62 Tag Team

Uzui brought his swords back and spun them, cutting Warabihime's head off at the same time, while Hiroto backs up next to him.

"Tsh, I missed the chance to kill him" Uzui clicked his tongue in annoyance.

"He's probably the real body," Hiroto said, sweating a lot more than usual from the poison.

"Uuughh! My head got cut off again!! Shithead!! Shithead!! You're gonna pay!!" Warabihime cried out from behind Gyuutarou, as she tried to put her head back on with one arm. "This sucks! This sucks! Why am I the only one getting cut up!! Waaaahh! Waaaahh!"

Everyone stayed silent as she kept crying, with Gyuutarou breaking the silence. "Hey, have you noticed now?"

"Noticed what?" Uzui said with a smile.

"No point realizing it now, bud. You are both slooooowly dying over there. So now we're gonna beat you slow and steady." Gyuutarou said, scratching his face.

"Oh really now?!" Inosuke's voice came from the streets as they jumped into the hole of the wall, as he posed with his swords up in the air. Zenitsu was crouched next to him, unconscious but still crouched with his sword at the ready.

"Don't forget us, buddy! Inosuke-Sama and his underlings are here!" Inosuke shouted. Tanjiro also came up and stood next to the three, without the box on his back.

"Ta-Tanjiro… *huff* Where's Nezuko?" Hiroto said, concerned.

"She's safe, I told her not to get out of the box," Tanjiro replied with a worrying look in his eyes as he saw his brother's condition.

"What? Who're they?" Gyuutarou said in an annoyed tone. "Some of your underlings just came, but there won't be a happy future waiting for you, man. You're all gonna die, so don't go all sparkly eyes on me, man."

Hiroto spoke up as he saw Tanjiro on the side, who seemed to be shaken up after smelling the scent on Gyuutarou's body. "Tanjiro, don't worry. We'll win. We're Demon Slayers after all."

"No, you can't," Warabihime shouted, putting her head back on. "You and that Hashira, your last ray of hope will both die from poison!!"

The three looked at Uzui and Hiroto in disbelief as they heard they were poisoned.

Uzui then shouted with a big grin, "We'll win easily, you dumb underlings!! There may be poison in our bodies, but I'm still running high! Don't look down on humans!! This boy's here the next Flame Hashira, he won't die to the likes of you, nor will we all! And these three boys are my prized 'successors'. They won't run away! They've got the guts!"

"Fuahahaha, hell yeah!" Inosuke shouted while Tanjiro looked on with worry at Hiroto.

Hiroto was then caught up in Uzui's tempo and started shouting as well. "Haha, you're right! Don't look down on us just because we're humans! Do you think you can regenerate yourself with my sword here?! Hahaha, we'll just cut both of your heads off at the same time! You'll both die simultaneously!!" Hiroto started to look more erratic as his adrenaline started kicking into overdrive from him hyping up.

Uzui then shouted after Hiroto, "That has to be it. I have no reason to split you guys apart and take the weak little sister alive!! Haaaaaaah! You guys are easy!!"

"Guwahahaha!! I see, how simple! Of course, we're gonna win!!" Inosuke shouted, blowing steam out of his boar mask.

Gyuutarou then bent his neck and mocked them. "That 'simple' can't be easily don't, because you Demon Slayers are dead, man. As for Hashiras, we ate a number of them. I got fifteen, my sister got seven."

"That's right." Warabihime chimed in from the side, smiling sadistically. "Nobody's gonna be alive by sunrise. The long night will always be our ally. You're all gonna meet your deaths here!!"

Warabihime then launched a plethora of sash attacks towards Hiroto and Uzui, but just then, a flash of yellow ran across the room in zigzags and intercepted them, bringing Warabihime along to the roof.

"Zenitsu!" Tanjiro yelled out.

"That was Zenitsu?!" Hiroto said incredulously.

"Leave the maggot girl to me, Monjiro and sleepyhead!!" Inosuke shouted at Hiroto and Uzui. "You guys get mantis boy!! Get it!!"

Tanjiro then ran up behind Inosuke and shouted towards Hiroto, "Be careful!!" As the two left the building.

"... My sister won't get put down." Gyuutarou smiled wickedly.

From the roof, Hiroto could hear Zenitsu saying to Warbihime, "Don't do unto others what you don't want others to do unto you. Apologize for the girl's ear you pulled."

Warabihime then started talking in sync with Gyuutarou at the same time, as they relayed each other's words. "That's wrong, we're just returning all the pain and suffering people did to us and collecting what they owe us. We have to pay our past misfortunes to those who are fortunate, or we can't break even." Then, a vertical eye started to open itself on Warabihime's forehead.

Back down to Hiroto, Gyuutarou continued talking. "That's how we lived our lives. And we killed every single person who had a problem with that idea, man. Just like you guys. So we'll claw out your windpipes, man."

Gyuutarou then released a dense and intense bloodlust that was aimed to overwhelm both Uzui and Hiroto, however, the two completely disregarded it as they were too focused on killing the Demon in front of them.

*whoos* vanishing from his position, Gyuutarou seemingly repeated with his sickle aimed for Hiroto's windpipe. *clang* Hiroto raised his blade and parried off to his right as he followed up with an attack to Gyuutarou's body.

Gyuutarou then raised his other sickle and spun it around his hand to hook behind Hiroto's head. But just before he could, Hiroto ducked down and Uzui jumped over him to strike and Uzui's sickle, *clang* knocking off to the side.

Uzui followed up with a multitude of attacks as Gyuutarou kept deflecting them and trying to score a hit past Uzui's defense. Hiroto joined back into the fight and covered for Uzui's blindspot, *clang* striking Gyuutarou's sickle into the ground and swapping positions with Uzui as he used the gap in between his sword to hook onto his sickle and lock it in place.

The two then slashed at the same time, only to have him bend his body completely 90 degrees backward. He then kicked Hiroto and Uzui away, dislodging his sickle from Uzui's blade and backed up to regain his footing.

*huff huff* "Tengen-san, raise your two swords out." Hiroto said with labored breaths.

Uzui had no time to question Hiroto's intentions and compiled, stretching his swords out towards Hiroto.

*clanngggg* Hiroto struck down on Uzui's swords, as the sound of metal hitting metal reverberated throughout the building as the blades resonating with each other. "I can... *huff*...only do this to another person for a short amount of time."

Uzui's sword started to take a faint crimson color as it spread from the handguard to the tip. Nodding towards Hiroto, the two took up positions again.

"Hey man. What was that? That looked niiice. I guess you're special, huh man?" Gyuutarou said, scratching his face before jumping towards Hiroto.

*clang* Hiroto parried several strikes from Gyuutarou's attacks, backing up at the same time. Uzui came in from the side and was about to slash at Gyuutarou's back, but multiple blood slashes came at him from the side. He quickly retreated and defended himself against that, while Hiroto was still being pressured on by Gyuutarou.

'I need to recover and push him back, Tengen-san is busy dealing with the blood arts.' Hiroto thought, then taking in a deep breath. Unknown to him, the mark on his hand was creeping up his arm ever so slowly.

'Dance of the Fire God, Solar Heat Haze.' Hiroto then charged forward instead of backing up, attacking Gyuutarou with a haze covered slash.

Gyuutarou saw the strike come towards him and thought, 'Too short, he's gonna miss.' He then moved forward, but instead of missing, the haze covered slash erupted in flames as it extended towards his body.

Eyes widened, Gyuutarou laid off of his assault and fell back extremely quickly, giving Hiroto and Uzui some breathing room as they then began pressuring him.

As the two started to trade blows with Gyuutarou, Uzui was constantly thinking, 'Fast. He really is like a mantis. And what's with this swordsmanship?'

Hiroto looked over to Uzui and backed up, as Uzui ran forward as breathed in.

'Breath of sound, Fifth Form: Symphony of Shrill Strings'

He began to swing his swords in circular arcs around him, constantly sending out pellets and cutting them apart as they reached Gyuutarou, who kept backing off and blocking against Uzui's blows.

*BOOM BOOM BOOM*

Multiple explosions rang out as Uzui kept hurling pellets out after each attack to pressure Gyuutarou. Hiroto then came from behind Gyuutarou, having run around to flank him, and used his own move.

'Breath of Silence, Third Form: Howling Abyss'

His eyes shone bright purple as he watches Gyuutarou's move, and sent out a multitude of slashes in quick succession. Each time his sword cut through the air it carried out a vibrating sound, similar to a howl. Gyuutarou had to speed up, even more, to be able to match up to Hiroto's slashes that seemed to have blurred as he kept slashing and slashing.

In the next moment, however, a bundle of sashes came down and launched itself toward Hiroto, interrupting him. But before they could hit him, Uzui jumped over Gyuutarou and slashed at them, cutting them down apart.

As Hiroto got covered by Uzui, he went to move in for another strike, but… "Cough" *splat* Stopping, he covered his mouth as he coughed out blood, dripping between his fingers.