Red Roses2: Review responses:
Neoki Nigoi Jaganshi: You think Yuiko/Kurama? Okay. Thank you for reviewing. Er, I'm thinking about who's gonna do the mouth-to-mouth thingy. I'm actually leaning to Kuwabara slightly, but I might keep it Keiko and make both Yuiko and Keiko clean their mouths out with soap.
Tomgirl27: You think Yuiko/Kurama just like Neoki Nigoi Jaganshi? Okay, that's two who want Yuiko/Kurama. And if I make it Yuiko/Hiei, I bet I can make it work. Thanks for reviewing.
Bronze Dagger: Thanks for your compliment! But, which pairing do you think? Yuiko/Kurama or Yuiko/Hiei?
Silver Wolf Gizi-chan: Okay, a third person for Yuiko/Kurama. Thank you for reviewing and the compliments. I'm glad you think it's funny.
Hiei'sBestBuddy888: Giggles You're the first one who's wanted Yuiko/Hiei. Personally, I think I can make it work easier than Yuiko/Kurama, but I'll have to wait longer before I can really make a decision. Like, when she actually meets Kurama and Hiei! Laughs Thanks for reviewing, and I just might skip that part.
Botan Mai Kai: Er, what do you mean by friction? And your vote makes it three for Yuiko/Kurama and two for Yuiko/Hiei. Don't worry. I'm not really making any decisions yet. I need a few more votes first. Thank you for reviewing.
Red Roses2: I don't own Yu-Yu-Hakusho! Or I wouldn't be writing this!
Yuiko flew all over the city to find Keiko. "Where on Earth is she?!" Yuiko asked, exasperatedly. Botan suddenly appeared in front of her. "GAH! Botan!" Yuiko glared at the keeper of the river sticks.
"You're never going to stop your cremating that way." Botan stated. Yuiko blinked in confusion. "If you want to tell her to stop your mom from having your funeral, you're going to have to enter her dreams. She's not like Kuwabara. She doesn't have supernatural senses. And even if she did, you wouldn't be able to talk to her. Living people can't hear you, see you, and you can't touch anything, or do anything with inanimate objects. Real ghosts can't go haunting places. They can only haunt people from time to time." Yuiko sighed.
"Great." Yuiko commented. She looked down at her watch that she had died wearing. It was 5:00 pm. She sighed again and laid back. "Botan?"
"Hm?"
"Do you think I'll be able to convince Keiko? I'm not sure she's going to believe a dream."
"You can always enter Kuwabara's dreams as well." Botan suggested. "And make sure they talk about it. You can even enter your mother's dreams to help you out even more!" Yuiko shrugged.
"I guess I can try that." Yuiko admitted. "Keiko normally goes to bed around 9:00 pm, and Kuwabara at 10:00. I should know; Keiko and I had a few sleepovers when we were little and Kuwabara's always complaining to himself about having a bedtime when he thinks he's alone. I have several hours to wait, then."
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Yuiko hovered over Keiko's bed, watching her best friend sleep peacefully. Yuiko took a deep breath and plunged into her dreams. It was all misty and soft-lighted. She wondered if she should just say her message into the mist, but before she could do so, Keiko appeared in front of her. Yuiko, slightly confused, nearly jumped. "Yu-Yu?" Keiko asked, blinking.
"Yeah, it's me. Listen Keiko, you have to stop my mom from having that cremating thing. I'm coming back. I can't tell you how, mainly because it's so crazy you just might not believe me, but I am. This is NOT some cruel joke that your mind is pulling off, Ki-Ki." Yuiko smiled a little at using Keiko's nickname that only Yuiko was allowed to call Keiko by. "Tomorrow, ask Kuwabara if he's had the same dream if you want to make sure, okay?" Keiko blinked again.
"Yu-Yu, what do you mean you're coming back? That's impossible isn't it?" Keiko questioned.
"Bye!" Yuiko replied and she leaped out of Keiko's dreams and flew through the ceiling. "Now, to go into Kuwabara's dreams."
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Yuiko lowered her hand from her eyes to see that Kuwabara had finally gotten into bed. Yuiko sighed in relief and jumped into Kuwabara's dreams. She got a shock when she saw Kuwabara being chased by a fat woman with a huge ax, laughing. "I'm gonna get you! Yes I am!" the woman laughed evilly, swinging the ax at him.
"Leave him alone!" Yuiko screeched and ran at her. She kicked the fat, crazy woman in the stomach, and grabbed her by the scruff of her neck. "This is my friend you're giving nightmares to! So stay out!" Yuiko tossed the Ax-Woman out of Kuwabara's dreams.
"Yu-Yu!" Kuwabara exclaimed, panting. "What are you doing here?" Yuiko turned to Kuwabara and smiled.
"To tell you to tell my mom to stop that funeral. I'm going to come back, Kuwabara. Get ready to fight with me. I hope you're not too rusty!" Yuiko answered, winking and giving him a thumbs up.
"Who are you calling rusty!?" Kuwabara demanded, obviously angered by the comment. Yuiko laughed and left in a blink of an eye. Kuwabara blinked and looked around. "Yuiko?"
Yuiko was now hovering over Kuwabara's house, smiling to herself. "Go Yu-Yu, oh yeah. Go Yu-Yu, you're good. Oh yeah, uh-huh." She shook her head at how childish she was acting. "Well, I guess I should go find Botan and tell her that I've done it. It'll give me something to do." And with that she flew off.
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Keiko slowly opened her eyes and sat up. 'That's strange.' she thought. 'I had a dream of Yuiko telling me to stop her funeral.' Keiko shrugged her shoulders and got out of bed. "Why would I have a dream like that?" Up above Keiko, Yuiko is rumpling her hair in frustration.
"You had the dream because I entered your dreams and told you!" Yuiko exclaimed. She sighed in defeat and laid back like one would if they had fallen onto their bed after a long day in the air. "If she doesn't ask Kuwabara about the dream, then he'll tell my mom who won't believe it one bit and chase Kuwabara away and my body will be a pile of ash!" Suddenly, the phone rings.
"I'll get it!" Keiko called out and went out of the room. Yuiko followed, wondering if it was Kuwabara. "Kuwabara? What are you doing calling this early?" Kuwabara said something to her. "Really? You had that dream too?" Yuiko's face lit up. She felt like doing a victory dance, but didn't want to embarrass herself in case Botan or some other spirit was around. "Do you think we should tell her? You know, Yuiko's mom." Yuiko's grin went away into a frown. Why hadn't she thought of her mother? "Okay, we'll tell her after school. See you later! Bye!" Keiko then hung up, smiling. "So it wasn't just a dream. Yu-Yu's coming back!" Keiko quickly ran back to her room to get dressed in her school uniform. Yuiko looked like she was about to faint. Why had she forgotten all about her mom? Why? Yuiko flew through the roof and sped toward her house.
"Talk about being stupid!" Yuiko scolded herself. She was stopped by Botan. Yuiko gave a yelp and stopped on a dime. "Botan! What - ?"
"You better go quicker if you want to convince your mother to believe Keiko and Kuwabara. She'll wake up in a few minutes." Botan informed. Yuiko groaned.
"Great. Thanks for the info, Botan!" Yuiko called over her shoulder as she sped past Botan. Birds of different colors flew past and through Yuiko as she made her way to her house. 'Stupid cremating ceremony. Why did they have to think of setting my body on fire? Why don't burry it in a grave?' she thought as she made her way. A scream came from out of no where. Yuiko stopped and looked around. She sweat dropped when she saw that it was just a girly girl freaking out over her make-up. Yuiko rolled her eyes, but she quickly remembered what she was supposed to be doing before speeding off. Yuiko phased through an airplane. A little boy looked around when Yuiko past him.
"What's wrong, honey?" the boy's mother asked.
"I thought someone walked past me." the boy replied. His mother shook her head just as Yuiko phased through the end of the plane. Yuiko then dived down and went through a roof. She was in the living room of her house, but Yuiko was too late. Her mother was sitting up and stretching. Yuiko ruffled her hair up.
"This is impossible!" Yuiko cried. "I'm so stupid for not thinking of sending her a message too!"
"Don't give up, Yuiko." Botan encouraged, appearing next to her.
"Why?" Yuiko demanded.
"It'll be alright. All you have to do is go into her dreams tonight if she doesn't believe Keiko and Kuwabara - hopefully she will - and if she doesn't believe the dream," Botan put on a strange look and cat ears popped up. "then you're in a truck load of trouble!" Yuiko narrowed her eyes at Botan.
"Thanks for the comfort." Yuiko replied sarcastically. Botan sweat dropped and Yuiko sighed. The black-haired girl put her hands behind her head and leaned back. "Let's just hope this works."
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Keiko and Kuwabara stood outside of Yuiko's mother's home and Kuwabara knocked on the door. Yuiko and Botan hovered above them, holding their breath and crossing their fingers for good luck. Since ghosts didn't need oxygen, they could hold their breaths for as long as they wanted. Suddenly, they heard talking. Yuiko turned her head around and growled. Botan looked at Yuiko curiously.
"What's wrong?" Botan asked. Yuiko pointed at where the talking was coming from.
"They're what's wrong." Yuiko answered. Two girls were walking toward them. Yuiko crossed her arms and glared at them. "Those two are Keiko's other friends." Botan watched the two girls walk past Yuiko's house.
"I take it you don't like them." Botan commented. Yuiko shook her head.
"They always talk about me behind my back, calling me "Butch". You know, that name that people call girls who they consider gay. Keiko doesn't know about that, but only because she's my best friend. If she wasn't, they'd be talking openly about me with her around." Yuiko growled, still glaring. "They're a couple of gossipy jerks." Botan listened intently and gazed at the scene that began to take place. The two girls walked up to Keiko.
"Keiko, what are you doing here?" one of them questioned.
"Yeah, especially with him." the other one said. Yuiko's jaw tightened.
"Hey! What's that supposed to mean!?" Kuwabara demanded. The two girls didn't answer.
"We were going to the mall and shop. Would you like to come, Keiko?" the first one that spoke informed.
"No thanks." Keiko replied. Yuiko smirked.
"In your faces!" Yuiko exclaimed, even though they couldn't hear her. Botan rolled her eyes, but continued to watch.
"You sure?" the second asked.
"Positive." Keiko answered.
"Okay. See you tomorrow." And the two girls left. Yuiko did a flip in the air.
"Wahoo! Two points for Keiko! If Mom believes them about the dream, it'll be ten points!" Yuiko celebrated. Botan giggled a little. The door opened at that moment and Yuiko's mother appeared in the doorway. Yuiko sighed. Her mom was still wearing her pajamas and still had messy hair.
"Even for her, that's unusual, and that's saying something." Yuiko commented.
"Keiko? Kuwabara? What are you doing here?" Yuiko's mom questioned. Yuiko crossed her fingers for good luck again and Botan began holding her breath for a second time that day.
"Hey Mrs. Urameshi. We just wanted to tell you that you can't have the funeral." Kuwabara informed bluntly. Yuiko hit her forehead. She had to admit that he wasn't the smartest boy in the world, but he could have had a little more tact, couldn't he? Keiko elbowed him in the ribs. "Ouch! Hey!"
"Why?" Yuiko's mom wondered.
"Listen, we're telling you this for a very good reason." Keiko said. "You see, Yuiko came to both of us in dreams, telling us specifically that she was coming back and to not have the funeral. She even used my nickname in the dream!" Yuiko's mother didn't seem to believe it.
"I think you two should leave." Yuiko's mother told them and closed the door.
"Mrs. Urameshi!" Kuwabara exclaimed. No response. The two of them sighed. Yuiko put her face into her hands. Botan let her breath out and shook her head. Keiko and Kuwabara walked away from the front door and left.
"This is hopeless." Yuiko mumbled. "This is really hopeless."
"No it's not." Botan announced. Yuiko separated her fingers to that she could look at Botan but not take her face out of her hands. "You just have to visit your mom in her dreams. That's all." Yuiko shook her head and lowered her hands from her face.
"If you say so." Yuiko replied in a I-don't-believe-you voice.
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Yuiko hovered over her mother's bed. Mrs. Urameshi was tossing and turning. Yuiko took a deep breath a plunged into her mother's dreams. Yuiko opened her eyes and saw nothing but blurred objects. The only thing in focus was her mother.
"Mom?" Yuiko called out. She was surprised that her voice seemed so far away. Mrs. Urameshi must have drunk alcohol that night. How much, Yuiko didn't want to know. "Mom!" Mrs. Urameshi's head rose slightly. She stood up at the sight of her daughter.
"Yuiko?" Mrs. Urameshi questioned. "Is that really you?" Yuiko ran over to her mother.
"Yeah." Yuiko answered sincerely. Mrs. Urameshi hugged her daughter tightly. To Yuiko, this was very strange and different, but she hugged her mom as well. "Mom, you have to stop the funeral." Mrs. Urameshi let go of Yuiko.
"What?" She looked very confused, while Yuiko had a look of determination, though if this didn't work, it would be shattered.
"Stop the funeral. Keiko and Kuwabara were right. And they still are. I'm coming back." Yuiko slowly started to fade.
"Yuiko, no! Don't leave!" Mrs. Urameshi's eyes filled with tears.
"I'm coming back, Mom. Remember that." Yuiko said in a firm voice and disappeared from her mother's dream. Mrs. Urameshi broke down in tears.
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Yuiko hovered over her mother, waiting for her to wake up. Suddenly, Mrs. Urameshi woke up earlier than she ever did before and surprised Yuiko. Mrs. Urameshi ran over to the phone and dialed a number.
"Yes, funeral home? I'm canceling my daughter's funeral." Mrs. Urameshi announced into the phone.
"YES!" Yuiko yelled, jumping up in the air. "I DID IT! Botan! I did it!" Botan appeared in an instant.
"That's great!" Botan exclaimed. Yuiko twirled herself in the air while her mom finished up a conversation with the person on the other end. She then dialed another number.
"Keiko?" Mrs. Urameshi said into the phone.
"Mrs. Urameshi?" came Keiko's voice from the other end.
"I'm sorry that I didn't believe you when you and Kuwabara told me that Yuiko was coming back. She came to me in a dream as well last night and told me what she told you. I've canceled the funeral like she said."
"Great! Now all we have to do it wait." Keiko replied happily and they both hung up. Mrs. Urameshi had a similar conversation with Kuwabara.