Demon Slayer AU
By: FunahoMisaki
(A/N: I own nothing and it was just a little blurb that hit me so I had to write it. Maybe a bit OOC.)
"Why do you all keep using he to refer to me? I mean I know this uniform isn't really flattering or showing anything but still." Tanjiro asked looking at the assembled pillars who all turned and stared at him.
"What?" Giyu asked staring at Tanjiro who gave him a confused look.
"I'm a girl." Tanjiro said as if it were obvious and everyone stared at her in disbelief for a moment.
"But when I met you, you had been wearing mens cloths." Giyu said making Tanjiro shrug.
"My family didn't have a lot of money spread between us six children and mom, so when we got enough for one Kimono I let Nezuko have it and just wore some of dad's old cloths." Tanjiro said shrugging her shoulders at them.
"No way are you a girl." Sanemi said reaching forward and grabbing at Tanjiros chest as if to prove it. His eyes went wide when he encountered soft squishy flesh and squeezed it a bit.
"KYAAA! PERVERT!" Tanjiro gave Sanemi the mother of all bitch slaps, her voice a lot more high pitched with her scream. Sanemi was sent sprawling to the ground while Tanjiro covered her chest with one arm, her face bright red and a scowl on her face as she glared at him.
"You pervert! Don't go grabbing peoples chests!" Tanjiro scolded Sanemi who was gapping and nursing his cheek slightly.
A shadow fell over Sanemi who raised his eyes from Tanjiro and was met with the sight of Tengen and Giyu scowling down at him and cracking their knuckles.
"You should know better than to do that." Giyu growled out as he glared down at Sanemi.
"Respect women asshole." Tengen growled angrily as he cracked his knuckles, his eyes near glowing in his fury as he stared down at Sanemi.
"Are you alright Tanjiro-chan? Don't worry about Sanemi, Tengen-san and Giyu-san are handling him." Mitsuri asked checking on Tanjiro alongside Shinobu while Himejima had picked the small girl up and held her comfortingly, gently rubbing her back with one large hand.
"Tanjiro is a pretty boyish name for a girl." Obanai remarked staring at the bright red swordswoman.
"Mom wanted to name the firstborn after dad so even though I'm a girl they named me Tanjiro." Tanjiro explained making the others nod slightly in understanding.
"Your strength is made all the more impressive now that we know you're a female, especially since your body composition doesn't seem to be similar to Mitsuri-chan." Shinobu said recalling how she had seen the girl fighting a bit and how the girl had apparently beheaded demons on her own strength instead of using poisons like Shinobu did.
"But still. Why would you keep the demon alive, your younger sister or not?" Obanai asked staring at Tanjiro who looked over at him.
"Nezuko is the only family I have left. She's the only one who…who survived. I don't care what I have to do. I'll find a way to turn Nezuko back into a human!" Tanjiro said and the others all shook their heads slightly.
"There is no such way for a thing to be possible." Rengoku said as kindly as he could to the young girl who shook her head.
"There is! There's a demon doctor who's been trying to find a way! As long as I can get her the blood of demons close to Kitsubuji, blood from the Demon Moons, then she can use that to make a cure! She's also studying Nezuko's blood because Nezuko is different from other demons! She's never eaten humans or even drank their blood, and when I was training to become a Demon Slayer she was in a coma state for two full years! She didn't wake up or anything! And Urokodaki-sensei said it's because she probably heals and regains her energy by sleeping instead of eating people." Tanjiro said and she was begging them to understand, to know that her little sister wasn't a threat.
"A demon doctor?" The other pillars seemed skeptical of this but Kagaya merely tilted his head slightly.
"You speak of Lady Tamayo, a demoness who broke free of Muzan's control 500 years ago correct?" Kagaya asked making the pillars all look towards him now.
"You know Tamayo-san?" Tanjiro asked her eyes lighting up at the fact that someone seemed to believe him.
"My ancestors kept detailed records of those we know now as the Demon Moons and of the fight between Yoriichi and Muzan. Yoriichi-san said that when Muzan fled he left behind a female demon named Tamayo who damned Muzan's name and was surprised that she wasn't killed by the curse, from there she told Yoriichi everything she could about what happened to her and about Muzan himself. Yoriichi spared her life because he didn't think she deserved death, especially not when she hated Muzan just as much if not more than any Slayer did." Kagaya said and he smiled slightly.
"My family has also kept tabs on her whenever one of our crows was lucky enough to stumble across her hiding place. She has become an amazing doctor I hear, has certainly been practicing medicine for at least 200 years and has not once fed on a human in that time." Kagaya said and the pillars were surprised that such a demon existed.
"She's working on finding a cure! Finding some way to turn Nezuko back into being a human." Tanjiro said excited that someone believed him and knew he was talking about.
"If it is her looking into it then there truly will be a way. Perhaps however we can help her move things along quicker and develop the cure faster. I shall send my crows out to find her again and deliver a message to her." Kagaya said smiling and he held a crow on his finger for a moment.
"And as long as Nezuko-chan does not feed off of humans, then she will be welcome in the Demon Slayer corps. Although it will take time and effort for others to accept her." Kagaya said to Tanjiro as his crow flew off.
"I don't care how long it takes or what I have to do! I'd do anything for my baby sister!" Tanjiro said firmly and those with younger siblings all smiled slightly as they thought of their own siblings.
"Well said young Tanjiro. Now you need to get to Butterfly Estate and be checked over and healed." Kagaya said smiling at the girl who beamed brightly back at him. Hm a loyal strong girl like her who put her loved ones above all else and seemed to be quite adaptable and strong willed with the way she did her Breathing…
Kagaya would have to speak to his wife about possibly grooming the girl into being the wife of the next Ubuyashiki head.
"Here. I'll see to your recovering and check ups personally." Shinobu said holding her hand out to the girl and wondering if she could get this girl to somehow help Kanao be more true to herself and decisive.
"Thank you. I'll be in your care." Tanjiro said smiling brightly and taking Shinobu's hand trustingly as Himejima set her back on the ground.
"Such a cute girl. Perhaps I should take her as my fourth wife if she shows any talents in the ninja arts?" Tengen mused aloud as Tanjiro was guided away by Shinobu, the reddish haired girl chatting the older ones ear off about anything and everything.
Giyu slowly drew his sword as he stared down the other pillars who gulped under the heavy pressure in the air that was coming from the usually so aloof pillar.
"Anyone who wants to try and get near my little foster sister…has to go through me first."
