#koroagu

I'm not okay, gang... I finished Assassination Classroom and I sobbed like a baby ;_;

To summarize: AU where Aguri is still a normal teacher and Korosensei is the (still human) assassin hired to kill her.

Koro’s hired by Yanagisawa to assassinate Aguri for whatever reason (probably just because he’s tired of her and/or wants a life insurance payout or something).  Koro’s said in the anime that he has the skills to pose as a teacher if need be, so that’s exactly what he does.  He graciously offers to help her teach the class, and uses the position to gather intel and find a proper opening.

Just by the merit of teaching at Kunugigaoka, especially with that principal breathing down everyone’s necks all the time, finding a good opening isn’t exactly easy.  He knows this mark is going to require a certain finesse, as well as observation and planning.

Ideally he would be able to do it outside of school, but he finds that Aguri really doesn’t go out much.  She’s either at home with Yanagisawa, at school, or in public places really not suited for assassination.  Even if she’s alone at home, he’s not about to try that because then his client would more than likely get accused.

During the observation period he interacts with her a lot, as well as the students.  Like in canon, she doesn’t really have anyone to talk to about things, at school or at home, so she’s stoked to have someone on the same level as her for once that she can truly connect with.  He’s used to forming small surface level relationships with his marks to earn their trust, but this time it’s a little different.

Spoiler warning he falls in love with her.  Where else were you expecting this to go.

As far as the au itself goes, it’s pretty slice-of-life-y interspersed with more dramatic points.  Most of it is Aguri and Korosensei getting to know each other, and Aguri passing on her teaching philosophies through their conversations (in this AU Reaper 2.0 isn’t a thing, but Koro’s teaching philosophy would remain the same regardless).  He slowly develops through getting to know her and getting to know the students.  While at first he wholeheartedly agreed with the Principal, he slowly finds himself less and less on that man’s side.

He doesn’t go full assassination classroom on these kids because that would be Worrying, but he does use his skills as an assassin to teach them certain things, just like canon Koro does.  They notice that he uses an interesting amount of killing metaphors and allegory but they think it’s just a weird quirk.

While Aguri’s trying to figure out this guy who’s friendly but oddly mysterious, he’s trying to weigh the pros and cons of killing her.  And while that may seem like an easy choice for any normal sane person, you have to understand why this is difficult for him.  He’s very much in love, that much is true, but he’s also the Reaper.  Assassination is all he knows; it’s all he’s ever known.  In giving up this mark (and presumably all marks after if he really wanted to get with her) he wouldn’t just be giving up a career, he’d be giving up his entire life and identity.  And if she ever found out his past… it wouldn’t go well.

Even still, he wonders if he can even build up the nerve to kill her.  To leave both her and the students behind.  As much as he hates to admit it, he’s grown fond of them.  The feeling is strange, but it’s nice.

There’s also the supporting conflicts of the Principal existing and Yanagisawa constantly wondering why Aguri isn’t dead yet, questions which Koro deflects any time he’s presented with them.  He’s a professional and he’s gathering intel.  These things take time.  He doesn’t actually care about these people, that would be ridiculous: he’s just keeping up the necessary illusion.  He wouldn’t expect you to understand.

When Aguri eventually does find out, she’s more upset at the fact that he was lying to her than the fact that he’s an assassin hired to kill her.  Like, yeah she’d probably be put off by the whole killing her part, but in canon she fell for Koro knowing full well he was a dangerous manipulative person who’d killed over a hundred people.  Clearly that’s something she’s willing to look past.

Like I said, she’d be more hung up on the illusion aspect.  She really connected with this person, and now she’s having to wonder if that entire connection was just an act.  Does he really enjoy their time together, or was he just being amiable because he had to?  God, how desperate is she that she falls in love with the first person who bats their stupidly long adorable eyelashes at her?

Though her brushing off the murder can be played for comedy it's still is a very real rough spot, and it’s not something Koro can easily recover from.  How do you tell someone “yeah I was lying before but I’m not lying this time I swear” without sounding like a total jackass?

Aguri Yukimura and koro just fit

Isn't it?! They are really have a potential chemistry!