~On some farmland~
Tanjirō talks with a farmer.
Tanjirō: "Excuse me. Would it be okay if I took that basket, straw, and some bamboo?"
Farmer: "Sure, you're welcome to it, but that basket's full of holes."
Tanjirō: "Yes. I'll pay you for it."
Farmer: "No, that's all right. I mean, it's a basket full of holes."
Tanjirō: "No, I will pay you!"
Farmer: "No, it's all right. You can have the bamboo and straw for free, too."
Tanjirō: "But I'm still paying you!"
Farmer: "I said it's okay! You're one stubborn kid!"
Tanjirō slaps the money into the farmer's hand.
Farmer: "Agh...!"
Tanjirō: "Please accept this, although it's just small change!"
Tanjirō begins running off with the basket, straw, and bamboo.
Tanjirō: "Thank you very much!"
Farmer: "Ouch!!"
~At a cave in the mountains, during the day~
Tanjirō calls for Nezuko, who is in the cave.
Tanjirō: "Nezuko? Huh? Nezuko? She's gone! Where is Y/n?"
Nezuko pokes her head out of a hole in the ground.
Tanjirō: "She's here."
Y/n: "Huh?"
Tanjirō: "There you are. Are you going to stay with me or move on now, Y/n?"
Y/n: "I stay. I stay with Tanjirō."
Tanjirō: "Okay. Nezuko..." She dug a hole? My little sister has turned into a mole.) And she's frowning!) She must really want to avoid the sunlight. "Wait there for a second."
Tanjirō fashions a covered basket for Nezuko with the basket, straw, and bamboo.
Tanjirō: "Nezuko? Nezuko. Think you can fit inside this? I want to keep moving during the day, too. I'll carry you, okay? Can you fit? In here? Basket."
Nezuko dives headfirst into the basket but doesn't quite fit.
Tanjirō: "She kinda protrudes, huh?" I can't believe she grew up. Seems like yesterday that she was tiny. "Huh? Nezuko. Remember how you became big like an adult earlier? Do you think you can do the opposite? Get smaller? Smaller, Nezuko! Get smaller!"
Nezuko flips the basket right side up and dives into it.
Tanjirō: "Ahh!"
Nezuko becomes small enough to fit inside the basket.
Tanjirō: "Ohh! Good job! That's a good girl, Nezuko! I'm impressed!"
~In the late afternoon~
Tanjirō walks down the path past a farm with Nezuko carried in the covered basket on his back.
Y/n: "Let me carry her."
Tanjirō: "Okay."
Tanjiro puts the basket on Y/n's back.
Woman: "Mt. Sagiri? If you want to go to Mt. Sagiri, you'll have to cross over that mountain, but... The sun's about to set. Are you really heading there with all that luggage? It's dangerous, you know."
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The Qilin's Family
Fanfiction"There's this old tale of a woman helping a baby Qilin." "What happened next?" "The Qilin stayed to protect her." Demon Slayer x Qilin Reader