Yuiko and Botan were waiting for Koenma to show up in Yuiko's room, which was now the sanctuary for Yuiko's for-now-empty body. Yuiko stared down at her body, which looked, well, different somehow. It looked more welcoming and a place that she'd never want to leave again.
"Body-sick?" asked a familiar voice.
"Yeah." Yuiko replied, before realizing that it wasn't Botan who had asked her. She turned around and saw Koenma. "About time!"
"Sorry I took so long, but it was hard for me to decide how to tell you the way you would be coming back to life." Koenma explained. Yuiko raised an eyebrow.
"Why?" she questioned slowly and suspiciously. Koenma sighed.
"It requires mouth-to-mouth, which I know you won't like, seeing that it would make you uncomfortable if your mother or Keiko did it, and that you, though you like having him as a friend, detest the thought of any romantic relations - even if it's one-sided on his part - with Kuwabara." Koenma explained. Yuiko's eyes widened in horror. Not so much that Koenma somehow knew about that, but the actual reality of what he was saying.
"And . . . why do . . . they have to do . . . that?" Yuiko asked even more slowly. Koenma sighed.
"Because they're the closest people to you, that's why. You can pick who, but it has to be by tonight, midnight, or else you can say good bye to any chance of returning to the world of the living." Koenma answered. Yuiko gulped. "I'll let you think about it." Koenma disappeared a moment later and Yuiko stood there, speechless and horrified. Botan floated over to Yuiko and put her hand on Yuiko's shoulder.
"Should we cross off Kuwabara?" Botan wondered. Yuiko looked like she was about to faint.
"Whether I like it or not, the thought of a girl doing it creeps me out even more." Yuiko admitted, shaking her head in defeat. "I'll go find Kuwabara and tell him." Her voice sounded dead and she left through the floor.
Finding Kuwabara had been hard. Yuiko had completely forgotten what day it was, so she had to search all over the city before she realized that he must be at school. Yuiko phased through the ceiling of the Math classroom and couldn't believe her luck. Kuwabara had fallen asleep! Apparently, no body had noticed, so Yuiko took this chance to enter his dreams again. Yuiko narrowed her eyes when she saw what he was dreaming of. Pretty girls. How typical. Yuiko took a deep breath before making her presence known. "KUWABARA!" Yuiko shouted. Kuwabara turned around, a grin plastered on his face.
"Hey, Yuiko! What're you doing here?" Kuwabara asked. Yuiko had her arms crossed and, to Kuwabara, looked very unhappy. In truth, Yuiko looked really disturbed, but that was really beside the point.
"I . . . need to ask you of a . . . favor. It's connected to me coming back from being dead." Yuiko replied, becoming uneasy fast.
"What is it?" Kuwabara questioned. Yuiko walked up to Kuwabara and whispered it into his ear. When she was done, Kuwabara blinked in confusion. "Okay, but why me?" Yuiko narrowed her eyes at him again.
"Don't ask questions and just do it! I'll be leaving you to your sleeping during class, then, if you're going to do it. And I'm warning you! If you enjoy it, I'll kill you!" Yuiko threatened and leaped out of his dreams. The teacher, a man with the personality of a monster, came up to Kuwabara's desk and slapped a ruler down on it.
"Mr. Kuwabara!" the teacher exclaimed, and snapped Kuwabara out of his sleep. Yuiko flew out of the building and sighed. She wasn't going to like having to do mouth-to-mouth with Kuwabara. Not at all.
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The bell rang and everyone was leaving the school. Kuwabara was running to the Urameshi residents, when suddenly the cell phone that Yuiko had given him a year ago as a birthday present rang in his pocket. Kuwabara stopped running and took out the phone. "Hello? This is Kazuma Kuwabara speaking." Kuwabara greeted into the receiver.
"I know who you are, little brother." replied the person on the other end.
"Oh! Shizuru! Hi!" Kuwabara said, grinning embarrassedly.
"Can you buy a galleon of milk on your way home? I'm surprised Ichiki drank so much of the one we have already." Kuwabara's older sister continued. "And if you want dinner, you should get it here by 7:00."
"But -" Kuwabara started, but Shizuru had hung up. Kuwabara sighed, turned around, and went in the direction of the supermarket.
Meanwhile, at the Urameshi residents, Yuiko, Botan, and Koenma were hovering in Yuiko's bedroom, waiting. "What's taking him so long?" Yuiko wondered irritably. "Let's just get it over with!"
"He'll get here if he wants you back that badly." Koenma reassured. "If he doesn't get here by midnight, well, you'll be a ghost forever."
"Thanks a lot, Prince Koenma." Yuiko said sarcastically. Koenma glared at her.
"Calm down, you two." Botan warned. "I know we're all on edge here, but we shouldn't be tearing each other's heads off." Botan turned to Yuiko. "So, any cute boys back at your school?" Yuiko snorted.
"No, but there is this really cute Suiichi boy that goes to a different school." Yuiko answered. Botan giggled and Koenma grunted in disapproval and boredom.
Back with Kuwabara, he had bought the milk and was setting it down on the counter in the kitchen of the Kuwabara residents. "There you go, sis." Kuwabara announced, looking tired. There had been a long line, and he had to fight security to buy the milk because he had picked a fight with one of the people in line because they wouldn't let him cut.
"Took you long enough." Shizuru commented. Kuwabara sweat dropped and turned around to walk out the door. "Where are you going?"
"To help a friend." Kuwabara replied truthfully. Before Shizuru could say anything else, Kuwabara had left.
Kuwabara had ran a few blocks until he ran into someone. "Oomph! Hey! Watch it!" Kuwabara exclaimed indignantly. He had ran into a red-headed teenager that seemed to be a little older than he was, but not as tall.
"Actually, I was. It was you who ran into me." the red-head informed matter-of-factly. He had a soft voice, and his long hair and bright green eyes would make many girls to think him as cute or handsome.
"Whatever." Kuwabara said and pushed past him. The red-head raised an eyebrow after him. In his mind, Kuwabara was a bit strange, but he had sensed power that most humans didn't have. But he shrugged it off and continued on his way.
Kuwabara ran through the slowly-becoming-crowded sidewalks with difficulty. He nearly plowed over an old lady in his haste. He quickly apologized and continued to run. 'Don't be too late, don't be too late, don't be too late . . . .' Kuwabara thought over and over again as he ran to Yuiko's house.
Back with Yuiko . . . . . . .
"Crap, it's nine o'clock! Where in bloody hell can he be!?" Yuiko demanded, glancing at the clock. Koenma yawned and Botan shook herself awake.
"Well, the sidewalks are crowded." Botan pointed out. Yuiko narrowed her eyes at Botan.
"If Kuwabara actually gets slowed down by that, then I'm a blue bird shaped like a rabbit, who continuously says 'poo'." Yuiko retorted tiredly. Koenma raised an eyebrow.
"Quite the imagination." Koenma commented. Yuiko shrugged.
"Had to think of something not seen everyday or heard of in stories every single day like fire-breathing, two-headed, man-eating dragons. Just to make the conversation interesting." Yuiko explained, stretching. "He should be here by now! If he thinks I'm going to thank him nicely, he's got another thing coming. It's bad enough he has to do it!" Yuiko crossed her arms and sulked.
With Kuwabara . . . . . . . .
"Sorry! Oops, sorry! Ouch! Hey! Sorry! I'm in a hurry!" Kuwabara continuously shouted to people who he almost plowed over, stepped on their foot, stepped on his foot, and for accidentally stepping on a breakable toy that a little kid was about to pick up. Kuwabara stopped and looked around. He broke into a grin when he saw that Yuiko's house wasn't that far away now. "Yes! I'm coming, Yuiko!"
Yuiko poked her head out through the window, literally, to see how far away Kuwabara was. She narrowed her eyes at him and wished that she could hear him so that she could shout at him. "About time." she muttered instead and took her head back inside. "So, how long do you think it'll take him to get up here?"
"Fifteen minutes." Koenma stated.
"Half an hour." Botan put in. Yuiko's frustrated frown deepened and she sighed.
"I just hope it's soon." Yuiko admitted, lounging in the air. "Being dead is kind of a drag."
Kuwabara finally reached the house and knocked on the front door, then rung the doorbell. Yuiko shook her head. Kuwabara had always done that ever since she became friends with him, which was almost as long ago as when she had met Keiko. Mrs. Urameshi answered the door. "Oh, it's you, Kuwabara." Mrs. Urameshi greeted. "Come in." Kuwabara muttered a thanks and dashed to Yuiko's room. Yuiko, Botan, and Koenma looked at the clock. Nine o' ten.
"Finally." Yuiko mumbled, but as she watched Kuwabara standing next to her bed, she covered her eyes with both of her hands. "Tell me when it's over."
"You'll know when it's over." Koenma informed. "You'll be back in your body when it's over." When Yuiko allowed herself to look again, she was back in her body, but Kuwabara was still doing mouth-to-mouth.
BAM!
"That's enough!" Yuiko shouted, sending Kuwabara to the floor. Yuiko jumped out of bed and went in the direction of the bathroom. She grabbed her toothbrush, put toothpaste on it, turned the sink on, put her toothbrush under the water, turned the sink off, and started to clean her mouth out very thoroughly.
"Oh, come on! It wasn't that bad." Kuwabara commented. Yuiko spit into the sink, turned the sink back on, turned it back off after two seconds, reached for the Listerine, poured some into her mouth, and spent a minute using it. When she spit in the sink again, she turned to Kuwabara.
"Wasn't that bad? I'll show you bad!"
Bam! Smack! Pow!
"Ow! Ow! Okay, okay, it was horrible! Ouch!"
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"I'm . . . a . . . what?" Yuiko asked dumbfounded, staring at Botan, the little horned, gray creature in her clutches.
"A Spirit Detective. And Sir Koenma already has your first mission ready." Botan replied. Yuiko sighed.
"And I thought I wasn't going to have to deal with any more death stuff." Yuiko commented.