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 900 years ago.

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['Even if the memory came from ashes, still his body remember the pain.']

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"Tomioka Giyuu the traitor, to end your suffering we will send you to peace." Prays by Gyomei the Rock Pillar. Next to him is Muichiro the Mist Pillar. "You should explain yourself Tomioka. Not that I care..."

Right now Tomioka Giyuu is in prison. By means of prison he is jailed to a certain room with wooden bars.

This uses to be a cage for goats that Ubuyashiki used to have. But now it is use for people who needs to be grounded.

And the one who is experiencing this now is himself the Water Pillar whose not even the slightest affected that he is being treated like a criminal.

'It has been one month I was grounded here.'

Not eyeing any of them. 'I wonder how is he and his sister...?'

"Hey answer us!" Aggravated by Sanemi the Wind Pillar.

Inside his cage he simply justified his own point of view to them. "I do not need to explain myself. There is already a letter that Oyakata-sama should have read."

Iguro the Snake Pillar hissed at him, "You are rude!" Giyuu retorts back quickly and to their surprise there were no pause. "I have no excuse of my action. However I will only commit sepukku if what I had spare is a wrong decision. If it doesn't harm anyone there is no reason for me to take my life at the moment. However, you may torture me all you like...I shall not regret my actions until proven wrong."

Shinobu the Insect Pillar twitches by hearing the silent guy talked too much now just for someone else sake.

'Am aggravated why?' Shinobu thoughts how a stranger and a traitor for them had dine so much impact to him. Seeing Giyuu held such belief to whoever that Kamado Tanjiro is. "To think you can speak this much just for your treason to Demon Slayer corps, this is why nobody likes you Tomioka-san." She says while trying to hide her anger with a smile.

Then the Love Pillar's voice echoed, "B-b-big news!" Running towards them. Everyone cock their heads especially Iguro. "Kanroji?" Mitsuri takes a deep breath then announces. "K-Kyoujiro-kun and Uzui-kun had finally found and captured Kamado Tanjiro with his demon sister!" Giyuu's eyes gasp, everyone noticed it and they smirks at him especially Sanemi. "Looks like the reason for you to regret is here~!"

Alarmed, Giyuu grabs the wooden bars and glared at the devilish wide grin and crazy eyes of Sanemi.

He venomously spats, "Sanemi, don't you dare touch him till Oyakata-sama arrives." Sanemi laughs then he is visibly pissed off. "Haha? Haahhh? Who the hell do you think you are to command me?!" He left. "Ah-" Giyuu tried to reach out but everyone turned their backs as Mitsuri leads the way. "Quickly!"

When everyone left and ignored Giyuu whose obviously powerless, only Shinobu stayed.

Noticing the Insect Pillar's back and remained unmoving, Giyuu thought to take chances and ask politely but he lack the emotion in his voice when he pleaded.

"Kochou...I beg." Shinobu grits her teeth but immediately forced herself to smile and allow her voice to be smug as usual.

"...I'm in no position to make that promise for you Tomioka-san~" but then her voice went dark half way. "...well then stay here."

Then ditches Giyuu.

For the first time Giyuu feared, he did not felt fear on getting cage for that boy he spared...but now he knows he was captured and his sister.

This is not good.

"Tanjiro..."

As if this cell reminds him of the past...how he Guren, Sumiko and Toujiro was imprisoned for treason.

'Am going to fail?'

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Anyone's POV

'Why...why did this happen?'

Kring...))

He collapsed to someone's arm while running away it seems.

Forgetting the fact he was with Nezuko.

Tanjiro opened his eyes in the field of dreams.


'What I saw was a very horrifying memory. The name, his name, it exist there. Was it the same name? Is it a different person? Is it just...a coincidence?!... Then why...? Why do they resemble?!'


Tanjiro whose having a clearer view now of Sumiko's background story, he was overwhelmed with lots of emotion.

'I felt worried.'

["Muzan-sama... Where is your doctor?"] The man that used to have no face, reveals how he looked like. It resembles Kibutsuji Muzan in terms of hair style and color. Except he had pale blue irises, skin that looks like he won't literally lived long and hair is damn long.

Well it is Heian period, everyone had very long hair during this era.

The man named 'Muzan-sama' spoke with no remorse. ["He's gone."]


'Then I felt anxious.'


The memory jumped to where the man named Muzan-sama is on a deathbed. Sumiko insisted to be stubborn not to say goodbye.

["No. I will find you a cure!"]


'I hold his hand as if it was my life...'


["Huh?"]
["I will save you Muzan-sama. Please wait for me...!"]

When Tanjiro blinks he saw a large door that is called forbidden.


'I feel guilty.'


["Priest...Guren..."] Sumiko saw the person that looks like Tomioka Giyuu and scolds him.

["You will die! You know this is wrong. Throw that flower you pluck before it's too late...!" But Sumiko was stubborn to death. ["No. I wont let this hellish life predict our future. I'm sorry!"]

When he run away, Tanjiro heaves.


'I feel triumphant.'


A scene where Sumiko offers the blue spider lily medicine.

["Just drink it! It is a blue spider lily...since ancient times it has the power to overcome death...! Don't waste my effort! Once you are healed, let us go somewhere far...because...I...!"]

["Don't tell me...you cross the line for me?"]


'And the last thing I felt is betrayal.'


Tanjiro felt Sumiko's pain when he was forced to kneel down. ["Prostrate yourself criminal!"]

Then the despair surrrounds him when the king and queen accused him.
["Are you sure son it was him?"]


'It's him...Muzan...Muzan he was...!'


["Sumiko took the blue spider lily."]
["Eh?"]
["He was the one who turned me into a demon."]


'Sumiko's lover were Muzan-sama...and I was...I was his-'


["What?! How could you priest Sumiko?"]
["No! I...I saved his life, that's all..!"]
["By what? Turning me to a man eating monster?"]


'I...I...I just can't take this.'


Tanjiro knows tears were streaming down like water falls from his own eyes through Sumiko's heart ache.


'...T-this is too much! My heart hurts compare to my head...! My soul is screaming...!'


Tanjiro hope to stop his own broken heart.

"Speak!"

Someone shouts at him, the sun is so bright.

"...!?"

Tanjiro whose not aware that his eyes were wide awake outside the realm of dreams. "Ugh...?" Right now the Pillars are interrogating him to explain himself why he dis obeyed the law of Demon Slayer corps and the fact he has not taken his own life to atone for act.

"Oi, You listening?!"

Says by the Kakushi who pokes his face to pay attention to his surroundings. "Hey you! The Pillars are in front of you! Make yourself presentable! Prostrate yourself!"

The word prostrate stung him.

'Ehh...' Hearing such word, Tanjiro is still wearing his cross dress almost exposing his thighs as he is tied up from behind and laying at the cold pebbles in the ground.

He didn't care about how he looks like now. Tanjiro is focused inside his own world that he haven't realize he was captured.

"Tell us your reason on you betraying us!"
Yelled by Iguro.

Tanjiro now gasps and starts to have a somewhat raise of tension in his muscles by the memories versus the reality.

"T-this...posture..." he trembles and breaths heavily, "hahh..hhhaahh..." making all the pillars wonder why he is acting so terrified. His fear was not directed to them, that part was obvious.

The traitor is seeing something else.

"U-um are you okay?" Mitsuri tried to ask but Tanjiro continues to look uncomfortable and says. "...to...prostrate myself in the guards..." he mumbles repeatedly. "Prostrate...to kneel...to be shamed on...I..I...

Uzui annoyed. "What are you blabbing about-"

To their shock, Tanjiro jerks up to make an argument now. "NO! I ONLY DID IT TO SAVE HIS LIFE!"
Shinobu is worried that the boy is mentally ill or something. "K-Kamado-kun? Who are you referring to? Are you half asleep?"

Eyes widen. "H-huh? Who...?" Snapping from delusion, he finally notices the presence of many demon slayer. 'Huh? That memory was not the present...Sumiko was...was betrayed by that man...no...it was Muzan. I was in relationship with the devil himself, is that what it means!?'

Suddenly he felt a larger pain than his aching body to the sturdy pebbles at ground. "A...h...ahhh!" He screamed.

"Kamado Tanjiro-kun?!" Shinobu calls out.

Meanwhile Uzui, Rengoku, Iguro were alert. They think Tanjiro will attack them since he was jerking his hands to break free from the ropes.

"O-oi stop!" The Kakushi warns but visibly afraid.

Muichiro whose now annoyed too. "What's up with you?"

Tanjiro answers and pleads. "I can't breath...! My head hurts! My heart will explode...someone help me!" Everyone arch their eyebrows.

Shinobu wanted to advice Tanjiro to focus his breathing but...Uzui snorts, "You flamboyantly thought we will fall for that act?"
Iguro nods and crossed his arms. "Agreed. Most demons act like that when they are about to get killed. Do it better~"

Mitsuri though panics. "I-I don't think this is an act...I mean look at him...he is in such pain...?"

Tanjiro whose struggling to fight his terrible headache, he just bitten his lips.

Everyone gasps.

'Dammit...stop invading my head Muzan! Am not...Sumiko! There is noway! Noway am your lover or something...am nobody's reincarnation! This is a lie father...!' Tanjiro mentally fighting his memories with Sumiko. "Arghhh...! Someone make it stop! My head...!" Seeing his lips bleeds and that tears appeared on his eyelids.

Rengoku who doesn't understand why he felt guilty. "U-uhh.." he almost want to say on everyone to aid him but then they heard Giyuu's voice.

"Tanjiro..!"

Everyone made a face how Giyuu escape his cell is just another betrayal to them.
"What! Tomioka? How!" Angry Uzui and Iguro.

Tanjiro who barely can keep it together, he peek with one eye as the other eye of his were in tears of pain. "G-Giyuu...san...?"

The boy doesn't look good.

"Tanjiro-" Giyuu approaches but blocked by Gyomei. "You shall not pass am afraid."

Muichiro just watches.
Tanjiro saw how everything is going blurry, he is weakened. 'I cannot bare this truth...I want to sleep...' the truth is disheartening enough it makes him ill.

Noticing he is about to close his eyes permanently, the Kakushi shakes him by pulling his hair. "Hey don't faint! We still have meeting with Oyakata sama!"

Hurting eyebrows.

'This is a lie...false memories.. there is no way am Sumiko, Kibutsuji Muzan's priest. Were...lovers!? I cannot accept this!'

Words escape on his lips to keep on denying the truth. "Noway...are you saying am him?" Totally freaking out, Uzui marches forward. "What the hell are you blabbering about you freak! We don't understand a damn thing! Flamboyantly explain!" He kicks him.

"Ghh!"
"Hold it Uzui-san!" Scolds by Shinobu.

Tanjiro coughs and remembered something else. 'That is right...Nezuko...where is she?!'

Gulping his saliva and the taste of blood lingers in his lips. "P-please tell me where is my sister! At very least hurt me...not her...!" He chokes as he cannot maintain his breathing. 'Dammit am so angry right now!' He is still getting panic attack from Sumiko's negative energy and frustration of being captured. "Haha? Seriously?" Iguro laughs and mocks him. "Did you seriously think we became a Demon SLAYER just to spare one demon? You got to be joking with us this hard...!"

Rengoku twitches but kept his mouth shut.

Because right now, this boy...the person who hide himself in the name Sumiko...

Tanjiro he had that face that you can pity. "I-I'm serious...I cannot stay as my...self...help me." He sobs. Mitsuri tries to help the situation better. "U-um I don't think he is lying. Guys lets calm down and wait for Oyakata-sama's decision before we execute h-him..." Rengoku Kyoujiro click his tongue and looks at Giyuu who is still blocked by Gyomei.

"Tomioka...you know this boy so calm him down."

Shinobu eyed Giyuu and Giyuu for a moment taken back by Kyoujiro's offer that it is okay for him to approach Tanjiro whose suffering from whatever illness it is.

Giyuu nods and Gyomei surprisingly didnt try to stop him but he did questioned the Flame Pillar.

"What is the meaning of this?"

Kyoujiro can only watch and answer his team mates with honesty. "This isn't the first time this boy acted like this. When I crossed paths with him his head hurt badly that he lost himself...then how I captured him is easy. He simply had a headache and collapse. Maybe Tomioka knows how to handle him."

Its not like they are happy but they respect and trust Kyoujiro so much that they just okayed.

Giyuu who is actually told by Urokudaki that Tanjiro did have bad headaches time to time so this doesn't surprise him much, just worried of course.

'So he really had his short comings like this.'

He crouches to Tanjiro's level and checked on him. Shinobu is shock that Giyuu can be this caring when he never showed emotions for them.

"Hey Tanjiro...can you hear me? It's me Tomioka Giyuu. Your head hurts?" Tanjiro whimpers and nods. "I see." Then he looked at Shinobu. "Kochou, you have pain killer with you right? Allow Tanjiro to take some so that he can face Oyakata-sama without looking like this."

Shinobu is angry inside, 'So he can be this open.' She thoughts and took a deep breath to use her usual friendly smile which isn't in actual. "Ara, nice idea Tomioka-san...very well then." She reveals a bottle of pain killer and kneels to the same level as Giyuu to talk to the boy.

"Kamado Tanjiro-kun drink this,it is not poisoned okay? It will make you feel better..."

Gesturing the medicine to his face.

Tanjiro who looks up to Giyuu and eyed Shinobu, he tried to sniff. 'This smell...she isn't lying...nor Giyuu-san.'

Obediently he drinks the pain killer.

(Gulp,gulp.)

Finally he felt better. "Hahh..." he exhales.

Shinobu and Giyuu stood and looks at everyone. "Now let us wait for Oyakata-sama-"

"No need!"

Sanemi appears with the box...or.. "Nezuko!?" Tanjiro shouts.

Shinobu frowns. "Don't act out of order." She warns.

Sanemi chaotically laughs and stabs the box. "Oh come on now! Let us show the true colors of these demons!"

STABS!

"NEZUKO!" Tanjiro got triggered, and thanks to the pain killer his head doesn't hurt anymore and he can fight.

"Nobody...nobody hurts Nezuko!" And leaps to head butt Sanemi. "Pillar, Slayer whatever I don't tolerate anyone who hurts my little sister...!"

"Wha-"

BONK!

"GAH!"
"GHH!"

Both falls off the floor.

Before they can say anything... "Is everyone here?" It was Ubuyashiki Kaguya arrived with his two daughters guiding his steps. "O-Oyakata-sama!" Muichiro whose un interested suddenly gain emotions and kneels and so is everyone. "Oyakata-sama!"

Properly aligned to bow down before their master they highly respects. "Hello there my children." Kagaya smiles, "I'm happy you are still complete." He meant they were all alive.

Throb...))

Tanjiro whose head hurt again because he head butt Sanemi, he saw how all the pillars suddenly behaves themselves and even the person who stab Nezuko forced himself to kneel even though his head most likely hurt a lot.

"Apologies for the ruckus Oyakata-sama," Sanemi formally says. "Worry not, we will judge this boy a deserving punishment."

Tanjiro gain another angry eyebrows by that statement.

He was about to say something but then Kagaya chuckles into laughter. "Hahaha." It was light heartening to hear that Tanjiro calmed down. 'H-his voice so smooth what is this...? But somehow he resembles...' He noticed the shape of Kagaya's eyes and somehow his hair reminds him of a certain someone. 'H-he looked like Muzan-sama...' Shaking his head. 'W-why the hell am calling him sama?!'

Hating himself, the pillars wondering why their master is laughing, they voiced out.

"Oyakata-sama...?"

Kagaya inhales and exhales and properly address the concern of all. "Alright, I would like to start that I did not ask Kamado Tanjiro to be captured just to be killed."

"Eh?" Everyone is visibly confused. Kagaya continues, "I'm fully aware of Kamado Tanjiro's secret since the beginning. After all I receive a letter from Urokodaki Sakonji the former water pillar that he trained boy with a demon sister. Kibutsuji Muzan had made a direct contact to his family and they were unfortunately massacred. Now these survives, they are on a quest to find cure for her little sister that's why he fights."

Everyone made a disapproval face except Sanemi who is brave enough to spoke. "Were against that. This contradicts the oath of us demon slayer."

Kagaya kept smiling, then he ask a question to his daughters. "May you describe how Kamado Tanjiro looks like now my children?"

The two creepy girls answered. "Kamado Tanjiro had red hair and tanned skin. A scar on his forehead... Specifically he is wearing a female kimono at the moment and some hanafuda earrings with the kagura design on it to his ears."

Kagaya nods and that even pushes further puzzled faces to all.

"Oyakata-sama why does it matter how he look?" Finally Shinobu asks.

Kagaya looks at Tanjiro even though he hardly see him. Tanjiro gulps and felt nervous that he is seeing this man as the leader of the demon slayer corps.

"Tanjiro-kun...?"
"Y-yes?!"
"Are you perhaps the reincarnation of the Priest of fire? The fire pillar to be exact."

"Eh...?"

Shocked, Tanjiro's head is screaming on how come he knows?

"H-how..." he stuttered. Kagaya reveals, "I know Tamayo-san and to be honest my family used to be related to the priests in ancient times...There is a rumor that the priest of fire whose executed in Heian period, possibly is possessing every first born whose duty to traditionally wear ancient Hanafuda earrings."

Jaw dropping.

'Who is this person? I don't think I met him in the past...! But if he meant the origin of priests assembly, then it is possible he would have knowledge! Hold...did he say Tamayo-san?'

So many questions in his hurting head, Tanjiro tried his best. "Oyakata-sama...you and Tamayo-san-"

Kring...))

But he heard the bells.

"Nnn-" His head hurt again. "Ow..!" Kagaya stops smiling and commanded after hearing the boy in pain. "Release his restrains and aid him."

"What?! Noway! But why...!" All the pillars whined, except Kyoujiro, Giyuu and Shinobu.

But Kagaya ignored their complaints by raising a finger to his lips.

"Shh."

Everyone caught their tongues.

Satisfied, Kagaya directs his attention to the violent wind. "Also Sanemi...I need to talk to you personally later."

The Wind Pillar gawks. He doesn't settle to it but he forced to be obedient. "V-very well then...!"

Visibly angry.

On the other hand, Tanjiro whose still haven't acknowledge the difference of pillars to normal demon slayer ask for a favor. "P-please take my sister with me...!"

Everyone just looks at him and did not move a muscle.

So Kagaya acknowledge it instead. "Of course, I actually need to talk to you one on one too and for the rest I will explain it properly." Scanning each of their face. "So allow Tanjiro and his sister to live for my sake." Then his head turns to Giyuu's spot. "After all, Urokudaki and Giyuu will commit sepukku if this turns out to be a bad idea."

Everyone gasp and they all complained but the end of the discussion they cannot defy their master.

"If that is your wish Oyakata-sama." Finally says by Kyoujiro as he secretly peeked to Tanjiro who just collapsed again.

'Kamado Tanjiro...' Kyoujiro's eyes narrowed. 'Who on earth is he that...Oyakata-sama mention the Fire Pillar?' Kyoujiro actually had a deep secret that he hasnt shared anyone. 'The connection of flame and fire pillar is a taboo...!'

Determined to find more he comply and everyone else did since they all love Kagaya.

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Tanjiro's POV

Ahh...that is right...I was sentence to death.

Trapped and shamed on.

I recall my lungs were crying.

["I want all the things that you and I had shared to be burned to ashes, to my very skin and bones...even my saliva! Everything makes me sick! So set me to death you see fit...one thing for sure, I hate you!"]

But wait, am the one who wished my death since I cannot bare to live any longer in shame...my gravest mistake.

It was sinful so I thought to punish myself out of last pride.

["You and your mouth...!" ]

My heart sank further when he throw his own pride at me.

We were like a same charcoal who refuses not to be sell for burning.

["By the way, your beloved Rengoku Toujiro, I throw him somewhere far from you. I wonder if he is alive~?"]

I want to cry and cry till I dried out but...I was so weak and nothing made real sense back then.

Especially when he made such face before I was sent to my last day.
["Bastard! What did he ever do to you? You were always jealous of him!"]
["So you do love him."]
["Huh?"]
["Tanjirou Sumiko...you are the devil here."]
["What the hell is that suppose to mean?! Come back here you coward...!"]

Oh wait...hahaha...


'Ahh...I remember now. I was Tanjiro Sumiko. A Priest of fire and...the lover of the devil prince named...'


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"Mu...zan...sama..." I noticed I woke up and a ceiling greeted me instead of the blue sky.
"Hm?" I heard a female voice, my nose worked on its own to sniff the unfamiliar room.

Smells like medicine...no, smells like flower?

'When is the last time I can smell things?' My head is floating as if the Red Light District memories had been a dream.

My memories were debating which one is real. Until the girl who tried to kill Nezuko before and offered me a drink is now here with me smiling like nothing happened.
"You are awake right...?"
I cant help but blush, I realize the good smell is coming from her.

She smells so nice.

"U-umm...?"
She properly introduce herself, elegant like a butterfly. "My name is Kochou Shinobu the Insect pillar." Hearing the word pillar still have no idea what is that so I repeated after her. "Pillar...?"

Shinobu-san chuckles and told me who exactly they are. "I see you are still confuse. Briefly, Pillars are the highest rank of demon slayer and the lowest rank were Mizunoto which is you are currently in mizunoto~"

I feel embarrass for not even knowing that, I politely apologizes. "I'm sorry, I didn't know such thing e-exist..." then I noticed my body doesn't feel pain anymore. I just felt light headed that's all. Shinobu-san continued to speak to me with her fake smile that I smell a hidden anger but...I don't think it was directed at me.

"It's fine also, we changed your clothes if that is fine with you. I mean wearing that kind of cloth surely felt awkward somehow fufu~"

I blinks and looked at my body, she is right!
Am wearing different clothes!

They basically witness me in that kind of clothes before this fluffy refreshing clinical clothes!

My face surely flushed bright red. 'She meant my crossdressing!' Praying they can just erase that in their memories...I decided to be thankful instead to drop the topic. "T-thanks. I appreciate that..." then it clicked to me, she isn't here? 'Wait...Nezuko-' Before I can even say it, Shinobu-san cuts me. "Your little sister is here, look at the box. She is fine now I guess. She was sleeping." I sat up and followed her pointing finger to an open box where my little sister is behaving like a mole.

"Nezuko...I-I'm glad!" I forgot about bed and run towards my beloved little sister. "Your wounds have closed am glad! You did your best Nezuko not to attack that awful guy! Thank you!" Rewarding her a pat on head, Nezuko gave me an "Mmmp!" She looked happy.

Meanwhile Shinobu-san approaches me and tap my shoulders. "Now, now don't cry." She wiped the lingering tear drops on my eyes due to happiness of seeing Nezuko all good. "Oyakata-sama said once you are able to gather your thoughts he wishes to speak with you regarding your situation."

Oh wait. "R-right..." Oyakata-sama said something about being related to...
"Does your head still hurts...?"
I absentmindedly touch my head to confirm since I hadn't been thinking about my own health due to fear of loosing Nezuko.

Hmm, "N-not anymore..." I sheepish smiles and thankfully Shinobu-san accepts it as that.
"I see. That's good." Then she went back to her chair. I followed her to the other chair and stared at the floor.

I was in a deep thought. 'My memories are all fuzzy as always but then again...am Sumiko's reincarnation right? Then hoe come we don't feel the same...? I don't feel affection to that bastard except hatred. I may remember the life back then but what if am just possesses and those memories is not actually mine?'

I'm frankly confuse at my own existence now. Because if am Sumiko himself then why my thinking is not the same as him? Glaring at the floor, I clutch at my pants.

'This heart doesn't belong to him after all.'

Raising my head, I need an advice and I smell she can do it for me. "Shinobu-san I know this is strange to ask but... is reincarnation real?" As expected she was startled but she kept on my phase to follow along. "Eh? Uhh you mean your past life?" I confessed even though I just met her, she looked like a rational person to tell your thoughts so I just...simply... "I...I saw myself having a relationship with Kibutsuji Muzan it was strange in my chest but my mind was disgusted, my soul was angry..."

I smell it, she was startled again but her physical appearance showed no signs of being shock.

"Excuse me?"

Then again I got confused at my own actions.

My mind, body and soul...maybe the heart they are not on the same goal.

Finally I realize something is wrong with my decision.

Internally scolding myself. 'Wait! Why am sharing this on her?! I just met her!'

Right, right...let us be calm and think properly!

"Sorry! Please forget about it...!" I thought she will be disgusted but she smiles back with uncertainty instead. "Actually...Oyakata-sama said something like that when you fainted."

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"Eh?"

Shinobu-san told me, "He told us that you, Kamado Tanjiro is connected to Kibutsuji Muzan and this is a story from the ancient times." I cannot believe someone else knows about the myths. "Did he mean...the spirit of...my.." Shinobu-san nods. "Hanafuda Earrings. The Priest of Fire, a rumored Pillar of Fire as well. Who on earth are you Tanjiro-kun? Can you expose it to us...? The truth of you."

Oh yeah, Oyakata-sama did said something about realtions with Tamayo-san right? And these earrings...

To be honest...

I felt like am invaded for privacy now.

"I...am.."

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Anyone's POV

"Tanjiro-kun am glad you are up. I wish to discuss to you the tale of yours."

Greeted by Ubuyashiki Kagaya, as for Tanjiro he was thirsty for answers.

Unable to control his worries he started throwing questions to the demon slayer head. "Why? Why do you know these earrings and the fact that am somewhat-"
Kagaya inserts the story from the past to calm him down. "Ubuyashiki Clan. They are the ones whose managing way back the priest of blessings. We used to be known in Heian period as the High Priest Ubuyashiki. The Clan of flame priests and the powerful devotees of the sun and moon gods. Kibutsuji's relative, the Ubuyashiki Clan."

Tanjiro is silent as Kagaya continues. "The Nichirin used to be a sacred memento for priest. However its duty changed when the first demon was born. The dark prince in heian period...that is no other than Kibutsuji Muzan. My clan is the far away relatives of his which is why you, him and I are all acquainted."

Gasping out of breath, Tanjiro's body trembles. "Noway...then my memories...are...real?" His heart throbs anxiety. 'Meaning I was burned to death by him...?'

It was a fearful death.

Kagaya who can feel Tanjiro's anguish but decided to clarify important things. "Tamayo-san had a guessed that you are perhaps the reincarnation of the Fire Pillar named Yoriichi." Gaining back attention to the matter, Tanjiro asks back. "Fire Pillar...but why? Why is this happening? Also why Tamayo-san didn't tell me the truth?"

Kagaya shuts him off by an arrow of facts.

"It is because you are Tanjiro Sumiko right?"

Cat caught his tongue, he clawed his pants. "That's..."

He can only mentally reply. 'To be true am not sure myself.'

Deciding to disregard everything but prioritizing the present him, Tanjiro declares with clear eyes and it roars gracefully. "No, for me am Tanjiro, Kie and Tanjuro's son. Regardless if those rush of memories in my head are mine or a memory forcing itself to become one with me, from a dead person."

Tanjiro glares at the wall. 'I still don't think am Sumiko himself even though I remember everything now.' A little bit doubts inside, 'The feelings I have does not match with his so I even doubt if am actually...'

Kagaya who paused finally let out a respectful smile. "I see...then you must have heard the myth." Caring for the boy's future, Kagaya adds more. "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."

Kagaya is actually testing where Tanjiro's loyalty lies now if his original feelings for the demon lord had come to haunt him.

Tanjiro who did not notice the observant eyes of Kagaya because of his sick appearance and light heart atmosphere, he made a promise.

"Oyakata-sama! Me and Nezuko will definitely end the cycle of despair by taking the head of Kibutsuji Muzan! I swear even with my own life...Even if I burn again...!"

Kagaya likes his guts and smiles before dropping a joke.

"Yeah, but defeat some upper moon first okay?"

Exploding in embarrassment, Tanjiro shrinks and comply. "Y-Yes sir."

Their meeting ended.

Walking through the hallway. Memories of happy days flashes pictures in Tanjiro's mind like an old TV.

["Lets see, If I will reach that day...I want someone who always smile, a bit of an idiot, hard working and obedient. Will do anything I ask for no matter how embarrassing or hard it will be. I want that person to be only loyal to me."]

Muzan having a sudden evil smirk in his pale lips, his eyes landed to him, he was him...Sumiko.

["Just like you...Priest Sumiko."]

Blushing hard, Sumiko or Tanjiro reacts to it.

["What?!"]

To see and hear Muzan laughs light heart like Kagaya, it thorns him apart.

["If only you were a girl...I guess I would have ask your hand."]

Tanjiro had believe it, that lying mouth of dead corpses.

Angrily clenching his teeth from the sickening memory.

Tanjiro curses.

"Unforgivable-"

Until he met someone at the hallway who block his way back outside to get back to the butterfly estate.

It was... "Tanjiro are you okay now?" No other than Tomioka Giyuu, the water pillar.

Suddenly all his anger had been washed away literally like a water would wash off your worries if drench in it. "Ah." Tanjiro happily greets him back and thought to make a conversation further than hi and hello. "Yes! What about you Giyuu-san! They didnt punish you right...?"

Giyuu explained briefly as he did not want him to worry, more like he suck at telling a story if not about killing a demon despite it's family member begs to keep their converted blood relatives.

"They locked me up but I was never hurt. It is fine."

Even by such summary, Tanjiro can smell Giyuu had a lot of trouble so he made an apologetic look. "I-I'm sorry." Shooking his head, Giyuu's cold eyes lifts up with shock. Unable to stop himself, the reincarnation of priest of water marches forward to lift Tanjiro's chin to properly see him eye to eye.

"If you do feel that way?"

For some reason their eyes stared at each other. Tanjiro's eyes were watery but not close to crying.

'Ahh...he is awfully worried.' Giyuu blames himself for this boy to be emotional. 'But he does not dislike me right?' Deciding to change the topic as he let go of Tanjiro's chin. "..May I ask Tanjiro?" Tanjiro who kept the same face.

"What is it?" Giyuu clear his throat. "Do you remember me...?" It was a question but to Tanjiro it reflected like a close and open question. Tanjiro did not even think deeply of that question, he took it as clarifications if maybe Giyuu wants him to never forget how he spared their lives in that fateful snowy day.

"Of course I do, there is no way-"
"Sumiko."

((BADUMP...))

Tanjiro froze. "...eh?"

To see Giyuu with eyes vast like the ocean, the storm is calm yet like a child of river echoes its old story. "It's me, Tomioka Guren."

Giyuu introduce his true identity to him flatly.

Gaining his thoughts but too rumble to expose. "W-wha..." Giyuu whose dense to notice that Tanjiro is uncomfortable, he continued his confession. "I have it too those headaches, thar is why Urokodaki did not push to interogate your headaches. Because he seen it before. I was...a reincarnation from the past. And you are too right?"

Tanjiro hides his face by having a darker reaction. "...Is the past important?"
It was Giyuu's turn to freeze up. "Eh?"

Tanjiro reveal his displayed emotion by his face that he was sad and trying to smile. "You see, Giyuu-san...I honestly dont care about my past life. In fact it is literally a pain for me. To be reminded of something how horrible Sumiko's death was and how...I was..."

Giyuu though was pushy, "Sumiko-" about to touch the younger's shoulders, Tanjiro unfortunately puts some distance with a painful smile. "Giyuu-san, truly from the bottom of my heart me and Nezuko is grateful to you!"

Giyuu can only felt lonely a bit but with respect of understanding.

"Tanjiro..."

Tanjiro then runs away as he said, "Guren-san, from the past and this present please look after me." Giyuu who did not want to argue. "...Yeah. I will."

As he watch those familiar back of Tanjiro as Tanjrou Sumiko when he ditch him in exchange for stealing the blue spider lily.

Giyuu can't help but talk to himself mentally to support his own feelings for the boy.

'Because I love you...'

On the other hand, Tanjiro kept running until he almost reach the gates of Butterfly's estate.

He was actually guilty. 'I'm sorry Guren...I want to forget the past. I hate him, I hate him. I will take his head...Kibutsuji...Muzan...! Because for me Guren... The present is much better, am not alone anymore. In the past it is just you...me...and...'

(Gasp)

He stops and realize something he missed out.

"Could it be...Touji...ro...?"

KRING...))

Like a traumatic memory, suddenly it split his head and unable to recall that tragedy how he was driven beneath the moonlight of flames.

Tanijiro blinks. "I forgot his name. Weird." Then he glared to the blue sky. 'I love you Muzan-sama my ass...' starting to walk again to the right path.


"...the past is nothing. It doesn't define me. Am not the priest of fire anymore, the one been humiliated by Muzan. Because am Kamado Tanjiro...!"


The rest of the day Tanjiro spend his time with Inosuke and Zenitsu whose also hospitalize when they help the Sound pillar with the Demon Daki. Truthfully they did not look much beaten up but apparently they broke their ribs. So many things had happened when he collapsed on the flame pillar's arms.

Sitting somewhere he can be alone inside the butterfly estate, Tanjiro can't help but feel depress. It was weighing in his mind, '...I was killed like that huh...' looking at his right palm, recalling how he was arrested before execution. 'Its so painful that am terrified to be tied like that again.'

Uttering the painful word.

"Execution..."

Tap,tap,tap.

A shadow hover above's him, there were capes of flames. He was greeted.

"Kamado Tanjiro right?" Somehow it makes him feel cool to he greeted by his senior now that he knows that this owl face is a pillar. The highest demon slayer. Startled, Tanjiro stood from sitting position out of respect to greet him back with excitement.

"O-oh! R-Rengoku...san...!" Kyoujiro chuckles and opens up the topic. "That is your real name right? Not Sumiko..." Tanjiro wonders why that made him blush.

"Y-yeah." Then it went to silence.

"..."

Kyoujiro had that beaming smile compare to Tanjiro's shy smile right now.

To cut off the awkwardness and gap, Kyoujiro happily announces to him. "Congratulations!"
"E-eh?"

Kyoujiro pats his shoulders with enthusiasm. "You are back as a demon slayer again! Take pride on that! Haha!" Getting praise by someone cool as this man,Tanjiro got butterflies in his stomach and politely thanked Kyoujiro. "T-t-thank y-you!"

Kyoujiro laughs.
"Hahaha."
Tanjiro giggles.
"Hehehe."

Somehow the sunset approached already.
"What is your plan now?" Ask by Kyoujiro as they both sat. "I will find a cure for my little sister Nezuko. Then I will slay that bastard who killed my family." Tanjiro shares honestly.

Kyoujiro nods in understanding. "...Revenge huh."
Observing Tanjiro's features, the boy continued to open up his feelings upon all the troubles in his life.

"Probably, but am not the only victim. So I prefer to say it is not revenge but our duty to put an end to the misery of every human being had turned to a demon and were eaten by the demons!"

Amazed at such determination, "Kamado..." Kyoujiro saw the potential Tanjiro has as a demon slayer, he may even become a pillar someday.

"I swear!"
"I like that spirit of yours!"
"Really?"

Kyoujiro did not really plan to be closer or anything but he cannot ignore the lit of fire in Tanjiro's eyes. "Yeah! So how about become my personal pupil!" He proposed.

Tanjiro whose ears went hot.
"C-can I...!?"
"Yes!"

Both agreed to become closer.

"Ok then! Thank you so much Aniki!"
Shaking hands, nothing is wrong with that.

"Pleasure to be with you from now on! Kamado my boy..."

But then again, deep inside Kyoujiro he had this strange bond with Tanjiro.

'If I get closer, I maybe able to distinguish what is this hole I feel inside my heart every time I interact with him...This Kamado Tanjiro is so sweet yet something inside me burning up...? Like that old folktale my father used to tell me.'

Little bit they know this is destined to be.

'The Fire and Flame pillar cannot be friends again.'

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Finding the ribbon of Tanjiro.

"Sumiko..."

Lady Muzan quickly snaps his fingers to summon Nakime and teleport him inside the infinity fortress. His remaining Twelve demons already lined up to his presence. Kokushibo reports. "Daki died along with Gyutaro." Muzan who got tired of his crossdressing transforms as he swear in anger.

"I will take him back, Kamado Tanjiro is mine!" He is basically upset his toy escaped.

He regretted for not being more forceful.

Muzan rants to his demons who surely can't say anything back or else they will be killed out of spite.

"He doesn't belong to the demon slayers anymore...!"

However not his priest...Kokushibo spokes out his thoughts that he care deeply for his master.

"Muzan-sama aren't you being too obsess with him? I thought you want to kill Sumiko-"

SLASH!

Kokushibo's mouth got sliced, blood gushing from his body the rest of the demons like Akaza, Douma and Kaigaku stiffens.

"SHUT UP!"

Muzan is still transforming like a real demon he was...tentacles roaming around, the monster mouths all over his body opening up like wounds. He keep yelling at them or more like... "HOW DARE YOU ASSUME HOW I FEEL AND WHAT I THINK? ARE YOU TRYING TO TAKE CONTROL ON ME KOKUSHIBO..?"

Kokushibo had his wounds close due to their regeneration abilities did not utter a word, fearing to upset his milord more.

"..."
"ANSWER ME."

Kokushibo simply follow the command and answered with truthful words of fascination.

"...I love you Muzan-sama, I always had been harboring special feelings for you. That is why I was okay to be converted as a demon. Therefore I can tell, with or without our mental connection by our blood...I know you still love Tanjiro Sumiko, you still like him even when Yoriichi almost killed you. You...You love Kamado Tanjiro-"

It just irate Muzan more.

"ENOUGH!"

His cells running wild, "HAHH...HAHH...GRR...GHH..." Akaza suddenly speaks up. "C-calm down Muzan-sama." Douma also joined to lessen Muzan's tantrums of selfishness. "If you want Sumiko or Kamado Tanjiro back then just get him back~Muzan-sama. Isn't that possible?" Somehow that made Muzan flinch till his body have calmed down and morphed to his original male appearance. "To get him back..." It is easy but that meant endangering his location to the pillars.

Finally having rational thoughts, Muzan snap his fingers and Nakime presented a seat for her king.

"Here you go Muzan-sama."

Kibutsuji Muzan sits at his throne and validated the plan in his mind.

"No need. Tanjiro will eventually cross paths with me." He made an evil smirks and hinted in his eyes were excitement. "I don't know why, but I feel like we are still fated to meet again." Thinking how Tanjiro made loved with his female form, it just clicks to Muzan that this isn't a goodbye.

He grab his pockets and smiles at the pink ribbon left by Tanjiro.

The remnants of Sumiko.

"Kamado Tanjiro will be mine forever even after death, he is bound to me for all eternity. Sumiko must pay that price."

Not knowing something inside Muzan's body gradually changes...


To Be Continued

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