Loss, and Decision

It was snowing, the snow didn't seem to want to stop, Yoriichi walked calmly over the place in the forest with a silence, so he didn't seem to want to stop he felt it, the vibrations the cold didn't bother him at all, he breathed calmly, his expression didn't change not once.

The snow was falling in silence, Yoriichi the winds hitting his face, he thought about every step he took, every encounter he had ever had with his family, with his father, his mother, his brothers

he walked, calmly and calmly, while a steam came out of his breath, he looked at the silence of the frozen forest then a kind of shiver went through his body he then started to run

He started to run at high speed, until he disappeared from sight but then the wind appeared, as if his speed cut the wind itself, he ran without caring about anything he was worried, then he arrived at the entrance of the mountain, he started to run, a feeling was flooding him.

Then a familiar smell came to his nostrils, Yoriichi paralyzed his body didn't want to answer the calls he made, he knew that smell very well, he stopped running at superhuman speeds, he then freezing in place, started to walk calmly.

he would stop, upon smelling the strongest smell, a scent that Yoriichi recognized, he would walk towards his house, he would walk calmly, his expression always calm, he would walk, then he would come close to his house

he arrived at his entrance, blood dominated the ground, the once white snow looked crimson, Yoriichi turned his head to the side, trying to follow the trail of blood, and there was blood all over the house but no bodies, but the house was all destroyed his heart was heavy, the smell of blood was very strong, Yoriichi analyzed was still fresh, then memories flooded his head.

Memories that were not his, of his past reincarnation, he then saw the pale man with black hair and red eyes, he wore a black kimono with some special details, but then Ken he smelled muzan, he was paralyzed, it was the same smell as it had in your house.

So Yoriichi felt the smells that were in the place, his mind imagined the scenario that happened, Muzan entered his house in the dead of night, entered the door, attacking everyone who was, his mother... and his 5 brothers.

So Tanjiro wasn't there, he had arrived earlier, probably he left before the incident, he smelled the coal, he left the house he found the backpack of coal Yoriichi smelled him from the top of the mountain he came and got it just Nezuko, so he took her and went down the mountain.

Yoriichi was silent the whole way, he would go down the mountain calmly, then he would stop, Nezuko's scent had changed, it was still Nezuko but it wasn't the human scent it was an Oni scent

Yoriichi was silent, he clenched his fists, his fingernails digging into the flesh of his hand hard, he squeezed hard, the blood fell, but his expression didn't change.

he then saw that a part of the mountain was broken, as if something or someone was cut with force, using only the pressure of the wind, Yoriichi looked and then jumped the mountain following the scents of his brothers, he landed easily, the smell was still strong, meaning it had all happened recently.

So Yoriichi walked through the forest, so he followed in silence, his heart clenches feeling an ache in his chest.

he was walking, the cold of the weather passed through Yoriichi's body then, he smelled Tanjiro and Nezuko, plus an unknown smell from another person was present so Yoriichi felt that Tanjiro was close, along with Nezuko.

Yoriichi felt relieved, they 2 were fine, but he doesn't know what happened to the rest of his family, he was getting worried, Yoriichi ran so he saw it.

Tanjiro lying unconscious, while Nezuko next to him, with a kind of bamboo in his mouth, unconscious, his kimono had blood, and some sword cuts, one mainly on his shoulder.

This provoked, something inside Yoriichi's chest a feeling like a flame, a flame that destroys everything in its path, a Flame of Wrath in his chest, then he heard footsteps behind his person.

A tall young man of muscular stature and pale skin, who is almost always seen with a serious and emotionless expression, he has unruly black hair of irregular lengths that rises in tufts around his head, which he wears tied in a ponytail. low, messy horse at the base of the neck.

Her bangs fall over her eyes in a jagged fringe. Her eyes are sharp and moderately large, her irises a deep sapphire that fades to a lighter blue, and her pupils a bluish-black, and are framed by thin eyebrows.

He wears a dark cyan version of the standard Demon Slayer uniform with white buttoned kyahan and a pair of white zōri with dark blue straps, the socks underneath the same cyan color as his uniform. On top of that, he wears a haori that is split in half into two different patterns: the right is solid red and the left is geometrically patterned with squares of green, orange and yellow.

Yoriichi took his katana out of its sheath.

His expression now dark, his eyes twitching leaving a look that would cut through anything, several veins appeared on his face indicating the fury he was in, he gripped the hilt of his blade tightly.

"Did you attack them? ''- he asked pointing his blade at Tanjiro and Nezuko.

the black haired man, his expression was cold, but for some reason he felt he couldn't provoke this man in front of him.

Yoriichi appears in front of the mismatched haori man, who in turn widened his eyes, and quickly jumped aside.

the force behind the cut, made immense pressure cutting through the wind, and destroying the ground and trees, he was down and got up, then he went up, from the black haired man.

who in turn raised his sword and defended from the blade that tried to cut his neck, quickly, but Yoriichi took advantage of the gap, then he released the blade from his hands, jumped and did a spin, giving impulse to his leg, kicking him in the belly. of the black haired man sending the flight at high speed destroying trees, until it stopped.

Yoriichi was gripping his blade tightly, his expression never changing.

"Did you attack them, Demon Slayer?".- he asked with a cold, as he walked towards the black haired man as he saw him get up, with difficulty, holding his belly where Yoriichi had kicked him.

"Y-yes".- He said as he spat some blood, and stood up.

"Why? make me understand why you attacked my brothers."- he asked with a cold voice.

"Your sister... she became an Oni, that's my job, that was no longer your sister, but she is different from the others, she defended her brother, even though she was hurt, and probably dying of hunger, she still defended and protected his brother."- he spoke with difficulty, he himself thought that today was one of his most talked about moments in his life.

Yoriichi stood still and sighed heavily.

"Where are the others, a woman and 4 other boys, where are they?".- Yoriichi dropped the question, Yoriichi looked at the black haired man.

Who then shakes his head to the side, and bowed his head to follow him, which Yoriichi suddenly appeared in front of the Man and took his arm and put it around his neck carrying the injured man seeing that he couldn't walk, after all Yoriichi put a lot of power into the kick.

Too much strength.

Even so, Yoriichi carried the black-haired man.

"Kamado Yoriichi."- introduced as they both took a slow step towards their destination

"Tomioka Giyuu."- Retributed the introduction, while both walked slowly, both had a similar personality, of course they remained neutral, and walked in silence.

Giyuu looked at the man who was carrying him, and for some reason he remembered an old friend who was already gone, and for some reason, that even Giyuu didn't know, he felt he could trust him.

Yoriichi on the other hand thought deeper and remembering Kocho quoting a Tomioka so this was the one he carried, and he himself said he never believes in fate he sighed heavily as they walked Giyuu looked where they were going and Yoriichi followed the look, so there it was.

A cemetery, right in front of him, with 5 graves, Yoriichi took Giyuu's arm from his neck, so he looked and smelled the familiar scent.

Yes, he didn't want to believe it, Yoriichi fell to his knees, he felt grounded, tears were falling, his hair was covering his eyes, Yoriichi knew who had done this.

He was going to pay, so Yoriichi took out his katana, he raised it high, then the blade took on a crimson hue it glowed brightly, while Giyuu looked on with his apathetic expression, until looking at the blade then it happened.

Yoriichi made a cut with the crimson blade in his hand, blood fell, and dripped onto the ground then he stood up.

and breathed calmly as he carried Giyuu.

"How do I become a demon hunter?".- came the question that would change the fate of both, would change the fate of the Demon Slayer Corps, and especially everyone around them.

Reincarnation is the Incarnation of the Sun.

Yoriichi Ken Kamado.

He entered everyone's destiny, and with those words, he altered the destiny of many people, demons, and beings.

Now without hesitation, Muzan he would hunt, until the end of his days

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Tanjiro woke up he opened his eyes looking to the sides, and saw Nezuko lying next to him.

Then he found that mismatched haori man as he ran and protected Nezuko by standing in front of her.

"Cross this mountain, and look for a man named Urokodaki Sankoji and tell him that Tomioka Giyuu sent you and your sister, he will know what to do." , he started crying then.

He would approach and wait, and walk towards where he could smell his family, and see them all in graves.

he cried, what could cry

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A few meters away from the forest.

Tomioka appeared, while leaning against a tree, Yoriichi was with his eyes closed, until he opened them.

"Shouldn't you be with them?".- asked Tomioka, this reason inside him that he should talk to him was something strange, maybe his whole family is dead and it's Giyuu's fault for not arriving in time, and not being able to save, maybe have done this to him, many questions came to the mind of the hashira of the waters but without any answers.

Yoriichi looked calmly, so he turned his gaze away.

"Tanjiro will become an oni hunter, one way or another, I just made him take a path that would make it faster, and also that will help him, and also water breath will be useful for a long time. , your body has a certain aptitude for breathing"

"But in the long run, it won't have any effect on him anymore, and when that happens I will help him, with my breathing, and train him, but until then he has to develop, a lot will happen until then or so in my opinion. to see him ready, for now his muscles were torn, and his bones were broken, because of breathing."- Yoriichi made his explanation when giving his opinion, he looked at everyone and saw if they had potential, and he saw Giyuu and maybe , very perhaps if Yoriichi pushed him to the limit, he could unlock the Hunter's Mark.

But for that he would have to explain the whole situation of the hunter's mark.

Yoriichi was going to broach the subject until he saw a crow in the air land on Tomioka's shoulder and start talking.

"Mission Given to Hashira Tomioka Giyuu…. find Demon in the nearby town to the west, suspected to be a Moon."- The Crow spoke slowly, you could tell the crow's age, causing Giyuu to have a small twitch in his eyebrow that quickly disappeared.

"I'll go with you, Tomioka Giyuu, what I'm going to tell you will change the course of a lot of things, especially the battle against Muzan... are you open to hear what I have to say?".- Yoriichi said as he crossed his arms and looked at the Hashira of the Waters, who until then had a cold expression, and looked closely at Yoriichi carefully examined, then he looked at his crow.

And the crow looked at him too, they both stared at each other until then Giyuu stopped staring and waved at Yoriichi.

So then a long conversation, with specific details about the [Hunter's Mark] and [Breath of the Sun] then began a journey between the Sun and the Hashira of the Waters.

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weeks later

Yoriichi and Giyuu arrived in another city, walking calmly, both with their cold and serene expressions.

Both stare at each other, the time they spent together was extremely interesting so to speak.

Giyuu and Yoriichi developed a kind of friendship and mutual respect for each other, and they both told their stories, each in a simple-minded way, that of Yoriichi talking about the [Hunter's Mark] and [Breath of the Sun] with some truths and lies, the first lie talking about his Ancestor having passed this information on to each generation of the family, along with the dance to Kami Kagura, the truth that was Yoriichi Tsugikuni who passed on to the Ancestor of "Ken Kamado" and so passed on, because lie ? simple the Hinokami Kagura dance, and simply done to celebrate Kami, but the dance is disguised ie the dance and the breathing of the sun, but many generations don't know even their own father knew about it.

He knew only of the Hunter's Mark and that was it.

A nostalgic smile appeared on his face but quickly disappeared.

Giyuu's Story was simple and quick, but Yoriichi understood quickly.

Giyuu grew up with his older sister Tsutako Tomioka, as his parents had died when he was younger he didn't remember them so there was no point, missing them or anything like that, yet his sister who was caring and loving, the day before her marriage an Oni attacked, and she sacrificed herself to save it.

Then he shouted to his city what happened, the citizens doubted and said that the boy's problem was mental, they called him crazy, so Giyuu fled the city until then he found his Master Urokodaki, who accepted him with open arms, there he found one who called him Friend.

"Sabito" that was his name if Yoriichi wasn't mistaken, so the 2 trained, then on the day of the final selection, a strong demon appeared saying that he always hunted his master's students, Tomioka was attacked and leading to unconsciousness, while Sabito would go and sacrifice himself in order to protect Giyuu.

6 days later he woke up and had passed the exam, but when he saw it he understood, he was the only student of his Master who had passed, so he deeply blamed himself for the deaths of both, and time passed and he became a Hashira by killing the Lesser Ex-Moon 3.

Quite an impressive feat, so the two formed a bond of friendship, so Yoriichi led Giyuu to the training called the "Awakening" where Yoriichi attacked mercilessly and used Sun Breath to make Giyuu fight back and try to awaken the mark.

In which it has been very beneficial, Giyuu was able to use the mark for 5 seconds when defending against an attack with 30% of Yoriichi, and then unconsciousness, after which Yoriichi took it easy on him, and started training him to strengthen his breathing of water in which Yoriichi learned quickly in about 1 week of training.

It was just simple, Sun Breath was the first breath, all the others were developed from the primary breath, so picking up a few moves there and here was simple and easy.

Tomioka's panting face when Yoriichi learned was one of the best he'll never forget.

But so Yoriichi wants to create a monster in Demon Corp to simply make Muzan humiliated.

The thousand ways to make him suffer were in Yoriichi's head in which he couldn't help but hide the macabre smile that appeared on his face.

Both were walking, so Yoriichi and Giyuu were both using a kind of guard for both katanas.

So they entered a nearby establishment

"Salmon with Radishes please."- Yoriichi kindly asked the woman who was with him taking the orders with a small notepad, she looked to be about 20 years old her hair was black, and her eyes a dark brown, she had a small mole on the cheek part.

"Hai Hai".- She spoke with a professional smile, as she took notes and entered the place and disappeared.

"You know he's watching us don't you?".- Giyuu spoke while calmly waiting, for some reason after he had to be trained in hell and left there, his senses sharpened much more, he could feel the creatures close and far away, each living being, its physical structures, organs, its presence everything, was interesting and terrifying at the same time.

Mainly an Oni finding it just by being on top of the roof of a building, she was invisible, along with another one at a distance of 734 meters away from each other.

"Yes, I know the moment they entered my range of vision, they are weak, I probably guess that one ate 14 humans and the other ate only 5, the smell of both is very weak."- he spoke neutrally, but it gave to notice that there was a cold anger in his tone.

Tomioka nodded, but then they both felt a new presence close to where they were, both the hunters and the oni turned their heads to the new presence, both looking intently.

Yoriichi waved at Tomioka, and they both got up from the benches.

"I could leave this one to cool down, we'll be right back, lady-san."- Yoriichi said, bowing, and then tightly holding the katana.

Yoriichi leaves first then Tomioka, then they both jump to one side, following the 2 onis, was that random? do not.

Yoriichi jumped and appeared behind the Oni, he had a human form so he kicked that caught the Oni that only ate 5 humans, his form was almost human, if not for the red eyes, his body kept spikes all over his body.

Yoriichi simply placed the nichirin on the Oni's neck, the blade turned crimson, making the Oni freeze, he didn't even feel Yoriichi arrive, he looked back and saw the black haired human, with white eyes without the pupils, with the mark of flame on his forehead, then seconds later he saw the human slowly leave.

then he realised, his head started to slide off his neck, as if it had never been stuck together, then his head dropped and slowly he disappeared from view.

Yoriichi was jumping from building to building, trying to track down the strange and strong aura, he knew it was an Oni, but the aura was different, as if it wasn't an Oni made of Muzan's blood.

Then he heard a sound of rain and turned his head to the side and saw, Tomioka cutting off the Oni's head quickly, and landing with grace.

They both waved in the distance, and Yoriichi pointed to the spot, even though they were 10 meters away from each other, they both started to run.

Yoriichi landed on the street, while Giyuu continued on top of the building.

Both ran, and then Yoriichi with the nichirin in his hands, looked and turned to the right where he hit a dead end.

Yoriichi analyzed the place, and saw that it was a well-made illusion, so he would have to destroy it wouldn't he?

Yoriichi made a position as if to make a lunge, he held his blade with his right hand leaving the blade in sight it gained a crimson tone, a heat appeared around Yoriichi, or rather he was emanating that heat.

Then he simply took a breath.

(Sun Breath: Seventh Form: Youkatotsu). - he simply used the tip of the sword as a spear, he stuck it in the wall and then pulled it up, making the flames go to the sky, quickly destroying a smoke came out, then it turned out to be a normal door.

Then he opened it slowly with the nichirin in hand as he entered, the room was dark, but he knew there were 2 beings here, he took the first one by the neck, and placed the nichirin on his chest, to give a warning.

so the light came on, so Yoriichi turned his head to the side.

"You?".- came Yoriichi's speech with disbelief, for the person who revealed himself.

<To be continued>