Yu Yu Hakusho Re Pure, Episode 3 - The Battle of the First Lock

"Good morning, Yusuke!"

Yusuke wakes up with a start. Botan is sitting on the floor next to his bed. "Botan! What are you doing here?"

"Officially, I'm a new teacher, visiting her student's family. But, of course, I'm really here to help you prepare for your fight after school."

Yusuke bows his head, resigned. "What is it this time?"

"It's a weapon that will help you use your spirit energy and Kurama's spirit energy to disable your opponents. It's called 'Spirit Gun.'"

"What do I do? Point my finger and shoot?" Yusuke mimes shooting his finger as a gun.

"Precisely! But, first you must practice and learn how to concentrate your energy into your finger. Kurama can help you with that during lunch."

Yusuke sits up. "Is there any way Kurama's energy transfer can be done without kissing?"

"Now, let's see..." Botan thinks for a minute then whispers in Yusuke's ear.

Yusuke jumps back in bed protecting his butt with his hands. "No way!"

Botan laughs. "You fall for everything, did you know that?"

Yusuke gives Botan a dirty look.

"Calm down, energy should be able to transfer forehead to forehead, but it will take ten times as long."

"I guess that's not as bad."

...

Botan and Yusuke get ready to leave for school.

"We're leaving!" They say in unison.

Atsuko comes up to Botan and gives her a big hug. Botan looks a little flustered.

Yusuke sees his mom fondling Botan's butt. "Mom!"

Atsuko steps back. "Sorry son, I know I shouldn't make you and Botan late for school, but she has such a cute butt!"

The words "cute" and "butt" materialize in thin air, made of concrete, and crush chibi-Yusuke.

Botan grabs Yusuke and rag dolls him out the door. "You're so right. We mustn't be late. Ta ta!"

Out on the street Yusuke regains his composure and starts walking.

Botan puts her hand to her head. "Yusuke, is your mother kind of ... different?"

Yusuke dead pans. "Yeah, you could say that."

"When I first got there she tried to feel me up under my skirt."

Yusuke runs into a telephone pole. He speaks out of the side of his mouth. "You're not going to date my mom are you?"

"Absolutely not. A shimigami is not allowed to date humans."

Yusuke regains his composure. "That's good."

"On the other hand, so long as no romance is involved, and if it was important for the mission, I could and would do anything with anyone."

Yusuke remembers Botan kissing Kuwabara. "You wouldn't sleep with Kuwabara would you?"

Botan smiles. "Well, If the mission depended on it," a diagram appears in the air with two boxes, one marked 'Anyone' and one marked 'Anything', with an 'X' in between them, "then 'Kuwabara' is an example of 'anyone' and 'sleeping with him' is an example of 'anything.' You did do your set theory homework?"

A giant sweat mark appears besides Yusuke's head. "This is weird."

...

Yusuke and Kurama are on the roof during gym.

Kurama puts a paper cup upside down on the ledge, two inches from the safety fence. "Now, do what I told you and you should be able to move the cup."

"How far?"

"Less than a quarter inch. Spirit gun does not affect the physical world that much, but it is very effective against demons."

"What if I used it against someone in a fight?" Yusuke imagines blasting Kuwabara against a wall with the weapon.

"They might feel a chill as the spirit energy flows through them. It might distract them and let you get away."

Yusuke lowers his head.

"Come now, Yusuke, Kuwabara is a capable body guard. So is Kayko. I can't fight like they can, but I can use my spirit rose to suggest to our physical opponents that they seek safety. You should worry about spirit opponents. You will have many opportunities to feel macho through beating them."

"But they are little critters!"

"Not the ones we will be fighting. Now, use spirit gun."

Yusuke concentrates on his finger, which feels warm. He points his finger at the cup and lowers his thumb. The cup moves slightly.

"Excellent! A horrific blast."

"If you say so, Kurama."

Ryoko peeks through the rooftop door.

Kurama measures the distance. "One eighth of an inch. We should now take it to the next level." Kurama pushes Yusuke against the wall of the stairwell and puts his forehead against Yusuke's.

Ryoko's jaw drops.

Kurama disengages. He looks over to the door to the roof. "Oh, hello Miss Ryoko."

Ryoko becomes hysterical. "I'm sorry, I didn't see anything, I was just coming up to retrieve a softball..."

Yusuke glares at her. "We were just having a staring contest! Which I won, of course."

Ryoko giggles. "Oh come on, Yusuke. I think it's so kawaii that you two are together. It's so romantic and pure."

"We are not cute!"

Kurama looks at Yusuke and then smiles at Ryoko. "Miss Ryoko, I'm very flattered that you think Yusuke and I are a cute couple, but don't you think that you should give us some privacy now?"

Ryoko puts her hand on her head. "Oh my god. I'm sorry. Enjoy your lunch!" Ryoko runs downstairs.

"What was that about? She'll tell everyone in school that we're a couple!"

Kurama looks around and sees the softball. He looks around and finds the softball field. He whistles loudly and attracts the attention of one of the players. He throws the ball to him from several hundred feet away and the ball lands about ten feet from where the boy was standing.

"She would have told everyone anyway, now she'll leave us alone. Now, back to practice. You should be able to move the cup three sixteenths of an inch now."

On of the boys in the field looks at the roof. "Wow, nice throw."

...

School is letting out. Seaman Iwamoto waits by the entrance of the school with the photo of Megumi. Soon his patience is rewarded. He follows Megumi, Ryoko and Kayko for several blocks. The girls finally split up. He takes a short cut through an alley to get ahead of her. He stands in the middle of the sidewalk.

Megumi walks by, not noticing the younger boy. She feels a tug on her skirt. She turns around to see the younger boy. "May I help you?"

The boys eyes flash a blinding light and a demon comes out of his mouth and jumps into Megumi through her mouth.

Megumi's eyes start to glow and both Megumi and the boy smile.

...

Kuwabara, Kurama and Yusuke are in the basement of the school. Botan joins them.

Botan smiles sweetly at Kuwabara. "It's going to be very dangerous. Are you sure you should be here?"

"Hey, you told me to be Yusuke's bodyguard, so that's why I am here."

Botan nods. She turns to Yusuke. "The lock guardians won't waste a lot of time attacking you, so you better power up now."

Yusuke sulks. "It's still embarrassing."

Botan thinks. "How about if I kiss you?"

Yusuke gets embarrassed. "I guess that would be okay. I think."

Botan smiles. She kisses Kurama, kicking up her leg as she kisses.

Both Kuwabara and Yusuke are shocked.

Botan breaks off the kiss and then kisses a stunned Yusuke.

Kuwabara starts laughing.

Botan breaks off this kiss and Yusuke gets mad. "What is so funny Kuwabara, I thought Botan was your girlfriend."

Kuwabara smiles. "You and Kurama just had an indirect kiss."

Yusuke makes a disgusted face.

Botan laughs for a bit then regains her composure. "Okay, Kuwabara, you stay back with me. Kurama you guard Yusuke from attack so he can use his spirit gun. Yusuke, you start."

Yusuke nods and pulls out his spirit lens. He carefully looks around the basement for a while, until he finally finds a door that is invisible without the lens. He nods to Kurama. Yusuke opens the door. On the other side of the door is a large room full of papers. A demon, about the same size as Kurama and Yusuke is asleep at his desk.

Kuwabara sees Kurama and Yusuke disappear. "What happened?"

Botan puts her hand on Kuwabara's mouth and whispers in his ear. "They just went through the door. Close your eyes and I will lead you." Botan leads Kuwabara by the hand through the door. Botan again whispers in his ear. "Open your eyes but keep quiet."

Kuwabara opens his eyes to see the demon's office.

Kurama moves forward and pulls out his spirit rose. He blows petals which float towards the sleeping demon. The demon rises, sleep walking.

Botan pulls out a hula hoop. Yusuke looks through the hula hoop and sees Kuenma and some assistants waving to him. Botan holds the hoop steady as the demon walks towards it. When the demon gets into range, Kuwabara and Kurama grab the demon and try to force the demon into the hula hoop.

The demon gets half way through, wakes up and starts thrashing.

Botan nods to Yusuke who points his spirit gun and shots the demon in the butt. The demon vanishes through the hula hoop.

Yusuke looks through the hula hoop to see the demon impaled in the far wall in the dimension that Kuenma is in. Kuenma's assistants look at the helpless demon and scratch their heads.

Kuenma looks at Yusuke. "In the future, you will learn how to control that weapon, right?"

Yusuke gets embarrassed. "Sure."

Botan jams a chair underneath the doorknob in the door at the back of the first lock's room. "There, that should hold it for a week or so. We're probably not ready to route out the second lock, but with more training, we should be able to progress at a good rate."

Kuwabara smiles. "I was surprised I was of any help."

Botan pats him on the back. "You have natural spiritual powers. You should be a huge help for our team."

...

At home, Megumi combs her hair in the mirror, her eyes glow like a demon.