Demon slayer: Breath Of The Eclipse

Chapter Fourty Eight: Yoriichi Type Zero

The young swordsmith who's name was Kotetsu had accepted Muichiro's request for a key, giving him permission to use the training dummy.

"Why is the training dummy modeled after my uncle?!" asked Tanjiro, the young Hashira was soo freaked out,why would they model a training dummy after his dead uncle?!. It was soo weird!.

"This training dummy is called Yoriichi Type Zero and is modeled after a swordsman from the Sengoku Era, that man has been dead for hundreds of years, their is no way he could be your uncle!." said Kotetsu in disbelief.

"Well actually our  father is a demon, he is probably hundreds of years old so him being alive since the Sengoku Era isn't farfetched, also our father had an identical twin brother named Yoriichi, who this contraption is clearly modeled after." responded Tanjiro, while they never had the pleasure of getting to know their uncle Yoriichi, their father did share some stories about him with them, so they would definitely recognize him if ever got to meet him some day.

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"So you're telling me that you're father is an ancient demon from the Sengoku Era and is the brother of the man this thing is modeled after?!, wow you're family is so wired!" shouted Kotetsu the Tsugikuni's were such a strange family, it is amazing of you think about it, despite being hundreds of years apart Tanjiro and Yoriichi were still direct relatives.

"I want to fight this thing on its highest setting" asked Tanjiro. Following Kotetsu's instructions Muichiro turned on Yoriichi Type Zero and put it on its highest setting. Tanjiro was impressed, the training dummy was stronger than he thought, he actually struggled against it, though if the storys that his father had told him were true and not exaggerated, then this dummy is nothing but a weak imitation of Yoriichi, and then finally Tanjiro was able to unleash a proper form for the first time during the fight.

"Moon Breathing Sixth Form: Prepetual Night Lonely Moon-Incessant" screamed Tanjiro as he destroyed the training dummy. Tanjiro bowed and apologized for destroying the dummy insisting that he help Kotetsu repair it, Nezuko and Muichiro also offered to help, Kotetsu accepted the apology and their help. With the four of them working together they will able to successfully repair Yoriichi Type Zero in no time.

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As they began working on the repair, Tanjiro noticed something poking out of dummy's now headless body. The dummy's head had crumbled away to reveal a sword, Tanjiro pulled the sword out of the dummy, and he couldn't believe what he found, in his hands was his uncle Yoriichi's three hundred year old Nichirin Katana!. It was exactly like how his father described it, it was obsidian black, even darker than Nezuko's sword and it had the same gold handle and black and gold tsuba and the same Kanji (Slay/ destroy) engraved on the side just like his father's.

"It's our uncle Yoriichi's sword!" said Tanjiro amazed at his find.

"Oh you're right,i recognize it from dad's storys, it looks exactly like how he describes it!, but how did it get here?" questioned Nezuko, Tanjiro was asking the same thing, who brought Yoriichi's Nichirin Katana into the swordsmith village and why was it hidden inside the training dummy for almost three centuries?!. It broke the siblings hearts to see their uncle's sword neglected and being eaten by rust, they hoped that Hotaru Haganezuka would be able to restore it. While it can no longer be used in battle due to its old age and neglect, they hoped that they will still be able to display it in their home it was a piece of their family history after all.

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As they contained working on the repair, Tanjiro started talking with Muichiro, trying to figure out if they could be related.

"Muichiro, what was your life like before you became a Hashira?" asked Tanjiro.

"I-I don't remember my family or what my life was like before i joined the Corps" Muichiro said sadly, Muichiro was suffering from amnesia for some time, and was still struggling to recover his memories.

"I'm so sorry Mui, i will pray for you" answered Tanjiro. Tanjiro had a theory that Muichiro could be a descendant of his father Michikatsu, that was the only theory that made since, after all his father was an ancient demon from the Sengoku Era, and was hundreds of years old, he also knew that his father had been married before and had two children, who were Tanjiro and Nezuko's older half-siblings, so his father having living descendants in Japan and the rest of the world wasn't farfetched. So that would make Muichiro Tanjiro and Nezuko's nephew, which is very wired since Tanjiro was only one year older than Muichiro, so Tanjiro preferred to see him as a little brother instead.

"You know Tanjiro, you do remind me someone i once knew, but i can't remember who they were and this makes me feel both happy and sad for some reason?" said Muichiro.

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When Tanjiro went to sleep that night, he was visited by the spirits of Masamune and Ryūka.

"Tanjiro" said Masamune

"Masamune, Ryūka.....I....now known the truth....our father he's....he's a demon and the demon king's right hand man" said Tanjiro fighting back tears, it was hard for him accept that his father someone he loved and always thought of as a good and kind man, was monster.

"And yet you still want to save him!, that man had abandoned us and our family when we were only children and became an Oni!, he is a selfish power hungry monster, he doesn't care about you or anyone but himself, if you die on your mission, he will just replace you just like how he replaced us!." said Masamune, his voice fulled with venom.

"I'm....I'm...so sorry how could he do this to you!, now i understand why you hate father so much, you have every right to feel this way, you have suffered because of him haven't you?, it must have been hard for you with out him, but our father has changed, he sacrificed himself to try and protect our family from his master!." said Tanjiro but his words made his half siblings even more angry.

"I hate to admit it but i have deep envy and hatred in my heart for you and your family, you were always father's favorites, he had always loved you and was there for you and for your peasent mother and grandfather, but he was never there for us, never there for me or our family or clan, he doesn't even remember what we look like!." yelled Masamune fulled with anguish, everyone was hurt by his father's betrayal but especially their family.

"It's even worse for me, at least you have some memories of our father Masamune, while i don't because i was only a baby when father left." said Ryūka heartbroken. When Tanjiro woke up the next morning he realized that he had been crying in his sleep.

"Tanjiro i heard you crying in your sleep last night what did you dream of?are you ok big brother?." asked Nezuko worried about her elder brother.

"I just dreamed about our family that's all, but i feel much better now, thank you so much for caring Nezuko." replied Tanjiro, and with that the Tsugikuni siblings began the day.

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Author's Note: and now Tanjiro finally understands his half-siblings😢💔, please tell me what you think in the comments/reviews and thank you for reading.