Musical Espionage

Disclaimer: I do not own YYH or any of its characters being that they all belong to Yoshihiro Togashi. The only things I do own in this story are my OCs Jasmine and Christine.

Chapter 20: Welcome to the Asylum

It just happened so fast. The fight was over in a flash. Many punches were thrown, Demon Gun blasts mixed with spirit energy were fired and several deep cuts from energy coated fans sliced through skin spilling many drops of blood. It was clear the stronger of the two fighters won this battle and weaker B Class fighter had fallen.

Two people, one an attractive young woman with a figure like Marilyn Monroe with curly blonde hair, sparkling blue eyes and red full lips and the other that greatly resembled a small toddler with a blue pacifier in his mouth and a large hat that sat on his head rushed over to the scene. Jasmine laid unconscious on the ground after Yusuke landed the final hit on her. The aforementioned former spirit detective who was currently in his Mazoku demon form just stood there with an empty and blank expression on his face.

The young woman who turned out to be Jasmine's older sister, Caroline Black-Akashi rushed over to her little sister's side. The blonde demon hunter knelt down and gently touched her sister and began to speak to her in a frantic voice, "Jasmine...JASMINE?! JASMINE WAKE UP!"

Koenma, who was now currently in his toddler form silently glanced up at Yusuke and the former spirit detective could see the anger etched across his former boss's face. Caroline's cries could be heard and before Yusuke could say something, Koenma then said in a low voice, "How could you? Dammit Yusuke, how could you?"

Looking up at Koenma, Caroline who still couldn't get used to her possible future brother-in-law's child form, then began to suggest, "We have to take Jasmine back to Mom and Dad's. Koenma, I don't want my sister to die. Please tell me she's going to be okay."

The currently pint sized prince tore his hard gaze away from Yusuke and shifted his attention to Caroline. He looked at Jasmine and even though he can determine that she wasn't going to die, it still scared him seeing her in the state that she was currently in. Koenma just silently nodded in reply.

Still not knowing how to react to this Yusuke then said, "Perhaps I should just leave."

Caroline snapped her attention to him saying harshly, "Oh no you don't, you're coming with us. Someone needs to talk some sense into you."

Yusuke sighed and figured that there was no way he was going to get out of this one. As Caroline scooped Jasmine up into her arms, the former spirit detective then thought to himself, "Oh I'm in for it now. I'm probably going to be forced to speak with Jasmine's parents and they'll probably call my mom. Shit not only that, but, Koenma is probably going to give me an earful."

He glanced down at his former toddler looking boss. Koenma narrowed his large brown eyes at him. Despite him being in that degrading form, for the first time, Yusuke began to feel very intimated by him. Following Caroline and Koenma down the street, Yusuke knew that this was going to be a long night.

About thirty minutes later, they arrived at the outskirts of Mushiori City at a lone house. Caroline pushed the intercom button to the gate. A man's voice could be heard on the other side, "Yes who is this?"

Caroline then responded, "Hey dad, it's Carol. I have Jasmine with me along with Koenma and Yusuke Urameshi. Oh, and dad, there's something about Koenma you should know."

The currently pint sized prince looked up at her in horror. He began to chew on his pacifier nervously and said to her in a shaky voice, "C...Carol...oh no."

Caroline looked down at him. She felt terrible looking at the look on Koenma's face. The blonde demon hunter then proceeded to push the intercom button again, "Uh dad, never mind."

Caroline looked down at him and suggested, "Perhaps you should switch to your other form. But Koenma, can I ask you something?"

Looking up at her he silently nodded. Beginning to feel her arms starting to wobble from Jasmine's weight, she asked, "Do you hate your child form?"

Interested, Yusuke looked down at him and asked curiously, "Yeah Toddler, do you?"

Koenma bit down on his pacifier feeling irritated at his former spirit detective again. He took a deep breath and answered truthfully, "I do. For years I felt like this degrading body is causing me more trouble than anything else."

Blinking his chocolate brown eyes, Yusuke asked, "Then why do you keep it?"

Koenma turned his gaze onto Yusuke and snapped, "If you must know, I keep this form for energy conservation and...other reasons."

"What reasons are those?"

Feeling his patience wearing thin, Koenma then responded, "That's none of your damn business Yusuke! Stay out of my personal life unless I feel comfortable sharing it with you!"

Deciding to break the tension between them and feeling as if she was going to drop her sister, Caroline suggested, "Maybe we should go inside. I feel like I'm going to drop Jasmine."

At Caroline's words and taking her suggestion, Koenma switched to his tall and handsome adult form. He held out his arms and offered, "Here Carol, let me take her."

Caroline nodded and gently handed Jasmine to Koenma. The prince held his unconscious lover close to his body as he and Yusuke followed Caroline through the gate and across the front yard to the house's front door.

Caroline knocked on the door and they only waited for less than a minute until a tall balding heavy set middle aged man with very little blonde hair on his head, a scruffy beard that covered much of his face and blue eyes that were hidden beneath his round spectacles answered the door. His eyes widened looking at the state his youngest daughter was in.

William Black then asked trying to keep his cool, "What the hell happened to Jasmine?"

He stepped off to the side to let Caroline, Koenma, and Yusuke in. Before Caroline could respond to her father, Koenma then interjected in anger, "Why don't you ask my irresponsible former employee?"

William glanced at Yusuke with confusion. Being unable to sense his demon energy being that he didn't have any spiritual awareness like his wife and children do, he just stared at him and called out for his wife, "Janine, get in here!"

The short middle aged heavy set woman rushed over hearing her husband, "Dear wha..."

Her large brown eyes widened laying them upon her unconscious youngest daughter. Janine looked up at Koenma and asked him beginning to freak out, "What the hell happened?!"

Not even looking at him, Koenma snapped, "Ask Yusuke!"

Janine glanced over at Yusuke and gave him a nasty look. Sensing his demon energy, she was tempted to go grab her spear. Maintaining her self control, Janine simply glared at him and spat, "You are in so much trouble Urameshi. What compelled you to attack my daughter?!"

The half demon former spirit detective responded, "She started it..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Koenma interrupted, "I highly doubt it. Jasmine would never hurt anyone unless she was provoked. What did you do Yusuke? What did you do to upset her?"

Yusuke's eyebrow began to twitch, "I only grabbed her wrist because she tried to walk away from me before we finished our conversation and she took out one of her fans and hit me."

Hearing that, Koenma handed Jasmine over to her father. He then got up in Yusuke's face, "You did what?! You clearly provoked her!"

The prince then shoved his former spirit detective, "You are the cause of this! Are you trying to destroy everything good I have going for me?!"

Yusuke shoved him back, "Fuck you Toddler! Didn't you hear what I said?! Jasmine started it! Or are you too blind to see that because she's the first piece of ass that let you put your dick in her?!"

From what Yusuke just said, Koenma decided he had enough. The prince grabbed a hold of the young Mazoku's long hair and yanked as hard as he could. Yusuke cried out in pain and tried to land a punch on him. Koenma switched forms on time and dodged the punch. Still tightly holding onto Yusuke's hair, he yanked again.

Yusuke shrieked at the pain that was inflicted on his scalp and before he could fight back, the now toddler looking prince landed a hard kick to his former spirit detective's stomach. Feeling winded, Yusuke sank to his knees. He shrieked again, when Koenma wrapped his long locks around his small hand and pulled again, "AAAAAAAAAA!"

Koenma balled up his free hand and punched Yusuke square in the nose. He then said with utmost hatred and anger in his voice, "I should have just let the SDF destroy your body in the cave! Looking back on it, I don't know why I stuck up for such a horrible, disgusting brat like you!"

Seeing Koenma switch to his toddler form, William, still holding Jasmine in his arms, didn't know how to react. Janine stood there with her mouth gaping open but, Caroline on the other hand, withdrew one of her silver sais. The blonde demon hunter flared up with her spirit energy and sprinted over to Koenma and Yusuke.

Koenma was still pulling on Yusuke's long hair and yelling at him. Caroline raised her silver sai and cut the hair that Koenma was yanking on. Before the currently pint sized prince could react, Caroline scooped his small body into her arms.

Koenma began to struggle with the young B Class human, "Put me down! Let me go Carol! LET ME GO!"

Using every ounce of her spirit energy to hold the angry and raging prince, Caroline then silenced him as she raised her voice, "SHUT THE HELL UP!"

Koenma stopped shouting but, he still tried to break free from her grasp. As Caroline proceeded to walk down the hallway, she shouted at her husband, "Raito, come here and help me!"

Sitting on the floor still reeling from the pain Koenma inflicted on him, Yusuke watched as a young heavy set ordinary human man with brown hair and brown eyes emerge from the living room. Raito Akashi rushed down the hallway to find his lovely psychic wife struggling with what appeared to him was a small toddler who had some hair wrapped around his small hand. He just stared at the scene as the "toddler" then shouted again, "Let go of me Caroline! Dammit let me go!"

Raito glanced over at his wife and finding his voice he asked, "Carol, dear, what's going on? Where did this little toddler come from? Where's Koenma?"

Pointing at a door with her sai, she replied, "This is not an actual toddler Raito. This is Koenma. Open the bathroom door, NOW!"

Raito just stared at her with confusion and opened the door. He and Caroline stepped inside. The blonde demon hunter dropped Koenma into the bathtub and started up the shower turning on the cold water.

Koenma shrieked as the cold water hit his small body completely soaking his clothes, shoes and his big hat. As he tried to climb out, Caroline shoved him back in and said in a harsh voice like a mother scolding her child, "You're going to stay in here and cool off. You need to stay away from Yusuke for a while and when you feel you're ready, dry yourself off and apologize to him. If Jasmine, Niles and I did what you just did, we would have gotten our asses beat and Mom and Dad would have grounded us. I don't know how you were raised in Spirit World but, this is not how we talk to people in this house."

Seeing that Koenma was about to interrupt her, Caroline then added, "Don't you give me any lip. Just stay in here and don't come out until you're able to think rationally again. Koenma, I know you're better than this. It doesn't matter if you're looking like that; you're the adult, ACT LIKE IT!"

Leaving the bathroom with her husband Raito following her, Caroline slammed the door shut behind her leaving the currently toddler looking Koenma sitting in the bathtub with cold water drenching him. He just sighed, curling up his small body and resting his head on his knees grumbling, "Damn you Yusuke."

Later that evening, Jasmine woke up in her old bedroom in her parents' house. She looked around and wondered how she got there. The last thing she remembered was the fight that she and Yusuke had. Jasmine could remember the screams of her sister and Koenma pleading for them both to stop and Yusuke's weird Spirit/Demon Gun hybrid attack that was inflicted on her.

The blast hit her and that was what caused her to pass out. Suddenly feeling something or someone curled up next to her, Jasmine looked off to her right side to see Koenma now in his tall and handsome adult form curled up fast asleep. Suddenly feeling stinging sensations from the cuts on her skin and a sudden rush of pain from the bruises from the places Yusuke punched her, Jasmine groaned, "Oh fuck. Dammit..."

Hearing his lover's pained groans, Koenma stirred from his sleep. He opened his lovely brown eyes and looking up at Jasmine, he smiled behind his pacifier saying in a soft voice, "Jasmine, oh thank god you're okay."

Snapping her attention over to him, Jasmine asked, "How did I get here?"

Koenma sat up and brushed his brown bangs off of his handsome face, "Your sister and I brought you and Yusuke here. Kuwabara called Shizuru while she was at work and informed her of what was going on. While she was working on Botan's hair, she informed her and then Botan burst into my office and let me know what was going on. Even though I was still currently in my more degrading child form, I arrived here in the Human World after I opened up a gateway that dropped me in front of your sister's apartment complex."

"What? Yusuke is here? Great."

Looking over to her, he nodded, "Yes he is. Your parents are currently trying to get a hold of Atsuko."

Koenma then looked down at the blanket in front of him and looked back over to Jasmine. The young demon hunter could see the look of anger and disappointment etched on her boyfriend's face. Koenma sucked on his pacifier for just a moment and said, "Jasmine I'm very disappointed with you. What compelled you to go out and fight Yusuke? Please tell me."

Not even looking at him, Jasmine just stared straight ahead at the Madonna poster hanging on the wall. Still wanting to know, Koenma asked again, "Jasmine, why? Please answer me. Tell me the truth."

Knowing that lying to him would make the situation worse and possibly put a strain on their relationship, which was something that Jasmine didn't want, she took a deep breath and answered truthfully, "I didn't want to originally. I just went over to the Yukimura Café to confront him after I got the information of where he was from his mom. I went over there to ask him to leave us alone. I only started to fight him after he grabbed me. I was finished talking to him because, he wouldn't listen to a word I said and I when I tried to walk off, he grabbed me. I was only trying to defend myself and I thought that fighting him would teach him not to mess with me and you anymore."

She looked over to Koenma. The prince just could only give her an expression in sheer disappointment. Then a tear slowly slid down one of his pale cheeks. He then turned around and hopped off the bed.

Breaking the silence, Jasmine then said feeling remorseful, "Koenma, Koenma, please talk to me. I'm sorry. Please don't be angry with me."

With his back turned to her, he bit down on his pacifier while clenching his fists at his sides before replying, "I can't even look at you right now. I love you Jasmine but, what you and Yusuke...it's just breaking my heart. I'm so angry and disappointed with you both. My queen, I know you're better than that."

He turned around and the lovers gave each other somber looks. Jasmine felt like she wanted to cry for upsetting the man she loves. Before she could say anything, Koenma spoke, "You could have died. Yusuke is so much more powerful than you are. You're a B Class human and he's a low S Class demon. Even if he was suppressing his power, he could still kill you. Dammit Jasmine, I thought you had more sense than that!"

Trying to keep herself from crying, Jasmine then tried to apologize, "I'm so sorry. Koenma, I'm sorry."

Not saying another word to her and determined to talk to Yusuke, Koenma just turned around and walked out of the bedroom leaving Jasmine alone to cry. Walking down the hallway to the living room, the other house occupants looked over at him.

Seeing the looks on the four humans' faces, he let a sigh in exasperation, "If you want to make jokes, just get it over with."

Caroline gently took her husband's hand signaling Raito not to say anything that would offend Koenma. Janine and William just gave him warm smiles. Breaking the awkward silence between them, William replied, "Even though I still don't quite understand it, I'm not gonna. Hell, you're the best boyfriend Jasmine could ever ask for and suggesting for you to break up with her over something superficial is stupid. As her father I can see that you two make each other happy and that's what I want for my little girl."

Looking down at the floor, Koenma took a deep breath, "Thank you William. I greatly appreciate it."

"Are you thinking clearly now?" Janine interjected.

Koenma stopped looking at the floor and shifted his attention to Janine. He silently nodded. Sucking on his pacifier for just a minute, he then asked, "Where's Yusuke?"

Gesturing to the kitchen, the middle aged demon hunter replied, "He's sitting on the back porch. While you were taking your nap and keeping an eye on Jasmine, Caroline used her sais to cut his hair and let him borrow a sweat shirt so his mom won't freak out about the tattoos and the long hair."

Koenma smiled and before walking to the kitchen, he then said to the four human living room occupants, "Oh, I should mention, I only keep that form for energy conservation and for other reasons I'm not ready to share yet."

Janine kindly replied, "Thank you for telling us and being honest. We won't pressure you into sharing something you're not comfortable telling us. Just take all the time you need and when you feel you're ready, we'll listen."

Koenma just smiled behind his pacifier in appreciation and turned around feeling grateful for the family's kindness and understanding. He walked across the kitchen to the backdoor that led to the back porch. Walking up to the door he grasped the brass knob, turned it and opened the brown wooden door.

Koenma walked out to see Yusuke sitting on the back porch just staring at the backyard that had an old wooden shed and a vegetable garden with plots of many types of peppers, big orange pumpkins, squash, carrots, peas, tomatoes, onions, and various leafy green veggies. As he approached the aforementioned former spirit detective, Yusuke then spoke up, "What do you want Koenma?"

The prince sat down right next to him. Not really wanting to because he still felt Yusuke deserved to be hit and have his hair yanked from saying what he said about his and Jasmine's relationship, Koenma took a deep breath and replied, "Yusuke I apologize for going off the deep end and clobbering you for what you said about me and Jasmine."

Not even looking at his former boss, Yusuke continued to stare at the vegetable garden and replied, "You're forgiven Toddler. I didn't think you had it in you."

"Well you did deserve it. You shouldn't have said what you said."

Tearing his chocolate brown eyes away from the vegetable garden, Yusuke rolled them at Koenma, "So what. Koenma you should break up with her."

Almost temped to start beating on him again, Koenma took another deep breath. Deciding it wasn't worth it and he should just maintain his self control, the prince just gave Yusuke a nasty look, "Why? Why should I?"

"Because she's a fucking psycho."

Koenma looked down at his hands that were placed on his lap and sighed. He then spoke in a harsh tone, "No. No I won't. You don't get it Yusuke."

Yusuke gave him a blank expression, "Get what?"

He stopped staring at his hands and turned his angry glare on the former spirit detective, "The night you left for Demon World, I was attacked by two demon assassins. I still don't know who sent them but, if it wasn't for Jasmine, Koashura, and Kotennyo, I would be dead right now. They saved my life and let me stay at their apartment..."

Koenma trailed off, and stood up. Yusuke's eyes widened as he watched his former boss proceed to unbutton his shirt, "Uh Koenma, what are you doing?"

"I'm showing you something."

The former spirit detective just raised one of his black eyebrows at him and deciding to be a smartass he said, "Look Koenma, I'm not interested in you that way."

Koenma shot him a death glare and snapped in response, "Right back at you. Now just shut up!"

Finally finished with unbuttoning his shirt, the prince added, "Like I have mentioned to you before, I'm not interested in men anyway." He then opened up his shirt.

Yusuke was about to crack another joke but, looking at his former boss's toned torso, he noticed a medium sized scar above Koenma's belly button. Finding his voice and deciding to be serious this time, Yusuke then asked him, "Is that where the demon assassins got you?"

Knowing that Yusuke was talking about his scar, Koenma nodded, "Yes. When it was first inflicted on me, the cut was deep and I lost a lot of blood. Just before I passed out, I watched Jasmine, Koashura and Kotennyo kill my attackers."

Koenma closed his shirt and proceeded to button it. He sat back down next to Yusuke and continued, "Jasmine took care of me. She nursed me back to health, fed me, let me borrow some of her brother's old clothes until I contacted Genkai to bring me some and we became friends."

Beginning to feel bad about what he said, Yusuke looked at him with curiosity, "When did you realize that you were falling for her?"

Not even looking at Yusuke but, just continuing to stare at the vegetable garden, Koenma replied, "My birthday last year. Jasmine, Genkai, Koashura, Kotennyo, and everyone except for you and Hiei, threw me a party at Genkai's compound. Jasmine's mother made me a cake and I got some great presents. One of those was a trampoline that Koashura and Kotennyo bought for me. It's still in Genkai's backyard. Puu likes to sleep on it."

Taking his lovely brown eyes away from the garden, Koenma looked at Yusuke with a serious expression, "When I chose to bounce on the trampoline alone, I switched to my other more degrading form so I can do a proper summersault without everyone making me nervous and expecting me to fail..."

"So did Jasmine see you like that? Did she laugh at you?"

The prince sighed and shook his head, "No she didn't. I was very surprised by her reaction. She said I was cute and acrobatic after she watched me do my little stunt. Then we talked for a little bit. I was worried that she was going to break up with me over it but, she didn't. Jasmine said that breaking up with someone over something superficial was stupid but, she said that she would never kiss me when I...look like...that. My response was just cracking a joke about how I don't want to kiss me either and we laughed."

Giving his former boss a blank expression, Yusuke then asked with a hint of curiosity in his voice, "Is that when you realized you were falling in love with her? Because she didn't laugh at you or call you a "toddler"?"

Koenma nodded, "Yeah, that and how she saved my life. Yusuke, Jasmine has did so much for me, she respects me, understands me, shows me nothing but unconditional love, she makes me happy and she has such a wonderful personality. I will not sacrifice such a wonderful relationship full of love, trust, understanding, friendship, and compassion because you don't like her. I never, ever tried to sabotage your relationship with Keiko even though I envied what you two had. I finally found that with Jasmine and I thought you would give me that same respect but, I was such a fool to think that. Yusuke, I am not happy with you. You could have killed her. Don't you say that you trying to hold yourself back because it doesn't matter if you were. You're an S Class demon; she's a B Class human. Any amount of your power would destroy her or any other human or demon within her power level. I thought you had more common sense than that. Boy, was I wrong?"

Choosing not to say another word and before Yusuke could try to say something to defend himself, Koenma stood up from his sitting position, stretched his long legs and walked back into the house. Yusuke let out a loud sigh and got up from his sitting place on the porch following Koenma back into the house. Despite all his efforts in trying to get Koenma to talk to him, the prince just ignored him and didn't want to listen to him with how angry he is at both Yusuke and Jasmine.

Meanwhile in Spirit World at The Fallen Angel, a young woman walked into the bar. She was tall and attractive with long straight flowing black hair, pale skin, icy blue eyes and a nice figure. Carefully wading her way through the thick crowd, she approached a dark corner where a man wearing a hood who sat alone at a small table. Shadows obscured his face but, his mouth and nose could be seen along with his thick mustache.

The woman sat down in front of him. With a blank expression etched her beautiful face, she asked, "Why have you summoned me here?"

The man then spoke in his calm yet deadly sounding voice, "I have a job for you Aphrodite."

The now permanently adult Aphrodite formed a twisted smirk on her full red lips, "You do now? Who do you want me to take out? If it's a man, I know how to...get to him before I put him down."

The man reached into the pocket of his black cloak and took out two different photographs. Aphrodite took them into her hands. She eyed the first one pursing her lips and scrunching her nose in disgust, "You want me to kill a worthless human tramp? Pretty girl but, she's not worth my time."

The man then spoke in his deadly calm demeanor, "That's no ordinary human. In fact, she's a powerful demon hunter that was born with a high spiritual awareness and comes from a prominent demon hunter family who's also involved with someone that you went to school with."

Eying the photograph, there was someone with her. It took Aphrodite a moment to recognize the man in the picture because only part of his face was shown. She narrowed her icy blue eyes remembering the incident from Kotennyo's graduation party.

Aphrodite curled her lip and said with disgust, "Koenma." She glanced up at the man, "So this human whore is the one I heard about?"

The man nodded, "Yes, that curly haired whore is Lord Koenma's lover. There are rumors floating around that he given up his purity to her but, we don't have any proof of that."

Switching over to the second photograph, Aphrodite cruelly smiled, "Ah, Yusuke Urameshi. Oh yes, I've wanted to fight him for ages. I'll gladly take on the task of taking him down."

Staring at her blankly, the man then added, "I know you're itching for a good fight but, Urameshi and the McAlpin girl won't go down so easily. I know that you're going to need some help."

"What kind of help?"

The man formed a sadistic smile on his lips, "I just recently been to the Spirit World Jail and got a hold a demon that Yusuke Urameshi defeated early on in his spirit detective career shortly before he was released. You may know him as the human hunter Rando. The king and I been training him in secret. He wants revenge on Urameshi and Prince Koenma. Rando is so much more powerful than what he used to be. He'll be a big help to you."

Aphrodite licked her lips loving what she was hearing, "Sounds perfect. I'm so excited about seeing Rando again. Working with him should be fun."

Slipping the two photos into the pocket of her jacket, she asked, "When and where should I meet up with him?"

Not saying another word, the unknown man, reached into his pocket again and withdrew a piece of parchment. He handed the folded up parchment to Aphrodite. She opened it up

and read the location and the date of when she was supposed to meet up with her new partner Rando.

"I will finally get my revenge on Koenma and hopefully fight Kotennyo. They both owe me for the humiliation they put me through back in Spirit World Kindergarten."

Later that evening at the Black Family House, Atsuko still hadn't shown up to speak with Yusuke yet. The aforementioned former spirit detective guessed that she was currently out partying with some of her friends. Sitting awkwardly in the living room with Jasmine's family and Koenma, Yusuke wanted to leave but, he knew if he had so much as attempted to walk off the property, there would be trouble for him.

Speaking of trouble, everyone in the living room heard Caroline raising her voice at Jasmine. Both sisters were currently in their old bedroom. Wanting to investigate, Koenma got up from his place on the couch and proceeded to walk down the hallway.

Reaching the bedroom, the prince then stood against the wall and listened to the sisters' conversation through the cracked open door. Caroline lectured her sister, "Me, Mom, Dad, Niles, and Raito believe it or not, were worried sick about you. You also nearly gave Koenma a heart attack."

Trying to swallow back her tears, Jasmine took a deep breath, "I just wanted Urameshi to leave me and Koenma alone. I wasn't trying to cause any trouble."

"Well Jasmine you did. You did cause trouble. Raito and I were about to have nice evening together until your boyfriend showed up at our apartment door, in his toddler form looking pale and freaking out because he heard from his grim reaper lady who heard it from Shizuru when Kazuma called her to tell her what was going on."

"Carol, I wasn't there to fight him. I only fought Yusuke to defend myself. Please stop yelling at me. Koenma is mad at me and I don't want you, Mom and Dad to be mad at me too."

Koenma then heard Jasmine begin to cry again. Despite still being angry at her, the prince began to feel his heart breaking. He didn't like to see his lover upset and in tears over anything. Doing his best to keep himself from crying, Koenma bit down on his pacifier, took a deep breath and knocked on the cracked open door.

Caroline heard that and stopped her verbal assaults on Jasmine, "Come in."

Koenma stepped into the room. Glancing over at Jasmine, she gazed at him with remorse etched on her face. Koenma then proceeded to sit down beside her. Both lovers just sat there in an awkward silence, until Caroline spoke, "I'm going to leave you two alone. Jasmine..."

Shifting her attention to her older sister, she responded, "Yeah?"

Speaking to Jasmine in a gentle yet stern voice, Caroline added, "Before he leaves or whenever you're ready, apologize to Yusuke Urameshi."

Jasmine was about to say something in protest, but Caroline interjected, "I don't care if he started it. Jasmine, you should have acted like the adult and took the high road than fly off the handle at him. Mom and Dad and even Grandma and Grandpa did not raise you to be that way. Even Great-Grandma Meredith would be disappointed in you if she was still alive. If you want to fight Urameshi in say, a martial arts tournament or something, I suggest you train until you're powerful enough to face him in a rematch."

Jasmine tore her large brown eyes away from her sister and looked down at her blanket. She let out a loud sigh feeling annoyed by her sister's nagging. Caroline gave her a small smile. She knew that Jasmine would eventually come to her senses and take her suggestion.

The blonde demon hunter knelt down and gave Jasmine hug. Jasmine hugged her back. A single tear slid down Caroline's cheek and she said trying not to get choked up, "I love you Jasmine. I don't want anything to happen to my baby sister. Please, please think about what I said."

The demon hunter sisters broke their embrace and Jasmine nodded, "Okay, I'll think about it."

Caroline kissed her forehead and shifted her attention to Koenma, "She's all yours now."

The prince smiled giving her a curt nod, "Thank you Carol. Um...I'm sorry for how I acted earlier. You were right, I was acting very childish. Thank you for setting me straight."

"No problem Koenma. If you and Urameshi start going at it again, I won't hesitate to get in the middle and separate you two." She then glanced at her watch, "Well, I'd better leave the two of you alone. Raito's uncle, Satoshi is going to be here. He's supposed to give us a ride to the bowling alley. We have our Akashi Family Bowling Club this evening. Say, Koenma, Jasmine, why don't you join us sometime? Jasmine, I know how you can't stand "Mr. Ratface" but, he's been behaving himself lately."

Giving her sister a warm smile, Jasmine simply replied, "No thanks, maybe some other time."

Caroline nodded with understanding. She then left the room so she and Raito could get ready for their bowling match. Not saying anything, Jasmine just stared at the blanket in front of her and sighed. Observing her behavior, Koenma moved closer to her. He then removed his pacifier and softly kissed her on the cheek.

Jasmine laid back down, curling back up into the blankets, "Are you still mad at me?"

The prince laid down next to her. He wrapped his long arms around her body and deciding to be honest with her; he just kissed the back of her head and responded, "Yes."

He snuggled up closer to her adding, "I hope you're thinking about what Carol said. Jasmine please, please promise me that you won't fight Yusuke until you're strong enough to face him in a rematch."

Breaking their embrace momentarily, Jasmine rolled over onto her left side to face him. Gazing into Koenma's lovely brown eyes, she could see the genuine concern and the pleading look on his handsome face. Jasmine knew she couldn't lie to him or her sister. Thinking about the people who loved and cared about her the most, she gave a small smile finally coming to a decision, "Okay, I promise. I promise I won't fight Yusuke in a rematch until I have enough training. I'll give Genkai a call around Finals Week so I can train with her and my mom for a little bit during Christmas Break and whenever I have off from school."

Taking her into his long arms, Koenma held her close to his body and kissed her forehead, "Good, I'm glad you're finally coming to your senses."

Jasmine brought up her hand and gently stroked his cheek. Lightly touching her nose against his she asked breathing deeply, "Does that mean you forgive me?"

With their lips only a mere inches apart, Koenma replied in a low voice, "Yes. I love you Jasmine."

Before she could respond back, the prince kissed his human lover with deep love and passion. He deepened the kiss as he gently cupped Jasmine's face in his hands and slipped his tongue into her mouth. Jasmine responded with a moan and did the same. Wrapping their arms around each other, the lovers wanted nothing more than to be close to each other.

They hated fighting over stupid and nonsensical matters. Even if the fight between Jasmine and Yusuke was very stupid on both ends, Koenma couldn't stay angry at Jasmine forever. He just wanted to put it behind him. The lovers broke their passionate and loving kiss. They gazed lovingly into each other's brown eyes and as Koenma kissed Jasmine again, the sounds of a woman scolding her son interrupted this tender moment.

Koenma and Jasmine abruptly stopped kissing. The young demon hunter glanced over at the doorway of the bedroom asking, "What the hell is going on?"

Parting from their tight embrace, Koenma sat up, "I have no clue but, it's probably Atsuko."

He sat up and climbed out of the bed. Standing at the doorway, he looked over at Jasmine

politely asking her, "Just stay here. You're still trying to recover from your battle wounds."

Laying on her side, she just silently nodded and simply replied, "Okay, I'll wait for you. I love you my prince."

"I love you too, Jasmine my queen."

Jasmine smiled and blew him a kiss. Koenma chuckled and acted like he caught it and put both of his hands on his chest, directly over his heart before walking out into the hallway. The lecturing in the living room continued and upon walking in, Koenma gazed upon the scene unfolding in front of him.

Atsuko Urameshi didn't let her only son get a word in edgewise as she continued, "It angers me so much that you decided to fight that woman. I don't care who started it, goddammit Yusuke, you should not have grabbed her."

"But Mom..."

"Don't you but Mom me. Yusuke are getting too old for this bullshit. I don't know how much longer I'm going to be able to put up with this."

As Atsuko continued with her verbal tirade, Koenma silently took a seat on one of the old recliners next to William. Janine then decided to interject, "I have already spoken to Jasmine earlier this evening. The fight was a bad decision on both ends."

Atsuko shifted her attention to the middle aged demon hunter and nodded with agreement, "Oh definitely."

Pausing momentarily to take a breath, Atsuko broke the small silence, "Where is your daughter now?"

Janine sipped from her coffee mug and simply responded, "She's resting now. My future son-in-law is keeping close eye on her."

Koenma just silently sat there and smiled at Janine calling him her "future son-in-law". Atsuko shifted her attention back to Yusuke. Both mother and son were stuck in an awkward silence until Atsuko spoke once again, "I don't know what to do with you anymore. Yusuke, I'm sick of it. It's time for you to grow up and start acting like an adult. You're almost seventeen years old."

Yusuke tore his gaze away from his mother and looked down at the floor. He sighed wringing his hands on his lap not wanting to hear any more of this. Before he could say anything to his mother in response, Atsuko then said in a monotone voice having already lost her patience with Yusuke, "Get your shit and let's go home."

She then shifted attention to Janine and William and then said with genuine remorse, "I apologize for all the trouble my son has caused. I'll make sure he doesn't bother your daughter or her boyfriend again."

The middle aged couple both gave her warm smiles and Janine replied, "You needn't worry. We'll make sure that Jasmine does apologize to Yusuke. She'll make the mature decision and come around."

Atsuko gave them a smile in appreciation for their understanding. She shifted her attention back to Yusuke who then sat up from his place on the couch. Deciding it wasn't worth it to argue with his mother and make things worse; he then proceeded to follow her out of the house not saying another word.

Yusuke and Atsuko then left the Black Family House moments later. When the door shut, Koenma yawned, feeling very exhausted from the eventful night that had just taken place. Seeing the prince blink his tired brown eyes, Janine then offered, "Koenma would you like to spend the night?"

He shifted his attention to Janine and figuring it wouldn't hurt, he nodded, "Sure, I would like that." Koenma yawned again and wished Janine and William a goodnight before walking back to Jasmine's and Caroline's old bedroom.

Upon entering the now dark room, Koenma could see Jasmine snuggled up peacefully on the bed having already fallen asleep. The prince slowly shut the door behind him and proceeded to unbutton his shirt. Now topless, he crawled in bed covering himself with the warm thick blanket. Koenma snuggled up close to his sleeping lover gently wrapping his long arms around her slender body.

Hearing Jasmine adorably sigh in her sleep, Koenma smiled and kissed the top of her head. Holding her close to his bare toned chest, he closed his eyes and said before falling asleep, "Goodnight Jasmine."

Three weeks later, it was finally nearing the end of November. The local colleges and universities along with the middle schools and high schools were preparing for their final exams that were to take place at the start of December. For Jasmine, Koashura, and Kotennyo, it seemed like their current semester at MU was a long one but, they were still able to keep their grades up.

Now sitting in their apartment studying hard for their final exams that were to take place in two weeks, the college trio was doing their own thing with their study materials. Jasmine was currently going over her microbiology stuff, while Kotennyo was in the other room working on her final painting project for her advanced painting class and Koashura was busy practicing his guitar solo which was his final project for his music class.

While reading the chapter about the microorganisms that cause sexually transmitted diseases, Jasmine bobbed her head along to Koashura's guitar music. When she finally finished with reading that chapter, she shut her text book and rubbed her tired brown eyes. Jasmine placed her microbiology text book down on the wooden coffee table making a semi-loud thud on the wooden surface.

Upon hearing the sound of the text book being placed on the wooden piece of furniture Koashura looked up from his sheet music, "Gonna take a break?"

Jasmine stood up from the leather couch and nodded, "Yeah. I'm going to go out for a little bit. There is something I need to take care of."

Deciding not to question his human friend and roommate about it, Koashura gave her a slight nod and a small smile, "Go do what you need to do. Kotennyo and I will see you when you get back."

As she slipped on her purple sneakers and tied the laces, Jasmine then asked, "So what do you and Kotennyo want for dinner tonight?"

Glancing at his sheet music and back at Jasmine, Koashura shrugged his broad shoulders, "No clue. I'm not really in the mood to cook tonight. Wanna order some takeout?"

Thinking about it for just a moment, Jasmine nodded, "Yeah that sounds good. I can't decide what I want so, why don't we just vote on it when I get back?"

"Sure. Talk to you about it then."

Finished with her short conversation with Koashura, Jasmine slipped on her coat and grabbed her black and white handbag before walking out her apartment door. Walking the two blocks to the bus stop, she only had one thing on her mind. She remembered the promise she made to Koenma and her sister about apologizing to Yusuke.

Over the last three weeks, Jasmine buried herself in her schoolwork and her work at the hospital while she was thinking it over. She wanted to keep her distance from the former spirit detective for that period of time until she thought she was ready to speak to him.

Still immersed in her thoughts, the bus pulled up. Jasmine stepped onto it and paid the fee before sitting down. She thought about what she was going to say to Yusuke the entire thirty minute ride to the stop that was two blocks away from the Yukimura Café. Upon arriving at her destination, Jasmine stepped off the bus and began to walk.

Minutes later, she now stood in front of the Yukimura Café and gripped her black purse straps taking a deep breath. She then exhaled and decided that it was now or never. Jasmine gripped the door's handle and slid it open.

Hearing the door shut, Mr. Yukimura looked up from the meal he just finished cooking for the current customer at the counter. As he handed the woman her food, he greeted the young Alaskan psychic with a polite smile, "Hello, what can I do you for?"

Jasmine stepped up to the counter, "Hi, is Yusuke Urameshi working today?"

Mr. Yukimura blinked his dark eyes for a minute and responded, "Yeah, he's out back. He'll be in any minute now."

Just as Mr. Yukimura said that, Yusuke walked in carrying a heavy crate of wrapped up fish. The former spirit detective didn't notice Jasmine at all being too distracted with the heavy load in his arms and asked his future father-in-law, "Where do you want me to put this?"

Mr. Yukimura shifted his attention to Yusuke and pointed in the direction of the refrigerator, "Just place the entire crate on the floor, son."

Yusuke smiled and nodded and fulfilled Mr. Yukimura's request. He then stood back up and stretched his arms, legs and back. While Yusuke was still stretching, Mr. Yukimura then mentioned, "You have a visitor. It's the same girl from the other day."

At Mr. Yukimura's words, Yusuke looked in the direction of the front counter and laid his eyes upon Jasmine. The half demon former spirit detective and the Alaskan demon hunter just gave each other a blank stare.

Just as Jasmine was about to break the awkward silence, Mr. Yukimura then interjected, "Go ahead and talk to her, Yusuke. I hope you two are finally going to finish your little dispute."

Yusuke chuckled and gave him a small smile, "Everything's fine Mr. Yukimura."

"Oh good, while you're talking to her, make sure you put the fish in the fridge before they spoil. My wife and I will be out back watching for our new shipment of rice. If you need us, just holler."

Yusuke nodded and smiled at his future father-in-law, "Will do. Thank you, Mr. Yukimura."

Seconds after Mr. Yukimura walked out the door, Yusuke shifted his attention back to Jasmine and kindly offered, "Have a seat."

The young demon hunter gave him a small smile at his kind gesture. She sat down on one of the empty chairs at the front counter. Still thinking about what he was going to say to her, Yusuke walked over to the refrigerator, opened the door and proceeded to place the new shipment of wrapped up fish into it.

Deciding to break the awkward silence between them, Yusuke asked still placing the fish onto the empty shelf of the fridge, "What are you doing here Ice Queen? Are you going to yell at me some more?"

Slipping her black and white purse off her slender shoulder and setting it down in front of her, Jasmine sighed and replied, "I deserve that. No Urameshi...Yusuke, I'm not going to yell at you."

"Oh?"

Jasmine stared at her purse for a moment. She took a deep breath and decided it was now or never, "I wanted to apologize for our fight that happened earlier this month."

After he put in a few more wrapped up fish into the refrigerator, Yusuke just stared at the newly stocked shelves stunned. He felt like his ears were burning from hearing what Jasmine just said. The young demon hunter just sat there and waited for Yusuke's reply.

The former spirit detective then broke the dead silence between them, "Wow...um...I'm sorry too..." He paused for a moment to put the rest of the fish into the fridge. Once the crate was clear of it, he shut the refrigerator door and stood up from his crouched position.

Yusuke walked over to the sink and washed his hands. Drying his hands off with a paper towel, he spoke again before Jasmine could say anything else, "Look Es...Jasmine, I forgive you but, can I say something?"

Jasmine nodded, "Sure."

Yusuke deposited the used paper towel into the nearest trash bin and brought up one of his hands to the back of his head before he scratched it for a minute and then complimented, "You're a good fighter. You remind me of where I was during the Sensui Case. I was powerful but, not as strong as I should have been."

Noticing her large brown eyes narrowing and taking slight offense to those words, Yusuke then said to defend himself, "That's not to say that you suck or anything, I just think with more training, we'll be more evenly matched."

Jasmine chuckled at the former spirit detective's awkwardness. She formed a smile on her pink lips and nodded in agreement, "You know what Yusuke, I agree."

"You do?"

She nodded again, "Yeah. My semester at MU is almost finished and after I'm finished with finals, I'm going to get in touch with Genkai and my mom so I can pick up with my training with them during Christmas Break and any other time I have off from med school. Yusuke, I want to face you in a rematch but, not until my power has increased."

Yusuke slipped his hands into the pockets of his white apron, "Grandma will whip you

into shape."

"She will."

There was another small pause between them. Then Jasmine decided to break the silence to mention something, "Speaking of that rematch, why don't we fight again in a tournament?"

Yusuke raised one of his dark eyebrows at that, "No offense but, I don't think a human would do all that well in the next Demon World Tournament."

Jasmine sighed, "I'm not talking about the Demon World Tournament. From what Koenma told me about it, it seems like human psychics like me, the Kuwabaras, Genkai or my family with the exception of my grandparents, wouldn't be able to compete with the high level demons that participated in it. Besides, we psychics have our own little tournaments or power...sort of."

Interested, Yusuke pulled up a chair and sat down at the counter in front of Jasmine, "What are these tournaments you're talking about?"

Playing with her hair scrunchie on her thin bony wrist, Jasmine continued, "There is one in Alaska that takes place every year at the Alaska State Fair in Palmer, Alaska that's called the Alaska State Fair Tournament. Anyone can compete in it. Locals, foreigners, demons, human psychics, gods, ogres, whatever, all competitors are welcome. Like the Dark Tournament, the participants form teams but, they are made up of six members instead of five and each team can have two alternates. Also, the fights in this tournament aren't meant to be fought to the death like they are in the Dark Tournament. Like the one you created for the Demon World, it's highly encouraged for the competitors to live so they can come back and fight in the next one."

"So, if the competitor faints, dies or surrenders, they lose the fight?"

"Yeah pretty much"

Yusuke's ears perked up liking what he was hearing, "So when does this tournament happen?"

Jasmine stopped playing with her scrunchie, "During the summer time from the end of July to early August, which is perfect because it doesn't interfere with any school schedules. I checked, it even happens before any of the schools here in Japan start their semesters off. I was thinking about taking the summer off anyway because, MU's Medical Program doesn't offer any classes this summer, go figure."

She paused for a short moment and added, "Speaking of, you can get Kurama and Kazuma onto your team since they're going to be off during the summer too. I can talk to Shizuru to see if she'll let him participate. I have a feeling that she'll say yes being that Kazuma has kept up his straight A streak."

Yusuke put his hand on his chin and began to scratch it. He started to think that reuniting the team for a few weeks couldn't hurt. Kurama and Kuwabara would be all for it but, then there was the issue of Hiei. The former spirit detective sighed. He knew that Hiei wouldn't be so easy to convince. Since the short fire wielding demon had returned to his home, he swore he would never set another foot into the Human World. Yusuke remembered how unhappy Hiei was with him when he recruited him to play on his team for the softball game back in September and was to the point of where he refused to even play. As a result, Mukuro wound up taking double duty for the team.

Then Yusuke remembered when he bumped into Hiei at the Demon World Tournament, he noticed that he seemed actually happy and he was where he wanted to be. The former spirit detective then snapped out of his thoughts and mentioned, "Hiei is going to take a lot of convincing to come back here. When he returned home to Demon World, he swore he would never come back here. He told me during the tournament last spring. Plus, he was so pissed off at me during our softball game and refused to play."

Jasmine chuckled and shook her head, "I remember that. You still have plenty of time to decide. This tournament is not mandatory for you and the rest of your team to participate. The Alaska State Fair Tournament is supposed to be a fun tournament. The fate of the world is not at stake and neither are anyone's lives. If you do decide if you want to participate, you have a whole lot of time from now to July to get your team together and train. There's no pressure really."

Yusuke put his hand down and set both of his arms on the counter, "Just out of curiosity, what is the prize for the winning team?"

Jasmine glanced at her purse for a minute and shifted her attention back to Yusuke, "If I remember correctly, there is a cash prize and a trophy. It's been over eight years since the last time I watched it. Back then, I was too young to participate but, I'm old enough now. It really sucks I was just two years off from the age requirement when I moved. All participants must be at least 15 years old to participate. They do background checks and everything."

Yusuke was brightly smiling at this point, "That's good. I'm 16 ½, bring it on. This tournament sounds like fun."

"Glad you're on board for it. Our rematch will be fun."

Yusuke smiled and chuckled in agreement. Just then, Jasmine's stomach began to rumble. Hearing that and deciding to be nice, Yusuke then asked her, "Are you hungry?"

The young demon hunter nodded, "Yeah. I haven't eaten since earlier this afternoon."

"I can whip up something."

Jasmine smiled at Yusuke's kind offer. She thought about it for a minute and shrugged her small shoulders, "Sure, do you have a menu somewhere?"

Yusuke nodded, "We do." He then got up from his place at the counter and walked across the kitchen. He retrieved a paper menu and then walked back over to counter before handing it to Jasmine.

Looking over the menu for something she would like to eat, Jasmine then thought that she can just order something not only for herself but, for Koashura and Kotennyo. She figured it wouldn't hurt to bring them back some food even if they were going to vote on it when she got back to the apartment.

Yusuke waited patiently while Jasmine continued to look over the menu and handed another customer their change after they paid for their meal. When she felt she was ready to order, Jasmine placed the menu down on the counter and asked, "Do you have a phone?"

"Yeah, do you need to call someone?"

Jasmine nodded, "Yeah. I need to call my roommates about what they would like to eat."

Yusuke handed her a cordless phone. After Jasmine called her apartment and spoke to Koashura about bringing him and Kotennyo something to eat from the Yukimura Café, which he was okay with, she watched Yusuke prepare their meals thinking about their upcoming rematch. She was determined to train hard over her short breaks from med school. Jasmine wanted nothing more than to defeat Yusuke Urameshi and the thought of taking him down in front of a crowd in her home state of Alaska was exciting.

Two weeks later, the start of December had finally rolled around. Finals Week for the local colleges, universities, high schools and middle schools has finally begun. As a result of that, Koenma didn't get to see Jasmine unless she came to Spirit World on her lunch breaks from work but, even that time was limited.

Currently sitting in his office attending to his daily duties, Koenma was hard at work on the current stack of paperwork he was working on. He was so looking forward to going to Genkai's later this evening. Not only was he excited about spending some time with Jasmine but, he, Jorge and the rest of band were going to brainstorm and possibly vote on the name of their first album.

Koenma already had some ideas of how the track listing was going to be though; he wanted to discuss it with Genkai and the rest of band about it first. Jorge already knew of his boss's plans and he was on board with whatever Koenma wanted to do. Koashura agreed to speak with Kotennyo about the album's artwork after they were to finish their little discussion.

Stamp...rustle...stamp...rustle...

"That's one burden that I don't have to worry about. Kotennyo always does nice work with her art." He thought to himself as he stamped a couple of more documents.

This was his last stack of the day and it was getting very late. Koenma was over halfway finished with it. Being so immersed in his work, the tall and handsome prince didn't notice that Jorge stepped into the room already dressed in his brown trench coat carrying his hat and bandana along with his music binder and the case to his bass guitar. The blue ogre didn't want to interrupt him knowing damn well that he might get yelled at for it. Deciding to take that chance, Jorge then cleared his throat, "Almost finished sir?"

Hearing his servant's voice, Koenma nodded and replied not taking his attention away from his work, "Yes Ogre. I'm almost there...oh crap."

Forming a look of concern on his face, Jorge asked wanting to know what was wrong, "What is it?"

Scanning over the current document, Koenma replied in a voice that almost sounded like a whine, "It's another letter from King Enki."

"What does it say?"

The prince took in a deep breath and replied as he read it, "It says that he has finally set up a time for our meeting."

Tightly gripping onto the handle of his bass's case, Jorge asked him, "When is it?"

Finished with reading it and slipping the document into his robes, Koenma rubbed his temples feeling another migraine coming on, "It's next week," he paused, sighed and then continued, "I was going to ask Jasmine if she would like to go with me after she finishes her final exams but, I guess I'll do it tonight."

Not wanting to cause his boss to get behind and take up too much more of his time, Jorge decided to leave him alone and wait patiently for Koenma finish up. Over three hours later, they and Shunjun finally made it to Genkai's Compound where Koashura, Genkai, Kotennyo and Jasmine are already waiting for them.

Stepping into the compound, Koenma was then bombarded by Kotennyo who then asked with a hint of impatience in her voice, "Jesus fucking Christ, what the hell kept you guys?"

Koenma rolled his lovely brown eyes at his ex, "I was trying to finish up all the damn paperwork I was working on and a certain SDF captain had a booty call."

Jorge looked over at Shunjun and shook his head. From what Koenma just said, he chuckled, "What? I don't have a steady girlfriend like you guys and she was hot, speaking of hot hi Jasmine."

Knowing damn well he was hitting on her, Jasmine decided to take it with a grain of salt. She just laughed it off and replied, "Hey Shunjun."

Looking at how Koenma was glaring at him, Shunjun quickly tried to defend himself, "Sorry your highness. I'm not trying to steal her away from you. I can assure you, Miss Jasmine is all yours."

Genkai let out a loud groan of annoyance, "If you dimwits are finished with your locker room talk, let's get started on our band stuff."

"Sorry about that Genkai."

Noting the blush on her lover's cheeks, Jasmine approached Koenma. She gently took his hand and kissed it, "How was work?"

The prince sighed, "Very tedious. Oh, I should mention that I received another letter from King Enki."

"What is it about?"

Gazing into Jasmine's dark brown eyes, he simply replied, "Why don't we talk about this later? I really need to focus on something else for right now. The last thing I need is my work stressing me out. I've had a stressful enough day already."

She gave him a sweet smile and nodded with understanding. Without saying another word, Jasmine stood on her tip toes, removed Koenma's pacifier before giving him a deep and loving kiss. He kissed her back returning the same deep love and passion. The lovers continued to kiss each other. From being separated and missing each other all week from attending to their responsibilities they wanted nothing more than to be close to each other.

They then separated hearing Genkai clear her throat again, "I don't mean to interrupt you two..."

Breaking his and Jasmine's lip lock, Koenma blushed with embarrassment again, "Sorry again." Jasmine too chuckled at herself from getting too carried away by hers and Koenma's little reunion and handed him back his pacifier, which he then slipped it into his pocket.

While everyone followed Genkai to her sitting room, Jasmine, still holding onto Koenma's hand then casually reminded him, "Don't forget to put it back in..."

The prince chuckled, "I know my queen, I will remember to store my energy into it for the Mafukan. Don't worry, I won't forget." He kissed her hand which made the young college bound psychic giggle like a schoolgirl, "You're so good to me. Thank you for considering my needs and always having my best interests in mind. I love you."

Jasmine kissed his hand and sweetly giggled before responding, "I love you too my prince."

They gave each other another quick kiss before joining the others and finding a place to sit down. Jorge removed his hat off his head and placed his song binder on the floor and broke the ice while opening it up, "Okay, we need to decide which songs we are going to use on our first album."

At Jorge's words, Koenma interjected, "Also, we need to vote on what we are going to name it first. We've already brainstormed some ideas and Jasmine wrote them all down in her notebook."

Jasmine opened up her notebook and began to read each one off, "Okay, they are as followed," She then cleared her throat and began to read them off, "The first one was suggested by Shunjun. He wanted to name the debut album, "Wretches and Kings". Do we have any votes for "Wretches and Kings"?"

Jasmine looked around and nobody raised their hands. Shunjun began to laugh at his own suggestion, "I shouldn't have suggested it. It was a really stupid idea."

Koenma smiled patted the young SDF captain on the shoulder and offered up some kind words, "Nonsense, it was a cool name but, I don't really think it would go with the theme we're going to go for with this record. Thank you for your contribution. You are a member of this band and as a band, we're a team."

Shunjun smiled at Koenma's kindness, "Thank you your highness."

Jasmine then crossed the name off the list, "Okay, that one is a no go. The next one is Koashura's idea, "Fairytales of Insanity". Anyone who likes this one, raise your hand."

Koashura and Kotennyo raised their hands and Jasmine counted them. Tallying the votes down, she read the next one, "This one is Jorge's. He thought about naming the album "Horror at the Opera House", any takers?"

Shunjun raised his hand and Jasmine counted it. Reading the final suggestion which was Koenma's she said, "Okay here's the last one and I really like it because, I feel like it would match the songs I've heard so far from you guys. It's called "Welcome to the Asylum". Who wants the album to be named that?"

Jorge, Koenma, Jasmine and Genkai raised their hands and the small old psychic decided to add in her own two cents, "I think so too. You guys named your demo tape...ah, CD, "Songs from Crazy Town" so, what more than to start with your first album is being named something similar."

The whole band just sat there to let Genkai's suggestion sink in. After a moment of complete silence, Koenma broke it, "You know Genkai, that's not such a bad idea. "Songs from Crazy Town" was basically our introduction so our public debut will stick to the insane asylum theme."

Looking over the sheet music in his song binder, Jorge then interjected, "Now we know the name of our first album and the theme we're going to go for it, we now need to figure out which and how many songs will be on the track listing?"

Eyeing Jorge with interest, Jasmine then asked in genuine curiosity, "How many songs have you and Koenma worked on?"

Flipping through his collection, Jorge answered, "Since Sensui's downfall, Koenma and I have worked on over a hundred different songs."

Genkai's brown eyes widened in surprise, "A hundred, do you guys realize that the album cannot be that long?"

Jasmine nodded in agreement, "Yeah, here in the Human World, most rock albums usually go for somewhere between 10-15 songs, occasionally 18-20 at most but, the standard is around 10-15. Take example Koashura's favorite band, Weezer, their album only has 10 songs. There are such things as B-sides and hidden tracks that are just bonus songs."

Listening carefully to Jasmine's explanation, Koenma asked, "So how many will be the B-sides or hidden tracks?"

The young demon hunter shrugged her slender shoulders, "Maybe one, two, or three? That is up to you guys to decide that. Whatever songs you don't use for this album, you can record and release them for the next one or use them for something else down the line."

Popping open his soda can, Koashura took a sip and added, "So what are we waiting for? Let's get cracking on these songs."

At Koashura's words, the whole band along with Jasmine, Kotennyo and Genkai began to look through Jorge's song binder to look over which songs were going to be recorded for "Welcome to the Asylum". While looking through Jorge's and Koenma's various pieces of sheet music, they basically sorted out 1/3 of their load because some were Koenma's opera/symphonic metal songs for the Spirit World Opera House and immediately decided those will not make it onto the album.

The remaining songs that were left over were written for the band. The total of the songs written for the band was around 40. Looking over those 40 songs, four were chosen to be B-sides while a total of 13 songs were chosen to be on the main track listing. Later that night, Koenma and Jasmine cuddled in the guest room after the meeting with the whole band had finally wrapped up.

Deciding that now was a good time to ask her, Koenma held Jasmine close to his body and asked, "Since your semester is wrapping up, I was wondering if...um, you would like to go with me to Demon World for a couple of days?"

Snuggling up close to him, Jasmine looked up at his handsome face, "Do you know when the meeting is going to take place?"

Koenma nodded, "Yes, Enki arranged it to be this weekend. You don't have to go if you don't want to. I understand that you want to pick up your training with your mother and Genkai so you'll be ready for yours and Yusuke's rematch."

Jasmine thought about it for a minute and looking at the expression etched on his face, she could see that he really needed her love and support to get him through it. She understood that his job was incredibly stressful and the added troubles of the investigation of the demon disappearances in Valdez, Alaska, Mushiori City, and in the Spirit and Demon Worlds along with knowing that his father is directly responsible for it and not being able to prove anything, it just made things worse for him.

Jasmine reached up and gently touched Koenma's cheek. She leaned up and removed his pacifier before softly kissing his soft, smooth luscious lips. Parting from their kiss a mere moments later, Jasmine lovingly gazed into his brown eyes and answered, "Of course I'll go to Demon World with you, I've never been there but, I'll gladly go to lend you my support."

Feeling as if he couldn't love her any more than he could, Koenma formed a happy bright smile, "Thank you Jasmine." He gently placed his hand on her cheek and softly nuzzled his nose against hers, "I love you my queen."

Nuzzling his nose in return, Jasmine sweetly replied, "It's no problem. I'll talk to Genkai and my mom about it in the morning. I'm sure they'll understand. I love you too my prince."

Not saying another word to each other, they closed their eyes and shared a deep, loving and passionate kiss. Both lovers moaned into their lip lock and Jasmine purred as Koenma ran his long fingers through her soft brown curls. As they deepened the kiss, Jasmine wrapped her arms around Koenma's neck to bring him closer to her.

The prince broke the kiss to trail soft kisses along her neck making his lover gasp as he began to kiss, nip, lick, and suck on that sensitive spot. Enjoying every moment, Jasmine and Koenma could only think of being close to each other. They wanted to make this night special and have every minute of it count.

Meanwhile in downtown Mushiori City an inhuman attractive young woman entered Club Red when the ordinary human bouncer let her in. She formed a cruel smile on her red full lips hearing the ordinary humans who were still waiting to get into the club loudly complaining.

Aphrodite laughed, "Stupid humans. So impatient, weak and fragile, god I hate them."

Looking around the club's interior, she scanned the crowd looking for her partner Rando. Beginning to grow impatient not sensing any demon energy around her, she groaned in utter frustration, "Where the hell did he say where you were going to be? You should already be here Rando."

Walking up to the bar, the ordinary human bartender asked her, "Hey pretty lady, what can I get you?"

Aphrodite glanced over at him and answered giving him a blank stare, "Red wine."

"Coming right up."

The bartender uncorked a bottle of red wine and poured some into a wine glass for her. He handed the young love goddess her drink. Taking a sip, Aphrodite heard a voice from behind her, "It's about damn time you get here."

Recognizing the voice, she turned around and licked the drops of wine of her lips. Taking a look at the stranger who was dressed in a brown trench coat wearing a hat on his head that obscured his face, Aphrodite sensed his demon energy and remarked, "I should be saying the same thing to you Rando."

Rando took a seat beside her and rolled his eyes at her, "Try waiting in a loud cramped space with a ton of filthy humans. I'm not going to be able to get the stench off of me for weeks after this."

Taking another sip from her wine, Aphrodite scoffed, "Don't blame me. The asshole was the one who asked us to meet here. If I had my way, we would have got to meet away from all this filth."

Deciding to change the subject to their mission, Aphrodite withdrew the two photographs from her jacket that was given to her by the mysterious masked man, "Let's focus on the task at hand shall we?"

Rando took both photos into his hands. Just like Aphrodite, he scrunched is nose in pure disgust gazing at the first one, "I'm not going to waste my time with this human slut. You deal with her." Looking at the second one, he smiled and added, "Now Urameshi on the other hand, fuck yeah, he owes me big time for the Genkai Tournament."

Darkly laughing in response, Aphrodite then mentioned, "You know, that woman isn't just any human slut. She's Lord Koenma's lover and a powerful psychic that comes from a prominent family of demon hunters. I know how you love to steal abilities from powerful psychics. Though, I should mention that she won't be so easy to take down. That's what I heard anyway."

Lowering the photo of Yusuke from his line of vision, Rando just gave Aphrodite a blank expression, "Yeah so? If she's anything below my new class level, I'm not gonna even bother. I want a good fight."

"Speaking of good fights, did you know that Yusuke Urameshi is not totally human?"

Rando's eyes widened in surprise at that news, "No I have not. We don't get to hear new stuff like that in Spirit World Jail. So he's half demon?"

Aphrodite nodded, "You got it. Mazoku, actually, Urameshi is actually a descendant of the late King Toshin Raizen. It is said, that he's an S Class demon. If that is proven to be true, Rando you'll get your good fight."

Liking what he was hearing, Rando formed a smile of excitement on his face, "Oh I'm looking forward to it. This just keeps getting better and better. So how are you going to handle Koenma's whore?"

Aphrodite took another sip from her wine, "I'm not going to kill her immediately. I did some research on that Jasmine girl. I have gathered so much information on her like her family, friends, old boyfriends, where she went to school, her power level, fighting abilities, her medical and even her psychological records and I found some interesting things that I can use to my advantage."

"And what might that be?"

She then coldly laughed, "Oh you'll learn in due time my friend. Before I kill Jasmine Elizabeth Black or should I say "McAlpin", I'm going to toy with her until I break her. I'll fracture her emotional and mental state to the point of where she meets the same fate of Koenma's former spirit detective Shinobu Sensui. The poor little wench will go mad to the point of where she will turn on her regal lover."

Taking another sip from her wine, Aphrodite was interrupted when someone spoke to her, "Hey there hottie."

She and Rando shifted their attention to a good looking Japanese man with wavy black hair and bright blue eyes. Looking at the man, Aphrodite then thought to herself, "Oh this is too perfect, perhaps I can start toying with my target now."

She then spoke to the man "Hello there."

"Do you want to dance?"

Aphrodite smiled and said in response, "Sure."

~To Be Continued