She rolled over and winced when the bright morning sun hit her saphire blue eyes and quickly raised her hand to block the irritating light. She moaned and looked over to her clock to see that it was 8:40 am. She sighed deeply as she sat up and stretched, then swung her feet over the side of her bed and stood. She walked over to her vanity and pulled a brush through her knee length, light violet colored hair and then pulled it back into a french braid.
She went to her closet and gathered her outfit for the day, dressing in a pair of low rise form fitting bell bottom jeans, and a mid-drift blood red spagetti strapped tank top. She brushed her teeth and headed downstairs, almost running into her father when she turned the corner.
"Oh, sorry dad"
Her father looked down to her with his almost clear powder blue eyes and ran his hand through his black scraggly hair smiling happily at her. She shook his head before replying softly.
"Its ok, Beth. I actually was on my way to get you anyway. There is something we need to talk about"
Beth looked to her father for a moment with knitted eyebrows before nodding and following him through the hallway and into the kitchen, where they sat down at the table across from one another. She sat down and grabbed a cup of coffee that he had set out for her, and took a sip before looking to him with a small smile and speaking lightly.
"So what is it that you needed to talk about dad?"
Her father sighed and shook his head before running his hand through his hair once more and looking back to Beth before speaking seriously.
"Beth, you are a half demon. That means that you have to earn your keep to stay in the human world"
Beth cocked her head to one side and looked to her father confused before replying.
"What do you mean?"
"You know how I talk about working for Koenma quit often?"
"Yes"
"Well, he wishes to ask you to work for him as well"
Beth looked to her father surprised before looking down to her coffee mug and shaking her head. She replied while still looking down at the table.
"I suppose I have no choice in the matter. You are here, as well as mom, so I must remain, at least for a little longer" she went quiet and thought for a moment before looking up and nodding at her father. "Alright, what is it he wishes for me to do?"
Her father smiled at her before standing and walking next to her, placing his arm on her shoulder. He smiled proudly at her and then teleported the two of them out of the kitchen.
Beth looked around and saw endless halls on either side of her, and a large set of mahogany doors in front of her. She stood and watched as her father walked up to the doors and knocked a few times. She took a step forward and stood next to him when the door swung open slowly.
She looked around at the room behind the doors to see demons of varying sizes running all over the place. A few stopped and bowed to her and her father, causing her to knit her eyebrows together in confusion, while her father just smiled and bowed back slightly. A few people he started conversations with, giving Beth a chance to look around.
She saw rows of desks, all with demons behind them working on some sort of paper work. There were demons running back and forth, through doors and running into each other. Shouts were being said about renegade demons who had escaped from their prisons, and other shouts were telling of major disasters happening all over the world.
Beth was called back from watching the happening when her fathers hand landed on her shoulder, making her jump slightly. She smiled at him and seeing how happy he looked here and gladly followed him through the halls and to another set of large mahogany doors. This time however, the doors opened on their own and Beth's father turned and looked to her before they had completely opened.
"Don't forget your manners. He is after all the son of the kind of the underworld, so don't do anything too upsetting"
Beth nodded as she felt butterflies start to flap around in the pit of her stomach. She watched as the doors finished opening and followed her father through them. Once they had made it to the other side of the doors, Beth could see a large room with a desk to one side, with someone sitting behind it, and another desk to the other side with a toddler sitting behind it. He was getting into a screaming match with a black haired young man while three other teenage boys were standing next to him with their heads bent and shaking. She took a deep breath and followed her father to the side of the desk and bowed, waiting to be acknowledged by Koenma.
"No! You don't get it! We didn't have any information about the last demon you sent us after and Hiei and Kuwabara almost got killed! How do you expect us to go into another battle so soon, and without information again!?"
"Yusuke, you have no choice. My father will kill me if you don't retrieve the artifacts that they stole. They are new villains and we have no records of them!"
Beth gasped when she heard the names.
Those are the names of my classmates! she thought to herself never looking up Damn! They think I'm human, this is just great. How am I supposed to work with them!?
Her thoughts were interrupted however when she heard a familiar throught clear and sighed. She stood straight and looked to her father, then to Koenma who had begun to talk to him. She chanced a side glance at Kurama, Yusuke, and Kuwabara, only to receive shocked looks in return. She quickly turned away from them and bent her head down, slightly blushing, embarrassed.
She jumped and looked up quickly when she heard her name breathed into her ear, and turned looking directly into Kurama's bright green eyes. She blushed violently and took a few steps back, looking from Kurama to Yusuke who had stepped next to him. She looked to the ground and shook her head before looking back up to the two of them a little less flushed.
"What are you doing here?" Kurama asked curiously
"Yes, well.."
Before she could finish her sentence, she looked to her side when her father called her name. She walked over and stood next to him, looking to Koenma nervously. Koenma laughed at her and she relaxed slightly when he told her there was nothing to worry about and she would be fine. She looked to her father who was smiling so broadly his fangs were bared and she relaxed even more. If her father was this comfortable here, she could be.
She took a deep breath and looked to a smaller teenage boy with spikey black hair and violently red eyes whom she didn't recognize when he called her name.
"So you're Elizabeth, huh?"
Beth nodded and looked to Kurama who was shaking his head and then to Koenma who had taken on a disappointed look to his face before looking back to the boy. She took a step toward him with her arms crossed over her chest before speaking in a stern tone.
"Who wants to know anyway?"
He looked to her for a moment before also crossing his arms and replying in a mocking tone.
"The names Hiei, and you really need to stop the tough act. Your spiritual power is extremely weak"
Beth smirked and unfolded her arms, placing them at her sides and took a deep breath, only to be hauled back by her father who held her arms fast to her sides. She struggled to get away but it didn't work and she took a deep breath before speaking in a forced calm tone, bringing surprised looks to her classmates faces.
"Dad, let go"
"No, there is a reason you supress your powers, right now is not the right time to let them go. Especially not to show up Hiei"
"But the little twerp asked for it!"
Her father struggled to hold her still some more before she finally closed her eyes and took a few breaths, and he let her go. She stood there for a moment, fists clenched, then looked up and removed a stray strand of hair from her eyes and smiled at Kurama who was staring at her.
"I'm fine. Anyway, I was told that Koenma had a job for me," she said turning and trying to change the subject.
Koenma looked from her father to her for a moment before speaking as if she wasn't there.
"You haven't told her yet"
Beth took on a confused look and looked from Koenma to her father who was quickly trying to show Koenma to stay silent, but it was too late. Beth knitted her eyebrows together and spoke to her father worriedly, causing him to turn quickly and hurriedly try and explain.
"Dad, what's he talking about? What haven't you told me?"
"Beth, its not that I didn't want to tell you, its that I never found the right time to tell you"
"Elaborate please"
Her father sighed and scratched his head before he started to speak but was interrupted by Hiei. Beth whirled around to look at him to see that he was smiling with satisfaction at the current situation.
"What your father failed to tell you is that the reason Koenma wants you to work for him is because you are the princess and you have more power than all of us combined"
