ᵂʰᵃᵗ ᴵᶠ ᵀᵃⁿʲⁱʳᵒ ᵀʳᵃᵛᵉˡᵉᵈ ᵗᵒ ᵗʰᵉ ᴾᵃˢᵗ | ᴷᴺʸ ᶠᵃⁿᶠⁱᶜ

12)

(Tanjiro ANGST... mentions of blood, abuse, and bruises. Very minor details though. Would suggest playing the song above to match the mood.)

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After all that... you can consider nonsense just happened, the twins and tanjiro made there way back to walking up the mountains where they will of course meet with other future samurais that yoriichi was attempting to train.

Michikatsu is still unaware of this though. It was only yoriichi and tanjiro that knew about it. So moving ahead...

Now the three of them have made it up the mountain feeling a bit exhausted as they had been walking for a good 5 hours heck probably more than that. As expected Michikatsu looked around quite confused as to why he was seeing unfamiliar faces up here. Before he could even speak, everyone that was there holding on their swords let out a "welcome back yoriichi-san!"

Now how did they know his brother? Wad there something he knew that michikatsu didn't? Was yoriichi building an army? Multiple questions swarmed around michikatsu's head as he stood there in a trance for a bit until he was brought back into reality as tanjiro snapped his fingers.

"You alright? You zoned out there for a moment.." Tanjiro said worried. Poor tanjiro always worried about both these twins as if he were a sibling but they really werent siblings. Heck they werent even blood related! Well technically tanjiro is always worried for michikatsu more. Nowadays tanjiro sees him pretty gloomy and never in the mood to do shit. And when he does want to do something, it involves either training harshly or messing and teasing tanjiro around. Now for yoriichi... they had just reunited a couple hours ago but he was still able to sniff melancholy and sadness coming from yoriichi. It only pressures tanjiro a bit more that the twins would never tell him what was happening.

He knows that everyone has things that are just to personal for them to say and he knows that people don't need to talk about it if they don't feel comfortable.

But tanjiro had always said anything to yoriichi and michikatsu when they were kids even if they didn't know how to make him feel better. Also considering the fact that tanjiro had to deal with their abusive father and how he was always there to protect them.

Now that they were older, it seems like they just didn't care if tanjiro had helped them back then nor did they trust him enough to say what was in their head at the moment.

Tanjiro sighed getting back into reality nothing how yoriichi and michikatsu weren't there. He tilted his head to the side and looked front to see yoriichi training a man and michikatsu who distant himself from everyone giving others a death glare. Clearly he did not want to participate in this bullshit.

Slowly tanjiro started to notice yoriichi teaching the others the hinokami kagura. That was nice. Yoriichi is trying to pass the powerful breathing technique to others. Tanjiro smiled at that remembering the nights with kid yoriichi wanting to learn the sun breathing and the fact that he was as to master it within a couple of weeks. Michikatsu on the other hand, even if tanjiro trained him a bit, he just couldn't do the same breathing technique. Which was okay as he completely understands its pretty hard to perform.