Meanwhile...

"He was AMAZING." Ari gushed. "Absolutely wonderful."

"..." Chetara was reading a book she'd found and was ignoring Ari.

Ari sighed. Although she'd only seen him for an instant, in that instant, he'd made her feel special. Wanted.

Is the way I feel about him true love? Has to be. I wonder if Chetara believes in true love. Ari wondered.

"Chetara?" Ari asked.

"...Gr..."

Ari sighed and got up, dusting the dust off her clothes. She walked over to the tree that was their home, and scaled it quickly. Chetara couldn't even climb trees so Ari had nothing to worry about, as far as territory went.

Ari stretched out and yawned. Quite an eventful day...Better yet, she'd seen that amazing guy in the market. Ari hoped she'd get to see him again soon. She fell asleep. Later that night, Ari heard Chetara trying to climb the tree.

"Help me up, Ari! I'm freezing!"

Ari crawled to the edge of the treehouse and looked at Chetara.

"Hm?"

"Help me up before I burn the treehouse down!"

That got Ari's attention. She grabbed Chetara's hands and pulled her up. At that minute, Ari felt watched but she ignored it. Chetara and her threat was more important. This tree wasn't any ordinary tree. This tree was the closest thing they had to a home. Ari had found some boards and extorted some nails and built a windbreak. Or treehouse.

Chetara wasn't really fond of trees and had handed the stuff up to Ari. Ari wouldn't have been able to do it without Chetara. Chetara was her closest friend, her running buddy, her partner in crime. So, Ari owed it to Chetara to help her into the treehouse. And, plus, Ari didn't want to see all their hard work go up in flames.They curled up in their makeshift home and quickly fell asleep.

Meanwhile, on the other side of Maikai, ten minutes ago... Artemis had woken up as well. He frowned. He had to know more about the neko girl. Suddenly, a thought came to mind. I can use my Jagan to find this girl! His hand subconsciencely came up to cover his third eye.

Father said never to use that, though... Artemis frowned. He pulled his headband up. I'm still going to try!

He began to search out the neko girl's energy. Strangely, her energy seemed to be entwined with that ookami girl she associated herself with. That made her energy harder, but not impossible to find.

Suddenly, he could see her. She was in an old treehouse. She helped her wolf friend into the treehouse and they fell asleep quickly.

Artemis, feeling very much like a stalker, covered up his Jagan and soon fell asleep.

The next morning Chetara was up and Ari was not. Chetara was bored and irritated and Ari was asleep.

"Ari, wake up!" Chetara shook her friend viciously.

"Grrrrrr..." Ari sat up and blinked the sleep out of her eyes. "What's up?"

"I can't get down."

Ari helped her down, then jumped down herself. It was very strange that they'd ran out of wood JUST as they were about to build steps for Chetara.

"We need to get some wood so we can build some steps."

"Oh, alright..." Ari sighed. "Is that today's project?"

"Yes."

"Alright then. What trick are we going to use to get these and how many will we need?" Ari yawned.

"5 boards and about 10 nails."

Ari eyed the tree. "Any idea of how we are going to obtain these?"

"No."

"Alright, let's go." Ari sighed. They walked to the square, and Ari spotted a woodworking stand.

"There. I'll distract them, you grab the stuff." Ari yawned.

"Yeah."

Ari walked up to the owner of the stand.

"Hello. I'm looking for something..." Ari gave him her cutest and most innocent look. The person in charge of the stand right now was a teenager. He fell hard for Ari's trickery.

"What would you be looking for, bishoujo?" He grinned.

Ari giggled. While Ari was distracting the guy Chetara snuck up behind him and grabbed the supplies they needed.

"I need to know how much it is for a lumber saw." Ari frowned.

"That would be 245.60 Yen." The boy stared at Ari.

"Oh, right." Ari smiled. "Thank you so much... If you'll excuse me..."

Suddenly, the other owner of the stand saw Chetara ripping off their supplies.

"HEY!" He yelled.

Chetara tossed a few boards at Ari, bidding her to run. Ari caught them, and then they ran like the wind.

Ari, suddenly, tripped over her boards. Chetara ran back to get her and they both got caught.

"LET...US...GO!" Ari yelled, squirming.

"Oh, we will. After we kill you. We don't like thieves."

On the other side of the marketplace Kiri, Artemis, Ayla and Kazuka were walking.

"I still cannot believe you told your dad, Kiri!" Artemis griped.

"Dude, you need to get over it, ok?" Kiri sighed.

"How can I when...?"

"Helooo everyone!" Koenma chirped. "I managed to sneak away."

Koenma Enma. Everyone knows what he looks like, right? Wrong. He's in his full teenage form permanently.

"Hey, Koenma!" Kiri said. "Sup, yo?"

"Hello Koenma." Ayla blushed.

"Hey." Kazuka said.

"Hello. How'd you sneak away?" Artemis asked.

"I had George cover for me."

"Oh." Kiri said. "Dude, you are like SO mean to that guy, y'know?"

"What do you mean? He's a servant!"

"Hm..." Artemis frowned. "So, what if..." He trailed off.

"Dude, what's up?" Kiri asked Artemis. Artemis didn't move or shift his gaze. Kiri looked.

"Hey, that's that neko chick, isn't it? Who is THAT with her?"

"..." Artemis walked over there. He heard a HUGE man say, "Oh, we will. After we kill you. We don't like thieves."

"Excuse me?" Artemis frowned. "What ARE you doing?"

"Uh..." The man said. Artemis locked glances with Ari and felt the same way he had felt yesterday. Even more so now.

"These girls tried stealing from me, so..."

"You were gonna kill them?" Kiri yelled. "LET THEM GO!"

"Why should I?" The man growled. Artemis came back for a minute.

"Because I said so!" Artemis growled. "DO you have any idea who we are! I am Artemis Jaganshi!"

The man dropped Ari in a hurry. She slammed into the ground with a thud.

"The other one too!" Kiri growled. The wolf girl with the other girl was truly something special.

The other people let Chetara go.

"Thanks."

"I'll take my stuff back now." The man scooped up his stuff.

"We'll be back!" Ari yelled. "Next time, though, we won't get caught!"

"I'll be ready!" He yelled. "Next time, though, you won't have them to protect you!"

"See ya next WEEK!" Ari yelled. Artemis blinked. (Amazing...)

Ari stood up and helped Chetara up.

"Too bad he took our boards." Chetara commented.

"mmm...yeah." Ari frowned.

"Hm?" Chetara looked at Ari who seemed to be exchanging a serious glance with that boy she'd been talking about for hours yesterday.

"I'm Chetara Kioke. This is Ariana Miyuki." Chetara looked around. "Now you say something."

"Ayla Urameshi."

"Kazuka Kuwabara."

"Kiri Kurama."

"Koenma Enma."

"And we know you." Chetara said to Artemis. "The way you threw your name at that guy was very tough and impressive." (Sarcasm...)

"Uh...Yeah." Artemis said, without looking at Chetara. He and Ari were exchanging a deer-in-the-headlights look. Chetara and Kiri found this hilarious.

"I think Ari's forgotten her own name." Chetara smirked.

"Artemis has, too. They're limited to saying Um and Yeah." Kiri smirked.

"Ooh, shiny!" Chetara ran off to another stall to look at the shiny object.

"Should we go after her?" Kiri asked.

"Well, Ari and Artemis aren't going anywhere..." Koenma commented.

"Ok, then." The gang ran off after Chetara, leaving Ari and Artemis.

Chetara was too busy running to look at every shiny thing she saw, except mirrors. She hated mirrors because whenever she got close to one, they weren't shiny anymore.

So, while the gang went chasing after Chetara, Ari and Artemis warmed up a little.

"Um...I'm Ari." Ari blushed.

"Artemis." He blushed. They didn't hear the previous introduction

"Um...I know I have a last name, but I can't remember it right now, but I'm sure it'll come to me..." Ari blushed.

"Uh, yeah, me too..." Artemis laughed, a bit nervously.

"Um...do you want to walk around and talk?" Ari asked.

"About what?"

"Just...stuff." Ari smiled. "A little bit of everything."

"Alright." Artemis nodded. They took off just as the gang got back.

"Hey, Where'd they go?" Kazuka yelled.

"Uh oh." Ayla frowned.

"Well, this is bad..." Koenma panicked.

"Guys, it's cool. Ok?" Kiri sighed. "Artemis can handle it."

"Ari can handle it too."

"Good, now lets go something fun." Kiri grinned. "Any suggestions?"