I has a chezburger, ur, I mean, a party. ((desert_gaara))

[thedeath_of_you]

If all things have gone right with the Nexus and Botan's ability to send things, Gaara should find a pink envelope on his desk. In her trademark bubble characters, the note (translated, of course) reads as follows:

Gaara

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[thedeath_of_you]

"Koenma-sama's just in one of his moods again." The orge sighs. He looks towards Gaara. "You're Gaara-san, right? I'm Jorge Saotome."

Good luck."

Thanks for the vote of confidence

[desert_gaara]

Gaara bows his head to Jorge, and then waits for Botan to lead the way.

A toddler who can make an ogre cry? Gaara doesn't know what to think about all this.

[thedeath_of_you]

Botan walks hesitantly into the house. She's not really keen on dealing with a grumpy Koenma-sama.

As they enter the room, they hear a voice. "Yo." If Gaara was to look down, there would indeed be a toddler, pacifer and all. His hat is enblazed with the word "JR".

[desert_gaara]

And down goes Gaara's eyes. Thank heavens that Botan has prepared him, otherwise he would probably have disregarded him completely. He had gotten teh bright idea to simply view Koenma as a short person, but the pacifier is making that rather hard. Good think he's so good at looking blank.

"Koenma-sama, I assume? Thank you for having me."

[thedeath_of_you]

"You would be correct in that assumption, Gaara" He makes himself more at eye level with Gaara by levitating upwards. "Botan, could you run a small errand for you? I left a document in the temple area. Jorge is useless, so could you get it for me?"

Looking sideways, Botan shrugs. She knows this is just a tactic to get her out of the way. "Of course, sir." She quickly scuffles out, but not before squeezing Gaara's hand.

Koenma, despite being physically a child, is over 900 years old, and he quickly shows it with his seriousness. "So, Gaara of Sunakagure, just what sort of intentions do you have towards my best employee?"

[desert_gaara]

Straight to the point. Good. Gaara follows that line, with complete honesty. There would be no point in trying to hide anything here.

"I love her. I can't promise her a future, but I will do my best to give her a happy one."

[thedeath_of_you]

Koenma seems to accept the answer. "You do realize that I am intrusting you with both her safekeeping and a knowledge of our world. This is a lot more than my father would usually allow me to do." A moment to gather his thoughts. "You also accept the fact that things will never be normal if you're with her?"

The tone in which he states this seems to tell that this is the deciding factor.

[desert_gaara]

"I think that things would never be normal for either of us no matter what we do." He says honestly. Because really, one has been dead for lord know how long, the other a former container for a demon and now the leader of one of the major power-factors in his world. He should also by all right be dead. "And just as I've been intrusted with the knowledge of this world, she has been of mine."

[thedeath_of_you]

Koenma looks serious for about another moment. Then it goes.

"THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU. I thought she'd never get someone! She's way too high-strung, and from what I can tell, you're a total introvert. Together, you make each other well adjusted! I'm a genius!" Way to take credit for everything, dude.

"She's your problem now."

[desert_gaara]

He jerks back just the slightest bit as Koenma goes off.

"...it's either that or we'll make each other worse." He finally says with that little quirk of his lips.

[thedeath_of_you]

And he's attacked from behind by a certain blue-haired ball of energy. "Worse at what? What are you guys talking about."

Koenma sighs. "We were talking about your wonderful nurturing nature. Oh, and Botan, can you teach Jorge how to work a VCR? He can't put in my Disney tapes." Oh wait. He is 2.

[desert_gaara]

Gaara braces himself against the impact just in time and reaches and arm back to steady her. It's not like he minds having her cling on him.

Sadly, he doens't know what Disney is so the amusing point here flies him right by.

[thedeath_of_you]

And Botan definately doesn't mind clinging to him. "Hiei and Kuwa-chan got in a fight. You missed the hilarity, my dear."

"Koenma-sama, is it time for your nap?" The ruler looks up. "So it is. You're exempt from tucking me in. Just this once." He waddles towards a small nest of cushions made for him, probably, by Jorge. "Nice meeting you then, Gaara. I know you'll make good on your word."

[desert_gaara]

Gaara bows to the little prince once again, and then maybe they should leave him to his nap.

"So.. Who won?" He asks on their way out.

[thedeath_of_you]

"It was terribly one-sided. Kuwa-chan tried to ask Yukina-chan to be his girlfriend, and Hiei interrupted as usual. Yuusuke said something about Hiei being a 'cockblocker' and Keiko-chan slapped him. The Hiei and Kuwabara argued, and when Kuwa-chan tried to punch him, he missed and got a handful of splinters."

[desert_gaara]

"Too bad." Gaara is rooting for Kuwabara, after all. But it's not his business, otherwise he might have considered helping Kuwa out the next time he tries to approach Yukina.