Listen to my breathing. Try to match it if you can.

[It's a good method of helping someone through panic attacks and flashbacks, and something that, unlike his absent heartbeat, won't remind Minato that Kurama is dead. So Kurama paces his breathing for a bit, slow and even.

Though the rhythm stutters when Minato speaks.

He's not wrong? It's something Kurama has been telling himself. Trying to tell himself. He shudders as he holds Minato a little tighter. The words come out without thinking.]

It didn't. It can't, it won't ever, I killed him at that damn tournament!