A/N So. This will be a series of introspective (read: non-humor) ficlets centered around the Yu Yu Hakusho fandom, each chapter focused on a different character. I can't promise your favorite character will make it on here, or even that I'll be churning them out out at a regular pace, but I'm hoping for good things. Also, I doubt any of these will be non-canon pairings.

I'm not sure how many there will be at this point, but I've already got ideas in mind for Raizen, Hiei, Sensui, and Karasu. Let's just hope inspiration strikes soon.

Disclaimer: Yes, yes, Yu Yu Hakusho and all its respective characters belong to people who are most assuredly not I...

If I was, it wouldn't have stopped at 112 episodes.

First up, Koenma.


Perfection

For a while, Koenma wanted to be the perfect son. And for a while, he was good at it. He'd stamp paperwork all day, go to bed for a few hours and then wake up and do it again. When he came of the proper age, his father sent him the various Spirit World delegates to deal with, and he saw them more or less without complaint. For several centuries, he thought only, poor Father, to deal with this all the time. Then he thought, poor me, for helping him. And finally, the only thing Koenma could think was, how in the three worlds can I get away from all of this?

Koenma hadn't signed up for this. It was too much. And to know all that he had to look forwards to was an eternity of this, of stamping and complaints and having to be diplomatic all the fucking time

So Koenma took his fun where he could find it, whenever he could possibly get away from all the paperwork. He came to missions with the Reikei Tantei that he didn't have to, bullied the oni at the gate into letting him out whenever time allowed, and with relief booked a room for the entire Dark Tournament when really he only needed to be present at the finals.

He played tricks on the oni. He chewed his pacifier all the time, partially because it could store spirit energy but mostly because it annoyed the important people who would try and talk to him. He was immature and spoiled and ridiculous, because when he grew up, when he really grew up, he'd become the new Enma.

And that scared him even more than his father's temper.


More to come.