Takeo sped after the Demon clone, with Nezuko running beside him. Th other's stayed behind to fight the other clones. Hanako and Shigeru jumped towards the fan Demon. "Bye bye brats!" he cried, blowing the two young Demons away over the trees. "Hanako! Shigeru!" Tanjiro cried worriedly, watching his younger Siblings disappear into the darkness. Nezuko snarled, attacking more ferociously. 'Damn! I don't have time to look for them! I have to make sure these clones don't get into the Village!' he thought.
The Demon with the fan leapt at Muichiro next, before sending him flying as well. Tanjiro watched Genya raise a gun and shoot his head off. "Hah! You're a pretty good shot with that thing! Too bad for you removing my head won't kill me!" he laughed. A Demon wearing blue clothes and holding a spear emerged from his body. He pierced Genya through with the spear. Teiko shrieked in fury, blasting him away from her Older Brother. "Genya!" Tanjiro cried, running over to the Shinazugawa Siblings. Kie used her Blood Demon Art, and the Demon with the Shakujo suddenly doubled over as a hole was blasted through his stomach.
"Ahhh!" Teiko wailed at the sight of her Older Brother so badly hurt. "Teiko, lend mee, your power" Genya muttered. The young Demon girl nodded, holding her arm up to his mouth. Genya bit into his little Sister's arm, tearing a chunk of flesh away. He chewed it as Teiko healed. Once he swallowed the Demon flesh, a shudder went through the Older Shinazugawa. "Genya! Are you okay?" Tanjiro called, as Teiko shot around attacks and pummelled the lightning Demon. The teen growled as he lifted his head, showing that he now had purple streaks in his mohawk and light purple eyes. His wound healed as he stood up, "never better" he growled, showing long, shark fangs.
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Hanako and Shigeru clutched onto each other as they were blown through the air, before crashing through multiple trees and finally coming to rest after creating a furrow in the ground and slamming into a boulder. The two Demon children tried to get up and check over their burning limbs. "Ahh!" Hanako gasped, seeing the stumps where her arms and legs used to be. Shigeru was splayed out, his legs broken. Soon, the two of them began to heal. Hanako sensed another Demon nearby, and tried to will her body to fix itself faster.
"Sis, can you feel that?" her younger Brother asked. "Yes. It's another strong Demon. We have to hurry and deal with it, so we can get back and help the rest of our family with those clone things!" she replied, forcing herself to her feet. Her newly regrown limbs creaked, before settling. After hearing a loud sound nearby, both Kamado Siblings stood up and hurried to find out where they were and what was going on. The two young Demons exited the forest to find giant four-legged fish Demons with pots on their backs attacking the Village.
"What?" the younger Demon boy asked in confusion. "We, have to, h-help!" Hanako cried. "Right!" Shigeru agreed with a nod.
(With the Swordsmiths)
Giant fish monsters rampaged through the town. The Swordsmiths fought back with their weapons, but the fish were too strong and hard for them to damage. One of them swiped at a Villager, shredding them with it's claws. It went for another swipe, but Shigeru smashed his bone flail down on it's back. The pot on top of it smashed, and the fish shrieked out in pain. It then collapsed and began to disintegrate into ash. "You're two of the Kamado Siblings, right? Thank you!" one of the masked men said gratefully.
Hanako shot her seeds at the Swordsmiths, growing her flowers on them and recovering their stamina. As the Siblings ran through the Village, killing fish monsters, the flowers disintegrated, having done their jobs. Shigeru and Hanako met Mitsuri as they were running. "Oh! Shigeru! Hanako! What are you two doing here? Shouldn't you be with the rest of your family?" the pink and green-haired Hashira asked. "We, were, b-blown away, from- T-Tan" Hanako replied. "Oh! Okay! Well, while you're both here, do you think you could help me with these fish monsters?" Mitsuri asked.
The two Demon Siblings nodded. "Great! Let's go!" the Love Hashira called. The three ran into the frey.
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Tako was gaining on the fan Dmon, thanks to his Speed. He leapt and managed to land on his back. "Argh! You brat! This isn't fun! Get off!" he cried, thrashing to try and get the grey-haired Demon boy off of him. But Takeo dug his claws into the Upper Rank clone's back to hold on. "Takeo! Hold on!" Tanjiro called, as Nezuko ran up to them. The fan Demon tried to blow her away, but Nezuko leapt over the attack and brought her leg down in an axe-kick, slamming the enemy Demon's head into the ground.
Nezuko latched onto him and set him aflame as her little Brother moved away. "AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" The fan Demon screamed in pain. Tanjiro moved to cut off his head, but they were all electrocuted by the red Demon Clone. Rokuta jumped off a tree branch and absorbed most of the attack. The air crackled as the lightning was absorbed. "WHAT?!" the red Demon demanded. The little Demon formed his Refection Ball and shot it at the Anger Demon.
As he blew up in a small explosion, Tanjiro cut off the fan Demon's head, and Genya ran up with Teiko. "Did we do it?!" he asked. The severed head of the Fan Demon laughed, while he regrew his body, and his body grew another head. A spear formed from the new Demon's hand. "Oh come on!" Takeo cried in frustration. "You brat! How dare you!" the Anger Demon cried as he slowly reformed. 'There are three Demons now. This one has a spear. All of these Demon's showed up after we cut off one of their heads. The head would grow a new body, while the body of the original Demon would regrow and become a new clone.
So we can't kill them like normal Demon's. They must have another weak spot other than their necks. We just have to find it!' Tanjiro thought to himself. He looked around, 'wait, where did the new Demon go?!' he thought in alarm. Suddenly he sensed a Demon's presence behind him, and turned to see the blue Demon with the spear aiming to skewer him from behind. Nezuko leapt in and kicked him away, standing protectively in front of her Older Brother. "Thank Nezuko!" Tanjiro said gratefully. Two gunshots took off the Demon's hand holding the spear and his head.
Genya stood there in Demon form with his little Sister next to him. "It's so sad that these Demon Slayers attack us for no reason. I'll have to deal with them" the blue Demon with the spear said. "Blood Demon Art: Weeping Spears!" he called, shooting off multiple energy blasts in the shape of spears. Teiko stood in front of Genya, holding her hands out. Then the attack dissipated in a burst of repulsive force, knocking back the Spear Demon slightly. "Damn it! This is taking too long!" the red Demon growled angrily. Tanjiro noticed something on is tongue as he spoke. The Kanji for 'Anger'. 'Maybe-' he thought.
Running towards him as Rokuta jumped onto his back and absorbed all the blasts of lightning, Tanjiro sliced upwards through the enemy Demon's chin and tongue. He froze, twitching. "Genya! Their tongues are a weak point! Cut through their tongues!" he called. Takeo jumped in and kicked the Anger Demon away from his Brother's. 'But that knowledge won't help much if we can't find a way to kill them all!' the Hashira thought in frustration. "You damn brats!" the Anger Demon, now recovered, slammed his Shakujo into the ground. Tanjiro smelt the ozone scent of lightning, but just barely, and managed to dodge each strike. "Let me join in the fun as well!" the Fan Demon crowed, blowing him and Rokuta across the battlefield. His baby Brother dug into his Uniform with his claws to keep from being blown away. "Rokuta! Hold on!" he called.
The lightning Demon raised the Staff to blast them again, but Takeo raced in and kicked half his head off. "Infuriating! How infuriating!" he growled as his head regrew, turning and piercing the Shakujo right through his little Brother's neck. Then he started electrocuting the Demon boy again. "Stop it!" Tanjiro demanded furiously, running towards them. The flying Demon got in his way though. "Takeo!" Tanjiro cried in worry. He took his eyes off the flying Demon for one moment to check on his Brother, and he suddenly found himself in the air.
"Ha! Ha! This is so fun!" the flying Demon who had grabbed his leg shrieked with a laugh. Tanjiro wrapped his arm around his baby Brother to keep Rokuta from falling to the ground. That was when their Mother exited a part of the building that was still standing. Upon seeing what was going on, she raced towards Takeo and the lightning Demon, headbutting him away from her Son. She tilted Takeo so that the Shakujo fell out of his neck. Tanjiro, who was now being flown over the forest surrounding the new clearing, reached up and cut the foot off of the flying Demon, causing him and Rokuta to fall through the air.
Kie turned her furious glare onto the lighting Demon, holding out her hand. Suddenly the enemy Demon was being electrocuted. Despite being impervious to lightning normally, he could feel the shock somehow. He screamed in pain. 'Hinokami Kagura: Fire Wheel!' Tanjiro thought, rolling across the ground to use up the energy from his fall. He pulled the severed foot from his leg as the lighting Demon recovered and began to grow another Staff from his palm.
Tanjiro leapt in front of his family and blocked it with the foot. He was about to slice the Anger Demon's tongue with his Sword, but an agonising shriek hit them. The flying Demon swooped down and sliced Tanjiro's back with his claws as he stumbled. 'Damn! This is never going to end!' he thought in frustration.
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(With Hanako and Shigeru)
They had separated. Mitsuri went to protect the Chief of the Village, while the two Demon children headed back to their family, since the Love Hashira had assured them that she was fine, and that they should help their Mother and Siblings. That was when they ran into the Mist Hashira with a Swordsmith boy over his shoulder. "Oh! You're Tanjiro's Sister, right?" the boy asked, surprised. "Oh, right. The Fire God Hashira's Demon Siblings" the Hashira said, lowering his Sword. "Get back to Tan" Hanako said. "Oh! You got separated somehow?" the boy asked.
Shigeru nodded. "We were going to help Mr Haganzuka, who's up there!" the boy replied, pointing to the side of them. Hanako tilted her head, looking thoughtful. Her younger Brother tugged her Haori, "Hana-ko, Taan!" he insisted. The little Demon girl nodded to him, turning back to the two humans, "have to, go. Good, luck" Hanako stammered. The two Demon Siblings ran towards where they could sense their family, and, more importantly, Muzan's Demons.
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Tanjiro had killed the foot, which had grown it's own head, and was running away from the flying Demon, who was sending sonic attacks at him. 'I have to get back to the others! Quickly!' he thought. As he rolled out of the way of another Sonic attack, a spiked bone ball slammed the flying Demon into the ground, as he had swooped low enough to hit. Tanjiro turned, panting, but smiling in relief, "Hanako! Shigeru!" he cried. Shigeru, who had turned his arm into his spiked ball again, leapt over the flying Demon to slam his other palm into the ground.
The pattern signifying his little Brother using his big attack spread across the ground, and a pillar of dirt and animal bones shot up from the ground, piercing the flying Demon through the chest. "GAAH!" He shrieked in pain. Hanako hit her Older Brother's arm with a seed, which grew into a flower, that restored Tanjiro's energy. "Thanks!" Tanjiro called, moving to cut off the enemy Demon's wings and slice his tongue. "None of these clones can die! There has to be a main body or something somewhere!" Tanjiro called, the three Kamado's rushing back towards the rest of the fight.
'That clone is probably going to come after us soon, but there's nothing I can do about that. Attacking these clones won't do anything! We have to find the main body!' he thought.
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Upon arriving back at the main battle, Tanjiro, Hanako, Shigeru and Rokuta found their family and the Shinazugawa Siblings continuing to fight. As Tanjiro ran towards the battle, Nezuko raced passed him, a blast of wind just missing both of them. Tanjiro gasped, as the scent of a new Demon reached his nose. 'The wind blew away the sulphur smell from the Hot Spring! Where is the main body? Focus Tanjiro!' he thought, closing his eyes. He ignored the smells of the clones, and his family by practice, searching for the scent he hadn't smelled yet- 'there! I found it! Hiding in the forest!' Tanjiro thought, eyes snapping open.
"Guys! Cover me! I found the main body!" Tanjiro called. The flying Demon tried to block his way, but Hanako shot several seeds at him. As they grew into flowers, Urogi fell out of the sky. "What the?! My strength?!" he shrieked, trying to push himself from the ground. As he did, he found Nezuko standing above him with a glare on her face. She slammed a flaming foot into his head. Rokuta blocked the lightning, and Takeo smashed the lighting Demon's head with a kick. Shigeru grew a bone spear from his arm and deflected the spear Demon's hit away from Genya with his newly created weapon.
Then he stabbed it into the ground and used the spear as leverage to kick him away. Tanjiro ran through the forest, trying to find the main body. 'It's hiding close to the ground, but where-!' he paused his thoughts when he saw the tiny Demon hiding in the shrub by his foot. "I found it!" Tanjiro cried. The Demon, who looked like a tiny version of the original form of Upper 4, shrieked in fear and ran away. "You're not getting away!" he cried, running after it. 'It's so fast!' Tanjiro thought, focusing his breathing to try and keep up, as the tiny Demon scampered ahead.
Hanako jumped through the trees, and shot another seed at her Oldest Brother, increasing his stamina and allowing him to run faster. He still couldn't keep up with it though. Tanjiro took a deep breath, 'I need speed. I need to catch up to the main body before it can get away!' He remembered the time when Zenitsu and Inosuke came to his Estate.
(Flashback)
"Thunder-Breathing? Why do you want to know about that? You don't use Thunder-Breathing" the yellow-haired teen asked. "Well no, but from the records Kyojuro shared with me, the Breathing Style I use is the original, so I could technically us any Breathing Style I want. Thunder-Breathing increases physical speed. I might need to be faster than I currently am when fighting some Demon's" Tanjiro explained. "Okay I guess I could teach you what my Gramps did. To use Thunder-breathing, you have to be aware of all the muscles in your legs, and direct your oxygen towards them to make them stronger. "It's not true Thunder-Breathing unless you can focus properly on each and every one!" that's what he told me" Zenitsu explained.
(End flashback)
'Every muscle, every part of my legs. Send all your oxygen there!' Tanjiro thought inhaling deeply. He could feel his muscles tightening and he gripped his Sword tightly, 'slice through the air- like lightning!' Tanjiro shot towards the tiny Demon, passed Hanako, who was also running after it. He slammed his Sword into the main body's neck, yelling with the force, as he tried to behead it.
But the blade wouldn't budge. 'It's so hard! Harder than Gyutaro's neck! I can't cut through it, even with more strength from Hanako!' he thought, arms trembling as he struggled to slice through the tiny Demon's neck. Before he could work out what to do, there was the banging of a drum, Hanako shrieked, and the ground exploded under him.