|| 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 ||
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|| 𝐚𝐤𝐚𝐳𝐚 ||

third person pov

while the pillars were protecting the cars along with zenitsu and nezuko. both tanjiro and inosuke made their way towards the front where they noticed the severed floor, and the bone protecting the main neck where the real body lays.

inosuke landed on the floor first, and followed by tanjiro. there they noticed a man whose body is tied by a rope, he struggled on getting out of the rope, silently cursing the burgundy female for tying him up after he tried pushing her away from the front rear.

"who are you? get out now!" he shouted after noticing both the boys, he continued struggling while tanjiro came over his side to help untied him up.

tanjiro then apologized for his cousin's doing, knowing that she's the first one to get over here which means that she's the one who had tied the poor man with a rope. before they could even process what's going on, the weird demon's form made dozens of hands before attacking inosuke who's disgusted by the sight.

tanjiro reacted quickly, using his sixth form water breathing technique to eliminate the hands. the hands were slashed, vanishing through nothing but dust.

"inosuke the demon's neck is right below us." mentioned tanjiro like it wasn't just exposed to the both of them earlier when they arrived.

"I KNOW SO DON'T BOSS ME AROUND, I'M THE BOSS HERE!" retorted inosuke as he tried severing the bone covering the neck using his beast breathing but it didn't bulge.

pushing aside inosuke, tanjiro took a turn, trying his water breathing eight form but it was immediately blocked by the regeneration of the weird form.

the weird form had made hands again, before chasing both tanjiro and inosuke away from the front rear but they held their ground. fighting their way towards the bone, where they need to decapitate the neck.

"inosuke, let's perform a combo attack and match our breaths together. one of us will slice the flesh up, the other will cut down the bone without a moment's delay!" tanjiro shouted his idea.

"i see, good idea! i'll give you some praise!"

both tanjiro and inosuke made their way towards the top, where they fell and mixed their breathings together, creating such tremendous power emitting from the two.

but before they could even land a blow, the weird form had created large eyes: coerced swooning sleep: eyeballs. making tanjiro fall asleep and back at the neverland dream he's been to so many times.

that act goes on for a matter of time. whenever tanjiro opens his eyes, he would immediately be sent back to the dream. he tried coming back with eyes closed but he couldn't help open his eyes to be met with the eyes of the demon that's been putting him to sleep.

tanjiro landed on the ground where he thought he was still in a dream, he had his blade against his neck before shouting at the top of his lungs, getting ready to cut his neck but was immediately halted by inosuke.

"this isn't a dream, this is reality. don't get caught in any traps - don't die in such a lame way!" insulted inosuke as he grab the hand of tanjiro's that's pointed towards his neck, before slamming it on the ground.

"i'm wearing the hide of the mountain master, i'm not afraid to make eye contact with these things whatsoever."

"you small fry eyeballs!"

insulted inosuke as he swung his blade, immediately destroying the eyes that were being a problem to tanjiro. tanjiro then realized that since inosuke's wearing a mask, the eyes wouldn't be able to make contact with inosuke's eyes.

suddenly the man that was tied up had a knife on his hand as he charged towards inosuke with full murder intent. tanjiro who had noticed this called out his name, before blocking inosuke with his body causing the knife to penetrate against his skin and in his stomach that's now flowing with blood.

"don't get in the way of my dreams!" shouted the man as he held the knife that's in the stomach of tanjiro.

tanjiro winced in pain before throwing the man aside, assuring inosuke that he was fine even though he wasn't. the only thing keeping him from moving is the adrenaline that's pumping through his blood vessels.

"i'm fine!"

"we have to cut the demon's neck now or zenitsu and the others won't last!"

shouted tanjiro as they jumped, preparing themselves to hone their breathings together to create such magnificent breathing that would take down the whole train, and would keep the passengers safe.

"beast breathing, fourth fang, slice n dice."

tanjiro who's on the air, and making his way towards the bone where he'd need to slash in order to kill the demon that's been consuming humans for years.

"father, give me your strength. i'll cut the bone in one blow."

the adrenaline rushes through his body, his blood pumping faster than ever. his body heating up, as smoke left his mouth. the blade he's holding is heating up from the hotness emitting from his body.

"dance of the fire god, blue heaven."

immediately landing a blow on the bones. his blow had shook the front rear, the weird forms vanished from the sudden impact and a loud shrieked from enmu had been released.

the fall of lower moon one had been processed. the front rear was slashed and broken from getting connected by the other cars which cause a sudden movement from the whole train as it tilted from the side, before slamming on the ground.

tanjiro's body immediately flew, he ordered inosuke to protect the passengers and to not worry about him. he gazed upon the sky, his vision blury, he convinced himself that he couldn't die because if he did then the man would become a murderer.

y/n who's busy protecting the cars had felt the movement of the train being tilted. she also heard the loud shrieked that came from the demon which means their job was done, but since the train is tilting sideways, she released a breathing that would help soften the fall of the train.

"are you okay?" shouted inosuke as he went towards tanjiro's laying form.

"santaro! keep it together, you saved me when i was tangled up in demon flesh, now it's my turn."

inosuke said, showing his care about tanjiro who had saved him from getting penetrated by that man. tanjiro smiled a little before convincing him that he was indeed well and fine.

"since i couldn't move right now, check if there are any injured passengers and the driver was near the demon's neck so-

"i think it's okay if he dies."

said inosuke without remorse as he cutted off tanjiro's words.

"he's the one who stabbed you in the tummy, that guy got his leg caught, and he can't move. his foot is squashed and he can't walk anymore. if i get him out, he'll die anyway."

explained inosuke who's not willing to help the man who had caused this injury. tanjiro could only sigh before trying to convince inosuke to help the man no matter what.

that's just how kind tanjiro is.

with tanjiro explaining about the man getting punished by his leg getting squashed by the train. inosuke slowly started getting convince and by the end he ended up agreeing, not being able to say "no".

"i'll do it because i'm the boss and my underling asked me to. after i save him, i'm gonna pluck all his hair off!"

shouted inosuke as he showed off his muscles, marching his way towards the injured man, leaving tanjiro all alone as he sweat-dropped at inosuke's words before muttering "you don't have to do that." in such a soft tone that inosuke wasn't able to hear him.

away from the two, and by the back of the rear is a passed out zenitsu and in his arms is a young child with a bowl cut hair. nezuko searched for the two around the area, the two of them got separated when the train fell sideways. and since y/n had left rokuta to nezuko, with the sudden impact of the train getting disconnected rokuta flew from her arms which zenitsu immediately reacted to.

zenitsu wrapped his arms over rokuta's smaller form. he rolled back so that the impact would be heavier on him, and rokuta would be left uninjured. but the impact had been too much to the point that zenitsu had hit some hard object when falling, causing him to faint.

upon seeing the two, nezuko immediately rushed to the both of them. she checked if rokuta is injured, before looking at zenitsu who's still passed out on the ground. nezuko felt bad and so she had decided to rest his head on her lap as they awaited help that's coming their way.

beneath the cars of the train laid an unconscious y/n who had protected five rear cars from the impact of the sudden fall. her head oozing blood from the hit she took that was supposed to be for the passenger, the amount of people rolling and falling from the car rear had maximized her energy, stalling her from escaping the now fallen car.

in a matter of time y/n had woken up from the hit, her vision blury, yet she managed to stand up. inside the car are the passengers dangled on top of each other, none of them showed any signs of injuries because y/n had released every breathing she knows to soften the fall of each and everyone.

y/n swiped a finger towards her bleeding forehead. she close her eyes, sighing a little as she stared at her blood, feeling it fall down her cheek and towards her chin.

the fighting had finally ended. they were able to save the train, and the 200 hundred passengers. she let out a small sigh of relief before kicking open the ceiling of the car that's on its sideways, before exiting the cramped car.

her vision remained blury as she panted from the aching pain forming through her body. it's been so long since she had consecutively released the sun breathing, she would only use it once as she usually eliminates every demon with one slash. but since protecting the passengers is her main priority, she had to consecutively release the sun breathing to be able to soften the fall of the cars.

but she wasn't able to protect herself when the car fell sideways which caused her to suffer the more damage from the impact. by doing the full focus breathing, y/n had been able to maximise the oxygen in her lungs and bloodstreams.

as y/n concentrated on catching her breathe, and minimizing the blood oozing from her forehead and arms. a sudden roaring sound came from somewhere quite far, she broke from her concentration as she sensed a cold chill raising on her spine. without another word she dashed towards where the loud noise came from.

y/n kamado pov

running towards where the rumble came from. i saw a silhouette of a person laying on the ground, and by their side is rengoku-san. increasing my speed, i arrived at the scene and saw tanjiro laying with an injury on his stomach.

"tanjiro, what happened?" i asked calmly, knowing better than to make a fuss without knowing the whole scenario.

"we'll talk about that later, for now, look." said rengoku-san as he pointed at my back, following him and turning around, my eyes suddenly widened.

the familiar tall, and muscular young man with fair skin, his body painted with pattern of thick blue lines. the familiar short, pink-hair and his inward-tilting yellow eyes with pink eyelashes and blue sclera that looked somewhat like cracked glass. upon his eyes were the "upper moon three".

"you." i muttered, a shadow forming beneath my forehead as i recalled how a lot of people died when he attacked a village, and i was too late.

although i managed to hunt him down, he avoided fighting me because i'm a woman and according to him, he does not fight women.

bullshit.

"oh if it isn't the demon hunter i've come across to a few months ago." he said smugly, a smirk forming on his face as he waved his hand lazily to greet me.

i felt the eyes of rengoku-san burning through me,  tilting my head to look at him, he gave me a questioning gaze before i immediately shrugged off. i'll tell him after the battle, we can't really communicate right now considering that there's an upper moon and we have 200 passengers unconscious inside the train.

silence enveloped the area, none of us muttered a single word. that was until upper three vanished from his position and there he appears in front of tanjiro, ready to smash his face open.

"flame breathing, second form, rising scorching sun!"

with rengoku-san's quick reaction, he was able to slash the hand before it reached tanjiro. upper three immediately jumped back from his original position, his hand that's been cut in half had been fixed in no time.

"nice blade." complimented upper three, licking the remaining blood from his healed left arm.

i scrunched my face in disgust, internally asking myself as to why demons are attracted to blood when human blood tastes like iron. how do i know? i've tasted it before when i got myself a splinter.

"i cannot understand why you're targeting a wounded person." said rengoku-san. although his face looks calm, i could feel his blood boiling from anger radiating through him.

"i thought he'd just get in the way between you and me."

i tilted my head in disgust, to kill an innocent human being because they're getting in the way. all they do is kill innocent people, satisfy their cravings, and become stronger.

the two talked for a moment, i didn't bother paying attention to the both of them as i glanced at my cousin who's watching the scene unfold in front of him. i was about to call him when a sudden shock went through my body, my eyes widening from the pain, and my legs almost giving up on me.

closing my eyes for a moment, a sudden soft melody played on the background. the sound of a mandolin being elegantly strummed. opening my eyes to follow where the melody came from, an unfamiliar place meets my vision.

"where-

before i could even continue, i felt myself fall before glancing down to see countless rooms beneath me. immediately preparing myself, i did one sun breathing technique before slowing my fall.

"welcome to my domain."

a calm voice spoke, her voice echoing through the large empty area. i looked around trying to find her but is in no luck as her body's been fully hidden to who knows where.

calmly analyzing the situation and this domain the woman spoke about. the whole area is massive, a domain that is filled with japanese rooms, doors and stairs filling the place. without thinking, i opened one door that is next to me and entering it only to be sent to another room with more doors and stairs.

"akaza's having fun with that pillar, i felt jealous so i brought you in my little domain." said the woman laughing hysterically.

little domain?

this whole place is massive, even bigger than the whole headquarters. my breathe caught up, chills running down my spine as i tried thinking of some ways to leave this domain. but there are no ideas i could think of, if she brought me here then the only way for me to leave is through her, which means i'd have to find her body.

"everyone please hang on for a moment." i mumbled, closing my eyes and taking a deep breathe.

opening my eyes and frowning at myself, my whole body is shaken up from the creepy vibes this domain is giving me. i can't focus, i stared at my hand that's shaking from fear. it's been so long since i last felt this feeling, is it good to feel this way again?

"aghhhh what am i even doing? am i afraid? of course not."

"there is nothing to worry about, i'm able to stand against muzan, i'll be able to overcome this too.
now let's get going, find that demon and put her in her place." i said, slapping both my cheeks to wake me up.

the compliments i made had somehow worked, the fear and anxiousness i've been feeling left my body. nothing but excitement seeps through me, being able to fight a strong demon is not an everyday experience. i should treat this as a training and preparation for when i'd have to face muzan with everyone else.

third person pov

back when the flame pillar and the upper moon three were talking amongst themselves. a certain demon has been feeling boredness, and is in need of someone to toy with using her domain.

her eyes scanned the area where she saw a lot of people unconscious, licking her lips as the sudden starveness made its way to her stomach. she wondered how would the people sleeping would taste like, but she'd have to step that aside as what she wanted right now is entertainment.

the scanning came to a stop when she come across a certain burgundy female. she felt her mouth turning into a smirk as she had found the perfect toy that'll give her entertainment for a few minutes, well until she got bored of her.

immediately summoning her blood demon art, she striked the mandolin with such elegance. her domain immediately acting from the melody being played, she saw how the burgundy female scrunched her face in pain before disappearing into thin air and towards her domain.

"Y/N!" she heard the injured boy yelled, the flame pillar was about to search for her before he got pounced by the smirking upper three.

the demon who's striking the mandolin had a small creepy smile plastered on her face as she watched the burgundy female struggled to find her. whenever she opens a door, she'd be lead to a same looking room that's filled with more doors and stairs, she even tried climbing the stairs and opening the doors but it'll lead her to more rooms and doors.

this is the fun the demon wanted, she would trap her victims inside this domain. watch them suffer for hours before finally consuming them. strumming the mandolin with her long, and slender fingers, she played a tune that is all too familiar to the burgundy female.

isabella's lullaby (from promised neverland)

she saw the way y/n flinched from her current position, before immediately looking around to find where the sound is emitting from. she saw the way y/n's face turned horrified, as she trembled in fear and confusion.

on the other side of the domain, a burgundy female who's face screams petrafies as the melody pierced through her ears. the familair melody that's been played to her ever since she was a baby, the melody that was created by her mama.

unbeknownst to her is the demon who's having fun watching her struggle to protect herself. the demon is right all along, the burgundy female is strong and independent on the outside, but deep inside she's nothing but a fragile heart that is slowly crumbling from all the past memories being flashed through her.

the demon continued her strumming, never once stopping as her entertainment grew. this is the entertainment that she wanted and she'll want to keep the burgundy female for hours to satisfy her boredom and successful kill her.

the demon opened her eyes, the e/c glistening in malice as the upper moon zero came into view.

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To be Continued...

chapters twenty-five and twenty-six is up, what'd ya think?

upper moon zero is my own character, i had decided to add her because of the flow of the story.

next chapter about to slap yall on the face (•̀ᴗ•́)و

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