Blood in Flame and Water

Class Trial

Notes:
Warnings!!

VERY DIALOGUE HEAVY

Heavy Topics of Abuse, Mistreatment, Misogyny, Baby Abuse, Genocide, Sanemi being Sanemi. Self harm.
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It was a lovely day. A slight breeze carried through the garden with an ease that ruffled only the lightest of branches from the blooming sakura trees and the paper yoshita style shinto streamers hanging from the overhang above the engawa to the Ubuyashiki Mansion. Many of the shoji doors were open, allowing the calming breeze to come in that carried the scent of wisteria and sakura. Wind chimes strung up in the archways of the Mansion ring a faint melody, filling the garden with the song of wind and glass.

Inside the Mansion saw children running around, laughter falling from their mouths like bubbles of joy. Maids and Butlers bustled around in a hurry, tending to their chores and their Master's requests with precision. There was never a dull moment within the Ubuyashiki family and their home, housing their children and nannies hired to make sure their girls and son.

Currently, the Hiroma room was open to the garden, rich with the scent of sakura, wisteria, and fresh paper. Two occupants sat within the room, sitting shoulder to shoulder, sharing body warmth and space. Even with the light atmosphere, Kagaya felt a heavy weight pressuring himself into the ground. His wife sat next to him, a letter in hand, and a frown maring her beautiful fade. The letter sat crumpled in her delicate yet callused hands, kanji written on the scroll smeared into smudges of ink.

Kagaya sighed shakingly, closing his sightless eyes and breathing through the turmoil rolling within his chest. The inconspicuous, innocent letter laying in Amane's hands sourced Kagaya's grief at this very moment. Amane tried to sooth her husband to the best of her ability with a carefully placed hand on the small of his clothed back, pressing her warmth into his frail and crumbling body. Kagaya smiled a small thing and leaned forward to gently place his forehead against her own, pressing a delicate kiss to the side of her nose.

Within that moment of silence and reassurance, he mind wandered back to the contents of the letter. Since his illness took his eyesight away from him, he could no longer read, so he had Amane by his side to read it out to him. This was the one of only moments he had wished to have his sight back; so he could have read the letter himself and not put his wife through such hardships of going through the same turbulence as he.

The letter was written from the eldest Kamado boy himself, so he was able to achieve the best interpretation and point of view they could get. Essentially, the letter was a report of the mission's activities and a notice rolled into one. It started with Tanjiro recounting their arrival to the Mugen Train and their descent inside the cabins till they met with Kyojuro.

They had talked for a moment, discussing topics for later approach. It was at that moment when, apparently, the child both Tomioka and Rengoku encountered at their assigned village made an appearance and had chosen to stowaway within Kyojuro's pack in search of a way of escaping their confinement back at the village with Tomioka. Their appearance was quickly hidden when a ticket puncher came down the aisle and clipped their tickets. This was when everything went downhill.

Having been stuck in a dream where the only way to escape was seppuku greatly damaged Tanjiro's esteem if the letter's recounting was anything to go by. With the help of Nezuko, Tanjiro was able to escape his dream and found a group of children under the Lower Kizuki's control whose sole purpose was to go inside their dreams and extinguish their spiritual core. The child assigned to Tanjiro was sickly and couldn't fulfill their duty, but sided with the Slayers and warned them of the materialistic demon's faux body.