[Reminder this is the Death Ending]

I had woken from my slumber. That amount of rest felt way too good to be true, it could mean that this is all a dream and I'm far from waking up.

I pinched the side of my thigh and I definitely wasn't dreaming. It feels really peaceful...most likely meaning something terrible will happen.

No what am I saying, it's too early for Muzan to strike...even though Nezuko had conquered the sun, he can't find her.

I walked out of my estate looking around for any viable signs of life, or rather, specifically that seaweed head or my idiot of a brother. Actually, seeing anyone would be just as good, I'm starting to get the chills from the quietness. 

The breeze had rushed through quickly making the sun hat I was wearing fly off. I ran to get it but a familiar-looking face caught it. 

"Muichiro!" I walked up to him and he smiled and placed the hat on himself. "I was looking for you," he muttered.

"What for?" I tilted my head to the side.

"Can't I just see my lovely girlfriend?" He smirked a little and I looked at him with the biggest side eye I could possibly have came up with.

"Uh-huh okay, Muichiro..." Never really heard him say that term until recently. Sure it brings butterflies to my stomach but he can be so cliche and cringy that it makes me wanna smile and nod. 

"It's cute though..." I thought out loud.

"Hm? What was that Y/N?" I could basically feel the butterflies radiating from him. 

Oh shit did I say that out loud? Stupid Y/N stupid idiot...

"Uh...look your crow is getting eaten by Kaburamaru...!" he took a brief glance at the direction I was pointing and when he looked back I was already running.

Don't look back and maybe the embarrassment will go away haha...PLEASE

Next thing I know, I am sitting with the other Hashira talking about the Master.

"We should have at least two pillars guarding Oyakata-sama at minimum," Sanemi mentioned.

Gyomei had gone on to talk about how the Master wouldn't budge and give into such security measures. 

My mind had begun to wonder off as they were discussing, thinking about the potential outcomes if we were to eliminate Muzan from this earth. 

What would be the outcome of us? Would the corps perish...or would we even be able to accomplish it? 

I looked over to Muichiro. Would we still be able to have a happy future...I then looked over to my brother, I can't itch that awful feeling off that something is going to happen.

What if I die?

I could feel my heart rate start to quicken, along with my breaths getting shorter.

Demons...Muzan...Giyu...Muichiro....the Hashira...Tanjiro....Demons...Muzan...must survive...Muzan....Muzan Kibutsuji-

"Y/N-chan are you okay? You've been staring at your hands for a couple of minutes at least..." Shinobu's concerns had cut me off of my daze and I looked around to see that they were all looking at me. 

Those thoughts had suddenly vanished from my head and I gave everyone a smile, "I'm alright, is the meeting over?"

"Well now it is," Giyu rose up and went to the exit. Eager to leave as always.

"Giyu wait up," I went to chase after him but I suddenly felt my hand get tugged by someone. I turned back to see that it was Muichiro.

Though, Giyu didn't stop even when I called him out...so I found myself here with Muichiro in the outside garden.

"Y/N you sure you're fine, you seemed rather stressed." He mentioned and placed his hand on my shoulder.

"I just can't shake off the feeling that something bad is going to happen...like I spoke with my brother about it last night and it felt...weird." I could see him nod, understanding what I had told him .

He suddenly hugged me and pulled away smiling. "The odds are always there, but even so we'll make it through any demon that comes, right Y/N?"

"I guess so, but with Master's sickness getting worse and the fact that the number of demons roaming is becoming less, it's worrying me." I looked over to the trees blowing. I don't want to loose you or any of the people close to me. 

"Even so, we'll stick together to the end of time...you and me forever, plus your brother if he's gonna tag along." He intertwined our pinkies.

"Oh? So is this a promise?" Ha I can remember how my last promise went.

"Whatever you want it to be, I guess it's finally time to say it but I really do treasure you Y/N...I guess I have to say it now..." He laughed a little and I stood there looking at him.

"Y/N I love-"

"EMERGENCY SUMMON!! EMERGENCY SUMMON!!" Our crows interrupted.

"ATTACK ON THE UBUYASHIKI ESTATE!!"

Both of our eyes widened, and we quickly ran towards where Oyakata-sama was resting.

"Who would dare attack the master at this time of night?!" Right when I said that sentence, I had came to a realization. 

Night equals Demons...but who? 

I gasped suddenly turning, Muichiro turning his attention to me, "It has to be the Demon King."

Almost all of us Hashira arrived at a walking distance, their rage being well shown by their presence.

A large explosion had appeared in front of us, with the only surviving person, or should I say demon, was one man who was regenerating at an inhumane speed, quicker than any other demon, or upper moon that I have seen. 

It took a minute for me to process what was occurring right in front of me fully. There was a woman, another demon perhaps that I couldn't really get a good look off with all the spikes around them and in Muzan's body.

"Breath of Rock, Third Form: Stone Skin" I looked over to where Gyomei was, and he unleashed a series of attacks towards the impaled Demon King.

"YOU BITCH WHAT DID YOU DO TO OYAKATA-SAMA!" Sanemi yelled.

"Oyakata-sama!"

"Master!!!"

"Oyakata-sama!!!"

Everyone had yelled. To be in the presence of the Demon King, his aura was one like no other...it was menacing. 

"Breath of Ice, Third Form: Freezing Point!" I got ready to attack, along with the other Hashira and Tanjiro.

As we were approaching Muzan, the entirety of the ground had changed into doors and rooms. What the fuck is this sorcery??

"You seriously thought you could corner me??! You're all going to hell now!" he yelled, and I fell alongside Gyomei and Muichiro.

The fall was about 4 feet down and instead of landing gracefully on my feet like the other two, I fell on my back. 

"Shit..." Muichiro had helped me up and all three of us ran through the hallways.

It seems like this is neverending...

Demons had tried to jump us and we had killed them in one slice. These amateur demons had way less power than those of the Twelve Kizuki. If anything they are just mere insignificant creatures.

"Worthless beings..." I muttered

"There's a lot of demons here huh," Muichiro added

"It looks like they were designed to have the strength of a lower moon, so he was planning on wearing us down." I looked at Gyomei with wide eyes. Lower moon? maybe I'm just that strong, heh.

Y/N this is no time for jokes! I thought as I shook my head.

"and Oyakata-sama?" the question had made all of us go silent. 

"He most likely made himself a decoy," I said and Gyomei had silently nodded. I can see Muichiro's expression falter and it worried me.

I could see him slightly tear up, "Muzan didn't just take my twin brother but he took our second father...I swear I'll kill him...I'll show him well."

"Don't worry...we all feel the same." Gyomei's serious tone had made me shiver. 

This was really it, the beginning of the end.

We kept running in the same direction for what it seemed like an eon. Our crows surrounded us and shouted some of the most devastating news I hadn't heard in a while. 

"INSECT PILLAR, SHINOBU KOCHO HAS BEEN KILLED BY UPPER MOON 2!!" 

I gasped and put a hand on my mouth, my eyes filling with water.

Shinobu...I guess I have to expect this from the final battle. Rengoku, Shinobu...who's next.

I snapped out of my thoughts when Gyomei had suddenly shouted that we were close to Muzan.

Muichiro and I both nodded and I turned to look at him, in a second he was pushed by a room that seemed to move.

"Tokito!"

"Muichiro!!" I tried to reach for him but Gyomei pulled me back

"Nevermind me, go!" he said as he was pushed into another room that went who knows where.

"Himejima-san we have to go after him!" I pleaded with the stone pillar almost begging. "I..I don't know what I'd do if I lost him,"

"Our top priority is Muzan, Y/N-chan you know this-"

"Himejima-san! There's no point if we're men down! Please...even if you're not going I'll go!" my stubbornness was evident, my voice cracking at every chance it got.

He sighed and nodded rushing towards the direction where Muichiro had gotten pushed to.

Will I even be able to hold my ground? No Y/N you're a Hashira!....Am I meant to be one?

QUIT ACTING LIKE YOUR EMO BROTHER! The voices in my head were arguing back and forth leaving me with clouded thoughts as we ran to where Muichiro was. 

 The smell of blood kept getting stronger and stronger, heck I was no Tanjiro but the scent was really pungent.

I swear if anyone I care about is hurt I'm going to kill everyone in this place. 

~Flashback~

Tanjiro's POV

"Hey Y/N how did you become a pillar?" I had asked the Ice Hashira.

"I don't really remember," I saw her shrug and walk away to clean her dishes.

"Psst Tanjiro," the high-voiced words had come from Mitsuri, who had also been eating as well.

I tilted my head in confusion as she inched closer to me. Man Iguro-san would kill me right now if he saw me...

"What is it Kanroji-san?" I asked with a smile.

"Have you ever learned about that time that Y/N-chan went absolutely out of control??" I looked confused as she spoke to me.

"Huh? why bring that up-"

"SHHSHSHH," she put her finger on my mouth

"You asked how she became a pillar right? Well, this was one of the factors."

I nodded and continued to listen to her words.

"Basically she wiped out a whole gang of demons!! Just because her partner had his foot chopped off!!"

I looked at her with horror. "F-foot chopped off??!"

Mitsuri nodded all excited, "Her partner said that her bloodlust was insane! She may not show it but she cares about the slayers like no one else...and when she came back she barely remembered anything!"

I saw Y/N come back with a defeated look in her eyes, "Not you telling Tanjiro that stupid little story again..." she said and the Love Hashira had laughed it off.

"You know, Y/N-chan ranks as 4 for the strongest Hashira??" Mitsuri said and my eyes widened

"What?!"

I saw Y/N sigh and start to speak, "My emotions tend to hold me back a lot though, so bump that down to 6."

~End of Flashback~

Gyomei and I had entered the room, I saw Muichiro pinned to the wall with his own sword, Genya on the floor still alive with multiple limbs of his cut off?! And then there was Sanemi fighting...UPPER MOON 1?

We are so dead...

"More and more just seems to be coming..." Upper Moon One had tightened his grip on his katana. 

He looks like a demon slayer...wait-

"Y/N-chan go help the others, I'll deal with him for now." I nodded and went directly to Muichiro.

"Muichiro are you okay..?" I gasped, "Your hand..."

I pulled out his sword from him and he winced in pain on the ground, "Sorry this is going to hurt a bit more." I tied a piece of fabric around his wound and tightened it really well.

"Y/N...get out of here!" I looked at him offended, "Hell no! I'm not leaving."

"Tokito-san, Tomioka-san!" We both looked at the dismembered Geyna in sync. 

"Sorry to ask of this but, could you give me a hand?"

"Genya-san! Where's the rest of you...?" I looked around, "oh found it."

I came back with his other pieces and I heard a little what he had said.

"Fight to the end? Stop acting like you guys won't make it out of here alive!" I had hit both of them in the head.

Once I both patched them up, Muichiro and I decided to join in on the fighting, Genya preparing to do his own thing. 

Kokushibo was about to release another attack but I went in and countered it with one of my own while Muichiro went ahead and grabbed Sanemi out of the crossfire. 

"I won't let you die! You still have two arms to swing a sword with!" Muichiro had yelled.

Upper Moon One had continued to release countless attacks, some of which were evading my counters and striking me lightly.

I saw Muichiro try to get in close, I saw this as an opportunity to strike, "Eighth Form: Ice Serpent!" Fuck I only slicked off some of him.

Gyomei had struck him after my attempt and it had left a nasty hole in Kokushibo's torso.

My eyes...why can I see...When I looked at Upper Moon 1 I had saw the blood running through his veins, his organs, the heart, and brain. Freaky. 

Remember to Breathe Y/N 

I unleashed another attack, and under the icy clouds, I saw Muichiro, stabbing him with his katana in a major spot. 

"Muichiro what are you doing?!" I deflected another attack. Before he could speak, or rather he didn't want to, but a bullet flew past me, and it was from Genya. 

His form was completely different, looking like he took the form of Upper Moon Once. 

What the fuck?!

Tree roots began to grow from nowhere wrapping around Kokushibo and Muichiro.

Y/N he'll make it out of this don't worry right now, focus on the fight! focus...focus!

Nothing could have prepared me for what had come next.

...Muichiro...

Kokushibo had unleashed an attack from all directions, as I brought out my sword to deflect them, some made it past my sword and cut my cheek and stomach, along with a deep cut in my shoulder. 

I coughed up some blood as I looked up to see what had happened.

No...no no no no no no!

"MUICHIRO!" I saw the boy that I treasured with my heart, my soul, with everything I loved...he was sliced just above the waist...

I wanted to go to him, hug him, do anything! But no, this is a battle...no he's gonna die...wait no I have...

"You...you bastard...you monster....I-" I felt like I lost a part of me, there wasn't going back from being cut in half.

I started to laugh, yes laugh, what better thing to do than laugh?? Tears were evidently streaming down my face, I felt like I was going insane.

"Oh you're going to die for that..."

Gyomei, Sanemi, and I had unleashed multiple attacks, Genya even contributing his blood demon art. And Gyomei had bashed his head off.

Oh that got him mad, really mad. 

A new form was rising from Kokushibo, he turned into something far worse than a demon. His hideous form was making me rage even more. I wanted to end his life, I wanted to kill him. I wanted to kill everyone in the world right now. 

His new form didn't last long, for in a blink of an eye it felt like everything stopped, I don't remember what had happened a minute ago but I had markings on my hands, those of what we had discussed of earlier. 

Kokushibo was disintegrating and I had finally come back to my senses. "Muichiro...Muichiro!!" I had run up to one of his halves and rolled him over

"Muichiro..." My sobs had finally had the chance to come out and I ran over to drag his other half back to him.

"Y/N...you're so pretty...." I looked at him and shook my head, "Don't-"

"I love you Y/N...don't...forget..." I saw the light in his eyes dim and I shook him, "No Muichiro..." I shook him again, "Muichiro stop playing...."

My hands started to tremble, "Muichiro I told you to stop playing around! This is one of your games isn't it!!" 

"Muichiro!" I painfully screamed.

"No no no...I can put you back together...come on I can do it!" As an attempt to 'put him back together,' I grabbed both halves and 'connected' them.

"It's not working...please...let me hear your voice again Muichiro..." I still tried to fix him, or what I thought would bring him back.

I felt a hand on my shoulder, "Stop I can do it! I can..." I looked up at Gyomei and he shook his head.

I looked over at where Genya was and I saw him disintegrating, "W-what...not Genya too." 

"Y/N if you hadn't stepped up with that final attack, I think we would've all been...severed."

"What...what do you mean?"

He shook his head and patted my back, "Maybe it's best if you don't relive that."

I looked back at Muichiro and clenched my fists.

"You guys were still so young...you have my deepest gratitude and respect, Muichiro." He had placed his hand on his eyes to close them and I felt another pain of grief go through me.

"I won't forgive you...but I love you too, Muichiro."

I grabbed his sword and took out his Tsuba for safekeeping. 

"Keep your heads up guys, the fight isn't over until Muzan is defeated."

His body...I wish I didn't have to keep it here. I'll join you soon enough Muichiro...

Ice Hashira: 1 - 0 :Death

~Muichiro's POV~

I woke up where it seemed like the afterlife?

"Brother...?" I said

"Stay away! Go back!" He cried, tears streaming down his face.

"Why? I worked so hard aren't you proud of me?"

"Why?! what's the point of dying in a place like this?? It's a meaningless death! Why were you even born then? I don't know, Do you?!" He scolded me.

"I was born to be Happy!" I suddenly yelled out. "I was happy when the four of us lived as a family...once I was alone there was a lot of pain and hard times but...I made friends, I had fun...I even met a beautiful girl who I cherished so dearly..."

"That was pointless...? I never ran from anything I faced and I'm not going to regret laying my life down for my friends, especially if it meant that I saved my lover from sustaining any more injuries!"

Y/N...if only I could've stayed by your side for just a bit longer.

"I'm sorry...I didn't want you to die Muichiro, anyone but you" Tears were streaming from both of our eyes and he stepped in to hug me.

~Back to Y/N's POV~

"REVIVAL, MUZAN HAS REVIVED!! THE PILLARS MUST GATHER AT ONCE!" The crows had all yelled, getting the attention of all of us.

Gyomei, Sanemi, and I were running through the halls of the fortress. How are you supposed to navigate this building?!

Some rumbling had occurred and it was like the whole building was falling apart..."Himejima-san! the fortress...!"

Everything started to crumble one by one until I fell on a pile of rubble which hit some of my injuries.

"That hurts..." I looked around to see the other Hashira having their fair share of injuries.

I didn't see the Stone or Wind pillar in sight, but they probably just fell somewhere else.

Why did it have to come to this? Why did he have to- I gasped a little realizing that he was actually gone.

"Muichiro..." I clenched my clothing.

"ONE HOUR AND A HALF LEFT UNTIL SUNRISE!!"

That's right Y/N, the fight isn't over yet until he's dead. Y/N push through, then you can cry all you want.

"Do you intend to keep me here until sunrise?? Try it if you can!!" Muzan had made a fury of attacks with his