Confused,Yusuke sees an ambulance arrive, while one of the paramedics attends to the kid's wounds another is checking Yusuke's body and says that he is dead.
Amazed,Yusuke sees a paramedic taking his body away to an ambulance and he tries to tell him to stop,but nobody could see or hear him.Frustrated, Yusuke tried to hit one of the paramedics,but his punch went right through his body.
Trying to make sense of the situation, Yusuke starts to remember the previous events of the morning. He went to school after skipping classes for ten days in a row, but he ended up hiding on the roof, bored. His childhood friend, Keiko Yukimura, found him and scolded him for his idleness. His answer was lifting her skirt and making some naughty comments about her panties, for which he received a violent slap in return.
As she left the roof, two of Keiko’s friends approached her, worried about Urameshi’s "bad boy" reputation, but Keiko dismissed their fears, telling them that Yusuke, if harsh and unpolite, is harmless and has very few friends (not the gang of bullies the two girls suspected).
After that, Yusuke surprised two boys planning to use his bad reputation to scare their schoolmates into giving them money, but before he could teach them a proper lesson, one of the teachers, Iwamoto, caught him and accused him of stealing. Yusuke walked away, but was caught by the principal, Takenaka, who scolded him for cutting classes.
Deeply annoyed, Yusuke went home and found his mother, Atsuko, waking up with a hangover. She scolded him too, claiming that if he won’t go to school, he should drop it entirely, so she won’t have to pay for it anymore. Furious, Yusuke left again and was ambushed by Kazuma Kuwabara, his old school rival, and his gang. Yusuke easily defeated Kuwabara, and that made him feel better from the day's stress. One of Kuwabara’s friends, Okubo, suggested that he should give up fighting Urameshi, since it was the 156th time Kuwabara lost. But Kuwabara swore that he would never give up.
Yusuke finally remembers having met the little kid playing with a ball next to a high-traffic street. He played with the kid for a while, making funny faces, then told him not to play with the ball next to the street,but the kid didn’t listen. As soon as Yusuke crossed the street, the kid went back to playing, until the ball ran into the middle of the street. Seeing a sports car racing wildly in that direction, Yusuke jumped in front to shove the kid to safety,but was hit by the car in the process.
At last Yusuke realizes in despair that he had died in that accident, and is currently a ghost.
But a laughing voice calls his attention. A blue-haired girl in a pink kimono and sitting on an oar is levitating right behind him. She introduces herself as Botan, the guide who orients the journey through the Styx River — or commonly known as the grim reaper. She reads out of a book on people that Yusuke is an arrogant, brutal, selfish and dumb human.
She tells him that the Spirit World didn't expect his death, since no one predicted that a selfish boy like Yusuke would sacrifice himself to save a little kid. She also tells him that the kid was destined to survive the accident without any bruises – so in truth, Yusuke died in vain. So a trial for resurrection is offered to him.
But Yusuke thinks everyone is better off without him and refuses the offer. Botan then suggests that he should wait and watch his own wake before refusing it. At the ceremony, he sees Keiko, Atsuko and even Takenaka crying for him.
Kuwabara comes to the wake as well, yelling hysterically at Yusuke, demanding another fight. He has to be hauled away by his friends.
The little kid that Yusuke had saved is brought by his mother to pray. The kid doesn't quite understand the ceremony, thinking Yusuke is only sleeping in the coffin. He tells his mother that he likes Yusuke and wants to play with him again when he wakes up.
Touched by those moving responses to his demise, Yusuke tells Botan he accepts to go through the trial. She sets off and takes him to the Spirit World.
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