A/N: Hello everyone! Welcome to Chapter 5 of my Yomi story! I hope you all are enjoying it and I am looking forward to hearing what you all have to say! So PM me and R&R! Let me know also if Yomi or Shura seem a little out of character.

Disclaimer: As always, only my characters in the story are mine and all the usual suspects in here are not mine.

I will post Chapter 6 next week, I just have to double check the grammar and then I'll be done.

Chapter 5

"Stay here, we'll be back in a few hours"

"What am I supposed to do until then?" she groaned. As she groaned an idea popped into her head.

"I don't care, just stay" with that they headed out.

Melody waited until Yomi and Shura disappeared from her sight to move out of the small room. The doctor had also left for the day to do whatever he did earlier that morning. She strapped a her guitar to her back and headed out the door, closing the door softly behind her.

Looking around the town she had demons give her odd looks and she jumped at some. It was getting simpler to be around demons though, the fear was lessening.

She stopped into a few shops but they simply pushed her out and made awful scoffing noises at her. Some threatened to serve her as a special if she didn't move on. Why didn't any of them attack her? Maybe it was because of the demon she had come into town with? Yomi was so stiff! He was rigid and had almost no sense of humor. She smiled to herself as she thought about him, he just simply had this air of authority about him and no matter how mean he was or harsh, she still felt secure with him. She turned a corner spotting a small sign reading off specials for the day.

There was only one place in the whole trade market that would even entertain the idea of a human female performing there. A bar called "The Dimly Lit Cavern."

"The Dimly Lit Cavern… OK, well that's… a creative name" she said to herself standing outside of it. It was a brick building painted white. The sign above the door looked like it should have once said something like "XXX" or "Girls, Girls, Girls!" She decided to take her chances and stepped inside.

Inside was just as the name predicted. It was dimly lit with lots of odd looking demons that looked up as she came inside.

The owner looked like the caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland to her. He completed the look by pulling out (what she assumed was) an elongated cigar to puff.

The owner looked up to see the rumored human that was in town, step into his tavern. He was into exotic and interestingly odd talents, so a human female was a great discovery for him. She asked him if she could perform if he paid her a little money. A human? Singing for demons? Especially with these demons? She'd be eaten alive! Lord Yomi would be displeased if he discovered her body though so he'd either have to protect her or make sure not a trace of her was left. But might as well let her try. He chuckled inwardly.

He was extremely amused to have her perform. Demons gathered together to place bets on how long she'd last before she was booed off the stage and devoured.

"All right now, I'm going to sing my version of a famous human world song called Domino, anyone heard of it? No? Kind of figured that..."

It was a good thing Shura had found her guitar. He had returned it in one piece. She couldn't believe it hadn't shattered when she hit the trees. Luck, it would seem, was on her side for once.

When Yomi and Shura returned they couldn't sense Melody inside the doctor's clinic.

Doesn't she realize that there was good chance she wasn't leaving alive or at least unharmed? Yomi thought as he sensed the human. He could tell which demons were looking at her with hunger, with bloodlust, with genuine interest, and with alterative motives. She was just doing the first reckless thing she could think of and didn't think about the consequences. Where was she? He could smell her trail. When she said, just not even an hour ago, that she wanted to help and return some of the money he spent, her disappearing on him during his workout with Shura was not what he had planned. He had to find her before some other demon did. He shook his head.

"Father?"

"Don't bother. There are only so many places she can be."

This is why he didn't tangle with humans.

"If something happens to her, why should we care?"

"A fair question, Shura. Under the law, she is our responsibility until we deliver her to the Human Recovery Team. We found her, so she is protected by that law."

"But, I mean who will know if some demon kills her or not?"

"The Human Recovery Team probably already knows that she is here. They will be coming to recover her, as they do. If she dies, it will cause us trouble."

Shura groaned.

She was extremely nervous, especially with everything on the line as it was. The demons in the bar scared her to death and all of them could easily kill her. Well she had gotten herself into it, now she had to play the game to get out. She should have thought about this more. She just wanted to thank Yomi and her human world money wouldn't help her here in this world.

What did I get myself into? She thought. She breathed and strummed the strings. She started to smile feeling the rhythm hit her.

Before too long she was singing and lost in the rhythm. When she emerged from the feeling, the whole bar was in an uproar. Cheering, drinking, laughing. As she finished, she laughed and headed off the stage where the bartender was.

She was just grabbing a bag from the bartender when Yomi grabbed her arm and dragged her out in front of the building.

"That was much more fun than I thought!"

"Are you insane?! I didn't think you would actually go through with it and I find you in one of the most dangerous bars in the whole damn trading post?!" he was outraged by her.

"Hey everything worked out just fine. You worry too much" she said dismissing him with a small smile and simple wave of her hand.

He growled and had to turn around to keep from losing his calm on her. He was grinding his teeth when she made a noise, like a small gasp of realization, which made him turn around.

"I just noticed," she pointed, he could always tell when people pointed at him or looked at him, his years of training had made him excellent picking up these kind of things, "you have a horn on the back of your head."

He was temporarily disarmed. For the first time in his life, he was stumped for a comeback. She was completely straight-faced and serious.

Shura's laughing pulled him back though. His son was bent over in laughter. That was a first. He had never had his son laugh so hard. Yomi smiled.

Later that day…

"Are you still angry?" Melody asked after walking silently for a while on a trail. They had restocked and started traveling to take her back.

He didn't answer her. She sighed not wanting to annoy him but she was bored. She had her guitar strapped on her back and her purse was in a large pocket she had discovered on the side of the one-piece she was wearing.

She was looking around. The river was wide next to them. They were following it upstream.

"So… how long before we get to where ever?"

Yomi sighed exasperated, "At least a week at this rate. We have to go at your pace so it could longer."

"A week or more?!" she was already feeling the pain in her feet. The most exercise she had ever done was when she had helped the dance team for a week. That week… she groaned.

"Yes, if we could travel at my speed we could be there in maybe 3 days but I refuse to carry you."

"A waterfall!" He turned in time to sense her at the edge of the river. It split off at this point where one was the same flowing river while the other was flowing off a cliff to make a beautiful waterfall.

He rubbed his eyes. Shura did the same.

"She can't focus for more than 5 seconds…"

"Father it's not too late to give her to another demon…"

If he didn't have a sense of duty he would have took him up on his offer in a minute. She was making him angry. He walked over and grabbed her. He didn't care as she stumbled.

"Heyyyyy…." She pouted wanting to explore, "5 more minutes?"

"No!" he started walking again angrily with Shura close behind him.

She looked back at it but started following Yomi.

That night, Shura fell asleep after dinner.

"I've never seen fish like this before!" She was nibbling on the last of the fish Yomi had caught her.

"Of course not, if you had-" He sensed her going to Shura, "What are you doing?"

"Shhh" she pulled Shura's cover up his shoulder, it had fallen off as he rolled, "There!" she walked back over. "What were you saying about a cat?"

"A… cat…? How did you…?" he scratched his head, baffled a bit.

"I'm kidding!" she nudged him playfully; "I'm trying to get you to lighten up some" she winked smiling at him.

"Hmph..." A human telling him to lighten up… that was a laugh.

"Oh here!" she handed him the bag the bartender had given her.

"What is it?" He felt it and opened it slowly… he dug inside and grabbed some of the coins inside, "Money?"

"Yeah, I told you that I was going to pay you back!"

"This is…" he dug around and counted, she had given him double the amount he had spent "this is too much."

"I'm sure I'm going to cause you more trouble so just keep it and buy Shura a toy or something." She was looking up.

"A toy?"

"Yeah, I don't think he has any. A kid needs a toy to play with. How else is he going to enjoy being a kid?"

He stared at her for a few moments before realizing she was still looking up. "What are you looking at?"

"The stars. So only when it's truly night time can you see them here and all the usual constellations are in the wrong places."

She ate some more on the fish then yawned.

"Well Goodnight, Yomi" she got up and lay across from him on the ground only using her arm as pillow.

"Goodnight…" he answered slowly putting out the fire.