When Demons Cry

Series Metadata

Listing Series

• We’ll Carry On by WickedWon

  Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime & Manga)  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  29 May 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Major Character Death
  • Akaza | Hakuji & Rengoku Senjurou
  • Kamado Tanjirou & Rengoku Senjurou
  • Akaza | Hakuji (Kimetsu no Yaiba)
  • Rengoku Senjurou
  • Rengoku Shinjurou
  • Kamado Tanjirou
  • Butterfly Estate Ensemble (Kimetsu no Yaiba)
  • Demon Slayer Corps Hashira | Pillars
  • Shinazugawa Sanemi
  • Kokushibou | Tsugikuni Michikatsu
  • Kidnapping
  • Canon-Typical Violence
  • Akaza | Hakuji Makes Bad Decisions (Kimetsu no Yaiba)
  • Akaza | Hakuji is Bad at Feelings (Kimetsu no Yaiba)
  • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
  • Rengoku Senjurou Needs a Hug
  • Demon Slayer Rengoku Senjurou
  • Teacher-Student Relationship
  • Blood and Injury
  • Caretaking
  • Protective Akaza | Hakuji (Kimetsu no Yaiba)
  • Everyone misses Kyoujurou
  • Teacher Akaza
  • Reluctant Student Senjurou
  • Akaza Has Regrets
  • Kittens banter and good times
  • Murder anger and Not Good times
  • The Senjuro training arc no one asked for (especially Senjuro)
  • Angst
  • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
  • Demon Akaza | Hakuji (Kimetsu no Yaiba)
  • Soft Akaza | Hakuji (Kimetsu no Yaiba)
  • Akaza | Hakuji Being an Asshole (Kimetsu no Yaiba)
  • Post-Kyojuro’s death
  • Mental Instability
  • Mental Anguish
  • Protective Demon Slayer Corps Hashira | Pillars
  • Good Friend Kamado Tanjirou
  • Found Family
  • Angst with a Bittersweet Ending
  • Emotional Roller Coaster
  • Aged-Up Character(s)
  • Aged-Up Rengoku Senjurou
  • Timeline fuckery but the events are largely canon-aligned

  Summary

  Over a year after Kyojuro’s death, Akaza cannot shake the feeling of having made a mistake by killing him. Curiosity draws him to the Rengoku Estate, where he discovers that Kyojuro has a younger brother. Naturally, he seizes the opportunity to have a different but surely equally skilled person to fight, and kidnaps Senjuro.

  Upon discovering that Senjuro is not, in fact, a skilled fighter, hope and boredom compel Akaza to mould the boy into a worthy opponent. Senjuro, hopeful for a chance (however slim it might be) to avenge his brother, agrees to stay.

  For the next two years, they form a bond based on tension, skill, growth, promises, and lies. In the end, their goals and futures will be forever changed by having known and cared for one-another.

  Series

  • Part 1 of When Demons Cry

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  148,444

  Chapters:

  30/30

  Comments:

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