Yuiko stomped down the hall of Koenma's and King Yama's palace toward Koenma's office. Hiei had just been through his trial and was thrown in jail. Yuiko, Kurama, and Botan had sat through the trial to give details. Yuiko kicked the doors open to Koenma's office with a bang and made her way up to Koenma's desk. "Koenma!" Yuiko shouted. Koenma turned around in his chair to see a very angry Yuiko. "It's time we had a talk about payment!"
"Not right now, Yuiko. I have another mission for you that can't wait." Koenma replied. Yuiko grabbed the front of Koenma's shirt.
"And this can't wait either!" Yuiko yelled in his face. She practically had steam puffing out of her ears because she was so mad at him.
"It can once I tell you what your mission is." Koenma assured. Yuiko glared at him.
"Prove it." Yuiko spat. Koenma showed her an important document labeled Spirit Detective Mission. Yuiko snatched it from his hand and read it. Her expression changed from angry to curious, and then to excited. "Genkai? The greatest martial arts master of all time is wanting a student to teach everything she knows to?"
"Yes. You will be going to try and get picked to be her student. You have to get picked. There's a very dangerous demon named Rando who has killed ninety-nine psychics after he learned everything he needed to know from them. The next psychic on his list is Genkai. Well, she's not really a psychic, but she's very powerful. You need to leave right away so that you can get there before it's too late for you to be a candidate for the position." Koenma explained.
"Okay then." Yuiko said, turning around to leave. "We'll talk about my payment when I come back!"
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Yuiko ran up a steep hill to Genkai's temple. She checked her watch. 'Oh man! I'm going to be late! And if I'm late, I don't have a chance at being her student!' Yuiko thought. "Come on legs! Pick up the pace!" Yuiko begged her legs panicky-like. When she reached the top of the hill, she spotted a huge crowd in front of Genkai's temple. Yuiko squeezed herself into it. There were whispers all around, and some guys in suits were mumbling some things to each other. The guys in suits seemed to be security guards or something of the sort. Yuiko heard something from their conversation that sounded like, "Most of these people don't even know who Genkai is. They just heard that she's only the most powerful fighter human-kind knows about." Yuiko huffed a little. She knew who Genkai was at the age of seven!
Yuiko continued to make her way through the crowd. She didn't expect to get shouted at by a familiar voice. "Hey, Yuiko!" called Kuwabara's voice. Yuiko turned around and saw the carrot top pushing his way toward her. Yuiko sweat dropped.
"Hey Kuwabara." Yuiko greeted.
"I didn't know you were here!" Kuwabara exclaimed. "When you think about it, I haven't seen you in quite awhile. I mean, you're starting to skip school! And that's not like you!"
"I have other things to do, okay?" Yuiko explained. Kuwabara looked like he was about to say something else when all the whispering around them stopped. Yuiko put her hand on Kuwabara's mouth to keep him from saying anything and couldn't help but smile. Genkai had appeared. Kuwabara noticed Genkai too and straightened himself up. Genkai was a woman, just like Yuiko. She had grayish pink hair, mud brown eyes, wore a martial arts outfit, and wore a purple hat on her head. Her skin was beginning to wrinkle, and since Yuiko knew she was over something like fifty or a number in that area, she didn't look all that old.
"Hello fighters. I see that you all want to have a piece of this old lady. Unfortunately, only some of you will be able to contend to be my student. Some of you will have to go home right now." Genkai announced. Yuiko frowned. What did she mean by that? "All of you will come up here and pull a slip of paper from this basket." Genkai pointed to a humongous basket that Yuiko had no idea how anyone of normal strength and size could carry, not to mention someone as short as Genkai. The lady was what? Only half Yuiko's size? "Come on! I don't have all day!" Kuwabara and Yuiko started running up there to be the first ones. "I see that two of you really want to be trained. Spoke too soon, make that three." Yuiko glanced over her shoulder to see a little guy with black hair and large eyes running at a very fast pace. Yuiko was the one who reached the basket first, though. She put her hand in it and pulled out a red slip of paper. Genkai smiled. "If you get a red slip of paper, you are still a contender." Yuiko grinned and waved the red slip into Kuwabara's face. Kuwabara grumbled to himself and put his hand in the basket too. He pulled a slip out and it was red as well.
"Hah!" Kuwabara shouted, rubbing it in Yuiko's face. "I'm still a contender!"
"Yeah, but not for long!" Yuiko retorted. "I'm gonna kick your sorry butt!"
"Wanna bet?" Kuwabara asked. Genkai shook her head at how childish they were acting. The little boy that had been running at the basket too finally reached it and put his hand in. He got a red slip too. The other fighters came up, but only a few of them got red slips.
"Okay. Those that have red slips, follow me." Genkai instructed and turned around.
"This isn't fair!" complained one of the fighters. "I came from the Swiss Alps and I'm not getting booted out that easily!" Genkai turned to glare at him.
"I don't care if you came from the center of the Earth! None of those slips of paper were originally red. They turn red if the person who is holding it has high spirit awareness! Yours didn't turn red, meaning you'd be a waste of my time! Now get out!" Genkai explained angrily, turned on her heel and walked into the temple. "Those that do have red slips, follow me! Now!" Yuiko jogged up next to Genkai, followed by the other contenders. They walked in silence until they entered a room full of video games you'd find in an arcade.
"Whoa." was the comments that came from everyone minus Genkai. Genkai looked over at them, a serious look on her face.
"There are three games here that you must take in order to continue on. There's the ro-sham-bo game (for those of you who are not Japanese, that's rock paper scissors), the punching game, and the karaoke game. Don't touch the rest of them. You must win at least two or say good bye just like the weaklings back in the yard. Now start!" Yuiko stepped up to a punching game and Kuwabara to a ro-sham-bo game. Yuiko almost broke the punching game with just one punch, and Kuwabara beat the ro-sham-bo game easily. Kuwabara was about to step up to the singing game, when Yuiko, panic-stricken, grabbed the back of his shirt and pushed him to the punching game.
"We don't need your horrible singing here, Kuwabara!" Yuiko declared.
"Hey!" Kuwabara exclaimed. "I resent that!" Yuiko rolled her eyes. Suddenly, someone started singing with a terrible voice. Yuiko and Kuwabara covered their ears. "And you said mine was bad!"
Eventually, everyone was done playing the games. Even fewer people were left. Yuiko and Kuwabara were among them. With them was a young boy, a bald man who looked like a ninja, a rugged man, and a few others.
"Now, for the fights that will narrow you down to one person only. I don't care how you win, as long as you do." Genkai informed. Yuiko gulped slightly. "Follow me."
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Hey, it's me, Kuwabara. I know I'm normally not doing this, but anyway, Yuiko and I really kick butt in the next episode, and I finally get to find out who Botan was! I didn't know Yuiko had a job, let alone that it was a detective job. And I learn a new trick! I won't tell you what it is, though, so you'll have to find out on the next Yu-Yu-Hakusho!
Red Roses2: Uh, guys? I forget the names of the other fighters other than Rando's. I don't even remember his disguise name. Can you help me out? And, I've kinda been thinking . . . . IF it turned out to be Yuiko/Koenma, would you guys hurt me and demand I change it to something else? I'm not saying it's gonna happen, I've just been thinking about it since this morning. (Sweat drops) Don't hurt me.