"Wait, so you're the Sound Hashira?" Hiroto said, crossing his arms and studying Uzui. "Nah, you can't be."
"Listen here brat! I'm the flamboyant Uzui Tengen, the Sound Hashira!" Uzui said, jumping down from the roof.
He sized up Hiroto then gave a nod, "Although you look plain, I can give you a pass on Rengoku's behalf. Plus, that monocle suits you somehow."
*snap* "I don't need your approval!" Hiroto retorted. *sigh* "When do we go on this mission?"
"We leave right now!" The Uzui said, but as soon as he turned around he faced Zenitsu and Inosuke as they walked into the entrance.
"Hmmm. You, you, and you." Uzui pointed at Tanjiro, Zenitsu, and Inosuke, and said. "Just Rengoku's Tsuguko isn't enough for my mission. You'll be coming with the flamboyant me."
"Rengoku's Tsuguko? Wait, Hiroto you can go on a mission again?" Zenitsu said, looking at Hiroto that stood next to the girls.
"Yup, I can finally leave and stretch my legs. I'm back to my old healthy self." Hiroto said, stretching his arms to show.
"Hahahaha! It looks like your brother has finally recovered Monjiro! Good! I'll show you just how much stronger I've grown while you were busy being lazy in your bed! Hahaha!" Inosuke laughed.
"It's Tanjiro! Besides, he wasn't being lazy, he was recovering! But, although I don't mind going on a mission with my brother, why do we have to go?" Tanjiro asked Uzui.
"Since I couldn't take the girls, I'll just have to substitute them with you guys. Enough talking, let's go." Uzui said, before walking out of the Butterfly Estate.
Hiroto turned to the girls and said, "Thank you for looking after me for these past few months. I'll come to visit again after the mission, let's go before Uzui-San runs off on his own."
"Good luck!" "Be careful!" "Look after your health!" The little girls shouted behind the group that ran to catch up with Uzui.
Uzui turned around and looked at the 4 as they stood side by side. He lifted his hands in front of him and started to do weird hand gestures as he shouted.
"Remember this! I am God! You are trash! First off, get that right into your skull!! Screw it in there!!" Uzui shouted. Hiroto stood there with a dead look on his face as he thought, 'Should I just fall over sick? Is it too late to turn back now?'
"If I tell you to become a dog, become a dog! If I tell you to become a monkey, become a monkey!! You will always humor me while stooping down and imploring me for favors. And do your best to flatter me!" Uzui shouted, "I'll say this one more time, I am god!!"
"..." The group just stood still as they finished with Uzui posing at the group, little sparkles surrounded his head.
Zenitsu had a look of dread of him as he thought, "This guy's bad news."
Tanjiro lifted his hand.
"Yes, you may speak." Uzui so graciously granted Tanjiro permission.
"What exactly do you rule over as a god?" Tanjiro asked, gesturing with his hands.
Hiroto looked over at Tanjiro and thought to himself, 'No way… Where did I go wrong in raising you?'
"Nice question. I have high hopes for you." Uzui said, praising Tanjiro.
'It's a dumb question. Don't have high hopes.' Zenitsu thought.
Uzui looked at the group seriously and said, "I'm the god who rules over flamboyance… The god of festivities."
'Kyoujurou… I'm sorry, but a Demon's the least of our worries right now.' Hiroto thought.
'He's a moron… He rules over morons, no doubt.' Zenitsu thought as he started to look tired.
Inosuke put his hands on his hips and declared. "I am the King of the mountain. Nice to meet you, God of festivities."
… Silence…
"What're you talking about… You're just disgusting." Uzui said looking at Inosuke disgusted.
'You're the same as him!! And you're disgusted?!' Zenistu shouted in his mind.
Hiroto took Nezuko's box from Tanjiro, who just looked confused at what his brother was doing. "I'm sorry Tanjiro, I want to at least save one sibling before she falls down the wrong path."
"Anyway, we're going to be heading to the red light district, but before that. There's a wisteria house on the way there, we'll get prepared at that location." Uzui said.
"R-Re-Red light district?!?" Zenitsu yelled out, his face turning red from excitement.
"They use red lights? But why? Won't it be hard to see where you walk?" Tanjiro asked.
"No no." Hiroto corrected him. "It must be a metaphor. It's probably the houses and streets that are painted red."
"Follow me," Uzui said, before turning away.
*whoosh* In the next instant, he disappeared from his position, along with Hiroto who already knew that the Hashira loves using this move to show off.
"Ah!" Tanjiro yelped, as the 3 of them looked at the distancing figures of Uzui and Hiroto who were running far down the path.
"Whoa!! They're both so far away that they look as small as sesame seeds!!" Zenitsu yelled out.
"Nnnghhh!! So this is the power of the festivity God, and it seems my vice-captain has grown stronger while lazing around." Inosuke said.
"No, that guy is the Hashira Uzui Tengen-san. And my brother was always strong." Tanjiro said, correcting Inosuke.
"After them! After them!" Zenitsu yelled at Tanjiro and Inosuke before running after Uzui and Hiroto.
After a few hours of running, they arrived at a house just outside of the flower district. (Euphemism for Red Light District) Inside were people who are willing to help Demon Slayers and ask nothing in return.
Uzui was instructing them, grandiosely, on what to do. "This and that." The man who owns the house just nodded in compliance.
Inside of the house, Uzui said to them. "Once we infiltrate the Red Light District, we first have to look for my wife. I'll be looking around for information on the Demon as well."
Hiroto and Tanjiro were drinking their tea normally while Inosuke was sucking every piece of food in sight.
Zenitsu looked at Uzui in disbelief before getting angry and shouting. "This is unbelievable!!"
"Huuh?" Uzui responded, not knowing how to react to his outburst.
"Please, just stop joking around! Don't use your subordinates to look for personal brides!!!" Zenitsu yelled at him.
"Huuuh? You're misunderstanding something." Uzui said.
"No, I'm not. I'm just going to say it harshly!" Zenitsu shouted, pointing at Uzui. "Weird ass people like you will never be popular!! Look at Hiroto! He has a monocle but for some reason gets along so well with the girls at the butterfly estate! And yet you're telling us Demon Slayers that you want a bridge?!?"
*snap* "You damn foooool! MY wife infiltrated the red light district in order to collect information on the Demon!! Our regular contact was cut off. So now I'm going too!" Uzui shouted back at Zenitsu.
Tanjiro tugged on Zenitsu's sleeve to calm him down, while Zenitsu just looked at Uzui with blank eyes. "That's all in your head there, right?"
*snap* "You shitty brat!!!" Uzui yelled, before throwing large piles of letters towards Zenitsu, causing him to fall back. "Here are the letters she sent me via crow!!
"Gyaaaaah!" Zenitsu cried as he was bombarded.
*chew chew* Inosuke continued eating, and Hiroto was tapping the box Nezuko was in as she also tapped back.
"There sure are a lot," Tanjiro said, picking up a handful of letters. "Has your wife been in there for a long time?"
"I have three wives," Uzui said nonchalantly.
"THREE! WIVES… TH...THREE! YOU… YOU BASTARD! WHY DO YOU HAVE THREE WIVES! CUT THE CRAP OUT!!!" Zenitsu yelled out at him as his eyes bulged out.
'Wow, that's impressive.' Hiroto thought, as he looked at all of the letters. 'How does one get so many?'
*boom* "OGHH!" Zenitsu coughed out as he was punched in the stomach by Uzui.
"Any other complaints?" Uzui said, looking around the room with Tanjiro and Inosuke looking away. Hiroto ignored him and thought back to what souvenirs he should buy from the red light district to give the girls.
"Umm… in the letters. You remind them multiple times to do their best not to stand out, but… How exactly are we going to do this?" Tanjiro said as he held an open letter.
Uzui responded with a side glance, "Well, we're gonna be disguised, of course. You guys just have to do a certain something then infiltrate. My three wives are top of the line female ninja, Kunoichi. We believe that the flower district is an ideal place for Demons to lurk. When I infiltrated as a customer I couldn't find any traces of Demons. So for that reason, we went a bit deeper than mere customers."
Uzui turned to the group and said, "We've narrowed the number of suspicious stores down to three. So you guys will look for my wives there and gather intel." Uzui held up three fingers. " 'Suma' in the 'Tokito House.' 'Makio' in the 'Ogimoto House'. And 'Hinatsuru' In the 'Kyougoku House'."
"Aren't your wives dead already?" Inosuke said, picking his ear.
*boom* "Guffaw!" Inosuke cried out as he was punched.
"We brought the necessary items over. The owner of the house poked his head in and said amicably.
"Thanks," Uzui responded.
"What did you ask for?" Hiroto asked Uzui suspiciously.
"Don't worry. They disguise that you will all be wearing." Uzui said, before taking out one of the costumes and holding it up.
Hiroto's eyes widened, as he shouted and tried to leave the room."Oh no. Over my dead body!"
"Don't make this harder than it has to be" Uzui shouted, as he jumped towards Hiroto.
Hope you enjoyed this chapter! This is gonna be a long arc I think, so get comfortable haha.
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Peace out!