A/N: Welcome to Chapter 6 of my Fanfiction- A Song for Yomi!

I hope you all are enjoying it so far! In Chapter 7, the plot thickens and we move forward some. I apologize if Yomi and Shura come off as a little OOC. I am doing my best to keep them in character as much as possible. Thanks for the reviews and messages!

J-Here is that update you wanted xD

Chapter 6

Yomi woke up to an empty campsite.

"Shura?" No answer, they were gone. He opened his senses further, he could sense Shura's aura and made a dash for it. Back the way they came and down a separate trail, Yomi found them. They had gone back to that damn waterfall that the human had been fusing about. He stopped before coming into sight.

"Come on human, Father will be awake soon!" Shura had his back turned to her. He had a wave of embarrassment coming off him.

"Hey! Just keep guard ok?! I'm almost done!" she was humming a sweet tune and there was a soft splashing noise.

"I don't understand girls at all…!" he gave an irritated glance her way but quickly turned around.

How could she resist the waterfall? It looked so beautiful and peaceful. As soon as she saw it she knew she wanted to explore it. So that morning she woke up Shura, much to his displeasure, and had him escort her back to it. As soon as she saw it, she stripped and jumped in.

"Come on! It's so refreshing!"

"N-no way!" he was blushing.

"Come on, don't be a prude!" she laughed and splashed at him some. He simply got further away from her on the shore and turned folding his arms. "Father like son, I guess." She teased and started swimming around enjoying the feeling of the warm water as the sun started to beam. She dunked under but came back up just as quickly. She was happy and playing when Shura reminded her that his Father would be awake soon...

Yomi approached Shura.

"Shura? What are you doing here?"

"The human wanted to come here. I couldn't talk her out of it…" They had come down the trail where the waterfall pooled and made a small lake. It was to noisy to sleep next to so he had lead them about a mile away from it.

"Human" Yomi addressed her.

She was washing the last of the dirt off of her. "Melody" She corrected.

"Whatever. You are to stick with me for now on. My boy and you are not allowed without my approval, understood?" After a few moments of silence, he listened again "Human?"

She didn't respond.

"Shura?"

"She went underwater"

He did not want to start off his day like this.

"Hey, turn around" Melody asked as she resurfaced.

"Why?"

'So I can get dressed" Shura was already turned around.

"What am I going to do, sense you dressing?"

"See? You're getting a hang of this humor thing, Yomi" she started to crawl out of the pool but stopped before any of her feminine areas were exposed.

Yomi scowled at her comment.

"Now turn around"

"Humans and their vanity" he turned around. After a few moments, she touched his shoulder.

"Done!"

"Finally. Let's go" they had already wasted part of the day on her silly nonsense.

A few hours later, Melody was sitting on a rock panting. After 6 full hours of walking she was dying from exhaustion.

"Humans are so frail. It's only been a few hours" Shura said as-a-matter-of-factly.

"I could really use a burger… maybe a big order of fries… oh! A milkshake! With extra cherries and whip cream!" She was imagining it and licked her lips.

"Fine! A quick break!" Yomi was just fatigued from being around this girl though she was getting under skin. But the thought of a human getting close to him was enough to make him exasperated. Maybe it wasn't just her that was bothering him… he gave a deep sigh getting out some water. Melody did the same just taking a deep gulp and putting it away. After a few minutes they started on their way again.

That night Melody sat by the fire as Shura and Yomi were doing some scavenging for food. Yomi was the type of guy that liked his food absolutely fresh, she realized. He didn't like to carry a lot of extra food on him. Though at the same time, when he did eat it wasn't much. Maybe he just wasn't hungry? She took off her shoes as a small nagging pain set in. She rubbed them gently, especially the sore spots.

"I guess humans are weaker than I thought."

She turned to see them returning with something that resembled squirrels.

"Dad you can't expect too much, she is human after all."

"True" they sat down and she puffed out her cheeks. Didn't they see that she was sitting right there in pain?

"Here" Shura handed her a squirrel.

"Um… thanks?" she gingerly touched it, having no idea what to do with it. She looked over at Yomi who was skinning his already. Her stomach turned.

"I'm suddenly not hungry…" the smell was making her turn green.

"Never killed or made your own meal before?" Yomi didn't look at her, but he assumed the answer.

"If it doesn't come with instructions then no" she looked at the squirrel and realized that it was actually kind of cute.

Yomi took it from her and in a matter of moments was preparing it too.

"But it was so cute!"

"Cute?" Shura was snacking on a carrot. "It's a dead squirrel."

"But it was crawling before right?" her stomach betrayed her as it growled

"You won't be thinking it's cute when you're eating it in a few minutes." Yomi was stripping the bones.

"Hmm…" she thought about it and after a few minutes of hearing the water boiling in a small pot over the crackling fire and Shura finishing off his carrot, she spoke up to Yomi, "Maybe you can teach me then?"

"What?" He slid the meat carefully into the pot.

"To kill animals and to clean it so we can eat it"

He looked at her. His mouth was pressed into a hard line. "I don't think so"

"Why not?"

"I don't like humans, much less teaching them things." She didn't know why but it hurt her feelings to hear that.

"Oh…" she looked at the fire watching it move and sway like a dance over the logs.

Yomi could tell that he had upset her by the wave of emotion she was giving off. He sighed. This is why he didn't like mingling with humans, especially females- to damn emotional.

Melody picked at her dinner, she kept seeing the squirrel and losing her appetite for the meat in it so the soup and carrots were enough.

"Here," she nudged Shura with her bowl.

"What?" he glanced at her.

"Growing boy needs more meat then a girl like me" she offered him her bowl again.

"I got my own, I don't need some human's share"

"I guess it's going to waste since I'm full" she sat the bowl down.

"Nothing goes to waste here" Yomi said making her jump. He knew what she was doing.

"Shura, eat it. She won't eat it because it's the cute little squirrel"

She frowned.

"Really? Fine." Shura grabbed the bowl and ate part of it before handing it to his Father that finished it.

"If she wants to go hungry, let her."

"She becomes dead weight, you're carrying her" he scoffed.

She stood up, brushing off the dust. She walked away from them heading to the woods.

"Human, where are you going?"

"I'm going to pee," she huffed, now they recognize that she was still there. She walked away before anything was said. She found a log out in the woods where she could still see the glow of the fire and squatted after getting partially undressed to do so. She looked around for something to wipe with. She grabbed some leaves and finished up. She slid her panties back up and redressed. There was a rustling behind her. She turned and saw red eyes. She went mute. She turned and tried to run and call out to Yomi and Shura but a hand covered her mouth. She looked up to see a human looking demon. No human should have eyes the way he did, though the rest of him looked human though he was behind her. Sharp nails dug into skin.

"I thought I sensed a human" he breathed deep, "I bet you will taste just as delicious as your scent."

She looked around for something, anything she could use or make a noise with. He wrapped his fingers deeper into her face as he tried to squirm away.

"That human in your hold has a claim on her"

"Yomi?!"

Yomi came from the side, his hands in his pockets. She was relieved in a way to see him. She ignored the demon's other hand on the square of her back since his whole forearm was wrapped around her waist.

"What is an ex-henchmen of Raizen doing here?" Raizen? Who was that?

"The king and his heir aren't with us anymore. We work for the new king now thanks to Yusuke." He said that like he was sneering, she couldn't see from this angle.

"It's not my business since I no longer run anything in this world" He used to rule something? So that explains his presence. "But, that human you have, is mine. I'm returning her to the human world. We're only a day walk from the borders of Raizen's old territory if we just continue west, so that means the HRT will be closing in. If they smell human blood, there will be a price to pay. Besides, you're on your own out here."

"I have back up."

"Really?" he said it like he knew something.

"I got the last one, they're dead" Shura came from the other side of him.

"Let her go, be on your way or you will die as well."

He contemplated for a few moments. He decided. He let her go and disappeared into the surrounding forest without a word.

She slipped down on her butt but stood up quickly.

"How did you know?"

"Humans are predictable. They get worked up and storm off. Plus I had been sensing him in the shadows for a while. Raizen didn't eat humans but that doesn't mean his henchmen didn't sneak snacks."

"Wait…" she realized something "Did you just use me as bait?!"

"You don't know how to stay in one place to long. You were bound to wonder off, it was just a matter of time. Now come along, we're leaving early in the morning. A few more days and you'll be home and not my problem anymore."

She was speechless for the first time since coming there as she watched them walk away slowly. She slowly started to follow. Wait… she had an idea. He said west, right? The Human Recovery thingy is looking for her right? In that, she had a realization. She made a decision and smiled. Fine, that's how it was, that's fine.