I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho. This is fan fiction only.
It turns out Kazuma passed his test with flying colors, the utter look of shock and disbelief had made this whole time spent going over the questions with him, totally worth the effort for one Yusuke Urameshi. Shizuru actually moved into his room and was spending most of her free time taking care of him.
Atsuko actually started to treat her like a member of the family. When her friends asked why was she living there she joked and said that her daughter-in-law did not trust her to look after her injured husband. One day she actually tells her drinking friends in the living room. Shizuru marched right out of her room blushing three shades of red. "Of course, I don't trust you to look after him, with the way you drink I am liable to end up a widow if I did."
This caused the other drunken women to laugh so much they were falling off the sofa. "See what I have to put up with, and she wonders why I drink. I swear I am the most benevolent mother-in-law ever, and she still does not trust me to look after her man, who just happens to be my son."
Shizuru walked right back to their room and wiped the sweat off him. Yusuke was giving her a thumbs up for standing up to his mom. Botan could hardly argue with what she said but secretly was not too thrilled about her being so close to Yusuke and Atsuko treating her like she was a member of the family.
"Yusuke, you need to do good deeds right? Why not help your mother to sober up and quit drinking. " Yusuke was laughing so hard he was having trouble breathing." Botan, not even Koenma could manage that, I tried most of my life and you can plainly see the success I had. What do you want me to scare her straight? She is the top enforcer of a Yakuza group. The devil could not scare her, even if he tried. "
" why not appeal to her sense of motherhood?" again he began laughing. "Seriously Botan this is a woman that would leave liquor bottles around the kitchen table, right next to the sugar, salt, and pepper." Botan had to see for herself, and sure enough, there were quite a few bottles of hard liquor right where he said they would be.
Shizuru decided to go out and get herself something to eat. Atsuko and her friends decided to go out to a local bar maybe to pick up a date. When they were gone one of his teachers came out of hiding and began spraying the room with gasoline from a big container.
"Great, Shizuru must have trusted mom to lock up before she left. " Yusuke knew this teacher well he was the one to insult him every single day, he was his homeroom teacher after all. He lit up a piece of cloth and threw it in the room soaked in gasoline.
As the fire started he ran away laughing and smiling at what he had done. He saw Shizuru coming back with takeout for herself and Atsuko when she saw the fire coming out of the windows. She ran inside and without any consideration to herself tried to get Yusuke's body out. But the smoke and fire on the walls made her almost faint.
"Botan is there nothing I can do? I got to save her. " Botan told him the egg had absorbed his spirit energy if he threw it in the fire, it would hatch and it would save her, but it would not be able to return him to his body and he would die.
" Great, come back to life but I have to leave the only girl that ever loved me to roast. " Yusuke without thinking about it threw the egg into the fire. The egg glowed bright and it allowed her to take him out of the Burning house. " Shizuru I am sorry, I should really lock up, but my friends said we would miss happy hour. "
" It's alright Yusuke saved me, I don't know how but his energy pushed back the fire and saved me. I guess even in a comma he still has a way he shows me how much he loves me. " the firefighters found a gasoline container, and lucky enough it was made of metal. They could lift the prints off the container to find the creep that tried to burn down their home.
" Come on Botan, we have a long trip. Just take me to heaven or hell I can't stand looking at this any longer. " Botan felt sad as she heard him say that and saw the sadness in his eyes." Yusuke Urameshi there is no need to cry like a big baby. " Koenma appeared in front of him."Easy for you to say pacifier breath, I just lost my one ticket to come back to life."
"You mean this thing? This beast knew what you were trying to do, and because of your selfless sacrifice, it decided to release a portion of the energy. You just have to hold it till tomorrow and you can be back into your body. "
" But remember Yusuke, someone has to want you to live, so when the time comes someone has to kiss you. Where do you think mouth-to-mouth resuscitation came from anyways?" Yusuke told him not to worry he would be happy to tell Shizuru to pucker up. "I am glad that she is there, but not so happy that I can't do it," Botan complained to herself.
Shizuru wanted to kiss him right there and then, but Yusuke told her it had to be at the precise time. So after a long night of waiting, she did kiss him, and kissed him with as much love, passion and desire as she could muster, and did not stop doing that until she felt him kiss her back. Needless to say, the two got a little too much into the kiss and they ended up having rather very intense sex, much to the annoyance of their neighbors.
Never mind that Botan stayed to watch them go at it, "They were only apart for three lousy days, they go at it like he just came back from a POW camp after years of captivity. If this is what she gets regularly, it's a miracle that she is not pregnant already."
What Botan did not even want to think about was the reason for her feeling so upset. Secretly she wished it was her instead of Shizuru, but somehow she did not want to admit it to herself.
"I guess the advice my sister told me is still pretty much in my head. She told me that falling for a mortal was just begging for a broken heart. They don't live that long and ghosts tend to be too depressed to be good boyfriends. But I simply can't stop feeling this attraction towards him, it is almost as if he was something other than just a human. "
Koenma had a feeling that indeed it was true what Botan had said, the egg released a minuscule amount of spirit energy, but it was powerful enough to hold back that raging inferno. If Yusuke was an S-class apparition, then maybe that would be the case. But there is simply no way an S-class demon got through the barrier and conceived a child with a human.
"If something like that happened it would pretty much mean the barrier is all but shown. An S Class could destroy the human realm by himself or herself if it was so simple to get through the barrier. That was the entire point of making it in the first place. "
Koenma did not know that there were ways to lower their demon power output below the level the barrier was set to stop. D Class apparitions could get in no problem, but higher than that the barrier would prevent them from crossing. So the only thing a really smart demon would have to do is lower their power level to that of a D class or lower.
Energy control, be it mechanical, artificial by a parasite, or mystical a seal that consumed demon energy. Koenma could not imagine that the demon world actually had these methods, sadly for him they indeed have them and they were relatively cheap to purchase. The real reason the high-ranking apparitions did not come was that they found the human world boring.
Raizen initially came across for a simple reason, hunger. Humans were the only thing that satisfied his hunger. But after meeting Atsuko he could no longer eat them, every time he tried it made him feel nauseous, he kept picturing the human he loved so much and he simply could not even imagine eating her like he had eaten so many other humans before meeting her.
Yusuke woke up the next morning with Shizuru holding him tight. Botan had fallen asleep too right next to the other side of his chest. "Mind telling me who you are?" Botan heard the question from the other woman on the same bed. "Wait you can see me?" Shizuru told her she could see the outline of her body, but could not see her face.
Botan used power to become visible to humans, but not before making sure she was properly dressed. "The name is Botan, I am what people call the grim reaper. Please to meet you Shizuru, Yusuke mentioned you a few times."
"I would not worry about waking him. Once he is asleep not even a freight train could wake him up. So what did he tell you about me? And why do I feel like you have feelings for my lover? "
" Yusuke said that he trusted and loved you, boy you are as sharp as the blade of a sword. I indeed have a strong attraction toward him. Seeing you two go at it last night, was pure torture for me. I thought that seeing that would stop these growing feelings but I am more envious than angry truth be told. "
Shizuru smiled at her and looked a bit happy to hear she was so honest." I don't mind sharing him you know. We are friends with benefits, it's not like he is already my husband, even if he was as long as I got along with the other woman I wouldn't mind at all. It would be nice to have the help of another woman around the house. "
" Wait what do you mean? I am just asking so that we don't have a misunderstanding later. " Shizuru smiled and rather accepting smile." Simple if I am the wife, you can be the lover, and I am the lover, then you can be the wife. Interchangeable as the situation calls for. I imagine you are going to try and get my man to do some work for you. "
" I mean you did not go through all this out of the kindness of your hearts. Even I saw Yusuke throw that egg in the fire. I am not as naive as someone might think. So while lover boy is asleep tell me the thing you plan to use my man for or maybe I should say our man. "
Botan could not help but laugh as she saw her acceptance of the situation. Deep down she was afraid that she would claim sole ownership of him. She was really glad that she could at least try to win his affections." He will likely be able to use his spirit energy and be aware of the spirit energy around him. I imagine he will be asked to be a spirit detective. "
" Like what a police officer that watches how spirits behave? " Botan smiled, and was astonished that she figured it out so quickly." That is exactly, capture demons that do wrong and punish spirits that behave badly. In essence, it involves more fighting than anything else. But we both know how much our man loves a good fight. "
The two were surprised when they heard him ask if he even got a badge or something to prove he had the authority to capture and punish these demons. " Yusuke since when have you been awake. " Yusuke looked at her and smiled as he touched her waist to pull her closer. "Since you were talking about sharing without even asking me, I never thought that you would do something like that without even asking me."
"I know you Yusuke, I know you are not going to pass up the chance to shamelessly flirt and even try to sleep with her, I might as well accept it and get some of that tender loving for myself. Kazuma is enough of a headache, I don't need to make this into another one. "
" To answer the question no you don't even need a badge, only the spirit detective would be going after these criminals, you will get some rather nice gadgets to help you. I will give them to you one at a time. I will explain what each does and some nice workouts with yours truly. "
" The same kind of workout I did last night? " Shizuru teased Botan about it. " No, not yet anyways. I mean physical skills and training, and some spirit energy exercises to build your so-called spirit muscle. "
" Well that is too bad, I wouldn't mind you two going at it right now, the only thing I was going to say is that we should make sure Atsuko is out of the house and that I got some of that action for myself. "
" If you mean the training the more the merrier, you are welcome to come and join us. As a medium, you could also benefit from the training. " Botan decide to tease right back." I guess this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. "