Sun Flower|Female Tanjiro Fanfic

Arc 1: Chapter 9

"Tanjiro-san~! Where are you~?"

"We only want to dress you up a little~. We don't mean any harm~."

"...I don't know if it's only me, but we sound like psychopaths right now."

"I wonder why~."

Three women scoured around a dark and musty room, their hands lifting the discarded wooden boxes from the floor.

Every drop of the wooden boxes made loud thuds and groans, slightly scaring Tanjiro who had hidden himself up the ceiling of the said room. Giyuu is sitting crouched beside him.

They had already lost count of how much time was spent trying to lose the ever so determined Masami from their tracks. What made it harder for them to run away was that those women wearing elegant kimonos were actually skilled and strong kunoichis, tightly led by Suma who was leading them like a pack of wolves out in the wild.

Tanjiro felt shivers remembering the kunais flying around and shurikens burying themselves deep into every structure where he passed by. He wondered how expensive was the flower painting that got impaled from earlier.

At the same time, he didn't want to know.

"It looks like he isn't here~."

"What a pity, what a pity~."

"I wonder if they have apples in the kitchen."

It only took a few more seconds before the women searching from below the ceiling they hid in dispersed and went out of the room.

Tanjiro sighed in relief. The tension released from his shoulders was too heavy for wear in stealth and silence.

*Tak.*

Tanjiro heard a sound of something opening from behind him. He turned around and saw Giyuu lifting a panel of the curved roof.

Funnily enough, his pose while carrying the panel looked not a semblance to that of a dignified Hashira. He just looked like a thief caked with dust from head to toe.

"....."

"....."

While nodding sympathetically, Tanjiro stood up from his position and followed Giyuu out of the place. He snuck an unknown glance towards the floor before hopping up the surface of the opened roof.

-The three kunoichis from earlier were still alert and hiding behind the room's door, unaware that Tanjiro had already seen them peeking from one of the ceiling's moldy holes.

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"-And then Masami-san spontaneously decided that I would become the model for his duel with the kakushi-san at the scene! When we arrived in the room, they got on with the duel right away, and Masami-san whipped out several hairpins and kimonos out of nowhere-! Ah, am I getting too loud?"

"No. You can continue. What happened next?"

"Hmm... If I remember correctly, the kakushi-san also brought several versions of the demon slayer uniform, but the designs were a little too revealing... Perhaps a bit like Love Hashira-sama's? Masami-san whacked him very hard with his fan when he saw them!

-Then the women just dressed me in kimonos instead while kakushi-san judged the kimonos in a seiza. I think he was also crying..."

"...Tell me the full name of that kakushi."

"Eh?"

"Just say it."

"Uhh... He said that his name was Masao? I believe it was 'Masao Maeda'."