Tanjiro Kamado x Fem!reader

Part 31

We had gotten everyone up the mountain, safely this time. No falling off of mountains anymore- I hope.

I felt a strange presence in the aurora on the mountain, there was fog everywhere so I couldn't see clearly. I kept walking and walking, before everything went silent.

I didn't feel Tanjiro walking next to me.
I no longer heard Zenitsu's whining.
And I didn't hear the screams coming from inosuke anymore.

I looked behind me and saw Tanjiro's box lying on the ground, that's all that was left. I opened it to reveal a sleepy Nezuko on the inside of the interior, and suddenly started to panic.

Where are they?!
Why is it just me, Asuno, and Nezuko?!

I gently shook Nezuko awake, and warned her about the situation. She got up with a worried expression on her face, looking forward to finding them as much as I do. I set Asuno's basket down on the ground, and told her the same thing. She looked just as worried.

The basket was slightly bendable, so I put it inside of Tanjiro's box. I really hope he didn't mind, after all, this was his box and he made the basket for me. I then put Tanjiro's box on my back, so it was now my responsibility to make sure Nezuko was safe. I didn't have any problem with it, although I'm worried about the other three.

I kept Nezuko and Asuno by my side checking on them every time I got nervous, since I didn't even know what happened to the others. Who knows what could happen to them, too?

We kept walking in circles trying to find any clues or hints to where they could be, until I felt a wave of energy trace right behind me. It felt like... a cut on my neck? Suddenly, my entire backside began to feel cold. I touched the back of my hair and..

It was all cut off! But how?

My hair was now a teensy bit shorter than shoulder length, the cut on the back of my neck bleeding through my (h/c) hair. (If you had shorter hair to begin with just pretend it got cut that short-))

"What on earth is going on?!" I looked behind me to see a blade on the ground, with the engraving "over here" on the front. My blood was splat right on the edge of it, maybe some sort of demon pulled a trick on me...

I quickly put Nezuko back inside her box for safety, and held Asuno's hand having my guard up. I followed the path the engraving told me to go, hoping to see the three of them again. Especially Tanjiro.

I kept running the way I was going, until I stopped to see..
Zenitsu?! He was lying in front of me, passed out.
"Oh lord, how am I going to take care of so many people at once?- this is tiring-" I kept asking myself this question, until Nezuko popped out of the box again.

"Hmmm hmm!" She walked over to Zenitsu and dragged him up off the ground, looking up at me with a cute expression on her face. She gave me a thumbs up, telling me that she could handle him. I patted her on the head, I probably wouldn't be where I am right now without her.

"Thank you, Nezuko."

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Tanjiro POV

When are we even going to get out of here?! Zenitsu is missing, leaving just me and Inosuke down here. We were walking with (y/n), until we both fell down a strange trapdoor implanted into the ground. Zenitsu? That's a whole different story, he was probably wondering off doing his own thing and that's why he's missing. I hope (y/n) or Nezuko found him.

"MONCHIRO!!! FIGHT ME OR WE'LL NEVER GET OUT OF HERE!!! GRAHHHH!"

"Inosuke, that's not guaranteed-"

"I SAID FIGHT ME BASTARD!!!"

"Inosuke, can't you see the situation we're in right now?!"

Sigh.