Unheard Apologies

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I'm sitting in a tree when I hear someone approaching...unfortunate. There's a man below me who's missing half an arm and wearing a half-and-half haori. I growl as I sniff the air, it's a familiar sent.

"Tanjiro! Tanjirooooo!" The man calls.

I climb down the tree. Water breathing: first form: water surface slash.

"Water breathing?" I think.

I dodge with ease. Water breathing: fourth form: striking tide! I grab his arm and twist it back unnaturally, he drops his katana.

"...Let me smell you..." Daitai Jiko whispers.

"Tanjiro, it's me! Giyuu Tomioka!" He tells me.

There's a popping sound as Giyuu's arm comes out of it's socket. He winces.

"Gi-yuu?" I repeat.

"Y-yes! Giyuu!" He says.

"I'm sorry." I think.

"Tanjiro, I'll use the fifth form! It won't hurt, I promise!" Giyuu says.

"...kill...me? Hah!" Daitai Jiko laughs.

"What?" Giyuu asks.

"Let me smell you." Daitai Jiko says again.

I feel my grip tighten around Giyuu's arm, I watch as his face contorts with pain.

"I'm sorry, Giyuu. I wish you could hear me." I think.

I hear Giyuu's arm brake in my hand.

"St-stop!" Giyuu says.

I put Giyuu's fingers in my mouth then I bite down, removing them.

"Agh!" Giyuu exclaims.

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." I think.

With Giyuu's blood dripping from my fangs I leave...

...I knock on Yakunitatta's door.

"Hello-oh! It's you, Tanjiro-san!" Yakunitatta says.

When I get inside I lie down and fall asleep...

249 words, this was two pages long

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