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XXXXXIX

   'Wait, why am I holding a sword?', I thought.

   "That's enough for today, Aiko. You did a good job.", A familiar voice said as I looked at them. It was Yoriichi! But he looked a little older..? Oh, this must be the future of Aiko.. It seems that Yoriichi raised her after her mother's death.

   "Thank you, Oji-san!", I beamed. I'm glad she didn't get depressed forever.

    "Did you learn anything new?", Yoriichi asked as I nodded.

   "I finally managed to learn all of the forms of winter breathing! It was hard, but I still did it!", I said. Wait.. all of them?

   "All of them? You didn't try and learn the final form, right?", Yoriichi said with slight concern.

   "I did!- Ow!", I beamed before getting flicked in the forehead. 

   "Didn't I tell you not to try the final form? The last time you did it, you got sick and your body was even colder than ice.", Yoriichi scolded. I didn't know Yoriichi had this side of him.

   "But, when I tried to learn it again, I only felt cold and didn't get sick!", I said, rubbing my forehead.

   "Still.. It's very dangerous to do that form. So  don't use that anytime, alright?", Yoriichi said as I nodded. He smiled warmly as he rubbed my forehead, helping me get rid of the pain.

   'They're like a family..', I thought, 'I'm glad, since Yoriichi lost his daughter and Aiko lost her mother.', I smiled as my vision once again began to turn black.

       3rd Person's POV

   Kiyomi finally woke up back to the battle between Muzan and the demon slayers and weakly sat up.

   "Kiyomi-san! Are you alright??", Muichiro looked at her with relief and concern. Genya heard him and went to their side, also worrying for Kiyomi.

   "Oh.. Yeah, I'm okay.", Kiyomi was in a daze before snapping back to reality.

   'I'm finally back..' She thought. Kiyomi tried to stand up, but her legs were numb so she fell down.

   "Are you okay??", Genya worriedly asked her as she nodded, "Yeah, my legs just went numb."

   Muichiro helped her up, putting her arm around his neck as he held her waist, "Thanks..", Kiyomi smiled before tensing up at the sound of Mitsuri's screams.

   "Wait! I'm going too!! Iguro-san!", Mitsuri yelled, "No please!! Don't die, Iguro-san!! I don't want anyone to die!!!"

   "Muichiro-san, please help me get to Mitsuri's side. I need to heal her!", Kiyomi said, but Muichiro refused, "You're using too much of your powers, your lungs even froze!"

   'My lungs..?', She thought before shaking it off, "Please! I really need to heal her! I promise I won't use it too much this time!"

   Muichiro hesitated for a second before giving up and helping her go to Mitsuri's side.

   "Mitsuri-san..", Kiyomi looked at the crying love hashira who was very injured.

    "Kiyomi-san! Muichiro-san! Are you guys alright?!", Mitsuri looked at them with worry despite her cheek and chest that was bleeding.

    "I should be the one asking you that..", Kiyomi said before sitting down and holding Mitsuri's hand and closing her eyes.

   Kiyomi's snowflake mark glowed once again as Mitsuri's cheek and chest stopped bleeding. Mitsuri's eyes widened when she no longer felt pain, but looked at Kiyomi with terror when Kiyomi's mouth and nose bled. 

   "Kiyomi-san!!", Mitsuri yelled in worry, but Kiyomi told  her to calm down and asked the helpers for a cloth.

   "D-don't worry, Mitsuri-san.. I-..I'm fine.", Kiyomi said as she covered her lower face with the cloth the helpers gave her.

    Before Mitsuri could say anything, loud thuds were heard from where the others were fighting.

  Their eyes widened, Kiyomi knew where those thuds came from and tried to look, but Muichiro stopped her.

   "It's too dangerous there, Kiyomi-san. Please stay here with Kanroji-san and heal up first.", Muichiro said. Kiyomi was about to protest, but she stumbled and continued coughing. Muichiro gave her another cloth from the helpers and helped her calm down. 

   Mitsuri looked at them, and even though they were at a battle, she shipped them together.

   'Young love!', She thought.

   A little while later, Kiyomi was healed a bit. She, Mitsuri, and Muichiro tried to go back to the battle, but suddenly, a huge explosion happened. The three of them got thrown back, their ears ringing form the shockwave that suddenly hit them.

   Kiyomi covered her ears as she glanced at Inosuke, charging at Muzan, but Muzan noticed him and almost killed him with his sharp tentacles, but Inosuke managed to dodge right away. 

    "You sure.. got me back there.. You're dead...", Inosuke said as he panted.

    Muzan tried to attack him, but he missed as he also started panting.

   "They protected us.. That ball ball old man's leg (Gyomei).. And the han han haori guy's arm got cut off (Giyuu)...", Inosuke said while panting and trembling, "Give 'em back.. The leg, the arm, the lives.. Give them back."

   "If you can't do that.. THEN YOU'LL DIE A MILLION TIMES OVER TO MAKE IT UP FOR IT!!", Inosuke yelled as he cried, somehow making Kiyomi cry.

   He dashed at Muzan, but he suddenly got bitten by a big mouth with sharp teeth that came from the ground.

   Before he got bitten in half, Zenitsu appeared and cut the arm that had a lot mouth.

   "Inosuke! Pull it together!! Tanjiro's still alive! I can hear his pulse!", Zenitsu yelled as he ran away from Muzan's attacks.

   "Tanjiro, just think about staying alive! Can you hear me?! You're not gonna die! You are not gonna die!!", He encouraged.

   "You're going home with Nezuko-chan! With a Nezuko-chan who has become human again! You're both going home to the house you were born and raised in! Your whole family's waiting for you two to return!!", He yelled before getting hit by Muzan's tentacle and getting swayed to a wall.

   He was about to get crushed, but Inosuke stabbed his two swords onto Muzan's tentacles, saving him from getting killed. But Muzan swinged his arm, hitting Inosuke to a wall instead.

   Kiyomi tried to stop the ringing in her ears and weakly stood up, along with the fallen hashiras.

   To Be Continued...

   So... I am 1000000x very sorry for not updating in a very long time... I know that I am a very bad author, and I know a lot of ya'll find this fanfic cringy... I'm very VERY sorry...

As a compensation, I am going to update a lot of chapters today, and it might include the end of this fanfic.

So, I once again apologize..

   See you at the next chapter..