Demon Slayer Posts

Collective Chaos

The snow looked beautiful today.

The soft snowflakes coming down from the skies fluttering and falling from the dark clouds but there was still enough light peeking out of the silver clouds to allow her to see what was in the sky. Like little shiny diamonds shining in the moonlight and sparkling in the sky on the way down until they joined the ground where they joined the white blanket covering the earth that sparkled more than a thousand strands of studded silk.

Her eyes scanned the beauty before her shivering as the wind blew the cold winter air across her body and dusting her with the sparkling snowflakes. The cool crisp clean air was clean and good as she sighed. And then she hummed as a soft fabric was draped over her shoulders. Eyes blinking she looked on up at the most beautiful pair of blue eyes she'd ever seen. A concerned look the man gave her 

"You'll get cold," his soft voice said as he reached up to start wrapping the blanket around her front. "Or catch a cold. Either possibility makes me sad."

She rolled her eyes but smiled at the loving gesture. "You know that it won't really affect me right? That's not how that works." Despite it she held it in place and began walking again which he followed.

The moonlight shown off the snow a d reflected off the snow like mini sparkling diamonds. The sounds of snow crunching under their feet were the only sounds around them as they walked together back home in the dark night. One arm came to be slung around her shoulders half in a loving hug half in a protective embrace. This moment was perfect.

"....Do you think they're alright?" She hummed in question. "The triplets."

"Oh that again. They're fine. We left them alone before for a little while. Don't worry." She waved him off but he still frowned sadly. 

"I can't help it. Thinking of them being all alone without me makes me sad." Oh he was very attached to them wasn't he?

A hand patted his arm gently. "Don't worry about it. It's only been a few hours, and that festival wasn't that far away. If anything had happened then we would've noticed."

"Hmm. I guess you're right." 

"There you go. Besides they're still little bitty babies. How much trouble could three children get into in just a few hours?"

She shouldn't have asked that.

Because it wasn't long for them to get home and just when they got to the porch- A SHRIEK SOUNDED OUT! Not a shriek of terror. A frustrated little squeal of anger that a child have off when not getting their way. Oh no- Both looked at one another before quickly ascending the porch and reaching for the door. He pulled it back and the two could only stare in bewilderment at what was before them.

Snow was piled around in weird small clumps everywhere. What looked like weird little trinkets from the festival salesmen they kept in their stalls. A teddy bear randomly hanging somehow on the wall slowly fell off landing with a squeak sound. And in the middle of the mess and chaos was three little fuzzy demon children wrestling with a carved wooden log.

"GIMME IT!! I WANNA PUT ON THE SHELF!!"

"YOU GOT TO DECORATE THE LAST WALL!!"

"MINE!!"

Little growls, hisses, claws, and bared fangs accompanied the many shouts as they togged on the log carved into a bear this way and that cursing each other with childish insults and knocking things around in a noisy clatter. Until one of the little ones turned to look up at them and froze. The other two pulled again him until one after one they also looked up and all three froze looking up at their parents. The five of them continued to stare at each other for a long moment until one of the children broke out into a wide smile at them.

"Hi, Daddy!"

"What did you three do this time?"

"We decorated for you! SURPRISE!!"

...Another thing fell somewhere making a thud sound making him sigh again and slowly turned to her.

"You get to clean up this time."