Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ What Has Changed ❯ Chapter 8: Blamed ( Chapter 8 )

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What Has Changed
Rating:
PG 13 (mostly for violence and Kori's anger issues)
Summary: When Kurama's attacked by a demon, it sends him flying back almost twenty years in the past (in his mind) and right into his true form: Yoko Kurama. Finding Kori, an old friend and partner, could help him, but harm her. How could she ever explain what has changed?
Note: The rest of the story will be told in Yoko's POV or Kori's POV. There will be occasional flashbacks which will most likely be in third person.

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Chapter 8: Blamed

Yoko's POV

I couldn't believe it. It wasn't possible- I couldn't have been drawn here because of what had happened... Could I?

"Kori, I-" I stopped. "Well, I...I...I..." GREAT, now I couldn't even speak. "Ummm.... I didn't... Well, I...." Was it my fault he was dead? Could it have possibly been Kori's? Was it an accident or was it an assaniation?

Kori started walking in a different direction. And I followed after her. "Kori, I-I'm sorry," I finally managed to say.

Kori stopped and whipped around. She stared at me for a few seconds and then I noticed, she was getting angry. "Why are you apologizing?" Did I mention the mood swings she had? The one time shes upset and then she gets angry. "You blamed yourself for his death back then, and now your doing it again." I stared at her.

"So.. It was my fault?" I asked.

I watched as Kori's face reverted for a second into a sadness, and then anger. She grabbed my shirt and yanked on it. "Don't you ever blame yourself!" she snapped. "It was never your fault! You couldn't have prevented it, no one could have! Don't you understand that? He was supposed to... He was supposed to... He was-"

Kori wrapped her arms around my neck and buried her face in my neck, crying slightly. "Kori... I-" What would you say to her?

We were both silent, as a matter of fact everything seemed silent. And I understood why she was angry. "Kori," I said, stroking her hair. She looked up slightly. "Did you blame yourself for my death?"

"Yes," Kori replied. "Every single day." What kind of an asshole did I turn out to be? Why couldn't I have come back and told her I was alive? "But I also blamed myself for Kuro's." Now this was a surprise, I held her arm's length away from me.

"But why?" I asked. "You weren't even there."

"No, I wasn't but you always have those 'what ifs'. I always wondered what if I had come with you. Would no one have died? Would I have died? Would you have died? Would all of us died? Would any of us had died?" Then she was silent for a few seconds. "Wait. How did you know I wasn't there?"

"...." How the hell did I know????????????

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To simply put it: Kuronue's death came rushing back at me full force and Kori was going to have to deal with me upset.

And the whole time I'm thinking: Great. Just fuckin' great. One of the first memories that have to come back and it has to be a death. Not only a death, but Kuro's death. GREAT. Really. What the hell did I ever do?

Kori, of course, was extremley quite. All I heard was her footsteps, breathing, and the faint sound of a heartbeat. And then I was thinking: I hate it when she's quiet. I can never tell what the hell she's thinking or planning to do. Can't she talk? Doesn't she know I worry about her? Damnit, talk!

I'm never going to be sane again. And if I kept thinking, I was probably going to say something out loud and stupid. Then I would have- something slapped my face and it stung quite alot.

Kori was standing infront of me, her arms crossed over her chest, glaring at me. I rubbed my cheek, "What the hell was that for?"

"You were mummbling like an idiot," Kori snapped. "'I'm never going to be sane again. And if I keep thinking, I'm probably going to say something out loud and stupid.' I didn't know if you were alright so I slapped you to make sure I got you out of your little trance."

I gave an inward groan. I had been talking and Kori of course had heard.

"Wow, you're face is as red as one of your roses, Yoko," she stated.

How the hell is it possible to love her?