[So different and yet so much the same, the games they went through. Kurama hates it more than a little. He scrubs a little more violently at his pot.]

I almost wish it had been hostages. No. We were shown unknown monsters stalking our loved ones, and told that if we were...successful... we would learn what they were and how to stop them.

[Kurama's short, sharp laugh is painfully bitter.] But the way to stop them is to become what I am now. Had my resolve held, I would have killed them all only to learn that what I had to do was die.

It is one of the things I have found it hardest to forgive Yotsuyu in the aftermath. Perhaps I never will.