Yusuke and Yomi continue their violent, amazing, happy fight. Yomi creates one of his green energy balls, which sends Yusuke flying backwards through a dozen trees. And the boy is still flying when Yomi reaches him again and shots a second ball, which now sends Yusuke against a mountain that doesn't resist the impact.

Yusuke resists bravely though, and the next second he and Yomi are exchanging socks and kicks again. Yomi's next attack spirals fast and powerfully towards Yusuke, burying the boy in the battlefield's ground and making a huge hole through the floating platform. But soon Yusuke emerges from the sand and jumps like a missile towards Yomi, using his Shotgun. Yomi defends himself with his kekkai spherule, which explodes under Yusuke's strikes. Both warriors land on the battlefield; none is seriously hurt, and both are more than willing to go on fighting for as long as it takes.

The public is so overwhelmed at the two fighters' skills and enthusiasm that even the ones who are cheering for Yomi applaud Yusuke, and vice-versa. "Soon, we'll have the final result," says Mukuro.

"Yusuke's chances are minimum," Hiei comments.

"He's persistent," she counters. "He won't bow out."

"Yomi won't throw in the towel either," Kurama muses.

Mukuro: "What inspires him to be so persistent?"

Kurama: "Yusuke, in his turn, isn't thinking of anything either."

Hiei: Only one thing must be in his mind."

Yomi: "What? Tell me!"

Kuwabara: "Hah! Kicking the adversary's ass, of course!"

Kurama blinks. "Kuwabara?!" But as he looks beside him, the image of the friend that had stayed behind in Ningenkai disappears; only Jin and Touya are there. Kurama smiles.

Yusuke also has voices talking in his head: Genkai chides him, "Yusuke, don't make the same mistake. You're never alone. You'll become stronger for someone. You'll be fighting for someone." Then he sees his friends calling his name.

Botan and Koenma.

Chuu.

Kurama.

Kuwabara, Yukina, Puu and Shizuru.

Jin, Touya, Rinku, Shishi and Suzuki.

Kido, Kaitou, Genkai and Yanagizawa.

Hokushin and Raizen's men.

Yusuke's powers form a hurricane around him, and he focuses all that energy in his fists. Yomi grins and copies him. "I'd love to go on fighting with you for all eternity," he tells Yusuke. "But..."

"But unfortunately the fun will have to end sometime," the boy amended with a mirrored grin.

"Exactly. Come, Urameshi!"

Yusuke attacks and the two of them fight boldly, using only their power-glowing fists. The public yells their names in frenzy. Tears run down Hokushin's ace: "Urameshi, you are incredible."

Yomi and Yusuke run towards each other for the last strike; one hits the other in the face, with all their strength. An explosion of ki forms a column of light that rises to the sky and blinds everyone for a moment.

Yusuke falls.

He hears Koto's countdown and tries to get up. But when he does, he's not in the battlefield anymore. He's on a hospital bed and a female youkai wearing a nurse uniform is staring at him: "So? Feeling better now?"

Yusuke is too confused to reply, but the next moment Rinku, Touya, Chuu, Shishi, Suzuki and Jin enter the room, happy to see their friend awake. "What am I doing here?" Yusuke asks.

"Yusuke, I'm sorry, but you lost," Jin tells him.

"Do you know you've been sleeping for a whole week?" says Touya.

Chuu tells Yusuke that in the end Shura's encouragement had been fundamental to Yomi's victory. After that last sock, Yomi was about to fall too, but heard his son's voice calling his name, and that gave him the strength to keep on standing.

Even learning that he had been defeated, Yusuke smiles. He asks about the Tournament, and Kurama comes to announce that the event has just ended.

Kurama helps Yusuke to go back to the stadium, followed by the others, and they get there just in time to see Koto announcing the name of the winner of the Makai Tournament and, consequently, the new King of the Demon World.

Enki.

"But what happened to Yomi?" asks Yusuke.

Kurama says Yomi lost the next fight after Yusuke. "Fighting without energy using only sense and audition demands lots of concentration and stamina. We couldn't expect so much from him after spending so much of his ki fighting with you."

"What about Mukuro?"

"She defeated Natsume, but was out of the competition after the semi-finals."

Koto hands Enki the microphone. "Well, after many fights combinations I ended up winning this post," he says. "I admit that in reality I'm not the strongest. But luck has always been part of my life, and for the next three years as the Champion, I promise to give all of myself to form a good government."

The crowd is very excited as they are reminded that there will be a new Tournament -- and a new King -- in three years.

"The rule of this Tournament," Enki continues, "is that, no matter what, everyone will obey the ruling of the new governor. In my three-year administration there'll be only one essential law." He cleans his throat. "Never to disturb the Ningenkai."

As Enki gives more details about his upcoming administration, Urameshi asks Kurama about Yomi.

"He left for a trip right after being defeated," Kurama tells him, and remembers the moment of their goodbye. Yomi had said that he would train his son so the kid would become stronger than Urameshi.

"That guy is nothing," Shura boasted. "I'll become stronger than my father, and stronger than you too, Kurama!"

Kurama smiled. "Then I'll be waiting, okay?"

"Kurama, when Urameshi wakes up, tell him that our fight was really extraordinary," Yomi asked him. "For the first time I plunged head-first in a real combat, and next time I can't tell what the consequences will be."

Before leaving with his son, Yomi still added, "Kurama, it was good to see you again."

... while Shura stuck out the tongue at Kurama.

The Tournament is over and everyone is leaving. Yusuke and Kurama say goodbye to Jin, Touya, Chuu, Rinku, Shishi and Suzuki.

"We'll meet again in three years," says Jin.

"I'll practice a lot," Chuu promises. "And next time I'll win." Touya mocks him.

"I could never imagine we'd have such a happy ending," Suzuki admits. Touya asks Kurama about his plans.

"I'm going back to Ningenkai," the redhead replies. They all wave and part.

In the forest, Kurama finds Hiei leaning against a tree. "Where's Yusuke?"

"I think he'll go later," says Kurama. "He has things to do first."

"Are you leaving?"

"I'm going straight home, Hiei."

Hiei flings at him a necklace with a pendant. A teargem.

Kurama stares at the bluish jewel on his palm. "I'm touched, but I can't accept this present. I'm not in the habit of wearing..."

Hiei sweatdrops. "And who says it's for you?!" he growls, clenching his fist.

The redhead giggles. "Easy, I'm just kidding. I know, you want me to return it to Yukina."

"That's right!" Hiei spats. "And give her this message: tell her that her brother is dead."

"And why don't you give it to her yourself?"

"I'll remain here," Hiei looks away. "I want her to give up the search for me."

"In this case it'd be best if you return this to her yourself," Kurama says gently. "Even if it takes many years." He hands him the necklace.

After a moment, Hiei accepts it back. "All right, I won't insist."

In the stadium, Yusuke finds Koenma in his teen form. "Each one chose his path and left," says the Reikai Prince. "In less than one year you bugged the plans of the most powerful ones in Makai and stopped a war that would involve everybody. Your tactics are quite versatile."

Embarrassed, Yusuke waves the praising off.

"I'm not praising you!" Koenma snaps. "What you've done could have ended in a war between Makai, Reikai and Ningenkai!" He sighed. "At least we'll have a bit of tranquility for the next three years. I hope that until then, Makai will change. Your idea worked after all, Yusuke."

"No way, I did everything without thinking," Yusuke countered. "Really, I hate thinking. I prefer simplicity and always look for the easiest way to act. I fought thousands of times, many of them against my wish."

He remembers Kuwabara, who once thought, "I'm always being beaten, but when I fight him I feel great!"

"Some people only learn the hard way," Yusuke smirks at his memories, and "hears" Kuwabara yelling at him for talking on his back.

Koenma laughs. "If you can only solve problems with a fight, be my guest. I hope someday the Three Worlds can get along." He shifts into his baby form. "Anyway, everybody will die someday."

"Although I've been in Death's list for a long time already..." Yusuke grins.

"We won't see each other for a while."

Yusuke asks him to take care of himself; they say goodbye to each other. Before leaving, Yusuke tells him that he looks better in that form. Koenma blushes.

"No matter what, he's always cheerful," Koenma comments, seeing Yusuke run out of the stadium.

"That's why I like him," Botan replies, joining her boss. "He's a good kid."

Narrator: "The battle is over. But for as long as Man lives, he will constantly fighting for something, and must never abandon the fight." In this moment we find out that the narrator of Yu Yu Hakusho is George -- who is reprehended by Koenma for his boring speech.

Yusuke visits Raizen's grave. "It's over, old man. And I lost."

He sees Raizen's ghostly figure sitting on the grave and smirking at him. "And you thought you could win? It's too soon. You'll be up to winning in three hundred years. What are you going to do with your life, Yusuke?"

"Practice, of course."

"To win the next combat... Are you planning to travel around?"

"Travel? That's a good idea... really good idea."

"Makai is a very large world."

"Yeah... but I got a promise to keep. So I'll be leaving." Yusuke says goodbye, but promises to come back someday. He also meets Hokushin and three other men of Raizen's and says the same: "I've got some private stuff to do, so I'm on my way, but someday I'll drop by, okay?"

"I understand," Hokushin nods gravely. "We'll be looking forward this day. Until then... farewell." He and his party blurs away. Yusuke contemplates the sunset.

Narrator: "So many memories will remain. Each one followed his own path. And Yusuke..."