Author notes: I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho or any of its Characters except my Kaoruke Urameshi.
Surprised to be dead
The sound of a car screeched on the pavement as two teenagers lied dead on the ground in front of a large truck. The boy half way wrapped around a small girl, a even younger boy was off to the side crying. The man driving the truck knelled and whispered "I didn't mean to..." The girl and the boy floated above the seen, their face in utter confusion. The boy had slicked back black hair with a ting of green while he wore a green jump suit, the girl looked similar to him but in stead of brown eyes she had gold, and her sailor suit was black, her hair reaching her hips in soft waves. Once they spotted their own body's in the street shock takes over their minds.
And so it all begins, these two names are Yusuke and Kaoruke, both fourteen years old and are suppose to be the hero's of this story, but oddly enough, their dead.
"Okay this is weird," Kaoru said "Stupid weird." Yusuke finished for her. They floated down to their body's, Yusuke kneeling to touch his own face. The sound of a paramedic team turned them away and watch as the two people in uniform rushed out one going to the small child, the other went to their body's.
"except for some scratches this boy looks just fine." One medic spoke for the little boy, before the child started to cry more.
"Well, at least one of them is."the other reply moving away from the twins body's.
"What!? Hey!" Yusuke and Kaoru said in perfect harmony, getting a bit pissed at them. "We're right here!"
"I hate clean up." one medic said the other nodding in agreement as the two got stretcher and lifted both of them on to one then placing them in the van.
"Cover these two up and take the little boy!" another medic barked orders, they did as told.
"Whoa You think you can do what you want cause you got that stupid uniform on!" Yusuke yelled at the man, "you can't just write us off!" Kaoru finished for him.
"LISTEN TO US!" both yelled punching the man together, their fist sliding through his body and taking the rest of them through and floating off. The paramedics driving off with them watching up side down in the air.
"well that wasn't normal." they said in sync looking to each other. "okay let's think!" Kaoru said crossing her arms and legs, Yusuke copying her. "yeah this isn't the first time we've been in a jam, right?" Kaoru nodding in agreement to his statement.
"Today did start off different."
"Yeah we went to school." Yusuke finished for her again.
~Flash Back~
/Yusuke and Kaoru Urameshi report to mister Takanaka's Office immediately! Urameshi Do you two hear me!?/ the load speakers sounded as Keiko walked up the stairs to the roof. Yusuke and Kaoru sat against the wall behind the door, Yusuke greeted her first.
"Hey, nice skirt."
"All the girls have to wear these, Kaoruke" Keiko said as she gave a glare to Kaoru who was waring a black sailor suit. Yusuke just pulled out a candy and popped it towards his open mouth, mid air Keiko snatched it. "just like the boys have to wear blue jump suits, which I noticed your not properly dressed either, Yusuke!"
"Oh give me a break Keiko", Yusuke said rolling his eyes, "beside we look better in black and green." Kaoru finished.
"Maybe I would be more tolerant if I could see both of you in school more then once every ten days!" she yelled at them, they just yawned and relaxed more. "you give our class a horrible attendance which get me in trouble as a class representative! Plus you two wont even be able to graduate middle school!" Keiko huffed. "sometimes I think you two only care about yourselves, then you go mess that up too! DO YOU HEAR ME!"
"Nice uniform, its lacy." Yusuke said from behind her, her skirt lifted by his hand. Keiko turned around and slapped him hard in the face.
"Yusuke! You perv! Boys like you should be strung up in the street!"
"He won't change Keiko, I suggest wearing shorts." Kaoru told her, grinning like her brother while she slightly lifted her own skirt to reveal black bike shorts. before following her stumble-ling brother out the door she said. "oh and I like you new undies, polka dots fit you."
"Stupid Twins, they haven't grown up sense they were four years old!" she yelled at no one, a blush covered her whole face, then left after the twins disappeared.
"Keiko? Are they gone?"two girls peaked out from around the corner of a wall.
"Why are you ducking around the corner?"Keiko asked tilting her head.
"Be- because we're scared of the great Urameshis." one girl said.
"I can't believe you can acutely talk to them!" the other said.
"Aren't you afraid of what they might do? Or worse what people might say of it?"
"Not really, they just want you to think that. On the inside their like a couple of puppies." Keiko said shrugging her shoulders.
"Yeah but you haven't heard the latest news about him Keiko! They are supper tough and kill for fun!" One said as they came closer.
"Yeah if you cross their path Yusuke and Kaoruke will whistle for 2000 bad guys with guns!"
"Oh come on Yusuke doesn't even know how to whistle," Keiko said waving off their funny imagination.
"What?" both said in disbelief
"Besides they couldn't order around two people, let alone 2000. They don't have a lot of friends." Keiko finished.
"Not from what I heard."
"Yeah I think we would know." they said while Keiko sighed at their attitude.
Both Yusuke and Kaoru where walking through one of the school yards, both looked sort of unnerved.
/Urameshi I know you two are here today, come to my office immediately!/
"Dammit when is that old man ever going to give up?", Yusuke mumbled, Kaoru just shook her head. The sound of two people talking drew their attention, around the corner two boys from their school sat on the ground. One held a wallet in his hand and showing it off to his friend.
"No way man! You mean he just gave you his wallet? That's fresh!" the boys friend said and chuckled.
"You bet it is! He was trying to pick on me, so I told him I was the Urameshi twin's cousin, he just dropped it and ran." the guy said
"Well what are you going to do if the twins find out you said that cousin stuff? They'll Kill you!" the other said while leaning in like it was a secret. The twins easily over heard them and walked up behind the one with the wallet.
"Oh spare me, those block heads would probably think its true." the two boys began to laugh when one spotted the twins behind his friend holding the wallet. Total fear crossed his face as he stared like a dear caught in headlights. The twins weren't happy either.
"Hey whats wrong?" the other said turning to look behind him. Both boy jumped up and scampered over to the wall. Cowering in fear from Yusuke as he kept walking towards them.
"Hey cousin." Kaoru said with a giggle and evil smirk, she stayed back sense she wasn't needed, as Yusuke slammed his hand on the wall next to the boys head.
"I swear I didn't mean it! Here take it." the boy said fear making him shake as he tried to hand over the wallet. But he dropped it when Yusuke yelled at him, both of the twins frowning at the boys.
"You think I want your stupid money, huh!?" just as Yusuke was going to punch him, Mr. Iwamoto Came around the corner. He was Kaoru's teacher while Mr. Akashi was Yusuke's, Kaoru considered her brother lucky sense he had the less violent teacher.
"Yusuke put down your fist. You boys are safe from him now." he said as he came closer. He gave both Yusuke and Kaoru dirty looks before asking the two boys what happen. They bowed their heads and muttered a nothing and we're fine, of course he spotted the wallet on the ground and smile graced his lips. Kaoru felt shivers go up and down her side, she practically wanted to barf.
"I see, they we're beating you two up for your wallet, typical scum behavior." Kaoru scooted closer to her brother, both giving a glare and a Whatever. Daring him to continue pissing them off, this warning went unheard as he did continue.
"Weeds like you two should have been pluck a long time ago, you don't belong here!" Mr. Iwamoto growled out.
"You shouldn't talk," Kaoru hissed "it makes you sound stupid." Yusuke finished, both giving one last look to the boys, before turning on their heels and walking off. Leaving Iwamoto Seething mad and the two boys sighing in relief. Both headed towards the front gates and where about to leave when they got hit on the head.
"Okay someones dea- oh sorry old man." Yusuke said while turning around only to see Mr. Takanaka with a angry face on, Kaoru pouted and rubbed her sore head. She didn't like people touching her head, but Takanaka always did it.
"That's Mr. Takanaka to you two, I've been calling for you all morning on the loud speaker."
"Didn't hear ya." they said in sync "guess it's not so loud after all, huh?" Yusuke joked, Mr. Takanaka gave them noogies making Kaoru pout more in pain with her brother as they pushed his hands off. Yusuke didn't like it either.
"I couldn't help but notice that you both were leaving us." Mr. Takanaka noted.
"Yeah we got kicked out." Yusuke grumbled before Takanaka grab both their ears, making Kaoru yip in pain, pulling them back onto school grounds.
"Is that a fact? Perhaps we should discuss this in my office. We'll have tea." he said pulling both of them till two popping sounds made him look at two detach ears. Shouting in surprised he tossed them and fell on his butt.
"Relax old man," Kaoru said smiling sweetly at him from atop the school wall. "they're just toys." Yusuke finished, grinning like an idiot next to her. "Thank for the visit, now leave us alone!" they jumped off the other side of the wall escaping Takanaka.
"Yusuke, Kaoruke we can talk!" Mr. Takanaka shouted before crunching over from back pain. Kaoru and Yusuke already walking down the street.
"Figures the one day we feel like going to school," Kaoru grumbled leaving Yusuke to finish the sentence. "everyone wants to push on us and give us stupid lectures."
"I hate that school!" Kaoru shouted
"I hate this Town!" Yusuke said both grumbling in agreement as they walk towards an apartment complex then into their house. Their mother sat on her futon with a cigaret. Her dark brown hair flowing down to her waist like Kaoruke's, except Kaoru pulled hers back with a headband and her was black like Yusuke's.
"Oh great," Kaoru said "Mother of the year." Yusuke finished.
"Get me some coffee." Kaoru sighed and went to make it, while Yusuke mumbled something inaudible . "Why aren't you in school?" Atsuko asked sounding a little angry
"They pissed us off," Yusuke grumbled more. "so we left." Kaoru said while pouring their mother her coffee and walked it over to her.
"Well if you two are never going to go there you might as well quit and find yourself s a job." Atsuko said rudely, while thanking Kaoru for the coffee, Yusuke turned around to see her turn on the TV.
"Are you going to give us a lecture to mom?" Yusuke said, "in your pajamas?" Kaoru finished both sounding sarcastic.
"If you two hate preaching so much then you should live on your own." Yusuke opened his mouth to speak but she wasn't done. "But You can't do that now can you?"
Just like that Kaoru and Yusuke were back out on the street walking no where.
"I swear could this day get any stupider!" Yusuke yelled while kicking a can that was in front of him, Kaoru walked behind him with her own frown and grumbled something about stupid adults. Just then three boys with dark blue jump suits surrounded them, Kuwabara came out after them in his light blue uniform. His Orange hair looked like it was stuck in the fifties, his angular face and pointed eyes made him look tough but his creepy smile ruined it.
"The Urameshi Twins." Kuwabara said
" Hey Kuwabara your conscious," Kaoru stated.
"I'm not use to that." Yusuke commented. Pissing Kuwabara off enough to grab Yusuke's collar and lifting him a little.
"that was a cheep shot last time! And I was only knocked out for a little bit Okay! Now I'm back and am going to beat you so bad even kitten won't look at cha!"
"Didn't WE do that to you last time?" Kaoru said hatting that Kuwabara always ignored her sense 'he doesn't fight girl'. Kuwabara just glared at her and didn't say anything.
"Sorry you had to catch us on such a bad day," Yusuke leaned in with a evil smile on. "It makes us real Jerks!" Kaoru pitch in crossing her arms and smirking at the seen before her. Right on queue Yusuke punched, kneed, kick, elbowed and slammed Kuwabara literally into the pavement.
"Ahhh I feel better." Yusuke said, him and Kaoru smiled happily and walked away, Kaoru whistling a sweet tune.
"Hey Kuwabara maybe you should quit picking so many fights with Urameshi?" one of Kuwabara's friend said while checking if hes all right.
"That makes 0 wins and a 156 loses." another one said
"Nooo!" suddenly Kuwabara jumped up and said "I almost had him that time!" then fainted again.
'okay now I'm remembering' floating Yusuke said.
'Yeah after that we met the kid' floating Kaoru commented.
Yusuke and Kaoru were walking down the street when a ball rolled to their feet made them stop. A small boy chased after it and ran right up to them, asking if he could have his ball back he even added a please to the end. Kaoru wanted to hug the cute thing.
"LISTEN KID!" Yusuke shouted at the boy, Kaoru placed a hand on Yusuke's shoulder to stop him from yelling more.
"There are are cars here and you could get hurt if you ball rolled into the street." Kaoru said sweetly, When the kid just stared at them Yusuke lifted the ball to cover his face then lowered it to reveal his funny face, still blank, then Kaoru did it, still blank. Some how they ended up with the ball in Yusuke's pants and chopsticks in his nose, both Kaoru and the little boy cracking up laughing, then both Kaoru and Yusuke gave the boy his ball back giving a last warring of where to play before crossing the street.
Across the street they noticed the little boy still playing on the side walk, frowning the two watched him when he kicked to hard and sent the ball into the street, Kaoru immediately taking action and ran out into the street before the boy, right when a man in a large truck came speeding down the street on his phone.
"KAORU!" Yusuke shouted following after his sister as she pushed the boy out of the way Yusuke wrapped his arms around her to protect her from the truck, killing them both.
~Flash Back End~
"So that's it? We're dead?" Kaoru asked him, her eyes sad.
"But if we're dead done there then who are we up here?" Yusuke pondered, calming his normal anger.
"Wait, that means we're ghost!?" Kaoru said surprised at what death means.
"BINGO BINGO! You win the prize!" a feminine voice said causing both siblings to turn to the speaker, floating on a oar was a blue haired girl with pink eyes and a light pink kimono. She smiled happily at the two twins. "I didn't expect you to figure it out so quickly."
Yusuke pulled Kaoru behind him and glared at the girl. "Who the hell are you?" he growled out, Kaoru peaked from over his head.
"When people die unexpectedly, like you two just did, they often can't except it and become ghosts, you see?"
"You didn't answer his question, lady." Kaoru hissed.
"Botan s my name pilot of the river of sticks, I take care of people like you two. I believe in your culture they also call me the grim reaper, ring any bells?"
"A pretty girl like you, please your no grim reaper!" Yusuke said
"Well I'm not sure I should take that as a complement or a insult."
"Plus if you where a real messenger of death you would take this more seriously." Kaoru pointed out
" How grim can you be when you say bingo?" Yusuke questioned
"And your suppose to ware a big black robe and look like a skeleton!" Kaoru added.
"Now I see what type of people are you are, it in my guide book! Instead of being surprised or scared,you two get defensive and tell me I don't know what I'm talking about." she readied out of the small guide book she pulled out of her sleeve, Still smiling.
" Yusuke Urameshi, age fourteen Personality is impulsive and ill mannered with a bad temper, has no respect for authority and is a horrible student." Botan read off and Kaoru tried to keep Yusuke calm.
"Kaoruke Urameshi, Age fourteen personality, without Yusuke is shy and a loner, but also ill mannered with a manageable tamper and no respect for authority, a terrible student. Things weren't looking up for you two were they?" Botan listed of again, Kaoru eye started to twitch.
"That none of YOUR business!" both twins shouted in sync, Botan just laughed.
"Okay death lady," Yusuke spoke calmly "tell us what happen to the kid we saved." Kaoru said afterwords.
"You want to go visit him?" Botan asked, getting a nod from both of them. They floated off to the hospital and peaked though on of the windows that had to boy and his mother.
"We got the test results back and he has a couple scraps but no broken bones or brain damage." a doctor told the worried mother with her small boy, who was covered in some bandages.
"Oh Thank God!" The mother cried hugging her son.
"Well look at that," Yusuke said "He's okay." Kaoru finished.
"Okay Botan, we got no regrets." Kaoru said "So take us to hell or where ever we're going!" Yusuke finished but both tilted their heads to the side as she started to laugh.
"What's so funny?" they both growled at .
"Maybe you should of let me talk earlier, so see I'm not here to take you away from this would I'm here to see if you two would accept an ordeal that will give you, your life's back."
"An ordeal? Really?" Kaoru asked. "what in the world are you blabbering about?" Yusuke questioned.
"None of us were expecting either of you to die today let alone both of you. You've thrown us all through a loop. Run someone with both your periodontal 1000 times and they would never save a kid like that, no one saw it coming and quite frankly we haven't prepared a place for you two yet." told them.
"Oh give me a freaking break!" Yusuke shouted "Are you tell us you guys were expecting that little boy to die?!" Kaoru snapped.
"Well I wasn't going to tell you this, but with out the confusing cause by you two running out into the street, the boy would of gotten out with one less scrape on his right shoulder."
"What? But he was heading right towards him." Yusuke whispered.
"Yes well the driver would of varied to the left, in other words your deaths were complete and utter waste!" Botan said laughing lightly both Kaoru and Yusuke stop floating and dropped from the sky. "surprised? Yes I can hardly blame you for that!"
both Kaoru and Yusuke came back up ready to rip the little reaper in half, both pissed that their death were wasted.
"Cool you jets! I told you both have a second chance at life, don't you remember? Just go through this little ency ordeal and you'll be back to life in no time! You two should feel special, cases like this one only happen once every 100 years." both Kaoru and Yusuke looked at each other and turned away from Botan, dropping lower to earth and floating away.
"Your just like our teachers," Kaoru said "No idea whats acutely happening." Yusuke muttered afterwords.
"Whats that suppose to mean? I know exactly whats happening and I'm saying you can fix it by following a few steps!" Botan said following the floating siblings. " come on, it's a pretty good deal don't you think?"
"Maybe, but no thanks." Yusuke said hooking his hands behind his head trying to relax midair, Kaoru did the same but laid back and crossed her legs like she was on a bed.
"I think I like being a ghost, what about you Yusuke?" Kaoru asked her brother.
"Yeah I like it too, Botan did say our life was kind pathetic." Yusuke pointed out
"Everyone going to be a lot happier with us erased," Kaoru said hiding the hurt feeling she got.
"Teachers can rest their big mouths," Yusuke tried to joke to make her feel better, he also had that hurt feeling.
"Mom can party when ever she wants now without worrying were we are." Kaoru smiled back appreciating his joke.
"I'm sorry you two feel that way at such an early age." Botan said sadly
"Well you got to agree, there's no point in us doing some stupid ordeal." they both said in sync
"I don't guess there's any point in making big decision in a hurry, why don't you spend some time at your wake and think it over." Botan said while floating off. "I'll be back when you two decide."
"Do you have worms in your ear lady?" Yusuke shouted after her. "We did Decide!" Kaoru shout with him.
~At the Twins house~
People filled their yard dressed in black, student, teachers and neighbors came to their wake.
"Whoa all our classmates are here." Kaoru stated
"Just like I thought, look at them laughing!" Yusuke growled
"Their probably just came over here cause their getting extra credit!" Kaoru added
"Keiko, please..." one girl said trying to hold Keiko up.
"Yusuke, Kaoru. No no no no no!" Keiko started to cry and say their names over and over again.
"Is she making all that racket," Yusuke asked, "for us?" Kaoru frowned she hated making Keiko cry, and she knew her brother shared the same feelings.
"Come on, let go back, this isn't right." Kuwabara's friend said trying to hold him back
"Shut up! Let Go Of Me Would Ya!" Kuwabara shouted.
"What Kuwabara?" Yusuke said in surprise. Kaoru eyes widen and blink a couple of times in shock.
"Damn you! You guys just think you can back out cause your scared!"
"Kuwabara this place is for mourning!"
"I'm not gonna leave! Not in tel they come out here and lets me fights him!"
"They can't do that!"
"I'm gonna beat you down you punk! Then we'll see who Kaoru cheers for then! YOU HEAR ME! Who do you think you are huh? Dirty punks! Who am I gonna fight now?! Huh? Who?"
"Come on.."
"NO! You guys are suppose to be here! Be here for me!" Kuwabara shouted last before he began to cry.
"Come on Kuwabara lets go." slowly his friends dragged him out. "sorry about all that."
Yusuke and Kaoru watched as he kept crying. Kaoru shed one tear for both her and Yusuke, but just one. The sound of their nasty teachers dried the rest of them and replaced them with discuss.
"Did you see those scum?" Mr. Iwamoto said
"They're just some losers the Urameshi twin hung out with. To bad that car wasn't big enough for them too."
"Now now, we should be glad, after a life of being worthless those two did something to give our school a good reputation."
"Well between you and me Mr. Iwamoto I would saw they saved that boy on accident while they where trying to steal his lunch money!"
"I wouldn't be surprised by that Mr. Akashi." They both laughed as they mocked them. Both Yusuke and Kaoru wanted to punch them, well Kaoru wanted to hit lower.
"Dammit even at our wake the mock us!" Yusuke growled and Kaoru hissed out her anger. Just as Yusuke went to grab Mr. Iwamoto's shoulder and Kaoru went for Mr. Akashi, someone alive grab them before they could and turned the two nasty teachers around.
"What do you suppose is more disgraceful, that boy shouting in misery or your insensitive and idiotic words?" Mr Takanaka growled leaving Yusuke and Kaoru speechless.
"Takanaka." they both whispered. Takanaka walked past the two rude teachers and into the house where he bowed to Atsuko then turned to the picture of the twins looking back surprised.
"At first I was surprised, to hear that you both saved a kid at the cost of your own life. You have act much more selfishly then that. Darn Yusuke Kaoruke I don't know why I don't feel like talking well of you two. Why didn't you stay? You both could of made something great out of yourself!" Mr. Takanaka spoke softly but started to shake as he cried.
"Yusuke Kaoru..."Atsuko whispered as she too started to cry like a small child, tears rolling down her face. Kaoru floated over to her and sat next to her on the ground and watched dishearteningly as their mother mourned their death.
"This way dear." a woman spoke leading her child into the house to sit in front the two caskets.
"Yes mother." the boy who was saved said following his mother and copying her as she prayed for the two.
"Now you should say something to honor them." his mother told him as she bowed to Atsuko.
"Thank you for saving me and making funny faces!" the boy said happily, his mother grabbed his hand, then walked out with him.
"Mommy would it be okay if I played with them tomorrow?" the boy asked his mother
"No son." she said sadly kneeling to be his height. He looked sad at first then smiled.
"I know some people sounded mad at them, but they're really nice, they made funny faces at me and they got me my ball too! I don't know why those people where crying like that, it was probably because they wanted to play with them too!" the boy finished as his mother began to cry and hugged him to her. The two watched as his mother cried for them and her boy. Seeing enough both floated up in the sky and watched the full moon shine down, both thinking the same thing.
"Well have you decided?" Botan asked fading in from no where, both Yusuke and Kaoruke looked really sad.
"Hey Botan?" Kaoru asked
"Yes dear?"
"Have you ever not know about something, that seemed obvious to everyone else?" Yusuke asked
"That happens to us all, I think." she answered honestly. "So are you ready now?"
"Yeah we are." they both said.
"Good to hear no lets not waste any more time and get started, shall we!" Botan sang flying past them, Kaoru hopped on the ore like Botan, but Yusuke was too late and had to grab the end of the ore.
"Where are you going to take us?" Yusuke asked. Kaoru gave him a hand and pulled him up on the ore, both held on for dear, oh never mind.
"To the Spirit World!"
"To the what?" Kaoru asked
"To the Spirit World, we're going to see someone who can explain the ordeal and give you what you need."
"What do we need?" the both asked
"You'll see!"
"HEY!" they yelled at her.
And that's the way it is, after their first day of being dead Yusuke and Kaoruke agree to under go a mysterious ordeal that may bring them back to life. But what adventures await them in the Spirit world.