Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Detective: Hatanaka, Shuiichi ❯ Chapter 2 ( Chapter 2 )

 

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Detective: Hatanaka, Shuiichi

 

Yusuke has been fired by Koenma. Now the demigod doesn't have a detective. To figure out who to recruit, Koenma writes the names of all the humans with spirit energy on slips of paper and draws out of a hat. The winner: Shuiichi Hatanaka.

 

 

I'm looking for a betareader if anybody is interested.

 

 

 

Shuiichi blinked a couple times as he regained consciousness. He heard voices and closed his eyes again while pretending to sleep.

 

“Botan! When he wakes up he'll think you kidnapped him!” the voice was loud and angry, yet strangely squeaky.

 

“Opps. Sorry Koenma-sama. I didn't think of that,” this time it was Botan who spoke and Shuiichi wondered if maybe he was the ruler of the Spirit World that she mentioned earlier, Koenma-sama.

 

“Botan! How do you suppose we'll explain to him where he is now! And forget about Spirit Detective! He wouldn't wanna be one now!”

 

“I didn't think about that!”

 

“Botan! You're supposed to be the mastermind of getting the detectives!”

 

“Look, I didn't know Koenma-sama! I'm sorry!” That confirmed his suspicion. She was fighting with the ruler of the afterlife…

 

“Well, before he wakes up bring him to his house and say you were talking to him and he fainted!”

 

“Hai.”

 

Shuiichi opened his eyes again as Botan walked towards him. Behind her was a teenager that she was arguing with. She called him Koenma.

 

“I'm awake. So, where are we,” he tried to stay calm as he spoke but it was little to no use. He was quivering and a tear ran down his cheek.

 

“Spirit Realm. No, you're not dead,” Koenma spoke, “I have a proposition for you.”

 

Shuiichi bit his lip and nodded as he tried not to cry.

 

“We can erase the memories of this place, or you could become an official detective of the spirit world.”

 

Shuiichi shook his head violently.

 

“No. I'd rather have my memories erased.”

 

Koenma slapped himself on the head and then glared at Botan. “But we need a detective really bad. The fate of the world depends on it!”

 

“Why?”

 

“What do you mean, why?”

 

“Why me?”

 

“Because you saw Botan!”

 

“What does seeing her have to do with anything?”

 

“It means you have enough reiki to help me!”

 

Now wouldn't be the time for Botan to inform Koenma of the fact he was one of the lower levelled choices in the hat. It also wasn't the time to tell Shuiichi about him being picked from a hat…

 

“Well then, there must be somebody else in this world that can help you. I'm leaving,” Shuiichi headed for the door of the room and opened it. There were ogres running around hectically with paperwork piled in their arms yelling about how so-and-so was coming early and so-an-so needs to get some borrowed time for one reason or another.

 

“Shuiichi, you're in the Spirit Realm. You can't just waltz through the Gates of Judgement backwards and walk home from there.”

 

“Great. Just what I needed.”

 

“Well, are you gonna help us?”

 

“Nope. I prefer not to indulge myself in potentially dangerous situations that may or may not involve creatures not of my world.”

 

“Nice vocab Shuiichi,” Botan piped up, remembering that Yuusuke couldn't say any fancy words like `indulge' or `potentially dangerous' when he was fourteen.

 

She could remember him saying, `Nope. I don't like to get myself into places where I can get hurt badly,' when he tried to refuse doing something for Koenma.

 

“Poor, poor Shuiichi. Sorry, but you have to do this or we won't let you out of here. You can't just go off telling secrets of the underworld. We'd feel better if you took the job offer.”

 

“You said you could erase my memory…now it's a job offer? Do I get paid?”

 

“Hell no!”

 

“Let me go then,” he turned towards the doors and tapped the shoulder of a random oni, “can you convince Koenma-sama to erase my memory and let me go?”

 

“I guess so. Koenma-sama, is this the new guy to be a Tentei?” Koenma nodded at the blue oni's question. “Well he was a good choice Koenma. Nice energy. Too bad he wants to go. Letim go Koenma-sama.”

 

“Well, I guess we can work something out… Shuiichi, I'll pay you.”

 

He smiled at the oni who managed to figure out the plans. His school wouldn't let him have a job, so he had no way of personal income. The school just didn't have to know about this.

 

Botan sat down in relief and then sighed, “Shuiichi, you'll need more training to go against some of the things you will…”

 

Koenma sighed too, “The only people trained are the ex-detective that quit and his friend. Out of those two, neither want to be my `monkeys', as they call it, anymore.”

 

“So how am I going ta save the world if I need training?”

 

Koenma pretended to think for a moment, though the entire thing was already planned. Then he thought up something and spoke again, “Hopefully Yuusuke or Kazuma are up for one last mission.”

 

Shuiichi nodded, because he didn't know what the underworld lord was talking about.

 

 

“So, this is what you usually look like stamping papers all day?”

 

“Yes.”

 

“Wow. Never thought the one judging souls would be a toddler… that's degrading.”

 

“Why?”

 

“Because now I know that a toddler is the one deciding the death of everybody on earth.”

 

“Oh.”

 

Shuiichi shook his head, ashamed that he took the `job' and was now a `monkey' of a toddler.

 

The toddler picked up a phone off his desk and dialled a number.

 

“Konnichiwa, Urameshi residence, Yuusuke speaking.”

 

“Yuusuke, I need your help.”

 

“Hell no!”

 

Koenma sighed as he put the phone down, “He actually hung up on me. Guess he isn't up for one last mission.”

 

“Maybe he was tired of being your lackey,” Shuiichi suggested. Koenma groaned and closed his eyes in frustration. Shuiichi leaned back in his chair and then stood up. He walked over to Koenma's messy desk and poked him. “Koenma-sama. Can I leave now?”

 

“No. Not until I figure out a way to train you.”

 

“Oh.”

 

Botan walked into the room and passed Koenma some paperwork, but before leaving again she spoke to him quietly, “Koenma-sama, get a communicator for him and let him go.”

 

Koenma nodded at her and began to shuffle through a drawer of his desk. IT took him a while before he pulled out a small cell-like object.

 

“Standard detective equipment, so I can contact you.” Shuiichi took it and then sat back down on his chair. “George!”

 

“Hai, Koenma-sama.”

 

“Take Shuiichi to the human realm now.”

 

“Hai, comm're Shuiichi. I'm taking you home.”

 

He quickly stood up and then ran after the oni.

 

 

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