All Washed Up

That morning Nakada woke up and the first thing she did was touch her lips. They felt strange for some reason and she didn't know the reason why. She sat in bed for a while and looked at her clock. It was five in the morning and she smiled. I'm not tired any more and I can get an early breakfast and have a little time to myself. She smiled with her plan and got out of bed to get dressed. She went into her walk in closet and she was surprised at all the selections. She was even more surprised when they all seemed to fit her.

She picked out an ice blue tuck in T-shirt and a pair of ice blue shorts. She went back into her room and took a shower in her bathroom. After that she got dressed and went down stairs. She made herself a simple breakfast and when she was done she washed the dishes and put them away. She went into the living room but she decided to go to the green house instead.

When she got there she felt so at peace while she was surrounded by the plants. There were all kinds of plants roses, forget me not's, all kinds but I can't tell what they are called. Then she came to a small clearing that had no plants in it. Nakada sat on the ground and thought of something. She closed her eyes and not wanting to remember something sad she thought of something happy and when she did she made herself cry. When the tear landed on the ground she opened her eyes and there was a beautiful bush in front of her. It was filled with all kinds of bright coloured flowers and if she listened to it closely she could hear it laughing.

Yoko was watching from up in a tree and his eyes were wide when the bush sprouted. He smiled a bit when he heard some giggling. (Little thing the green house is like a small forest.) He watched Nakada touch the plant and it rapped around her hand. She smiled as she shivered a bit as if cold and an ice blue aura appeared around her as the little plant grew.

Yoko just stared and smiled, I guess I do love her when it is night…YES! He smiled and continued to stare at her until she kneeled down in front of the plant and closed her eyes. She's meditating, he thought as he continued to watch. Then he felt like a waterfall had hit him and he fell out of the tree.

He was lying on his back and his eyes were closed. He heard someone giggling and he opened his eyes and saw Nakada holding her hand over her mouth in her three in one form, "What is so funny?" he snapped his anger growing a bit.

"I'm hehehe sorry Yoko I didn't know you were watching so I thought I would try to go into this form for a bit. It requires plants air and water so I couldn't do anything about it," Nakada placed her webbed hand over her mouth again as she tried to suppress her giggles.

Yoko stood up and turned away from her his anger rising as he heard her laugh at him, "Heh well maybe you should be more careful next time when you turn into that form," he snapped as he stubbornly crossed his arms and turned around.

Nakada looked at him, "Well you don't have to act like such a jerk about it you know," she turned back into her true form and stuck her tongue out at him and turned to leave. Yoko had taught her how to be silent so he didn't hear her leave until she slammed the door shut.

He turned around quickly looking for her but when he saw she wasn't there his ears flattened to his head as he looked down at the ground. Yoko you baka kitsune! Baka, baka, baka, baka, BAKA! He turned around and sat on the ground with his head leaning against the trunk of a tree and his arms hanging over his knees as he raised then to his chest. He closed his eyes and his anger lessened as he began to smell the scent of a strange plant and he could hear giggles as well.

He opened his colour-blind eyes and he saw that he was staring at the plant that Nakada's tears had made. His eyes grew red, as he looked at each bright coloured flower but only saw the colour red. His eyes became redder as he walked away from the 'Happy Plant' and went deeper into the green house. He found a little fountain in the sunlight and then he realized it was morning and once he was in the sunlight his love for Nakada disappeared.

He sat on the edge of the fountain and looked into it to see himself the water, "Hey fox," he turned around and saw Kuronue leaning against a tree with his arms crossed over his chest, "Mind telling me what happened in here with you and Nakada? I came down the stairs with Jennah and she was saying some pretty colourful choice words about you as she walked up to her room and slammed the door shut. Jennah said she doesn't usually say things like that unless she's angry."

If Yoko had felt any love for Nakada then he would have been banging his head against one of the trees but he just looked at Kuronue emotionlessly and shrugged, "I was a jerk to her this morning if you would like to take her side of words. I found out something last night Kuronue," he looked at Yoko and saw that there was some hope in his eyes, "I found out that at night my old feelings for her return but when I get into the sunlight they disappear as if they never were."

Kuronue looked at Yoko and turned his head away as he smiled, "Lets just hope you don't act all perverted like at night then," he looked back at Yoko and saw that he had a very faint blush on his face, "Yoko what did you do?"

He closed his eyes and sighed, "Kuronue you know I'm going to have to face it sooner or later and well last night while she was asleep I watched over her as I sat on the side her bed until eleven o'clock and when it was…" his blush became more noticeable and by reflex he gently touched his lips with his fingertips.

Kuronue looked at him wide eyes in shock and then he put a hand over his mouth and tried to stop from laughing, "You hehe kissed her on the hehe hahaha on the lips?" Yoko blushed even more and looked at Kuronue who was now biting his thumb nail to keep from laughing but his whole body was shaking.

"Like you haven't already French kissed Jennah," Kuronue looked at him and stopped laughing. Yoko's eyes widened, "You did didn't you?" It was his turn to laugh now as he bit his thumbnail. Kuronue's eyes squinted at the shaking with laughter fox. Then he got an evil idea and quietly snuck up behind the fox and while he was still laughing he pushed him into the fountain.

Yoko surfaced and his eyes were glowing red as his wet hair hung in front of his eyes. His clothes were dripping wet and tail was drenched his ears were also drenched as well. Honestly he looked like a drowned rat ! Kuronue was on the ground laughing his head off and holding his aching sides.

Yoko closed his eyes and tried to calm down but Kuronue's laughter just made him even more mad, "WILL YOU SHUT UP!" he yelled at him, which sent him flying back into a tree .

Kuronue stopped laughing and shook his head to clear it and glared at Yoko whose eyes were red, "You know Yoko, Nakada was right about you. Whenever I would do that to you and you would always end up laughing as well…you really are a jerk."

He got up and started to leave, "Kuronue wait! Please," He stopped and looked around at Yoko whose eyes were back to normal and had climbed out of the fountain, "This is a difficult time for me and I'm sorry but I haven't gotten full control of my anger yet so please forgive me."

Kuronue just stood there wide-eyed at Yoko who looked sad and pitiful in his wet clothes, "Okay Yoko I forgive you just don't do that again! It scares me to think that you are actually asking something like this and looking like that as well."

Yoko grinned, "Well I guess my wet appearance does help doesn't it?" The two demon partners both laughed as Yoko turned into his fox form and shook himself dry and they went out of the green house smiling.

During that day they had some training and Nakada avoided Yoko but a while later she met up with him saying she was sorry but Yoko said it was his fault. They both ended up saying that they were both to blame and continued training in hand to hand combat with each other as partners.

Nakada and Yoko were the last ones fighting as the rest of the team stopped from exhaustion and watched them fight. Nakada had improved greatly sense the last time she had fought Yoko and he was having a hard time trying to hit her and not get hit at the same time.

He summoned the Death Tree to go out and attack her. Nakada was already tired and but she felt a little relief because Yoko would only use that move if he was to tired to try and even bother to try and catch her. She moved out of the way of a branch and then tried to move out of the way of another but some of its acidic saliva spread on her arm and she held it. Worried Yoko called back his plant and ran over to Nakada who was kneeling on the ground. The whole team was beside her as well all worried. But when he looked at her arm his eyes widened. There was no mark on her arm where the saliva still was. Puzzled he touched the saliva that was on her arm and he brought it back burning. Nakada gathered the water that was in the air and washed her arm off then she took his hand and saw that only his fingertips were burnt where he had touched the siliva.

She placed her hand around his fingertips and her hand began to glow ice blue. He felt his hand cool down as if cold water had been splashed on it and he couldn't help but let out a soft purr as he closed his eyes. She smiled and opened her hand as he opened his eyes and saw that the burnt marks from the acid were no longer there. He looked at her and he smiled as he looked into her eyes and just for a brief moment did he feel the love he had felt for her the other night but it soon passed and he sat up with her.

That was the end of their training and they had lunch outside with the demons not wearing their disguises. The kids began to talk about school and how exiting it was going to be. Yoko smiled as he listened to them talking but when he looked at Nakada she was only silent and eating her food saying very little when the conversation was pointed to her.

After that they hadn't noticed but Jennah had disappeared somewhere and it wasn't until Kuronue noticed it did they start looking for her. Then they heard a loud scream and recognizing it as Jennah's they followed it. Kuronue was the first one there and he stood stock still as he stared at what he saw.

Kuronue's Pov

I saw Jennah laying on the ground with her violet wings out. At first I didn't know what to do and saw her move slightly and groan. I quickly ran over to her to check on her. When I picked her up and turned her around I couldn't believe what I saw. Her legs had joined together into a violet coloured fish fin and she was wearing a violet seashell bra like the one Nakada wore. Her hair went down to her waist and was also a dark violet with waves in it. She also had a pair of violet coloured ears on her head and they twitched from side to side as if listening. Her waist had also gotten smaller and her whole top body was more slender and when I touched the skin it was also more soft. I looked at her webbed hands saw that they were violet coloured and her nails had turned into small claws. All about her was violet coloured even the slanted side fins in her arms.

I looked at her lips and eyelids and they were also lightly coloured violet and sparkled. She gave a slight moan and opened her eyes and I gasped as I saw that they were violet as well and the pupils were slinted.

"Did…it…work?" she asked and I realized that her voice was a lot more stronger and only a little bit deeper from her original voice. It didn't sound like Nakada's soft bell like kind of voice. But it was deeper and more mysterious as well.

"If you are talking about turning into the form Nakada was in then yes it did work," she smiled and pulled me down to her lips. I gladly did that while I still held her and kissed her lightly on the lips. I licked her bottom lip begging for entrance and she smiled as she slowly allowed it.

Then I heard a little chuckle behind me and I turned around to see the whole team looking at us, "Get a room you two love bats," Yoko said as he giggled and Nakada who was in front of him giggled as well.

Normal Pov

That night after the little episode they all went to bed and Yoko sat with Nakada again that night. He saw a tear fall from her face and he wiped it away and remembering that she hadn't taken part in the conversations about school he asked, "Nakada why is it you don't want to go to school?" then he remembered what she had told him about the two times she had gotten angry. He crawled behind her in the bed and wrapped his arms around her, "I'll be here every night Nakada to help get you through."

He felt her relax completely against him and he kissed her cheek as he gently laid his head behind hers and he purred into her ear.

Yoko had fallen asleep and when he woke up the sun was shining and Nakada was still in his arms but there was something different about her. Her hair covered her face so he couldn't see it. He gently drew back her hair and saw that her eyes were wide open but they were dull and didn't have any life in them.

"Nakada? Nakada are you all right?" he asked worried as he sat up and saw that his cloths were stained in dry blood. He looked at the covers and saw they were stained in blood as well. Then he felt something in his hand and he looked at it. His hand was covered in blood but his eyes widened when he saw a blood stained dagger in his hand. He threw the dagger away and lifted the covers off of Nakada and saw a dagger wound right over her heart.

He picked her up into his arms and laid her head against his shoulder. Her eyes were still dull and her body was limp and cold. He pressed his face into her hair and silent tears fell from his face, "Nakada why did I do this to you? I didn't mean to please...please come back." After awhile Yoko lifted his head up from her hair and gently closed her eyes and laid her gently on the bed.

He went over to where he had thrown the dagger but it seemed so far away as he tried to walk closer to it. When he finally made it he took the dagger into his hands and placed the blade over his heart. A thunderstorm was going on out side but Yoko didn't notice as he pulled the dagger back and just as a streak of lighting went racing across the sky making a loud ripping sound he thrust the dagger forward and then all went dark.

End Dream

Yoko woke up with someone shaking him awake. He sat up and saw that it was Kuronue and he was in his own room. He couldn't see Kuronue completely because of his black, gray and white vision but he recognized the scent, "Don't you dare scare me like that again Yoko," he said as lightening raced across the sky to show the shadow outline of the bat demon.

"What happened?" Yoko asked remembering his dream and looking up at Kuronue, "Is Nakada all right?"

"Nakada is fine but Yoko you were walking around in your sleep! I had went down to the kitchen to get something when I saw you holding a knife over your heart and you were about to drive it in before I took it out of your hand. What happened?"

Yoko looked all around and looked back at Kuronue, "I had another nightmare but this time I had killed Nakada with a dagger. I woke up and saw her in my arms and I had a dagger in my hand with her blood on it. I had thrown the dagger away and after I had realized what had happened I went to the dagger and was about to thrust it in to my heart…"

"Yoko…" Kuronue said as he looked at his old friend, "You had a nightmare that was close to the one the last time...you slept with Nakada didn't you?" Yoko looked at him and nodded, "Did you sleep with her again tonight?" He looked down and nodded again, "Well I guess then it only happens when you are asleep with her. And it seems the more you sleep with her the more intense the nightmare becomes," he looked at Yoko and saw that there was a sunken look in his eyes.

"Why is it that all of the bad things happen to me?" Yoko got out of bed and went to one of the plants by the door to the balcony. He gently touched one of the plants and it turned into ice blue irises, "Can't something good ever happen in my life?" he asked as he touched another plant and it grew into a rose bush with pink petals and he picked one gently and held it to his face as he closed his eyes.

He looked out the window and saw that the storm was blowing over. Kuronue just sighed and walked over to the fox, "You know maybe you should tell her how you feel. It couldn't hurt you more then it has already."

"Your wrong there Kuronue it could hurt me a lot because if she said she didn't love me then I wouldn't see any use of being around her or being happy anymore. I would always look at her and feel nothing but sadness and pain even if my love for her did disappear whenever the sunlight touches me. Then I wouldn't let this disease kill me slowly I would do it myself quick and swift."

"YOKO DON'T YOU EVEN THINK ABOUT DOING THAT!" Kuronue yelled as he held Yoko by the shoulders and shook him, "How do think Nakada would feel if she found out she was the reason you killed yourself after she and the others have tried so hard to keep us all alive and together! She risked being shot when she went after you, she risked being bitten by Kelsey when she went into battle with her, she let you almost bit her arm off so you could get a good nights sleep and you almost killed her when we first bought that room in the hotel with another one of your nightmares! Kill yourself and it will be like she was only doing that for nothing and she was only delaying the inevitable!"

Yoko's eyes were red now but he wasn't angry with Kuronue or any member of the team. He was angry with himself because he knew Kuronue was right. He would be hurting Nakada and he had promised her the other night he wouldn't even if she didn't hear him in her sleep. He felt a hand on his shoulder and looked at Kuronue who had let go and was looking rather worried. He calmed down as he took in a deep breathe to try and calm down, "Your right Kuronue but what is life when the person you love doesn't love you back? I smelled her fear the day I couldn't see colour any more," Yoko turned to Kuronue and asked "I also saw her kneel down when she was out of the camper what happened?"

He sighed as he remembered; "She said that she might have not fully healed herself so when she was outside she healed herself completely. Did you get a good look at the wound on her leg?"

"Yeah it looked like a gunshot wound. She must have run into the searching parties while looking for me," Yoko looked up out of the sky window and saw that it was now a clear night and the moon was shining through, "Jennah is probably worried about you right now," Yoko smiled and looked at Kuronue, "Maybe you should go to bed now I'll be fine." Kuronue looked at him uncertain and he smiled at him as his tail wagged back and forth a little, "I wont go and try to kill myself I promise," Kuronue was still uncertain but he nodded and went back to his and Jennah's room.

After a while Yoko got up from sleeping not really tired anymore and went to Nakada's room through the balcony. When he opened the sliding glass door he saw Nakada still sleeping in her bed. He walked up to her quietly so as to not wake her up after he had closed the door. He saw that she was breathing and there was no dagger wound over her heart and he smiled. He brushed a few hairs away from her face and leaned towards her face.

Nakada's Pov

I felt someone was sitting on my bed and was leaning closer to my face. I recognized the scent as Yoko's and tried to suppress my smile. Then my face let up as I felt his lips on mine and he started to kiss me! I wanted to kiss him back but then I would probably scare him away so I just laid there and enjoyed him kissing me feeling like as if I was going to melt soon if he didn't stop but honestly I didn't want him to stop. When he finished I couldn't suppress my smile any more and I felt his claws gently scratch against my face as he brushed away some stray hairs. I snuggled in closer to his warmth and he went still. When I settled I felt him relax and the wind told me he was smiling and I smiled to. But he soon left and I heard him go through the sliding glass window. I opened my eyes and sat up after a while and touched my lips and smiled. I guess I don't have to worry about him not loving me. I sighed and fell back into the bed holding my hand over my heart and closed my eyes wishing that he would tell me instead of hide from me and do this. I wonder does he do this every night? Hmm he is a good kisser but I guess he has had tons of practice with the other girls. The…other…girls. Did he ever love them? I guess not if wanted to kill them oh Yoko. I had already had a shower and had gotten dressed because I knew it was my first day of school. How I dreaded it so much!