Yu Yu Hakusho Re Pure

by Resop

It’s one week later and Yusuke would still like to know what it all means. Fortunately for him, he finds out. It’s Yu Yu Hakusho Re Pure Episode 26 The Epilogue. Four endings to a series is better than one.

18. Take one for the Team

Yu Yu Hakusho Re Pure Episode 18 - "Take one for the team!"

One by one the Scooby gang assembles on the roof during lunch. Hiei and Yukina snub each other. Miss Genkai and Kurama exchange small talk. Kayko and Kuwabara bully Yusuke over some dumb thing that Mugimora has said.

Botan finally bounces through the rooftop door. "Everybody! I have some bad news and some good news about lock five."

Yusuke smirks. "After seeing that painting my Mom did, I'm sure that the news is going to be very interesting."

Kayko elbows Yusuke. "What was it? You never let us see those paintings."

Yusuke turns up his nose. "Those paintings are rather personal for Miss Botan, and the important parts are in the margins."

Botan pulls out her Spirit Hula Hoop and passes it downwards through the air. This causes a presentation board to appear. Botan draws some weird symbol on the board.

Kurama's jaw drops. "You got to be kidding me. Yaoin demons?"

Botan nods her head in a serious way. "Yes, I'm afraid so."

Kuwabara pounds his chest. "We should be able to take them, right?"

Hiei shakes his head. "They are fast, super strong and resistant to most attacks."

Kayko looks hopeful. "But, what if we do our best?"

Miss Genkai shakes her head. "There's no way we can beat them unless we can get them into a weakened state."

Yusuke starts laughing. "That must be your good news, right Botan? What's it going to be for this lock? Weather announcers? Horse riders? Nineteenth century costume play? Elevator operator girls?"

Kurama bursts out laughing.

"What's so funny, idol buy?"

Kurama tries to compose himself. "I'll let Botan give you the punch line."

Yusuke looks at Botan. "Okay, if Yaoin demons are the bad news, what's the good news?"

Botan dead pans "I just saved a lot of money on my car insurance."

The rest of the Scooby gang keels over.

"Just kidding! No, the good news is that we do know what it takes to send those demons off to nosebleed land."

Yusuke looks up from off of the roof. "Which is?"

Botan sits down next to him and speaks in a stage whisper. "Two boys kissing."

Miniature airplanes, all dragging behind them the banner "kiss" start buzzing around Yusuke's head. "Very funny."

Kurama goes over to the presentation board and points to the symbol. "Yusuke, this is the symbol in the margins of your mother's latest painting, right?"

Yusuke nods.

Kurama smiles. "Yusuke, this symbol is two interlocked male symbols. The circles with the plus signs pointing down?"

Yusuke turns white.

Kurama walks over to Yusuke and pats him on the back. "What is the problem, my brother? Don't we kiss in combat?"

Yusuke blushes, then gets indignant. "That's a power up. It doesn't count."

A light goes off in Kayko's mind. "I got it. Yaoin demon. They must like Yaoi manga.

Miss Genkai makes an "O" shape with her arms. "Correct!"

Yusuke looks at Kayko funny. "You read Yaoi manga?"

Kayko puts her hand to her head, embarrassed. "Well, Ryoko is a big fan and she's always lending them to me. They're different, I guess."

Yusuke makes his way to his feet. "So, what clues about Yaoin demons can you give us from this Yaoi manga?"

Kayko goes to the demonstration board and starts writing with her finger. "Almost all Yaoi features male couples of a certain type. One of the boys will be taller and huskier than the other. That boy will play the traditional 'male' role in the relationship. He is referred to as the 'Seme.' The shorter and thinner boy plays the traditional 'female' role and is referred to as the 'Uke.' The Seme attacks, the Uke receives."

Yusuke instinctively looks around the roof. He is pleased to see that he is taller than Hiei and slightly taller than Kurama if you don't count the hair. "I guess you're out of luck Hiei."

Hiei smiles. "I'm not sure you understand Yaoin demons. They wouldn't be titillated if half demons kiss, only if human males kiss."

Panicking, Yusuke looks around to see Kuwabara who is comparing his height to Yusuke. Yusuke's eyes grow huge and his pupils tiny.

Botan comes up to Yusuke and Kuwabara. "Congratulations, guys! This time the girls won't be having all the fun. It's your turn to take one for the team."

Yusuke and Kuwabara deflate.

Kayko puts her hand to her chin to think. "I'm not the biggest expert on Yaoi, but, I bet that if we tell Ryoko that you and Kuwabara are going to do some Gundum Wing costume play, I'm sure she would give you inside tips on body language and stuff."

A deflated Yusuke weeps. "And, tell every girl in school."

Suddenly Yusuke re-inflates. "Wait a sec, if I kiss Kuwabara won't I be diluting my spirit energy?"

Kurama sits next to the deflated Kuwabara. "No problem! I'll power up Kuwabara first, then you can get the full charge from him."

Yusuke starts laughing.

Kuwabara re-inflates, angry. "What's so funny Yusuke?"

Miss Genkai walks over and pats Kuwabara on the back. "No matter how bad off one is, one is always encouraged by seeing someone worse off. In this case, Yusuke laughs at Kuwabara who has to kiss two boys instead of one."

Kuwabara steams.

Kurama looks thoughtful. "You know, Kuwabara, I can use my Spirit Rose on you so that you won't know what you are doing and won't remember it."

Kuwabara perks up. "Really?"

Kurama nods. "But, I can't do it on Yusuke because he wouldn't be able to use his Spirit Gun."

Yusuke deflates again as Kuwabara laughs at him.

...

Yusuke opens his locker getting ready to leave school when he sees a note.

Mugimora, seeing that no one is around pops up to full size. "Woo, woo, Yusuke, it's a love letter. Maybe Kuwabara is getting into the spirit of things?"

Yusuke first thinks of punching out Mugimora, but then decides to let it go. "Nope, not from Kuwabara, but it is from Miss Yaoi herself, Ryoko."

Mugimora flies over to take a peek. "A love letter from Ryoko?"

"It's a request to see me on the roof. So, maybe it is and maybe it isn't."

"Let's go, let's go, lets go!"

Yusuke sighs. "Let's see what it's all about."

...

Yusuke goes through the door to the rooftop. He sees Ryoko crying, sitting next to the wall. "Ryoko, what's the matter?"

Ryoko stands up and points her finger at Yusuke. "What's the matter? What's the matter? You pull my heart out of my chest and stomp it into the ground and ask me what's the matter?"

Yusuke goes blank. "I have no idea what you're talking about."

"For the past couple of months I have been drawing pictures for my own Yaoi manga, and now I hear that the couple who inspired me to write, the couple who inspired me to draw, has broken up!"

"And, who would that be?"

Ryoko jumps on Yusuke and starts pummeling him. "Baka, baka, baka, baka, baka."

Ryoko finally stops and this gives Yusuke a chance to crawl away from her.

"Okay, so I am a dummy. So who broke up?"

"You and Kurama."

A giant sweat mark appears besides Yusuke's head. "And, why do you think that?"

"Kayko told me that you were going to do some Gundum Wing costume play with Kuwabara."

Yusuke suddenly remembers that he needs Ryoko to teach him the body language for the battle. "Well, you know Ryoko, us guys don't always stay with the same person forever."

Ryoko turns white. She then grabs a notebook out of her bag. "Yusuke, I hoped I wouldn't have to do this, but, I must try to rekindle your romance with Kurama."

"What do you mean?"

Ryoko opens the notebook and shows Yusuke the first page. It's a drawing of Yusuke meekly submitting to Kurama's kiss on the rooftop. Kurama seems to tower over Yusuke.

"Ryoko, aren't you taking liberties with this picture?"

This stuns Ryoko. "What?"

"I'm taller than Kurama, if you don't count his pompadour."

Ryoko starts hysterically laughing and slaps Yusuke on the back. "You always count the hair!"

Yusuke slumps, defeated.

"I want you to remember the passion that you and Kurama used to have. Take a look at this one." Ryoko shows Yusuke a drawing of Kurama sitting up in bed next to Yusuke who is lying down. Both wear Yukatas (the male version of the Kimono). Kurama is holding a rose next to Yusuke's bare chest.

Veins start popping out from Yusuke's head. "Ryoko, you have this all wrong." Yusuke suddenly realizes from the fanatical look on Ryoko's face that denying a relationship with Kurama isn't going to get him anywhere. "Look, Kurama is happy that Kuwabara and I are going to costume play together. And, he's going to be there. There's nothing going on between me and Kuwabara." Yusuke is happy that he was able to feed Ryoko so many lines without having to lie.

"So, you're doing a love love play for Kurama?"

"You can think that."

"I'm so relieved. I would have hated to have to redraw my manga with Kuwabara instead of Kurama."

Yusuke breathes a sigh of relief. "There's no need for that."

Kuwabara walks through the rooftop door. "You wanted to see me Ryoko?"

Ryoko gets in Kuwabara's face. "Listen up, gigolo. You only get Yusuke for the costume play. Don't even think of taking advantage of him!"

Kuwabara gives Yusuke a bewildered look.

And now for part two of our show:

From the Circular File of the Spirit Detective!

Mugimora slaps two sticks together to produce the sounds of a play opening.

Chibi Yusuke and Chibi Botan are on stage behind a podium. They stand on the right side of the stage and a giant screen is in the middle of the stage.

Chibi Botan smiles. "Welcome to our special theater!"

Chibi Yusuke nods. "We have a lot to talk about this episode."

"Yes, yes. Very true. We thought that we would try to explain some of the strange things that go on during the show."

Chibi Yusuke smiles. "So, the first thing to explain is what was up with Episode 17?"

Chibi Botan ponders for a minute. "Episode 17 was really a retelling of Episode 16."

"They took place at the same time?"

Chibi Botan nods. "Episode 17 explains why Kayko was late, why Kurama missed the field on his softball throw and why Hiei was brained by that flower pot."

"Wow, and I thought it was Mister Kimura."

"And, it hints at some other things that we haven't got to yet in the story."

Chibi Yusuke nods. "Yes, yes. I will look forward to these things. The second thing to explain is that aerobics show you were watching in Episode 16."

Chibi Botan puts her hand to her head, embarrassed. "I think that show must be a plot invention. Morning exercises would traditionally be Tai Chi."

"Maybe you were watching some DVD? Also, is there a Sawai Miyu?"

Chibi Botan nods. "Yes, she is a bikini model slash actress slash idol singer. The show that she was talking about would have been Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (live action) where she plays the lead role."

"Does she act better than she sings?"

Chibi Botan laughs, embarrassed. "That's beyond the scope of this omake."

"We have more things to explain, but were out of time."

"So until next time ..."

Chibi Botan and Chibi Yusuke say in unison "see you later!"

To Be Continued!