Yu Yu Hakusho Re Pure Episode 26 - The Epilogue

Author's note: Recognizing the fact that most people who read fan fiction do so to get fan service for their favorite alternate universe character couplings, their "One True Pairing," or "OTP" if you will, I have given this story four alternative endings. If there is a coupling that is consistent with this story that I don't get to, don't get mad, write it yourself, send it to the email address in the author's profile, and I will happily add it to the end this story (so long as it's not a lemon or extremely and graphically violent).

Author's note number 2: Scenes from the nightmares from the previous episode are up. Find links in the author's profile!

Yusuke and Kayko walk to school.

Yusuke sulks as usual. "You know, you don't have to walk me to school. We're not teammates anymore."

Kayko winks. "That's okay. As class representative I feel it's my duty to make sure you stay out of trouble and pass your high school exams next year."

"Me? Pass High School exams? That's not likely."

Kayko becomes thoughtful. "How long do you think they'll keep buying our story?"

"That our half demon buddies had a family emergency? I dunno."

"Hopefully, it will blow over in seventy five days."

Yusuke nods.

"I'm surprised at one thing."

"What?"

"Supposedly, you and Pioni had a really bad date. Yet, you two seem like you're still really friendly."

"It was just bad timing. Pioni's brother just happened to move in that weekend."

Kayko nods. "That Ramogimu could make anyone nervous."

"I don't think he's so bad. Just kind of shy. He's a lot like Pioni."

Kayko sticks out her tongue. "He's been going to our school for a week now and he still hasn't shown any hidden talents like Pioni. I keep waiting for him to reveal that he races motorcycles or is a champion Kendo fencer."

"Considering he's Pioni's brother that wouldn't surprise me."

...

Yusuke sits in the back of class. Ramogimu and Pioni sit together and wave to Yusuke. Yusuke nods back.

Mister Kimura clears his throat. "Before we get started, I would like to welcome back Kurama."

Kurama walks into the classroom and exchanges the standard greetings.

At first Yusuke is happy to see that Kurama is still alive. Then Yusuke wonders why Kurama isn't dead. Then, Yusuke goes deep in thought. Somehow, Kurama looks different to him. Maybe the hair wasn't as shiny? Maybe the complexion looked pale? Yusuke noticed that the girls in the class noticed it as well because they didn't get anywhere near as excited as they usually did when Kurama was around.

Kurama goes to his old seat and turns around. "You must be a new student. I'm Kurama."

"Ra- Ramogimu. I'm Pioni's brother."

Kurama smiles. "I can tell. You both wear the same type of glasses."

Both Pioni and Ramogimu blush.

Kurama turns around to Yusuke. "Meet me during lunch, usual place?"

Yusuke smiles. "Sure."

...

Yusuke, Kuwabara and Kayko wait on the roof for Kurama.

Kurama comes through the door. "Sorry to keep you guys waiting."

Yusuke nods. "I hope you don't mind that Kayko and Kuwabara are here. We need to keep our stories straight."

Kurama nods. "Good idea."

Yusuke looks Kurama. "So, aren't you supposed to be dead?"

Kurama gets a sweat mark by his head. "You were dead for a while, too Yusuke."

"So, what happened?"

"I was hoping you could tell me. The last thing I remember was getting my senses back after going into that frenzy and then seeing Miss Botan standing over me shooting me with the Demonsbaine gun. Then I woke up in my bed and it was today."

Yusuke looks carefully at Kurama. "Feel any different."

Kurama bows his head. "Yes, I am no longer a half demon."

Kayko is shocked. "What?"

"It's true, no spiritual powers. I probably look a lot duller as well."

Yusuke nods. "I noticed."

"So why would sweet little Miss Botan kill me?"

"Miss Genkai told us, before she ran away, that you guys would have taken over. And, she said that the Shimigami were very shifty."

Kurama nods. "She's probably right."

Yusuke gets mad and slams his fist into his palm. "Even so, that was just a rotten thing for someone in the Elite Demon Busting Corps to do!"

"So, that's your secret!"

Kurama, Kayko, Yusuke and Kuwabara look like deer caught in the headlights. The look up to the top of the roof of the stairwell to see Pioni and Ramogimu climbing down the wall.

"This is great!" Pioni smiles big. "Bro bro is a champion at Elite Demon Busting Corps. He's been into role playing games since he was five."

Ramogimu flashes a victory sign.

Yusuke puts his hand behind his head. "That's great."

Pioni suddenly looks puzzled. "So, Miss Botan was playing a Shimigami? For how long? And, in what form?"

Kurama looks nervous but replies. "Yes, for three months. In human form."

"Was Miss Genkai running the game?"

The four ex-team members nod in unison.

"Then, Miss Genkai does not know what she's talking about. A Shimigami who stayed human for that long would have been so full of human hormones that she would not have been able to pull the trigger."

Kurama scratches the back of his head then gets a knowing smile. "So, how would you have run it, Pioni?"

"Miss Botan's character would have gotten another Shimigami to do the job and insisted that the half demons only be exorcised instead of killed. She probably would have lost her job over this, but she would have been loyal to the team."

Yusuke's head is spinning. "You seem to know a whole lot about this role playing game."

Pioni smiles a sarcastic grin and points her finger upward. "But, Yusuke, Elite Demon Busting Corps isn't a role playing game!"

Pioni rips off her school uniform top.

Kayko's jaw drops.

Yusuke and Kuwabara develop gushing nosebleeds.

Kurama smiles. "I knew it!"

Yusuke struggles to regain his composure in the presence of Pioni's cleavage. "Knew what?"

"You should really study more, Yusuke. Pioni doesn't mean much in Japanese, but if you assume it's an American word, it would be spelled P-e-o-n-y."

"So?"

"What the Americans would call a Peony flower, we would call Botan."

Pioni smiles. "Bu-bingo."

Yusuke looks closer at Pioni, trying to pry his eyes off of her breasts. Pioni has a five sided star birthmark on her side identical to the one Miss Botan has. And, Pioni has a large scar on her upper chest.

Pioni notices Yusuke starting at the scar. "Oh, that's from the scroll exploding when I thought I was a Ninja."

Yusuke scratches his head. "So, if you're Botan, then who is he?"

Ramogimu snickers. "Ra-mo-gi-mu. Mu-gi-mo-ra."

The four ex-teammates keel over.

Yusuke regains his composure. "Now, wait just a minute. Miss Botan introduced you to the class."

Botan puts her shirt back on. "That was my friend Wisteria. She took over for me after that disaster with the Ninja scroll. She's already on another assignment now. Pioni wasn't allowed to know that she was Botan until after your mission was over so Botan wouldn't be tempted to interfere."

Yusuke nods.

"I'm sorry it had to go down the way it did, but Koenma didn't want you guys getting too attached to the team. Besides, you guys won't get your powers back if the world doesn't have to be saved again."

"But, if the world does need saving?"

"Then everyone gets restored, even Kurama, Hiei and Yukina."

Kurama smiles.

"However, Yusuke ..."

* Okay folks: Time to pick your ending! *

ENDING NUMBER ONE

"What?"

"I think it was very significant that we gravitated together even when we didn't know I was Botan."

Yusuke gulps.

"I'm sorry that I freaked out when I regained my memories, and wound up ruining our date. I hope that we can do it again now that there are no more secrets between us."

"But, Botan is total liar!"

Pioni giggles. "That makes me half a total liar. I am still half Pioni. And, you're not exactly truthful all the time, pretending to be Kurama's boyfriend."

"That wasn't my idea."

"Besides, guys go out with girls who lie all the time, especially if the guy likes to stare at the girl's breasts."

Kurama nods. "She's got you there, Yusuke."

"Besides, if I didn't give up my commission then the half demons would still be dead. I didn't betray the Elite Demon Busting Corps, I helped save it."

Yusuke nods. "That's good. It really hurt to think that Botan would have done something like that."

"Then is everything okay? Can we go out?"

"It would be weird, considering our history."

"Oh."

Yusuke shrugs his shoulders with and resigned look. "But, when has 'things being weird' ever stopped us before?"

Pioni jumps up and down with joy.

ENDING NUMBER TWO

"What?"

"Don't you feel something different about Kurama?"

Yusuke thinks for a minute. "I don't have any spirit powers any more so I can only go by what I can see. He seems a lot less charismatic as before."

Kurama smiles. "My Spirit Rose has many uses. I was using it at a constant low setting to cause other people to think I was prettier than I was."

Kuwabara turns up his nose. "That's weird."

Kurama smiles. "It fit my personality. However, I also had my Spirit Rose busy doing a second low level job. It was masking your love for me Yusuke."

Yusuke looks shocked and mortified. "L-Love?"

"When I first kissed you to transfer spirit energy I could tell right away by the cute blush that you got in your checks that you would fall in love with me. That would have greatly complicated the job, so I used my Spirit Rose to keep you from knowing your feelings."

"Kurama, you have got to be pulling my leg. There's no way what you're saying could be true."

Kurama pushes Yusuke against the stairwell. To Yusuke's dismay Kurama's spiritual powers must have been transformed into physical strength because Yusuke can not fight back at all.

Kurama pins Yusuke against the wall with his chest. "Yusuke, can't you feel you're heart racing? Ryoko was correct all along, you just never knew it because of my Spirit Rose. But, now you know the whole story."

Yusuke starts to crumple, defeated. "I guess you win."

"Come on, Yusuke, we're going to have a lot of fun together! You'll even be able to scam homework off of me. "

Kayko smiles. "Yes, Yusuke, you might even pass your high school exam."

Kurama eases up and Yusuke wiggles free.

"Yeah, it's easy for you to say that we'll have fun since you're the Seme."

Kayko nods. "Yep, you can't spell Yusuke without uke..."

Kurama sticks his tongue out. "Actually, I was thinking of getting a short haircut. My hair doesn't quite look right now that I don't sparkle. And, then, I would be shorter than you."

First Yusuke and then Kurama crack up, then the rest of the group follows.

ENDING THREE

"What?"

"This team should stick together, just in case we have to save the world again."

Kayko gets agitated. "Pioni, are Hiei and Yukina okay?"

Pioni smiles. "I'm sure the are, but I don't know why they didn't come with Kurama today."

Kurama smiles. "They called before I left in the morning. They were getting their engagement canceled. They're no longer half demons so it really didn't suit them any more."

Kayko smiles. "Awesome! Of all the things I missed about the team, the thing I missed the most was our girl group band."

Yusuke shakes his head. "But how many times are we going to face demons with cosplay idol fetishes?"

Kayko waves her hand. "Doesn't matter. What matters is that the band really gave me, Botan and Yukina some great teamwork. And, now that Miss Botan is Pioni, someone our age, it's going to be even better!"

Pioni smiles. "S-sounds good to me."

"And, Yukina was sooo awesome at the Kareoke party. I was totally riveted to my seat. I've even started to dream of Yukina and me singing together, along with dressing up together, doing each other's hair, bathing together, eating decadent chocolates together, wearing naughty lingerie together ..."

As Kayko keeps adding more and more embarrassing details, Kurama nudges Yusuke. "Yusuke, could this be that magical thing they call Yuri?"

Kayko overhears this. "Oh come on Kurama, girls aren't the same as guys. If two girls do everything together to the point of shutting out the rest of the world, that doesn't mean that they're together like that."

Yusuke shakes his head. "Those dreams make it sound like you two were together like that."

Kayko turns up her nose. "Yusuke, it takes a girl who is very comfortable with her heterosexuality to want to have sex with another girl."

The rest of the Scooby gang get giant sweat marks except for Ramogimu who gushes a nose bleed.

Kurama nods. "She has us there."

ENDING NUMBER FOUR

"What?"

"This team should stick together, just in case we have to save the world again."

Yusuke nods. "Speaking of which, where are Yukina and Hiei?"

Kurama smiled. "They needed another day of bed rest to recover. They'll be here tomorrow."

"What about Miss Genkai?"

Pioni smiles. "If a mission comes up, I'm sure that Koenma will slip her some cash and she'll come running."

"Well, I guess we'll have to just hang out and wait for the next opportunity to kick some ass. How will we know when that time comes?"

Pioni looks in her purse. She pulls out a fancy cross and holds it up. "The jewel in the center will start flashing if there's a crisis."

The rest of the group gets giant sweat marks beside their heads.

Yusuke points at the cross. "It is blinking."

Pioni panics. She looks at the jewel and then at the bottom of the cross. "Oops, I had it in test mode." Pioni switches off the test mode and it stops blinking.

THE END

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!"

Chibi Yusuke smiles. "Tonight we have a part two of our wrap party. We're going to continue interviewing some of the actors out of character."

"So, let's bring out Kuwabara!"

Chibi Kuwabara comes out to canned applause. The giant screen shows the scene from this episode where he knocks Yusuke across the parking lot. He hops up on his right toe, holds his left leg above his head and does a pirouette.

Chibi Kayko claps. "Awesome!"

Chibi Kuwabara speaks in refined cultured tones. "Thank you, Kayko. I have been trained all my life to be a dancer. Dancing is in my bones."

Chibi Yusuke nods. "So, do you have your next job lined up?"

"Yes, I will be dancing on stage."

Chibi Kayko smiles. "What part will you be playing?"

"I will be ..." Kuwabara bows his head. "A giant stuffed dog in a Hello Kitty family production."

Chibi Yusuke nods. "I'm sure it will be great!"

Chibi Kuwabara leaves the stage.

Chibi Yusuke waves his arm. "And, our next guest is Kurama!"

Chibi Kurama walks on stage to canned music. The giant screen shows the scene where Kurama tells a demon to talk to the hand. "Hello everyone!" Kurama speaks with the same voice he uses in the show.

Chibi Kayko smiles. "So what's going on in your life, Kurama?"

Chibi Kurama smiles. "Lots of exciting things. My agent has secured a very serious dramatic role for me to play on stage. So serious I will have to get my hair cut."

Chibi Yusuke nods. "What part could be so serious that you have to cut your hair?"

"I will be Yuki in a musical theater version of Gravitation."

Chibi Yusuke head drops. "Why does this not surprise me?"

"Hey, Yaoi parts get paid triple scale."

Chibi Yusuke perks up. "Triple scale? Holy cow, I better talk to my agent to see if the lead in Ai no Kusabi is still open."

Chibi Kurama smiles. "You would be great for the part!"

Chibi Yusuke nods. "Thank you Kurama!"

Kurama leaves the stage.

Chibi Yusuke turns to Chibi Kayko. "So Kayko, will you be in the next spinoff of Pretty Sammy?"

Chibi Kayko waves her finger. "That's what you think. Yukina, Pioni and I have a developmental deal as a music group."

"That's great!"

"Hey, you have to parlay the publicity for the show somehow."

"So what will be your first gig?"

"We have a six week run on stage as one of the god awful loser bands competing in the battle of the bands in a Gem and the Holographs musical."

"Sounds like good exposure."

"What about you?"

Yusuke hangs his head. "My agent has been slowed recently since I keep beating him up over this show."

Chibi Kayko smiles. "I'm sure he'll hang in there."

"So from all the cast ..."

Chibi Kayko and Chibi Yusuke say in unison " ... thanks for watching!"

Chibi Kayko strikes her Pretty Sammy pose.