☆• Yashimi POV •☆

I stop at the foot of the mountain. Fear wasn't creeping up on me, but the screams definitely were. There were screams in here. Voices begging and crying.

"Fuck.." I whisper lowly. Something tug at my heart. Maybe it really is fear, I don't know. After a few minutes, I finally decided.

"Ughh, fine. Come on, Tsukori. They need saving." I sprint towards the screams.

The screams were faint, but with enough concentration, I could hear it and locate them to where it was.

I stopped when I saw an opening where the moonlight had lit. "Now.. Where are you, guys." I say, looking around. I sense a different presence nearby.

"A demon! Over there." I say lowly, running towards the direction in front of me. Jumping quietly from one tree to another.

"Rui! Jui! Where are you, guys!" A voice says. I looked behind me and realized that I had passed the demon a couple of feet away.

The demon looks young, child-like young. His skin and hair are the color white and purity. His white hair had covered his eyes, but not fully. He has red-colored eyes, the white part of his eyes is blue, and his eyelashes are a light turquoise.

His kimono is white with cob web designs. His hair is like spider legs, pointy, and kind of long.

"There you are." I whisper. I unsheath my sword and jump directly from the tree to him, aiming his neck with my nichirin blade.

Suddenly, he disappears in front of me. "What the!?" I land on the hard grassy ground. I take my stance, sword in front of me, looking around, trying to spot his presence.

"Behind me!" I jump far away from where I stand. A thread of the web catches my gaze, and it snaps the tree behind me into big chunks. "His threads are strong and thick enough to cut a damn TREE!?!" I yell in my mind angrily.

Anger boils in my veins as I land again, turn around, and finally see him. He's so smiley and happy, just like a child should be.

He doesn't look like a simple demon just roaming around. His presence is different from the demons I've encountered.

"Ara ara~ Why hello there, human." He happily smiles. "I see you were about to slice my neck off. Apologies for the thread, I wasn't sure what to feel about you." He bows, then stands straight, clasping both of his hands.

He had a genuine smile and a happy yet shy face. "Oh, no, see. You were sure what to feel about me. That's why you were planning to slash me with your thread." My eyebrows furrow in anger.

I sprint towards him again, trying to slice his neck off. But amazingly, he dodges my attacks. Is he that lower 5 Tsukori was talking about?..!

He throws his threads at me, and I jump away, but not before one of his threads manages to cut my forearm, ripping my haori and making blood shortly gush out.

"Ah!" I tightly grip on my forearm. It seems that the cut is not too deep. It felt like a knife had done this. His threads are so sharp, how?

They may look thin but are very dangerous. "Aren't my webs sharp, hm?" He admires that threads he has on his fingers, "You know, thanks to my older brother triplet, Rui, he gave me this power. He's a lower 5."

So, Rui is the lower 5. Then why is he so strong?

"I wasn't used all of this powerful stuff. Until Jui, my other older brother triplet, trained me, and now I'm pretty good at this." He smiles as he lifts his hand in the air with threads connecting onto his fingers, showing me his webs.

"Now that I've told you about me. Tell me about yourself." He says, looking directly at me, then quickly adds, "Oh, and my name is Siu!" He smiles.

"Sorry, Siu, but I don't tell strangers, most especially demons, about myself. So, hard pass." I swing my sword his neck, and he dodges.

I swing my sword again and yet he still manages to dodge them. "Why do you have so much hatred towards me? We only just met, y'know?" He innocently says and no words left my mouth but the sound of sword by swung around fills the air.

He pushes himself away and lands gracefully on a branch. "What if.. hmm.. what can I do to make you our sister?" He points a finger at me.

I quickly dodge the web and it lands on the ground. He jumps away again, on another tree, still throwing webs at me.

I let out a low breath and run to him. I jump on a tree branch and jump towards him as he jumps away from me, both of us carefully jumping from one branch to another.

"Still not talking?" He ask. "That's enough. I don't have time for this. Y'know! You are just absolutely wasting my time!" My voice mixes with annoyance.

I unsheath my sword and jump fastly at him, landing on the branch behind him. I look behind me, meeting his widen eyes as I put my sword back.

Red stains his kimono, gushing out from somewhere on his body. Did I manage to slice him? Maybe. I am known to be very fast and smooth, like a calm river.

☆• Siu POV •☆

Oh, wow, how strong she is. I really wanna make her a part of our family! But I don't think she likes me. Maybe if Jui and Rui hadn't left me behind, i would've got her turned into a demon by now.

Her sassy attitude, her strong compassion, and her confidence are something I want. Something we'd want in our family. We just have to turn her into a demon.

!!~~Extra nonsense. Start~~!!
(^v^ ) <- Siu's face while thinking about turning Yashimi into a demon.

( ò-ó) <- Yashimi's face when she saw Sui's lil smile. Also planning how to kill Siu.
!!~~Extra nonsense. End~~!!

I feel something gush out. And I look down at my kimono. My eyes widen at the different blood red color, and I look back at her.

My pupils can't stop shaking from fear. I didn't have time to connect my head with my threads. Shock had stun me so much that I didn't even think.

She had sliced me.. me..?

She had sliced.. me?

What about Jui? What about Rui?

Our.. last talk. Our last smile. Our last argument..

Images of Jui, Rui, and I laughing flash in my mind. Jui and I talked while Rui stared at his threads, probably thinking about a way to make it stronger.

We've always wanted a family. A family bond. With parents and siblings. That's what we three wanted the most. "That night.. Oh, wait.. right."

♤Past of Siu♤

"I remember now."

I have a mother and a father, and they love me so much.

Had, loved, us.

The first thing I remembered when I was fully able to see was Jui and Rui. Not our parents. Our mother and father were busy, so they weren't really around.

I guess that gave Rui and Jui a feeling that they had to protect and take care of me most of the time. Most especially, Jui. He was the oldest.

And we were born as triplets.

But I looked almost nothing like Jui or Rui. Our faces were the same, but something in my physical appearance was different.

Even I'm gonna die different from them, and Jui and Rui will probably die together.

I didn't always feel like I was their younger triplet. It felt like they were a duo, and I was just on side, waiting to be recognized.

But still, Rui and Jui did notice me and always tried to put me in the spotlight.

Whenever our parents would be around. They were playful and funny and treated us with love equally. But dad loved Jui, and mom loved Rui. So that leaves me with no one.

Three of us had weak bodies. We were born fragile. That's why most of our memories are of our room and staying in bed.

For Jui, breathing was hard. He had the weakest body among us three.

For Rui, walking and running were painful to him. Rui's body wasn't as weak as Jui's.

For me, it was eating and talking. That's why I'm known as the quiet younger triplet.

But to my parents, all that didn't matter as long as we were alive and, well, more healthy than the average unhealthy, sick person.

Though we were weak and could barely move, except me, we found comfort in each other's presence.

That night... Muzan-sama visited us. He said, "it would be such a shame to see you three die." And he offered us a small amount of his blood, and we accepted it, promising us that we wouldn't be as weak as before.

Jui refused for me to turn into a demon. I don't know why. He never told anyone or at least didn't tell me.

The next morning, our parents were disappointed and angry. We had turned into a demon. They hated that we couldn't go under the sun anymore, that we kept consuming and needing human flesh.

So, one night, while we were asleep. Our dad came into our room alive and came out dead. Jui had killed him on impulse because dad was planning to kill us. His triplets.

We were outside. Hanging our feet on the porch. The night was quiet, and nothing but the gasp of our mom was heard.

"I'm.. sorry.. Jui, Rui, and.. Siu." She muttered. We turned to her, seeing her body move an inch.

Barely an inch. On the brink of death.

"Okā-san said something..!" My voice sounded surprised, my words quickening. That time, I still hadn't accepted the fact that Jui had killed our parents. I didn't want to believe it.

"I.. failed to give you three.. a healthy, better body." She breathed out. "Forgive.. me.." We realized that mom had died after finishing that sentence. She had saved her every last breath to apologize.

When it was us, that should've apologized.

"Okā-san?" I called to her, and when she didn't respond, that's when we three looked at each other. We had realized our mistake. Our family. We had broken it. Jui had.. broken it to protect us.

We were histerical. I was histerical because we realized that we had killed the only family bond that we had. Our family. We destroyed it.

Lord Muzan visited us that night.

He encouraged us. He encouraged us to eat and kill more people. The more we eat, the stronger and more powerful we become. And then suddenly, we couldn't remember our memories before being a demon.

But we promised that we would find our memories. Together as triplets.

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"Siu!!?" Jui screamed at me. I didn't mean to kill all of the demon hunters. I was scared back then. I thought that they were gonna kill me. "Why are you so useless!?" He fisted his hands, shaking with anger.

His glance, his gaze were so filled with anger that I'd thought he would slice my neck off.

But if he wanted to hit me, he would've done so, but his love for me was always stronger than hate or anger.

"This is why you are unworthy to be our younger brother!" He fumed at me.

His angry eyebrows and clenched teeth softened when Rui's gentle hand placed itself on his shoulder. "Calm down, Jui." He softly said, glancing at Jui with his calm expression. Jui turned to Rui, his expression also softened.

Rui was always the calm and quiet triplet, and Jui was always the angry and mischievous triplet. Whereas I was the shy and "lacking-of-confidence," as per Jui's words, triplet.

Jui never wanted me to become a demon. He only wanted Rui and him to be a demon. I don't know if he really hates me, though. I don't know why he wants me to be away, but I want to be by their side all the time.

"Don't mind, Jui, Siu." He turned to me. "It's okay, Jui. At least they're dead now." Rui said. "But we need them as puppets! How can we kill those.. those STUPID DEMON SLAYERS!" Jui threaded his webs and cut down a tree.

"It's alright. We'll find more. Siu, go and search for more. And this time, don't kill them.?" Rui looked at me. "Yes, Rui.." I lowly said.

"Come on, Jui." Rui held his hand."We'll go to okā-san, then we'll find more demon slayers for you to control." Rui smiled calmly. "We'll get going now, Siu. We'll be deeper at southeast." I nodded, and they disappeared not before Jui gave me an angred but reluctant expression.

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My head rushed to the ground, and my face looked at her, and she looked back at me.

Did she feel bad for me? What expression is she holding? I can't seem to tell. She still has her mask. Her half-white and half-black kitsune mask. Is there a reason why she's wearing it?

Oh, I feel tears rolling down my cheek. I never thought I'd meet death in this way. I really wanted to die together with Rui and Jui. Now I can't seem to find them at all. Where are they? Did they leave me? I don't belong with them, do I? That's why they left..

"Rui.. Jui.." I whisper, my voice trembling. "Where are you, nii-san? I'm sorry for being weak. I'm sorry I didn't meet your expectations.."

"I'm sorry.. okā-san. I'm sorry.. otō-san We're not going to the same place.. Are we?" I close my eyes in defeat. My tears form in my eyes and roll down my cheeks even more smoothly.

I was always scared back then, but now. I'm not. I deserve death without seeing my brothers. Rui. Jui.

"We're here for you, Siu." Okā-san's voice called. I open my eyes again. "O.. okā-san!" My voice stutters in shock. "Otō-san!"

They were in front of me. Their faces, I can see it so clear. I feel something on my flesh and look down at my hands.

I'm human. Again? Something wraps around my body, making a warm presence around us.

"We've been waiting for you, Siu." Otō-san says, smiling warmly at me. I hug them back, hold my tears. "Let's wait for your older brothers. They'll be here soon."

"Jui and Rui."