AN bleuxe: I just couldn't stop writing this. This is a special accomplishment for me with the most words I ever written. Happy reading!
Akaza had a great disdain for Yoshiwara and everything that this town was known for. The smell of a courtesan's perfume bag trying to mask bodily fluids on their bodies, especially looks of desperation in most of the people's eyes that were trapped here. He walked on top of snowy rooftops to avoid the crowds below.
His mind hasn't been right since he received that accursed book, showing things he lost and forgotten. He was constantly thinking of his father, master Keizo and her. He opened his palm as a snowflake landed in the dead center in his hand. Was she the reason why he didn't want to eat women? Was she the reason why his compass needle looked like her hair pendants?
"Koyuki...you never would let me forget about you," Akaza spoke as if she was here with him.
He made it to his destination because it wasn't hard to track the Upper Six location. The fighting spirit was like a beacon compared to anyone else in this pathetic town. The only reason why he was here was because of Douma, that bastard. Less than a week ago he happened to bump into him.
Automatically Akaza challenged him to a fight thinking that will make him feel better especially since he had a special hatred for the guy. Of course, Douma was not interested in fighting and merely flashed him with a different version of Demon Slayer book to him that he had.
When he tried to reach for the book the cult leader pulled back with lightning speed preventing him from laying a finger on it. It pissed Akaza off that he was still leagues below Douma as he smirked all knowingly.
"Want answers? I suggest you go to Yoshiwara and see Upper Six. There should be a foreign woman with them...if she hasn't been eaten yet?"
He is still angry at the thought of Douma getting answers before him. He sat on top of the roof listening to the conversation going on below inside the room.
"T-Then let (cough) m-me see a doctor then," a woman's voice struggled to say.
The two demons started laughing as if she said the funniest thing to them.
"No doctor has ever entered Yoshiwara and nor do they want to,"
Akaza couldn't quite place this demon's voice and figured this must be Daki's brother. He met Daki before, a few years back when she became Upper Six, but not Gyutaro. Not understanding why, he would always hide himself on his sister's back.
"It just so much easier to throw the sick out on to the street," the demoness voice he immediately recognized.
"This is how this place operates and it will never change," he suddenly disliked hearing how raspy his voice was.
"Stop being stubborn and just give in already before you end up dead!"
Akaza swung into the open window with one arm because he couldn't stand to listen to this woman cough non-stop. It was putting him into a fouler mood than before because it reminded him of his father or Koyuki when they were sick.
"Tormenting a sickly woman.. is this how Upper Six operates?"
Gyutaro stood up straight wondering why he was here in the first place and also wondered what he meant by that. If anyone was being tormented, it was Lydia doing it to herself by resisting his help.
"What brings you here to our neck of the woods Akaza-sama?"
Lydia couldn't stop staring at him wondering why all these male demons looked so damn hot. His short spiky neon pink hair with his matching brows and eyelashes, made him stick out like a sore thumb, that most likely made anyone break their necks just to look at him. He was showing of all those muscles with that crop top no sleeve jacket and baggy white pant. He had full body prison tats that would intimidate most people especially in this era, but to her it showed dedication, plus she was a sucker for guys with tattoos and piercings. She especially like how his sclera reminded of stain blue cracked glass.
Akaza wasn't paying Gyutaro no mind because he looked how he sounded completely demented. Also, it wasn't hard to tell that he was actually Upper Six and not Daki. He was observing the woman sitting on floor, he remembered Douma saying she was a foreigner. But he never seen such hair like hers nor skin that had such a golden-brown hue to it and with strange frames on her face. That he had a sudden had the urge to touch her freckled cheek to take a better look at the glasses.
Automatically Gyutaro stop such an offending hand from touching her and narrowed his eyes at him. He didn't care if Akaza was Upper Three because already he was disrespecting him in his own territory.
"Why are you here?" he remarked no longer being friendly towards him and roughly shoved his hand away.
"Are you the reason why I received this?" Akaza only spoke directly to her blatantly ignoring him and then pulled Demon Slayer volume eighteen from his pocket.
Lydia exclaimed not knowing where he gotten the manga from, but before she could utter a word Gyutaro clamped his hand over her mouth. Already he disliked this guy greatly because twice now with the disrespect and it was too many times for his liking.
"This is my mate! Anything you have to say to her. You say it to me got it!" making Akaza narrow his eyes at him.
"Your mate?" he questioned noticing now that this woman was imbue in his stench.
Lydia began pulling at Gyutaro's fingers refusing to be silenced by him and when that didn't work, she started to slowly gnaw on his palm. She suddenly stopped thinking about what happened if she broke his skin. He would bleed all over her mouth and turn her into a demon. Her lips began quivering and no longer fighting him, not wanting to taste his blood.
"If she is your mate... why is she so sick?" not for one moment did he believe this was his mate. He was just toying with her, before he devoured her because just by looking at her face, she looked incredibly scared. He saw demons like him as literally scum and gave other demons a bad look.
"She my broken mess and I like her just like this!" Gyutaro snapped at all his intruding questions, especially since it was none of his fucking business anyways.
Akaza done with this disgusting conversation and saw that he needed to rescue this woman in order to speak with her. As soon as he let her go, she moved from between them and is when she heard a heavy blow of an impact against something solid. Akaza kicked his jaw clean off his face because he saw Upper Six was unworthy enough to touch with his hands as blood and fragments of teeth splashed across the wall.
"You tacky color-clashing freak! You'll pay for that!" Daki screamed at him. She was no longer idly standing by as several pieces of her belt went on the attack.
Easily he grabbed a hold of the belts and squeezed hard enough that it taunts. Frustrated she try to slack it, to withdrew it back, immediately he made the fabric roll and whipped the demoness in face.
"Making your sister fight your battle, some man you are!"
Gyutaro's blood was literally boiling as his own blood slashed apart the cloak that he was wearing because he hasn't felt this amount anger in a very long time. As soon as his jaw regenerated back, he touched Daki's face to make the cut disappear faster from her cheek.
"You hurt my little sister and try to upstage me in front of what's mine!" he ranted and raved like a lunatic as both his kama weapons appeared in his hands. "Your dead you hear me! Dead! I'll rip you apart till nothing is left!"
Lydia didn't know what to do, but knew she couldn't cower in this corner of the room forever. She knew how destructive Gyutaro gotten in a fight and this other demon was only going to make things worse. Crawling over to her bag that she left because Daki wanted to play with her future makeup. She hoped and prayed that it was in this one here, frantically digging to her luggage. She clutched and pulled out her stun-gun having no clue if this was going to work on a demon, but it was worth a try. She aimed for the pink-haired demon seeing he was closest to her, and he was one who started this.
"Stop (cough) i-it!" Lydia tried to get his attention and of course no one was listening to her.
She pulled the trigger, one of the metal darts hit Akaza's in the nape of his neck and unfortunately the other dart hit Gyutaro's in his right middle knuckle because he was about to throw a punch at him. It was too late to warn him as she put it at the highest voltages, Thirty-thousand watts giving them both at major shock. She sworn in that moment she saw both their skeletons while electrifying and making them convulsion. Gyutaro fell flat on his back on top of the table breaking it while Akaza seemed to recover faster than him.
"Brother! Get up!" Daki cried while grabbing him by his arm trying to force him to his feet.
"Grr Lydia you idiot! Stay out of my damn way!" he growled thinking she must have a death wish getting between demons fighting.
"Look I didn't mea-AAH!" her sentence was violently cut off because Akaza lifted her off the ground and forcing her waist onto his shoulder. Carrying her very caveman like and jumped he out the window to the snowy rooftop across the street. Lydia reached out for Gyutaro with her eyes pleading for help reminding him when they first met, it made something inside of him just lose it.
"GET THE FUCK BACK HERE!" he let out a guttural roar as a fury of Daki's belt flew out the window to tried to get her back.
Lydia blinked and notice that they were no longer outside in the snow, but in a totally different place. They were in some hallway with torch lighting the way with each step that was taken. She had no clue where she was? What happened to Gyutaro and Daki? Because they were nowhere to be seen, now thinking her fever was making her delirious.
As Lydia felt his grip loosen, immediately she pulled and hopped off his shoulder. Running the opposite direction of him in hopes to escape him, getting to the end of the hallway and wrenching the door open while out of breath. She felt herself falling because it was literally a door to nothingness below as Akaza caught her by wrapping one of his arms around her hips and pulled her back to safety, but her glasses fell off her face into the abyss.
Her heart was thunderous and felt like it was the only thing she could hear until he said in her ear.
"Quick to run to your death I see,"
Immediately Lydia tensing up realizing she alone with this complete stranger with her stun-gun still in her hand. She moved away from him, forever mindful of the space around her.
"Why you bring me here? To make a meal out of me!" she said boldly and held onto the trigger ready to pull it again. She wasn't going down without a fight.
"Prefer not to eat women...also I didn't bring you here," Akaza said somewhat distracted because there was a piece of metal pinned onto her tongue.
"Liar! I'm sure that is what you tell all your victims!"
She was fooled once by Douma, and she'll be damned if fooled by this guy because why else would he kidnap her like this? Suddenly the stun gun disappeared from her hand and was in his hand as he was examining it.
"And here I thought you were some kind of thunder breather, but now I just see that it was a cheap toy, you hit me with," he sounded disappointed by the weird device. He smashed it with a single flex of his hand causing smoke and sparks to spew out of it.
"Cheap!? That was hundreds of dollars you damn brute!" she was pissed because she already lost her glasses and now, he was breaking her things.
Lydia suddenly started wheezing and coughing because she worked herself up too much. Akaza lifted her up in his arms, and she was too weak to struggle against this. Moving forward he found a room with water in a small gourd bottle and pressed to her lips. She drink it regardless because she was so perched and thought this was the strangest situation to be in. He made sure not to overwhelm her with the water as he laid her down on the floor then torn a piece of cloth from a rag nearby to wet it. Padded it on her face before resting it on her forehead.
"Y-Your (cough) really aren't going to eat me?" she stared up at him in awe because he treated her like she was his patient. "Are you a (cough) doctor?"
"No, I'm just use to being around the sick that I just know naturally what to do," Akaza frowned at the idea of himself being a doctor.
"But maybe if I was back then, things would have been different...maybe,"
Lydia had no idea if he was talking to her or more to himself. She felt bad for him for some reason maybe because he seemed sad when saying those things, but then she realized.
"You need (cough) to take me back now!" Lydia demanded imagine Gyutaro and Daki on a warpath at Yoshiwara because of what he done.
"I can't. In fact, I need to get going myself," he said turned towards the exit because he didn't want to keep master Muzan waiting.
She stared at him in disbelief that he would kidnap her and then leave her in a strange house or dimension. She had no clue what the hell this place was, but it was really high up in the air, with some of furniture upside down stuck on the ceil. Looking around there were a bunch staircase that seemed endless, probably lead to nowhere because structure wise it was confusing to her.
"I'll come back for you afterwards. Try to rest up," Akaza reassured before leaping out the door.
"No! Wait!" she wanted to chase after him, but saw that he fell in what looked like a bottomless pit.
"F-Fucking asshole! Don't come back I'll find my own way out!" Lydia ended up yelling out the door in hopes he would come back, but sadly he didn't.
She sat back down feeling very defeated was when she felt something move within her kimono as Daki's belt revealing it self.
"We are so fucked!" the belt cursed upset.
"Oh Daki Jr (cough) I-I forgotten you were in there!" she was happy that she wasn't in this alone. Gyutaro gave her a piece of the belt to keep her warm on the winter night when she slept because he gotten tired of having to hold her. He was always saying he had better things to do than hold her all night long, yet every time she woke-up there he was cuddling her and having the nerve to ask her for sex.
"Stop calling me that!"
"And I told you before I'm not going to just call you belt," they always gotten in the same argument and it never make sense to her because the belt claimed to be apart of Daki. The belt mumbled under it's breath because she wasn't paying attention and ask for it to speak up.
"I say call me Ume! Damn I know your blind, but your starting to go deaf too!"
"Ume...that is a very-y (cough) pretty name," Lydia admitted annoyed and wondered where the name came from.
"Don't let master Gyutaro know you call me that!" Ume suddenly snarled in her face.
"My lips are zipped. Where are (cough) we? Can you get a hold of Daki?"
"We've been summoned to the infinity castle and my bond been severed from my mistress, but they are both definitely here I just know it!" she watched as Ume fly dizzily around her head until she grabbed the end of the belt.
"We'll find them together don't be afraid," Lydia held the fabric hugging it tightly. As the belt gently swept her curls from her sweaty brow because it grow a soft spot for the girl over the last days and that in turn will make Daki have a soft spot too.
"I-I'm not afraid!? B-But I hate to admit it... that bastard Akaza is right, you need to rest!" Ume laments in regret and looped it self around her body forcing her to laid back down.
She was sweating bullets and grabbing the gourd to drink the water. She was still fighting this fever and after all the events that happened tonight it left her body trembling.
"That Akaza guy did some real sucker (cough) s-shit (cough) and I won't stay here too long," Lydia whispered against the cloth as she closed eyes while thinking how angry Gyutaro was. She never seen him being the one receiving damage before and that made her worry greatly for him.