Musical Espionage
Disclaimer: I do not own YYH or any of the its characters being that they all belong to Yoshihiro Togashi. Nor, do I own the song "Welcome to Paradise" being that belongs to Green Day. The only things I do own in this story are my OCs Jasmine and Christine.
Chapter 21: An Important Meeting
Unbuttoning her lover's pajama top, Jasmine kissed down Koenma's neck and onto his chest leaving little bite marks in her wake. The thought of marking her prince during these heated, passionate and tender moments was so enthralling to her. Koenma gently tilted her chin up to his face and kissed her again.
The lovers continued to undress each other until they were both nude and ready to begin their loving and passionate lovemaking session with the right amount of foreplay to get each other ready for the main act. Jasmine let out a deep moan as Koenma took her small perky breasts into his hands and gently massaged them while playing with her pink nipples with his thumbs.
He leaned over licking one nipple taking it into his mouth before nipping, sucking and gently biting the hardening nub. Jasmine squirmed under his gentle touch running her fingers through his soft brown hair. Koenma shifted his attention to her other nipple and gave it the same treatment.
Being consumed with the wonderful feeling he was giving her, Jasmine didn't notice him slipping his hand between her legs, gently parting her pussy lips and softly rubbed her sensitive and swollen clit. She let out a surprised gasp and cried out in absolute pleasure when he took that button of flesh into his mouth licking and sucking on it.
Wanting to make her really scream and cum hard for him, Koenma slipped one of his long fingers into her soaked pussy. Jasmine writhed from the wonderful feeling of him pumping it in and out of her, "Koenma...nngh."
Inserting a second finger inside her, Koenma looked up at her feeling his cock growing harder looking at his lover's face and seeing her enjoying the pleasure he was giving her. Jasmine gasped and cried out, "D...deeper..."
"Yes my queen."
He resumed his gentle licking and sucking of her clit before slipping a third finger into her dripping wet cunt. Jasmine's happy cries in ecstasy went up an octave at the feeling of being stretched and filled. As Koenma pumped his fingers deeper inside her, Jasmine brought his head closer to her crotch, burying her hands in his thick brown hair.
Several moments of bliss later, Jasmine felt she was close and began to beg for her release, "Ko...Koenma please. I...I'm gonna..."
Getting the message and seeing her legs trembling, Koenma increased the pace of his fingers and curled them, stimulating her g-spot and continued with his sucking on his lover's clit. Finally being sent over the edge, Jasmine cried out her lover's name as her orgasm washed over her human body squirting her juices on his face, "KOENMA I'M CUMMING!"
The prince gladly licked up her cum and commented, "So sweet. Goddamn you taste so good."
Jasmine lay there breathing heavily and she giggled at Koenma's comment. Finally getting her heart rate and her breathing under control, though she still felt the blissful effects of the intense orgasm he gave her, she then replied as she slowly sat up, "Your turn."
She took his rock hard erection into her hand and gently stroked it. The prince moaned, "Jasmine..."
Dragging her tongue along the shaft and tracing it along the visible veins, Jasmine sweetly and seductively giggled, "Feels good?"
Koenma nodded and gasped as she took his length into her mouth and started her slow pace taking in more and more of the length of his cock each time. He ran his long fingers through her long soft brown curls and arched his neck back chanting his lover's name, "Jasmine, oh Jasmine...aaaahhh..."
Hearing her lover's pleasure filled moans, Jasmine giggled before taking him into the back of her throat, deep throating him. Feeling her mouth tightening around him as she gently swallowed, hollowing out her cheeks, Koenma involuntarily thrust into her mouth.
Jasmine purred with delight and pulled back leaving only the tip of his penis in her oral cavity. The young demon hunter gently pulled back the foreskin before slowly swirling her tongue around the blushed pink head gently licking his slit that was leaking with precum.
"Mmmmmm..."
Admiring his taste, Jasmine slipped Koenma's throbbing cock back into her mouth going back to her slow and torturous pace once more. Wanting to make him scream and come hard into her mouth, she then reached for his balls and proceeded to gently massage them in her hand.
"Fuck!"
Koenma's moans and whimpers went up an octave at his human lover's naughty action. Suddenly getting a bright idea in mind, Jasmine took Koenma's dick out of her mouth
with a loud pop. The prince looked down at her and saw the naughty gleam he loved glinting in her large brown eyes and began to beg, "Why? Why did you stop? Please suck my cock some more my queen. Please."
Gently stroking his throbbing erection and still massaging his balls, Jasmine's pink lips formed a seductive smirk and she said in a low voice, "I have a request for you my prince."
"Ahhhh...y...yeah?"
"I will suck you off but, I will only let you cum if you fuck my mouth. Oh my pussy is getting so wet when I think about that. Please Koenma?"
He let out another loud moan in pleasure, took a deep breath and responded, "A...are you sure? I don't want to h...hurt you."
Jasmine looked up at him and blinked her brown eyes. She gave him a loving smile and nodded, "Yes. If you don't feel comfortable with that, we can try it some other time. Do you want to try it? If not, then I'll just ride your big cock instead, so yes or no?"
Still feeling pleasure from Jasmine's gentle ministrations on his cock and balls, Koenma thought about it for a split moment and shook his head from side to side as in a no. He took another deep breath and answered truthfully, "N...not right now. L...let's save it."
Still giving him a loving smile, Jasmine nodded in understanding. She let go of his cock and balls before straddling his hips. Teasing him while rubbing her wet pussy along his throbbing length, she asked with that naughty twinkle he loved glinting in her eye, "Do you want to fuck my mouth while we do a role play? Tell me Koenma, what's your fantasy?"
Moving his hands along her hips, making her giggle, Koenma gazed up at his human lover's lovely face. So turned on by her sexy demeanor, the prince blushed a little and replied hoping he wouldn't freak her out, "Lately, I've been fantasizing about...about..."
"Yes?"
He looked off to the side as his pale cheeks turned a shade of red, "Well, my fantasy is...um..." He then leaned up and whispered what it was still blushing.
Still teasing him, Jasmine licked her pink lips, "Sounds hot, I'll gladly indulge it but, only if you indulge my fantasy."
Koenma laid back down on the bed and sweetly smiled, "Of course my queen, anything you want. What is it?"
Forming a mischievous grin, Jasmine leaned down and whispered her fantasy into his ear. Koenma felt his dick grow even harder listening to his lover explain in graphic detail of what she wanted to do to him along with her hot breath in his ear making him squeal in delight.
He looked over at her with wide eyes and broke the brief silence between them saying with enthusiasm, "That sounds amazing. I've pleasured myself to the thought of you doing that to me so many times."
Kissing his neck and pushing her nude breasts against his bare chest, Jasmine purred, "I'm glad you approve. We can do your fantasy first and then mine. Oh Koenma, I love you."
They kissed each other briefly and parting from her lips, Koenma responded, "I love you too. I love pleasing you my queen."
He kissed her cheek and noting that the far off look he had just a few moments ago had returned to his face, Jasmine blinked her lovely brown eyes and asked, "What's wrong?"
Figuring out what it was, Jasmine then mentioned, "Are you still thinking about the upcoming meeting in Demon World?"
Koenma sighed and nodded. Reaching down and softly stroking his cheek, Jasmine wanted nothing more to help ease his anxiety over it. That whole predicament was King Yama's fault, not that they would be able to prove it. It not only angered Koenma but, it did for Jasmine too.
Jasmine leaned down and softly kissed Koenma's lips saying in a soft voice, "Don't focus on that for right now. Focus on us. Think about how you want me to make you feel."
She sat up and slowly ran her hands down his bare toned chest saying in a seductive voice, "I want to make you feel good my prince. Let me take control and help you relax."
Leaning down again, she began to trail kisses along his neck and down his chest and abdomen. Koenma shut his beautiful brown eyes and moaned, "Yes, Jasmine, please."
Kissing his stomach near his belly button, Jasmine looked up at him and asked in a seductive tone, "Please what my prince?"
Opening his eyes, he looked down and begged, "Please ride me. Oh my queen, I wanna feel your pussy envelope my cock. Oh fuck, I want you so bad."
"I want you too, my love."
Positioning herself to align with his hard and waiting cock, Jasmine let out a small pleasurable gasp sliding it into her soaked pussy. After taking a moment to adjust to his
size, Jasmine began her slow and gentle pace bobbing up and down on Koenma's length and earned a moan from him when she ground her hips and pelvic region against his.
She leaned down and deeply kissed his lips. The prince kissed her back with the same deep love slowly moving his hands down his lover's slender shoulders, thin arms, down her waist and along her hips before finally settling them on her ass.
Jasmine broke the tender kiss and gasped in pure delight as her lover slapped her right ass cheek. Speeding up her movements, she lovingly gazed down at Koenma. He responded giving her the same loving smile.
"You like it when I do that?"
The young demon hunter giggled, "Yes I do Koenma. Ah, I love it when you slap my ass."
Liking what he just heard, he slapped her butt again making her cry out in ecstasy. Increasing her movements to a slightly faster pace, Jasmine arched her back moaning in pleasure. Watching her breasts bounce, Koenma sat up and took one in his hand. Jasmine sighed at the feeling of him licking and sucking on her hard pink nipple.
As he still played with her breast and groaned at a wave of pleasure that washed over him, Koenma felt a cold chill in the room. Thinking that Genkai may have left the window open earlier and just forgotten to shut it, he looked over still massaging Jasmine's breast and blinked his eyes in confusion seeing that it was still closed.
Still feeling the odd chill, Koenma didn't want to ruin this precious time he and Jasmine were sharing. Letting go of her breast, he wrapped his long arms around his psychic lover's waist and held her close to his body. He kissed along her neck and as Jasmine arched her neck back and moaned, "I love you Koenma", he suddenly saw something or someone that made his heart sink and his jaw drop.
Standing at the foot of the bed-futon was Jasmine's ex-boyfriend Makoto Chiba. Though, something was off about him, staring at him as Jasmine didn't seem to notice while she still kept up with her semi-fast pace of her lovemaking, Koenma could see that the ordinary human man didn't appear to be solid but, instead he was transparent. Makoto didn't say anything but only his bright blue eyes just glared at Koenma while he watched as his ex-girlfriend was making love to another man in front of him.
Koenma didn't want to ponder why Makoto would be here watching himself and Jasmine have sex. This was supposed to be an intimate moment between two people in love. Koenma shut his eyes and opened them and realized as it finally dawned on him that Makoto was a ghost and had just recently died somehow. His suspicions were confirmed when he tried to grab at Jasmine's long brown curls hoping to inflict pain on her scalp.
Koenma could only watch as he saw Makoto's hand go through the side of Jasmine's
head and the ordinary human man's face just sank in disappointment. Feeling the same cold chill too, Jasmine stopped her pace on her lover's cock. She looked over at Koenma and asked him feeling another presence in the room with them, "Do you feel that?"
Noting the terrified expression on his face, Jasmine looked at him with concern, "Are you alright? Koenma what is it?"
Watching Makoto look at himself with pure shock and sadness, Koenma just struggled to get any words out. Makoto then took one last look at Koenma and Jasmine and then floated out of Genkai's guest room through a wall by the window.
Meanwhile outside the compound, Makoto floated up over the structure and stared at the roof, "Just what the hell was that?"
He then brought his hand up to behind his head and began to pull at his jet black hair wondering, "What is going on? One minute I was in my apartment with that hot babe I picked up at the club and the next minute I'm in some weird mountain compound watching my Plain Jane Alaskan ex fucking her submissive virgin boyfriend that has a weird tattoo on his forehead."
Makoto then took his hand out of his hair and stared at it. Looking back down at the compound, his blue eyes widened when it dawned at him, "A...am I...dead? Did the woman I just fucked kill me?"
Suddenly the voice of a woman spoke, "Bingo, bingo, you win the prize."
Makoto turned around and was greeted by a woman with unearthly beauty with blue hair done up in a ponytail, sparkling pink eyes, a beautiful pale complexion dressed in a pink kimono floated in front of him on a wooden oar. The ordinary human man blinked his blue eyes and asked, "Are you an angel? You have to be with how beautiful you are."
The woman giggled taking the complement, "Thank you but, I'm not an angel. My name is Botan and I am what people would call the grim reaper. Seeing as how you're a ghost, I'm now here to ferry your soul to its final resting place but, first you have to be judged before it's decided to where you will go."
Still not really getting it, Makoto asked, "Where am I going?"
Botan shrugged her shoulders, "I have no idea. My boss hasn't gotten to you yet but, he needs to finish up his current "engagement" before he'll decide where you're going to go but, let me have a look to get an idea of what kind of a person you were."
She then reached into the pocket of her kimono and withdrew a grey book. Botan flipped through the pages until she found Makoto's name and began to read. As her beautiful pink eyes scanned the letters, her jaw dropped and she began to feel sick to her stomach.
The only words that came out of her mouth were, "Oh dear, oh dear, wow."
Makoto narrowed his eyes and gave her a curious look, "What is it?"
Botan lowered her guidebook and then spoke finally able to form a complete sentence, "Koenma sure has his work cut out for him. You were not a good person at all. Those poor, poor women especially Lord Koenma's lover, she was the lucky one when she pushed you off of her, gave you a well deserved black eye and refused to sleep with you from that point on. My boss is not going to be too happy when he finds out what you did or what you tried to do to her."
Still narrowing his eyes in anger at her, Makoto spat, "You bitch! That Alaskan whore had it coming to her and so did all the other girls. They were asking for it."
Botan shot him a death glare. Watching her change in demeanor, Makoto then began to shake a little in fear. Botan floated up to him and got in his face, "Not another word from you. If it were up to me, I would be sending you to the worst place Spirit World has to offer human garbage like you. You're damn lucky Koenma will handle you."
Hearing that name again, Makoto began to wonder, "Koenma, Koenma, where have I heard that name before?"
Botan began to laugh at his confusion, "Does it ring any bells for you? Think about the guy you just watched your ex, Jasmine have sex with."
Makoto thought about it for a minute and then thought back to the last time he spoke to Jasmine in August. It was at the club and he remembered how satisfied he felt when he ruined her date night with her newest lover. When he remembered Koenma, he then felt like he was going to be sick.
Makoto remembered how he made fun of him and punched the prince in the face. He was rendered speechless realizing he had assaulted the man who was going to judge his soul. Makoto began to fear that the afterlife wasn't going to be pleasant for him in the slightest. Watching Makoto's reactions, Botan just howled with laughter.
Not saying another word, she then opened up a gateway to the Spirit World and ushered Makoto's soul inside it as it sealed shut behind them. Much later that night, Genkai woke up and left her bedroom to use the bathroom. Minutes later, she emerged from her bathroom and walked past the guest room.
Not hearing a sound from Koenma and Jasmine, she guessed that they were peacefully sleeping. Deciding to check on them in just a little bit feeling like she should for some weird reason, she walked to her kitchen to get a glass of milk. When she finished her milk, Genkai still couldn't get the nagging feeling that she should check on Koenma and Jasmine out of her head.
Once she cleaned out her milk cup and set the wet glass into the dish rack by the sink, Genkai then walked up the guest room and knocked on the door. No response. She opened up the door just to peer inside hoping to get rid of her paranoia. Looking inside, she could see that Koenma and Jasmine were cuddled together in the blankets fast asleep after finally finishing their tender lovemaking session hours before.
Just as she was about to leave them alone, the nagging feeling had returned. Curious to know why she still had it, Genkai looked around the guest room hoping that she wouldn't find a demon or an assassin. She wasn't in any mood to deal with any break-ins into her compound right now. Not that it happened all too often, to be fair, Genkai was rarely ever bothered by anyone since she lived out in the middle of nowhere on her own in her big compound until Yukina moved in and Koenma occasionally spending the night since he went back home to Spirit World.
Still, this moment just left her puzzled. What could be making her paranoid? Suddenly her question was answered when what appeared to be a white specter of a woman appear in front of her guest room window. Genkai just froze in her tracks taking a look at the woman. She was transparent and dressed in a white kimono with a strange headdress that sat on the top of her head and Genkai could see that a veil covered her face.
She felt an icy chill go down her spine as she watched the woman in white float over to the bed Koenma and Jasmine were peacefully sleeping on. The ghostly lady just stood next to Koenma's bedside just staring at the prince.
She then knelt down to touch his face when Genkai suddenly spoke plucking up the courage to say something, "Hey! What the hell do you think you're doing?"
The woman in white shifted her attention to the elderly psychic and stared at her. Genkai then took a couple of steps towards her, "Leave him alone. What do you want with him?"
Before Genkai could get up close to her, the woman in white then turned around and glided or levitated over to the window and left vanishing into thin air. Genkai just stood there stunned not really knowing how to react. She then looked over to the two sleeping lovers. Thanking her lucky stars that she didn't disturb them, Genkai slowly walked out of the guest room, quietly shut the door behind her and walked back to her bedroom puzzled by what just happened.
The next day, a radio broadcast from the hottest rock radio station coming from Mushiori City, MOON ROCK began their broadcast. The radio show's host who was none other than Koashura spoke into his microphone, "Good afternoon ladies and gents, this is Kool Koashura standing in for Moon Doggy but, never fear Moon Doggy fans, he'll be back from his vacation tomorrow. Be sure to call in and congratulate him and his wife and their new addition to their family along with your awesome requests."
Koashura paused for a little bit to take a sip from his water and spoke into the microphone again, "Moving on to today's main objective before I play some great tunes by Green Day, Nirvana, Weezer, Alice in Chains, No Doubt, Garbage, Hole, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Stone Temple Pilots, we have a special guest at the station with us today."
He paused again to take another sip from his water bottle and spoke into his microphone again, "Right here with us we have Sammie Doomass from the hottest currently underground upcoming band that's been getting all kinds of positive buzz around Japan for these last several months, Exit Strategy."
Koashura then turned on the second microphone to let his fellow band member, Shunjun, speak into it. The blue haired SDF captain then spoke, "Hey Kool Koashura and what's up Mushiori City?"
"Thanks for coming in man."
"No problem, glad to be here."
Speaking into his microphone, Koashura then began his little talk radio segment, "So Sammie, we folks here at MOON ROCK having been hearing about the buzz of how Exit Strategy is now currently in the process of recording their debut studio album. Do you want to tell our listeners all about that?"
Shunjun then spoke, "Yeah. Actually, Korrie and the whole band are going to start recording the album next week. Since everyone in the band has jobs, school, and other stuff going on in their personal lives, along with the planning of this album and other bands working on their recording processes, we all decided as a group and at the advice of our manager and our producer that we will start going into the studio and record the songs that could possibly make it onto the record and those that might not make it later on in the upcoming week."
"Do you know which ones are going to be on there?"
Shunjun thought carefully about his next response and answered, "Yes actually but we all have been sworn to secrecy because we want to surprise our fans and the general public with which ones they're going to be."
Koashura took another sip from his water bottle and asked his band mate still keeping his pretense of just being a normal radio show host, "So will some of the stuff we've already heard will be on the record or should we all expect it to be just new stuff we've never heard before?"
Shunjun just chuckled in response, "All I can say is that it's going to be a mixture of both. There will be some stuff that the fans and the public have heard but, they will be more polished and clean sounding while still keeping their edge along with the new stuff that Korrie and John have been writing and composing. It's seriously going to rock, people will love it."
"Sounds great, myself and all of our listeners are looking forward to it." Koashura sipped from his water bottle again and ending the short interview, he then said, "Thank you for coming in Sammie. We greatly appreciate it."
Shunjun then responded, "No problem."
Speaking into his microphone again, Koashura then added, "There we have it ladies and gents, Sammie Doomass, the drummer from the coolest upcoming rock band, "Exit Strategy". Be sure to keep your eye out for their debut album which will be released at your nearest record store this spring. The actual release date will be announced soon. Now shifting gears, to kick off on our nonstop music hour, here's the latest from The Red Chili Peppers off their new album "One Hot Minute", their new single, "My Friends"."
Finishing off his current broadcast, Koashura turned off his and Shunjun's microphones, going off the air and started to play the Red Hot Chili Peppers' song. Shunjun took a sip from his water glass and Koashura then broke the small silence between them, "Thanks for doing this at such short notice."
The young SDF captain finished off his water and set the glass down on the table, "It was no problem at all. We had to promote the album one way or the other. Lord Koenma and Jorge still have to keep making appearances and act like everything's normal so, what better than to get help from someone who's one of our few connections to the Living World?"
Koashura leaned back in his chair and put his hands behind his head, "I wanna get back at the king as much as you do." He then sighed, "I will never forgive him for allowing Kotennyo's near death experience. You know what; he's going to regret kicking us out of Spirit World now."
Shunjun started to laugh, "Right? I'm almost tempted to resign my position but, I'm afraid if I do, one of Ootake's cronies will take over and it wouldn't be good at all."
Eyeing his band mate with a curious expression, Koashura then asked, "I take it you have a major beef with some of the guys or gals in the defense force?"
Shunjun poured himself another glass of water, sipped from his glass and sighed, "Yeah. Some of those guys never thought I was trustworthy to begin with. They know that I was never really loyal to the king but, with Koenma instead and as a result, I have overheard some of them saying things about me behind my back since I became the new captain."
"What have they been saying about you?"
Shunjun scratched the back of his head and simply replied, "I heard them say things about how I should resign or how I'm too young to be captain and other bullshit. Fuck, I try not to let it bother me though...Ooake's former right hand man, you know the dude with bowl-cut and the crooked nose?"
Switching to the next song when the song from The Red Hot Chili Peppers had ended, Koashura replied, "That asshole? Yeah."
Shunjun leaned in close so only him and Koashura can hear what he was about to say next when the ordinary human station manager passed by, "I think he's trying to sabotage me. I don't know what he's doing but, I just have a really bad feeling about it and I think he's one of the reasons of why I was kicked out of the other band I was in."
Giving him another curious expression, Koashura asked with a hint of concern in his voice for his friend, "What is going on? Dude, how?"
Shunjun shrugged his broad shoulders, "No fucking clue. He's making the other members with the exceptions of the two women, Oho and Ryohi and my buddy Rinbai turn against me. He's beginning to suspect that I have been going against the king but, so far, he doesn't have any proof."
Still fearing for Shunjun, Koashura then warned him, "Be careful man. I don't know what I, Koenma and Jorge would do if something were to happen to you."
Grateful that his red headed friend cared about his safety, Shunjun chuckled and gave him a smile trying to keep his cool demeanor so he wouldn't show his paranoia, "You needn't worry me. I know how to play it. Trust me; if things do get rough for me, I know where to turn to."
Koashura patted his shoulder, "If things do turn sour, you're more than welcome to crash on my couch. Just as long as you don't hit on Jasmine anymore, Koenma is beginning to get annoyed with that and I promised him I would talk to you about it since he's so busy with his paperwork and songwriting."
Shunjun chuckled again, shook his head and replied, "Okay, I promise not to hit on her again but damn, for a human woman, she's beautiful. Koenma is a lucky man to score with a hot babe like her."
He took another sip from his water glass and checked his watch, "Well, I'd better get back to Spirit World before anyone notices that I'm not there. Right now for all they know, I can just be getting laid with a beautiful lady I met at the bar or having a three-way or something."
As Shunjun stood up from his seat, Koashura chuckled at what he just said, "You and your booty calls. Seriously Shunjun, have you ever thought of getting a steady girlfriend like me, Koenma, and Jorge yet? Hell, you're only like a couple of centuries older than me and Koenma and graduated from Spirit World Kindergarten long before we did and we both just find it funny that you haven't settled down yet."
Shunjun laughed in response, "I'm not ready to settle down yet. I'm still having fun just playing the field. Jorge is older than all of us and he hasn't settled down yet and he's been dating around since Koenma was an actual toddler. Jorge has had tons of girlfriends and boyfriends and no one's gave him any guff for it."
Koashura stood up from his chair and started laughing in nervousness, "Hey man, I'm just messing with you."
The two men briefly hugged each other and patted each other on the back. Breaking their short friendly embrace, Shunjun just smiled, "I know. Talk to you later."
Koashura politely nodded, "Right back at ya. Be careful."
Shunjun just gave him a curt nod in response and then left the radio station before walking into an empty alley next to the building and opening a gateway to the Spirit World. Shunjun looked around and sighed with relief seeing that there were no humans in sight and walked inside before the gateway sealed shut behind him.
Early that afternoon, Jasmine, her older sister, Caroline, Shizuru, and Kotennyo walked around the Mushiori Mall enjoying a girls' day out. Sitting down in the food court, the four women were just simply enjoying their lunch and discussing on what they wanted to do or check out next.
Taking a bite from her slice of pizza, Kotennyo then asked her human roommate and friend, "So Jasmine, what do you want to do next? We've already killed some time at the arcade, are you still thinking about buying a new outfit for when you and Koenma go to Demon World together this weekend?"
Sipping from her chocolate milkshake, Jasmine nodded, "Yeah. I feel like a lot of my formal clothes wouldn't be suitable for it."
Both Caroline and Shizuru chuckled. The blonde demon hunter played with the straw in her soda cup and mentioned, "You have some nice outfits. What about that velvet dress I bought you for your birthday?"
At her sister's words, Jasmine smiled, "I'm going to wear that but, I feel like a lot of my formal suits aren't...well, um, formal enough...or, I don't know, doesn't really say, "Hey, my boyfriend just happens to be royalty and I'm just here to support him." Does that make sense?"
Finishing off her cheese fries and dabbing her mouth with a napkin, Shizuru put in her two cents, "I think it does. Kotennyo, do you have any ideas?"
Washing the last of her pizza slice down with her orange soda, Kotennyo thought about for a moment and then replied, "I'm sure we'll be able to find something but, not too expensive."
Gulping down the rest of her soda, Shizuru then added shifting her attention back to Jasmine, "I don't really think it would matter what you wear. You and Koenma are just going to Demon World. Demons won't really care how you're dressed. You can show up wearing lingerie and heals and they wouldn't bat an eye to it."
Jasmine chuckled at her friend's words, "Yeah but, I just wanna look presentable. I don't really think of myself as much of a princess anyway."
Caroline put her hand on her sister's shoulder, "Koenma seems to think so. He always calls you his "queen". When you do marry him, you do realize that you will become a princess right?"
Jasmine nodded, "Yes I do. Sometimes that thought does come to mind but, I don't really care." She then stood up from where she was sitting at the table and picked up her empty food containers and added saying in a dreamy and loving manner, "Koenma's title and status doesn't matter to me. When I do marry him, I'll be so happy that I get to spend my life with such a handsome, funny, caring, loving, sexy and all around perfect man."
Kotennyo, Shizuru and Caroline all began to snicker at Jasmine calling Koenma "perfect". Knowing why they were laughing, Jasmine shook her head and replied, "You know what I mean. I know Koenma isn't perfect, far from it."
Disposing of her trash mess too, Kotennyo then added poking fun at her human friend and roommate, "Neither are you Jasmine."
Jasmine, Caroline, and Shizuru all laughed and Jasmine responded, "Yep and that's why Koenma and I are perfect for each other. We're just a couple of goons just trying to navigate the world the best we can."
After disposing of their garbage, the four women then decided to head upstairs to a women's clothing store determined to find Jasmine a perfect outfit for her weekend outing with Koenma to Demon World. Meanwhile about a block away from the mall at an apartment complex, two individuals, one man, one woman, both of which weren't human, gazed at the dead body of an ordinary human that became their latest victim.
Noting the sadistic smile and blood splattered on Aphrodite's lovely features, Rando then said, "I think the beheading was a bit overkill."
Still keeping her twisted smile on her red full lips, Aphrodite replied, "So?"
Still gazing at the dead man, Rando added, "He was already dead after you did him in with that ice pick. Besides, his head is still being held on by a flap of soft tissue. You really did a poor job at it."
Throwing the bloody kitchen knife onto the floor, which it landed next to the dead man making a loud thumping sound, Aphrodite rolled her icy blue eyes, "Who cares? When the human police find him, they won't know it's us. Did you know who this guy was?"
Shifting his attention to her, Rando eyed her with a curious expression, "No, I don't. Who was he?"
Aphrodite let out a high pitched laugh and replied, "That man was once Miss Jasmine's lover. When she finds out her ex is dead, I'll bet she'll sink into a deep depression."
"What makes you so sure of that?"
Turning her gaze back over to Rando, she then responded, "Why wouldn't she? She did love him at one point, what's to say that she still doesn't harbor some residual feelings towards him?"
Looking around the room, Aphrodite then spotted a cordless phone. She walked over to it, picked it up and began to dial a number. Not really too sure what she was doing, Rando just watched as Aphrodite spoke into it faking a frantic and panicked voice, "Hello? Police, I would like to report a murder..."
Meanwhile back with the girls as they were leaving the mall, Shizuru glanced over at Jasmine and asked her, "Are you satisfied with our search?"
Happily smiling at the bag that contained her new outfit, Jasmine nodded, "Yes. Thank you Shizuru for helping me pick it out. Koenma will love it."
Suddenly, all four women were interrupted by the loud sounds of police and ambulance sirens as they watched the said emergency vehicles zoom down the street. Eyeing them with interest and a bit of confusion, Caroline blinked her lovely blue eyes as she remarked, "That's...odd. Usually this is a pretty good neighborhood. I've never seen so many cops here."
Reaching into her pocket, taking out Sakyo's lighter and her pack of cigarettes, Shizuru nodded popping one of out of the pack, "Something must have happened."
Just standing there awkwardly blinking her lovely brown eyes, Kotennyo then suddenly sensed something strange was going on. Noting the look on her goddess friend's face, Jasmine eyed her curiously, "Kotennyo are you okay?"
Biting her full pink bottom lip, she let out a long deep, drawn out breath and remarked, "Not really. I don't have a good feeling about this. I may be just a war goddess but, it doesn't mean I don't get a strange hunch or two."
Not saying another word, Shizuru put her cigarette into her mouth and began to walk in the direction of where the ambulance and the police cars went. Jasmine, Caroline, and Kotennyo all followed her. Shizuru took a drag from her cigarette and said, "Kotennyo, I think your hunch may be right about this one."
Still feeling an eerie chill going down her spine, she then asked, "Why is that?"
Shizuru stopped in her tracks as did the other three girls. She then looked at their location and stared awkwardly at a set of gates belonging to an apartment complex. Taking another drag from her cigarette, Shizuru then broke the awkward silence, "Um, Jasmine, Caroline, do you two recognize where we are?"
At their friend's words, both demon hunter sisters then looked at the apartment complex too. Gazing at how many police cars and the ambulance that was parked in front of the building, it didn't take them long to realize where they were. Confused with what was going on, Kotennyo, then asked the three psychic women, "Where are we? Shizuru, Jasmine, Caroline, do you know where we are?"
Breaking the awkward silence between them, Jasmine then let out a loud gasp and said, "Holy crap, I know where we are. This is where that bastard Makoto lives."
Gazing that the police cars and the ambulance along with a guard at the entrance, Shizuru took another drag from her cigarette, "What do you think is going on? Do you think he's in some sort of trouble?"
Jasmine let out a loud snort and rolled her lovely dark brown eyes, "I couldn't care less. He could be arrested for murder and I still wouldn't give a damn."
Just as she said that, the voice of Botan could be heard calling out her name, "Jasmine! Hey Jasmine!"
Hearing that, Jasmine shifted her attention to the lovely grim reaper that was flying towards her on her wooden oar. Finally reaching her destination, Botan still sitting on her oar, floated in front of the three psychics and Kotennyo feeling guilty for the interruption, she said, "Jasmine, I hate to interrupt your afternoon. I hope I am not interrupting a fun outing."
Jasmine smiled and shook her head, "Not really. We just got finished with our girls' day at the mall and I was about head on back to Genkai's compound to do some laundry and work on my healing technique with Genkai and my mom while Koashura and Kotennyo have a date night. What's going on? Is Koenma in trouble or something?"
Botan shook her head, "No, he's not in trouble. Um, it's more like he wants to see you. He says it's really important."
Adjusting the straps of her black and white handbag, Jasmine smiled, "Are you sure that he's not in trouble?"
Botan nodded, "I'm sure."
Approaching her sister, Caroline put her hand on her shoulder saying in reassurance, "Just go sis. I got to get home anyway. Raito and I were supposed to have a date night too after I pay some bills. You are welcome to join us at the bowling alley tonight. Give me a call later before I head off to Genkai's for my training."
Jasmine smiled and nodded, "Sure, I'll talk to you later."
Hopping onto Botan's oar, she handed Kotennyo the shopping bag that contained her new outfit, "Here Kotennyo, can you bring that into my bedroom? I don't want Koenma to see it until we go to Demon World this weekend. I'll be sure to swing by the apartment to pick it up."
Taking the shopping bag, Kotennyo nodded with understanding, "Sure."
After thanking her best non-human friend, Jasmine tightly wrapping her arms around Botan's waist and trying not to focus on her fear of heights, zoomed up into a gateway into the Spirit World. Meanwhile, Koenma sat at his desk rubbing his temples. He had such a terrible migraine from the current situation he was in. The poor prince really needed Jasmine here and now especially since the most irritating dead person he had ever worked with was standing right in front of him along with his currently unprocessed paperwork that needed his attention. That was what was giving him the worst headache.
Makoto on the other hand, didn't know how to deal with his predicament. He was being judged by his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend that he had punched in the face four months prior at the club. He had an awful feeling in the deep pit of his stomach knowing that the handsome man sucking on a pacifier wasn't going to go easy on him.
Deciding to be an asshole, Makoto smirked at him not wanting to show how terrified he was and asked, "Aren't you a little old to be sucking on that?"
At Makoto's question, Koenma groaned and snapped, "Not another word from you. When she..."
The prince was then interrupted when there was a knock on the door. Koenma smiled, placing his hands on his desk. He cleared his throat before responding, "Come in."
The pink and yellow double doors opened and Botan stepped in with Jasmine entering behind her. Gazing upon his lovely human lover, Koenma felt like there were butterflies flapping around in his stomach as she began to walk towards him. Looking at the prince's expression, Makoto raised an eyebrow but it soon dawned on him why the young judge of the dead was suddenly so excited and happy.
Makoto looked over his shoulder and groaned in total anger and animosity seeing his ex-girlfriend. Since Jasmine was now here, he then guessed that she had just recently died like he did but, he was to be sorely mistaken moments later. Jasmine just simply walked passed him either ignoring him or seemly not noticing he was there.
The young demon hunter walked around Koenma's desk and Koenma stood up from his plush red chair. The lovers embraced each other as Koenma removed his pacifier and sweetly gave Jasmine a soft kiss on her small pink lips. Breaking the kiss, he said, "Thank goodness you're here. There is something I need to tell you my queen."
Gazing into her lover's lovely brown eyes, Jasmine asked him starting to get an idea of why she saw her ex, Makoto when she entered the office, "Does it have to do with why my bastard ex is here?"
Breaking their short embrace and slipping the Mafukan back between his lips, Koenma nodded, "Yes I am afraid it does." He sat back down and gestured for Jasmine to come sit on his lap.
She sweetly giggled and gladly did just that. Koenma showed her Makoto's paperwork and as she was reading it, Makoto said with a hint of annoyance, "Hey! I'm right here! Why are you ignoring me?"
Before Koenma could say anything in response, Jasmine looked up from the death document and snapped, her voice booming from the four corners of her lover's office making her ex jump, "Can it you worthless piece of trash!"
"Who are you calling worthless you little slut?"
Suddenly Botan summoned her oar and immediately bashed him on the top of his head with it, "She asked you to shut it! Now shut it!"
Makoto groaned from the pain which was interrupted by Jasmine's gasps in pure disgust. Looking up from the document she just read, she placed the aforementioned small stack of paperwork on Koenma's desk. She narrowed her dark brown eyes at Makoto and spoke in a low and deadly voice, "I always knew you were scum but, not to this extent. So tell me Mako, the final night we had sex those three years ago, did you intend to strangle me with your bare hands when you tried to choke me?"
"Why are you asking?" He asked defensively still rubbing the sore spot on top of his head.
Crossing her arms over her chest, Jasmine just spat it out, "Because, I just read from your death document, that not only were you a lying, cheating son of a bitch but, you are also a serial rapist and a possible suspected serial killer. When you raped those poor women, most of which were prostitutes, foreign tourists or just innocent underage schoolgirls, you fucking choked them to the point of where they passed out. Now, I don't know if it's what you were trying to do to me and thank god I pushed you off of me and punched you really hard giving you the black eye you deserved but, I'm just going to let the real love of my life figure that out."
Makoto curled his lip at his ex feeling insulted and said not feeling any remorse what so ever, "You know what Jasmine, yeah, yeah I did. It's such a shame I didn't get the chance to..."
Having enough of hearing him talk, Koenma decided to intervene, "That's enough! I don't usually say this to any soul that I judge but, as far as I am concerned, you deserved your fate. Whoever stabbed you to death with that ice pick did the Living World a favor."
Feeling his migraine growing worse by the minute, the poor prince groaned, rubbing his temples as he continued, "Now, you must face the consequences for all of your horrible actions you committed in your sad, short life."
Koenma snapped his lovely brown eyes open and grabbed his wooden stamping tool, not before he removed his pacifier and placed the round blue object on his desk. Not saying another word, using his free hand, he gently turned Jasmine's head to the side, leaning over and gave her a soft and gentle kiss. The young human psychic moaned, kissing him back deeply.
Botan just simply smiled and laughed, knowing what her boss was doing as he kissed Jasmine back with such deep love and passion making Makoto curl his lip and twitch his black eyebrow in sheer disgust towards the lovers. Koenma then broke the kiss leaving Jasmine feeling breathless.
Breathing hard and feeling a bit weak in the knees, Jasmine was at a loss for words. Koenma had never kissed her like that before and feeling a bit turned on by it, she wouldn't have minded if he did that again. Still holding his wooden stamping tool in one hand and gently stroking Jasmine's soft skin on her lovely face with the other, Koenma kissed her forehead as he continued his verbal tirade, "I still can't believe you gave up such a beautiful, kind, smart, and all around amazing woman. Too bad, you didn't know what you had when she was with you."
Shifting his attention back to Makoto's paperwork and reading it once again, Koenma shook his head and said feeling disgusted with the current soul he was judging, "No matter how many souls I have judged that committed the horrible acts you have, they still make me sick to my stomach. Disgusting humans like you don't deserve love, kindness or any form of sympathy what so ever."
He looked back up at Makoto which sent a shiver down the dead ordinary human's spine. The expression Koenma was giving him was creeping him out. The prince then said in a dark, yet emotionless tone towards him, "You don't deserve a second chance, welcome to Hell Makoto Chiba."
Koenma then raised his wooden stamping tool and slammed his seal down the document before saying in his authorative tone giving out his next order to his employees, "Ogre, Botan, please take him away. I cannot stand for him to be in my line of sight any longer."
Both Jorge and Botan bowed to their boss before grabbing Makoto and escorting him out of the office to his final resting place in the afterlife. Still feeling breathless, Jasmine couldn't help but feel a sense of satisfaction from watching her prince give her dead ex what he deserved. Cranking her neck off to the side to glance up at Koenma's handsome face, Jasmine gazed at him lovingly and said in a dreamy and loving tone, "Thank you my prince. You were amazing."
He set his wooden stamping tool on his desk and shifted his attention to his loving girlfriend giving her a sweet smile, "It was no problem at all, my queen."
Suddenly the pain of his migraine washed over him and he let out a loud groan putting his face in his hands. Seeing that, Jasmine gently brought Koenma in her arms to give him the comfort he so desperately needed. She didn't like seeing him this way and began to feel like it was somehow her fault, "I'm so sorry Koenma."
Dropping his hands to his side, snuggling up to his human lover's shoulder, Koenma glanced up at her in confusion, "For what?"
Stroking his soft brown hair as she kissed his forehead, she simply replied, "For dealing with Makoto. If your damn father were to do his job, you wouldn't..."
Koenma chuckled, "It wasn't your fault Jasmine. I have to deal with this every day. Please don't blame yourself."
Jasmine returned the smile seeing the reassuring look he was giving her. Deciding to change the subject and wanting her lover to relax and de-stress, she suddenly came up with a brilliant idea, "I gotta get you out of here for a little bit. Say, why don't you join me, my sister and Raito for bowling and karaoke tonight?"
The prince blinked his beautiful brown eyes. Even though he wanted to relax, he glanced over at his desk and groaned gazing at all of the stacks of unprocessed paperwork that he had been working on all day. The little meeting with Makoto caused poor Koenma to get behind on his work and he cursed under his breath for going through with that meeting.
Hearing that, Jasmine brought Koenma closer to her body and kissed his forehead again, "I know you have all this work to do but, you really need a break. It's just not right for you to have to work like this."
Shifting his attention back to her and snuggling closer to her slender body, Koenma sighed saying in protest, "But, but I have to finish this. What if my father finds out that I..."
"Screw him! You deserve a break my prince. It's just not right that you have to live like this day in and day out. Your father doesn't do shit and if he has a problem with you going out and having a little bit of fun, then he can just come to me. I'm not afraid of him."
Just then, Jorge walked back into the office and still feeling concern for his young boss and hearing Koenma's and Jasmine's conversation, he then put in his two cents, "Koenma sir, Jasmine is right. You've been working nonstop all day. It's time for you take a break and relax."
Shifting their attention to Jorge, Jasmine smiled saying agreement, "Yes exactly. Thank you Jorge. Koenma please. You can have Jorge cover for you tonight. Besides, I don't want to bowl alone against my sister and Raito again. Plus, you'll get to sing tonight."
Thinking about it for a moment and not wanting to argue with Jasmine or Jorge, Koenma exhaled and said in response, "Alright."
He and Jasmine broke their tender embrace with the young woman climbing off his lap. Noting the blank expression on her face, Koenma then got the feeling that something may be wrong. Grabbing her purse off his desk and seeing the look of the concern he was giving her, Jasmine chuckled trying to save face, "I'm fine Koenma. You needn't worry about me."
Following her out of the office after thanking Jorge for covering for him, Koenma still couldn't get the feeling that something may be bothering Jasmine. After all her ex-boyfriend did just die and she witnessed him being sent to Hell. Gently taking her hand in his own, he then mentioned, "Don't you think that the circumstances surrounding Makoto's death was odd?"
Giving him a puzzled look, Jasmine blinked her dark brown eyes, "Why do you say that?"
Chewing on his pacifier, Koenma didn't really know how to respond. He brought his hand up to the back of his head and looked at his feet for just a moment before looking back up at her, "Um, never mind. Let's not focus on that right now."
Not wanting to ruin their fun night, Jasmine just smiled and simply nodded before offering her hand to her lover. Koenma gladly took it and they proceeded to walk into the now open gateway to the Living World. Later that night at the bowling alley, loud clapping and cheering could be heard when Koenma landed a strike.
Taking a seat next to Jasmine, the prince just simply smiled. He couldn't remember the last time he had this much fun within the last couple of months. Everything from his daily duties in Spirit World to his music for both the band and the Spirit World Opera House had taken up much of his time and he was just so grateful that Jasmine had suggested this. Looking over at her, he dreamily sighed, saying in his head, "I love her so much. I love my future bride."
Looking over to her handsome and loving boyfriend, Jasmine giggled. She loved the way he was looking at her right now. She returned the loving glance and gently kissed his and before leaning over and kissing his cheek, "I love you too my prince."
Glancing up at the scoreboard, Jasmine's brother-in-law, Raito Akashi tried not to laugh. He and Caroline were still ahead by a good five points.
Hearing him snort, Koenma snapped out of his daze and took a bite from his slice of pizza before washing it down with his soda. He simply replied, "Don't get too cocky. Jasmine and I are catching up."
Before Raito could retort, the ratlike voice of his uncle interrupted as he slammed a food tray down onto the center of the table, "Here's your damn pizza!"
Raito, Koenma and the demon hunter sisters all glared at him and the kind young Mr. Akashi snapped back at him, "You didn't have to do that Uncle Satoshi. You nearly spilled mine and Koenma's soda."
Mr. Akashi just rolled his beady eyes and snapped back, "You're fat enough as it is. All because of your whore mother's coddling..."
Raito put his chubby face in his hands in embarrassment as Mr. Akashi continued to humiliate him. Caroline rubbed his back to comfort him as his rat faced uncle continued on with his verbal tirade. Koenma groaned with annoyance and whispered over to Jasmine, "What's his deal?"
Jasmine rolled her eyes at her former teacher and shook her head before responding, "He's just mad because Raito's parents, Kikyo and Jiro couldn't give us a ride because something came up at such short notice for them so, they essentially made him help us."
Having enough of hearing Mr. Akashi talk and ruining their nice evening, Koenma then interrupting raising his voice at him, "Listen here Mr. Ratface!."
Hearing that, Mr. Akashi shifted his attention to the prince, "What did you just say to me?"
Koenma then stood up from his seat and got up in the ordinary human man's face, "You heard me. I have had enough of your complaints and your insults towards your own nephew. I've had a hard enough day than just listening to your constant bitching. Why don't you do us all a favor and just leave?"
Mr. Akashi then retorted, "Nobody asked for your input sleazeball. You have quite a mouth on you. You know, you kind of remind me of a former student I had at Sarayashiki Junior High, Yusuke Urameshi. He had quite the mouth on him too, just like you."
Koenma then narrowed his lovely brown eyes at him at the mention of his ex-spirit detective, "How dare you speak his name! I know all about how you and Mr. Iwamoto mistreated him and Kazuma Kuwabara, which by the way, they just so happen to be good friends of mine. Same goes for my beautiful queen, Jasmine. For once, just shut your damn mouth or god so help me, I may do something I know I won't regret doing."
Suddenly Mr. Akashi then felt a strange chill go down his spine. Just like at the wedding, he began to feel as if Koenma might hurt him somehow. Feeling creeped out, he then replied, "Now, now, take it easy and don't do anything brash. I...I'll just..."
He didn't finish his sentence as he walked off wanting nothing more than to get away from Koenma. Mr. Akashi sat down at a table alone at the far end of the bowling alley shaking in fear of the prince who was going to judge his soul someday. Jasmine, Caroline, and Raito all burst out laughing as Koenma sat back down giving them all a curious expression, "What's so funny?"
The three young human adults stopped laughing. Raito patted his shoulder and said, "You really scared my uncle, by how, I may never know but, it was just so funny to see him practically piss himself over you."
Shifting his attention to his lover and her sister, Koenma then asked them, "Did you two sense anything about me just now?"
Jasmine and Caroline looked at each other for just a moment and shifted their attention back to Koenma. Not wanting to ruin their fun evening, Jasmine sweetly giggled and answered, "No my prince. Mr. Ratface is just a coward."
Shrugging his broad shoulders, Koenma picked up his cherry red bowling ball asking Raito, "Ready to get back into the game so I can kick your butt?"
Holding his blue and pink bowling ball, the young human man smirked, "Don't get so cocky your highness." He then let his ball roll down the lane and landed a strike, "Still ahead."
Koenma just laughed in response, "We'll see about that. Jasmine, my queen, you're next."
Jasmine got up and retrieved her lavender ball and let it roll down hers and Koenma's lane. She groaned in disappointment only landing five pins. Raito burst out laughing and Caroline bit her lip. The young demon hunter shifted her attention to her brother-in-law, "Not another word."
Snickering, Raito replied, "We don't have much play time left. You and Koenma can try all you want but, you're both not going to catch up to us."
Koenma just rolled his lovely brown eyes, "Keep telling yourself that."
Just as he said that, Jasmine let her ball go and she loudly groaned only hitting two more pins, "Dammit, I almost had it."
Still trying not to laugh, Caroline got up from her place at the table walking up to her lane holding her royal blue ball. Letting the ball go, it rolled down the waxed up floor and hit nine pins. The attractive blonde sighed, "Close but no cigar."
Once getting her ball back, she let it loose on her lane again hoping to land the spare. By a stroke of luck, she did. Caroline then squealed with excitement. Koenma and Jasmine both just stared at her and the prince then barked at his potential future sister-in-law, "Don't rub it in Carol."
Chuckling, Caroline walked up to Koenma and patted him on his shoulder, "Don't get your panties in a wad. It's not my fault that Raito and are awesome."
At his wife's words, Raito laughed. Just as Caroline was about to take a seat next to her husband, Raito then groped her voluptuous ass and slapped her right ass cheek making his woman gasp and giggle in sheer delight with a hint of embarrassment. Still giggling, she sat down next to her loving husband as he leaned over and kissed her neck, "Raito, not in public."
Koenma and Jasmine both just gave them blank expressions with the prince adding, "Get a room."
After kissing his wife's cheek making her blush a deep red Raito chuckled, "Don't be a hypocrite Koenma. You and Jasmine feel each other up all the time."
Koenma was about to say something in defense but, Jasmine sighed not wanting to argue with her brother-in-law. She gently took her lover's hand and said before he can get a word in edgewise, "He's right Koenma. We do the same thing. Getting onto him makes us look like hypocritical jerks. Besides, he's only doing that to piss off Mr. Ratface. Usually Raito gropes my sister in private."
Looking over across the bowling alley, Koenma can see that Mr. Akashi looked downright angry as he chugged down his bottle of beer and walked off into the bar in a huff. Also looking off in that direction, Raito burst out laughing at his uncle's reaction before taking another slice of pizza saying, "Fuck him, I don't give a damn about what he thinks."
Looking at the scoreboard, Koenma can see they only had two minutes of play time left, so he walked up to his and Jasmine's lane and released his ball. Despite landing a strike, the prince sighed looking back up at the scoreboard. He shook his head in disappointment that he and Jasmine lost the game.
Taking a seat across from Raito and Caroline, Koenma grabbed a slice of pizza and asked the young human man, "Why do you hate your uncle so much?"
As Koenma began to eat, Raito played with the straw in his soda cup. He sighed, "Because he's always been horrible and abusive towards me and most of the family. Uncle Satoshi verbally and emotionally abused me since elementary school. He claims that I am such a disappointment."
Taking a sip from his root beer, Koenma eyed him with a curious expression, "Why is that?"
Still playing with his soda straw, Raito then explained, "Well, I'm not the best looking guy or the smartest, plus I'm overweight and have some interests that most Japanese men don't."
"What kind of interests?"
Raito took a deep breath and answered, "Ever since I was really little, I've always been fascinated with American culture. I love American football and NASCAR, country music, their movies and TV, food, and baseball but, baseball is a popular past time here in Japan so no one gives me any crap about that. My parents never gave me any trouble for my interests and hobbies but, Uncle Satoshi, well..."
Blinking his eyes in confusion, Koenma asked him, "I thought Jasmine said you lived with your parents when you were still in school."
Raito shook his head, "I did until high school. I worked very hard to get into Meiou High and as a result, I wound up getting a scholarship so I can go there. My parents couldn't afford to send me there and since they lived so far away from the school, I wound up living with my uncle despite him and me not getting along. Hell, he bitched about that every day until I graduated. I almost didn't get that scholarship because of him and Mr. Iwamoto. They made my time at Sarayashiki Jr. High a living hell. It's a good thing Principal Takanaka was in my corner. If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't have got to go to Meiou High and met Caroline. Though, I didn't get to meet her until we were sophomores."
He paused for a moment and took a sip from his soda, "I thought she was interesting when I first met her. People with blonde hair and blue eyes are very hard to come by here and I knew she was special somehow but, I didn't know what it was. I wanted to get to know her even though most of my classmates didn't at first."
Finishing off his current slice of pizza, Koenma continued to listen as he enjoyed listening to Raito's story. Caroline chuckled at her husband's words, "You sure did. You were so cute back then when you first tried to talk to me. You politely bowed to me sure but, you had a hard time introducing yourself. I remember how you stuttered, "H..Hi I...I...I'm Rai-Rai." You were so adorable."
Thinking about that, Raito's pale cheeks flushed a small shade of red, "Well, you were the prettiest thing I've ever laid my eyes on. Can you blame me?"
Both Koenma and Jasmine laughed. Regaining his composure, the prince interjected, "So it was love at first sight?"
At Koenma's question, Raito blushed a deeper shade of red and stuttered, "I...uh...um...If you're asking if I had a big crush on Carol, y...yeah, I did. My crush on her intensified after she rescued me from being eaten by a demon that was stalking me..."
He then trailed off. His chubby cheeks blushed even redder thinking about how his now wife saved his life. Seeing that, Caroline sweetly giggled and just leaned over and kissed his cheek. Not wanting to embarrass him any more than he did, Koenma decided to change the subject after downing the remaining root beer he had left, "Now Jasmine mentioned something to me about karaoke."
Finishing off his soda too, Raito replied, "It's just off to the corner near the lanes. Let me show you."
The young human man got up from his seat as did Koenma. The prince then followed him over to the stage. While they were waiting for the current person to finish off their performance, Koenma still wanted to know more about Raito so he asked him, "Do you sing at all?"
Tearing his dark eyes away from the stage, Raito nodded, "Yeah. I used to sing in the choir at Meiou High. I was one of the Tenors."
"So you and Jasmine used to sing together?"
"Yeah, she was one of the high Sopranos. It's been a long time for the both of us."
Thinking about it for a moment, Koenma then thought of a bright idea and offered, "Why don't we sing something together? I'm sure you have a decent voice. Are there any particular music genres besides country, you like?"
Slipping his hand into the pocket of his jeans, Raito responded, "Yeah I like some pop and some rock. Heck, I really love your band's music. Carol and I are really looking forward your first album."
Confused on how he found out, Koenma gave Raito a curious expression, "How did you two find out?"
Raito chuckled, "We heard about it on the Kool Koashura Show this morning."
What Raito just said rang a few bells in his brain. Mentally kicking himself at his forgetfulness, Koenma then remembered that Jorge and Shunjun both mentioned it to him early that morning just as he was getting started with his heavy workload. The prince groaned in annoyance at himself. Why didn't he pay more attention?
"Damn paperwork." He muttered to himself.
Just then, the current performance on the stage just ended. Everyone present at the bowling alley all applauded despite the current ordinary human's performance being mediocre at best.
Before going on stage, Raito asked Koenma, snapping the prince out of his thoughts, "Do you want to go first?"
Koenma thought about it for a moment and blinked his eyes in confusion, "I thought we were singing together, unless you don't want to."
Raito started to laugh like a total dork, "Oh, I forgot. Sure, why not? This is going to be fun; I haven't got to sing with anybody since high school."
"Is there any song you had in mind?"
Raito thought about it for a moment and replied, "No, why don't you pick?"
Koenma smiled at young human man's generosity. Flipping through the song binder, he found a song that he thought both of them would like. Tapping Raito on the shoulder, he asked him showing him the piece of sheet music, "How about this one?"
Taking a look at it, Raito shrugged his meaty shoulders, "Yeah, why not?"
Both men walked up onstage just as the previous performer left. Koenma set up the sheet music while Raito grabbed the first microphone, turned it on and introduced himself and the prince, "Hey what's up Mushiori Ten Pins Bowling Alley. How are we all doing tonight? My name is Raito Akashi and this is my friend Koenma. We'll be performing the song "Welcome to Paradise" by the popular punk rock band, Green Day."
An applause, whistles and catcalls from Jasmine and Caroline broke out with Jasmine saying, "I love you Koenma!"
Hearing his lover's voice, Koenma blushed, picked up the second microphone, and turned it on. The backing track began to play and the prince brought the microphone up to his lips and his beautifully enchanting voice along with Raito's began to rang out around the bowling alley as they both sang out the first verse, surprisingly in perfect harmony with their voices complimenting each other's:
Dear mother
Can you hear me whining?
It's been three whole weeks
Since I left your home
This sudden fear has left me trembling
'Cause now it seems that I
Am out there on my own
And I'm feeling so alone
While watching their men sing onstage together, Jasmine and Caroline didn't notice that Mr. Akashi had returned from the bowling alley's bar. He just stood next to their table not saying a word as he watched his nephew and the Prince of the Spirit World break into the first chorus with Koenma singing the actual chorus and Raito singing the backing vocals:
Koenma: Pay attention to the cracked streets (Raito: "Oh")
And the broken homes
Some call it slums
Some call it nice
I want to take you through
A wasteland I like to call my home
Welcome to paradise
Feeling another ice cold chill creeping down his spine, Mr. Akashi then finally said something to the girls, "Just what the hell is going on here?"
Jasmine and Caroline both snapped their attention to him and Jasmine just simply snapped, "What do you mean? It's just Koenma and Raito just singing together."
Mr. Akashi just gave the young psychic a blank expression before saying with a hint of fear in his voice, "There is something very strange about your boyfriend. I don't know what it is but, it's very creepy."
Just as Jasmine was about to pounce on him for calling Koenma "creepy", Caroline grabbed her in the nick of time just as Koenma and Raito jumped into the next verse and the second chorus with Koenma singing the chorus again and Raito doing the backing vocals:
A gunshot rings out at the station
Another urchin snaps and
Left dead on his own
It makes me wonder why I'm still here
For some strange reason it's now
Feeling like my home
And I'm never gonna go
Koenma: Pay attention to the cracked streets (Raito: "Oh")
And the broken homes
Some call it slums
Some call it nice
I want to take you through
A wasteland I like to call my home
Welcome to paradise
Koenma and Raito stopped singing as the instrumental interlude began to play. The prince just so happened to glance over to Jasmine and seeing her being held back by her sister while she and Mr. Akashi were engaged in some sort of an argument, he sighed with annoyance and quietly tapped Raito on the shoulder and pointed in their direction.
Seeing where Koenma was pointing to, Raito rolled his dark eyes and deciding to deal with it after the song was over, he and Koenma then sang out the next verse as the instrumental interlude wrapped up:
Dear mother
Can you hear me laughing?
It's been six whole months since that
I have left your home
It makes me wonder why I'm still here
For some strange reason it's now
Feeling like my home
And I'm never gonna go
Going into the last chorus, Koenma and Raito both kept an eye on the argument between Jasmine and Mr. Akashi. Seeing that she was about to punch her former teacher in the face, both young men then sang out the last chorus with Koenma singing the chorus again and Raito doing the backing vocals and wrapped up the song singing the last line together:
Koenma: Pay attention to the cracked streets (Raito: "Oh")
And the broken homes
Some call it slums
Some call it nice
I want to take you through
A wasteland I like to call my home
Welcome to paradise
Koenma and Raito: Paradise
Applause and whistling broke around the bowling alley. Both men bowed to their audience before turning off their microphones and putting them back onto their stands. Koenma grabbed the sheet music they used and put it away into its song book.
Walking back over to their table, Koenma and Raito now could hear the volatile conversation between Jasmine and Mr. Akashi. Struggling in her sister's arms, Jasmine then spat at him, "You're full of crap. You heard Koenma sing at the wedding. I don't remember you ever complaining then!"
Mr. Akashi raised an eyebrow, "That was him? No wonder I felt creeped out. There is something eerie about him and if I don't have to hear his voice anymore, I'll be happy."
Koenma just sighed. He was getting real sick of people saying things like that about his voice. He didn't understand any of those comments at all. Pondering the issue, it didn't really make much sense to him at all. To him, everyone seemed so happy whenever he sang. He was then snapped out of his thoughts when Raito commented hoping to save face, "Can it Uncle Satoshi. There's nothing wrong with Koenma's voice. You're just imagining things."
Mr. Akashi glared at his nephew and huffed, "Fine, you're never going to listen to a damn word I say anyway. I'm leaving. I called your father Raito, he's on his way to pick you guys up and drive all of you back to the mountain compound or villa you're staying at. Next time you and your American blonde bimbo need a ride somewhere, DON'T CALL ME!"
The ratfaced man then stormed out. Caroline let go of Jasmine and she grabbed her purse, staring at the bowling alley's exit shaking her head, "I really wish you let me sock him Sis."
Gathering up her belongings too, Caroline replied back saying in an annoyed voice, "It's just better to just let him be. He's not worth it. Just ignore him."
Shifting her attention back to Caroline, Jasmine began to whine, "You heard what he said about Koenma."
"Yes I did and it makes me mad too but Jasmine, I don't want to see you go to jail for fighting. Like I said, people like him aren't worth it. Just ignore him and walk away. I have to do that whenever he badmouths me or Raito all the time."
Narrowing her large brown eyes, Jasmine groaned in irritation, "Next time we all hang out together, just make sure Mr. Ratface doesn't come along. It seem like every time he tags along, he ruins everything."
Feeling Koenma put his hand on her shoulder in comfort, Jasmine took it as a queue to take a deep breath and calm herself down so she wouldn't work herself up in her brewing anger. Koenma leaned down and kissed her cheek before saying in a low and comforting voice, "I am angry too but, Carol is right, it's just best not to dwell on it, especially since we have other more important issues to focus on."
Knowing that her prince was right, Jasmine let out a loud exhale. Only silently nodding response, she turned her head to the side and kissed her lover's luscious lips. Breaking their short and tender kiss, Jasmine, Koenma, Caroline, and Raito left the bowling alley when Raito's father Jiro had finally showed up and drove them back to the trail to Genkai's Compound.
The end of the week finally rolled around. Jasmine and Koenma finished packing their belongings they were going to take with them for their weekend trip to the Demon World. The young demon hunter stood in front of the bathroom mirror putting on the finishing touches of her makeup as she applied her cherry red lipstick on her small pink lips. Screwing the lipstick back into its tube and popping the lid back on, she gazed at her reflection.
She smiled looking at the lovely pink women's' blazer with a matching mini skirt, black tights and her pink heels on her feet. Feeling satisfied with her outfit and her makeup, Jasmine left the bathroom and walked back into the guest room where her lover was there waiting for her.
Modeling her new outfit, Jasmine brightly smiled and asked, "So, how do I look?"
Gazing at his woman, Koenma couldn't take his eyes off of her, "You look beautiful Jasmine, just like a queen."
Sweetly giggling and blushing at his compliment, Jasmine replied in a soft voice, "Really? I don't think I look like royalty...I mean...compared to how you're dressed..."
The prince approached her and gently took her hands into his own, "Nonsense, you look wonderful. Don't sell yourself short."
He kissed her forehead and gazed into her eyes, he asked, "Are you ready?"
Jasmine nodded, "Yes, my prince."
As they shared another deep and loving kiss, Genkai then cleared her throat, "I don't mean to interrupt this little love fest but, the SDF are here to open up the gateway for you guys."
Breaking the kiss, Koenma glanced over his shoulder and replied, "Thank you Genkai. We'll be out back in a moment."
Genkai gave him a warm smile and walked off in the direction to her backyard. Picking up their bags, Koenma and Jasmine walked out of the guest room hand in hand. Walking out to the vast backyard area where Jasmine's sister, mother, Raito, Koashura, Kotennyo, Genkai, Yukina and the SDF were all waiting for the couple. Letting go of Koenma's hand, Jasmine and Janine embraced.
The middle aged demon hunter kissed her daughter on the cheek, "Be careful baby. Demon World is a rough place. Trust me, me, your grandma and your aunts came across some really strong demons there."
Ending their hug, Jasmine smiled at her mother's concern, "Don't worry Mom, I'll be okay. Koenma won't let anything happen to me."
The prince smiled as he slipped the Mafukan back between his lips to feed some more of his energy into it, "You needn't worry Janine. We're just going to speak with King Enki about a very important issue. That is all."
Janine approached the man she considers her future son-in-law and the two briefly hugged each other, "I know you'll keep her safe Koenma. Take care of her please."
Minutes later and after saying their short goodbyes to everyone else, Shunjun then asked the lovers, "Are you ready your highness?"
Koenma nodded, "Yes," He shifted his attention to Jasmine and offered his hand to her, "My queen, shall we?"
Jasmine sweetly smiled and nodded, "Yes my love. Let's do this."
They took each other's hands and waved to their friends and loved ones. Shifting their attention to the open gateway, Koenma took a deep breath. Together, hand in hand, he and Jasmine approached the open gateway to the Demon World and walked inside.
~To Be Continued
