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Ume turned around and saw that Hoshi was no longer there. Once she really thought about it, Ume felt like she knew Hoshi form somewhere. Of course she wouldn't remember. Most of her childhood was a blur. The only parts she remembered were after her new, human parents took her in. She left where she stood to go find Hoshi and find out what he meant earlier.

Tsume walked down the halls of the boat. She started looking for Ume when she noticed Ume looking upset (as you have read in the last story, they both had the small 'jewel' things. Ever since, they had a small connection and a close friendship). She noticed the captain of the boat walking around. He entered the room of Mr. and Mrs. Takahashi. Tsume heard voices inside.

"You want to quit?"

"For the past several days, we have been pretending to be guests to check up on everyone. To make sure everyone's having a good time! Well, everyone is having fun BUT us!" Mrs. Takahashi said out loud. "We are tired of this!"

Mr. Takahashi said calmly, "We can't quit in the middle of this cruise. We don't have the money to pay for it if we do. Not to mention we won't get paid."

"We should! We spent most of this working, so we should get paid, and we shouldn't have to pay them because this wasn't pleasant!"

"Sweetie, calm down. If we don't get paid, we can't afford that heart necklace and circular necklace you saw in Japan while we were visiting your mother."

While the three continued to argue on, Tsume put two and two together. The box for jewelry was for the necklaces they wanted! The reason they were calm when the dummy fell over board was because they knew about it. They worked here! They were all over the boat and everything was only because it was their job to do so!

She quickly hurried away and bumped right into Ume.

"Sorry." Ume told Tsume hastily. She didn't even notice it was Tsume that she bumped into. Quickly, Tsume grabbed Ume and looked for the boys. "What the heck?" Ume shouted out.

As they ran, Tsume told her what she had heard earlier. "That would pretty much mean they're innocent right?"

"Yea…but who are the demons who stole from Spirit World…?"

"Who knows? One thing for sure is we're running out of time! The ship will dock in about two days and if we don't at least find out who the demons are, there's no way Kuwabara and Yusuke will know who to stop. They'll get away."

Ume sighed. "There must be someone or something we missed…" before she could even get out the words, she thought of someone. Hoshi!

Ume left Tsume to find the guys by herself and ran to the art room. She looked around quickly. Tsume joined Ume, panting for air. "What's wrong with you?" she asked, breathlessly.

Ume looked around. No Hoshi. She ran up to Mrs. Kyoko and asked her where Hoshi was.

"The cruise is almost over. When this happens, he takes more and longer breaks to enjoy the cruise. Every member of the crew did so at one point of the cruise."

"Do you have any idea where he is?"

"Sorry dear, I don't know where he goes during his breaks. Is anything wrong?"

"No. I've got to go. Bye!" she ran out and grabbed Tsume on her way out.

Tsume stopped Ume in the hallway. "What's going on?"

"The guy I was asking for earlier, Hoshi, I think he may have something to do with the missing artifacts."

"What makes you think that?"

"It's a long story."

Just then, they ran into Hiei and Kurama. Once everyone got up, they looked outside. It was already really dark. Nearly no one was out. Already past 10 PM, Kurama and Hiei had decided to look for the girls, worried. They all went back to their rooms and went to sleep. Ume lied on her bed and started to think about the day's events. Slowly, she drifted off to sleep.

Something shook Ume from her sleep. She opened her eyes slowly and saw Tsume. She was about to speak but Tsume cut her off. She pointed over to Hiei, still asleep, and signaled Ume not to make too much noise. They got out to the hallway and Ume asked Tsume what dragging her out of bed was about.

"Tonight's going to be the party right (it's past midnight)? That Hoshi guy was the one who gave us invites so he's gonna have to be there. I haven't told Kurama or Hiei about this but when he gave me the invitations, something didn't seem right about him. I'm getting that weird feeling you guys were talking about that other day...The feeling was faint, but it was there. Something's not right with that guy…but the thing is that I don't think he's a part of the theft. He's done something, but he didn't steal."

"Are you sure about this?"

"Not completely. That's why I asked you to come out here. You're gonna help me find out."

"What about the boys?"

"You heard Hiei. He doesn't think I have that 'strange feeling' thing yet, and I don't want to make my self look like a fool in front of Kurama."

Ume let out a sigh, "Alright. What are we going to do first?"

"First, we're going to sneak a peek at Hoshi's files. Find out where he lives and everything just to make sure he's clean."

"Ok. Let's go already. I'm missing sleep…" she let out a yawn.

The two girls snuck into the file area of the boat after Ume picked the lock of the door. They looked everywhere and finally found the file. Everything in it seemed to be in check.

"Well, if this guy's a demon, he's better at hiding it than most others I've encountered." Ume stated.

"That's true."

Ume began to open one last file there was on Hoshi when footsteps were suddenly heard outside. A man walked in. Ume and Tsume quickly put back the records and quickly hid in the room. The man's face was concealed by shadows. Ume studied the man and noted that he was too tall to be Hoshi or Mr. Takahashi, so who was he? The man walked over to Hoshi's files and took looked through them. He scanned one and put it in the trench coat he was wearing. He rushed out hurriedly. Ume and Tsume got up from their hiding spot and saw the file the man took was the same one Ume was just about to look at earlier.

"What do you think was in that file he took?" Tsume pondered.

"Something that might've helped us I'm guessing. Let's switch the question from what was the file to who was the one who took it?" Ume replied.

"How about we tail him?"

"Sure, why not? It's not like I was planning to SLEEP tonight anyways…" Ume said sarcastically.

Down the hall they went, following the man but making sure they stayed far enough so that he didn't see or hear them. A paper fell from the file he had and as soon as he was far enough, Tsume picked it up. As soon as she looked up, the man disappeared. He probably went into one of the rooms. Ume took the paper and looked through it.

Ume read through the first few sentences. Not much info. Things started to get interesting, and as it did so, a sudden crash of glass breaking was heard.

Hehe; this was a pretty good ending to this chapter. I couldn't think of many ideas. That's why it took so long to get this chapter out. My mind was……preoccupied……