生まれ変わり~ Reincarnation

Chapter 1

It was cold, I was freezing to the bone. This is why I hated winter, it seems my body couldn't handle such freezing temperatures. I had thought this for a while as I laid there in what I was assuming was snow. I couldn't see nor hear anything. "Nii-san!" someone yelled, it sounded like Tanjiro. I needed to see him. "Nii-san!!!"

I steered awake, Tanjiro had a terrified face. 
"Tanjiro! You alive! You're okay!" I said, hugging him as tightly as I could. I didn't even think about him during the attack. 
"Nii-san, what happened!?" Tanjiro said, still in a state of panic.
"Demons... from all over... started to attack... murdered everyone..." I said slowly, remember how they were taken from me alive. I looked over at Rokuta and Nezuko, their bodies were still in tact. I ran over to her, remembering she was turned into a demon in the hands of Muzan. 
"There's no time to explain! Nezuko's still alive, you need to carry her Tanjiro. I broke my leg even more and it seems some ribs as well. We need to hurry."
Tanjiro nodded as he ran over here, grabbed Nezuko and put her on his back. I grabbed Tanjiro's hand seeming I'm the fastest of them. We needed to get her to the village and extract Muzan's blood from her, it seems she still isn't fully human. Then I heard some growling. I turned around to see Nezuko growling. Before she could dig her claws into Tanjiro's shoulders, I tackled her, falling from the pathway to the ground.
"Nii-san!" Tanjiro yelled, sliding down the dirt.
I looked around to find Nezuko standing in the snow. Tanjiro tried to run to her but I grabbed his hand and pulled him behind me. 
"It's not the Nezuko we know now, she's a demon. Turned by the man who attacked us."
She lunged at me, I grabbed Tanjiro's axe and put it between her lips. 'She's getting stronger by the second, I can feel it. She's also growing, she's the size of an adult now.' I got pushed to the ground by Nezuko as Tanjiro stared in horror.
"Hang in there Nezuko!" I yelled, crying as I thought of losing her because of her demon urges, "Hang in there! I know your still in there! Please! Come back to us!"
What I didn't really expect but was hoping was her grip losing on my shoulders, I looked at her, she was crying. Some of her tears fell on my face.

"Nii...san..." she said slowly as she cried. 
I smelled someone else here, someone with the smell of water and dirt. I looked up behind Nezuko to see a man in the air, with sword in hand, ready to swing at her. 
"Nii-san!" Tanjiro yelled. Nezuko growled at the man, noticing him too. I grabbed Nezuko's neck gently, pushing her to the side. Once the man reached us, his sword cut off a little bit of my hair. Nezuko and I rolled until we hit a tree. Tanjiro running towards us, standing before the laying figures of me and Nezuko, protecting us from the unknown man. Nezuko shrunk into her normal size. 
"Why did you protect it?" said the unknown man.
"Younger...She's our younger sister!" Tanjiro yelled at the man as I sat up, holding Nezuko so she won't go anywhere.
"You call that thing your sister?" the man questioned.
Next thing I knew, the man disappeared, he was fast. I saw him in slow motion. With Tanjiro's axe still in my other hand, I slashed at the man before he could come closer, resulting in him jumping back. I held Nezuko tightly with both arms. Making sure he won't get to her. The man charged at me, kicked me back, and ending up with Nezuko on the other side of Tanjiro's point of view. I got up to run at him but he said, "Don't move."
I halted, still keeping my guard up.
"My job is to slay demons, so of course, I'm doing to decapitate your sister."
"Please wait a moment!" Tanjiro said, trying to help Nezuko, "My sister hasn't killed anyone! Our house was filled with other demons scents! But not Nezuko's! Whatever ordered those other demons to come must of turned her into a demon! Nezuko is different! I don't know why she's acting the way she is." I nodded in agreement.
"It's simple, she has open wounds, meaning an oni's blood seeped into her wounds, turning her into a demon." he said. That wasn't what happened though... "This is how man-eating demons multiply." He added.
"Nezuko hasn't eaten any people!"
"You say that as she tried to eat your older brother."
"That's wrong, you can't know that in my case! I'll help her, I'll find some cure!"
"There is no cure. No way to turn them back into humans."
"I'll find a way! I'll search the entire globe for one! So please, don't kill her!"
The man obviously heard enough as he stabbed Nezuko in the shoulder with his katana. Nezuko screamed in agony, the same one I heard last night when Muzan injected her with his blood. 
Tanjiro bowed on his knees as he felt helpless to do nothing, I looked at him with guilt. 
"Tanjiro, there's no use in begging. Only way is to fight him. So get up." I said finally.
Tanjiro nodded, and almost immediately, he hurdled a rock at the man. I swiftly dodged as Tanjiro took the axe from my hands. He hurdled another rock at him, the man blocking it with his katana. That's when Tanjiro attack, acted as the axe was in his hands by putting his hands behind his back. The man held the hilt of his katana and slammed it on Tanjiro's back, making Tanjiro pass out almost immediately. He looked around, he didn't see the axe or me around. I appeared by his side, the axe's blade at his neck, shadow and my bangs loomed over my eyes. Nezuko kept on looking at Tanjiro surprised. The man looked at me surprised. 
"When did you get here?" He asked me.
"The moment Tanjiro charged at you. Now let go of my sister." my guard was still up. He swung his sword in attempt to remove the axe from the shadows of his neck. I dodged right as Nezuko jumped up, kicking the man away. He tried to go back to Nezuko before she could reach Tanjiro but halted. Nezuko ran in front of Tanjiro, arms in front of his unconscious body, protecting him from the man. This shocked the man greatly, it was written all over his face. Nezuko tried to charge at the man, but was stopped by me pulling her kimono, keeping her close to me.