Yu Yu Hakusho Re Pure the Epilogue Part 2 - The Kiss of the Shimigami

"Pervert!" Botan screams.

Yusuke turns around to see a black cloaked figure crouching in the middle of the room.

Botan struggles to put her t-shirt back on.

Yusuke stands up and cracks his knuckles. "Hey buddy. I don't know what you're deal is, but you're interrupting something important. And, you're kind of making me mad!"

The black cloaked figure stands and throws of the cloak.

"Trinity?"

"Yusuke, do you know this pervert?"

"She was the fortune teller at the hostess bar." Yusuke slams his right fist into his left hand. "I know what her deal is. She had asked me about art. She probably followed me home to steal Atsuko's paintings."

The intruder laughs a sinister laugh. "I'm not interested in stealing art. I'm here to steal souls."

Yusuke looks at Trinity weird. "Steal souls? Of all the people in this city why pick on us?"

"Because it is my destiny to find you two."

Yusuke sneers. "What are you? A Shimigami? Is tonight our night?"

Trinity strikes a serious pose. "I am a demon. Four years ago, you and your Shimigami friend arrested my boyfriend, one of the members of Team Destruction. Ever since then I have tracked you two, vowing revenge."

"You must not be a very good tracker if it took you four years to find me."

Trinity gets indignant. "Hey, living in your dimension, not to mention living in Tokyo, is expensive. That's why I was doing that fortune teller job. It's hard to find people if you're not full time."

Botan, who has got her T-shirt back on and has straightened out her hair, speaks in an apologetic voice. "I'm sorry that your revenge is going to be rather meaningless."

Trinity raises an eyebrow behind her dark glasses. "How so?"

"We're just ordinary people now. You can kill us, but you're not even killing members of the team that put your boyfriend away."

Trinity scowls. "Lies! I can sense that Yusuke is a Spirit Detective and you are a Shimigami."

"Hey, if I was a Spirit Detective, I would put you through that wall with my spirit gun. But, as it is, I will have to do it the old fashioned way."

Yusuke lunges at Trinity and throws a barrage of punches. Trinity dodges the punches as if Yusuke was moving in slow motion.

Botan sighs. "Yusuke. Don't even bother. She's a demon. There's nothing we can do. It can't be helped."

Yusuke lunges again after Trinity who effortlessly throws him into a dresser. The mirror on the dresser shatters.

Come on, Yusuke. "Is that all you've got? Why don't you use your spirit gun. I want to feel what my boyfriend felt."

Yusuke throws a shard of the mirror at Trinity who dodges it by arching backwards all the way. The mirror shard lodges itself in the wall.

"I don't have that power any more. You'll have to get your kicks elsewhere." Yusuke throws more shards of mirror at Trinity. Soon the all of the walls of the bedroom are decorated by mirror shards.

Trinity laughs. "I love to see puny humans squirm. I live for that moment that they give up and accept death. What about it Yusuke? Had enough?"

Yusuke forms a spirit gun with his hands.

"Come on Yusuke, what are you waiting for. A spirit gun can't hurt humans or Shimigami. I'm the only here that could be hurt by that thing. Use it!"

Yusuke looks over his shoulder at Botan. "Any chance I would have any residual powers?"

Botan shakes her head.

Yusuke contorts in frustration and then points his hand at Trinity. "Spirit gun!"

Botan screams in agony as the spirit gun ray bounces all over the room off of the mirror shards.

Trinity smiles. "You did notice."

Yusuke nods. He turns around to see that the bottom half of Botan's body is unchanged, but the top half now looks like the body of a demon.

Trinity looks at the window. Yusuke nods. The two of them pounce on the thing that Yusuke previously thought was Botan and throw it out the window.

Trinity smiles. "It should only be stunned. It was only an eight foot drop."

"Thanks for the tip about the paintings."

"Yes, I had scouted Botan", Trinity makes quotation marks with her fingers, "earlier as she was posing for a painting and noticed that she didn't have Botan's star shaped birthmark."

"I guess Koenma isn't a pervert."

"Well, that's not important. In one minute this room is going to be crawling with demons. He have to go, now!"

"Where?"

"The hall. Trinity taps her belt buckle three times.

Yusuke runs into the hall. The front door splinters as demonic looking hands start breaking down the door.

Trinity grabs Yusuke from behind around the shoulders. "The phone."

The phone starts ringing. The demons smash in the door and start advancing towards Yusuke and Trinity.

Yusuke picks up the phone.

...

Yusuke wakes up with a start. He realizes that he has probes taped to many places on his head. He looks around to see that he is in a hospital.

"Thank goodness you made it!"

Yusuke looks down to see Koenma looking up to him from the floor. Several technicians who look like monsters remove the probes from Yusuke's head.

In the bed next to Yusuke, Trinity wakes up.

"You really gave me a scare Yusuke. Everyone was worried sick."

"Koenma, what happened? Is, ..."

"Now, now, boy. Don't say anything. Your friend is going to explain what happened to you, and even the mighty Koenma doesn't need to know the details."

Trinity nods. "It's true."

Koenma and the technicians walk out of the room. "Oh, I almost forgot." Koenma points to Trinity and snaps his fingers.

Trinity morphs into Botan, who makes a peace sign, winks and smiles.

"I'll let her explain it."

Koenma closes the door behind him leaving Yusuke and Botan alone.

"Open your shirt."

Botan opens her shirt and pulls it up just enough to reveal her birth mark. "It's really me."

"What was all that? Is Botsuke safe?"

Botan sighs. "Yusuke, how old are you?"

"I'll be eighteen tomorrow."

Botan crosses her arms in front of her and makes a Bzzzt sound. "Nope, you are 14."

"That doesn't make any sense.

Saddened, Botan shakes her head. "Yusuke, it has only been one hour since we sealed the third lock. We beat the demon, but not before he attacked you."

"Yeah, I frenzied, and ..."

"No, you didn't. The demon was a phasmagoid demon. It implanted a fantasy inside of your head. To you it seemed that four years had passed. It hasn't. None of the stuff in your fantasy happened."

"But, then..."

"No, you're not a father, and we didn't get married."

Yusuke slumps.

"Yusuke, I have to remove those memories. They have demonic taint and they can cause you to hallucinate and they can cloud your judgment. They could drive you mad and cause death."

"This sucks."

"I know. You won't be able to slack off in school tomorrow. You'll have to study everything again."

"Botan!"

Botan gets out of bed and stretches. She then sides by Yusuke's side and holds his hand. "You know Yusuke, it's not going to be easy for me to erase those memories. I saw a completely different side of you in there." Botan points to the side of Yusuke's head.

"How did you get in there?"

"Oh, Koenma has machines that enable Shimigami to enter the minds of people in comas, in case we have to lead them to the other side."

"So Koenma could see all of that?"

"No. The information was fed to me alone. Those machines don't store the information, they just help a Shimigami sync up with a human's subconscious. I'm the only one who knows about Botsuke."

Yusuke nods.

Botan leans closer to Yusuke. "And, I'm the only one who knows what a great husband and loving father you are. And, I'm the only one who knows how hot you'll look in four years."

Yusuke tries to inch back from Botan.

Botan kisses Yusuke. Yusuke's pupils get very small, but then grow to be very large and watery.

...

Koenma smiles as Botan walks out of the hospital door.

Botan smiles. "Yes, he should sleep for about twenty minutes."

"Did he have any trouble with the procedure?"

Botan rubs her left calf with her right toes. "He endured it."

Koenma breaths a sigh of relief. "Good, I was wondering if taking 'The Kiss of the Shimigami' was going to make him feel uncomfortable."

"Well, once I explained to him that it was the only way for me to remove his memories and heal his mind, he held his nose and went through with it."

"Somehow, knowing you Botan, I'll bet that's not what really happened."

Botan sticks out her tongue. "Well, even if it wasn't, the end result was the same, and he won't remember a thing."

"I'll tell the rest of the group." Koenma walks down the hall.

Botan reenters the hospital room. Yusuke sleeps soundly. Botan holds Yusuke's hand to her face and then puts it down. Botan sighs. "One door closes, one door opens."

...

Koenma enters the waiting room. Hiei is trying to comfort Yukina. Kuwabara and Kurama try to cheer up Kayko. Kayko looks out of it.

"I have good news. Yusuke will make it. He should be up and around in a short while."

Kayko jumps up. "Can I see him? Please?"

"I think it would be better to let him rest. He's been through a lot. That demon packed a nasty punch."

Hiei nods. "Phasmagoids are greatly feared in the demon world. I'm surprised at Yusuke's resilience."

"Yukina feel useless."

Hiei squeezes the much taller girl's hand. "Your healing power is always needed, but curing minds is more of a job for a Shimigami."

"Hey, is there a party in here?" Yusuke bursts into the room clad in a robe.

Kayko runs up to him and hugs him.

"Hey, what's the big deal? You all are acting like I was dead or something?"

Kurama smiles a half smile. "If it wasn't for the excellent work of Miss Botan, I would suspect you would be so dead now that Koenma wouldn't be able to find you."

"I don't know. I don't remember a thing."

Kayko looks closely at Yusuke's face. She then grabs Yusuke by the robe lapels and hoists him high in the air. "And, who where you kissing? There's a weird shade of lipstick on your lips. It looks like the type Miss Botan wears!"

Kurama starts laughing.

"And, what's so funny?"

Kurama smiles. "You're pretty cute when you're jealous, Kayko."

Kayko drops Yusuke and starts chasing Kurama around. "You jerk!"

Botan enters the room and surveys the carnage. "Wow, all back to normal!"

To be continued!