Stronger Than Demons

Boar Boy

"We will come back to bury you later." Nezuko bowed to the body before quickly going inside. "Where's Tanjiro-san?" she asked, only seeing the blood boy by the door.

"H-h-h-h-he stepped i-in and disappeared when th-the tsuzumi was h-heard." He shakily replied. "We're gonna DIEEEee!!!" Zenitsu started to sob, leaving Nezuko to use what often worked on her younger siblings.

"You said you'd protect me but I guess that wasn't true was it?" she said, sighing. Slowly walking without him.

"No, don't worry Nezuko-chan, no demon will hurt you. Just follow me!" he boldly said, his quacking knee saying otherwise.

"Okay then, let's go." she said, slightly sighing at the way he clung to her.

-Tanjiro POV-

I quickly blinked my eyes to see that somebody was shaking me awake. Squinting I saw that it was the body from earlier. I groaned at the sudden headache that came with a wave of nausea. It's been a while since I had this but I never missed it.

"What happened?" I asked, slightly clutching my head.

"Oniichan came flying o-out the w-w-window, thought you died!" The boy said crying. I was tempted to fix his grammar and decided against it.

I thought long and hard trying to remember what happened. I stepped into a room, the scenery changed, a sweet smell came from a certain direction and I walked over and, and what? After that was a total blur, it took a while but I noticed my clothes were covered in blood. Sighing inwardly, I took out a handkerchief and wiped the blood off the boy who was clinging to me, I beckoned his sister over and comforted her too.

"C'mon, don't cry! Look, Oniichan has some candy from the jinja, so eat it and cheer up!" I said, handing each of them a donguri ame. (a Japanese candy that is relatively big, sweet, and round. Usually bought during a festival) I was always fond of children and felt very guilty about what I was about to show them.

"Chototsumōshin!!" A battle cry was heard until a man in a boar mask suddenly ran out of the building. The terrified children ran behind the tree far away from him. "I smell a presence of a demon! You, it's you!" The weird guy said, pointing his badly chipped swords.

"I don't quite understand?" I questioned, nonetheless he stormed towards me.

"I'll cut you and kill you!" said the guy in the boar mask, his attacks were surprisingly low. As if I were fighting a four-legged boar.

The sense of not winning when it came to how low we can attack, I started to attack from a higher position, confusing the boar.

I suddenly heard a high pitched scream from the building. "KYAAA! The wild Boar is attacking Tanjiro! What's wrong with him, huh? What's wrong with him!?"

"STOP!" Nezuko-san quickly intervened but was soon pushed out of the way by the Boar boy.

"Please be a gentleman!" The short anger of seeing the girl I just barely met hurt by him made me headbutt the boy was hard enough to not kill him.

"AH! That was a pretty... hard... blow-" The mask fell to reveal a beautiful face that didn't match his body. As it wobbled, the blood coming out of the forehead was much more than expected, and he soon passed out.

"KYAAA, the face doesn't even suit the body! HOW GROSS!! Is he dead?! Wait is he DEAD!?!" The very loud Zen-something whatever screamed, causing me to glare at him.

"Let's just bury the dead." I said, heading towards the horribly smelling mansion. Slightly raising the corners of my mouth at the lovely reunion of the siblings.