First Day On The Road
When the team had gotten back they only had four hours to sleep. So they quickly took out their packs and ate so they wouldn't have to forced to eat anything the demons would make, and starve in the end when they wouldn't eat it. They went to their places to sleep on the ground and went to sleep. When Nakada went into the tent something didn't seem right as she walked in. She looked at Yoko and saw that his back was towards her but she felt hot when she had been cold not that long ago. Knowing she was making a mistake but very tired and knowing she would need her rest she lay on the ground and closed her eyes exhausted.
Yoko then turned around in the bed and looked at her with anger in his eyes as he watched Nakada sleep on the floor. He sat up and went over to her and picked her up and carried her to his bed. I will allow her to go out on these walks, or whatever what ever she does outside, since I know now she will come back. But I won't let her get away with it without sleeping in my bed after she comes back! Yoko laid her gently under the furs and moved in behind her holding her close. Nakada's body stiffened and he looked at her. She's still asleep but her body still stiffens, well she will eventually grow out of that. Huh? Before he knew what happened Nakada gave a little sigh and relaxed against him completely.
It was Yoko's turn to stiffen now. Unsure about what to do, but he eventually relaxed and then he stiffened again as she turned around and laid her head against his chest. But she gave a slight yelp and moved it away from it as if he had somehow hurt her. Yoko checked her out (not that way so get your head out of the gutter!) to see if she was all right. When he saw that nothing was wrong with her he began to wonder why she had made a sound like as if she had been hurt. Nothing is wrong so why did she yelp when she pressed her head to my chest? Wait a minute…why do I even care? SHE IS JUST A WROTHLESS NINGEN THAT I'M GOING TO USE FOR ONE SEASON. Baka ningen onna. He thought as he held her close. Though she is quite warm and this is kind of comfortable. But why does this feel so familiar? He closed his eyes and he felt Nakada try to lay her head on his chest again but she drew back and yelped again. He looked at her and began to move his hand across his chest to see if there were any sharp objects, or stuff like that, that was hurting her because he wouldn't be able to sleep she kept on yelping.
Satisfied that there was nothing there he held her close again. He was about to go to sleep when she laid her head on his chest and she yelped again. Getting a bit grumpy he just took some fur and placed it between her and his chest. He waited and yet again she laid her head on his chest but this time she didn't yelp. Happy he held her close and went to sleep feeling quite content with himself.
Four hours later Nakada woke up and she found that someone was holding her and she was so warm. The feeling of being in this person's arms was so familiar to her that she snuggled in closer to the person that was holding her. In doing so she accidentally moved the fur that was covering the thing's chest and she began to hear the most horrible sound she had ever heard. It hurt her ears to listen to it as she tried to figure out what it was. Finally she couldn't take it anymore as she opened her eyes and pushed as far away from the thing as she could and gave cry.
Yoko woke up when he felt Nakada push him away and he also heard her scream. He opened his eyes and saw that he was against the wall and Nakada was staring at him after she had somehow remembered to put on her sunglasses. She looked at him horror stricken as she finally found out what the horrible sound was. It was Yoko's own beating heart that was making the dreadful noise.
"Nakada what's wrong?" he asked out of concern, his eyes even showed he was concerned. But Nakada knew it was all a lie. She could hear the difference between a good heartbeat and an evil heartbeat. Yoko's heartbeat was horrible and unbearable because he had killed when it was unnecessary and he enjoyed it and many other horrible things.
Yoko sat up on the bed and was about to go towards her when she said, "Stay back!" in her own language but Yoko understood what it had meant.
He looked at her and stood still for a second feeling like this or something like it had happened before, "Nakada what's wrong? Are you hurt?"
She just stared at him. He acts like he knows I can speak his language. Yoko began to take a step towards her but she took a step back, "I said stay back!" she almost yelled. What am I doing he wont listen to me even if he knew what I was saying. After she thought that she saw Yoko lunge for her and she turned to run but he caught the end of her leash and held her still. She looked at him with a dagger like glare; "Let go of me!" she hissed and almost growled as she tugged her chain.
Yoko held on tight and walked up to her wrapping the chain around his hand each time he gained a little extra. Nakada tried to get away as he got closer but she couldn't with out telling she was stronger then him. When he was close enough he took hold of Nakada's hand in an iron grip and then he took the other and wrapped her hands behind her back.
Nakada was up to Yoko's chest so he had to look down at her while she tried to look away, "Look at me," he commanded in a low voice but she disobeyed. "I said look at me," this time a little harsher and but she didn't look at him. Angry he took hold of both of her hands in one of his and grabbed her chin, none to gently, and forced her to look at him in the face. She turned her eyes away from him so she wouldn't look at him but he could see a tear running down her face. For some reason his heart began to hurt and he felt something but he couldn't name it.
But his anger at her disobeying him took hold and he struck her in the face. She turned her head but she didn't turn it back to glare at him like the first time he had struck her. She just kept her head like that and when he loosened his hold a bit she kneed him where…the …sun…don't…shine and he crouched over yelling and cursing as she took her leash and ran out of the tent hurrying into the forest. She didn't care where she was running; she just knew that she needed to get away from him.
Kuronue ran into Yoko's tent and saw him on the floor and he tried his best to suppress his chuckles, "Umm…what…happened?" he asked holding his mouth to show he was wasn't smiling.
Yoko glared at him as he slowly stood up, "What the hell do you think? She kicked me! Go out and find her right now! Take all the men we have to find her!" She will pay dearly for this. Yoko thought as he stood straight and walked out of the tent and saw the rest of the team including Jennah sitting by the dead fire trying to make sure they wouldn't get stepped on.
He growled and went over to them and DJ saw this. "I'm going to tell him that we can speak his language and I don't care what happens. I want to know what happened."
"DJ no," Rebekah said trying to hold him down, "He isn't ready yet. He can't know now right now."
"But I want to know why my sister ran out of the tent and into the woods," he protested, "I promise I won't let anything bad happen and I won't tell him anything else…please."
They all looked at each other and nodded reluctantly. When Yoko was finely close enough, DJ stood up and spoke the fox's language, "What did you do to my sister?" he asked and Yoko stared at him startled, "Yes I can speak your language, we all can. We just didn't have anything to tell you then. Now WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY SISTER!"
Yoko went to strike DJ but he dodged it and grabbed his neck, "I said I want to know what you did to my sister. Not I want a fight I know I will win," he said dangerously with a hint of venom.
Yoko grabbed DJ's hand trying to get him to let go but DJ wouldn't and soon the whole camp saw them and watched to see what Yoko would do. He stared at DJ for a second and smiled, "If you are so confident in thinking you can defeat me then why don't we settle it with a fight. You win I'll tell you what happened as best I can and when I win you tell me all of your secrets that you obviously have hidden from me," he said with the smile on his face.
"So be it, "DJ said letting go of his Yoko's neck, "It's an anything goes match with only one round. If you lose you lose and no rematches…do you except?"
Yoko grinned and nodded, "I wouldn't have it any other way," and he took out his rose whip and got into his fighting stance while DJ just stood still waiting for anything. This match will be over so fast his head will be spinning. Yoko thought evilly to himself.
Nakada was in at tree not far from the battle scene watching all that was going on. DJ why do you have to be so stubborn? I know you won't lose…but what if you give away a little more then you're supposed to in this match? But she didn't do anything as she sat on her branch and watched.
Yoko stood their transfixed thinking of away to start the fight. Then he whipped his rose whip at DJ and he just stood their and at the last possibly second…DJ took hold of the whip and pulled it away from Yoko's grasp and started to work with it. Yoko stood their looking at his hand where the whip had been and then back at DJ, who was now working it skill fully.
He was barley dodged the attack DJ had made against him by jumping, and had to twist around in the air to dodge another attack as well. The other demons began to go at DJ but Yoko gave them a warning look, "I don't need any help. He just took me off guard. So stay back and let me finish this on my own." The demons looked at him and stepped back and continued to watch the fight. Yoko looked at DJ and smiled, "You are very good," he smirked with a little tilt of his head, "This might actually be an interesting match. But in the end you will lose, there is nothing you can do." Foolish child. Yoko thought to himself quietly. He should be playing games or other things, not battling a match that he knows he will lose. Yoko smiled and used his demon speed to appear behind him. DJ immediately swung the whip behind him and wrapped Yoko up into it.
The thorns cut deep into Yoko's skin and he gave an agonizing yell of pain. DJ just looked at him and walked over to the struggling fox, "Now do you give?"
Yoko stared at the little boy, that reached his stomach, with pure hatred in his eyes and confusion, "Your enjoying this aren't you boy?"
DJ looked hard at Yoko, "No, actually I'm not, because if you had just told me what you had done to my sister then this wouldn't have been necessary."
Yoko looked hard at DJ, "Humph you should begin to enjoy it. Not many people can take me down. Actually you're the first, so you should be happy with what you are doing to me. Proud that you actually caught the great Yoko Kurama when others, many others, have failed to do so," he said with a smile.
DJ tugged the whip and made Yoko wince but he didn't yell this time, "I am not like others and I am most definitely not like YOU! SO STOP THIS MEANINGLESS CHATTER AND TELL ME IF YOU GIVE OR NOT!" Yoko stared at the boy who had the other end of his whip and looked down in defeat. There was a loud gasp from all around them as the demons saw their leader accept defeat from a mere child and Yoko winced in humiliation.
The whip loosened as DJ walked up to him and let go of it. Yoko opened his eyes and looked at the ground. Beaten by a mere child in front of my band! He closed his eyes and continued to think. How could it have ended so quickly and badly? Yoko looked at DJ who was gently unwrapping the whip from around him. He lowered his head in humiliation and was silent the whole time DJ unwound the whip from him showing the many deep holes in his skin from the horns on his whip.
When the wipe was off of Yoko, the fox fell to his knees. DJ spoke gently as he knelt by the fox demon, "If you weren't so over confidant then you wouldn't feel this much humiliation. I fought merely because I wanted to know what happened to my sister. Not because I wanted to prove myself like you were."
Yoko looked at the boy in hatred, "Shut up all right? You win so don't rub it in just because you now know you can defeat me in a battle, but it won't happen again I assure you that," he hissed and stood up but fell down again from the amount of blood he had lost but he found he was being held up. He glared at the person he thought was DJ and found that it was Kuronue.
"Come on lets get you into the tent and then you can tell DJ what happened," he said with a smile and he helped him into the tent followed by DJ. Yoko turned around and yelled, "Well what are you waiting for? Find the girl before another demon does!" And there was a scramble around the camp again like as if nothing had happened and everyone but Yoko forgot the fight. The fox demon had lost consciousness after his wounds were bandaged up so DJ stayed at his side the whole time. Nakada in the mean time let herself get caught and she was dragged back to the camp.
After everything was packed they all started to walk to the Forest of Doom with Yoko tugging Nakada's leash even when she wasn't trailing. He blamed her for his loss, so he treated her worse and wouldn't lighten up. But Nakada wasn't thinking about that. She was to busy staring at his ears and tail trying her best not to laugh.
Finally Yoko saw she was trying to suppress her giggles and his tail flexed in anger and it looked like she was having a harder time to hold in her giggles now as she covered her mouth, "Would mind telling me why you are trying to keep yourself from giggling onna?" She glared at him and stopped but didn't answer.
"I asked you a question," he said stopping and looking hard at her, "I know you can speak my language so don't play dumb with me." He tugged her chain that made her bump into him and he wrapped his arms around her holding her close and looking at her hard.
She could hear his ugly heartbeat and she winced as she tried to get away from him and she turned her hearing down which they had all learned to do at Grenka's. But Yoko held her still looking at her, "Will you let go of her? She can't stand the sound of your heartbeat," Jennah said as she walked up to him.
Yoko looked at her confused, "What do you mean by that?" He asked as he still kept a hold onto Nakada.
Jennah sighed, "She's sensitive to that kind of stuff. When she hears a soft smooth heartbeat then she can listen to it without any problems. But if she hears a loud corrupted heartbeat like yours then her ears hurt and she won't be able to listen to it. Lacey is more sensitive then her but still."
Yoko stared at her and then down at Nakada who was still trying to get away from him. Then he noticed that she was pushing against his chest to let her go. It would have been more affective if she had placed her right hand over his heart but she seemed to refuse to, "Is she also sensitive to emotions or things close to that by touching the place over the heart?"
He looked at Jennah and she nodded, "Yes, she can easily be overwhelmed by them and…tell the difference between a good person and an evil person. If she gets to over whelmed…well we don't know what happens because she can most of the time control it. It is harder for her to control it though when the person is…" she looked down.
He glared at her, "Finish it," he ordered coldly and Nakada gave a whimper when his heart started getting worse and she began to get weak.
Jennah looked at her friend in the fox's arms but Yoko barely even noticed. The violet haired girl glared at him, "When the person is mostly evil."
Yoko looked at Jennah and then at Nakada, who was barely even conscious now. He let go but still held the chain, "We don't have time for this, we have to be a good distance in the forest before nightfall," and they continued their march. Nakada looked at him and saw that there was something different about him but she couldn't place her finger on it. It seemed like he had been hurt by what he had just found out. But Nakada shook her head thinking that it was impossible.
On the way through the forest Nakada wouldn't stop looking at all of the different plants that were around them in amazement. Yoko looked at her and smiled a bit when he saw her staring and smiling at all the different plants. It seems she's a plant lover. He thought as he continued to watch her. But he almost tripped when she stopped and had a serious look on her face, as did the rest of the team looking around trying to find something.
Yoko and the rest of the demons began to search all over the place for some kind of unusual energy but they couldn't find anything. Yoko made a sound of discouragement and Nakada pushed him to the ground and covered his mouth with her hand. He glared at her and she pointed to the place where they had just been. He looked and saw that there was a bamboo rod embedded in the ground right where he had been.
He gulped and looked at her but all she did was make the sign for him to be quiet and he nodded. They all walked as carefully and quietly as they could out of the area. Then they noticed that when it had been quiet, sounds of the forest finally came to life. The whole team gave a sigh of relief showing that it was all right and they smiled.
Jennah walked up to Nakada and they high fived each other in happiness that they had all actually survived that. When Lindsey had walked up they hugged while Yoko looked at them unable to understand why they had done that. He shrugged it off as a human thing and pulled Nakada with him to try and find someplace to camp for the night.
Everyone was just to tired to do anything that night so when they had eaten and the team had agreed to not train tonight, since the place was obviously to dangerous, everyone went to sleep. Nakada and Jennah went into the tents with Yoko and Kuronue while the rest of the team was outside.
When she and Yoko were inside the tent, Yoko sat down on the bed of furs for a second wincing from the wounds DJ had made that morning. Nakada looked at him and sighed as she went over to him and began to unwrap his bandages. He looked at her and pulled away, "What do you think you are doing?" he asked looking at her with pure hatred. She pointed at the blood soaked bandages and he looked at them. He looked at her and growled, "They are fine. I have faced a lot more dangerous and painful things then this in my life." Nakada crossed her arms, leaned on one leg and looked at him hard. He looked right back knowing what she was thinking, "Why do you all of a sudden start caring about me?"
She looked at him but she didn't answer only shrugged and he just stared at her. He knew his wounds needed to be cleaned and re-bandaged, but he wasn't so sure about her letting her do it. He tried to see her eyes when he looked at the glasses, but couldn't. Then he sighed and looked down, "I just wanted you to answer a simple question that was it."
Nakada looked at him and went to his side looking at him to see if he would let her help him a little. He gave no indication she was there as she started to undo his bandages again. When they were off she saw the amount of damage that was done to him and she tried to hold in her surprise. She went out to get some water and when she returned she came back with the bandages cleaned and Yoko still hadn't moved. She also had a small basin of water and a cloth in it. She began to clean his wounds from the dried blood. When she was done she took the clean and surprisingly dry bandages and began to rewrap them around his wounds again.
The whole time Yoko didn't make a move was when she needed him to lift his arms. When she was done Nakada lay down on the floor like she had done last time. Yoko finally made a move and looked at her handy work. He saw that job was done quite well. He looked at the girl on the floor and took some extra fur from his bed and gave her some to sleep with. But she only glared at him through her glasses and ignored the fur completely. Yoko looked at her angry, "Why do you ignore something you should be great full for? Your friends don't have any fur to sleep with and keep them warm. You should be great full that I am giving you some." Nakada glared at him and turned around still ignoring the fur. Angry and not to be refused, Yoko walked up to her trying not to wince and crouched down behind her with his arms over his knees, but his butt wasn't on the floor, "Can you at least tell me why you are ignoring it?" Nakada pointed outside but didn't look at him because she had her sunglasses off. Yoko looked out to where she was pointing to and saw that she was pointing to her friends.
"I see, you don't want to be covered by the fur because your friends aren't as well…am I correct?" Nakada nodded and laid on her arm ready to go to sleep. Yoko looked at her confused not taking the hint, "Why do you care if you get fur and they don't?"
Nakada began to think of away to answer him without talking but couldn't, "Because they are my friends and I don't want the benefits that they can't have," she answered in a whispered voice that he could barely hear.
Yoko stared at her, "I thought you humans were a lot more cold hearted then this and greedy," he said still staring at her.
Nakada sighed wanting to get some sleep but she knew the faster she answered his questions the sooner she would be able to go to sleep, "There are some humans who are like that and there are some that aren't. It just depends on what other people believe in and how they were raised," she was really tired now but Yoko had one more question.
"Do you hate me because I like to kill other people and steal?" Nakada's eyes widened and she put on her sunglasses and looked at Yoko.
He was serious about this question, she could see it through his eyes, "I guess I am angry at you for doing all kinds of terrible things for enjoyment and with out thinking and striking me. But I don't know enough about you to know whether I want to hate your or not. So far I'm not really in the mood to know anymore things about you because I will admit it, I am scared of finding out more about you that could make me lead to hate you and even more."
"So what you are saying you don't want to hate me? Why?" Yoko asked, still not seeing that Nakada was tired.
The girl sighed, "Yes I'm saying I don't want to hate you because, your heart might sound horrible but…don't get angry all right? I'm just telling you this because you asked the question and I'm answering it," he nodded and she continued, "but there is a little part of it that is bearable to listen to. But you are ignoring that part so it's hard for me to hear it. Why I don't want to hate you I don't know, for some reason I feel something familiar when I'm around you and I don't know what it is. It's almost like I've met you before and Kuronue as well. That's all I can tell you…so why don't we both go to sleep because my guess is we will need our energy for tomorrow," with that Nakada lay down on the ground and went to sleep instantly with Yoko staring at her.
He looked at the girls outside and went to one of the storage tents and took out some extra furs for the team and laid one on each of them. When he got back to his tent he saw that Nakada was now covered with the furs he had given her with a smile on her face. He felt his heart lighten a bit as a smile appeared on his lips. I got to stop letting this girl get to me. But I guess a few furs for her friends are all right. Yoko went to his bed and went to sleep.
Hey everyone! Thanks for the review Shoulder Monkey! I've been thinking about that riddle you gave me Shoulder Monkey and the only thing I can think of is your house. I highly doubt that is the answer and when I do find out...I bet I will feel really stupid afterwards. In the mean time...Everyone please review !