➳ཉིཾ𝒟𝑒𝓂𝑜𝓃 𝒮𝓁𝒶𝓎𝑒𝓇༄↝ᴷⁱᵐᵉᵗˢᵘ ⁿᵒ ᵞᵃⁱᵇᵃ ༄°❅

Chapter 11

"I'm still getting revenge on him for the fox mask though." Akari thought. "Akari! You're doing it again? Do you have anything on your mind?" Giyu said caringly. "Nup!" Akari said, hoping it wasn't too obvious that she lied, before she could add anything her stomach saved her by the sound of rumbling noises. Giyu chuckled and led her to the dining room. The kitchen looked immaculate and Akari gasped in surprise. "What is it?" Giyu asks, afraid that there was something wrong. "Nothing is wrong, but look how tidy this kitchen is!" Exclaims Akari and Giyu gives a sigh of relief. "Yeah we do a good job!" He says teasingly and Akari kisses his cheeks, he greedily drank the moisture on his cheek and felt himself enjoying it way too much, not that it was a bad thing.

"Food time!" Giyu says loudly, and his voice seems to be everywhere. "You have a loud voice," Akari commented and Giyu snorted in amusement. While everyone settled in Sabito was staring at Akari with a strange look, and Akari tried to look like she didn't notice but of course, a few seconds later Giyu was staring at Sabito too. Tanjiro was narrowing his eyes and sniffing the air, and Akari immediately noticed his nose was better than others when he stared at Akari suspiciously along with Sabito, Makomo on the other hand didn't even realise there was a rivalry at the table and was quietly sipping her herbal drink.

Akari started to take in Sabito's appearance. He was a fair-skinned young man with a large scar running from the right corner of his mouth to his right ear, and kind, cat-like eyes of a greyish lavender colour, a horizontal bar of much paler purple visible across them near the bottom. "Oh, I recognise him." Akari thinks, "he's the kid who noticed me and asked me to stop." Sabito was still narrowing his eyes but didn't make any move to speak. Suddenly a scent of pink lotus- like a scent that reminds Akari of the warm sun, gentle wind, and flowers bursting into bloom all around her caught her attention. Only one person, or should Akari say a demon could smell like that. Douma.

Tanjiro narrowed his eyes and smelled it too, and not surprisingly caught Akari's smell of caution, he looked her straight in her eyes. "Kid, your sense of smell is great, but let the grown-ups handle this, also known as me." Akari telepathically says, and Tanjiro flinches, looks around, and realises no one that Akari is talking to. "The smell..." Tanjiro thinks and narrows his eyes. "Never smelt it before." Akari narrowed her eyes, "Because it's a demon smell, you better not interfere, I have a demon to meet." Tanjiro almost gasps and realises that Akari can read his mind. "But- not a normal person can do that-" he thinks loudly. "Sweetheart I'm a demon, like your sister," Akari says and decides to explain later.

She purposely knocks her tea over and goes under the table to 'retrieve' it, meanwhile placing a feather that turns into a clone that reaches for the fallen cup and sits back up. Everyone didn't expect anything except Tanjiro, who looked under the table, and saw Akari turning invisible. "If you guys excuse me, I need to check on Nezuko." He says, wincing because he has never lied before. He leaves the room and follows the scent of Akari. "What's she up to now?" Tanjiro thinks, completely forgetting that Akari could read thoughts when he follows her scent outside. "You just won't quit, will you?" Akari says full of amusement. "So you brought a little apprentice of yours! How lovely, sadly it's not a woman." A cheerful voice came from the rooftop.

Tanjiro looked up and saw a lean and muscular young man with platinum blonde hair. He also appears to have sharp nails stained blue. His eyes were extremely beautiful, with different shades of pastel rainbow colours. "Who are you?" Tanjiro asked, unshealding his katana. "Akari, where are your manners? Why don't you introduce me to your student? I am your guest!" The voice says again, still cheerfully. "Cut the crap, Douma, you may think this is 'nice', but I'm sure mine is super different to yours," Akari said gently but harshly. "Now that's not so nice, eh?" Douma says.

Tanjiro felt a rush of air, and in what he felt like a blink of an eye, Akari appeared next to Douma, with a super fake smile. "My, my what happened to your eyes?" Douma says, sounding super worried. "None of your business," Akari said, obviously a little bit body-conscious now. Douma quickly reached for one eye and grabbed off a contact. "There's the beautiful eyes I waited to see!" He purred and Akari narrowed her now blue and yellow eyes. "It reminds me of the cool sunset on the beach," Douma says, trying hard to sound poetic. "So, what brings you here?" Akari says, keen to get this conversation over and done with. "I told you thousands of times, I WANT to be with you! In our palace, maybe it'll make it feel better than all my worshippers coming to worship me!" Douma says quickly.

"Yeah, except for the fact you EAT your worshippers." Akari huffed loudly. She eyed Tanjiro warily and returned to Douma's rainbow eyes. "We'll talk at the Infinity Castle." She says, certain that Tanjiro is going to die if not. "I heard you're dating," Douma says, ignoring the offer. "So tell me who's the lucky guy, who would die for you, literally," Douma says, folding his fan away. "Hard pass Douma Kun, super hard pass," Akari says, and Tanjiro was surprised that Douma didn't even feel insulted by that. "How old are you now?" Douma asks in a cheery voice. "Douma, Douma, didn't your parents tell you that it was rude to ask someone's age?" Akari scolds.

"I was scornful of my parent's low intelligence, but I nonetheless played along and accepted my role; despite this, I never once heard the gods' voices," Douma says, his cheery voice now disappearing. "But you're the only one that has made me feel like life was worth living on, you Akari Sama, please," Douma begs, and Tanjiro smells the air, a desperate smell of begging enters his nose, and he realises that Douma isn't lying. "You eat many womens," Akari says narrowing her eyes. "It's not something that I can forgive you, not in a decade, century, not in any of my other lifetimes." She said, and Douma's eyes narrowed slightly.

"Could we talk about it at the Infinity Castle later?" Akari says, sighing. Douma nodded slowly leaped into to air, and disappeared into the night sky. "How do you know him?" Tanjiro said narrowing his eyes with suspicion. "He was an upper moon demon wasn't he?" Tanjiro asks again. "Yup, and somehow he has a crush on me, great just great. I swear they're only doing this so Muzan won't kill them." Akari sighed, and Tanjiro realised, to his annoyance that that answer just made him want to ask more questions. "Now, the others are probably wondering where you are, considering you said you would go check on your sister," Akari says, her eyes reflecting wisdom. Tanjiro nodded and headed back in.