my own. I hope your souls had pass on properly and reunited with Otosan,," Nezuko intertwines her hands in a shape of prayer for the dead. "I promise to bring back Oniichan to our home."

She said to nobody.

Nezuko is alone at her room. Becuz the rooms that has multiple beds are for the demon slayers who fought with the pillars.

Most of them are men so technically she and Kanao had their solo rooms as privacy. 'I wonder how is Kanao-chan...'

...In the multiple bedroom laid Zenitsu and Inosuke wearing his mask. It was the same room they had when they first had known the existence of this Butterfly Estate.

But it is now a sad memory.

After all, the center bed is empty.

Tanjiro whose laughing in between the two idiots is not there.

"Tanjirou...I wonder where he is now?" Zenitsu said, Inosuke snorted. "Tanjiro will be okay! He is...he is strong..."

Zenitsu raised an eyebrow "Of course he is, he conquered the Sun after all, Nichirin blade surely cant cutt him off-"

Inosuke snapped but still unable to move on his bed as he is gravely injured. "Thats not the point! Nezuko-chan, Tanjiro did not eat Nezuko-chan even after tasting her flesh and blood!" Inosuke pouted like a child arguing facts of what he believes in. "If Nezuko-chan overcome her hunger...Tanjiro would too! He might be even eating chestnuts right now! Gyahahaha!" Inosuke triumphant laugh echoed like he assumed Tanjiro will be like Nezuko when she gave her chest nutts.

Zenitsu made a face "Since when you can say names properly...?"

Silence.

Zenitsu narrowed his eyes "Oi, say something you wild boar"

Inosuke did not respond anymore.

"You had grown up a bit didnt you? What happend..?" Zenitsu can hear it. Inosuke's heartbeat is actually sad. So sad that for the first time he got really concerned on him.

The reason he was not worried to Inosuke becuz Inosuke is reckless. It is always given he will have injuries on every battle. Unlike Tanjiro he avoids injuries as much as he could but ended up getting them badly.

"Inosuke," he called

Inosuke fidget. "Monitsu."

Zenitsu yelled "YOU ARE DOING THAT IN PURPOSE I CAN HEAR YOUR HEART LYING!" In a comedic way.

Inosuke coughs and finally told the truth, "There was a upper moon who knew my mom...He, he killed my mother. My real mother."

Zenitsu is surprises of course "Aren't you raised by boars?" What he meant Inosuke is not suppose to recall memories of her mother if he clearly told them before that he was a baby raised by boars.

Inosuke continued "Yes, but facing that annoying demon, his memories of killing my mom and how my real mother threw me off a cliff just showed up. It connected to my mind...and thats it."

Silence once more.

Zenitsu listened to Inosuke's heartbeat, they were lighter now. "I see." Zenitsu did not smile or anything, he traced the sunlight on the window instead and stared at it. "Atleast your mother died for you..."

With that they spend the rest of the day resting.

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The sunset has come. 'Haahh, haahh,'

Tanjiro had been running without a destination, he made his way to the woods.

Tanjiro is so confuse of his memories. 'Which one? Which one?! Which one is the real me...?!' His head is screaming.

When he stared to the human girl named Nezuko. It ache his heart but his mind decided to sprint a run.

'Why is she calling me brother...? My name is Muzan right? Or Am Tanjiro?' Shaking his head ,he did not see the big rock that allowed him to stumble on a lower ground of the forest.

"Uwaaah!" Tanjiro rolled down as he eventually hit a tree trunk. "Gah!" His back ache. Speaking of his back bones, the monstrous tail made from his backbones had returned back inside his flesh. His eyes were not the demonic cat eyed but a tamed version. Like How Nezuko eyes used to be in 'asleep' state.

'Eversince I was born, death had always been with me'

A baby laid on a funeral box.

'Tanjiro becareful when playing! You might bump the vase!'

A vase crashed on his forehead.

'Muzan-sama! You must not get out of the bed! Rest!'

Some servants pulling his arms to go back to the futon.

'Were now brothers! If someone goes astray, the rest must pull him back to the right path!'

A fists bum with two friends?

'...Muzan! Our son...! W-what have you done? The maid you...you ate them?'

A bloodied body that makes him ache for hunger.

GROWLS~

"NO!" Tanjiro grabbed his own head and banged it to the tree trunk. "Make it stop! Make it stop!" He chanted, but it gotten worst when blood starts to come out of his head.

His nails had duck deeply and the fact he headbutting the tree made it all messy.

Drip, drop.

The smell of blood.

"Ahh..." he sniffed and begun drooling. "It smells nice-" Tanjiro tried to pull himself together by covering his nose. 'Don't smell it...don't feel it...DON'T EVEN THINK OF ANYTHING!'

"You are still resisting? What a stubborn brat." Muzan said displaying his irritation to the kid. "If you are that hungry just eat!"

Tanjiro jerks behind him and saw the man, the monster. Wait..."Muzan!" Tanjiro glared.

"Ohho? You remember? Thats not good." Inside this realm of abyss, Tanjiro sometimes remember that he used to have a loving family, until a demon attacked and eat them. Only his sister survive but was turned into a demon.

Tanjiro remembers that, but as said, there are times he forgets. Times that he thinks the right memory was Muzan's.

That he is a sick little baby spent his whole life almost bedridden. A doctor who is kind enough to try harder but did not end up appreciating it, killing him as All other doctor's told Muzan the same thing.

-Its hopeless, you cannot be cured. Im sorry-

Everyone turned him down. He hated it.

Tanjiro right now feels so much hatred that he cannot be healed.

"I don't know what you did to my body... but get out of me...! You...you keep taking everything from me! You bastard! Just die already...!" Tanjiro felt so frustrated that his stomach growled more and more digging to his cravings.

"Dammit!" He bit his own lips . "I want to eat...!"

The fragment of Muzan whose locked up in this abyss mind realm smirked. "Perfect timing~" he caught his attention. "There is a prey coming for you, lucky~? Hm~?"

...Tanjiro's consciousness went back to the real world. His eyes spawned wide and found a man with a riffle pointing at him. The stranger is trembling and sweating terribly. "M-monster? But...I thought its a rare animal to hunt...! I didn't sign up for this..!"

"Eh..?"

The man seems to be in his 30's. From the scent Tanjiro could tell this man had been a hunter for years. Tanjiro smelled once a gun powder from Genya out of curiosity.

But now he smells another strong scent.

That yummy scent.

Flesh and Fresh Human as Meal.

"..." he begun to gulped down the drool which apparently uncontrolled.

"D-don't come near me you monster!" Out of plain panic, the man fired a shot. BANG!

And made Tanjiro vanish on his sight till- "AAAHH!"

Sharp claws and Fangs, tongue licking the saliva, eyes became feral like a red eyed cat demon of Muzan.

Tanjiro dig in to bite-

Or supposed to be.

But he recalled someone's warning. It was Nezuko's...

'Oniichan! Do not do that again! Please do not kill anyone!'

GASP.

Tanjiro proceed to bite his own left arm. CRUNCH

Blood gushed out to the man's face and shriek even more "GET OFF ME! DEVIL!" The man pushed him away, Tanjiro had ignored that gesture and proceed to eat his own left arm.

"HELP! HELP! A DEMON IS HERE! Heeelp!" The man screamed for help but eventually ran off somewhere, out of Tanjiro's field of vision.

Tanjiro munched at his own left arm.

"Pathethic." Muzan's voice echoed in his ear, but Tanjiro can't help it...he is enjoying on eating his own left arm. And the fact that it is not his original left arm to begin with..his real left arm was been cut off. Under normal circumstances he is basically arm-less on his left shoulder.

But tears eventually fell on his eyes. Muffling sobs. "It taste good...a flesh, the blood...it taste good...!" Tanjiro keep on eating while sobbing's and drowning on his own appetite.

Muzan in the shadow realm rolled his eyes and crosses his arm. "Fine suit yourself. Let's see how long you can be satisfied on devouring your own body than someone else;s~" Muzan is a very patient man. Sure we see him killing all the lower moons out of spite. But look, he had been searching and believing to find the Blue Spider Lily.

It paid off after all those decades ago. Because he eventually encountered the peculiar gift of Kamado Siblings.

Which is why he will patiently wait till Tanjiro accepts his will to become the strongest Demon King.

10minutes passed, a satisfied Tanjiro is now staring blanky at the sky that is now shaded in indigo. His eyes had reverted to the calm ones. Tanjiro has no idea what to do in the future. His future.

"I...I wanna go home..." but he can't. He is too hungry and ashamed of what he has become. 'I'm sure I have hurt them.' Tanjiro knew it is not his fault and he did felt them during the feral state of his that it was not his intention to hurt Nezuko, Inosuke, Zenitsu and Giyuu.

Tanjiro sighed.

"Maybe I should...die." sure, but how?

Tanjiro recalled he had overcome the sun, then that makes the Nichirin blade useless right? How can he be killed? If he don't eat he might go berserk. Tanjiro could not imagine himself to be self controlled like Nezuko if Muzan's whole existence been passed to him.

This time, Tanjiro knows the reason now why he ran away. It is becuz he cannot promise to take control of his mind and body. Until now he gets confuse and it is something he cannot risk if there is no antidote.

"I miss the mountains..." he trailed off, and remembered something else.

"My house..." he stood. "Right, I can hide there."

After all Tanjiro wanted to go home.

So Tanjiro decided for now his destination is to revisit their abandoned home in the mountains.

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It is night time, yet someone knocks at the door frame of Nezuko's room.

Knock,knock

She immediately opened her eyes. She is actually a light sleeper. The reason behind this is because every night she would wait for Tanjiro to make it back home after selling charcoal.

The demon Nezuko is the complete opposite, always asleep and un disturbed.

"You are awake right...?" The voice speculated. It is a familiar voice. Nezuko sats up, hearing the sheets moved Yushiro completely stepped inside of Nezuko's room.

"H-hey there." The boy was kinda nervous. Yushiro is a bit guilty how he treated her before. Never knew the human Nezuko is less annoying.

"Yushiro-kun right...?" Nezuko tried to smile so that it would not be that awkward.

Yushiro clears his thoart. He is wearing his demon slayer uniform. "So, I came here at night to ask you something...Nezuko."

Nezuko is still a bit sleeply but she is listening. She rub her eyes and nodded "uh huh?"

Yushiro is a bit hesitant, but he glared at the floor. And took a deep breath. "Can I have a portion of your blood?" Eye contacts...

Nezuko's eyes widen. 'Did he ran out of feeds...?' But not the least threatened.

"HUHHH YOU THINK YOU CAN MAKE NEZUKO CHAN YOUR FOOD IM GONNA F*UCKING KILL YOU!"

Behind the Door Zenitsu is there standing eyeing Yushiro,Zenitsu is in hospital gown given by Butterfly estate just like the rest of them dressed that way, he heard the conversation at bad timing. It pissed off the other too.

"HAAAH?! AND WHO THE HELL WANT TO DRINK HER DISGUSTING BLOOD-"

Zenitsu grabbed Yushiro's collar. "ARE YOU SAYING NEZUKO-CHAN TASTE BAD? I REALLY WANT TO KILL YOU NOW-"

"Zenitsu! Enough!"

Yushiro and Zenitsu frozed and looks at Nezuko. Nezuko is mad. She is mad...Nezuko made a face. "If you guys keep disturbing others I will kick you out!"

She threaten. Both knew she kicks hard during her demon days.

Zenitsu kneeled right away like a dog barking to the owner "IYAAA! NEZUKO-CHAN FORGIVE ME! DO NOT DIVORCE ME!"

"Ehhh?! What are you even doing-" Zenitsu clinging to Nezuko's legs as she tries to gently kick him out of her thigh's private places.

Yushiro sighed. "Look, when I said about having portion of her blood it is for the sake of trying to replicate the antidote for Tanjiro."

The other two went silent. Yushiro continued as he went to gaze up the moon. "Tamayo-sama wishes to eliminate any traces of Muzan, yet Tanjiro happen to be the victim to extend his identity." Yushiro pulled something out of his pockets it was Tamayo's hairpin.

He holds to it dearly. "I won't let her research and wish to be in vain. Tamayo-sama know I will be the last demon on earth if Muzan did not even resurrect inside Tanjiro's..."

A sad smile crossed his face. "I was let alone to live to keep saving lives. It was Tamayo-sama's ideal life for me if I hadn't lost interest in living for centuries."

Zenitsu just blinked. Nezuko made an empathetic face. "Yushiro-kun..."

Then came another knock on the wooden door. Knocks

"Who is it this time?" Zenitsu grumbled and saw the man Tomioka Giyuu. "May I have a moment-" Giyuu saw Demon Yushiro and Zenitsu in Nezuko's room while lights off.

Giyuu felt uncomfortable, not to any green thoughts but to interrupt friends while talking making him embarrass. 'I'm interrupting their friendship, they wont dislike me right?'

"Ah! Giyuu-san! What made you come up here late at night?" Nezuko greeted cheerfully making Zenitsu glare further. Yushiro saw that and rolled his eyes. 'This Zenitsu guy is so noisy...!'

As for Giyuu whose a bit starstruck gain composure. "I'm here to tell you that Urokodaki will be asking you to come back with him..for training..."

Nezuko's eyes shined. She is excited. Same time she wanted to thank Urokodaki from taking care of them siblings. "Really?! Urokodaki-san will go here to take me?" Giyuu shakes, "No, I will be the one to take you there since I believe you do not know how to even get there. He already replied through letter from my crow."

Nezuko clapped her hand "Alright then, nice to travel with you Giyuu-san!"

"WHAT ? YOU ARE LEAVING ME BEHIND NEZUKO-CHAN?! I WANT TO COME TOO-" Nezuko placed a finger on Zenitsu's lips with a soft smile.

"Wait for me and be a good boy!" Like a Big sister tricking a naughty child. "Otherwise I won't talk to you again." She crosses her arms.

"STRIKEEEE!" Zenitsu fall off the floor with nosebleed. "..yes I will behave and wait patiently...N-Nezuko-chan..." Zenitsu died.

Yushiro changed the topic "Wait, let me get your blood sample first." He took out his injection to get some blood from Nezuko who simply complied her wrist up.

Giyuu questioned it. "And that is for...?"

Before raise any misunderstanding Yushiro spats "For the antidote."

Giyuu did not even have doubts and okayed. "I see." Giyuu started to walk out of the room and reminded her for tomorrow's travel. "Early in morning we set off. The early the better, your body will get used to the harsh training..understood?"

Nezuko beamed "yes sir!"

Giyuu had a small smile but immediately disappeared. "Goodnight." And left.

Nezuko is stunned for a second, 'he...smiled, in my memories there was not a single event that he smiled.'

Nezuko smiled to her self. 'Onichan changed him. Im glad.'

...Morning came, Nezuko already dressed in her worn out black and pink haori. "Hmm...?" Nezuko checked herself "It's time to buy for a new Kimono huh..?"

Zenitsu who happen to woke up early just cause, "Do not worry Nezuko-chan! I will buy you one so hurry and come back!" Zenitsu wiggling his butt, Inosuke who is behind and wearing his mask had vein pops. Inosuke also tried to walk despite injuries.

"Stop being a creep to Nezuko-chan Monitsu!" Zenitsu yelled back to Inosuke "YOU ARE DOING IT AGAIN, YOU THINK YOU CAN GET ME BY THAT HUH! HUUUH?!"

Nezuko stared at the two idiots and laughed. "Ahahaha...!"

Inosuke and Zenitsu pops a question marked heads. Nezuko wipes her tears from laughing and bowed "Thank you for being friends with my Brother. And may you guys be in good care. Till we meet again..."

Inosuke breaths in his nose feeling happy. "Y-yeah. So hurry and fight me once you are done training." Zenitsu's blush dissappear upon hearing that statement.

"Idiot."

"Lets go." Giyuu who went out of the Butterfly estate door. Nezuko joked as her hands on her hips. "You are late again."

Giyuu stopped his tracks felt guilty. "I was?" Giyuu's mind went to flashback how he was always late whenever he has to save people from demons but ended up getting there and all dead.

Nezuko saw the bothered expression in Giyuu's eyes and told the truth. "Just kiddin!"

Her long curly hair twirls in the air, "Lets go now!"

Giyuu blinks and walked with her phase. "Alright."

And so then...Nezuko and Giyuu travelled to Sagiri Yama.

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Tanjiro have reached their abandoned home, it is already morning, not that it would harm Tanjiro. But Tanjiro did not want anyone to see him. Especially he has not seen any mirror nor water to see his reflection. If he is hideous or not? Somehow he manage to go up the other way in mountains instead of the village path below with a lot of humans.

This scent is nostalgic yet also horrifying. Despite knowing if he opened the door to their home he might have some flashbacks, or he might even see traces of old blood. Since when he buried them, he focused only to their bodies but not the bloody floor and walls. There was not enough time to clean them anyway...

"Okasan...Otosan, Hanako,Takeo, Shigeru, Rokuta...I'm-" Tanjiro gulps and had some sweat drops in his forehead. His hand already at the door and slide them to open "...home?"

Surprisingly there were no traces of blood. The woods were clean.

'...did someone cleaned them?' Could it be the villagers found out that they had been attacked as nobody went to sell charcoal from Kamado family? I mean it is 2years...eventually people will be concerned of his disappearance. They must have been shock to find the bloodied house and the graves at the front yard.

Sniffing.

Tanjiro walked in and mesmerize the scent of his home. "I'm..."

THUD

Tanjiro collapsed onto the floor.

A voice of an elder reacted on his fall down. "H-hey!"

Tanjiro felt a hand touched his back. He slowly bothered to gaze a bit to whoever it is. Shock to find Saburo. The man who lives the nearest to this house, the one who shared him about demon stories and fed him.

"What the-" Saburo jawdropped. "..Tanjiro?!"

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8hours passed.

Travelling, walking in a long uphill road. Giyuu was never a conversational person, Nezuko got bored. But same time she doesn't have ideas what would the older like to talk about. 'Oh, it is a chance to know more about him...!' Nezuko thought cheerfully to make a bond with him. Since maybe, just maybe Giyuu still feels responsible for what happen to Tanjiro that maybe the reason he is not talking. She wanted to let him know she is not blaming him.

"So...When did you become a Demon Slayer Giyuu-san?"

Giyuu's felt shivers on his spine. 'She is...trying to converse with me?'

Giyuu is nervous not to make the other bored like when she was with Shinobu, he kinda regret how he did not try better to talk to her...Now she is gone it is too late for that. Shinobu would always tell him how disappointing he is when someone tries to talk to him properly. He did not want that anymore...so he played cool.

"Around your age." The sentence ended there. But Nezuko wanted to know more. "Do you have a sibling too...?"

This time Giyuu's face became solemn. Nezuko's face went to her panic chibi face. 'Oh no! Did I ask something too personal?! I need to apologize...!'

Nezuko lift her hands in air waving, "I-I'm sorry! You do not have to answer-" to her surprise Giyuu responded.

"Am like you...I was a little brother. I have a big sister." Nezuko's face stopped the chibi face into normal ones. She knew she shouldnt keep asking but she felt so curious...

"Is she...doing well?" Sweat drops.

Giyuu simply stated the fact. "She is dead. Same old story. A demon attacked our house. My sister will be married soon but instead of running away to save herself...She choose me." Giyuu who is not aware he is doing a free will to share it to another Kamado. "It was so bad that it left me to a trauma. I forgot that I had a sibling, becuz I wanted to get rid of that memory. Then Urokodaki came to pick me up to his home. I met a person name Sabito, whose the same age as me..." Nezuko saw Giyuu clutched at his haori. "He made me recalled who am. That I had a loving Big Sister. Becuz of that I decided to train with Sabito under Urokodaki's wing..."

Nezuko is amazed. 'He can talk normally...' Nezuko had her lips smirk. Giyuu raised an eyebrow. "Is something funny?"

Nezuko shrugs, "I just thought, your sister saved you instead picking her future so that you can developed yourself!" She praised.

Giyuu stopped for a moment.

Nezuko looks back "Something wrong?"

Giyuu thought to himself 'they are similar...they are indeed siblings...'

"Nothing, let us hurry."

"Okay!"

Giyuu pondered as they travel if he and her sister even had such similarities?

But he would never know.

3 days Had passed

They finally reached the Sagiri Yama "Nezuko...!" Urokodaki called out as the little girl who used to be mute and restrained with bamboo jumped for hug. "Urokodaki-san...!"

Urokodaki's hug felt like a father. Nezuko remembered when he hugged her and Tanjiro as a wonderful group hug.

"You really are human now...The gods have answered Tanjiro's prayer!" Urokodaki pull away from hugging to adjusting his mask, becuz his eyes are blurry upon tears of joy.

"Yes..." simply Nezuko smiled.

Then Giyuu sat on a nearest rock. "Urokodaki, Nezuko wanted to become a Demon Slayer."

Urokodaki had stopped crying and straightened. "I know." He looked at Nezuko.

Nezuko blinked.

SMACK!

Wait...Nope.

Surprised Nezuko had dodge Urokodaki's attempt to hit her a slap in face as first test if her reflexes are good.

Nezuko blinked again and wondered. "W-what was that for?" She felt scared a bit.

Urokodaki felt like he was been trolled. "Your brother...he was slow on reacting." Nezuko did not know that Urokodaki slapped Tanjiro during the shrine demon becuz she had quickly hid from sunlight that time.

"Eh?"

Urokodaki clears his throat. "Ehm, just because you are a girl I will go easy on you. You know well how deadly is this job...Like how your Brother Tanjiro tried to achieve." Urokodaki knew the bad news how Tanjiro was turned into and the antidote was not enough to save the boy.

"Yes! Please train me to the hardest!"

Nezuko bowed with determination. "Am the second eldest! If the eldest needs help, I must be there to stand and pick him up back...!"

A smile cross Urokodaki's face , not that anyone see his reaction behind the Tengu mask.

"Eat first before we start." Urokodaki welcomed them inside for meal. He is sure Nezuko have been craving for food.

"Yes by all means!"

Giyuu, Nezuko and Urokodaki went inside the house.

The day is still long...

To be Continued

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Kanon58: plz review, i want to know ur thoughts if i properly portray nezuko as she is at the manga...also we do not know yet Zenitsu's parents if he even has one so I do not know how Zenitsu supposed to react about families lol...and also if so far if it is good plot? BTW i made some illustration how demon pillars looks like on deviantart and tumblr. If you want to see them just go to my fanfiction profile there are links to route on those website :D

I thought the chapter would fit to end with the present day 'the after 2years' but i guess its too long so i cut it to part two. The next chapter xD

Next: The rest of the main characters discovery of each of their Breath forms before they got qualified for becoming a Pillar. And how Tanjiro created the dead pillars from his memories...