彡[ᴀʟʟ ɢᴏᴏᴅ ᴛʜɪɴɢꜱ ᴍᴜꜱᴛ ᴄᴏᴍᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴀɴ ᴇɴᴅ]彡★ 𝘛.𝘒𝘈𝘔𝘈𝘋𝘖

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THE YOUNG BOY eyes open slowly to find his head on his sister's lap while Masumi was looking down at him worried.

"Y-You're awake." Said Masumi struggling with her words a little. Tanjiro sit up his eyes scanning the area looking for the strange man. "He's gone." Said Nezuko.

After Nezuko explained everything that happened while the boy was unconscious they went back to their supposed house, to clean the place and kept a burial for their family members.

They began running to their destination without stopping determination burning in their hearts.

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"I beg your pardon, but may I take that basket and little straw and bamboo?" The young boy asked an old farmer who was planning crops with his wife.

"We don't mind but the basket has holes in it."

"That's alright. Can I pay you?"

"No need it's a broken basket."

"Please let me pay you." The boy demanded. "No thank you. You can have the other stuff too." The old man was starting to shake.

"But I want to pay!"

"We don't want it! What a stubborn kid!"

Tanjiro took out the few coins and slammed it onto the man's hand startling the poor man then taking the straw, bamboo and basket and left.

When he arrived where his sister and Masumi were waiting he saw Nezuko looking into a cave of sorts looking worried.

"Nezuko, what's wrong? Where's Masumi?"

"She won't come out. She's afraid to go in the sunlight. She even dug herself a hole."

The boy looked into the little cave noticing the demon girl in a hole looking outside her face scrunched up. Tanjiro came up with an idea taking the straw and bamboo to fix up the basket.

"Masumi, will you fit in here? I'll carry you. I want us to travel during the day."

Masumi mumbled an "okay" before trying to get into the basket but failed miserably." I guess you're too big."

The young boy couldn't help but chuckle at demon girl's cuteness.

"Um, Masumi you're as big as an adult. Do you you think you can reverse that and get smaller?" Asked Tanjiro.

Masumi jumped into the basket and began decreasing her size. "Oh. Good." He gave her head pats as approval as she smiled innocently. The sudden realization consumed him, letting him remove his hand.

His face flushed slightly. "No fair, Nii-chan. I want to pet her too." Nezuko went up to the demon girl and pet her head as well.

Tanjiro found a cloth that covered the basket from the sunlight. Once he was finish the two siblings started walking to their destination.

"To get to Mt. Sagiri you first have to cross that mountain" An elderly woman gave the siblings direction. She took a look at the basket the young boy was carrying and back at him unsure.

"The sun will set soon, and you're going to carry that huge load? It's dangerous."

Tanjiro bowed at the woman reassuring her that it's okay, and both siblings went up to the mountain.

"People really do disappear up there. So don't get lost!" She yelled behind them.

Since it was getting dark the siblings decided to free the demon girl.

"Oh!" Said Nezuko as they run into a house nearby. "There's a way station. There's a light on. Someone must be there." Nezuko said grabbing Masumi's hand and running ahead of Tanjiro.

"Hey! Slow down or you might fall!" The young boy yelled but laughed slightly. Though his smile dropped when a smell hit his nose.

Blood... I smell blood.

"Nezuko! Masumi! These mountain paths are very dangerous. A traveler might be injured!" The boy yelled running past the two girls, however they followed behind.

They ran towards the house, Tanjiro sliding the doors open. "Are you alright?"

The boy gasped at the sight, bood every with bodies. A demon having his feast but stopped when he notice the presence behind him. Nezuko and Masumi came up behind Tanjiro seeing the devastating sight.

He turned around to face them licking the blood off his fingers." What?! Hey! This... is my territory! Get away from my feeding ground!"

While the two siblings shake in fear, the demon girl's attention was on the sight in front of her. Her mouth drooling more and more as she stared at the bloody mess.

"Hmm? Something's off here." The demon growled standing taking a clear view of the bystanders." Are you three humans?"

He suddenly charged at Tanjiro which led them outside  the young boy immediately used his hatchet that he had been carrying around to slit the demon's throat.

"Brother!" Nezuko left Masumi's side running over to her brother.

The demon let out a chuckle blood still dripping from his neck. "A hatchet? Not bad. But a wound like this will heal in no time."

And with that the wound on his neck closed stopping the bleeding. "See? The bleeding already stopped."

He instantly went over to Tanjiro pinning him down his hand went to his neck and squeezed. "You'll never do that again! I'm going to snap your neck!"

Nezuko took up the hatchet cutting off his neck with all her strength.

"N-Nezuko... you killed him..." Tanjiro gasped, but the demon's body started moving again startling the two siblings.

Before he could even attack them his body was kicked far away from them with such force." I knew it! One of you is a demon! Something didn't seem right! But why is a demon helping humans?!"

He's still talking...

His headless body ran towards Masumi now attacking her. Tanjiro took the hatchet from Nezuko but before he could help the young girl, the demon's head jumped up towards him with hands growling at the side of his head. His hair tangled around the hatchet smirking.

What the- the head grew arms!

"Get off me!" The young boy colid his forehead on the demon's head leaving a mark on his forehead, Tanjiro headbutted him again.

Then threw him along with the hatchet against a tree the hatchet keeping him stuck there.

The young boy and his sister went to look for Masumi, running in the woods. They finally found her. Masumi was being kicked around.

Tanjiro run up to the body of the demon pushing it away from Masumi but ended falling off the cliff with the demon's body.

Luckily both girls cought him before he could fall any further letting the demon's body fall right to the ground.