The Mission That Made Us

Mission

Tanjiro flew through forests, over rivers and more. After 30 minutes of the estimated 2 hour travel, he comes across a demon.

Tanjiro hides behind a tree and watches his now opponent, to see exactly what he's up against.

Sobs fill atleast a 30 yard radius from the demon.

"Why did they do this to me," the demon sniffles and cried louder. "I just want to be with you, father..." she look down at the human she's eating. He's cut open and his organs hanging out of his body, legs and arms eaten completely off. I wish I could say something about his face, but there's nothing but a half broken skull inside of flesh.

The man was splayed down over a log. The off-white demon was stunning with light blue tears, and a soft rosey pink flower dress, which was ripped in multiple places.

The demon looked around frantically while still crying. Her head cracks at every small motion, bones cracking in the most disturbing way as she stares, deadly to where tanjiro is.

She begins walking towards him, lifting her hand and dashing towards him. The tree being cut to sheds as her hand touches it, only slightly.

Tanjiro hesitates and takes out his blade while sprinting away. He holds his katana outright infront of him, a strong pose and posture.

Rengoku stops and makes sure he is unsensible before hiding behind a tree.

"Why... why did you demon slayers kill my father.. he meant the world to me asshole!!" Tears filled the poor demons eyes, with them leaking into her mouth. Her mouth full with tears and after a few seconds, an organ comes out of her mouth. Tanjiro and Rengoku can only assume it's a kidney.

Tanjiro gulps, trying not to throw up at the site.

16 water breathing.. second form, WATER WHEEL!" Tanjiro yells dashing towards the demon and slicing her head off, in one clean cut.

Rengoku stares at the scene behind a tree, and tanjiro shoots a sad smile at the demon.

"I'm sorry about your father, but you must understand that becoming a demon for revenge isn't the way to go, rest easy." Tanjiro bows his head as the demon screams in pain and cries more and more.

He grabs Nezukos box, checking if she's safe. He makes sure he has everything and starts darting through the forest once again, stopping in the middle of his travels 30 minutes early.

He smells the air and catches onto 6 different scents, all very strong. The strongest of them all is blood, the 5 others indescribable.

Tanjiro shivers from the overwhelming events as he sits too take a break. He can't fight any demon and win without being well rested.

Tanjiro sighs and sits on a rock. When he blinks he closes his eyes for seconds at a time. Rengoku makes it so he's not noticeable by his presence, making noise, or his scents. Rengoku sits on a rock 10 feet behind Tanjiro and admires his frame. Ever since this mission started he couldn't help but stare at tanjiro in admiration. He couldn't wrap his head around how Fluent his fighting style was, his movements and how flamboyant his personality was.

Tanjiro and Rengoku were watching the sunset for a couple minutes, waiting for the sun to set for Nezuko to be safe to come out.

When the sun sets tanjiro starts turning around to get the box off of him. Rengoku gets worried of being caught and rolls back off the rock, onto his hands and knees.

Rengoku winces at the pain of a sticker in his hand but hopes tanjiro doesn't notice.

Nezuko comes out of the box and starts running around in small form untill she runs into Rengoku.

"Mmph!" She falls backwards and looks at Rengoku with a smile.

Rengoku puts a finger to his mouth in a shushing motion, and Nezuko nods and runs back to Tanjiro. Rengoku smiles as they begin walking back to town. Rengoku stays far behind, hiding to the left of the pathway in some trees.

They hear a great rumbling noise and tanjiro starts sprinting with Nezuko to where it came from. Tanjiro and Nezuko look at eachother in a worrisome expression when they see the village in the mountains was familiar. It was their old home. They somehow ran even faster, so 10 minutes later they were huffing slightly. But they found a red and black striped demon eating a poor boy off the streets.

Tanjiro stood in horror as he wielded his blade, and nezuko grew stronger and taller. Nezuko rushed first and sent a flying kick into the demons head, stunning them and their regeneration. Tanjiro rushed and the demon began regenerating slowly and turned around, just to see tanjiros blade a couple inches away from its throat. The demon looked in horror as it's head was chopped off, and it began fading away.

Tanjiro sniffed around and immediately covered his nose to hopefully cover the stench coming from a ramen place a few buildings down. Nezuko jumped up to get a look at the village, and she saw how there was no sign of life, and about 55% of the village was rubble.

She started crying and Tanjiro looked at her, already assuming the damage done.

"Nezuko it's okay, we have to stay strong and fight okay?"

"Mmh.. mm!"

"Okay, let's go!"

Tanjiro and Nezuko ran into the building just to see two demons sitting at a barstool table. But looking past them, there was a trembling human with no emotion making something in a huge pot.

In the pot was alot of boiling blood, limbs, nails, bones and more sticking in every angle. Tanjiro understood exactly why he was traumatized. He probably was forced to cook his family members, just to live untill everyone else was eaten. Nezukos mouth started foaming at the site but she maintained strong.

Tanjiro looked in horror and he kept his blade out infront of him. One demon was absolutely beautiful, white skin and black hair. She was wearing something awfully revealing, and had some sort of belts swaying lightly from her body. 

The other demon was tall, with a waist you would wrap your palm around. He had slightly curly, green hair. His bones popped out and he was so abnormally skinny.

It was odd too see a beautiful person with an ugly one.

"Brother! Who are they!? They aren't supposed to ruin our feast!"

"I don't know sister, but I think they are about to become apart of it too.." Rengoku stood behind in an alleyway to keep watch.

Rengoku didn't know if tanjiro saw, but Rengoku looked into their eyes too see they were of the upper 6 kizuki. Immediately, he sent a crow calling for two Hashira as backup, not wanting either of the three here to die, while knowing tanjiro wouldn't back out of a fight.

Rengoku sighed as he wielded his blade for safety precaution. The master gave him orders to fight if it gets too dangerous and tanjiro or Nezuko is about to die.

Rengoku watched carefully as the male demon gets up from his seat and appears infront of tanjiro with two sickles on each size of kamados neck.

"Are you and that other demon ready to die now?" The tall demon said with a grimaced look, ready to close the sickles and cut his head off at any moment.

— authors note

I've been really busy and I have been doing other things with my spare time as I have tournaments coming up and practicing a lot more. I will try to get the next chapter out sooner but my birthday is coming up in two weeks, and I will be busy again. Please respect this. And feel free to comment on anything, I love you guys feedback!  The next chapter (or two) will be the fight. So please sit back and relax while the next chapters are in the work!

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