The Ring

By Lazy Kitsune

Summary: When Yusuke Urameshi's best friend Kazuma Kuwabara died under mysterious circumstances, he must investigate the cause with the help of his old friend Kurama. Everything leads to a strange videotape that kills the viewer after 7 days...

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho or The Ring.

A/N: I'm so sorry I haven't updated! (big puppy-dog eyes) You're all so nice to me and I'm such a stupid procrastinator... (sniffs and pulls herself together) In this chapter, Yusuke continues acting more and more like the detective he is...or at least supposed to be. Will you call that behavior out of character for him? Oh, and I decided that I won't make it an exact copy of the movie. It'll still be about The Ring, just…my version. Well, technically it's the Yu Yu Hakusho version… (babbles on and on)

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Chapter 3 – A Mysterious Tape

It had been several days since Kazuma Kuwabara's wake, and Yusuke had been researching the four boys' death. He collected information from newspapers to news broadcasts to gossiping students. It surprised him that all four of them had died in the exact same time.

"That's weird…" Yusuke murmured as he browsed through his collected documents.

"What's weird?" Keiko asked, suddenly appearing behind him.

Yusuke jumped from his chair, dropping all his papers all over the place. "Whoa, Keiko! Where'd you come from!"

"The door was open, so I let myself in," she answered, picking up some papers. She raised an eyebrow as she glanced at a headline. "Yusuke…What exactly…?"

"Nothing," he said, grabbing the papers from her.

Keiko smiled and put a hand on his arm. "Yusuke, I know you and Kuwabara were really close, but…"

"But what?" Yusuke asked, his voice a little edgy. "What, Keiko?"

"Well…I think you're taking this a little too seriously."

"I'm what?"

"Look, no one knows how he died, Yusuke," Keiko said, now getting irritated. "The autopsy wasn't able to come up with anything, and detectives can't figure it out –"

"Ah, that's where I come in," Yusuke interrupted smugly. "I bet I can figure it out, just give me a coupla days and –"

"You're flipping nuts!" she shouted. "Why don't you just stop it! You never know when to give up!" They stood glaring at each other for a couple of seconds.

Yusuke turned away and said in a low voice, "He was my best friend." Keiko opened her mouth to say something, but he continued, "I'm not just gonna sit back and let this pass me by." He looked her in the eye. "I just can't, Keiko."

Keiko looked as if she wanted to say something but couldn't. Then she picked up her purse and turned to the door. Yusuke sat back and let out a deep sigh. He almost didn't hear Keiko's next words.

"Sawamura residence."

"Wha –?"

Keiko turned her head and looked at him. "The Sawamura residence. I heard that's the place where Kuwabara and his gang got together one night." She opened the door. "You might find something there." With that, she closed the door behind her.

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Yusuke took a deep breath as the door to the Sawamura residence opened. A woman just a little shorter than him with dark brown hair eyed him suspiciously and asked, "Yes?"

"Hi, my name is Yusuke Urameshi, a friend of your son," he added quickly as the woman's eyes widened with fright at the sound of his name. "I'm just here to learn more about the cause of his death, Mrs. Sawamura."

She thought for a moment, wondering whether or not she could trust the teen standing on her doorstep. Then she stepped to the side and said, "Come in." She led him to the living room. "Please, have a seat. I'll go get some tea."

Yusuke observed the room. 'Nothing out of the ordinary,' he thought. Then he saw it.

It was a black video case, just on top of the T.V. The fact that it had no labels on it had roused Yusuke's curiosity. He moved to get a better look at it and then opened the case. A plain old unlabeled tape. Yet he felt a certain chill go up his spine as he held it in his hands.

They all watched a video tape together…

He suddenly heard Mrs. Sawamura's footsteps approaching from the kitchen. Yusuke quickly put the tape into his backpack just as she came into the room. As she placed the tray onto the coffee table, Yusuke bowed and said, "Excuse me, Mrs. Sawamura, but something came up."

"But you just arrived –" she began, but Yusuke was already at the door.

"Sorry for the trouble!" he said before speeding away.

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Back at his house, Yusuke eyed the tape. "A tape that kills, yeah right," he said to nobody, but he stayed glued to his seat. After a few more minutes, he laughed nervously at his fear. "I'm being so stupid! It's just a tape!" With that, he popped it into the VCR.

Strange images flashed across the screen. In the end, Yusuke was puzzled. That made no sense whatsoever. "There is no freaking way that Kuwabara died from this lame-ass tape…"

Suddenly, his phone rang. Yusuke froze, and then proceeded to answer it. A soft voice whispered two words that chilled him to the bone.

"Seven days…"

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A/N: I know I've been bad…And I know that chapter sucked…Sorry!