New chapter is in. The days have been long (literally) but one thing makes the sun fall, and the moon rise, and the stars glitter…ok…enough of the poetry. Let's get on with the story: sighs deeply:

A shadow dashed around the corner. Ume and Hiei crept towards it. Something behind them dropped. Something metal. It rolled and dropped into the pool. The shadow scurried away and the two demons lost whatever was there. Lucky for them, the stranger abandoned the locket by accident when s/he ran away. Ume picked it up quickly while Hiei dove into the water and looked around for the metal thing.

He rose to the surface and handed Ume what he found. It was a small, metal tube. They figured it was deliberately thrown so the person/demon they were chasing could have a chance to run away before s/he was caught.

Hiei threw the tube off the boat and into the water. Ume once again gathered her belongings, with some help from Hiei, and they went back to their room.
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The next day, the positions were switched. It was Hiei and Ume's turn to relax for a day, and they spent up until 11:30 A.M. sleeping in. They were completely exhausted while Tsume and Kurama searched the boat from top to bottom and occasionally spied on the couple. They managed to learn only a few things about the couple.

They were recently married and the woman's last name was officially Mrs. Takahashi (the guy who sings two YYH songs, Takahashi Hiro. Heh, I used his name in the FanFic…).

While searching through unlocked rooms for any clues that might indicate the residents were demons, Kurama and Tsume stumbled upon a small box with a large padlock that kept it locked. Tsume began to pick at it but it wouldn't open.

"If Ume was here, she'd probably get this stupid thing open." Tsume sighed.

"Well, she and Hiei aren't on duty today, so we are the ones who must get this open and see what's inside."

They looked around the room until Kurama finally found a rather large key and he tried it on the lock. It opened, making a click-ing sound. Inside, there was some soft fabric. In the fabric, there seemed to be two special places for necklace like jewelry boxes have. The places looked like imprints. Like the things were there before. One was in a heart shape. The other looked like it was for some normal stone.

Suddenly, there was noise coming from behind the door. Slowly, the door knob began to turn. Tsume and Kurama jumped for the bathroom and closed the door. A man stepped into the room while holding the room's key in one hand. It wasn't the same man who they've been tailing from time to time. It was a younger looking one. The man was had a more than decent appearance, if you put aside the fact that he looked like he had just gotten from riding a 2 hour long joyride on a bullet train with his head sticking out the window.

"Oki, did you leave the stinkin' door unlocked?" The man shouted out loud. He saw the bathroom closed and tried to open it. Lock. "Woman, get out here soon. Once we get to dry land, we have got to get off this stupid ship. We've also gotta get our bonuses. And their on this ship, I saw them earlier. Finally, we'll get them back and our little box here will be full." He grinned widely as he patted the small jewelry box Kurama and Tsume were examining earlier.

"Bonuses…?" The couple said in unison, still locked in the bathroom.

The man began to leave, "We have to get those things before the ship docks."

Kurama and Tsume left a huge sigh of relief and left quietly after making sure the man was gone. They ran to the deck and sat down on two chairs breathlessly. After catching their breaths, they reviewed everything that happened that day with Ume and Hiei. They were found in the dojo again, training.

"You've got to be kidding me…You two are supposed to be enjoying yourselves, not training and working. This trip is a once in a lifetime chance, and you two are blowing it on training." Tsume exclaimed.

"I can't say relaxing is anymore useful." Hiei snapped at Tsume. He turned his head to do so and Ume kicked him to some guy that was watching. He had no chance to get out of the way. They both slammed into the wall.

"Sorry about that!" Ume called out. "That was completely my fault."

She helped both boys up and the boy walked off to the infirmary with the help of some of his friends.

"Sorry again!" She called out as the boy was being carried away. The boy waved his hand into the air, showing he was alright. The Ume turned to Tsume. "You two spend your vacation your way, we can spend it ours. Besides, I can't stand one day, much less a couple of weeks, without training. It makes me feel lazy and bored."

"What ever. I'm just saying that training isn't the best was to relax."

"Eck."

The two girls turned around and saw the room was empty except for Hiei and Kurama who were battling it out.

"KURAMA! Not you too!"

"Why don't you join us? It's more enjoyable than continuing to search the ship." Kurama said.

"OK!"

"You should try to think for yourself instead of letting Kurama do it for you and…what was it again…? Oh yea. Get a life!" Ume said jokingly.

Tsume laughed.

"What about you and Hiei? I can't say you're exactly the most independent person when it comes to him…" She countered with a grin.

Ume waved her fist and pretty soon, they started to train too. The four were eventually tired. All the others that were in the dojo, including the staff, had either gone to help the boy or ran for their lives when Hiei and Ume first appeared in the room.

The four sat down on the sides and the people began to reappear and train themselves. The group got some water bottles that were on a table nearby. The four went to some restaurant in the food court and each ordered their food. They sat in a booth and Tsume and Kurama told Hiei and Ume what had happened earlier.

"Well, that'd definitely make them suspicious…" Tsume ended her story

"So…We've got four strange people. Two of them said something about shipping things, and we still have a boat of people we need to check out. This is going great so far..." Ume said sarcastically. "Some trip this turned out to be. Not exactly what I had in mind when Ko-Enma told us we were going on a cruise."

"He did say it was for an assignment, and that's never enjoyable." Hiei stated.

"True…" Ume agreed. She continued to talk, "So all we know is that there are two people who were completely clam when someone fell over board, and some other people who are sending things around and has a strange box. Not much for Hiei and I to go on tomorrow, but it's better than nothing."

"All the other guests were normal. It's just those four that are strange." Tsume spoke up.

Something in the room began to ring. Tsume took out something from her pocket that looked like a compact…a ringing compact… (In the anime, those things were used for communication from Maze Castle to the human world between Yusuke and Botan. They are now being used again just in case you didn't know what they are)

"Oh, did I mention that Ko-Enma gave these things to me. He told me to give them to the rest of you. I guess it must have slipped my mind. The rest of them are in my suitcase." Tsume answered her small compact-looking device and Botan appeared on the small screen.

"Tsume, are all of you there?"

"Yep."

"Good. Spirit World has been trying to reach you guys. This was the only one that would reply. Back to the point, according to our records of the demons you're after, they appear to be very powerful. Be careful not to endanger anyone else's lives. If you battle it out on that boat, it might sink, along with all the humans on it."

"Ok." Tsume replied. She turned off the small contraption by closing it and began to grin at the others. "Sorry about forgetting…"

"Finally! It looks like this small, little boat ride will get a little more exciting once we find those demons…" Ume said.

"But we mustn't fight them on the boat. Innocent humans will get involved and injured." Kurama warned them.

"Humans are anything but innocent…" Hiei replied.

"That just makes it more interesting for us. After all, what's the fun in just finding them and not having them fight us back?" She grinned and rubbed her hands together. "Besides, Hiei and I have been training a lot so far. It's about time we have something to test all that training on."

"That's IF we find them before they get off this boat. If we can't find them, or fail, Yusuke and Kuwabara will have to take over. It's a round trip. If we don't make it back to the boat once it docks LA, we'll be stuck there until the next plane. We'll be stuck with Yusuke and Kuwabara the whole way back…"

"Jeez. Don't remind me, Tsume. That's one really good reason we can't fail this. And, of course, we won't." Ume responded.

Hiei already got up to leave. Everyone started rising from their seats and began to head to their rooms, but unknown to them, someone was listening to the four talking in a booth beside them. Thanks to the way the person/demon was sitting, s/he was not seen.

Yay! Chapter 6 is FINALLY in. I've been having a whole mess writer's block lately. I've probably used a lot of my writing ideas and energy on writing love poems. I've written them before, but this month (It is April of 2005 right now), I've been on a roll!

Note: I made some TINY, TINY adjustments to the fourth chapter. You can choose to read it or not but I suggest that you do. It near the ending when Ume was leaving the art room. If you read that, you'll understand more about what I am planning to do for the ending chapters. It has something to do with that change so I think you should read it. Thank you for your time and thank you for reading this far. Please review my story. Good-bye. Change was made on 4/20/05, so you might have already read the change…