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Musical Espionage

Disclaimer: I do not own YYH or any of its characters being that they all belong to Yoshihiro Togashi. The only things I do own in this story are my OCs Jasmine and Christine.

Chapter 20: Welcome to the Asylum

It just happened so fast. The fight was over in a flash. Many punches were thrown, Demon Gun blasts mixed with spirit energy were fired and several deep cuts from energy coated fans sliced through skin spilling many drops of blood. It was clear the stronger of the two fighters won this battle and weaker B Class fighter had fallen.

Two people, one an attractive young woman with a figure like Marilyn Monroe with curly blonde hair, sparkling blue eyes and red full lips and the other that greatly resembled a small toddler with a blue pacifier in his mouth and a large hat that sat on his head rushed over to the scene. Jasmine laid unconscious on the ground after Yusuke landed the final hit on her. The aforementioned former spirit detective who was currently in his Mazoku demon form just stood there with an empty and blank expression on his face.

The young woman who turned out to be Jasmine’s older sister, Caroline Black-Akashi rushed over to her little sister’s side. The blonde demon hunter knelt down and gently touched her sister and began to speak to her in a frantic voice, “Jasmine....JASMINE?! JASMINE WAKE UP!!”

Koenma, who was now currently in his toddler form silently glanced up at Yusuke and the former spirit detective could see the anger etched across his former boss’s face. Caroline’s cries could be heard and before Yusuke could say something, Koenma then said in a low voice, “How could you? Dammit Yusuke, how could you?”

Looking up at Koenma, Caroline who still couldn’t get used to her possible future brother-in-law’s child form, then began to suggest, “We have to take Jasmine back to Mom and Dad’s. Koenma, I don’t want my sister to die. Please tell me she’s going to be okay.”

The currently pint sized prince tore his hard gaze away from Yusuke and shifted his attention to Caroline. He looked at Jasmine and even though he can determine that she wasn’t going to die, it still scared him seeing her in the state that she was currently in. Koenma just silently nodded in reply.

Still not knowing how to react to this Yusuke then said, “Perhaps I should just leave.”

Caroline snapped her attention to him saying harshly, “Oh no you don’t, you’re coming with us. Someone needs to talk some sense into you.”

Yusuke sighed and figured that there was no way he was going to get out of this one. As Caroline scooped Jasmine up into her arms, the former spirit detective then thought to himself, “Oh I’m in for it now. I’m probably going to be forced to speak with Jasmine’s parents and they’ll probably call my mom. Shit not only that, but, Koenma is probably going to give me an earful.”

He glanced down at his former toddler looking boss. Koenma narrowed his large brown eyes at him. Despite him being in that degrading form, for the first time, Yusuke began to feel very intimated by him. Following Caroline and Koenma down the street, Yusuke knew that this was going to be a long night.

About thirty minutes later, they arrived at the outskirts of Mushiori City at a lone house. Caroline pushed the intercom button to the gate. A man’s voice could be heard on the other side, “Yes who is this?”

Caroline then responded, “Hey dad, it’s Carol. I have Jasmine with me along with Koenma and Yusuke Urameshi. Oh, and dad, there’s something about Koenma you should know.”

The currently pint sized prince looked up at her in horror. He began to chew on his pacifier nervously and said to her in a shaky voice, “C...Carol...oh no.”

Caroline looked down at him. She felt terrible looking at the look on Koenma’s face. The blonde demon hunter then proceeded to push the intercom button again, “Uh dad, never mind.”

Caroline looked down at him and suggested, “Perhaps you should switch to your other form. But Koenma, can I ask you something?”

Looking up at her he silently nodded. Beginning to feel her arms starting to wobble from Jasmine’s weight, she asked, “Do you hate your child form?”

Interested, Yusuke looked down at him and asked curiously, “Yeah Toddler, do you?”

Koenma bit down on his pacifier feeling irritated at his former spirit detective again. He took a deep breath and answered truthfully, “I do. For years I felt like this degrading body is causing me more trouble than anything else.”

Blinking his chocolate brown eyes, Yusuke asked, “Then why do you keep it?”

Koenma turned his gaze onto Yusuke and snapped, “If you must know, I keep this form for energy conservation and....other reasons.”

“What reasons are those?”

Feeling his patience wearing thin, Koenma then responded, “That’s none of your damn business Yusuke!! Stay out of my personal life unless I feel comfortable sharing it with you!!”

Deciding to break the tension between them and feeling as if she was going to drop her sister, Caroline suggested, “Maybe we should go inside. I feel like I’m going to drop Jasmine.”

At Caroline’s words and taking her suggestion, Koenma switched to his tall and handsome adult form. He held out his arms and offered, “Here Carol, let me take her.”

Caroline nodded and gently handed Jasmine to Koenma. The prince held his unconscious lover close to his body as he and Yusuke followed Caroline through the gate and across the front yard to the house’s front door.

Caroline knocked on the door and they only waited for less than a minute until a tall balding heavy set middle aged man with very little blonde hair on his head, a scruffy beard that covered much of his face and blue eyes that were hidden beneath his round spectacles answered the door. His eyes widened looking at the state his youngest daughter was in.

William Black then asked trying to keep his cool, “What the hell happened to Jasmine?”

He stepped off to the side to let Caroline, Koenma, and Yusuke in. Before Caroline could respond to her father, Koenma then interjected in anger, “Why don’t you ask my irresponsible former employee?”

William glanced at Yusuke with confusion. Being unable to sense his demon energy being that he didn’t have any spiritual awareness like his wife and children do, he just stared at him and called out for his wife, “Janine, get in here!!”

The short middle aged heavy set woman rushed over hearing her husband, “Dear wha...”

Her large brown eyes widened laying them upon her unconscious youngest daughter. Janine looked up at Koenma and asked him beginning to freak out, “What the hell happened?!”

Not even looking at him, Koenma snapped, “Ask Yusuke!!”

Janine glanced over at Yusuke and gave him a nasty look. Sensing his demon energy, she was tempted to go grab her spear. Maintaining her self control, Janine simply glared at him and spat, “You are in so much trouble Urameshi. What compelled you to attack my daughter?!”

The half demon former spirit detective responded, “She started it...”

Before he could finish his sentence, Koenma interrupted, “I highly doubt it. Jasmine would never hurt anyone unless she was provoked. What did you do Yusuke? What did you do to upset her?”

Yusuke’s eyebrow began to twitch, “I only grabbed her wrist because she tried to walk away from me before we finished our conversation and she took out one of her fans and hit me.”

Hearing that, Koenma handed Jasmine over to her father. He then got up in Yusuke’s face, “You did what?! You clearly provoked her!”

The prince then shoved his former spirit detective, “You are the cause of this!! Are you trying to destroy everything good I have going for me?!”

Yusuke shoved him back, “Fuck you Toddler!! Didn’t you hear what I said?! Jasmine started it!! Or are you too blind to see that because she’s the first piece of ass that let you put your dick in her?!”

From what Yusuke just said, Koenma decided he had enough. The prince grabbed a hold of the young Mazoku’s long hair and yanked as hard as he could. Yusuke cried out in pain and tried to land a punch on him. Koenma switched forms on time and dodged the punch. Still tightly holding onto Yusuke’s hair, he yanked again.

Yusuke shrieked at the pain that was inflicted on his scalp and before he could fight back, the now toddler looking prince landed a hard kick to his former spirit detective’s stomach. Feeling winded, Yusuke sank to his knees. He shrieked again, when Koenma wrapped his long locks around his small hand and pulled again, “AAAAAAAAAA!!!”

Koenma balled up his free hand and punched Yusuke square in the nose. He then said with utmost hatred and anger in his voice, “I should have just let the SDF destroy your body in the cave!! Looking back on it, I don’t know why I stuck up for such a horrible, disgusting brat like you!!”

Seeing Koenma switch to his toddler form, William, still holding Jasmine in his arms, didn’t know how to react. Janine stood there with her mouth gaping open but, Caroline on the other hand, withdrew one of her silver sais. The blonde demon hunter flared up with her spirit energy and sprinted over to Koenma and Yusuke.

Koenma was still pulling on Yusuke’s long hair and yelling at him. Caroline raised her silver sai and cut the hair that Koenma was yanking on. Before the currently pint sized prince could react, Caroline scooped his small body into her arms.

Koenma began to struggle with the young B Class human, “Put me down!! Let me go Carol!! LET ME GO!!”

Using every ounce of her spirit energy to hold the angry and raging prince, Caroline then silenced him as she raised her voice, “SHUT THE HELL UP!!”

Koenma stopped shouting but, he still tried to break free from her grasp. As Caroline proceeded to walk down the hallway, she shouted at her husband, “Raito, come here and help me!!”

Sitting on the floor still reeling from the pain Koenma inflicted on him, Yusuke watched as a young heavy set ordinary human man with brown hair and brown eyes emerge from the living room. Raito Akashi rushed down the hallway to find his lovely psychic wife struggling with what appeared to him was a small toddler who had some hair wrapped around his small hand. He just stared at the scene as the “toddler” then shouted again, “Let go of me Caroline!! Dammit let me go!!”

Raito glanced over at his wife and finding his voice he asked, “Carol, dear, what’s going on? Where did this little toddler come from? Where’s Koenma?”

Pointing at a door with her sai, she replied, “This is not an actual toddler Raito. This is Koenma. Open the bathroom door, NOW!!”

Raito just stared at her with confusion and opened the door. He and Caroline stepped inside. The blonde demon hunter dropped Koenma into the bathtub and started up the shower turning on the cold water.

Koenma shrieked as the cold water hit his small body completely soaking his clothes, shoes and his big hat. As he tried to climb out, Caroline shoved him back in and said in a harsh voice like a mother scolding her child, “You’re going to stay in here and cool off. You need to stay away from Yusuke for a while and when you feel you’re ready, dry yourself off and apologize to him. If Jasmine, Niles and I did what you just did, we would have gotten our asses beat and Mom and Dad would have grounded us. I don’t know how you were raised in Spirit World but, this is not how we talk to people in this house.”

Seeing that Koenma was about to interrupt her, Caroline then added, “Don’t you give me any lip. Just stay in here and don’t come out until you’re able to think rationally again. Koenma, I know you’re better than this. It doesn’t matter if you’re looking like that; you’re the adult, ACT LIKE IT!!”

Leaving the bathroom with her husband Raito following her, Caroline slammed the door shut behind her leaving the currently toddler looking Koenma sitting in the bathtub with cold water drenching him. He just sighed, curling up his small body and resting his head on his knees grumbling, “Damn you Yusuke.”

Later that evening, Jasmine woke up in her old bedroom in her parents’ house. She looked around and wondered how she got there. The last thing she remembered was the fight that she and Yusuke had. Jasmine could remember the screams of her sister and Koenma pleading for them both to stop and Yusuke’s weird Spirit/Demon Gun hybrid attack that was inflicted on her.

The blast hit her and that was what caused her to pass out. Suddenly feeling something or someone curled up next to her, Jasmine looked off to her right side to see Koenma now in his tall and handsome adult form curled up fast asleep. Suddenly feeling stinging sensations from the cuts on her skin and a sudden rush of pain from the bruises from the places Yusuke punched her, Jasmine groaned, “Oh fuck. Dammit...”

Hearing his lover’s pained groans, Koenma stirred from his sleep. He opened his lovely brown eyes and looking up at Jasmine, he smiled behind his pacifier saying in a soft voice, “Jasmine, oh thank god you’re okay.”

Snapping her attention over to him, Jasmine asked, “How did I get here?”

Koenma sat up and brushed his brown bangs off of his handsome face, “Your sister and I brought you and Yusuke here. Kuwabara called Shizuru while she was at work and informed her of what was going on. While she was working on Botan’s hair, she informed her and then Botan burst into my office and let me know what was going on. Even though was still currently in my more degrading child form, I arrived her in the Human World after I opened up a gateway that dropped me in front of your sister’s apartment complex.”

“What? Yusuke is here? Great.”

Looking over to her, he nodded, “Yes he is. Your parents are currently trying to get a hold of Atsuko.”

Koenma then looked down at the blanket in front of him and looked back over to Jasmine. The young demon hunter could see the look of anger and disappointment etched on her boyfriend’s face. Koenma sucked on his pacifier for just a moment and said, “Jasmine I’m very disappointed with you. What compelled you to go out and fight Yusuke? Please tell me.”

Not even looking at him, Jasmine just stared straight ahead at the Madonna poster hanging on the wall. Still wanting to know, Koenma asked again, “Jasmine, why? Please answer me. Tell me the truth.”

Knowing that lying to him would make the situation worse and possibly put a strain on their relationship, which was something that Jasmine didn’t want, she took a deep breath and answered truthfully, “I didn’t want to originally. I just went over to the Yukimura Café to confront him after I got the information of where he was from his mom. I went over there to ask him to leave us alone. I only started to fight him after he grabbed me. I was finished talking to him because, he wouldn’t listen to a word I said and I when I tried to walk off, he grabbed me. I was only trying to defend myself and I thought that fighting him would teach him not to mess with me and you anymore.”

She looked over to Koenma. The prince just could only give her an expression in sheer disappointment. Then a tear slowly slid down one of his pale cheeks. He then turned around and hopped off the bed.

Breaking the silence, Jasmine then said feeling remorseful, “Koenma, Koenma, please talk to me. I’m sorry. Please don’t be angry with me.”

With his back turned to her, he bit down on his pacifier while clenching his fists at his sides before replying, “I can’t even look at you right now. I love you Jasmine but, what you and Yusuke....it’s just breaking my heart. I’m so angry and disappointed with you both. My queen, I know you’re better than that.”

He turned around and the lovers gave each other somber looks. Jasmine felt like she wanted to cry for upsetting the man she loves. Before she could say anything, Koenma spoke, “You could have died. Yusuke is so much more powerful than you are. You’re a B Class human and he’s a low S Class demon. Even if he was suppressing his power, he could still kill you. Dammit Jasmine, I thought you had more sense than that!!”

Trying to keep herself from crying, Jasmine then tried to apologize, “I’m so sorry. Koenma, I’m sorry.”

Not saying another word to her and determined to talk to Yusuke, Koenma just turned around and walked out of the bedroom leaving Jasmine alone to cry. Walking down the hallway to the living room, the other house occupants looked over at him.

Seeing the looks on the four humans’ faces, he let a sigh in exasperation, “If you want to make jokes, just get it over with.”

Caroline gently took her husband’s hand signaling Raito not to say anything that would offend Koenma. Janine and William just gave him warm smiles. Breaking the awkward silence between them, William replied, “Even though I still don’t quite understand it, I’m not gonna. Hell, you’re the best boyfriend Jasmine could ever ask for and suggesting for you to break up with her over something superficial is stupid. As her father I can see that you two make each other happy and that’s what I want for my little girl.”

Looking down at the floor, Koenma took a deep breath, “Thank you William. I greatly appreciate it.”

“Are you thinking clearly now?” Janine interjected.

Koenma stopped looking at the floor and shifted his attention to Janine. He silently nodded. Sucking on his pacifier for just a minute, he then asked, “Where’s Yusuke?”

Gesturing to the kitchen, the middle aged demon hunter replied, “He’s sitting on the back porch. While you were taking your nap and keeping an eye on Jasmine, Caroline used her sais to cut his hair and let him borrow a sweat shirt so his mom won’t freak out about the tattoos and the long hair.”

Koenma smiled and before walking to the kitchen, he then said to the four human living room occupants, “Oh, I should mention, I only keep that form for energy conservation and for other reasons I’m not ready to share yet.”

Janine kindly replied, “Thank you for telling us and being honest. We won’t pressure you into sharing something you’re not comfortable telling us. Just take all the time you need and when you feel you’re ready, we’ll listen.”

Koenma just smiled behind his pacifier in appreciation and turned around feeling grateful for the family’s kindness and understanding. He walked across the kitchen to the backdoor that led to the back porch. Walking up to the door he grasped the brass knob, turned it and opened the brown wooden door.

Koenma walked out to see Yusuke sitting on the back porch just staring at the backyard that had an old wooden shed and a vegetable garden with plots of many types of peppers, big orange pumpkins, squash, carrots, peas, tomatoes, onions, and various leafy green veggies. As he approached the aforementioned former spirit detective, Yusuke then spoke up, “What do you want Koenma?”

The prince sat down right next to him. Not really wanting to because he still felt Yusuke deserved to be hit and have his hair yanked from saying what he said about his and Jasmine’s relationship, Koenma took a deep breath and replied, “Yusuke I apologize for going off the deep end and clobbering you for what you said about me and Jasmine.”

Not even looking at his former boss, Yusuke continued to stare at the vegetable garden and replied, “You’re forgiven Toddler. I didn’t think you had it in you.”

“Well you did deserve it. You shouldn’t have said what you said.”

Tearing his chocolate brown eyes away from the vegetable garden, Yusuke rolled them at Koenma, “So what. Koenma you should break up with her.”

Almost temped to start beating on him again, Koenma took another deep breath. Deciding it wasn’t worth it and he should just maintain his self control, the prince just gave Yusuke a nasty look, “Why? Why should I?”

“Because she’s a fucking psycho.”

Koenma looked down at his hands that were placed on his lap and sighed. He then spoke in a harsh tone, “No. No I won’t. You don’t get it Yusuke.”

Yusuke gave him a blank expression, “Get what?”

He stopped staring at his hands and turned his angry glare on the former spirit detective, “The night you left for Demon World, I was attacked by two demon assassins. I still don’t know who sent them but, if it wasn’t for Jasmine, Koashura, and Kotennyo, I would be dead right now. They saved my life and let me stay at their apartment....”

Koenma trailed off, and stood up. Yusuke’s eyes widened as he watched his former boss proceed to unbutton his shirt, “Uh Koenma, what are you doing?”

“I’m showing you something.”

The former spirit detective just raised one of his black eyebrows at him and deciding to be a smartass he said, “Look Koenma, I’m not interested in you that way.”

Koenma shot him a death glare and snapped in response, “Right back at you. Now just shut up!”

Finally finished with unbuttoning his shirt, the prince added, “Like I have mentioned to you before, I’m not interested in men anyway.” He then opened up his shirt.

Yusuke was about to crack another joke but, looking at his former boss’s toned torso, he noticed a medium sized scar above Koenma’s belly button. Finding his voice and deciding to be serious this time, Yusuke then asked him, “Is that where the demon assassins got you?”

Knowing that Yusuke was talking about his scar, Koenma nodded, “Yes. When it was first inflicted on me, the cut was deep and I lost a lot of blood. Just before I passed out, I watched Jasmine, Koashura and Kotennyo kill my attackers.”

Koenma closed his shirt and proceeded to button it. He sat back down next to Yusuke and continued, “Jasmine took care of me. She nursed me back to health, fed me, let me borrow some of her brother’s old clothes until I contacted Genkai to bring me some and we became friends.”

Beginning to feel bad about what he said, Yusuke looked at him with curiosity, “When did you realize that you were falling for her?”

Not even looking at Yusuke but, just continuing to stare at the vegetable garden, Koenma replied, “My birthday last year. Jasmine, Genkai, Koashura, Kotennyo, and everyone except for you and Hiei, threw me a party at Genkai’s compound. Jasmine’s mother made me a cake and I got some great presents. One of those was a trampoline that Koashura and Kotennyo bought for me. It’s still in Genkai’s backyard. Puu likes to sleep on it.”

Taking his lovely brown eyes away from the garden, Koenma looked at Yusuke with a serious expression, “When I chose to bounce on the trampoline alone, I switched to my other more degrading form so I can do a proper summersault without everyone making me nervous and expecting me to fail...”

“So did Jasmine see you like that? Did she laugh at you?”

The prince sighed and shook his head, “No she didn’t. I was very surprised by her reaction. She said I was cute and acrobatic after she watched me do my little stunt. Then we talked for a little bit. I was worried that she was going to break up with me over it but, she didn’t. Jasmine said that breaking up with someone over something superficial was stupid but, she said that she would never kiss me when I...look like...that. My response was just cracking a joke about how I don’t want to kiss me either and we laughed.”

Giving his former boss a blank expression, Yusuke then asked with a hint of curiosity in his voice, “Is that when you realized you were falling in love with her? Because she didn’t laugh at you or call you a “toddler”?”

Koenma nodded, “Yeah, that and how she saved my life. Yusuke, Jasmine has did so much for me, she respects me, understands me, shows me nothing but unconditional love, she makes me happy and she has such a wonderful personality. I will not sacrifice such a wonderful relationship full of love, trust, understanding, friendship, and compassion because you don’t like her. I never, ever tried to sabotage your relationship with Keiko even though I envied what you two had. I finally found that with Jasmine and I thought you would give me that same respect but, I was such a fool to think that. Yusuke, I am not happy with you. You could have killed her. Don’t you say that you trying to hold yourself back because it doesn’t matter if you were. You’re an S Class demon; she’s a B Class human. Any amount of your power would destroy her or any other human or demon within her power level. I thought you had more common sense than that. Boy, was I wrong?”

Choosing not to say another word and before Yusuke could try to say something to defend himself, Koenma stood up from his sitting position, stretched his long legs and walked back into the house. Yusuke let out a loud sigh and got up from his sitting place on the porch following Koenma back into the house. Despite all his efforts in trying to get Koenma to talk to him, the prince just ignored him and didn’t want to listen to him with how angry he is at both Yusuke and Jasmine.

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Musical Espionage

Disclaimer: I do not own YYH or any of its characters being that they all belong to Yoshihiro Togashi. The only things I do own in this story are my OCs Jasmine and Christine.

Chapter 20: Welcome to the Asylum

It just happened so fast. The fight was over in a flash. Many punches were thrown, Demon Gun blasts mixed with spirit energy were fired and several deep cuts from energy coated fans sliced through skin spilling many drops of blood. It was clear the stronger of the two fighters won this battle and weaker B Class fighter had fallen.

Two people, one an attractive young woman with a figure like Marilyn Monroe with curly blonde hair, sparkling blue eyes and red full lips and the other that greatly resembled a small toddler with a blue pacifier in his mouth and a large hat that sat on his head rushed over to the scene. Jasmine laid unconscious on the ground after Yusuke landed the final hit on her. The aforementioned former spirit detective who was currently in his Mazoku demon form just stood there with an empty and blank expression on his face.

The young woman who turned out to be Jasmine’s older sister, Caroline Black-Akashi rushed over to her little sister’s side. The blonde demon hunter knelt down and gently touched her sister and began to speak to her in a frantic voice, “Jasmine....JASMINE?! JASMINE WAKE UP!!”

Koenma, who was now currently in his toddler form silently glanced up at Yusuke and the former spirit detective could see the anger etched across his former boss’s face. Caroline’s cries could be heard and before Yusuke could say something, Koenma then said in a low voice, “How could you? Dammit Yusuke, how could you?”

Looking up at Koenma, Caroline who still couldn’t get used to her possible future brother-in-law’s child form, then began to suggest, “We have to take Jasmine back to Mom and Dad’s. Koenma, I don’t want my sister to die. Please tell me she’s going to be okay.”

The currently pint sized prince tore his hard gaze away from Yusuke and shifted his attention to Caroline. He looked at Jasmine and even though he can determine that she wasn’t going to die, it still scared him seeing her in the state that she was currently in. Koenma just silently nodded in reply.

Still not knowing how to react to this Yusuke then said, “Perhaps I should just leave.”

Caroline snapped her attention to him saying harshly, “Oh no you don’t, you’re coming with us. Someone needs to talk some sense into you.”

Yusuke sighed and figured that there was no way he was going to get out of this one. As Caroline scooped Jasmine up into her arms, the former spirit detective then thought to himself, “Oh I’m in for it now. I’m probably going to be forced to speak with Jasmine’s parents and they’ll probably call my mom. Shit not only that, but, Koenma is probably going to give me an earful.”

He glanced down at his former toddler looking boss. Koenma narrowed his large brown eyes at him. Despite him being in that degrading form, for the first time, Yusuke began to feel very intimated by him. Following Caroline and Koenma down the street, Yusuke knew that this was going to be a long night.

About thirty minutes later, they arrived at the outskirts of Mushiori City at a lone house. Caroline pushed the intercom button to the gate. A man’s voice could be heard on the other side, “Yes who is this?”

Caroline then responded, “Hey dad, it’s Carol. I have Jasmine with me along with Koenma and Yusuke Urameshi. Oh, and dad, there’s something about Koenma you should know.”

The currently pint sized prince looked up at her in horror. He began to chew on his pacifier nervously and said to her in a shaky voice, “C...Carol...oh no.”

Caroline looked down at him. She felt terrible looking at the look on Koenma’s face. The blonde demon hunter then proceeded to push the intercom button again, “Uh dad, never mind.”

Caroline looked down at him and suggested, “Perhaps you should switch to your other form. But Koenma, can I ask you something?”

Looking up at her he silently nodded. Beginning to feel her arms starting to wobble from Jasmine’s weight, she asked, “Do you hate your child form?”

Interested, Yusuke looked down at him and asked curiously, “Yeah Toddler, do you?”

Koenma bit down on his pacifier feeling irritated at his former spirit detective again. He took a deep breath and answered truthfully, “I do. For years I felt like this degrading body is causing me more trouble than anything else.”

Blinking his chocolate brown eyes, Yusuke asked, “Then why do you keep it?”

Koenma turned his gaze onto Yusuke and snapped, “If you must know, I keep this form for energy conservation and....other reasons.”

“What reasons are those?”

Feeling his patience wearing thin, Koenma then responded, “That’s none of your damn business Yusuke!! Stay out of my personal life unless I feel comfortable sharing it with you!!”

Deciding to break the tension between them and feeling as if she was going to drop her sister, Caroline suggested, “Maybe we should go inside. I feel like I’m going to drop Jasmine.”

At Caroline’s words and taking her suggestion, Koenma switched to his tall and handsome adult form. He held out his arms and offered, “Here Carol, let me take her.”

Caroline nodded and gently handed Jasmine to Koenma. The prince held his unconscious lover close to his body as he and Yusuke followed Caroline through the gate and across the front yard to the house’s front door.

Caroline knocked on the door and they only waited for less than a minute until a tall balding heavy set middle aged man with very little blonde hair on his head, a scruffy beard that covered much of his face and blue eyes that were hidden beneath his round spectacles answered the door. His eyes widened looking at the state his youngest daughter was in.

William Black then asked trying to keep his cool, “What the hell happened to Jasmine?”

He stepped off to the side to let Caroline, Koenma, and Yusuke in. Before Caroline could respond to her father, Koenma then interjected in anger, “Why don’t you ask my irresponsible former employee?”

William glanced at Yusuke with confusion. Being unable to sense his demon energy being that he didn’t have any spiritual awareness like his wife and children do, he just stared at him and called out for his wife, “Janine, get in here!!”

The short middle aged heavy set woman rushed over hearing her husband, “Dear wha...”

Her large brown eyes widened laying them upon her unconscious youngest daughter. Janine looked up at Koenma and asked him beginning to freak out, “What the hell happened?!”

Not even looking at him, Koenma snapped, “Ask Yusuke!!”

Janine glanced over at Yusuke and gave him a nasty look. Sensing his demon energy, she was tempted to go grab her spear. Maintaining her self control, Janine simply glared at him and spat, “You are in so much trouble Urameshi. What compelled you to attack my daughter?!”

The half demon former spirit detective responded, “She started it...”

Before he could finish his sentence, Koenma interrupted, “I highly doubt it. Jasmine would never hurt anyone unless she was provoked. What did you do Yusuke? What did you do to upset her?”

Yusuke’s eyebrow began to twitch, “I only grabbed her wrist because she tried to walk away from me before we finished our conversation and she took out one of her fans and hit me.”

Hearing that, Koenma handed Jasmine over to her father. He then got up in Yusuke’s face, “You did what?! You clearly provoked her!”

The prince then shoved his former spirit detective, “You are the cause of this!! Are you trying to destroy everything good I have going for me?!”

Yusuke shoved him back, “Fuck you Toddler!! Didn’t you hear what I said?! Jasmine started it!! Or are you too blind to see that because she’s the first piece of ass that let you put your dick in her?!”

From what Yusuke just said, Koenma decided he had enough. The prince grabbed a hold of the young Mazoku’s long hair and yanked as hard as he could. Yusuke cried out in pain and tried to land a punch on him. Koenma switched forms on time and dodged the punch. Still tightly holding onto Yusuke’s hair, he yanked again.

Yusuke shrieked at the pain that was inflicted on his scalp and before he could fight back, the now toddler looking prince landed a hard kick to his former spirit detective’s stomach. Feeling winded, Yusuke sank to his knees. He shrieked again, when Koenma wrapped his long locks around his small hand and pulled again, “AAAAAAAAAA!!!”

Koenma balled up his free hand and punched Yusuke square in the nose. He then said with utmost hatred and anger in his voice, “I should have just let the SDF destroy your body in the cave!! Looking back on it, I don’t know why I stuck up for such a horrible, disgusting brat like you!!”

Seeing Koenma switch to his toddler form, William, still holding Jasmine in his arms, didn’t know how to react. Janine stood there with her mouth gaping open but, Caroline on the other hand, withdrew one of her silver sais. The blonde demon hunter flared up with her spirit energy and sprinted over to Koenma and Yusuke.

Koenma was still pulling on Yusuke’s long hair and yelling at him. Caroline raised her silver sai and cut the hair that Koenma was yanking on. Before the currently pint sized prince could react, Caroline scooped his small body into her arms.

Koenma began to struggle with the young B Class human, “Put me down!! Let me go Carol!! LET ME GO!!”

Using every ounce of her spirit energy to hold the angry and raging prince, Caroline then silenced him as she raised her voice, “SHUT THE HELL UP!!”

Koenma stopped shouting but, he still tried to break free from her grasp. As Caroline proceeded to walk down the hallway, she shouted at her husband, “Raito, come here and help me!!”

Sitting on the floor still reeling from the pain Koenma inflicted on him, Yusuke watched as a young heavy set ordinary human man with brown hair and brown eyes emerge from the living room. Raito Akashi rushed down the hallway to find his lovely psychic wife struggling with what appeared to him was a small toddler who had some hair wrapped around his small hand. He just stared at the scene as the “toddler” then shouted again, “Let go of me Caroline!! Dammit let me go!!”

Raito glanced over at his wife and finding his voice he asked, “Carol, dear, what’s going on? Where did this little toddler come from? Where’s Koenma?”

Pointing at a door with her sai, she replied, “This is not an actual toddler Raito. This is Koenma. Open the bathroom door, NOW!!”

Raito just stared at her with confusion and opened the door. He and Caroline stepped inside. The blonde demon hunter dropped Koenma into the bathtub and started up the shower turning on the cold water.

Koenma shrieked as the cold water hit his small body completely soaking his clothes, shoes and his big hat. As he tried to climb out, Caroline shoved him back in and said in a harsh voice like a mother scolding her child, “You’re going to stay in here and cool off. You need to stay away from Yusuke for a while and when you feel you’re ready, dry yourself off and apologize to him. If Jasmine, Niles and I did what you just did, we would have gotten our asses beat and Mom and Dad would have grounded us. I don’t know how you were raised in Spirit World but, this is not how we talk to people in this house.”

Seeing that Koenma was about to interrupt her, Caroline then added, “Don’t you give me any lip. Just stay in here and don’t come out until you’re able to think rationally again. Koenma, I know you’re better than this. It doesn’t matter if you’re looking like that; you’re the adult, ACT LIKE IT!!”

Leaving the bathroom with her husband Raito following her, Caroline slammed the door shut behind her leaving the currently toddler looking Koenma sitting in the bathtub with cold water drenching him. He just sighed, curling up his small body and resting his head on his knees grumbling, “Damn you Yusuke.”

Later that evening, Jasmine woke up in her old bedroom in her parents’ house. She looked around and wondered how she got there. The last thing she remembered was the fight that she and Yusuke had. Jasmine could remember the screams of her sister and Koenma pleading for them both to stop and Yusuke’s weird Spirit/Demon Gun hybrid attack that was inflicted on her.

The blast hit her and that was what caused her to pass out. Suddenly feeling something or someone curled up next to her, Jasmine looked off to her right side to see Koenma now in his tall and handsome adult form curled up fast asleep. Suddenly feeling stinging sensations from the cuts on her skin and a sudden rush of pain from the bruises from the places Yusuke punched her, Jasmine groaned, “Oh fuck. Dammit...”

Hearing his lover’s pained groans, Koenma stirred from his sleep. He opened his lovely brown eyes and looking up at Jasmine, he smiled behind his pacifier saying in a soft voice, “Jasmine, oh thank god you’re okay.”

Snapping her attention over to him, Jasmine asked, “How did I get here?”

Koenma sat up and brushed his brown bangs off of his handsome face, “Your sister and I brought you and Yusuke here. Kuwabara called Shizuru while she was at work and informed her of what was going on. While she was working on Botan’s hair, she informed her and then Botan burst into my office and let me know what was going on. Even though was still currently in my more degrading child form, I arrived her in the Human World after I opened up a gateway that dropped me in front of your sister’s apartment complex.”

“What? Yusuke is here? Great.”

Looking over to her, he nodded, “Yes he is. Your parents are currently trying to get a hold of Atsuko.”

Koenma then looked down at the blanket in front of him and looked back over to Jasmine. The young demon hunter could see the look of anger and disappointment etched on her boyfriend’s face. Koenma sucked on his pacifier for just a moment and said, “Jasmine I’m very disappointed with you. What compelled you to go out and fight Yusuke? Please tell me.”

Not even looking at him, Jasmine just stared straight ahead at the Madonna poster hanging on the wall. Still wanting to know, Koenma asked again, “Jasmine, why? Please answer me. Tell me the truth.”

Knowing that lying to him would make the situation worse and possibly put a strain on their relationship, which was something that Jasmine didn’t want, she took a deep breath and answered truthfully, “I didn’t want to originally. I just went over to the Yukimura Café to confront him after I got the information of where he was from his mom. I went over there to ask him to leave us alone. I only started to fight him after he grabbed me. I was finished talking to him because, he wouldn’t listen to a word I said and I when I tried to walk off, he grabbed me. I was only trying to defend myself and I thought that fighting him would teach him not to mess with me and you anymore.”

She looked over to Koenma. The prince just could only give her an expression in sheer disappointment. Then a tear slowly slid down one of his pale cheeks. He then turned around and hopped off the bed.

Breaking the silence, Jasmine then said feeling remorseful, “Koenma, Koenma, please talk to me. I’m sorry. Please don’t be angry with me.”

With his back turned to her, he bit down on his pacifier while clenching his fists at his sides before replying, “I can’t even look at you right now. I love you Jasmine but, what you and Yusuke....it’s just breaking my heart. I’m so angry and disappointed with you both. My queen, I know you’re better than that.”

He turned around and the lovers gave each other somber looks. Jasmine felt like she wanted to cry for upsetting the man she loves. Before she could say anything, Koenma spoke, “You could have died. Yusuke is so much more powerful than you are. You’re a B Class human and he’s a low S Class demon. Even if he was suppressing his power, he could still kill you. Dammit Jasmine, I thought you had more sense than that!!”

Trying to keep herself from crying, Jasmine then tried to apologize, “I’m so sorry. Koenma, I’m sorry.”

Not saying another word to her and determined to talk to Yusuke, Koenma just turned around and walked out of the bedroom leaving Jasmine alone to cry. Walking down the hallway to the living room, the other house occupants looked over at him.

Seeing the looks on the four humans’ faces, he let a sigh in exasperation, “If you want to make jokes, just get it over with.”

Caroline gently took her husband’s hand signaling Raito not to say anything that would offend Koenma. Janine and William just gave him warm smiles. Breaking the awkward silence between them, William replied, “Even though I still don’t quite understand it, I’m not gonna. Hell, you’re the best boyfriend Jasmine could ever ask for and suggesting for you to break up with her over something superficial is stupid. As her father I can see that you two make each other happy and that’s what I want for my little girl.”

Looking down at the floor, Koenma took a deep breath, “Thank you William. I greatly appreciate it.”

“Are you thinking clearly now?” Janine interjected.

Koenma stopped looking at the floor and shifted his attention to Janine. He silently nodded. Sucking on his pacifier for just a minute, he then asked, “Where’s Yusuke?”

Gesturing to the kitchen, the middle aged demon hunter replied, “He’s sitting on the back porch. While you were taking your nap and keeping an eye on Jasmine, Caroline used her sais to cut his hair and let him borrow a sweat shirt so his mom won’t freak out about the tattoos and the long hair.”

Koenma smiled and before walking to the kitchen, he then said to the four human living room occupants, “Oh, I should mention, I only keep that form for energy conservation and for other reasons I’m not ready to share yet.”

Janine kindly replied, “Thank you for telling us and being honest. We won’t pressure you into sharing something you’re not comfortable telling us. Just take all the time you need and when you feel you’re ready, we’ll listen.”

Koenma just smiled behind his pacifier in appreciation and turned around feeling grateful for the family’s kindness and understanding. He walked across the kitchen to the backdoor that led to the back porch. Walking up to the door he grasped the brass knob, turned it and opened the brown wooden door.

Koenma walked out to see Yusuke sitting on the back porch just staring at the backyard that had an old wooden shed and a vegetable garden with plots of many types of peppers, big orange pumpkins, squash, carrots, peas, tomatoes, onions, and various leafy green veggies. As he approached the aforementioned former spirit detective, Yusuke then spoke up, “What do you want Koenma?”

The prince sat down right next to him. Not really wanting to because he still felt Yusuke deserved to be hit and have his hair yanked from saying what he said about his and Jasmine’s relationship, Koenma took a deep breath and replied, “Yusuke I apologize for going off the deep end and clobbering you for what you said about me and Jasmine.”

Not even looking at his former boss, Yusuke continued to stare at the vegetable garden and replied, “You’re forgiven Toddler. I didn’t think you had it in you.”

“Well you did deserve it. You shouldn’t have said what you said.”

Tearing his chocolate brown eyes away from the vegetable garden, Yusuke rolled them at Koenma, “So what. Koenma you should break up with her.”

Almost temped to start beating on him again, Koenma took another deep breath. Deciding it wasn’t worth it and he should just maintain his self control, the prince just gave Yusuke a nasty look, “Why? Why should I?”

“Because she’s a fucking psycho.”

Koenma looked down at his hands that were placed on his lap and sighed. He then spoke in a harsh tone, “No. No I won’t. You don’t get it Yusuke.”

Yusuke gave him a blank expression, “Get what?”

He stopped staring at his hands and turned his angry glare on the former spirit detective, “The night you left for Demon World, I was attacked by two demon assassins. I still don’t know who sent them but, if it wasn’t for Jasmine, Koashura, and Kotennyo, I would be dead right now. They saved my life and let me stay at their apartment....”

Koenma trailed off, and stood up. Yusuke’s eyes widened as he watched his former boss proceed to unbutton his shirt, “Uh Koenma, what are you doing?”

“I’m showing you something.”

The former spirit detective just raised one of his black eyebrows at him and deciding to be a smartass he said, “Look Koenma, I’m not interested in you that way.”

Koenma shot him a death glare and snapped in response, “Right back at you. Now just shut up!”

Finally finished with unbuttoning his shirt, the prince added, “Like I have mentioned to you before, I’m not interested in men anyway.” He then opened up his shirt.

Yusuke was about to crack another joke but, looking at his former boss’s toned torso, he noticed a medium sized scar above Koenma’s belly button. Finding his voice and deciding to be serious this time, Yusuke then asked him, “Is that where the demon assassins got you?”

Knowing that Yusuke was talking about his scar, Koenma nodded, “Yes. When it was first inflicted on me, the cut was deep and I lost a lot of blood. Just before I passed out, I watched Jasmine, Koashura and Kotennyo kill my attackers.”

Koenma closed his shirt and proceeded to button it. He sat back down next to Yusuke and continued, “Jasmine took care of me. She nursed me back to health, fed me, let me borrow some of her brother’s old clothes until I contacted Genkai to bring me some and we became friends.”

Beginning to feel bad about what he said, Yusuke looked at him with curiosity, “When did you realize that you were falling for her?”

Not even looking at Yusuke but, just continuing to stare at the vegetable garden, Koenma replied, “My birthday last year. Jasmine, Genkai, Koashura, Kotennyo, and everyone except for you and Hiei, threw me a party at Genkai’s compound. Jasmine’s mother made me a cake and I got some great presents. One of those was a trampoline that Koashura and Kotennyo bought for me. It’s still in Genkai’s backyard. Puu likes to sleep on it.”

Taking his lovely brown eyes away from the garden, Koenma looked at Yusuke with a serious expression, “When I chose to bounce on the trampoline alone, I switched to my other more degrading form so I can do a proper summersault without everyone making me nervous and expecting me to fail...”

“So did Jasmine see you like that? Did she laugh at you?”

The prince sighed and shook his head, “No she didn’t. I was very surprised by her reaction. She said I was cute and acrobatic after she watched me do my little stunt. Then we talked for a little bit. I was worried that she was going to break up with me over it but, she didn’t. Jasmine said that breaking up with someone over something superficial was stupid but, she said that she would never kiss me when I...look like...that. My response was just cracking a joke about how I don’t want to kiss me either and we laughed.”

Giving his former boss a blank expression, Yusuke then asked with a hint of curiosity in his voice, “Is that when you realized you were falling in love with her? Because she didn’t laugh at you or call you a “toddler”?”

Koenma nodded, “Yeah, that and how she saved my life. Yusuke, Jasmine has did so much for me, she respects me, understands me, shows me nothing but unconditional love, she makes me happy and she has such a wonderful personality. I will not sacrifice such a wonderful relationship full of love, trust, understanding, friendship, and compassion because you don’t like her. I never, ever tried to sabotage your relationship with Keiko even though I envied what you two had. I finally found that with Jasmine and I thought you would give me that same respect but, I was such a fool to think that. Yusuke, I am not happy with you. You could have killed her. Don’t you say that you trying to hold yourself back because it doesn’t matter if you were. You’re an S Class demon; she’s a B Class human. Any amount of your power would destroy her or any other human or demon within her power level. I thought you had more common sense than that. Boy, was I wrong?”

Choosing not to say another word and before Yusuke could try to say something to defend himself, Koenma stood up from his sitting position, stretched his long legs and walked back into the house. Yusuke let out a loud sigh and got up from his sitting place on the porch following Koenma back into the house. Despite all his efforts in trying to get Koenma to talk to him, the prince just ignored him and didn’t want to listen to him with how angry he is at both Yusuke and Jasmine.