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𝕿𝖆𝖎𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖉 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖍 𝖇𝖑𝖔𝖔𝖉 ⌞𝚍𝚎𝚖𝚘𝚗 𝚜𝚕𝚊𝚢𝚎𝚛⌝

Longest chapter ever, i'm tired (⸝⸝ᴗ﹏ᴗ⸝⸝) ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁

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Tanjiro spent his time talking to Kyojuro about the hinokami kagura while his friends sat on the nearby train seats talking to each other. 

Y/n POV

‘I’m definitely third wheeling right now Rengoku is talking to Kamado and his friends are talking to each other’, Agatsuma was sitting next to the box where the sister of the Kamado kid is resting, It would be interesting to analyse her, since our contacts affirmed that she has never eaten a single human, it’s not the first time that we have seen a demon refusing to harm humans and even die because of starvation, but the most intriguing part is that she has developed a blood demon art, something that would only happen in a demon has already consumed blood, her case is surely something I would like to look into.

But it’s not the time for that, I was sent to hunt down the demon and protect the people on the train. After all of this I could track Kamado down and ask him to let me run some tests on his sister. I doubt he would let me do it, considering he doesn’t know me and he doesn’t know that I know about her.

TANJIRO KAMADO’S POV

‘Something felt wrong about L/n-san, the smell of sadness and lies, maybe he lied to us about something he said?’

I don’t want to assume that he lied on purpose, maybe he’s nervous about us being demon slayers, with exposed weapons and talking about demons.

Something in his eyes didn't match with his smell. He looked relaxed and kind but they didn’t feel like that, they looked like they were analysing every inch of each one of us, even for Nezuko everytime he looked at her box, I never mentioned her and she was sleeping. How would he know she was there?

I shouldn’t assume anything about him! I barely know him and Rengoku-san seems to trust him so I should do as well!

3rd PERSON POV

Y/n got up from his seat and grabbed the case that he stored his katana in, all the slayers were relaxed and he couldn’t sense a demonic presence around the cart.

‘I better look around for the demon while they are distracted, as soon as it’s dead, I can leave this place’

“Pardon me for interrupting your conversation, Rengoku-san, I’ll be going now to find another seat, enjoy the ride” Y/n winked at the hashira and began to walk to the front carts, going to the back carts would be troublesome since the conductor would be checking the tickers by then and he would be forced to sit and wait.

Y/n walked quickly till he reached the part that connected two carts, the fresh air from the night was freezing. He jumped to the roof, it would be easier to set his katana there instead of a cart.

After getting his weapon out and throwing the case on the nearby rice field, he sat down on the roof and began to concentrate. A demon moon was on the train, hiding somewhere and killing people. To reach that level it should have at least eaten 50 humans or a marechi but would it attack knowing there’s a hashira on board?

‘Let’s see what you are made of, demon’. The sheath of his katana rested on the belt of the hakama while the blood red weapon rested on his right hand.

Meanwhile, with the demon slayers, the tickets had been punched and the conductor stared at the empty seat “There was a man sitting here, where is he?” his voice sounded tired and annoyed. 

“We don’t know, He left a moment ago, he said he would set his luggage on the right cart” Zenitsu spoke as the train conductor punched his ticket, maybe F/n-san went to take air or to get away from them, they were not someone a normal person would interact with if given the change after all, especially Inosuke and The Rengoku guy.

As the conductor walked out of the cart, the train shook violently

It was coming from the roofs of the carts, as if an earthquake had shaken the entire place at the same time.

“EHHHH, what was that sound???” Zenitsu grabbed onto Tanjiro’s haori as Inosuke got his head out of the window to look outside. “Inosuke, get back here you can fall!” Tanjiro raised his voice as he tried to free himself from Zenitsu’s hold

“SOMETHING IS ON THE TRA-” Kyojuro grabbed Inosuke by the pants and stopped him from falling out, the front of his mask was covered in blood, Zenitsu stopped for a moment while Tanjiro stared at his friend.

“Blood? Did someone get hurt?” Zenitsu looked at Inosuke and began to cry and shield himself behind Tanjiro while Kyojuro stayed silent analysing the blood that covered Inosuke before shouting “Young blonde, This is demon blood!! And it’s turning to dust, so someone or something must have killed it!” The flame hashira looked at the younger slayers “Did someone else come with you?” His smile never faded even when they could sense some form of surprise from his words.

The three looked at each other while saying no with their heads, they didn’t remember any slayer getting on the train with them,and they didn’t see anyone carrying a weapon. “I don’t remember anyone that got on the train with a weapon except us” Tanjiro tried to remember anyone suspicious while they ran to get on the train but he couldn’t recall anyone at all.

‘That guy, the one sitting with you surely looked suspicious, but he wasn’t carrying a weapon’ Zenitsu stared at Kyojuro while he sat down, trying to remember what L/n-san’s sound was like, it wasn’t like anything he had heard before.

Just as they were thinking, Y/n returned to the cart and sat and stared at them “May I ask why is Hashibira-kun covered in blood?, is he ok?” The slayers stared at Y/n, somehow he had changed his clothes, from head to toe in that little frame of time.

“He’s ok L/n-san! Are you ok?” Kyojuro took a look at Y/n as he placed his hand on the other man’s shoulder, “Yes Rengoku-san, I’m fine, I just needed to place my bags on the right cart, do not worry” 

Y/n placed his hand on top of Kyojuro’s as he grabbed it and squeezed on his “You are very caring Rengoku-san”

And with that small gesture, the flame hashira was being engulfed in flames (ironic, isn’t it?), his entire body felt hotter than normal and he felt his face getting redder by the second.

Interrupting the moment between the two men, Inosuke walked up to Y/n and began to shout “WHO ARE YOU TRYING TO ATTRACT WITH YOUR FUR? YOU FANCY FOX” he pointed his finger at the man as Y/n looked at the boar boy with a confused expression “Hashibira-san, I assure you I’m not a fox, nor am I trying to attract anybody on this train” He closed his eyes and laughed softly at the kid, Tanjiro smelled annoyance coming off the man, like Inosuke had said something one shouldn’t even think about, “Inosuke, didn’t you say that you wanted to look at the rice fields? Come here” Zenitsu grabbed Inosuke and got his attention to the nearby window. He looked back at Tanjiro ‘Zenitsu may be a coward but that look wasn’t good, it’s almost like he’s nervous, frightened even, was it because L/n-san?’

“I see you came back sir, let me see your ticket” Y/n looked at the man up and down and gave him the ticket he had gotten at the station.

Y/n’s POV

He either doesn’t get any sleep or he wants to kill himself, probably both.

He gave me back my ticket and I put it on one of the inner pockets of my kimono, the man left and I looked back at Rengoku, he had a serious look on his space while staring at the box where Kamado’s sister was, with a quick glance he turned around, he was throwing daggers at my soul “L/N-san!, did you happen to see or hear anything while you were away?”

‘Shit, does he suspect something?’

“Other than the slight tremble? I don’t think so Rengoku-san, did something happen while I was gone?” I said while looking concerned, I looked back at the boar boy and the kamado kid, more specifically at their weapons “Is there a demon here?” Faking your personality is one thing, managing it to make it believable is another.

They don’t suspect anything, and if they do, they don’t have any solid argument to confront me with, they cannot see my Katana, I don’t reek of blood either.

Evading the fact that I made the train almost derail because of a technique, everything else should still be covering me up. (Don’t blame me, reader. I wanted to be flashy.)

“No, nothing happened, you are not to worry, I would prefer if you stayed close to me right now, L/n-san!” Rengoku was quick to sit next to me and put his arm around my shoulders, clearly this guy hasn’t even kissed someone before…

“oh, I see, do not worry, I will stay close to you, Rengoku-san” If I had a coin for every lie I have told tonight, I would have enough to buy a house.

A while later my eyes felt heavy, I looked around and The slayer kids were deep in sleep, Rengoku was falling asleep on my shoulder, did I rest enough last night? 

I shouldn’t close my eyes…

My mission is to find the moon demon and kill it

 I cannot close my eyes…

3RD PERSON POV

Enmu stood on top of the train, he let out a shaky breath as he touched his face, “They are deep in sleep now, to be able to die while dying, how lucky they are, no matter if they are slayers or hunters, doesn’t matter how strong they are, a human’s driving force is the heart and their souls, now they just have to shatter it”

The sleep demon spun around and continued to talk “they are so weak, so fragile, just like dolls, thank you lord Muzan for this wonderful opportunity~”

The small children made their way to the slayers that were asleep, they had heard that there was a change of plans from the demon, who has now beside them walking slowly, “You see, I didn’t take into account the new one travelling with them, you don’t need to worry, I will destroy his core”

“Do not fail me, I will grant you sweet dreams if you follow my orders, remember what I told you~” Enmu helped each kid to tie the rope to their wrists and he took Y/n onto his arms and walked away

“Let’s see how you figured out about the decoy I sent~” He planted the hunter’s body down on one of the empty carts as he closed the entrance with his own flesh.

Y/n’s POV

Ok, maybe sleeping for a while isn’t that bad, and what’s better it’s that it’s a blank void all around, that’s a small benefit of not being able to dream at all, I can control anything that comes and goes into this place.

Let’s begin with a mountain, and a waterfall with some trees here and there, grass and flowers, moon high up in the sky, wisteria and jacaranda trees swaying with the wind.

balanced as everything should be.

But, something is walking around

Someone is trying to figure out why things are moving.

Where is that pesky demon hiding?

Enmu’s POV

Ehh~, Something is wrong with this place, it changes as soon as I move, as if the person was controlling everything, my blood demon art should have disabled it~

I’ll make my way to the edge of the dream and destroy the core, it won’t be difficult, I’ve done it so many times that it’s child’s play for me~

10 minutes of walking

Ok, this place is definitely weird, being concentrated in fusing my body with the train while working on finding the edge of this dream is a pain…

This is frustrating, even more than dealing with slayers in the real world, this place is non ending, and when I finally find a place close to the edge, it moves away just as quickly, it is as if someone is moving the dream all along.

Wait, why is the floor trembling?-

“Hey there my darling demon, how are you doing?~” someone got their hands on my shoulders, I tried to move away from them but I cannot, I cannot move.

I tried to get off the dream but something is preventing me from doing so, no

Not something, it’s-

“Why are you trying to run away from me? That hurts Enmu~” how does he know my name?.

I could hear heels moving, and then I saw him, a full on demon, a kitsune standing in front of me, slits for pupils, long nails, tail and ears, that wasn’t a human.

“Enmu~ I want to show you something, I’ll close your eyes for a minute~” He covered my eyes and I felt everything shifting, I felt sick.

3RD PERSON POV

When Y/n uncovered Enmu’s eyes, he could see thousands, if not millions of miles of blue spider lilies, just the flower lord Muzan was looking for, there, on this hunter’s dream “funny, isn’t it?, the flower is here, you will never reach it though, you can stare at it as much as you want” In a second, he felt his body getting strung, his limbs hurt and he was drowning, “You never try to mess with my missions, This place and what you saw will be our little secret, right Enmu?~” Y/n left a soft peck on the demon’s lips as blood continued to flood the whole dream.

And Y/n opened his eyes.

“This is so absurd, a sleep demon captured in my dream and the slayers are sleeping, I better find the main body so I can go back home” Y/n shook his head as he looked for his katana, it was thrown off to the side, he picked up and began to walk back to the cart.

The whole train was filled with flesh tendons covering the passengers, whenever they tried to attract Y/n, he would attack back and free the people, maybe Enmu was still somewhat conscious and trying to stop him.

When Y/n arrived at the cart where the slayers were, he closed the door behind him and pointed his katana at the demon girl kneeling in front of the kamado kid, “Nezuko Kamado right?, I’m not gonna hurt you, have you seen the demon that caused all this mess?” She backed off and opened her arms to protect her brother, Y/n kneeled at her level and began to speak “I’m not gonna hurt any human here, I don’t have any intention of hurting you either, I just need to know if you have seen the demon”.

She shook her head as she pointed to the rope on her brother’s wrist, “You want me to help you brother right?” and she nodded, “I don’t think cutting the rope will help them, we have to be cautious with blood demon arts y’know?” Nezuko looked at her brother and tried to shake him to wake Tanjiro up.

“I’ll look for the demon, you stay here and take care of them, Nezuko” Y/n gave her a head pad and began to walk back to the front of the train, the back of the train had less people than the front, if a demon were to eat, they would begin eating, it would be were most people were.

At the union from cart to cart, Y/n jumped to the roof of the train and saw Enmu on the front. “How nice, you escaped my mind, how was it, Enmu?” the demon turned around and began to laugh, “Ahh~, you are not a common human, are you, Hunter? It was a clever idea to try and trap me in your dream, but going back to check on the slayers was a mistake, was it not?~” Enmu laughed as he began to rise his hand “You are going to have a not so pleasant dream for doing what you did~”

“Blood demon art: Whispers of forced unconscious hypnosis, now go back to sleep~” 

“Blood breathing: Second Form: Decadence Needle” Y/n dashed across the roofs of the carts and stabbed Enmu on the chest where his heart would be, then made a vertical cut to sever the arm where the mouth was, Enmu backed off while regenerating his arm, “Too slow, how did you become a lower moon with that speed?” The hunter scoffed at the demon.

Until a finger touched his shoulder “Behind you~” With a click, Y/n fell asleep and fell off of the roof, “It was fun while it lasted, little hunter~” Enmu turned around and went back to breathing deeply “The air of the night feels lighter, it’s a perfect night to die while peacefully dreaming~”

Enmu breathed deeply till he felt sick, like air had been pulled from out of his lungs, his face began to crack and fall apart “I see, I see~” the demon fell onto his knees and began to choke on the air, “Aren’t you full of tricks, little hunter?~”

Tanjiro stared at the demon who was on his knees while coughing, the stench that reeked of the ticket led him to the roofs to find it, Enmu turned around and began to talk while regenerating his jaw, “What? You’re awake as well, you caught me while regenerating, why don’t you go back to sleep?~”

“Why did you wake up? That little friend of yours had a good shot to behead me but he fell, were you not satisfied with the dream I showed you?” Enmu got up and began to stare at Tanjiro, his face looked like tiny cracks were forming from his neck, “Let’s see~ Next time I’ll show you a dream where your dad comes back to life, that would be nice, wouldn’t it?~” Tanjiro clenched his face and began to breathe slowly, he had seen the eyes of the demon, it was a lower moon, lower moon 1 nonetheless.

The fight was heated, Tanjiro killed himself over and over in order to escape the blood demon art while Enmu dodged his way out of every attack, ‘Even in the middle of a dream, it’s incredible, to take his own life with his own hands, that takes incredible will power, this brat is insane!’

While those two were fighting, Y/n climbed to the roofs once again, that cursed demon made him fall asleep in the middle of a fight, he readied his katana once more, “Blood breathing:Fifth Form: Annihilation Typhoon” With exploding force, Y/n dashed forward while holding his katana ready to cut the demon’s head, the body of the kid was about to fall and he needed to grab him and behead the demon at the same time.

With a single slash, Enmu’s head had fallen to the side while Y/n grabbed Tanjiro and covered him with his body. “Thank you for holding him off while I woke up, kid” Tanjiro was on his knees looking at Y/n, it was like the man was a different person, shielding him while being ready to fight the demon, “Let’s not talk about this, Let’s defeat this thing and go our separate ways” Tanjiro nodded and readied his sword, “This is not over yet”.

“I can totally see why he ordered me to kill you, the boy with the earrings, along with the hashira, but the hunter messed up my plans, you both couldn’t be more irritating, you know!~” From Enmu’s head, a thick mass of flesh formed around the cart, it was disgusting “How’s he alive?! You severed his head off!” Tanjiro was appalled by the side, a demon holding head back together after cutting it off? 

“Demon moons are powerful, never trust that they will die that easily, kid” Y/n  shielded Tanjiro while Enmu spoke “I fused my whole body with this train while everyone was sleeping, that body is nothing but a mere decoy, it’s the same with this head, in other words, I’m going to devour every single person on this train, they are both my meal and my hostages~” Y/n snickered and ran towards the head “Blood breathing:Third Form: Withering Blossom” When it was about to strike, Enmu’s head was gone, back to the train.

With a single scuff, Y/n began to walk back to Tanjiro, the kid was looking at the floor with a concerned expression “Go wake up your friends and the hashira, I’ll take care of the demon” The hunter jumped back to the carts while Tanjiro followed him “Thank you for saving me back there, are you sure you can handle the demon, F/n-san?!” Y/n just nodded and began to walk to the front of the train, leaving Tanjiro alone on the roofs, soon after Inosuke punched the roof and joined him “Follow me, damn minions alright!, Lord Inosuke’s comin’ through!” Inosuke jumped back to the cart “Beast breathing: Fifth Fang: Crazy cutting!”

While Tanjiro and Inosuke defended the middle carts, Zenitsu managed to wake up to defend Nezuko, Y/n was making his way towards the front of the train while defending the sleeping passengers “This demon is sure annoying, intelligent but annoying” The hunter stuck one of the needles on the flesh and retrieved it “He has a lot of that man’s blood, makes sense considering the situation”

Something shook the entire train, Tanjiro was on the floor holding himself “What was that?! A demon attack?”, “YOUNG KAMADO! I was pretty thorough while slashing my way here, it should the demon a while to regenerate, I’ll try to keep it short, The train has eight cars in total, I’ll protect the five on the back, the yellow kid and your sister will take care of the rest, you and the boar kid will look for the head and keep an eye on those three cars!” Tanjiro looked at Kyojuro with a shocked expression, “A head?, but-”, “Don’t forget that every demon has a head, it doesn’t matter which form they assume, I’ll look for the head as well, I want you to show me how great of a slayer you are!”, “WAIT, RENGOKU-SAN TH-” Tanjiro couldn’t finish the sentence because Kyojuro was long gone, that was some impressive speed, just like F/n-san!

Was F/n-san a hashira as well? The man looked way more experienced than him or his friends, the way he moved made him remember Tomioka-san, even the calmness while killing the demon was unfazed, they both were so impressive!

Y/n had found the front of the train, and the man who was guarding it, the demon’s head had to be there, otherwise it would be covered with meat like the rest of the train. “Move, I don’t intend to harm you but, if you don’t move, I’ll murder you right here” His words were cold while he stared at that man who refused to acknowledge him. “Blood breathing:First Form: Scarlet Slash” The attack uncovered the neck bone of Enmu, who was trying to regenerate and cover that spot “Blood breathing:Sixth Form: Crimson Waltz” every tendril was decaying as Y/n slashed them, the blood mixed with poison made the regeneration slower, making it easier to behead the demon, when he was about to perform another blood breathing technique, Inosuke and Tanjiro jumped in the cart and began to aid him “INOSUKE, DEFEND HIM WHILE HE CUTS THE NECK”, “WHO ARE YOU TO SAY ORDERS TO THE GREAT LORD INOSUKE, EHHH GOMPANCHIRO?!”.

While they defended the cart, The conductor made his way towards Inosuke and was about to stab him, Tanjiro ran as fast as he could, taking the hit for his friend while knocking out the man.

Both the demon slayers and the conductor were lifted on the air, they continued to fight while Y/n cut tendril after tendril to sever the neck bone, uncovering it while the poison made it hard for Enmu to regenerate.

“Blood breathing:First Form: Scarlet Slash” With a swift cut, he had severed the demon’s neck and it began to derail, Enmu tried his best to regenerate his neck and eat the passengers as fast as he could with minimal result ‘Fuck, this place is going to collapse…’ The hunter jumped to grab the slayers and braced himself to the train in order to not fly away “GRAB YOURSELVES LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT” Tanjiro hugged his chest while Inosuke grabbed onto Tanjiro “WAIT, WHO IS THIS MAN, GOMPANCHIRO?!”

The train had derailed and the carts were a mess, Y/n placed Tanjiro on the floor as he began to look for people that were injured near the front of the train.

“You’re still alive huh?, disintegrating slowly, dying slowly” Y/n stomped what remained of Enmu with this Sandal “You are worth nothing, go to hell and redeem yourself, say hi to Kibutsuji while you do.” Those eyes looked back at the man who had killed him, looking down like he was staring at the lowest trash one could imagine “THAT FLOWER, HOW DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THA-” Y/N only stared back at Enmu as he disintegrated.

Meanwhile Tanjiro was resting on the floor while Kyojuro stared at him “IMPRESSIVE, impressive!”, “Constant is the first step to becoming a hashira! There are another 10000 steps to become one after that one!” Tanjiro stared right back at the man. “You have to concentrate harder and improve the precision of your breathing. There's a blood vessel, a torn one, concentrate harder and find it!, stanch it and stop the bleeding, Focus!”

Tanjiro was in pain, a lot of pain, while the hashira tended to him and explained to him about constant breathing and how it helped in every situation one could imagine.

They continued to talk about the people till the earth shook, Y/n felt a cold sweat form on his neck as he ran towards both the slayers, Kyojuro turned around when he felt the presence, a horrid and blood thirsty presence.

Y/n saw it, he saw his eyes, an upper moon was there, staring at the hashira, Kyojuro had his hand around the Tsuka of his sword, ready to unleash an attack. He murmured under his breath “Damn him, an upper moon now?...” Y/n readied his own sword and waited for any of the two to attack, the upper moon hadn’t seen him yet, so he had an advantage over it.

When the upper moon was about to strike Tanjiro, Rengoku readied his sword and prepared himself to strike back- 

“Blood breathing:Fifth Form: Annihilation Typhoon” Y/n had run in front of the hashira and stabbed the upper moon, driving him away from the two slayers, Kyojuro stared at the man while Y/n kept his eyes on the demon, ready to attack once again 

The attack had moved the upper moon a good distance “That’s a sharp Katana” He licked the blood that remained after Y/n managed to cut his entire arm off.

Kyojuro stared at the hunter “Who are you?” Tanjiro could see the shock on the hashira’s eyes, the speed was impressive, he didn’t even see when F/n-san had cut in front of them.

Y/n didn’t even look at Kyojuro, instead he stared daggers at the demon “If you want to harm anyone here, you will do so over my dead body.” His words were covered in ice “Why go for the injured one if you had a hashira in front of you?”

The upper moon giggled “I wasn’t aiming for you, yet you managed to protect both the hashira and that kid, you are quick, aren’t you?” 

Y/n continued to stare at the demon “Thank you for the compliment, but that doesn’t answer my question.” The hunter saw Kyojuro and the Kamado kid who he was protecting, battling an upper moon while protecting two people would be a challenge.

“You’re welcome, You see, I loathe weak humans, the sight of a weakling makes my skin crawl” The upper moon said with a smile, he had never stopped smiling

“And you wanted to dispose of the injured one I see, so he wouldn’t interrupt you while you fought someone you deemed strong?” The hunter's words were cold, without emotion as he kept his eyes on the demon, waiting for it to attack.

“You’re right, well you see, I have a brilliant proposal for you, why don’t you become a demon, just like me”

“No, thank you”

“I can tell your strength with only looking at you, my original plan was to offer it to the hashira you are protecting, but you are way more polished than he is, your fighting spirit has been honed to the hilt, it’s almost blinding to look at, perhaps you are a hashira as well?” His eyes were locked on Y/n body as he spoke back

“My name is L/n Y/n, I’m the Lord of blood, I’m not a hashira.” Y/n words were covered in poison as he said the word hashira. Kyojuro and Tanjiro stared at the man who had lied about his name, who was now talking to an upper moon in front of them.

If he had lied about something as precious as one’s name, what else was a lie?

“The name’s Akaza, Y/n. Let me tell you why you can’t enter the realm of the highest” The demon cracked his knuckles

“You are a human, you are going to age and then you are going to die, Become a demon Y/n” Akaza offered his hand to Y/n as he continued to spoke “Do that and you can train for a hundreds of years, you will become stronger that you are right now”

Rengoku interrupted him “You are wrong, Both growing old and dying are part of the beauty of being an ephemeral creature like humans, the fact that we age and die are what makes humans life so unbearably precious and noble, Strength isn’t a word just used to describe the body, the boy isn’t weak, don’t insult him!”

Y/n flashed a smile at Kyojuro and giggled while returning to look at Akaza “I couldn’t have said it better, thank you for the words Kyojuro but, This is between me and Akaza”

“I’ll have to reject your offer, I’m sorry!”

“I see”

“Technique Development: Destructive Death: Compass Needle!”

The earth shook as the three men looked at the demon, a huge snowflake began to appear under him. ‘This isn’t going to be easy…’

 “if you don’t want to become a demon,

Then die.”

Akaza ran towards Y/n as he looked at the upper moon and counter attacked every hit with his sword, their speed was impressive, Tanjiro and Kyojuro were in shock as they saw the flashes of blue and deep crimson, The young slayer couldn’t see even their forms while Rengoku found it difficult to see the details.

“There were never any Lords Among the people I’ve killed, Nor have I seen any blood breathing user until now, no one took me up on my offer, either!” Akaza was talking while Y/n focused on defending the slayers and trying not to die.

“Why do you think that is? Y/n?” The hunter didn’t say anything and continued to stare at the demon with a blank expression. “As a fellow martial artist, I don’t get it!!” Y/n’s sword was against Akaza’s arm, stopping him from harming him.

“Should I harm the hashira to make you accept my offer? You seem quite fond of him” Akaza’s arm was sliced off as Y/n kicked him to make space between them.

“I SAID IT, YOU ARE GOING TO HARM HIM OVER MY DEAD BODY” Y/n ran towards Akaza and dived under the demon to kick him on the air

“Destructive Death: Air type” With a punch on the air, Y/n had taken the hit on his ribs as he covered his face with the blade, every punch was aimed towards his ribs and head, trying to end him.

‘This guy surely is strong, damn’  Y/n readied his sword as he breathed in, “Blood breathing:Seventh Form: Blood Frenzy” With every punch, Y/n took impulse and dashed toward Akaza, covering the hits with his Katana.

‘I have to cover or to attack back, he’s really fast’  Y/n thought as he continued to dash from the attacks to try and get closer to Akaza ‘I have to get close or I won’t be able to get close to beheading him, and I have to protect the kid and Kyojuro as well’

“Blood breathing:Second Form: Decadence Needle” Y/n had managed to get close enough to stab Akaza on the neck from Below, making him jump and retreat.

‘They are so fast, I cannot keep up with them!’ Tanjiro was looking at the battle with wide open eyes, he looked back at Kyojuro, who was staring as well, looking at both the men fighting while keeping his hand ready on the tsuka of his katana ‘why isn’t Rengoku-san helping him?’

“That superb speed of yours sure is something! Those breathtaking sword forms will be lost too when you die Y/n!” Akaza was blocking every stab, every slash of the Katana while Y/n concentrated on trying to cut his head.

“Doesn’t that make you sad? Losing your own breathing style and strength due to ageing!”

 “Maybe in a few years, right now I’m grateful for being able to use it against you!”

Inosuke had arrived “WHY ISN’T THE OWL MAN HELPING THE FOX? WE SHOULD HELP THEM!” Tanjiro began to stand up and Kyojuro began to unsheathe his sword.

“STAY WHERE YOU ARE, DON’T EVEN THINK OF COMING HERE, YOU’LL ALL DIE IF YOU TRY TO BATTLE HIM!” Y/n shouted as he continued to stab and cut Akaza, getting hit in the process but not even flinching at the pain.

“COME ON Y/N, GIVE ME YOUR BEST SHOT!” Y/n kicked Akaza while supporting himself on his sword ‘shit, my broken ribs are not helping’ 

“Concentrate on me right now, or else I will kill that hashira and the rest of the slay-” “You won’t harm any of them while I’m alive, Akaza” 

 “Blood breathing:Fifth Form: Annihilation Typhoon” The sheer force of the attack propelled Akaza into the forest with great force.

Kyojuro looked back at Y/n, his face hadn’t changed, still cold and black while he waited for the demon to retur- ‘what’s that?’ on the hunter’s cheeks rested marks, resembling the ones a kitsune would have when turning into a human ‘that wasn’t there earlier…’

Y/n dashed into the forest and the slayers lost track of him, until a large crater formed onto the side of the rails “L/N-SAN!” Tanjiro shouted while he tried to go towards the hunter “Stay Gompanchiro, if you go there, the man with the stripes is sure to murder you!” Inosuke grabbed him, he had sensed something was wrong with both the demon and hunter, something was off about those two and he couldn’t even pinpoint what it was, it made the hairs on his neck stand up, they were scary.

Y/n stood up and breathed in while looking at the forest ‘shit, he hit me hard on the ribs…’ Akaza walked up to the hunter and stood his ground “Become a demon Y/n, we can fight and get stronger for all of eternity, you are perfect!”

“I already told you, I’ll pass the offer, I don’t plan to be a servant for Kibutsuji even if I get to live longer!” Y/n laughed at Akaza “Fighting with you is certainly fun! But fun things get boring if you do them too often!”

“Blood breathing:Third Form: Withering Blossom” Y/n ran towards the demon and jumped when Akaza tried to hit him on the chest, the hunter got his sword almost in Akaza’s neck when he was kicked away.

Y/n fell close to Kyojuro, his breathing becoming heavier, blood fell from his mouth.

Supporting himself with his katana Y/n stood up and made his way back to the demon.

“YOU ALMOST HAD IT THERE! BUT YOU STILL DON’T GET IT, YOU WILL GET MORE TIRED AFTER EVERY ATTACK, YOU WILL DIE BEFORE YOU CAN CUT MY NECK!”

Akaza punched Y/n on the face, cutting him right above the eye, while he tried to get close to attack again ‘The sunrise is close, I only have to hold him up till then!’ Y/n dove under Akaza’s fists.

“Blood breathing:Sixth Form: Crimson Waltz” He began to stab Akaza on various points, Including the back of his neck and legs, ‘that will make him slower for a bit, I need to cut his head off!’

“Too slow” Akaza had punched him in the abdomen again, making Y/n stumble back.

“You should defend your chest, your limbs are quick and you leave no opening to hit you in the head but, your ribs are exposed, I already broke 5!”

“Thank you for the advice! Blood breathing:First Form: Scarlet Slash!” Y/n managed to lodge his swords on Akaza’s neck and began to push it.

“Disorder!” Akaza backed off while the punches began to go towards Y/n “Blood breathing:Seventh Form: Blood Frenzy!” Every slash of the Katana began to destroy the technique and allowed Y/n to get close to Akaza, cutting both of his arms off.

“You look like a fox right now, those marks on your face weren’t there, were they?” Akaza looked at Y/n with fascination, the hunter had blood on his lips and chin, internal bleeding making it hard to breathe “Don’t die on me, little fox!”

“Every stab and slash that you have made on me is disappearing already, but what about you?” Y/n fell onto his knees.

Tanjiro was shocked ‘Even talented people like him have a difficult time battling an upper moon, will I ever reach that level?...’

Akaza turned his head while watching him “You have more than 10 ribs broken, the muscles on your left leg are torn to shreds, your left arm is sprained, you are bleeding internally, all of that is irreparable”

The slayers skipped a heartbeat, how was Y/n able to fight in those conditions? He was standing there, protecting them while battling an upper moon.

“Become a demon and you will heal in the blink of an eye, those injuries will be less than scratches, fight me all that you can, but you will never beat me, you will fail to protect the hashira and the kids.” His words were laced with venom.

The hunter used his sword as support to stand, “your offer is interesting but, I was sent here on a mission, this was fun, but I have to protect them”

“You don’t get it right? I promised to someone I care that I would protect them, I don’t even knew any of them before this night” Y/n coughed blood while he looked at the demon

“I’d rather commit seppuku than letting any of them die, Akaza” 

Y/n looked at the demon while pointing his sword at him, he smiled and shouted

“I WON’T BREAK MY OATH! NOT A SINGLE PERSON WILL DIE ON MY WATCH!”

‘Sunrise is close, I have to pin him so he can die or hurt him enough so he will retreat…’

Akaza saw how Y/n fighting spirited flared up, it looked like blood was floating from his body, an immense aura surrounded him, something about it felt familiar, an aura that told him to shut up and submit to someone, similar to him when he called his name.

“Let’s see what you have, Y/n!” Akaza stood his ground and prepared his next attack. “YOU ARE PERFECT FOR IT, BECOME A DEMON AND WE WILL FIGHT EACH OTHER FOR THE REST OF ETERNITY!”

‘If I manage to land this, I will most likely die but Kyojuro or the sun will be able to finish him’

“YOU WON’T HURT ANYONE HERE, I WILL KILL YOU BEFORE YOU DO!”

“DESTRUCTIVE DEATH: ANNIHILATION TYPE!”

“BLOOD BREATHING: EIGHT FORM: ABYSSAL OUTBURST!”

Y/n Dashed past the ground and ran towards Akaza, while the demon opened his palms to receive the attack.

Everything went white.

RENGOKU’S POV

They moved so fast, it was like thunder struck the earth and blinded me. The next moment I could see Y/n stab the demon on the head and release his sword, an explosion like nothing I had ever been engulfed both of them.

3rd PERSON POV

No one could hear anything, it was like earth had stopped moving for a second, dust began to dissipate as it uncovered the scene.

“Y/n-sa-” Tanjiro swallowed air and covered his mouth.

Y/n was being grabbed from the neck, not moving while Akaza was regenerating what was left of his head, it was gruesome to see, half a cranium regenerating while the body of Y/n was on his arm.

“YOU ARE A CHEATER, USING POISON TO ATTACK IS NOTHING BUT A LOW LIFE’S TECHNIQUE! YOU DON’T DESERVE TO BECOME A DEMON WITH THOSE COWARDLY TECHNIQUES!”

They could see how on Y/n’s hand was the broken piece of the tsuka, he was holding it tightly.

“ESOTERIC FORM: NINTH FORM: RENGOKU!”

Kyojuro dived in front of Akaza while he was still regenerating, with incredible force he stabbed him on the abdomen, just to adjust his katana and cut him upwards.

“WHAT HAPPENED?” Inosuke stared at the scene while Tanjiro tried to stand up

Rengoku had managed to make Akaza release Y/n while he kept pushing his katana to cut the demon’s neck, focusing on that

Akaza was about to punch him through the solar plexus when a hand grabbed him into place

“You won’t kill him.” Y/n was grabbing Akaza with all of his force, he had a broken arm, leg and most of his ribs, but still had the force to hold the demon into place.

“NOW GO, HELP US TO CUT HIS HEAD, SUNRISE IS NEAR!” Y/n looked at Tanjiro as he ran towards them, Inosuke grabbed both of his swords and began to sprint.

“GET OUT OF MY WAY, LET GO!” Akaza was trying to stop Kyojuro and Y/n at the same time, Y/n holding him in place and Kyojuro pushing his sword in his neck.

But it wasn’t enough, Akaza cut his arm off and tried to punch Kyojuro, Y/n dove in front of him and took the hit on his spine.

‘RUN AWAY, YOU HAVE TO RUN’ Akaza dove into the forest to escape sunlight while Tanjiro chased soon after, his feet were slow, his whole body was slow ‘THAT DAMN POISON, I HAVE TO FIND COVER’

Tanjiro threw his sword at him, it pierced him right through the heart “DON’T RUN, DON’T RUN AWAY YOU COWARD!”

‘What the hell is this kid talking about?I'm not running away from you, I’m running away from the sun. The battle is already over, that damned man will die from blood loss or the attack on his spine!’

Tanjiro continued to shout at the demon “WE FIGHT YOU WHERE YOU HAVE ADVANTAGE, OUR WOUNDS DON’T CLOSE UP EASILY, WE CANNOT REGENERATE A LIMB ONCE WE LOSE IT, DON’T RUN AWAY YOU BASTARD, COWARD! L/N IS WAY MORE AMAZING THAN YOU, SO IS RENGOKU!, THEY DIDN’T LOSE, L/N DIDN’T LET ANYONE DIE, HE FOUGHT TO THE END, HE PROTECTED EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US, YOU LOST, L/N AND RENGOKU WON!”

Inosuke was staring at Tanjiro while he cried, Kyojuro stared at him while holding Y/n on his arms, the man was closing his eyes, blood was coming from his mouth, his clothes were covered in blood, a broken arm and leg and the blood was rushing out of his body.

There was too much blood.

“Listen Y/n, you cannot close your eyes! You heard what the young Kamado said, you won! Breathe while help arrives!” Kyojuro rested Y/n on the ground and looked at Tanjiro

“Stop yelling, You’ll reopen that wound, You’re badly injured too, remember?, if you die, it would mean that Y/n is the loser” Kyojuro began to rip his own uniform to stop the bleeding in the worst areas.

“Now come here and help me with him, we need to stop his bleeding and stabilise him while the kakushi arrive, you as well Boar boy”

Tanjiro rushed to the the hashira’s side while Inosuke looked for cloth to stop the bleeding, Rengoku was trying to see what was  damaged and alleviate the pain in those areas “Don’t die now, I still owe you that meal I promised”

Y/n’s POV

They are alive, none of them are badly injured.

Miroku is most likely watching somewhere,

he will tell Heika-sama about the upper moon

Did I succeed in my mission, Heika-sama?