Staying and Hatred

That night while Nakada was asleep in Yoko's arms, he woke up and looked down at her. He smiled as he brushed a few stray hairs away from her face and she snuggled in closer to his warmth. He laid his head down on top of hers and closed his eyes with a smile on his face.

He then heard someone at the table near Kuronue and Jennah's bed. He gently unwrapped his arms from around Nakada so as to not wake her up and got out of the bed. He walked up quietly to the bed where the sound was coming from. Just as he was about to jump at the thing the sound stopped and he stood still for a while and then he felt himself get jumped from behind. There was a short fight and when the someone was positioned on top him he stopped, "Yoko?"

He looked up and saw Kuronue with a small sharp dagger pressed against his neck just barely cutting the skin, "Kuronue? Why is it that it seems everyone is out to kill me? First DJ tries to bite me in his animal form then you come and try to chop off my head with a dagger!" Yoko looked really frustrated when Kuronue helped him up.

"I'm sorry Yoko but I thought you were a robber or one of the people that works with Kelsey. What are you doing up this late anyway?" Kuronue asked as he retuned to his beside.

"I was about to ask you the same question. Oh and you woke me up," Yoko sat beside him making sure not to wake up Jennah.

"Don't worry about her you can scream as loud as you can and she won't wake up. As for what I'm doing well I'm counting up the money we have made and I'm also counting how much we owe the hotel. So far we owe the hotel four hundred dollars. But we well still have plenty of money left over,"

"You are forgetting something. The roads are still blocked so where are going to have to stay in the hotel for now," Yoko said sadly remembering what happened the night before they had found out that the roads were blocked.

"Yes but Yoko why don't we stay here?" Kuronue looked at him and saw that he was thinking he was crazy, "Come on Yoko you said your self that Kelsey doesn't know where we are and the kids still have to go to school. So far we have been lucky but what if one day that luck fails and we are caught? Or if Kelsey finds us? Even though the kids are getting stronger so is Kelsey as well and they can't defeat her! We have to stay here for a while. We can earn our money by you and Nakada preforming here at night. We both aren't that nervous anymore when we go for our walks. We all know this place really well and…"

"Kuronue! Please, I know that your intentions are good but where in the three worlds are we going to find a house we can afford and can give us some measure of security? Not to mention in the elements of the whole team. They were in their elements when we were in the woods and they were much stronger there then they are out of the woods," Yoko finished thinking he had proven his point but he saw a smile spread across his partners face.

"This place can, and we can also afford it as well. It has human technology, it is has all the elements the team uses and get this the owners are even leaving all their things in the house cloths, food the whole bit saying that they are really rich and that they are going to move to another one of their homes that have the same things. You see Yoko we can stay here all we need is the whole teams approval."

Yoko looked at the add in the paper Kuronue had bought somewhere and saw a huge house on the hill and it was huge! There were two balconies on each side of the house, a big pool, tons of rooms, everything that they would need even the technology that Kuronue was talking about was state of the art and very expensive. Then Yoko saw the price; "Kuronue the price of this house is larger then my age! Ten thousand dollars are you out of your mind!"

"Yoko we have around twelve thousand dollars and I'm still counting! We have enough money to buy it and live good lives! Honestly the whole thing and land should cost around two hundred thousand dollars but that place is very close to where you were sighted so they had no choice but to lower the price,"

He was about to say something else when another voice was heard, "Yoko, Kuronue what are you arguing about now?"

They turned around and saw that Nakada was awake and was rubbing her eyes trying to make herself even more awake, "Nakada I was thinking maybe we should move here," Kuronue said before Yoko caould say anything and he earned himself a death glare.

Nakada was instantly awake and had a shock expression on her face. For a second Yoko thought she would take his side but then she smiled, "I think that would be a great idea Kuronue and I'm sure the rest of the team would agree to that as well. Is that what you were arguing about? Well we can all settle this out in a vote tomorrow and see, but for now we have to get some sleep."

"All right…and Nakada,"

She turned around and looked at Kuronue, "Would you happen to know how much money we have?"

"Umm I think Lacey said we have thirteen thousand eight hundred sixty four dollars if you don't count how much we owe the hotel now come on get some sleep," Yoko glared at Kuronue and he just smiled as he carefully put the money away and went to bed.

Yoko went to his bed and saw Nakada was asleep on the other side of the bed and he mentally cursed at Kuronue and went to sleep on his side of the bed.

Nakada smiled a bit when she felt Yoko get into bed and she knew when he fell asleep. So when he was she turned around and snuggled close to his back and went to sleep with a smile on her face.

The next day Yoko was the first one up and he felt someone lying against his back. He gently turned his head and looked behind him. He saw Nakada with a smile on her face snuggled closely against his back. He smiled and turned around so his back wasn't facing her and he wrapped his arms around her and held her close. His hand stroked through her hair and he laid his face in her hair as well.

"Hey it looks like she is taking a liking to you Yoko,"

"What are you doing here? Can't you leave me alone for once? First you got me angry and almost made me lose control over you and then you are here ruining what some peace I am feeling for once."

"I know but I thought you didn't want to fall in love with her so I'm just trying to keep you from doing that. No fair if you get to love her and I don't and I'm actually stopping myself from loving her."

Yoko looked at her and then he realized he was getting to close again. "Darn your right for once, can you do anything either than just warn me?"

"Yes, since I am you and also your hatred I can give you some of my hatred so you cannot fall in love for her but not enough for it to show and make you go crazy."

Yoko thought for a second thinking this over. The first time he didn't he ended up making a deal that could kill him if he got to close to Nakada and that was starting to happen. "Okay but not to much,"

"That's what I like to hear but I think you should let go of her first. Who knows how much I give you, you might accidentally hate her to much and hurt her."

Yoko looked at her as she smiled and she laid her head on his chest while holding her hands close to her chest as she clutched at his demon shirt. He carefully unwrapped his arms from around her and touched her hands so he could untangle her fingers from his clothes. When he moved away from her and sat on the bed and turned to look at her he saw she was no longer smiling and looked kind of upset as she turned away from him.

Yoko's heart began to hurt for some reason but he ignored it, "All right…you can do it now."

"I promise you this will not hurt much and your heart wont hurt any more either," Slowly Yoko began to feel a bit different and he closed his eyes, "Though your eyes might hurt for you will no longer see colour you will only see black, white, and shades of grey. But if you get to angry you'll see red and this is permanent."

Yoko some how found himself on the floor of the camper and his eyes were hurting like mad. Some one was also shaking him to wake him up and he heard a faint voice, "Yoko, Yoko come on wake up!"

He recognized the voice as Kuronue's as he clinched his eyes closed as he sat up and placed a hand over his eyes, "I'm up Kuronue stop shaking me before you break me!" he spoke rather ruff as he pressed his hands harder over his eyes.

"Hey don't get snappy at me Yoko! Everyone is looking for you! We were all worried that Kelsey had taken you! Nakada was really worried actually, she ran out into the woods to see if you were there."

"Nakada is probably just acting. You and I both know she hates me you read her Dairy as well remember?"

Yoko was then grabbed by the shoulder and was forcefully shaken and he opened his eyes to look at Kuronue as he spoke, "What on earth are you talking about Yoko? That was along time ago and she has forgiven you about that and she is also getting closer to you! If this is about your deal with Kelsey then snap out of it! I heard her tell Jennah that she…Yoko what's wrong?"

Yoko had his eyes wide and kept on looking around the room and back at Kuronue. He was also sweating rather hard and he grabbed Kuronue's shoulders, "Kuronue what colour is the ceiling?" he looked at Yoko as if he had gone mad, "Please Kuronue tell me!"

"It's green but why do you ask? You should know what colour it is your self," he held on to Yoko's wrists that were still on his shoulders. Yoko stood up again and looked around the room as if not believing what he was seeing, "What do you see Yoko?" He asked as he stood up as well.

"I see…I see dark grey on the ceiling Kuronue," Yoko sat on the bed and kept on looking around the bedroom trying to find some kind of colour other then black, white and/or gray. But he didn't at all and in the back of his mind he heard a tormenting laugh.

"Everything in life comes with a price good or bad Yoko. You seem to get all of the bad prices well you will never hear me again see ya!"

"I HATE YOU!" Yoko screamed at Hatred anger flowing around him and raising. Yoko had his eyes closed but when he opened the he saw red all over the place and he remembered what Hatred had said and he took him a few breaths as calmed down a bit and his black and white vision came back.

He held his head in his hands and started to tremble from the amount of adrenaline his anger had made, "Hey Yoko what happened? Why did you start freaking out like that?" After Yoko had calmed down from his anger he told Kuronue everything, "Jeez Yoko where has your head been huh? That was the most stupidest thing you have done before making that deal with Kelsey!"

"DON'T YOU THINK I ALREADY KNOW THAT!" Yoko yelled at Kuronue making him fly across the room.

He looked into Yoko's eyes and saw that they were red, "Yoko control yourself before you let your dark side out!" he calmed down again and his eyes turned to normal.

"Don't worry Kuronue we have some how joined so he can't come out because he's gone and has left me all of his hatred. It is just going to be me for now on and it will also be me when my eyes turn red. When I get to angry like I just did then I will see red and my guess is that is when my eyes will turn red," Yoko was half sitting half lying on the bed with his eyes closed.

"Well that just leaves one more thing to discuss," he opened his eyes and turned them towards Kuronue but kept his face looking upward, "What do you feel when you hear Nakada's name?" Yoko looked back up to the ceiling and his eyes turned red, "Calm down Yoko! We are going to have to work on that because you sleep with her, your going to be her partner in singing and she is also getting so much closer to you," he stood up from the floor and walked over to Yoko and sat beside him.

"Kuronue why is it that I seem to make life harder for myself. I wasn't sure if Nakada was falling for me and I panicked because I didn't want to die," he sat up and leaned on his arms that were folded on his legs and closed his eyes. Kuronue was surprised by Yoko's behavior and touched his shoulder. He flinched and looked at him, "Kuronue why did I have to be so stupid? After you and the team left the room after you caught us trying to kiss the second time a few weeks ago she kissed my cheek. That should have been some kind of clue and she even bought me that guitar."

Yoko's eyes were shining blood red now and Kuronue wrapped his arms around him and held him close as tried to cool him down, "Yoko you have to control your anger some how. Think about the good things that have happened maybe that will work." He let go of Yoko and looked at him. He had his eyes closed and he seemed to be calming down.

He opened his eyes and they weren't red anymore but they seemed a bit tired, "Kuronue how can I keep control of my anger and hatred? That did work but I did something that can't bring me all of those things back," Yoko then sniffed the air and he could smell Nakada's scent in the air. His eyes instantly turned red and he closed them turning his head.

Nakada came into the room and saw him sitting on the bed with his eyes closed and sitting next to Kuronue she gave a sigh of relief and he got even angrier at hearing her. He started trying to remember the things they had done together to try and cool his anger.

"Yoko are you all right?" she asked as she kneeled in front of him and took his hands.

His eyes was shadowed but he tried to give off a nice smile though it looked like an evil smirk and then he looked at Nakada his eyes back to normal, "I'm fine Nakada don't worry about me I just thought I would come in here for a second and I must have fallen asleep," Kuronue was surprised on how calm he was being. Yoko gently took Nakada's hands and held them while he spoke, "Why don't you go inside the hotel to vote on staying here. You got my vote to stay here so you can just forget about me right now. I'm going to stay in here for a little while longer and Kuronue can take you inside and show you the house that he had his eyes on."

Yoko's smile got a bit more bigger and his eyes seemed so gentle but Nakada seemed a bit nervous, "A-all right Yoko umm come on Kuronue we have been so busy with trying to find Yoko we forgot to tell them about your plan to stay here."

Yoko could smell her fear in the air and he tried his best not to make his smile bigger but then he smelled something else in the air. He looked at Nakada's leg and saw it was bleeding, "Nakada what happened to your leg?" he sounded concerned but there was something in his eyes that made her even more scared.

She put her hand over the wound in her leg and her hand turned ice blue and after a quick while she lifted her hand and the wound was couldn't smell her fear any more and she gave him a small smile, "It's nothing Yoko really, you know I can heal myself so you don't have to worry," she sat up and Kuronue followed her out he door.

But when he got to the door he turned around and gave Yoko a hard look, "We'll talk later," he nodded and Kuronue went out side with Nakada.

Nakada's Pov

I was so glad to be out of that room and away from Yoko for some reason. He might have looked gentle but there was definitly something in his eyes that made me feel very scared. He seemed to have been trying to control himself when I got scared so I had to calm down but now I was outside I let out my breath in a shallow sigh. My leg had been hurt because one of the search parties had found me and they thought I was Yoko and they had shot me. Luckily it was only my leg so I managed to survive. I knelt down and healed the rest of my leg. I had only healed the skin but there were other things I had to do. The bullet might have gone through my leg but it had torn through some muscle as well.

Kuronue was at my side when I knelt down, "Hey Nakada are you all right?"

Kuronue's Pov

I was kind of worried when Nakada kneeled down on the ground and her hand went over the wound she had healed and her hand turned ice blue. When she was done she stood up and stamped her foot on the ground. She turned and looked at me with a smile, "I'm fine Kuronue I guess I didn't fully heal myself in the camper. Hmm well I hope the team votes to stay here. Since it was your idea I'm guessing that you are going to vote to staying here. Counting mine and Yoko's that makes three votes right now."

She ran towards the hotel and I ran after her she seemed to be still a bit nervous. I hope she doesn't sense the change in Yoko but I am guessing she has and she has a new reason for hoping we are going to stay here. So she can sleep in her own bed and not be around Yoko as much.

Normal Pov

They had the vote and everyone voted to staying there and going to the house Kuronue had picked then there was a vote to stay one more night in the hotel and they all voted for yes. When that happened Jennah saw something in Nakada's eyes as they wavered a bit and she looked at the bed she and Yoko slept in and sighed.

Jennah's Pov

After we had eaten lunch I noticed that Nakada tried to keep away from Yoko and after we were done eating I took her to the park to ask her what was wrong, "Nakada you seem a bit nervous around Yoko? Is there something wrong?"

Nakada sighed and looked at me while she began to swing a bit on the swings, "I don't know Jennah but Yoko I think he has changed some how you know that I have been feeling a lot closer now and other things," she blushed when she remembered when she had told me that she loved Yoko.

"Then what happened?" I asked her.

"I don't know this morning when he was in our bedroom with Kuronue he seemed a bit I don't know territorial I mean when he smelled my blood from the wound I had there was something in his eyes. It's scary but I think he was hungry. And before that when I knelt in front of him to see if he was all right he seemed to be a little to friendly and when he held my hands," I saw Nakada was going to cry and I swung over beside her and wrapped my arm around her, "Jennah I am so scared I don't think I could stand another night in his arms let alone in his bed."

She held me tight as her silent tears fell from her face, "Hush it's all right why don't you sleep in the camper tonight hmm? That way you can sleep peacefully and be away from Yoko at the same time," I held her for the rest of the time at the park.

Normal Pov

That night Nakada slept with Yoko instead of the camper thinking it would be too suspicious if she slept in the camper. So after she and Yoko were done with there singing they went to bed. She began to have her doubts about Yoko while they were performing thinking she was just getting pre moving jitters but when they were off the stage Yoko started to give Nakada the bad feeling again and this time Jennah sensed it to. She went to her side of the bed and Yoko went his side of the bed and both were far from the other. Nakada was the last one asleep when everyone had gone to bed. She kept the rose that Yoko had given to her close to her and when she was satisfied Yoko was asleep she closed her eye and went to sleep as well.

A little while after Yoko woke up with his eyes wide open and he looked over to where Nakada was sleeping. Singing and playing his guitar calmed his anger down so he wasn't angry with Nakada while they performed. Actually he began to have the same feelings he had, had before he let Hatred give him all of this anger and hatred that was now welled up inside him. He kept on trying to get Nakada to sing with him because he kept on thinking if they sang together long enough his hatred would go away.

Nakada kept on singing with him until it was almost midnight and then he noticed that her voice sounded so tired so they finished with the last song they sang and his hatred eventually came back. The only way Yoko saw to not to look or feel angry with her was just to act like he was playing with her. That had worked in the camper so he kept on doing it but he did notice she stiffened a few times when he touched her and slowly and I mean slowly relaxed against him but never really lowering her guard.

Yoko lay there staring at Nakada and his eyes flashed a brief moment red but he instantly took control. He reached for Nakada's arm and began to gently stroke it up and down gently caressing it. She sighed a bit and Yoko smiled. He started to move and get closer to her and when he was close enough he wrapped his arm under her and wrapped it around her waist. "You will be mine Nakada I will make sure of that!" He put a seed in her mouth and closed her mouth over it, "Now swallow Nakada so you will sleep peacefully and you wont wake up until the sun has risen while not aware of what is happening until then."

She did this and she gave a sigh after a while and relaxed completely against him. Yoko smiled and began to kiss her neck, "I love you Nakada but I hate you even more because of what you have made me do to myself," he began to gently nuzzle her neck and lick it as well. He smiled and opened his mouth showing his glistening white fangs and his mouth got closer and closer to her neck. Then someone wrapped their arm around his neck and pulled him away and Yoko gave a struggled hiss. Nakada for some reason opened her eyes and looked behind her, "Kuronue what are you doing with Yoko?"

Yoko looked at her as if not believing what he was seeing. She was supposed to be asleep not awake! "I'm sorry Nakada it was just Yoko woke me up and I thought he was a burglar. If you don't mind I would like to talk to him in the camper." Yoko was doing his best not to get to angry but with his new uncontrollable hatred he was fighting a losing battle. Nakada nodded and Kuronue dragged him out to camper and set him in the living room. Yoko looked at him with blood red eyes and right now he wasn't even trying to hold back his anger. Kuronue stood in front of a wall with his back to it.

"Yoko that was an idiotic move you almost did back there! I know you don't like her as you used to, but that gives you no right to mark her! She has a very small view of what marking is! And I thought that after the last girl you said you would mark a girl only if you really loved her. But you were going to mark Nakada for owner ship and hatred not love."

Kuronue was also mad but he was definitely in control of his anger and that made Yoko jealous, "I gave her a seed so she would stay asleep until sunrise! Why the seed didn't take affect I don't know but when she relaxed I thought it had!"

"Yoko two things," Kuronue said looking at Yoko still angry, "One her subconscious is probably used to you being around her so her body relaxed not her mind. Two, plants that kill people, drug people and other things have no affect on her! How I know is that is…I was curious about her association with plants. I had the cure for all of them so I gave Nakada some poisonous plants and other kinds of plants that should have made her weak or kill her. But none of the plants took affect on her."

"You WHAT!" he found himself being held by the neck by Yoko and his eyes were still blood red but they were glowing with pure hatred.

He held on to Yoko's hand trying to get him to loosen his grip, "Yoko…don't make…another mistake in your life! You…can't fall in…love with Nakada…with…out killing yourself…and you now…get angry at her…when you hear her voice…hear…her…name and/or see her face. And you are now colour blind. Are…you willing to…kill the friend…that helped get…your butt out of some…troubles and the only person who…knows and is allowed…to…know…your…secrets?"

Yoko's eyes then began to turn back to normal and his grip lessened. Kuronue moved Yoko's hand from his neck and began to breath better as he backed away his eyes wide in horror about what he had almost done, "Kuronue I…"

"Don't worry Yoko my guess is you have been wanting to do that for a long time. Actually I think I know how your hatred was made!"

Yoko looked at him, "If you say I made it because I kept on bottling up my anger until it became alive don't say anything. Because I don't want to add another thing to my list of what I did wrong to mess up my life," Kuronue stayed quite and Yoko knew that, that was what he was going to say, "Well I guess Nakada wasn't to far in her theory of my anger. You always knew what to do when you got angry you didn't just keep it bottled up. You know Nakada said when she was trying to make me put on human clothes that I was smarter then her. In some ways that's true but in others it isn't but she was right about me being a whole lot stubborn then her," Yoko smiled a true genuine smile for once since he gained his new found anger and sat down on the couch, "Kuronue, Hatred said it would give a little of its hatred but really it gave me all of the hatred that had made him. That means I still have a long way to go," Yoko held his head in his hands and placed his elbows on his knees.

"And here I was thinking you were cool and collect. I guess Hatred wanted something different after a while and wanted to feel something either then hatred and anger. So when Nakada started being your sleeping partner he probably wanted to know what it felt like to be loved or have love. That is why he forced you to see Nakada jump off the cliff because you had made him feel things that he didn't want to feel. So he thought he could do the same to you and something tells me you also hated yourself huh?"

"Why is it you make things sound so simple Kuronue in complicated ways? Listen I don't know about you but I am tired and I'm guessing I will need my energy tomorrow because I am going to go through a lot of anger."

Kuronue looked at him and saw that he was very tired, "Why don't you sleep here tonight Yoko?" he asked and Yoko nodded and went to the room he and Nakada slept in.

Nakada woke up when Kuronue came into the room and she noticed that Yoko wasn't with him, "Don't worry Nakada he is sleeping in the camper to night," she waited until he went to asleep and when the wind told her he was she got out of bed and went out to the camper.

She went into her and Yoko's bedroom and saw him asleep but he seemed different from how he usually looked in his sleep as she went over to him. She sat in a chair near him and touched his face, he seemed to have relaxed into her hand immediately. She smiled and laid behind him under the covers and slept.