Testing the Angel's Patience

Disclaimer and warning: I do not own Demon Slayer/Kimetsu no Yaiba, it's property of Gotouge Koyoharu, I only own this plot. Warnings are the same of always, this is a spanking fic, if you don't like it then don't read it, press the back button and that's it.

"Monitsu! You're already annoying me with your whining!" Inosuke yelled at Zenitsu who also wasn't going to let himself be yelled out by that boar guy.

"And I'm already fed up with your reckleness and annoying nature of fighting the first person that you see!" Zenitsu fired back. "What did you just say, Monitsu?!" "What you heard, and it's Z-E-N-I-T-S-U or are you too dumb to get a name correctly?" The two had been at each others' throats for the past few days and they were already annoying the true sweetheart that Tanjiro was.

"Inosuke, Zenitsu please-" Tanjiro tried to break out their fight, but he was only ignored as the two were arguing and arguing. The crimson-haired boy left them for the moment, but he would be lying if he said he wasn't annoyed by their constant bickers. He sighed and continued trying to deal with those two.

But as the days continued and the two kept fighting and fighting, Tanjiro finally reached his breaking point.

"ENOUGH!" At their friend's shout, the two paused their bickering and turned to face Tanjiro, shocked that he had shouted like that. "I've had it with the both of you, always it's the same with you! Bickering, arguing, fighting, this ends now and I mean it!" He quickly grabbed the two of his friend's ears and began pulling them with him to some boulders from there as both Inosuke and Zenitsu whined and whimpered as their ears were pulled.

"Kamaboko Gonpachiro, what in hell's name are you doing?!" Inosuke tried to fight Tanjiro but he found himself be swept up and over the other's shoulder. "What the-?!" Zenitsu was terrified now and immediately began apologizing franctically to his friend.

"Tanjiro please! I am so sorry, I didn't mean to upset you, this one kept annoying me, don't be mad!" Tanjiro hadn't even done anything to him, and Zenitsu was already blubbering like crazy as Tanjiro sighed. "I've been very patient with the both of you, Zenitsu and Inosuke, but you've been arguing and fighting these past weeks and it's taking a toll on me, I will make sure the two of them won't think for a second on keeping this on!" As Inosuke was squirming and shouting situated on Tanjiro's shoulder, Tanjiro pulled his two friends to a boulder and finally said what he was going to do.

"I am going to do something that you two have seen coming for so long. I am going to spank you and see to it that you stop this!" Tanjiro easily maneuver both Zenitsu and Inosuke over his lap, with a terrifying strength that not even Inosuke nor Zenitsu could battle against. Zenitsu immediately began wailing before he even was spanked. "No, Tanjiro, please forgive me! Don't spank me, I promise I won't do it again!" He begged, tears like waterfalls rushing down his face.

"I'm sorry, Zenitsu but that was what you told me before and you didn't keep it, I'll make sure you learn from this." "You're crazy if I would leave you do this to me, Gonpachiro!" Inosuke tried to resist Tanjiro but he found himself failing in the process. Tanjiro pulled down both of Zenitsu and Inosuke's pants along with their underwear, leaving their butts bared and exposed to the many swats that he would rain down against them. Tanjiro rose his hand and began spanking.

SMACK SMACK SMACK. "You two have been arguing and making everything far difficult to our missions!" SMACK SMACK SMACK. "I am tired of your behavior and I'll see it stops and improves now. The job of a demon slayer is to protect those who cannot protect themselves, not arguing over every single thing that happens around you two!" SMACK SMACK SMACK. Tanjiro scolded as he landed such a steady wave of stinging smacks on both butts that he was punishing.

"Gonpachiro, how dare-ah! H-how dare you-gyaa!" Inosuke was fighting and squirming against Tanjiro's hand and not willing to take the spanking easily. Zenitsu on the other hand he was already bawling his eyes out, Tanjiro had only landed nine spanks onto his butt and he already was sobbing like a little baby. "T-Tanjiro, waaaaa!" He couldn't even talk as nine more smacks landed on his throbbing buttocks that were turning light pink.

"I've tried to not come to this, but the both of you didn't leave me any choice. I don't take any joy causing you pain, but how else would you learn to behave yourselves and stop arguing?" SMACK SMACK SMACK. "If you take your bickering and reckleness into battle, not only both of you would get seriously hurt, but also any other person that we're trying to protect," SMACK SMACK SMACK. "We cannot afford losing more lives than the ones we have already lost to the demons, if you don't learn the real meaning of being a demon slayer, then it will lead us to tragedy, understand that!" SMACK SMACK SMACK.

Inosuke didn't want to give in into crying, he was more mentally stronger than Zenitsu, but Tanjiro was certainly smacking him very hard and his limit was about to be reached, as much as he didn't want to cry tears were rushing down his cheeks, wetting his boar mask and as for Zenitsu he was just basically sobbing out heavily so heavily that he might bust his lungs. Inosuke began kicking his legs now. "G-Gonpachiro s-stop..." His voice became teary and cracked.

"Until I deem you have learned your lesson, Inosuke, I will stop." Tanjiro knew he had to steel himself and punish his friend, it was for his best, he couldn't allow him to keep doing the things he was doing and he better than anyone else knew it was Inosuke the one who had provoked Zenitsu into bickering, he had to be a bit harsher with him than with Zenitsu." Tilting, the both of his friends forward, to access their sitspots, Tanjiro grabbed something else, it was a bamboo stick, meant to spank and cause a stinging that would remind the two to behave themselves.

SWITCH SWITCH SWITCH. "Ahhhh!" The switch hurt a lot more than Tanjiro's hands, Inosuke had easily began sobbing as soon as the first three switches landed across his bright red butt. SWITCH SWITCH SWITCH. Zenitsu's butt was given three swift switches as well. "WAAAAAAAH TANJIROOOOO!" The blond had to grip Tanjiro's leg for comfort and sobbed into it, with his face a tearful and snot mess. "I sure hope the both of you will learn from this, otherwise next time I'll have to be stricter." SWITCH SWITCH SWITCH. Inosuke couldn't keep making himself tougher, he yelped and cried as each other the switches and lastly he started begging and apologizing to Tanjiro best he could, even if his voice cracked down and broke.

"I-I-I'm sorry! G-G-Gonpachiro...! I-I'm sorry..." That was more than enough, Inosuke had learned, Zenitsu as well. Using a more soothing tone, Tanjiro announced the last part of their punishment. "Alright, ten more switches each and it will be over." Raising his hand up, Tanjiro brought it down on both of Zenitsu and Inosuke's bright red butts, spanking twenty times since he divided ten to each of them.

SWITCH SWITCH SWITCH SWITCH SWITCH SWITCH SWITCH SWITCH SWITCH SWITCH SWITCH SWITCH SWITCH SWITCH SWITCH SWITCH SWITCH SWITCH SWITCH SWITCH...

Tanjiro was finally done, their spanking was over. Now the redheaded boy was gently soothing both of his sobbing friends, gently pulling Zenitsu and Inosuke to sit on his lap and enclosing both of them with his loving and warm arms. "Shhh, shh. It's alright now. It's over, guys, it's all over." He rubbed their heaving backs and and rocked them back and forth, his fingers digging into their hairs and ruffling them gently, Inosuke had pulled off his boar mask and Tanjiro could lightly stroke his blue hair. As the two cried and sobbed, they accepted Tanjiro's embrace of comfort, both of them burying their tear strained faces into his shoulders.

"I forgive you both, I forgive you. I know you two regret what you did and won't do it ever again. It's okay if you have disagreements, but you must remember you must never hurt each other in fights." He gently lectured, he himself had had a share of disagreements with the two, he included himself as no doubt he had done what they did, he was the eldest of six siblings after all and despite always being a good brother, he still got in arguments with his younger siblings.

"S-sorry, T-Tanjiro..." Zenitsu sniffled, his face was tear-stained and now Inosuke didn't do anything to hide his tears, he let them wash out his whole face. Their bright bottoms were full on display, but Tanjiro didn't spank them in a public zone, they were behind a cave and on a boulder where the redhead had sat down to administer the spanking to his friends who certainly needed an attitude adjustment, now it was cuddle time, it had been very intense five minutes of spanks and tears, but they really had to have someone to step in and let them know that their behavior wasn't at all acceptable.

"Y-yes, m-m'sorry..." Inosuke being tamed and apologizing for his mistake was something that Tanjiro would never see happening, and though the method he used on him to correct his behavior wasn't at all his favorite, he hoped it could help him not fall back into fighting with Zenitsu or anyone else in general, Tanjiro also scolded him for always trying to start a fight, now he hoped this lesson had sank into the wild boar's head.

"It's okay, shh." Continuing to hold and soothe his sobbing friends, Tanjiro began humming a lullaby that he used to hum to his younger siblings when they were scared or hurt or when he had disciplined them for anything wrong that they had done in order to also help his mother raise all of them, after their father's death. He hadn't stopped holding them close, as his soft hums soothe the two, he gently began pulling up their pants carefully to not let the fabric touch their sore butts.

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"Now, what did we learn?" After a while that the two had calmed down, Tanjiro questioned them if the lesson that was given to them had worked, they were standing up with their butts still reminding them of what they shouldn't do again or otherwise Tanjiro would give them and even stricter lesson and that wouldn't last five minutes only but it would be prolonged.

"Not to fight or hurt each other..." Zenitsu blushed, feeling like he was only a tiny child who was smacked for his bad behavior, he looked to the side, urging to rub his bottomg.

"Not initiate unnecessary fights or drama..." Inosuke groaned, looking away with a rather cute pout because he felt embarrassed.

"Good, lesson is learned." Tanjiro ruffled both of his hairs, sighing softly. "Listen, I didn't enjoy spanking you both, but your arguments couldn't continue. Do you both understand?" And his two friends only nodded their heads, still blushing in embarrassment, not only the fact that they had behaved like misbehaving toddlers and that they had to make their friend discipline them and now they were telling him that they were not going to do the same mistake twice.

"Let's go eat, okay?" Tanjiro wanted to soothe them more with allowing them to eat the meal that the butterfly girls had packed them with when they left the estate. That cheered up Inosuke as food was the key to put him happy whenever he was sad, Zenitsu could agree that they could use something to munch on. He squeaked when he felt another pair of arms hug him, it was Nezuko who wanted to comfort him.

"Aw, you want to hug Zenitsu as well, Nezuko?" Tanjiro let his younger sister to continue comforting Zenitsu further, he wanted his friend to be plenty of consoled. He let Inosuke wolf down his portion of food and even ceased a part of his own portion to him, to have him consoled some more.

Without a doubt, Tanjiro loved his two troublesome friends, even when he had to whop their butts to get him to behave, nothing would change that.