Author's Note: Final Chapter!

Yu Yu Hakusho: Magical Girl Special Flower Bloom!
Chapter XI: Deluxe Special Bloom! Winner of the Sweet Wager!

When everyone returned to Spirit World, they found Hiei quietly waiting for them in Koenma's office. "Hiei, when did you get here?" someone immediately demanded.

"As soon as I found out that you guys found out," the fire demon responded nonchalantly. When he glanced at the Pretty Soldiers, his face betrayed no emotion; however when he noticed Romantic Pink Rose and the differences between her and the other Soldiers, he raised one brow. "I wanted to know what was going on."

"Eh? That means you knew?" Yusuke crossed his arms and glared at his smaller friend. "Why didn't you tell any of us?"

The demon snorted. "It was obvious, even without me reading their minds."

"How was it obvious?"

"There are only two women in the world that can defeat Yusuke: Mukuro and his woman. Mukuro would never be a Pretty Soldier, so that leaves the human girl." As he said this, Hiei gave Yellow Peony an up-down. He really wondered how an average human female could get the great Urameshi Yusuke on his knees every time. "Carrot-head is just an idiot and can't tell who Yukina and the others are, despite his claims to have a strong sixth sense." Hiei shot Red Salvia an unhappy frown, his brows crinkled slightly. "The taller woman was a little trickier, but her voice is exactly the same. And bubblehead over there was the most obvious of all."

"Eh?" Everyone looked at Romantic Pink Rose and then back to Hiei in confusion. "How so?"

"How did she get the first soul out of the house without anyone noticing?" the fire demon asked in exasperation. Really, his "friends" were sometimes very tiresome. "How was she so good at dealing with lost souls? Who else would know everything about us and use it to their advantage?" With that said, red eyes glared at a rose-pink form in disapproval. Romantic Pink Rose tried to smile and suppress a shiver. "She's the only one that had access to such a high level Spirit sealing spell they used twice. And there are only two people that Kurama would make such a fuss over, one of them being his mother."

Kurama glared at the fire demon and his acute sense of observation.

Sensing his friend's displeasure, Hiei murmured beneath his breath, "Blame yourself." He knew that no one but Kurama would hear it.

"So the four of you were the Pretty Soldiers all along?" Yusuke demanded as he turned to the four girls. He tried to settle his turbulent feelings and wanted to talk to the Soldiers as civilly as possible.

Seeing her boyfriend try so hard, Yellow Peony smiled at kindly explained, "It was a wager between Koenma-sama and George-san. We all wanted to know which gender made the better Spirit World investigator."

"Koenma-sama and George-san arranged it so that it would be boys versus girls, us against the Spirit Detectives," White Apricot said with confidence. Everyone stared at the white Pretty Soldier, the men surprised that the fair, confident girl was actually shy, quiet Yukina. Really, none of them would have guessed that the ice maiden was one of the Pretty Soldiers.

"Was your identity really so important?" Yusuke asked.

"No," Romantic Pink Rose admitted apologetically, "it just simply gave us an edge over you."

"But what do we do?" Hinageshi sighed. "The wager ended in a draw."

"Not so fast!" Romantic Pink Rose, Yellow Peony, and Red Salvia approached Ayame and Hinageshi. "Could you tell us which points each team received and why?"

Nodding in accord, Ayame grabbed the remote from Koenma's desk and lowered the viewing screen. Pressing a few buttons, Ayame rewound the videos to the first assignment so many days ago. The screen displayed the scene where the Pretty Soldiers introduced themselves the first time. "The Spirit Detectives received the first point for actually brining in the demon and completing the assignment, as seen here."

After that, she pushed the fast-forward button to the next assignment after that. "They received the second point in the same fashion, being the ones to actually arrest the demon fugitive." The next clip showed Pink Rose and Kurama in the old house, the Spirit Detective falling on top of her and groping her. The two involved parties cringed and blushed at the memories. "The third point then went to the Pretty Soldiers because they successfully rescued the soul and returned her to Spirit World. The score is 2 for the Detectives, 1 for the Soldiers."

Returning her attention to the screen, Ayame then again fast-forwarded the footage up until Peony's challenge. "The Soldiers then received the fourth point because Yellow Peony challenged Yusuke, he accepted, and she won the challenge. The fifth point then went to the Pretty Soldiers again because White Apricot challenged Kazuma, he accepted, and she defeated him. The score now is 3 for Soldiers, 2 for Detectives. After the last challenge, Aizen appeared in the Human World. The sixth point went to the Detectives since they captured him and brought him back to Spirit World."

"Hey, wait a minute!" Kazuma exclaimed while he pointed at the present scene taking the place. On screen the Pretty Soldiers had fallen unconscious without their masks. "We took off their masks then. Doesn't that count as a defeat?"

"No because discovering their identities is inconsequential to the wager," Ayame said with a shake of her dark head. "They already knew who you were. It didn't matter if you knew who they were. It would just make their part harder." Kazuma and Yusuke snapped their fingers at a lost chance.

"Anyways," the junior ferry girl pressed on with spirit, "the seventh point then went to the Detectives, Kurama challenging Pink Rose and winning."

"Huh?" Romantic Pink Rose stared at Hinageshi. "When did he challenge me?"

The young ferry girl blushed. "Remember that time not to long ago when Kurama gave you that mark?"

Blushing, the Pretty Soldier responded, "But he didn't challenge! And even if he did, I didn't accept anything. I'm sure of that."

"Let's review it shall we." Hinageshi took the remote from Ayame and skipped to the said moment. When they reached it, everyone silently watched the scene to see it unfold. When they first had the scene recorded, there had not been any audio—but that had been the fault of the speakers. So when they had replaced them with new real-surround-sound, ultra-super-bass-and-sounds-like-you're-there speakers, they had recovered the audio for that scene.

"Aaaaah! What do you want with me, Kurama-san?"

"I want you to tell me the truth. I want to know why you've lied to me, Botan."

"What the hell are you talking about?"

"I know the truth, Botan."

The forcefulness began. Never knowing about this particular moment, a shocked Red Salvia and Yellow Peony covered innocent White Apricot's eyes while the Spirit Detectives watched on with wide eyes and gaping mouths. Kurama pinched the bridge of his nose with furrowed brows while the pink Pretty Soldier blushed a dark crimson.

"Rose Starbright!"

"You're far cleverer than you let on, Botan."

"Why are you calling me Botan?"

"Why are you lying to me? I'm nowhere near Yomi's level of hearing, but I know when someone lies to me. You're Botan, there's no denying."

"Kurama-san, let me go."

"No."

Kurama and Pink Rose then began their passionate session of uneven breaths and flushed expressions. The heat in the room when up ten notches as steam blew out of everyone's ears. Someone threatened to have a nosebleed when they saw how Pink Rose had received her "rose mark".

"Can we turn it off now?" Romantic Pink Rose demanded with a strawberry red face. Quickly Hinageshi skipped the scene and pushed the pause button. So sure enough, Romantic Pink Rose had been right.

"Then the seventh point is null and no one receives it," Ayame said calmly as her cheeks lost their blush. "So we move on to the eighth point, which as we all know the Pretty Soldiers received. They successfully rescued and returned Kontennyo-hime's soul. Her soul was the final mission for the wager."

"When we do the final math, the Pretty Soldiers have 4 points and the Spirit Detectives have 3 points," Hinageshi announced after recovering from moments earlier. "The girls win, thus making George the winner."

George and the four Pretty Soldiers did a group high ten and cheered loudly for themselves. "We won!"

"Ah! I get Koenma-sama's desserts for the next decade!" the ogre cheered most happily. He gave the girls a group hug. "Thank you so much, girls, for doing your best!"

"Your welcome!"

Yusuke's fists trembled at his side. "Are you kidding me?"

Kazuma gaped in disbelief. "We were used for a bet—"

"To win dessert for the next ten years?" Kurama finished for him.

"Have you seen Koenma-sama's desserts?" Romantic Pink Rose demanded. "They're definitely worth the battle." The Spirit Detectives regardless shot Koenma dirty glares; Yusuke and Kazuma approached him with dark expressions in their eyes. The prince, still in his adult form, went to hide behind Ayame for safety.

"Hey, Botan," Yellow Peony called out, "I've been meaning to ask you this."

"Hm?"

"How in the world did you transform into Romantic Pink Rose?"

Red Salvia and White Apricot nodded in agreement. "Yeah, I wanted to know that too," Saliva said. "How did you get such a big power boost to single-handedly kick butt like that?"

"I don't know. All I remember is…" The Soldier blushed and eyed Kurama shyly. "Ah… I think I was able to win thanks to Kurama-kun's help."

"My help?" he said questioningly.

"I was able to draw out your energy with the mark you left me," she shyly explained. "Thanks to that, I was able to transform into Romantic Soldier Pink Rose. As you've probably figured out by now, the Pretty Soldiers are powered up by love energy. When you gave me your love energy, it was enough to charge me up for the next transformation. Magical Girl Super Love Bloom has only been reached by two Pretty Soldiers before me, so it's not something very easy to do."

"But how did I give it to you?" Kurama questioned. "I don't remember physically giving you any—"

"Your mark—" She blushed as she said this, not wanting the others to stare so intently at the rose on her neck. "It connects your Spirit Energy to mine. Since love energy is similar enough, all you had to do was concentrate your love energy and I could tap into it."

"But how was that done?"

"Don't you remember? I told you to think of your loved one."

"Ah," Kurama said in understanding. He recalled the moment Pink Rose had transformed, his feelings of relief at knowing that the two women he liked were one in the same. Those feelings had then transformed into tenderness, which then had apparently fueled the Magical Girl Super Love Bloom transformation.

"Too bad we won't be able to try it," Yellow Peony sighed regrettably. She looked to her fellow Soldiers and smiled. "I guess it's time we return our powers."

The three girls nodded in agreement. "I guess so."

Gathering into a circle, the four of them placed both hands over their brooches and closed their eyes in concentration. Light and glitter shimmered away as their transformations disappeared and ending their final time as Pretty Soldiers. Each girl handed George her colored compact.

Keiko gave the ogre a hug after returning her compact. "Thank you, George-san, for the good time."

"Yeah, it was definitely fun being a Pretty Soldier." Shizuru grinned while handing her red compact to him.

Yukina politely bowed. "Thank you for such an opportunity, George-san."

"Thank you, girls, for doing this for me." The orgre blushed bashfully with an arm behind his head. "Hey, I couldn't do this with any of you."

Looking at her other three friends, the former Yellow Peony said, "Hey, let's go home now." Keiko turned around and frowned when she saw Yusuke. "What are you doing?"

Having an adult Koenma locked in a headlock, Yusuke looked up to his girlfriend and answered nonchalantly, "Showing this little twerp who he can and shouldn't use for useless bets."

"You aren't coming home right now?"

"I will once I'm done with him." He gave Koenma another noogie. "What? What was that, Koenma? You want to use us for another useless assignment like that?"

"Help!"

"What about you, Kazuma-san?" Yukina questioned. She held Keiko's hand in preparation to leave Spirit World.

"I'll go back with Yusuke."

"Someone help!"

Shizuru bonked her baby brother on the head. "Make sure you don't come in late, mister, or else no dinner for you."

He immediately saluted her. "Yes ma'am!"

Remembering that a certain fire demon was present, Botan turned to ask, "And what about you, Hiei? Are you going to go back to—" When she saw him, Hiei watched Yusuke and Kazuma with an amused, demonic glint in his ruby eyes. She sweat dropped and laughed nervously, "Never mind."

Shaking the frightened feelings off, the ferry girl turned to her friends and led them towards the office doors. "Come on," Botan giggled with the girls. "I'll lead you back to Human World."

Turning his attention away from Yusuke and Kazuma's torture antics, Kurama called out urgently, "Botan, I need to talk to you about—"

Walking straight up to him, Botan placed a finger to his lips and smiled mischievously, "Don't worry, I'll come right back. I've realized my feelings about you, so that's that. Besides, I need to return you the favor."

"Eh?"

Botan tugged down her collar to show off her rose mark better. "I'll return this to you twofold, Kurama-kun." She winked at him ever playfully. "Just to let you know."

Kurama blushed as red as his hair. "Not if I get to you first," he murmured in reply.

Botan kissed him on the lips before skipping away back to the girls. "Heh, a Soldier of Love never fails!"

The End

Author's Note: Thank you everyone for your support for this little mini-series of sorts. I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I have enjoyed writing it. Now I will return my attention to my other unfinished stories. Thank you again for everything and I hope to hear your thoughts in reviews!

Eunjung