Red Roses2: I probably be working on Hiei's Niece instead of writing this, but I can't become inspired to write it, but I'm trying my best! Besides, just having two YYH one-shots and only one non-one-shot story on it is kind of pathetic to me, so. . . you get the idea. Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Yu-Hakusho, but I believe I do own the idea unless someone already thought of it! In case you were too stupid enough not to have read the summary before clicking on my story, here's the summary.
Summary: How would the show be different if Yusuke was a girl?
Red Roses2: [Giggles and sweat drops] I have a similar story except it's Harry Potter. If you're interested, go and read it. It's already up to 99 reviews and it's not even finished yet. Now, let's get to the story!
A car sped forward, started to swerve, and the next thing everyone knew was that the car ran over a fourteen-year-old girl who had saved a little boy from having that fate. "I didn't mean to, honest." the driver of the car said, stepping out of the car. His wife was still sitting in the car, shocked at what just happened. Up in the sky, a fourteen-year-old girl blinked in confusion and looked down at what was happening below her. None of this made sense to her for one reason only: she was the girl that had gotten run over.
"What happened?" the girl asked. Her name was Yuiko Urameshi. Her friends, Kuwabara and Keiko, were allowed to call her Yu-Yu. Yuiko stared at the mangled body on the ground. "Okay, that's really weird. If I'm down there, then who am I up here?" Yuiko thought for a moment. "I guess that means I'm a ghost." Yuiko showed no sign of being worried of being dead at such a young age.
"You ARE correct!" came a hyper voice from somewhere above Yuiko. The girl looked up and saw another girl with blue hair in a high ponytail, in a pink kimono, flying on an oar. "Usually it takes people a full few days to figure it out!" Yuiko just stared at her. Yuiko was a black-haired and brown-eyed girl, her hair went down to her earlobes and her eyes looked like dark chocolate. Her bangs lay all over her forehead and she had a bandage on her cheek. She was wearing green jeans and her school uniform top.
"Who are you? Another ghost?" Yuiko questioned. "I'm Botan, keeper of the River Sticks, but I believe in your religion you know me as the Grim Reaper." the blue-haired girl replied cheerfully. Yuiko narrowed her eyes at Botan.
"The Grim Reaper wears pink kimonos and has an overly cheerful personality?" Yuiko stated. "I think the Underworld has gone coo-coo." Yuiko had to laugh at her own comment.
"Hey! I can wear whatever I want! Besides, black looks horrible on me!" Botan exclaimed.
"Right." Yuiko replied, lounging in the air. "Then tell me, Reaper, how's the kid? Will he be okay?" She watched an ambulance take her body and the little boy away. "And I'm already dead! What's the point of taking me to a hospital!? A little late for that, I'd say!"
"He'll be fine. He would have been fine if you hadn't saved him." Botan answered.
"What?" Yuiko asked, turning around to Botan and rising herself to that she and the Grim Reaper were face to face.
"He wasn't supposed to die today, and neither were you." Botan stated as though it was the most obvious thing in the world. Yuiko just stared at her.
"You mean I sacrificed my life for nothing?" Yuiko suggested.
"Pretty much, yeah." Botan grinned. Yuiko continued to stare at her. "And staring is rude, you know!" The black-haired girl closed her eyes and lounged herself in the air again.
"So, where am I going now?"
"Well, we don't have a place for you in the Spirit World yet, so there's no where to take you." Botan stated. Yuiko opened her eyes and looked at Botan.
"And?" Botan thought for a moment and took out a little, dark blue book that said Handbook for Grim Reapers. Yuiko anime fell. "SHOULDN'T YOU KNOW THIS STUFF!?" Botan ignored her.
"Ah, here it is! You will be given another chance at life." Botan smiled and Yuiko looked at her with narrowed eyes. The fourteen-year-old rested her chin in her hand.
"I don't know. Being a ghost has it's perks, if not a few disadvantages. I mean, I may not be able to hold anything, but I can go through walls, fly around, freak people out. . . . I might even get back at those friends of Keiko's for talking about me behind my back. Not to mention that I can make Kuwabara regret not fighting with me when he had the chance." Yuiko listed, moving her finger in the air as though writing all of these things on an invisible blackboard. It was Botan's turn to stare. Most people would want another shot at life. "But then again, I wouldn't be able to fight, help out my boxing team win that tournament they're entering, and Keiko, Kuwabara and I were going to see a movie on Saturday and if I'm dead, seeing it with them knowing I'm there is completely impossible. Well, unless they can somehow see or sense ghosts which I highly doubt." Yuiko bit her lip. "What do you think?"
"I think I need to leave you alone while you decide. I'll be back!" Botan then flew off, leaving Yuiko hovering there. She raised her eyebrows and decided to fly around the city to get a bird's eye view of it.
Soon she heard familiar voices. "Where's Yuiko? She's normally trying to get you to fight her around this time of day." said one of Kuwabara's male friends.
"Yeah, but I don't see the point. You're never gonna fight a girl even if someone paid ya!" exclaimed another one of them. Yuiko flew through the wall of a building and saw Kuwabara and his other friends sitting at a table in a ramen restaurant. She flew over the other people and sat herself down between two of the guys.
"I don't know. I have a weird feeling that something's wrong." Kuwabara admitted. Kuwabara had red hair that didn't look red at all, more like orange. He had black eyes and was wearing the boys school uniform: blue jeans and a blue jacket. Kuwabara was the only one with a light blue one. Kuwabara suddenly tensed.
"What's the matter?" one of the other boys asked.
"Don't you know? Kuwabara can sense when ghosts are around. We call it the Tickle." another one explained. Yuiko remembered the 'Tickle', but she had always called it him being pessimistic.
"I've had the Tickle since I was five. Ghosts kept on entering my sleep. Giving me nightmares. I ended up lying in bed awake a lot." Kuwabara shivered at the memories. Yuiko raised her eyebrows.
"Is it the woman with the ax, again?" one of this friends wondered.
"No, but it does feel familiar. Like I've met it before. It feels almost like it's a teenager like us, but different." Kuwabara announced.
"I'm right here, you baka. Sitting two seats away from you." Yuiko pointed out. No one heard her. Then she got an idea. She glided closer over to Kuwabara. He started to sweat.
"It's coming closer." Kuwabara gulped. Yuiko grinned. She waved her hand in front of his face and then tapped him on the shoulder. He jumped up in the air and leaped out of his seat. Yuiko burst out laughing. "Let's get out of here!" Kuwabara ran out of the restaurant, Yuiko still laughing. She had no idea Kuwabara could be scared so easily.
"Wait for us, Kuwabara!" his friends called after him, getting up from the table, one of them quickly leaving a tip and running as though someone with a giant ax was wanting to kill him. He was screaming bloody murder when Yuiko somehow accidentally knocked his glass over when he was leaving the tip. This only made her laugh harder.
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Yuiko flew over everything, gazing at the star-covered sky. She was heading over to her home to see how her mother was doing. Yuiko didn't know why she wanted to; her mom wasn't exactly the best one someone could have to put it in a cliche. She made it to the window of her and her mom's apartment and saw a ceremonial thing going on. At the far end of the room, she could see her picture and a bunch of lit candles. Yuiko went through the wall just in time to see the door open and to see her childhood friend and best friend come through the door. Keiko had brown hair that she kept braided and in pigtails. She had brown eyes and was wearing the girls uniform (blue pleated skirt and white top with a blue bow) that Yuiko refused to wear, mainly for the skirt and the fact that she couldn't stand the color blue.
Keiko walked over to the picture of Yuiko and got down on her knees. She put her hands in a prayer position. "Yu-Yu, I hope you can hear me." Keiko started. "That was really brave of you for saving that little boy's life. I know heroics were never your thing, and that all you ever wanted to do was learn how to be a fighter and make fighting your living, but I'm really glad that you put his life before your own, even though it meant throwing your own away." Keiko choked and started crying. Yuiko stared at Keiko. They were both like sisters. Even their arguments made them look like they were sisters. They'd known each other all their lives, knew each other better than anyone else did, and Yuiko never knew how much she meant to Keiko.
Keiko stood up and bowed to Yuiko's mother, who was sitting next to the wall, and left the room. Yuiko was about to leave when suddenly Kuwabara entered. He ran over to the picture, despite the fact that all of his male friends were holding him back. Yuiko wondered what he was doing there. "Yuiko Urameshi! Why the heck did you have to die?! You never gave up like this before! Especially in a fight! And in the fight of staying alive, staying here with us, you decide to lose!? Coward! If you find a way to come back, I swear I'll never say that I won't fight with you just because you're a girl again, okay!? Just come back, Yu-Yu! Come back!" Kuwabara shouted.
"Kuwabara!" his friends begged, still trying to pull him back. Eventually they dragged him out of the room. "Sorry about him." Yuiko felt like she had a lump in her throat. Almost immediately, the little boy and someone who looked like his mother came in. Yuiko made her way closer to what was going on now. The little boy and his mother kneeled down in front of the picture. They put their hands in the same position that Keiko did.
"Thank you for saving my little boy." the mother said, then put her hands down. The little boy had a smile on his face.
"Thanks for saving me and making me laugh." the little boy told the picture. The mother stood up and took the boy's hand. She bowed to Yuiko's own mother and were leaving.
"Yuiko." Yuiko's mom whispered. Then she broke down into sobs and tears. Yuiko stared at her mother before leaving to follow the little boy. Maybe she could say your welcome to him in some way.
Yuiko flew until she finally caught sight of the boy and his mother. She flew down low enough so that she could talk to him, but the boy talked first. "Can I play with her tomorrow? She was really nice." the little boy asked. Yuiko looked at him. He didn't know what death was.
"No, I don't think so." the mother replied.
"How about if I'm good?" the boy questioned. The mother looked down at him, kneeled down and hugged him tightly. Yuiko couldn't take it anymore.
"BOTAN!" Yuiko screamed.
"You yelled?" Botan said, appearing right next to Yuiko.
"I want to have another chance! Is your offer still open?" Yuiko declared. Botan nodded.
"Just come with me." Botan replied and they went off. To what and where, Yuiko didn't know.
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Red Roses2: Well? What did you think? Is Yuiko a strange name? I couldn't think of anything else original that I hadn't used in another story that started with a Y so I went with what first came into my head. Please tell me if I should continue.