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The Wisteria House belonged to a kind old lady named Hisa, whom Zenitsu was genuinely afraid of. Inosuke, on the other hand, completely disregarded the manners one should have around elders.
At least Tanjiro was a decent person who tried to keep the other guys in line.
Hisa had shown them to the room where they would be staying, as well as the bathrooms.
Exhausted, Yua leaned her head against the bathtub, hoping to enjoy the warm water and forget the stress of the day. However, it was difficult to relax as she could hear the commotion from the men's bathroom.
Inosuke was hollering and splashing around, while Zenitsu was whining, and gentle Tanjiro was begging them not to destroy the room.
An angry mark appeared on her head, which made her hit the wall between the two bathrooms hard.
"WILL YOU BABIES STOP AND JUST TAKE A FUCKING BATH!", she screamed loud enough to be heard. "OR DO I NEED TO GET OVER THERE TO BATHE YOU MYSELF?!"
As it turned out, it was the wrong thing to say because Zenitsu actually purred: "Aww, Yua-Senpai, I would feel honoured to be in your naked presence and get bathed by you."
Before she could say anything, like threatening castration, she heard someone hit Zenitsu hard on the head so that he fell out of the bathtub.
"You don't talk to a lady that way, Zenitsu, shame on you! I'm terribly sorry, Yua-Senpai."
"Kamado, did you hit Agatsuma?"
"Yes?"
"Thank you."
Tanjiro answered that it was no problem at all, anybody ignoring Zenitsu's screams of mistreatment.
After this interruption, all finished their bath and put on the kimonos Hisa had prepared for them.
Zenitsu had formally heart eyes seeing Yua in the form-fitting kimono and her long midnight blue hair in a side braid.
She just flicked his forehead, telling him coldly on the way to their room: "Not even in your dreams!"
Yua heard how Zenitsu whined, while Tanjiro told him he deserved it for being so shameless, and Inosuke just didn't care at all.
When she opened the door, Hisa was already sitting in seiza in the room with four plates of food prepared for them.
"And here is your meal.", the old lady said gently.
The only girl in the group couldn't even thank her as Zenitsu shouted: "She has to be a monster, Tanjiro! That old lady's a monster! She's so quick, it's eerie! She's a monster! A monster hag –"
For this, the blonde got two smacks on the head from Tanjiro and Yua. They looked into each other's eyes as Zenitsu bowed down, holding his hurting head.
"Great minds think alike, isn't it so, Kamado-San?", she smirked, making a gentle blush appear on Tanjiro's cheeks.
Tanjiro wasn't blind.
Yua was one of the most beautiful women he had ever seen, and that little cheeky grin didn't help at all to make her less alluring.
Not trusting his voice, he simply nodded.
At the same time, Yua thought that she liked Tanjiro the best of the boys.
Finally, the quartet sat down for dinner, and Inosuke ate…well, like a pig. Fitting for someone who owned a boar mask and acted like one. He really was more animal than man! Yua could just stare in bizarre fascination.
Zenitsu told Inosuke that he should use his chopsticks, but he was ignored as the wild boy stole more food from Tanjiro's plate.
He cheekily grinned at the red-haired boy.
Inosuke definitely wanted to get a rise out of Tanjiro, suspected Yua; sadly for the blue-haired boy, Tanjiro was too nice to even think something like that, and even offered him more of his food.
This pissend Inosuke even more off. He would surely try other ways to get under Tanjiro's skin.
After they finished dinner, Hisa showed them their bedroom, which made Zenitsu scream again, she was a monster, only to get two new bumps courtesy of Yua and Tanjiro.
When will the blonde learn?
Meanwhile, Inosuke dives into his chosen futon.
"First come, first served! I'm taking this one!", the wild boy proclaims as he pets the futon.
"That's fine. Sleep wherever you want.", Tanjiro says with a smile.
No Aura-Sensing was needed to realise how angry Inosuke got. He just couldn't provoke Tanjiro!
Tanjiro turned to Zenitsu, asking him where he would like to sleep.
Before he can answer, Inosuke smacks his pillow against the blond's face.
Having had enough, Yua grabbed Inosuke by the ear, which made him actually squeal.
"Boarhead, can you for one second not make trouble?!", she barks.
"Let go of me, woman!", the boy hollers back. "Or face my wrath!"
"Pssh, I'm a higher rank than you, when I'm done with you, you will not even know anymore where it is up and down!"
"Lucky Bastard..."
"Zenitsu…what is that supposed to mean?"
"Aww, Tanjiro, you are so pure like a maiden."
Before the whole situation could escalate even further, Hisa returned with a doctor in tow. Naturally, Yua gets a checkup alone, then it's the boys' turn.
Now they all lay in their futons, staring up at the ceiling, all with their thoughts on the same matter.
Zenitsu was the first who break the silence: "Who would've guessed that all four of us had broken ribs?"
As it turned out, Yua got one broken, like she guessed, Zenitsu two, Tanjiro three, and last, Inosuke with four.
It's also the order they are sleeping side by side.
The midnight blue-haired girl still wondered how Zenitsu managed to snatch the futon beside her.
She would rather sleep beside Inosuke than the blond womaniser!
Good thing that she always sleeps with her katana beside her.
"This knot hurts more than my ribs.", Inosuke deadpans, referring to the big bump on his forehead that Tanjiro's headbutt had caused.
"Sorry.", the red-haired boy apologised with a little whine.
"Hey, you'd better apologise.", Zenitsu demands from Inosuke. "It really hurts, you know. Getting pounded to a pulp like that. Say you're sorry."
"I'll pass."
"Say you're sorry!"
"I'll pass!"
"Just say you're sorry!", Yua and Tanjiro yell, utterly done.
Goddammit, the two were worse than when Kaito and Hikari had their little spats!
"If you're gonna be like that, we're not eating with you anymore.", threatens the blond-haired boy.
Inosuke doesn't see the situation as threatening because he doesn't understand what's so bad about it. Even when Zenitsu explains that meals always taste better with company and Tanjiro agrees, Inosuke remains confused.
He asks if they have hurt their heads.
Just then, Hisa calls out to them, asking if they need anything. This causes Zenitsu to panic once again, prompting Tanjiro and Yua to call him out.
When Yua returns home, she plans to give Kaito and Hikari plenty of kisses. Unlike Zenitsu and Inosuke, these two are not nearly as exhausting, with only Tanjiro being tolerable.
Once everything calmed down, Tanjiro took the opportunity to bond with Inosuke and asked him why he joined the Demon Slayer Corps. Yua was also curious about his reasons.
Inosuke explained that a Demon Slayer had stumbled upon his mountain, and he had taken the Slayer's sword. After that encounter, he learned about the Final Selection and the existence of demons, which motivated him to join the Corps.
For Inosuke, it was all just a big competition to prove who was the strongest. Now, Yua had a better understanding of his wild and chaotic aura.
"Yua-Senpai."
Tanjiro turned to her.
After failing in bonding with Inosuke about the fact that they both had lived on a mountain, and Inosuke made clear that since he had no family at all, he was only a Demon Slayer for the thrill, the red-haired boy seemed to try to find common ground with her.
"Why are you in the Demon Slayer Corps?"
"It shows how new you all are in the Corps if my surname means nothing to you.", she simply states.
"Whaddya mean by that?" Inosuke wonders.
"My family, the Mochizuki's, is since the Sengoku Era, a part of the Demon Slayer Corps."
"That long, wow!", Zenitsu gasped in awe. "How did your family survive all these decades?!"
A little smirk forms on Yua's lips. She would be lying if she weren't proud of her bloodline for surviving till now.
"Our breathing style is the strongest in the Corps. Moon Breathing. I'm the current master in it."
"Moon Breathing?", Tanjiro repeats in wonder.
"It's just as old as our family. It is one of the hardest and most challenging Breathing Styles to learn. Only one or two manage to learn it in a generation. I'm a Demon Slayer because it's my birthright and my duty to my family. I will become a Hashira and show anyone why the Mochizuki are the strongest Slayers that exist!"
After her declaration, it was quiet for a few seconds, until Tanjiro asked what a Hashira was, Zenitsu and Inosuke nodding along.
Yua made a facepalm, newbies, but explained to them what the Hashira were.
That the boys were blown away was an understatement. Inosuke was already planning to fight one of them! Yua bets that if he could, Inosuke would even fist fight the Kami.
"So, anyone in your family is a slayer?" Tanjiro wants to know more. "But you are the only one who can currently use Moon Breathing, right?"
"Yeah, that's right. People who marry into our family are often normal civilians, so they aren't Slayers, like my late mother. Then there is my uncle Hansuke, the husband of my aunt Chiyoko, who is also a Demon Slayer. They both meet, actually, while hunting the same demon. It's quite a story.", Yua explains. "Besides that, my father, my uncle Keitaro, my aunt Chiyoko, my uncle Noritaka, my grandfather, and my late older cousin Taiga, my younger cousin Daku are all or were Demon Slayers, only my cousin Sayako changed after a few months to become a kakushi. That's like the medical and cleaning-up team after a heavy fight with a demon."
"You have a big family, that's nice.", Tanjiro muses with such bittersweetness in his voice that Yua looked at him.
He seems to be fighting tears…oh, she knows that look. He lost beloved people.
The young woman wants to ask him whom he lost, yet it felt wrong to ask him this when he is so vulnerable.
In the pause, Zenitsu took the chance sitting up from the futon to ask something which has been on his mind all day: "Tanjiro, no one else is asking, so I'm gonna ask myself. Why are you travelling with a demon?"
Well, no time like the present. It really was time to get answers from Tanjiro, so Yua also sat up.
"I also know you have a demon with you. I could feel his aura…yet it's at the same time so different from all demon auras I ever felt and saw."
"Yua-Senpai and Zenitsu… you both knew about that, and Zenitsu, you still protected the box, huh? And you, Yua-Senpai, didn't try to kill her.", Tanjiro sums up softly, also sitting up. "You are great people, you know that? Thanks!"
That's too much for Zenitsu, and he rolls around the futon, holding his pillow tight. "You really shouldn't heap so much praise on me! Fufufufu! Yua-Senpai is more amazing!"
"Sweet talking will get you nowhere with me, Agatsuma.", Yua deapands simply, ignoring how the blond insists that it's nothing like that, and making a little bow in Tanjiro's direction. "Your words honour me, Kamado-San."
Tanjiro smiles so sweetly at them that Yua feels her heart stop for a moment. He was such a gentle and loving soul…it's really an honour to hear these words and get this smile from him.
"I've got a keen sense of smell. I knew it from the start. How kind you are, Zenitsu… and how strong…How gentle and powerful you are, Yua-Senpai…how admirable."
"You are a gentle and kind soul, Tanjiro, your Aura tells me as much. Don't lose this, it's rare to find such good in humanity.", Yua advised him with a small smile.
Meanwhile, Zenitsu wasn't nearly as touched by Tanjiro's words as Yua, since a dark cloud formed over his blond head.
"No, I'm not strong. Don't give me that. I haven't forgiven you for stopping me from bringing Shouichi along."
Tanjiro was lost for words, and Yua could just facepalm.
That's when they hear how the demon in the box was pounding against its door.
Naturally, the blond boy freaks out, being sure his end was near.
Not listening to Tanjiro, who tries to reassure him, nor to Yua, who makes it clear that from the demon's Aura, it's not dangerous.
Zenitsu doesn't care and was even ready to hide behind Inosuke. Just his luck, the wild boy kicks him angrily away, directly in front of the box.
In fear, he scrambles away till the demon comes out.
Yua has to blink a few times, not believing what she saw.
The demon was a pretty little girl with a bamboo muzzle. She has big, beautiful, pink eyes and an adorable face, wearing a cute pink kimono and brown haori.
"Nezuko…", Tanjiro calls her gently.
From the aura colours, the midnight blue-haired Yua saw deep family love.
So they are related, now making sense why Tanjiro couldn't kill this Nezuko.
Nezuko stands up and formally grows before their eyes.
Now she looks like fourteen years old if Yua had to guess.
The demon girl was a real beauty!
From Zenitsu comes a strange strangled scream, while Inosuke doesn't give a fuck and just falls asleep.
As Tanjiro turns to Yua and Zenitsu to introduce Nezuko to them, bolts of electricity come from Zenitsu's corner.
Yua herself takes her Katana standing up since Zenitsu's aura was going crazy.
The boy was more than pissed off at Tanjiro.
"You… Just who do you think you are?!" Zenitsu yells at the red-haired boy, who was totally lost."So you've been travelling with a girl this cute? With a girl this cute in tow, day after day, you've been travelling, and you've been on cloud nine the whole time, huh?"
"Zenitsu, it's not like –"
"Agatsuma, calm down for a second!"
Both get ignored as Zenitsu screams: "Give me back all the blood I shed!! I… Listen, I… I didn't give it my all just so you could spend time in la-la land, making out with a girl! That's not why I got pummeled and kicked by that weird boar, right?!"
"Zenitsu, calm down! What's gotten into you all of a sudden?"
"He is thinking with his dick, Kamado-San, that's the problem!"
"Demon Slayer Corps is not something you'd join for fun! Guys like you gotta be purged! Immediately! Come to think of it, there's also the crime of thwarting my marriage and sending Shouichi home."
With a stone-cold face, the blond unsheathes his Katana.
"Purged immediately! Don't ever underestimate the Corps!!"
Zenitsu charged at Tanjiro, but fortunately, Yua noticed his approach from a distance and positioned herself between them.
Her katana clashed against Zenitsu's as they both engaged in a battle of strenght.
Before anyone could react, Yua swiftly took the upper hand and disarmed Zenitsu, taking his katana from him.
"Agatsuma!", she growls and looking scary with two Katana in her hands and a dark Aura around her. "The Demon Girl is Tanjiro's relative! I see their bond clearly through their auras so stop thinking with your dick or I cut it off!"
Suddenly all the bravery he had vanished from Zenitsu and he shrieked scared holding his precious dick. He heard loud and clearly from Yua that she was serious about cutting it off!
Tanjiro also smelled how close Yua was to emasculating Zenitsu and tried his best to calm everybody down.
Meanwhile, Nezuku just cutely titled her head. She doesn't know who these people are with her brother, but the young woman has pretty, braided hair.
She likes it.
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