Yu Yu Hakusho Re Pure, Episode 8 - Series Finale - Surprised to be Finished

Yusuke and Kuwabara go through some training exercises on the roof, supervised by Kurama. Hiei sits nearby eating a boxed lunch. He obviously doesn't enjoy it but puts on a happy face for Yukina's sake who sits next to him.

"Yukina?"

"Yes, fiance?"

"Could you please get me a juice from the downstairs machine?"

"Yukina go!"

After Yukina is out of earshot, Hiei approaches Yusuke. "Yusuke, I was wondering if you could do me a favor."

Yusuke looks up. In front of Yusuke is an upside down paper cup holding an ant on its top. The ant suddenly runs from the middle of the cup to one side an stuns itself against the paper cup edge. "Hiei."

"Oh, I'm sorry, didn't mean to interrupt your ant wrestling exercise."

"It's okay, it's a tough little sucker. It has a strong will."

Hiei smiles. "I was wondering if you could teach Yukina how to cook? After all, you bring Miss Botan a boxed lunch every day."

Yusuke blushes. Even though Atsuko was the one made the lunches because she has a crush on Botan, he couldn't let Hiei find out. "Um, yes, I suppose I do."

"Good, Yukina's cooking is horrible, but I can't tell her that. Well, do your best."

A giant sweat mark appears besides Yusuke's head.

...

Botan runs into Kurama in the hall. "Kurama."

"Yes, Miss Botan?"

"How is the special training going?"

Kurama frowns and shakes his head. "Much too slowly. I am afraid I am not an adequate teacher."

"But you scored so well on the standardized test."

"Yes, but teaching it is another matter."

Botan nods. "I might have to call in some favors. But, thank you for trying so hard."

"You're welcome, Miss Botan.

...

Yusuke catches up to Yukina on the way home from school. "Yukina."

"Yusuke, fiance say we need talk."

Yusuke smiles. "That's true. Hiei is very worried about you."

"Worried about Yukina?"

"Yes, he thinks that you work to hard to try to feed him. I want to show you some shortcuts."

"But, Yukina cook with love."

Yusuke leads Yukina to a convenience store. "You see, Yukina, they have all of these prepared entries here, on sale for cheap."

"Yukina never!"

"But , you see, Yukina, there is a big selection, so you can still chose his lunch with love."

"With love?"

"Sure, you can figure out when to surprise him, when to let him have his favorites, when to hit him with something adventurous. There would be as much love there as doing it yourself, it would just take less time."

Yukina looks at the prices then smiles. "Yukina happy."

...

The Scooby Gang assembles in the school basement. Botan takes Yukina to the side. "Do you think you are ready for this?"

"Yukina ready. Yukina protect Hiei," long pause, "and the rest of team."

Botan smiles. "As I expected. Well, do your best."

The team moves through the first two locks without incident. Botan approaches the back door of the second lock. "Yusuke, can you sense any danger?"

Yusuke stands next to the door and concentrates.

Botan frowns. "Humm. Yusuke, your spiritual powers seem to be developing more slowly than I would have thought."

Yusuke shoots her a look. "Maybe I have been distracted this week?"

Botan blushes. "I suppose so. Well, we'll have to work harder on that next week."

Kuwabara cracks his knuckles. "Are we ready to clobber renegade demons?"

The rest of the group nods.

Botan removes the board from the door by twisting a knob on each end.

The rest of the group nods twice.

Botan opens the door.

...

Yusuke is in horrible pain. His vision spins as he regains consciousness. He is in a hospital bed. As his vision focuses he sees that he is covered in casts and bandages. Several of his limbs are in traction (suspended in a specific position by straps). "Where am I?"

Koenma comes into his field of vision. "You're in a spirit hospital. You're safe now. You been through a lot. You should rest."

Yusuke tries to shake his head but realizes that his head is also tractioned. "Is the team safe?"

"The team is perfectly safe, and the demon was captured. However, a lot of bad things happened, and I'm afraid that there will be some very bad consequences."

"What happened?"

"When you all entered the third lock there was a Demagoid Demon hiding behind the office desk."

"Demagoid?"

"They are able to cause humans to go into a frenzy. You, Kuwabara and Kayko went berserk and fought with Botan, Hiei and Kurama until Yukina was able to catch the demon and beat it unconscious."

"Is everyone okay?"

"No. Yusuke, I want you to know that no one blames you now for what happened. You were just in the wrong place at the wrong time."

"That happens a lot."

"Well, you attacked Botan, and, ..."

Yusuke gets a horrible feeling.

"Normally, one wouldn't expect you to be able to get the best of Botan in your weakened physical condition, but the fact that you were in a frenzy changed all that."

"Don't tell me I ..."

Koenma shakes his head. "The worse news is that you seem to be a perfectly healthy boy, and Botan was impregnated."

Tears well up in Yusuke's eyes. "I can't believe I would hurt Botan, even in a frenzy."

Koenma shakes his head. Botan understands now that it was the demons doing. She is now very contrite over what she did."

"Waa?"

"Oh, once the demon was knocked out, you calmed down. Botan then pulled out her Spirit Baseball Bat and frenzied on you. That's why half the bones in you body are broken."

"Oh, no."

"Yukina will be able to heal you soon. She has to recharge after healing the rest of the team."

"Is Botan okay?"

"Oh, yes. I used my great powers to bring the child to term. Botan and her son are now doing nicely."

"Son?"

"However, there are some far reaching consequences. As of right now, you are striped of your powers as Spirit Detective and Botan is striped of her powers as a Shimigami. Sex between a Shimigami and a human is never allowed. Botan would have done it if her mission depended on it, in the same way she would have sacrificed her life to complete a mission."

Yusuke sadly nods.

"Now, before I get to the next order of business, I would like you to talk to Botan."

Koenma leaves the room. Botan comes into the room with a baby carriage. She sits on the bed next to Yusuke. She can't say anything and starts crying.

"Why are you crying?"

"I can't believe I beat you like this."

Yusuke laughs. "This? I've been beaten up much worse than this. I was surprised this was the best you could do."

Botan laughs and squeezes Yusuke's shoulder (one of the only unbandaged places on Yusuke's body. "I guess nothing less is expected from our Spirit Spirit Detective"

"Former Spirit Detective."

"I guess that's right. Well, the mission was a fiasco, but at least something good happened."

"Good?"

"Yes, the frenzy didn't affect your reproductive fluids and our son was born with no demonic taint at all."

"Son?"

Botan goes to the baby carriage and brings back a baby boy who sleeps quietly. "I think I will name him Botsuke, the child of Botan and Yusuke."

"I guess it's good it doesn't have horns."

"Well, I have to get Botsuke back. They have to run some test to make sure that Koenma's speeding up the pregnancy didn't screw something up."

Koenma comes back into the room as Botan and Botsuke leave. "Yusuke, my boy. We have two ways to go from here. I can erase all of your memories and put you back into a normal world. You'll have your old strength back, and I'll have Atsuko transfer you to another school. Or, ..."

"What?"

"Or, you can keep your memories. However, to do so, you'll have to marry Botan and help her raise your baby."

"But, I'm just a kid!"

"True, what we can do is have Botan move in with you and Atsuko. The cover story would be that Atsuko and Botan are cousins."

"I've heard that one before."

"We will arrange for a new Shimigami to replace Botan at school and he'll lead the elite demon busters, or what ever it is you guys call it. The child will be explained as from a cousin of Botan who had a family emergency and couldn't raise the child."

"I would like to help with anything I can, but marry Botan? How old is she?"

"She was first born on your planet many years ago and she was much older than you when she died. But, you know I'm not going to tell you Botan's real age. She swings a mean baseball bat!"

"I..."

"Before you decide, I'll let you talk to Botan one more time."

Koenma walks out of the hospital room and Botan re-enters. She sits next to Yusuke on the bed.

"Don't even think about it Yusuke. Do you really think I would want to marry a kid? I can have any man I want. I can be a model now, a racing idol, a news announcer. I'm sure someday you'll make some girl happy."

"You're lying."

"Is it so easy to tell?"

"I saw you with Botsuke. You could be any of those things, but you're really dying to be a mom."

"Poor choice of words, but I guess you're right."

"Call Koenma in."

Botan gets Koenma.

"Look, Koenma. I don't know why I am doing this. It's certainly not because I'm desperate to get together with Botan. It's not because I'm anxious to be a teenaged father. I'm sure it will be a lot easier to just forget all this spiritual stuff went on. But, ..."

Koenma raises an eyebrow.

"Botan and I are warriors. We fought side by side. I had her back and she had my back. There's no way I would abandon her now."

Botan starts crying.

Koenma leads Botan out of the room. "Okay, Yusuke. Yukina is ready to fix you up."

Koenma sits Botan on the coach in the waiting room. Two doctors go into the room with clippers to remove the bandages. One minute later Yusuke walks out in a robe.

"Yukina heal good!"

Botan, in tears runs to him. "Seeing you like that, injured by my own hand, I thought I was going to die," short pause, "again."

Koenma nods. "Yusuke, shouldn't you do this officially?"

"Koenma! This is weird enough already!"

"I think it would mean a lot to Botan. She missed out on that the first time around."

Yusuke rolls his eyes, and then gets down on his knee. "Botan, will you marry me?"

Botan smiles. "Yes. And, I vow that I will do whatever it takes to provide a happy home for our child."

Yusuke rolls his eyes again. "Good, I think."

"And, I won't ask you to do anything weird, until you're ready."

Yusuke smiles, relieved.

"Let's see Botsuke again!"

THE END