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Reader's POV

~ Flashback ~

It was late night when everything happened, I remember yawning and stretching, getting up from my bed to get a glass of cold water downstairs, about 10:45PM when I had gone down to grab and drink the water downstairs and bring it up, it was 10:55PM, mulling up the the fact that yes, demon slayer did have a "bitter sweet" ending, it was still painful and sad to see so many pillars die, but it was all also so sweet and happy that they got to reconcile with the people they were with before becoming said demon slayers. feeling dissatisfied of how some events that had happened, i checked my phone to see what time it was reading 11:09PM,

"maybe i could still stay up and read some demon slayer fanfics, hehe"

after searching and browsing through quotev, seemingly already tired of staying up so late and binge reading "Demon slayer" I checked the time and saw it was 11:11PM, yawning and turning in the bed, I remember mockingly wishing while looking out the window,

" If anyone's really out there, I wish i could be cliched into 'demon slayer', not that it would happen anyway"

And everything turned black.

~ present time ~

Reader's POV

“you…-ok-…”

It’s so cold . . . I could have sworn that I closed the window when I slept last night . . .

“miss pl- . . . wa.. u.! are you . ok-“

Whose shaking me? God, I can’t feel my fingers, reaching up to rub my eyes and peek, only to be blinded by the sun, wait… the sun?

opening my eyes fully and looking around, seeing I’m in a forest covered in snow, I look down at myself to see I was in the same clothes I wore when I went out to get groceries for the week, faded black jeans, white tank top and oversized navy hoodie, soaked wet by the melted snow, looking up at the person who was holding me at the shoulder, I see the last person I didn’t expect to see.

Long maroon hair tied in a ponytail, soaked pants and haori, warm and gentle maroon eyes of the one and only, Tanjiro Kamado…

“this can’t be real…” still staring at the Tanjiro look alike, I began to pinch my arm despite freezing my feet and hands off

“miss please stop! Are you alright? You were passed out by the road to the village, do you need help?” grabbing my hands Tanjiro as Tanjiro spoke, I only continued to stare at him, letting everything sink in, feeling the cold biting at my hands, feet and face, the lingering pain of me pinching my arm repeatedly.

“oh god. . . I’m in Demon slayer. . . “

Tanjiro’s POV

“um.., miss are you alright?” I asked the foreign looking woman again as I gently shook her, still holding her hands from hurting her.

A minuet had passed and the woman hasn’t moved from the spot she was sitting from, I caught a whiff of panic and confusion coming off of her so I quickly ushered her up from the snow covered ground and wrapped my arm around her leading her to the house,

“I’m sorry miss, but the suns about to go down and the snow’s going to get harsher I’m pretty sure where your going is far but you can stay with us for the time being”
Guiding her to walk to the direction of the house I dust off the remaining snow on her, asking questions along the way, not getting responses back but, a confused stare and a tilt of her head, it didn’t bother me in the me in a bad way, only caused concern if she was in shock and worry if she even knew how to speak in Japanese.
Walking to the front of the house I called out,

“I’m back everyone!”

Reader’s POV

Hearing the shoji doors of the house slam open my eyes widen to see the family of the well and alive family of Tanjiro Kamado, Shigeru and Rokuta ran to Tanjiro’s legs and hugged him, making me take a step back and stare at the happy display.

“their still alive, its so nice to actually see him happy with his entire family and not work so hard…”

“Shigeru, Rokuta! don’t run outside its cold and wet you could get sick! Welcome back Tanjiro” looking away from the heart warming display, I see Rei Kamado, wiping her hands at her apron looking happily at her children

“oh! Hello! who might you be miss?” Rei asks and looks back at me, giving a warm smile.

It seemed to be the last thing I remembered before hearing a bunch of panicked yells and then black out once again.

Chapter end ~

Chapter Text

Reader's POV

god my head is POUNDING. . . must have overslept again, gotta wake up and see if anyone updated or not, maybe make some food for myself. . . 

sitting up from the bed which was harder than usual, i stretched my arms above my head and yawned loudly, cringing from the sounds of my bones popping, opening my eyes and looking around the room, reaching for my phone, only to see, it wasn't there,

wait this isn't my room! 

looking around the room, in the far right was 6 folded futons and tatamis, a opened window with the blinds blowing lightly inside the room, looking to the left I saw a small table with paper, a paintbrush, a pot of ink and a unlit lantern.

this diffidently isn't my room, but why does it look like a traditional Japanese room?

deciding to not just sit there and look around the room, I finally stood up and decided to investigate, just where I was.

Third Person

Opening the shoji door slightly, the (h/c) girl peeked out and looked left and right, to see if anyone was there, only to see none, she opened the shoji door fully and walked out, closing the tatami door behind her lightly, walking to the first hallway she saw peeking into the several rooms that were open, on the left she saw a stone kitchen, barrels full of fruits and vegetables, a wooden table with wooden cooking utensils and long chopsticks, to the right she saw the exit of the house, walking out to the engawa, she walked out, squinting her eyes from the bright light, the wind blew her (h/c) hair to the side, she opened her eyes to see fluffy white snow surrounding her, gaping with wide eyes she exhaled seeing her breath come out as puff of clouds in front of her she smiled, sitting at the edge of the engawa, she grabbed a handful of snow and balled it up as much as she could even if her hands were so cold, she continued doing this until she made 3 different sized ones and stacked them up, making a small snow man, sad she didn't have rocks or anything to make the eyes, nose, or arms she decided to poke holes into the head for the eyes and carved a smile for the happy face, still thinking that everything was a dream, she decided to walk off of the engawa into the snow, barefooted and walk away from the house, just to see where exactly she really was.

"this is just a dream after all, why not have fun?" the (h/c) haired girl thought, walking away from the house, looking at the beautiful scenery around her.

~~ At the other side of the house ~~

Wiping his forehead from the sweat, Tanjiro sighed putting the hatched he was holding, down onto the chopped tree base, he collected the chopped wood he had, keeping some for his family and separating the ones he was going to burn as coal for the town to sell. he thought that yes, even though he was tired and cold, he needed to provide for his family since he was the eldest child of the family he needed to provide for them since his dad had passed away a few years back.

"I'm sure this is enough to sell for the village, maybe i can bring back a dew treats for the family when I get back home"

"nii-san! nii-san!" 

shocked out of his thoughts, Tanjiro looked back to the engawa to see that his younger siblings panicked, worried for what happened he quickly ran to them so they don't have to run out to the cold,

"Hanako-chan, Shigeru-kun! what's wrong?! are you both alright?!" Tanjiro asked putting his hands on their shoulders, checking if they were injured, only to see none 

"nii-san! the foreign lady is missing! we looked everywhere for her but she's just gone! like a ghost!" Shigeru said loudly, obviously panicked, tears threatening to fall from both the children's eyes, Tanjiro's mind blanked, he eyes turning into dots, mouth open in bewilderment.

"miss foreign lady? but wasn't she asleep, unless she woke...up?"

At the realization Tanjiro's eyes quickly opened, and a loud scream of shock left him, he ran back inside the house, bringing his little sibling inside the warmth of the house he closed the shoji doors behind him and ran to the room where the foreign woman was, only to see the room empty, he panicked more, turning to his two little siblings he bent down and tried to put on a calm façade and patted both of their heads, he smiled and said as reassuringly as he can,

" don't worry Hanako-chan, Shigeru-kun!, I'll find her! remember onii-san has a good snse of smell! I can track her down, alright, so for now can you guys make sure when oka-san and the others come back, tell them Onii-san went out to look for the foreigner, okay?"

Nodding at his words, Tanjiro smiled and ran out the front of the house closing the shoji doors behind him, he found the small snow man in front of the engawa, took a whiff of her scent that was left on the are she sat and looked up, seeing the almost faded foot prints the (h/c) girl left, he quickly ran to where the footsteps led, worried as he saw they were foot steps, meaning she had no shoes on, and that she could get sick or get frostbite

"miss where did you go? I hope I can get in time to you before anything bad happens to you!"

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Reader's POV

"when am I going to wake up? its so cold, I'm starting to feel numb, I better have not left the window open, gosh why do I sleep like a log?" 

walking into a clearing, I saw a tree, a beautiful one at that, covered in frost, the pond beneath somehow not frozen at all, walking towards it, I sat down on one of the rocks near the pond, and gazed into the clear water,

" funny how I look like a cartoon character? My eyes are so big, and I genuinely look cute" touching my face, I pinched my cheeks and pulled at them, making faces and messing with my hair, finally looking down at myself, I found myself wearing a plain white yukata, with a yellow obi tied around my waist, seeing my hands and feet in a 2d-ish style made me really wonder,

"when is this silly dream going to end" dipping my feet into the pond and swishing my legs back and fourth I continued to look around humming a catchy and random tune.

"there you are miss! are you aright!?" a hand landing on my shoulder, I slightly jumped and looked up from the hand that was on my shoulder only to see Tanjiro again, a worried look in his eyes,

"man this is one heck of a dream huh"

Observing him I saw that he was covered in soot and he was panting, maybe he ran all the way here look for me but why? scooting aside from the rock I was sitting on I patted the side where I made space,

" come here my boy, sit with me so I can rant to you about some crazy shit" grinning at him, he looked confused but understood my gesture, and sat down beside me,

"ano, thank you, miss, but you shouldn't be out here in the cold, your not wearing any shoes or extra layers to keep warm! we should head back to the house so you can at least get your extras layers before leaving" Tanjiro said, taking his checkered scarf and wrapped it around my neck, patting the snow off my head and grabbing my hands,

"uwa!?!? YOUR HANDS ARE SO COLD MISS, oh gosh we should really go!" not really understanding what he says as he rubs my hands warm, i tilted my head and said,

"what ever you just said, I didn't understand a single thing, but uh, everything's alright!" patting his head still I said smiling at him, he stopped rubbing my hands, looking at me with wide eyes, his face turned red for a moment, but he quickly shook his head, putting on a determined face, I was suddenly in his arms, him walking back to the way of the house, and saying,

"lets get back before you get any colder, its about to be sundown anyways, and everyone else must be worried sick"

Leaning up against his chest, I looked at my hands to see them a little bit blue, and unable to feel them.

"this can't be real, right? this is all just a dream, if I fall asleep right now, I'll wake up back in my room with the window open"

I'll close my eyes just for a bit, maybe then I'll finally wake up.

closing my eyes, I let out a long sigh, leaning against Tanjiro's neck, I said,

"If this were real, I wish I could tell you, everything that happens to you. . . "

Tanjiro's POV

After the foreign woman fell asleep I wondered what she was talking about, she sounded and smelt sad and remorseful, it sounded and felt as if she was warning me about something, but what?

"gosh, what have we gotten ourselves into oto-san?" 

Looking back down at the woman, I smiled and sighed, thinking to myself while walking back home

"just who is she?"

~ Chapter end ~ 

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Third Person

In the middle of the dark and snowy night, up a mountain top, the Kamado residents home was lit up by the lanterns hanging in the front of the engawa and the inside, giving off a warm feeling, of a happy and contented home.

In the far left of the bedroom, there lied the (h/c) girl, in between the youngest Kamado's, covered in two layers of white blankets one which was being used by the (h/c) girl and the second was partially covering her right side, as it was being used by two youngests of the Kamado family, Rokuta and Hanako Kamado, sleeping soundly beside the foreign girl, to the left side of the foreign girl was the other two youngest of the Kamado family, sleeping soundly, was Shigeru and Takeo.

In the middle of the bedroom, was Tanjiro, writing down in a makeshift journal with a dimly lit candle, and beside him was the second eldest of the family, Nezuko Kamado, also writing on a piece of paper, seemingly to be a grocery list of what to stock up on as the winters were just going to be harsher for the next couple of weeks till spring.

~ ~ ~ ~

Reader's POV

 it's so nice and warm, feels so much more better than last time, maybe it stopped being windy? sigh . . . I should probably wake up now, considering that I might have really over slept again.

sitting up to stretch only to grimace and shudder as I felt and heard my joints pop, I rubbed my left left eye and peeked out of my right one,

" I must have slept until afternoon, but why is it so chilly?" whispering to myself , I looked up from the blanket to the middle of the room, only to see two people sitting in the middle of the room, confused of where I was again, I tried to stand up only to be stopped by something grabbing the left side of my shir- . . .  yukata? 

Looking down to the had that had grabbed the left side of my yukata sleeve was Takeo Kamado, confused at what was going on, like really confused,

Am I REALLY still dreaming?

I gently unfurled his hand from my yukata sleeve and got out of the covers, putting them over him and Shigeru, stopping to stare at them smiling softly, as they fought over the warm blanket only to settle as both of them cuddling together for warmth.

maybe this dream is to make me feel better? my minds unconsciously trying to comfort me from the hardships these cinnamon rolls go through . . . yeah maybe that's it.

"your finally awake miss! are you feeling alright? you have slept the entire day away after I had brought you back to the house after you little adventure"

shocked at the sound of a gentle and hushed voice, I quickly turned around and saw the warm eyes of Tanjiro and Nazuko Kamado, smiling at me, tilting my head I silently walked over to them and sat on across Nezuko.

you know when you dream you kind of think that they'd be speaking in English or that I'd somehow magically understand Japanese all of the sudden.

" you know since I really don't understand you both at all, I really wish this is a happy dream" I said looking at both of them, putting my hands on top of the table lightly tapping the top with my fingertips.

"ano, Nii-san I think she's does not understand us" Nezuko said to Tanjiro, lightly patting his shoulder as she giggled looking at him, having dot eyes

"how do you think we will talk to her then? guestures? maybe we can all help her learn by saying what it is but slowly?" 

Giggling at Tanjiro and Nezukos chibi form talking to each other, my belly suddenly growled, making a shocked and embarrassed face, I patted my belly down to silence it

"That's right! you were asleep the whole day, we tried waking you up a few times but you were dead asleep, it's a miracle that you didn't get sick , walking in the cold without layers or shoes is bad, you know? anyways lets get you something to eat okay?" grabbing my hand, Nezuko gently pulled me up to my feet leading me to another room and letting me sit and settle under the kotatsu, sighing happily as the cloth of the kotatsu warmed my legs.

I really must be having a lucid dream if the temperatures be playing me like this, huh?

suddenly two hands putting down a bowl of hot soup and tea came into my vision, looking at the other side of the kotatsu I saw Nezuko giving Tanjiro a warm cup of tea a long with herself, sitting beside him.

"ano, how are we going to do this nii-san? she clearly can understand us, why don't we try getting to know her name?" picking up the ceramic tea cup with my yukatas sleeves, I looked at them as I kept blowing at the hot tea, I finally took a sip only to burn my tongue, flinching at the feeling I quickly and as gently as I could tried to put the cup down silently on the table top, as I hissed lightly,

I just burnt my tongue, I'm not supposed to feel that right? am I even dreaming? 

Feeling a small chill go down my spine I looked back up to the ceramic tea cup and put my finger to the tea cup until it was was too hot and quickly pulled my finger away, only to see it was an angry red,

I'm definitely not dreaming, arn't I?

"my goodness miss! please don't do such reckless things! yes it was a miracle you didn't get sick but please dont hurt yourself" snapped out of my thought, I looked up to see Tanjiro wrapping my finger up with a piece of cloth.

" My name is Tanjiro Kamado! I haven't really had the chance to introduce my self properly but we do hope you can understand what we are trying to say here" Tanjiro said pointing to himself then to Nezuko as he spoke

"yes! my name is Nezuko Kamado, who might you be miss?" Nezuko said then pointing at me,

Oh I see, they must be introducing themselves to me, I really might not be dreaming huh? the stupid wish actually worked. . . oh god, this is really happening huh.

pointing to Tanjiro I repeated his name, then at Nezuko, the to myself,

" (f/n) (l/n)"

"uwa! its so nice to meet you (f/n)-san! we really hope that you can enjoy your stay here!" Nezuko said grasping my hands and lightly patting them giving me a bright smile, in my side view I saw Tanjiro nodding his head,

wait, shoot, don't Japanese names start from last name to first name when they introduce themselves? oopse. . . 

sweat dropping I smiled and gently pulled back my hands as the two then continued to converse with themselves, staring at the still steaming bowl of soup, I then sighed, and proceeded to drink the soup, 

I guess, I should find a way to prevent somethings to happen then huh?

~ ~ ~ Morning ~ ~ ~

Reader's POV

being the first one awake I really had nothing to do, already have made apple slices and warm vegetable soup left on the kotatsu for the family to eat when they wake, I had decided to sit in front of the engawa, eating some one of the apple slices I had cut awhile ago, looking at my cut index finger, pondering, how exactly is everything going to play out now since I was in the picture,

Am I going to change the events of the manga's events or continue everything, with just me being here? am I going to die here along with the family? should I venture out and find Urokodaki to train and be prepared to save the Kamado family? God is this really even going to wo-

"ah! there you are! I was worried that you had decided to leave again without extra covers, but I had smelt the food you had prepared for us, thank you (f/n)-san, this really would lessen the stress for oka-san" sitting beside me Tanjiro said, lightly startling me, I look at him and offer an untouched apple slice to him smiling, as he took it with a small "arigatou" as he ate, I looked forward and continued eating,

maybe just a little while, I'll help this happy family, they are real, they don't deserve this.

finishing the apple slices with Tanjiro, I stood up and offered him my hand smiling, when he took it, going back inside the warm house, he decided to wake everyone else up for breakfast, I went back to the kitchen setting up hot tea for everyone. determined I thought to myself, looking at my cut finger, feeling energized,

I'll do everything I can in my power to save these people.

~ Chapter end ~

Chapter Text

Reader's POV

~ Flashback ~

It had been at least 2 month's since I've been with the Kamado family, it's funny that I used to think of me being in this huge lucid dream, but having all these scars prove me wrong, having helped the Kamado family as I stayed and had no where to go, I had grabbed the spare hatched they had and cut wood in the morning to lessen Tanjiro's work, but when he had woken up looking for me, slamming the shoji door open and screaming my name, the pile of wood that I had cut behind me had fallen over me, thus leaving me with the first scar, on the side of my right palm was a small gash where I had nicked myself form the hatchet when the wood had fallen over me, to this day Tanjiro looks apologetic to me when he looks at my hand even if I continuously flick his forehead and pat his head,

the second scar I had was when I was cooking with Kei, her teaching me some words of some of the utensils and food that we were using to cook, but then the kids ( Rokuta running from Hanako ) had been running around the kitchen bumping into Rei, and her bumping into the hot pot of soup, I had quickly shoved Rei and the kids away from the falling hot pot, only for me to fall stepping on the front of my yukata, the pot had fallen on my left leg, burning it and me stepping in the hot soup, giving me a blotchy scar on my left leg and a little on my feet, Rei and Nezuko had scolded the kids but I had still smiled and patted their heads despite the pain and said in broken Japanese " (f/n)-chan is okay " crying and holding onto me kept saying sorry but like Tanjiro I had only patted their heads and said it was alright as much as I could in Japanese to them,

the third was when me and Tanjiro had been in the village selling coal to the people, a drunken group of men of four had been disturbing a small ramen shop, and broke some of the ceramic bowls on the floor as they had been grabbing the man on the other side of the cart, Tanjiro being the kind soul he is, had put the bag of charcoal from his back to the ground and tried to defuse the situation, me helping him, only to be pushed by one of the drunkards down onto the broken ceramic bowl shards, thankfully only having 3 small shards embedded in the back of my right arm, never in my life had I seen Tanjiro so mad, that he had knocked out four of the drunken men, the other three with punches and kicks but the one who knocked me over with the iconic "head-but" the sound was so loud I winced for the man and not for the wounds I had just acquired, Tanjiro had wrapped wrapped a handkerchief ( thanks to one of the villagers ) around my right arm to stop the bleeding, feeling guilt that he forced us to go home early, the next day I had left the house early to sell the left over coal from the other day and went home, halfway up the mountain a side I ran, well Tanjiro ran into me, toppling us over, him talking rapidly to me and checking me over and shaking me back to back, sounding very worried, feeling guilty as is already I had flicked his forehead and shoved the pouch of money to his face huffing and pouting, saying " I got money "  pointing to the empty basket behind me, Tanjiro speechless he had, made a confused sound and had dot eyes, holding the money pouch, he then hugged me tightly patting my head, talking to me as if he was saying that "I didn't need to do it", he pulled me up and made me ride his pack, carrying me halfway up the mountain,

from then on to this day Tanjiro and the family had been cautious around me being clumsy around the place,

~  Present day ~

Always being the first one up I had already made the family small breakfast of rice with grilled fish and fresh orange juice on the side, sitting outside the house on the engawa, drinking the left over orange juice I had, watching the snow fall covering the trees around us, I had started thinking to my self while humming,

The snows been getting harsher for a few months now, it's just a matter of time before "that" event happens, and I really don't want it to, I haven't done much to help anyone survive, maybe I can convince them to all go to the village to eat out? or to buy what ever, maybe I can- 

"always the early bird (f/n)-chan" sitting beside me Tanjiro said as he was also holding a cup of orange juice, he leant a little towards me, our arms against each other, smiling at him I just nodded to what he said and continued to hum, trying to keep myself occupied and not think about "that" event.

"ne, (f/n)-chan lets go inside, wake everyone up so we can go and sell coal and come back home early" standing up Tanjiro offered me his hand, and we walked inside, waking everyone up so they could eat and start the day. 

~ after breakfast ~

walking outside of the engawa, wiping my wet hands on the stomach of my yukata I looked up to see Kei kneeling in front of Tanjiro, wiping his face with her sleeve, she spoke to him, 

freezing on the spot, I started to feel light headed, feeling cold sweat run down the side of my face as I continued to stare at the scene in front of me, 

just as I had started to think about the "event" then it just happens, what am I supposed to do?!?! Kei agreed to bring the family down next week into the village, but the "event" is about to happen tonight!

" are you alright (f/n)-chan? you can stay home if you don't feel well you know" Kei said, no longer kneeling in front of Tanjiro, but standing beside me, hand against my forehead feeling if I was, indeed sick, snapping out of my panic induced thinking, I shook my head "no" and smiled at her,

"I'm alright, just got dizzy for a moment" I said grabbing her hand away from my forehead and patted her, giving her a big and tight hug, shuddering lightly when she hugged me back,

I wont be able to hug her like this again anytime soon,

"what's gotten in you (f/n)-can! it was as if that hug was the last time you would see us, haha!" Kei said as I let go of her, smiling and walking out and putting on the spare fukagutsu, I walked over to where Tanjiro, Shigeru, Hanako and Takeo were and gave them all a bear hug together, squeezing them with all my might, laughing with Tanjiro when Takeo complained, letting them go I patted their heads and picked up the smaller straw bag full of charcoal, I walked a little bit more forward when Shigeru and Hanako started complaining to Kei about not being able to go with us to the village,

I wont be able to hug anyone of them like this. . . ever again

" leaving already (f/n)-chan? oni-chan? I had to put Rokuta-kun down for a nap or he would make a scene when the both of you leave for the village, he misses dad a lot after he passed away" Nezuko said, snapping me out of my sad thoughts I walked towards her and hugged them both gently, letting them both go after a while Tanjiro walked towards them and patted Rokuta's head and bid her goodbye,

"see you guys both later!" 

Waving back at them both, Tanjiro and I walked side by side each other down the mountain, silent as I thought about everything that was just about to begin,

"are you sure you are alright (f/n)-chan? you've had this sad scent coming from you since we had breakfast with everyone"

"I'm alright Tanjiro-kun" smiling at him, and looking forward again,

god, if your out there, please, don't take them away from us.

~ at the village ~

Third Person

Arriving at the village Tanjiro was teaching (f/n) words as they walked, only to be stopped by an old lady who was sweeping the front of her house,

"ah it's Tanjiro and (f/n), you both still come down the mountain in this weather? you're both so hardworking! don't get sick both of you okay?"

" Were both okay in this weather, want to buy some charcoal? do you have enough at home?"

As she was about to reply Tanjiro was interrupted by someone else,

"Hey! Tanjiro! (f/n)!" looking towards where their names were called the man continued,

"I want to buy charcoal, you both helped me fix my door and kitchen last time, thank you"

"I also want to buy charcoal!" chimed in another woman who was with her friend, as (f/n) and Tanjiro were about to go to the first customer of the day, they stopped at the sound of a door quickly slamming open behind them, a lady pushing a pretty beat up boy in front of both of them, holding broken pieces of glass in a handkerchief.

oh, its this scene. (f/n) thought to herself, as she walked towards the old man, giving him the amount of coal as she left Tanjiro to deal with the problem himself.

"augh! Tanjiro, (f/n)! you guys both came at the right time! I was treated as the culprit who broke the plate, please help me! smell it!" shoving the broken plate near Tanjiro, he sniffed it, looking back up at the mad woman, he said

"I smelled a cat."

"I told you!"

"My goodness, it was the cat's fault"

"I told you it wasn't me!"

(f/n) sighed shaking her head, the old man beside her chuckling from the scene unfolding in front of them, she grabbed her spare handkerchief and walked to the beat up man, helping him up and bringing his face to her level, wiping his bloodied nose and chin tisking at the old woman, she gave her a death glare, in broken Japanese she said,

"don't be so quick to assume, violence is not the answer"  before the old lady could even reply, the man she helped grabbed her hands, and started simping

"uwaaaaa, (f/n)-chan is an angel, standing up for me and cleaning me up, will you-"

fuming before Tanjiro could entire vine, someone else called out to the duo,

"eh Tanjiro, (f/n)! could both of you help me move some stuff?"

quickly grabbing the (h/c) girls hand he brisked walked towards the man, face super red and heart pounding,

this is going to be a long day isn't is? (f/n) thought to herself sighing.

~ sun down ~ 

Reader's POV

stretching for the second time as we walked up the mountain, I looked up to the sky,

There's still light, maybe if we rushed up more we could be home and I could do som-

"it's already late" looking down from the sky to Tanjiro, he continued

"But thank goodness, we were able to sell all the charcoal we had today." smiling at me I nodded at him absent mindedly, grabbing his hand I made my decision, we were to run up to the house even if it made us tired, I could warn them all and maybe do someth-

"hey Tanjiro, (f/n)! are you both going back to the mountain? it's too dangerous, don't go"

Freezing as I was about to drag Tanjiro with me, we looked to the side to see Saburo-san peeking out his window looking at us,

"I have a good nose, we'll be fine"

"you can both stay here tonight, come"

shaking my head and tugging Tanjiro's hand I started to sweat lightly,

"No no no, no need-"

"just come already! before the demons come out"

~ inside the house ~

Reader's POV

after changing into sleep wear that Saburo-san had provided for us, Tanjiro and I were sitting side by side, eating the meal Saburo-san prepared for us, 

"thank you for the meal" I said to Saburo-san, gathering both out dirty dishes and shooing Tanjiro away to help Saburo-san set up the futons, 

it's happening tonight, even if I run out to the cold i wont be able to see anything and might get killed on the way up by "him", or Saburo-san and Tanjiro would stop me, god please, let them be okay.

Sighing as I washed all the dishes, I wiped my hands against my sides and walked back to the room where Tanjiro and Saburo-san was, giving a small thank you again to him as he turned off the lights, I laid down  on the futon beside Tanjiro and sighed, and closed my eyes, 

please, don't let it be today.

~ unknown to her, as she slept, Tanjiro had grabbed her right hand that was out of the covers, gently squeezing, as he tried to comfort the sleeping girl, as she had been emitting the sad and fearful smell all morning, sighing to himself as he felt her relax a little bit, he closed his eyes and fell asleep with a smile on his face. ~

~ Morning ~ 

Reader's POV 

Quickly getting dressed and waking Tanjiro up, I had rushed him into leaving the house fast, pushing him up the mountain as he screamed back a "thank you" to Saburo-san

"slow down (f/n)-chan! we don't need to rush, we have time to walk up and greet everyone-"

stopping in his steps i could push Tanjiro anymore, knowing what it meant I ran ahead of him dropping the straw bag I carried on my back

God please! please don't make it true!

Tanjiro's POV

Frozen in place I couldn't move, watching as (f/n)-can run towards the direction of the house in haste, I continued to 

"it. . . smells like blood." 

Breaking into a sprint, I followed (f/n)-can to the house.


~ Chapter end ~

Chapter Text

Third Person

Stopping beside the frozen (h/c) haired girl, who was covering her mouth from shock, looking away from her he let out a silent scream, in front of him was Nezuko's and Rokuta's bloody bodies, laying in front of the house in the snow, letting out a pained scream of shock, Tanjiro dropped his coal straw bag and ran past (f/n)'s frozen form, and feel to his knees beside Nezuko and Rokuta, screaming Nezuko's name, he shook her, asking in hysterics "what happened here?" "what's going on?", Tanjiro looked up and walked inside the house, nearly falling to his knees again as he held on to the door, in shock saying their names as as he looked around the bloodied entrance of the house, about to let out another pained scream only to be stopped as (f/n) tugged his sleeve so hard, crying out that she was "still warm!" as she was cradling Nezuko's bloodied head to her chest, he gasped and quickly carried Nezuko up onto his back, screaming at the unconscious Nezuko to "hold on" as he descended down the mountain tripping in his haste as he was looking for help, meanwhile (f/n) stayed a little behind, closing Rokuta's eyes, she carried him inside the house and laid him down properly at the entrance of the door, letting out a silent "I'm sorry" as she quickly stood up and ran to catch up to Tanjiro, never looking back as tears heavily poured down her cheeks, all she could think of was "I'm so sorry everyone".

Reader's POV

I have to keep running forward! Tanjiro's already ahead of me! I have to keep going, even if it hurts to breath! 

Running even if my lungs and throat was so dry, I kept running and stopped at the edge of the cliff where Tanjiro and Nezuko were supposed to fall, seeing Tanjiro keeling in the snow, in front of Giyuu who was restraining Nezuko with one hand around her wrists, screaming at Tanjiro looking down at him mad,

As much as I love this stupid depressi boy, I'm not going to let him hurt my babies! 

Grabbing a conveniently sizeable rock, I jumped down the cliff, somehow landing on my feet, I screamed as he stabbed Nezuko, throwing the rock as hard as I could at him, only for it to be blocked, I ran past Tanjiro, grabbing another rock and throwing it again, grazing his cheek at the shock of another person being here, as I was about to tackle him he dodged the rock Tanjiro threw at him, making me fall to the snow beside Nezuko, he then hit the back of my head with the hilt of his nichirin blade, making me choke on the air as I gasped, falling face first into the snow, I tried to stand up, hearing Tanjiro scream and running towards us, I laid my head onto the snow, feeling so useless, I grabbed Giyuu's ankle, gripping it as hard as I could, when I heard he knocked Tanjiro out too, looking up at him when the hatchet finally hit the tree beside his head, speaking even if my head hurt

"please, t-their different." unable to keep my eyes open from how hard the hit was, I began to close my eyes, 

Damn it, please, spare Nezuko, don't change the timeline.

w aking up in a dark room I quickly sat up, only to be stopped by Kei, holding her hand that was on my shoulder, m eyes started to tear up, looking beside me the others sat down, looking worried at me,

"are you alright (f/n)-chan? that was quite the hit"

quickly sitting up properly I grabbed everyone as much as I could and proceeded to give the strongest bear hug I could crying harder, 

"I'm so sorry! i'm so sorry!" only to be stopped when Kei had patted my head, pushing me away gently as I was still hugging the 4 kids, she wiped my tears away, smiling as she spoke,

"it's not your fault you know? you tried to save us, I know that now, time just went by too fast now didn't it?" before I could even reply, I started to feel light headed again, looking down at the kids who were holding me up they smiled up at me,

"look out for our big brother please onee-chan!"

"Were always here watching (f/n)-nee-chan!"

"were going to be okay nee-chan!"

"don't do anything stupid nee-chan"

hugging the 4 kids again, as I cried, I began to fade, only to feel Kei put something in my hand, as she held it tightly closed, 

"I'm sorry but we have to leave you for now (f/n)-chan, take care of Tanjiro and Nezuko for me, okay?"

with that, I woke up.

Gasping and sitting up quickly, I clutched my hand to my chest, as I was about to look around me, I groaned, clutching the back of my head as I leaned down on to my knees, feeling it throb lightly,

I may be a simp for water boy, but fuck getting hit, thank god the snow was there to numb my pain.

"are you both finally awake yet?" gasping and looking up to Giyuu, I unconsciously gripped the sleeve of Nezuko who was beside me, only to yelp and be pulled into Tanjiro's chest has he clutched both of us, as if protecting us from Giyuu,

"Get to Mt. Sagiri  as soon as possible, look for an old man named Urokodaki Sakonji, tell him that Tomiyoka Giyuu sent you, it's cloudy, so she seems to be alright or the moment, and don't let her ever be exposed to sunlight" Giyuu said looking away from Tanjiro then looking to me,

"sorry."  looking at him dumbfoundedly, I was about to say "no", he was gone.

"are you alright (f/n)-chan? Nezuko-chan?" looking away from where Giyuu flash-stepped away to Tanjiro I nodded and stood up, giving them both a hand, and pulling them up,

"we should go back and burry everyone, it's- . . . it's the least we could do as weren't there when they -" seeing him stutter, trying to hold his tears back, I gently grabbed and held Tanjiro's left hand, squeezing it gently,

"it's alright to cry."

watching his composure break, letting out pained sobs of grief, I pulled him forward and hugged him, looking at my right hand as I cradled Tanjiro's head on my shoulder, rubbing my hands through his now short hair with my left, I saw the wisteria pin I gave Kei as a gift when I first saved up my own money to buy everyone gifts or treats on new years, and started to tear up, hugging Tanjiro tighter, taking deep breaths to calm down, I gently pushed Tanjiro away, and wiped his tears away, smiling at him,

"let's go?"

Reader's POV

Sitting down beside Tanjiro praying, I couldn't help but hold my breath, trying to stop myself from crying again in front of Tanjiro again, I stood up looking down on the 5 graves of the Kamado's that didn't make it and sighed, touching the hairpin I put in my hair,

so Kei knows the truth of me wanting to help them, but how? and what did she mean that time went by too fast? did the "event" somehow skip days, because I was here? 

shaking my head to stop my thoughts, I grabbed Nezuko's right hand, and leaned on her shoulder, having a ghost of a smile on my face when I felt her head lean onto mine, shifting my gaze back to Tanjiro, seeing him now standing up, he grabbed Nezuko's left hand and he nodded to wards me, looking determine albeit it being strained,

"let's go"

walking away from the house, he stopped making a strained sound, I said his name worried, only for him to shake his and continue to run away from the house, on our way to Mt. Sagiri,

just as I felt like everything was okay, I just had to run out of luck, huh.

Sitting in the cave Tanjiro told me to wait and watch after Nezuko, I began to think of the possible ways I could help Tanjiro and Nezuko about the demon in the shrine, eating the poor monks,

Maybe I should have went with Tanjiro and asked one of the farmers if they had an extra sickle or pitchfork, should I look around for sharp objects here? maybe a sharp rock and i could wrap my handkerchief on it to make a makeshift knife? or-

"Nezuko-chan? (f/n)-chan? their gone! ah! there you are, is (f/n)-chan with you?"

Not even noticing that Nezuko had already dug a hole, not just big enough for her but for me too, I popped up my head out of the hole enough just to see Tanjiro I waved my left hand to him in greeting, constricted in the hole with Nezuko, her hugging me trapping my right arm and legs in her hold,

"ah hang on just a second Nezuko-chan" watching him quickly stand up and fix the basket, I began to run my hands through Nezuko's hair, and began to braid it, making it into a French braid, humming as I was doing so, after I was finished, I said "tada!" smiling as she felt around her hair, making happy sounds she turned me around and tried braiding mine, only making frustrated noises as she couldn't get it right, laughing lightly patting her folded legs which were around me,

"Nezuko? Nezuko-chan? do you think you can fit inside here? I want us to try to keep moving in the day too, but i can carry you okay? can you fit? in here? basket." Tanjiro said inside the cave finally finished fixing said basket, he faced it down facing her, pointing into it, as he spoke slowly to her like a mother would to a child, sweat dropping at that, pushed myself out of the Nezuko's hole she had dug in and ushered her out, helping her into the basket only to laugh as she just flopped it like a fish out of water,

"I guess not, but-"

Tanjiro sighed and smiled, out of thought as if he was thinking, but he snapped out of it and kneeled closer to Nezuko's  still body,

"hey, uh, Nezuko? remember when you got really big the other day? I've got an idea, do you think you can get smaller?"  not getting an answer from the muzzled girl he started to pat Nezuko's back, encouraging her to get smaller, stifling my laugh as she actually did while almost toppling over the basket, I looked over to Tanjiro and let out a little laugh, him smiling he looked back to Nezuko and started to rub her head, sort of messing up the braid I did on her,

"Nice job Nezuko-chan! whos a good girl? you are Nezuko, I'm impressed!" shaking my head as it sounded like he was talking to a dog I finally stood up from my spot and walked out the cave, stretching in the sun, I dusted the bottom of my yukata and turned around only to see Tanjiro carefully putting the bamboo bag on his shoulders, offering him my hand, he grabbed it and squeezed gently and led us forward to the direction of where we think the mountain is,

this is going to be a long walk huh?

~ a few hours later, mid day ~

god my feet hurt, I'm also so thirsty, maybe we could stop somewhere.

A few hours of walking letting go of Tanjiro's hand so he could properly support carrying Nezuko's basket by holding the bottom straps of the bag, we stopped in front of a house with a woman watching over her child who was playing, Tanjiro asking directions from the woman, my attention was brought to the little boy who had given my a guard full of water, thankful from what he did, I patted his head and said thanks, him letting me keep the guard, Tanjiro led me away from them, waving goodbye to them, I offered the guard of water to Tanjiro, which he gladly took, only taking a few sips, he gave it back to me with a "thank you", we continued our way to the mountain the woman had spoke about,

Night had finally fallen over us, I had finally convinced Tanjiro to let Nezuko out early as I saw there was not a lot of sun showing anymore, seeing him wince as he tried to stand up straight, 

walking hand in hand, Tanjiro at Nezuko's left side and me at her right, we stopped under the shrine, where, initially is when Tanjiro and Nezuko fight their first Demon, sweating nervously I gripped Nezuko's hand tightly and sighed,

"oh, it's a shrine! the lights still on, must mean that their probably still awake right? let's check it out."  tugging Nezuko and me to the shrine, only to stop and sniff the air stiffly,

oh shit, here we go again,

"t-that's the smell of blood, the path here seems rough, maybe someone got hurt! lets go check it out" running up the stairs, i had let go of Nezuko's hand and gripped the rock I had hidden in the sash of my yukata tightly, stopping a few steps behind Tanjiro and Nezuko, Tanjiro slammed the worn out shoji doors open,

" is everyone okay?!?! " gasping in shock, the gore before me was terrible, the demon eating the people peered back at us as he was still holding the arm he was just biting at, he spoke,

"the hell are you doing here? this is my territory, anybody who sets foot in my turf, is going to have to pay!" gripping at my stomach I continued to stare at the demon instead of the bodies

it's one seeing gore from the anime but, seeing it now in person if just-! sickening! 

"huh? what? somethings not quite right about you three, hang on, are you two humans?"

oh god-!

Pushing Nezuko who was drooling a bunch aside, the light in the shirne was blown out by the force of the demons jump, who had crashed Tanjiro and himself through it, calling out Tanjiro's name he then sliced the demon's neck with the Hatchet, jumping back a few steps away from the demon he took stance as he saw the demon hold his chin, looking in disgust,

"a hatchet, not bad kid, just a little scratch though, should heal in no time, see that? the bleeding already stopped!" 

disappearing from view, the demon then jumped on Tanjiro, strangling him,

move (f/n)! do something! Nezuko's not moving! 

"you got luck boy, but it wont happen again, and now, I'm going to snap your neck!" 

Running towards the demon without screaming I had brought the sharp rock up in the air and jumped on top of the demons back, stabbing the side of his head, now screaming,

"Get off of Tanjiro you bitch ass hoe!" pulling at the demons hair back, as he let out a pained and shocked scream he shook me off, making roll off of him, gasping in pain as the demon kicked me to the side, I hit my back onto the tree, 

"ack!" 

"(f/n)-chan!"

curling up into a ball, I saw the demon walk closer to me, pulling the rock out of the side of his head, 

" did you really thing you could kill me with- what is this, a rock? haha! pathet-"

Looking up from where I was laying down, I saw the demons body fall on its knees, decapitated, Nezuko was beside me, checking if i was alright while "hmp"-ing at me, pulling me up to my feet, turning to look at Tanjiro who staired in shock at the now decapitated body of the shrine demon, 

"N-Nezuko! (f/n)! the demon-!" 

Nezuko picked me up, flash stepping beside Tanjiro and setting me down beside him, turning to look back at the decapitated body that was moving on it's own,

"i-it has no head! but- but its moving! "

"YOU BASTARTDS! SO ONE OF YOU WAS A DEMON AFTER ALL HUH! I COULDNT TELL WITH THE WEIRED VIBE YOU WERE GIVING OFF! BUT WHAT ARE YOU DOING TEAMING UP WITH A HUMAN?!?!" 

Hearing the sound of running foot steps I turned around to push Tanjiro away from the decapitated demons body, turning around in shock when the demons kick made a dent on in the floor, it fighting Nezuko, I ran back where the demon had dropped my knife shaped rock, 

"Leave her alone!" Tanjiro screamed grabbing the hatchet he had dropped, screaming I tackled the head of the demon onto t he floor, pinning its small and freaky arms under my legs, I continued to scream at it as I stabbed it head repeatedly only for it to regenerate,

" YOU STUPID DEMON! WHY! WONT! YOU! JUST! DIE! ALREADY! YOU! CRAZY! SICK ASS! MIDGET! FUCK!!!!" screaming at him, with every stab I did,

"YOU CRAZY WOMAN! STOP IT! YOU CANT KIL- KILL! ME! AGH!!!!" scratching at my legs, me not feeling it I continued to stab it repeatedly, stopping as I realized he spoke in English, 

"wait you- you speak English?!" staring down in shock at the demons head, with my hand above my head, 

"of-fucking-corse I can! what do you take me for?! an illiterate fuck?!?" digging his fingers more into my legs I let out a yelp of shock, only to be pushed to the side, as Tanjiro lifted his hatchet above his head, only to be stopped as the demon bit down on the blade, grabbing on his shoulders, smirking, unable to stand up from the wounds on my thighs, 

I can't get up, my legs are too scratched up, and my adrenaline almost gone, I can feel all the wounds the demon inflicted on me, I have to do somethi-!

Looking up in shock at the sound of a loud bang and choking sound, I saw Tanjiro head butting the demon, letting go of his shoulders, he grabs the demons head and head butts him again,

ACK IT SOUNDED LIKE SOME ONE THREW A ROCK AT THE WALL TWICE, TANJIRO HOW HARD IS YOUR FOREHEAD?!?!?!?!

Looking at him in awe, he took the handle of the hatchet, took a stance of a pitch ball thrower, and threw the the hatchet as hard as he can at a tree, effectively trapping the demon, to the tree, calling out to him, I pointed to the forest where Nezuko was thrown in,

"run after her! she needs help!"

"but-!" shaking my head no vigorously, I pointed back to the direction where the fight was happening,

"I'll be fine! just help her! she needs you!" with a little hesitation, he nodded, running into the forest, 

"I'll be back! just stay there (f/n)!" sweat dropping, I sighed looking down at my wounded legs, wincing as I tried to move my legs into a comfortable position, 

It's not like I can go anywhere huh?

"hey you! girl! help me out and I wont make your death as painful" the demon said, scratching at the wood of the tree, looking at him dot eyed,

"u-uh, does it look like I can stand home boy? look at what you did to my legs you dimwitted fuc-" I stopped my talking as soon as I saw the demon choke out blood, passing out,

"k, . . . I guess that means that Tanjiro and Nezuko's coming back now huh?"

after getting patched up with the help of Tanjiro, cutting up the bottom of my yukata up to the middle of my thighs to make bandages and stop the bleeding of my legs, leaning on Nezuko, he finally faced the passed out demon, holding a knife, hesitating to kill it,

just how long is Urokodaki going to get here? what's up with everyone taking their sweet time huh? man I'm going to pass out after all of this

"that knife isn't going to do the job."

ah, speak of the devil, and he shall appear.

"o-oh okay, then how do I kill him?"

"think for yourself, or aren't you capable of solving your own problems?" snickering lightly at Tanjiro's taken back look from how Urokodaki belittled him, I pointed out to the rocks beside him, gesturing he had to crush it, visibly seeing him gulp, he nodded grabbing a giant rock enough for him to crush the demons head, he lifted the rock above his head, hesitating still,

This boy is the nicest boy I know, I feel bad that this was the turning point of his life, but he needs to learn for himself, 

Staring at the demon, noticing it finally woke up, I limped slowly to Tanjiro, shaking his shoulders as the demon tried to grab him despite being restrained by the hatched lodged into the tree,

"YOU BASTARD! GET OVER HERE! I'LL DEVAOUR YOU DAMMIT! AUGH! GET OVER SO I CAN REACH YOU LITTLE BRAT!"

"hey asshole" I said in English, the demon stopped flailing slowly looking at me angrily, I smirked and pointed at the right side of the forest where the sun was just rising, 

"suns up, you a morning person?" He then panicked and looked to the right and tried to cover his face with his arms, screaming, he disintegrated from the morning light, snickering lightly, I look back at Tanjiro who dropped the rock he was holding, him gasping, as he tried to cover his mouth,

it's as if I can hear his thoughts, shit, this hurts, I know what's going to happen anyways, I'm going to sit by the steps of the shrine, I think imma pass out.

hearing in the distance Urokodaki scolding Tanjiro, I leaned myself down to the steps, folding my arms under my head to be a pillow, I sighed, closing my eyes, thinking,

maybe he can train me too? eh after this nap.

~ Bonus ~

Third Person

After finally finding Nezuko inside the basket covered with the cloth that was wrapped around it Tanjiro sighed, only to panic again when he didn't see the (h/c) girl with Nezuko, turning around to look for her, he saw (f/n) on Urokodaki-sans back, asleep.

thank goodness she's alright! she was so hurt I was sure she was-

"carry your sister and follow me, I will test you if you are ready to be part of the demon slayer corps!" nodding his head, he went to grab Nezuko, running after Urokodaki who was carrying name on his back, they stopped finally in front of Urokodaki's house, they went in and set (f/n) and Nezuko down properly on an already made mattress, leaving again for the top of the training mountain, Tanjiro placed his hand son both their heads, smiling as they both nuzzled into them,

I'll get stronger, for the both of you.

~ Chapter End ~

Chapter Text

Reader's POV

I fell asleep again didn't I? 

groaning at as I tried to push myself up, I opened my eyes to see myself laying down beside Nezuko, looking around in shock, I tried to push myself up only to wince and hiss, looking down to my thighs, I saw them bandaged, a little pink due to it bleeding still, 

Right, I forgot we finally had that nasty shrine battle, but. . . who carried me here? most importantly who bandaged me? 

looking up when the door opened, only to see a shocked Tanjiro, quickly trying to push my up and dashing to Tanjiro, only to be stopped by him hugging me, his arms under my armpits as I almost collapsed from the pain in my thighs,

"are you alright !?!? you shouldn't be walking around like this, you're still injured, come on lets get you back down."

Frazzled and only understanding the words "shouldn't be walking" and "back down" I tried to pry Tanjiro's arms away from me and forced my legs to at least stand up, I pushed myself away from Tanjiro, standing up on my wobbly legs, he kept protesting and quickly grabbed my arms again keeping me upright,

"I'm alright! I'm- I'm alright, I swear-" giving Tanjiro a strained smile although strained, he sighed and still continued to push me towards the futon I was previously laying down on,

"wai-"

"you're still unwell-"

"I'm feeling fi-"

"stop trying TO GET U-"

"I swear I'm doing fine-!"

"SILENCE!"

Stopping in our positions frozen, Tanjiro above me pushing me down onto the futon, and me propped up on one arm and the other pushing his head away, looking away from Tanjiro's squished face, to Urokodaki's who was standing by the shoji door, arms crossed, although you cant see his face, it clearly showed that he was annoyed, quickly sitting up properly along with Tanjiro pushing himself up right and scratching the back of his neck,

" you are not okay, clearly you are still hurt and you must rest IF you want to get better, if you are injured and unwell then I WILL NOT train you, do you understand me?"

Sitting still and actually thinking about what Urokodaki said, 

He said he'd still train me, but. . . I'm going to be left behind what should I do to at least help me? maybe try to practice the total concentration breathing before hand? I mean. . . I could. . . try?

Slumping down onto the futon, I reluctantly nodded my head and sighed, looking back up and saying

"fine, I'll stay" Tanjiro happy with the decision I made he gently laid his hand on my head and gave me gentle head pats, flushing at the gesture, Urokodaki then spoke,

"Lets go" 

Oh he's officially training now, gosh, I'm so left behind  

before Tanjiro could leave I quickly grabbed his hand that he used to pat my head, I squeezed it and smiled, looking up at him,

"good luck and be careful, okay?" Pausing to look at me, he smiled and squeezed my hand back just as tight, 

"I will, focus on getting better okay? I'm off" with that, he left.

Now all left is, how exactly do I practice total concentration breathing? 

Taking deep breaths in slowly and exhaling, repeating over and over again, only to choke on my breath when my ears starting ringing and I could hear my heart beat fast,

Ack-! god my diaphragm what the hell! how do they do this! I cant give up, I wont give up! come on (f/n) you can do this.

sitting up and doing the breathing exercise I did a while ago, continuing even if it made me light headed, I pushed myself up to stand up and go to the other room, walking with a limp, I looked around for water, beside the cooking space in the middle of the room, was a medium sized guard filled with water, sighing relieved I grabbed it, wincing in pain when I had to bend down a little to grab the guard, drinking it as soon as it was opened,

maybe I can practice this breathing technique better when I'm sitting straight up or standing, yeah, I think I'll do it sitting up, my legs can't do chicken shit. . . 

walking back to the room Nezuko and I were placed in, I sat down beside the table, seeing that there was a spare notebook, I lit the candle up and grabbed the brush that was beside Tanjiro's journal,

If I'm not going to be able to train then, I can at least try to write down the up coming events since Nezuko doesn't wake up in 2 years, it doesn't help that I have a goldfish memory. . . maybe I can write down things to prevent deaths, yeah, that sounds like a plan, but. . . I'll start from the very beginning.

smiling at myself I started to write down everything that happened to me in the past months and how it partially changed the events from the anime, faltering when I wrote down about the 'incident' but pushing through it, and continuing to what's supposed to happen in a few months till the next few events that actually show up into the anime.

" This. . . seems about right, I guess I'll write down on the back what changed with me in it ? " tensing up and facepalming realizing that I was talking to myself,

"great, one day without Tanjiro and I'm already talking to myself, sigh. . . eh it's not like anyone else is watching." shrugging my shoulders I continued to write and draw what some of the demons upper and lower moons look like,

It's funny how the anime style here is considered realistic. . . maybe I could use this to my advantage.

wincing when my thighs started to ache feet go numb from sitting down on my knees, I closed the journal and put the brush back beside Tanjiro's journal, finally feeling the effects on sitting on my injured legs, deciding to crawl towards the futon I was previously sleeping on, I tucked myself under the blanket, facing Nezuko, I grabbed her left hand and traced her palm,

it's going to be okay Nezuko, I know you wake up but, I miss our talks and us cooking together, I just hope that this 2 years pass by quickly. . . 

Falling asleep as I absentmindedly traced her hand I grabbed, 

I didn't notice her hand twitch and gently grip my hand .

~ 1 year later ~ 

Reader's POV

laying on the floor holding my sword I kept panting, dirty and sweaty despite it actually snowing,

"That's it, I've thought you all I can, the rest is up to both of you, you have to prove that you are both capable of advancing to the next level, come with me"

I cringed at the feeling of getting lightheaded from sitting up too fast, gripping my head with my right hand, I slowly pushed myself up with my left that was still holding the sword,

a-already?!?! I knew I said the year would pass by quickly but i-i'm going to meet pinky soon?!?!?! AAAAAAAAAA

walking hand in hand with Tanjiro, lost in thought as he was leading us where Urokodaki was leading us, I was snapped out of my fangirling thoughts as he spoke,

"If you both can cut these boulders in two, I'll allow both of you to the final selection."

a-ah. . . this. . . diffidently was not in the anime, there's two boulders. . . how'd he even get these two here? 

Walking towards the slightly smaller one that was across of Tanjiro's I touched it, actually feeling it if it was real,

oh sweet gosh darn diddly fiddle sticks, this shits actually real, oh how do I do this now? I know were supposed to get help from the one and only boy pinky, but to actually cut a boulder, myself? how. . .

"Urokodaki ? wait, hang on a second ! Urokodaki !" grabbing his left shoulder I squeezed it tight and shook my head 'no' to him, signaling that he wouldn't comeback until we actually do progress on slicing the boulder, sighing he nodded and patted my hand, looking back at the boulder in front of him, 

"you're right, I guess that I should continue now, even if it seems impossible" letting go of his shoulder I walked a little bit back words as he unsheathed his sword and took his stance, seemingly still in thought as he glared holes into the boulder,

Ohhhh, here it comes! 

Clang! 

"hgngn!" laughing and falling to the floor as he cringed and shivered from the feeling of his sword hitting the boulder, he then started stomping his foot on the ground red at the ears and cheeks as he tried to make me stop laughing,

"it's not funny! why don't you try striking your boulder !" finally stopping from laughing, I wiped some of the tears that escaped from my eyes as he pouted, but then smiled when he checked his nichirin blade,

"at least it didn't break, but. . ." he trailed off taking a stance again, ready to strike the boulder only to get the same result like last time, humming as I watched him continue despite actually not achieving anything,

after all these months of training and just spending time with him, I've actually got to know him, as a person and not as the anime character in the anime, despite me being silent, he's actually learned to talk with just some gestures or sound ques from me , I've never been this motivated to actually succeed because of him, just for him and Nezuko, I'll try.

raising my own nichirin blade I striked the boulder, 

Clang!

"ack-!"

"(f/n)-chan !"

Reader's POV

six months has passed as Tanjiro and I kept training the same regimens Urokodaki has made us do before, push ups, sit ups, breath styles, and more, but it seemed like Tanjiro was at his wits end,

striking the boulder over and over not even caring if the blade broke he dropped it, falling to his knees, looking at his hands that were wounded from all the training, I quickly grabbed his hand and got the spare bandages I had from the side of my obi, wrapping both of his hands gently as to not hurt him but tightly enough that he can train with them not falling off, 

I'm already tuckered out, and yet he's here still trying, very hurt and tired he really wont relent huh?

Leaning on my boulder as I cradled my hands, I watched him slam his forehead on the boulder screaming, 

"uagh! come on Tanjiro! you can do this!"

"Silence!"

both gasping in shock, I quickly looked up at Tanjiro's boulder there sat the one and only Sabito sitting on top of it, like a boss holding his own wooden blade,

"It's unsightly to whine, so knock it off."

AKSDLKAJDKLJASD OH SHIT HES HERE IM GONNA-

"A demon slayer bares his suffering in silence, isn't that what you want to be? then start acting like it. " standing up from his position he jumped down in a spin and attacked Tanjiro, blocking his blade he then kicked Tanjiro under the chin so hard he flew back,

" you're slow, weak, and immature, that's not what I call a demon slayer."

oh gosh, here we go again.

~ chapter end ~

Chapter Text

Reader's POV 

Staring at the scene in front of me in awe, I began to think back to the time Rei figured out that I wasn't from 'this time' 

Can he hear my thoughts? does he also know I'm not?

"what do you think you're doing?!" snapping out of my thoughts I looked at Tanjiro's agitated form, holding out his sword in front of him ready to strike Sabito if he needed too,

"trying to figure out what YOU'RE doing" flinching at his hard tone I kept silent, not wanting to break any significant plot lines that would help Tanjiro grow,

"what do you mean? I'm training" Tanjiro exclaimed,

"How long do you plan to keep sitting on you butt, take a stance" getting up from the ground, Tanjiro looked at Sabito with irritation and determination,

"come on then, give me your best shot" Sabito said, doing the 'come at me' gesture,

"but your swords made out of wood, I could hurt you" Tanjiro said, faltering his fighting stance and looking worriedly now at Sabito, cringing my face into a grimace, I shook my head in disappointment know what's coming next, seeing Sabito's left hand go slack and dropping to his side, he slumped forward, laughing lightly, before bellowing into full-blown hysterical laughter, bent back he then faced Tanjiro and spoke, still sounding so amused

beast mode! oh shi-

"how thoughtful of you, I greatly appreciate your concern, but you honestly think you are capable of giving me a scratch-!?" suddenly bolting to Tanjiro he raised his bokken up high and gave a strong hit to Tanjiro only for it to be blocked last second,

"reassured there's nothing to worry about! I'm far more powerful than you! I've already cut through my boulder!" jumping away from him he landed behind him on a tree, then kicking off straight back to Tanjiro, blocking his hits just a few seconds too close to actually hit him,

Sabito the fucking pink hedgehog!- 

zooming around Tanjiro disorienting him, he then flashed beside him, Tanjiro noticing a tad bit too late, was not able to block the incoming hit that was aimed at his neck, he collapsed, flinching and not getting up to help him, I clutched my neck instead, feeling an ache as if I was the one who was hit.

"you obviously haven't learned anything, you haven't mastered any of your training, especially total concentration breathing, didn't Urokodaki teach you?" 

"all you've done is memorize the information, your body still has no idea what it needs to do! what the hell have you been up to these past year and a half!?" 

going to strike Tanjiro's neck again only to be blocked he spoke,

"all of this has to be hammered into your flesh!"

continuing his relentless barrage of attacks,

"more."

"more!"

"MORE!"

"you have to make sure you never forget the secrets Urokodaki thought you!" Pushing back Tanjiro from the force of his hit, he never faltered even once,

"down! to the marrow of your bones!"

"I'm trying! I'm giving it all I've got! everyday! except I don't think I'm going anywhere! I don't think I can do it!"

"You can! man up! Don't you want to become a demon slayer!? there's no where else to go but forward!"

"show me what you are capable of!" getting hit under the chin by the tip of Sabito's bokken, Tanjiro then fell down onto the floor on his back, knocked out from the hit, and blood dripping out of the side of his mouth,

I'm gonna sound so cliché but wtf they were so fast I'm surprised that Tanjiro can even keep up with Sabito.

"I'll leave everything up to you" turning around from Tanjiro's fallen form, he then looked at me, 

when did she get here?! he noticed me?! 

"now as for you-" tensing up I quickly got off the ground and away from my boulder, sweat slowly falling down the side of my face, I gripped my sword tighter,

I thought he didn't even notice me!  

"come take a fighting stance."

thwack-!

"Ack-!"

thud-

~ Midnight ~

"Are you alright?"

why do I keep getting knocked out?

"please tell me you saw that !? "

groaning out loud I slowly pushed myself up, gripping the left side of my neck, I looked to my left to see Makomo squatting next to Tanjiro's still fallen form, talking to each other, completely ignoring me,

"hm?"

"the way that guy hit me! his swing didn't lose an ounce of power! it was just beautiful! I want to be able to do that! what do you think? is that possible?" looking at her eagerly his eyes sparkled as he gazed at her expectantly, she only smile and hummed, responding sounding distant,

"I'm positive it is, because I will be there to look out for both of you." my left eyebrow twitch when I saw him blush, shaking my head disappointingly as I saw him turn red,

Mother fucking simp

sighing I stood up from my position on the floor , wincing when my head pounded from the hit that Sabito landed on me, walking back home seeing no use in grabbing Tanjiro's attention cause he was being a simp,

Reader's journal 

- it's been a few months Makomo has been training us, well mostly Tanjiro, but if I'm being honest, Tanjiro has been very distant lately, and I've been spending more time with Sabito, most of the time he would be the one training me, sure he's ruthless but right after training, he would sit beside my exhausted form leaning on the boulder with me, I would sing or hum any song that would come into my head that always used to be stuck in my head when I was in the present world, and when I do, I would catch Sabito lightly bobbing his head to the song or tapping his fingers, not once did he complain to me about singing, sometimes he would ask me what the song I was singing about and I would always say that it was something from my "hometown" and for him to nod and go back to silently listening to me, but. . . tonight he wanted to talk,

~ flashback ~

Reader's POV 

humming to myself, looking up at the sky, my head was leaning on Sabito's relaxed shoulders, it had been months that we had been spending our time together like this, after every training session separate from Tanjiro's, we got comfortable with each other after some heart to heart and tough talk, 

"do you miss home?"

stopping myself from humming, I pushed my self away from his shoulder and looked at him, only to see that he too, was looking directly at me too, searching his eyes, I slowly broke into a sad smile and gave a silent laugh, leaning back on his shoulder, looking back up at the stars, I sighed, 

"so you know too, huh?"

feeling him nod, I slowly nodded too, feeling him shift only to stop, as if he was hesitating to say something,

"yeah, I do."

I said thinking of the things I was able to do before coming here, hearing Sabito take a breath in, he exhaled slowly, 

"tell me about it."

smiling I then spoke about my life and all the shitty job I had to work along with the online schooling I had to go through, stopping when I felt him lean his head on mine, and continued to answer his questions when he nodded or asked about something that I had tried to explain, laughing when he made remarks that he was glad that he "wasn't born" in my "time", for a little bit, I didn't feel alone, and for once, Sabito's hands were warm,

Reader's POV ~ 5 months later ~

Waking up earlier than usual, I was up Before Tanjiro, outside where my boulder was facing, I gripped my sword tighter, even if my hands hurt from the ripped skin on my fingers and palms, I continued to train,

It's been 2 months since Sabito has accepted Tanjiro's challenges to spar, It means, he's very close to slicing his boulder in half, and i-i'm falling behind,

I gripped my blade tighter and lifted my sword as high as my body could and strike the boulder over and over, 

I'm not going anywhere aren't I?! I'm not advancing ! I'm falling behind! I don't want to be left behind! how am I supposed to protect Tanjiro and everyone else I'm going to meet if I'm watching them walk away onto their future, when I'm stuck here in the Past! 

Raising my blade one more time I took a deep breath and released it striking down again,

I refuse to be left behind! 

My eyes widened when I had successfully sliced the boulder in half, body going slack I dropped my nichirin sword to the ground and fell beside it, letting out a cry of shock,

I. . . I did it! I-I split the boulder first, I did it! 

"so you finally did it"

looking behind me to see Sabito leaning on Tanjiro's boulder, he walked towards me and sat down beside me, and wrapped my hands, leading me back to the direction of Urokodaki's house, stopping at the edge of the forests entrance and he hugged me tightly, 

" and you didn't even need my help."

pushing me away his mask was off and he smiled at me, his eyes looked sad, but filled with pride, he said to me,

"I'm proud of you, now go and rest, you need it."

nodding at him and grabbing my nichirin blade from him I hugged him one last time, and walked towards Urokodaki's house, looking back one more time only to see him gone,

You did help me, just not the way you wanted me too.

when I woke up it was dark and I was alone at home, with the exception of Nezuko being asleep beside me, I stood up and walked towards the Living room of the house, lighting up a fire and sitting beside it as it was freezing inside the house, looking out of the covered window, I saw that it was snowing really hard, frowning as I thought,

So Urokodaki's out there doing whatever, and Tanjiro is out training with Makomo in the harsh snow, hm. . . seems legit, but not good if you ask me. . . 

sighing and looking back at the fire, I stood up and looked around for the ceramic pot Urokodaki used to make soup, 

might as well make this fir useful, where's the damn po- aha! now lets see what can we make. . . Lugao would be good for this weather right? I guess its settled then,

scooping up four cups of pre-washed rice into the pot I put it on top of the fire where the hook was, and poured four and a half coups of water inside, letting it cook, I covered it, chopping the needed ingredients, humming "island on the sun",

~ 1 and a half hours later ~

after scooping myself my own share of the rice porridge I made, I sprinkled some green onion's on top and ate, just realizing how. . . lonely I really am here, 

even if I do meet and save everyone here, life would go on like it should in the manga, everyone has their end goal, and I will be left behind. . . but that's how it's supposed to be, always. . . 

finishing my own soup, I didn't notice as soon as I put my bowl down a hand was placed on my shoulder,

"are. . . are you alright (f/n)-chan? you're crying. . ."

quickly looking to my side I saw Tanjiro, kneeling behind me, covered in melted snow and soot I only shook my yes slowly, looking back down at the fire place only to see it was put out, I lifted my right hand to my cheek only to indeed feel I was crying, 

would you look at that, I am crying, it's not new anyways. . . 

"are you su-"

quickly wiping away my tears, I looked back to him and smiled, nodding more enthusiastically, 

"I'm fine! you know, you should eat before the food gets cold, I'll just get ready for bed." 

before he could speak I quickly got up, shoved a spare bowl in his right hand and walked to the back of the house, and put my used up bowl into the sink, wiping my face again, slowly breaking into quite sobs,

I really am alone where ever I am. . . aren't I ?

slowly quieting down, I began to wash my bowl and got ready for bed.

Tanjiro's POV

staring at the door (f/n) left open, my left hand slowly falling down back to my side, at a loss of words, I gripped the ceramic bowl tightly, looking down into it, a deep frown on my face, 

she smelt. . . so lonely, so . . . hurt, but when she spoke to me, it was gone and it smelt like doubt and anger. . . is she mad at me? did I do something wrong?

when I heard her walking back out, I looked up and saw her, she smiled and said goodnight and quickly walked into the room, not even giving me time to talk to her. 

seeing no use in trying to catch her attention, I sighed deeply, slowly moving and scooping myself my share of the food she had made.

I'll try to talk to her tomorrow . . . 

~ 1 month later ~

I had been spending most of my time away from Tanjiro and been training and mastering my own moves with Sabito, but I've been counting the days that has passed by and I knew that today, was the day that Sabito and Tanjiro spar, and Tanjiro gets to slice the boulder in half, and we go to final selection, 

" It took you sic months, but you finally have the look of a man." unsheathing his sword, Sabito took his fighting stance at Tanjiro,

"This is the day I win." Tanjiro said, hair untied and covered in soot, 

I was leaning on a tree the opposite side of Makomo, taking in the scene before me, Sabito on my left and Tanjiro on my right, staying still and observing the scene, ignoring Makomo's peering eyes, Tanjiro closed his eyes and took a long and deep breath, then they both disappeared, closing on each other, it was just like Tanjiro thought,

It was all over in an instant. . . 

shink! 

"gasp-!"

Tanjiro gasped, shocked that he actually landed a hit on Sabito, despite slicing his mask, Sabito smiled at Tanjiro, his eyes looking proud but sad,

"Tanjiro, you did just great, never forget about this, keep wining for me Tanjiro, the next one too"  disappearing onto the mist, Tanjiro looked back at the boulder shocked, that Sabito was gone, and in his place was the boulder sliced perfectly in half, nodding my head, I heard Urokodaki's footstep, I turned around and started to walk away, away from Tanjiro and Urokodaki and deeper into the forest. . . 

Sitting on top of the roof of Urokodaki's house, hugging my knees to my chest, 

" it started out as a feeling. . . which then grew into a hope. . . which then turned into a quite thought, which then turned into a quite word. . ." feeling cloth be draped over my head and someone sit beside me I continued to sing, even if it sounded broken, 

" and then that word grew louder and louder, 'til it was a battle cry, I'll come back, when you call me. . . no need to say goodbye. . . " slowly breaking into a few broken sobs, I covered my face, not wanting whoever to see me like this, feeling someone grab my right hand,

"you know I'm always here for you, right. . ?" gasping in shock I looked up only to see Sabito was the one sitting beside me, holding my hand, he smiled and squeezed my hand, then wrapping his arm around me giving a side hug,

"your going to leave eventually, you know that. . . right?" squeezing me tighter in his hug he sighs, and leans his head on top of mine, nodding his head,

" but it doesn't mean that you're alone, I'm always here for you even if you don't see me, by your side, just like this." Sabito said facing my face towards him, smiling sadly, he the wiped the tears that streaked my face,

"how . . ?" 

"you'll know." he pressed a gentle kiss on my forehead and leaned on me, squeezing me reassuringly, after a few moments silence he then spoke, 

"what's the song your singing about?" humming in thought, I answered silently, leaning onto him,

"it's about never forgetting about someone no matter how long its been, and no matter where you are. . . you will always come back. . . " 

"how about we make a deal, when you sing that song, you'll know I'm here, 'kay?" he smiling at me and squeezing my shoulder comfortingly, slowly nodding to him I sighed and leaned on him again, 

"now how about you finish that song, yeah?"

Third Person

~ midnight ~ 

silently walking into the room Tanjiro and Nezuko was sleeping in, Sabito closed the shoji door behind him with his foot silently, he laid her down gently on her own futon on Nezuko's right side, then put his plain white haori on top of her blanket to keep her extra warm, as he stood up and was about to walk out the door, he stopped at the sound of Tanjiro's voice,

"thank you. . . for bringing her back safely." looking back he saw Tanjiro sitting up and looking at him with his hands gripping his own blanket and haori so tight that his hands were pale white, he only nodded and said,

"YOU better keep her safe, she needs you now, more than ever." with that, Sabito closed the door.

"I will, I promise."

Reader's POV

waking up early was never new to me anymore, so I made myself busy with making breakfast, cooking fish and egg fried rice, as I served rice in the 3 separate bowls equally and make fresh tea, Urokodaki walked in and put a bag of whatever in the corner of the room, then sitting on my right side, waiting patiently if it was alright to eat, as I was about to re-assure him that it was okay, Tanjiro opened the shoji door, yawning and rubbing his right eye, 

"good morning you two, it's alright to eat if you want, the food will get cold soon too." Tanjiro nodded his head and sat down on my left side, grabbing the ceramic bowl that was in front of him, we ate in comfortable silence.

after waiting for them to finish eating, I collected their bowls and chopsticks, putting them inside the empty pot, I was about to walk out the back, only to be stopped by Urokodaki, 

"I'll do the washing for today, you both deserve a break, it's the best I can do for now." before I could even protest to him, he grabbed the dishes from my hands and walked to the wash room, gaping like a fish I nodded,

"a-alright, thank you. . ." as I was about to walk into the room to get ready and go out and "hang out" with Sabito, Tanjiro grabbed the sleeve of my haori,

"a-ah wait! w-would it be alright if you can help me cut my hair today? I-I  really wouldn't be able to see the back of my head and cut it evenly so, c-could you h-help me?" In shock, never hearing Tanjiro stutter before, even in the anime it was only because he was mad or sad, so I smiled and nodded, gently prying his hands away from my haori, and gently placing it on his head,

"sure." his eyes brightened up, and he smiled wide, blinding really,

"thank you!" with that he scrambled away to get ready fir his haircut.

it's been a while since I last spent time with him, hasn't it? 

~ chapter end~ 

Chapter Text

Reader's POV

sitting in the room with Tanjiro in front of me kneeling, with Urokodaki in the corner of the room, I began to comb my hand through Tanjiro's long hair, humming happily,

It's been awhile since I've really spent time with him like this, huh?

smiling when Tanjiro leaned into my touch, I began to measure just how short I should cut his hair,

"ne, Tanjiro how short do you want your hair to be cut?"

still combing through his hair, I looked down on his when he didn't respond, only to see him gazing at the wall, eyes glazed, as if he was deep in thought, shaking his shoulder lightly, I called out his name softly to his ear,

" Tanjiro. . . Tanjiro? "

snapping out of his thoughts, he looks back up to me confused and bashful,

"w-what was that again? " laughing lightly at him, I began to comb my hair through his hair to undo any tangles, and asked again, 

" how short do you want me to cut your hair? "

" oh, is this alright? " Tanjiro said grabbing my hand that was combing through his hair and placed it just where I should stop cutting his hair, just exactly how it was through out the entire anime,

"sure! " nodding my head even though I knew he wouldn't see, I gently took his hand and let him drop it back down to his lap, beginning to cut the tips of his hair slowly while humming, only to laugh with him every time when I showed him the different hairstyles I could do as I was cutting it shorter, 

after a while, I finally got the desired cut, he wanted and ruffled his hair shocking him,

"eugh-! "

"haha! here we go!" presenting him his new hair style by lending him my small hand mirror, he touched his hair and smiled,

"T-thank you! this is great" he said ruffling his hair and looking back at me smiling and laughing as I ruffled his hair making lose cut strands fall to the towel wrapped around his shoulders, I carefully unwrapped the towel around him to avoid any of the cut hair to fall on the floor,

" no problem, you should get washed now, you might spread lose hair everywhere " I said brushing his neck and shoulders to get him a little bit clean, then placing them on the towel on the floor, wrapping it up carefully,

"alright, thank you again!" Tanjiro said as he carefully tried to go to to the other room, avoiding stray stands of hair that were on the floor,

" you know, I'm very proud of you. . ." 

sitting up straight, I said nothing and held my breath,

"despite not spending a lot of time together, but I just want you to know, that even if I wasn't there for you, I am proud of you. " 

Letting out my breath slowly, my shoulders sag down, I slowly nodded my head to see him already half-way of the room, I quickly stood up and rushed to him, letting out a shuddering breath,

" I know, thank you. . . for everything." 

feeling him suck in a breath and let it out shakily and slowly, he puts his hand on my head and soothingly threaded his hands through my hair, feeling his tears drop on the top of my head,

"no, thank you. "

~ Next Morning ~ 

Reader's POV

When I had woken up, placed beside me was an exact replica of Sabito's fox mask, grabbing it I traced the scar on the side of the mask, smiling when I thought of him,

I wonder why Urokodaki-san made it my mask like Sabito's mask?

getting up, I began to get ready for final selection, 

~ Present ~

after fixing breakfast for everyone and eating, I began to wrap and pack up the extra rice balls and onigiri I made for Tanjiro and I,

"is that for us? " 

stopping my self from packing our separate bag of food, I began to wrap the bento box with the blue cloth (his), and mine with yellow, 

"yes, after all we are going to spend a week in there with demons, so were going to need out energy. "

grabbing a satchel, a spare one that Urukodaki-san had bought for us, I began to place his bento inside carefully, along side some bandages, and two guards of water,

"here this ones for you, anddd- this is for me." I said as I finished packing my own satchel , sliding his on his shoulders, I began to fix his bangs as his satchel strap messed it up, not noticing the blush that was on his cheeks, I smiled satisfied as I fixed his bangs,

"I'll wait for you outside, okay?" 

leaving him before he could respond, I walked outside, closing the shoji door behind me, I took a deep breath and smiled, 

gosh, fresh air is so nice, it really does make it easier to breath. . . 

not noticing Urokodaki beside me, about to talk to me, Tanjiro then came out, looking a little distressed,

"don't worry about your sister, I'll take good care of her for you. "

" thank you, for everything."

"Thank you for everything, Urukodaki-san, this too." I said putting on the replica of Sabito's mask on the side of my head, I turned around and ran to final selection, along side Tanjiro who was waving at him,

"were off! see you later! say hi to Sabito and Makomo for us please!"

Tensing up from shock, Urokodaki felt a chill crawl up his spine,

Tanjiro. . . how did you know the name of those deceased kids, and (F/n)'s mask. . . where did she get it?

~ Time skip ~ 

Reader's POV

Arriving at the entrance of the bottom of the mountain, I smiled wide and kept collecting the falling wisteria petals that was falling around me,

the animation in demon slayer was amazing but actually seeing this in person is, wow. . . It doesn't even look like anything from the anime, its all so beautiful. . . 

walking up the steps, I raised my eyebrows as I saw the amount of people who came here, to participate in the final selection, straightening my shoulders I began to scan the crows for '3 certain" people, biting my bottom lip to keep myself from squealing out loud, Zeinitsu and Genya looked intimidating, hopefully they are the same shown in the manga and anime. . . 

"Good evening, tonight you have come to enter the demon slayer corps final selection, Thank you for being here." 

quickly getting everyone's attention, we looked up to the stairs and saw the Ubuyashiki twins,

"Here in mount Fujikosane, there are several demons that were captured alive by several demon slayer swords men, they are kept here for this event."

"the wisteria blossoms prevent them from leaving, they bloom on this mountain yearly around, and they cover everything around the mountain from base to top."

"but the wisteria ends here, so demons are bound from now on, and they are very hungry."

in order to complete final selection, you must survive for 7 days beyond the wisteria's protection."

"now, your trial begins."

both of them bowing, they let us walk past the last of the wisteria tree's and into the mountain, hearing Tanjiro take a deep breath, I placed my hand on his shoulder and smiled at him,

"I'm afraid, this is where we part." 

his eyes widening in shock, opening his mouth about to argue, I quickly ruffled his hair and smiled,

"but don't worry, we will meet each other on the other side of this mountain okay?" 

offering him my pinkie finger, I smiled wider and with confidence I said,

"I promise." 

Looking me in the eyes, he then linked his pinkie finger with mine, surprising me when he suddenly pulled me into a tight hug,

"promise me you'll be on the other side with me."

slowly wrapping my arms around him in shock, I squeezed back just as tight, smiling into his shoulder, 

"I promise." 

~ chapter end ~