Disclaimer: I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho. All I own are my characters and the extra parts of Yu Yu Hakusho's Plotline

A/N: And now at the second chapter I realize I'll have to watch every single episode of Yu Yu Hakusho again…oh well, 3rd time's a charm. Anyway, enjoy chapter 2!

Chapter 2: Did I Know You?

Date: February 16th, 2002

I sat on the back of Botan's oar, wondering what this proposal she had was. I mean, if she was the Grim Reaper… wouldn't she have taken me to this Spirit world already? She came up behind the boy who I assumed was a ghost. Well, he was unless people found a way to float in mid air.

"Could it be- I've turned into a ghost?!" He had apparently just come to the same realization I had.

"Bingo! Bingo! You win the Prize!" Botan said suddenly, surprising me out of my thoughts. The boy flipped out and whirled around. And I felt like I knew him from somewhere…but where?

"I didn't Figure that you'd figure it out so quickly" she commented.

"Who the hell are you?" What Botan basically repeated everything she had said to me earlier, about how people become ghosts.

"You still aren't answering my question." He said impatiently. Then she told him who she was while I sat quietly to her right. He didn't believe her when she said she was the grim reaper.

"A pretty girl like you? Please you're no grim reaper." He then gave a vivid description of the stereotypical grim reaper. Bag of bones, black robe, the works. Botan didn't know whether to see that as an insult or compliment.

"Yusuke Urameshi, Age 14, Personality is impulsive and ill-mannered with a violent temper. He has no respect for authority and is a horrible student. Things weren't looking up for you were they?" Botan asked, looking up from her little gray what was apparently a guidebook.

"That's none of your business!" Yusuke retorted. He tried to grab it and she moved it out of his way, so he fell forwards instead. Botan only laughed. Where have I heard his name before? Wait!

"Yusuke! You go to Sariyaski Junior high right?" He looked at me, and I suddenly wished I would have kept quiet.

"Yeah, went, who are you?" he asked. I shook my head shyly.

"I'm Mimiko Unizagi, I went To Sariyaski too." He thought for a minute.

"Oh yeah Rich Girl. What are you doing dead?" He asked bluntly. I winced at the name, but answered him.

"I was murdered by a few people from school earlier this afternoon." He blinked.

"Well Hell that's just a bit worse than getting hit by a car huh? Sucks for you." He then turned his attention back to Botan.

"Okay then Death Lady, What happened to that kid that I saved?" I blinked. Yusuke wasn't the type of person, from what I remember, to save Child.

"Would you like to go see him?" Botan asked. Yusuke nodded. Botan took us both to the city Hospital, where we came to a window; I spotted a little kid covered in bandages. The doctor was explaining to the mother he was going to be alright. She started tearing up, hugging her child.

"Look at that, he's really okay." Yusuke said, and for I second I could tell you I saw him smile. Whenever I used to see him in the hallways, he was always in a bad mood. But seeing him smile like that…it made me want to get to know him. Even though it's too late. We're already dead. He suddenly turned around.

"Alright, I got no regrets, so you can take me wherever I'm going now." I looked down, and Botan caught my action.

"What's the matter?" I seemed to have captured Yusuke's attention too, though he wasn't showing it.

"It's just I… do have a regret. I had an argument with my father today…I told him I hated him and stormed out the door without saying goodbye." Yusuke put his arms behind his head.

"That isn't that bad, I mean, I used to say that to my mom all the time, she knew I never meant it."

"Well, it wasn't really all that simple, my parents are divorced, and my mother has full custody of my younger brother and sister. She never lets him see them, and he told me all the time, I was the only thing he had left, even with all his money. He never cared about money. And I don't like the fact my last words to him were so spiteful." I explained. Botan only giggled. Yusuke turned around.

"And what's so funny about all of this?" he asked.

"I was going to say it earlier, but you never stopped talking. You see I didn't come to take you away from this world, I came here to offer you both another chance at life!" she said excitedly. I blinked and let Yusuke Speak what was on both our minds.

"An ordeal huh?"

"Uh-huh."

"What the heck are you blabbering about?" Okay…Almost on both our minds. Botan continued.

"You see, none of us were expecting you two to die today you threw us all for a loop, Yusuke especially." I looked over at Yusuke, who seemed surprised.

"Run someone with your credentials through that scenario thousands of times and they never would have saved a kid like that. No one saw it coming and quite frankly we haven't prepared a place for you yet." She turned to me.

"Or you! I mean we never saw your murder coming, we simply thought those boys would pass you by, but that wasn't the case."

"Oh give me a break lady! You mean you guys were expecting the little boy to die!?" Botan flipped through the gray book again.

"Well, I wasn't going to tell you this, but without the confusion of you running into the street that boy would have missed the car and escaped with one less scrape on his right shoulder." Yusuke's eyes widened.

"But it was headed right for him."

"Yes, well the driver would have veered to the left." I tilted my head in confusion.

"But then wouldn't the driver have died?" Botan shook her head.

"No, the driver would have been able to short stop and escape with nothing but slight trauma." She answered. She looked back at Yusuke and smiled.

"In other words your death was a complete and utter waste!" Yusuke winced and floated downward… uh, all the way downward, out of sight before I could even say anything.

"He was surprised? Well I can hardly blame him for that! Ha-ha! "She said to me. Once again before I could say anything, Yusuke shot back up, about ready to take a whack at Botan. She hid behind her book.

"Cool your jets silly I told you that you could get a second chance remember? Just go through this tiny ordeal and you can be back to life in no time." The look Yusuke had on his face next, I couldn't tell if he was shocked or thinking. She flew backwards on her oar a little, closing the book.

"You should both feel very special, unexpected cases like these only happen once every 100 years!" Yusuke stayed silent for a moment.

"You're just like the teachers in my school" He commented before floating off. He mumbled something about the teachers having no idea about anything as well. Botan and I exchanged glances before following after him.

"All I'm saying is it's a pretty good deal don't you think?" I nodded, but Yusuke didn't seem so interested.

"Maybe, but…no thanks." He put his arms behind his head.

"I think I like being a ghost. You said that my life was pathetic right?" Botan shrugged.

"Everyone'll be happier now that I'm erased." Botan shook her head.

"I'm sorry you feel that way at such an early age." Yusuke looked away.

"Yeah, yeah, now you have to agree there is no point in me doing some stupid ordeal" Botan floated upwards.

"I don't think there is any point in making big decisions so early, why don't you spend some time at your wake and see how you feel then okay?" she asked him. She promised she'd be back when we both made a decision and then left.

"You got worms in your ears?! I said I didn't want to do it!" Yusuke shouted after her, but she ignored it. Yusuke sighed before beginning to travel to his wake. He stopped and turned around.

"Coming?" he asked.

"Me? Oh, of course!" I said quickly following after him. Yusuke and I ended up dawdling, but still made it by the time his wake started. I saw a woman in a yellow shirt leaned against a wall, staring blankly at nothing.

"That's my mother." He explained, I nodded.

"She looks so…sad." Yusuke scoffed.

"She'll be back to her old partying self by tomorrow." We then looked down at the guests.

"That's everyone from class." I pointed out. He nodded.

"Look at them, laughing, they probably only came to get extra credit!" I floated in front of him.

"Yusuke calm down, and look." I moved from his view as a brown haired girl from our school, named Keiko Ukimura stepped out, her two friends trying to calm her down, she was crying frantically.

"Keiko please!" one of her friends pleaded.

"Yusuke…No!..." Yusuke looked confused.

"Is she… making all that racket for me?" I pulled my arms behind my head.

"Unless there's another Yusuke that just died around here." My attempt at sarcasm could not be replied to, as another interruption came our way.

"Come on, let's go back!" someone insisted.

"Yeah this isn't right."

"Shut up and let go of me would ya?!" Both Yusuke and I looked a bit farther right from where Keiko was.

A Large carrot top was coming to the door, shouting and making a racket while his two friends attempted to hold him back.

"What?! Kuwabara?" I blinked.

"That one with the gang of street fighters?" I asked. He nodded, staring intently at the scene before us.

"Darn you, you think you can just back out cause your scared!" the mourners inside looked on as he continued making his way forward.

"Kuwabara this place is for mourning!" one of his friends tried to explain. Kuwabara only kept moving.

"I'm not going to leave. Not until he comes out here and lets me fight him!" He walked right past Yusuke mother, who seemed lost from the world.

"He can't do that!" He pointed to the picture of Yusuke set over his casket, seemingly enraged.

"I'm going to beat you down you punk! You hear me?! "His voice started to tremble.

"Who do you think you are?! Huh?! How am I going to fight now?! Who am I going to fight?"

"He's gone!"

"No!" He thrust his fist forward to punch the picture, but stopped short, and started to cry.

"You're supposed to be here! For me…"

"Come on Kuwabara Let's go." His friend said calmly. As they pulled him away, his other friend apologized for the racket Kuwabara had caused. Yusuke didn't say anything, only looked on as Kuwabara was dragged off. Finally he spoke.

"Who would have…guessed? " There were some teachers below us. One I knew, , he was my teacher. The other one, I didn't know, but I saw him around. They started talking about how they wished the car was big enough for Yusuke and Kuwabara. We floated behind them.

"Even at my own wake they knock me!" he growled. They were pulled back to face Mr. Takanaka, one of the schools best teachers in my opinion.

"What do you suppose is more disgraceful that boy's shouting in misery or your insensitive or idiotic words?"

"Takanaka?" Yusuke questioned quietly. Mr. Takanaka let go of the two other teachers and walked past them, into Yusuke house. We followed him in. He first bowed to Yusuke mother, a custom of paying respects, then he turned to Yusuke little Shrine. He then said some words, which I was farther away than Yusuke so I didn't hear them.

"Yus..Ke… " I turned around to see his mother had finally snapped out of her blank state, but still seemed deaf to what was going on around her. She then started to cry, breaking into a sob.

"This way."

"Yes mommy." At the door, were the boy Yusuke had apparently saved, and his mother.

They kneeled by Yusuke's shrine, and prayed. The mother turned to her son once they finished.

"Now you should say something nice too." He nodded.

"Thank you for, saving me, and making faces." The mother turned around and bowed to Yusuke mother, who was still curled up and crying, and bowed. I looked at Yusuke's face, and could tell he was taking all this in. after all, it wasn't too hard to see. Yusuke Slew out of the house and far up over it, and I followed. We watched the mother and son walk out and decided to follow for a moment.

"Mommy, do you think it'd be okay if I played with that boy tomorrow?" he asked his mother. She knelt down.

"No son."

"I know some people sounded angry at him, but he was really nice! I don't know why those people were crying, they probably wanted to play with him too!"

"Oh..." The mother pulled her son into a hug, which confused the hell out of him. Me and Yusuke floated around for a while, wordless, and then I thought of something.

"Hey..Yusuke?" He looked at me.

"What is it?" I avoided his gaze and looked to the ground.

"Think we can visit my place? I want to see how my father is coping with the fact I'm missing." He nodded.

"Yeah, sure." I lead him to my neighborhood, which was pretty fancy and all, but I wasn't paying attention to that now. I passed through the walls of the red house with the cop car in front of it. Yusuke followed.

"She went Missing Seven hours ago!"

"Are you sure that she isn't with a friend sir?"

"No, she always calls! No matter how mad she is at me!" My father was talking to and officer, who was asking him what I wore the last time I was seen, and where I could possibly be hiding if I didn't want to be found.

"Okay sir, thank you, we'll be in touch." Yusuke huffed.

"That's what they all say." Rolling my eyes, I watched my father sit in a chair, holding his head in his hands.

"I'm sorry…" His voice began to tremble.

"I'm so sorry… Mimiko… my darling Mimiko." He started crying, breaking down like I had never seen him before.

"My dad is… not very sensitive… he doesn't know I'm dead… but if this is what it's like when I am missing…" Yusuke put a hand to my shoulder.

"We should probably look for Botan." I looked back at my dad.

"He shouldn't be sorry, I should." I followed Yusuke back outside. Botan appeared next to us.

"Well, have you both decided?" she questioned.

"Hi Botan." Yusuke didn't bother saying it the right way.

"Botan...hey."

"Yes Dear?"

"Have you ever not known about something? That seemed obvious to everyone else around you?"

"That happens to us all I think." She answered.

"so, ready now?" Me and Yusuke looked at each other.

"Yeah… we are." He responded.

"Oh, good for the both of you! Now let's not waste any time and this started!" she laughed, while Yusuke shouted, she made him grab onto her oar, and having no choice, I used his leg to hold to because I couldn't keep up.

"Hey! Where are you taking us?!" Yusuke asked once he stopped shouting. She turned to face us.

"Spirit world!" was her only response.

To the what?!" I blinked.

"Spirit world, she's going to take us there to meet some prince guy that can help us, right?" She nodded.

"Bingo!"

"Will you stop staying that?"

"Ha-ha!" However you'd like to put it, I was just glad to get another chance at life.