Chapter 37

"She said her name was Yui Koga." Rin said to Kyoshi as he looked at the tanto with a slight frown.

"Sensei, did you know her?" She asked.

Kyoshi sighed and tucked the tanto into his waistband.

"I don't really know her. There was an incident and that was bout it. Nothing special." He answered.

"I see."

"You said she wanted to meet to chat? Did she give a location or anything?" He asked.

"No. Were you actually going to go meet her though?" Rin asked.

"Maybe. Not like I have anything else to do. Then again, it could most likely be a trap." Kyoshi said as he sat down on the floor.

He was still in the training room a d once she came back, he was in the middle of practicing some new techniques with Moon Breathing, since he didn't have the same Demon Blood Art as Kokushibo, so he couldn't fully utilize all techniques.

He felt that more recently he's been reaching his limit to perfecting all of the techniques in his Breathing Style and Martial Arts.

"Well then, I guess I'm headed out."

Kyoshi stood up and stretched as he felt that now he should focus on gaining more strength through food. He could feel them stockpiling and recently he's been restless.

His excessive training was most likely from his RC cells taking on a change and his body found that training was the best way to release the excessive/pent up energy inside him.

"Where are you going?" Rin asked.

Obviously after having an encounter with Giyu and already knowing that the Hashira and more Demon Slayers are being deployed than usual, she was skeptic about going out.

"Nowhere. Just around. I gotta get stronger since I feel like I've mastered just about everything. Plus, I'm not a human. I get stronger from eating people not training." Kyoshi said.

"I see. Then should I come as well?" Rin asked.

"Nah, you still haven't finished the mission I gave you and I want some time to myself." He replied.

Rin stayed quiet as she seemed to understand Kyoshi's words and that he actually just wanted to go out alone.

"Anyways, I'm gonna go talk to gramps for a minute before leaving. I guess for a while you can just do as you please." He added.

She nodded her head as Kyoshi rubbered her head and left the room. Rin had complicated thoughts because she didn't know wht would happen to Kyoshi if he did cross paths with a Hashira.

She hopped that it would go like their first two encounters and they'd just leave them alone after refusing their proposal.

…

"Yo gramps." Kyoshi hollered as he walked into the laboratory. Muzan looked up from his microscope which had some herb under it.

Seeing Kyoshi walk into the lab, he sighed.

"I've told you multiple times to enter this place quietly." He said as he looked back into the microscope.

"Sorry sorry. I just wanted to let you know I'll be leaving soon. Apparently somebody from Koga village wants to meet me, but didn't even leave a location." Kyoshi said with a chuckle.

He was dressed in black baggy gi pants with black pearl-like balls around his ankles. He still had the black bands around his wrists and had on a black sleeveless haori which was tied close with a black obi.

On his waist was his sword and in his right hand was the bag he used to carry some clothes that he'd change into along with other things.

"Hmm? The village aligned with the DSC?"

"Yup. I'm going out for personal reasons and to see if I can run into some Hashira who know where she is."

"You're being foolish, but go ahead. As long as you aren't killed, do as you please." Muzan said as if he didn't care.

"Alright, I'm out." Kyoshi replied as he left the room. He said his goodbyes to Nakime and with a stroke of her biwa, she teleported him outside of the Infinite Castle and he appeared in some random forest.

'Alright, which direction should I go?' Kyoshi asked himself. He pointed his finger out and closed his eyes as he spun around before stopping and going in the direction of where he was pointing.

He then sprinted off through the forest in hopes of finding a village or something. He could feel a breakthrough coming, but he needed just a little push before he could get there.

He was excited.

It's been a while since he felt change like this in his body. It felt good. The sense of gaining new power and the possibilities that could come with it.

He didn't know exactly if he needed to eat more people to get the power he felt, but he felt like it was the right way to go.

And like that days went by. Kyoshi seemed to go from village to village, taking at least three people with the best smell and ate them.

Days turned into weeks and soon a month or so flew by as he moved from place to place in a random manner. He was like a starving nomad. Going wherever food was located.

He didn't loose himself though. He kept himself in check so he didn't go on random mindless rampages. He ate his food and went on his way "peacefully".

….

"Man I'm so close." Kyoshi said as he licked the blood off his fingers blissfully.

He could feel it. Just a bit more and he'd be there. But at the same time it's felt like this for the last three days.

"Do I need to try something different? Even Demon Slayers aren't enough huh?" He asked himself as he jumped down from tree branch he was sitting on.

Below him were piles of arm bones and fingers that he just finished eating. All were from a village about 400 yards east.

…

It's been close to 2 months and Yui continued training with Giyu. He didn't bother teaching her Water Breathing for obvious reasons, but he did focus more on stamina training.

She was undoubtedly strong, fast, flexible, and had wonderful techniques which surprised him from time to time.

As mentioned before, he focused a lot on her stamina. She went through extreme Hashira training and mastered TCB (Total Concentration Breathing).

She also started working and perfecting a technique which pushed her body to the limit for a short period of time. Afterwards, she'd be subject to great pain and fatigue before passing out.

She labeled it Overclock. It tripled all of her physical capabilities at the cost of stamina. Simple.

…

"C'mon, we're in the last stretch." Giyu said as he and Yui ran through a forest. Yui was slightly lacking behind Giyu, but hearing that they were in the last stretch gave her a bit more determination as she took in a big breath and sped up.

After finishing the last 20 miles out of the 800 they had to run. Afterwards, they took a break in an open area while Yui caught her breath.

"God that was exhausting." Yui said with a sigh.

"What's it been, close to a month or two? Your progress has been fine a d if you keep training yourself, you'll be fine." Giyu said.

"Thank you for training me." Yui said as she bowed her head respectfully.

"Mm, although I do find it worrisome that even for a month, there hasn't been word of Kyoshi from other Hashira." Giyu said.

"True, it seems like they just can't get a good idea of his location." Yui replied.

"Well, I guess that means you need to start searching. Your training with me is officially over." Giyu said before he vanished.

"…" Yui was so shocked she remained speechless. She new the guy had people problems, but to suddenly leave out of the blue with no type of farewell was just uncustomary.

She got over it fast and grabbed her bag before whistling into the air. Soon a crow came flying towards her and landing on her shoulder.

"Alright, take me to some places where recent weird things have been happening." Yui said to her crow as it flew into the air. Yui followed it happily as she was excited to get back into action.

…

At the same time elsewhere, Kyoshi was running through a forest playing tag with some ronin that tried to rob him. He had to disable one by taking off his leg since he was outnumbered 3 to 1.

Currently, he was it and he had to chase them down. It didn't help that they split up, but after about 2 minutes he was down to the last one.

"You can do it!!" Kyoshi said as he chased behind the man with a beaming smile.

The ronin who previously tried to assault Kyoshi, was now running with a look of terror etched onto his face. He was sweating, panting, and his feet ached as he ran barefoot since his wooden clogs came off.

Kyoshi finally decided to end the man's suffering as he prepared to dash forward with a huge grin on his face.

"Eh?"

Kyoshi suddenly leaned back 90° and performed a backflip, then tilted his body to the left then to the right, before jumping and ducking again.

He looked to his left and standing there was a rather short, but obviously muscular man with long black hair that fades to mint green once it approached his waist.

He wears his hair loose with two clumps protruding slightly from each side of his head, a set of marginally shorter hair left down to frame his face, and unruly bangs over his forehead.

He also possesses large, empty-looking mint-green eyes.

[Image]

Muchiro looked at Kyoshi with a calm gaze while Kyoshi looked at him with a cold glint in his eyes although he had a calm expression on his face.

"You must be a Hashira?" Kyoshi asked calmly as he noticed a slight cut on his haori.

"…"

Muchiro stayed silent as he looked at Kyoshi, seemingly lost in thought.

"Hmm, after defeating you I'll make sure to report that you aren't like Masako at all." Muchiro said in a calm voice as glanced at Kyoshi's sword. On the hilt there were red veins that could visibly be seen pulsing with blood.

Kyoshi calmly grabbed the sheath of his sword as he put it forward.

"Then let's go swordsman to swordsman." Kyoshi said as he got into a quickdraw stance.

He spread his legs and gripped the hilt of his blade tightly as he looked towards Muchiro who seemed to mirror his movements.

He saw Muchiro take a sharp breath and mist seemed to converge around him.

Kyoshi grinned and simultaneously they initiated their attacks. Muchiro dashed forward as the mist seemed to follow him.

His movements were as fast as the wind itself.

Quickly, Muchiro was in front of Kyoshi with his sword gliding towards Kyoshi's neck.

Seeing this, Kyoshi grinned with a slightly widened eyes.

He leaned back unnaturally low, but still unsheathed his sword. Muchiro noticed and saw his attack would miss, so quickly he went with the forward momentum and front flipped over Kyoshi.

Kyoshi flipped backwards and spun around as he deflected and attack from Muchiro. They were now facing each other and Kyoshi prepared to bring his blade down on Muchiro who quickly blocked it.

"Mm, you're good." Kyoshi said with a smirk.

"But…"

Kyoshi swung his blade with more strength which threw Muchiro back before he dashed forward with his blade held over his head.

Immediately he slash downward towards Muchiro who quickly parried while stumbling back.

Kyoshi slashed again from the left which was also parried before Muchiro inhaled sharply and with a quick movement, he spun around.

Mist circled around him and Kyoshi quickly jumped back avoiding the slash from his blade.

He heard Muchiro exhale lowly as he held that calm look on his face. Even with that face, Kyoshi could still hear his heart beat racing.

"Alright." Kyoshi said.

He gripped his blade a bit tighter as the veins on his arms started bulging along with the veins on his legs. He dashed forward at blinding speeds.

Muchiro slightly widened his eyes at Kyoshi's speed which he had troubke following. Barely being able to see a blur.

He felt a sting of pain in his chest as he felt air stalling in his lungs from the impact. Kyoshi slammed the but of his hilt into Muchiro's chest to open his guard.

Quickly he slashed downward to split Muchiro in half, but Muchiro reflexively was able to bring his sword up to block the attack.

Kyoshi kicked him in the stomach which sent him sliding back and into a tree. He winced with his eyes slightly closed before ducking as Kyoshi's blade sliced through the tree as if it wasn't there.

Muchiro rolled under Kyoshi's legs and stood up quickly as he parried an attack from Kyoshi.

"Is this all? C'mon you're supposed to be a Hashira!!" Kyoshi said as he dashed forward.

He took a sharp breath as he held his blade over his left shoulder.

'Moon Breathing; Third Form: Full Orbit'

He spun around in a full circle as the air pressure from his blade was sent blasting outward. Trees were cleanly cut as they started falling around them.

Muchiro had a long cut coming across his left shoulder. As the trees fell, he dodged them while Kyoshi simply cut them up and kicked them away from him.

"Ohh, you seem to be pretty beat up. Wanna take a break?" Kyoshi taunted with a grin.

He felt the blood in his body pumping along with his heart.

He felt like he was on cloud 9 and didn't want to come down.

He dashed towards Muchiro and quickly sent out multiple slashes of pressurized air towards Muchiro. Quickly he ducked and dodged as best he could with his injuries, but he couldn't fight back.

Kyoshi put too much pressure on him and at this point he already understand Kyoshi was just toying with him. In his head his thoughts were in total turmoil.

The crazy pain from his shoulder which was cut so cleanly and so deep that if there wasn't blood gushing out you wouldn't notice it was there.

Keeping focus on the opponent while also dodging his attacks.

And also looking for a chance to counter attack.

He tried blocking and parrying the attacks from Kyoshi, but Kyoshi was strong and fast. The fact that Muchiro could even block was a miracle while he was in his current state.

Kyoshi slashed upwards which knocked Muchiro's blade upwards and opened his guard.

The world seemed to slow down immensely for Muchiro. He watched as Kyoshi's blade was moving towards his unguarded body.

His heartbeat sped up so much it sounded like a machine gun.

He could feel the blood flowing through his veins increase in speed and his body temperature increased drastically.

Red cloud-like marks started forming on his cheeks and forehead. He grit his teeth and his eyebrows furrowed as he brung his sword up and pushed Kyoshi's back.

Kyoshi was sent sliding back as Muchiro looked at him with a serious stare. Kyoshi stopped himself as he starred back at Muchiro with a grin.

"Mm, that's more like it." He muttered as he got ready for round 2.

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Memphis had an Ice Storm. I had no power. You can connect the dots on why I couldn't upload for a while.

Anyways, powers back and hopefully my school is shut down (forever) so I'll be updating regularly again.

Anyway, just because Muchiro had his DSM doesn't mean we're around the end of the ff, because we're not.

I estimate at least 30 or so more chapters. Who knows.

Also, is anyone else having a problem where you try to comment and click one of the words above your keyboard and it spaces the word out fir some reason?

Meh. Bye.

I almost forgot. We getting close to seeing some "development" in Kyoshi and Yui relationship kinda soon.

And if you forgot, Kyoshi will be having a Renkaku, Ukaku, and the Megalodon all summed up one Demon Blood Art.

I'll have to change how the Megalodon look tho.

If any of you Know about Hellsing Allucard then you'll understand what I mean when I describe it. Although it's look absolutely hideous and horrifying.

Perfect.