Love and Friendship is too Complicated for Koenma

Disclaimer: I do not own YYH or any of its characters being that they all belong to Yoshihiro Togashi. The only thing I do own in this drabble series is my OC Jasmine.

Chapter 6: Healing (Koenma/Jasmine)

May 15th, 1994

Jasmine walked up to her apartment complex carrying several bags of groceries. She was currently off from work today and she didn't have any classes at MU. Koashura and Kotennyo were currently busy at work with their jobs. The young demon hunter pressed the buzzer to the gate three times and her building's superintendent let her in.

Jasmine walked through the gate and walked up the stairs to her second floor apartment. It has been about two weeks since she, Koashura, and Kotennyo saved Koenma from two demon assassins that tried to murder him the night Yusuke Urameshi left for Demon World.

Minutes later, she arrived at the door to her apartment and set down a couple of bags of groceries down on the floor. Jasmine rummaged through her purse for a minute and withdrew her keys. The young psychic unlocked the door and opened it.

She picked up her groceries and stepped inside the dimly lit apartment. Jasmine had made sure to turn off the lights before she left to go run her errands so Koenma can take a nap. She shut the door behind her and as she walked across the living room to her kitchen, she looked over her shoulder and stopped in her tracks for a moment.

Jasmine formed a sweet smile on her face gazing at the tall and handsome prince peacefully resting on the brown recliner. He looked so angelic and adorable in his sleep. Jasmine then snapped herself out of her thoughts and quickly walked into the kitchen to put away her groceries.

She turned on the kitchen light and set the bags on the counter and shifted her attention to the living room. Koenma was still fast asleep and Jasmine lovingly sighed. She had grown very fond of the prince since she started taking care of him. Jasmine then mentally slapped herself and shifted her attention back to the bags of groceries sitting on the counter.

While she was putting them away, Koenma began to stir from his slumber and opened his lovely brown eyes. Seeing a bright light from the kitchen, he then spoke, "Jasmine?"

Putting a gallon of chocolate milk away in the refrigerator, Jasmine responded, "Koenma? Are you awake?"

"Yes."

She shut the refrigerator and gathered up all the plastic grocery bags and put them into the basket on the counter and walked into the living room. Jasmine gave the prince a warm smile, "How was your nap?"

"Great. How was shopping?" He responded back returning the warm smile.

Jasmine walked up to beside the recliner, "It was great. Are you ready for me to change your bandage?"

Feeling the slight pain from his healing wound, Koenma nodded, "Yes." His stomach also began to rumble, "I'm also feeling a bit hungry too. What are we having for dinner?"

The young psychic began to sweetly giggle thinking of how cute he was being right now, "I was planning on cooking up the halibut my grandparents sent to me from Alaska. How does that and macaroni and cheese sound?"

"That sounds great."

Jasmine clapped her hands together, "Delightful. Just hang on a sec and I'll get my equipment to change your bandage and I'll make our dinner after I'm finished."

She left the living room and walked into her bedroom. Koenma waited patiently for her for about five minutes until Jasmine emerged from her bedroom carrying a plastic tub with her first aid equipment. She set the plastic tub down on the wooden coffee table and pulled up a chair beside him.

Jasmine pulled her long brown curls back into a ponytail with her purple scrunchie and reached into the plastic tub and grabbed a pair of sterile blue surgical gloves. While she was putting on her surgical mask, Koenma decided to help her out a little bit and uncovered himself by putting the blanket he slept with on the floor next to the recliner.

Jasmine turned around and seeing him sitting there without the blanket, she began to laugh, "Thank you Koenma. I was going to get that."

The prince flashed her a sexy smile, "It wasn't a problem at all my dear Jasmine. I'm just very eager for you to change my bandage."

Jasmine giggled at his flirtatious nature for about a minute. Once regaining her composure, she went straight back to the task at hand and grabbed her surgical scissors. She approached her royal friend and said in a sweet and comforting voice to him, "Okay Koenma, could you remove your shirt?"

He nodded and reached over to the recliner's lever to sit upright wincing a little at the pain from his wound. Once his sitting position was adjusted to a better position, Koenma removed the black t-shirt he was borrowing from Koashura and set it down on the blanket beside the recliner.

Jasmine then began to cut his bandage. Once it was completely severed, she began to unwrap it from around his slender waist. Her hair whipped past his nose and Koenma couldn't help but smell it.

His pale cheeks began to blush pink and he thought to himself, "Wow, her hair smells more wonderful than last time. The scent is like a combination of vanilla and roses."

The prince was then snapped out of his thoughts when Jasmine spoke with amazement, "Wow, I can't believe how well you're healing."

Koenma looked down at his stomach. It still hurt but, not as much as it did two weeks ago when he was first cut by the demon assassins. He smiled seeing what Jasmine was talking about, his stomach was healing quite nicely but, it still had some way to go.

He shifted his attention to the young demon hunter who was currently putting a couple of drops of povidone-iodine solution onto a cotton ball. Jasmine looked over to him and instructed, "Lay back."

Koenma did as she ordered. He winced a little bit at the stinging sensation of the cotton ball touching his still sensitive wound. Deciding to break the silence between them Koenma decided to ask, "Where's Koashura and Kotennyo?"

Continuing to gently dab Koenma's stomach wound, Jasmine glanced up at him and replied, "They had to work today. They won't be back until later this evening. So, it's just you and me tonight."

Finally finished with dabbing his wound, she deposited the used cotton ball into the plastic tub and grabbed a clean gauze pad. She tore open the packet that surrounded the gauze and as soon as it was uncovered, she gently pressed it against Koenma's stomach.

Still holding the gauze pad down, Jasmine then tried to stretch over to the coffee table to grab the clean bandage wrappings. Sadly she couldn't reach it and groaned, "Oh dammit."

Seeing her struggle, Koenma chuckled at how adorable he thought it was, "Do you need help?"

Jasmine shook her head, "No, I got it. Oh crap..."

The prince just gave her a sweet smile, "Let me help you. My arms are longer than yours."

Before she could protest, Koenma leaned over and reached for the bandage. He bit his lower lip to keep from groaning in pain but some sound did come out. Now holding the clean bandage wrapping in his hand he sat back down. Koenma stopped biting his lip and Jasmine just looked at him with some concern.

She blinked her lovely brown eyes, "Are you alright?" Suddenly she noticed his lower lip was bleeding from where he bit down on it.

Jasmine took a deep breath and loudly exhaled, "Oh shit."

"What? Jasmine did I do something that upset you?"

The young demon hunter shook her head, "No Koenma, you didn't do anything to upset me. It's just that you bit your lip so hard, it's bleeding."

The prince touched his lower lip and looked at his hand. He saw blood on the tips of his fingers. Koenma started to laugh at himself, "Oh wow. I had no idea."

Jasmine reached over to the wooden coffee table and grabbed a Kleenex. She handed it to him and instructed, "Hold that up to your lip and apply just a little bit of pressure to stop the bleeding."

Koenma followed her instructions and handed Jasmine the clean bandage wrap. As he held the Kleenex up to his lip, he watched Jasmine wrap the bandage wrap around his slender waist. Finally getting the length she needed to hold down the gauze pad, Jasmine cut it off the bandage she didn't need with her surgical scissors.

She placed her clean equipment back into the plastic Ziploc bag she kept them in while holding the bandage down. She then brought out her medical tape and taped the bandage shut.

Finally finished with changing Koenma's bandage, Jasmine removed her surgical mask, gloves and let her hair down from its ponytail. She disposed of her trash mess and washed her hands.

Looking at her chemistry textbook sitting on the coffee table along with her binder of chemistry papers, Koenma asked her taking the Kleenex away from his lip which had stopped bleeding, "Were you going to study for a test?"

Drying her hands off with a paper towel, she nodded, "Yeah, I have a test I need to study for. I just haven't had time to do it today with all the errands I had to run."

She tossed the wet paper towel into the trashcan and Koenma offered, "Would you like a study buddy?"

Jasmine smiled. She giggled and thought about it for a moment, "Sure, if you know anything about chemistry."

Koenma started to laugh like a total dork and placed his hand on the back of his head and simply replied, "Yeah I do actually. Well, I do know some. I read some chemistry books in the Spirit World Records Department, though; I think they may be a bit out of date because I never heard about "Lewis Structures" until you introduced them to me."

Jasmine sat down on the area of the leather couch that's nearest to the recliner and picked up her textbook, "That's alright. You know, we can just help each other out. That's how it is in most college study groups."

She then flipped it open to the chapter about gas laws and asked the prince, "Have you heard about these?"

Koenma took a look at the textbook and blinked his lovely brown eyes, "Yeah, I read about those in the Spirit World Records Department just before the Sensui Case. I found them to be quite interesting and it was a lot of fun to stump Ogre with those equations."

Jasmine burst out laughing, "Oh I bet. I do the same thing with Koashura and Kotennyo. Man, it pisses them off. Hell, they're still trying to think of a way to get back at me for teasing them with the gas law equations."

Both her and Koenma laughed. After laughing together for a minute or two, they began their little study session. Throughout their time studying together, Jasmine showed Koenma how to work a calculator which he learned very fast and had such a good time working with the gas law equations.

At some point, he didn't even use a calculator and Jasmine was just so amazed that he could do the math so fast in his head and get every answer right on the first try. She guessed that death gods like Koenma probably had brains that worked like supercomputers.

Even though she was considered to be one of the smarter people in her class, Jasmine was quite envious of Koenma's intelligence. Not even she can get all the answers right the first time. Their study session lasted for a couple of hours until they decided to take a break so Jasmine could make their dinner of halibut and macaroni and cheese.

While the macaroni noodles were boiling, Jasmine glanced over to the living room. She saw Koenma still working with the gas law equations from her text book without her pink calculator. She just couldn't help but watch him with awe and thought to herself, "Not only is he ridiculously good looking, funny, charming, nice, sweet, and caring, damn he's very smart. He's such a dork but, my god, he's so sexy...okay, what? I haven't known him for that long and he's just my friend. Dammit Jasmine don't be stupid. You don't have the time or energy for a relationship right now. Besides, you don't want another Makoto disaster. Just focus on school and work."

Just then Koenma finished another gas equation. He flipped the page of the textbook and began to read again. Still watching him while stirring the macaroni noodles, Jasmine then said in her head, "Just be his friend for right now. Once he feels better, he'll probably go back home to Spirit World after settles his dispute with his dad."

~To Be Concluded

Notes: Stay tuned for the romantic and smutty conclusion ;)