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It was 7 am in the morning Inosuke was excited, he was excited to wield a Katana for the first time and also learn more about it, all Inosuke needs to do is wait for Tanjiro.
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The current time was 7:30 am.
Birds were tweeting, the gushes of the water, the flapping of the tree leafs.. it's peaceful.
A knock disturbed Inosuke's daydreaming..
'Tanjiro finally arrived!' The boy thought
Inosuke was excited, Inosuke stood and ran to the door.
The entrance creaked open.
Tanjiro was greeted by Inosuke's shout full of excitement.
"Finally Gonpachiro you've arrived!" Inosuke yelled at Tanjiro.
"Well.. I did tell you I'll come here at 7:30 am... now come on let's go- wait, did you tell miss Kotoha that you're leaving this early..? " Tanjiro said.
"Yeah yeah I've already told mom so let's go now Monchiro!" Inosuke yelled.
"Fine then let's go Inosuke." Tanjiro said, Tanjiro then started to walk down the path and Inosuke followed him.
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While walking down the path they heard sniffling at a nearby tree, Tanjiro was curious and decided to walk near the tree to see who was sniffing in this early time.
"What are you doing Kentaro! You're going the wrong path! " Inosuke yelled.
"Don't you hear the sniffling at the tree?" Tanjiro shushh Inosuke.
"I don't care, now come on!! " Inosuke said.
But Tanjiro insisted and just kept walking to the tree he kept walking until the sniffling grew louder you could even hear cries. Tanjiro got near enough and got a glimpsed of an orange and yellowish hair, it was a child about the same age as them or even a year older than them, the child wore this bright orange kimono, it somehow resembled the color of the sun or a... lighting? the color also matches this child's hair..
Inosuke followed Tanjiro giving him no choice.
The boy... got startled and tried to run, but Tanjiro grabbed the boys wrist.
"Are you okay? , are you hurt? I know it's not my business but it'll bother me if I left someone who looks hurt.." Tanjiro said with a big bright smile.
"I-i" the boy stuttered.
"O-oh are we bothering you, s-sorry.. " Tanjiro acted kind to this boy, Inosuke was furious but he couldn't help but laugh on the act of kindness Tanjiro performed.
"N-no i-its okay, i-it's just that I t-thought you were here to h-hurt me too." the boy said.
"Don't worry we aren't gonna hurt you!" Tanjiro said and again with a big smile.
"S-still I c-cant t-talk to strangers.." The boy said.
"Oh well then.. " Tanjiro said.
"Let's be friends!! " Inosuke continued.. well somehow Inosuke knew what Tanjiro was gonna say...
"Yep! " Tanjiro said.
"First let me introduce myself, I am Kibutsuji Tanjiro! And this is Hashibira Inosuke." Tanjiro said.
"I-i" the boy couldn't refuse them so he just decided to introduce himself "i-im A-Agatsuma Zenitsu" The boy who is now identified as Agatsuma Zenitsu said.
"Well then can you explain to us what exactly happened to you Agatsuma? " Tanjiro questioned
"Y-you can just call m-me Z-Zenitsu.. " Agatsuma Zenitsu now nicknamed as Zenitsu said
"Okay! Zenitsu! Can you tell us what happened? " Tanjiro said.
"W-well my 'friend' bullied me saying I'm just a piece of trash that will die alone i-i got t-tired of it so I r-ran away from home." Zenitsu said with tears forming in his eyes.
"So~ you don't have a home now Zenitsu? " Tanjiro said still a smile formed in his face "That means you can live with us then!" Tanjiro added.
"Yeah that's right you can live with Monjuro or me, my mom and my dad!" Inosuke said.
Zenitsu smiled and chuckled.
"But we can't do that right now since we have training and I see that you have a Katana beside you Zenitsu. Do you wanna train with us? " Tanjiro said with a smile pointing out the Katana.
"S-sure I do know s-some techniques and this katana... I kinda just stole it to fight off monsters.. when I ran away.. " Zenitsu said.
Inosuke laughed "you're a thief!" Inosuke said while laughing.
"W-well yeah! I am! I already knew so you don't have to point it out a-and why are you screaming all the time are you crazy lunatic!! " Zenitsu said.
The two got irritated with each other and fought.
"Now now calm down you two we still have training to do." Tanjiro said trying to stop the two from fighting.
The two calmed down a bit and followed Tanjiro.
Tanjiro walked towards an empty and a peaceful area in the forest.
The two was confused where was the person who'll teach them?
"Well apparently the sun is out so we won't be able to train here. Nakime. " Tanjiro said the other two were still confused.. then they suddenly just fell Zenitsu was screaming while Inosuke and Tanjiro were calm, Inosuke knew that Tanjiro knows demons and a long time ago his father revealed it to Inosuke but Inosukes mother still didn't know this, Douma also taught Inosuke about demons so at this time Inosuke was just thinking if this was just a blood demon art of another demon..
They safely reached the ground, well Zenitsu did land right on his face.. He's fine , they were in this huge area, this huge area had thin but long pillars all over.
"Kokushibo!! " Tanjiro said excitedly when he saw someone with a long hair standing in the center of the room.
Kokushibo turned to where the voice of the child was coming from, now you can see the multiple eyes Kokushibo had, well.. Zenitsu was surprised but Inosuke decided to drag Zenitsu and follow Tanjiro.
Tanjiro ran to Kokushibo and hugged him "they're here Kokushibo we can train together now! " Tanjiro said excitedly.
"Didn't you say you were just gonna bring Inosuke?" Kokushibo said.
"Well yeah~ but we found Zenitsu besides a tree crying and told us he ran away from home so we decided he'll come with us and maybe even live with us! Can he? Kokushibo?" Tanjiro said forming stars from his eyes.
"I am not in the position to allow or to not allow you Tanjiro you should ask Lord Muzan instead.." said Kokushibo.
Tanjiro didn't say anything but just gave an excited nod, well they still continued training with Zenitsu because Tanjiro kept telling Kokushibo to let Zenitsu train with them..
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Muzan finally arrived, Tanjiro quickly ran to Muzan and hugged him.
"Papa!! You're back!" Tanjiro said with his eyes forming a star.
Muzan smiled and tilted his head little bit.
"Papa...can Zenitsu stay with us? " Tanjiro questioned.
"Zenitsu?" Muzan replied.
"We met Zenitsu while walking here." Said Tanjiro
"Can he pleasee stay here."
Muzan glanced at Zenitsu and just said "Sure but just be careful okay? Don't trust everyone so easily.."
"Yes yes papa I know. Thank you! " Tanjiro said.
After that Tanjiro ran excitedly at Inosuke and Zenitsu "papa allowed Zenitsu to live with us Inosuke!" said Tanjiro with star like eyes.
"That's great Konpachiro!" Said Inosuke.
"W-wait i- isn't that M-Muzan the g-great k-king of a-all demons?! " said Zenitsu.
"Well yeah~ don't worry papa won't kill you because you're my friend now! " said Tanjiro.
"G-good to k-know" Zenitsu said.
The three just kept training.. well.. Inosuke and Tanjiro needed to calm Zenitsu down because he was panicking seeing Muzan 'the Oh great king of all demons' but they managed to calm Zenitsu down and they managed to keep training until the moon had risen. They were exhausted...
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"That was creepy.."
"What's creepy?"
"You. Acting all kind.. but it was also funny."
"What do you mean? I'm always kind."
"Well yeah you are kind and clingy to the people or should I say demons that you know.. but it's rare to find you not threatening a human, Tanjiro.."
"Of course I'm kind.. I'm not a monster after all.. Inosuke."
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Tanjiro was wearing a kimono that was red
Dark red at the bottom turning lighter going up.
Inosuke was wearing a kimono that was blue just, plain ol blue.
Zenitsu was wearing a yellowish kimono that matches his hair.
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Yep didn't double check this chapter so there might be some grammatical error, spelling error or sum confusing things. Might double check it later and fix it.
Special note:
Go back to chapter 1 I've got a nice ol message for y'all ;) (sum rules)