Chapter Four
Wandering Spirit
1
"Yusuke, would you like to come back to life?" a little toddler, with a blue pacifier in his mouth asked.
"What's this toddler doing here?" Yusuke asked, dumbfounded!
"This is Koenma-Sama," Botan explained, bowing down to the young prince.
"Bow down!" she ordered, pulling Yusuke to the floor.
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"I don't need to be brought back to life, it's not like anybody misses me," Yusuke said, as he and Botan stopped bowing.
"I'm sure that's not true, what about your family and friends?" Botan asked.
"All Keiko does is nag on me to do my work, my mom likes to go to parties with her friends, 'cause she's pretty young, and my sister, Raye is always studying, and tries to act as our mom, but it'll be easier for her, without me around," Yusuke explained.
"They did that, because they cared about you, Yusuke. Let's just go see how they're doing, now!" Botan said.
"Wait! Now, Yusuke, if you decide you want to go back to Living World, you must come back here, first, so I can give you your ordeal, Koenma said.
"Alright," Yusuke agreed, and left with Botan.
3
"I wonder how Keiko's doing," Raye said to Atsuko.
"I talked to her mom, earlier on the phone, and she said Keiko was still upset," Atsuko explained to her daughter.
"I see…" Raye said, "Well, if you need me, I'll be in my room."
"Don't you need to go to school?" Atsuko asked.
"I'm suspended, I got in one too many fights. Can you call the school, and see how long I'm suspended for?" Raye asked.
"I guess so…" Atsuko answered, hesitantly.
4
"I can't believe Urameshi, taking the easy way out, so he wouldn't have to fight me!" a boy, with orange hair said to no one in particular.
"Calm down, Kuwabara," a boy with black hair, apparently one of Kuwabara's friends said.
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"Okay, let's see, now," said Botan.
"HA! Kuwabara only wants me back, so I can beat the heck out of him!" Yusuke laughed, but stopped, when he noticed Kuwabara had stopped talking, and was looking right at him.
"Can he see me?" Yusuke asked.
"Of course not, silly!" Botan said, as she also watched Kuwabara.
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"Do you guys feel that?" Kuwabara asked.
"Feel what, Kuwabara?" asked a fat teenager, with black hair.
"It's like a presence," Kuwabara explained.
"Is it that 'feeling' again?" another boy asked.
"Yeah, it's probably just the spirit of a raccoon or something, it felt pretty weak!" Kuwabara shrugged.
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"DID HE JUST CALL ME WEAK?" Yusuke yelled!
"Yusuke, calm down," Botan said, "It's seems as though, Kuwabara has a great keen of Spirit Awareness!"
"Alright, so Kuwabara wants you back…" Botan trailed off.
"Hello, I'm Sayuki, from Spirit World, I'm going to be seeing how many people want you back," a girl with dark, shiny, blue hair, whom looked like a 5-year old said.
"What's with all the kids?" Yusuke asked.
"I assure you, I'm much older than you think I am," Sayuki said to Yusuke.
"Sayuki, it has been decided that the orange-haired boy down there, wants Yusuke back. We were going to find his mother next," Botan said.
So, Botan, Sayuki, and Yusuke flew down the street, and saw Atsuko, Yusuke's mother talking to Mrs. Yukimora.
"That's Keiko's mom," Yusuke said.
"Hmm," Sayuki said, "Let's see what they're talking about!"
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"I feel so bad for Yusuke," Mrs. Yukimora said.
"It's his own fault for trying to be a stupid hero!" Atsuko said, sticking a cigarette in her mouth.
"…Atsuko…Yusuke did what he had to do," Mrs. Yukimora said.
"I wish he was here, so I could beat some sense into him!" Atsuko scoffed, as she and Keiko's mom, went walking down the street.
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"That was unsuspected…" Yusuke trailed off.
"Okay, who's the next person?" Sayuki asked, as she wrote something down.
"His older sister, Raye Urameshi," Botan answered.
"She's probably at school, she loves that place, as well as, the library," Yusuke said, when he saw his mother enter the house.
"That was fast!" Yusuke said.
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"RAYE, I'M CALLING THE SCHOOL NOW, TO SEE HOW LONG YOU'RE SUSPENDED FOR!" Atsuko called down the hall.
"Okay," Raye said.
"Who were you fighting this time?" asked Atsuko.
"I beat the hell out of this boy, named Okeari," Raye explained.
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"Guess she's in her room," Yusuke said, floating down the hall, and opening his older sister's room door.
"…A spirit's in here," Raye thought, as she set down her pencil.
"What's she doing?" Botan asked.
"It looks like homework," Sayuki said, "Apparently she likes to get her work done!"
"Alright, who's there?" Raye asked, closing her bedroom door.
"You're not a very strong spirit, and don't pose a threat to someone like me, but I can still kick your ass!" Raye said.
"…She knows we're here!" Yusuke exclaimed.
"Yusuke?" Raye questioned.
"YOU CAN HEAR ME?" Yusuke asked dumbfounded!
Author's note: Okay, sorry 4 the wait, this chapter was originally called Spirit Detective, but that'll be the next chapter. A question for u to think about 4 the next chapter, How can Raye hear Yusuke's spirit when no one else can? Alright, on another note, this storyline doest follow the real storyline, so we're just going to skip to the Artifacts of Darkness and blah blah blah. As well, as that the chapter after the next, will take place after that and The Beast of Maze Castle, but before The Dark Tournament, Meeting Yukina, and of course, Sensui!
