Exploding Through Dimensions

Chapter 12: Demon Slayer

"Sure did." Kirishima frowned keeping his guard up.

"Do they hate me? Would someone normally leave their friend behind? Wouldn't you talk him through it if you were friends? If they both had tried to convince me to go, I would have gone...but nooo off they went on their merry way up the scary mountain..." A trembling boy with short blond hair that was cut off squarely at the bangs continued to mumble to himself with every step. The ends of his hair faded into a darker orange color and his eyes nervously looked through the trees.

What they did notice was his strange wardrobe which consisted of a dark brown gakuran jacket and hakama pants that had white triangle shaped patterns, and a yellow and orange gradient haori topped it off. But what threw them off was the katana he was clutching in his shaking hands.

"Nezuko!" He shouted, clearly still searching for someone. "Where are you? Where did you all go?" he whimpered.

"Hey maybe this guy can help us out." Kirishima began to walk in his direction having a good feeling that this guy could help them find the others until he was stopped by Kaminari placing his hand on his chest.

"Nuh huh, that guy looks dangerous."

"How?"

"Don't you see that Katana in his hand?!" Kaminari pointed a stiff finger in his direction. "I bet you that guy's a skilled swordsman, very dangerous and can probably kill you where you stand!"

"Erm hi, have you guys seen Nezuko around?" The boy shakenly asked from behind Kaminari who shrieked and jumped a foot mirroring the other guy.

"Please don't kill us!"

"Please don't kill me!"

"Um...." Scratching his head, Kirishima bounced his eyes between the two huddled boys. "Ok...how about we start over. I'm Kirishima and this is Kaminari." He said dragging Kaminari up. "And you are...?"

"Alright..." The other boy slowly got to his feet while carefully looking over his shoulder for anything to pop out. "I-I'm Z-Zenitsu Agatsuma n-nice to meet you."

"See." Kirishima gave Kaminari a pointed smirk. "So now that we know each other could you tell us where we are?"

With that odd question Zenitsu immediately stiffened his shoulders and feverishly widened his eyes in shock. "What you mean you don't know?!"

"Nah dude that's why we're asking." Kaminari folded his arms. "Although may I say you guys seriously need to fire your fertilizer guy. There's spiders all over this place."

"Y-you guys are freaking crazy!" Zenitsu suddenly began to wave his hands as his voice picked up a few notes. "How are you even up here?! This place brings nothing but death!"

"Well hate to break it to you dude but you're here too." Kaminari raised a brow getting the same puzzled expression from Kirishima.

"Not by choice!" Zenitsu shrieked. "I only came up here to find my precious Nezuko!"

"You're what?"

"Nezuko!" Zenitsu repeated as if they knew what he was talking about. "But no! Tanjiro just had to take her from me while he and Inosuke decided to run off to this mountain and be heroes!"

"Heroes huh?" Kirishima happily grinned knowing his instincts were right. Maybe if they helped this guy find his friends then maybe they would find the others too. If he's friends were so called heroes too then they could definitely work together to get out of this place. "Well maybe we could help each other out, yeah?"

"Hmm?" Zenitsu perked up when he heard that. "You mean you'll help me?"

"Sure. We have to find our friends too." Kirishima grinned along with Kaminari. "You seem like a guy who knows what you're doing, so we'll follow your lead Zenitsu."