Act 31

This page is the outline for Act 30 of the Yu Yu Hakusho Reiko Novel series titled: '''Flashing Spirit Light! Train to Death'''.

Outline
Two Months to Train to Death!:Yusuke clashes with Kibano’s reiki infused muscles and they cancel out each other. The same happens for Kuwabara’s spirit sword and Musashi’s Shibbato Shining Sword. Both boys lose their reiko and ask what gives. Genkai explains that focusing your ki into one area will always cancel out with someone else doing the same. Kibano claims Yusuke has gotten too cocky since winning the tournament. Musashi adds that Kuwabara must refine his swordsmanship techniques if he ever truly wants to be effective with the spirit sword.

Explaining to Botan while the boys train, Genkai says that Yusuke used to put all of his energy into his spirit gun when he fired it, quickly exhausting his energy. Throughout his many battles Yusuke has learned to reserve his ki. However, even after learning to utilize reiko, Yusuke still puts most of the energy designated into a single limb. To truly heighten his spiritual abilities he must allow the reiko to flow through his entire body at all times, then apply a more focused charge of energy at the moment of impact. Kuwabara has learned to utilize a reiko from Yusuke thanks to his spiritual awareness. Both of them are highly adaptive and Genkai plans on taking advantage of that.

Genkai takes them to the ancient battlefield to take advantage of the reiki particles floating through the air. Both boys must focus on flowing their reiko through their bodies for extended periods of time. Then immediately after they must spar with Kibano and Musashi. This will help them refine their spirit energy as well as their physical fighting abilities.

Meanwhile tells Jorg to secure as much information on the Dark Tournament as possible. Tarukane was the originator of the Black Black Club but Spirit World intelligence has it that they’ve been doing fine without him and Sakyo successfully acquired his resources and effectively absorbed his influence. Koenma asks what they have on Sakyo and Jorg reveals that he’s one of top humans on the spirit world’s most wanted list. Human trafficking to demon world, demon trafficking to human world, and a plethora of other supernatural crimes. He was in league with Toguro the entire time. Sakyo planted the Toguro’s in Tarukane’s operation as a way to take his wealth and get rid of Tarukane before this year’s tournament. This opened up a spot for Yusuke and his team. Sakyo and Toguro has information about their exploits and found Yusuke, Kuwabara, Hiei, and Kurama were all perfect candidates for the event.

The location and specific brackets and rules of the tournament change from year to year but it's essentially a round robin team fighting tournament. The average participant is of C-Class spirit level, equal to that of Rando and the Saint Beasts. This concerns Koema because Hiei and Kurama just recently reached this level.

On cue, Hiei and Kurama walk into Koenma’s office. Hiei is irritated to hear spirit realm is strapping letter grades to yokai and Koenma explains that he has raised his power significantly since first being registered during Yusuke’s investigation of him. Kurama says they have more important business to discuss and Koenma confirms hands them a slip that has the portals location, the time it will open, and when they will need to return before it shuts for good. He asks what specifically they’re looking for and Hiei claims he’s going to find power that will make their classification system pointless.

In the next stage of their training, Genkai tells Yusuke to block her attack. She focuses her reiki all into her fist. He prepares to block it by focusing his reiko and concentrates on waiting to adjust for the correct percentage once Genkai makes contact. However, Genkai’s punch moves extremely slow. Yusuke relaxes his defences and gets sent flying as a result. She berates him about his focus and explains their next exercise will be sparring in slow motion against each other. Although Yusuke and Kuwabara can already do so instinctively, Genkai tells them to train flowing reiko through their bodies and adjust the percentage of it to one area for thirty minutes three times a day.

Their next exercise begins immediately after she has the boys train by fighting slowly against each other, allowing them to adjust their reiko accordingly. Through repetition they get faster and faster. If they keep this up for two months they should be able to go full speed in time for the tournament.

Hiei and Kurama appear from a portal and arrive in Demon Realm. Kurama says it feels interesting to be home again and Hiei is annoyed they have to be granted permission and rendezvous with a random portal. Kurama believes Koenma’s resources can’t make the portals themselves, only track their positions. He adds that they’ve managed to bring them pretty close to their destination as well. Hiei says that isn’t his point, he’s tired of following Koenma’s orders and plans to earn his freedom by winning the dark tournament. Kurama asks if this is about his reputation among other yokai and how its been tarnished from working with Yusuke. Hiei claims such a thing is trivial and none of that will matter when he crushes them in the tournament.

They come to a stop when the cave begins to shake and the walls and floor begin to crack and implode. There is a dragon screech in the background, Kurama notes that they have to survive this in order to win the tournament. As darkness approaches from deeper in the cave, Hiei reveals his Jagan and states that he plans to do more than just survive.

After several days of training, Yusuke and Kuwabara can spar with their reiko at close to full speed. Botan is excited by their quick developments and Genkai agrees their progress is even faster than anticipated. She decides it's time to determine if Yusuke is ready for the final stage and has the boys square up against the other psychics once again.

Kibano notes that he’s grateful he’s been able to grow stronger and practice under these conditions, but he’s not going to let Yusuke roll over him either. Musashi claims that he’s more impressed with Kuwabara’s improvements as a swordsmen. His sword handling skills have improved a great deal after sparring repeatedly after these few days. However, it's not time yet for the student to surpass the master. Yusuke and Kuwabara fire up their ki in sync while the other two charge at them. They use Shinbatto Shining Sword and Big Arm Bomber respectively. Kuwabara parries Musashi’s sword at the last moment, shattering it instantly. Yusuke is able to catch Kibano’s fist without using all his energy and counterattacks with a punch using his freehand, securing victory for the boys. They apologize, but they’ve met a new enemy with strength they can’t hope to match. They must get stronger at all costs, so they can’t afford to hold back. This shows how much the boys truly have grown, exciting Botan.

Everyone returns to the temple and Genkai reveals that this will complete the group training. Yusuke is her successor and she will use the remaining time before the tournament. Kuwabara is grateful for her help, as are the others. They leave along with Botan out of the temple, leaving only Genkai and Yusuke. Genkai says while they’ve made massive strides in this short time they’re still not ready. She tells him that he’s ready to begin learning the techniques of the Reihado, powers that will allow him to survive the tournament. Yusuke agrees and with that, the remaining time before the tournament passes.