The Music's Just Right When Another Joins

After six weeks the roads were still blocked and people were forbidden to go into the woods. So the team settled in at the hotel for a while and Nakada still sang at the Karaoke bar so that was where they got their money. She would sing every night and more and more people would go in to here her sing songs.

The demons also got used to being around people more and so after a while they started to go on walks around the town. It was a big town but the demons didn't mind.

One day while Yoko was on one of his usual walks he went and he came across a store that were selling guitars in it. He looked through the window and saw a person playing on one of them. He was somewhat interested and went inside. The guitar shop was rather small but had a lot of selections. A lady who worked in the store came up to him with a smile on her face and asked, "May I help you sir?"

Yoko was surprised when the lady talked to him but then remembering he was in his disguise he smiled and shook his head, "No just looking around. I don't actually know how to play," he answered while looking at a wooden hand made guitar and looked at the price. It was around three hundred dollars and finely made. That guitar's price is probably around my age. He touched it and a sudden urge to play it came over him.

"You don't know how to play? Well it is quite easy to. Lets see how you hold a guitar, are your right or left handed?" he picked up the guitar that he was looking at and turned it around so it felt comfortable. And as he closed his eyes it was as if he had always played. His fingers began to thrum through the strings to one of the songs Nakada had sang at the Karaoke bar. The music played through out the little shop and it sounded so good. As he continued to play he felt the brush past his fingers as if guiding them.

When he was done he opened his eyes and looked at the lady and her eyes were wide with amazement, "Are you sure you have never played before sir? That was absolutely beautiful!" Yoko looked all around and saw that all eyes were on him. He put the guitar back and for some reason he felt reluctant as he let it go.

"I am quite sure I haven't played before miss. I have to go my friends are probably waiting for me," before the lady could say anything he walked out of the store.

Nakada saw Yoko walk out of the guitar store looking a bit upset. She wondered what was wrong and went in to the store. The same lady who had been talking to Yoko walked up to her and asked, "May I help you miss?"

"Yes, my friend just walked out of here and he looked upset. Would you know why?"

"I don't know miss but he is a great guitar player," she looked at her with a surprised look, "Yes he was just playing this guitar and honestly it was like he had been playing his whole life!"

Nakada picked up the guitar and ran her hand through it. She saw the price and her eyes widened. But she looked at the guitar and smiled, "I would like to buy this please with a case as well."

"Of course miss I'll even supply a pick," and with that the lady took out a case that was the same size as the guitar and placed the guitar in it.

Nakada was just about to walk out of the store when the lady asked, "You are that girl that sings at the karaoke bar at the hotel right?"

Nakada turned around to look at the lady, "Yes I am,"

"Would you please sing The Rose? I don't mean to be rude but I always here you sing every night ever since I've heard about you and I have always wanted to hear you sing that song!"

She smiled and nodded, "I'll sing it if they have it,"

"But if they don't you might be able to get the guy to play along with you. They allow that," the lady said with a smile.

"I never knew that thank you," she left the store with the guitar in her hand. She walked back to the hotel thinking about some things.

That night when Nakada was ready to sing she had a big smile on her face. She hadn't given Yoko the guitar yet, she thought she would give it to him in the camper before she went to sing as a little surprise.

In half an hour she would sing and she had the rose she had worn the first time she had sang. Yoko had given it to her when he had found out why she needed it. She walked up to him and asked him to follow her out to the camper, "What's the matter Nakada?" he asked a bit worried.

"Nothing's the matter I just have something to give you. I don't know when your birthday is so I'm just going to give this to you as an early or late birthday present," she walked into their room followed by Yoko and there he saw the guitar he was looking at, at the little shop.

"Nakada…how did you know?" he asked as he picked up the guitar and held it in his hands feeling the same urge to play it like he had back at the shop.

"I was out walking and I saw you walk out of the shop a little upset so when I walked in I asked the lady you had been talking to and she told me you had played this in the shop. She also told me you had quite a talent for a beginner. I put a special kind of spell on the guitar so it won't ever break as well," she smiled as she watched Yoko tune the guitar. When he was done his held the pick and moved it swiftly across the stings making a wonderful kind of music as he played.

She closed her eyes and listened to him play while he sat on the bed and she sat on her chair. She recognized the notes to one of the songs she had sang at the Karaoke bar and she smiled even more. Yoko had his eyes closed as well as he played the guitar with such skill. He didn't know what happened then but after a while he soon found himself and Nakada singing the words of the song. Their voices lifted into the night and the rest of the team who was looking for them heard them.

They recognized Nakada's voice but the new voice was a mystery to them. They went to the camper and walked to their bedroom and saw Nakada and Yoko both singing to a song and Yoko was playing the guitar. The pick gently brushed against the stings as they finished. They were all quiet for a second and Nakada and Yoko both still had their eyes closed.

They suddenly heard clapping and the turned around to see the whole team standing there clapping with smiles on their faces. Yoko and Nakada both smiled and blushed a bit. Nakada was blushing more then Yoko though. If it were possibly she was even more redder then the rose in her hair.

"Yoko why didn't you tell me you had such a talent? Sense when can you play the guitar?" Kuronue asked as he sat by the fox.

"Yeah you know what you two sound great together! I heard you could go up there and sing with some else and not have to have the music on. You two can make your own music! I'm sure you two would empty the crowds pockets with just one song!" Jennah spoke out with a big smile on her face as she said this and leaned against the wall.

"That might be a good idea Nakada," Yoko said as he kept his arm over the guitar with his hand covering the strings and looking at her, "You never know, I'm not that good but I think we could make the crowd go quiet for a while."

"Now Yoko, don't start that. You a very good with that guitar and it is like magic when you play. I don't see what is wrong with it at all, and if you want to play up there then I don't see any reason not to."

"I know practically all of the songs you sing and I think I also know how to play The Rose so you could sing that as well df," they both smiled as they looked at each other and then they looked at the team and nodded.

When they got to the Karaoke the manager saw Nakada coming and was relieved, "We got a big one tonight Nakada! I'd say almost all of the people here are tourists and they are getting a bit restless. Who is this young man here?"

Everyone tried to hold in there giggles when they heard the manager say YOUNG man, "This is Yoko, Bobby he will be the one playing the music tonight and maybe even singing as well," Nakada held onto Yoko's free hand. His other hand had the guitar in its case.

"Well if you say so can he play?" Bobby asked looking at him.

"Oh yeah he can play," Sophie said from behind Yoko's arm.

"Well then get up there you two before the crowd destroys the whole place!" Yoko and Nakada ran up to the stage and got ready. Bobby had given Yoko a stool to sit on and Nakada positioned a microphone in front of him. While he got ready Nakada talked to the crowd, "Sorry we were a bit late but couldn't help it. Tonight I am not going to sing with the music on the CD's I am going to sing with my close friend Yoko with his guitar," there was a big applause from the crowd and she could see the lady from the guitar shop.

Yoko nodded to her and she smiled as she closed her eyes and completely relaxed herself as Yoko started to play the notes to The Rose. At the first note on the guitar the whole crowd was silenced and Nakada smiled as she began to sing the song to Yoko's music.

Some say love it is a river

That drowns the tender reed

Some say love it is a razor

That leaves your soul to bleed

Some say love it is our hunger

An endless aching need

I say love it is a flower

And you're its only seed

It's the heart afraid of breaking

That never learns to dance

It's the dream afraid of waking

That never takes the chance

It's the one who won't be taken

Who cannot seem to give

And the soul afraid of dieing

That never learns to live

When the night has been too lonely

And the road has been to long

And you think that love is only

For the lucky and the strong

Just remember in the winter

For beneath the bitter snows

Lies a seed that with the suns love in the spring

Becomes the rose

Nakada finished singing and opened her eyes when Yoko finished the last note on his guitar. He looked at her and she looked at him and they both smiled. "Yoko if I'm right they are going to be loud so I'm going to make you temporarily deaf all right?"

"All right," just as Nakada had made him deaf the whole room erupted into loud and I mean LOUD cheers, applauses and even a few whistles. Yoko couldn't hear it but he could feel the cheers and applauses vibrations in the air. If it weren't for Nakada making him temporarily deaf he would probably not be able to hear at all permanently.

When the cheering stopped Nakada turned to the crowd and spoke, "I think we should all give a great thanks for my close friend and new partner in singing for being here tonight!" Nakada said it in Yoko's mind as well so he would understad what she was saying and he smiled as he felt the vibrations in the air again.

She gave Yoko back his hearing and took his hand and pulled him in full view and he smiled. Nakada hadn't given him all of his hearing but just enough to hear the cheers and applauses from the crowd.

After a few more songs (with Yoko singing in some of them) they finished and they both went down the stairs and met up with their friends.

"Guy's that was absolutely wonderful!" Jennah squealed, as she held on to Nakada's neck in a great big hug.

"I'm…glad…you…think…so…but…can…I…breathe…now…Jennah?" Jennah instantly let go of the choking Nakada so she could breath.

"I am so sorry Nakada but it was that great! I knew you were always missing something but I never knew just what. Your voice with Yoko on the guitar and singing with you...you two just can't go wrong! I can't wait until you both go up there again!" Jennah was now hugging Nakada again and also choking her as well.

This time Yoko and Kuronue separated them because Nakada couldn't breathe or talk, "I cough think cough she likes it," Nakada said as Yoko wrapped his arms around her and she welcomed the embrace. There was a strap on the case the guitar was in so Yoko placed the guitar on his back and carried her out of the bar. She immediately fell asleep in his arms with a smile on her face and he had to smile as well.

Hey thanks for the Review Eternal Musing and I can understand you having a migrane in school and having to do school work at the same time. There are these two boys in my class that if you put them together and they sit right behind you...BIG MIGRANE! And I am not kinding. I was in french and they sat behind me and this was in the morning. Anyway I got a migrane and had to work with it all through out the day and even after school! I not kidding that really did happen. And as for tests I've had a few but in my English class we are behind so most of the time we get into something new and then we have a test on it the same day we learned about it. It kind of gets hard when that happens. It gets really hard when you have two teachers in the same homeroom class teaching you different things but still have to follow the schdule(SP). One teaches us Social Studies and the other teaches us English and they both teach us PDR (Persona; Development Studies.)

Well anyway thanks for the review and I am glad to see I am improving at least.

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