All right we are now in the climax episode! This is the CLIMAX I've been waiting for and hopefully you've been waiting for!

Fear it!

Oh yes if you want to read an excellent fic with Kuwabara Yusuke-ness, then read Dachi by Osa P. This fic is about Kuwabara encouraging Yusuke to date Keiko, and Keiko taking up all Yusuke and Kuwabara's time together. And stupid Yusuke can't understand why his friend is so depressed, so if you want a great fic, then read that!

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EPISODE SIXTEEN: COLD DEATH

As Yusuke marched closer, headed for his best friend, Sage began to fidget impatiently. 'Come on Amulet...come on...' Sage thought hurriedly. If Yusuke reached Kuwabara before the boy could be sucked in the amulet, then all his plans would be ruined. But, Kuwabara was doing very well at resisting the amulet. He struggled against the black wind that kept trying to suck him inside the amulet, determined not to be trapped again.

But Kuwabara's soul was exhausted from all that he'd gone through, and after one last look at Yusuke, Kuwabara knew he just couldn't fight any longer. Kuwabara sunk sadly, he sighed, and to everyone's horror, the amulet one. The air seemed to stretch thin, and a darkness wrapped itself around Kuwabara pulling from the man's body something white and wispy, before dragging it within the amulet. Kuwabara's body fell to the ground, blank eyes open, and staring at those behind him.

Kari screamed, tears pouring down the woman's cheeks, and Kazuma sunk to his knees, head bowed, his whole body trembling.

Hiei's power circled around him, and he too resisted the wind.

Youko Kurama snarled angrily, spitting out, "NO! This...THIS ISN'T FAIR! DAMN YOU SAGE!"

Yusuke stopped dead in his tracks staring at the body of his best friend. He dropped down next to him, eyes wide, and whispered, "Kuwabara?" He reached out to touch him, but then Kuwabara's eyes closed, and when they opened a cold glare met Yusuke. "Hi honey," Kuwabara said with a smile grabbing Yusuke by the wrist and bending his entire arm behind his back.

"Batto my son, hold him right there." Sage ordered, and waved his staff.

In a blast of smoke the group found themselves on a hard rock floor. Looking wearily up, they saw the gates that Kuwabara had once seen. Something about being in the presence of the gates, seeing what Kuwabara had seen weighed heavily on them. Kazuma and Kari were collapsed on the ground, groaning from the negative energy it gave off.

Hiei looked over at Kurama's eyes, and saw no crosses; it was then he realized Kuwabara truly was the only one that could open the gates. He looked back and crawled to Mukuro helping her in a sitting position, hand on her wound. "What does he want with Yusuke?" Hiei asked looking at Mukuro for answers. "I don't know," was all she could say back.

Yusuke growled at the one who found him, and looked back at the face of his best friend. Now that Batto was back inside his body, Yusuke wondered how he ever mistook him for Kuwabara. Batto made Kuwabara's face twist in the most disgusting way. His eyes were crazed, and the wide, twisted, evil smile made Kuwabara's nose scrunch up in an odd manner. "I can't believe I let you fool me," Yusuke hissed admittedly.

Batto laughed, "Well you did," he leaned in and whispered in Yusuke's ear, "Does it bother you detective, knowing that in that amulet, your friend's soul is laying in their suffering? Again? That you failed him…AGAIN!" Batto smiled as he felt Yusuke tense up in his hold.

"He's in so much pain," Batto went on, "Don't you just wish you could stop the pain?" Batto jerked Yusuke around so that he could stare at the terrible gates of Purgatory, with the twisted bodies, bones, and flesh making up the bars, of the gates. "Just think, your friend will open those, and the devil himself will cast the most evil spirit he has inside Kuwabara's body, why he takes your friend's soul for himself, to use as he likes. Kuwabara will be the devil's personal toilet!" Batto continued whispering not masking the glee in his voice.

"Your friend's body will help the devil open all the gates, and release all the evil, and destroy everyone in it's path, and create a new world, a better world!" Batto lowered his voice a little more, "All the while your friend's soul will be tortured, be raped, be persecuted, suffer beyond all imaginings, all the while remaining the purest of soul's you could ever find. Face it Yusuke, Kuwabara's doomed…he'll Hell's personal bitch."

That was all it took for Yusuke to burst, "I WON'T LET YOU DO THAT TO KUWABARA!" Yusuke threw Batto off him, who landed next to the black amulet, eyes wide with shock. Yusuke looked down at him, his entire body glowing, "I'll kill you before I let you do that to my best friend, I will kill you all..." Yusuke's long hair flew in the wind, as he looked over at Sage, who smiled oddly at him. "Do you hear me Sage?" Yusuke asked with a snarl, "I will kill you all before I let you do anything to Kuwabara..."

"Allow me to assist you Yusuke," Youko Kurama said, suddenly next to Yusuke.

"I am not Kuwabara's friend," Hiei coldly stated, appearing on the other side of Yusuke, "But I don't feel like dying just yet."

Sage laughed, and helped his son up, and the proceeded in picking up the amulet. "Come on, do you think you can stop me, the gate is so close to opening, all it needs is for Kuwabara to cut through the gate!" Sage smiled at his son, who nodded, and called forth Kuwabara's sword. Batto headed for the gate when Kurama and Hiei jumped in front of him.

"Batto, remember me?" Hiei asked smiling at his possessed comrade. "Kuwabara's" face twisted into a smug smile, "Oh...I do think I remember your body spiraling lifelessly off a cliff..."

Youko growled, bringing out his whip, "I pity you Batto," Youko Kurama whispered eyes flashing, "Because I remember that too."

Sage and Yusuke stood face to face, looking at one another. "I'm going to kill you, you know." Yusuke whispered, raising a glowing finger. Sage held up the amulet, "To get this? Well then," Sage's face twisted in a smile, "Come and get me Spirit detective, I dare you."

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Inside the amulet, Kuwabara's body floated in the dark abyss. He was cut and scratched, his hair tousled and a tangled mess. His eyes were closed in a not so peaceful manner, and teardrops, sparkling like diamonds floated in the darkness around him. His pale blue eyes opened, and he was aware of the sounds around him. He could hear his friends fighting off somewhere. He turned around, floating in the darkness, and called out, "MOM? DAD? MISS MUKURO? KURAMA? HIEI? URAMESHI!" As he spun calling for his friends, he found himself looking at one of the tears. He touched his face finding nothing there, "These tears...they aren't mine..." Kuwabara muttered and reached out touching one.

Suddenly there was a white flash, and he saw his sister sitting in his room, hugging his pillow. "Kazu," she was sobbing, "Kazu please, please don't be gone...I don't want to be alone! Please come back Kazuma…"

Kuwabara shook as he withdrew his hand. Turning around he reached out and touched another tear, and saw Yukina. She was sitting alone in her room, stroking Eckiji. "Kazuma-kun," She sniffed her small hands daintily rubbing her eyes, tear gems hitting the floor. "Please be safe. Please come back to us, please come back to me..."

Kuwabara touched another one. He saw Genkai standing in front of her shrine, her old face looking older. Her face was dry, but she looked miserable. "Kuwabara...I told you, you had a kind heart...to think that some monster would take you from us...there are too few like you. Yusuke bring Kuwabara home to us..."

He touched another one.

Koenma was in his office, quietly sitting at his desk. He was looking at a stack of papers on the other side of the room that reached the ceiling, but he turned away and looked at a single piece of paper on his desk. The paper read, "Confirmed Death Of Kazuma Kuwabara." It was waiting for Koenma to stamp it, but Koenma made no move for it.

He touched another one.

Boeton was hugging her oar, eyes closed, as tears washed her face. George appeared next to her, and asked in a tiny voice, "Boeton, shouldn't you look for...Kuwabara's spirit?" Boeton nodded, biting back her lip, "But I don't think I can...because then I'd have to admit he was really gone."

He touched another one.

Keiko was cleaning her parents shop, and paused to look out the shop's window. She looked sad, and turned quickly away from the window silently going about her business, with a bitter look on her face.

He touched another one.

Hiei was standing before two dead demons, his face twisted into several emotions at once. He was looking towards the mountains, and muttered to himself, "He's dead..."

He touched another one.

Kurama was crying on the grass and whispering, "How could I wish for my friend's death, like that's going to make it better! Kuwabara I'm sorry!" Kurama sobbed, closing his eyes miserably.

He touched another one.

Yusuke Urameshi, Kuwabara's best friend, was leaned against the back of Genkai's wall shouting that his friend could not be dead. That Kuwabara could not die and leave him alone, that Kuwabara had survived too much to be gone. But the look on his face was clearly becoming twisted with more, and more pain.

Kuwabara dropped his hand, and looked at the darkness around him.

"I remember," he whispered, "I remember what it was like before this, I remember what it was like to be able to smile...I remember everything me and my friends went through...I remember it all! I remember!" Kuwabara closed his eyes, "And I don't want our happiness to be just a memory anymore!" His body glowed and the darkness began to fade away. Kuwabara had had enough. He was tired of drowning in memories of sadness and pain. It was time to end the pain, and get back to when things were good.

Meanwhile, Kurama and Hiei fell to the ground, grunting after a brutal attack from Batto. He laughed, and licked blood off his hand. "Mmm, blood tastes so much better when it's your enemies'!" Kurama and Hiei growled glancing around to see how Yusuke was fairing.

Yusuke and Sage had been dodging, and firing useless attacks at each other. Sage and Yusuke were equally matched, and it didn't help that Sage would hold up the amulet if Yusuke had an actual chance of hitting him. Sage suddenly paused, and turned to look at the amulet, which was slowly turning white. 'Ah,' Sage thought with a smile, 'Kuwabara is finally ready, now there is just one last thing to do...'

Sage turned to Yusuke and held up the white amulet, "Your friend is ready now, he is at his full potential of power, there's just one last thing I need to do. Sorry boy it's been fun, but I've got to keep a schedule. I'm through playing games."

Before Yusuke had any time to take his eyes off the white amulet, Sage thrust his staff through Yusuke's heart.

Yusuke's eyes went wide, and his body became slack. His world turned black, and with a quick jerk, the staff was removed, and he fell backwards, Sage smiling at the dead boy. Yusuke's chest sunk, never to rise again. Yusuke's body slid on the rock staying perfectly still. He was dead.

Just like that.

Sage dropped the amulet next to Yusuke, knowing Kuwabara could see what he'd done, and see Yusuke's dead eyes upon him.

"And now everything is as it should," Sage whispered knowing all that was left, was to wait.

Kazuma, and Kari turned away from the sight of Yusuke's body, Kari sobbing "Oh no...oh no!" Kazuma stared at the boy, a guilty look crossing his face, and he looked up the ceiling of the cave, searching for God in the stone.

Mukuro's eyes were wide, and she looked at Yusuke's dead body in shock, for some reason, him being dead did not connect with her. He had been the young man who entered demon world and without looking back, without remorse changed the world. Completely flipped demon world up on its ears and laughed as he waited for the confused inhabitants to catch up. But there Yusuke was lying still on the stone floor, blood pooling all around him, his chest sunken in, and blank eyes open in surprise.

Hiei and Kurama had turned around at the sound of a body landing on the ground. The two stayed on the ground, their bodies shaking in shock. Just like that they felt Yusuke's life snuff out, and that was it...it was just like before. He was dead, and gone. Batto stood laughing over them, and smiled as he father stood in front of the gates of Purgatory watching the amulet, waiting for something to happen.

And then the amulet cracked…

Keiko suddenly dropped the broom that had been in her hands, and stared outside her family's shop window. "Yusuke...?" She whispered, a feeling of unknown dread welling inside her. An all too familiar feeling of that nameless dread…

The crack started at the base…

Genkai's hands came to her heart, and she doubled over as if in great pain, "Oh God," she whispered in shock, eyes wide. "Yusuke...are you...has he?" Yukina came from out of the house and rushed to her side, eyes filled with concern, "Genkai-san! Are you alright?" Genkai let the young girl place her hands on her shoulders, and she looked at her, "Something terrible has happened."

It spread up in a curve like motion…

Shizuru sat up straighter, and turned around to look out her brother's window. "Oh no...Yusuke."

Speeding towards the center of the jewel…

Boeton came rushing down the hall to Koenma, tears flying off her face. "KOENMA! KOENMA!" Koenma's doors opened, and he let the blue haired woman rush to his arms. He had a look of shock and misery on his face.

"Yusuke, he's...YUSUKE'S-" Koenma silenced her by crushing her in a hug, "I know..." Koenma whispered closing his eyes, "I know."

The jewel made a violent shaking movement…

Kuwabara sat inside the amulet; he had seen everything, felt everything. Yusuke was dead. And this time he knew that for sure. It was empty…just as empty as it had been when Yusuke was hit by that car…when Kuwabara had shown up to Yusuke's wake and seen the coffin. But this time is was worse…this time, Yusuke wouldn't be able to come back...

It shuddered as if it was taking a breath…

Kuwabara felt all the pain he'd endured, all the suffering, and agony Sage had caused him, be drowned out by this new pain he felt as he thought of his best friend laying out side the amulet dead. Yusuke was in his head smiling at him, daring him to come at him for a fight. "Why...Why is it me that has to be the one that opens the gates of Purgatory, why is it me that must be the cause of everyone's sufferings?" Kuwabara asked as tears dripped speedily down his face. "WHY DOES IT ALL HAVE TO BE MY FAULT?" Kuwabara screamed as he felt something posses him. He was aware that the light around him seemed to be cracking, and as Kuwabara looked hatefully at the light he screamed, "I WISH I'D NEVER BEEN BORN! I WISH I NEVER EXISTED!"

The amulet swished violently back and forth in Sage's hands…and then…

Sage smiled imagining what Kuwabara was going through. Kuwabara had lost his parents, and now just as he gained them, he'd lost his best friend, and would lose so much more. His eyes darted over to the cracking amulet, and he whispered, "Just a moment longer."

The amulet shattered.

The amulet shattered into many pieces and something dark burst from the shards. What rose from it caused everyone but Batto, and Sage to gasp and their eyes to widen. The image was so familiar, so painfully recognizable, but as the same time it could not be whom this image looked like. It just couldn't be!

Kuwabara's image had risen from the amulet, but this image was monstrous, this image was Kuwabara, and yet it wasn't. The image was dark and glowed brightly of red, orange, yellow, white, and black. The eyes were bright red, and dripped black tears, that burned the ground, creating sharp hissing sounds. Wings, twisted and mangled were hanging limply from Kuwabara's back, and feathers fell in dripping movements off the ghostly figure. This twisted angry spirit was no doubt Kuwabara, but it struck terror in all that saw him...And so Kuwabara rose a twisted broken angel. A hell's angel, and he rose to save Yusuke, he rose to save Hiei, he rose to save Kurama...he rose to save them all...and the cost was his own soul. Anything...for his friends.

But from the looks of him…it looked as if "saving," was the last thing on this angry spirit's mind.

Kazuma held his wife, and was not ashamed at the tears that washed his face, as he stared at his son. "God," he whispered, "I have never questioned you, never doubted you, so there must be some reason for this...but why? Why my son? God why must this happen to him? I am his father, if anyone should suffer it should be me, please God help us. I beg of you…"

And so Kazuma waited for God to answer his prayers, hoping and praying that as he watched the events unfold…things would turn out right in the end. They were the good guys, things had to turn out right in the end. Things had to fall in their favor, things couldn't go as Sage planned…the villains couldn't win…

Kuwabara stared at the body of his friend, and the deformed spirit let out a roar that sounded like nails on a chalkboard. His hands that now looked like claws, ripped the wings off his back in one movement, and shoved them in Yusuke's lifeless body. As soon as the glowing orange wings fell into Yusuke's body the spirit instantly weakened. The spirit was now collapsed on the ground, and Yusuke's body was slowly beginning to glow. In a sloppy motion, Kuwabara's head turned to Batto, and accelerated forward, crashing through the body, and forcing Batto out of his body. Batto's soul screamed as it was destroyed, and faded away.

Kuwabara turned, his eyes open, the crosses in his eyes seeming to glow. He called forth his sword, and turned to Sage rushing forward. In one slash he'd killed Sage, but that was what the crafty old demon had wanted. The blast not only cut through Sage, but through the gates of Purgatory.

Kuwabara had opened the gates.

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ZOMG! CLIMAX

Well now, we are at the climax and the worst possible thing that could happen has happened. The gates have opened, and all hell will break lose. What was the purpose of Kuwabara ripping his spiritual wings off and putting them in Yusuke, and how will they close the gates? All in the next episode see ya then.