DISCLAIMER: The only thing I own is a half busted computer and a really bad dvd which I kinda stole this idea from. Yu yu Hakusho and it's a boy girl thing are not my property.
Chapter one: Retrieving the artifact
"Did you find it yet?" he asked, digging through a ton of rubble searching for the artifact that was stolen from the Reikai vault.
"NO. Now stop your whining and keep looking Yusuke, before I slap you upside the head with my oar." She said, searching a pile on the other side of the room.
"Geez, Botan, is it your time of the - -"
Whack! A wooden oar connected to the back of his head.
"OW! You didn't have to hit me you crazy bitch!" he said "I was only kidding!"
"Well this is not the time for that, we need to find that thing and fast, before the guys run out of strength!" she said
"I can't believe pacifier breath sent me all the way down here for a stupid necklace with Botan of all persons- -"
Whack!
"What was that one for?" he exclaimed, rubbing his now sore head.
"That was for disrespecting Koenma. Now keep looking." She replied, walking over to anther heap.
Botan and Yusuke weren't exactly what you would call 'the perfect team'. In fact, they were so opposite that they could hardly get anything accomplished without their other team members: Kurama, Hiei and Kuwabara: and their missions without the others would always include her hitting him upside the head with her oar and him calling her a crazy bitch. Despite all of this, they were the best of friends; it was just that they were both on opposite sides of the personality scale.
Yusuke was what most people would call a 'badass'. He would frequently get into fights, drink, and smoke, use coarse language, skip school and frequently get suspended. Botan on the other hand was a 'goody two shoes', said things like 'oh, my' and 'bingo' and was as sober as a nun.
You might have heard that opposites attract, but if you spent a day with these two would you'd surely change your mind.
Flashback
Yusuke was walking home from school when he saw Botan flying towards him on her oar. He immediately pivoted on one foot and started walking in the opposite direction.
"Oh, no. Don't think you're going to get away that easily." She said, maneuvering her oar so that she was now in front of him, blocking her path.
"Listen, Botan. I'm not really in the mood to play' hero' for ya today, come back tomorrow at about 4:00, okay?" he said, turning again to walk away.
"And do you think I'm in the mood to play messenger?" she asked, dematerializing her oar and landing right in front of him.
"Alright, what is it that you guys want me to do now? Kill some demons? Overthrow a Makai empire? Collect a princess for pacifier breath?" he asked, sounding cynical.
"NO, Koenma just wants you to retrieve a stolen artifact, the Jacinth Talisman, from the Makai forest." She said
"Sounds cool, what does it do?" he asked
"Don't know, he just told me to assemble the team and go get it." Botan replied
"Well, what does it look like?" he asked
"It's two necklaces fused together by a talisman of orange and red gems." She said
"Oh, and one more thing, Yusuke. Remember Suzaku, the guy that stole the Makai whistle?"
"How could I forget him? He almost roasted me with lightning." Yusuke said
"Well, the demon who stole the Jacinth Talisman is his brother, Zakuro." Botan replied
"So I can expect to get the shit beat out of me again?" he asked
"Just don't wear anything metal and you'll be fine." Botan joked as they walked down the street
End of flashback
"I found… it?" Botan said, questioning the necklace with the ruby talisman she now held in her hand.
"Well, half of it, at least."
Yusuke dug further down into his pile to find the orange half of the talisman, hanging from the necklace, under a huge slab of concrete.
"Finally! I can leave!" he shouted, putting it safely around his neck.
"Orange really does bring out your eyes." Botan teased.
"Let's just get out of here before something bad happens." He said "I have to say, this is the easiest mission I've ever gotten."
Just then, a huge roar was heard and the ground began to shake, Kurama, Hiei and Kuwabara came running in.
"I stand corrected." Yusuke said, now standing face to face with a ten foot tall creature made entirely of green slime with four eyes on either side of its head and a gigantic black spider.
"OH, MY!" Botan exclaimed as the spider jabbed a leg at her. She instantly summoned her oar and took to the skies.
"Damn it, Botan! Why didn't you tell me this guy has pets, I would've Brought catnip!" he said firing a blast of energy from his finger.
"Because she didn't know, detective, and had we used the element of surprise as she suggested instead of blasting in at full power we would have left already." Hiei said, unsheathing his sword as a dozen other creatures entered.
"Right! But Yusuke just had to obliterate the front door!" Botan said, dodging airborne balls of slime, webs and the occasional spirit gun blast.
"OK. That last one was a little too close for comfort! Are you trying to hit me?" She said, zooming to the other side of the room.
Suddenly, a bolt of lightning struck her and she fell off her oar, Kurama caught her.
"Hi." She said, dumbfounded.
"Hello, Botan." He replied, his voice as smooth as silk. He set her down. "Might I suggest you hide behind something?"
The blue haired girl ran as fast as she could to where a slab of wall still stood and hid behind it. Suddenly, Kurama summoned his rose whip and turned it into a net of vines that engulfed the slime monster.
"Well that takes care of that one, I think I'll - - Argghh- - seriously?" Kurama said as he was shocked by lightning. He fell flat to the ground in pain.
Yusuke looked back to see a tall man with blond hair, violet eyes and a red robe.
"Whoa, Suzaku had a twin. Cool, now I get to kill both of you." He said, walking towards the man.
"MY name is Zakuro, master of- - -" the man said, interrupted by Yusuke.
"Yeah, yeah, we know who you are. What are you gonna do, try to flute me to death like your brother did?" Yusuke asked.
"That sounds wrong in so many ways." Botan said, helping Kurama up.
"Unlike my brother, Suzaku, I have much more effective ways of dealing with pests." Zakuro said
"Oh' yeah, like what?" Yusuke asked.
Zakuro raised his hand with a smirk on his face and the spider became twice as huge, trapping Botan in its web. She shrieked as it attached her to the ceiling, upside down.
"You just had to ask, didn't you?" she said, dangling from the ceiling by her feet.
"Within a few moments your lovely woman will be a snack for my black widow. That is, of course, unless you defeat me." Zakuro said with a smirk.
"Wait a second, you're telling me that I'll get rid of the second biggest nuisance of my life and kill a demon in the same breath? Dude, that's a win- win situation!" Yusuke laughed.
"Damn it, Yusuke, just fight him!" Kurama shouted from the sidelines.
"Fine… SPIRIT GUN!" Yusuke said, and with that a blast of energy aimed at Zakuro fired from his finger.
The blast hit a force field around the demon and made the sound of someone tapping on glass as it backfired on Yusuke.
"Damn!" yusuke said as he dodged his own attack.
Zakuro laughed at him.
"That pathetic attack is the best you've got?" he laughed again..
"Forgot about the force field, have we?" Hiei said.
"Shut up short stack!" Yusuke said, running in for another attack.
He threw a horde of punches at Zakuro, all of which were successfully blocked. Zakuro landed a kick straight to Yusuke's face, which caused him to fly clear across the room.
"Ooh, that's gotta hurt." Kuwabara said, flinching.
"Hello? Girl hanging upside down and about to be eaten by spider here!" Botan shouted
"Right, sorry." Kurama said, cutting the web with his rose whip.
He caught her as she fell.
"Hello again." He said, setting her down.
The spider crawled down towards them and wrapped both of them in a thick web.
"Well, this is no good." Kurama said, struggling to break free.
Kuwabara sprung into action, conjuring up his spirit sword and slashing the spider into shreds. Kurama and Botan fell to the floor.
"And that's how you do that." He said, dematerializing the sword.
"Uh, Botan, I suggest you go hide behind something very big, immediately." Kurama said, wide eyed with fear in his eyes.
"Why?" the girl asked, before she heard Hiei saying five words the team knew too well not to fear:
"DRAGON… OF THE DARKNESS… FLAME!" the short fire demon shouted, unwrapping the bandage on his arm.
"OH MY GOD WE'RE DOOMED!" Kuwabara shouted as he grabbed Botan and ran for cover.
"Oh, shit!" Yusuke exclaimed as the black dragon coursed from Hiei's arm and toward Zakuro.
The dragon flew around the demon in circles until it encountered Zakuro's force field. It penetrated the force field with ease and engulfed the demon.
"NNNOOOO!" Zakuro shouted as he disintegrated to mere dust.
When it was over, the dragon returned to its owner's arm. Hiei fell lazily to the ground.
"Hiei, are you alright?" Kurama said, kneeling beside his fallen comrade.
"Maybe he needs mouth- to- mouth. You could help him, Botan." Yusuke joked
"Anyone dare lays a finger on me and I'll fucking murder you all." Hiei said
Botan glared at Yusuke, who was now laughing so hard he fell on his back.