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[Y/N] P.O.V

I just sat down on the porch outside watching the rain droplets hit the ground while I just sulked like always since I was lonely these days.I never thought that I actually feel like this once in my life and soon after it started getting even more darker cause of the clouds.As I got up walking inside my home closing the shoji door behind me I went to the dining room sitting down and poured tea into my cup.

Unfortunately the rain never stopped at this point and I didn't have anything else to do since I didn't have any missions so far.Then there was a knock on the door making me confused and perk my head up at this also.The presence I was sensing was a human and someone that I never met before in my life.

I didn't feel like having anyone stay at my place these days so I stayed quiet not making any noises at all while the person knocked again.Like always whenever someone I never knew or met had came over to my place knocking on the door I wouldn't open it for them.I would only let the people I was fine with come inside my place.

The presence was still there and I was starting to get irritated by this so I didn't have a choice but to go see who it was.I got up and sighed while walking towards the door and slide it open revealing a woman in a yellow mixed with white hanfu dress all wet with some cuts on her face and arms.

She looked liked a mess and seemed that she was still bleeding with the cuts on her while she was breathing hard being wet.I just glared down at her and was about to close the door until she spoke and had worriedness in her eyes.

"No no no wait!please!"

This made me raise my brow looking at her and she started tearing up while the rain was pouring down on her."Please..you have to help me!" she begged while I sighed before rubbing my temple and closing my eyes at this.

Then when I opened my eyes I look at her before also speaking "Do I?" I shot back and she started crying and just kept begging me to let her stay for the night.I knew that she would keep begging me non stop so then I let her in as she sat down in front of me wearing the dry clothes I gave her and the bandages covering her injuries and cuts.

"Mind telling me what happened to you and why you need help?"

"Well you see..my parents decided to look for a man to become my fiance and I didn't like the idea of having one without knowing them all.When I first met him he was nice and sweet to me at first but then..I found out that he cheated on me twice"

This made me confused of why her fiance would cheat on her and I didn't care,but just wanted to know why and what had happened to make her run away bleeding and look like a mess.

"Well I apologize to hear that"

"It's fine..and then I decided to confront him before telling my parents about it.I asked him to meet me under a cherry blossom tree today in the morning and so he agreed and when he arrived he saw me and he was full of joy while I was heartbroken for what he had done.The moment he was in front of me I immediately confronted him and cried while he laughed which had angered me so I slapped him.The thing was as soon as I slapped him he had grabbed me by my collar and started choking me and soon pulled out a dagger trying to stab me with that,but just gave me a few cuts and so I ran away as it rained and came across your home"

"...I see"

There was something suspicious about this female that made me curious so then I poured tea both in her and my cup.Then as she picked it up and started drinking it I just looked at her from head to toe analyzing her looks without missing any detail at all.

Then I knew why I had a weird feel around her it was because it turns out she had been lying to me since the start of the beginning.I then got up and told her that I would be refilling the tea pot with an even tea to make her feel energized since she been through much already which was definitely a lie.

I then came back and started pouring the tea in her cup and mine again while smiling under my breath."I made it special and added a secret ingredient in it" I told her and she smiled while thanking me.I stared at her picking up the cup and saw her lips getting closer to the cups and was about to drink it until she moved it away and looked at me.

"Are you not going to drink?"

"Oh don't worry,I'll be alright"

She had smiled again and nodded before finally pressing her lips on the cup and drinking it for a couple of seconds before placing it down.'It should start kicking in later' I thought as I looked at her coughing over and over again before finally coughing out blood from her mouth.She covered her mouth but then couldn't breathe properly which made her fall to the floor laying on it.

She had fear in her eyes with tears in the corner of her eyes while she kept coughing and coughing "W-why..?" she spoke while I just glared at her with anger and disgust in my eyes.

"Why you ask? Well it's simple isn't it?"

"What are y- *coughs twice* you talking..about?"

"Did you think that I was that dumb? I knew that you were faking and lying the whole entire time"

This made her widened her eyes and soon enough she spoke again "H-how did yo-..you know?"I grinned at this pouring the poisoned tea I had made for her in her cup again while glaring daggers at her "Earlier when you were explaining you said that he choked you didn't he? I don't see any hand imprints on your neck and said that he was about to stab you but left cuts? I only saw one cut on your face and two on your right arm while the rest of them were purple bruises"

The female figure who was laying on the ground with blood spilling from her mouth to the floor had started getting up trying to sit up straight.The moment she did I sat in front of her and just held the cup in front of her smiling while my [E/C] eyes had seemed to be glowing and she was terrified.

"If you drink this then you'll die fast but with a small amount of pain" I told her and she was crying which made me scoff at this.I just pushed the tea to her while she hesitantly took it away from my hands pressing it to her lips and had finally drank it.As soon as she finished drinking it she fell to the floor with more blood spilling from her lips.

Then I felt a familiar presence of a demon and turns out it was Douma the upper two demon.He had slide my door open and then started walking towards me but soon stopped when he saw the female dead corpse on the ground which made him grinned and started fanning himself with his fan.

"Ara~Ara~ [Y/N]-chan! I didn't know that you were busy killing someone"

"Well I'm done..I suppose you could take her away"

Then he gladly lifted her up disappearing from my sight and I sighed as I got up and started cleaning the blood from the floor and just took a quick nap when I had finished.

I wasn't able to sleep so I decided to visit Sanemi and just see how he was doing and to also find out he trains the other slayers.Luckily it stopped raining and I started making my way towards his estate but I didn't want to arrive without him knowing so I called for my bird to inform the Wind Hashira that I was coming.

The moment I arrived I already heard loud yelling from the one and only hot headed Shinazugawa Sanemi who seemed to be training the slayers.I appeared behind him and just walked beside him startling him and the other slayers a little while he ignored me and continued yelling and scolding at them.

"Idiots! You call yourselves a demon slayer when you can't even swing properly!" he scold them.

I sighed at this making as he had told them to get in position and start wielding their blade that was in their hands.They had been doing what he was telling them to do and I saw that one of them were messing up a little so I decided to be nice and give them a hand so that they wouldn't be yelled at.

I appeared behind them and held their arm and their blade also while demonstrating how to attack and what to do."Hold it like this and make sure your footwork stance is perfect or else your opponent might beat you" and they nodded while I left to go help the other slayers that needed the help.

After helping the others out I just stood beside Sanemi again and this time he stared at me making me turn my head to face him as well.Then he just returned his gaze back at the slayers and so did I.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━After staying for a while I decided to go and visit Tanjiro to see how they were doing,but as I was about to leave my hand was held by Sanemi."Oi [Y/N].." he said while I just hummed back and he stayed silent before speaking "Is it alright if..you stay at my place..just for today" and I widened my eyes a little since I didn't expect him to ever say this to me these days but I nodded and gave him a head pat before finally leaving and making my way towards the butterfly estate.

The moment I had arrived someone had bumped into me which was Tanjiro and he fell on top of me while I layed on the floor with him hovering over me.For some reason he seemed to be nervous and red which made me confused but paid no attention to it,and soon he got up helping me also."[Y/N]-san please forgive me" he said and I gave him a head pat reassuring him that it fine.

I started walking away from him but ended being followed by him and soon after he walked alongside me outside.We both stayed quiet in silence before he broke the silence "[Y/N]-san,how are you these days?" instead of replying I stayed quiet and was about to answer his question but was cut off by Zenitsu crying and was chased by Inosuke.

"AAAAHHH TANJIRO [Y/N] HELP ME!!"

"COME BACK MONITSU"

This made me sweat drop while I stared at the three of the boys chasing each other around and soon after Inosuke had noticed me and was about to headbutt me,but instead I karate chopped his neck making him pass out."[Y/N]-chan! you saved me thank you thank you!" he said as he earned a head pat from me which made him also red and to pass out also.

Tanjiro has looked at me with a frowny face so I walked towards him and just hugged him making him blush also."[Y/N]-san are you going to be staying for the night?" he asked but I just shook my head and sensed his emotion and he also seemed a bit down when I had shook my head.Then I sighed making him perk his head up to face me while I looked up at the sky then down back at him "Maybe next time?" and he just smiled nodding.

Soon after we both walked inside the estate and sat down in front of one another.He just stared down at the table before looking at me again and this time he had my full attention."[Y/N]-san..I have a question" he asked and I hummed in response "Go on" I spoke.

"It's about the girl I told you about"

[I forgot to mention but Tanjiro is on the love interest lists I just couldn't find any good pic of him sorry]

"Then do tell"

"I really don't know when it's the right time to tell her,but..do you think she'll feel the same thing?"

I didn't how to respond to this question of his since I'm not much of an expert when it comes to love and relationship but I just went with what my gut had told me to say.

"I honestly don't know..but I'm sure they do"

"..Wait,really?"

"I suppose so,since you are smart,kind,and rather handsome"

When I mentioned 'Handsome' he seemed to smile at this while he also turned a bit red making me laugh under my breath.For some reason I just couldn't help but have an uncertain feeling about something horrible that would happen to me in the future.I tried not to think too much of it so that I don't overthink and become crazy.

I was cut off from my thought when I heard him call out my name but the moment I looked up his face was only a few inches away from my face.It turns out we were actually about to kiss until he backed up being nervous and sweat dropping."Sorry it's just you zoned out for a bit"

"No,it's quite fine"

"[Y/N]-san I know I asked you this already but.."

"But?"

"..Do you have any special feelings towards anyone?"

I didn't know how to reply to this one either which made me sighed.

"Like I said before Tanjiro..I don't know yet but I like to think that I do.."

He smiled and nodded as I gave him a head pat and told him that it was time for me to go now and so I left the butterfly estate making my way towards Sanemi estate once again.As I arrived I didn't see any of the slayers anymore so I just thought that they were probably done for the day.

As I made my way towards his door I had knocked on it waiting for someone to at least open it and let me in.After waiting for a while it did open revealing Sanemi..but he was half naked and had a towel covering his lower part while his scars that were on his body was showing which was his upper part.

I blinked twice before proceeding to walk away until he grabbed me from behind pulling me inside his home and closing the door.He just left me standing there all by myself so I just thought that he was probably going to change and put on some clothes.I had no idea of what to do so I just blinked before looking around the place.

There was a room and I thought that he was probably there so I was about to slide it open until a thought had came to me 'Wouldn't he get mad though..' I thought and proceeded to walk away from the room but of course curiosity got the best of me so I went back just slid the door open.

I saw sanemi sill half naked making me sweat drop at this and again I tried to walk away until he grabbed my arm pulling me inside with him.I just watched him going to get his clothes and about to change so I quickly turned around not wanting to see anything at all,and before I knew it he had called out to me.

"Oi,[Y/N] I'm done"

Then I turned around to see him fully clothed with his uniform on even though I was still able to see his chest full of scars.I just blinked before sighing and then he grabbed my hand dragging me outside all the way inside a restaurant.

The moment we got in I sat beside him while our meals were being served as we had waited patiently."Hey,how come your always having that emotionless look your face?" he suddenly spoke as the waitress had came back with our meals placing it down on the table.

"I always been like this since the beginning"

Then soon after I just grabbed my chopsticks and started to break my okonomiyaki into small pieces so that it would be easier for me to eat.I just chewed quietly and gulped before looking up to see Sanemi eating his Ohagi.As he ate I didn't really like ohagi since I prefered ichigo daifuku which is one of my favorite sweets to eat.I just pushed the bowl that was full of ohagi towards him making him look up at me.

"Are you not going to eat it?" he asked while I shook my head and proceeded to eat my meal with him staring at me still.Out of nowhere someone had slammed their hand on the table making me perk my head up in annoyance while Sanemi was just glaring at the person.

The moment I looked up from my meal the person was leaning in forward to me while I sighed and did nothing.Sanemi was actually pissed off so he grabbed the person's collar and threw them across the room which kinda seemed to amuse me a bit.Then after that of course we were kicked out for Sanemi's action even though I was alright with it.

It was already late dark at night so then we both started walking towards his estate in silence which was kinda awkward.He then had broke the silence speaking "Oi [Y/N]" he called out to me while I hummed and he then stopped in his tracks making me also stop behind him.

As he turned around to face me he started walking closer to me while I just blinked in confusion of what he was going to do at this point."[Y/N].." he said while I blinked before say 'yes' to him.Then he just grumbled 'nevermind' making me sigh at this and following him again.

When we arrived I had went to the spare room he had told me I was able to sleep in,but the thing was he had carried me over his shoulders making me hella confuse at this then before I knew it I was on his bed laying with him wrapping his arm around my waist.'Oh he just wanted to cuddle with me again like last time' I thought before going to sleep.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━The sun light ray that was shining down on my face had woken me up while Sanemi still had his arm around my waist while I just sighed at this."Shinazugawa..it's time to get up now" I spoke while he grumbled making me nudge him a little.

"Shinazugawa..please get up"

He never did which made me get an irk mark so then I came up with an idea of how to wake him up "Shinazugawa..the rest of the pillars are here" I spoke then both of his eye shot up open and he quickly sat up straight looking around."Where are they!? I don't see them!" he yelled while I got up and stretched.

"I know..it was a lie for you to wake up"

Then he huffed at this also getting up as the both of us had went outside to see the bright sun and flowers on the grass."Well I should be going now..thank you for letting me stay" as I was about to leave I was pulled in a hug from behind by him."Oi [Y/N],next time you better hug me back when were asleep" he told me while I turned around to face him.

"Sure" I spoke while giving him a peck on his cheek before finally making my way towards Tomioka estate."See you next time Sanemi!" I told him and finally disappeared from his sight leaving him there all red.

Tomioka and I haven't been seeing each other lately these days since he's been more rather busy these days so I decided to pay him a short visit.By the time I arrived I saw some other demon slayers by his home making me wonder and making me rather curious also.When I appeared behind the group of slayers I then spoke startling them all "What's going on?"

"Hishiro-sama!"

"Hi..please tell me what's going on.."

"Tomioka-sama is sparing with Iguro-sama!"

This made me widened my eyes a bit while I went to the training grounds to see Giyu and Obanai swords clash with one another.I sighed at this getting their attention which also made them stop sparing with one another."Oh,[Y/N]-san you're here" Giyu spoke while I nodded.

"Tch,whatever let's continue sparing" Obanai spoke and I actually had the energy to fight with one another so I asked if it was alright for me to spar with him and he agreed to it.

As Obanai and I got in our fighting stances he attacked first while I dodged them like how I would always dodge my opponents attacks.

He was moving like a slithering snake itself then suddenly had released several slashes in a winding pattern towards me and I knew that if I didn't act fast then I would be bleeding at this point with many pain.

"Breath of the stars Third Form:Nebula Lapse"

Using my flexibility I had started twisting and sword at the same time sending consecutives slashed towards his attacks and him.He was able to dodge them but not so easily though which led him to grunt and have a small cut on his cheek.

Then I noticed that he had leaped forward and performed a horizontal slash from all of the directions making me move around a lot in order to dodge them.

"Breath of the stars First Form:Shooting star"

I had pushed my foot off the ground and started to move at such alarming speed while my blade glowed and sparkles of bright light had appeared also.When I started to slash towards him he clashed his sword with mine making a 'clang' noise.

I found an opening where I could beat him easily so that's what I did "Breath of the stars Fourth Form:Midnight Illusions" I had moved at a fast speed and a blurring pace creating a after image of me which was an illusion to distract him from the real me and started to attack from all sides and while he wasn't paying attention to the real me I found the opportunity to beat him.

I hit him with the end of my blades hilt making him drop to the ground while he groaned and I sheathed my blade back to it's place."Sorry..did I hit you too hard?" I asked before putting my hand out for him to take it.

He didn't place his hand on mine for him to get up instead he just got up by himself and left the place making me sigh at this while many younger slayers had started coming to me."Wow! Hishiro-sama! that was cool!" "Hishiro-sama,please train me to be like you!!" "That was amazing!" as they all praised me I started to sweat drop at this.

Tomioka had noticed how uncomfortable I looked so he called for them to leave since training was over now leaving me and him only.He started walking up to me while I stood there in silence and he then spoke "[Y/N]..I know what happened to the people in your village" this made me widened my eyes.

"[Y/N]..why did you do it?"

"..They were the ones who made me want to do it though"

"What do you mean?"

"It's simple Tomioka..ever since my family died I was alone and then some of the people thought that I was responsible for murdering my own family.I wasn't the one who killed my family though it was a demon and as years had passed by people started spreading the rumors around of what I did which made me sick of them.As much as I tried to ignore their lies and the people telling me to go commit suicide I couldn't so I shut them up to make the lies stop"

He couldn't believe what he was hearing from me and I just sighed before walking away but the moment I walked away he grabbed my hand making me turn to face him."Then why don't you stop?" he asked while I stayed silent.

"I don't kill any humans anymore..I do it if I have to" I spoke before getting out of his grip and walking away from his estate towards Mitsuri estate now.

The moment I arrived I found her sitting down by the porch and eating some sakura mochis which didn't surprise me since everyone knew how much she loved to eat them.I walked up in front of her and when she looked up to see me she placed her mochis down on her box and jumped on me while hugging me tight also.

"[Y/N]-chan!!"

"Hi..Mitsuri-san.."

She smiled and fed me some of her mochis even though she ate the whole thing already which meant I ate only one,but it didn't bother me at all.Then I felt a presence behind me making me turn around to see Shinobu standing right there smiling.

Now I had two girls clinging onto both my arms which meant on my right side it was Shinobu and on my left it was Mitsuri.The two of them didn't want to let go at all as we all were walking down the place near a lake full of flowers in the flower.

"[Y/N]-san" Shinobu called out to me while I hummed.

"Is it alright if you come and stay at my place for the night?"

"Aww but I wanted [Y/N]-chan to stay at my place!!"

I didn't know who to choose but since I been staying at Shinobu's place a bit more than Mitsuri I decided to stay at Mitsuri place for the meantime and go to Shinobu's place for tomorrow.

"I'll stay at Mitsuri place for today and tomorrow I'll come and stay at your place Shinobu"

She nodded and told us that it was time for her to take her leave so then I bid her goodbye as she also bid the both of us goodbye also.

As Mitsuri and I walked inside her place and then to her bedroom since she wanted to sleep with me again like last time.I didn't mind sleeping with them but as long as they don't do anything that I find uncomfortable to deal with then I won't be sleeping with them.She sat down on her bed yawning while I just stood there quiet watching her "[Y/N]-chan,come sit down with me!" she beamed and so I did.

I sat down next to her but before I knew it she had pulled me closer to her and the next thing I knew she had pulled me down with her.Instead my face had started heating up a little since my face was close to her chest,but I paid no attention to it and sighed.

"Mitsuri?" I called out to her but didn't get a response which made me perk my head up to see that she was asleep already.

"Oh..goodnight then" Then I gave her a peck on her forehead before finally going to sleep now with the place being quiet while the moon was shining brightly.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━└➤ [Y/N] already knew that the female was sus from the beginning 

└➤ Douma actually came to be with [Y/N]

└➤ [Y/N] was close to finding out who Tanjiro likes

└➤ Sanemi was about to kiss [Y/N] but he didn't

└➤ Tomioka still wants to be friends with [Y/N]

└➤ Shinobu is a bit jealous that [Y/N] chose Mitsuri first