Chapter 11: it's raining men

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by Pillowfxrt

by Pillowfxrt

Zenitsu's face scrunched up as he lifted his head up "guys..." he murmured through a wince as he placed a hand on his ear. "hm?" Indigo let out a hum of acknowledgement as she fixiated her attention towards Zenitsu. "hey..what is that sound? It's starting to bug me." he said, shifting around uncomfortably "and it won't stop. Like a tsuzumi." Zenitsu said slowly, his eyes gazing towards where he was hearing the sound. "Sound? A sound..." Tanjiro murmured as his gaze followed to where Zenitsu was looking. Jasper raised an eyebrow but looked over as well.

DUN

"Oh I hear it now!" Indigo said, her expression soon shifted to more of a concerned one however as she stared up at where the noise was coming from.

DUN

Jasper tilted his head as he stiffened up, he moved his hand towards his katana, ready to unsheathe it.

DUN

Zenitsu winced as the sound got louder, closing his eyes for a brief second.

DUN

Suddenly a figure was violently thrown out the window of the house, it was bloodied and hard to tell if it was still alive or not. It landed onto the ground roughly, the figure was the man, he shifted ever so slightly. "Don't look!" Tanjiro blurted towards the kids as he ran towards the man with Indigo quickly catching up with him, despite her small delay of surprise. Jasper stood in front of the kids, to avoid having them look at the sight.

"Are you alright?!" Tanjiro quickly said, rushing over. Indigo reached him first, kneeling down, helping him sit up. "Hang in there-!" Tanjiro said, kneeling down next to him. '...his wounds are deep..' Tanjiro mentally thought, staring at the man. Indigo took off her haori, attempting to wrap his wounds up...but there were to many and they were to deep to be stopped with just some cloth. "I got..I got away.." the man weakly said. "Am..Am I dying...? Am I about to die..?" The man asked weakly glancing between the two slayers, he slumped down slightly, not having the strenght to sit up even with the help of the two slayers. "No, No of course not! You'll live!" Indigo said blurting out empty promises to the man as his eyes got weaker. Tanjiro reached out, pulling the man close, giving him a tight hug in his last moments.

Indigo took in a shaky breath as her eyes went between the now dead man then back at her bloodied hands that held her now bunched up, blood stained haori. "Dead..?" she whispered to herself...he was just alive a second ago..how did he so easily just...? No..no this wasn't right..demon slayers were suppose to save people...she was suppose to save this man. She reached out in a poor attempt to see if he could still be alive before she jumped.

"GRAAHHH" Sounded from the house, causing all the demon slayers in unison but Indigo to look up.

DUN

Jasper narrowed his eyes, he pulled the two kids close to him, he held his katana out as his face contorted into aggression into a soft smile he had on his face earlier as he was trying to distract the kids.

DUN

There was no doubt about it, there was a demon in there....who seemed to really like to play drums.

Jasper looked over to the kids, his gaze softening for a moment as he looked at them "Was he your brother?" he asked, looking at the kids in a sympathetic way before back over at the dead body. "N-No my brother was an orange kimono." the kid squeaked out.

Tanjiro nodded towards the kids upon hearing their reply to Jasper "Let's go!" Tanjiro shouted towards everyone. "nuh-uh!" Zenitsu snapped, starting to shake with fear once more. "oh..I see.." Tanjiro said as he nodded, looking towards Zenitsu like a disappointed parent, turning to leave. "WHY ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME WITH SUCH DISDAIN AND PITY!?" Zenitsu shouted as he whined "I'll goooo!" he shouted. "I don't want to force you." Tanjiro said calmly, looking away from Zenitsu. "I'll go!" Zenitsu said, following after Tanjiro.

Tanjiro walked over towards to the two kids, kneeling down in front of them, he put the box down he had on his back in front of the two kids. "While i'm gone, stay close to this box...it will protect you if anything happens." Tanjiro said, the kids had a bunch of confused looks as did Jasper. "Tanjiro how the actual fuck is a box going to protect those kids?" Jasper asked, slight annoyance crossing his face. "No time to answer." Tanjiro answered, heading towards the house and into it.

Jasper sighed in annoyance at Tanjiro before walked in front of Indigo "hey. You...ok?" he asked, looking down at her. "We're going to fight that demon." Jasper said, staring at her in concern. "It's just..." Indigo trailed off before correcting herself "no, no i'm fine! let's just go get that demon." Indigo said quickly standing up. "we're talking about it later." Jasper said firmly, it wasn't a question, he was going to get his sister to talk about it instead of bottling it up. The two quickly caught up to Zenitsu and Tanjiro, going into the house.

Pillow secrets!:

-The siblings are always able to read each other like open books, they can't hide anything from each other. It's a blessing and a curse to them.

-Indigo has a hard time accepting the concept of death...she just doesn't like it..so she tends to just pretend it can't happen!

-Jasper almost just opened the box when Tanjiro walked away but noticed Indigo and thought that was way more important

-Jasper's first reflex to anything is to reach for his katana

-Indigo just had a little eye opener seeing someone die right in front of her. She has seen dead bodies but she has never actually seen the process of light fading from someone's eyes as they try to cling to life