Illegal Fire Reincarnates
Summary: In Heian period, Muzan had love the priest of Fire god named Sumiko. However he was cursed by the boy he loved to never walk in the sun. Muzan been searching to break the curse, until the reincarnation of Sumiko appeared to slay him, Tanjiro swear to kill him for breaking his heart. The tragedy from 1000years ago.
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It won't be forever spring, summer, fall, rainy and even winter. Which is why if there is a scent of blood...meaning something has changed.
900 decades later...
Kibutsuji Muzan, Alias Kibutsuji Tsukahiro.
Status: married.
Age 20's. Reality 1000 years old.
Birthday, June 3rd 749 from Heian period.
Lives in the land of the rising sun, known today as Asakuza Tokyo.
'It has been like forever that I has survived death.'
Muzan's POV
In the outskirts of Kumotori mountains, it was winter, something you can say as nostalgic from the past. 'Winter huh...' Muzan in his white fedora clothes and a white cape. He and his elegant walk like the gust of wind,he is reminded the day how this season was his comfort zone.
Back then his body finds everything unbearable, except somehow the snow season is fine however limited movements.
Still it is a season that allows him to go outside even just for a bit.
'Winter...is whenever the fire dance happens.' He actually forgot what it was called, but one thing for sure...it is a dance performed by tradition of someone he used to adore. 'So quiet...' Blowing with cold breath, nothing in particular...he just like strolling that's all.
'Atleast in winter...even if the sun is out, it will not affect me.' Touching his chest to feel himself in cold weather. 'It is all his fault that am not able to walk in the sun...'
Getting reminded of the past that he had loved and hated, he was suddenly pissed off about it, 'Anyone who is related to him, or anyone even dares to carry his will with the hanafuda earrings...I shall slaughter them all.' Cursing in his mind, Muzan kept walking like a ghost in the snow.
He would never forget those words from the one he used to held so dear, the one he clings his life for.
The red haired boy with hanafuda earrings.
Kring...)))
Even though the bell does not exist anymore, Kibutsuji Muzan can still hear it.
((~"From this day forward, I curse you! You can never walk in the sun ever again...! In my next life...I swear I will slay you! I will take off your head...! Kibutsuji Muzan you demon lord!"~))
There is nothing to fear, that bloodline should have been gone since he had not heard their surname at all...
'Tanjirou...Clan.'
Then again he saw someone selling charcoals.
'Could it be...?'
...
Today is a new year, supposed to be the Hii No Kami Kagura has to be performed before a new 'year' began. However since their father died recently and the eldest has to work his ass to feed his family to replace the role of a father. No ritual has happend.
"Good morning mom!"
A boy similar to the red burgundy tips, pony tailed up but the length of it's tail are shorter, with the remarkable hanafuda earrings. A noticeable scar in his forehead hinting he had some accident in his skull...his name was Kamado Tanjiro, 13 yrs old, born here at Kumotori Mountains with six siblings and his mother.
"Oh my Tanjiro-kun, you woke up so early..." his mother greeted him back with a worried frown.
Tanjiro chuckles and beamed his own excited for today's achievement. "Come on mom! Father would not be please to find out that you are always worried about tomorrow...!" Grabbing the machete, fixing his scarf on his neck. Tanjiro's nose and cheek were red from the freezing weather.
"Oh dear...To think I gave birth to a hardworking loving son...come here," a soft smile from Kamado Kie, she snatch his cheeks to rub them.
"M-mom?!" Blushing to be treated like a kid, Kie giggles.
"Look how you had grown so much like your father~Tanjiro, thank you for always thinking ahead of us."
Tanjiro smiles back feeling so warmth from such parental affection.
"You do not need to thank me mom, am doing this because I want everyone to fill their stomach with nice hotpot, as well I frankly want to buy new clothes! Especially for Nezuko..!" Grinning. Kie laughs and knocks to Tanjiro's forehead.
"Ow!"
"Silly~" Tanjiro rubs his forehead as he and his mother laughs for being worry rat for eachother. "Geez...!"
"Ahahaha~!"
Nezuko who approached the two, she had also woken up so early that her hair bun is a mess. "What is it~what is it~?" She glee with an incoming tease. "Did oniichan found a girlfriend that he is too hard working~?"
Tanjiro had a furious blush and denied her assumptions.
"N-Nezuko! I cannot believe as my little sister will make rumors for his brother!" Nezuko laughs her ass and wave her hands.
"I'm just kidding! Also, it sucks to know that all you think is about work!"
Nezuko patted his shoulder's with a thumbs up. "It is about time you work on something else than business~!" Winking. Tanjiro sighs and walks away.
"Oniichan?"
"Look Nezuko, I understand you guys are worried about my love life...but I can't do it at this moment..." looking at the pile of work he has to do by chopping woods. Tanjiro joked on himself, "It has been 1 year since father died...Do you expect me to make a new family just like that? I can't even give myself some credit~!"
Kie and Nezuko were sad for a second making Tanjiro guilty.
"H-hey! It is a joke! O-of course I want to fall in love too! Heeey!"
Kie and Nezuko had an evil grinning upon embarrassing him.
"Oh my~ my little Tanjiro is growing! Puberty is about to come! Right? Nezuko~"
"Yep~yep!"
Sweat drops.
'Is it just me or these two are making fun of my virginity...?'
A tug on the edge of his green and black haori, a voice echoed behind.
"Oniichan..."
"Eh?"
Looking down the voice belong to Kamado Shigeru. "Shigeru! You are already awake?!" Shigeru is actually pouting at him and Tanjiro had no idea what made him upset. "S-Shigeru? Is something the matter?"
Shigeru confessed his worries. "Oniichan...you promise I will chop the woods today, so why do you have the machete? More on, you did not wake me up...so unfair!"
'Ahh...so nice to have a family like this, worrying for each other. Nothing else mattered but each of us to be happy...' giving Shigeru a pat and a chuckle.
"You are right, it is my bad to forget that you are already capable of such thing!"
"S-stop patting me!"
"Waa! Shigeru is blushing!" Kamado Hanako and Takeo laughing and pointing to the flushed face of Shigeru.
"S-shut up you two!"
"Hahaha!"
Kie cups her own cheeks and sighs. "Looks like everyone is awake..." Nezuko snaps and went to them.
"Hey! You didn't wake Rokuta by accident did you?!"
"Gyaa! Oneechan!" Hanako and Takeo runs inside as Nezuko chased them for scolding.
"Oneechan needs some kicking ass session today! Come here!"
"Kyaaah!"
"Buwahaha!"
Shigeru laughs and grabs the machete from Tanjiro. "Serves them right!"
Tanjiro can only sweat drops more. 'N-Nezuko so scary...bet she is a scary wife in future. May the husband be bless.'
"Alright then, what is the next plan?" Kie asks her son, Tanjiro smiles and grabs the basket of charcoal instead, putting it on his back.
"There is one thing to do mom, to sell charcoals~!" Making his way down the mountains to the village below...Tanjiro started his day...to work.
.
.
.
.
.
"I'm home!"
Getting back before dark, Nezuko dashes to meet him. "Oniichan! Good job!"
Nezuko already saw the basket is half empty behind Tanjiro's back and helped him to remove the basket.
"Hurry! the soup is ready! Let us eat before it get's cold!" Smiling at his precious little sister that is now growing to a proper second eldest should act, Tanjiro cannot help but feel too thankful. "Thank you Nezuko." In response Nezuko laughs with a smile and unconditionally kick him in the legs.
"Stop acting like an old man~!"
WHACK!
"Ouch!?"
Nezuko can be violent sometimes, he forgot whenever she is flattered.
'My name is Kamado Tanjiro...I has a very warm family. Nothing can make my life cold as long as I has them...As long as nothing will destroy this scenery...'
Tanjiro's POV
"Alright, am turning off the lights~" Kie announced as everyone gathered at the floor with futons and cuddles.
Blowing the candles, still everyone is wild awake.
"Hey mom!" Hanako says, "Were not sleepy yet! Is it ok if you tell us the story that grandma and father used to tell?"
Tanjiro and Nezuko were silent for a moment with curiosity.
Tanjiro had a small thought. 'If am right...it is about the myth of...' touching his earrings. 'These hanafuda earrings relationship with the fire god...and..' glancing at the bright moon that gives light at the darkness. 'The god moon...?'
Kie paused before agreeing to say it. "Fine, but promise me you will all sleep once am finish with the story~" kneeling at the futon, everyone perks their interest even though they had heard it before.
She started with a soft breath, "There was a priest or priestess for the Fire God. The name of charcoals, this person dances and dances. That person prayed to the Sun God."
Kie can see some of the listener's eyes were closing already but she continued.
"The owner of hanafuda earrings...stole the forbidden Blue spider lilies just for one man's sake. The future emperor, king of japan. However...people discovered this sin. The owner of the hanafuda earrings was punished by the believers. The charcoal was burned alive and the demon lord couldn't save that person. It was his pride cause this. Worst... he misunderstood, the priest or priestess cursed him due to a broken heart. To never walk in the sun...Nobody knows the owner of hanafuda earring's gender if it was a guy or a girl...all they know the owner is the fire inside those hanafuda earrings."
Ignoring the fact that Shigeru, Takeo, Hanako and Rokuta already fallen asleep...Nezuko already rubbing her eyes but bother to asks the question that pops in her head. "Mom...why is that this story so tragic, is it friendship or love story? And also this myth..." looking at his silent big brother whose expression is blank.
"I mean, does that mean the earrings Oniichan's wearing is possessed item?"
Tanjiro brushes her ideas, feeling a bit disturb.
"Now,now Nezuko...do not scare your brother like that! After all Father and grandfather and our ancestor kept these earrings with them! You cannot say it is haunted~!" Kie though had a solemn expression, noticing the face of their mother not smiling they were feeling some uneasiness.
"M-mom? It is a myth right?"
Kie gaze above the moon and shared more.
"Someday, you must fall in love Tanjiro..." then looking straight in the eyes of her son, she whispered. "Because if you do not...the fire will burn you."
'At that time, I really did not understand a single clues from my mother's words...I wonder if there will be a different outcome if only I knew...if only I comprehended.'
Tanjiro's POV
Awkward silence from the three.
Nezuko decided to pulls her sheets.
"GOODNIGHT!"
"Oii~!"
Tanjiro can't help but to scold a tsukkomi to Nezuko escaping the topic.
"Nezuko! You sleep deprived or something?!"
"Ara,ara...fufu~Now, let us sleep~" Kie hushed and lied down, making Tanjiro follow the same pattern to tuck himself to bed.
"Seriously..."
Closing his eyes.
'It is just a myth...I don't like ghost things even if am not afraid of them...'
Kamado Tanjiro fell to a deep sleep.
...
Kring..))
The sound of bells.
(("Mu...sama..."))
Someone's bright smile like the sun.
Kring...))
The bell kept ringing in his ears and the person with the happy smile were changed to worried lips.
(("Have you...take...medicine...?"))
Kring~kring~!
The bells seems to be attach to a wooden sword, but too blurry to make an image from it.
(("I want to be burned alive if that is the origin punishment...!"))
The angry eyebrows of the mysterious person with only his or her chin showing up, the teeth had grit into furious rage.
Then a torch appeared to set flames.
(("I swear in my next life...I will..!"))
The dream ended in a quick darkness.
(GASP!)
His whole body jerks up.
"Aah...?!"
Tanjiro opens his eyes wide and seems to be out of breath. "Hahh..hahh...?" Placing a hand to his heart that beats too fast as if the dream was surreal. Tanjiro properly sits up and wipes the sweat drops in his forehead.
"T-that dream again..." wiping his sweats, gulping and trying to calm himself from a somewhat nightmare.
Tanjiro sniffs by his nose and realize the morning is up and winter is still glowing so white as ever.
"What a beautiful sky...so peaceful..."
Only for his mind to monologue.
'I saw a dream, It was a repeating dream to be exact. A dream about a person that has the same face as I was, but am not sure if it was a girl or a boy...all I know the person seems to have resemblance of features against me and my father. Long pony tailed up with red hair and earrings.'
After brushing his teeth, Kamado Tanjiro once again gets dressed for another morning job.
'Yet...nothing was burned except sadness,anger and intense grief, that I smell from my dreams. Whenever I wake up...I cannot smell them anymore.'
"I'm off~!"
Tanjiro waves at his family member's. Takeo, Shigeru, Kie, Nezuko, Rokuta and Hanako.
"Come home early ok~?!"
"Sure~!"
Tanjiro once again went down the village.
.
.
.
'I recall what my grandmother said when she was still alive.'
Small flashbacks of a little Tanjiro with his grandma hugging him from behind. She lifted her pointy finger while her other hand is patting Tanjiro's head that did not have a scar yet.
("Have you heard Tanjiro-chan...? Memories are eternal...meaning a human's dreams may possibly our past life. Like yours~")
The flashback ended with a confused little Tanjiro.
The present Tanjiro knot his eyebrows as he tried to recollect his memories.
'Back then...What is my grandmother saying? I'm 3 years old...how could a dream of a red ponytail person without a face in an enchanting red robe for festival will be me?'
Nothing made sense during those days...
Not even the words of his late father Kamado Tanjuro.
Another flashback occurred. This time little Tanjiro is a bit older rather than a toddler.
A man in his bed is weakened by some sort of diseases.
("Tanjiro listen, no matter what, only these hanafuda earrings is a must to be pass to your descendants in the future.") Says his sick father Kamado Tanjuro at their futon. Little Tanjiro hovering at his father's legs asks so innocently yet worried already. Hinting he would be a bright adult sooner or later.
("But why Father...?")
Tanjuro taking a deep breath before speaking further,his hanafuda earrings made a movement and it flickered with the sun's light. Making it so magical...
("You see these earrings are not normal. It has the soul of the first owner. The person who directly serve the god of sun. The priest of fire.")
Frowning little Tanjiro tried to guess.
("You mean ghost...?") Tanjuro shakes his head and had a sad face that made little Tanjiro pop more puzzle that he can handle at the moment.
("No...it is more like fragments. I know you won't understand it yet, however...the hanafuda owner has incredible rage. It want's to take over me...fortunately, I love your mother Kie so much that instead of following the path of revenge, I choose to move on and to love.")
Little Tanjiro clutch his head with huge confuse and pouts a bit. ("I don't get it.. is that an evil spirit?")
Tanjuro chuckles and pats his hurting head. ("It is not. It is just a broken hearted soul.")
Tanjiro tilt his head, ("Broken heart...so the owner was in love with someone...?")
Tanjuro laughs and had a smile with a very gentle voice.
("Yes. Now listen Tanjiro,")
Then his expression became serious once again ("...as you age, eventually some weird memories will pop to your head, maybe since birth you already saw them sometime in dreams. You may lost yourself along the way...you will definitely get confuse at your own feelings. Remember this, simply accept it otherwise it will put a burden on you. Once I pass you these earrings, the possession will start...Son, do not give into the hatred. Learn to love. Show the owner of these hanafuda earrings that lingering to the past is not healthy. Help this person pass on...okay?")
Not really getting it, but Tanjiro is a good boy so he smiles and nods his head with acknowledgement. ("Okay~!")
The memory before his father died ended just like that.
...
Tanjiro already reached the village and began talking to other people.
"Hey Tanjiro I want some charcoal!"
"Coming~!"
Though his mind still focus on his memories.
'Father warned me that eventually someone else's memories may consume me. Is father saying I won't be...me? When will that time comes? What will I do...? How do I decide something that should have been buried in the past...after all, for me am Kamado Tanjiro the eldest who should do his best to protect his family.'
...
Another memory from the past came up.
(("Father..."))
This event is around the time Tanjiro's father passed on and they were just done with the funeral.
For the first time he wore the hanafuda earrings, as he removed the kuromontsuki and placed them to the drawers.
"From now on I will be the father of this household..." he talked to himself with determination as he wipe the tears in his eyelids and the eye bags.
When Tanjiro made a movement to move away from the mirror they have. Something strange happend.
Kring~))
Clack,clack,..
"Hm?"
The pot on the shelves fell on it's own, beneath is his little brother holding the temari ball that their father made for him he was looking so down and uninterrupted by any sounds. "Eh-" Surprised to see his little brother happen to be in a bad spot of all times.
"Shigeru! Watch out!"
CRASH!
Ducking Shigeru, making sure he protected his head, unfortunately the pot shattered already in his head.
Pluck...pluck.
"Waah?!"
Hanako whose watching at the doorway screamed, "Oniichan! Your head is bleeding!" Then followed by Shigeru whose still crying beneath his cover. "No! Oniichan! I'm sorry! Don't die!"
Realizing he made a fuss, Tanjiro smiles with an apology to calm the kids. "Haha, relax...its just a scratch. I'm ok!" Ruffling the hair of Shigeru to disregard his own well being.
"Are you alright instead Shigeru?"
Shigeru sniffing and noticed how his brother kept a strong face yet gentle, he felt ashamed for acting so weak. Shaking his head and already stopped crying. "Y-yeah am fine." Satisfied with his response, Tanjiro stands up and help Shigeru stand as well.
"Ok..lets clean the shards-"
But then, his head throbs.
((Badump.))
"Ugh!"
"Oniichan?!"
'H-huh...that is weird?'
Clutching his head. Tanjiro never felt such pain before...it was like some migraine.
'M-my head hurts...it's not the pain from the oozing blood in my skull...it is...it is...something else...!'
It was no other than the memories of Tanjirou Sumiko forcing itself to be transferred in his head.
Laughter.
Sweetness.
Sorrow.
Anger.
Betrayal.
Regret.
Pain.
'W-what are these images...?!'
It is not like this was the first time he saw things, more like they had always been with him when he was a toddler. But those dreams doesn't live long for a memory to recall nor a painful impact to his mind.
However it is now growing stronger as he age, probably the earring's fault.
'O-ow...Too much information...I can't...'
"Oniichan...?"
"Ahh..."
Overwhelmed, Tanjiro collapses.
Thud...))
"Tanjiro!" His mother Kie called out his name many times...still Tanjiro fainted and heard nothing at all.
(('Hehe...I oaths to you! Mu...sama!')
"Who?"
Waking up, explaining everyone what the hell just happend, they had moved on and focus to stand up from their lives from now on.
The next day, Tanjiro held the small mirror they had to take a good look at his forehead...such ugly scar.
"I said it's a scratch, but its a huge scar on my skull yikes..."
Touching his earrings, he wipes off the blood that had stained it a little. "Hmm..."
Staring at the scar and his ears.
"Strange indeed these hanafuda earrings..."
...
The flashback ended, noticing the sky is already dark.
Tanjiro had chilled too much outside.
"Oh no! It's getting late...! I spent too much time at the village." Running away from the village at the fastest speed he can produce. "But at least the charcoals are all sold out." Feeling victorious tonight, Tanjiro wear a happy grin in him.
Only then a voice stops him.
"Oiii Tanjiro!" Stopping in his tracks, looking around and found a house with lights. He knows the person waving for his attention.
"Ah, Saburo jii san~ hehe! Good eve!" Waving back like a child, Old man Saburo scolds him. "Stop smiling there and get here!"
Shock, he wonders with an innocent chibi face. "Eh? Why so?" Saburo crossed his arms and continues to yell at him.
"It is late...you are planning to go back to the mountains right? It is dangerous!"
Tanjiro shrugs, "I'll be fine! I have a good sense of smell...I can track bears down, also I have a machete with me~!" Pointing at his nose, vein pops appeared in Saburo's face making Tanjiro squeaked.
"Stop being confident!"
"Geehh?!"
The next words from the wise old man Saburo, had created some darkening threat though.
"Or else...the demons will come after you."
Somehow the cold wind blows.
Whoosh~
Ringing a bell...?
"Demons...?"
Tanjiro took a step forward, 'Where did I heard those words...? Is it from grandma's...? Or was it...'
Blinking, a memory flashed before him.
(("I'm sorry...I'm sorry..."))
'Eh...?'
Throb...))
Someone sobbing in white kimono and uncombed long hair with hanafuda earrings that seem to be in a cell, from the voice it seems to be a young man.
Day by day, his dreams are becoming solid. Tanjiro used to forget their voice,image and scent whenever he wakes up.
However this time he heard the voice so clear and it was similar to his. The fact he isn't asleep at all...very strange.
("I have given birth to a demon king...!")
Badump.
"H...huh...?" The only difference was the hateful comment in the person's throat as his battered hands covering his face with tears.
"Ow!?" Tanjiro cannot bear the pain in his head.
"Ghh..!" Shutting his eyes. "N-not again, a headache...?" stumbling in his stance,his world went blurry and dizzy.
'Oh I see...It's my dreams again...annoying...'
Thud.
Tanjiro collapses in the snow, "What the?!" Saburo went and run towards him. "Tanjiro?! Hey!" Reaching the unconscious boy with a strong shake.
"Wake up? Tanjiro...Tanjiro...!"
It was useless, he was asleep.
'Ahh...how I wish I didn't collapse to the darkness...because of it...my family.'
Tanjiro's POV
Before Tanjiro had reached Saburo's place. On the other side of the snowy forest skirts, Kibutsuji Muzan happen to be strolling in the same mountain. He do this in hopes to accidentally find the legendary blue spider lily but in vain.
Muzan is patient with that.
'The moon is not visible at this time of month.' Muzan says inside his mind as he make his usual routine to walk around the earth as much as he like for whenever morning comes he must hide once more. 'Even though I had outlived back then,my dream to conquer the sun is still far away...'
Narrowing his eyes as he is getting eaten by frustration.
'Where is it? The blue spider lily-'
Suddenly on the corner of his plum irises something shined.
Kring...))
His eyes widen when his sharp pupils notice a familiar red sun. It was a kagura. 'A-again..?!'
Panicking.
"Where?!" Immediately he stop on his tracks to scan his surroundings where he happen to spot the shadows of death.
Badump,badump.
Even though he was a demon king,he feared one thing or a person whose alike to him. Recalling a man name Tsukiguni Yoriichi had randomly slashed him and spat him some stupid sentimental things such as revenge for loosing their families, possessed by Tanjirou Sumiko's hatred towards him.
Muzan cannot be off guard.
'Tsk...I do not feel any threatening presence though...?' Composing himself, Muzan convinced himself to think rationally. 'If am correct, I saw...some charcoals...someone is selling them...A bag...' hotheaded as ever, he hissed at himself. "Where is it!?"
Deciding to walk a bit faster with the cold snow. His footsteps were traced to go up hill. "I need to kill them." Gripping his fist with anger.
"His descendants...!"
He must never let them live.
Knock,knock.
"Oniichan?" Nezuko on the middle of brushing her long curly hair,un-bun. She curiously stops to go by the door and slowly opened it.
Thinking maybe it was her brother, it was a mistake for her to even think that her brother would knock. Tanjiro usually calls her name to open the door before knocking.
However Nezuko thought maybe a neighbor is knocking too...so she had zero doubts.
Creak~
"Yes?"
What she found behind their sliding door is a tall man in a modern outfit. The man wearing a white fedora and looking so special.
'A-a rich person?'
Muzan greets her with a small fake smile with a polite greeting.
"Good evening~."
Slightly blushing Nezuko that she is facing a rather handsome stranger, she unconsciously open wide their door. "E-eh? Yes mister?" Muzan smirks for a short second before he used his usual stoic face while his voice sound so caring and formal. "Is this the house of charcoal sellers~?"
He cock his head, Nezuko tilt her own head and is unable to stop staring to him up and down...because even though he sounds so nice.
'How pecular...' Nezuko gulps and wore a smile, but she did feel awkward. "W-well yes...? Um, who are you sorry?" Trying her best not to be so rude, Muzan simply nods in understanding.
The strange man spoke some nonsense into the wondering Nezuko.
"I see. So his bloodline is still preserve, with a different surname huh."
By then Kie noticed that the door had been open for too long that she needed to check on the second eldest.
"Nezuko? Is Tanjiro back? Tell him to hurry and take a hot bath-" Kie gasp upon seeing the eyes of Kibutsuji Muzan and had a coldness smile ever.
"Hello there~" Kie blinks and convinced herself that maybe she was mistaken upon seeing those eyes that did not seem human. Kie is not the type of person to immediately jump to conclusion unless she sees it close by.
"A-ara...a traveler?" Approaching the doorway to join Nezuko, Rokuta appeared behind Nezuko's back to tug the edge of her kimono.
"Oneechan?"
Silently Muzan observes them and started to do a head count.
'Is this all of them? Strange nobody had the hanafuda earrings..hmm, oh well it does not matter~'
Kie with manners runs her mouth to interview Muzan, however Muzan heard nothing. His friendly smile from earlier had completely disappeared into dread.
'Hmm...I always kill them but they still exists and multiply but come to think of it. They serve the sun of god even today. Maybe if I turn them to a demon...something might change from this fate of them hunting me down. I can experiment~.'
Nezuko tried to butt in with her mother's question to the stranger since he doesn't seem to be aware that he was disturbing them.
"E-excuse me mister, may we know who you are? I mean...it is quite late at night for you to..." Muzan huffs and lifted his right hands.
"~Please worry not about me..."
"What?!" Shigeru was the first one to notice that something is wrong with his fingers. Even though Shigeru is still a kid, he took the hatchet near him. "H-his nails are growing!" Kie took a step back and whispered under her breath as she trembles.
"De...mon? I-it's you...! Tanjuro's, my husband's-"
Nezuko whose star-struck upon Muzan's transforming backbone and fingernails. She forgot to run.
"After all this will be the last you will be normal~."
SLASH!
It was too fast actually.
"Kyaah!"
"Augh...?!"
Even though it was too fast, Nezuko's body happen to duck down to cover Rokuta. "Aaaaah!" She heard the scream of her family as she realize that blood still had gushed out from her and Rokuta's body. "Oneechan! Run!" Shrieked by Shigeru whose charging towards Muzan to use the hatchet.
Muzan can only do a devil smile at such confidence.
"Goodnight~"
"No!" Seeing her mother tried to protect Hanako and Takeo, Shigeru was stab in the neck. "Ack...!"
Falling flat outside and landing to the snow. 'Mom...Shigeru, Ta..keo..Hanako...Roku...ta...?' Nezuko can barely stay awake as she felt feverish from her wound. She heard him.
"Just a very small ounce of my blood they already died? How disappointing~" Kibutsuji Muzan started to look at their fidgeting bodies one by one.
Everyone is choking from his blood that has been transferred.
Though Nezuko did not have those symptoms yet, instead her head was filled with questions. 'Who is this man? Why did he do this to us...? And what did mom said? This person related to father...? Huh...? Guhh...' Having small teary eyes, Muzan crouches down to the corpse of Kamado Kie whose eyes are lifeless on Nezuko's point of view.
"I guess a little taste of their meat won't hurt my stomach~" Eyes widen upon seeing Muzan's hands had went inside her mother's ripped out stomach and the sound of blood with flesh getting teared away from it's right place.
Nezuko felt to puke but instead she was getting eaten by darkness.
'No...no...this monster is eating mother's organs...!'
As Muzan finishes eating some parts from her dead siblings, Muzan stood and walks out of their house.
"I guess am full. I shall take my leave~"
With trembling hands, Nezuko embraces tight the dead Rokuta in her arms.
She bit her lips and unable to stay conscious.
'Tanjiro oniichan...p-please dont come home...don't..! I beg...'
Nezuko finally fall to the darkness of her soon demonification.
...
From the throbbing headache that lingers, it felt like a dream and he completely forgot about it.
'What...? A ceiling?'
Kamado Tanjiro open his eyes slowly and found above his vision the face of a caring old man. "You woke up?" Feeling dry in his throat, Tanjiro wasn't sure at all.
"Saburo...jii san?"
Blinking for few moments, he finally sat up and rubs the back of his head. Saburo had a short relief smile. "Err...what happen to me?" Tanjiro sheepishly smiling, Saburo cleared his throat and explained.
"You seem to have a headache then you fainted."
Feeling so bad for being a burden, Tanjiro ashamed of himself.
"I-Is that so?" Saburo huffs and scolds him but gently.
"Don't overwork yourself boy. I know you replaced the role of your father but doesn't mean you will allow yourself to fall ill...think about your mother Kie. Sheesh." Shaking his head, Tanjiro can only shook his head to accept to be tag as guilty.
'It's true I overworked, I better take care of my health too if I want to keep helping my family.' Then again...he still wonders. "Um, Saburo-jii san.."
"What is it?" Saburo turned his back to prepare something.
"...Are demons real?" They was a pause of silence before Saburo nods, unable to see the elder's expression, Tanjiro somehow smells a retraced sorrow. "...yeah."
Curiously, he pestered.
"Have you seen one?"
Saburo faced him with a blank face with food bowl in his hands. "Who knows?"
Placing them to the table, Tanjiro began to crawl towards the said desk.
"Do demons come inside houses?" He asks while watching Saburo prepare a meal for him.
"They do." Tanjiro is still not understanding why Saburo is acting strange regarding this topic. "Huh...then everyone will be eaten?"
Saburo pours him some tea before Tanjiro cross his legs to properly sit.
"That is why...the Onigari people exist, it is their job to slay the demons."
Fixing his posture to eat soon.
"Demon hunters..." Tanjiro can only murmur.
Saburo pats his shoulders to dismiss the topic.
"Now, eat up...then after this you can go home. The dawn is approaching now anytime soon." Tanjiro decided to let it go, and he smiles thankfully for the meal.
"Thank you."
...
'The truth is...I know something has been wrong with me. However I reverted my eyes...because I was afraid...'
Tanjiro's POV
It's already morning yet the sun is nowhere to be seen because of the snow, Tanjiro soon will see his house a top on this hill road.
'So much fear that if I focused on myself too much,people that I held dear may disappear...'
Tanjiro's POV
"Eh?" His nose suddenly had sniff something of an iron rust.
"Hmm?"
*sniff,sniff*"
Badump...!
His heart panics upon realizing what scent is this.
"Smell of blood...?!"
Dashing straight ahead, Tanjiro witness a lying Nezuko at the snow.
His lung screamed yet restrained with dryness as he couldn't understand why is this happening.
"Uaaaagh!"
Reaching the unconscious and bloodied little sister. "Nezuko!? What happen?!" He refrain from touching her right away as he noticed that Nezuko is hovering about Rokuta whose also bloodied and not responding.
"What..." turning his head to see their house sliding door is wide open, his world stopped. "N-no..." his legs looses the purpose to keep straight, it went to kneel to the cold and bloodied floor.
Heavy breathing.
"M-mom...S-shigeru,Takeo..Rokuta..Hanako...? W-why...?"
Tanjiro can barely stay calm.
'...A demon wouldn't have slaughtered them.'
Tanjiro's POV
"Is it a bear...? Wait...Nezuko?"
Realizing that Nezuko is still warm, immediately Tanjiro had disregarded his feelings and tried to focus to save one person that he can still do something.
'I need to go down the village! Nezuko...I will save you! Trust in your big brother...! So please hang in there!'
With held back tears from the eldest,he made his way to the blizzard.
Pluck...))
'There was always the sound of water every time I close my eyes.'
Drip...drop...))
'Not only that, I sometimes see a strange dream where I was...scolding someone from their stupidity.'
Giyuu's POV
A tensed up body of a boy with red-locks and very long ponytail. Even though he seem to have cornered him, he notice the boy was holding tight to the nichirin blade case. Hearing a sound of the strange boy taking a deep breath, Giyuu can sense he is up to fight rather than beg.
'I even uttered his name but it was muted.'
"#%_Su_#*$mi#%*ko...?"
'He faced me and I saw his terrified face and called me...'
(("P-priest Guren?!"))
Even though that was not his name, like inside dreams...you are suppose to follow the script. Giyuu did what the dream wanted him to do...he did not step inside the blue flower field that is blurry to pinpoint what kind of flower it was.
'Even if I do not know him, I felt some painful disappointment lured towards him. I warned him about something to do with dying...we argued but he...'
(("No. I wont let this hellish life predict our future. I'm sorry!")) The boy in red priest robes ran's off with the blue flower in his hands.
'My eyes eyes widen in shock and betrayal. As if whatever am playing a role in this dream had such care for the other.'
(("Ridiculous..."))
'I thought to chase him but the flow of the dream did not allowed me. Feeling so wrong and distant. I heard my own voiced echoed in my ears.'
(('If I had next chance...I want to...save him and spare him...in next life.'))
'I never would have thought he existed in real life...till this fateful encounter.'
"...!?"
Ending the dream with a abrupt nap to woke. Tomioka Giyuu scanned the snowy surrounding and notice that he had fell asleep under a dead tree. "That dream again..." Patting away the snow that stocked to his haori. Giyuu unsheathes his nichirin blade. "This isn't the time for sleep, I got to finish my work..."
It was a blunder of him to fall asleep so sudden in middle of the work. Giyuu already can tell that he is too late. 'It is all the fault of that strange repeating story...' Little bit he knew, it was his past life. 'Hurry...I must hurry...' Noticing blood trails from the white ground, Giyuu narrowed his eyes and followed the trace.
'The demon is near...'
Whoosh~
Spotting a boy with a wounded person behind his back, Giyuu leaps to slash her up. "Waah?!" Yet the boy screamed and ducks down. Distracted he ended up cutting the small pony tailed hair of the said boy. "Ow!"
The redheaded boy rolled with the demon to a tree.
BAM!
Hitting his back, Giyuu silently observes the trembling victim. "Y-you are...?"
Staring at the demon girl instead of focusing to recognize a familliar face.
Giyuu introduced himself without any emotions, instead more like a threat.
"Tomioka Giyuu...and am a Demon Slayer."
'Eh? Wait...you mean an Onigari! No!'
Tanjiro immediately knows what he had to do.
"No! Please do not kill her! Nezuko is my little sister! She isn't a demon!" Giyuu twitches upon his ridiculous words. "Really? Even though she looks like this?" Quickly he grabs her and held her hostage. "N-Nezuko...!"
Tanjiro already worn out and scared, Giyuu wanted to at least tell him the situation isn't some kind of a joke to mess with excuses.
"Listen, it is my job to slay demons to save weaklings like you. To avoid people like this thing to eat humans further than the count...I do not ask your forgiveness."
Lifting the blade.
The boy whispered.
"No..."
"You just have to understand and accept it."
'What is this? What is this...?!'
Feeling so weak, Tanjiro can only tremble and make small pleading.
"N-no...wait..." Seeing Nezuko got stabbed, Tanjiro hurled on his stomach for the sound of blade into flesh is making him feel the pain as well. "Aghh!"
Tanjiro's mind is in a mess.
'Somehow I remember something else...that I did not beg on a dream, instead I ran away. Yet I couldn't bring myself to act the way that person did onto my dream. I did not have enough courage after all...because am...'
"WAIT! I WILL MAKE THINGS RIGHT JUST PLEASE DON'T!"
Tanjiro bows down.
"STOP...!"
The act of dogeza made Giyuu frozen.
"Please do not take away more of my family...!" hearing the boy cry.
Badump...))
Something in Giyuu's eyes flashed, a smiling sunshine with red long locks of ponytail, the person had huge forehead with earrings and red headband.
Tomioka Giyui hears the sound of moving bells.
(("Hehe! Guren-san~!"))
Gasping.
'Wait...he...looks familiar like the person in my dreams...'
Keeping on watching the crying boy to the cold ground as he kept his pathetic pleads for him to stop hurting her little sister that got converted, Giyuu had a change of heart.
'Could it be...this person is...my..'
Everything went blank before Tanjiro knew.
'My chance to spare that person's life from ruins...?'
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.
.
.
"Are you awake?"
Tanjiro unintentionally grabs Nezuko's haori to cling life for her. "...!?" Hearing the voice of the man who tried to slay his sister is suddenly chilling at the nearest tree trunk with crossed arms. "H-huh...?" Deciding to embrace Nezuko as Tanjiro kept hostile towards him, Tomioka Giyuu only cut him short.
"Go to Mount Sagiri...there is a man named Urokodaki Sakonji who will help you find a cure for your sister." Blinking in a huge confusion, Tanjiro thought to answer his questions.
"Eh..? You mean. W-were spa...red?"
Giyuu simply turns his back and finished his instructions.
"Do not let your sister out in the sun or she will become none. Hurry."
'What? He is leaving already?! That was not even an explanation!'
"Wait up!"
Yet Tomioka Giyuu never stopped walking away.
Whoosh~
The cold wind had pulled Tanjiro's dumbfounded face to accept the reality. "H-he left just like that..." Even though he saw him for the first time,Tanjiro's heart clutches with a unexplained sorrow and guilt. 'But somehow, he looks familiar...the moment our eyes met, something in my heart clutch such guilt. What is it?'
Glancing at the almost naked Nezuko with blood patterns,Tanjiro carries her back home.
"Nezuko...let me dress you up first."
Burrying his family and leaving a prayer, Kamado Tanjiro decided to trust the words of the demon slayer. 'Strange that...I believe his words, as if this isn't the first time it happend.'
Still not aware of his past life connection, he held his hand to hold with Nezuko's.
"Nezuko, Let's go."
'From this day forward...the illegal fire that reincarnates inside me, awakens slowly and surely...it was messing with my identity. Until nothing was left except the song I kept inside my heart. No matter how much I stumble.'
Tanjiro's POV
To Be Continued
Kanon58: relax, were not gonna follow the anime. There will be no training with urokodaki nor final exam. some parts will be skipped becuz THIS FIC IS FOR MUZAN AND TANJIRO LOVE STORY..so just saying if you feel lazy to read this introduction of taisho era!
Next chapter I may go back using 'personal POV' cuz am having a hard time expressing the 'dramatic monologue' when it's not tanjiro's pov or muzan's...so REVIEW! tell me if the chapie wasnt boring, I actually thought it was boring becuz I cannot wait for muzan to encounter tanjiro...!
I cannot promise to finish due to busy human stupid life. But A DROP OF REVIEW will make me excited to type for next chapie! Greedy!
This is obviously a AU. So...yeah lets ride once more a tragic tale between Muzan-sama and Tanjiro-sama!
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