🌸Taken🌸

Salvaged - 3rd POV

❤️ Thank you guys for all of your support. I is appreciate it so much! I is also going to make sure to post weekly, and this chapter is going to be much longer than the others, so I hope you enjoy it! ❤️

It took a few days for the slayers to finally reach the city, but once they did, they were all amazed. There were stores, food stands, and quite a lot of people walking around.

"Wow!" Mitsuri exclaimed, "This place is so sparkly, and beautiful! Is that Dango? Ooh, I have to go try it, it looks so yummy!"

Zenitsu sighed, "You country bumpkins. Don't make a fool of me, or else I won't be able to get myself a wife." 

"How can these people live so peacefully here? Don't they know that there are demons roaming around here? Especially Muzan." Inosuke roared.

"Shut up Inosuke, seriously. And put your swords away." Zenitsu warned.

"And why should we do that? We are the mighty Hashira. We protect the innocent so that they are not harmed. Should we not flaunt it?" Rengoku challenged.

"No, that's not it. Demon slayers and demons have not been made public yet by the government, so when we walk around with our swords, it makes us look like threats." Zenitsu explained.

"Hah?" Sanemi screamed. "You're saying that these people don't know about threats, and we have to keep ourselves hidden, even though we are the ones saving them? This is ridiculous! I refuse."

"I agree with Zenitsu. We should lay low so that we don't stick out, or that will only cause us more trouble, and that wouldn't be very nice, would it?" Shinobu added.

"Fine then. We'll do it your way." Sanemi caved.

Suddenly, something got into their noses, and they all froze.

"Kibutsuji."

"Muzan."

They all ran as fast as they could to catch Muzan, and once they did, Shinobu tapped his shoulder.

"Hello Muzan, I think you have something that's-" Shinobu was cut off.

"Daddy, who are these people?" The child in his arms asked him.

"I don't know sweetheart" Muzan answered.

"Oh dear. Who are these people Honey? Your friends?" A lady came up from behind.

"I don't know, they must have mistaken me for someone else."

Shinobu smiled, "Oh dear, it seems we did mistake you for someone else." She bowed, "Apologies, I didn't realize, that was rude of me."

"That's quite alright, people must be mistaking my husband a lot these days, like that little boy with the auburn hair." The wife responded

"Auburn... hair?" Zenitsu echoed.

"oh yes, he seemed quite mad, but he looked like a nice kid." She responded. "Alright. It was very nice to meet all of you, but I'm afraid we're going to have to part ways now."

"Okay. Bye, pretty lady!" Mitsuri exclaimed. 

The wife chuckled. "Thank you very much for the compliment."

"But you are!" Mitsuri exclaimed.

As they waved and exchanged goodbyes, Giyuu quietly whispered to Iguro, "Go quietly follow Muzan and his so-called family back to the mansion, and then tell us where he lives."

"Got it. Ah, this is such a pain. If we had killed him first, none of this would have happened you know." With that, he disappeared.

After having waited for 10 minutes, they received news from Iguro, that his house was right next to where the festival was taking place.

Once they arrived, they searched for an opening and found a window on the first floor still open. Quickly but silently, they each crawled in, 1 by 1. Once they got in, they started searching for Tanjiro as silently, and as fast as possible, due to the wife and child sleeping on the floor above them. After searching the whole floor multiple times thoroughly, there was only 1 place left that they hadn't yet searched. The basement.

They decided to choose only 2 people to go down, and the rest stay up and guard. As Zenitsu and Nezuko walked down the stairs cautiously, they saw Tanjiro locked up and bloody.

"Tanjiro! Oh my god! What happened to you? What did that bastard do to you?" Zenitsu cried.

As Inoske and the others started heading down to check the commotion in the basement, they also noticed the mess Tanjiro was in and ran as fast as they could to Tanjiro.

"Oh my goodness Tanjiro! You look awful!" Mitsuri exclaimed.

"We need to treat you immediately!" spoke sternly.

"Guys, we need to head out now." Giyuu interrupted.

Giyuu took Tanjiro in his arms and carried him back to the butterfly mansion to get treated.

Muzan returned home a good hour after the racquet with Tanjiro happened and immediately got suspicious. He ran down to the basement to check on Tanjiro, but he was nowhere to be found.

"Damnit. Damnit all! Do you think you can just take my playtoy away like that? I don't think so. I'm going to get you back Tanjiro, just you wait!" With that, Muzan burst into laughter.