Catse: Okay, here's the update! Again, sorries that it's late, but at least I'm trying to keep up. Well, I have to go, so enjoy the chapter. Ja Ne!

Disclaimer: See chapter one...
The demons were not even much of a challenge, especially considering they had the other ninja group with them, including Chu, Rinku, Touya, Jin, and Shishi. Hell, not even one of the demons could make a scratch on the group, and Yoru did not even need to jump in and help. They were that easy.

Unfortunately, none of the demons they tried asking knew anything about how to find the piece or what had happened to the man. They only had one mission and that was to kill the team searching for the pieces and get what few pieces they had.

After the destruction of the last demon, Haku stepped away and walked towards the tree. Burned into the bark was an age old insignia belonging to no one but the Irish family of O'Malley's, and behind it, had to be the piece.

Seika sighed and walked up to the tree, placing his hand up and over the bark. He pressed his energy into his hands, tapped the tree three times, and the entire thing began to glow. In an instant, the puzzle piece came out and landed in his hand, looking almost exactly like the Rooster and Dragon pieces. Only, the markings over the front were more of an Irish/Celt handwriting, looking much like a Greek hand. Seika turned the piece over in his hand, before handing it to Haku whom also looked it over. They had found another piece, and now it was question time.

"Okay, now you can explain yourself." Katai mumbled, seating herself down on the old wall near the tree.

"Yeah, like straighten out the entire death deal and what the hell is going on." Seika agreed, sitting next to her. He was rubbing his eyes, proving he was tired.

The man sighed and sat down.

"All right, let me start out with what you do know. The demons are beginning to hunt after those Zodiac pieces, and before long, if you continue to collect; they will come to get them from you and you will have to be prepared. Now, Gaia is on your side. She wants to get her power back, but she also wants to keep it out of the hands of the Dark Lord. However, she can only converse with those that have strong Psychic abilities, and those that have had the Zodiac pieces within them. Therefore, only you will have the ability to search out the pieces. I have no idea how the Dark Lord is managing to pinpoint where the pieces are, but know that you will have trouble from here on out the entire way of your journey. As for us knowing where the pieces had been, Gaia showed us. Because her power was taken, she can't speak, so you probably won't hear a word out of her mouth until her power is returned, so you'll have to deal with a weird game of charades the entire time."

"What about Kenya? You said you had seen him." Katai announced as Satou and Tsuki sat down and began petting the sheep. Jin floated in the air near the tree, while Chu, Touya, and Shishi sat along the wall on the opposite side, and Rinku ran around with the sheep, trying to jump on them for a ride or something to that extent.

"Yes. The Dark Lord apparently has his spirit captured and kept in the Castle in Demon World. He has tried to escape, but he cannot for some reason. He did tell me to tell you that the Dark Lord is really a man by the name of Sifirus."

"Is he a demon?" Katai inquired.

The man shook his head. "No. Kenya told me he thought that Sifirus was very human. No demon feature to him."

"Yet he's so smart!" Seika acknowledged. They were facing a human in Demon World, how the hell was that possible? Unless the human was like Sensui, whom Yusuke had fought so many years ago, then how could he possibly have so much under his consent? Seika was jarred out of his thoughts when Haku began to ask questions.

"So I was right? Gaia is the one helping us after all. If all you say is true, why was the man here still alive?" The group happened to glance at the man at the same time; to find out was that his bones were the only things left. There was not even skin.

"Apparently the demon that killed him kept him animated to throw you all off. I gather whoever it was figured that you would not consider him still living, and would try to take the piece off of a dead being. I'm still not sure the reasons behind making him look alive, but that's the best I can give you."

Haku nodded.

"Well that makes sense. I have only one more question, for we have a lot to do and not much time to do it in."

"What is that?"

"What is your name?"

"John. John Murphy."

Well, the group never did sleep at the Silverbirch. In fact, they were gone from Ireland only an hour after they had found the sheep piece, with a few recommendations from Jin and the others that they should come back to visit sometime, considering they were thinking about staying a long while there.

The group nodded and said that someday they might, but for right now, they had a mission that they had to solve, and three days of the two weeks went down the drain. However, it had not amounted to just nothing. After all, they now had the Dragon, Rooster, and Sheep pieces in their grasps.

There were only nine pieces to go. In addition, eleven days were all that they had.

Well, the plane ride that would take them to the next place, France, was actually very short, only amounting to at most an hour considering they only had to pass over a small expanse of sea to get there.

Haku put in a report on his watch telling Koenma that they had just recently acquired the sheep. He filled him in on the little details, such as the dead man that had once possessed the piece, and inquired how it was possible to remove the piece, keep the man living, reasons why, and to gather as much information as Spirit World could on these so called Psychics that said they were helping. From what Haku had seen so far, no one, not even those that said that they would help, could be trusted, even if their background came out clean and they were speaking honestly. There was no room for mistakes, and Haku planned on making none.

About ten minutes before they landed, Haku received a return message from Koenma, saying that the detectives of France were informed, and would be waiting for them there. Unfortunately, not even Yoru would be able to translate any French, so complete translations would be laid at his feet once again. Although there was the possibility that Gaia would help Seika with French as well, he was not going to depend on her. Therefore, she was helping. She only had so much power to use, and was probably depending on them to get it back.

Pertaining to Yoru, they had not seen her much in Ireland. She had disappeared and then somehow gotten the sense to reappear at the hotel when they were collecting their things, and had not spoken a word to them since. Now she sat in the back of the plane as usual, brooding about something, and Haku could only wish he could read minds to find out what. He had a feeling, deep in his gut, that there was something Yoru should be telling them, but she was not of course. She knew something about the Dark Lord, and about what he was planning, he was sure, but she wasn't about to tell a detail to a group of children that she didn't care for or even like.

When they reached France, the group left the plane, to be told on watch that Mrs. Minamino had made them reservations at a French Hotel, but none of them, even after Haku had said it several times, could pronounce the title.

When they entered the Airport, and took a good look around, they spotted a small group of people, consisting of three guys, about Yoru's age, and a young girl that looked to be ten or eleven.

The boys were all tall, one with blonde hair, and the other two, most apparently twins, with black hair. The blonde had an earring on his right ear, and his eyes were a pretty amber, almost captivating. The twins were similar, with one wearing a silver chain around his neck and wearing a silk red shirt, and the other wearing a black t-shirt with a skeleton on fire on the front, various spiky bracelets and the sorts along his arm. Both men had dark brown eyes instead of the pretty amber. The girl however struck the attention most. She was very small and dainty, wearing a very pretty violet lavender dress that poofed out a little, white stockings, and rather shiny black slippers that looked similar to tap dancing shoes. Some of her wavy blonde hair was pinned up at the back of her head with a black silk ribbon, and the rest rested around her cheeks and on her shoulders like a curtain. Her eyes were blue and shiny, showing years of wisdom that was rare in a girl so young, and she clutched a stuffed doll that looked very similar to a worn out white cotton rabbit.

"You the guys from Japan?" The blonde man inquired, stepping up to the group. He had no weapons to him, except that his wrists were covered in blue wrist bands, similar to the wear of warriors in the fighting video games. His smile was very charming, and Seika almost wanted to glare at him for being the sort of guy that flirted and charmed what they wanted out of the ladies. Then he was caught stupefied when he found that Katai had a pleasant look to her eye, as if she had seen something that really attracted her attention.

"Great. She is falling for him. This is certainly not how things are supposed to go!"

Seika instantly got the vision of his plans in his head, as he thought of Katai being his girlfriend, as she was already his best friend and partner in crime. Crime meaning the little jokes they performed on students and teachers at school when they were bored and without something to do. Of course they would get into trouble, but because of their grades they still managed to keep up, so they could pretty much do as they liked. Then again, Katai was probably more like Seika's girlfriend over any one else. They hung out together, trained together, raided Kenya's fridge together, and gave Haku noogies when he was not looking together, and even, on some nights, studied together. If that was not a girlfriend-boyfriend relationship then Seika did not know what was. Still, he wanted Katai to call him her boyfriend, as he, in his mind, was already calling her his.

Haku walked over to the blonde and nodded. "Yes." He said in perfect French, as he had already learned it. "You are the Detectives of France I presume?"

"Yep!" The blonde announced, looking somewhat smug. "My names Donce, Donce Tipideaux. These two here with me are my younger brothers, Fredrick Tipideaux and Richard Tipideaux."

"It is a pleasure to meet you." Richard, the one with the red silk shirt said, bowing very elegantly. He took Katai's hand and kissed it, revealing that the two could be fallen for by the young Urameshi.

"Yo." Said Fredrick, the one with the black t-shirt.

"And this little one, our little porcelain doll is our younger sister, Amelia Tipideaux. She's this team's pride and joy."

"As my brother Richard has already said, it is a pleasure to meet you all. If you would be so kind, could you please introduce yourselves to us?" Amelia asked, giving a very elegant curtsy, and proving that she and her brother Richard were much in the same league of grace and intelligence.

Haku's eyes immediately caught to the young girl. He was, of course, a child genius, and to see someone his age acting about as delicate and poised as any adults that had trained themselves over time, were something almost foreign and rare to him. His eyes would remain on her for a while, as he quietly thought about her character to himself and no one else.

"My name is Haku Minamino. This is Seika Kuwabara." Seika waved, hearing his name and knowing, even if he could not understand French, that he was being introduced.

"Katai Urameshi."

"Huh?" Katai ever so intelligently replied, and it took Seika to whisper in her ear before she got the gist of things. "Oh! Hi!"

"Yoru Nohara."

"Bonsoir."

The entire group froze, including Haku.

"You speak French?" Seika inquired, nearly falling down in his stupor.

Yoru gave him an 'of-course-I-can-you-dimwit' look before walking past the French Detectives to eye something at the gift shop.

"What did she say?" Katai inquired, watching her leave.

"She said Good Evening." Haku answered, before continuing his introductions.

"This is Satou Nohara, Yoru's younger sister and this is Tsuki Kuwabara, Seika's younger sister. I believe you have already been informed on the reason for our arrival and why your help is required?"

"Yep. Intelligence sent us our instructions via computer. We are to help you find the Zodiac puzzle piece here in Dijon, France. If you'll come with me, we already have a ride waiting."

Again, Koenma was calling himself Intelligence. Haku snickered to himself. Intelligence only came to Koenma if it was something hanging heavy over his head. However, Haku could not be rude and make any sort of fun of him. Although somewhat childish at times, Koenma was quite a good ruler and judge of those coming in and those going out. He just had a height problem.

The group followed the detectives of France to a set of three taxis, where from there they would be taken to a train that would take them to Dijon. Right now, they had landed in the airport in Reims, a city at least one hundred and fifty miles away from Dijon, where Koenma had told them the puzzle piece had to be.

Donce, Richard, and Fredrick, preferring to be called just Rick, all were seated in one Taxi.

Satou and Tsuki, both small, could fit in one seat, and Haku and Amelia were sat together. Haku had no qualms. He wanted to get to know Amelia a little better.

Seika and Katai were seated in the last one, and by the time the ride was over, they were already asleep from exhaustion. They traveled and were near the train in twenty minutes, ready to start their search in France.

Catse: What do you guys think? There's going to be a lot of fun in France, so keep reading and I'll keep updating. Well, got to go. Ja Ne for now!