The Hell Is a Demon Slayer?

Blood and Unexpected Guests

Kenji's guts were sprawled across the floor, making you almost vomit at the sight.

"Kenji! Stop playing around!" You cry, "This isn't funny! Mom and Dad are gonna be mad at you for this!"

You look ahead, noticing your parent's door torn apart, peering in, your mother had a pool of blood surrounding her body.

You place your brothers head down gently before walking closely and peering in.

The sight before you disgusted you even more.

Slurping sounds were heard, and as you looked over, you took notice of a creature with grayish skin. Definitely not human.

Each part of your fathers body was spread across the floor, his neck with a clean cut through it.

Fear paralyzed your body, seeing your entire family dead with an unknown thing eating at their corpses. But you saw he had no weapon on him, he couldn't be the one behind this.

Seeing your fathers sword near you, you slowly pace towards it, checking back to make sure the thing hadn't noticed you.

Snatching the sword, you walk behind it before preparing to stab through its back.

But as soon as you did that, it let out a cry of pain before lunging towards you.

Your body moved on its own, tumbling out of the way before it could land a hit on you. You pulled the sword out of it and ran outside, snow now coming down.

Whatever it was, it was pissed. Trying to scratch you in every possible direction it could and landing a hit on your dominant arm, making you cry out in pain.

Quickly, noticing your distraction, he tries to go for your neck before you stabbed him through the jaw.

He now pins you to the ground, and as your ready to except your fate, he starts hissing out in pain that causes you to open your eyes.

The sky was now clearing up from the clouds, the sun coming out as he started disintegrating in front of you. The sight in front of you making you crawl backwards.

He attempts to do one last attack his his claws before the rest of his body fades away in front of you.

You lay there, blood now staining the sheet of white from the snow, either from the monster or you, you didn't care, you were busy running back to your house, grabbing the katana that had belonged to your dad before rushing back, now as it was covered in blood.

"Please, tell me this isn't real. I'm j-just dreaming right?" Your tears fell onto the floor beneath you, "I'll wake up and head back home from the village, the three of you with irritated looks on your, faces right?" You fall to the floor, hands catching you, "Why are you guys leaving me?! I want to be with you guys! Don't leave me behind!" You cry out.

...

Time passed as you now laid your head on your knees, cries now reduced to sniffles. Wound now bandaged up.

"I should have been here for you guys," You wiped your eyes, "Then we all could have been together."

You buried each of their bodies respectively, praying over each one as you finished.

As much as everyone in the village knew you, no one would believe you that something else had killed your family. You knew you were going to have to move forward. If they caught you, one could only wonder what they'd do to you.

You put what you could in your basket. Money, clothes and...the box.

You completely forgot about it last night, you had been so busy doing your work that it didn't even come to mind.

You sat in seiza position as you pulled it out the wooden box. Slowly opening it before looking at it with confusion.

Inside it had laid a pair of moon earrings along with a small journal resting beside it with a note on top of them.

-Next Generation of Demon Slayers for our family.

The words on the paper snapped you out of your state.

"The hell is a Demon Slayer?" You question, flipping the pages of the book gently due to its fragile state.

Your mind took in each beautiful form the person had while performing each move. Everyone of them having unique move sets.

A tap on your shoulder sends you into a frenzy, grabbing the katana despite the pain you felt in your arm, you try to slash the person who startled you. But instead of a cut, they block you blade with your own. 

A green blade had blocked your purple one.

Before you could even look at the guy, your blade was quickly knocked out of your hand, your head being driven into the ground by the persons hand.

"Were you the bastard that did this?" He yells, crushing your face further into the ground, "I expect you to say something! Do you have a death wish!?"

He takes notice of his surroundings, now looking at the blood coming from you arm, making him quickly loosen his grip.

"Shit!" He curses, standing up quickly, "Where'd the thing go!? There's no way your puny as could have killed it!"

You sit up, rubbing your head, preparing to answer him, "The sun came out in time, it saved me from being eaten." You defend yourself, glaring at him. "Are you gonna tell me your name after you just bashed my head into the floor?" 

He narrows his eyes at you, "Tell me yours and maybe I'll tell you mine."

"(Y/N) Tsugikuni. Now tell me yours." You spit at him.

"Eh, none of your business." He says, turning away, "Since the demon is already gone, there's no point in staying here." He waves you off.

Your jaw drops at his words, "You can't just leave me here! I barely know what that thing is!"

A stops for a second, "A demon," He says quickly, "Goodbye now, this isn't worth my time. Can you leave me alone now, you little shit?"

"I can't just stay here! The people here won't even know what happened. Please, take me with you." You beg. 

Even though you're an asshole.

He sighs, rubbing his temples in irritation before turning towards you, "Fine. You get ONE chance to show me if you can keep up with me." He starts running at a quick speed in front of you that takes you a second to notice before you shove your stuff into your basket start following him.

"You can't just take off like that without telling me!" 

He chokes on his spit at how fast you caught up to him, before returning to his normal gruff state, "If you wanna come with me, you have to keep up." He points out.

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He sighs in irritation as he comes to a stop in front a tree, he even took a bunch of weird turns to try and lose you and you still found him. If he didn't find you annoying then, he sure as hell did now.

You rest your hands on your knees, trying to catch your breath.

 "I hate you," You huff, "I'll get you back for this." Your eyes sliver with the threat, making him roll his.

I regret my words so fucking much right now, He deadpans.

"I can't believe I'm actually doing this," He scolds himself, "I'll take you in as my Tsuguko, you're the first person who can actually keep up with me, that's the only reason why I'm taking you in. You've slightly impressed me."

Your eyes widen at his words.

"But I still hate you. Run 150 laps around the estate." He commands, making you let out a groan. "Don't make me regret my decision." He threatens, making you start running as you were told.

I'm gonna hate this so damn much. You both think.