Autheress here.

What can I say? I'm addicted to fanfiction. Please yell at me for neglecting my manga. I've done maybe six pages since the end of school. How pathetic is that?

So this next chapter will cover just about everything from angsty romance to all out battles. I'm excited. Are you?

Aoyou: I'm actually looking forewords to this chapter. She actually did RESEARCH on this one.

I really did do research, believe it or not. But the new attacks I created for this story are MINE. All you stealers out there, paws off! Even though this is hardly relevant for the wonderful ground of people who usually read/review my stuff, I feel very protective of this stuff.

If you like it SO MUCH, then, when/if you use these attacks, please credit me.

Speaking of credit, I would like to thank Lauren Brown, author and illustrator of Weeds in Winter for the ideas. V for Victory! I probably won't use any in this chapter, but yeah..I felt the need to prattle on about them. Next chapter will come quick, because I'm excited to use them!

I apologize for making Kaiko a little out of character, but it's fanfiction! I can bend the rules a tad, eh?

And dear reviewer (you know who thou art) I highly appreciate your critism. It's constructive and merely a step towards being a totally, undisputed awesome autheress! If you have any more qualms, please let me hear them.

Aoyou: ON WITH THE CHAPPIE!!!

I'm beginning to think that liddle blue-haired pipsqueak is catching on...

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The phone rang, shrilly. Katsu dived for it.

"Hello?"

"Miss Katsuko Majoh?"

"Y-Yes?"

"This is Shinatoshi Hiratane, S &R Sugatoe's representative. I've personally viewed the three photos you've sent and forwarded them to the board of Commercial Advisors. They've asked me to set up an interview date so we can view the rest of your portfolio. Are you free next Monday, around two?"

"Y-Yes! Yes, I am." Katsu could barely contain her excitement.

"A parent will have to accompany you, being underage as you are."

"Okay."

"Your work was impressive. I hope to see good things on Monday."

"You will!"

"Excellent. Have a good day."

"You too!"

The phone disconnected, but Katsu still held it to her ear. Shock had taken over, soon replaced by joy. Dropping the phone in its cradle, she leapt around in transports of jubilation.

"Mom!"

"Yes, dear?"

"I'm goin' out for awhile! I'll be home before dinner."

"Yes, dear."

With that, Katsu scampered out the door.

...

Yusuke sat in the park, digging his fingernail into the old wood of the park bench.

"Stupid Kurama. Stupid Hiei. Stupid Kuwabara. Stupid Kaiko!" Yusuke snarled under his breath." Why can't they leave me 'lone?"

He stood up abruptly, and began to walk. Where he didn't care. Perhaps he should of cared to look at least, for he walked straight into Katsu, who had gone looking for him.

"Ouch!"

"K-Katsu? Sorry." Yusuke grinned sheepishly, then stuck out a hand. The brunette pulled herself up, a smile on her face so wide it seemed her cheeks might burst. "What made you into a bundle of joy?"

"I got an interview!!" Katsu squealed, and Yusuke let out a loud whoop. Picking her up around the middle, Yusuke swung her around until they both were dizzy. His foot turned and they landed in a giggling, gasping heap.

"That's great!" Yusuke panted out, pulling himself into a sitting position.

"I know." Katsu grinned all the wider, if it were possible. "I can't believe it. It's like a dream come true!"

"We should celebrate." Yusuke said promptly. An idea was forming in his mind. Celebrating her interview wasn't a date exactly, right? But maybe it was enough of one..He decided to go for it. "I'll buy you dinner somewhere."

"At three in the afternoon?" She looked at him quizzically.

"Why not? We're rebels, arn't we?" Yusuke hauled himself up. "Besides, I've been meaning to ask y'out for something lately."

"Wha-?"

"Ain't it obvious? I thought girls were good at picking this junk up." He grinned, then grew serious. "I think you're real cute, Katsu."

"You do?" Katsu stood herself, sounding as if she was caught between sarcasm and hope.

"Yeah, I d-"

"Yusuke!"

He almost shouted aloud when Kaiko's voice hit the air. "Will you stop following me?!"

"Yusuke, I'm willing to take you back."

He nearly fell over. Instead, he bowed mockingly. "Oh I see. The gallant lady tells me she'll take me back, huh? Well here's a newsflash; who said I wanted back?"

Kaiko laughed. "I know you do. First, you mope around school for two days straight. Then, the next girl you hit it off with could almost be my double!"

Katsu looked a bit like a fish out of water, opening and closing her mouth. She wasn't sure what to say to such an extraordinary announcement.

"Like hell Katsu's anything like..you.." Yusuke trailed off as Kaiko smugly stepped beside Katsu. The resemblance was almost uncanny. Same shade of hair, similarly shaped eyes, though there was slight difference in color. Both were slender, even though Katsu was a few inches taller. Their faces were both nice ovals, with moderate lips and dimples.

"Come on, Yusuke. It's no fair to any of us if you keep up the pretense. And, I've got something she doesn't have." Kaiko leaned in. "Your secret."

Yusuke stood still for a moment, then grabbed Katsu's wrist. "Let's go."

They were just out of Kaiko's sight when Katsu wrenched her wrist from Yusuke's grasp. "Y-You- you bastard!!"

"What?! Katsu, I-"

Katsu screamed a little, and reeled back. Yusuke just barely dodged her fist as she vainly tried to punch him.

"What's wrong with you?!"

Katsu took a step back, her voice wavery and choked with emotion. "I trusted you. I might of even liked you. And here all this time you were u-using me because you missed Kaiko?! I'm such an idiot!!"

Yusuke caught her fist as she flailed at him again. He pulled her so that their noses were nearly touching. "Listen, Katsu. The fact that you and Kaiko look alike is pure coincidence. I didn't plan on liking you when I agreed to help you get your damn pictures, okay?! I wanted to show Kaiko I wasn't pining over her, and then you had to be so slick and pretty. And now I'm getting my ass kicked because I showed some damned emotion!"

He shoved her fist away, and she stumbled back. In a rage he stalked off, while Katsu fell to her knees and sobbed.

...

Erichi grinned, sweat running in rivulets down his white face. The rat-demon hardly ever saw the strong sunlight of Human World, but his boss had pretty much insisted. And when Bossman Korokoro insisted, you obeyed or you lost an internal organ.

Erichi's assignment was simple; get the Spirit Detective alone and gas him to sleep. Erichi knew the power the boy held at his fingertips, in the literal sense, and hadn't thought the task at all easy until now.

Here the Spirit Detective was now, walking down the very deserted alleyway where Erichi had lain in wait for almost half the day. Now the kid was right below the flight of emergency fire stairs Erichi was sitting. Pulling out the stopper, the demon let down the green haze of gas onto the defenseless and unaware Yusuke.

Sniggering uncontrollably, he dropped down next to Yusuke's fallen form. Ysusuke's brown eyes fluttered at the sight of the rat demon, and his lips moved in the effort to say something.

"It 's always about a girl, ain't it mate?" Erichi grinned, then tsked disaprovingly. "Well, everyone said it twas going to be a girl's doing, your downfall. Chin up lad, you'll live." A wicked grin came to the rat demon's pointed face. "For now, at least."

...

Boton was starting to pace up and down Yusuke's living room. "Where could our boy Yusuke be?"

"Relax, Boton, he's probably out with Katsu somewhere." Kuwabara tried to sound soothing, but instead his voice squeaked on his last words. The fact that nobody laughed was evidence enough of how much tension filled the room.

Kuwabara, Boton, Hiei, Kurama and Emiko all sat in the living room, and had been doing so for almost two hours waiting for Yusuke.

Emiko felt the need to break the heavy silence. "Here, I'll call Katsu and-"

The door rattled under a tirade of frantic knocking. "Yusuke? Yusuke, please open the door, I want to talk to you!"

"Katsu?" Emiko stood to open the door. A teary and rather disheveled-looking Katsu burst into the room, looking around.

"Where's Yusuke?"

"We were hoping you could tell us." Hiei said grimly. "He's late. By almost two hours."

"He's in trouble! I can feel it!" Boton wailed, overdramatic as always.

Katsu looked alarmed. "Trouble?! Wha-"

"Katsu, it's very important we know when you last saw him, and where." Emiko said calmly, but firmly.

"What's going on?!" Katsu demanded. Her belligerence was starting to return as worry set in.

"Trust me." Emiko took her hand and led her to the door. "C'mon, everyone, we've got a Spirit Detective to catch. And Katsu, you should probably just tell us now where you guys were, because you're going to have a lot to digest on the way there."

...

"You're telling me there are demons?" Katsu gasped. She, Emiko, and Kurama were squeezed into the cab of Kurama's old Dodge, the other three in the back of the pickup. The traffic was fairly good, and Kurama strained the speed limits to reach the park as soon as possible. Emiko was trying to explain the reason for their urgency.

"Yes." Emiko said patiently.

"And you're a demon?!"

"Yes."

"And Kurama and Hiei are demons?"

"Yes."

"And Boton's the Grim Reaper?!"

"Strange as this may sound, yes." Emiko said, a little irritably. "And Yusuke and Kuwabara are Spiritually aware, like I explained to you. They use the Chi, a life force in their bodies to create channels of energy they use as weapons. Yusuke's had a bit of an out of body experience, in which he met Koenma, Prince of Spirit World. Because Koenma -"

Katsu cut her off. "Okay, I know he's a Spirit Detective, and he fights demons. How do I know this is true?!"

"Why would we lie?" Emiko said quietly.

The Dodge stopped abruptly, and the doors flung open. People scurried from the car and spilled into the park.

"We went down that ally to get away from Kaiko." Katsu pointed. Five pairs of feet followed her pointing finger, Katsu not far behind.

"Kuwabara, feeling anything?" Kurama's eyes darted around the dilapidated walls rising up on either side of them.

"Yeah." Kuwabara pointed at a smaller ally connecting to theirs.

Once in the other ally, Katsu began to feel a bit faint. The air smelt funny, slightly noxious. Kurama and Emiko noticed it as well.

"That's SpiritWorld adder gas. A very potent sleeping substance!" Emiko's face paled slightly. "They-whoever they are- has Yusuke!"

Kuwabara squinted at the ground. "Yeah, but whoever got 'im left a trail. A stinking one."

"There's a portal near here." Hiei said, forehead glowing briefly under the headband as his psychic abilities stretched out for information.

Katsu's knees gave out. Emiko and Boton were at her side in a twinkling.

"Katsu, it'll be fine." Boton soothed.

"We fought, and I tried to hit him." Katsu stared at the ground blankly. "If he's as good as you say he is, he shoulda been able to dodge anything like that. I distracted him. What'll I do?"

"Well that's a stupid question." Emiko said matter-of-factly. Boton looked up at her.

"Way to lay on the sympathy and understanding thick there, Emiko!" Boton frowned.

"Well, it was!" Emiko protested. She hauled Katsu to her feet. "You ask what'll you do? You'll come with us to get him back!"

"What good will that do?" Hiei growled.

"Whenever Kuwabara sees Yukina, or when Kurama and I are together, we're stronger. It'll work for Yusuke as well, right?" Emiko gave him a no nonsense glare. He merely shrugged and started towards the portal.

"I can help, and I will." Katsu clenched her fist in a manner quite like Yusuke. "I'll do whatever it takes!"

"That, honey, dispels any doubts I had about Yusuke and you. You two are so alike I'm surprised you're not related!" Boton sang. Emiko and Katsu just laughed, and ran after the others.

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Autheress' hands are TIRED!! Oh, fie on little detail! I so wanted to put my ideas and attacks into this chappie, but first things first. There must be a reason to attack someone. At least that's what my therapist says.

Okay, just joking on that. But, these little previews are really good for my motivation! Huzza for motivation that doesn't add fat to my thighs! (A.K.A. chocolate, sugar cubes, marshmallows, etc.)

Yusuke is kidnapped, and if he isn't rescued soon, he will take another unpleasant trip to the Spirit World as a ghost once again. And this time, it's permanent.

Katsu feels like she's doing nothing right as the other Spirit Aware and demonic members of the team are kicking major demon rear. But someone without much Energy to sense is a lot better at slipping away unnoticed, right? Just where she slips off to is what you'll find out in the next, THRILLING INSTALMENT OF YUJO CHRONICLES: KATSUKO'S STORY!!

Cue the theme song! Cut to credits! And review for the sake of me and my motivational disorder!

AND I'M GOING TO ICE MY WRISTS.