➳ཉིཾ𝒟𝑒𝓂𝑜𝓃 𝒮𝓁𝒶𝓎𝑒𝓇༄↝ᴷⁱᵐᵉᵗˢᵘ ⁿᵒ ᵞᵃⁱᵇᵃ ༄°❅

Chapter 2

"Ah!" He exclaims full of excitement "Nezuko . . . you . . ." his voice fades from his excitement and he tries again "You woke up!" Just as he said that Makomo comes out with a pot of herbal, and with this sight, she almost drops the pot. "N-Nezuko Chan!" she bursts out with almost as must excitement and shock as Tanjiro "You're awake! Finally, thank goodness!!"

Nezuko stood there for a moment, trying to understand what was happening. Tanjiro slowly made his way towards her and pulled her into a huge hug. Then he burst into tears and spilled his worries about Nezuko never waking up Nezuko, and Makomo, came slowly, and closed the hug, awkwardly. After a few minutes, they broke up the hug and Makomo slowly and carefully started applying the herbal medicine, after watching her put some leaves on the bandage, Nezuko offered to wrap it around Tanjiro's head

Tanjiro gave a sigh of relief and a murmur of thanks and he went to the room, to get a cup of tea for his parched throat. Makomo asked Tanjiro if he saw Sabito, and he shook his head, his eyes were full of worry. Makomo was super worried as her 'big brother' wasn't acting his usual self, and she was sure there was a reason behind this.

15 days flew by, and an anonymous person with wind chimes on his straw hat came. "Is Sabito Chan, Tanjiro Chan and Makomo Chan here?" he asked, holding three long boxes with him. Tanjiro went out cautiously, and Makomo followed and peeked behind Tanjiro's body. "Yes, we are here, I don't know about Sabito San, he disappeared this morning, saying he wanted to explore something."

The mysterious figure nodded and set the three boxes down, and started to unravel them.

"Kids, always full of curiosity, sometimes I wished I had that much enthusiasm . . ." he trailed off and shook his head, probably waking himself from a memory of his childhood.

"Here are your swords!"

Makomo and Tanjiro slowly receive the boxes and bow gratefully.

"Arigato - um" they both stammer and look at each other with embarrassment.

"Oh, my name is Haganeduka." He says sounding super amused.

"Gomen, Haganeduka San!" Tanjiro and Makomo say, with an embarrassed look to each other. Haganeduka chuckled, filling the awkward silence, as both the students scrambled for an apology bow.

Sabito suddenly chose this time to charge here, panting like a dog, his face red and puffy.

"Gomen!" He stammered and caught his breath, "Gomen, Makomo San, Tanjiro san and um-" he stopped and took another deep breath, gulping down the air "A-A-and Haganeduka san!" He finished and sat on the ground, meanwhile, Makomo and Tanjiro were eyeing him with worried glances, even though they didn't show it, they were grateful Sabito took the best timing and showed up to this awkward moment.

Haganeduka San didn't seem bothered by Sabito's sudden appearance and kept talking.

"These three Michigan blades are made out of scarlet crimson iron sand and scarlet crimson ore, which are collected from the mountains, which is the highest mountain that is closest to the sun. They are special metals that absorb sunlight, the mountain materials are from the sunlight mountain, and because they are closest to the sun, they are bathed in sunlight all year around, no rain clouds that shield the sun from the materials." He finished, still looking down at the floor, the straw hat conveniently covering his face.

Tanjiro was feeling awkward about the way Haganeduka San was crouching on the floor.

"Could you stand up?" he asked nicely, "The floor is dirty and-" he stopped when Haganeduka raised his head, and Tanjiro, Makomo and Sabito were frozen in shock for a few seconds. Makomo was quick to recover and nudged Sabito and Tanjiro in the ribs.
"It's just a unique mask." She whispers to both of them, and they begin to get out of the trance.

"Let's come inside to open your swords and see what colour they are!" Haganeduka San exclaims, again seeming not bothered by the three's reactions. They headed in and Sabito scrambled to get his swords. Sabito and Makomo both opened their box, and raised their sword into the sunlight, both of them suddenly turned blue, and gasps escaped from the three students. Tanjiro opens his, and it immediately dims and turns black, Tanjiro gasps.

"Black . . ." Haganeduka San says super slowly, with a moment of silence

"It's Black . . . " Sakonji Urokodaki San echoes, with the same feeling.

"Uhm- Black sounds so anonymous, is it . . . bad?" Tanjiro says, panicking.

"No- it's just that I've never seen a black blade before . . ." Haganeduka San says.

Somehow Tanjiro doesn't feel any way reassured, Makomo and Sabito, pat his back for more reassurance.

Sakonji Urokodaki sent Tanjiro for his first assignment, which was in a town where girls kept going missing, and told both of his students they needed more training than Tanjiro.

"That's true," Sabito says to himself, "we almost got killed if it wasn't for that mysterious demon." he finishes the thought darkly. The next few days without Tanjiro were full of training, and reflexes, It was so hard, and every night promised something even worse.

After a few weeks of panting and blood and sweat, Sakonji Urokodaki says that they are both ready and sends them to Wisteria printed door, after settling in, Tanjiro returns with a yellow-haired-boy looking super traumatized and a boar-headed person, all angry

"Hey Makomo San and Sabito San!" He says bowing. "This is Zenitsu," he says pointing to the yellow-haired boy who said with a tiny voice 'Ohayo', he turned to the boar and said

"And this is Inosuke, he is a little bit feisty but I'm sure it's nothing you guys can't handle."

"Ohayo gozaimasu Zenitsu San and Inosuke San!" Makomo and Sabito both say in synchronization. The doctors came out to check on their bodies, and Sabito felt a wind of jealousy and guilt, if Sabito had trained better at Sakonji Urokodaki's and hadn't been slacking he could've helped both of them. The doctors sent them to beds because of broken ribs, Tanjiro had 3 broken ribs and the boar guy who thought he was called Iosuke, had a huge bump on his head that looked painful.