A/N: None of you guys left any type of review for the last 2 chapters-

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Wild lashes from what seemed like a whip slashed everything it came in contact with. Making a clear cut through the trunk of trees and when they got hit by it, leaving a visible mark. However most of it's lashes were targeted towards a certain green-black checkered haori wearer.

"Total Concentration. Water Breathing. First Form: Water Surface Slash!"

Using the technique, Tanjirou managed to deflect the whip like lashes aimed at him. To his surprise though, the blade didn't cut through the rope.

One of it however, did manage to connect to it's intended target, leaving a huge cut on his side.

Tanjirou winced in pain as it started to bleed, however he quickly used the correct breathing technique to stop the bleeding or rather, minimize it.

"HAHAHAHAHAHA HOW DOES IT FEEL NOW?! Not so tough and mighty now there, are you?!" A feminine voice boasted loudly.

She had long since come down from the tree to 'play fair' with the demon slayer. Her features clearer than ever to the latter.

The other two demons watched the battle with great interest.

"This could be a part of a demon art…the ropes could be similar to former Upper Moon 6's belt. Using Hinokami Kagura will burn through the ropes, leading me closer to decapitating but it will use up much of my energy and leave me immobile for sometime because of changing breath styles and that's the last thing I want to do with demons with such ferocity…and till now, only one of them had been attacking…Judging by the attack which separated me from others-"

Tanjirou thought as he dodged yet another lash.

The female demon kept on blabbering in the background but her voice fell on deaf ears as Tanjirou silently strategised.

"-I have to be careful and precise with my attacks. One wrong move can land me dead and Nezuko would be alone in this world forever…I may not have much of a choice…"

Tanjirou tightened his grip on his sword, concentrating his breathing to keep him at his peak senses.

"Eh? Not much of a talker?" The female demon asked, genuinely sounding surprised.

Seriously, did this madlad just not react to any of my mocking or insults? That's new.

Getting more intrigued, she finally grinned widely and rolled back her rope in her hand.

She took two steps in her front and Tanjirou visibly took two steps back, following her lead while keeping himself in a defensive stance.

The other two demons watched the scene closely. The smaller demon visibly ready to attack but gets signaled to stand still by the crystal ball holding demon.

"You know I might have underestimated your skills by trying one of my beginner tricks-" she said as a visible smirk appears on her face.

Tanjirou unfazed by her comments, looks at her with intensity.

The pain from the earlier slash on side still stung painfully. He focused on his breathing technique to minimize the pain and reduce the bleeding further. He needed to recover and fast .

"The fact that you held your own…is quite fascinating! Our Majesty did mention your skills but I didn't expect them to be this sharp~ What is your name?" She asks in a flirting tone.

"My name holds no importance especially to a demon who has taken the lives of innocent people" Tanjirou said with a serious look.

"Ara ara~ I guess we might have to apply force? Right, Oni-san ?" She purred.

Her whole personality changing in a snap as she yelled,

"Blood Demon Art: Binding Ropes and Constriction!"

The whip like cord then transformed into grayish thick rope which immediately started to surround Tanjirou and slowly closing in on him from all sides like a yarn ball, as the demon slowly clasped her hands. Tanjirou closed his eyes and tightened the grip on his sword more than ever, making his knuckles go white and slowly whispered.

"Hinokami Kagura…Fake Rainbow"

The demon's grin widened more than ever when it nearly trapped him but when she tried to actually bind him and tighten the ropes around him, the ropes went though Tanjirou's figure and his form's picture blurred out from the scene itself.

What the-

This left the other two observant demons baffled as well which eventually morphed into pure horror as they saw the demon slayer suddenly behind the female demon who realized that a bit late.

"Hinokami Kagura! Danc-"

"Blood Demon Art: Illusion and Teleportation"

Tanjirou who appeared behind the demon, inches away from performing her decapitation, gets teleported right in front of her; messing up his whole stance and failing to cut her head off while also putting him in a vulnerable spot. His eyes widen at the shock of the sudden change of place.

As he tried to regain his balance mid air and flip away, the ground abruptly seemed much higher than it seemed before.

Instinctively, the demon slayer twirls his blade into performing the water wheel technique using water breathing. Tanjirou's eyes widen as he instantly grasps his mistake.

This change of breathing techniques resulted in him getting immobile for a few seconds mid air as his muscles stiffened which forcefully made him let his guard down as he tried to execute recovery breathing to get off the recoil. Something he was painfully aware of by now.

The demon in front of him didn't waste this tiny moment of vulnerability.

She tugged her ropes back again, taking full control over them before Tanjirou could regain his balance. She twirls them around the slayer tightly before his feet could even touch the ground, immobilizing him completely.

"My my~ Whose the caged bird now?!"


Is this how I was destined to die?

Zenitsu thought as he felt as if his ears bled and his whole body stung with pain.

Apparently the demon not only is a loud bastard but his blood demon also associates with shouting. And oh no , that doesn't end there . When he screams, sharp needles rain everywhere, leaving the demon slayers in more pain.

As he nearly passed out, he was beginning to wonder if his sensitive hearing had been a curse all along.

Fortunately just before he became absolutely deaf or worse, died, the two other males managed to plug his ears with bits of clothes; making the pain from the sound somewhat tolerable.

The piercing pain from the needles which stung them, unsurprisingly, didn't and had to be taken off manually. Most of them after the battle ended. Not to mention, those needles could possibly blind, paralyze or worse kill them if they ever hit the wrong spot. The others knew of the danger and were thus taking a more of a defensive stance.

Thankfully Nezuko-chan was here to accompany him.

"YOU SHALL BEG FOR YOUR DEATH" yelled the demon once more before it screamed even more.

The boar head and the water hashira stood defensively in front of the demon girl and the blonde who nearly passed out.

Zenitsu being too vulnerable for dealing with the attacks and the other not allowed to enter the fight for the sake of her own safety, much to her dismay and annoyance.

"This demon is such a loud brat! And it spits needles everywhere too! Makes me want to chop his head off and stab it over a thousand times!!!" Inosuke fumed. Blood seeped down his arms and chest where the needles impaled his skin ruthelessly, only to be mostly pulled out aggressively by the latter.

"BEAST BREATHING. TENTH FANG: WHIRLING FANG!"

Using the technique, Inosuke deflected most of the needles aiming at Nezuko.

"A needle in the wrong place can have fatal consequences…"

Giyuu thought as he had to use dead calm yet again to deflect another batch of sharp needles from piercing him. He was stuck . As soon as he tried to move, the demon launched another attack which effectively pushed him back or halted his progression giving the demon enough time to go back to maintain distance. Giyuu knew it was stalling.

"I can't use Dead Calm while moving…but staying at one place while the demon rampantly attacks is wasting time which in turn is endangering Tanjirou…" he looks up at the demon still attacking madly, Giyuu's eyes then gleamed in a glint of guilt.

And that's when Giyuu realized his partner was now at the very edge of his patience.

"BEAST BREATHING. TENTH FANG: WHIRLING FANG!" shouted Inosuke as he then started to proceed forward, his intentions of killing the demon very clear. He took one step at a time, however didn't stop moving even as the needles impaled him badly; he kept moving forward adamantly and selflessly.

Giyuu slowly started doing the same, deflecting most of the needles via his dead calm technique and the remainder of the attack either causing minor injury or sliding off by his tough haori, not causing any major damage. Giyuu was a Hashira. He can handle minor inconveniences. His life didn't have much worth anyway.

They needed to end this quickly and go after Tanjirou.Who knows how he is fighting off?

When the demon realized what was going on, he started laughing madly, "Do you think that twirling your blades will be enough to approach me and kill me?!"

The demon yelled more intensely, causing Zenitsu to now pass out completely and the other two being impaled by needles and blown back and knocked hard against the tree and a huge rock which got crushed due to the sheer force of the throw. Both the slayers were shaken by the attack and struggled to get up.

A needle hit Giyuu dangerously close to his eye and Inosuke near his heart, causing the pillar and Boar head much pain as they sluggishly tried to take it out on their own.

Inosuke's whole body was practically dyed red by his own blood due to the needles brutally piercing through it during the last blow while the Hashira's clothes were practically covered in the needles as they mercilessly pierced through the tough material of his haori and stabbed his arms and wrists. His clothes were starting to engulf themselves into the crimson red.

Something hit them as they noticed the injuries. Each time the needle pierced them, they became more and more sluggish meaning the needles had small doses of poison within them and with the amount they have been injected with...it must be beyond curable as their own skin is slowly turning blue-ish.

"DIE" the Demon shouted before delivering the final blow.

However that blow never came.

The impact was completely taken in by Nezuko, leaving her body, a bloody mess but she continued to stand and took an defensive stand much to the pain and guilt of the other two conscious slayers who re-doubled their desperate attempts to get up and fight.

The demon shocked, tried to attack once more by opening his mouth wide open to take her down.

"Blood Demon Art: Exploding Blood!"

Reddish pink flames emerged from her body as her blood turned into huge flames, engulfing the demon in front, burning it in pain as it yelled however the needles which came out from his mouth, melted immediately due to the flames.

Inosuke took this chance and slowly gathered himself.

"Second Fang: Slic-"

"Thunder Breathing. First Form: Thunder Clap and Flash. Sixfold!"

With what seemed a zap of electric pass through in a second, the demon's head fell off the ground almost soundlessly as it turned into ashes immediately; Nezuko's blood demon art speeding up the process.

And when it disappeared almost completely, that's when Zenitsu woke up.

"EEEEEEEEK! THAT BASTARD DEMON IS DEAD- THANK THE LORDS YOU GUYS KILLED IT BEFORE I WOKE UP!" he yells in relief as tears come out of eyes comically but immediately quietens down when he sees the faces of his surprised friends.

"Don't tell me-" he starts as he runs to Nezuko in lightning speed as he clasped her hands into his and sparkles coming into his eyes.

"NEZUKO CHAN, YOU KILLED IT FOR ME?!" those sparkles turning into hearts, confusing Nezuko even further along with others.

"I KNEW YOU WERE POWERFUL AND I KNEW YOU LOVED M-" he received a hard slap on his neck from Inosuke who by the looks of it, seemed pretty pissed off.

"OI MONITSU! STOP YOUR IDIOTIC TALKS AND START TAKING THE NEEDLES OFF YOU! WE STILL HAVE TO FIND GONPACHIRO AND BATTLES TO FIGHT!"

Giyuu silently nodded who now successfully managed to stand up and came near the group, using his sword as support. "Agreed. Also...I suspect those needles had poison in them"

He looks at his own, now slightly shaking hands which had a growing blue-ish infection which was spreading rapidly on his healthy skin. "We all have that poison coursing through our veins in a possibly lethal amount. We need to keep it at bay till we find Tanjirou and defeat the demons. Use your breathing technique to slow it down for the time being for we don't have any poison antidote for the time being"

As much as Zenitsu wanted to whine at that moment and hated to admit it, he knew Inosuke and Giyuu were right. He looked at his hands which had a similar unnatural tinge growing upon it as well.

They still have long night ahead of them.

They needed to save Tanjirou.

If it took this much to defeat a single demon, who knew what he was dealing with at that time? Alone?

Nezuko pulled back her hands from his hand and re-ignited the flames in her hands. She started to motion them to come closer and pointed her flames to them and then point them at her flames. She then pointed at their growing infection from the poison and then back at her flames and then waved her arms around in such a way as if the infection can fly away.

"Wait …yeah! Nezuko-chan's flames can remove impurities. It can burn away the damage the needles caused while removing the poison and infection!" Zenitsu said knowingly as a large smile graced his face.

"Mmmhmm!" Nezuko nodded but she frowned as she looked at everyone being covered in those wretched needles as their clothes bled through.

With no hesitation, the others gathered and went through it effortlessly as the cursed needles and the poison burnt into ashes.

Now started the search to find their missing friend.


"My my~ Whose the caged bird now?!"

The ropes tightened around every limb of his body, restricting every moment.

I can't give up yet….

The sword in his hand trembled, he was unable to lift and bend it because of the sheer pressure from the restraints he was placed in.

I have to fight…

"Hinokami Kagura……Clear Blue Sky!"

He twisted his body with all his might through the constriction and managed to cut the base, freeing him from it completely while burning a considerable amount of the rope. Just as he was about to land on the ground, the recoil damage from using the techniques hit him yet again, making him land on the ground roughly as he struggled to move. Before he could use his recovery breath once more and move at that very moment, his world was flipped upside down literally, by a demon, making him captured in the constricting binding yet again.

"You really thought you can get away huh?" Asked the female demon as she tightened the binding, making Tanjirou gasp in pain.

He then registered the fact that his sword was not in his grip. His hands and body were becoming more and more numb by the second.

I have to… breath properly….

"Oni-san, I think we are do-"

"I still have a few questions to ask from this, mortal. A few questions which he asked to bring answers to him ."

Despite the immense pain while also trying to regulate his breathing, Tanjirou heard that.

Questions…? What questions?

The female demon didn't say a word so did the other smaller demon who was quiet from the very beginning.

The older demon looked at the smaller one. "Disguise yourself as this human and go stall his other friends as long as you can meanwhile I will do my work. I'll signal you back if I'm done early."

The smaller demon nodded.

"Blood Demon Art: Illusion-"

To the real Tanjirou's horror, it's appearance immediately changed into a perfect copy of himself with the same smile, earrings, clothes and stance except the sword which wasn't there.

This deficiency was quickly removed as it grabbed his fallen sword which was thrown at him by one of the stray ropes of the female demon, which was immediately caught. It waved them goodbye.

"-and Teleportation"

With that it disappeared.

Tanjirou started to desperately struggle against his bondages, only for them to be tightened further and being on mid air without his sword, he couldn't do much.

One of the ropes eventually formed a collar around his neck, slowly but steadily tightening. This started to cut off a lot of his air supply although not enough to die but enough to keep him weak. He kept on breathing even as his whole body started to go numb from the tightening ropes which drew out some blood in the process as well.

"Stop moving! You are making it more difficult for yourself" the demon who wielded the rope said in annoyance.

"You sure are rebellious" The demon holding the crystal ball finally came forward.

He slowly started to move the hair from his face, revealing a yellow glowing eye ball in the process which soon appears directly at the face of the demon slayer.

That smell…

The tied up boy recalls the peculiar smell he caught a whiff off on their way to the village. His vision starts to blur and his mind starts going blank while feeling all sorts of negative emotions.

It…came from the demon…

The ropes around him tighten, preventing his movement further.

It followed us…

"My eye can travel on it's own, y'know? It can make you feel negative emotions you may or may not be too familiar with." The Demon says as a part of the infinitely stretching ropes, coiled up into a small, flat mat like structure on which it stepped on. It then elevated him to the height Tanjirou was dangling off from, making him see the human face to face, effortlessly. "Should you look at it directly….it incapacitates you temporarily"

Tanjirou, at that point, was just focusing on his breathing. Voices, smells and all his senses, everything drowning. His eyes slowly closing as a deep sense of sleep called at him.

It knew we were coming…

"If you are thinking on the possibility of me following your every step then yes… it truly isn't a possibility but the actual reality. " The Demon cruelly whispered.

Tanjirou gasped as the constrictions became even tighter, his eyes going wide open. He started to kick the ropes around with his legs only for them to get restrained as well.

"Now then…open up your heart to me…show me what made you, you …"

The demon places his crystal in front of him as it emits a pale yellow glow.

"Blood Demon Art: Window of Memories"


A/N: : I want to ask just one question-

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Now then... I will explain how the blood demon arts of the five demons work!

Starting off with,

1. Dimensional Loop and Disassemble: Basically just some wooden cube puzzle, you disassemble its parts to fit in the correct piece and the pattern goes on loop. Similarly this demon art allows its user to manipulate the given area of control and disassemble parts from it. Such as it separated Tanjirou from the group. The only side effect is that the people within that area when the dimension/place is being manipulated, will extremely dizzy due to the hasty shifts and changes and this can effectively knock them out. Giving the demon enough time to prey upon them. Its attack range is pretty big.

2. Brutal Echo Scream and Piercing Needles: The user screams at the top of its lungs and this creates a sound wave like effect blowing its targets away. However these sound waves contain hundreds of poison laced needles which if one comes in contact with, will get impaled right through; either killing it or causing severe injury which gives the demon enough time to feed on it. Area of control is large.

3. Binding Ropes and Constriction: Allows the demon to bend and control its rope at any way it pleases. Mainly used to constrict and preying on its victim's flesh. The area of control is average.

4. Illusion and Teleportation: Creates a powerful illusion which can help the user to camouflage or to confuse its opponents or disguise itself. It also allows the user or the object it chooses to move about places in a matter of seconds. The area of control is pretty small.

5. Window of memories: The user can not only peek into others memories but drag out things from it into real life. It can also keep showing the person his/her most traumatic memories inorder to immobilize them during battle.

This attack is so powerful that its impact leaves the person in an catatonic state sometimes killing them instantly. Another side to the attack is that while showing a person their old memories, it makes them live through the experience again. So a sad experience will make the victim live through the same level of sadness and sorrow they felt the first when it first happened in their life, including their thoughts. Similarly, a very happy experience will make them just as joyful as the first time the now-recalled event happened in their life.

Area of Control: n/a

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