What if Tanjiro was a Pure Saiyan? (x) (DB X KNY)

Enter Akaza

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*Manga Spoilers*

"My life was worthless, filled with nothing but empty promises."

-Hakuji's memories-
"Why do sick people always apologize? 'I'm sorry for taking your time.' 'I'm sorry for making so many coughing noises.' 'I'm sorry I cannot work to the best of my ability.' They probably want to do these things themselves. Their coughs won't stop. They probably want to at least breathe normally. And they should be the ones in the most pain."

While helping Koyuki out, she says, "I'm sorry for everything. It's my fault that you can't train or go out to play.

"Koyuki had a really weak body. She had to be attended to throughout the night, and I had to change both the cloth on her forehead and her clothes. She had to drink water frequently, and whenever she went to the bathroom, I had to carry her. I nursed my dad before, so unlike most other people, my body was more resilient. This wasn't hard for me at all."

Hakuji said, "I never thought about playing around ever since before. When I was free, I trained, so don't worry about that." The sick girl says, "But... Sometimes a change of pace is... There's going to be fireworks tonight, so just go..." Hakuji told Koyuki, "Maybe. Once your dizziness goes away, I'll carry you to the bridge so you can watch." "Eh?" goes Koyuki. Hakuji continued, "Even if we can't go today, there's next year and the year after that. We can just go then." Koyuki began to tear up and sob while Hakuji puts an annoyed face on.

"The only thing that annoyed me when I nursed her was that Koyuki would just start crying in the middle of our conversation. It must be depressing to be in a sickbed. When she cries, it just makes me feel uncomfortable."

-Small Time Skip-
"Ohh, I see. So the 'Haku' in 'Hakuji' comes from the 'Koma' in 'Komainu'. Oh, okay. You're the same as me then, huh. There's something you have to protect. Like a Komainu guarding a shrine," said Keizo as he began to laugh.

"My master, who wasn't even a samurai, still managed to obtain this land and dojo. When he saved an old man who was getting attacked by bandits, the old man was fascinated by his Soryuu technique. And he handed over the last and old dojo since he had no successors. But some people wanted the land and dojo for themselves, and they weren't happy. The Kenjutsu dojo next door harassed the Soryuu dojo. Because of that, the Soryuu dojo never had any pupils. But training there here and nursing Koyuki healed my heart."

-Three Year Time Skip-
"After three years, I turned eighteen. Koyuki turned sixteen, and she stopped lying down all the time. She was starting to be able to live normally."

Keizo from around the corner says, "Hakuji, come here." "Okay," says Hakuji. Hakuji followed him and sat down in the middle of the room by Keizo and Koyuki. Keizo asked, "Can you take over my dojo, Hakuji? And you can have Koyuki as well." Hakuji was confused and looked at Koyuki, who had a small hint of red under her eyes.

"I had the tattoos of a criminal. I never imagined having a future. Much less a future where I loved someone. Maybe what tou-san told me was right. Can I really find the right way to live? That fleeting hope that I could possibly fix my life grew so big that I couldn't control it. And at that moment, I wanted to protect two people, even at the cost of my own life. Never in my dreams would I have imagined a poisoning. I went to visit tou-san's grave to tell him of my marriage. And I came back to the dojo before the sun had set. But before I even heard it, I felt sick. My diaphragm was spasming. This bad feeling was giving me goosebumps."

A person who was crying, explains, "Someone poisoned the well... All because they couldn't beat you or Keizo-san in a direct fight! Those monsters are horrible! It's gruesome... Just too much! Even Koyuki-chan was killed!"

"Whenever the people I care about are in a crisis, I'm always never there. And I... made a promise."

-Brief Memory in a Memory-
Hakuji asked, "Are you really okay with me?" Koyuki asked, "Do you remember talking about seeing the fireworks when we were kids?" Hakuji says, "Eh? No... Uhh..." Koyuki explains, "It was a small conversation between you and me, Hakuji-san. 'Even if we couldn't see the fireworks this year, we could see them next year... or the year after that.' That's what you said." Hakuji replies, "It just... I could never actually imagine a future where I could see next year or the year after." Koyuki says, "My mother thought the same... She didn't want to see me die. So she killed herself. I understood that somewhere in his heart, my dad gas never given up. I was just too weak. But you saw my future, Hakuji-san. And as if it was natural, you told me there was a next year. I was really happy. You're amazing, Hakuji-san. Will you be my husband?" Both lovebirds had each others hands while Hakuji agreed, "Yes. I will become stronger than anyone else and protect you for my entire life."

"In the end, it was nothing but words. I couldn't even manage a single thing. The details of the tragic incident are recorded in the magistrate's office. After the Soryuu dojo's family was poisoned, the surviving student attacked the nearby Kenjutsu dojo and murdered the sixty-seven people in it with his bare fists. Crushed skulls... Smashed innards... Not only were almost all of the corpses mangled to the point where they lost their original forms, but there were also countless missing body parts. It was a literal scene from hell as chins, brains, eyeballs, and limbs were strewn all over the ceiling and walls. The shock caused the surviving maid to lose her mind. The record was so absurd and preposterous, that it was regarded as a fictitious tale for thirty gears before being erased."

Hakuji walked down a trail to a bridge while being covered in blood. While walking across the bridge, he meets up with a man. That man spoke, "I don't remember sending any demons to this area, but after hearing the commotion about a demon and coming all the way out here, I find a mere human. How disappointing." That man was Muzan Kibutsuji. Hakuji threatens, "Move it. Or you're... Dead." Muzan got in front of Hakuji while he tries to pinch him. Muzan pierces Hakuji's skull and says, "I was thinking about creating twelve strong demons. Can you withstand the amount of blood I will give you now?" Hakuji weakly says, "...I don- I... just don't care any... more..."

"I became a demon and lost my memories. I wanted strength once again. Even though there wasn't a single thing left to protect. I really didn't want to live in a world where I lost my family. But for a hundred years, I kept pointlessly murdering over and over again. Yet at the end of the day, it's just a pathetic, comical, uninteresting story."

Chapter 62: End.

I love Akaza and his backstory so much, that I cried while writing it. And the manga spoilers will end next chapter at the start.

-A Little Secret-
1: Akaza's attacks are named after his late Fiancé Koyuki.

1,224 words (disregarding everything after 'Chapter 64: End.')