A bloodied Yusuke and Kuwabara face three demons, not including their true target, who has yet to enter the fray. Despite Yusuke's rage, even he is beginning to become exhausted by the recent events. Consequentially, it should come as no surprise that Kuwabara can barely even swing his fists at this point, let alone use his spirit sword.

"Urameshi, what the Hell are we going to do?" Kuwabara screams.

"We'll keep fighting. Even if it kills us," Yusuke states simply, launching an unsuccessful spirit gun at the ugliest of the three demons. After dodging, it lunges towards him, only to have Kuwabara jump in the way.

"What are you doing, you big idiot!?"

"This is your fight, Urameshi. I'm not letting this weakling distract you from it," Kuwabara replies, using the last of his spirit energy to materialize a spirit sword inside the demons skull, before passing out.

"You… Idiot," Yusuke cries, "You didn't need to do that! I WAS FINE!" With the words, Yusuke emits a blast of spirit energy that decimates the remaining opponents.

Aranei begins to clap. "I never thought that some insignificant little girl's death would cause me so much… entertainment."

"Keiko was not insignificant!" Yusuke shouts launching a volley of spirit guns at the demon.

The demon appears behind him, too fast for Yusuke's eye's to even process. "You're out of your league boy, but thank you for the fun," he growls, shoving a claw through Yusuke's chest.

Yusuke stumbles forward, then turns around, launching a roundhouse at the demons head with all of his might. The demon moves at the last second, but not soon enough to avoid being crazed. "I'm… The… Spirit… Detective," Yusuke says, grasping his wound.

"And I'm impressed," Aranei replies, as he begins launching a ball of demonic energy at the boy.

Yusuke doesn't have time to move. All he can do is put all of his power into a spirit gun and hope that he takes the demon out with him.

Just as the ball begins to leave Aranei's fingers, he stumbles, causing it to swerve off target just enough to avoid a fatality, and ensuring that Yusuke's blast will hit him full force.

As the smoke clears, Yusuke sees Kuwabara on the ground, clasping the stumps of Aranei's legs. Discarding them, the redhead begins to stand up, leaning on the bone of a former demon. "Urameshi," he says to his old foe, "we did it."

"It's Yusuke, Kazuma. It's Yusuke," the Spirit Detective replies, tears beginning to form in his eyes.

"Ur-Yusuke, are you all right?" Kuwabara asks.

"The injuries are nothing. The old Hag's given me worse herself."

"But… we got him."

"What am I gonna do now, Kazuma? What the Hell am I gonna do!? Nothing's gonna bring her back!" As Yusuke begins to collapse with these words, Kuwabara takes him into a supporting embrace.

"She'd want you to keep living. She wouldn't want you to just give up when you lose her."

"I won't give up. I know that there are other people that matter to me. There's my mom… There's you, Kazuma… It's just. I've killed Aranei. Now what do I do? I can't just bring her back, and there's just this… nothingness where she used to be. Damn it, Kazuma, what am I gonna do!"

"Cry," Kuwabara states. He then holds the most powerful man on the earth as he cries for hour on end.