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Chapter 7

Yomi awoke to Shura shaking him awake.

"Father! The Human! She's gone!"

He shot up, he couldn't sense her energy.

"Where in the world is the blasted woman?" This was not how he wanted to start every morning. He reined in his temper and shot Shura a glare.

"Do you have any idea which way she was going?"

"I don't know but she took a little food and water with her in her bag."

"Let's head West maybe she got a head start on us" he had this sinking feeling. A feeling he hadn't felt in a long time. He was worried about her. He needed to keep it to himself though. Worrying about some human was not in his nature. He thought about her gentle laugh and eccentric personality. Though he was blind, even he could see that she was over flowing with confidence and probably wore a smile even when she was whining. He and Shura packed up their stuff and took off. It wasn't long before they picked up her scent… along with other scents not far behind.

She didn't really understand herself that much, she never acted like this! She may be reckless… and have a short attention span… and may not think everything through but still she didn't like being treated the way Yomi and Shura treated her.

She stomped along following the way she thought was west. The sun does set in the West right? It was hard to tell with this world. The wind was picking up and there was some thunder in the air.

"I need to find a cave or shelter, it looks like a storm is coming up" she looked around and saw nothing but the path and trees.

"Well that's just awesome…" she trudged forward keeping an eye out.

After a while, it started to rain. She looked up as it fell on her face and groaned. But luck was in her favor. She looked around and spotted an indention in the wall of a large rock. She smiled and ran to it. She looked inside, it looked empty. Inside it was cold and dark but she wrapped herself up in the blanket Yomi had given her and leaned against the wall. She shivered and cursed herself for not paying attention when Shura and Yomi were making a fire. She hugged herself tight into a ball with the blanket around her. She sighed and had to admit to herself that she missed Yomi and Shura… She started to think about Yomi… He was tall and brave… not to bad looking for a Goat Demon Man thing. She thought about his dry sense of- well lack of- humor. She wanted so badly to make him laugh just once, to see him smile and just relax. He was so firm and it made it her… well, she tucked herself tighter and closed her eyes. It made her happy to see him dumbfounded or bewildered or just irritated. She liked to know that she bothered him because at least he opened up that way. She felt childish for that but, she wanted him to let her in one way or another. Maybe ruffling his feathers would make him open up more. And Shura was being just like him but she could see he wanted to be a kid like all the other boys his age. She was starting to care for him a lot, like a little brother in a way. Plus he was just adorable. She smiled sadly shivering again. She drank a little water and ate a little of her berries. She remembered that the man that attacked her said he used to be in Raizen's group. Who was this Raizen? He had died from the sounds of it and his heir had left. Did that make his men friend or foe? The pain in her back and neck told her she might not be the most welcomed person in the world unless she was planning on walking in on a silver platter with an apple in her mouth. Well, she'd worry about that when she got there.

"We've lost the scent."

"Why in the world did she run off?" Shura shook his head free of the water dripping down his dark hair. Yomi looked at Shura and noticed that his aura was giving off a worried vibe.

"I don't know" Yomi was getting increasingly worried also which bothered him more. She was just a human, he called it duty and obligation to return her to human world but in reality… that was only part of it. The moment he smelled her, he wanted to make sure she was protected. The idea bothered him to the point of annoyance and she was often the target of it. Her whole personality was starting to take root and he needed her to be removed as soon as possible. But the thought just left him feeling… uprooted himself. He actually enjoyed her presence. Before he was blinded he would take the sun and the wonders of the world for granted now that he was blind all he wanted to do was look at it all again. When he first met her, first spoke to her, he was reminded of the sunlight again.

"Let's just find Melody and be done with it" he took off across the path.

Shura stood there for a moment. "Father did you…" he trailed off, "he called her by her name…" he started to follow.

Yomi and Shura stood at a cross path. He sighed and looked. The rain had washed away her scent. Shura pointed.

"Father, there's a large rock East of us. She knows that we were heading west, so would she go the other way?"

"I suppose so. She might have been looking for shelter."

"What direction do you want to go?"

"We'll split up to cover more ground." Yomi wanted to find her. He couldn't understand the importance of it. He genuinely wanted to find her. "We'll meet back here first thing in the morning. I'll go East, you go West."

"Alright," with that Shura disappeared.

He sensed the large rock that Shura had mentioned and moved towards it. He was starting to get another sense also. Lower class demons were also on the hunt. They were not alone.

As the rain poured and her stomach growled, all Melody could do was watch it pour. She pulled out her guitar and checked the tune. She turned the nuts on the guitar to loosen and tighten the strings until they sounded right. She started to sing, low and slow. She was so caught up she didn't realize footsteps coming toward her. They slowed and stood watching, maybe waiting? Or were they listening?

Meanwhile- In Human World….

"What the fuck do you mean, 'called off the search?!' Melody has been kidnapped and you don't fucking care!" Mika screamed at the officer at the front office of the police station. "She goes missing for two weeks and you sit here twiddling your Goddamn thumbs!" with a disgusted sound she marched out. With the spectacle over everyone watched her march out.

"Soooo how'd it go?" Jessica asked shyly. She was waiting by the car. Ron was smoking, sitting in the driver seat.

"Fucking useless pigs!" Mika kicked over a trash can on her way over to her. She gritted her teeth. "We'll find her ourselves!"

"And how are we gonna do that?"

"We're going to that fucking trash Mr. Yama himself!"

They jumped into Ron's waiting car and drove across town to the skyscraper called 'Yama Enterprises.'

Mika led Jessica and Ron inside. They got stares and cross looks of disgust but they simply ignored them and went to the counter where a skinny man was watching them approach and curled his lips but his expression changed to professionalism as they got close. He had a pencil mustache and silver hair.

"Hello there, how may I help you?"

"We want to see Mr. Yama right now" Mika said trying to keep her cool. The man did his best to hide (but failed) that he was rolling his eyes.

"No one sees him without an appointment and I highly doubt we can arrange one for you three. He doesn't like children"

"I don't give a-" Ron cut Mika off.

"I'm not a kid. We're here about a friend of ours that is missing and she was last seen here. Now we just want 5 minutes of his time"

"Well" he glanced at his book in front of him. "I'm sorry but he doesn't have 5 minutes until the middle of next month"

"Please sir…" Jessica slid in front of Ron and leaned forward so he could get a nice look down her blouse "come now, there must be some time we could see him, I'm sure a man of your" she batted her eyelashes "caliber could work something out"

"You are barking up the wrong tree, your red haired friend had a better chance. Now leave before I have security escort you out" he said shoeing them out.

"You Motherfucker!"

Just as Mika was about shove her boot down his throat they were swarmed by security and, quite literally, tossed onto the sidewalk.

"Are you all alright?" Jessica was already gazing at the red head and Mika could tell if she was a cartoon she'd be whistling with her eyes bugged out and her tongue rolled out like a red carpet.

They all stood.

"Yes, we're fine. Thank you" she sighed defeated.

"Looks like you got tossed out on your asses pretty good."

They looked up to see that the red-haired man was joined by three other men, an orange haired man, a short black haired one and the one that spoke to them, a young man with black slick backed hair.

"Our friend, Melody, has been missing for two weeks and this was the last place she was and the police are saying they can't find any trace that she was ever here…" Mika said, the depressed tone making the others look at her.

"Don't worry Mika we'll find her. You know her, she could just pop up one day and be like 'My bad, I forgot to tell you I flew to Spain'" Ron tried and failed to reassure her.

"Excuse me but could you tell me everything, we are doing our own little investigation. As it seems, your friend might not be the only one that Mr. Yama has made disappear."