A Dead Friend Joins The Team And Painful Secrets Are Revealed

It had been two weeks since the incident with Kelsey and the team was doing great. Because of the spell Natasha had cast on the gas tanks they saved a lot of money and Yoko was still a bit uncomfortable around the team but he was getting used to them. At night and before they were off on the road they would take a few minutes to train a bit and they would usually find a lake to swim in. The team would also have to coax Yoko to join them for a swim though.

Yoko also began to notice that the team could control certain elements. But later on he found out that they don't control them they asked or the elements did things on purpose. He learned the hard way that Natasha could get help from plants when they were training. He had decided to use his Death Tree on her in combat and all she did was give it a little of her energy and ask it to disobey him and he found himself being tied against a tree by the Death Tree. The same was with the others except some couldn't use plants.

Natasha could use air, wind, water, plants, ice and a little lighting. Her biggest weakness was fire she could easily be severely hurt with it. And water was her greatest ally. He found that out after he had asked why Natasha had healed so fast after she had drank the water. It seemed she could get powerful when she drew energy from the element she could use. But water was the best for her.

April could use the element fire, lightening and plants. Her biggest weakness was water. She could also draw her energy from it, hold it in her hand, consume it or make it.

Lindsey could use almost all kinds of elements but the light is what she favored the most. So she could use fire, lightening and just pure light. She could also draw her energy from those elements but her biggest weakness was darkness. Lacey and Sophie were the same though a bit different.

Jennah could use all the elements Natasha could but what she favored was a secret. Yoko figured they both could be very good thieves if they wanted to be. Even better then him.

Kyle could use only wind attacks and DJ could use poison.

Yoko would still have nightmares and Natasha ended up staying as his sleeping partner because the rest of the team had tried and they would end up getting clawed. So she ended up staying with him and eventually his nightmares began to not show as often. But when he would have a nightmare he wouldn't bite her anymore and he would let her be able to sleep. But there was a slight catch to it even if he didn't have a nightmare so she had to make sure she was the first one to wake up so he wouldn't get mad at her.

The catch was she had to let him hold her while he was sleeping and she had to wrap her arms around him or just let him hold her while she snuggled against him and didn't have to hold him. At she first refused the way he held her and tried to get away from him while he was still sleeping. But he went kind of rough and growled at her and held her even tighter while he was still sleeping. So she had to make sure she was awake before him so she could easily slip out of his arms. Don't know how or why but he would loosen his hold on her so that she could use a little of her speed to slip from his arms. She would still sing to him at night when he had a nightmare but she wouldn't tell Yoko. He would hear a voice in his head and the words were a bit more clear every time he woke up. Everyone knew Natasha was singing to him and he was holding her though. So when Yoko wasn't looking they would joke around. Natasha would always say there was nothing between them but she would always blush and she would write different things into her Diary.

Yoko had also been able to make a proper and secure mind block so the rest of the team couldn't hear his thoughts but also he began to notice that he could go into there minds soon after words.

One night it was a bit foggy and April was lightening a fire and Natasha was at a safe distance from it and Jennah had wondered off somewhere so after a while when they started getting worried Natasha went to find her. Natasha was in her full tiger form so she could make out Jennah's scent and she followed it. When she was far from the campsite Jennah's scent just seemed to vanish. She returned to her human form and began calling Jennah's name and looking for clues. Then she felt someone behind her and she turned around.

Back at the Camper the rest of the team was getting a bit worried about Jennah and Natasha both of them had been gone a long time. Then Yoko stood up and his ears began to twitch. The rest of the team strained their ears and they could hear a faint scream far away from the camp, "That's Natasha! I would recognize her scream any where!" Yoko and the rest of the team ran towards where Natasha's screams were coming from.

The screams stopped all of a sudden and everything was quiet. The team just stood there waiting for some kind of noise. Yoko sniffed the air trying to find Natasha's scent. When he found it he changed into his animal form and ran towards it. The rest of the team followed him. A few seconds later they heard struggling voices and one of them sounded like Natasha's, "I said un hypnotize her you bat! Or you will make regret the day you were born!" They began to follow her voice and they heard another voice that made stop Yoko in his tracks.

"I don't care I wont undo it unless you tell me where Yoko Kurama is and what you have done to him!" the voice sounded like a male.

The whole team stopped and looked at Yoko. He recognized that voice but he had to be sure. He turned back into his two legged form and spoke into the fog, "Is…is…that…you...Kuronue?" Yoko asked calling out into the fog a bit scared.

"YOKO? HELP GET THIS BITCH OFF OF ME!" came back the male voice that might have been Kuronue.

"BITCH? HOW DARE YOU CALL ME A BITCH YOU BAT GUY!" Yoko and the rest of the team ran over to were the argument was taking place. Natasha had was holding a bat demon pinned to the ground the same way she had done with Yoko when he wouldn't wear the human cloths. Natasha looked at Yoko, "Do you really know this rude bat guy?" she asked while looking at Yoko.

He looked at the bat demon on the ground, he looked exactly like the bat demon that had been his partner in crime. The same scarecrow like hat, the same wings, ears and slim well built body. Even the same pendant that was supposed to have brought him to his death, "I don't know. The Kuronue I knew was killed during a robbery. If you really are the real Kuronue then tell me something only you and I would know."

The bat demon saying he was Kuronue couldn't believe what he was hearing, "Yoko you would know me anywhere wouldn't you?" Yoko just looked at him then Kuronue sighed and thought, "All right umm you slept, marked and had sex or rapped a lot of human women that you had made into slaves and they are all dead because I had killed them?"

Natasha instantly looked at Yoko and his ears flattened down to his head. He didn't want to tell anyone that because it was hard enough to gain their trust because he was a demon. They thought he was just a demon thief and they had accepted him for being that. He looked towards Natasha and he saw tears in her eyes and he wondered why. Where he came from people were used to that. The whole team stared at him as well. Then Natasha looked at him in the eye and in a shaky voice she asked, "Is what he saying true Yoko? Have you done that? And is he the only one who knows?" she was losing her grip on Kuronue and he did notice but he just looked at her wondering why she was acting like this.

"Yes to all three questions but why are you so upset?" Natasha slowly got off of the bat demon so as to not hurt him but she could no longer look at Yoko.

"Okay Kuronue you have seen Yoko he is all right so undo what you did to Jennah," she said coldly and pointed to Jennah completely ignoring Yoko's question. Kuronue and all the rest of the team shivered uncontrollably at how cold her voice was. They could even see her breath as if it were really cold out. After Kuronue and the rest of the team stopped shivering he snapped his fingers and Jennah came to. When she saw Kuronue she screamed almost as loud as Natasha so the two demons were kneeling on the ground holding their hands over their ears. Natasha looked like she had no affect to it as the rest of the team kneeled down and she was the one with sensitive hearing.

She felt like an empty hole inside and she couldn't hear or feel the anything. Then she looked at Jennah and noticed that she was still screaming. She went over to her and covered her mouth with her hand and said, "It's all right Jennah we are here now and I think Kuronue is on our side," Jennah looked at her a bit worried.

"What's wrong Natasha? Why do you look so sad?" she asked as Natasha removed her hand from her mouth.

"It's nothing I just found out that in Yoko's world there are humans and he would take the woman, make them into slaves, rape them and then this bat demon Kuronue would kill them!"

"Natasha are sure?" Jennah asked after awhile as if not believing what she was hearing.

"Yoko said it himself that it was true!" Natasha said and stopped the conversation there, "I will check tomorrow if he is with us or against us. I will go into the camper if Kuronue is hungry he can have my share of the food I'm not that hungry tonight," Natasha then looked at Yoko and walked over to him, "And as for why I am upset about finding this stuff out that you have been hiding from all of us...what do you think I am? What do you think most of the team is? Yoko we are human girls! There are two HUMAN boys and six HUMAN girls. And what's more you wanted to make me a slave!" with that she slapped him hard across the face that made he stepped back at the unexpected attack and the sheer forse of the strike. She ran off with all the speed she had to the camper and went into her and Yoko's bedroom and took out her Diary after she had gotten dressed for bed.

Yoko stood there with his hand on his face that was beginning to redden from her slap and slowly became black and blue. He turned around and looked into the fog where Natasha had run into back to the camper Shoot! Was all that he could think.

After everyone had become introduced they ate the food the girls had made and went to make Kuronue's bed. He was going to sleep in the truck since there was no room in the camper and the truck had two beds. But first he and Yoko went into his and Natasha's bedroom.

When they had gotten in there they saw that Natasha was asleep with her Diary in her hands still open and she was holding it close to her chest. Yoko ignored it and went over to his side of the bed knowing that her diary was private because she had told him so. But Kuronue went over and stole the Diary and read it from the time Natasha had first meet Yoko to that very night. He quietly whistled and looked at Yoko, "I think I know why she acted the way she did tonight Yoko here read this,"

He tossed the Diary over to Yoko and hesitantly started to read it. He read it all the way through it and read it to that night. He was very surprised at what he read. He hadn't known he was sleeping that way with Natasha or anything like that he hadn't even known she was getting closer to him. He had a pretty good idea on why Natasha acted the way she did when she had heard what Kuronue had said and what she had found out. But he still read the last page that was that night.

Dear Diary

How on earth could I have been so stupid! I just found out that Yoko Kurama the demon that I was starting really like and was actually thinking of sleeping in so he could see that he was holding me ever since we became sleeping partners because of his nightmares IS A RAPER! Before we met he would take in women to be slaves and also his little toy! And when he was done with them or bored of them his friend KURONOE A BAT DEMON would kill her. I now remember that he wanted to make me his slave! I can't believe I even let the guy almost bite my arm off! It is probably little compared to what he and his "FRIEND" Kuronue have done to other girls. What am I saying? Of course it is little because in the end they all DIED! I will never let him wrap his arms around me and hold me ever again! He sounded like he didn't know that he was living with six human girls and he wanted to make one of them his salve! I had hit him in the face because I was angry but I know it doesn't changed matters. He still rapped women and ended up killing them! I am too angry right now to write on your pages Diary they might rip. So I tell you more tomorrow of what I think about Yoko but I'll start with these words. Yoko Kurama is a heartless, rude, pig headed, self absorbed, selfish, idiotic, basterd, son of a BITCH who thinks of no one but himself and what he wants. What I am saying? Of course he is all of those things he is a heartless…worthless… DEMON. D-E-M-O-N and I couldn't care less if he was shot in the heart with a bullet, beaten down by a gang, or died of a disease and practically begged me to kiss him just once! I…don't…care…about…HIM!

That was the end of the Diary and Yoko walked to Natasha's side of the bed and gave it back to her the way she had it before. He looked back at Kuronue, "Kuronue you have to sleep in the truck remember? I think the rest of the team might be done with your bed," He looked at him he sighed and nodded. When he was out of room Yoko looked back at Natasha and saw a tear fall from one eye. He gently wiped it away and kneeled at her side of the bed and looked at her with his chin on top of his crossed arms. If you don't care about me Natasha………then………I………don't………care………about………YOU! Yoko went to his side of the bed and moved as far from Natasha as he could so he wouldn't touch her but he had a hard time falling asleep. When he finally went to sleep his last thought was, Why does my heart hurt so much?

During that night Natasha woke up feeling Yoko's arms around her again. Her back was towards him and she was still holding her Diary against her chest. She closed the Diary and set it on the bedside table. Then she tried getting away from Yoko but he growled and tightened his hold and his claws almost went into her skin so she stopped struggling. He tried to turn her so she was facing him but she wouldn't budge. He started to growl and began to make threatening movements to claw her. But all she did was turn her head to look at him and said, "No Yoko I wont be another one of your toys," he stopped growling and trying to turn her but he still held her and she stiffened at his touch. Some how sensing that she had stiffened he started to rub her arms as if trying to relax her and nuzzled the back her neck. At times he would lay his forehead in the crook of her neck to see if she had relaxed yet and start over if she hadn't. Is he really asleep? And if he is then how is he able to do this? Natasha went into his mind and saw that he was definitely asleep but yet conscious of what he was doing. What does he expect me to do? Relax against him if he keeps on rubbing my arms and nuzzling my neck? Huh yeah right!

She instantly froze when she felt Yoko stop nuzzeling her neck but now he was kissing it instead. She couldn't take it any more she turned around and with a little of her strength pushed him away from her. Yoko let go of her as he was pushed off the bed and was slammed against the wall. Natasha got out of the bed and went outside.

Yoko woke up when Natasha had slammed him against the wall and shook his head to clear it. Then he heard the camper door slam shut and he looked around and saw that Natasha was nowhere in their room. Okay why did she leave? ………Don't tell me I had my arms around her! Oh this is just great! Yoko got up and followed her outside. Why am I even doing this? She has made it quite clear she does not want to be around me. What's that sound? He twitched his ears to try and find out what the sound as. It sounded like someone crying in the forest. Then he saw Kuronue get out of the truck and he saw Jennah get out of the camper. They both went where the crying was coming from and he followed them making sure to keep out of sight.

They walked up to a lake that wasn't far from them and saw Natasha sitting on a huge boulder looking at it with her knees to her chest with her arms around them and her face hidden in her knees. Jennah looked at Kuronue and he looked back. They both walked up to her but Yoko climbed a tree and sat on a branch where he could hear everything, "Hey Natasha what was that all about?" Jennah asked as she climbed on top of the boulder and Kuronue just sat on the ground.

She looked up from her knees and looked at the lake as she wiped her tears, "I guess I just snapped when Yoko held me again tonight. It's hard to believe he is really asleep sometimes. It's almost like his body takes control when his mind isn't working."

"What makes you say that?" Kuronue asked flapping his wings a bit to get the stiffness out of them.

She looked at him and sighed, "When I stiffened at his touch he rubbed my arms and nuzzled my neck like as if he was really awake and was trying to get me to relax against him when I didn't he started to kiss it. He also growls when I don't do what he wants me to do and tries harder or tightens his hold if I try to get away from him. I just don't want to be another one of his toys and the way he acts when he is asleep is almost like that. It scares me now when I think about all the times he growled at me and tightened his grip when he held me so I wouldn't get away. For some reason though during the night he loosens his grip enough so that I can get away with just using a little of my speed. I honestly don't know what I was thinking when I let him hold me."

Yoko looked at Natasha and he began to feel the same pain in his heart that he had before he went to sleep and pressed his hand to it to try and stop it. Then Kuronue spoke up, "Don't get mad at me Natasha but I read your Diary. It was in your arms and it was just to temptation so I took it from your arms and read it. Then I forced Yoko to read it," Yoko felt like killing Kuronue when they were done talking.

Natasha just looked at him and sighed, "I guess I deserve that. I mean I could have woken him up but I didn't for some reason. Do you know my parents would probably go off the wall if they even knew I was living and traveling with a demon let alone sleeping with one? They might get the wrong idea or something," Yoko couldn't believe what he was hearing and he listened even closer, "I mean it is practically no different then what I get at school so why should I let it bother me when I am not in school?" Kuronue then jumped onto the boulder and wrapped his arm around her just as Jennah was going to. Yoko got angry when he saw Kuronue wrap his arm around her. His eyes even turned red and he clinched his hands into fists.

"Hey now listen I don't know what they do to you at school but I know you shouldn't be treated like that any of you for that matter. I'll let you in on a little secret. When I was supposed to kill the girls I actually took them to a tiger clan were they were safe or sent them back to there home. I actually kept on asking Yoko if I could kill them so I could let them go free."

Yoko could not believe what he was hearing as his anger cooled down and his eyes turned back to their normal colour; He never killed any of them? I guess he ha a heart while I remained heartless.

"But none of the girls actually bared Yoko a child so he isn't a father," Kuronue held Natasha's hand and Yoko felt jealous for some reason and angry as well but he pushed those feeling a side for later before he went all crazy again.

"I am glad that the girls are alive but why would I care if Yoko is a father or not? I'll tell you the truth. I can forgive him for raping those girls for some unknown reason, I can even forgive him for wanting to make me his slave and sleeping with me like he has been for the last two weeks. But I think it is going to be even harder for me to forgive him for reading my Diary. I know you said you forced him to but unless you tied him to a chair and held the book in his face so he was forced to read it he still could have left it alone. And he should have known by the first page that it was personal I even told him it was personal. I'm not saying I wont forgive him. I have always tried to do things like that telling myself to hate someone or something like that but I never really do. So I know that in some way during this trip I am going to forgive him but right now I think I'll sleep somewhere else. I'll only sleep with him if he gets one of his nightmares and that's it. Now I think we all should all get some rest...Oh and Kuronue," Kuronue had jumped off the rock and he turned around and looked at her. Jennah was right beside him looking at her as well and she jumped off the boulder and did a front flip and landed infront of Kuronue, "I think Yoko is very lucky to have a friend like you and that you are here."

"Thank you Natasha, but I have a question for you," she nodded, "Did Kelsey tell you Yoko left me to die one day?" she nodded again, "Well don't believe a word she says. Yoko and I were almost caught in a robbery and well my pendant broke and I went back to get it. I accidentally set off a bamboo trap Yoko had made and he was going back to get me but I told him to go ahead. He never left me Natasha, I told him to leave so he could live another day."

Natasha smiled and wrapped her arms around Kuronue and embraced him. Yoko was having a hard time trying to keep his anger down, Natasha get away from him! He thought trying to stop himself from killing Kuronue and taking Natasha away.

She stopped embracing him and saw that his cheeks were a bright pink and his eyes were a little wider then usual, "I think that is very kind of you Kuronue and now I know for sure Yoko has a great friend," with that she went back to the camper. The others followed shortly after but Yoko stayed in the tree for a few minutes.

What did she mean my body takes control when I'm asleep? I know she told Kuronue and Jennah but that didn't exactly mean anything. But I guess the way she said it I guess she means when I'm asleep my body has a mind of it's own. Could she ever forgive me for…………I'll guess I'll find out soon. With that he climbed down the tree and went back to the campsite. Natasha had decided to sleep with Jennah that night so DJ was he sleeping partner again.