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.

23. Karaoke Challenge

Yu Yu Hakusho Re Pure Episode 23 - Karaoke Challenge!

Yusuke walks with Kayko on the way to school. Yusuke says nothing and is sulking.

"Yusuke, what's wrong?"

"Wrong? Tomorrow after school we're going to be in a life and death struggle to save the world and Miss Genkai and Miss Botan haven't told us one detail on what we're supposed to be doing. No special training? No last minute strategy sessions? No dress rehearsals for dance routines?"

Kayko nods with a troubled look on her face. "You're right. It does seem odd."

"And, Miss Botan has all but avoided us. If we're putting our lives on the line at least they could give us some info."

Kayko hides a sly smile. "Okay, Yusuke. I will try to talk to Miss Genkai today. I will try to set up a meeting for after school."

Yusuke nods. "Good. Maybe we can find out what the heck is going on."

...

Yusuke, Hiei, Kurama and Kayko eat lunch on the roof in silence, all of them visibly bothered.

Yusuke looks up. "Kayko, any luck with Miss Genkai with setting up a meeting?"

Hiei interrupts. "I can answer that. Miss Genkai told me that there won't be any pre-battle meetings until we get there. I don't have any battle strategy to discus other than Miss Genkai told me that I will be the battle focus and there was no special training I needed to do."

Yusuke closes his eyes, annoyed. "This is getting more and more annoying."

Kayko smiles. "When did Miss Genkai say this Hiei?"

"Yesterday."

"Well, I talked to her today, and she says that there will be a meeting after school. She made up maps to where the meeting will be because she fears that the demon world might have scouts observing the school."

Hiei rubs his chin. "She did?"

Kurama laughs. "Hiei, it's the woman's prerogative to change her mind."

Hiei looks down, suspicious that something is up.

...

Yusuke, Hiei, Kurama, Kuwabara, Yukina and Kayko walk the sidewalk of a seedy business district.

Yusuke smirks. "Where are we going? A love hotel? A hostess club? This isn't the best of neighborhoods here."

Kurama looks around. "Yes, I sense a lot of not so nice people here."

Kuwabara chuckles. "Yeah, but shouldn't they be afraid of us?"

Kurama smiles. "True, we should be able to handle ourselves."

Kayko points to a dark alley. "It's halfway down this alley."

Kayko takes the lead down the alley. The rest of the group catches up to her and sees her talking to someone behind door with a small slot. "It's okay, he says we have room seventeen."

Yusuke shakes his head. "Seedier, and seedier. Maybe, we'll have to fight our way out."

Kuwabara nods.

The group walks down a dark hallway to a door with the number seventeen on it. They enter a dark room and walk down a flight of steps.

Suddenly the lights come on.

"Surprise!"

The gang blinks their eyes, finding themselves in a Karaoke party room. Miss Sakaki, Ryoko, Kayko, Megumi, and Pioni were all sitting at a table with pizzas and sodas.

Kayko puts her hand behind her head. "Sorry. Ryoko wanted a Karaoke party with everyone, and since we've all been working so hard on class work I thought we should all take a break."

Yusuke turns to leave but Kurama grabs his arm and whispers in his ear. "You're the team leader. Sometimes a team leader has to make sacrifices for the team."

Sensing that Yusuke has his back to the group, Mugimora pops up. "Can I watch?"

Yusuke hands Mugimora to Kurama. "Put it with that stack of plushies in the corner."

Yusuke turns back to the group. "Okay, what type of pizza do you have?"

Ryoko smiles. "Lots of types. Yusuke, I'm not sure you've met this lady. She's Kuwabara's friend, Miss Sakaki."

...

Ryoko has changed into a tuxedo to be master of ceremonies. "Ladies and gentlemen, the moment we've all been waiting for. Some karaoke!"

The Scooby gang and friends clap.

"Coming from the changing rooms one and two, our first performers, Hiei and Yukina!"

Hiei comes out dressed as a Samurai. Yukina comes out as a shrine maiden. They perform a very passionate folk song about lovers separated by war. Yukina makes no grammatical mistakes in the song. They embrace at the end.

Kurama whispers to Yusuke. "That's their favorite song to sing together."

Everyone gives Hiei and Yukina a big hand.

Ryoko gets back on the stage area of the room. "Wasn't that great? Excellent job guys. And, now, from dressing room 3, we have Pioni!"

Yusuke's jaw drops so hard that it almost hits his chest.

Mugimora nearly stumbles off the stack of plushies.

Pioni comes out of the dressing room without glasses, wearing a flaming long red wig and dressed in a super sexy skin tight mecha costume. A fake fire arm is tied to her arm. She takes the stage and performs a wild and exciting version of "Akujo Ni Naritai No" (from the Excel Saga soundtrack). Her performance includes twirling the microphone stand like a baton, numerous spins and kicks and ends with her doing a full split.

Ryoko has to wait for the applause to die down. "That was the lovely and talented Pioni! She will be doing another number later on."

...

Kurama and Yusuke meet on the roof of the karaoke building.

Yusuke looks off into the sunset. "That was different."

Kurama nods. "Well, at least Ryoko's obsession provided a convenient excuse to meet in private."

Yusuke clenches his teeth. "I wish you wouldn't reinforce that rumor. It's embarrassing."

Kurama grabs Yusuke by the wrists and pins him to the stairwell wall.

"What are you doing?"

"We're being watched from the building across the street."

Yusuke closes his eyes and tries to read the spirit impressions from across the street. "Ryoko and Pioni?"

"Careful, they maybe able to read lips."

Yusuke nods. "So why did you ask to see me privately?"

Kurama turns dead serious. "Tomorrow, I am going to be in the vicinity of the demon world. Probably very up close and personal. It won't take long for me to regress to demon form. I want you to promise me one thing. If it looks like I am going to kill Kayko, kill me first."

"If you're in demon form then Spirit Gun should knock you out without killing you. You're my team mate. Everyone is coming back alive tomorrow."

Kurama nods, then kisses Yusuke. Yusuke does nothing, knowing that they are being watched.

Kurama holds up his hand. "To victory."

Yusuke grabs Kurama's hand as if they were going to arm wrestle, and nods.

Across the street, Pioni puts down Ryoko's binoculars. "Oh, m-my goodness."

Ryoko smiles. "Told you so."

"And, I wanted to ask Yusuke out on a date."

Ryoko holds Pioni's hand. "Then do so. Every girl in the school hounds Kurama for a date. At worst, Yusuke and Kurama will think it's cute. At best, Yusuke will accept and you'll become better friends."

Pioni sighs.

...

Pioni joins Ryoko by the woods next to the baseball field for lunch.

"Any luck?"

Pioni pulls out the pink envelope that she put in Yusuke's locker before school. "I found it in my locker, right before lunch. I've b-been to scared to open it."

Ryoko grabs it. "I'll read it for you."

Pioni blushes and looks down. "Okay."

Ryoko looks at the letter and the reply. She smiles. "You weren't rejected!"

"Really!"

Ryoko turns serious. "However, the note says that he'll tell you tomorrow. Maybe he has to talk it over with Kurama?"

Pioni nods. "I have no idea what any of this means."

...

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 Kayko 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 Kayko smiles. "Welcome to our special theater!"

"Many people have asked if us actors, being the consummate professionals that we are, ever need more than one take to get our lines down."

Chibi Kayko looks embarrassed. "Not all the time." Chibi Kayko sticks her tongue out.

"So, today we thought we would run some blooper reels. Take it away!"

The screen in the middle of the stage shows the following scene:

Chibi Ryoko and Chibi Pioni have an after school snack at a cafe.

"How was the first day?"

"It was okay. I just wonder ..."

"If you can see Yusuke again? Don't worry. You're talking to the genius social planner Ryoko. I'll set something up." Chibi Ryoko pats her biceps.

Chibi Pioni blushes. "I still can't imagine Yusuke and Kurama, though."

Chibi Ryoko pulls out her art sketch book and opens it. "Does this help your imagination?"

Chibi Pioni looks at it puzzled. "That's a drawing of a Turn A Gundam."

Chibi Ryoko looks at the art book, panics and tries flipping pages.

"Cut!"

The screen goes blank.

Chibi Yusuke nods. "That was quite the talk of the set."

"Yes, that was actually a prank by Kurama who switched art sketch books on Ryoko."

"Really? I had no idea. Let's go to our next scene!"

The screen in the middle of the stage shows the following scene:

The four boys enter the Idol Singer Monthly Magazine office. They see Chibi Yukina and Chibi Kayko with blank looks on their faces and Chibi Botan dressed in a Lady Ninja outfit.

Chibi Botan yells out. "Onsokumaru, I will not let you stand in the way of my dream! Ninja Art - Clone Technique!" Chibi Botan joins her hands and draws some Japanese letters in the air. Chibi Botan splits into three Chibi Botan's.

Chibi Yusuke gulps. "There went our plan!"

Chibi Kayko hides behind the other four. "Can't you guys talk this over?"

One of the Chibi Botan's hands Chibi Kayko a wooden sword. "Ninja's only negotiate with combat and come to a consensus with killing."

Chibi Kayko turns and the wooden sword snaps in two. Kayko looks at the broken sword with a "What the heck?" look on her face.

"Cut!"

The screen goes blank.

Chibi Yusuke has a guilty look on his face.

"Yusuke?"

"Yeah, that was a prank by me and Botan."

Chibi Kayko pulls her left eyelid down and sticks out her tongue. "Beda!" Chibi Kayko then composes herself. "And now here's out last out take."

The screen in the middle of the stage shows the following scene:

The Chibi Scooby gang walks through the school gate. Chibi Yusuke notices in the corner of his eye a bullying incident. Two thugs were bullying some girl that Chibi Yusuke didn't recognize.

"Come on, give us your lunch money!"

"Yeah, he's Yusuke Urameshi's cousin, so you better give us the money now!"

Chibi Yusuke turns to break up the incident. Chibi Kuwabara grabs him.

"Hey, remember you can't fight."

Chibi Yusuke smiles. "Miss Genkai has been teaching me some new fighting techniques. I want to test them out."

Chibi Kuwabara nods.

"You two again? You guys are really starting to piss me off." Chibi Yusuke walks up to the two bullies and strikes a threatening pose with fire in his eyes.

The two bullies flinch. One of them regains his composure. "Yusuke, you're a has been. I haven't seen you fight anyone in a month. The two of us will show you what's up!"

Chibi Yusuke does a melodramatic laugh. "You two losers? I would like to see that."

The two boys strike a fighting pose. Chibi Yusuke strikes a casual pose but clears his mind so that he can see his opponent's auras.

One boy lunges at him. Because Chibi Yusuke is reading the boy's spirit energy, the boy looks like he's moving in slow motion to Yusuke. Yusuke effortlessly avoids the boy's punch but then gets hit in the face by the other boys kick.

"Cut! Make up!"

The second boy prostrates himself kneeling on the ground. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! That was my bad."

A make up artist holds a bag of ice to Chibi Yusuke's cheek. "I think it will be okay, I should be able to cover the bruise with foundation."

Chibi Yusuke rolls his eyes. "Hey, accidents happen dude."

The screen goes blank.

Chibi Yusuke looks mad. "Hey, that wasn't even a prank!"

Chibi Kayko waves her hand in front of her face. "That's all the time we have, so until next time ..."

They say in unison "See you later!"

Chibi Kayko strikes the Magical Girl Pretty Sammy pose.

To Be Continued