Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ In Vice Versa ❯ Die, Dai, Die! ( Chapter 2 )

Yu Yu Hakusho – In Vice Versa

Thirteen year old Keiko Yukimura, recently the victim of a construction accident, after fleeing from a gang of thugs, has just recently discovered that she is now dead. However, all was not lost for Keiko, for the Grim Reaper; commonly know as Botan, appeared to inform Keiko of a trial that could restore her life. After hearing the conditions of
her trial, she is given one day to make a decision about seeing it through. When she returns to the human world in herghostly form, Keiko is met with an unexpected sight.

Episode 2: “Die, Dai, Die!”


“Give me the best gun you’ve got for my price,” said Yusuke with a deadpan tone in
his voice.

The bald kid smirked in a shifty manner, “Haha. It’s hard to believe that Urameshi,
the one man army, would be buyin’ a piece. Somebody must’ve really pissed you
off, huh?”

Yusuke frowned a little, “That is none of your business. Just show me the friggin’
guns, already.”

The kid shrugged, “Well, you’re the boss, gang killer.” He reached for a black trunk
that sat in a dark corner of the shack and slid it into the light. Unlocking the sliver
latch in the center, he opened up the case, which revealed all sorts of handguns, from
revolvers to semi-automatics with laser scopes. Yusuke felt a chill roll slowly down his
spine as the reality of what he was doing slowly crept up on him.

“What in the hell are you doing, Yusuke?!” Yusuke questioned himself mentally, “This
is not your style. You’re a fighter, not a murderer!”

Yusuke answered himself, “They killed Keiko. She never even saw it coming, so they
deserve to know how that feels. I have no regrets. Even if I’m sent to Hell for all eternity,
I won’t regret this. For Keiko…yeah. This is all for Keiko.”

Each time Yusuke felt himself back down from the transaction, he kept reminding himself
that it was for Keiko. He grew up with her and now she was gone all because of some
knuckle heads who probably didn’t care at all about what they did. Yusuke could picture
Keiko’s parents crying their eyes out, as he knew they were. Yusuke even cried. He barely
slept last night because of Keiko’s death. His eyes had suitcases under them and his hands
ached due to him pounding against his bedroom wall in frustration for almost two hours straight.

He wanted to visit her parents to comfort them, but he couldn’t bring himself to do it. Yusuke didn’t think he would be able to take the sight of her parents crying. It would probably make him want to break down in tears even more than he already wanted to.

“Take yer pick, “said the bald kid, “Since you’re the real Urameshi, I’ll give ya a good deal. For twenty thousand yen, you can have any of these gats but the laser scope ones.”

Yusuke nodded, “Okay.” He stooped down and looked inside of the trunk. He then started to dig through the trunk, looking for his choice.

“Careful,” the boy warned, “Those things are loaded. Don’t wanna accidentally bust off shots around here, too many snitches rollin’ around, ya know?”

Yusuke nodded again, “Yeah. Hey, I want this one here.” Yusuke pulled out a sliver .45, semi-automatic Smith and Wesson pistol from inside the trunk.

The green eyed gun merchant grinned with devious delight, “Nice choice, gang killer. You’ll be able to do some real damage with that thing. Here, lemme give you something special.”

The bald kid then reached into his pocket and removed a green box of bullets and a clip.
Immediately he filled the clip with the bullets and took the gun away from Yusuke.

With gunsmith type skill and speed, he removed the clip that currently rested in Yusuke’s
gun and slid the new clip inside. He grinned and handed the gun back to Yusuke.

“There ya go. These bullets are special.”

Yusuke raised an eyebrow, “What do you mean, ‘special’?”

“Well,” the green eyed kid explained, “These bullets ain’t exactly for civilians. Ya see, these are those new armor piercing pistol bullets that the government issued to the local police precincts in Japan. My dad’s a cop. Go figure, huh?”

Yusuke stood there silently for a brief moment and then finally spoke, “Why give me these? AP ammo seems like a bit much.”

The kid chuckled, “Well, I figured that if the immortal, Urameshi, is looking for a gun, he must want somebody to suffer in the worst way. These AP bullets do up to 75 percent of the damage of a singe barrel shotgun! Aim for the gut and watch ‘em suffer to the very end!”

Yusuke then told himself once more as he handed the kid the money, “For Keiko…..”

Yusuke nodded and then slipped the gun under his shirt before walking out of the shack. The kid smirked as Yusuke departed, “Show no mercy, Yusuke Urameshi. Show no mercy!”

Unreal. Impossible. Just plain wrong. That’s all Keiko could think. Yusuke couldn’t possibly be doing something like this. He wasn’t a killer! He may have been rude, violent and an idiot, but Yusuke was not murderous. He’d never kill another person. Unfortunately, what she saw was the complete opposite of what she thought.

Botan, on the other hand seemed preoccupied. The bald kid seemed vaguely familiar. She knew she had never seen or met that boy before, but those eyes seemed so familiar. Those emerald eyes distracted her from Yusuke’s plight. The entire time, she stared into his eyes, trying to jog her memory, but to no avail.

“Miss Botan?” Keiko called.

No reply.

“Miss Botan!” Keiko shouted.

Botan jumped, “Yikes!” She fought against gravity to stay on her feet after being abruptly startled. She quickly regained balance and grinned sheepishly, “Um, yes?”

Keiko pleaded, “Please, tell me how I can talk Yusuke down!”

Botan rubbed her chin, “Hmm, actually there are multiple ways you can speak to him. One of them is through his dreams, but I don’t see him sleeping anytime soon. Another way is body possession.”

Keiko blinked, “You mean like….taking over someone else’s body?”

Botan nodded, “Bingo! Of course, you can only do it for a certain amount of time, depending on their level of spirit awareness.”

Keiko smiled, “Great! So how do we tell if someone has this spirit awareness stuff or not?”

Botan sweat dropped, “Um, hehe, I have no idea!”

Keiko quickly face faulted.


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Kuwabara sighed as he impatiently leaned against the Initial D machine, “Where the hell is Urameshi?! It’s been almost two hours!”

“Well, maybe he’s just clearing his mind or something. His girlfriend died only yesterday, you know,” said Okubo.

Kuwabara’s frown dropped, “Well, you have a point there. I guess we’ll just hang around and hope he shows up.”

Meanwhile, Kirishima and Komada raced against each other in a round of Initial D. Kirishima grinned as he pressed down on the pedal, “Got you now, Komada! I’m in the lead!”

Komada smirked, “That’s what you think! Watch the King of Drifting at work, my friend!”

Kirishima exclaimed, “W-what the hell?!”

Komada cheered with Triumph, “Yeah, baby! Inertia drift, in your face!”

The game had ended and Kirishima had lost, but had a good laugh anyway, “Man, that was a pretty close match. Where’d you learn to drift like that?”

Okubo fielded the question, “The entire Initial D anime and manga collection stored up in his room.”

Komada grinned, “Hey, it’s a hobby!”

Kuwabara snickered, “More like an obsession!”

Just as Kuwabara spoke, in came a familiar guy in green. Yusuke stalked up to them silently, not drawing any attention. Just then, Kuwabara got a chill up his spine. Okubo asked, “What’s wrong, Kuwabara?”

“It’s ‘the shiver’” Kuwabara said nervously.

Komada and Kirishima raised their eyebrows, “The shiver?”

Okubo nodded, “Yeah, it’s a nickname for Kuwabara’s sixth sense.”

Kuwabara explained, “You see, ever since I was a kid, I’ve been able to sense ghosts and stuff. Some were nice, but there were evil ones. Like evil old ladies or ghosts of executed serial killers, heck, even a mentally deranged ghost clown would haunt me at night.”

Kirishima shrugged, “At least that explains why your sister never let you go to the circus with us in fifth grade.”

Okubo asked, “There’s a ghost around here right now?”

Kuwabara slowly and nervously nodded, “Yeah…and it’s right behind me!”

Kuwabara and his crew then slowly turned around nervously to see Yusuke walking up to the group.

Komada sighed, “I should’ve known it was a trick. There’s no such thing as ghosts, you’re just trying to scare me.”

Yusuke raised an eyebrow, “Ghosts? What’s all this talk about ghosts?”

Kuwabara then smiled, “Hey, Urameshi, where’ve ya been?”

Yusuke smiled only a little, “Just had to take care of something.”

As they spoke, standing by the wall, only feet away from Yusuke was Keiko and Botan. Botan smiled as she pointed at Kuwabara, “He’s got the spirit awareness! It’s not that strong, but he’s got the gift, nonetheless!”

Keiko smiled, “That’s great, Botan! So, what do we do now?”

Botan grinned, “We get you into that body so you can talk to Yusuke!”

Keiko gasped, “Wait, how will he know it’s me?!”

Botan shrugged, “I suppose you’ll just have to prove yourself to him. Just do or say something that he can easily identify you with.”

Keiko thought for a second and then smile while pound his fist into her palm, “I got it!”

Botan warned, “Remember, Keiko, you will have only thirty minutes inside Kuwabara’s body. That will be all he’ll be able to take before you get forced out of him.”

Keiko nodded, “Okay. Here I go!”

Keiko rushed at Kuwabara, who suddenly felt like an icicle was being dragged down his back, and stumbled into his body, causing it to topple over with a violent crash. Okubo, Kirishima, Komada and Yusuke are looked down at the fallen Kuwabara with quizzical expressions written all over their faces.

All around, there were blurry lights and muffled noises. Keiko’s ear rang for a moment as her vision only began to clear little by little. The lights that came into focus were ceiling lights that she seemed to be staring up at. She could feel solid ground under her back as the muffed noises cleared into people calling to her. The only confusing part was that they were all calling to her by another person’s name.

“Kuwabara!” Okubo shouted. “Are you okay, man?!”

Keiko sat up and rubbed her eyes as she tried gathering herself. Standing up slowly, she noticed that she was the tallest person among the group of people that stood around her. She then looked down at her manly body. A royal blue boy’s school uniform. Remembering the task she set herself on she realized that that the body possession was indeed a success. She was in Kuwabara’s body!

“I’m fine,” said Keiko’s from Kuwabara’s lips, “I must’ve had some
bad breakfast, hehe…”

Komada blinked, “Um, yeah. Anyway, since Yusuke’s here, let’s go play some Dance Dance Revolution. I’ve wanted to play that again for a while now.”

Yusuke snickered, “You play DDR? I never would’ve thought. I thought only girls played that.”

Kirishima snapped defensively, “Hey, DDR is a very manly game! Just because you don’t have the skill to do it is no reason to insult people with talent!”

Yusuke scoffed, “No talent, huh? I’ll beat the crap out of you in DDR and I’ve never even played it!”

Keiko sighed within Kuwabara’s body. Why did boys have to act like idiots in public? Not to mention once Yusuke is challenged he never usually stopped until he won or was too tired to move. Keiko quickly grabbed his arm and dragged him off before things could get any worse, “Yusuke, we need to talk. NOW.”

Okubo and the group watched in confusion as Yusuke was dragged off by Kuwabara for some unknown reason.

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In the men’s bathroom, Yusuke shouted, “Kuwabara, what’s the big idea?!”

“Shhh. I’m not Kuwabara.” The red haired punk said.

Yusuke raised an eyebrow, “What in the hell are you babbling about?”

“It’s me, Keiko!”

Yusuke’s eye widened in shock at the comment just said. Keiko started to smile as Yusuke had finally understood. He knew it was here, he could really tell. At least that’s what she thought until Yusuke’s eyes weren’t wide from joy. Nope. It was rage.

Yusuke spat in a low, menacing tone, “That is not funny, Kuwabara. We can still be pals, but I’m warning you now. NEVER make a joke about Keiko again. NEVER.”

Botan watched from the other side of the room and sighed, “This looks like it’s going to be more trouble than I originally thought.”

Yusuke then stormed out of the bathroom, leaving Kuwabara in the bathroom with a crying Keiko inside of his body.

“Why?” Keiko asked herself. “Why can’t Yusuke sense me?”

Botan floated above Keiko and smiled, “Don’t give up hope yet, Keiko. You’ve still got twenty-five minutes left! You can do it!”

Keiko smiled sadly, “I don’t know about that, Botan. In this body, there’s no way Yusuke would believe me.”

Botan then rubbed her chin in her normal, pondering fashion, “Hmm, a way to get Yusuke to notice you in Kuwabara’s body. That’ll be a challenge, but we’ll pull through.”

Just then, the bathroom door opened. And footsteps were heard approaching. Keiko turned around to a familiar face. It was a face that she did not expect nor want to see. The face of the leader of the gang who got he killed.

His face was manlier than expected of his age. He had facial hair at the age of fourteen and also was one of the toughest guys in town. His name was Dai and he had a score to settle with Kuwabara.

“Hey.” Dai said menacingly. “Since you Sarayashiki losers are the only ones who can link us to a murder rap, I had to come see ya.”

Keiko froze at the sight of the boy. Though, he was much shorter than her current height, Dai still scared the daylights out of poor Keiko. Just then, Botan shouted, “Keiko, you’re
inside of Kuwabara’s body now! Clobber that guy!”

Keiko thought, “She’s right! I can take him in this body! This pervert is going DOWN!”

“Hai-ya!” Keiko yelled as she swung Kuwabara’s fist at Dai’s face. Unfortunately, Dai caught the fist with inhuman easy and smirked with his other hand behind his back.

Botan screamed, “Keiko, look out!!”

It was too late. Dai quickly unleashed a stun gun from his hidden hand and quickly shocked
the body of Kuwabara into a state of unconsciousness. He then chuckled, “Think you can mess
with us, punk? When you wake up, you’re gonna wish you never even met me…”

Botan’s eyes filled with fright and worry, “Oh, no. Keiko-chan. What have I done?”

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WHAM! POW!

Yusuke’s punches sent two guys crashing into random arcade machines as Okubo charged blindly at one of the attackers and struck him across the jaw. Okubo’s punch surprisingly sent the guy rolling wildly onto the floor. Okubo saw his handy work and then grinned proudly with the peace sign held up high.

Two guys had Komada and Kirishima cornered against the wall of the arcade. They looked to each other, and then they nodded. Looking back to their opponents, they charged in and started exchanging blows with their respective opponents. They then looked back at each
other and hook their opponents’ arms with their own and violently slung them into each other, knocking them down.

Kirishima smirked as he looked down at the fallen two, “Don’t feel too bad, fellas. It’s not like you suck or anything.”

Komada stepped forward with a grin, “It’s just we’re that much better than you!”

The two fallen fighters groaned in agony.

Just then, Dai stepped out of the bathroom to see his gang had been defeated. He sneered at this sight and groaned, “Do I have to do everything myself?”

Yusuke gave him a cold stare, “Who the hell are you and what the hell do you want from us?”

Dai smirked, “I want to make sure none of you snitch. This really ain’t the place to talk about this. Meet me at Genan Park a five o’clock today. Then we can finish this whole thing.”

Yusuke narrowed his eyes, “Fine. I hope you’ve got health insurance, ‘cuz I promise it will come in handy.”

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3 ½ hours later……

Her chance had left. She was right there with him. She had a good twenty-five minutes left to talk to him and then he appeared. Dai. The same guy who, with his gang, chased her down and got her killed. She remembered it all. The sound of rope snapping and the pile of heavy lumber coming down. Dai simply pushed her right under the falling pile simply because she refused to kiss him, among other things.

“Since you can’t give me what I want, die bitch.”

Those were his words to her. Dai killed her and was nowhere near sorry about it. He was nothing but a heartless hug that ended Keiko’s life for not becoming his property. Keiko cried onto Botan’s shoulder. Though dead, she could still feel the heartbreak. All she could think about was Yusuke. Although she hated Dai for what he did, she still refused to allow Yusuke to take his life. He wasn’t worth Yusuke’s future being thrown away. Yusuke was
worth more than that and Keiko promised herself that she would make Yusuke realize that fact no matter what.

It was four-thirty. Kuwabara and company were all gathered in Kuwabara’s room. Kuwabara had a serious look, as did the rest of his gang, but Yusuke, on the other hand, looked completely homicidal. His teeth gritted as he slowly crushed a walnut, which was in his hand at the time.

“So,” said Yusuke, “Dai’s the one who killed Keiko?”

Kuwabara nodded, “Yeah. No doubt he wants to off us because we’re witnesses.”

Okubo cringed, “I’m not sure we should go guys. I mean, we could get killed this time. Getting beaten up’s no big deal, but when someone’s out to kill you, it’s different.”

Komada sighed, “It sounds pretty bad, but we have no choice. If he’s heartless enough to kill an innocent girl, think about what he can do to the people we care about. He’ll just keep coming after us. We’ve gotta face him now.”

Kirishima nodded, “Yeah! We’ll show him that we’re not scared of him OR that stupid stun gun of his!”

Yusuke nodded, “Yeah.”

Kuwabara smiled, “Okay, then let’s go stomp Dai into the ground, where he belongs!”

“YEAH!” Everyone in the room rejoiced.

“Dai, I’m gonna paint Genan Park with your blood!” Yusuke mentally said.

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Keiko sniffled, “Miss Botan is there anything else I can do to stop Yusuke? Anything at all?!”

Botan looked down at Keiko whom looked at her with pleading eyes. Botan thought of something, but it was a really long shot.

“Well,” Botan started, “You could try talking to Kuwabara. He may not be able to see or hear you, but he can feel your presence. The ‘shiver’, as he calls it, can help you get through to him.”

Keiko nodded and smiled, “Great!” She then stood up and stuck her chest out, “Well, there’s no use sitting here, being depressed! I’ve got to find Kuwabara!”

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25 minutes later…

Kuwabara, Yusuke and the other stepped into Genan Park, looking for any signs of Dai and his gang. Yusuke kept in mind that Dai was pretty tough, even without the stun gun. He also kept in mind that Dai’s intention was to kill. It was going to be a modern day death match.

Kuwabara sneered, “I know this is a trap. This whole place looks suspicious.”

Komada nodded, “Yeah, for reals. This place practically has ‘ambush’ written all over it.”

Just then, Keiko floated down rapidly to Kuwabara’s side and yelled in his ear, “Kuwabara! Yusuke has a gun! Do NOT let him use it! I repeat: Do NOT let him use that gun!”

Suddenly, Kuwabara froze up and then gazed at Yusuke suspiciously, “Urameshi, you got a weapon on you or somethin’?”

Yusuke, paused, shocked that Kuwabara asked him something like that, especially since he really did have a weapon on him. Maybe it was just coincidence that Kuwabara would ask. Perhaps he asked because they all had knives to fight with or something. Yeah, that was it.

Yusuke shrugged, “What’s it matter?”

Kuwabara’s face got more serious, “Because whether we make it outta here alive might depend on what you have.”

Yusuke sighed, “Would you get off my case, already? I’m prepared for this fight, Kuwabara. You should worry more about whether you are or not.”

Kuwabara sighed, “Fine, Urameshi. Forget it.”

Keiko frowned, “No, Kuwabara, you big dummy! Get his gun away from him! Get the stupid gun!”

Botan watched Keiko sadly, as her last chance to save Yusuke, slowly, but surely slipped away. Botan felt guilty and even though Keiko was out of earshot, she whispered softly, “I’m sorry, Keiko. I am so sorry.”

Just then, Dai stepped out into the main path from behind a tree as his gang followed closely behind.

“So,” said Dai, “You actually had the guts to come here, huh?”

Before anyone could reply, all of Dai’s gang each pulled out a stun gun. Just as this happened, Yusuke stepped in front of Kuwabara.

“Dai!” Yusuke shouted. “Just you and me! Right here, right now!”

Dai smirked, amused by Yusuke’s suggestion, “All right, then. It’s just you and me, punk. Let’s go!”

The two combatants walked toward each other with a bitter sneer. Dai dropped his stun gun to the ground and cracked his knuckles. Yusuke kept his eyes narrowed as they met face to face.

Yusuke, with his hand in his shirt spat, “You killed her in cold blood, all because you have no honor. Because of you, I have no real reason to be honorable anymore. You stole my happiness and my honor away from me, you son of a bitch!”

Dai smirked, “Yeah? So?”

Yusuke growled as he unraveled his gun and pressed it firmly against Dai’s head, “So…you die!”

“Yusuke, no!!!” Keiko screamed, but only in vain as Yusuke’s finger prepared to pull the trigger back. His narrowed eyes grew wide with anticipation as his grip on the pistol became tight and firm as he prepared to pull the trigger all the way back.

Dai could only stand there in horror as he saw his entire life flash before his eyes in that very moment. It was really over for him. He was really going to die. Right then and there, he saw Keiko’s face. The look of fear she had on her face as the lumber collapsed on her body. He didn’t know she would die. He only said those cruel words to scare her. He thought she would be put in the hospital at the very worst. Now, it was too late. Acting tough and unremorseful finally came back upon him. It was now Yusuke’s turn.

“URAMESHI!” Kuwabara bellowed as he ran to Yusuke’s side, “Look, man. This isn’t you! You’re not a killer, you’re a fighter! Think about it! How do you think Keiko would feel if you killed somebody, in her name, no less?!”

Yusuke bit his bottom lip and shouted, “Shut it, Kuwabara! I know what I’m doing! This is for Keiko…I’ll kill him….I’ll kill him for Keiko!”

Kuwabara calmed himself and sighed, “You don’t mean that, Urameshi. Stop forcing yourself. You hate the idea of killing as much as I do and you know it.”

Yusuke choked up, holding back a sob, “It’s just not fair! Tell me, Dai. Why did you kill her?”

Dai stuttered, “I-I-I don’t know! I dunno! I didn’t mean to, I-“

“Bullshit!” Yusuke cried. “Give her back! Give Keiko back to me, NOW!”

Yusuke pulled back the hammer of the gun and shoved the barrel into Dai’s mouth, “You’re gonna die! You’re gonna DIE!”

Keiko shrieked at the top of her lungs, “NOOOOOOO!”

Botan gasped at what happened. Keiko’s ghostly form had taken on a white glow and grabbed onto Yusuke, causing him to gasp. He looked down to see Keiko in a transparent state holding his arm back and crying her eyes out.

“No more, Yusuke.” Keiko sobbed, “No more.”

Yusuke’s grip on the pistol went limp as he heard her words, “Kei…Keiko.” The pistol
dropped to the ground. “I never meant….to make you cry.”

Okubo asked, “What’s going on here? I’m confused.”

Kirishima shrugged, “I have no clue at all, what about you, Komada?”

Komada spat, “Why the hell are you askin’ me?”

Dai backed away, “What the hell, is up with this guy? Why’s he talkin’ to himself?”

Keiko smiled up at Yusuke with he tears still falling down her transparent face, “Yusuke, thank you. Please don’t worry about me. I’m coming back soon. You don’t have to do this.”

Yusuke smiled, “I’ll be waiting for you, Keiko.”

Kuwabara watched the entire scene play out. He felt a presence and noticed Yusuke talking to thin air. Putting two and two together, Kuwabara summed it all up. Yusuke was talking to ghosts now. He smiled, seeing that Yusuke had calmed down, but what he saw afterward caused a frown to be placed on his face once more. Kuwabara charged Yusuke and shoulder rammed him to the ground, in the middle of his conversation with Keiko.

Yusuke tumbled on the ground and shouted, “Damn it, Kuwabara! I’m gonna kick your-“

BANG!

Kuwabara’s face filled with both surprise and agony as his shirt was covered with warm, crimson liquid. He let out a deep gasp before blood oozed from the side of his mouth and his body slumped to the ground.

And then, behind Kuwabara’s body, stood Dai, holding a smoking pistol and smirking menacingly.

“KUWABARA!” The group shouted in vain, for their fallen friend could not hear them.

Yusuke’s eyes were widened with fright. Kuwabara had been shot with the gun that Yusuke had bought. Keiko’s eyes began to flow with tears, as did Botan’s, for Kazuma Kuwabara’s life was coming to a violent end.


Botan: Hi! Botan here! As you just saw, Kuwabara is on the verge of death from saving Yusuke’s life! As it stands, there seems to be nothing anyone can do against Dai and the Armor Piercing ammunition filled gun! Also, Keiko is the only hope left to save her friends! How will she do it? Can she do it? Find out on the next Yu Yu Hakusho!

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