a nice persepective onto Yomi's personality. Bravo.

YES SHINJU WROTE A NEW THING and it’s about Yomi and Kurama, OTP times twelve.

Ahem. Yes. Betrayal. Just good business. That icon is so perfect… no I can review and be coherent now. …But I want an annotated version again, because I don’t know what the larger picture here is. I mean, I know about the assassin and everything, but when is this that Yomi’s finding out for sure, and Kurama’s right there and stuff…? And is the actual assassin back, like a zombie or something?

Still, big picture aside, this thing is just… one hundred words of small-picture punch in the emotional gut. Perfect and absolutely lovely. And allow me to elaborate upon why [as if you could stop me].

“The assassin had died long ago; he had simply refused to acknowledge it.”
- Because of the way it absolves Yomi - not that he’d be overly burdened by the death, but it plays nicely into the maturity being an illusion, with “not my fault.” And way more than that, the way it sets up the denial thing; how much you can set up on a “you can’t see me if I can’t see you” sort of philosophy. Even, for example, an entire life.

And I adore Kurama interpreting the yell as anger, because - I mean, you would, in that position, it’s what makes sense, but/and especially because there’s something so very self-centered about it. Fury means Yomi might turn on him. Threat to be watched for and dealt with, physical and simple and so much about keeping himself safe, you know? Realizing it’s about inside-ouchies would mean worrying for Yomi instead of himself. [Kind of. Not that pain mightn’t mean Yomi’d act out.]

Well. The ending. All over and upside down, the loveliness takes me. Still needs him, so he has to hope that the assassination thing wasn’t Kurama, because then he’s either depending on someone who wanted him dead or depending on someone who went to pretty extravagant lengths to see to it that he’d grow up and not be leaning on people. Either way, not the most comfortable position to be in.

Aside from, you know… a friend/ally/whateverthehell trying to have you killed. Good business like that would tear you up inside for good and all.

And now I go to cross-post and giggle insanely over the love. Gah, Yomi is so wonderful. You have to respect someone who can [be in love with] be so invested in a guy who gave their death sentence. And the denial is so beautifully poignant.

Well, it's good, but the ending was too... Unconnected?

Wow. Amazing.

Very good story! It has deepth, even though it is short.