『WARNING!』

- Violence

- Blood

- Angst

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『2nd Person』
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The two kids were shivering, holding onto each other as if they'll be separated forever.

Zenitsu was shaking, his teeth chattering as he stares at the house. Tanjiro goes back to looking at the unconscious male, frowning. 'If only we'd gotten here a little sooner, he wouldn't be in so much pain.' His frown dampens. But he realizes what Zenitsu was trying to say earlier, so he takes it in his hands to ask, but to the kids instead.

"Hey, is this man your..." Tanjiro paused, looking at the two that were holding each other.

"I-It's not brother." The older brother answers.

"My brother is wearing an orange kimono." He described, not letting go of his younger sister, nor opening his eyes.

'I see.' Tanjiro mouth went agape, figuring out the situation here. 'So it's captured more than one person.' A bullet of sweat rolls down his cheek.

"All right." Tanjiro mumbles, standing up from his crouching position. "Zenitsu! Let's go!" Tanjiro turning his head towards the latter direction. Zenitsu just stands there, whimpering before shaking his head. "But no one else can help them now but you, me and (Y/n)." Tanjiro fully turns his body to Zenitsu, who only shakes with tears swelling up in his eyes. Tanjiro tilts his head down, a shadow covering his upper half of his face and his eyes. "Really?" Tanjiro whispered. "All right, then." Tanjiro cold tone made Zenitsu flinch dramatically, since he was the only one seeing the look on Tanjiro face. Right when Tanjiro starts to walk away, Zenitsu immediately clings onto him by grabbing the box. "Hey, come on! Why are you making that ogre face at me?" Zenitsu cries out, his lower body dragging on the ground from Tanjiro still walking. "Okay, I'll go!!" Zenitsu finally agrees to go.

"I have no intentions of forcing you to." Tanjiro grumbles, still being kind but a tad bit disappointed mixed with it.

"I said I'll go!" Zenitsu tells Tanjiro, his whole body now dragging on the ground and getting dirt on his clothes. You stayed focusing on helping the unconscious male recover, not wanting to mess up from just looking at the small commotion.

Tanjiro places the box in front of the duo, his so called 'ogre face' already gone.

"In case of an emergency, I'm leaving this box behind." Tanjiro notified, placing a hand on the box.

"Even if something happens, you two will be protected." Tanjiro looks behind him, staring at you for a few seconds before looking away. "Okay, we're going now." Tanjiro stands up, walking towards the front door of the house. Zenitsu on his tail as he sobs.

Once they walk in, the hallways are pretty dark, the lights being dim.

Objects like vases, baskets and other stuff were in the corners. All dusty from how old it was.

Tanjiro leads the way, still having his guard up. Zenitsu was heavily breathing, tears streaming down his face. "Tanjiro!" Zenitsu whimpers out the males name. "Hey, Tanjiro!" He whimpers his name out again, trying to make sure he has his attention. "You'll protect me, right? You'll protect me, right?" He repeats the sentence, shivering.

Tanjiro stops in his tracks.

"Zenitsu," Tanjiro murmurs, Zenitsu sniffles, waiting for his answer.

"I'm sorry but..."

"I have broken my ribs and legs, and (Y/n) hasn't healed from the last fight yet, either." Tanjiro turns around. "So...—" Tanjiro wasn't able to continue when Zenitsu suddenly screams, snot now coming out of his nose.

"What do you mean, broken bones?!" He screamed.

"Don't go breaking any bones on me!!" Zenitsu yelled, throwing his head upwards with his hands gripping onto his hair.

"If you've got fractures, you can't possibly protect me!" The blonde points out, his eyes bulging out.

"I-I- I'm gonna die!" He screeches. "What am I gonna do?! What am I gonna do?!" His eyes were moving in different directions, freaking out. "I'm gonna die now!!" He cries. "Gonna die, gonna die, gonna die!!" He repeats over and over, wailing very loud to the point where the demon could even probably hear him. "Broken bones? How could you? I'm a dead man now! 99.9% dead!!" He flops onto the floor, moving his body left and right while he kicks his legs in the air.

"Zenitsu, quiet down!" Tanjiro tries to tell him. "You'll be alright!" He reassures, trying to calm the male down. "Don't sugarcoat it!!" Zenitsu retorts, flopping around into different positions as he screams on the top of his lungs. "I'm not, I can tell, all right? Zenitsu, you're—" Tanjiro stops when he notices the two familiar smells. "No good!" Tanjiro exclaims, looking at the corner where both him and Zenitsu came from.

Zenitsu screeches, thinking it's a demon by Tanjiro sudden reaction.

"You shouldn't be here!" Tanjiro tells the two kids that were turning the corner and running towards the two demon hunters. "M-Mister, we heard scratching sounds from inside that box!" The older brother notifies Tanjiro, stopping in front of the demon hunters with his sister.

"E-Even still, it pains me that you left it behind!" Tanjiro said, holding the girls arms. "I mean, it's more precious to me than my own life!" He adds.

Suddenly, the whole house starts to shake.

Zenitsu whimpers before he shrieks, bending down. Although, he accidentally pushes Tanjiro and the girl into a room.

"Sorry, my butt..." Zenitsu apologizes, yet, it was cut off when the room abruptly changed. The sound of the tsuzumi drum echoing before it does.

Tanjiro gasps, looking around the room and watching as the room changes each time the tsuzumi makes it's sound.

'It's a different room.' Tanjiro observes his surroundings, blinking as he pulls the little girl closer. 'No.' He quickly denies. 'Were we the ones that moved?' He looks in every direction, pondering in his thoughts. 'To the beat of that tsuzumi?' Tanjiro starts to feel the girl shaking, along with a sob.

"Sorry you got separated from your brother, okay?" Tanjiro apologized, looking down at her with a soft expression.

"But I'm gonna protect you no matter what." He promised to the girl, wiping her tears away. "And Zenitsu will protect your brother. It'll be all right. What's your name?" Tanjiro comforts the girl. "Teruko." She responds, Tanjiro smiles when she responded. "Is that right? Teruko? That's a fine name you have—" Tanjiro instantly stops talking, a familiar scent appears. Footsteps starts to echo from outside the hallways, sounding a bit bigger than a average human would. A pale foot stomps right in front of the room before another comes right after. Soon, the owner of that familiar scent and pale foot shows itself from the shadows. Showing a demon that was taller than the duo in the room. Tanjiro puts a hand over Teruko mouth before she could scream. 'Even among all these scents, this is the strongest one that this house is stepped in!' Tanjiro starts to sweat bullets, staring at the demon that was standing outside of the room. 'This one's devoured a whole slew of humans!' The demon doesn't look at the two, heck! They don't even know if the demon is looking at them or not, since his sclera is all red. 'This one's the master of the house!' Tanjiro pulls Teruko a little closer. Cautious of what will happen next

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"I'm gonna die!"

"Gonna die, gonna die, gonna die, I'm telling you!!" Zenitsu screamed as he holds his face in his hands. "Tanjiro and I got split up!" He sobs.

"Teruko!" The older brother calls for his little sister, turning his head every direction to at least spot any color of pink. "Teruko!" Zenitsu grabs onto the older brother arm, falling to his knees.

"No, no, no, no!" He yelled.

"If you yell and the bad guy hears you, it won't be pretty!" He tells the boy, his tears still going down his cheeks for more than five minutes straight. "Come on, let's step outside!" Zenitsu tries to convince him, but it backfires badly. "What..." He murmured, turning to look down at the crying blonde. "Why outside?" He questions him. "Are you trying to escape all by yourself?" The older brother frowns, taking his arm away when Zenitsu let's go of it out of surprise.

"Clinging onto a younger person... Don't you feel pathetic?" Zenitsu holds his chest, feeling like he just got stabbed in the heart. "What are you wearing that sword on your hip for anyway?" The boy questions him again. Zenitsu comically spits out a waterfall of blood, dramatically falling to the ground on his back. "Those words cut so deep." He coughs out before he turns his head and dramatically coughs out more blood.

"That's not it!!" Zenitsu drags the boy, trying to look for an exit. "I'm not gonna be of any use anyway," The boy struggles, trying to break free.

"Let me go!"

"so I'm gonna summon a grownup here, okay?"

"Let me go!!"

"Because this isn't something us kids can resolve on our own!"

When Zenitsu slides open the door, he didn't expect it to be a room. His face goes pale as dread dawns on his face. "N- No. No way. No way!!" He shrieks, gripping his hair and tugging on it. "I'm sure this was the front door!" He looks at every door, confused on which is the right door to the outside of the house. "Where'd the outside go? I mean, this door was.." Zenitsu slams open one of the doors. "Is it this one?" He starts to guess, opening each doors and panicking at the same time. But when he opens another door, someone was already standing there. They turn around slowly, showing that they were wearing a boar mask, they seem to be pretty much a male from the look of their body. Since it was very ripped and other stuff. Smoke comes out of his snout, making his appearance look more scary to Zenitsu.

"It's a monster!" Zenitsu yells, screaming after that.

The male with the boar mask jumps out of the room, hopping over Zenitsu and the boy and knocking the doors down before running away with katanas on his hips.

Zenitsu was crouched down, staying out of the 'monster' way.

The boy watches as the male with the boar mask disappear into the hallways.

He then turns to Zenitsu, looking down at him with disappointment as silence now filled the room.

Noticing his stare, he points at the boy as he starts sobbing all over again. "What the heck? What's with that look in your eyes?" He sniffles, still on the ground. "Stop looking at me like that!" He demands.

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Teruko shakes, whimpering as she stares at the demon.

"If it hadn't been..." The demon mutters, his deep voice scaring the girl a little more than she is. "If it hadn't been for their meddling..." The demon continues to mutter to himself, as if he doesn't know that there was two humans in the room. Tanjiro observes the demon, seeing that there was tsuzumi's stuck to his torso. Which means, that he could be the demon that was changing the rooms.

"Teruko, you gotta try not to scream." Tanjiro whispers to the girl.

"The room's going to flip around, so don't go into the hall." He orders her, removing his hand off of her mouth. "Step back and hide behind the shelves." She as he says, tripping as she sprints to the shelves while Tanjiro gets into position.

"Curses, curses!" The demon grumbles out. "Thanks to them, he got away!!" He complains, clenching his fists. "When he was my prey!" He growls, frowning down at the ground.

"Why?! Why does everyone keep sneaking through my house?!!" He exclaims.

"It's so aggravating. It's my prey! It's my prey! Found in my territory!!" He continued to whine like a child, a child who fights over a toy and claims that it's theirs.

Tanjiro unsheathes his katana, stopping it in front of him.

"Curse them! Curse them!" The demon repeats. "Hey! Listen!" Tanjiro tries to get his attention. "I'm with the Demon Slayers Corp. Rank 10, Tanjiro Kamado!" He introduces himself, even if the demon wouldn't care. "I'm going to slay you now!" He notifies the demon. "A child with rare blood that I found myself!" The demon still continues to complain to himself, his brows twitching.

Tanjiro dashed towards the demon, getting ready to behead the demon. 'Got him!' Tanjiro thought, but was sadly wrong. The demon slaps the drum on his right shoulder. The room starts to shake, catching Tanjiro off guard. The room turns, causing Teruko to lose her balance and scream.

Tanjiro lands on the wall, yelling out her name in concern. He then noticed something about the room.

It changed, but it was on it's side now?

'The Tatami mats are on the wall..? The room rotated! That must be the demon's Blood Demon Art.' Tanjiro twists his head to look at the demon, seeing that he's still in the same spot and the hallways didn't move at all. 'The whole house is the demon's territory!' Tanjiro smells another scent, which got stronger and less faint.

'An odd scent is wafting this way.' Tanjiro looks away from the demon, looking at the direction where the scent is coming from and getting closer to where they were. 'It's not a demon!' He narrows his eyes at the papered doors.

A cackle echoes, getting louder as stomps came along with it.

"Comin' through! Comin' through!"

"Comin' through!" The same male with the boar mask barges through the papers, the katanas in his hands we're firmly gripped tight. He lands on the ground with a grunt.

'Wh- Who's that guy?' Tanjiro stares in shock at the male.

'He's wearing a boar hide!' The male with the boar mask shifts his katanas, feeling confident about the thought of beheading the tsuzumi demon.

'And he's wielding Nichirin swords!!'

The male puts his arms down, crossing them with the katanas.

"All right, you monster," The voice of the male roughly says, looking at the demon. "Die on the battlefield and serve as my springboard! So that I can become more powerful and soar even higher!!" He finished. "Infuriating! Infuriating!" The demon exclaimed, getting more angry that there was more demon hunters in his own house. Tanjiro silently watches, way too shocked to even move.

"Here goes..."

The male points his katana at the demon, sliding his left foot to the side a little as his other katana was pointed to a different direction.

"Comin'... through!!"

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YATAA!! Inosuke is finally here! ^ ^ Also, I would like to introduce u to somebody guys!! Say hi to katssu! They will be working with meh on my story and helping meh out, too. And what I mean by that, is that they're an editor and will edit the chapters. Like fixing my grammar, misspelling and other mistakes! •^• It's also my first time doing this, it's a pleasure to work with them! But anyways, Ja ne!

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