I don't own YYH or any of it's characters. I only own Mikai, and Sotto.

Update for Aug/Sept. Okay people's I've finally updated so I hope you enjoy everything I've written. Damn school takes a lot out of you. Enjoy

"I'm going to my fight now." Mukuro said as she turned away from the screen in front of her and began to walk out of the room.

"Good luck," Sotto said gently; Mukuro to looked at her curiosity. She turned her eyes away from the kitten and looked back at Hiei who looked away quickly.

"Thank you Sotto," Mukuro said with a slight smile. She turned her head away and walked out of the room leaving the two lovers behind in silence.

"Sotto," Hiei said as he looked up at the woman. "Sotto?"

"What Hiei-chan?" Sotto asked gently as she looked down at the smaller demon, almost teary eyed from Hiei's show of affection.

"Let's go watch Urameshi's battle from the stadium."

"Sure." Sotto nodded.

"I'd better be goin'," Yusuke said as he looked at everyone in the room with him. Mikai stood back up from her sitting position.

"I'll walk you," she offered.

"No." Yusuke shook his head back and forth. "Stay here and get your strength back."

"Why?" Mikai said with a small sarcastic laugh. "I don't have anyone else to fight since I'm out of this tournament."

Yusuke blinked, realizing that she was right. "Fine." He sighed. "Come on I'm leaving now."

"I'll be back," Mikai said gently as she looked back towards Kurama. He nodded and Mikai walked out of the room with Yusuke by her side.

"One minute she's here and the next minute she's gone," Touya said once the two had left.

"Aw let them two figure out what's goin' on by themselves!" Chuu said as he looked at the people around him. "Mikai will be back don't you worry!"

"I know she will but I'm just wonderin' why those two are always talkin' alone," Jin said as he looked towards the door. "I wonder what they are talkin' about."

"Are you really ready for this?" Mikai asked as the two walked down the hallway, their footsteps echoing behind them.

"To fight Yomi?" Yusuke asked. "Or for what's going to happen after the tournament?"

"Both."

"Yeah." Yusuke sighed a bit.

"Good."

"Yusuke…" Mikai stopped walking, letting the black haired boy step in front of her. He soon stopped, after hearing that she had, but he didn't bother to turn around to face the older woman.

"This as far as I can walk you. Everything's starting to hurt now," she said, finishing her sentence.

"I'll be fine," Yusuke answered. "Thank you for walking me this far."

"This," Mikai whimpered. "Is where I let you go to make your own choices. This is where I let you go…and let you make choices on your own like you have so many times but this time…I won't be able to help you or carry you back."

"Mikai…"

"Good luck Yusuke." Mikai turned away and walked back down the hallway before she could hear Yusuke say anything more. He closed his eyes and listened to her walk down the hallway until he couldn't hear it anymore. It was then that he walked towards his fighting stadium where he would fight Yomi face to face.

Everyone looked on and watched as Mukuro fought with Natsume and then everything soon changed over to Yusuke who was fighting Yomi.

"I'm going to find Shura okay?" Mikai said as she came back into the room. "I don't know how he'll act when he's watching his Father fight."

"But what about your injures?" Jin asked as he looked at Mikai's stomach.

"I'll be fine." Mikai sighed. "Thanks for worrying though."

"Mother?" Shura asked as he walked into the room. He looked around a bit before his eyes spotted Mikai. He walked over to her with a bit of smile on his face. "Are you going to watch Father's fight?"

"I will." Mikai smiled.

"Then come on…" Shura grabbed Mikai's hand and tugged on it. "Let's go and watch it from the stands."

"Shura," Mikai said as he tugged on her arm. He looked back at her, confused.

"Come on Mother!" Shura said as turned away from his mother and began to tug on her arm once more. "We're going to miss the start of the fight."

"Wait…Shura…"

"What?" he asked rather annoyed as he turned back towards the woman who had been calling mother for the past few months.

"I can't go with you," Mikai answered. "I can't."

"Why not?"

"I'm not going to cheer for Yomi. I'm going to cheer for Yusuke," she confessed. She knew that she had to cheer for Yusuke and she couldn't do that sitting next to Shura. She would be watching Yusuke and hoping for his win and not Yomi's and she couldn't call out Yusuke's name while Shura sat next to her.

"Why?" Shura asked in surprise. "Don't you want Father to win?"

"I want Yusuke to win," Mikai explained. "I've always cheered for Yusuke, and I've always been on his side and I can't change that now. Yusuke needs a cheerleader more then ever right now."

"But what about Father?" Shura asked, not understanding. "Yusuke's too weak to win! Why cheer for someone who's weak?"

"Shura," Mikai said gently. "Did you cheer for me?"

"Of course!"

"I lost to Yusuke…so are you calling me weak also?"

"No." Shura shook his head, now realizing everything.

His Mother had lost to Yusuke, the person he was calling weak so in short, he was calling his Mother weak and he knew, he thought, that his Mother had to be as strong as his Father for Yomi wouldn't want anything to do with her if she was weak.

"Shura…go and wait in the stands. I'll meet you and your Father after the fight," Mikai said as she gently pulled her hand away from Shura. "Go and cheer for your Father."

"Fine." Shura turned away, upset with himself and his Mother. He walked out of the room and down the hallway. Mother is strong. He thought. Not like Father…Father is different somehow.

"Begin!" Koto yelled as everyone looked on towards Yusuke and Yomi's fight.

The two began by pushing their powers towards each other, and after they had shown their power levels, Yomi took Yusuke on in hand-to-hand combat. Everyone felt their power, and saw things that they never thought would happen. Yomi took a hit to the face from Yusuke, and everything fell downhill from there. Yusuke had lost his will to fight; he didn't know what he was fighting for who he was anymore.

Why am I doing this all? Yusuke thought as he fell backwards from one of Yomi's punches. I used to be so angry and that was my reason to fight but now…everything's gone.

Yomi walked over to Yusuke's fallen body and picked it up. He looked into the empty eyes of his enemy and found himself growing angry.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" Yomi hissed.

"I've lost it. My reason to fight," Yusuke answered.

"What!" Yomi yelled. "You ignorant child! I've given everything I had into this fight and this tournament had you have the audacity to fight me with nothing in your heart!" Yomi began to punch Yusuke over and over again in the face, hoping that Yusuke would soon get the idea.

He didn't.

He couldn't find why he was fighting. Everything was running through his head and he couldn't find the one thing he was fighting for. There was no one back home for him, and yet there was no one here in the Makai for him. Nothing was pushing him into this fight, he was there for himself and that wasn't reason enough.

"Something's wrong," Mikai said in almost a whisper as she looked up towards the screen. "Yusuke…he…can't find something. He's not fighting like he used too."

"What could cause that?" Touya asked.

"Come on Urameshi!" Kuwabara's voice echoed through the small room, everyone hearing it even though they didn't see him. "You can kick is ass!"

"His…reason," Kurama answered. "We all have a reason to fight…but Yusuke can't find his."

Yusuke! Mikai thought. You have to find your reason again! You have too!

"Mikai?" Kurama asked as he looked towards the older woman. "You have a reason to fight correct? What is it?"

Mikai opened her mouth to tell everyone but nothing came out. She couldn't think of her reason to fight, she couldn't find it in the back of her mind.

"Mikai?" Kurama asked, beginning to worry.

"I don't have one," Mikai said as her voice became quiet. "I don't have a reason to keep fighting."

"Why did you ask her that?" Rinku asked, as he looked at Kurama confused.

"Her and Yusuke might have the same reason, since they've grown up together and their so much alike." Kurama explained. "And I just thought that if Mikai knew hers that we could have faith that Yusuke would find his."

"No." Mikai turned her head away. "I have a reason! I know I do dammit!"

"Mikai you'll find it." Kurama said gently as he wrapped his arm around her gently.

Feeling Kurama's arm, Mikai remembered everything. She turned back to him and smiled. She remembered her reason to fight, and saw it when she looked at everyone in the room.

"My reason," Mikai said gently. "Is everyone I care for…it's all of you."

"Aw thanks!" Chuu said with a laugh.

"That's it." Mikai stood up and began to walk out of the room. "I'll be back in a minute okay? I've got to let that ass know what I'm fighting for…and maybe if he gets really desperate then he can use mine."

Everyone in the room watched as Mikai ran out of the room as fast as she could, towards the stadium. Once they figured that she would be okay, they turned back to the screen in front of them, and hoped that Mikai would make it in time.

Why am I doing all of this? Yusuke thought as he stood up and got ready to fight Yomi once more. There's nothing there for me. No one's going to be there if I do win…

Yusuke you ass! The reason I fight is for the people around me! Think of the people around you who love you! They need you to protect them because at times they're too weak to protect themselves! You fight to save the people around you!

That voice… Yusuke thought after the voice ran through his head. It's Mikai's voice.

"Me? The reason I fight is to protect the people around me cause if I don't do it…no one else will and the people who need to be protected will always be looking for someone to fight for them because they can't. I do this for the people who can't for the people I love…and need to protect."

Mikai's words ran through his head as he remembered where she had said it. They had been fighting a gang of kids who robbed a local store and they had hurt the people inside. Yusuke and Mikai then ran after the kids and beat them down until they recovered a small amount of money, which Mikai returned because Yusuke wanted to keep it as a reward. Back then, back in that time, everything was wonderful. Even though Yusuke was fighting for Spirit World, and Mikai was also, he realized that they both were protecting each other because they didn't confessed to each other what they really were. They feared one another getting hurt just like how Hiei kept his engagement to Sotto a secret to protect her, and how Kurama hid his feelings from Mikai so that no one would hurt her. Through all of this, Yusuke saw that even through they were protecting the people they loved; they were getting hurt in the long run. Kurama was keeping his feelings a secret, which was perverting him from moving on with her, Hiei never got to neither show any kind of affection nor wear his ring, and Yusuke had the guilt of always lying to Mikai about something.

We're protecting each other… Yusuke thought. Even though we get hurt in the long run….we protect the ones we love.

"Urameshi! They don't get it, even though I lost, that's not what fight's about," Kuwabara's voice said as it too ran through his head. "A real man has a reason to fight and always follows that reason, even if they lose."

"You fight…for all of them," Genkai's voice echoed through his head as a small picture of everyone he had met flashed through his head.

He thought of everything, which made someone so unique as pictures of each person ran through his mind. He thought of everything he had been through in the past few years and remembered the good and bad times. He remembered how it felt to fight with Sensui and Touguro, and how he was saving the world with everyone he loved in it.

"Are you finally ready to fight?" Yomi asked as he looked at Yusuke who now had the marks of his family line on his body.

"As ready as ever," Yusuke said with a smile.

"He found it!" Chuu said happily, seeing the light back in Yusuke's eyes. "He found what he was fighting for."

"Now the real fight begins." Touya said as he cracked a smile.

Mukuro walked from behind Hiei and Sotto and began to watch the fight with a slight sigh.

"What's wrong?" Sotto asked as she looked at the orange haired woman.

"Something must have happened to Yusuke to make him forget his reason to fight, just as someone he really cared for must have made him remember why he is fighting. Who do you think it was?" She asked.

"Mikai," Hiei answered.

"Do they care for each other?" Mukuro asked.

"No," Sotto answered. "Mikai's in love with Kurama."

"I think she still has some feeling for Yusuke," Mukuro answered.

"He does for her," Hiei said as he looked towards the kitten. "Yusuke has very strong feelings for Mikai. That moron has taken this long to realize it."

"What?" Sotto asked in surprise. "I had a feeling that Yusuke might have liked Mikai but he really does?"

"He clings to her because he knows that she'll never get up and leave him," Mukuro explained. "You can see it in the way he plays around with her and the way they fight."

"Wow…" Sotto said as she looked up towards the screen. A part of Sotto felt bad that Yusuke wouldn't be able to be with Mikai since he knew how much both Kurama and Mikai loved each other and yet a part of her felt as if only Kurama and Mikai should be together. She had watched and heard about the two and she thought that they were prefect for each other, they needed each other but did Yusuke need Mikai more then Kurama needed Mikai?

Yomi created a barrier around him, just as he had done when he was fighting Shura. Yusuke began to fire his Spirit Gun but he was using his demon energy but it had no effect on the barrier around Yomi. He smiled, knowing that Yusuke would run out of energy soon, but then a small cut came across his face.

"What?" He yelled as another one cut him. "Impossible!"

"Looks like Yusuke is using his demon and Spirit energy!" Koto yelled as she looked and saw a mix of blue light with red. "What an ingenious move!"

"Damn." Yomi cursed as his barrier fell from around him and Yusuke's attacks began to hit him head on.

"I'm gonna finish this right now!" Yusuke yelled as a yellow glow came up around him.

"What's that?" Rinku asked as he moved forward.

"His life energy," Kurama said as he looked on in wonder.

"I'd be glad to finish this," Yomi said, as he got ready for another one of Yusuke's attacks.

Yusuke yelled as he ran towards Yomi with everything he had left in his body. He met Yomi head on and the two exchanged punches to the face, and then they both began to fall towards the side, in defeat. Both began to fall towards the ground when Yomi hear someone.

"Father!"

His right leg slipped out in front of him, and he caught himself before he could go crashing towards the grounds in defeat. But Yusuke, Yusuke kept falling and falling until he hit the ground below him.

"And Yusuke is down!" Koto yelled. "I'll begin the countdown! One! Two!"

Yusuke tried to push himself up in order to keep fighting but he couldn't find the strength to push himself up. He kept trying over and over as the countdown went on, unmercifully.

"Damn," Yusuke muttered as he blacked out, and nothing was left.

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