Yusuke halted to a stop, almost tripping over his own feet.

"No freakin' way!"

Yusuke's yell drew the attention of the others in the area. This spirit gun user turned to look at him. They locked gazes with each other, eyes widened in a state of shock.

"Yusuke?!"

"Keiko?!"

Keiko lowered her arm as she stared at him with a mixture of confusion and astonishment. Neither moved nor broke the stare.

What the hell was going on?

Since when did Keiko know the spirit gun? Was Genkai training her? When did she learn to use spirit energy? So many questions filled his mind.

Movement caught his eye. His eyes drifted over to the second figure standing in the lot.

Kuwabara stared back at him with the same expression as Keiko.

Had he walked in on some sort of secret training between the two?

"What's going on?" Yusuke asked shifting his gaze back and forth.

Keiko mumbled something that he couldn't make out.

"Huh?"

"You're dead!" Kuwabara screeched at him.

Yusuke reeled back at the sudden outburst.

"W-what?!"

Keiko stared at him with the hint of tears in her eyes.

"You died two years ago."

Yusuke blinked a few times.

"I died?"

They both nodded slowly at him.

"But-... I came back."

Yusuke thought for a moment. He had died when he was hit by a car before becoming Spirit Detective, but that had been almost four years ago now. He's definitely been alive since then.

Had they lost their memory of the past few years? That didn't make any sense.

That wouldn't explain his apartment and everyone else's reactions today.

"Kuwabara, did you forget about me coming back as Spirit Detective and us going on all those missions together?"

Kuwabara looked over at Keiko for a moment, as she slowly approached Yusuke, before he pointed at her.

"But, she's the Spirit Detective."

Yusuke could feel his head starting to hurt as he rubbed his temples. Things just kept getting more confusing.

Keiko stepped closer to him.

"So you're not a ghost?"

Yusuke looked up and could see her eyes threatening to spill her tears. He gave her a soft smile.

"No, I'm alive. See?"

He held his arm out to her.

Keiko softly brushed her fingers across him arm before pulling him into a tight embrace.

Yusuke hugged her back as he felt her shake slightly.

"It's ok Keiko, I'm here." He whispered trying to reassure her.

A sniffle caught his attention. Looking up, he saw Kuwabara next to them, looking as if he was also on the verge of tears.

"Oh no! Don't you dare cry you big-!"

Kuwabara yanked both of them into a Kuwabara style bear hug. Yusuke struggled a moment before letting out a sigh, relenting to his larger friend's embrace. He couldn't really blame the big softie too much. They both seemed to really believe that he was, or still is, dead.

After a few minutes of hugging, Keiko finally wiped away the last of her tears.

"Feel better?"

Keiko meekly nodded as she tried to pull away. They were both held tightly by the still sniffling redhead.

"Kuwabara?"

"Yeah?"

"... Let go!"

Kuwabara jumped and all but shoved them away. They all tried to regain their composure.

"So what's this about you being Spirit Detective?"

"I became Spirit Detective a few months after you died."

Yusuke thought for a moment.

"When I got hit by that car?"

Keiko and Kuwabara gave him puzzled looks.

"You died in a fire."

"Fire?"

They both nodded.

Yusuke blinked a few times. Seriously? It was a fire that killed him?

"H-how?"

Kuwabara spoke somberly. "Your apartment complex burned down in the middle of the night two years ago."

Yusuke looked at Keiko to confirm. Her face told him that it was.

"You said I died in a fire but I died after being hit by a car, but we're both Spirit Detectives... And I'm still alive... Then how?.."

His brain felt like it would explode soon.

"That's because you both are Spirit Detectives." An unfamiliar voice rang out.

Yusuke quickly looked around before following Keiko's gaze upward. There he saw a girl in a bright blue kimono floating on an oar.

"Who's that?"

"That's Sakura. She's a grim reaper."

What's with the new girl? Wasn't this Botan's gig? Yusuke eyed her suspiciously.

Keiko turned her attention back to the other girl.

"What do you mean, Sakura?"

"You're both Spirit Detectives. You just happen to be from different dimensions."

"Different dimensions?!" The three echoed.

The new grim reaper pulled what appeared to be a small notebook from her sleeve. She flipped through it as she spoke.

"Yusuke Urameshi: Died in October two years prior when his home burned down. Status: Dead."

She flipped a few more pages before pointing at Yusuke.

"This Yusuke however, is from another dimension. He also appears to be the Detective from that universe. He popped up on Spirit World radar when he entered this world. Dimension hopping is illegal and has a very harsh punishment "

Keiko and Kuwabara turned to him. He opened his mouth to defend himself but was cutoff by this new grim reaper before he was able to speak.

"Koenma wants you to catch the demon that brought you here. Should be fun right?"

The cheery reaper grinned at them.

This chick's almost as bad as Botan.

Yusuke thought to himself. Speaking of.

"So where's Botan?"

"Who?" Kuwabara turned to look at him.

"Botan. Grim reaper with blue hair, talks a lot, kind of random."

Sakura spoke up as she floated closer to the group.

"Oh you know Botan?"

Yusuke nodded while the others shook their heads.

"We actually switched regions with each other a little while back. Gets kinda boring reaping the same place for hundreds of years, ya know?"

Sakura thought for a moment.

"Been pretty busy so I haven't seen her in a while. I think she was working on an important case for Koenma in Spirit World. Is she the same in your world?"

Yusuke stared at her for a moment. "Uhhmm."

"Oh right! You haven't met her in this world yet!" She lands and walks over to the unconscious demon.

"It's a good thing you guys caught this naughty boy. King Enma was starting to get worked up."

She glances around as if looking for something before turning to Keiko.

"Did he have the artifacts?"

Keiko shakes her head. "No. He wouldn't tell us what he did with them. But we'll find them."

Kuwabara nods assuredly beside her.

Yusuke thought for a moment. They can't mean...

"What artifacts?"

"The Artifacts of Darkness." The three chime together.

Yusuke laughed.

"That'll be easy. I know who has them."

They all turned to stare at him with shocked looks.

"What?!"