#minamino shiori

[sinningtree]

Imagine being Shiori.

Have a baby. Lose your husband. Fall ill.

Your son stops having friends over and your illness is terminal.

Somewhere in there you started dating again.

The night your son brings a friend to the hospital for the first time, you miraculously recover.

Your son spends a lot of time with his new friends and hobbies.

You get married, he brings a friend.

He sends you on your honeymoon.

Everything seems to be going great for the first time in a long time.

Meanwhile Kurama:

He's fine.

[spkyart]

I am so normal about them

[skrunksthatwunk]

kurama has access to forbidden strains + shiori wedding shenanigans

[yyh-behind-the-scenes]

Day 16 featuring the best mom in YYH

Kurama learned to tie his tie when he was 8 but he won’t ever admit to it.

[genkais-arcade]

[jilted-love]

YYH anime didn't mention Kurama's body becoming fully demon after getting his youki back. In the manga, he described it in more details. So that's why there are different interpretations of him (some people didn't read the manga). I don't get why the anime did this because this isn't something to censor is it?

I got two versions of manga translation to show his being inhuman or completely youkai is consistent in any versions of the manga. Why did the anime change this? It's a very important part of Kurama's characterization because he's not human, he's not Shuichi. Telling Gouki that he's merged with Shuichi is also anime only. Shuichi, the human son of Shiori, never existed outside of an alias/pseudonym. His guilt for this deception, of using her and initial plans to discard her, is what made him want to die in her place.

It shows a different dynamic between Kurama and Shiori i if everyone knows he is a demon from the beginning to the end of YYH. Like first of all, giving birth to a demon child is straight out of a horror story but Shiori's love subverted the horror of it and turned it into a familial bond between different species.

To Kurama, Shiori is simultaneously a child as well as his mother. She cannot be compared to a thousand year old ancient fox demon and she will only live within a fraction of his lifetime. But she gave him a family that felt real enough to Kurama even if Kurama wasn't being honest with her. Kurama being fully demon plays a big role to see how much impact Shiori had on the whole story. Without Shiori, Yusuke will have to kill Kurama who will be a nasty villain if he grew to hate humanity and didn't develop a conscience.

Edit because I can't shut up: By nasty villain, I mean can you imagine if Kurama's anger towards Toguro-ani was directed on all of humanity? Remember how the Toguros used to be human? Imagine if Kurama didn't have Shiori or Yusuke but met Sensui early instead. His smart old brain becoming a part of Sensui's plans. Shiori saved them all from the horrors just by taming a fox and proving humanity's worth to a demon old enough to judge human history.

[theghostnugget]

Kurama is so fascinating to me. He's 1000 years old, he's one of Demon world's most famous and feared thieves, and he turned his back on that to go to high school in the human world because he wants his Mommy to think he's a Good Boy.

[rouge-the-bat]

kurama always tries to keep his friends from using his demon name around others in his life, but most of his friends are... not the best at keeping their words in check, to say the least. and i cant help but imagine theyd defintely let a few "kurama"s slip around his mom. when asked by her, kurama just laughs and says its a silly nickname his friends gave him is all.

but shiori knows her son well by now, how hes always been a bit secretive and mischevious (especially in his younger years, when he didnt really open up, and new things seemed to show up in his room on a regular basis that she most certainly didnt get for him). to try to get to the bottom of as many things as she can, she needs to be observant to fit pieces together.

and so she listens. not trying to eavesdrop on her sons conversations, of course, but its hard not to overhear conversations thatre in the same room as you, you know? and its hard to stay far away, when she can finally see her dear shuichi, whos always been so distant with his peers, now laughing and joking around with close friends!

there are times they speak in hushed tones that she cant pick up, and as curious as she is, she wont pry or invade to listen. kids do need privacy, after all, and she wont push her sons boundaries.

on the occasion though... these hushed words take the form of her son whispering into his best friend's ear- the one that is around the most, hiei- and followed by what looks to be a blush forming on said friend's cheeks. a very curious devlopment, for sure.

shes noticed this happening some time after theyve started being much physically closer when they spend time with each other- quite a notable change, considering his little friend seemed uncomfortable, or maybe even replused by such closeness before. she still remembers when she first gave him a hug, and hiei stiffened up like she froze him solid. it hurt her heart to think what could have made the boy react like that to affection... it makes her happy to see hes opening up with her son now though.

sometimes she overhears their friends- yusuke in particular- teasing the two about dating. (she has her suspicions of the same, certainly, but figures shell let her son come to her about it when hes ready- if her assumptions are correct, that is) when hiei gets annoyed and wants their friends to leave, they playfully accuse him of "wanting alone time with his boyfriend," causing hiei to fluster and tell them to shut up. shes even spotted her dear shuichi blushing a few times at the insinuation of dating hiei- and shiori cant help but think how adorable those two are together!

then finally, one day yusuke and kuwabara join up for another round of teasing, starting to sing "kurama and hiei sitting in a tree!" and finally, shiori makes a connection hearing her son's "nickname" right beside his best friend's name- those are also the names of two mountains relatively close to each other! unaware that kurama is not actually a nickname of his, she figures she must have found the right conclusion- and she melts at how cute it is, starting to go by a nickname that matches his probably-boyfriend!

[lilypadpanda]

Shiori: Haha! Isn't it funny how serious and contemplative babies can look sometimes? Just look at Shuichi, I wonder what's going through that little head of his?

Toddler!Kurama:

[adalance]

I've been thinking about this for a hot minute. I LOVE Kurama, he is my favorite character in Yu Yu hakusho. But I do feel like at some point all of the lies he tell and what not should have unfolded. Shiori deserved to know the truth about him and what he did. That would have made for an awesome side arc I think.

Because when you really look at it, what Kurama did was fucked up. I love that man to bits but it was. He invaded her body, took the place of her baby, and used her for his own personal benefit. What made it worse, was that there was a time when Kurama looked down at her and thought he inferior, which led to him treating her like dirt (he said something about it when we first meet him. It's why he feels so guilty about her sickness).

I would be so interested to see how Shiori would react to finding out her baby boy that she raised is not the person she thought he was at all, that everything about him is a lie, and she does not know who is one bit. Their entire relationship is one big fat ass lie multiple of them in fact. How mean and nasty he was as a child was not just a child acting out, but a grown ass demon man who probably thought she wasn't worth more than the scum between his toes. Granted, I know he grew to genuinely love her and became a legit mama's boy and all but still.

How does one react to all of that? To being used in such a manner? To know that she housed and nourished someone with Kurama's past? The amount of anger, hurt, betrayal and so on would be unmitigated.

And on the flipside, how would kurama react to his house of cards crashing down? He would more than likely lose the most important in his life. To him, shiori IS his mother. He would die for her without thinking about it and almost did. She is what changed him to being a much better person than he used to be by just simply giving him unconditional love. That motherly loving gaze he's so used to getting from her would turn cold and very possibly filled with hatred.

(This would make a hell of a fic. I am tempted).

[yyh4ever]

Is kurama's stepfather rich?

Hard to tell. He's the president of a small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) where Shiori Minamino works part-time, and Kurama joins after high school. However, Togashi has never mentioned what kind of business he runs.

For example, Togashi family has a paper store in Shinjo, Yamagata. They aren't rich, but have led a good life. On the other hand, the family of his wife Naoko Takeuchi had a jewelry store. She'd already had a Porsche before becoming well-known as the author of Sailor Moon.

Kurama lives in a nice house, attends a good private high school, gave his mom a honeymoon trip to Europe... they seem to have an income of a middle, maybe upper middle class. Mr. Hatanaka looks like a nice and simple man, I don't think he's the rich type, going out there driving a Ferrari. The couple also wanted a small and intimate wedding ceremony, and only invited close relatives.

Mr. Hatanaka seems cooler in the anime version. I also like that in the manga he was very worried when Shiori was in the hospital.

BTW, I'm also interested in the biological father, Mr. Minamino. What did he do? Did Shiori receive any Widowed Parent's Allowance? How did he die? So many questions.....!!!!!

[sinningtree]

still thinking about that time my one friend could not fathom Kurama entering Shiori's body in the way he did, even with the visual reference. Flat out asked me what he actually did because it was too wild a thought. I had to explain that no, he did not leave himself as a baby on someone's doorstep.

[ask-kurama-and-kuronue]

Drawings done as gift exchanges for the YYH Revival discord!

[skrunksthatwunk]

kinda thinking about how the women who serve as maternal figures/raise kids in yyh are never quite ready for it. genkai's an arguable exception, but like.. atsuko had yusuke at 15, shizuru's basically in charge of kazuma full time in her early 20s/late teens (depending on version) with very very absent parents, and even shiori is given a kid she wasn't expecting, in the form of an old, old demon rather than like. a regular, blank slate ass human baby. and although shiori seems to do quite well with kurama, kurama can never be honest with shiori about who he is, or much of what he's seen. if he was, it'd probably make things far more complicated and overwhelming. atsuko, no matter how much she cares for yusuke, Could Not Have Been and thus wasn't ready to have him at 15. her attempts to make the most of that situation have had middling success at best. shizuru has also been placed into a parental role. we don't really know how long she's been raising kuwabara, but that's.. probably still parentification anyway. she shouldn't have to do that, and she shouldn't have to do that so young. and i think some of her coarseness with kuwa is out of frustration with her own inexperience + inadequacy + uncertainty, his not cooperating, and their parents for putting this on her in the first place. the ones who know the full extent of their situation grow desperate and it squeaks out in unpleasant ways, and the one who seems unbothered by it is the only one who has no idea that she's in way over her head. and i mean. ok. gonna preface this by saying keiko is NOT yusuke's mom in any sense of the word. but she does take care of him in a way atsuko couldn't manage to. she's often looking after him and cleaning up after his messes and stuff. she takes him on as a responsibility, and that is, in a way, a caretaker role. not to say that it SHOULD be her responsibility, but it's how she ends up being.

and when the stress of trying to make someone take care of themselves or be kind or good or Whatever goes awry, again, the violence and arguing and distance and ugliness of caring for someone reveals itself.

and i wonder about that. for a series dedicated to physical fighting as a form of communication, what does it say that this extends to the complicated, quietly desperate situations of so many of the women/girls it depicts, whom our more central characters were shaped and raised by?

hell, even hiei touches on this, because hina loved hiei, but there was no way she was prepared for him, obviously, nor for the pain of losing him. rui (whom i also see as a sort of caretaker figure to hiei, inasmuch as either of them were caretakers) literally throws him off a cliff because she couldn't face down the village elders, and out of some mixture of care for hina and, likely, fear for her own survival. and the guilt and pain of that killed hina and deeply wounded rui.

it's like motherhood, this thing that's so often treated as sacred and beautiful, is a kind of stitched up, painful, eggshell-walking thing that hurts parent and child and it's just. oughh

[sarayashikidays]

it's 2012, kuwabara kazuma gets a text from kurama that's just 'i lived', suddenly kurama is a now a single dad

thier name is Hiroshi

[thekingofthieves]

If you don't have tattoos, and had to get one, what would you get tattooed on you? Is getting tattooed a big deal to you? If you are tattooed, do you regret any?

Personally a tattoo wouldn't be a big deal for me at all, but considering the stigma around them in Japan, it'd be simpler to do without getting one for now. I already can't go to public onsens and beaches with Hiei due to the dragon's mark- unless he uses his jagan to keep nearby people from noticing it, which defeats the purpose of me taking him to such places to relax if he has to constantly be on alert and influencing the minds of those nearby. :(

Then again, since I can't bring Hiei to public places like that and I don't have any desire to go on my own, I suppose I could get a tattoo somewhere that's easy to cover up. My family is already aware of Hiei's "tattoo," so it's not another thing I'd have to hide from them, at least.

Actually... getting a tattoo on my Youko form is another possibility. There'd be no need to hide anything as it's not like the ink could transfer between my forms, and the Makai certainly has no issues with tattoos. I've always found it as a nice art form, though I had never gotten one before. I held no alliance that'd require one, nor had a particular attachment to any sort of symbolism. Some groups of demons use tattoos to mark their status amongst their ranks- the larger and more elaborate, the higher their placing in the hierarchy. I figured it'd be redundant to have anything like that when I led my own groups of thieves, though. Many could already recognize me simply from the shine of my silver hair, and instantly know what sort of trouble they were in.

If I were to get any tattoos though, it'd absolutely be something related to my loved ones. There'd be no way that I'd get a tattoo without having at least one to represent my relationship with Hiei. As for what exactly it would be... hm, perhaps something with our motifs, like my rose whip and his dragon in the shape of a heart~ ♡ Oh, a rose whip design that wraps around my arm akin to the dragon's mark would be fun too. I'd absolutely get one for my mother as well... I think sakura imagery would be rather fitting, though bittersweet, considering they represent not only rebirth, but the fleeting nature of human lives... Having something permanent upon my own body to remember her by for centuries to come would be lovely.

Though I had no interest before to get tattoos representing my alliances, I think now that I have such close companions, it'd be quite nice to have some representing my best friends. Hm, matching tattoos would be fun, though I'm unsure if my friends would be up for that idea. I doubt Kuwabara would want one since it could affect his ability to get a job once he's out of college. Yusuke on the other hand I don't think would care, but I have a feeling Keiko would have something else to say on the matter. 😅 I can't quite say for certain about the rest of my friends, but it doesn’t really matter if it's not a viable option for some of us already.

...Honestly, I never thought much about getting tattoos before, but after considering what I'd get if I were to get any... I must say I'm kind of tempted now. 😂 Just the idea of having art on my body to represent those I love forever... It makes me feel warm inside to think about. 😊 Perhaps I should give this some serious thought...