Yusuke lies down on his bed still pondering the scene of carnage he just witnessed. He can't sleep after watching a fellow demon be hunted like it was just an animal. He remembers he could only recognize one of the so called Demon slayers, that killed the demon, and it was the figure of Reika. He also recognizes the familiar spiritual energy he felt back in New York.
He is still racking his brain on how he could become one of them. That was when he remembered, he felt that he entered a concealing territory, therefore there must be a source. He also remembers that the humans seemed to have teleported out of the scene after the demon is done. He must find the source of the territory and he can infiltrate the group of humans.
"Okay, I have to find out the source of the territory." Yusuke snaps his finger excitedly. The former king however still cannot sleep. Yusuke looks over at the clock, it read 12:50 PM, exactly 30 minutes after the Gantz team eliminated the demon.
Yusuke gets up from his bed and decides to take a shower. He walks towards the bathroom, and it isn't exactly what you would call a luxury bath but it would do. As the half-demon takes off his shirt, it revealed a bunch of scars from the war.
Yusuke looks at himself in the mirror and he could see that his thousand year slumber took their toll on him. His build used to be more cut, more fit for a warrior. His sleep however has deteriorated the muscles he has built over the years.
He gets into the bath and he relaxes. As he closes his eyes the images of the war he fought rushes into his mind.
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It was about a 1,300 years ago that the first demon world tournament was held. It was an exciting tournament with Yomi, Mukuro and anyone who was important in Demon world attended it, even Raizen's friends.
It was one of the cornerstone events in demon world history, in the end however Yusuke lost the tournament and Enki won.
It was a momentous event, as there is now peace between Spirit World and Demon world. It was exactly nine years later, or the 4th official Demon World tournament that Yusuke finally won his title as the Demon King.
It was also the end of the era of prosperity between the 3 known dimension, Spirit World, Demon World and Human world. An event that changed the entire course of Demon World history took place.
He thought about what Lin said, how after he lost Demon World was unified with the Human World, and how demons were persecuted against.
He tried to imagine what it felt like for a demon living in a world where every single one of your actions are under intense scrutiny, but he simply could not. It was to horrific to even imagine. He also blamed himself for all of it. He had to power to win the war but..
Yusuke snaps back into reality. He was in the bath for too long and he zoned out. He got out of the bath and he heads towards his bed to sleep. He fell asleep almost instantly.
As Yusuke dozed off, images flood his dreams.
Yusuke was bound, being escorted by two guards into the court room. As he enters the court, he sees 6 pillars in the very front of the room, and the court was empty outside of 6-7 spirit world generals.
"Come with me you scum." One of the guards growls at Yusuke. "Heres your seat your highness." The other guard sits Yusuke down in his seat.
Yusuke looks up at the pillars and atop them were the 6 leaders of spirit world. All of them were old except for the middle pillar, it was Koenma.
"Whats up, Koenma." Koenma tries to keep his stare away from Yusuke. "Oh cmon man, we haven't seen each other in a long time and your gonna ignore me like that?" Yusuke tries once more to get the attention of his one-time friend.
The guard to his right punches Yusuke in the face. "Don't disrespect the emperor like that!"
Yusuke licks the blood in the corner of his mouth and grins as he lets out a small "Tcch."
"Filthy Demon." One of the leaders atop the pillar addresses Yusuke. "Learn your place."
Another leader speaks out. "I do not think we will need too much time to delibirate what will become of the Demon King." The figure atop the pillar pulls out a fan and covers her mouth with it. "I propose we exile the demon king and imprison him."
There was a bunch of murmuring within the 5 of the 6 leaders of demon world. Only Koenma was not joining int he discussions. Finally the murmuring stopped, they have come to a conclusion.
"The Demon King shall be stripped of his demonic energy to bring his power level down to that of a C class demon." The leaders nod their heads. "And he shall be exiled and imprisoned."
The leaders all clap their hands in agreement.
Yusuke just lets out a laugh as if mocking the whole courtroom. "What a sham." Yusuke glares at the leaders. "Just you wait, once I get out of this so called exile I will let you taste the true taste of revenge." The guards grab Yusuke by the hand and drags him away.
As he is dragged away he hears a sharp ringing noise.
Yusuke wakes up and he looks over to his clock and it reads 7:30 AM. It was time to go to school.
Yusuke brushes his teeth, and takes a shower to get ready for school. After breakfast he is finally ready. He puts on his glasses, grooms his hair and he heads out.
On his way to school he passes by a convenience store.
"Hmm maybe I should buy my lunch here today." Yusuke stops in the middle of the sidewalk as he thinks about getting lunch. "Nah I'll get it at school." Yusuke starts to walk forward again but he did not notice the person in front of him and he bumps into him.
"Oh sorry about that buddy!" Yusuke picks up the other boy's belonging that dropped when they bumped into each other. He notices that one of them were a playboy magazine.
"Don't worry about it, it doesn't really matter." The other boy looks at Yusuke. The boy had a blue uniform and brown colored hair.
"Oh alright, well see around man." Yusuke hands the boy his belongings back and they part ways.
"Hey Kurono! lets walk to school together!" Yusuke looks at the boy again and someone is now walking with him.
Yusuke proceeds to walk to his school. Finally he arrives.
"Hey Urameshi-kun, your desk is over there." The teacher points to the back corner desk. Yusuke is not very happy with his new placement as he far away from his target.
"Ahh thanks teach, you guys sure work fast over here." Yusuke hides his frustration with a playful jest.
Yusuke walks over to his new desk. It was clear now, there was only one way to find out where the source of that territory is. He has to go out with Reika Shimohira, maybe then he could find out enough information to infiltrate the demon slayers.
He hatches a set of plans to ask her out.
"It begins at lunch!" Yusuke assures himself that a former demon king will have no troubles charming a mere human.
The lunch bell rings, Yusuke starts to act on his plan. He sees his target, he starts to walk towards Reika.
"Okay, just go for it, just ask her out." Yusuke feels nervous, he hasn't really considered any other girls outside of keiko. "This should be easy." Yusuke psyches himself out as he approaches Reika.
"Watch out transfer student." Yusuke wasn't paying attention and he bumped into one of his female classmates. "God your such an airhead otaku."
"I'm sorry here let me pick those up for you." Yusuke bends down to pick up her papers but she grabs it instead.
"Keep your disgusting otaku hands off of my stuff! you hentai!" The student picks up her stuff and gets away from yusuke.
Yusuke fixes his glasses and prepares to ask Reika out. He turns towards Reika's desk.
"Y-yo Reika." Yusuke was still nervous, as he asks Reika out he can see Keiko's face. "I've been thinking." Yusuke faces Reika and finally asked her the question. "I think you should go out with me Reika."
"huh??" A confused female voice speaks out. "You really think Reika would go out with you?" Yusuke looks at the female, it was not Reika. It was one of Reika's friends.
"H-h-ey what the where's Reika?" Yusuke realizes that Reika must've moved away from her desk when she ran into that annoying classmate of her.
"Ah forget it." Yusuke turns around and walks out the door in frustration. His first attempt failed but it was okay. He remembers that he has P.E. next class, he will impress Reika with his athletic skills.
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"Hey keep the hustle up!" P.E. class have started and now the whole class is playing basketball. The girls are all watching the guys play a 5 on 5 game.
"Hey did you hear?" A group of girls have started talking about the incident during lunchtime. "The transfer student is asking Reika out."
A group of girls let out a confused "Huh!?!?" when they heard what Yusuke did today at lunch.
"Does he really think Reika will go out with him?" They could not believe it, a mere otaku trying to go out with one of the most popular if not the most popular girl in the school. And she was also an idol.
"I don't think he knows what he is doing." Confirms another girl.
"Woah did you see that!" One of the girls let out in an amazed voice. "That was an amazing dunk!"
Yusuke stands tall below the rim feeling proud that he just penetrated the opposing team's defense and dunked it straight in. He has a grin from ear to ear, he just couldn't help being too cocky.
Now the other team is on the attack, the captain of the school's basketball team is now handling the ball down the court.
The captain was fast for a human, but Yusuke used to spar with Hiei, this guy was nothing. Finally the captain goes to attack the rim. The captain smirks, he knew nobody could stop him now.
However to his surprise, Yusuke appears out of nowhere and swats the ball away from him. Yusuke is now attacking the other team's basket aggresively. He looks over to the sidelines to see if Reika is watching him. To his surprise she looked like she was into it.
"Heh perfect." Yusuke reassures himself that he still has 'it'. Yusuke is now about to dunk when he figures he would try and appeal to Reika's motherly instinct by pretending to hurt himself. It was the perfect plan, it was so perfect he couldn't help but smile and laugh a little inside.
He enacts his plan, he jumps up and pretends to twist his ankle. Yusuke lands and starts to roll on the floor.
Everybody in the gym looks at the hurt student on the floor.
"Oh my god what happened!"
Yusuke still rolling on the floor tries to look for Reika to see if she is concerned. He takes a little peak and he sees Reika walking towards him.
"Just as planned." Yusuke is now confident in his plan. He closes his eyes to make it seem like he is in extreme pain.
"Oh my god are you okay Urameshi-san?" A male voice asks Yusuke.
Yusuke is now confused, was Reika's voice this low before? This can't be Reika can it? He opens his eyes, and to his surprise, staring back at him were the three male students he threatened before.
"Wait what the?" Yusuke sits up and searches for Reika. "Hey where is Reika?"
One of the three students near Yusuke answers his question. "Oh Reika-chan? Her agent got her for an emergency photoshoot."
Yusuke stands up. "Hey Urameshi-san please rest your foot, it might be twis-"
"No I'm okay now." Yusuke interrupts the concerned classmates of his. "I'm okay now." Yusuke is now clearly frustrated. His second try ended in failures once again.
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Everybody is now in class again. As the teacher lectures Yusuke stares at Reika's empty seat. He is still thinking on how to approach her. The straight forward approach and the athletic approach have both been stopped by 'unforseen circumstances'.
Finally Yusuke snaps his finger. An idea is born. He notices that Reika's bag is still on top of her empty desk. She has to pick it up sometime after school, so he would just slip a love letter into it and he is golden.
Yusuke takes out a piece of paper and pen.
'Dearest Reika,
Please meet me on the rooftop after school. I need to tell you something important.
xoxo
Urameshi Yusuke'
Yusuke folds the paper into a nice little square and addresses it to Reika. He thinks once more and he finally got it.
He gathers a bit of spiritual energy on his hand just enough to make a explosion big enough to distract the class.
He then fires the ball of energy towards the garbage can and the garbage can made a noise which drew everyone's attention to it.
He then used that opportunity to run to Reika's desk and slip it into her bag and by the time everyone is back to their senses Yusuke is back at his desk sitting.
Yusuke puts his hand together and rub them together like an evil genius. "Yes, mission complete, hehehe"
Now Yusuke must play the waiting game after school.
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Yusuke is now at the rooftop, looking out onto the distance. The door bursts open.
"Yusuke-kun!" Reika calls out to Yusuke. Yusuke turns around and sees Reika's blushing face.
"I know why you called me up here Yusuke-kun." Reika runs to Yusuke and she gave him a big hug.
"And Yes I will go out with you. I've loved you since the first time I saw you!" Yusuke now has a perverted grin on his face.
"hehe Reika-chan is so soft!"
The sound of the rooftop door bursting open snaps Yusuke out of his imagination.
"Yusuke-kun!" calls out a female voice.
Yusuke turns around, it was turning out the same way as he thought. Yusuke fixes his eyes on the face of the female that called out to him. Yusuke receives yet another surprise, It was not Reika Shimohira that was there standing before him, but Reika Aomori.
Reika Aomori stares back at him with her big glasses and braces.
"I wanted to tell you Yusuke-kun, as we are both otakus we are destined together."
Yusuke finally realizes why Aomori was here instead of Shimohira. He must've put the letter in the wrong bag since he went too fast.
"Uhh I'm sorry Aomori-san but I mean't to give that to someone el-" Yusuke was interrupted as Aomori tries to give him a kiss. Yusuke dodges and runs to the rooftop door.
"I'm really sorry Aomori-san I hope you can understand!!" Yusuke walks down the stairs. He has had enough, he is going to go straight home and get some sleep.
Yusuke arrives at home and as he planned he went straight to sleep.
"beep beep beep." Yusuke's alarms give him another rude awakening. Yusuke winces at the events yesterday, all day yesterday he tried to get near Reika but they were all interrupted. Yusuke prepares to go to school.
On his way to school he tries to think up of more ways to get closer to Reika. He is frustrated now and he decided that he will skip school today.
"Hmm I guess i'll take a nap on the school rooftop today!" Yusuke's mood, after deciding to skip class, got ultimately better.
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"Urako?"
"Here!"
"Urameshi?" The teacher waits for a response but hears nothing. "Urameshi?" The teacher tries again but to no avail.
"Sensei, I don't think the transfer is here today."
"Is that so.. Usually Yusuke-kun is good at attending class." The teacher is concerned about Yusuke, he is such a good student. Maybe not the brightest but he is one of the more polite ones.
The teacher continues on with the attendance while the rest of the class prepares for the lecture.
Reika stares out the window while the teacher continues on. One by one everyone is called until finally the list of students is exhausted.
Reika sees something out the window. Her eyes widened, it was the sign that Gantz is now about to transfer them. Reika stands up abruptly and it drew the attention of everyone in class.
"Is anything wrong Ms. Shimohira?" The teacher asks the idol student.
"Umm nothing is wrong." Reika, now panicking that she might transfer to the apartment anytime, is racking her brain trying to come up with an excuse to get out of class.
Finally she has it, "Ah I just need to go to the batroom haha." Reika lets out an awkward laugh as she grabs her bag and runs out the door.
"Man she must really need to go to the bathroom." A sharp remark from one of the students in class got the whole class laughing.
Reika now runs towards the only place in school where she is sure no one will be in. Reika runs towards the rooftop.
Reika changes onto her suit and prepares for Gantz to transfer her.
Yusuke is awakened from his nap by all the commotion and a strange feeling. A feeling like he was entering someone's territory.
Yusuke now in full control of all his senses finally realizes what is going on. He sees Reika's half-body standing in the middle of the rooftop. She was midway through being transferred to Gantz' apartment.
"Wow." Yusuke smiles a bit. He recognizes this spell. It was a familiar spell that was used back in the war. It was a teleportation spell used by the Spirit World. Thats why what he felt before seemed so famliar. "Heh who would've thought that my laziness would get me such an important piece of information."
Yusuke lets out a laugh of satisfaction as he watches Reika get transferred into Gantz' apartment.
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