I wonder how many chapters this story is going to take…
I do not own Yu Yu Hakushou, Harry Potter or Fairy Tail. But as soon as I find a magic lamp, that's the first thing I'll wish for!
Yusuke woke up back in his own bed.
"Wha?" he wondered, waking up, "What happened to the forest?" he shot up out of bed, "I'm in my room?" he wondered.
"Don't tell me that was all just a crazy dream…"
Just then his mother walked in and dropped a towel she'd been holding, letting out a small sound of surprise.
"Yusuke you're up! Are you alright?" she walked over to his bed.
"I think…" then he was promptly knocked over the head.
"Ow! Mother!" he shouted, rubbing where he'd been hit, "You don't just wallop an injured person."
"You looked like you'd been fighting with a wrestler." She said worriedly, tears were forming in her eyes, "You're going to get yourself killed." She then fell to her knees, sobbing into her hands.
Yusuke began to panic, not having seen her this upset since his own funeral,
"Ah! Don't do that, mother, it's okay!" he said, trying his best to reassure her, and he wasn't particularly good at that, "At least I think it is…" he murmured, then looking thoughtful, "Who was that voice…"
"Oh come on, you know." Boton and Harry entered the room, Harry just slightly behind Boton.
"Hello." Boton waved.
"Wow…so you two saved me?" Yusuke asked.
"Not me, that was all Boton." Harry admitted.
"This dummy went off on his own." Boton shot Harry a glare, "But he meant well, all things considered."
"That's right." Yusuke's mother added, "Harry was the one who carried you back, then he used this special medicine and healed you all up. I've gotta say, it was pretty amazing, even your bruises are gone…"
"Thank you, Urameshi-san. But it was my fault to begin with. It was the least I could do." Harry said giving a bow.
"Nah, don't worry about it. I don't know what happened, but you weren't the one who beat Yusuke up, so you aren't to blame." Yusuke's mother waved off.
Harry nodded, but he didn't really believe it.
"Anyways, I'll go make some tea. Yusuke, you're going to have to introduce me to your friends properly later, okay?" she walked out of the room, leaving the three of them alone.
"So people can see you now, Boton?" Yusuke asked.
"Hm? Oh yes, I told Koenma that I would make a much better assistant to the spirit detective if I had a human body."
"Makes sense I guess." Yusuke mused, "So how did you find us? Can you do that spirit ribbon thing that Harry can do as well?"
"Spirit ribbon thing?" Boton blinked, "No." she said pulling out a watch, "I just used this to track Goki's yoki." She handed it to Yusuke, "It indicates the distance and direction of an already identified demon."
"Huh." Yusuke said looking at the watch in his hand, "This will make finding them a lot easier, but I think the real problem comes from once they're in my face. Goki was a lot stronger than I thought."
Boton looked thoughtful,
"Harry might be able to train you."
Harry blinked,
"Train him?" he wondered, "I've never really taken on students before." He wasn't averse to the idea though. Already his mind was running through possible techniques that might work for Yusuke.
"And now, some news on the spreading epidemic in Grey Corner." The announcer on the TV said from the other room. The door was open and they could see Yusuke's mother watching the news with interest.
"Grey Corner? That's not far from here at all." She noted.
"Four children in this quiet foresting town have fallen comatose in he last three hours. Doctors are hesitant to pin a cause on their conditions, but they say it is unlike any disease they have encountered before."
Yusuke, Boton and Harry were silent as the news continued.
"Sounds like Goki's having his lunch." Yusuke snarled.
"In the past he's taken souls much more slowly." Boton explained, "With the orb of Baast, he can take souls much easier. All he wants, really."
Harry looked down at the ground, thinking on something,
"How long does it take for him to digest those souls? Is there still a change they could be in his stomach?"
Boton thoughtfully put a finger to her chin,
"It's possible." She nodded, "With these types of demons I'd say it would take a day at most."
"A day…" Harry thought, "That's not a lot of time…but…it might be enough to teach Yusuke something."
"Teach me something? You mean, you're willing to show me how to fight?" Yusuke asked hopefully.
"Yes." Harry decided, "I'll teach what I can. I've noticed this already, but you already seem to have a pretty good connection to your reiki." He looked Yusuke in the eyes, "We don't have a lot of time for me to teach you the normal way, so, if you really want to do this, Yusuke, I'm going to teach you a technique that will take three hours to learn."
"Three hours?" Boton's eyes widened, "What could Yusuke possible be able to learn in three hours?"
"Normally, not a lot." Harry admitted, "I've only seen this particular method work once, and that was because the person learning truly wanted to learn." He turned back to Yusuke, "If you waver in your conviction to learn this…you could end up hurt badly, even killed."
Yusuke clenched his fists,
"If I don't though, then that demon, Goki will kill me anyways." He looked Harry in the eye, "Do it. I want to get stronger."
Harry nodded, then got up and closed the door. He summoned his wand into his hand and cast some silencing spells. The room glowed green a moment, then Harry put his wand away.
"Alright." He decided, he then walked up to Yusuke, then placed his wand up to his forehead.
"What are you…" Yusuke stiffened, his eyes closed and his body became surrounded by an aura.
"What are you doing?" Boton asked Harry, alarmed.
"I told you, this method is extremely risky." Harry murmured, "Just be quiet. I need to concentrate."
"His reiki…it's getting stronger!" Boton gasped.
Harry didn't say anything, he then flicked his wand, and dismissed it in a swirl or words. Yusuke opened his eyes, shaking. He looked completely freaked out.
"What the hell was that!?" he demanded, "I was dead again! I think…" he looked back down at his hands.
"When the soul believes it's in danger, it's reiki increases." Harry explained, recalling what Urahara had done to train Ichigo, "That's why I don't like doing things like that. And I wouldn't have if I had even the slightest doubt you wouldn't have been able to handle it."
"But…I was a ghost, and you were chasing me…"
"Is that what you saw?" Harry hummed, "What I did was separate your soul from your body once again, leaving a single attachment, so still keeping you alive, unlike last time. Then I created the illusion of your soul being in danger."
"I see…" Boton said wide eyed, "But…if that hadn't worked then…"
"His soul would have been destroyed." Harry nodded.
Boton shot him an angry look. Harry sighed,
"That was the dangerous part. And I knew he'd be able to do it." He defended.
"I can feel it." Yusuke said, looking down at his hand, "I'm a lot stronger…but you said it would take three hours. That couldn't have been more than a few minutes."
"That's because I haven't taught you anything yet." Harry explained, "And I will never, ever use that technique that I just used again, even if you beg me." He added, "It's too risky to use more than once, and I don't want you to believe that all power will come that easily. Now, the technique." Harry closed his eyes, thinking off all the spells, and all the crazy things he'd learned, "Close your eyes."
Yusuke closed his eyes quickly, not arguing, which was oddly out of character for him.
"Can you feel all your reiki running through you?" Harry asked.
Yusuke nodded,
"Yeah…"
"I want you direct it towards your hand, then open your eyes." Harry ordered.
Yusuke held out his hand and opened his eyes, looking at Harry. Harry approached him and changed his hand position slightly.
"Repeat after me." Harry said, "Hadou no yon."
"Hadou no yon." Yusuke frowned, but then was surprise as yellow energy gathered at his finger tips.
"Byakurai!" Harry shouted.
"Byakurai!" Yusuke repeated, yellow-white lightning shot from his finger tips and hit the wall which glowed green a moment from the barrier Harry had put up.
Harry nodded approvingly,
"Good."
Boton looked on in surprise,
"What was that? I've never seen a technique like that before. And it was numbered too."
"That was a technique called kidou." Harry explained, "Kidou is numbered from one to ninety-nine. One being the weakest, and ninety-nine being the strongest. It's more powerful if you can say the entire incantation. I noticed that Yusuke was actually rather adept at concentrating his reiki at will, especially when he fights. It's normal for people who train in the art to concentrate their energy into certain areas when they attack or defend, but to Yusuke it's like an instinct, even though he hasn't really had any training to do it, he's doing it anyways. It's actually quite impressive. And that's what Kidou requires."
"So…you're going to teach him kidou?" Boton realized.
"Wait," Yusuke said, "If one is the weakest, and ninety-nine is the strongest, then why show me a weaker one, instead of one of the stronger ones?"
"You aren't strong enough yet to practice the higher-level spells." Harry explained, "Four is probably the maximum you can reach at this point. You're already drained, aren't you?"
Yusuke paused momentarily, then realized this was true.
"Even though your reiki has increased exponentially, you probably won't be able to do more than two or three level four kidou a day. Your reiki is already coming back though, isn't it?"
Yusuke nodded,
"Yeah, it is." He agreed, "I can feel it even clearer than before too."
"So then, you use these kidou spells to fight?" Boton asked curiously.
"Sometimes." Harry shrugged, "They aren't really a part of my main fighting style. They are useful though. Kidou has four separate subsets, Bakudou or 'way of binding,' Hadou or 'way of destruction,' Kaidou or healing, and finally barriers and seals." He listed factually, and orb of green energy appeared in his hand, "Kidou is particularly useful as it demonstrates different ways to concentrate this energy. I thought it would be a good place to start with Yusuke." Harry frowned, "But Kidou can be difficult, mostly because it involves learning chants. And if you say it wrong…it could very well blow up in your face."
"I see…" Boton said, still looking intrigued.
"Yusuke, can you focus your reiki, like this? Into an orb?" Harry asked him.
"Um…" Yusuke scrunched his face up in concentration, he managed to get a small looking white orb though.
"If you were to hit someone with that, you could do a whole ton of damage." Harry explained, "Now, you want to try another spell, Yusuke?"
Yusuke nodded, and Harry hadn't ever seen him so ready to learn before.
"Point your index forwards, yes, like that. Now repeat after me." Harry said, "Hadou no ichi. Shou."
"Hadou no ichi. Shou." Yusuke repeated, concentrating his reiki into his index. A white light shot out and banged against the wall, he smirked,
"Well, I seem to have a couple of techniques under my belt now…"
"I'm going to teach you two more." Harry said, "Then I'm going to have you repeat the spells I taught you from the beginning."
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Yusuke took some time memorizing the spells Harry taught him. Though he could easily repeat each one of them, he'd mess up sometimes, whether it was with the hand position or with the incantation. Still though, Harry hadn't thought he'd actually get the spells right off the bat like that…it was interesting to say the least…Seems he was a bit of a prodigy like Ichigo, and like Harry to an extent.
When Harry was satisfied, he called off the training. It had taken Yusuke about two hours for him to reach the point where he could properly cast the way Harry wanted him to. About the amount of time he'd been hoping for. Then he fed Yusuke a pepper up potion to help replenish his reiki, though it wasn't coming back as quick as he'd hoped.
It would have to do.
Yusuke used his new spirit detective watch to track down Goki. Harry and Boton followed after him as he fled from the apartment and down into the streets.
"But…will Yusuke be able to beat him this time?" Boton asked Harry as they trailed slightly behind Yusuke.
"I don't know." Harry admitted, "If he uses his head, he should be alright. That spirit gun thing he does…that can't be used too often as it seriously depletes his energy. While Kidou can be depleting, the techniques I taught him won't use too much reiki, unless he concentrates a lot into it. That's what I was trying to teach him with those lower level spells. Conservation."
"I see." Boton nodded, "I'm still mad at you though."
Harry nodded,
"I don't expect you to be happy about it, but I didn't know how else to train him."
"You could have gone after Goki instead." Boton argued.
"I'm not going to fight Yusuke's battles for him. It wouldn't be appreciated. Besides, this has become personal for him. Didn't you notice?"
Boton blinked a few times, then looked at Yusuke's back,
"You're right…but why?"
Harry shrugged.
"Even if it wasn't…I think it's important he do this himself. This is his first real fight in his new job. Yusuke's going to be great someday, too. I can tell. He has the drive, he has the instincts and the energy. He's not school smart, but he is still smart. He can think tactically and he's observant enough that he does pick up on things that people often miss. But he needs the experience."
"I see." Boton said, "You really are trying to help him."
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They got on the bus, somehow Yusuke managed to convince Harry to pay for his bus fair again…
They got off in Grey Corner, which actually wasn't too far from uptown. Their trek led them into the forest once again and Harry was pretty sure that it was the same one, just not quite near where they had entered the day before.
They walked down a dirt path that seemed to get plenty of use from the townspeople. It led to a shrine not far from the city, Harry recalled vaguely.
They were arrived just in time to see Goki suck the soul out of a little girl. Her eyes went blank and she fell over. Harry could practically feel the rage radiating off of Yusuke.
"Goki!" Yusuke said, hand in pocket, looking up at the demon with fire in his eyes, "I came all this way to see you."
"Idiot!" the demon snarled, "Didn't you listen to what I told you yesterday?"
"Yeah of course I heard you. I'm just stupid." Harry sapped a hand to his face at Yusuke's comeback.
Boton sweat dropped, looking just as exasperated as Harry.
Goki began releasing his yoki, Harry felt the pressure build in the surrounding area. Goki laughed and his body began to glow with a white aura. His muscles grew until his shirt ripped, his hair grew into a long mane down his back. His teeth elongated and horns grew on his head.
Yusuke ran at him, and punched him in the stomach but the demon wasn't affected.
The demon laughed,
"For a detective you don't know much. My skin is as solid as rock. You can't hurt me."
"Yusuke, use your reiki, remember what I told you about focusing it then punching?" Harry called out to him.
Yusuke shouted back to him,
"Alright, I got it already!" he concentrated his reiki into an orb in his hand, then punched the orb forwards, the demon was actually pushed back a little bit, but Harry knew that Yusuke's reiki wasn't strong enough yet to penetrate the skin.
"Oh no." Boton murmured.
"He can still beat Goki." Harry said calmly, "Even with the little training I was able to give him, he has improved. But he's going to have to use his brain this time if he wants to win."
Boton turned from Harry, back to the fight,
"I sure hope you're right."
Then Goki came at him, punching. Yusuke dove to the side and the tree behind him broke in two. He stumbled out of the way, into a roll.
Part of the tree landed in front of him and Yusuke lifted it up,
"How about a big wooden stake!" he shouted, then thrust it at the monster, only for it to break apart.
"He's certainly a lot stronger." Harry said tilting his head to the side as he observed Yusuke.
"Don't you see it's pointless?" Goki smiled maliciously, then picked up the tree half, lifting Yusuke with it.
Then they were thrown. Harry wince a bit when he saw bruises appearing on him. Then Goki stomped up to him, grabbed him by the head and lifted him up.
"Now it's time to eat you!" his mouth opened wide, only for Yusuke to lodge a thick log into his mouth.
"Finally." Yusuke said, "I was hoping for you to open your mouth. That skin of yours might be as thick as rock, but I doubt your insides are." He held his finger out, "Spirit gun!"
The energy hit, and the monster fell to the ground with a loud 'thud!' Yusuke collapsed, falling to the ground with relief.
"Yusuke!" Boton called, then ran over to him.
Then the monster's body began to glow and disintegrate, a bunch of souls came out and flew off. Harry assumed they were returning to their bodies. Yusuke counted them as they flew away and Boton smiled knowingly.
"You saved them all, Yusuke."
"Good job." Harry said genuinely.
"Thanks." Yusuke sighed out, then picked up a round glowing ball that pulsed with green light, "I nearly lost my head trying to get that one artifact back. I'm scared to think what two more of them will take."
"One more." Boton said, "Harry recovered the sword, and captured Hie."
"Really?" Yusuke lit up a bit.
Harry nodded,
"Yeah, remember when we split up in the woods?"
"Oh yeah…You just sort of vanished in a blur too…could you teach me to do that?" Yusuke asked.
Harry shrugged,
"Maybe. I have a feeling kidou isn't exactly going to be your strong suit…But you were right to go straight for your spirit gun. Hadou one wouldn't have worked too well on that guy, though Hadou four might have worked, you didn't have enough energy left to really pull it off. But hey, that's what happens when you do training like that before fighting the bad guy."
"Still, you increased the strength of Yusuke's spirit gun." Boton pointed out, "I was actually quite impressed by that."
"Hey, I did the work, don't I get credit?" Yusuke crossed his arms childishly.
"Yes Yusuke, good job." Boton giggled.
Yusuke just huffed.