LOVE DEFIES ALL ODDS
By: Seiyo
seiyo@hotmail.com

CHAPTER 3          

“It’s a long time since I’ve been here,” Yusuke mumbled while looking around at the details of the Reikai palace. 

“Yes, and I swear it didn’t look like this before,” Kuwabara agreed with him. 

“Hn,” Hiei merely stood there thinking of how stupid his two companions looked like. 

“I brought you all here so you could learn more of your new mission and not for you to look around,” Koenma, seemingly annoyed, told them, ”Now can we please go back to our real business?” 

“You guys,” Kurama called to the two, “We better talk about this new mission.” 

The Reikai tantei and the prince are now at the corridors of the Reikai palace where Koenma wishes to elaborate on the new mission. They went inside Koenma’s office, who walked up to his desk and picked a folder. 

“This new mission I’m talking about is a very serious one. Our enemy hasn’t done much damage yet, but I’m sure that something big is about to come. She—“ 

“SHE?!” Yusuke interjected. 

“Yes, your enemy is a woman named Akuma,” Koenma willingly explained and at the same time, showed them a clip of a blonde woman, clad in velvet robes. 

“I get the feeling that we’re coming to the era where women are calling the shots,” Kurama uttered. 

“Hah! It would be easy to defeat this woman, whoever she is,” Kuwabara stood up and striked a pose, “One look at the great Kazuma Kuwabara and she will fall head over heels in love,” the three facefaulted and Kurama and Yusuke fell over. All were trying very hard to suppress their laughter, ”After that we can manipulate her without any problem.” 

“Uh…I’m sure that won’t have to happen,” Yusuke spoke up. 

Koenma cleared his throat, “Enough talk. As I was saying, Akuma has already started gathering allies from Makai and in no time, she would be able to start with whatever plans she has for us.” 

“So what does this Akuma really want? I mean, what could be her purpose?” Kurama questioned. 

“There is a big possibility that her reason for attack is caused by a certain person or event in her past. You see, she has been locked up for five thousand years now.” 

“Whew, that’s a long time,” Yusuke mumbled.

“Right. She was locked up by Queen Suisho. According to our records, she had been the Queen’s right hand and was a very loyal subject. In fact, she had been very efficient during her service. Apparently, she had a hidden agenda for serving the queen. When she thought she had gotten the queen’s full trust, that was when she striked. She had recruited a number of troops to attack. Akuma is not a really a skilled fighter but carries a great power that she can skillfully manipulate. Fortunately, Queen Suisho didn’t really trust her that much and was able to hold Akuma back. She locked Akuma in a sphere which works with the aid of a process which works much like your modern cryogenics, then sent it someplace.” 

“Cryo-what??!!” Kuwabara shouted. 

“Cryogenics,” repeated Kurama, “it had been studied that bodies can be frozen in liquid nitrogen and resuscitated when the future comes." 
“You mean she froze Akuma?” Yusuke asked, “Why not just kill her?” Hiei, on the corner finally spoke up.

Koenma shrugged, “Queen Suisho is not just your conventional queen. There are some things about her that you wouldn’t expect.” 

“How in the world was she able to get out?” Kuwabara asked in puzzlement. 

“Well it appears that one of the advisers in the Queen’s court named Shinichi looked for where she was hidden and had set her free. He had known about Akuma’s hidden agenda even before she started acting on it. He had secretly followed on Akuma’s dealings, but didn’t say anything about it. After she was locked up, life went on for him. After Queen Suisho’s reign he dropped his position and nothing was heard of him. It seems that he had taken an interest in scheming with Akuma. That’s why he looked for the place where she was, and now, Shinichi has found her and set her free. He must have thought that without the Queen, no one can ever stop them,” Koenma paused and sighed. “This information is actually unexpected because Shinichi was one of the most loyal to the Queen Suisho. No one has ever thought that he would do something like this. 
“He must know how powerful the Queen was and he just sided with her because he knew what might happen to him if he goes against her,” Kurama looked up, “Tell us more about Queen Suisho,” Kurama requested. 

“Hmm…okay. Queen Suisho was a queen apart from the others. When she was young, she really didn’t want to have anything to do with palace affairs. Some say that she was quite unruly. She longed to do adventurous things. In our time, she’s what you would call hyperactive. Unfortunately, her father died an untimely death and she was the only successor. Her duties had hindered her from doing most of the things she enjoys. It’s a good thing Suisho was a quick learner and soon, she was taking her palace duties on with her stride. Her people described her as a strong woman, willing to face any problem for her people. At the same time, she had a good sense of humor and creativity that made her reign, lively and stable at the same time. They considered her as one of the greatest rulers of all time.” Koenma then showed them a small portrait of a woman with aquamarine hair and turquoise eyes with delicate facial features. “It’s strange though that we have no records of her after she passed away.” 
“If you’d ask me, she sounds like Botan,” Kuwabara commented. 

“Yeah, she even resembles her up to some extent,” Yusuke added. 

“How did she lock up Akuma?” Kurama, ignoring the comments, asked. 

“That’s what we are trying to find out. These files are old and some have already been worn out over the years, but they say that she had kept something in her possession. Hopefully, we’d be able to restore most of these documents and find out more about her,” Koenma studied the documents then looked up, “By the way, where’s Botan?” 

Yusuke shrugged and looked at Kuwabara 

“Don’t look at me. Ask Kurama. “ Kuwabara then pointed at Kurama’s direction. 

“I have no idea.” 

Hiei turned towards them. “She slipped off while we were walking.” 

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