𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 || 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐱 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫

14.

(First person)

8 years ago is when Giyu and Sabito found me. I was only 12 at the time of ny mother slaughter. Sabito and Giyu were just a year older than me.

When they found me, they brought over Urokodaki. When he had seen just the state of my house and noticed I survived, he knew this wasn't just an ordinary demon attack.

He knew that if he were to have brought me back to his residence that he wouldn't only be endangering himself, but two other children. So he did what was best, he brought be to Master Kagaya while he sent Kakushi and Cultivators to my house to scout out the area.

I will never forget the way Giyu and Sabito looked at me when they say me for the first time...

"I can sense it..." Was the first thing Kagaya said to me.

Nothing much happened while staying with Kagaya, but something was always weird. He always tried to persuade me to be a Cultivator. I naturally didn't to, the mere whispers of the word 'demon' terrified me.

After just a couple of weeks, Kagaya deemed it safe to return to the outskirts of the Mansion. News of this had gotten out and Urokodaki immediately took me in.

Everything seemed so rushed and I didn't understand why.

When I got to the Urokodaki resident, Giyu and Sabito were hesitant to accept me, but I think it was because they thought I had koodies.

Even more timed passed and one day, I watched as Giyu and Sabito were training. Before, I never payed attention to them, but one day, I watched Sabito yell at Giyu and slapped him.

Something in Giyu changed that day and the same did me. I started to watch their lessons. It started from just watching through a window, to taking notes, to replicating their movements, to shortly joining their intense lessons.

Just 1 month before the Final Selection, Kagaya sent orders to Urokodaki telling him I was to relocate and train with a current Hashira, Shinjuro Rengoku.

It was tough to part ways with Sabito and Giyu, but I knew I'd see them at Final Selection which was just 30 days away.

When I got to the Rengoku residence, it was a complete environment change. My chest felt heavy and full of pressure, the air was heavy with imbalance that there was in the household.

Within the residence, I met Kyojuro Rengoku who was learning how to be a Hashira just like his father...

The first 2 weeks consisted of strength training. Kyojuro and I worked together, spared together, got mad at each other.

Then came the final 2 weeks...

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"Shoulders back, (y/n)! You must be balanced on your feet!" Rengoku said loudly as I straightened out my back.

"Now strike!" Rengoku demanded.

*SLICE*

"Good!" He clapped as the dummies head slid off with one clean cut.

"Your real Nichirin blade comes in tomorrow, I think you'll be a...Hm...Maybe a blue blade! Water! Yes!" He says while setting up motion dummies.

As he winded up the dummies, I shrugged at his comment. He sighed and place a dummy on each side of me.

*WOOSH*

As he backed up, the dummies started to strike at me left and right. They were fast, but I was faster, not to rub on my ego.

I ducked down as one of them swung at my head. I immediately strike at one of their necks from below. The other one stood up and cut both of its arms off within 1 second. I cut the neck and plunged my sword in its chest.