"My Sun" // Akaza x Rengoku

1 - The Hashira.

We had just gotten report the last lower moon perished by the hands of slayers.

According to Nakime, upper moon 4 (and by far my favorite upper moon), there was a hashira, and 3 demon slayers. Lord Kibutsuji had given Nakime, Douma, and I a mission to turn him into a demon, or destroy him. Douma could care less about fighting 4 men, and Nakime stayed out of fighting for the most part. Honestly, I didn't care. The fight seemed easy, so I just went after it myself

Oh, how damn wrong I was.

When I arrived, I simply stood on a tree in the nearby forest. The train was wrecked and the hashira with the flame cape was standing outside of it. He seemed to be talking to someone inside the train. I heard a small thud as the hashira turned, making eye contact with me for a moment before shouting.

"Demon! Come out!" 

Something about that voice pulled me in, I couldn't put my finger on it. I jumped off the tree, landing before the hashira. He drew his blade.

"Hashira!" I began, "Tell me, what is your name?" His sword was drawn at me, tho I didn't care. "I am Kyojuro Rengoku, now, demon, I can tell by your eye you're a upper kizuki.. so who and why are you here?" I couldn't deny, I fell in love with the harsh yet friendly tone of his voice. I felt how I felt when I first heard him, absolutely drawn to him.

The hell was this feeling?

I shoved aside my thought. "I am Akaza, the upper moon 3 of the 12 kizuki! And, I have a proposal for you!" "Which is?"

"You, Rengoku, become a demon and join me and Lord Kibutsuji to become a kizuki! You'd be wonderfully useful to us." I hoped he would accept the offer, I didn't want to kill him.. what was this feeling?

"Never." He raised his blade "I will die before I become a monster, before I become one of you. Now, die, monster." I couldn't help but be saddened by his remark.

And so, we fought. I couldn't help but go easier on him than I would for anyone else, he just drew me in. Our fight continued, til I heard him call out to some slayers behind us. I turned around for a moment.

There were two slayers. One of them wore a checkered haori with hanafuda earrings, the one next to him had a boar head covering his face. He had two ninchrin blades. That was new.

The boy wearing checkers shouted out, "KYOJURO! NOW!"

I didn't have time to react, but I felt an impact on my neck. I collapsed to the ground, unconscious. I thought I was dead. Luckily, I wasn't.

Yet.

I could hear the three men surround me, softly speaking. It was muffled for me, tho I could faintly hear it despite my probably unconscious state. I don't know if I'd remember it later, but I listened.

"Are you sure he's unconscious?" He was the one who said 'Kyojuro. Now.' Just a moment ago, his voice was surprisingly calm.

"Pretty certain." That was him. The hashira I completely went weak for.

"We should just kill it!" I assumed that was the boar man.

"We can get answers out of him."

"IT will kill us!"

"..Inosuke- calm down, if we restrain him enough he won't be able to do any..-"

"He's literally unconcious how will he..-"

The conversation continued, tho it simply went black for me. Within moments of the blackness, I couldn't hear them.

I was asleep, for the first time in centuries.