I added a demon into the manor so Yua could fight someone.
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Chapter 3: Aura-Sensing
At most a few minutes had passed since Yua was separated from her Demon Slayer comrades and the children. The young woman ran along a hallway in the mysterious, changing mansion, trying to find anyone.
Her katana was drawn, her senses sharp.
She concreted harder, trying to pick up a familiar presence. What she feels was a dark looming presence before her.
Yua stops and hides behind a wall. Careful she looks around the corner.
There.
The familiar black color, tripping off a demon!
It's a female one, with long hair, wearing a short kimono.
No other colors shine from the demon…this means it hasn't sensed her yet.
Good.
That was good.
Once again Yua was thankful that she was born with the ability to feel and see Aura's. It helped her a lot in her fight with demons, and also in her interactions with people.
Lying to her was difficult when one could see the colors you were giving off since any color had a meaning and Yua had trained her whole life to understand what they meant.
She gets ready to kill the demon.
Total Concretion!
Running up to it, the demon senses her, turning around.
Moon Breathing!
But it's already too late for it.
First Form: Clear Moon, Nightfall Palace!
She draws her katana and performs a singular horizontal slash following a crescent shape. The demon screams blood runs down in a cascade it's body and with a simple slash from left to right Yua beheads it.
With cold grey eyes, she looks down at the man-eating monster. Even in death no regrets.
Disgusting.
Demons are a disease, all need to die!
And yet you didn't call out Tanjiro and his little demon secret…
Yua shakes her head, trying not to listen to the voice in her head. She needs to find the others.
So she starts running again.
I don't know why I just didn't kill the demon Tanjiro has with him on the spot…just…the aura it gave off…it was gentle and bright…like Tanjiro's aura was calm and sincere…He is a good guy…there must be a reason…And I want to find out what it is!
The house starts to rotate and Yua can grap into a doorway. After it stops, she continues her running.
She feels their Auras, yet can't pinpoint them clearly. It's getting on her nerves. She needs to work on that.
Tracking someone was never her specialty and look she needs it now.
Awesome.
For a while, she runs through the mansion. Opening doors, finding vacant rooms, trying to not break her neck when the mansion starts to imitate a crazy carousel.
Screaming Yua falls out a window, crashing down on the forest ground hard. She feels the crack in her rib before the pain made tears spread in her eyes.
Not a demon broke a rib, at least she could have said she earned a battle scare, no, a stupid pathetic fall from an open window did it.
Her grandfather was right to tell her that she had to give more. This was downright embarrassing.
That's when she also hears the sound of battle.
Confused carefully she sits up, holding into her rib, and looks around.
…What the fuck is she seeing?!
Did she hit her head?
Or was Tanjiro looked into a fistfight with a boar-headed man who has the weirdest Aura Yua ever saw and felt?
It's nearly animalist in its wild and crazy colors.
"Yua-San!", calls the little girl over to her.
She is in the arms of her brother and another boy, probably her older brother.
"Are you all right?"
"I'm fine…just…is Tanjiro fighting Manbearpig or I'm hallucinating?"
"I don't really see the bear…", mumbles the brother Yua knows loudly enough for her to hear it.
As she opens her mouth to answer him Tanjiro yells at Manbearpig you need to calm down and gives him the hardest headbutt Yua had ever seen!
She can't help but make a face. That must hurt like a bitch!
"Ahh! That sound!", yells a bloody beat-up Zenitsu who besides Tanjiro's Box. "Are your skulls fractured?!"
That's actually a good question.
Manbearpig staggers backward, his head aka. it was a mask falling off.
Yua blinks rapidly and can't help the blush from rising in her cheeks.
What a beautiful face on such a well-trained body!
Zenitsu doesn't seem to share her sentiment since he shrieks: "Huh?! A Girl?! Huh? Ah… Your face!"
"What the hell? You've got a problem with my face or something?", yells back the blue-haired boy with these pretty green eyes.
"You're one creepy guy, you know that? You've got such a ripped body, but there's a girl's face sitting on top of it."
"That's a bit mean…", mumbles Yua to herself.
"Why the hell are you staring at my face like that?"
"I-I'm not!"
Like the chicken Zenitsu is, he hides behind the little girl, Yua needs to get the names of the kids already, and denies having a problem with the pretty boy's face.
Tanjiro even adds that the pretty boy's face is quite petite, fair-skinned, and therefore attractive! Yua wonders if Tanjiro is hitting on the other male or does he just tell the truth.
She checks his Aura.
Well, Tanjiro isn't lying and doesn't have an underlying motive.
Pretty Boy is offended and wants to fight Tanjiro again, yet the other boy declines.
Their conversation turns only crazier and kind of funny as Tanjiro wants that Pretty Boy rests, Pretty Boy tells anybody his name is Hashibira Inosuke and the red-haired boy actually asks him which characters do you use to spell that?
Inosuke is so shocked that he freezes a moment, saying something about a loincloth, before he faints.
On Yua's head appears a drop.
Kudos for lasting that long boar-head-boy.
The little girl compliments Tanjiro's forehead for being so hard and even touches it.
Zenitsu and Yua don't know that the other thinks the same, but both ask themselves how freacking hard Tanjiro's head is and why he isn't bleeding.
Absolutely crazy day!
A while later Yua, her follow Demon Slayers Tanjiro and Zenitsu and the siblings are together making another grave for one of the victims of the demons in the Mansion, while Inosuke sleeps on Tanjiro Haori and uses Zenitsu and Yua's ones as blankets.
The group did good work already.
If they continue like this they will be done by sundown.
Out of nowhere, Inosuke starts to yell and jumps up from his makeshift bed.
"Ahh! He's awake!", screams Zenitsu scared.
Probably a stupid idea, since Inosuke now targets and wants to fight him. He chases poor Zenitsu around, till he hides behind Teruko. Yes, Yua finally learned their names.
The blue-haired boy stops and stares in utter confusion at them.
"What the hell are you guys doing?!"
"It's a burial.", deadpans Yua, fixing a stone. "That's what you do with dead people."
"You help you, too, Inosuke.", adds Tanjiro. "There are still people who were killed inside the house."
"What's the point of burying the corpses of creatures? I'm not doing that! I'm not helping out! Forget that! Fight me!"
Yua facepalms and grumbles something about all pretty outside and inside nothing.
"I see. You can't do it because your wounds are hurting you."
Not only Yua looks at Tanjiro in disbelief. Zenitsu is right with her.
Only because she sees how sincere Tanjiro Aura is, she doesn't think he is stupid. Tanjiro being seems to be always gentle and caring.
Her conclusion shows true as Tanjiro reassures Inosuke that he should rest while they all will do the work of burying the bodies.
Of course, seeing how proud Inosuke is of his Aura colors alone, the wild boy is offended and proclaims he will bury more bodies than anyone.
"As long as you do something, I don't care. Come on guys, we aren't finished yet and Agatsuma stop pestering Teruko!", commands Yua, which gets everyone moving.
Inosuke moved already before she opened her mouth.
Well, as long the job gets done she doesn't care.
In the late afternoon, the group finally finished burying all the bodies.
Eight.
Eight human lives…just sniffed out like a candle.
All, besides Inosuke, who randomly headbutts trees, are praying before the graves in silence.
Yua prays to Tsukuyomi, that the moon god, helps these poor souls enter the afterlife, be reunited with their loved ones, that they find peace.
It's then that they hear familiar caws.
Kaguya and Tanjiro's crow tells them to descend the mountain.
So the group gets ready for it, besides of course Inosuke, who still wants to fight Tanjiro, but follows after them.
At the base of the mountain, Yua, Tanjiro, and Zenitsu prepare to split from Kiyoshi, Shouichi, and Teruko, while Inosuke again randomly headbutts trees.
Zenitsu clings to Shouichi, crying like a baby.
"I won't have it! I won't have it, I won't have it! You can't go, Shouichi! You're powerful, Shouichi! Shouichi is the one who's gonna protect me!"
"Can't you see Shouichi doesn't want to stay?!", tells Tanjiro, seeming to lose his cool with the crybaby.
Yua simply hits Zenitsu over the head, so he falls down on the forest ground, whimpering and holding his new bump.
"I'm sorry for this shameless crybaby.", she apologizes and bows before the siblings. "Go in peace, children."
Pointedly she ignores how Zenitsu cries out that he isn't shameless and had to fight off a smirk as Tanjiro tells him he would have hit him on the head too if she hadn't done it before because Zenitsu was embarrassing them all and making unnecessary problems.
The sound of betrayal of Zenitsu was funny.
Tanjiro crow gives Kiyoshi, the boy with the rare blood, a little sachet with Wisteria flowers in them to ward off any demons.
With that, the Demon Slayers say goodbye to the kids, who will go finally home, and follow Kaguya and Tanjiro crow to their next destination.
If Yua had the guess it would be a Wistaria house since they all needed to tend to their wounds and a place to sleep from this long day.
It was a bit difficult, but Tanjiro agreed to let Yua carry his box, while he carried Zenitsu on his back. Her hit had been harder than expected and had in the end knocked the blond boy out.
For Yua, it was an experience feeling the Aura from the demon in the box so close to herself. It did confirm for her, that Tanjiro's demon was really different than all the other demons she encountered.
She wonder when she could ask Tanjiro for his story because right now she had to endure how Inosuke wanted to challenge the red-haired boy to a fight.
"Fight me!", howled Inosuke. "I swear I'm gonna find a weak point and bring you down, loser!"
"My name is not "loser"! It's Kamado Tanjiro!", corrected him Tanjiro.
"Kamaboko Gonpachiro!"
How in the name of Tsukoyomi could someone mess up a name so much? Yua was astonished.
"I'm gonna bring you down!"
"Who the hell are you talking about?!"
"That would be you!"
"No, it's someone else!"
"Can you talk any louder?!", screamed Zenitsu, startling anybody.
Done with all Yua looks up to the sky, where her crow and Tanjiro's fly.
"Kaguya, how long till we reach our destination?"
The I'm this close to committing homicide she doesn't say. Whom is she traveling with? One is crazier than the next one.
"We are nearly there, Yua-Chan!"
"Thanks, my princess."
Kaguya let's out a happy caw.
"You and your crow are close, hm?", says Tanjiro with a little smile.
Yua just deadpan.
"I'm since four years a Demon Slayer and Kaguya is since this long my crow of course we are close."
Awkward silence was now over the group.
Not that Yua cared. She isn't in the Demon Slayer Corps to make friends but to become a Hashira.
It's night when they finally reach the Wistaria House.
Kaguya is sitting on Yua's shoulder, while Tanjiro holds his crow in his hands.
"Caw~! Rest time! Rest time!", tells them Tanjiro crow. "Since you've sustained injuries, you're to rest until you're fully recovered!"
"Huh? Are you sure it's okay to rest? I just fought a demon while injured, you know.", ask Tanjiro.
"Ke-ke-ke."
""Ke-ke-ke"?"
Kaguya and Yua facepalm together.
"Let's eat this thing.", decides Inosuke.
"What?"
Kaguya and Yua facepalm harder.
Again, who in the name of Tsukuyomi did they meet?
Having enough Yua knocks on the manor door.
She has a feeling it will be a looooonnnnnnggggg night with these three idiots.
First Form: Clear Moon, Nightfall Palace is Kokushibo First Form: Dark Moon, Evening Palace.
I headcanon that his kata's had more positive names before he turned evil demon, so I changed the name's up to something more positive for the original Moon Breathing Yua's family uses.
Hope you like it.
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