The uppermoons sleepover.
Akaza almost screamed as he realised that Nakime had teleported him to the infinity fortress. He knew this could only mean one thing.
Someone had died.
He prayed it was Douma and not someone he actually liked, even if there were very few people he liked. He looked around first to see who was there. He was glad to find Daki and Gyutaro, arguing as always. The chances of Douma being dead increased. He said hello to them "ugh, do you know what this meeting about? I don't, and I was so busy, if this meeting doesn't get started soon, I'm going to get a new job" she said, Akaza really wanted to ask her if she knew quitting wasn't exactly an option, but he was honestly too scared to. In all honesty it would not surprise him if Daki decided to try overthrow Muzan and instead of doing anything asked Gyutaro to do it for her. Either way he needed to find Kokushibo because if he died then Akaza knew for a fact he was doomed and would ultimately move country for a few years until he decided the person who had killed him had inevitably died of old age and then return as an entirely new person possibly named Akazo as he was incredibly uncreative.
The thing the worried him the most now was the fact that Kokushibo, Muzan and even Nakime were nowhere in sight, obviously that was very odd, Muzan and Nakime must be okay though as the infinity fortress was still functioning and they hadn't all instantly died. In all honesty he was starting to panic now "come on, lets find the others" he said to the siblings "yeah, it better than standing here doing nothing" Gyutaro said. Daki nodded to so, as they were all in agreement, they headed off together to find everyone else. It wasn't hard to pick up on the eerie silence, not a single biwa strum, which was very unusual. It had been a long time since Akaza was this worried.
They walked through the meeting place until a familiar voice called out "Akaza, Daki and Gyutaro, I was so worried about all of you" it was obvious who it was "Douma!" Daki called out, for some unknow reason that Akaza would never understand she apparently did not absolutely hate him and wish upon his death every second of the day. Akaza could NOT relate. Douma walked right up to them, happy as always. Daki was the first to ask him "do you know where the others are?" he shook his head "no, I've not seen anyone here, you're the first, Nakime didn't even greet me" he said as if Nakime ever greeted him. Akaza was deliberately not speaking to him because he was actually petty like that "we haven't seen her either, I hope she's okay, we still have an appointment for a hair care day and I'm not cancelling it" Daki said. Sometimes Akaza really, REALLY considered moving to another county and changing his entire identity just to get a new job, he could go to America and work in Dunkin doughnuts and name himself customer service Steve or something. It genuinely couldn't get much worse. Of course, Douma and Gyutaro were trying to calm Daki down "its okay, I'm sure you can get a refund, if you can't, I'll go with you" Douma was promising "don't worry about the appointment you can go alone it's not that bad" Gyutaro joined in but none of this could calm Daki down "I can't go alone! What if somebody from work is there and they think I have no friends? Then I might have to deal with friend requests from ugly people" she screamed. Douma tried offering to go with her, but she said "no way, it's our girl's day out with can't bring a guy not even you" she cried as if this was the worst thing that could possibly happen to her. Akaza stayed silent, he had no clue what to say. Then they heard another voice finally "I can't find Nakime either" stated Kokushibo. They all collectively screamed "how long have you been there?!" Douma yelled "longer than all of you" he said, "why didn't you tell us?" Dakin asked but she didn't get an answer "we need to find Muzan and Nakime urgently!" He said as if that wasn't what they had been trying to do since they got here, still they all nodded as they couldn't be bothered arguing.
They ran around the infinity castle yelling out Nakime and Muzan's names. They did not hear any form of response "I wonder why they called this meeting" Daki said, "obviously someone must have died, or they called the meeting because there was a problem" Gyutaro said "what problem would have caused them to go missing?" Douma asked "how should I know?" Gyutaro said throwing his hands up. they continued searching as Daki started arguing with Gyutaro "you're the one that said it was obvious" she yelled at him "I said it was obvious there was a problem, not that I know where they are" he yelled. Kokushibo looked like he'd lost the will to live "me and Muzan were supposed to be meeting right now" he said almost sadly "what for?" Douma asked "none of your business" he snapped back but that only made the rest of the group curious too "yeah, what are all you and Muzan's meetings about, you have them so often?" Daki asked. Kokushibo just gave her three angry stares from his six eyes. He won every staring match like this, obviously because he hadn't found anyone with even half the number of eyes he had, which meant there was always at least two eyes staring at the other person. He had been keeping this secret for hundreds of years and he wasn't about to let it go now.
Mostly because Muzan would never forgive him if he told anyone about their weekly tea parties. And the fact that Muzan had never once been late to a single one of them, neither had Kokushibo.
So, he walked off attempting to find the other missing members of their group before his entire life fell apart because honestly if he wasn't busy being a demon, he had a crap life with no friends other than Muzan and Nakime and he also had no other job. So, to Kokushibo both his only friends vanishing was the end of the world.
Douma yelled out to him "where are you going?" and he didn't bother replying because Doumas voice was just too irritating "don't split up that's how everyone dies in horror stories" Daki screamed, she clearly had read too many of them by now, although she insisted they were hilarious, Kokushibo hadn't bothered reading any so he couldn't say if she was telling the truth or not.
They spent the rest of the time searching every inch of the infinity fortress or as much as they could as the fortress went on forever and there was apparently no end to it, which was probably why it was called the infinity fortress. They would have given up by the time they could sense the sun was clearly about to come up however without Nakimes biwa it was impossible to leave and so they had to settle for pretending they simply wouldn't give up on Muzan and Nakime. By that time Daki was crying, Kokushibo had gone somewhere for 'a moment to himself that was totally not him crying in his room' Akaza had punched a wall and Gyutaro was lying face down on the floor trying to cover his ears from Daki's screeching while Douma attempted to calm her down and was being beyond unsuccessful. With all the chaos they hardly noticed a familiar sound.
A biwa struck.
It was somewhere in the distance, and it was almost covered over by the commotion they were making but they all clearly heard it and had no doubts about who was playing it. even Daki instantly stopped her crying to listen with everyone surrounding her listening actively in hopes of it strumming again. And it did.
The second they heard the biwa strum again it was like an explosion of cheering.
They all ran towards the direction they were sure they had heard it come from. Daki cried happy tears yelling out "Nakime, bestie, where were you?!" while using her belt to help propel her forwards, in fact everyone was using their own unique method of hurrying towards the all-important sound. Not really caring that some of them were destroying half the fortress behind them as their blood demon arts weren't exactly made with racing in mind.
When they finally arrived, they met Nakime sitting calmly with her biwa as if nothing had happened. She was clearly focusing on her biwa when the five uppermoons came flying from another room all jumping right towards her. She barely had time to look up before she was knocked over with all of them knocking her over and hugging her like she was their best friend that that hadn't seen in ages. She was nearly suffocated by them all, never before had she imagined an upper moon hugging her, never mind almost all of them, she almost felt honoured. She would have smiled if she wasn't so worried about why they were suddenly hugging her. And maybe she was a bit worried for her biwa, she didn't want it to get hurt after all.
Once they all had got themselves together and go off her, she was bombarded with questions like "where was you?" and "what happened?" Kokushibo even asked if anything had happened to Muzan. She didn't reply. She didn't have to. Muzan did that for her.
"I'm fine, we were busy dealing with an issue, will you all stop worrying" they all looked up and when they saw Muzan messing with test tubes, like he usually was when he was chilling, they all burst out screaming. All except Kokushibo, he almost expected it, Nakime clearly had been brought back so Muzan should have been too. Again, a million question came flying out the upper moon's mouths so fast that neither Muzan nor Nakime could hear them. Muzan looked even more confused than Nakime "what are you all so fussed about?" he yelled out of frustration, that shut everyone up. Kokushibo had by then had enough of this chaos and decided to use his ability to communicate to Muzan without talking to explain the situation to him, just for the sake of peace, and definitely not so they could get back to normal and get on with the tea party which he still would not tell anybody about. Muzan seemed to understand "oh, yeah, me and Nakime did disappear, well that's actually because Nakime needed to repair her biwa because it was damaged by accident yesterday and you getting teleported here was just a way of testing if it worked" Muzan explained "how did it get damaged?" Akaza asked looking over to Nakime. Both her and Muzan gave nasty looks directed at Douma who shrugged "oh yeah, Nakime got mad at me yesterday and tried to beat me to death with it, is that how it got damaged?" he asked as if it wasn't obvious enough. Everyone immediately took Nakimes side "why were you annoying her?" Daki interrogated "why are you blaming me?" Douma asked back "because Nakimes better than you" Akaza instantly responded. Nakime smiled, knowing it was true.
The next issue came after the group had calmed down and had realized that now they had a slight issue with the time "its morning, if we go out now, we'll all burn to death" Douma pointed out before they were all about to say their goodbyes "that's a good point, Nakime can you not teleport us all indoors?" Daki asked Nakime "no" Nakime simply answered "there's no guarantee we'd all make it to a safe place" Kokushibo continued for her, as she clearly was on the edge of murdering half the people in the room. Muzan also did not want Nakime accidently teleporting them somewhere where they'd instantly burn to death, well actually he did kind of want all lot of them to burn to death but sadly he actually needed them to help him find that stupid flower.
Honestly Muzan was wondering if it was worth it at this point. He had to calm himself, while he did this, he heard the conversation continue "well does this mean were trapped here until night?" Daki asked, "unless you wanna take the risk then yeah" Gyutaro said. She frowned at this but before she could say anything Douma interrupted "this means we can have a sleepover here, its going to be so much fun!" he cheered, Akaza could almost accuse him of breaking Nakimes biwa on purpose from his tone of voice.
At Doumas suggestion there was a mixture of reactions, not many being positive. Daki started trying to make the best of it, chatting with Nakime about ideas for doing each other's nails and hair while Akaza was practically screaming and praying that the time would go by quicker, Muzan clearly hated the idea but knew there was no choice. Kokushibo remained silent, obviously anticipating a long day.
There was so many people complaining at once that hardly any of them noticed the other two enter. Gyokko was just arriving with Hantengu when he noticed all the fuss "we've been looking for you all for hours!" Gyokko shouted, clearly upset. Douma was the only one who acknowledged their presence "hi, my fellow upper moons, thanks again for the pot Gyokko" he like nothing had happened. As usual Hantengu was crying and went crawling off to some place that was less crowded.
Muzan looked at Nakime, fed up with all the noise and she instantly got the message, strumming her biwa to close the doors to the room he was in. she then looked over at Daki, giving her as close to a smile as Nakime gave.
They were in for a day of chaos.