Yua ran over the rooftops of Yoshiwara, her aura-sensing sweeping the neighbourhoods in search of the demon.
From the direction Tengen had gone, she heard a loud boom!
She wanted to turn towards it when her aura-sensing picked up the demonic aura!
And also Tanjiro and Nezuko's!
Amusend Daki looked at the red-haired slayer lying on the floor.
Tzz, this was so easy.
Who did this rat think he was?
As Daki ready her obi to lash and end this, she felt an air current.
Why is it suddenly all upside down? Daki wonders confused.
Finally, Tanjiro got his breathing under control and saw how a Yua in one strike beheaded the Upper Six!
Her katana made a crescent-shaped form, while the demonic body fell on his knees and the head flew through the air.
Impossible! Daki thought when her head hit the ground. I didn't even notice this bitch! This aura...she is one of the Hashira, no doubt!
Cold Yua stared down at the demoness before she walked up to the head, grasping it by its hair and holding it up to her face.
Daki shriecked offenden. "Aaah! How dare you, you little bitch?! My hair!"
"Shut your whore mouth," Yua said simply. "Where is the real Upper Six, you fake?"
Real Upper Six? The woman is it not? But she is so strong! Tanjiro gapped, carefully sitting up.
"What are you saying, I'M the Upper Six!" Daki shouted. "Don't you see the kanji in my eyes?!"
The Moon Hashira just scoffed. "Please. Beheading you was too easy. Now speak."
"Fuck you, you bitch!"
"Alright, then how about this?" Yua hummed and pointed her katana at one of Daki's eyes. "I will gouge your eyes out or how about I destroy this pretty face of yours? So vain that you are you would hate it!"
"Don't you dare, you bastard hoe!"
"Gouge eyes out it is!"
Before Yua could make true to her threat, Obi sashes came from the air, entering Daki's body and head.
Yua raised an eyebrow as the head returned thanks to the Obi sashes back to the body. She got into her preferred fighting stance.
"Tanjiro? How are you?" Yua asked her boyfriend, keeping an eye on Daki. Tanjiro was back on his feet and stood in his fighting stance beside her.
"Better, you gave me time to recover. Is she really not Upper Six?"
"That bitch is a lot but a full Upper Moon she is not."
"Stop it you little bitch!" Daki yelled, while her black hair turned white with lime-green tips. "I'm the Upper Six! I am, I am, I am!"
"A fucking crybaby brat that's what you are!"
"Aaaah! I will make you pay! I will not only eat and devour you, I will first torture you, so you will beg me to eat you!"
Numerous obi sashes attacked Yua and Tanjiro from all sides, encircling them.
Daki smirked.
This is your end you brats!
Then a vortex of burning flames and crescent moons cut all of Daki Obi's sashes.
"What?!" the female demon shrieked.
How was this possible?!
And why did the flames of the male brat hurt so much?
The couple had sensed Daki's attack.
Tanjiro raised his body temperature to continue the Hinokami Kagura Dance to execute Burning Bones, Summer Sun and Yua did Moon Breathing Fifth Form: Ghost of the Moon, Advantageous Swirl.
Since both attacks create a vortex, their combined power is tenfold.
The pathetic sashes had never had a chance.
Hurting the demoness called her sashes pack to strike them both with concreted sash strikes.
I will make my sashes both flexible and hard. So they can't just cut them!
Right at this moment Daki noted how her self-healing was slower!
To late.
Tanjiro impaled the incoming sashas with his katana to the ground, while Yua...she managed to grasp them!
The Moon Hashira pulled Daki by her sashes and raced up to the demon.
Shocked was an understatement of what Daki felt.
Never had a Hashira just throw themselves at her with such fury and skill!
"Moon Breathing!" Yua yelled. "Eighth Form: Moon Dragon's Tail!"
She performs with her katana a massive long-ranged curved slash that leaves dozens of crescent moon blades along its path.
Not only beheads she Daki a second time, but the little crescent moon blades cut off her limps also.
"Waaaargh!" Daki shrieks as her head lands in the dirt. "How dare you bitch to fucking behead me again?!"
"Okay, how often do I have to behead you till you are death, whore?" Yua asked annoyed back.
This was getting ridiculous!
Suddenly Yua heard how Tanjiro started to cough terribly and his heart stuttered. Fast she turned to her on the ground kneeling and his throat holding boyfriend.
"Tanjiro!"
Yua raced back to him and rubbed his back, pressing a hand against his fast-beating heart.
"Oh no, baby, listen to my voice! Try to stay calm. Deep, slow breaths. The Hinokami Kagura is doing a number on your body!"
Fuck, it was their training all over again. When Tanjiro tried to use Hinokami Kagura his body could barely handle two kata's.
This little time frame uses Daki to set herself back together. As she was fury incarnated tons of sashes sprung from her and demolished in a devasting strike the whole street!
Cries of people, and their screams are music in her ears.
Elegant she jumps to a rooftop, enjoying the calamity she brought here.
But the best...!
"The best is the moon bitch and her lover boy are buried under the debris." Daki giggles. "They're good as death."
Or so she thinks.
"Moon Breathing! Eleventh Form: Executing Moonlight Paradise!"
A loud boom is heard and debris flies into the air, where under Daki's disbelieving eyes a shimmering form in light purple cuts through all of them.
With Tanjiro on her back, Yua jumps on the rooftop, standing across from the Upper Moon.
Wobbly Tanjiro gets down from his girlfriend's back but manages to stabilize himself.
"You're like cockroaches!" the demoness hisses. "Just die already!"
"Funny, I wanted to say the same thing to you." Yua barks back.
That's when Daki gets beheaded again, courtesy of the incoming Tengen.
Stupified she catches her head in her arms and kneels on the rooftop.
Another Hashira?
And he also just beheaded her?!
Why was anything against her today?!
Like the little crybaby that she was, Daki cried bitter tears and called for her big brother.
Gyutaro would show them!
Seeing this creepy, ugly demon coming out of Daki was, well, kind of disgusting, but the Hashira sensed that finally, the real Upper Moon was joining the fray!
Together they attacked, only to discover to their shock how fast this Gyutaro was.
He even had the nerve to comfort his crying sister.
The most brutal battle Yua was ever in began.
She and Tengen tried their best to kill this mantis look alike, while Tanjiro, Zenitsu and Inosuke took care of Daki.
One thing was sure: only if they beheaded both demons this long nightmare would end.
Yua could only thank her aura-sensing that she didn't get poisoned by Gyutaro like Tengen and yet her Hashira collogue kept on fighting.
Finally, in what seemed like an eternity, thanks to Tengen's wife Hinatsuru with her poisoned kunai, Tengen created an opening for Yua to behead the male demon. Screaming she sunk her katana into his neck, cutting and cutting, only to fall on the ground.
The bastard had managed to flee, took all his power to go over his beheaded sister and drilled his sickles into Inosuke chest!
No!
And then also Tengen crumpled down!
If this was not bad enough Gyutaro started an attack which annihilated the whole of Yoshiwara, burying the demon slayer under the debris.
Only Tanjiro, thanks to Zenitsu, wasn't buried and had to endure Gyutaro and Daki's cruel taunts and hits.
He managed to trick Gyutaro, playing the coward and then ramming one of the poisoned kunai in his body.
With all the force Tanjiro had, with all the pain and anguish and hate and seeking revenge for his Yua and friends katana started to slice Gyutaro's neck up.
He felt how his body got incredibly warm, felt a new strange force in his body and a burning in his forehead.
At the same time, Daki wanted to help her brother but felt that a katana was cutting through her neck.
It was Yua!
She had lost her haori, her slayer uniform was ripped open, so her chest was to see and her strange birthmark seemed to glow.
On Tanjiro's forehead formed a red flame-like mark, while from Yua's silver crescent moon grew silver flames around.
In an elegant and devastating last effort, the son of the sun and the daughter of the moon won over the demon siblings.
The heads of the demons flow into the air far away, only to land together, facing each other in utter disbelief.
Time to celebrate or find their friends the couple didn't have, because Gyutaro's body a last attack appeared, knocking them out.
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Yua didn't know how long she was knocked out, but she felt first Tanjiro and then Nezuko's aura.
Good, they were fine!
"Yua!"
"Mmh-Mmh!"
Slowly she opened her eyes, finding herself in Tanjiro's arms, while Nezuko hugged her waist.
"Did we win?" Yua asked. "What about the others? Are they alright? I can feel their auras, so they aren't death."
Tanjiro and Nezuko hugged her in answer tight.
"God, Yua, I was so sure you, you..." Tanjiro trailed off, crying, not daring to voice what he had thought.
Nezuko was also crying big fat tears.
"Hey you two, I was just knocked out! The demon who gets me has to be still made." Yua joked to lift their spirits and petted them on their heads.
"Don't joke, I'm just so glad, alright?"
"Mmh-Mmh-Mmmhhhh!"
"Sure, my darlings."
Nezuko and Tanjiro helped Yua up, even though Tanjiro worried that his girlfriend was not fit enough for this. However, she reassured him. Her legs were fine; only her arms hurt.
Together they began to search for their friends.
Nezuko carried Tanjiro on her back, while Yua ran beside them.
Yep, she barely felt her arms, but the legs were alright.
A little consultation.
"Tanjiro! Yua!" Zenitsu cried for them and cried even more as his friends stopped before him. "I woke up, and my body hurts all over! Both my legs! Are they broken?! What's going on?! Who did this to me, huh?! It really hurts! I'm too scared to look!"
"Oh, Zenitsu I'm so glad you are fine." Tanjiro hiccuped.
Yua petted the blonde's head, while he screamed how he was anything but okay, but Inosuke was worse.
"Go." Yua said to Tanjiro and Nezuko. "Look after Inosuke, I will stay with Zenitsu."
With a nod, the Kamado sibling did just that, while Yua looked at Zenitsu's legs.
Yes, indeed the Thunder Breath User's legs were broken. Yua gritted her teeth to give Zenitsu first aid.
"Yua-Senpai, your arms!" Zenitsu pointed out worried.
"Don't worry, I can manage. Let me stabilize you, Agatsuma."
Thanks to her aura-sensing she felt how Inosuke got better (after he was burned? Erm what?) and how Tanjiro and Nezuko did the same to Tengen.
She needed to ask later what was that, but for now, after making sure Zenitsu was okay, she raced to Inosuke and picked him up.
Of course, the wild boy screamed bloody murder at her, he was the king of the mountain and didn't need to be coddled like a young, however Yua ignored him.
While she gave Inosuke first aid too, he hollered how hungry he was and Zenitsu just cried relieved.
A few minutes later Tanjiro and Nezuko joined them and they all did a big group hug, crying happily to be alive and well enough.
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