ʟᴇꜰᴛ ʙᴇʜɪɴᴅ//ᴋɴʏ (ᴀᴜ)

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Kota's POV

I watched them as they stared at each other in silence. 

I groan. "This is boring. Are you guys going to fight or what?"

Tanjiro's eyes widen. "Hahh? You want to fight? You realize that's a lowermoon right? We have a high chance of being killed!" 

"What?!" I shout. "You never told me demons killed people!!"

"Yeah, sorry we didn't mention it earlier." Tanjiro apologizes, giving me a apologetic look. 

Suddenly, the lowermoon was in front of us in a matter of seconds. Tanjiro quickly drew out his blade, Zenitsu shivered in fear and Boar guy was cackling. 

"You," the demon said, pointing towards me. 

"Me?" I said pointing towards myself.

He groaned. "Yeah, idiot. You. Why do you have a faint aura of upper-"

"Hey!" The boar guy suddenly yelled. "You demon! Fight me!!!" He drew his katana, pointing towards the lowermoon.

"I have no intentions of fighting a wild animal like you," the lowermoon hissed, but the boar guy had no ears to listen.

"HEHEHEHEHE!!!" He laughed, charging towards the demon. He swings his katana to where is neck is, but the lowermoon dodges it swiftly. 

"I'm sorry but I am going to have to ask you to leave our forest immediately. I mean, if you wish to die then you're welcome to stay." The demon said calmly and started walking back into the forest. 

"You look strong!" I yell towards the demon. "I would love to have a hand to hand battle with you!"

Zenitsu tugs on my kimono. "Kota, what in the world do you think you're doing? We're gonna die!!"

The lowermoon turns back and faces me. "I do not wish to fight you, because of the strangely familiar aura surrounding you. Perhaps you have been in contact with a demon?"

I scoff. "Do I look like I have been in contact with a demon? And if I saw a demon, I would've known already, considering those weird features on you guys!"

I swear I saw his eye twitch.

"HAHAHA!! YOU GO TELL 'EM KOHARA!" Inosuke shouts.

"Who the hell is Kohara?" I shout back, annoyed that he's interrupting my conversation with this demon boy.

As usual, Inosuke ignore me. "You hear that, demon boy! We'll kill you!"

"I have a name, you know." The lowermoon sighs. "At least use Rui when addressing me."

"Alright, Rui!" I say. "I challenge you to a bare hand fight!"

"I am seriously annoyed by this." Rui sneers and white wires shoot out from his hands, cutting through my kimono and my skin. My arm feels like fire.

"What the hell was that???" I question. Was that magic???

"Blood demon art," Tanjiro mummers, tightening his grip holding his katana. 

"I guess we have to fight now," Rui sighs, getting ready to shoot out more threads.

"Ara, ara~!" A soft voice, almost calming stops the fight between the demon and us. "What do we have here? A lowermoon? I bet this is the lowermoon that apparently has a family! Don't you think, Tomioka-san?"

I turn to face a woman with a butterfly clip, and a guy that looks... really depressed. 

"I see some demon slayers have arrived already! I'll go take care of the rest of his family, you stay here and help these kids. Alright? Tomioka-san?" The lady says, looking straight into the forest.

The depressed guy does not reply.

"It isn't very nice to ignore people, Tomioka-san! But I'll take that as a yes. Good luck, then!" She smiles and disappears from view. 

"Hashiras? Never expected them to be here. You just made this situation a lot more harder for me. How rude." Rui says sending threads to attack.

Impressively, depressed man dodges all his attacks, and is right in front of Rui in a matter of seconds. But as his blade gets closer to Rui's neck, another demon stops the attack. This demon is really big. He looks like a giant human spider.

"Father, how nice of you." Rui says, letting his 'dad' do the job. But his dad didn't even last a minute, as depressed man jumped up and sliced his head perfectly. 

"So I guess that's how you kill demons? Slicing their neck?" I asked quietly to Tanjiro.

"Yeah, but only a special type of katanas can actually kill them." He answers, holding up his sword.

Rui glances at the demon now fading away. "How useless," He mocked, sending more threads towards us. I dodge a few, but some scratch my skin.

"Oh no," Rui gasps. "I'm sorry. I did not mean to hurt you. Only the other boys." He says pointing towards me.

"I hope you're not being sexist," I hissed. He shakes his head. While Rui was distracted with me, depressed man was able to get close to him again. When he was about to slice his neck, Rui sent red threads, yes, RED threads to stop his attack. The guy's katana immediately broke in half. 

I thought they were trained for all kinds of stuff, but I guess Rui used a different attack... To be honest, I was kind of entertained by this fight.

The red thread cut the poor depressed man's face, leading him to fall helplessly. But he got up again.

What is he going to do with that broken Katana of his?

Suddenly, Tanjiro charged Rui with all his might. After a few tries, Tanjiro was breathing heavily. I got a glimpse of someone behind Rui, but couldn't tell who it was. 

Insect breathing, first form. Butterfly dance; Caprice.

Breathing? I questioned myself as the lady from before gracefully made Rui bleed around his body.

"You little-" Rui grunted, held out his hand to use his... what, blood art thing? I squeezed my eyes shut as I got ready for the pain to arrive. It didn't.

I slowly opened my eyes as I saw Rui collapsed on the floor, pool of blood surrounding him.

I gasp as my hand covers my mouth from screaming. That is disgusting. 

"My, my... I see your katana broke, Tomioka-san!" The lady teases. Poor man.

Zenitsu is crying and Inosuke is now yelling at the disappearing body of Rui. Tanjiro rushes over to the depressed man. "Tomioka-san! Are you okay?"

Wait, Tanjiro knows that man?

"Yes. It was just that the attack was sudden." The depressed man speaks in a quiet tone.

"Oh right! I must introduce myself. My name is Kochou Shinobu and this man," she points at the guy beside him, "is Tomioka Giyuu. Very nice to meet you!"

I nod, still trying to process what just happened. 

Lady Kochou points her blade at me, but she is still smiling. Creepy.

"You, little lady. You have a demon aura surrounding you. A strong one too. Who might you be?" She asks, moving closer with her blades. I panic. I'm not a demon though!

I put my hands up, and suddenly catch a sight of my father's fans.