The Three Demons

Looking out of the hole, Hiroto saw the female Demon throw the Temari balls towards the house once more. Getting his sword out, Tanjiro slashed at the incoming balls in half, but they still moved at hitting them. 'Although the force of the impact is lessened, it can still move once sliced and will disappear shortly after.' Hiroto thought.

"Tanjiro, look after Nezuko and Tamayo-san," Hiroto said, before running outside

"Brother!" Tanjiro yelled, before following behind him.

Hiroto ignored Tanjiro and as the dust settled, they got a closer look at the 3 Demons. The female was pale-skinned with bright hazel cat-like eyes wearing a black kimono on top of an orange kimono. She was carrying the Temari balls in her hand.

Behind her to the left was a Demon with gray-tinted skin with a necklace of large blue pearls. His eyes were shut closed, but on the palm of his hands were eyes with arrows within the pupils.

And the last Demon had it's mouth sewn shut but had enlarged ears the size of a book. Wearing a black kimono and blue hair it stood next to the other two Demons.

Hiroto walked out and stood at the front, waiting for them to make a move.

"Hey hey, this kid's interesting! What fun this is!" The female Demon said, taking off her kimono to show a small sash covering her chest. Arms started to grow out of both sides of her body, growing 4 extra pairs of arms. "You should be honored to be killed by me, one of the Twelve Demon Moons!"

'Twelve Demon Moons?' Hiroto thought, raising his red Nichirin blade point.

"If you're not going to make a move, then I will," Hiroto said, disappearing from his spot running towards the female Demon. *swoosh* The Demon threw out 6 Temari balls towards Hiroto as they flew towards him from different angles.

'Water breathing, fourth form: Striking Tide' Hiroto used the fourth form as he moved forward, leaving a trail of water as he made multiple consecutive slashes while twisting his body in a flowing fashion. Getting closer to the female Demon, Hiroto quickly came and slash towards her arm *Swish* *Splash* 3 of the Demons arms were cut in one stroke.

"Agghh! What's that sword?! I can't regenerate my arms!!" The Demon yelled out.

"What?!" The blind demon said while the mute one looked in surprise. "This is dangerous." The blind Demon muttered, waving his hands around.

The balls were redirected towards Hiroto's back. 'Sixth form: Twisting whirlpool' Hiroto performed, fiercely twisting his upper and lower body, cutting all of the surrounding balls as they approached.

"Now, to deal with you," Hiroto said, before slashing his sword downwards to the female Demon. However, before he could get close, the mute Demon moved. It raised it's ears up and sent a loud screeching noise from its ears directed at Hiroto. Covering his ears, Hiroto backed off to recover himself.

'What the hell was that?' Hiroto thought. Tanjiro caught up from behind and asked, "Brother, what should I do?"

"I want you to go take care of that blind Demon, I saw it moving its hands at the same time the Temari balls moved. He was controlling them." Hiroto told Tanjiro.

Yushiro rushed out and threw a piece of paper towards the two, "Use this! Put it on your forehead!" Yushiro shouted.

Catching the piece of paper each, they put it on top of their forward just as the female Demon launched more Temari balls towards them. This time, they could see arrows guiding them around.

Tanjiro moved off to engage with the blind Demon while Hiroto moved to deal with the mute Demon first. 'If I kill him off first, It will make this easier.' Hiroto thought.

Running forward, he sliced and dodged the constant Temari onslaught on his body. Reaching the mute Demon, he raises his katana and slashes down towards the Demon *Swish* *Whoosh*The Demon managed to dodge the attack at the last moment and launched a kick towards Hiroto's stomach. Raising his legs, Hiroto pushed himself off the ground and jumped to the side before he was hit.

*boom* As he lumped away, a Temari ball that was about to hit him lost control and was dropped. 'It seems Tanjiro is keeping it occupied.' Hiroto thought to look over to see Tanjiro using the third form: Dance of the Rapid Current, swinging his blade at his opponent in a way that mimics the movement of waves on the surface of the water.

Concentrating back to his fight, Hiroto focused his eyes and decided on a move to trick the demons. *inhale* *suuuuu* Hiroto moved as he breathed in and used a move he had been practicing each in his free time.

'Dance of the Fire God: Fake Rainbow' Hiroto ran at high speed while twisting and rotating his body, leaving fiery afterimages in his path as he ran towards the mute and Temari Demon. The temari Demon threw her balls at Hiroto, only to have it pass through his afterimage, missing the target. "Wha-"

Before it could call out in surprise, *foom* *slash*, a fiery trial was seen cutting through the air, past the neck of the Temari Demon and back to Hiroto's sword, who now stood behind the Demon.

*plop* The Temari Demon dropped to the ground with a look of disbelief in her eyes. Tamayo saw this and quickly threw a needle towards its body, injecting it and filling the needle with its blood.

Ignoring this, Hiroto turned towards the mute Demon and thought, 'Sunflower Thrust'. Pulling his blade back, Hiroto charges towards his opponent and thrust into the forehead of the Demon *Swish* *splat* The Demon stood shocked, at having its brain pierced.

Moving quickly, Hiroto removed the blade from its forehead and with one single movement, cut off the Demon's head in a fluid motion. As the body falls, Hiroto kicks it *Thud* and it flies towards the location of Tamayo and Yushiro. "Take its blood," Hiroto said, turning towards Tanjiro's fight.

'That took quite a bit out of me,' He thought to himself. 'I need to improve my stamina, the Dance of the Fire God uses too much energy. It would be bad if there were prolonged fights.'

Tanjiro ran towards the blind Demon, 'There it is, the thread!' Tanjiro thought, moving his blade to follow it.

"Tsk, What a grimy little urchin you are. You stay away from me!" The Demon said, waving its hand with the eye towards Tanjiro, as it closes and releasing a purple wave.

'The thread snapped!' Tanjiro thought. A bright red arrow appeared from under his feet, causing him to slip as he swung his sword forward, missing the Demon.

The red arrow pushed him away, and imbedded itself into Tanjiro, controlling his body. *Thack* "Gack!" Tanjiro coughed out as he was slammed into a tree. The arrow controlled him again and launched him around the garden, into the ground and smashing into trees. *Boom* *Thump* Thwack*

'This hurts! I mean this… It seriously hurts!' Tanjiro shouted in his head.

Nezuko rushed out of the house and jumped towards the blind Demon, sending a kick it's way. The Demon raised it's hand to block the strike and sent an arrow to push Nezuko back into the house, ripping one of her legs off.

"Nezuko!" Hiroto shouted, looking back at the blind Demon in anger, Hiroto shouted out, and swung his blade, executing the Solar Heat Haze.

Hiroto charges at the Demon with a flame-cladded blade and slashed at the arrows attacking him. The fire surrounding the blade burnt the arrows as he clashed against them, causing them to dissipate.

"What? How?!" The Demon yelled, sending even more furies of arrows.

Hiroto charged past the arrows dodging them, gritting his teeth, he sent a low sweep with his flames, cutting off the Demons legs.

"Tanjiro!" Hiroto shouted as he was hit by an arrow from behind sending him flying forward.

'Horizontal water wheel!' Tanjiro shouted, as he jumped sideways and twisted his body, slicing at the fallen Demons neck and severing it from its body. As the water met the flames, it created a steam cloud in the area.

*hff pff* Hiroto leaned on his sword as he slowly recovered. That fight took a lot of energy from him. He needed to train some more, 'Using Total Concentration Breathing in bursts is too taxing, I need to come up with something else.' Hiroto thought.

Yushiro ran up to the Demons body before sticking a needle in it's dissipating body.

Tanjiro limped up to Hiroto and said, "Is that all?"

"Seems like it, good job," Hiroto said patting his shoulder. "Let's go check on Nezuko." Hiroto turned and walked back to the collapsed wall.

Nezuko was sitting down as her leg was regenerating slowly. "I gave her some medicine to speed up the process," Tamayo said, turning towards them.

Yushiro rushed up from behind and yelled, "Lady Tamayo, I told you before, didn't I? From the very beginning, I told you we shouldn't have any relations with Demon Hunters! My "hidden" technique is still imperfect! You know this, don't you! Just hiding the structure, the presence of beings, and the smell won't wipe away the existence of said beings themselves!" Yushiro ranted, as his various body parts were covered in blood.

"The more people that are hidden the more chance of Muzan picking up on the traces we leave behind!" Yushiro shouted in frustration. "We were lucky that they were able to do these 3, but what if more come? We have to take more precautions, lady Tamayo!"

"Yes, I understand this Yushiro, but you know that it needed to be done if we were to have any progress is getting rid of Muzan's curse," Tamayo said in a low tone.

"I have something to inform you two, those Demons that attacked us weren't part of the 12 Demon Moons as well. They didn't have numbers carved into their eye-balls. They were too weak to be a Demon Moon."