Koenma was waiting.
He had folded his hands on the giant desk before him. He had a contract written on a piece of parchment. To his right, the Oni, George, looked nervously from the Ruler of the Spirit World to the doors of his office as they were swung open hard enough to groan on their hinges.
Perhaps Koenma could stay calm as Hiei stalked in, but George thought he would bolt the minute the seal they'd manage to place on his Jagan showed the slightest crack.
"Welcome." Koenma greeted.
"Hn." Hiei said and stalked to stand glaring fiercly at the Ruler. His eyes narrowed, but he gasped and fell to his knees as the seal around his eye lit up.
Kurama entered the room then and his eyes met Koenma's.
"You know well enough if we hadn't done it, he would have destroyed half the place by now." Koenma said.
"I wasn't going to ask about that." Kurama answered. "I was more interested in, considering," he touched his stomach unconsciously. "Why it was Hiei you chose to bring me."
"Is that all?"
"No."
Koenma sat back. "What else are you 'wondering', Kurama? Just who Yusuke is. Why he was able to defeat Gouki and Hiei. You're wondering if he is really human?"
"No."
"Then what?"
Kurama closed his eyes. "That whatever my sentance shall be, I request permission to bid farewell to my mother properly. I do not wish to make her sad."
Koenma was silent.
Hiei was not.
He had managed to roll up on all fours and he was laughing, the red light from the seal falling eeriely on his face.
"Kurama I thought you had gone insane. Now I am sure!" he roared and laughed bitterly. The sound died on his lips as he stood and faced Kurama with wide eyes, "Traitor." he said.
Kurama stared back at him.
"Boys. Boys." Koenma said, "I brought you here together for one reason and one reason alone." He peered from Kurama's pale human face and wide, haunted eyes, to Hiei's angry scowl. The words hung like a pendelum in the air. "And that reason is Judgement...." He peered at Kurama.
"And punishment."
....to be continued....