Spirit Detective Saga

Yusuke is a 14 year old boy that goes to Sarayashiki Junior High School. One day while skipping school Yusuke is walking around the neighborhood and starts entertaining a little boy but the boy wonders into the street, in front of a oncoming car. Yusuke pushes the boy out of the way and gets struck by the car and killed. As a ghost Yusuke runs into a young girl named Botan. She tells Yusuke that if he didn't push the kid out of the way that the kid would have only got a bruise on his arm. She says she can get his life back he declines.

This changes once he visits his wake, where people pay their condolences to his mother. Atsuko, his mother is really depressed about her son dying. Keiko Yukimura, a childhood friend cries uncontrollably, screaming Yusuke's name. Kuwabara appears, a somewhat rival of Yusuke's, mad and sad that he died before they could finish all of their battles. Two of his teachers diminish Yusuke at the wake, Mr. Takenaka, also a teacher, scolds them for insulting him. He pays his respects to Atsuko and cries at Yusuke's death; only then, Yusuke's mom reacts, dropping in tears when she heard about them talking about Yusuke. Lastly, the child whom Yusuke saved and his mother appeared, the child asks if he can play with Yusuke again, his mother cries and then hugs him. knowing now that he meant more to others than he let on, he decides he wants to be alive again.

Yusuke is given a egg by Koenma,lord of Spirit World, and is told that it will hatch a spirit beast. The Spirit beast will help him get his life back but he has to be be a good person. If he is evil the beast will devour him when it hatches. Yusuke sacrifices the beast to save Keiko Yusuke has been telling her in her dreams that he would be coming back to life. He told her that his body needed be taken care of so he can return to it.

This would be hard when a fire stars in Yusuke's home and his body is still in there. Keiko decides to run into the fire to protect his body, but almost passes out, even with help from Kuwabara. Yusuke sacrifices the egg to save her. Impress with his selflessness, Koenma lets Yusuke return to his body without the beast. This can only happen if someone wants him back gives some life energy with a kiss, which Keiko manages to do.

After he returns Yusuke noticed that a demon what possessing a persons body. Botan then arrives to tell Yusuke that his experience with death gave him this ability with more. He is now Earth's Spirit Detective, and is now supposed to protect the human race from demons.

Yusuke Urameshi, the Spirit Detective

With being Spirit Detective he is now assigned with mission. The first he has is to recover three stolen artifacts from Spirit world. Koenma first trains Yusuke by teaching how to fire his spirit energy. human and spirits can use this energy as a weapon. This become Yusuke's signature move, the Spirit Gun. Yusuke tries to combat the three thieves. First is Hiei, who stole the Sword of Shadows. Next Kurama, who stole a mirror called the Forlorn Hope. Last is Goki, who stole a soul-stealing article called the Orb of Bast.

Yusuke, with help from Botan defeated Gouki with his Spirit Gun. When he confronted Kurama he gave it up voluntarily turns over the Forlorn Hope since he only wanted to use its power to save the life of his mother's. Kurama wanted to sacrifice his life for the mirror so he can save his mother's, but Yusuke selflessly asked the mirror to take his own life so Kurama can be with his mother. The mirror granted Kurama's wish and spared both of their lives, and Yusuke took the mirror. Yusuke, with Botan then go to fight Hiei, who kidnapped Keiko so he can turn her into a demon. While Botan fought off the transformation, Yusuke fast the super fast demon by using his Spirit Gun to bounce off the Forlorn Hope, purposely missing Hiei to strike the mirror, which caused the arrogant demon to believe Yusuke missed.

New tricks from Genkai

Yusuke's next mission is to go rescue the ice apparition Yukina. He goes with Botan and Kuwabara. Yukina is Hiei's twin sister which neither she or Kuwabara know about. Yusuke and Kuwabara fight their way through demon up to the Toguro brothers. With teamwork Kuwabara and Yusuke defeat the Toguros. But it turns out they didn't. They lost on purpose. The younger Toguro then reassures Yusuke into the Dark Tournament so they can have a real battle.

Dark Tournament

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Over the next few months Yusuke trains with Master Genkai for the Dark Tournament. For the Tournament they have have teams. Yusuke's team consist of himself, Kuwabara, Hiei, Kurama, and Maser Genkai as "The Masked Fight" to create Team Urameshi. The first round they have to fight the team called the Jolly Devil Six. Yusuke won against Chu. In this fight the two finish the fight with a knife edge death match. In this type of match Chu puts two knives on to the floor and he and Yusuke put their feet in fron of the knife. Whoever slipped first off theknife would lose and the winner could kill the loser. Fortunately for Chu Yusuke doesn't kill him. The next round he along with Kuwabara and Genkai face M1, M2, and M3 in a 3 vs. 3 match. Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Genkai, as "The Masked Fighter" win. Yusuke had to skip the fourth round so Genkai can train him to face Younger Toguro. Genkai gave him the Spirt Wave Orb which was most of her reiki (or spirit energy) in an orb.

Saying Goodbye to the Old Hag

Yusuke had to face unbearable pain in order to absorb the orb. He was now prepared for the finals to face Younger Toguro. Genkai attempts to face Toguro but she is killed by him. With the last of her strength she explains her connection to Younger Toguro. In a Dark Tournament 50 years ago Genkai and Younger Toguro were teammates. She explain that Younger Toguro was human, until he became a demon to keep his strength and be young.

She thens warns him not to become like Younger Toguro and then the fight begins. During their long battle Genkai posseses Pu, Yusuke's spirit beast, to tell Younger Toguro that in order to bring out Yusuke's full potential he must kill Kuwabara, his best friend. He does so but Kuwabara was secretly alive. This brings out all of Yusuke's strength and defeats Younger Toguro.

Charging up the Final Blast to take down Toguro

Chapter Black Saga

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In this saga Yusuke has to stop Shinbou Sensui. Sensui was a former Spirit Detective who was driven insane by the Chapter Black videotape, a tape with the creulist things that humans ever done. He wants to open a portal to Demon World so the demons can bring terror to people for to punish them. But in order to defeat him he must defeat six other humans who have psychic powers.With help from Kurama, Hiei, and Kuwabara he can fight Sensui. But he realizes he can't defeat Sensui. So he has Sensui kill him to awaken Kuwabara, Hiei, and Kurama's hidden potential.

But this wouldn't be the last time to see Yusuke. His ancestral demon blood has resurrected him and he now has the power of an S-class demon. It was revealed that he is a Mazoku, or a descendant the Amazaku demons. His demon ancestor named Raizen had a baby with a human woman. Raizen made so when the stars reach a certain alignment, a descendent would become a demon if they were worthy of being resurrected. The first time Yusuke died his potential awoke and his hidden spirit powers. Missions afterwards, especiall his fight with the Younger Toguro, they helped awake his demon blood.

Characteristics

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Yusuke, at the beginning of the series, was a severe street fighting punk, and somewhat feared in his school district for never losing a fight. Even in the first chapter he is shown easily taking on four people and beating them with utter ease, including Kuwabara, his rival, and someone who would later be one of his best friends. Despite the hard outer shell of a personality he proposed towards the start of Yuyu Hakusho, he was also revealed to have somewhat of a soft shell underneath, as he seemed to have a soft spot for Keiko Yukimura, his High School crush. Among this and other things, he was also proven to be extremely kind simply because he sacrificed his life to save a child from a speeding car, causing him to have an alternative choice in what he wanted to do with his soul in the afterlife, rather than go to the River Styx, he would instead send himself on the path to becoming a Spirit Detective.