hikarunara || muichiro toxito x oc

twenty-three: beauty talk

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HIKARI CAN FEEL NOTHING BUT RAGE.

her vision clouds with red as she continues to push the fish demon back with raw effort. the boy behind her runs to muichiro's aid, screaming and crying in a futile attempt to free the mist pillar. kotetsu repeatedly stabs at the water prison, a pitiful yet admirable attempt to save muichiro.

the hashira, however, can only stare at hikari.

something inside her snapped when her eyes finally regenerated, and she could see muichiro trapped inside the water pot, hundreds of needles protruding from his body. she could sense the poison in the needles, and the effect they were beginning to have on him.

she wasn't able to protect him.

to make it worse, she saw a fish demon about to stab kotetsu. the boy trembled in fear, frantically swiping a knife to defend himself.

she had to protect him.

hikari brings her leg straight up, delivering a single kick to the fish demon. depsite it's large size, it feels itself stumble back upon the force. gyokko senses her new presence, instantly recognizing her as a demon he was instructed to kill, along with nezuko kamado.

hikari flips over the fish demon. with a single swipe, she destroys the pot on it's back, watching as it disintegrates to ash. she lands in the dirt. she hears a scream emit from the shed. she picks her head up slowly, focusing on the people in the shed.

in a flash, she appears in the building. she swipes her foot to the demon residing in a pot, but it suddenly disappears. he appears in a new pot across the room, smiling at her curiously.

hikari grits her teeth, making sure to stand in front of the swordsmiths. the demon grins at her, his odd appearance slightly shocking hikari.

from outside the pot prison, kotetsu manages to give a breath to muichiro. with newfound inspiration, he unleashes a new attack.

the water prison is destroyed in an instant. muichiro gasps for air, his eyes shaking as his memories return to him. he scrambles on the wet dirt, water dripping from his hair as he coughs.

tanjiro's eyes were the same shade of red as his father's. he was a kind man- a woodcutter. he desired to help others, much like tanjiro did.

hikari spared him the details. he remembered hearing that his father fell off a cliff in search of a cure. he remembered watching his mother take her final breaths, and the last time she told him she loved him.

yuichiro was his older twin brother. yuichiro was colder, more blunt. their relationship became so strained after the death of their parents. muichiro remembered that he didn't even talk to yuichiro before he died.

he died.

he remembered when that demon attacked. the rage he felt when yuichiro's arm was cut off. the hatred he experienced when the demon taunted the weakness of the twins. he remembered when he released so much pent up rage, he completely incapacitated the demon, and watched it wither away at sunrise.

he remembered his brother's last words. the mu in muichiro is the mu in mugen. infinity.

he remembered when he first met hikari. how he thought she was the prettiest girl ever, even at such a young age. he remembered how she held him as he wept, how they used to look for frogs in the stream under the moonlight.