"Thanks a lot mister." You said taking the hay and ropes from me, "Thank you for the basket you made, this is the least I could do." The farmer smiled.
"Please accept this small token of appreciation." Tanjiro said giving some change to the farmer.
"It's not necessary your friend already made me a basket." He refused.
But Tanjiro could not accept the fact that he should move on without appreciation. "Please I insist!" Tanjiro pleaded.
When the kind farmer refused again, Tanjiro took his hand and forced the change, breaking the hand in the process.
Before speeding of, you pulled both ropes together when the hay that was layed on the sticks were tied together then attached it on the basket you made of wood, "This will be heavy Tanjiro but it won't allow any light and it is breathable to." You said.
"Thank you Y/n, wait where is Nezuko?" He questioned,
"She's hiding she should not be exposed to sunlight."
You got up with the basket and went inside the dark cave and put the basket down, "Nezuko, come out it's alright." You assured warmly.
She came out from the pit looking frightened, "Think you can become smaller?" You smiled.
Tanjiro came and stood beside you watching Nezuko Shrink in seize before she could fit perfectly inside the basket. "Wow so amazing." Tanjiro praised patting Nezuko's head who smiled in appreciation, "She looks so adorable!" You said grinning.
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The sun had sent and the mountains looked extremely dark and a series silence was filling the forest, Nezuko's and Tanjiro's footsteps were the only ones to cure the silence.
The wind was moving very odd, you were remembering blood all around you. A odd sensation filled a deep pit inside your stomach, (Is something there?) You wondered.
"Tanjiro something isn't right, something is going to happen..." You said fearfully, your breathing became raged and your palms became sweaty and your knees became more weak with every step, "It will be alright Y/n." Tanjiro smiled.
"Can we trust that slayer Tanjiro? The one yesterday?" A sudden doubt filling you.
"He seemed to know about the demons, and it might be a way to cure Nezuko. Right now this is our only choice." Tanjiro stopped in what looked like a shrine, your eyes widened.
"Look there might be still someone here, and lights are on to." Then suddenly Tanjiro's eyes widened.
"Don't go in there!" When you saw Tanjiro and Nezuko going up, you followed soon not liking the horrible bile forming across your stomach at all. When you neared it you smelled a horrible stench.
"What is this?" You choked.
Tanjiro swung open the door and your eyes widened and rushed to covers Nezuko's eyes she would want to eat the corpses. "Who are you people? This is my territory anyone who comes here has to pay."
You knew he meant by flesh, He began darting towards Tanjiro well that's what it looked like but he grabbed you and knocked you to a tree perching your back, You still had Tanjiro's hatchet you used to cut one of his arms and kick him in the stomach but his other arm still had the grip on your shoulder you took your knife and sliced his wrist panting.
"A knife and a hatchet not bad kid, but not good enough!" His wounds were getting healed faster the blood already stopping as the arms and wrist moved on there own and he grew arms on his shoulders and his head.
"He is a type of freak. If this keeps up!" You grunted as his arms were squeezing your wrist off, when you saw his rejoined parts charged towards you and took your neck, just that instant Nezuko began running and kicked his head of his dislocated body.
You cut his fingers so that the grip could be released.
How can I kill him? He still moves when his neck is cut from his body, when I slice his fingers again and again it regrows and his endurance is inhumane. The Nichirin blade is the only one which can cut it.
"These normal tools will have no affect on these demons you have to use a Nichirin blade!" You said remembering what Akari told you.
"Nichirin blade?"
Nezuko was thrown inside the forest, you took Tanjiro's hatchet and pinned the head to the tree and both of you followed after the demon.
"It's a sword made of a special type of steel, and sunlight that kills them."
You saw Nezuko suddenly you felt a jolt in your foot, and you crouched in pain.
"Y/n!" Tanjiro said concerned.
"I must have injured it bad, get Nezuko I'll be up in a bit I just need to adjust the clothing." You said grunting, "go save her."
Tanjiro looked at Nezuko and then at you, "I will be back as soon as I can!"
You opened the clothing and saw it was a horrible purple with some blood covered the clothing must have been to tight. You
Re Adjusted it and took a breather, there has to be a way to kill the demon if you break his scull then? His head his neurons will be destroyed no messages can be delivered and his body will shut down you walked back to the tree you fainted?
They must have thrown the body of the cliff.
"Y/n are you okay?"
You nodded Tanjiro came with your knife and looked towards the demon.
"That won't do it." A man with a mask appeared.
"You have to break his skull." You said.
Tanjiro stared at the demon and you gritted your teeth the demon was coming around. You Took a rock and with everything you had you slammed the rock on the demons head until his skull broke open.
You crouched down and breathed, "There was no other way.Sorry you had to see me do that." The day broke which completely destroyed the demon.
"All it took was that much sunlight to melt him, no wonder Nezuko was so afraid."
"Yeah...but how will Nezuko survive?" You asked sadly, "Demons eat humans right? So she will just starve to death?"
Tanjiro didn't say anything you went back looking for Nezuko
"Your safe thank god." You went and kissed her forehead. Then went to look for the old man who buried the people who died and was paying his respects.
And he slowly got up, "the blades that we used it didn't have any effect against the demons there is something else which makes sense than break everything in his body."
He got up and turned to look at you, "What are these things exactly? I felt something when his organs were flying they began producing new cells extremely quickly and before I knew it new tissues had been found, how can they do that?"
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Right now you were running behind Urukodaki with Tanjiro trailing behind you, Urukodaki wanted to test if you both had what it took to become demon slayers.
Amazing Urukodaki is running this quick, and yet has no sounds of his footsteps, Y/n even with her terrible foot is able to move this quick.
Your foot hurt with every step you took, but this was your one chance of becoming a slayer and that is always what you wanted, if demon slayers actually existed you knew you would become one, Akira was everything you had. She meant a lot to you now you have Tanjiro and Nezuko and you could not rest easy until you were strong enough to protect them. If your with them, you never wanted to see someone close to you loose there life.
So it doesn't matter if your foot is in a pitiful condition, or your arms are wrapped in bandages all you must do is protect them.
Urukodaki did not stop until dusk, you both were exhausted what great amount is stamina he possessed.
You were out of breath and you felt feeble and lightheaded.
"Now will you accept us as your students?" Tanjiro breathed.
But something told you this wasn't the end, "No, The test has just begun."
"Now you both will climb a mountain. And make it down before dawn, and you both won't be in the same path, you must come down on your own."
You tucked Nezuko which Urukodaki had given and held her hand. "Wish me luck I'll need it..." You giggled.
Urukodaki first went with Tanjiro then got you to a totally different part of the forest.
The forest was quiet and very dark you could barely see anything, the sharp twigs and stones that pricked you would make a noise and that was all, the only thing that seemed to be here was endless amount of traps while coming up you noticed to nets pinned above.
And also breathing here was impossible you lived near the valley where the air was thin but not this thin where breathing was so hard.
Make one wrong move and I will be prey to a thousand traps. You also did not have much time before dawn.
Since it is this dark it was hard to locate anything, but were sure there were going to be traps you carefully began walking so slow you would not make it before another week, you picked your pace up and began running down the mountain, breathe properly you reminded yourself quickly and stable. Your feet was injured so you would know if you stepped on any unusual things on the way back down, few minutes in and you managed to trigger a series of traps in one wrong foot, you watched out for the logs behind and front of you managing to slid underneath the branches, the branches were unstable and it broke leaving you to catch yourself before you hit the rocks, how could you locate yourself? In a mountain so unfamiliar towards you? And avoid the traps?
In a while you felt like you were going in circles you began marking your way through huge rocks enough to lift, soon you found an unknown way risking yourself you decided to trudge and greet the atrocities that might lie ahead, you don't know how long you had been walking but there were no traps which was very odd, the hill was getting steeper and the chances of you just rolling down the hill was high.
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Tanjiro panted heavily shoving open the wooden door, Urukodaki turned his head.
"I made it." An exhausted Tanjiro said falling forward, he checked outside there were a few more hours before the sun would rise.
He helped Tanjiro to some food and some rest,
"Where is Y/n?" Tanjiro asked.
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You think now you have found your way back because the traps were increasing and your wounds were extremely deep you had to follow the traps to reach back to the hut, just by the brick of dawn you managed to push open the door, just enough to see A red mask and then nothing.