Intelligence is Relative

A Yû Yû Hakusho fanfiction by Sir Psycho Sexy

A/N: I have wondered what it would be like if Sensui and Mukuro were to interact in a platonic manner. Thus, this fic was born.

Enjoy!

-SPS


"Koenma, sir", asked Itsuki, "Shinobu is waiting in the conference room. Could you please connect him with the Lord Mukuro so that we can solve the case of the fifteen humans that had been kidnapped from the Akihabara area?"

Koenma curtly nodded his head in the affirmative, and Itsuki went into the conference room to be with Shinobu, to hold his hand if need be, if this assignment became too stressful…

A picture of a man (or was it?) covered in bandages and wards, with a very creepy protruding eye, slowly filled the whole screen. "I am the Lord Mukuro. What do you people in Reikai want with me?"

"We are asking for the safe return of fifteen humans that your subordinates have kidnapped," said Shinobu assertively as he stood up from his chair. "Else we have no choice but to use brute force against you."

"Oh?" she replied. "You do mean my dinner. I have not eaten in a decade. I hope you realize that, my dear Tantei."

"I do not care," he bellowed, "it is wrong for anyone to relinquish human life! I may not be able to arrest or kill you, but Itsuki and I can come after all of your subordinates!"

Mukuro gently folded her hands, straining against the chains that confined them, unable to free herself from the discomfort. "You are so intelligent, and yet so simple. Can you not see that the three worlds are more complex than you would believe? You humans feed upon your natural sustenance by killing. Demons do the same, and yet I am to be punished for the same offense committed by my prey?"

Shinobu, however, was not paying attention to Mukuro's words, but to his (or so Shinobu thought) hand gestures and the way "he" carried his body. There was a pull towards him that Shinobu did not understand: not an erotic one like towards Itsuki, but more of pure intellectual curiosity. How did Mukuro govern? What was his power like, since "he" was a Demon Lord?

Even after the Black Black Club incident, Sensui still pondered this. Mukuro stuck in his mind and refused to go away. Perhaps he would try to find him in Makai when he finally went there. And maybe "he" would be the demon that would kill him to atone for his sins against demonkind.

Having heard of the Reikai Tantei Sensui Shinobu's fall from grace, one of Mukuro's subordinates rushed into her quarters to tell her the news. Perchance this was a good time to discuss strategy…?

Mukuro leaned the non-scarred side of her body against the wall and slowly drank a glass of fresh human blood. "Finally, that idiot has learned."

-FIN