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𝐀 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐢𝐞
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●HE SET HER DOWN WITH SUCH GENTLENESS AS THE SUN ROSE...
Though it was just barely, the girls body was still shaking. Even with the soft feelings of a blanket wrapped around her body she couldn't help but feel freezing. Though it was just another attribute to being a demon.
"Don't worry, the sun cannot reach you in here"
"Thank you Tomioka"
"Giyuu"
The demon paused for a moment and looked up at him, a bit confused as to what he just told her. But soon realized that he was giving her his first name. Her eyes softened a bit after she realized it, letting the smallest smile grace her face.
"Giyuu...I can speak of my past if you wish"
This time the male didn't speak knowing he had the eyes of the demoness on him. Instead he nodded sitting down across from her. His hand outstretched with an object in his hand which the girl quickly realized to be a cup.
Looking inside before taking it, she noticed the dark liquid inside of it. Along with the smell she was quickly able to make out that it was tea. Such drink would no doubt calm her down while she talked.
"I was born to a...bad family. My mother was known as a 'whore' and slept with man after man for her own gain. But she soon became pregnant with me and stayed with my father"
They were just getting into her life and Giyuu had already felt a pull on his emotions. Just the beginning of the story made him believe that something bad was going to happen to her. Either as she began to grow up or in the process of it.
"My dad was never fond of me, no one was really. People in the town new me as the 'whores child' and therefore I was shunned out. I was very neglected by my father. But he got worse when my mother up and left, no doubt going back to her old ways now that I was out of her and my fathers problem"
A rough beginning was something that was hard to turn around, that much the man had known. But to have no one on your side from the moment you were born was a whole other problem. The ability to confine in someone didn't exist fore the person wouldn't know to confine in someone in the first place.
As she continued to willingly speak her past before becoming a demon the Hashira couldn't help but feel towards her. With every word she spoke it felt as if the thought of killing her became further and further out of his own mind.
"I was born mute"
"You were unable to speak? Then how are you now?"
"Something that came with being a demon. I'm sure my muteness had something to do with my mother. But even so I couldn't help it. So when I tried to ask for things I had to write it down but people would only tell me to speak. It was an endless and cruel cycle I lived with knowing nothing other than that."
Without warning the demon began to have violent flashbacks of her family life. The faces of not only her family but also the town people that she grew up with. Their faces clouded over having not spent time with them other than being called names and harassed.
"I was forced to eat what I could find, no matter how disguising or disease filled it was. That's what ended up leading me to what felt like my death bed"
'Death bed?'
Giyuu questioned, his eyes refusing to go anywhere else but the girl. Almost as if trying to tell her to keep going without stopping. The story was coming out smoothly but he didn't know how much longer she'd be able to keep that up.
Especially when he noticed her nails became longer. Scratching at the cup he had given to her. Her arms trembling a bit as her grip on the cup became even tighter.
"I was dying, from what I'm assuming was disease from all the unwashed and unclean food I had digested over the years. It was hard to walk, hard to stand even at the point I was at. Honestly, I was just ready to sit there and die. But then Master showed up"
"That's when he came?"
"Yes, he saved me. He offered me help when I needed it most and being the person I was I said yes to it without a second thought. Kindness wasn't ever shown to me growing up. I didn't know my mother and my father and brother hated me. There wasn't an ounce of kindness until he came along"
Her head turned to the side, almost as if not wanting to look at the Hashira anymore. Though he didn't know why only the girl did. Her lip trembled as she compiled words she wanted to say. Wondering if it would be best for her to even say them at all.
But she never got the chance to say them. Not before Giyuu had seemingly figured out what she wanted to say all on his own. No doubt from knowing what a demon survives off of.
"You killed your family, didn't you?"
"No, not my family. I killed my whole village...even the small children that hadn't done anything wrong...even the babies that had just been brought into the world. I ended their lives before they could blossom"
Saying it out loud had just put a whole other ton of weight onto the girls shoulder. Having being forced to live year after year knowing that those people were no doubt looming over her. Watching and waiting for some type of horrid end to come upon her.
In fact, she didn't have a single doubt in her mind that they must've been screaming at her right now. Yelling at the man in front of her to simply chop off every limb she had before fully cutting off her head and ending her miserable life.
"What did you think would happen when you became a demon"
She was quickly able to realize that his tone had grown more upset. [F/n] was sure that she had made him this way with speaking of what she had done. But then again it was him who wanted to know in the first place. Surely he would've known that it was to come.
"I didn't even know demons were real, let alone feasted on the flesh of people. No one had talked to me"
Now that made the male pause yet again. Having to now be forced to realize that she too must've learned the harsh reality of the situation she was in quickly. Along with having no way to undo what had already been done.
"The moment I got down from that...high I was on it all hit me like a ton of rocks. And even so, even if they were all horrible to me I couldn't help but mourn them"
Once again fresh tears sprung from her eyes and traveled down her face. A few ruining the nice tea made for her and falling into the liquid. The demon wasn't going to drink it anymore, she had no thirst at all after telling her story.
The room around her felt as if it was getting colder. And to the demon, she took it as all the angry spirits trying to force themselves upon her, kill her in any fashion they could only to fail miserably.
"When's the last time you killed someone?"
"Two...no, three months ago"
Giyuu really wasn't expecting that sort of answer. If anything he thought she'd say two weeks, not the span of a month. But being able to go that long and the fact that she didn't seem fatigued did interest him.
"Demons have art, what's yours?"
"My demon blood art is basically my voice. Acting as somewhat of a master telling a loyal servant to do something. I say it the person does it. But there's also..."
The girl trailed off, not too sure if she should tell this Hashira about everything she was able to do. But then again, it would only seem to benefit her if she told him. Keeping things back would only cause problems if he did allow her to live on.
"I am able to create demons"
The look on Giyuu's face was one the girl couldn't say she had seen before. But she did know that she didn't like it. It seemed as if it was a mixture of shock and horror at the fact. Actually, she worried about what he would do to her because of it.
'So this whole time...I could've been turned into a demon'
"I didn't ask for it, I just have the ability to"
"Have you done it to anyone?"
[F/n] didn't want to answer that question. She thought that telling him about her ability would be hard enough. In return she didn't expect him to simply ask her another daring question.
"Yes...someone very dangerous"
"Who"
This was information that Giyuu HAD to find out. If not for his own curiosity than for the sake of the other Hashira's. If she had created a dangerous demon then she alone might be able to stop said demon.
Though that would only work if the demon felt a similar compassion that she did. But even if they didn't it doesn't mean that her going there wouldn't do something. At most she could maybe cause the demon to stop attacking someone, even if it is for only a second.
"The demons that live on Mount Natagumo"
'That place-'
He'd heard about it before from Oyakata many times before. About how he would send person after person up to the mountain in order to try and stop the demons. Only for said person to never end up coming back.
In recent weeks he was planning to send some Hashira's up there. To think that it was all caused by the same demon that had been crying about her dead family.
"Just to make this clear, the demons on Mount Natagumo that have killed hundreds, were all made by you?"
"Not exactly. I made Rui, who is part of the weird family he created. He's the one who has the ability to make demons look like him and have similar abilities"
"So is everything on Natagumo orchestrated by him then?"
[F/n] nodded as she dung one of her canines into her lip. Feeling every single type of guilt as she told him about her friend. All she wanted was to keep him safe and yet here she was spilling her guts about what she knew about him and the family.
"I...I simply made him and he wanted me to stay there with him. But the last time I checked he has a family of 6 including him, though I am unaware of if they all are still there"
"Still there?"
It didn't make sense to the girl as to why she was constantly being hit with so many difficult questions. All of them making her dig deep into memories and relive things she wanted to leave in the past.
Memories of Rui burning his said 'family' alive because they didn't follow rules. Hitting them or even cutting them with the very strings he used to try and help them.
"If someone disobeys him...he'll kill them. It doesn't matter to him he just wants a family"
"I think I understand the situation now"
After he said this Giyuu then stood up. His eyes staring ahead of him as his head touched the hilt of his sword before walking out of the room. That was only to come back a few moments later with a futon in his hands.
He walked over to the girl and placed it beside her. Moving her fingers as he took the cup out of her hands as well. All of his actions only making the demon more confused.
"If I'm gathering all of this correctly, then I have a job to do at this very moment"
[F/n] starred puzzled at the Hashira as he bent down to her height. His hand going up into the air as if he was waiting for something until a bird flew to it. The animal began to yell as it laid eyes on the girl.
"Demon! Demon! Demon-"
The bird was quickly silenced by Giyuu clamping its beak shut. Staring at the crow for a moment before staring dead into the [e/c] eyes of the demon.
"I, am going to report back to Oyakata and tell him about all of this. Meanwhile you are going to head to Mount Natagumo"
"H-Head to Mount Natagumo? Why would I-"
"There's obviously a connection as you've told me between you and this Rui. And if he truly is the one using the other demons then you will be a vital piece in killing him"
Giyuu watched as the girls eyes visibly saddened. Knowing full well that she was going to have to do such a thing to a friend. To the same male that she told to live life to the fullest to.
"If you're able to kill a demon, any demon on that mountain, I have no doubt that Oyakata will allow you to come with me and the other Hashiras"
'Come...with them?'
His words sparked hope in the girl that she didn't know was there. After having to run away from Muzan for the past months she didn't know any type of home. Her only plan was to ever keep running and never stop.
To think she'd be given a home, by the same people hunting her nonetheless, was something she couldn't imagine. But then again the thought of killing another demon, one she might know was a bit hard to accept.
"You might not have to kill a demon, but simply protect someone from another. I can assure you that if you are brought back to the Demon Slayer Corps that I will speak for you and tell your story."
"Can...Can that really happen? Can I really help you all, and be free from what's happened despite my dirtied hands?"
The male was able to see the hope shining in the girl. And he knew that she was going to follow what he said, so he moved his hands and let go of the crows beak. For a moment waiting for it to scream only for nothing to come out.
Once he'd done that the male took both of her hands and held them each in one of his own. Forcing the girl to meet his eyes again as the corners of his lips tilted upward ever so slightly.
"I do believe that with you, [F/n], the impossible can become possible"
― 𝐒𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐄 𝐈𝐈 𝐄𝐍𝐃 ―
― 𝐀𝐂𝐓 𝐈𝐈𝐈 𝐄𝐍𝐃 ―