Prologue

I KNOW THIS IS A FAN FICTION SITE BUT HERE'S A DISCLAIMER ANYWAY: I DO NOT OWN THE RIGHTS TO THESE CHARACTERS. NONE OF THIS IS CANONICAL CONTENT. I AM MAKING THIS UP AS I GO ALONG USING CHARACTERS ALREADY CREATED. I DO NOT PLAN TO CREATE MY OWN CHARACTERS FOR THIS STORY.

This is the first chapter from a new writer. I'm doing this mostly to keep my writing skills sharp and I've watched the YuYu Hakusho series at least ten times because it's such a great series IMO. Maybe when I get acquainted with Hunter X Hunter I'll write a FanFic for that as well. I won't be using any proper Japanese terms like "ningenkai, makai, youki" etc because I'm not acquainted with them enough to be comfortable with using them. So I'm going stick with their English language counterparts. This is an addition I just made recently. It'll give background details of the whole 112 episode original series.

Yusuke Urameshi is a delinquent 14 year old. He never goes to school and he was born with a gift for hand to hand combat. He's gained the title of "toughest kid in school" and he is also the target of many thugs in his city. Kazuma Kuwabara is his biggest rival. He constantly attempts to defeat Yusuke but is never successful. One day Yusuke is skipping school when he sees a little boy chase his ball into the street. He gets the ball for the boy and tells him to be careful. Minutes later the same little boy chases his ball into the middle of the street not realizing a car is about to hit him. Yusuke intervenes and saves the boy, being struck and killed by the car.

He's then instantly floating in the sky, not knowing that he died and is a ghost. He is greeted by a bubbly young girl with blue hair named Botan, introducing herself as the grim reaper. She tells him that, given his selfish nature, he was not expected to die that day and definitely not committing such a selfless act. He decides that he doesn't care that he's dead because nobody cared he was around anyway. He never knew his father and his mom is a drunk. He changes his mind when he sees all the people crying at his wake including his mother and Kuwabara who screams that he can't be dead because it's their destiny to fight every day. Yusuke also has a girlfriend/best friend that can't stand the sight of his body lying lifeless in his bed.

He's then visited by Koenma, the prince of the spirit world, the world between heaven and hell that decides your fate. Koenma's appearance is as a baby with a pacifier always in his mouth which Yusuke mocks at every given chance. Koenma tells him that he can return to life if he accepts a task. The task is that he'd act as a spirit detective under Koenma. He'd investigate illegal demon activity in the living world and eliminate or escort the demons back to the demon world. Yusuke accepts and he has to get someone that cares about him to kiss him to bring him back to life. He tries to contact Kuwabara but he just shakes it off as a weird dream. However, Keiko believes the dream and rushes to Yusuke's house to bring him back to life. Without her knowing, some kids that fought and lost to Yusuke set his house on fire with Keiko inside. Yusuke had been gaining energy over the past few days to return back to life. He sacrificed the energy to clear a path for Keiko to get out of the house. His body is saved and he returns to life.

He's then accused of stealing multiple personal items from other students when he starts going back to school. When he attempts to attack the teacher accusing him, Koenma freezes time and instructs Yusuke that if he wants to get back at the teacher, he should focus his energy into his index finger and fire it like a gun by pulling the trigger in his mind. This gives Yusuke the use of his spirit gun.

(Skipping ahead because this background is getting bloated)

Long story short: Yusuke fights Hiei, a three eyed demon, helps a demon named Kurama save his human mother, and kills a demon named Goki by shooting a spirit gun bullet into his mouth because his skin was so hard he couldn't hurt him with punches. The three demons stole special artifacts from spirit world's vaults.

Yusuke and Kuwabara fight in a tournament hosted by Genkai, an aging female fighter wanting to pass on her special technique called the spirit wave. Yusuke is sent there to find a demon named Rando who kills and steals fighters' techniques. Yusuke ends up meeting Kuwabara at the tournament. When they get to the one on one fights, Yusuke barely wins his fights due to being inexperienced with spirit energy and Kuwabara learns to manifest a sword with his spirit energy. Yusuke ends up finding and killing Rando, winning the prize of becoming Genkai's student. In the three months Yusuke trains with Genkai, he increases his spirit energy reserves and learns how to fire the spirit shotgun, which is exactly as it sounds. Instead of shooting one bullet he shoots a spray of bullets from his fist.

The world is under attack by what are called the Makai insects because the 4 saint beasts want the wall between their city and the human world taken down. Yusuke and Kuwabara go to their city and end up meeting Kurama and Hiei who join their team. They enter the castle and defeat all of the saint beasts. Yusuke beats the leader by using life energy which almost kills him.

Later, Koenma learns that an ice demon named Yukina is being held by a wealthy black market dealer named Tarukine, harvesting the stones she creates with her tears, worth millions, by torturing her. He sends Yusuke, Botan, and Kuwabara (who after seeing a picture of Yukina falls in love with her) to rescue her. Unbeknownst to Kuwabara because he left before Koenma's message was finished, Hiei is revealed as Yukina's brother. They rescue Yukina after fighting the toguro brothers. The elder Toguro can regenerate body parts and heal himself and younger toguro can increase the strength his muscles output by focusing his demon energy into them. Yusuke and Kuwabara work together for Kuwabara to stab younger toguro in the chest with his spirit sword. They all leave thinking he's dead but monitoring by Koenma shows that the Toguros threw the fight so their employer, Sakyo, could win Tarukine's massive fortune.

Yusuke later finds out that Toguro wasn't killed and Toguro tells him that he'd be a "special guest" at the dark tournament. The special guests are required to participate in the dark tournament and will be killed if they don't accept their invitation. Yusuke goes back to Genkai to train again and Kuwabara trains with Hiei and Kurama. They need 5 fighters to enter the dark tournament so Yusuke finds a fighter, whose face is wrapped up with only their eye showing, not knowing their true identity. They refer to this fighter as the Masked Fighter in the series.

blah blah blah etc. etc.

The masked fighter is revealed to be Genkai whom transfers all of her powers to Yusuke via the spirit orb that she's created over her lifetime and has planned to pass on to a worthy apprentice from the beginning. Yusuke gets to the final round to fight Younger Toguro again and is unable to access the powers given to him by Genkai who was killed by younger toguro (genkai and younger toguro were teammates in the last dark tournament. Toguro ran a dojo where his students were killed by a demon that he killed in the final round of the last tournament 50 years ago. Genkai requested never to be bothered again by the tournament committee but is revealed to be the masked fighter toward the middle of the tournament before she was killed by younger Toguro). Because Yusuke is unable to access all of his power younger Toguro decides that he needs persuasion and proceeds to kill Kuwabara. After Yusuke defeats Toguro it is revealed that Toguro missed Kuwabara's vitals on purpose, not intending to kill him. Younger Toguro had kicked his older brother out of the arena after Elder Toguro began speaking ill of his younger brother and Genkai. Sakyo's ultimate plan was to take the winnings from the dark tournament and open a hole to demon world. This plan failed when Toguro lost, and Sakyo being a gambler, had bet his life on Toguro to win. He informs Koenma that because he's an egomaniac he won't let his plan continue without him. Before the team leaves the island the tournament was held on, Koenma brings Genkai back to life.

About six months later a human finds Elder Toguro's broken body at the edge of a cliff. This man is Sensui. He was a sprit detective like Yusuke but was much more intelligent, less of a delinquent, and had a very black and white view of the world. He went crazy when he was sent on a case to stop a group of wealthy humans (the same group Tarukine belonged to) from opening a hole to demon world. That's when Sensui lost his mind. He had believed that demons were evil and should be killed and humans are good and should be saved. He saw those humans torturing demons as they came out of the hole and lost his mind, killing all of the humans in the room and disappeared with a tape called chapter black. Chapter black is a video of all of mankind's worst crimes in history (the crusades, the holocaust etc.)

Some kind of unimportant stuff happens etc.

Yusuke meets Sensui in a cave where one of his partners has opened the hole to demon world wide enough to where it could stabilize and continue to grow itself. Yusuke fights Sensui and realizes, while beating the hell out of Sensui, that he has a look in his eyes like he's still in control. Itsuki, the one who opened the tunnel, explains that when Sensui lost his mind, it fragmented into 7 personalities, keeping the real Sensui personality pure while the others committed murder, lied to people who died in the process of his plan etc. (committing all 7 deadly sins blah blah blah). Koenma attempts to trap Sensui behind the Kekai barrier, a net which keeps the most powerful demons out of the human world, with his spell created by his pacifier which has been gathering his energy for centuries for such an occasion. Realizing he can't win, Yusuke does what Kuwabara did for him, sacrificing himself so that Kuwabara, Kurama, and Hiei can escape from the alternate dimension that they've been stuck in during the fight. Hiei launches an attack which just pushes back Sensui through the barrier because he's not a demon. Kuwabara, having gained a new power to cut through dimensions (which he used to escape the dimension that they were watching the fight from) cuts through the barrier and they follow Sensui to the demon world. Yusuke is then resurrected due to an atavism (a genetic mutation where a person reverts back to a state similar to that of their ancestors). He learns he's a demon and follows everyone to the demon world. Yusuke fights Sensui alone with his new demon powers but is unable to get a grip on his new powers. When he attempts to attack Sensui, a voice enters his head and he transforms into a version of his ancestral father, Raizen. He's covered in tattoos and grows long, silvery grey hair. He kills Sensui but is informed by Itsuki that he only had 15 days to live anyway due to a rare fatal disease.

Yusuke struggles to deal with his new powers, personality, and discovered lineage. Koenma tells him that because of his atavism (making him a mazoku, an ancient powerful race of demon world) he must leave earth or his father, King Emma, will have him killed. Yusuke is greeted by three demons claiming to have been sent by Raizen. He goes to demon world to speak to his forefather who has been avoiding eating humans for sustenance for thousands of years causing his stomach to growl so loud it reaches every inch of the demon world. Yusuke trains until he can beat Raizen. Raizen dies before he gets the chance. Raizen is what's called an S class demon, the most powerful and intelligent class of demon in demon world. There are also two other kings, Makuro and Yomi. Makuro drafts Hiei as her general and Yomi calls upon Kurama. Kurama is revealed as an old friend of Yomi's when they were both thieves.

To avoid a war, Yusuke proposes that they hold a tournament to determine the new king. The tournament would be held every 3 years to determine the new ruler of demon world. Yusuke fights Yomi and loses but because Yomi is so weak after their fight he loses before the finals. A friend of Raizen's, named Enki, ends up winning the tournament. He proclaims that the next tournament would be in three years and that the only law everyone would have to follow is that no demons would be allowed to enter the human world to cause trouble.

Before Yusuke left for demon world he promised he'd be back on Earth by his 18th birthday, which he kept his promise. Hiei was given the task of finding humans who accidentally found their way into demon world and Kurama returned to Earth to be with his newly wedded human mother (why she's human isn't terribly important for those that already know the story. If you'd like clarification, I'll add it in).

So there it is the whole 112 episodes in a nutshell. My story is about the second demon world tournament. Enki, the one who won the first tournament is killed, and now a war is possible between Yusuke, Makuro, and Yomi unless they agree to hold a second tournament.

Here's some background on where my story will be going…

Yusuke Urameshi is now 21 years old. He returned from Demon World when he turned 18 as he'd promised Keiko, his long time best friend and girlfriend. He finally understands where he came from, after years of having a drunk of a Mom and no idea who his Dad was, and now lives a normal life back on Earth with Keiko. He runs his own restaurant, in the spirit of Keiko's Dad, who passed away unexpectedly shortly after his return to Earth. Every once in awhile, he secretly takes assignments looking into apparitions crossing planes from Demon world to Earth. The majority of the time, it's just Demons looking for fighting advice or an autograph from the newest of the three kings due to Yusuke's ancestor, Raizen, having passed away several years earlier.

It has been three years since he last had to use his spirit gun, or his spirit energy for that matter. But now he is about to discover that the peace he left in Demon World is no more...

Chapter 1

Koenma appeared out of nowhere, as he usually did, as Yusuke finished closing his restaurant. He floated there with a disgruntled look on his face and stayed silent.

"Anything I can help you with pacifier boy?" Yusuke asked annoyed.

Koenma took a deep breath and explained the situation.

"It seems that your success in creating peace in Demon world was short lived. I've received intel from my best ogre stating that one of the other two leaders is no longer willing to hold their end of the peace treaty. Though this shouldn't matter due to the agreement made at the start of the original Demon World Tournament, Engki, the rightful ruler of Demon World because of his victory in the first tournament, being dead makes it a problem." Koenma spoke in sharp, forceful voice.

Yusuke's eyes widened, as he leaned forward to hear more about what was happening.

"Yusuke, I am unable to appoint you spirit detective because of your Mazoku blood and the bounty placed on your head by my father, King Enma, but I'm going against my better judgment to contract you as a mercenary for this mission."

Yusuke took a step back in shock.

"Woah woah, hold on a second. You told me I was de-commissioned as spirit detective way before I even came up with the idea for the first tournament. How can you hire me as a mercenary but not actually hire me again? Isn't that pretty much the same idea?"

Koenma folded his arms as he lost himself in thought.

"You would think that but the laws put in place by my father appointing me as ruler while he is away gives me emergency powers if I believe that a disaster is imminent from the developing information my ogre has been giving me. So yes you are hired again, but not really. I'm interpreting the law as I see fit because of how broadly it was written. Yusuke please, enough with the questions already. I can do it because I'm supreme ruler of Spirit World, so there." Koenma said annoyingly.

"I see you haven't matured much in three years" Yusuke said sarcastically.

"Oh shut up and wait for Botan when you get home. I'm commissioning her as your assistant again because you two worked so well together before."

"Sounds like fun, but I've got plans with Keiko. Why don't you pop back up in a week or so when I've had time to think it over?"

Koenma's face turned bright red.

"You may be 21 but you're still a smart-ass child. Just shut up and wait for Botan. She should be there in an hour."

Koenma disappeared and Yusuke made his way home. He frantically combed over the information he was just given and couldn't believe he was actually going back to work as a Spirit Detective.

Sorry, short chapter. Leave me reviews so I know you're at least showing interest. Hope you like it so far.