Parents and The Lights Signs
Yoko was sore, bleeding and blind as he walked through the corridors not even caring where he was going now. His hands were cuffed behind his back a collar was around his neck and he was being led to somewhere either then his old cell. Samantha was the one who was leading Yoko to his new cell and she began to speak to him, "Don't expect your lover to visit you tonight," He looked into her direction suddenly wondering how she knew Nakada had visited him in the night. Samantha jut kept on leading him with her hand firmly gripping his arm and he looked ahead, "Where you are going keeps out spirits so I doubt when she falls asleep she will be in your cell with you."
"You lie!" he hissed turning his head to her again stopping in his tracks that earned him a squeeze from the cuffs and collar but he ignored it.
Samantha turned around and stared at him hard, "No Yoko, I don't lie but you will find that out soon. I will tell her if she ends up at the door of your cell what I have told you. Now come on we still have some way to go."
Yoko followed, he still couldn't believe that Nakada might not be able to go to him that night or any other night. He wanted her to be with him to help him with his wounds and to sing to him. He wanted her to hold him close and be there for him. Samantha stopped and Yoko almost tripped at the sudden stop.
"Here we are," she said as she took the cuffs from around wrists as well as the collar from his neck but he still held his hands behind his back. He heard the sound of a door opening up and Samantha pushed him in and he tripped landing on his hands and knees as he heard the door close. He heard voices then and from the scent he could tell they were humans. But he also noticed he had smelled their scent from somewhere. As he tried to pinpoint where he was thrown held against the wall by what he could tell two men.
One no, he thought as he winced as some of his wounds began to reopen.
"Richard don't hurt him!" came a female voice.
Richard? Isn't that Nakada's father's name?
"Susan he's a demon!"
"I know but look at him! They tortured him and made him blind!"
Yoko then looked up and began to speak, "You two are Richard and Susan Bates, mother and father to Nakada Alene Bates are you not?"
There was silence all around the room and Richard (Rick) spoke up, "How do you know that?"
Yoko was about to say something but grimaced as the pain over took him and he made a sound as he fell unconscious.
When Yoko woke up again he noticed the his wounds were washed and dressed but he was still blind. He moved his ears around trying to hear what the people were saying.
He heard Rick talking to everyone, "He knows about our daughter maybe he knows where our other children are as well."
"I do," Yoko said with some effort and tried to get up but someone pushed him back down.
"Easy now you still have to heal. You might heal quickly but move the wrong way and your wounds will open up again," Yoko listened to the female human not knowing who she was but still thought her as an ally.
"Now you said you know where our children are?" asked a man who had a French accent.
"Yes they were living with me back in a mansion we had bought with the money we had earned and they are all safe as far as I know."
"How can we trust you?" he heard Rick ask.
Yoko sighed and placed his hand over his chest and thought of Nakada when she had kissed him and marked him. There was a bright flash of light he couldn't see but he felt something in his hand and he held it up for all to see. There was a gasp of surprise and Yoko spoke, "I don't know what it is but the last time Nakada's spirit visited me, when she went to sleep, she gave me this saying that it would protect me but so far it hasn't done anything."
"That is because you haven't taken it out of your heart. If you did then you would still be able to see right now and not be hurt as much." He felt someone take his hand and held it over his heart pressing what ever it was against his chest over his heart and the thing disappeared.
"At least we now know that you are with us and my daughter loves you as well," Rick said taking his hand in a firm grip, "How she knew about her heart crystal I will never know. But since you are alive with it still in your heart that means you love her just as much. If you had felt pain trying to take your half of the heart crystal out of your heart then you didn't love her at all. For a Sign to give away half of his/her heart crystal to a person is a very special thing indeed. It means they will love you forever even if you won't. He/she can always take their heart crystal back but they will never love anyone as much as the one they first gave their heart crystal to the first time."
Yoko placed a hand over his heart and smiled, "I would never purposely hurt your daughter at all. If it weren't for her I wouldn't be here right now. But I'm thinking you all want to here about your daughters and sons?" there was a round of agreement and he explained all he could to the parents.
After he was done talking everyone was quiet, "Well as long as Kuronue takes good care of Jennah and he keeps her happy then I don't see anything against it," Janet, Jennah's mother, said, "Listen Yoko why don't you get some rest and take some time to heal your wounds.
"Alright I guess but I don't know when they are going to come back," Yoko said as he began to try and get some sleep.
"Don't worry we'll try to keep them back we all are not without magic of our own," Pierre, Jennah's father, assured him.
"I doubt you can hold them back but just don't get yourselves killed in the process."
"You are probably right but still…" Yoko didn't hear the rest of it as he fell asleep.
Outside the room Nakada had just appeared and was confused about why she was there, "Your lover is in there but since you are only a spirit and that room was made to keep spirits out you can't go in there."
She turned around and saw Samantha there with her arms crossed looking at her leaning against a wall her face plain. Nakada looked at her angered by what she said, "What do you mean? How did you know I would come here?"
"My sign is the Dark Love," she answered as if it was no big deal, "I know when love ones have found each other and are close together. But I am the only one of the Dark Signs that has at least a little amount of mercy. And that mercy let you be able to sleep with your loved one and not have him chained to the wall the whole time. You would have been able to do that for the next two weeks but Yoko wasn't doing to well with what Kelsey had been putting him through and he wasn't as much fun as she thought he would be. So he went to the second punishment with Yomi and his son. You know what happened to him. You saw it in your vision."
Nakada swore she had just felt her heart stop and then heard it shatter into pieces as she sat on the ground unable to stand up anymore. She looked up at Samantha as tears began to fall from her eyes, "You all will pay for what you have done. But since you were a little more kinder to him then your punishment won't be as harsh."
Samantha smiled, "You are going to have to find us first," and with that she pushed herself off of the wall and walked away. Nakada began to shimmer and then faded away completely with tears falling down her face as she held onto the blanket that she had brought to cover Yoko and her that night.
It had been two weeks since that had happened and Nakada would rarely eat or sleep and felt like she was cut off from the world. The only time she ate was when the whole team forced her to. She would sleep when Jennah put her under a spell but her dreams would be empty.
One day while Nakada was outside training in the hot weather completely forgetting what Yoko had told her and was over training herself. The others were inside watching her and then they head the doorbell ring and Jennah went to answer it.
When Jennah opened the door she saw twelve people in front of her (the others had changed like Jennah and Nakada had.) Six of the girls looked like twins for and the rest of the girls except for Rebekah, "Hello Jennah," greeted the girl who looked exactly like her only older.
"H-how do you know my name?" Jennah asked looking at them suspiciously and then Kuronue appeared behind her and smiled.
"Don't worry Jennah these people are here to help. You see they are yours and the others long lost triplet brothers and sisters. They are the ones that helped me out when I was almost killed."
Jennah looked at them all and smiled as she moved to let them in, "Then you are most welcome here in our home." She looked at the girl who looked like Nakada and took her aside, "You are Nakada's triplet sister right?" she nodded, "Can you please knock some sense into her head? Ever since she found out she wasn't able to see Yoko at all she has practically withdrawn from the world and is over working herself."
The girl looked like as if she couldn't believe this, "I will try my best and by the way…my name is Talia," Jennah nodded and Talia disappeared.
Soon everyone was in the living room and Talia had been able to convince Nakada to go inside but she didn't seem to be with them right then. She seemed to be in her own world and was not able to listen to what they were saying.
"What is wrong with her?" April asked, looking at Nakada as was the rest of them, "She never acted this way before."
Talia placed a hand on Nakada's head and then placed it over her heart. Her eyes widened instantly and she gasped, "She gave Yoko half of her heart crystal when she last met him." Talia looked at Nakada and turned her head, "Is that right Nakada?"
She swallowed a little and for the first time finally spoke, "I thought it would help him because when I last saw him he looked like he was drugged and no longer in this world."
Talia wrapped her arms around her triplet sister and held her close, "Don't worry I know we will find him and thanks to what you did we will find him with your heart crystal."
Nakada looked up at her with hope, confusion and sadness in her eyes, "Really?"
Talia smiled and nodded, "But not right now," she said moving some hair away from her face, "You all have been training hard and are very close to what you really truly look like. But tonight we will all help you with that. But right now you all and especially you Nakada will have to get some rest." Rebekah looked down and began to stand up, "Rebekah where are you going? All of the Signs need to be here."
Rebekah looked at her, "Because I am not a part of this group and I don't even know what a Sign is. I didn't change into any kind of form like they can. All I can do is read people's minds, move thing around, and make things disappear and or reappear I'm not special."
Talia smiled and went over to her, "Oh but Rebekah you are a Sign. What kind I am not sure of but you are most definitly a Sign. The only reason you don't have forms like the others is because they knew how to train their powers and they had each other. You didn't know anything about your powers and you had no one. Tomorrow though you will be able to do all of the things they can do."
Rebekah looked at Talia and shook her head and began to back up, "No…your wrong!" and with that she ran up the stairs to her room.
Everyone stared at Rebekah and sighed, "Don't worry she will see eventually," Squall said holding Rinoa close and she smiled.
"Right now you all need to go to your room s and the whole truth will be revealed," Sierra said standing up. Everyone nodded and they went to there rooms including Nakada. When everyone was in there room the Signs went to each of there doors and placed a hand on them. Every time they placed there hands on the door their hands would glow. Soon Jennah's and Rebekah's were the last one. Jessica was waiting in the doorway waiting for Kuronue to leave Jennah.
Kuronue moved a hand over Jennah's hair and placed a kiss on her head, "Don't worry Jennah it won't hurt a bit. I went through this as well and tomorrow when you wake up you will have all of your powers, memories and you will be in your truest form okay?"
Jennah smiled and nodded, "I know you will be there when I wake up Kuronue."
"I will be right at your side waiting for you to wake up."
Kuronue sat up from the bed and went over to Jessica and she closed the door behind them. When the door was closed Jessica placed her hand on the door and it glowed a purple colour.
Then they all went to Rebekah's door, "Rinoa can you please move Rebekah to her bed?" Squall asked holding her hand and she smiled with a nod. She looked at the door her eyes blank and then she nodded again. Zell put his hand on the door and it glowed a golden yellow and Rebekah fell asleep on her bed.
"Now all we have to do is wait until tomorrow and then everything will be done," they all agreed and went down stairs while the whole team dreamed about what happened in my last two books and before that.
Back at the Dark Signs hide out
Yoko had been tortured all through out the two weeks when his wounds had healed enough to the Dark Signs suffice and then he would be tortured again. The cell that Yoko was in with the team's parents (except for Rebekah's) was practically a Sultans bedchamber and they were all well fed. Yoko was in the exact same position as Nakada barely eating unless pushed and rarely slept unless someone had put him under a spell. Even now when he was tortured he wouldn't make a sound and he would never take his heart crystal out to protect himself. When he did take it out he would finger it trying to memorize and see what it looked like with his fingers.
Right now he was doing that and everyone was watching him knowing exactly what he was going through and why. Janet sighed as she watched him, "My guess he would have been better off in his other cell. At least then he would be with Nakada when she slept," everyone agreed as they looked at Yoko.
Susan carefully walked over to Yoko and sat down beside him, "Yoko she will come I'm sure off it. I am also sure she is going through the same things you are as well. You told me she had been over working her self before she had gone into your cell when she went to sleep. My guess she is doing that right now trying to get stronger and trying to find out where you are."
Yoko was silent for a few minutes and then he spoke up, "She told me not to be mad if she came late before I was stolen. I told her I would never be mad at her if she came late it was better late then never and I still mean that. Even if I'm dead when she comes I wouldn't be mad because then she still came. If she never came…"
Susan looked at him shocked, "Yoko, you have half of her heart crystal and that is the beginning of the Sign Mating Ritual. She is going through the same thing you are but she doesn't know what to do. I just hope the teams brothers and sisters are going to be here soon."
Yoko looked at her, "The other Signs?" Susan looked at Yoko but he seemed unfazed, "Why aren't they here anyway? Why weren't they here to help the team?"
Susan placed a hand on Yoko shoulder and used some of her powers to cool down his anger, "Yoko they have other worlds to protect remember? When the older members of the team where eighteen or higher were they finally able to find the team. But when you died Nakada was empty and she some how turned back time. Kuronue, the Signs and the Dark Signs were the only ones that remembered and because of that time was changed. The team also had some of their powers back some how and have been going to different worlds confusing both of the Signs."
Yoko looked at Susan and took her hand and smiled the first smile he had in a long time, "Thanks Mrs. Bates."
"How many times do I have to tell you?" Susan said with a smile as she shook her head, "Mrs. Bates was my mother-in-law I'm Susan," Yoko smiled a little wider smile showing a little of his fangs.
"I'm sorry Susan," and he laid back into the cushions feeling relaxed a little more and a little more alive as he put his half of the heart crystal back into his heart. But then his smile slowly disappeared.
"Yoko what's wrong?" Susan asked a little worried.
"I just realized that they are getting rougher each time I go for my torture. My guess is last time I barely survived but because of the shape I was in I didn't notice. Am I right?" he asked looking at Susan and she lowered her head.
"You are right Yoko we almost couldn't stop the bleeding and there were more wounds and burnt marks on your body. Each time it is the same."
Yoko tilted his head to the ceiling and sighed, "My wounds are almost healed Susan," she looked at him, "My guess is tomorrow they will take me in again and I will most likely not survive."
Susan looked at him shocked, "Don't think or say such things Yoko!"
Yoko sat up and took her hand in a strong grasp, "Don't worry about me Susan," Yoko said as he reached out one hand and found her face. He had done this to many of the others as he began to try and see her face with his fingers. He felt Rick's eyes on him but he knew Rick wouldn't do anything. He continued to see Susan's face with his fingers and she did nothing against it.
"Susan I am no longer afraid if I die like when I was about to die the day Nakada first kissed me. I am not afraid to die and I will be sorry but somewhat grateful that she won't be at my side."
"But why don't you want her at you side Yoko?"
"I could never bare to see or hear her cry. I could also never bare to be the reason of her tears. But I want to feel her presence once more and see her face. But I know that will never happen," Yoko didn't have bandages over his eyes and Susan saw a tear fall from one of his eyes.
She wiped it away and laid Yoko's head on her shoulder, "Hush don't worry Yoko I have a feeling that something is going to happen tomorrow and it will be something good. And like Nakada's visions my premonitions are never wrong." Yoko just sat there not resisting at all as he laid his head on Susan's shoulder and she stroked his hair. But when her hand reached close enough to his ears he moved so her hand was at the base of his ears. She smiled and began to gently rub his ear and he purred.
"I always wondered where Nakada and DJ had learned to be so gentle and also so firm as well. They got there gentleness from you and their firmness from their father."
Susan smiled as she wrapped her arm around the fox's back holding him close and began to sing the song Nakada had first sang to him when he began to have his nightmares.
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 akin 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
Ho can not seen 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
Yoko purred a little louder and smiled a little, "Nakada would sing that song to me when ever I had a nightmare. She would climb into bed hold me close and sing to me. I know she held me close because I would always feel someone holding me and hear someone singing guiding me back into a lighter place away from danger."
She looked at him for a second not being able to believe what he was saying, "Yoko, that is a very advanced technique even for her. Her voice is her most powerful weapon as well as tool for healing along with her tears."
He lifted his head up a little but then put it back down, "I guess with the amount of nightmares I've had her voice was strengthened. She and the rest of the rest of the team as well. That's how we first started making money. Nakada would sing every night at a Karaoke bar for some money when the team first found out that we were low. Kuronue came up with the plan to move into the town so that the kids could go to school but that also meant she had to sing on Fridays and Saturdays for money. That was also the night I had found out that I could play the guitar. I would just close my eyes and I could play any song I had heard before. Gradually everyone started to join and we found a little recording studio in the place where we were staying to practice in. Behind our backs Kuronue learned how to work and record in the studio. So when we were practicing for the show on Friday one night he recorded the whole thing onto a disc and when we were listening to music another day he took out the CD and we listened to it. Before we all thought that the people on the CD wasn't us until Kuronue said at the end of the CD, 'How was that?' We all said it was great and he said he made it when we were practicing one night. Ever since then we have been making songs playing them, selling them but we always went back to the Karaoke bar to perform for old times sake."
Susan looked at Yoko and smiled, "Does your band have a name?"
Yoko winced a little, "Yeah, Jennah thought it up we're called...The Thieves."
She chuckled a little, "I think that is a perfect name for you," Yoko smiled and sat up.
"Thank you Susan for helping me out. To tell you the truth I am a little scared about what is going to happen tomorrow but I'm a little more calm."
Susan smiled and cupped his cheek, "Your welcome but I'll say it again. I don't think you are going to die tomorrow and I want you to fight with all of your might to stay alive.
He smiled and nodded, "I will fight with everything I got."
"That's the Yoko I'm guessing Nakada fell in love with. But you won't be fighting anything if you don't eat. Come on," Susan took Yoko's hand and led him to the table.