Ch. 1 A Man Of No Worth

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'I wasn't strong enough'

'If I had just made it back last night.'

'If I wasn't weak.'

'I couldn't protect them.'

'I'm sorry.'

These were the thoughts running through tanjiro kamado's head all through that day.

The day he buried his emotions, his kindness.

The day he buried his family.

Tanijro was looking at his families Graves with no thoughts no emotions running through his head. Only anger only pain.

"why, why, WHY!!" he shouted into thin air. Punching the ground bruising his knuckles in the process.

 Punching the ground bruising his knuckles in the process

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He sat there for what felt like days. But then he felt a hand upon his shoulder.

"I'm sorry for your loss, child" he hears a voice speak.

He looks behind himself as he sees a man with dark red hair such as himself and bright maroon eyes in a red haori, with a katana on his hip.
With a flame like birthmark on the tip right of his forehead much like tanjiro's own aswell

With a flame like birthmark on the tip right of his forehead much like tanjiro's own aswell

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"who are you?" tanjiro asked the stranger.

"that does not matter as I am a man of no worth" he says looking at tanjiro with sad eyes.

"what do you want" tanjiro says with a cold tone not caring for the man behind him.

"what I want is of no use to you, but what you want? That I can help you with, so what do you want" the mystery man said.

"I want to kill the bastard that did this" tanjiro replies with no hesitation

"it was a demon who killed your family" "but I thought demons were just some made up stories mothers tell to children to make them come home before dark" tanjiro explained.

"no demons are very much real and for centuries demon slayers have fought and defended this world from demons, I offer you the chance to become a demon slayer, to train in swordsman ship and to learn the sun breathing style." the man said.

"do you accept?" the man asked.

"I accept"

"good. for your first training assignment you must climb to the top of this mountain and retrieve my katana, you must make it back before day break tomorrow." the man says.

"yes sir but what do I call you?" tanjiro asked the man. "you may refer to me as sensei."

Tanjiro dead pans at this. 'I was hoping for a name but that's as close as I will get apparently.

And so tanjiro starts his climb up the mountain.

((timeskip)) 20 hours later.

"I made it." tanjiro says as he reaches the peak of the mountain.

Uppon arriving he sees one of the most beautiful thing he's ever seen.

"I didn't know cherry blossoms could bloom here, and they are out of season

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"I didn't know cherry blossoms could bloom here, and they are out of season." tanjiro says to himself.

He walks to the tree and sees a shinto shrine

Tanjiro pays his respect to the shrine by bowing as he then looks to find a sheathed katana of red and black

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Tanjiro pays his respect to the shrine by bowing as he then looks to find a sheathed katana of red and black.

He reaches for the sword and grabs it

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He reaches for the sword and grabs it.

Putting the sword on his back with a strap.

"I have 4 more hours to reach sensei"

Tanjiro then starts his descent of the mountain.

((timeskip)) 4 hours.

"I.. Made.. It" tanjiro said falling to the ground as the sun started to rise.

"good work tanjiro now you will sharpen the blade and we will start training your body."

"hai sensei" tanjiro says ready to train.

Alright that's where this chapter ends I know it was a short one but the next one will hopefully be longer(that's what she said).

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