At Deaths

Nakada was lying on a bed in a dark room that was filled with the colour black. The sun was up and Nakada looked like she was dead while she was on the bed. Death then came in to the room and sat on the bed. In some stories Death was a beautiful woman or a skeleton woman or a disfigured woman. In others it was a man that looked likehe was wearing a blue mask with blue hair and black cloths. But the truth is there is more than one Death and the one that was on her bed was the beautiful death.

"It seems you got here on time Nakada," Death said to her, "A few more seconds and you wouldn't have made it," Death pressed to fingers to Nakada's neck and she wasn't surprised when she found that her skin was cold nor that there was no pulse. Nakada still had her cloak on for she just fell on the bed when the sun had resin, "I know you can hear me even in your death sleep. I just want to tell you that you are allowed to go back to the Signs and tell them what you have done just like last time. I will allow you to wake up for only a few minutes to talk to you," Death put her hands over Nakada's eyes and they began to glow an icy blue colour.

When Death lifted her hands Nakada took in a deep breath of air and woke up. She sat up and looked at Death "I don't think I could ever return to the Signs, Death," Nakada looked sad as she started to talk, "Yoko is done reading my diary and I don't know how the others will react when they find out that Caralama is my daughter and not April's. April will most definitely be shocked," a few tears fell from her eyes and Death gently whipped them away.

"But what about Yoko? I thought you loved him," Nakada looked up at Death and glared at her.

"I do love him but I don't know if he loves me," Nakada's voice was uncontrollably cold and her breath could seen as she talked. Death being used to the cold didn't shiver. Normal people would have died hearing Nakada speak like that.

Nakada began to grow pale and her moon pendant began to lose its glow and Death began to speak, "Yoko does love you and so do many others. You can stay here as long as you like Nakada but for now you have to sleep. The sun is up and the spell I put in you to wake you up is wearing off. Sleep now and don't dream but be aware of your surrondings," Nakada fell on to the bed again and her eyes closed as she stopped breathing and her heart stopped beating and the glow her pendant gave off faded.

Death stood up and went out of the room and went to her sisters and brother. When she walked into a huge room full of lit candles of different shapes and sizes she saw her brother and sisters standing therewaiting for her. "Has she decided to leave?" asked Death's brother sounding a bit worried.

"No brother she thinks she is not wanted by the Signs but I guess she wont stay here forever," Death said going over to a small candle that was flickering. She looked into the flame and saw an old man in a bed surrounded by his family knowing he was going to die tonight. Death sighed and blew out the candle and the man died.

"Why would she want to leave us?" the skeleton Death asked, "We are not asking her to go and she is no trouble,"

"Indeed," replied the brother, "She doesn't come out of her room that much either. Before we said she could go and visit the Signs all she ever did was just sit at her window and look at the stars, the moon and if it was to cloudy to watch them she would just look out of the window as if nothing ever mattered to her.

All the Deaths went to a candle that was the same height as Yoko and looked into the flame. They saw Yoko holding Caralama close to him and Hiei sitting in a chair.

"When she found out that he was going to die in one year she was so distraught," the skull death said, "She still looked out the window when I told her but she didn't seem to have listened. But when I was about to leave I heard silent sniffles and saw that she was still at the window but her arms were on the sill and her head was in her arms. She went into her death sleep like that and did the same thing the next day," the other Deaths nodded in agreement and still looked at the flame. Yoko let go of Caralama looked at her and said something. Caralama nodded and walked with Hiei out the door. Soon after Yoko went to his room and looked out the window. A little tear fell from his eyes as he looked out of it and held a hand to his chest.

He wasn't having another attack they knew that but his heart was hurting him like as if someone had driven a dagger into it. They knew why he had felt this way. He had done this everytime shortly after Nakada had gone to sleep. His heart thought she was dead and it would break but Yoko wouldn't know what had happened. He would usually do it in his sleep because Nakada would go into her death sleep before he woke up. But Nakada had just gone to sleep again and he was awake.

He said something and pressed his hand harder to his chest. He was beginning to have another attack and all of the Signs were around him in an in an instant forming a circle around him and destroying the lies. Yoko's pendant glowed bright but it looked like it was fading. The lies retreated to his heart again but the glow his pendant was emitting still looked a bit faded but it hadn't faded so much for the Signs to notice. His life candle also went down but not enough for anyone to notice.

"Sister do you think the Signs will be angry at Nakada when they find out that Nakada is the real mother to Caralama?" the male death said to his sister the disfigured death that always wore a hooded cloak to hide herself. She looked like nothing but a shadow. This Death couldn't speak but her head moved back and forth showing that she thought the Sings would not be angry at her. And when she said that something was going to happen then it would definitely happen. The beautiful death smiled and looked into the flame again and saw that Yoko was sitting up and Caralama and Hiei were there. He was sitting on the bed and Caralama was holding on tight to him but she wasn't crying. The Signs left the room and Hiei was on the window seat looking at Caralama and Yoko.

"Maybe one of us should tell them," said the male death, "It might be a bit better and then maybe Nakada would to them and stay with them when she finds out they wouldn't hate her," the other deaths nodded

But the skeleton death said, "We can not do something that might change the course of life. You know perfectly well that we are to show up to them but only after Nakada is with the Signs again. Then we can tell them all of it if need be. We might not need to show up at all though."

That night when the sun had set, Nakada's pendant began to glow and her heart began to beat and she took in a deep breath of air. She slowly opened her eyes and looked around. Her cloak was on a chair by the opened window. There was a knock on the door and Nakada said, "Come in," in a low calm voice.

The male death came into her room and sat at her bedside, "The sun has set and the moon is rising do you want to go visit the Signs tonight?" Nakada thought for awhile and then she nodded, "Then hurry every second wasted here is lost time," Nakada instantly got off the bed and went to her cloak. She went out of the room out the door that led to the ocean and as she lifted her hood she jumped into the ocean and swam towards the Signs home.