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A Story of Death Foretold

Summary:

"They thought it was a simple cold. They assumed he'd recover in a couple days, but it only got worse. The doctors and nurses tried to help, but it was looking grim."

What if Yukio died and was magically replaced with Zeref as Rin's brother?

Short "what if" originally written for a challenge on the amino app

Notes:

For this amino challenge I had to kill an anime character off and replace them with a character from a different anime. I choose to kill off someone from Blue Exorcist and replace them with someone from Fairy Tail.

At first I thought of killing Satan but as much as I dislike him, he is essential to the plot. No Satan means Rin would never be born, and if I had him somehow born with a different father he wouldn't be the half-demon we know and love. He also wouldn't become an exorcist or meet any of the exwires. Completely detailing the plot that I love.

Getting rid of Yukio however would keep things at the beginning mostly the same. It would only really change things later and even then I feel like it wouldn't be too drastic. It would probably be an improvement in some ways because Rin would have more support from his brother (who is now Zeref.) I don't actually dislike Yukio, but I do dislike some of his actions and this challenge made me wonder what it would be like for Rin to have a different brother.

I wouldn't usually kill off anyone but I had to for the challenge. This one is very short and I'm not really satisfied with it but I wanted to post it anyway.

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

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Rin was outside in winter building a snowman with Yukio. Father Fujimoto was watching them from a bench. All of sudden Yukio coughed, a second later he coughed again. Fujimoto ran up to him and placed a comforting hand on his shoulder. Yukio continued to cough as Fujimoto led them back inside. Rin looked at him with worry. The coughing stopped shortly after.

Fujimoto tucked Yukio into bed and went to get some medicine. He put it on a spoon and held it out for Yukio.

Yukio looked at the spoon in disgust. He knew how bad it would taste, but it needed to be done. He prepared himself and swallowed it as fast as he could. He let out a sigh of relief.

Fujimoto laughed. "I know how gross that stuff can be, last time I tried giving some to Rin I had to chase him all over the house. Even though he was sick he still had enough energy to outrun me for a while."

They thought it was a simple cold. They assumed he'd recover in a couple days, but it only got worse. Fujimoto took him to the hospital, and found out just how bad it really was. The doctors and nurses tried to help, but it was looking grim. Fujimoto and Rin visited Yukio in the hospital everyday. Rin would tell him stories and jokes. Rin was very worried but he tried not to show it, he hated to see Yukio sad so he tried to cheer him up. It actually worked a few times.

Fujimoto was eating breakfast with Rin when his phone started ringing. He recognized the hospital's number. He picked his phone up with shaking hands. He answered it and heard a female voice "I'm sorry, your son is dead." A wave of dread washed over him, and tears streamed down his cheeks. Rin looked up from his plate of food "Dad? Dad what's wrong!?"

Fujimoto wiped his tears with his sleeve. He wanted to be strong, for Rin. He told himself he couldn't break down yet. "Yukio h-he's gone."

Rin's eyes went wide. "No, no that's not true! He can't be! I talked to him yesterday! He even laughed at my joke! He can't just be gone!" Rin's eyes welled up with tears.

Fujimoto got up and wrapped his arms around Rin. "it's not true." Rin said again much quieter this time. He clenched the back of Fujimoto's shirt, as his tears soaked the shoulder. "He, can't be gone." Rin sobbed.

Meanwhile in another world...

"I'm sorry Natsu. I should have been there to protect you... I won't fail you again, I'm going to bring you back." Zeref said as he began working on a way to bring his brother back. All of a sudden a bright light surrounded him and he vanished.

Zeref opened his eyes and looked around. "Where am I?" He looked down and realized that his clothes had somehow changed. He started walking, eventually he reached a monastery. He felt compelled to go inside, but something held him back. He played with the locket around his neck, and then opened it. His eyes went wide. "What's going on, who is that and why isn't Nats-" Huh, who was he going to say? That's weird why did he think someone else should be there. He smiled affectionately at the picture. How could he ever forget his big brother Rin? He walked into the monastery.

Notes:

If anyone is confused about the story. Zeref's memories were replaced, and everyone that's ever met or heard of Yukio has also had their memories changed. Zeref's locket was also changed to a picture of him and Rin instead of him and Natsu. Now he believes himself to be Rin's brother.

My reasoning for this specific switch is that I think Zeref would be a better brother for Rin. He clearly wouldn't have a problem with having a half demon brother since he made his own brother into a demon. Sure he wasn't the best brother in Fairy Tail but with him in Blue Exorcist everything would change. The reason he ended up the way he did is because his brother died and he got cursed when trying to bring him back, but that would not happen here. He would accept Rin and I don't think he'd blame Rin for Shiro's death. He'd also be there for Rin during the fallout of when the exwires find out.

I also picked Zeref because of how smart he is. After the loss of his brother in Fairy Tail he began working on a way to revive him. He was still very young but was able to come up with things no one else had before. This makes me think he'd make a good exorcist in this universe. He'd have lots of training thanks to Shiro. He might also have to replace Yukio as a cram school teacher, and with his knowledge he might just be able to pull it off.