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Uncanny Resemblances

Chapter 3 It's Only 1:45AM

Genkai sat at the top of the stairs listening to her parents talking. She had told them that she was going to bed early, hoping that Yusuke would tell Keiko about what he and Kuwabara had spoken about earlier. Genkai sat there for almost an hour listening to her parents talk about money, bills, and other stuff like that, she felt as though the boredom from the conversation would put her to sleep!

Keiko had just finished scolding Yusuke for not cleaning when she had asked him to, so that she could do some paperwork that was due the next day at work. For a while the room was silent and the only thing that could be heard was an infomercial that was on TV.

Genkai was just about to go to bed when Yusuke finally brought up the subject.

"Umm Keiko?"

"What Yusuke?" Keiko answered, a tone of unhappiness in her voice.

"Look at this, Hiei gave it to Kuwabara this afternoon." Yusuke pulled out a folded piece of white paper from his back pocket, and handed it over to Keiko.

"Ha, ha very funny Yusuke," Keiko said after reading it.

"Its not a joke."

"It's been too long since we were there to pull this kind of thing."

"Its real, Keiko, look," Yusuke pointed to a place on the paper, but Genkai could only see a white shape from the top of the stairs.

Keiko looked at the paper for a while. "So, do you think we should go?" she asked.

Genkai's hand flew into a fist. Go where? Why wouldn't they tell her about it?

Yusuke's voice cut into Genkai's thoughts, "I think we should."

"But what about Genkai?" Keiko asked.

"Oh, yeah I forgot to mention that, she uh, kinda found out a little bit about that today," Yusuke said.

"What!" Keiko yelled.

"Shh! Keiko, you're gonna wake Genkai up."

"What do you mean she found out?" Keiko asked, her voice hushed but still caught in a mixture of anger and surprise.

"I'm pretty sure she found her own spirit energy. I think she accidentally used the spirit gun on one of her notebooks this afternoon," Yusuke said thoughtfully.

Genkai unclenched her fist and looked down at her finger. Spirit energy? Spirit gun? What the heck were they talking about?

"Ok Yusuke we will go, but there is no way that I will allow her to do anything reckless...or even use her spirit powers!" Keiko said angrily before standing up and walking over to the stairs.

Genkai quickly crawled back into her room and jumped into her bed, and listened as Keiko came up the stairs and walked past the door.

'Why won't she let me use them?' Genkai thought, 'What would I use them for?' Genkai waited to hear Yusuke coming upstairs, but after an hour she still hadn't heard him. She lay there, asking herself the same questions over and over, before finally deciding to get some answers on her own.

Genkai got out of bed and walked down the stairs. Yusuke was still down in the living room sitting on the couch.

"Hey Genkai, what are you doing up so late?"

"Late? Its only 1:45AM," she joked.

"So, what do you want to ask me?"

Genkai's eyes darted from the TV to Yusuke, "Nothing, I-I mean, what would I want to ask you about? There is nothing I want to ask you, N-nothing at all. Why would I-"

"Genkai," Yusuke cut into her stuttering. "I know you were upstairs eavesdropping."

"How did you know?" Genkai asked.

"Uhh, well its hard to explain," Yusuke answered. He knew that if he just answered that it was because he could sense her spirit energy, it would probably just confuse her. "I guess, you want to know about what, your Mom and I were discussing?"

"Yeah."

"Come here," Yusuke said, waving Genkai over to the couch.

Genkai walked over and sat next to her Dad.

"Genkai, you know how I explained earlier today that spirit energy can be channeled through your body and expelled in a way that can be useful to the person who uses their energy?"

Genkai nodded, she hadn't really understood what he had meant though. "But what is it?" she asked.

"Its kind of hard to explain, everyone has some amount of spirit energy, not many people can use it, but some can."

"You?" Genkai asked.

"Yeah."

"Why do you have it? Why did you use your spirit energy? What can you do with it?" Genkai's questions spilled from her mouth.

"Listen Genkai, its hard to explain why I have it. I went through a lot when I was your age."

"Like what?"

"You wouldn't believe me."

"Try me."

Yusuke sighed, and leaned back. "Okay, well I was just like you, a little punk and a delinquent, and one day this little kid was playing in the road, and I did exactly the opposite of what people would have expected me to do. The kid dropped the ball that he had been playing with, and it rolled into the street, he ran after it, and a car came down the street. I didn't want the kid to get hit so I tried to push him out of the way, and the car hit me instead."

"But you survived?" Genkai asked, "what does that have to do with this anyway?"

"Genkai, I didn't survive," Yusuke said.

Genkai opened her mouth to reply, but Yusuke's hand covered her mouth.

"Let me finish," Yusuke said.

Genkai nodded and pushed his hand away.

"I died but I wasn't supposed to, the car wasn't ever going to hit the kid in the first place, and my death was a waste. I went to Spirit World and I was offered a chance to live again, but I would have to complete some challenges. Back then I didn't care whether I died or not, but since I cared so much about Keiko, I decided that I would try and complete the challenges to get my life back."

"And you did?" Genkai asked.

"I'm here aren't I?" Yusuke asked, smiling.

"But I still don't get it."

"That's because, it didn't end there. Koenma, the son of King Yama, had figured that I could help the Spirit World. So, I became a Spirit Detective, and I used my spirit energy to help catch demons." Yusuke looked up at Genkai.

"That sounds kind of..."

"Ridiculous, I know, but I think it would be better if Koenma explained it to you." Yusuke said.

"Koenma?" Genkai asked, she didn't quite understand what he meant by that.

"Here, this is the letter that Kuwabara was freaking out about," Yusuke said tossing the letter over to Genkai.

Genkai opened the letter and read:

To: Spirit Detectives; Hiei, Kuwabara, Kurama, and Yusuke

Prince of Spirit World, Koenma, asks for you and your families to come to Hanging Neck Island, on Friday, May 26 and spend the weekend. The boat to the Island leaves at 3:45PM Hope to see you there!

Sincerely,

Koenma

Underneath the signature, was a stamp of what looked like a castle type building, and the river Styx.

"May 26th, that's next Friday!" Genkai said, "and we're going?"

Yusuke nodded.

Genkai looked over the letter, "Kuwabara-san is a Spirit Detective too?" she asked.

"Yep."

"Hanging Neck Island...where have I heard that before?" Genkai asked herself quietly.

"Huh?" Yusuke asked her.

"Uh, nothing, I uhh, I'm gonna go to bed, night Dad," Genkai said getting up and walking toward the stairs.

"Night Genkai."

Genkai quickly walked up the stairs and into the room, making sure to close the door, and ran over to the table next to her bed where she had put her cell phone. She dialed the number to Suoh's cell, and waited for him to answer. After waiting for 5 minutes, Suoh finally answered.

"Yeah?" he said. Genkai could tell that she had woken him up.

"Suoh, meet me at the mall tomorrow at noon," she said quietly.

"Yeah. Ok,." Suoh answered and hung up.

Genkai looked down at her cell, he hadn't listened at all, she would have to call him again tomorrow morning.

Genkai put her cell back on the nightstand and jumped into bed, after a short while she was fast asleep.

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Okay! That was Chapter 3!! Longer than the other two, I know, but Yusuke had to explain the first part of the story to Genkai. Also, its been a while since I saw the beginning episodes of Yu Yu Hakusho, and I lost my Yu Yu Hakusho vol. 1 of the manga :( But I think I did a pretty good job with what he did explain, if not, I'm sorry! When Koenma explains it, I will try to make him do better! ...Or maybe I will have to go back and maybe rewrite some of this chapter. Lemme know what ya think!

I also want to thank those of you who have reviewed, I really appreciate it, and I am glad you like the story so far!

Thanks so much for reading! Suggestions are always welcome, please review and tell me what you think. Peace!