Symptoms

Yoko woke up felling a bit cold and when he looked around he saw that everyone was there except for Nakada. He sat up and looked around for her his ears twitching and he heard footsteps going down the hall. He got up and followed them. The footsteps led to outside and when he looked around he saw Nakada standing on the covered porch looking at the clear blue sky.

A lot of things were blown over the lawn and the telephone pole that had been struck by the lightening was on the ground, giving sparks off every few minutes. Nakada was leaning against the railing her hands clasped together and her eyes closed. A little wind blew by her and she looked at him and smiled, "Did I wake you up?"

He shook his head no, "I woke up not that long ago. It looks like it came down hard last night," he said as he looked around the grounds again. The snow that had been there was now either washed away or huge puddles.

She smiled and sighed a bit as she looked back at the field and straightened up, "I should get ready for school. Rehearsals are today and the play is in two weeks. Honestly I wish you were really playing Romeo instead of Sean. He thinks I am starting to like him more than just a friend. Well I'll see you later," she walked past Yoko and went inside. He watched her leave and smiled as he looked at the field again. This is definitely good. He thought and walked inside.

At school and after everyone had runaway from their fans and everyone had the rehearsal they had went to lunch and went back to school before the doors were open. Rehearsal had gone great but Nakada was thinking more on how to tell Sean that she only wanted to be friends.

Mean while Yoko was outside after eating and sitting on the bench he had yet again beat the team there. Well I wonder if I should tell Nakada who I am now and try and live through that or let her find out on her own. She will probably get angry at me if I let her find out on her own so I guess I should get over the yelling right now. He stood up after he had made his decision but he had to sit back down again.

For some reason his ankle began to hurt as if he had sprained it. He lifted his pant leg up and looked at it but it didn't appear to be swollen or bruised. He was a bit confused but he tried getting back up and it began to hurt again. He still stood but he knelt down and checked his ankle but nothing was there and it didn't hurt. He began to put some weight on it while he was still kneeling and looked at his ankle. All of a sudden it started to swell up and became bruised and it started it hurt again.

"Sean are you all right?" he looked up and stopped putting weight on his ankle. Nakada was walking towards him and she looked rather concerned.

"I'm fine Nakada don't worry," she looked at him clearly not convinced. He sat back down and she sat with him still looking hard at him. He could feel her trying to get into his mind to see what was wrong so he quickly thought of something, "Is there something you wanted to talk to me about Nakada?" he asked.

She stopped staring at him and he felt her leave his mind, "Yes um but not here. I want to go somewhere private because I don't think you are going to like it and there are people around," he looked at her for a second and then gave a quick glance to his ankle.

Damn! Yoko looked around and saw that there wasn't that many people on the grounds actually the only people there was the team and they had gone to other side of the school, "Why can't we stay here? The other students aren't going to here for a while and your friends are on the other side of the school."

She gave him a weird look and he could feel her in his mind again but it soon passed as she sighed. She sat back against the bench and looked at the ground, "Okay umm I don't now how to tell you this and don't take it the wrong way because there is nothing wrong with you at all," Yoko looked at her for a minute as she continued, "The thing is Sean I know you are getting closer to me and I want it to stop before it gets out of hand because I love someone else and I think he loves me to. So can we just be friends if that is all right with you?" she looked at Sean for a second and then she got worried, "Sean what's wrong?"

Yoko was holding his shoulder because now the pain had some how moved from his ankle to his shoulder and it was beginning to hurt. He looked at her and smiled, "It's nothing probably just a pulled muscle or something," he look at the ground as his shoulder began to hurt even more.

Nakada kneeled on the bench and turned him around. She gently moved his hand and moved the neck piece of the shirt down so she could see his shoulder, "Sean what did you do? It's all swollen and bruised, were you in some kind of fight?" she gently touched it and Yoko flinched.

"I'm fine Nakada don't worry," he turned away from her and stood up holding his shoulder, "I probably wont make it to class alright? I'm fine about being just friends. I have to go now," he quickly turned around and started running into the forest where he took off the chain and ran as fast as he could back home (He hadn't taken the motorcycle this time.)

"Sean wait!" Nakada tried to run after him but he was gone before she had a chance. Fine with being just friends? I don't care about that right now Sean you have to see someone. Why do I have to be surrounded be idiotic men? Human and/or demon. She turned around and went to the other side of the school with her friends and little brother.

Meanwhile Yoko had made it back to the house (or mansion what ever you like) and his shoulder was still hurting. He opened the door and went inside and collapsed onto the ground. He was sitting on the ground one knee to his chest and the other laying straight on the ground while his back was pressed against the closed door and his hand was on his shoulder.

Kuronue looked down the stairs and flew down immediately to his side, "Yoko what's wrong? Are you hurt?" he couldn't say a thing as the sides of his mouth felt like they had been sliced so he couldn't open it.

He looked at him, "I think the symptoms have started Kuronue," he looked at Yoko wide eyed and then he helped him into the living room. He laid him on the couch and kneeled at his side trying to think of some way to help Yoko.

Yoko then started to press his hands to his head over his temples and he closed his eyes as he hissed in pain. Kuronue began to try and hold him as he began to move his body all over the place as if in agony. He kept on yelling to Yoko to stop moving all over the place or he would just hurt himself even more. Finally he had to knock him unconscious just so that he would try and keep him from hurting himself.

He looked at Yoko and held a hand to his cheek were Yoko had clawed him while trying to get away from him. Yoko I think you should act quickly because if that was a twinge of pain then you are going to go through a lot more of it in the near future. He sighed and carried Yoko up to his room and went down stairs to get him a glass of water if he woke up.

After a while Yoko slowly opened his eyes his whole body sore from moving around on the couch. But his face hurt even more as he lifted his hand to touch it. "Well I see your finally awake," he looked to the side of the bed and saw Kuronue sitting there with his arms crossed. Yoko gave a weak smile and gently pressed a few clawed fingers to his temple and winced, "Sorry about that but I don't know how to knock people unconscious without hurting them."

"That's all right you did what you could and I can't ask for anything less," he tried to sit up but Kuronue pressed him back down, "Kuronue I'm not going to die this very minute and besides," Yoko looked at the clock on the night stand beside his bed, "the others are going to be here soon."

"Yoko what if you go through that again only this time in front of the others? Then everyone will have to know what is happening to you and then you will die and no one can help you," this time he let Yoko sit up and he gave him the water.

Yoko took some small sips from the glass and looked out the window. The sun was shinning and the sky was clear but he felt different. He looked at Kuronue, "Your right but how are we going to explain me being up here when the whole time there off doing something else?"

"You know if I didn't know better I'd say that you wanted them to find out and die," Kuronue said as he looked closely at Yoko.

He sighed and looked out the window again, "Kuronue you don't know how much I want to tell them the secrets that we and I am keeping. It would make me so happy to finally tell them and just go on living life. But until I can get Nakada to kiss me with her really in love with me then that is not going to happen any time soon. No I don't want to die but Kuronue I just want to stop all of the secrecy and finely be truthful to the others," Yoko set the empty glass on the nightstand and laid back into bed looking at the ceiling.

They were quiet for a while then Yoko's ears twitched, "Their home," Kuronue looked at him and then listened. He could hear the kids come in through the front door and he looked at Yoko, "I know, I know…stay put."

He looked at him for a second and went out the door to the stairs. Yoko sat up and then he went out to the balcony, "Like I ever did what I was told," he said as he opened the door and walked out to the balcony. He leaned on the railing and looked at the sky for a while unsure of what to do. Then he heard a cooing beside him and he turned his head. There was a white dove on the railing cooing softly and looking at him. He looked at it confused and then he stretched out two fingers until they were straight.

The white dove few onto his fingers and looked at him straight in the eye. The dove gave a soft coo as if saying, "You know what to do but you are to afraid and proud to do it," with that it flew off into the sky until he lost sight of it. He covered his eyes as he watched the bird fly into the horizon and he smiled.

"I thought you said you would stay put," he turned his head and saw Kuronue behind him leaning against the frame of the door his arms crossed.

Yoko smiled again and leaned on the railing looking at the sunset, "You should know by now I don't do as I'm told and I didn't say that. I just said what you were thinking," Kuronue opened his mouth to say something but nothing came out showing Yoko had got him. Frustrated he just stood beside Yoko and leaned his back against the wall and with his arms crossed.

"You know one of these days you are going to do something that I tell you to do," he said as he looked at the fox.

Yoko smiled and chuckled a bit, "Keep on dreaming Kuronue that will never happen," and he closed his eyes and let his head go limp. He felt tired for some reason and going to sleep sounded stupid and comforting for some reason.

"Hey you okay?" the demons turned around and saw that Jennah and Rebekah were standing there in the doorway looking at them. Jennah walked up to Yoko and felt his head, "You seem a bit hot Yoko why don't you go sleep for awhile? It might do you some good."

He nodded and then went into his room, "Hey why do you do what she says and not what I say?" Kuronue whined.

He turned around and smirked, "Because I've seen what she can do when you get her mad, and it is ten times more worse then you could ever do," he turned around and proceeded back to his bed with two giggling girls and one stumped bat with his mouth open and eyes wide. Jennah jumped from the balcony and Kuronue carried Rebekah down in his arms.

Yoko stayed awake for a little while and then his eyes just became to heavy to keep open anymore and he went to sleep. There was a knock on his door but he was too far asleep to hear it. The door slowly opened and Nakada went into the room and saw him sleeping in his bed. She smiled and went over to him after she had quietly closed the door behind her. She sat in the chair Kuronue had sat in and looked at him while he slept. She moved some hairs away from his face and her fingers accidentally touched his lips.

She stared at his lips for a second and remembered when she was asleep and he had kissed her. She traced his lips and wondered if they still felt soft. She began to lower her face to his and sat on the bed.

Her face was almost there when Yoko opened his eyes. They stayed like that for a while not knowing what to do. Nakada was blushing immensely and Yoko silently had his fingers crossed under the blankets.

Not knowing what else to do she began to lower her face again and Yoko gently laid his hand on her head and they began to close their eyes as their lips began to get closer and closer. Then as they were about to finally lip lock for the first time with both of them doing it and wanting to do it with out any hesitation or regrets…DJ burst into the room yelling, "Nakada! THE GIRLS WANT YOU DOWN STAIRS!" he was out of breath showing he had ran all the way upstairs.

They were both glaring at him and he could have sworn he saw fire behind them as they looked at him. He gulped and started to walk backwards, "Oh I see you're busy," then he got an evil smirk of his own face, "Umm well then if you're so busy, APRIL! Nakada'S KIND OF BUSY WITH YOKO! SO I DON'T THINK SHE WILL BE ABLE TO HELP!" Yoko had to practically hold Nakada back from strangling her brother but he wanted to go at him as well but thought it better not to.

"DJ! I SWEAR IF I GET MY HANDS ON YOU, YOU ARE SO GOING TO REGRET THE DAY YOU WERE BORN!" she yelled still trying to get out of Yoko's grasp. Her ears started to turn into her tiger ears and her fangs and claws grew as a tail sprouted from behind her and her stripes appeared. DJ was ghost white and he turned around and ran down the stairs sliding off the railing.

Yoko was kneeling on the bed holding on to Nakada's wrists as she kept on struggling. Finely she calmed down and her animal form slowly faded away as she turned back to normal and leaned against him a bit weak from her out burst. He pulled her onto the bed and held her close as he wiped some stray hairs away from her face.

She looked up at him as she sat up and turned away from him, "I'm sorry you had to see that Yoko," she said as her hair moved over her face so he couldn't see it. She was embarrassed by the way she had acted and she was also ashamed.

She began to get off of the bed but he grabbed her wrist, "You really don't have to go now do you?" he asked as he finally stood beside her as she got off the bed. Her eyes were shadowed and she didn't say a word as she stared at the ground. Yoko lifted her face or tried to but before he could see her eyes she disappeared before his eyes in a flash of a ice blue light. Yoko looked at the door that was still open and he got angry as well. DJ ever hear of knocking? And why did you just do that? I will never understand you or your sister.

He began to feel a little weak and he sat down on the bed looking at the ground trying to regain his breath that he had some how lost through there. His throat began to hurt as he pressed his hand to it. Great don't tell me I'm going through it again! But thankfully he wasn't going through his symptoms again his throat was just dry because he was breathing rather hard.

Finally he regained his breath and sat up straight in the bed but he still felt tired. I guess Kelsey failed to mention this when she was talking about the symptoms. He laid back into the bed mentally reminding himself to have a talk with DJ after this.

Yoko fell asleep not knowing he was being watched…or heard from someone outside standing on the balcony with his eyes closed and his hand on a small demon boy's shoulder. The demon smiled and turned his head to the boy, "Not that long now Shura," the demon said to the boy and the boy demon, (Shura) looked at him with a smile on his face, "Yoko is already weak and his symptoms are taking a lot of his spirit energy along with a little of his body energy so he continues to get weaker. He should be dead before their school play. Honestly I never thought Yoko would stoop so low," the older demon said with a small chuckle.

Shura looked at him and smiled as his pointy elf ears twitched. He was small and he had short black hair and a horn in the middle of his forehead, "I guess love can force any kind of living creature to do things that others wouldn't expect. But that storm that Kelsey had made last night made it look like they were getting kind of close you know." Shura looked at the sleeping form of Yoko and his hands twitched to the dagger at his waist.

"Now Shura you know Kelsey only said to spy on him and not kill him," the older demon said as he clutched Shura's shoulder a bit tighter.

He gave a snort, "Why do we have to take orders from her? Yoko is right here asleep and defenseless so why can't we just attack and kill him now?"

The older demon chuckled, "Because that would take all of the fun out of it young Shura. A quick death isn't what he deserves after he had tortured me and made me blind," the older demon shook in rage and then he smiled, "Kelsey can provide us the perfect entertainment for us with him. His two nightmares are of what she is going to do to him after awhile she has him," the older demon smirked, "Then after she has had her fun it will be my turn."

They both disappeared with smiles on their faces as the sleeping fox demon slept on unaware what had just been happening outside of his window. He did though stir a bit when he caught the familiar scent of the demon. He opened his eyes for just a second for he was still tired and turned around on the bed to look out the sliding glass window. Seeing that there was nothing there he closed his eyes in confusion. That's odd I could have sworn I had smelled Yomi's scent in the wind. But before he could ponder on it any longer sleep over took him once again and he forgot all about it.