People, people! Com'on! Review already! This chapter is reveals everything you need to know about Hoshi...although the title is a dead give away… Later! Sorry for any typos.

A small child ran out of a room, frightened of something, and screaming something about a monster. Tsume and Ume automatically assumed the 'monster' was one of the demons they were looking for.

Tsume grabbed hold of the child and sat her down in the hallway as her mother approached. The two young girls tried to calm the little girl down and they finally figured out that the child had simply had a nightmare, woke up, and was so scared, she broke something while running.

"Thank you so much for catching my little girl." The mother said and went on her way.

The sun had already come out and people left their rooms and checked out the commotion. Ume hid the paper and left back to her room with Tsume right behind her.

Tsume entered her room and woke up Kurama. He got up quickly and they both hurried to Ume and Hiei's room. They walked in just as Ume got Hiei awake and then she started to explain were doing earlier. Ume took out the paper she got and told everyone that it was an adoption papers.

"The man who took some papers probably took all the adoption papers. This is, I'm guessing, the most important one. When he was found on the streets of outer Japan, he kept talking to himself about needing to find his 'own kind'. He was looking for a child. He was very ill and the orphanage that took him in believed that was why he kept talking like that. Soon enough, when he was old enough to understand that people thought he was strange, he stopped, but some still think he is still looking for someone. Apparently, the person he was searching for loved art so my guess is that he is sill looking for that person. That's why he needs to get into that art school. That's pretty much all that is said in the paper."

"So who could he possibly be looking for?" Tsume questioned.

"Something's not right here…" Hiei murmured.

"Hiei is right. There's something about him. What do you two think? Could he be our demon? Is so, who is his partner?" Kurama spoke up.

"According to Ume, Hoshi is a strange one, and may be hiding something, but he isn't likely to steal or anything like that. It's some feeling of her…" Tsume informed the boys, despite the fact that Ume was waving her arms around in protest behind Hiei and Kurama.

"Is that so? And how would she know so much about that human?" Hiei said irritably. Ume smacked herself in the forehead and glanced up smiling innocently at Hiei.

"It's one of those feelings again. No big deal…" she grinned widely.

Kurama broke in before things got ugly. "Maybe we should go back to the Hoshi case. We only have a limited amount of time before we dock. The party is tonight (it is already morning in case you lost track of time. It's the morning of party. Docking at night, everyone can leave at day then come back later) and if we find out nothing today, we have to make sure we get something out of him tonight."

"Uh huh..." Tsume said.

Hiei mumbled to himself and Ume remained silent and just nodded.

The day just flew by and nothing new was discovered. From time to time, one of the four saw Hoshi but he'd disappear the next second. That very night, the party was upon them. Decoration of every color filled the dock with countless amounts of people every where but not a single person was enjoying themselves. Everyone sat or stood in small groups away from everyone else.

Word was out that there were priceless artifacts aboard the boat. The added thing was that whoever found them had to announce it to everyone, give it to a certain someone, and they'd receive a huge reward. The group of Spirit Detectives had no idea who let this piece of accurate gossip out but if the artifacts were found, the demons who stole it would react, and that would help their case…but someone wanted to receive the relics and knew about them somehow.

Hoshi was spotted by the a few chairs set up around a table that could seat a total of five. The Spirit Detectives each sat next to Hoshi and he greeted them nervously. He quickly slipped something into his pocket. Hiei saw him doing so. He grabbed Hoshi's hand, pulled it from his pockets and revealed one of the stolen artifacts! Everyone eyed him. Hoshi let out a sigh.

"I guess I should start explaining myself eh?"

A large explosion occurred on the other side of the boat and smoke rose into the air. People scrambled every where. In all the confusion, Hoshi managed to escape. Tsume and Kurama were going to check out the explosion and calm the people down as much as they could. Hiei was to look for whoever caused the explosion. Ume had to look for Hoshi.

She spotted him turning a corner and ran after him. She grabbed him by the shoulder and he turned around.

"Listen Hoshi…" Ume was cut off.

"I know who triggered the blast. You may think it was me, but it wasn't!"

"Then what about that artifact you had with you?"

Another explosion moved the boat about. Another couple appeared from the next hall and grabbed Hoshi. The man yelled something out about Hoshi stealing from them and hit him in the face. Hoshi flew through the air and crashed through a wall. The artifact he had earlier fell and the man grabbed hold of it and smirked. He looked up at Ume who was amazed. The woman came from behind of Ume and grabbed both her arms and held them up.

"Who do you think you are, Girl?"

"Hey, only ONE person is allowed to call me that!" Ume shouted and flipped the woman over and right into the man.

Hoshi got up from the rubble and grabbed Ume's wrist and started to run for it. "I'll explain as soon as we get to a safe area."

Once reaching a random, unlocked room, Hoshi began to explain what this was all about. "Those two that attacked us just now are the real thieves. They're the ones who stole the artifacts and I took one of them. I was the one who stole the files the other night. I was wearing a kind of elevator shoes, hat, trench coat, and the works to make sure no one would be able to recognize me. I guess it worked."

"Anyways, all that stuff you found on the paper I dropped was a lie. I knew it was only a matter of time until you and your friends found out so I took it. I only used those lies to get on the boat to steal the artifact of Spirit World which rightly belonged to my kind!"

Hoshi's last two words rung in Ume's head, "…my kind…" She's definitely heard that somewhere before...

"There was no way for me to get them while they were in the Spirit World's vault," he continued on, "so I just decided to take it from these jokers. I figured if I got everything else back and returned them to Spirit World secretly with a note saying that I took one of them along with me, they'd let me keep it."

"Why would you need only one artifact?"

"It belongs to my pack…our pack."

"What do you mean by that?"

"The relic I was looking for belongs to the wolf demons. I recognized you easily. You were the daughter of the leaders of our pack. I wasn't expecting to see you here of all places. I see you're a Spirit Detective now."

"Great. So how strong are the real thieves?"

"They're strong enough to sink this whole ship and swim the rest of the way to LA, that's for sure. We're not that far at this point."

"Great. Does that artifact you want do anything in particular?"

"It belonged to your ancestors. It belonged to our, or should I say my past leaders. That's why it's so important. I came here and left the pack as soon as I found out it was out for the taking. It can't do anything like the Forlorn Hope, it that's what you're thinking."

"How abut a truce? You help my friends and me with our job, and I'll make sure you get your relic back? Got it?"

Hoshi thought for a moment. The closet door came crashing down and there stood the two demons. "Found you!"

Hoshi and Ume both got up and he stared at Ume. "Ok, deal!"

There's a small twist. I finished this whole chapter in about 30 minutes just right now. Not too bad if I do say so myself. I haven't been having many ideas again…