The Beginning after the End: Water in the Dry Dessert

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It felt like he was drifting in space, in a deep slumber, it feels so comforting, but as he stay longer he feels a light envelope the place suddenly...






"wake up young one"





His eyes open immediately, what was that? Where was he, hes on a bed inside a small room, he looks around and sees a jacket that resembles his old haori 'wait, what haori?' the more he looks around he gets more confused, he sees a tv 'whats a tv?' then he remembers, his family dying, his sister becoming a demon, meeting his friends zenitsu and inosuke, fighting demons, taking on akaza, and finally, dying after he defeated muzan, and then he started to remember other memories too, his family is alive consisting of the same ones he used to have, his father is still sickly but is still alive, his friends are there with him as his classmates, the hashiras are his teachers, oyakata sama is the principal, tanjiro smiles knowing that everyone now is happy.




"tanjiro kamado your mission is still not yet finished"




"what?" tanjiro mumbles out suprised by hearing a voice


"a new threat has a risen, this demon, akihaba, is a demon who had survived continously all through these years, who yearns to follow muzans legacy, please destroy him before he manages to do so, or else humanity wont survive"





Wait they managed to survive? He needs to train his body to remember and make sure that he can execute them better, as well as regroup, he needs the hashiras, his friends, and he needs to find out how to get their blades back!




"you will need help, your friends has their memories sealed, but sometimes they act on impulse on things they had an instinct to do"





He knows what he needs to do, he has to, he was brought out of his thoughts when he hears a voice outside his door "onii chan were gonna be late for school come on" then he remembers he is a student!, he rushes to get dressed and runs out the door in record time, hes glad that his strength and instincts is still there he thanks kami because now he has higher chances, he sees his sister for the first time in a while, he apologizes to her in the inside because he left her in his last life when he died to early, they both run outside and uses his bike then his little brother takeo also sits on front with him with nexuko on the back, hanako and shigeru were already at school because tou-san and okaa-san were the ones who already brought them to school, so he bikes as fast and careful as he can to avoid problems, hes glad that this bike was very durable even though it was kinda old, so he drops off takeo and nezuko to their school with a quick bye and pat on the head, he rushes to his school, runs to the gate, when he sees giyu he was filled with happiness on seeing his friend alive, but then switching to horror as he jumps to avoid giyu from taking his earing because it wasnt allowed in school, so while running he encounters the hashiras, even though they didnt get to talk he was still happy, turns out himejime-san, sanemi-san, rengoku-san, giyu-san, and even uzui-san were teachers as well as suprisingly kanae-san, he's glad that those who lives that the hashiras treasured were now back, even sabito-san was a teacher in nezuko's school while makomo-san was in the same grade as him, though sabito-san and giyuu-san were instructors on the same dojo urokodaki-san owns, shinobu-san was a third year and also obanai-san and kanroji-san, he thanks kami as he reminescent the days he had with the hashiras in his last life till they finally defeated muzan, he wishes he doesnt have to, but he needs to remind them of their past, because he knows he has a purpose, a new threat is rising, and its slowly making more and more new demons each day, so he has to act fast.

he enters his class and sees zenitsu and inosuke as well as kanao, he feels so happy that he just runs at them and hugs them tight, "tanjiro-kun?" kanao asks, he doesnt say anything but a simple 'sorry', their confused untill inosuke shouts "OI GOMPANCHIRO WHAT ARE U DOING?!" he chuckles while slowly pulling away, "sorry I just missed you guys" he smiles at them sheepishly, suddenly their homeroom teacher, giyu, enters the room, "everyone wear your PE uniform were gonna have a morning exercise 5 laps around the track, now move on stop wasting time" as everyone walks out to go to the changing room, "hey tanjiro did you always had that scar? and did your forehead scar change?" zenitsu asks

'ah, kami mustve replaced my body with my old or maybe their like birthmarks now? I dont really know but I guess training is gonna be easier now' tanjiro thinks "OI GOMPANCHIRO U LOOK STRONG AND BADASS NOW BUT IF I DEFEAT YOU THAN ILL BE MORE BADA...

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'ah, kami mustve replaced my body with my old or maybe their like birthmarks now? I dont really know but I guess training is gonna be easier now' tanjiro thinks "OI GOMPANCHIRO U LOOK STRONG AND BADASS NOW BUT IF I DEFEAT YOU THAN ILL BE MORE BADASS, NOW FIGHT ME!" tanjiro is shaken by his thoughts when he suddenly hears inosuke shout his old favorite move "PIG ASSAULT!" so he jumps out of the way, but inosuke just keeps coming, without even wearing his shirt he runs out and grabs a random stick, and says 'breath of the water: ninth form splashing water flow - turbulent!' he says in his mind as he dodges all of inosukes attack, inosuke in a fit of anger grabbed two poles near him and before he knew it he said "BREATH OF THE BEAST : SEVENTH FORM SPATIAL AWARENESS!" inosuke shouts unknowingly unlocking his past memories, tanjiro was happy he had succesfully brought back a memory of one of his friends, his made progress!, everyone could only stare as tanjiro used water breathing, thinking on how beautiful and graceful it is, while inosuke was literally like a beast hunting his prey made him look awesome!, giyu started to remember a memory of tanjiro in the cold ground begging hime to spare his siste, his words echoed in his mind, but he shook his head 'what was that?', finally after a few seconds tanjiro managed to headbutt inosuke, effectively knocking him out, he was panting but glad he made progress.

tanjiro brought inosuke to the nurse office and went back to class,after class he walked home with inosuke and zenitsu, "oi tanjiro,inosuke, what the hell were those moves?! they looked.. eerily familiar, how did you do it?" zenitsu asks while walking with inosuke, tanjiro and nezuko that was beside tanjiro and his bike, "dont really know monitsu... but I feel like I found something that I missed, it felt natural, tanjiro I want you to do what you did, I wanna do that move again, it feels important" inosuke says in a small and sincere tone that it shocked both tanjiro and zenitsu, they both know that if he says it that way, its important, so they wisely stayed quiet untill they finally separated quietly and went home.

when tanjiro got home he helped the family bakery close up, eat dinner, put his siblings to bed,at first they were suprised that he even put takeo and nezuko to bed even though they were not that young anymore, but they didnt argue when they saw the solemn look on their older brothers face, he looked like he hadnt seen them for awhile so they kept quiet, even his parents were slightly worried because of they solemn look he had, so they prayed that tomorrow he would be better.

tanjiro took a notebook and started planning, he needed to find a way to remind them, he planned that since they were demon slayers then making them use their old breaths would work just like how it did to inosuke, he'll have to find a way to fight them, because they were so used to using their breathes before that it came like an instinct just like inosuke, so after awhile coming out with not much plans he saw that it was already 10 pm so he needed to sleep, the faster the others regain their memories the higher they will have to fight this demon.





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