Chapter 3 - Severance or Acceptance

                                    

                                          
                                                                                   Tanjiro's P.O.V.
                          
as i sat in the box, i thought of the night before. how tomioka's back muscles had looked... damn he's sexy. my thoughts began to run wild, but i stopped myself. it wouldn't do me any good to come out of this box having a boner. i sighed. i wanted to eat raw meat. the old lady hadn't given me any raw meat. i wanted to eat humans. i had never gone this long without eating humans. i wondered where we were going. was it their headquarters? had they said where they were going? if they had, i forgot. damn it. i smelled akaza on our trail again. luckily none of the hashiras seemed to have a sense of smell like mine.
                          
i decided to sleep. what else was there to do? However, just as i was about to doze off, the hashiras started speaking to each other. shinobu said "so, what do you think master will make of this demon?". sanemi replied with: "i hope he'll tell us to kill it. but he's too kind. really, its more likely hell tell us to do something with it, like keep it imprisoned to see if it'll tell us anything about muzan or his motives, locations, or even what its relationship to muzan is." "as if i'd do that". i quietly grumbled to myself, but then i took it back. if tomioka asked me with any type of face...i know that my resolve would crumble and i'd have no choice but to tell him anything he asked. damn it.
                          
"Oh look, we're here! and it seems master got my letter, everyone's here as well!" Shinobu exclaimed. I was confused. were were me? Who was 'master'? and who was 'everyone'? i felt the box being gently set down. a soft and calming voice that somehow infuriated me said "is that the demon?" "Yes, master." tomioka said, but he sounded like he was on ground level. i sniffed. there were nine people, kneeling on the ground. one of them had a snake. there was a house. the man with the calm and soft voice was in there, sitting down with two other female humans, one standing on the left side of him, the other standing on the right. "could you open it, shinobu? let the demon come out." 
                          
"Yes, master." She replied. So that was the man they called master. were they really just gonna let me out? there were thumps on dirt as shinobu got up. The lock rattled and clicked as she unhinged it. However, as soon as she opened the door, she snapped on the iron band around my wrist. of course they weren't just gonna let me out. I was about to go out, and then I remembered that I wasn't supposed to go out into the sunlight. 
                          
I hissed. "Master, I hate to interrupt your flamboyant plan, but the demon won't come out into the sunlight." "Ah yes, of course, silly me. Could you bring it inside? Right in front of me, yes." The guy that said flamboyant picked up my box, not bothering to be careful like tomioka, and placed me in front of the man, in the house. I could now see the man had smooth, straight hair that reached the bottom of his neck. He had white eyes that told me he was blind, but the top half of his face was currupted by a light pink substance. A disease?
                          
"Out of the box, demon! Flamboyantly!" The flamboyant guy said, I could now see he had white hair that was wrapped in a light gray cloth. Along with that, he had a silver headband decorated with three large diamonds, and a string of diamonds hanging down the left and right side of the headband.  He wore black gloves with a golden band around both, and a golden armband on his biceps. He wore his uniform with no sleeves. I also noticed that he had two swords crossed on his back. 
                          
Interesting enough, he had a weird mark on his left eye. It was red and kind of resembles a drawing of the sun. He also had red eyes, though I know mine are much more striking and beautiful- you could even say 'flamboyant'.  I Crawled out of the basket as well as I could and stood up. I plastered a scowl onto my face. "What is your name, demon? Your full name, if you have one." I wondered if I should say my name, then realized it wouldn't really do anything. "Tanjiro Kamado." I said, no emotions to be detected in my voice. "Hm. And what is your relationship with the demon muzan kibitsuji?"