Second chapter's here! Well...yea…cough, cough. Oh, and don't worry, the fighting and excitement will come, sooner or later, but for now, Hiei x Ume and Kurama x Tsume!

Tsume and Kurama watched the child join the other kids. Kurama gave Tsume a pat on the back and he left the park with Tsume, who was feeling good about herself. Not to mention that Kurama had said she was a great friend. That definitely made her day. She continued to march forward, smiling widely and bumped right into Kurama's back. She fell backward. Just guess who was the one who caught her? Kurama!

"You should be more careful." He told her.

Tsume nearly fell on to the street, a busy street, with a lot of cars, fast cars.

"Yea, of course…Thanks for the help."

A car passed by in a hurry, as it did, it ran over a puddle of water. The water rose up and soaked Tsume.

Kurama took off his sweater and wrapped it around Tsume. "This just isn't your day, is it?"

Tsume hugged herself. She felt cold, but great. She didn't know why, but she supposed it had something to do with Kurama's jacket around her.

"Let's get you home. You shouldn't go around with wet clothes, you might catch a cold."

She nodded silently and went back to her apartment with Kurama, making sure she doesn't get into any more trouble. They arrived at Tsume's apartment to find Yusuke, Kuwabara, Ume, and Hiei there already.

"How'd you guys get in here?"

"Tsume, you should really hide your keys better, not to mention get a better lock on the door of yours." Ume said, blowing on her fingers. "The lock is old, it was just too easy."

"So why are you guys here?"

"Ko-Enma called us here for a meeting."

"King Emma's (Crud. Was it King Enma or King Emma? Let's just call him Emma) son, that Ko-Enma?"

"Yup, that's the one."

"How powerful is he? How tall? How much of Spirit World does he rule? How-"

"Please stop asking questions. You'll see soon enough." Hiei cut her off.

"If you look down that is…" Yusuke burst out laughing. Kuwabara joined him.

"Back to ignoring them…Botan will be arriving with Ko-Enma any second now." Ume said. A crash of the window was heard in the next room. "And there she is..."

They went into the next room, Tsume first, only to see Botan by herself with some box-like item with her.

"MY WINDOW!" She looked at Botan. "Where's Ko-Enma?" Tsume said eagerly.

"Why are you so impatient? Ko-Enma isn't that big of a deal."

"I've just always been wondering what Chapter Black (a video tape which has all bloody, bad, evil, cruel, etc things man-kind has ever done to demons, and when I say 'cruel' I mean it! Torture devices, anything you can think of…In tiny parts of it which is shown on YYH…well, the tape isn't pretty…) looks like."

"It's a video tape…"

"I meant 'I wonder if Chapter Black is as bloody and intense as I've heard it is.'"

"So you want to watch it?"

"Yea."

"Been there, done that."

"What? How?"

"Let's put it this way. Wolves have many ways of sneaking into Spirit World. I just asked some of them to steal the tape for a while." Ume snickered.

"No fair." She mumbled to herself.

Botan rose up to a table and placed the box thing on it. She opened it and there appeared Ko-Enma in the screen of the box.

He said to Tsume, "No, you may not see Chapter Black." He talked to Ume next. "I'll pretend I didn't hear that considering the fact that you haven't gone nuts and turned your back to us after seeing it."

"Once again, been there, done that (see story one for details on that)."

"That's Ko-Enma!" Tsume shouted ignoring the fact the two were talking. "You're joking right."

Yusuke and Kuwabara laughing even more and Botan hit them both over the head at the same time with her oar. (Heh, double hit!)

Ko-Enma ignored Tsume's statement and continued to assign the others their new mission.

(-Takes deep breath and starts typing like the wind-). "Two demons, female and male, have stolen from the vault of Spirit World and they have taken several priceless jewels and artifacts. They have bought tickets to a cruise to get to LA in America. The name of both the cruise and the boat is Tendou Koukou."

"Why?" asked Kuwabara.

"What better way to get to an open between human world and demon world than going on a cruise to the only available open since the last incident?"

"What incident…?"

Tsume and Ume looked up in the air and began to whistle innocently.

"As I was saying…you 6 will be divided into two groups. One will be sent to LA a few days before arrival, the other four will be on the cruise."

"Why can't we all go on at once?"

"And it's Kuwabara with the questions… Because it's a couple cruise. I don't think two of you guys would like to go together. Besides, if you and Yusuke were at school while the others weren't, it'd look less suspicious. Two boys will be in LA, the rest on the boat. We are not sure who exactly the demon couple is, so keep your eyes peeled for anything strange and demon-related. No doubt the demons will be pretending to be humans. Tsume, you will go with Hiei, Ume, you go with Kurama."

The two girls looked at each other, then the guys they were supposed to go on a lovers' cruise with. They looked back at each other.

"Switch?"

"Definitely." Tsume nodded.

Hiei stared off out a window, not paying any attention whatsoever. Why should he anyways? It was always the same. Get assigned something, beat up demons, and come back. Easy. He wasn't expecting the new twist, which he still didn't know about it.

Ume already knew he was daydreaming. She was about to tap him on the shoulder but decided not to tell him anything in case he didn't want to go. Ume refused to go to a cruise with Yusuke or Kuwabara. Of course, she wasn't planning on telling Hiei to snap out of his dream, if she did, he surely wouldn't want to go on the assignment.

Before the group had time to leave, Kuwabara knocked on Hiei's head, making fun of him for a few seconds. Hiei finally realized what he missed and why Kuwabara was making fun of him…and he nearly killed Kuwabara.

"I never agreed-" He didn't finish his sentence.

"Well, pack your bags you four. You're all going to on a cruise! You all have three days to pack up, make excuses at school, and all take care of all the things that needed to be taken care of." Ko-Enma interrupted hastily.

"Any words of advice before we leave, Ko-Enma?" Ume asked sarcastically.

"Just two: Don't die."

"Easy enough." Tsume put in; disappointed she didn't get Chapter Black.

"Let's just hope so." Kurama added.

Hiei was still trying to argue with Ko-Enma but the screen went blank, leaving poor Hiei.

Three days was more than enough time for Hiei, Ume, and Kurama to pack. Tsume was too worried about what she might wear for Kurama. Ume just stuck to the basics. Jeans, Tees, black, same old, same old. Tsume had to fill up two suitcases full of all sorts of junk. Finally, three days, past. The excuses were established, things were packed, and the four were ready to get on. The ship began to dock the harbor.

Poor Hiei... Next chapter will be at the cruise…or something. I'm not sure! Stop looking at me! O.O;