Yu Yu Hakusho (幽☆遊☆白書)

Finally reaching Sensui's lair,

Kurama mercilessly killed the psychic Gourmet

to free Kuwabara, but a surprise emerged.

The elder Toguro had actually taken over Gourmet

from the inside, and sought revenge.

Regeneration made Toguro unable to die,

so Kurama condemned him to an eternity of pain

in the arms of the strange Sinning Tree.

Now, with the tunnel to demon world moments from completion,

the final battle begins.

I'll kill you! Why won't you die?!

Such a malignant soul will never accept the truth.

The more he lashes out in his mind,

the more painful the Sinning Tree's effects become.

It hurts!

No! I'll show you!

I'll tear you apart!

Such is the plant's nature; only your own sins can hurt you.

Uh, Kurama, if I ever did somethin' that pissed you off,

I'm sorry.

Me too.

You're cheating me!

You can summon your friend now.

Now only two remain in our path.

Right.

Your end of the world party's dwindling, Sensui,

and I trust you don't wanna be plant food.

Give Kuwabara back to us like you promised.

Ha. No need to get heated, Yusuke.

I've kept my word. He's no longer in my possession.

What?

--No... --But I never saw him move.

You bastard.

Look, there.

Kuwabara! What the hell are you doing over there?!

Jeez, not bein' able to tell you guys how to fight,

that's worse than dyin'!

Stay focused. How did you get over here?

I don't know really.

One minute I was sittin' in the boat,

the next thing I was all mixed around. Dizzy.

Soon as I got my wits together, I was here.

Did you see something?

Well, uh--

Look, Kurama.

Yeah, maybe something like that.

Okay, another thing on my "weird" list

just got checked off.

Yup. There goes another one!

Stupid.

I'll leave you two alone.

I dunno know what you did with my friends,

but I tell you now. For every one you hurt, I'm taking a limb.

You're misunderstanding it.

Your friends haven't been touched.

I'm not interested in their fates.

I just don't want distractions.

So... then it's time.

Dear... they've been down there forever.

What's taking them so long?

Patience, Botan, it's the end of the world.

You can't just flip it off with a switch.

I know...

We have to trust the weapons we've got,

and cross our fingers.

Keep holding him, Yusuke.

Your cavalry's coming.

Uh.

I'll just hope Kurama didn't run out of seeds.

What is this place?

Looks like the dark bowels of Hell.

You mean that?

Well, guys, wherever we are,

I would really, really like to be untied.

We are in the bowels of something, Kurama.

I'd say it's a Dark Soul.

Dark Soul? What's that?

Sounds terrible.

An old apparition.

It lives beneath the surface of the earth,

collecting human trash.

But we were not swallowed by chance.

Someone else must be controlling this creature.

-- Creature? --

Please, call him Ura-Otoko.

That's his proper name.

He's my pet. I tamed him myself.

Itsuki.

You're not truly a human, are you?

Do you think a human could'ave produced that tunnel?

Yaminate.

The "Devil with Six Hands".

This rare, super-sensory breed of demon has six arms,

which can move independently of their master.

He is an actual Yaminate.

Ta.

I don't care if he's a unicorn, let's start this fight!

We'll see how special he is when I'm smashin' him.

Calm your anger, Kuwabara.

I'm not here to fight.

What?

Then why the heck did you bring us to this freaky place?

We sightseein'? 'Cause I've seen enough.

I'm protecting the fight between our detectives.

Huh?

Though we are on different sides,

we serve the same cause, do we not?

Protecting this battle through its completion,

without bickering amongst ourselves.

Yusuke deserves it. Sensui deserves it.

Ta! He doesn't deserve bunk.

You tell me one good feature that traitor has.

One decent thing that makes you follow

his end-of-the-world crusade.

He has everything.

Sensui can be violent, courageous, spiritually pure,

and even fragile.

He can be a graceful spokesman with charisma

to bring anyone to his side.

Indeed, I have been drawn to his aura like a moth to the flame

since the very first moment that we met.

I first saw him in the darkness,

forging a path of light.

I would follow him for hours, unbeknownst to him.

Just watching him work made me feel alive.

My obsession grew.

I began helping from the shadows,

killing apparitions who wanted him dead.

Of course, when he caught me, he wasn't grateful.

I was just another demon to judge.

Do you have anything to say before you die?

If it's possible,

let me have one more day to live, Mr. Sensui.

Why should I?

Tomorrow, my favorite television show airs its final episode,

and I'd like to see how it ends.

You're the first demon to ever make me laugh.

And so he let me live.

I suppose I was his first step in realizing his relationships

of good and evil could not be so... traditionally defined.

You mean there's all kinds of apparitions, good and bad?

Who could have dreamed that a hunter I admired

for physical prowess, this killer of killers,

could also be warm.

Compassionate. Intellectual.

Open to broadening his view of the world.

Yes, I admit my attraction was not purely academic.

I always wished he would become my lover.

Okay, you can stop right there.

I don't think my ears are old enough for this.

If you truly care for Sensui, then help us stop him.

This path he's chosen will destroy him as well.

You can't save the damned.

Don't you see? I'm expecting him to act terribly,

and hurt people.

Even to his own end, there's no way to stop it.

Why not?

Because Sensui must follow his soul's true course.

Drop ink on the finest snow white paper

and it will inevitably absorb into black.

Its purity demands it.

Tainted men have immunities.

Black does not absorb black.

Sensui's change is but proof of his perfection,

and you cannot stop him.

The ability to prevent this demise

would show purity did not exist.

Purity is worth the world.

And worth it ending.

You're really making me nauseous.

All of your fancy lies.

You can't excuse him! He's a monster, cut and dry.

You're not listening to me, Kuwabara.

I'm not excusing him.

Then what the heck do you call that?!