Tomoe and Nanami walked home together hand in hand smiling ear to ear. It had been ten years since the two were married and Tomoe had become human and Nanami had become just a regular mortal woman. During that time they had boyh graduated high school, gotten well paid jobs, and moved into a nice house. But the best thing that came out of those ten years were their two children, Geniji and Sakura. Geniji their son and oldest child was just eight years old and he resembled Tomoe in almost everyway when he was a kit minus the fox ears and tail, he also tended to sometimes be sarcastic and snarky like him too but he had his mother's beautiful brown eyes and was spirited and sometimes fearful like her. Their daughter and youngest child Sakura was five years old and the spitting image of Nanami when she was that age, inheriting both her cheerfulness and compassion but she had her father's sparkling violet eyes along with his calm and patient personality.

Those two kids were the most precious things in Nanami and Tomoe's lives. There was nothing in this whole world that the couple loved more than their children. If anything had ever happened to either one of them it would be like a knife in their hearts. But since they were no longer a god and a yokai there wasn't any real danger threatening their family...Or so they thought.

"We're home." Nanami announced as she and Tomoe entered their house.

"Mommy! Daddy!" The five year old brunette with violet eyes cheered as she ran excitedly to her parents. Tomoe picked up little Sakura smiling at her along with his wife.

"Hello Sakura." Nanami said. "Did you have fun with Ami today?"

"Uh-huh and look I drew you a picture." Sakura held up a sheet of paper that had a drawing of a blue butterfly flying in the sun. Nanami and Tomoe felt a twinge of inner sadness when they saw it as it reminded them of Mikage. They hadn't seen him since their wedding day and they had missed him terribly for he had served as a father figure to both of them while also bringing the two of them together. Now every time they saw a butterfly especially a blue one they would think of him.

"Do you like it?" Sakura asked.

"It's beautiful, I love it." Nanami said.

"She's a very good artist." Ami said.

"Thanks so how were they today?"

"Well for the most part they were both fine except for-"

"Sakura!" They heard an angry childish voice shout. Then a white haired boy with brown eyes came running downstairs lunging toward his sister leading to a Chase which was stopped by Tomoe.

"Hold on now! What's going on?" Tomoe asked.

"Sakura messed up my side of the room!" Geniji said. "I spent the whole day cleaning it up and then she came in and messed it up!"

"No I didn't." Sakura said.

"Yes you did!"

"No I didn't!"

"Yes you did liar!"

"Alright that's enough." Tomoe said. "We'll settle this later. Now Geniji I want you and Sakura to go clean your room, I'll be up there to help you in a minute."

Geniji huffed then went upstairs to his room with Sakura following.

"So the kids have been arguing a lot lately." Ami said.

"Over what?" Nanami asked.

"Well for one thing when they clean their side of the room it gets dirty again and they blame the other and then Geniji will tease Sakura for talking to the wall."

"The wall?"

"She says she hears people talking in the wall. I think it's a game she's playing but other than that they're both well behaved."

"Thanks again for babysitting and I hope they haven't given you that much trouble."

"Not at all. See you guys next week."

After Ami left Tomoe went into the kitchen to get started on dinner while Nanami set the table

"So what's on the menu for tonight?" Nanami asked.

"Hamburger steak." Tomoe said stirring the bowl of meat.

"My favorite."

"With shiitake mushrooms." Tomoe said adding them to the meat mischievously.

"Tomoe! You jerk! I hate shiitake mushrooms and so does Geniji! Why do you always do that?!"

"Simple I wish to expand my son's taste in foid and I find your dislike of them rather amusing."

"Well if my dislike of mushrooms amuses you so much then I guess I don't need to 'amuse' you tonight at bedtime."

Her words made Tomoe blush and he begsb to remove the mushrooms from the neat while his wife grinned, grabbed some dishes, and went into the dinning room. She set the table with plates and cups then went to get the napkins and utensils. But when she came back she found the plates and cups gone.

"Huh?" She searched the table but they were no where to be seen. "Tomoe did you move the dishes on the table?"

"I have been in the kitchen cooking this whole time."

"Then where did-" Her question was answered when she found the plates and cups stacked up together on a high shelf. "How on earth did they get up there?"

"They put them up there." Sakura said walking in.

"Who put them up there?"

"The people in the wall."

"Who?"

"The people in the wall, they talk to me all the time."

"Okay." Nanami smiled thinking that it was a game. "And what do you they talk to you about?"

"They talk about you and Daddy."

"And what do they say about me and Daddy?"

"They say that you were once a land god and that daddy was a fox yokai."

Nanami's smile along with her perception that her daughter was just playing a game had fallen and turned to worry. How did Sakura know about that? Neither she or Tomoe had told any of their children about their lives as a land god and fox yokai.

"Sakura who told you about that?"

"I already told you. The people in the wall did. Mommy what's a land god and what's a fox yokai?"

"It's nothing Sakura, listen you go wash up for dinner now alright?"

"Okay Mommy." She said going to the bathroom.

"Geniji can you come here for a second?" Nanami called.

"What is it Mom?"

"Geniji has someone you don't know, someone strange looking, been talking to you or your sister?"

"No."

"Do you know anything about these wall people Sakura mentioned?"

"Yeah Sakura will sometimes talk to the wall and she says that there are people in there talking to her."

"Do you hear anyone in the wall talking?"

"No."

"Okay that's all I wanted to know."

Through dinner and the next few hours of the evening Nanami said nothing else about it. But once she and Tomoe had tucked the kids into bed she pulled Tomoe aside to talk to him about.

"What do you mean Sakura knows about our past lives?" Tomoe asked.

"She says that people in the wall told her that I was a land god and that you were a fox yokai."

"Oh come now Nanami, don't tell me you actually believe that there are people in the wall that only she can hear."

"Of course not but someone told her about us and what's scaring me is that we don't know who."

"Calm down she probably just over heard Ami talking on the phone with that idiot tengu Kurama about old times."

"You sure?"

"Positive. How else could she possibly find out?"

"I guess you're right still sometimes... I don't know."

"What?"

"Sometimes...Oh Tomoe being with you and the kids have made me happier than I've ever been but sometimes I feel like it's all too good to be true and one day something terrible is going to happen and I'll loose all of you."

"Nothing is going to happen. I promise." Tomoe assured his wife. Although deep down he had the same fear. Unknown to Nanami he would have recurring nightmares about some horrible yokai or monster taking Nanami and the kisk away and him powerless to protect them. That was something he had struggled with ever since he had become human. That without his yokai powers he couldn't protect the ones he loved.

Eventually they managed to put their fears and worries to rest and went to bed. The two slept peacefully and undisturbed in each other's arms until they were awakened by something tapping their noses. It was the small hand of Geniji who was standing in their room in his pajamas with Sakura in her nightgown who was clutching a stuffed fox toy.

"Geniji? Sakura? What are you doing in our room?" Tomoe yawned. "Go back to sleep."

"Dad there's something out there." Geniji said.

"Out where?"

"Outside. There's something outside and it's watching us."

"What do you mean? Did you see somebody?"

"No but I know they're there. Somebody's watching us Dad."

"Nanami you wanna take this one?" Tomoe asked his wife hoping she would soothe the kids so he could sleep.

"Sorry Tomoe but they woke you up first." Nanami yawned.

Tomoe huffed then took his kids back to their room. He looked out their window to see if someone was there. He didn't see anyone, all he saw was darkness, grass, a few houses, and an old tree that had been next to the house for years. Geniji had always been afraid of that tree. When he was four he had climbed up that tree and accidentally fell off, Tomoe had managed to catch him before he got hurt real bad but the poor boy had hit his head on a hard root and the experience left him terrified of both that tree and heights.

"There's nothing out there kids now let's go back to sleep."

"You can't see it Dad but you know it's there." Geniji said.

Tomoe immediately went to dismiss his son's worry but stopped when he felt something. It felt like someone was spying on him, he could feel the gaze but he couldn't see anyone or anything. No person or animal, nothing. Surely nothing was there and he was just letting his kids get to him but apart of him still wondered. Weather he believed them or not Geniji and Sakura ended up sleeping in bed with Nanami and Tomoe that night, both unaware that tomorrow things would only get more frightening.