IMPORTANT NOTE FOR THE WHOLE STORY: These one-shots are not necessarily interconnected. They have been written so as to be taken completely separately from one another. Also, about updates: this story is updated once a week, on Friday at any time during the 24 hours that it is Friday, no exceptions. I will not post more often than that, but neither will I post less often.
Character(s): Koenma.
Prompt: Hear It Not, Heaven, Thy Ministers Have Done It ("Lullaby" by Loreena McKennitt)
Summary: He will look to the future but remember the mistakes of the past.
From Today
There are days when it doesn't seem real. Those days, he expects to walk into the office that had been his, the one used by an ignorant, spoiled prince. He will be thinking about all the paperwork he will be stamping while plotting ways to get out of it, force it all onto Jorge or one of the other ogres. Then he sees that his office has become Jorge's office, and he has to keep going to the larger one his father used.
Then there are the days when he hopes it had all just been a bad dream. Those days, he expects to walk into the office that had once been his to find out the latest treasure he has to look over in his father's absence, the latest case for his spirit detectives, or the latest calamity striking Ningenkai. Then one of the ogres will come in to help him get ready for the day, and he'll remember fondly the days when he wasn't important enough to need someone helping him get dressed.
But today—today is different, he vows. Today is when he will finally stop trying to avoid it. From today on he will accept who he has become, what his position now is. He will stop trying to run and hide from the duties he never truly wanted.
From today on, he will shuck the last of his father's shaping and become the better man.