➳ཉིཾ𝒟𝑒𝓂𝑜𝓃 𝒮𝓁𝒶𝓎𝑒𝓇༄↝ᴷⁱᵐᵉᵗˢᵘ ⁿᵒ ᵞᵃⁱᵇᵃ ༄°❅

Chapter 19

"Holly sh!-" Sanemi gasps, and covers his mouth with the palm of his hand in surprise. Genya smiles and so does the Buddah, and then when he murmurs silently a jinx and the Buddah deshapes and the sand and feathers tumble down in unison. Akari snaps her fingers and the feathers raced toward her, like magnets, and formed an outer layer of her clothes. Genya sent a sandwave to get rid of the sand and Sanemi just looked at Genya, his jaws dropping to the floor. Akari sniggers at his expression, but then got a glare from Genya and backed away.

"AKARI!!!" Muichiro called angrily, "HOW DARE YOU LEAVE ME - ALSO WHAT WAS THAT SAND WAVE?! YOU DOING SOMETHING BAD?!" He screamed loudly and Akari covered her ears to prevent herself from becoming deaf. "Calm down Muichiro!!" She replied smiling. She turned to see Genya and Sanemi talking and shooed Muichiro away, despite his complains and cries of disapproval. Muichiro grabbed Akari's wrist agressively, and Akari narrowed her eyes.

"Let's leave the brothers to bond and let's get on with our bonding!" She says enthusiastically and Muichiro raises both his eyebrows up high, not waiting for him to answer, Akari dragged him to the forest. "Okay, now tell me what happened!" Muichiro huffed loudly and Akari slowly explained to Muichiro what had happened. After they sat in silence and was enjoying the stars. Suddenly Akari's ears twitched and without looking, she threw a feather, and it landed with a thud on a tree.

Muichiro looked super confused until he saw what was pinned on the feather, an eyeball, bleeding out and Akari smirked. "Muzan is using his old tricks again, he already knows where your headquarters is." She hinted but Muichiro didn't get it, and Akari smiled, knowing that he didn't have experience in these topics, after all he was fourteen only. She stood up, and walked towards Okayato's estate, and Muichiro trailed behind her, cocking his head in confusement.

After polietly asking to go in, Akari stepped in and bowed down to Okayato, and he looked so weak, Muichiro gasped loudly. He could clearly see Okayato's noticeable ink-like markings in the form of black spots on his body and a flowing water-like pattern on his face. 'Eighteenth form: removal of curse.', she whispered and Okayato's ink patterns faded, and he looked so shocked and gasped loudly. Suddenly Muzan stepped in with a gleaming look in his face. His face suddenly looked awfully perplexed seeing Okayato's scar that disappeared.

Before Muzan could see Akari, she swiped her fox mask onto her face, masking her face. Muzan regained his smug look when seeing Muichiro and Akari. "You're all doomed." he retorted and rudely pointed to Akari and Muichiro. "These two apprentices can't save you." He sneered, and Muichiro visibly tensed at that insult, but to his surprise, the usual hot tempered Akari wasn't moving a muscle. He was almost sure that she wasn't even breathing.

"Muzan Kibutsuji," She said, in a very deep voice that didn't sound like it belonged to her. "Don't judge a book by its cover." Muichiro could clearly feel the anger, hatred hidden carefully under those words. "You are so scrawny, and clearly not that old, you smell like ten." Muzan hissed, but still Akari didn't tense, she was clearly in amusement. "She's not scrawny, you piece of sh-" Before Muichiro could finish the sentence, Akari pushed him beside her, and after a millisecond, Muzan's claw was were Muichiro used to be.

"Hmm interesting-" Muzan acknowledged, narrowing his eyes, taking Akari a little bit more seriously. "What's so interesting about me?" Akari asked, licking her lips, causing Muzan too narrow his eyes in amusement. "Ahhh, young 'uns are always like that." He shrugged. "You're not too smart yourself." Akari retorted and Muzan glared at her, his eyes gleaming angrily. "What did you say?" he hissed, his fangs showing, threateningly.

"That you're not so smart yourself." Akari repeated patiently. Muzan laughed and looked back at Okayato. "See, even your apprentices are idiots." he joked and Okayato glared at him, Muzan lunged at Okayato, but then to his surprise, standing in front of of Okayato, in a flash, was Akari, and stopped him from attacking Okayato by holding onto both of his wrists, Muzan tried to shake her off, but felt as if his strength was getting sucked out of him.

He suddenly saw Yoriichi's shadow, behind Akari as if they resembled at all. He looked perplexed and Muichiro's jaw immediately hit the ground. "You can call me Aiko," She licks her lips and let go of Muzan's wrists, and Muzan fell on the floor, with no strength, and he was terrified staring at 'Aiko' towering above him. "Fudge, you're a demon and she's not even fifteen yet." he scolded himself and stood up.

Akari uses her dagger to temporary blind Muzan, she looked at Okayato and his family, smiling softly, and softly teleports them away. Muichiro glared at her, signally not to teleport him away, Akari nods and teleports the hashrias there. When Muzan regained his sight he saw the hashiras there, and suddenly spikes came and immobolised him. He narrowed his eyes, knowing this was demon blood art, but from whom?

Suddenly Tomayo appeared, and Muzan realised it was her demon blood art. Gyomei swung his weapons around, and all the hashiras charged in anger. To Muzan's pleasure and surprise, Akari stayed behind and looked bemused by all the anger. "What are you a coward?" Muzan sneered and Akari did the peace out sign. "If I'm a coward, you're an ostrich under the sand." She joked and Muzan felt his blood boil in anger.

"You won't be celebrating for long." He said and Akari rolled her eyes and mimicked his words with her hand. "YOU SERIOUSLY THOUGHT YOU COULD CORNER ME?!" He exclaimed, but to his astonishment Akari wasn't showing any sign of surprisement, just plain boredom. "YOU'RE ALL GOING TO HELL!" he shrieked.

The portal opened and everyone got teleported into the Infinity Castle. "Haha, one classically trick." Akari smiles, amused and Muzan widened his eyes. "I'll join the others for the fun of it," She says happily, and gracefully enters the portal as well. She followed Shinobu silently, and smiled at the familiarity of the maze, it was way too easy to see that Shinobu was making her way towards Douma's place.

Shinobu was visibly in a flashback of her sister getting killed. She'd figure out any time that Douma was the person who killed her. Shinobu sees a woman calling for help and rushes to help her, only to have her killed in her arms. Sadly, Akari knew that the training with Shinobu wasn't enough to cut off Douma's head. Shinobu was so smart she realised that and went back to her old defence mechanism, poison.

After a few head on head fights, Akari was getting a yearn to come and execute Douma. She realised that Douma was about to cut Shinobu in her vulnerable zones, and as quicker than anything ever recorded, she blocked the blow with one hand on Douma's wrist. "Ohhh! Another female, today has been harvesting!" Douma purrs and Akari visibly shudders. Shinobu cocked her head at Akari, trying to figure out who it was, but immediately recognised her mask, and got to the conclusion that it was Akari.

Suddenly a shadow was behind Douma, and he turned around, his eyes finally had emotions to it. Surprise. This was because behind him was none other than Kanae, Shinobu's 'dead' big sister. "Hello dear friend," She says sweetly, but full of poison in her tone. "We meet once again." Douma looked wary, but then shook his head, clearing his fuzzy head. Shinobu ran towards Kanae and embraced her, crying and Akari shrugged.

Douma sprinted towards Akari, hoping to unmask her, only to be grabbed by the wrist. "You really think you can defeat me-" She asks in a deep voice, unmasking herself, showing her true face. "Douma Chan?" Douma smiled again, and purred. "You did visit Akari Sama! How lovely!" Akari smiles and waves her arms around, and whispers 'Eighteenth form: removal of curse', and Douma found himself as a human.

"Why do you do this?" He asks, not completely sure why Akari hasn't beheaded him. "Because I believe in the darkest souls, there is still a tiny bit of common sense, ready to blossom, you just need to give it a chance." She says, and somehow those words, full of emotions, hit Douma, and he realised he could feel emotions now, and it felt super weird. "You'll get used to it," Akari smiles and pats Douma's head, teleporting him away.