Naruto Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ A Strange New World ❯ The Koenma Dilema ( Chapter 23 )
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By: Hiei Jaganshi Urameshi 
Our Koenma has a dilema
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Martial Arts / Adventure / Action | Type: Crossover | Uploaded On: 11.29.2006 | Pages: 2 | Words: 3.1K | Visits: 341 | Status: Work In Progress
Our Koenma has a dilema
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Martial Arts / Adventure / Action | Type: Crossover | Uploaded On: 11.29.2006 | Pages: 2 | Words: 3.1K | Visits: 341 | Status: Work In Progress
The Koenma Dilema
Disclaimer: See Chapter 1
Note: I have to apologise about something that I forgot to put in the last chapter. I have to thank one guy, who helped me so much, especially in deciphering my own prophecy. He puts up with so much, and reads almost everything I write. It was for him that this chapter was written.
Koenma suddenly sat upright. "So this is how human teens feel." He said, now feeling very sympathetic towards Yusuke and Kuwabara. He had never imagined what puberty was like for them. Now, however, he could understand what 'wet dreams' were like through experience. He pitied his Tantei team. He looked at the clock and decided that there was no reason for him to try and get more sleep, so he decided to take a shower. His mind began to wander, remembering the events of the previous day.
FLASHBACK
Koenma watched as Sakura practiced fighting against Hiei. The kunoivhi was getting almost as fast as Hiei was. It made the training fun to watch. He loved watching the feisty kunoichi over his old team any day. His eyes closed for a moment, but when they opened they were looking into the black eyes of Shizune, Tsunade's right hand woman. "Koenma-san, Tsunade-sama would like you to join her for lunch." Shizune said. "She would have come down herself, however she has paperwork to finish, so she sent me instead." The woman started walking back towards the main village. "Coming, Koenma-san?"
Koenma got to his feet and followed Shizune. "What does the Hokage wish to discuss with me?" He asked as she led him to the bar where Tsunade was working in. The Godaime had made a deal with the stricy, younger, woman that she would work if she got sake. To Shizune's relief, she saw that the Sannin was working through the pile that had been taken from the office... and through the sake that had been brought to the table. "Hokage-sama, you wished to see me." Koenma said.
"Yes." Tsunade said with a smile. "How are you, dear Koenma?" Se asked sweetly. "How are you enjoying being in our village?" Shizuke took away the papers that Tsunade had finished checking through, and started walking back to Tsunade's office. "Do you think that you will stay like Urameshi Yusuke and his friends?" She raised her sake to her lips. "I am sure that you would be welcomed among us with open arms if you decide to stay. Take your boys for example, minus Minamino Shuichi's defection, they have been accepted as Konoha's own, and even Shuichi has been offered a chance to redeem himself." Tsunade poured Koenma some sake. "I wish that you would. It would be so nice to have you here."
Koenma accepted the sake and sipped the alcoholic drink. "I'm not sure how long I'll be here." Koenma said. "It depends on how long it takes my dad to realise that I'm missing." A waitress handed them a menu each. Koenma looked at it, his mouth beginning to water. "Wow, there are a lot of dishes here." He said. "How am I suposed to choose?" His eyes met Tsunade's who smiled back at him.
"If you can't choose, maybe you could allow me to choose something for you?" Tsunade asked, and Koenma nodded at the suggestion. She motioned to one of the passing waiters, who walked over to the table. "Could we get two of your barbecued chicken strips on the rice and noodle bed, with extra sauce." The waiter nodded. "Oh and more sake for myself and my friend here."
"Of course, Hokage-sama." The waiter said. "Shall that be all that you require for the moment, Hokage-sama?" Tsunade nodded and the waiter left, delivering the order to the kitchen. She then turned her attention back to Koenma.
"I have a few questions, Koenma-kun." Tsunade said as she sipped some more of her sake. "I was hoping that you would answer some of them for me. I am afraid that they are a little personal." Koenma nodded as he saw the waiter returning to their table with more sake. "Are you currently in a relationship?" The sake that Koenma had just sipped almost covered Tsunade.
"What kind of question is that?"
"Please answer, Koenma-kun." Both remained silent for a few minutes. "Koenma?"
"There is nobody my father sees as being worthy enough to be involved with me." Koenma said. "There isn't exactly many princesses for him to pick from." Tsunade grinned hearing that.
"Well, you are looking at a princess." She said. "Orochimaru and Jiraiya always used to call me Tsunade-hime, although I suspect that they used the term mockingly. You see I am the grand daughter of the First Hokage, the founder of Konoha." She could see the wheels begin to turn in Koenma's head. "In the village, that is almost as close to royalty as you can get. It is a heritage that both Naruto and myself share, after all he is the son of the Fourth Hokage, the greatest hero that Konoha has ever produced."
Koenma couldn't help but look Tsunade over. He had to admit that she was quite beautiful. "Well, my dear princess, why all the questions?" Koenma asked when the waiter returned with their meals.
"I'm asking because I wouldn't like to tread on another woman's toes, but since you aren't involved with anyone, I can be quite frank. I want you." Tsunade's shocking statement made Koenma start choking on a piece of chicken. "Are you okay, Koenma?" She asked. She heard Koenma croak 'yes' and the smile returned to her face. "That is good, you had me worried there."
Sakura had finished her training and had left in search of Koenma. She intended on telling the young man exactly what she thought about him. Every time she saw him, she felt her heart thump, even more so than it had when she has looked at Sasuke or Kurama. She felt that this young man was the one. He was the one that she wanted to spend the rest of her life with. She searched for him high and low, and had turned her gaze on the bars. She entered one and what she saw shocked her. She saw Tsunade with her arms around her man. "Get your hands off him!" Sakura shouted as she stormed over to the pair.
Tsunade looked at the girl. "Get lost." She snapped. "He is not your concern."
"I love him!" The two women glared at each other.
"Ladies, please don't fight over me." Koenma said, when suddenly he felt Tsunade lift him and run from the bar, Sakura following close behind. The three ending up at the Hokage's office.
"Keep your hands off of him!" Sakura shouted. 'There is a reason why Naruto calls you 'Tsunade-baa-chan!' Inner Sakura yelled.
"You are nothing but an immature little girl." Tsunade said. "How many boys have you 'loved' in the past two years?" She looked at Koenma. "Anyway I am sure that you like the sight of these." She said as she discarded her top, revealing her breasts.
"I am sure that he would prefer a more... youthful body." Sakura said as she, too, discarded her clothing. 'Who could resist such a tempting offer?' Inner Sakura purred.
The sight of both naked bodies made Koenma whimper deep in his throat. "Ladies, there is an easy method to sort this out." He said, trying to keep control of the situation. Both looked at Koenma. "I shall, simply, have to date both of you and decide which of you is a better date." Both women, glaring at the other, agreed.
END FLASHBACK
Koenma sighed. Tsunade had taken the first date, and that would happen that evening. Yusuke and Hiei had laughed when he had told them of the situation that he was in, and neither offered him any advice. He could have strangled them. All he had to do was wait until the night to see what Tsunade had in store for him.
As the time passed, Koenma got more and more nervous. He had absolutely no idea what Tsunade had planned, and by the night he was quivering in anticipation. Whatever Tsunade had in mind, he was sure that it would be good. It would have to be, considering that she was up against Sakura, who would likely be getting help from the other two teams. One of which consisted totally of boys who knew him better than almost anyone else.
It was a knock on the door that broke Koenm out of his thoughts. "Koenma, I hope that you are ready." Tsunade said as Koenma opened the door. She looked him up and down. "Or half-dressed suits me too." She purred, seeing Koenma without a shirt on. Koenma blushed.
"I'll be right back." Koenma said hurrying to his room to get a shirt. He couldn't believe what Tsunade was wearing, or rather how little she was wearing. He idly wondered if Shizune knew how little her mistress was wearing. After a little more time, Koenma deemed himself ready to go on his date. He now wished that he had taken more notice of Yusuke's 'dates' with Keiko, rather than Keiko's... assets. At least he would have known, roughly, what to do.
Eventually he left the room, and saw Tsunade smiling. "Are we ready to go now?" She asked, smiling at the 'young' man. "If we don't go now, we could miss the first part of our 'date'." Koenma nodded, offering her his arm. Tsunade linked her arm in his. "I thought that we should go to the cinema first, there is a movie that I would like to see, one that I haven't had the chance to see because of my job." Koenma just nodded. "After that we shall just have to wait and see where the night takes us!" Her eyes closed as she smiled. "I am sure that we shall enjoy ourselves."
After the movie had finished, the pair left the theatre, and decided that they were hungry, so they returned to the same bar as they had started their lunch in earlier that day. "Did you enjoy yourself?" Tsunade asked with a smile.
"Very much." Koenma said after he swallowed what he was chewing. "Sakura has a challenge ahead of her." Tsunade's smile widened. "Tsunade-hime, will you allow me the pleasure of walking you home once our meal is finished?" Tsunade giggled like an Academy student when her biggest asked her to a party. "I take it that is a yes." Koenma said as he raised Tsunade's hand to his lips. He loved the touch of her skin, it was so soft and silky.
"I would love you to walk me home." Tsunade said as she finished her meal. "This has been such a pleasant night, I almost don't want it to end." Koenma quickly finished his own food and offered his arm to Tsunade. "Isn't the full moon beautiful?" Tsunade asked as they made their way to Tsunade's home. "They say that full moons can cause madness if someone is out in the light for too long."
"Well that explains why Yusuke fell for Hiei." Koenma said with a laugh. "Hiei was the last person that I ever imagined Yusuke being with. Then therre's Kura... Shuichi and your Orochimaru... I can't explain the attraction there either." Tsunade smiled. "Then there is us, a not-so-mad pair." They stopped outside Tsunade's home. "How about a kiss good night, Koenma-kun?" Tsunade asked as she leaned in for a kiss, which Koenma freely gave, before going home.
A pair of green, determined, eyes looked from a bush. 'So that is what I have to beat. Not much really.' Inner Sakura crowed. 'I'll make tomorrow night the most special that he has ever had. I think that I'll start off with cooking dinner and then...' She quietly squealed with all the things that she could do. 'Tsunade, the boy is MINE!'
Koenma waited patiently for Sakura to arrive to whisk him away, however, when she arrived, she asked if she could enter with bags of shopping, before making her way to the kitchen. "I'm sorry, Koenm-kun." Sakura said. "I just had a wonderful idea for dinner and needed to get a few things." She smiled at the god. "I thought that I'd do some cooking, rather than us going out for dinner. It's cheaper and we both know what is going in it." Koenma smiled as the girl happily set about preparing their dinner.
Sakura had been so happy that Kakashi had let her off early. He had told her that she would have been a liability had they have been on a mission, but also understood why she was so preoccupied. That had given her a little extra time before she and Koenma had arranged to meet. It didn't take her long to get everything, and now here she was, preparing dinner for the love of her life.
Koenma could smell the delicious aromas from the kitchen, but every time that he tried to find out what Sakura was preparing, she shooed him out again. There was no way that he would find out what it was until she served it to him. She grinned as she checked the rice, then the sauce. It was her mother's secret recipe, and she said that it would drive the tastebuds of any man wild, it must have done, because she married Sakura's father after she fed the very same dish to him.
"It's ready." She called after a little more time had passed, and the moment that Koenma entered the room he was in sense heaven. The sight, smell and quite likely the taste, would be divine. "Please, help yourself." Sakura said, awaiting his opinion. Koenma tried the meal.
"It's delicious!" He exclaimed as Sakura smiled and started to eat herself. "It's duck, isn't it" Sakura nodded.
"My mum taught me how to cook it." She said with a smile. "I am happy that I have found someone that I could share it with."
Once they finished, Koenma leaned back. "So what else have you planned, milady?" He asked as they left the table.
"I want to get to know you a little more, Koenma-kun." Sakura said. "There is so much that I would like to know about you." She said, glancing out the window. The sun was beginning to set. "Would you like a walk in the sunset, Koenma-kun?" Koenma smiled and offered his arm, which Sakura took, rather awkwardly. She led Koenma to the Hokage mount, where they sat. "Please, tell me about your home." She said. "I have never been so intrigued before."
"Well, it's different to Konoha, yet it is very similar." Koenma said, feeling Sakura's head rested on his shoulder. "It has a similar infrastructure to here, again there is a single head, however my father doesn't rely on any advisers, unlike the Hokage here. My father is the law in our world, everyone looks up to him."
"He must miss you." Sakura said.
"I'm not so sure." He said with a laugh. "I may be his only son, but I was a royal pain in his ass." He laughed harder. "I remember saying 'You can tell King Daddy that, and that he can disown me, fire me, or put me up for adoption.' to one of his captains. My father almost did all three for quite a while." Sakura laughed at the quote.
"Why did you say that?"
"He tried to stop e from being with Yusuke when he needed me. After he died the second time." Koenma explained, before he realised that she had probably thought that the god was joking before. "He really did die twice, you know." He saw the expression change. "Although sometimes I wonder why I let him return back to life at all. He really got on my nerves the first day."
"He gets on many people's nerves, Koenma-kun." Sakura said with a smile. "He is just like Naruto in that respect."
After some more time they then started back. "Sakura, you have given me quite a memorable night." Koenma said as he walked her back to her home. "I have a lot to sort out if I am to choose between you and Tsunade-san." He got a quick kiss from Sakura.
"Look in the fridge when you get home." She said with a smile before she went in the house.
When Koenma returned home, he did as she instructed and saw a perfectly formed jelly in the fridge, which most likely took the whole time to form as it as it needed to be done gently so the fruits didn't all sink to the bottom. "Sakura-chan, this is too much." He said as he read the note pinned to the front. 'To my beloved Koenma, this was made with my love, please enjoy. Sakura.'
A silent figure flitted over the tops of the buildings, pausing as he saw Koenma's actions. 'Really, all this over a jelly.' The figure thought as he paused outside the building. 'Anyway this isn't the right building either.' Again the figure moved on. 'I know that he is with Tsunade, so that means that he has left that delightful child alone. Ahh, here we are.' The figure stopped outside the window, looking in on a sleeping figure. 'We have some unfinished business, don't we, Shuichi?' For a moment the eyes changed to a blood red colour, before turning black once more. He leaped down to the door and knocked loudly, knowing that it wouldn't take long for the kitsune to answer. He would enjoy this.
Author's Note: I believe what we call jelly in the UK is known as jello in the States.
Disclaimer: See Chapter 1
Note: I have to apologise about something that I forgot to put in the last chapter. I have to thank one guy, who helped me so much, especially in deciphering my own prophecy. He puts up with so much, and reads almost everything I write. It was for him that this chapter was written.
Koenma suddenly sat upright. "So this is how human teens feel." He said, now feeling very sympathetic towards Yusuke and Kuwabara. He had never imagined what puberty was like for them. Now, however, he could understand what 'wet dreams' were like through experience. He pitied his Tantei team. He looked at the clock and decided that there was no reason for him to try and get more sleep, so he decided to take a shower. His mind began to wander, remembering the events of the previous day.
FLASHBACK
Koenma watched as Sakura practiced fighting against Hiei. The kunoivhi was getting almost as fast as Hiei was. It made the training fun to watch. He loved watching the feisty kunoichi over his old team any day. His eyes closed for a moment, but when they opened they were looking into the black eyes of Shizune, Tsunade's right hand woman. "Koenma-san, Tsunade-sama would like you to join her for lunch." Shizune said. "She would have come down herself, however she has paperwork to finish, so she sent me instead." The woman started walking back towards the main village. "Coming, Koenma-san?"
Koenma got to his feet and followed Shizune. "What does the Hokage wish to discuss with me?" He asked as she led him to the bar where Tsunade was working in. The Godaime had made a deal with the stricy, younger, woman that she would work if she got sake. To Shizune's relief, she saw that the Sannin was working through the pile that had been taken from the office... and through the sake that had been brought to the table. "Hokage-sama, you wished to see me." Koenma said.
"Yes." Tsunade said with a smile. "How are you, dear Koenma?" Se asked sweetly. "How are you enjoying being in our village?" Shizuke took away the papers that Tsunade had finished checking through, and started walking back to Tsunade's office. "Do you think that you will stay like Urameshi Yusuke and his friends?" She raised her sake to her lips. "I am sure that you would be welcomed among us with open arms if you decide to stay. Take your boys for example, minus Minamino Shuichi's defection, they have been accepted as Konoha's own, and even Shuichi has been offered a chance to redeem himself." Tsunade poured Koenma some sake. "I wish that you would. It would be so nice to have you here."
Koenma accepted the sake and sipped the alcoholic drink. "I'm not sure how long I'll be here." Koenma said. "It depends on how long it takes my dad to realise that I'm missing." A waitress handed them a menu each. Koenma looked at it, his mouth beginning to water. "Wow, there are a lot of dishes here." He said. "How am I suposed to choose?" His eyes met Tsunade's who smiled back at him.
"If you can't choose, maybe you could allow me to choose something for you?" Tsunade asked, and Koenma nodded at the suggestion. She motioned to one of the passing waiters, who walked over to the table. "Could we get two of your barbecued chicken strips on the rice and noodle bed, with extra sauce." The waiter nodded. "Oh and more sake for myself and my friend here."
"Of course, Hokage-sama." The waiter said. "Shall that be all that you require for the moment, Hokage-sama?" Tsunade nodded and the waiter left, delivering the order to the kitchen. She then turned her attention back to Koenma.
"I have a few questions, Koenma-kun." Tsunade said as she sipped some more of her sake. "I was hoping that you would answer some of them for me. I am afraid that they are a little personal." Koenma nodded as he saw the waiter returning to their table with more sake. "Are you currently in a relationship?" The sake that Koenma had just sipped almost covered Tsunade.
"What kind of question is that?"
"Please answer, Koenma-kun." Both remained silent for a few minutes. "Koenma?"
"There is nobody my father sees as being worthy enough to be involved with me." Koenma said. "There isn't exactly many princesses for him to pick from." Tsunade grinned hearing that.
"Well, you are looking at a princess." She said. "Orochimaru and Jiraiya always used to call me Tsunade-hime, although I suspect that they used the term mockingly. You see I am the grand daughter of the First Hokage, the founder of Konoha." She could see the wheels begin to turn in Koenma's head. "In the village, that is almost as close to royalty as you can get. It is a heritage that both Naruto and myself share, after all he is the son of the Fourth Hokage, the greatest hero that Konoha has ever produced."
Koenma couldn't help but look Tsunade over. He had to admit that she was quite beautiful. "Well, my dear princess, why all the questions?" Koenma asked when the waiter returned with their meals.
"I'm asking because I wouldn't like to tread on another woman's toes, but since you aren't involved with anyone, I can be quite frank. I want you." Tsunade's shocking statement made Koenma start choking on a piece of chicken. "Are you okay, Koenma?" She asked. She heard Koenma croak 'yes' and the smile returned to her face. "That is good, you had me worried there."
Sakura had finished her training and had left in search of Koenma. She intended on telling the young man exactly what she thought about him. Every time she saw him, she felt her heart thump, even more so than it had when she has looked at Sasuke or Kurama. She felt that this young man was the one. He was the one that she wanted to spend the rest of her life with. She searched for him high and low, and had turned her gaze on the bars. She entered one and what she saw shocked her. She saw Tsunade with her arms around her man. "Get your hands off him!" Sakura shouted as she stormed over to the pair.
Tsunade looked at the girl. "Get lost." She snapped. "He is not your concern."
"I love him!" The two women glared at each other.
"Ladies, please don't fight over me." Koenma said, when suddenly he felt Tsunade lift him and run from the bar, Sakura following close behind. The three ending up at the Hokage's office.
"Keep your hands off of him!" Sakura shouted. 'There is a reason why Naruto calls you 'Tsunade-baa-chan!' Inner Sakura yelled.
"You are nothing but an immature little girl." Tsunade said. "How many boys have you 'loved' in the past two years?" She looked at Koenma. "Anyway I am sure that you like the sight of these." She said as she discarded her top, revealing her breasts.
"I am sure that he would prefer a more... youthful body." Sakura said as she, too, discarded her clothing. 'Who could resist such a tempting offer?' Inner Sakura purred.
The sight of both naked bodies made Koenma whimper deep in his throat. "Ladies, there is an easy method to sort this out." He said, trying to keep control of the situation. Both looked at Koenma. "I shall, simply, have to date both of you and decide which of you is a better date." Both women, glaring at the other, agreed.
END FLASHBACK
Koenma sighed. Tsunade had taken the first date, and that would happen that evening. Yusuke and Hiei had laughed when he had told them of the situation that he was in, and neither offered him any advice. He could have strangled them. All he had to do was wait until the night to see what Tsunade had in store for him.
As the time passed, Koenma got more and more nervous. He had absolutely no idea what Tsunade had planned, and by the night he was quivering in anticipation. Whatever Tsunade had in mind, he was sure that it would be good. It would have to be, considering that she was up against Sakura, who would likely be getting help from the other two teams. One of which consisted totally of boys who knew him better than almost anyone else.
It was a knock on the door that broke Koenm out of his thoughts. "Koenma, I hope that you are ready." Tsunade said as Koenma opened the door. She looked him up and down. "Or half-dressed suits me too." She purred, seeing Koenma without a shirt on. Koenma blushed.
"I'll be right back." Koenma said hurrying to his room to get a shirt. He couldn't believe what Tsunade was wearing, or rather how little she was wearing. He idly wondered if Shizune knew how little her mistress was wearing. After a little more time, Koenma deemed himself ready to go on his date. He now wished that he had taken more notice of Yusuke's 'dates' with Keiko, rather than Keiko's... assets. At least he would have known, roughly, what to do.
Eventually he left the room, and saw Tsunade smiling. "Are we ready to go now?" She asked, smiling at the 'young' man. "If we don't go now, we could miss the first part of our 'date'." Koenma nodded, offering her his arm. Tsunade linked her arm in his. "I thought that we should go to the cinema first, there is a movie that I would like to see, one that I haven't had the chance to see because of my job." Koenma just nodded. "After that we shall just have to wait and see where the night takes us!" Her eyes closed as she smiled. "I am sure that we shall enjoy ourselves."
After the movie had finished, the pair left the theatre, and decided that they were hungry, so they returned to the same bar as they had started their lunch in earlier that day. "Did you enjoy yourself?" Tsunade asked with a smile.
"Very much." Koenma said after he swallowed what he was chewing. "Sakura has a challenge ahead of her." Tsunade's smile widened. "Tsunade-hime, will you allow me the pleasure of walking you home once our meal is finished?" Tsunade giggled like an Academy student when her biggest asked her to a party. "I take it that is a yes." Koenma said as he raised Tsunade's hand to his lips. He loved the touch of her skin, it was so soft and silky.
"I would love you to walk me home." Tsunade said as she finished her meal. "This has been such a pleasant night, I almost don't want it to end." Koenma quickly finished his own food and offered his arm to Tsunade. "Isn't the full moon beautiful?" Tsunade asked as they made their way to Tsunade's home. "They say that full moons can cause madness if someone is out in the light for too long."
"Well that explains why Yusuke fell for Hiei." Koenma said with a laugh. "Hiei was the last person that I ever imagined Yusuke being with. Then therre's Kura... Shuichi and your Orochimaru... I can't explain the attraction there either." Tsunade smiled. "Then there is us, a not-so-mad pair." They stopped outside Tsunade's home. "How about a kiss good night, Koenma-kun?" Tsunade asked as she leaned in for a kiss, which Koenma freely gave, before going home.
A pair of green, determined, eyes looked from a bush. 'So that is what I have to beat. Not much really.' Inner Sakura crowed. 'I'll make tomorrow night the most special that he has ever had. I think that I'll start off with cooking dinner and then...' She quietly squealed with all the things that she could do. 'Tsunade, the boy is MINE!'
Koenma waited patiently for Sakura to arrive to whisk him away, however, when she arrived, she asked if she could enter with bags of shopping, before making her way to the kitchen. "I'm sorry, Koenm-kun." Sakura said. "I just had a wonderful idea for dinner and needed to get a few things." She smiled at the god. "I thought that I'd do some cooking, rather than us going out for dinner. It's cheaper and we both know what is going in it." Koenma smiled as the girl happily set about preparing their dinner.
Sakura had been so happy that Kakashi had let her off early. He had told her that she would have been a liability had they have been on a mission, but also understood why she was so preoccupied. That had given her a little extra time before she and Koenma had arranged to meet. It didn't take her long to get everything, and now here she was, preparing dinner for the love of her life.
Koenma could smell the delicious aromas from the kitchen, but every time that he tried to find out what Sakura was preparing, she shooed him out again. There was no way that he would find out what it was until she served it to him. She grinned as she checked the rice, then the sauce. It was her mother's secret recipe, and she said that it would drive the tastebuds of any man wild, it must have done, because she married Sakura's father after she fed the very same dish to him.
"It's ready." She called after a little more time had passed, and the moment that Koenma entered the room he was in sense heaven. The sight, smell and quite likely the taste, would be divine. "Please, help yourself." Sakura said, awaiting his opinion. Koenma tried the meal.
"It's delicious!" He exclaimed as Sakura smiled and started to eat herself. "It's duck, isn't it" Sakura nodded.
"My mum taught me how to cook it." She said with a smile. "I am happy that I have found someone that I could share it with."
Once they finished, Koenma leaned back. "So what else have you planned, milady?" He asked as they left the table.
"I want to get to know you a little more, Koenma-kun." Sakura said. "There is so much that I would like to know about you." She said, glancing out the window. The sun was beginning to set. "Would you like a walk in the sunset, Koenma-kun?" Koenma smiled and offered his arm, which Sakura took, rather awkwardly. She led Koenma to the Hokage mount, where they sat. "Please, tell me about your home." She said. "I have never been so intrigued before."
"Well, it's different to Konoha, yet it is very similar." Koenma said, feeling Sakura's head rested on his shoulder. "It has a similar infrastructure to here, again there is a single head, however my father doesn't rely on any advisers, unlike the Hokage here. My father is the law in our world, everyone looks up to him."
"He must miss you." Sakura said.
"I'm not so sure." He said with a laugh. "I may be his only son, but I was a royal pain in his ass." He laughed harder. "I remember saying 'You can tell King Daddy that, and that he can disown me, fire me, or put me up for adoption.' to one of his captains. My father almost did all three for quite a while." Sakura laughed at the quote.
"Why did you say that?"
"He tried to stop e from being with Yusuke when he needed me. After he died the second time." Koenma explained, before he realised that she had probably thought that the god was joking before. "He really did die twice, you know." He saw the expression change. "Although sometimes I wonder why I let him return back to life at all. He really got on my nerves the first day."
"He gets on many people's nerves, Koenma-kun." Sakura said with a smile. "He is just like Naruto in that respect."
After some more time they then started back. "Sakura, you have given me quite a memorable night." Koenma said as he walked her back to her home. "I have a lot to sort out if I am to choose between you and Tsunade-san." He got a quick kiss from Sakura.
"Look in the fridge when you get home." She said with a smile before she went in the house.
When Koenma returned home, he did as she instructed and saw a perfectly formed jelly in the fridge, which most likely took the whole time to form as it as it needed to be done gently so the fruits didn't all sink to the bottom. "Sakura-chan, this is too much." He said as he read the note pinned to the front. 'To my beloved Koenma, this was made with my love, please enjoy. Sakura.'
A silent figure flitted over the tops of the buildings, pausing as he saw Koenma's actions. 'Really, all this over a jelly.' The figure thought as he paused outside the building. 'Anyway this isn't the right building either.' Again the figure moved on. 'I know that he is with Tsunade, so that means that he has left that delightful child alone. Ahh, here we are.' The figure stopped outside the window, looking in on a sleeping figure. 'We have some unfinished business, don't we, Shuichi?' For a moment the eyes changed to a blood red colour, before turning black once more. He leaped down to the door and knocked loudly, knowing that it wouldn't take long for the kitsune to answer. He would enjoy this.
Author's Note: I believe what we call jelly in the UK is known as jello in the States.