Traitor of the Demons

Tails

Nezuko ducked the incoming strike and tried to dodge the second one only to get honked on the head by the wooded blade.

Akai laughed, "Awww are you ok?"

"Yeah I'm fine" giggled Nezuko, "I forgot to continue my concentration breathing, I brought this training session on myself"

"Well you'd better get that under control. Today we're going into the city. There is an ex moon there, and I want you to watch my battle. It'll be a learning experience!"

Nezuko gave a thumbs up to show she was ready and promptly fell on her butt in the snow.

Akai picked her up and carried her back to the house, piggyback style, the two laughing about Nezuko's fall.

"Grab something to eat on the way. It's gonna be a few hours till we get there" said Akai packing away a spare robe and some other provisions. Nezuko nodded and packed a bag.

The two walked out of the house, bundled up in the cold weather, and began their trek to the city.

<Timeskip brought to you by Zenitsu and his weaponized schizophrenia>

The pair crept down the streets to the park, where they heard a conversation, they couldn't get too close as to not be smelled or heard.

They peered past the fence and watched as a monstrously large demon entered the park.

"That's the one I'm here for. Stay here and watch how I do this" said Akai quietly. He crept out of cover and got a bit closer to the park.

He began to draw his sword when he stopped as he noticed another, slightly shorter, demon who had a sword of their own, staring at the ex moon.

"Then you will fall to my Blood Art little worm" Akai heard the Moon say. The ground beneath the shorter demon erupted with spikes.

Akai had to back away as not to be spotted by the shorter demon as he jump over the spikes. Flat on the ground he lay, listening to the ensuing battle. Then he heard something that filled him with a bit of worry.

"Blood Art Technique: Flesh Expansion"

'There are two demons powerful enough to use blood arts here? Shit...' he thought to himself.

"Blood Art Final Technique: Ballad of Blood" Akai left his prone position as he knew the focus of each demon was on something else.

The thing that caught him off guard was who they were facing.

Each other.

Akai had assumed they were fighting a demon slayer and that's who the ex moon was referring to, the smaller demon jumping as to avoid a possible inadvertent attack.

At the angle he was looking he didn't notice the boy's arm. But after the blood ballad attack, or whatever it was called, Akai watched as the ex moon's shoulder to swell up and explode.

The ex moon began to melt. And the smaller demon lowered his head in acknowledgement. "Maybe in another life we could've been friends..."

The smaller demon jumped back into a tree he landed in during the battle and jumped down again, now with a little girl in his arms.

The girl was frozen in fear. This was when Akai decided to step in. This would be easy, as the Moon was dead and now only left one small fry.

He steadied his breathing and muttered "Snow Breathing Technique Four: Snow Buildup"

He jumped higher than Nezuko, who was observing from afar, could imagine. And as he fell lightly he began to put more and more power into the blade as he began to spin, building up speed.

As the blade approached the Demon's neck the demon twitched once and in a second Akai was on the floor and his blade was caught between the demon palms.

The demon tossed away the blade, and Akai was ready to counterattack, but what the demon did next wasn't attack but turn to the girl huddled beside him. "Are you ok? This rude man didn't hurt you did he?"

"N-no" the girl said looking down at Akai.

"Oh you're a demon slayer" laughed the demon "you must not be very strong. Don't worry you can have your blade back. I dealt with the Moon" the demon said walking over to the blade on the ground. He tossed it to Akai who caught it with grace. He stood up and took a stance.

"Who are you? Why did you do all this?"

"Look man I gotta go" said the demon, ignoring him completely, it walked over to the flesh pile once titled one of the 12 moons.

He took out a syringe and got some blood from the arm that had been blown off by his attack.

"Yushiro let's go" said the demon all of a sudden disappearing into thin air as if he was just erased from existence.

Akai relaxed from his stance and sighed "I'm so fucking confused man" he muttered to himself. "Nezuko it's safe to come in to the open"

Nezuko creeped out from around the corner and peered into the park. "Sorry Akai I missed the fight, I heard another demon behind us watching everything, but he ran off just now"

Akai sighed "eh you didn't miss much, I got my ass handed to me by a demon"

Nezuko looked at him, confused, and asked "then how did you beat him? He's clearly dead. Also yuck what did you do to him" she pointed at the flesh pile

"I didn't do that. Another demon did that." Akai said

"So he saved you?"

"No he kicked my ass after kicking the Ex Moon's ass"

"And he did that to it but didn't liquify you"

"Nope" said Akai 'this is very important for the rest of the Hashiras to know about. The demon only seemed to want to kill the other demon, but fled with a little girl, and left me alone, he might be an asset though the others may not accept it'

"Nezuko we're gonna go on a quick trip to meet with some important people..."
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Yay new chapter! I'm so fucking sick rn, just glad it's not Covid-19 stay safe y'all
             -0kHomie