I Won't Leave You

The next day Nakada was the first one up and she actually had a smile on her face as she went down stairs and made breakfast for the team and the Signs. She was also humming a little song to herself and just when she was almost done a sleepy Talia came through the door and she stepped back a bit, "Okay where did you put my sister?"

Nakada laughed and smiled as she set the food on the table, "I just feel a little more alive this morning," then her eyes became icy cold, "Kelsey will pay for what she ahs done."

Talia nodded and then Sophie came down and the two girls stared at each other, "THERE IS SOMETHING ON YOUR HEAD!" they said at each other pointing at the others forehead. And indeed (I know it sucks) there were their signs on their heads. Nakada's was a full silver blue moon and Sophie's was a silver yellow star and they both looked to be eighteen instead of the age they were before.

Talia smiled, "They are your signs and since you are with your triplets they are whole once more. I'm guessing you also know your powers and the extent of them?"

Nakada nodded, "But we still need so much more training."

"Yes three years to be exact but that will start when we get Yoko and your parents back. Our guess is if we find Yoko then we find your parents as well."

After everyone had eaten and had gotten over there new size, age and signs (they were taught how to hide them) they were outside behind the house. Talia walked over to Nakada, "You know what to do don't you?" she asked.

Nakada nodded and placed her hand over her heart and thought of Yoko. There was a bright pink light and there was her half of the heart crystal in her hand. She looked at it and spoke calmly, "Please take me to the place where Yoko is." The crystal began to hover a little and then it sped North with all of the Signs following flying right behind it as the crystal flew into the air. Everyone was there except for Rebekah who watched them go from Yoko's bedroom.

At the hideout

The door to the cell opened and Yomi came in along with Shura and they hand cuffed Yoko and put the collar around his neck connecting the chain to it and they took him to where he was always tortured. Yoko walked with them knowing it was hopeless to try and resist. When they got to the room Yoko's handcuffs were taken off and held above his head to be cuffed again as someone took off his collar. He swallowed a little and took a little breath gathering up his energy to keep him alive as long as possible. Then he felt it…the sharp sting of the whip he had been unconscious to every time he had gone through this. He bit his lower lip until it bleed so as to not yell out and winced every time the chain whip came down on his back, sides or front.

He tried to picture in his mind what it was like back at the mansion. It was summer by now and he remembered when he, Nakada and DJ had met. Nakada was wearing a navy blue T-shirt and a light blue sweat shirt tied around her waist. DJ was wearing black sweat pants and a T-shirt that had words on it that he couldn't read. But now he knew what it said…it had said Dead Zone.

That is how I felt when I found out I wasn't going to be with Nakada. I felt like I was in a dead zone myself until recently. Yoko thought as he felt another whip lash come down on him and he winced. He remembered what happened the next day and he had to smile a little when he remembered Nakada had accidentally given him sugar. He, DJ and Nakada ended up tickling each other and were exhausted at the end of it all. He remembered when he had refused to wear the clothes Nakada had given to him because he didn't want to smell like a human. She had gotten angry and pinned him on the ground.

The whipping ended finally and Yoko sighed a little but he could feel and smell his blood running down from his newly open wounds. Then he felt the hot poker at his side and he did all he could not to make a sound as he bit his lower lip harder and winced greatly. He remembered when they had all gone shopping with he and Kuronue trying out their new disguises. He remembered how much Kuronue had hated it and how quickly he had taken his shirt of to let his wings out and then wrapped his arm around Jennah holding her close and she did the same. He remembered when he had tickled Nakada and she had tickled him right back and how they had ended up on the floor her on top of him.

The poker burned against his rib cage and he gave a little whimpered a little but he knew they wanted him to scream out in pain with tears falling down his face like he had the first time as the poker was pressed over his heart. Yoko checked his energy and saw that it was low but his blood supply was even lower. He wouldn't be able to carry on like this any longer.

With the signs

The Signs stopped in front of a huge castle with Nakada's half of her heart crystal hovering in front of it. She took it and put it back into her heart. Then she wrapped her arms around her and kneeled to the ground as if in pain. Talia went over to her and mumbled something under her breath. Nakada got up and looked at Talia, "Thank you sister."

Talia nodded, "Okay we all have to be invisible now. Hide you spirit energy and make sure your mind blocks are secure. Go into groups of two and try to find and free all of the prisoners." Everyone nodded their heads and disappeared (Kuronue went with Talia because everyone knew Nakada would want to be alone.)

Nakada knew what she was looking for and told the others through their minds what the door looked like that was holding Yoko. She was running all over the place trying to find that door. She heard voices ahead and she flew to the top of the ceiling. Seifer and Parser walked under her with smiles on they faces.

Parser looked at Seifer and spoke, "So when they think he's had enough they will send him back to his cell?"

Seifer looked at him and smiled, "Yes, though they are getting rough and I think that no matter how much those kids parents try he will die this time. But they are making sure he dies in his cell. Even if you are a Dark Sign you have to make sure your traitors or enemies die near friends. That is stupid but hey they are the only friends he has here."

They both laughed as they walked away and Nakada was angry and terrified. Please don't let them be talking about Yoko please. She silently prayed in her mind and she went even faster looking all over the place for the door.

Finally she found it and looked it over to see if there were any spells on it or anything. There wasn't but she found out it was locked on the outside. She heard someone coming and went through the door using a ghosting technique and saw her parents and the rest of the teams' parents setting on cushions as if waiting. She made herself visible and they all looked at her surprised.

Susan went over to her and touched cupped her face, "Nakada?"

She slowly nodded and Susan wrapped her arms around her crying and so did Nakada. Soon Nakada saw that her father was holding her as well. Nakada sent out a message to everyone that she had found the missing parents and where she was. She backed away and said, "Do you know where Yoko is?"

Everyone was quiet and their eyes looked empty, "T-they should be bringing him back any time now. Go up to the ceiling rafters and wait," Janet said and Nakada did this at once.

Just as soon as she was on the rafters the doors opened and Yomi was there carrying an almost unconscious, bleeding Yoko. Nakada covered her mouth and tried not to scream when she saw him. They blinded him and hurt him so much! How is he still alive? Nakada felt like her heart was nothing but ice and Yomi laughed as he left dropping Yoko on the ground. Nakada slowly flew down to Yoko's side when Yomi had left and sat down beside him, tears falling from her eyes. She gently lifted him up and placed his head on her shoulder and everyone walked away knowing they should be alone.

Yoko's Pov

I heard someone crying but I didn't know who, which was weird because I knew everyone in the room be their voices. This voice was familiar but I couldn't remember where I had heard it. The person who was crying held me close and gently laid my head on their shoulder. Then I recognized the scent and I couldn't believe it was her.

Normal Pov

"N-Nakada?" He said weakly.

She looked at him and moved some hair away from his face, "Yes Yoko, it's me," she gently stroked his face and he smiled.

"I knew…I knew…you would be here. I'm just sorry…sorry…I can't be here for long," Yoko was weak from the blood loss and his voice barely above a whisper

Nakada hushed him with covering his lips with her finger and then stroked his cheek, "Hush don't you ever say things like that. I remember so much now and I remember a way to help you." She lowered her head and cried tears into his mouth, which he swallowed. Then she kissed him as he began to heal and he began to regain all of the blood he had lost. As Yoko began to regain his strength he began to kiss Nakada back and they smiled. Nakada broke the kiss for a second and he could feel her cool lips on his eye lids as she kissed them.

When Yoko was healed and back at full strength he slowly opened his eyes and squinted at the light. Then he could make out the outline of a figure at first then he could see the figure perfectly. He smiled when he saw Nakada's smiling face and he sat up. He looked at her and cupped her face, "Nice to see you."

Nakada burst out smiling and laughing as she flung her arms around his neck, new tears flowing from her eyes only this time they were tears of joy. Yoko smiled he laid his head on her shoulder and wrapped his arms around her never wanting to let go tears slowly and silently falling from his eyes. He stroked her hair and whispered to her as he laid his chin on her shoulder, "I love you so much Nakada. I will never leave you."

Nakada moved and looked at him in the eye and he wiped her tears away as she did with him, "And I will never leave you Yoko," she wrapped her arms around his neck again and buried her face into his shoulder.

Just then the door began to open and Yoko stood up holding Nakada close and she did as well neither of them wanting to let go after all they had been through. When the door was open completely there stood the Signs ready for anything. When the team saw their parents they went through the same thing Nakada had with her parents. Yoko held Nakada close and she did the same as they watched the new Signs find their parents.

"Well isn't a happy family reunion?" everyone turned around and saw the Dark Signs there smiling and looking mighty confident. Yomi and Shura were also there smiling as well.

Nakada just stared at them and then she felt someone enter her mind. Her eyes widened as she yelled "DUCK!" and everyone was kneeling on the floor just as a huge blast of energy came from behind the Dark Signs and blasted them against the wall.

Everyone including the Dark Signs, Yomi and Shura looked at the doorway and saw Rebekah there. Her age hadn't changed but her hair went to her waist like long golden silk. Her eyes were still blue but they held fierceness in them and there was fire burning behind them. She was wearing a silver golden skirt that went to her knees and a golden T-shirt that was as bright as the sun. She wasn't wearing any glasses and she was wearing a golden pendant that had the head of a roaring lion and lion studded earrings. And last of all there was a golden head of a lion in her forehead.

"Told you, you were a Sign…the Sign of Courage," Talia said as she stood up and everyone did as well.

"Yeah and I had to look in the mirror and a lot of other things before I was convinced. I followed you all here just in case you needed some back up." Rebekah said with a smile but she watched the Dark Signs, Yomi and Shura like a lion watches it's prey.

"Well your help is greatly appreciated," Talia said getting up and looking at the Dark Signs.

"Kelsey is mine," Nakada said eyeing her.

"Yomi's mine," Yoko said as he watched him start to stand up.

"I know this might be mean and unfair but I'll fight the demon kid and then take the parents out of here," everyone nodded and they fought.

Rebekah finished the kid of in a matter of seconds so she went and help the parents out of the castle. Yoko and Yomi were hitting it hard. For being blind Yomi still knew where Yoko was and how to fight him, "Your in my territory Yoko. I know this room like the back of my hand." Yomi said with a smirk as he dodged another one of Yoko's attacks and punched him in the face.

Kelsey was having a hard time against Nakada as she tried to block all of Nakada's punches and not even being given a chance to make one of her own. How is she able to move so fast? She thought as she missed one punch and got hit in the jaw and then kicked in the stomach. She flew into the wall and the wall cracked as she hit it. Blood came from her mouth her eyes wide and then she slid down the wall. Nakada was about to finish her off when she heard Yoko go down. She looked over to him and saw him on the ground his hand pressed to his chest trying to stop the blood from coming out of the wound. Yomi stood there with a triumphant smirk on his face with his and stretched out in front of him.

"Come to me Shura," Yomi said but Shura was dead and Yomi looked around for him, "S-Shura?" he tried to hear him breathing but he heard nothing and not even his heartbeat.

Nakada was far behind Yomi and she spoke projecting her voice around the room so Yomi wouldn't find her, "Your son Shura is dead and you will soon join him for what you have done," Yomi tried to listen for Nakada's location but he couldn't find her. She spread her arms out and they glowed an ice blue colour and her sign appeared on her head. Plants began to grow from the ground and a thunder cloud appeared at the ceiling of the room and the wind was blowing all over the place, "This was going to be for Kelsey but I don't see why you shouldn't have it," Nakada yelled above the wind. Yomi looked around not knowing what was happening and then Nakada shouted with her voice echoing all around the room, "ELEMENTAL ATTACK!" and water surrounded Yomi so he couldn't breath, the branches of the plants went at Yomi and squeezed him while lightening and wind mixed together to make a lightening tornado that sucked Yomi up and electrocuted him and burst into fire. When everything quieted down Yomi was nothing but a dead blackened figure on the ground beside his son. Everyone looked at Nakada and all of the Dark Signs picked Kelsey up and high tailed it out of there before anyone could stop them. Nakada smirked a little and before she collapsed she said, "Never hurt the ones I care about and love and never make me angry or suffer the consequences," and she collapsed onto the floor.

Talia went over to Yoko and healed him giving him his energy back and he went over to her quickly. Nakada had only collapsed onto the floor, she wasn't unconscious so she saw Yoko go up to her. He held her close and lay her head on his shoulder wiping some hair away from her face. He saw that she was awake and smiled, "That was some attack it used all of your befriended elements."

Nakada smiled, "Yeah it took me sometime to learn that one. But it is quite easy once you get the hang of it. The only problem is the energy draining part especially when fire isn't one of my befriended elements," she giggled and Yoko smiled. Nakada snuggled closer to Yoko, "But it's nothing lots of rest and water wont do. In a few weeks I should be okay."

Yoko smiled as he stroked her face moving her hair a side, "I will be by your side the whole time." Yoko moved some hair away from her forehead and saw her sign. He fingered it a little and she giggled, "That tickles?" she nodded with a smile. He smiled as well and lowered his head as he gently kissed her on the lips and they both smiled as she returned the kiss. Yoko broke away and picked her up bridal style and said while looking at everyone and at her, "Why don't we go back home?"

"YES!" everyone agreed loudly and began their trip back home. Yoko summoned a kind of plant that looked like butterfly wings that wrapped itself around his waist called the Fuyouka Shokubutsu plant and they all flew back to the mansion. Yoko however didn't go through the front door. He went over to his bedroom and laid Nakada on his bed and kissed the sleeping Nakada as he sat down on a chair in front of her and began to watch her. Everyone else was down stairs and were becoming settled.