Blue Water

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Tanjiro walked to his uncle's house carrying the still nameless slayer in his back with Yoriichi beside him. The two of them are now wearing the masks that they always carried. They were discussing about the missing crow of their father to distracted themselves from reality. But as they walked closer to the house the talk ceased to exist.

Tanjiro saw the face of his brother who was still as calm as ever but the scent emerging from him could not hide anything, so, he grabbed his hand. "You still have me. We have our siblings."

Yoriichi just tightened his grip as a reply.

When they arrived at the house, the two scarred boys saw some people who were wearing standard Demon Slayer uniforms along with black head covers and black and white masks to conceal their identities. These people were surprised when they saw one of them was carrying the unconscious slayer whose identity was a Hashira.

Before it could escalate into a commotion, a peach-haired demon slayer wearing standard Demon Slayer uniforms with green geometric hexagon pattern haori approached them. She wore a scarred fox mask hiding her face.

Feeling the fury from the fox mask wearer, Tanjiro and Yoriichi wanted to tell her about who they are and what had happened between the brothers and the Hashira as soon as possible but the Hashira woke up first. The Hashira immediately asked the duo about Shinichi's whereabouts. The brothers told them about the boy's suicide action to the disbelief slayers.

Tanjiro and Yoriichi could tell that these slayers wanted to hear about what had happened to them but they wanted to know about their families first. Although Shinichi had told them about what happened, they need to see it themselves.

They saw the corpses of their families, the blood that was spreading everywhere, and all the chaos within the walls of their uncle's house.

Yoriichi turned to the Hashira who was still following them warily when he saw that his older brother was still deep in thought. "What is your name, Hashira-san? Why are you already here?"

The blue eyed slayer stared at the doctor-in-training for a long time to make the latter uncomfortable but the red eyed youth just stared back at him.

"Tomioka Giyuu. I was close by and a crow told me that Tanjuro-san's family was in danger. The Kakushi were the ones that appointed at The Sun Training Ground."

"Ah! So Otou-san's Crow is with you?" Exclaimed Tanjiro.

To prove his words, the said crow landed on Yoriichi's shoulder.

Yoriichi turned to the other slayer to ask her name. The woman introduced herself as Sabito then left them to instruct the Kakushi.

The thirteen year old boy asked Giyuu about the conditions of the house when they arrived, if there was any demons escaped, what had happened to the training ground and about all the things that they had done before they met each other. In exchange, Yoriichi will tell him what had happened in their side. Apart from Nezuko, Yoriichi told the older man about almost all of his experiences from last night until they met.

While Yoriichi and the slayer exchanged information, Tanjiro instructed the Kakushi to bury their families at their families cemetery when he saw they wanted to take them away.

"But-"

"My families will lie here. In our land." Tanjiro demand.

The kakushi struggled and only did it when the Hashira told them to follow the younger man's order.

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"You have to come with us to Headquarters."

Tanjiro looked away from the letter Yoriichi was writing. "We will go there ourselves after we settled our siblings."

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