Disclaimer: I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho, someone else does.
Author's Note: Well, I decided to finally put this up. It's not done, and I won't finish it within the next couple weeks, but eventually I'll get back to it. Right now I'm stuck on NaruHina but when I finish a couple fics of them I'll finish this. Enjoy.
PS: This takes place right after the end of the series, there aren't too many spoilers, and the beginning is a little off, I may rewrite it later, but that's because I originally wrote it after watching the end of the Dark Tournament, some misunderstandings with Genkai if you know what I mean.
Yusuke walked along the broken path to face his final enemy. This new beast had been stealing those he loved, and he wanted them back. He needed them. Koenma, Botan, Hiei, Kurama, Kuwabara, even Genkai, his tutor and surrogate mother was taken. He could no longer stand sitting around and watching everything he worked for be laid to waste. He could no longer hold back anything; he could feel his spirit energy building as he walked through this road of pure nothingness. The only thing for miles was a small portal at the end of this long tunnel of despair, and darkness. Yusuke remembered the last few weeks clearly as he practically glided to what was inevitably his own mortal demise. Anyone who could inflict so much damage to a world could not possibly be defeated, especially in Yusuke's current state of mind. It all started three weeks ago.
Yusuke dodged to his left, and rolled to his right as another blow came towards him.
"Jeez, calm down Keiko, I didn't forget," He said as he held his face, his legs crossed leaning against a tree. "Of course I remembered, how could I not with everyone murmuring about it for days," he continued, "Happy Birthday Keiko!" He shouted.
"Oh you moron," Keiko responded, "It isn't my birthday!" Keiko leaned down slightly and slapped Yusuke hard across the face once again. "Today is our anniversary," she finished.
"Uh," Yusuke began, what did she mean, anniversary of what? "Of course, that's what I meant. I had you fooled didn't I?"
"You probably still have no idea what I'm talking about do you?"
"Um, well, the anniversary of our first real dates right?" Keiko hit him again. "Hey, I'm getting really sick of you hitting me all the time. You hit harder than Kuwabara."
"It's the anniversary of the day we met."
"In grade school?" Keiko nodded, wearing a half-smile, "How do you remember that stuff? Or more importantly, how can you expect me to remember it?"
"Well, I suppose it was a very hopeful thing to expect from such a dimwit," Keiko said turning her face away from him.
"Hey, that's mine and grandma's thing. Don't try and take that away from us." Yusuke hated talking to Keiko about stuff he didn't care about, and meaningless occasions were at the top of that list.
"Fine," she said, getting up and walking away, "I'm sorry.
"No, I'm sorry," he said in the most sincere voice he could muster, "It's not really a big deal, I just hate us arguing about stupid stuff like this all the time. C'mon, let's go home." He hated going home with Keiko, she always took forever to say goodbye; I mean jeesh, they only lived a couple blocks apart, they'd see each other again bright and early the next morning, what was the big deal?
'How foolish I was,' Yusuke thought to himself, slapping his forehead. 'I couldn't have known what was to happen'.
Yusuke awoke the next morning with a bad feeling and a sense of urgency. He rushed quickly out of his door with barely enough time to don his green suit. He didn't bother to fix his hair as it flopped in his face. He ran quickly to Keiko's home and didn't even knock before barging in. He sped to her room and opened the door to find her sleeping peacefully. He was relieved for only a second before realizing that she was a light sleeper and should've woken up to his heavy footsteps as he entered the house and flung her door open. He quickly ran to her side and kneeled next her.
"Keiko," he said loudly as he shook her, "Keiko wake up!" She didn't move, although her eyes were open. Yusuke couldn't believe it; he didn't even appreciate his last day with his loved one. 'Is she dead,' he wondered to himself, but he knew how to check. He put his head to Keiko's chest and listened for a heartbeat. There was a very faint one, and light breathing on his neck. 'Well she's alive, but what is going on?' He thought to himself, "Where's Botan when I need her?"
"Botan!" he yelled loudly, hoping to break the barriers to Spirit World and reach the grim reaper. "Damn it!" Yusuke knew she wouldn't come but he had to try, he needed to find someone, perhaps Kuwabara could help, he's spiritually aware and all that good jazz.
Yusuke ran to the school at top speed, passing cars with ease as he sprinted to find his friend. "KUWABARA!" he screamed as he reached the schoolyard, "WHERE IS THAT RED-HEADED PUNK!"
"Will you calm down already Urameshi," Kuwabara said as he approached Yusuke, "You're always yelling and gettin' upset about stuff."
"This is not the time to talk about my faults, okay?" Yusuke said, rather sarcastically, "Something's wrong with Keiko, you've gotta come see what's going on."
"Keiko!?!" Kuwabara outburst, "You mean your girlfriend Keiko?"
"No, I mean the Queen of the Rainbows and Butterflies Keiko, YES I MEAN MY GIRLFRIEND YOU MORON!"
"Relax, is she at her house?"
"Yeah," Yusuke said as Kuwabara turned and ran in the direction of her body. Yusuke followed behind him, running slower than he would've preferred at this time. When they reached Keiko's door Yusuke ran in front of Kuwabara and wrenched it open, trying to usher his friend in behind him. "C'mon!"
As Kuwabara approached Keiko's lifeless body he shivered and turned to Yusuke. "I can't feel her energy, but I just feel this cold tingle, I don't know what it is," he said, before leaning against the wall by Keiko's bed.
"Well can't you do anything?" Yusuke asked his friend.
"I don't know what's wrong, so really, no."
"Well you're a lot of freakin' help," Yusuke shouted as he walked angrily out of his girlfriend's home. "Where is her mom, or dad, anyway?"
"They are at work," a familiar voice answered in an all too cheery voice, considering the circumstances. "Keiko is often alone at her home; her parents are home just long enough to sleep."
"Umm, Botan, are you stalking her?" Yusuke asked the floating blue-haired girl behind him.
"No you idiot!" She said, smacking him upside the head, "I watched her a lot when you were trying to get your body back, remember?"
"Right, well, I need your help, now." Yusuke demanded, "Keiko is alive, but she isn't responding to anything. Kuwabara said he couldn't feel her energy, he said something about a chill too."
"Well, normally when there is a chill or cold skin it means that they have lost their soul."
"How do you check if she has a soul? There wasn't that oh so obvious orb above her head."
"Not everybody works like Keito; souls are normally kept as souvenirs or in some cases, such as Gouki, your first opponent, eat souls. However, it would appear that you really are a moron and never listened to when I explained your detective tools to you." Botan reached into her kimono and pulled out the suitcase that held Yusuke's tools against evil. "Let's see," she said tossing things away, "Communication mirror, no, spyglass, no, spirit enhancer ring, no. Ah, here it is," She said at last, pulling out a small telescope, "The soul detector. Koenma created it and never really used it much; it seems that finding out whether someone has a soul doesn't come up often; unfortunate really." She handed Yusuke the tiny telescope as he reached for it impatiently.
"How's it work?" Yusuke asked sticking his eye to the whole. He noticed everything appeared to be in infrared. There were green blotches for every tree, and the grass. There were little orange and blue blotches for the dogs, grasshoppers, flies and every other living thing he could see. He turned looking through it to Botan. "Holy crap," the Spirit Detective said pulling the tube away from his face. She was completely red it almost blinded him.
"Green is plant souls," Botan explained, "Orange is non-sentient animals, and red is for human souls."
"U-Urameshi," a raspy voice uttered behind them, "U-Urameshi, I feel, w-weird." Yusuke turned around in time to see Kuwabara fall to his knees. Yusuke rushed over to his fallen friend and asked him what was wrong. Kuwabara's head suddenly jerked up and he faced Yusuke, wide-eyed. His eyes went gray for a fraction of a second before flaming red. Kuwabara shot upwards, hitting Yusuke with a hard right to his gut.
"W-WHAT THE HELL KUWABARA!" Yusuke coughed up, holding his gut. "Give a guy a warning before you hit him! And what the hell is up with your eyes?"
Kuwabara stood up, facing down; his head then jerked one more times and his eyes flared before he charged the confused Spirit Detective. Yusuke backed up as his friend, and long-time rival swung rabidly at him. Yusuke dodged the blows easily, due to his speed advantage over his current opponent, and flicked him on the side of the head, sending him flying into the bushes.
"What the hell is going on?" Yusuke asked turning to Botan. As he finished his twirl, Botan reached her arms out and walked slowly towards him. Her eyes were open, but now the same gray that had just flickered in Kuwabara's eyes. "What the hell is going on?"
He backed up away from the grim reaper and pulled out the soul detector, looking through it straight at her. It was still red, he looked at his own hand, it was red too, so he turned it on Kuwabara, who's was a reddish black, and then to Keiko's house seeing a red figure laying down inside. 'So they all still have their souls, what in the hell is going on?' he thought to himself, still backing away from his friends.
I broke these up after I wrote a big chunk so if the chapters seem oddly broken up that's why.