Love Trouble

The Beginning

After both of Muichiro's parents died the Kamado family decided to take care of him and his brother since they're families were good friends and would visit from time to time.

One winter morning, Tanjiro was to take the charcoal to the city to be sold. His mother gave him instructions and sent him off. Hours later Tanjiro was on his way home later than usual because he was helping out people in the city here and there. On his way and old man he knew called Saburo warned him about going home at that hour because of demons. Tanjiro never believed in them but decided to stay the night remembering how his late grandmother also used to speak of demons.

That night a demon did lurk in the dark. The demon attacked the Kamado household and only two survived. Muichiro managed to hide away while the other survivor was unconscious. Muichiro was enraged by this but could do nothing but listen to the cries and screams of the mother and her children. He was almost caught by the demon but the sun was soon to rise and Muichiro was left with a large gash on his back. He ran to seek for help but fainted in the middle of the forest as the sun started Rising

Tanjiro woke up at around 7 in the morning and got ready to get back home. On his way the closer he got he started smelling the scent of blood which made him worry. He started rushing home almost tripping on rocks and snow. When he got home, his eyes widened in horror as he saw his younger sister lay on his youngest brother unconscious covered in blood. He went to check if they were still alive and as he turned to check inside his house he froze in fear and horror as his whole family lay dead. Yuichiro lay at the corner of the wall, his siblings dead on the floor barely recognisable. Tanjiro screamed in horror but he noticed someone was missing 'Muichiro wasn't here.'

He grabbed his younger sister Nezuko who seemed to still be breathing and ran trying to find a doctor as well as Muichiro. He ran in fear of losing his only family and ended up tripping on something ending up falling off the edge of a small hill. He closed his eyes in instincts and prepared to hit the ground but thankfully it was the winter season and it was heavily snowing. Though something is wrong was snow always this soft..? Tanjiro quickly got up to check where his sister was and what exactly he landed on.

He dusted the snow and found a shivering and bleeding Muichiro. Tanjiro started to panic, his sister wasn't near him and his 'best friend' was cold and shivering. He removed his haori and covered Muichiro, he then used his scarf to cover the gash that was bleeding heavily before laying him by a tree then went to search for his sister. " Nezuko..! Nezuko..! " He called out to his sister and soon spotted her not to far from where he left Muichiro, facing the ground making a low growl. Tanjiro neared his sister asking her if she was okay but instead of responding Nezuko jumped at him with cat-like eyes and sharp, long nails. Tanjiro grabbed the thing closest to him which was a bamboo sticks and muzzled her as he cried in fear. He tried talking her out of it but the only response was a growl. Nezuko started expanding her body to overpower him. Tanjiro was shedding waterfalls at this point and pleading with Nezuko starting to close his eyes expecting the end of him but instead he felt tears dropping on his cheek and they weren't his. Nezuko was crying..

Tanjiro was really feeling bad for her she didn't deserve this at all. He was about to comfort her when a man with black long hair tied in a low ponytail, a haori which was red on one half and green and yellow with a checkered pattern on the other half and a blank expression on his face came trying to cut off the girl's neck but Tanjiro hastily flipped them over resulting to the cutting of his hair and violently rolling and hitting his back against a tree from the pressure that the man slashed his sword with, Nezuko shrank in size."what the, who is he..? " Tanjiro asked himself as he looked at what the man held in his hand " A sword..? " Tanjiro thought. " Why are you protecting it..?" the man finally spoke. " She's my sister! My younger sister.. " Tanjiro answered. Nezuko started trying to get out of her brother's hold but failed " You call that thing your sister?" The man spoke again. He then charged at Tanjro and his sister Nezuko. Tanjiro tried to protect Nezuko by hiding her underneath him as he got into a protective positionand closed his eyes ready for the impact but it never came instead he didn't feel his sister's body with him and opened his eyes to find her in the grasp of the man. Nezuko growled and moved trying to get out of the man's grasp "Nezuko, don't move! " Tanjiro yelled. As the man held Nezuko he explained that he was a demon slayer and it was his duty to slay demons. Tanjiro defended his sister saying she has not killed anyone and that it was a different scent at his home which wasn't Nezuko's. Tanjiro said he did not understand why Nezuko had turned into this man-eating creature and the older man explained saying it was the exposure of her wounds to demon blood. Tanjiro just kept defending his sister saying he would not let her eat anyone and that he would find a cure for her, the man told him there was no cure and that once a person became a demon there was no turning back. Tanjiro just continued pleading with the man to not kill Nezuko as she was his only famly left (apart from Mui who was still shivering).

The man got angry and yelled at him for being weak, that he would not be able to save his sister or even heal her. Tanjiro Started shedding tear all over again. Little did he know that what the man was trying to do was initiate the rage within him. Tanjiro was about to give up until he spotted his hatchet. he waited for the wind to blow again so he could use it as a cover up and get the hatchet to attack. The wind blew and thick snow flew in the air mking it look like there was mist, Tanjiro ran and took the hatchet he knew he couldn't beat the man head on and threw a stone at the man as a distractor as he threw the hatchet upwards the man effortlessly blocked the stone. Tanjiro then ran head on pretending to still be carrying said hatchet. The man thought Tanjiro was foolish and knocked him out with the handle of his sword. Nezuko's eyes widened in shock as she watched her brother fall on the snow, unconscious. The hatchet which had been thrown almost hit the man's head. It didn't take a genius to realise what Tanjiro had planned the whole time. The man was shocked as he almost lost his life. Nezuko took the opportunity and kicked the man with as much strength as she could muster up and leaped at her brother. The man knew she was going to devour the boy but his eyes widened his shock as Nezuko took a protective stance in front of her brother. Intrigued with the siblings he decided not to kill Nezuko and karate chopped her neck, knocking her out immediately.

Tanjiro came around soon and saw Nezuko lying asleep next to him, covered by a haori which he noticed was the same as the man who was about to slay his sister had. He quickly sat up and he noticed the man leaning on a tree. The man told him to go look for Urokodaki at the foot of Mt.Sagiri and tell him he was sent by Giyuu Tomioka. Tanjiro stood there dumbfounded for a while and soon understood what the man said and promised to go. Before the man left he warned Tanjiro against letting his sister out in the sunlight. The man then left with his haori making Nezuko shake slightly before relaxing once again. Tanjiro felt like he had forgotten something then remembered " MUICHIRO!"

A/n-(edited) 1458 words<3

-I was actually watching the first episode again while writing this( some of it may be wrong cause I started wrote some parts through memory only