The Destructive Droplets! (KNY) [ON HIATUS]

Ch-1 (Welcome Back)

"The moon's lovely tonight.." 

"..."

"Ara Ara, Tomioka-San! Are you still as silent as your social life?" 

"..."

"My oh my! Now you're as silent as your love life!" said Shinobu, with a slight blush. 

"..."

"Hmph! You never respond! This is why nobody likes you!" said Shinobu, pouting. 

"..." 

"Tanjiro, Zenitsu, Inosuke and Nezuko like me.." 

"Oh my! A new answer! And sorry, but.."

"But what?"

"They like everybody!"

"..."

"Gone mute again?"

"UGH! Tomioka-San! You're so annoyi-"

"Let's stop chit chatting now, Kocho. You go north, I'll take south."

"Roger that, Tomioka-San." 

Hardly a minute after taking the south route, there it was. 

The demon had blood red hair, and pale eyes. Her skin was jet black. 

There she was. The demon. 

A small child. 

A terrified child. 

The demon looked like she was seven years old. 

She had blood on her hands, her clothes... 

...and her mouth. 

She was crying.

The demon looked at Giyuu.

"Please...D-don't harm me... I-I can bring back your dead loved ones...Please...I didn't ask for this..."

Giyuu's eyes softened for a split second, but went back to normal. 

"Fifth Form: Blessed Rain After Drought" 

He said, and the demon's head was cut off. 

"..."

"Thank you... Nee-Chan...For freeing me..."

"Blood Demon Arts: Come Back" 

Giyuu's eyes widened. 

'I was such a fool to take pity on a demon...Tanjiro, how do you do it?'

'I have to block whatever attack was performed just now.'

"They'll come back... they'll never disappear, though I may be dead, they'll stay..."

The demon said, before vanishing. 

Giyuu was shocked. 

'I thought she was attacking me...but...how?'

'Nothing happened to me...'

He was baffled. 

Giyuu looked at the sunrise, hoping to distract himself.

But there was a much more lovely sight. 

"S-Sabito? Makomo?"

He looked at Sabito, who was in a Demon Slayer uniform, looking like he was 21 as well. He looked at Makomo, who was wearing a female demon slayer uniform looking like a mature lady. They were both ranked 'Tsuchinoto'. 

Giyuu burst into tears. 

"I'm so sorry! I wasn't strong enough to protect you both and-" 

"We've seen you, Giyuu. No need to guilt yourself over us. It was our choices which led to our doom. I'm sure Oyakata-Sama would understand." Makomo said, in her sweet tone. 

"Yeah, we're back now, drama queen. Whether you like it or not!" spat Sabito. 

"I-I missed you guys." said Giyuu, weakly smiling. 

'It's sunrise, why isn't Tomioka-San at our rendezvous point yet?' 

'Could he have... died?'

'Nah. He's probably lost.' 

'That klutzy airhead Tomioka.'

'Wait, I see him, wait, there's two people walking with him?'

"There you are, Tomioka-San!"

"Kocho, meet my friends. They are the people who like me." 

Shinobu looked at Giyuu, the young man was now smiling happily and pointing to two Tsuchinoto-ranked slayers. 

SMILING. HAPPILY. 

S M I L I N G

H A P P I L Y

In all honesty, it was a small smile, more like a smirk, but still. 

Those two people weren't salmon daikon, were they? 

"EHN? WHO ARE YOU? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH THE TOMIOKA-SAN I KNOW?"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Take it easy, darling! We know that Giyuu's loved by women! But by his own comrades? And that too a fellow Hashira? To think that those 12 years without us made him such a player!" said a man with violet eyes, peach hair and a scar by his cheek. 

"Sabito, I can send you back." 

"Sheesh! I was just joking!" 

Giyuu then proceeded to explain everything to Shinobu. 

'He is liked by people... but they were deceased...'

'Great, now I feel bad for bullying him.'

"You coming, Kocho?"

"Oh, yeah, coming!" 

To be continued!