Talking With Your Kids

The night before the team turned into their animal forms

Nakada was in her haven, also having the same problem as her friends where they were. She told Yoko she was going somewhere to lose her extra energy and he had nothing against it. Instead of wasting her energy by running around, she trained her hardest that night. Where is all of this energy coming from? Nakada wondered as she continued to train with the plants that kept on making her attack and defend. Suddenly another element decided to join in with the train her, air, which wasn't an easy thing to look out for since the plants were also giving her a hard time. But since she had the extra energy, she was able to attack and both defend against the two elements.

Finally she suddenly became exhausted like as if she had a sugar high that decided to quit on her just them. But the energy quit couldn't have happened at a worst moment. A wind whiplash was heading right towards her and so were tree branches heading right towards her. She didn't have enough energy to dodge the attacks, let alone do anything else as the elements came at her…and hit her. Nakada's eyes went wide as she felt pain shatter through out her body. No sound left her lips as she kneeled down on her knees; the top of her body was straight as she looked at the ceiling of greenhouse.

Everything was silent, the wind and plants had stopped attacking her as Nakada fell to the ground. There were wounds all over her body, blood was coming from them, not in large amounts but still. The wind through the trees seemed to make a sad noise as Nakada laid down on the ground, not moving. Shout. She thought, not able to move. Should not have over done it too much. Nakada winced as her eyes began to fall. But then an image of Yoko appeared in front of her eyes and her eyelids shot up. No! I am the only one who can help Yoko through what he is going through. Nakada grunted as she slowly got up and walked slowly to a stream and sat down at the edge. She winced as she placed her hand into the water and dug her other hand under the loose earth. Her hands began to glow a bright blue as she leaned against a tree's trunk and closed her eyes. "Thank you for sparing some of you energy Water and Earth. I will be all right now. I will some how make this up to you." With that, Nakada closed her eyes and went to sleep as the two elements gave the girl what energy they could spare to help her heal her wounds.

With Yoko (before Nakada got hurt)

Yoko sat on the bed, looking out the door that Nakada had just gone through. Where did her sudden energy come from? He thought as he closed his eyes sighing. He raised a hand to his face and rubbed his index finger and thumb against his closed eyelids. Energy is something I lack though. These kids really are a bother. Why do females enjoy being pregnant again? There is nothing but hunger cravings, heat flashes, vomiting, and you barely have any energy at all. Yoko stood up and walked over to the bed and turned the sheets on the bed so he could lie down in the bed. Before he went to sleep he placed his hand on his stomach as he felt on of the babies kick him and he smiled. Another thing to add to the list of bad things with being pregnant: baby, or babies, kicking, punching and plain down moving around. Though I'm starting to get used to that, it is still creepy though. For some reason, Yoko continued to smile as he turned on his side, wrapped his arms around his stomach and went to sleep.

Inside Yoko (that just sounds so wrong in so many ways. Though who am I kidding! What I am doing to Yoko is completely wrong )

"Okay brother, daddy's asleep," the little girl said as she looked at her brother.

The little brother looked at his sister, "Okay then, if he wants to know what is going on with him and what we are, then we are going to tell him."

"You know what brother?"

"What?"

"Daddy's emotions aren't as angry as they usually are. I wonder if that means he likes us now!"

The little boy thought for a second, "I doubt it sister, mommy is probably keeping his anger down in some way. No doubt that when we are done with what we are going to do, he will have the same anger you usually keep feeling."

"Ohhhh! Why does daddy have to be so angry all the time? Is it because of us?"

"I don't know, but we are going to tell him what we know, even if it isn't that much."

The little baby girl huddled close to her brother, "Let's do this now than."

Outside Yoko in his dreams

Yoko was walking around in a forest that he didn't recognize. He continued to walk, hoping he would find something that looked familiar. After a while he stopped to rest and he heard a voice, "DADDY!" he heard a little girl's voice call out.

He looked behind him and saw a little four-year-old girl running towards him and jumped up into his arms, "WHOA!" Yoko practically yelled as he caught the little girl. When he caught the girl, she instantly wrapped her arms around his neck and held him close. Yoko looked down at the girl and was amazed that he couldn't make out her face or what she looked like. "Do I know you little one?"

The girl looked up at him and he saw a blurry face, but he could also make out a little smile, "Not yet you don't, my brother and I are here to tell you what we can about what is happening to you."

Yoko looked at the girl as he put her down and he kneeled so he was able to look at her, "What has been happening to me? You mean the two babies that are growing inside of me!"

The little girl nodded, "Yep, I'm one of those babies, my brother is the other one," she pointed behind Yoko and he turned to see a blurred vision of another child, about the same age as the little girl, standing a few metres away from them. Again, all Yoko could see was the mouth of the figure. This person wasn't smiling like the little girl.

Yoko looked at the figure and then at the little girl, "You said you are one of the babies inside of me right? Along with your brother?"

The smile of the little girl seemed to get brighter, "Yep! We can't make our selves seen clearly to you for two reasons. One is that we haven't properly formed yet so we don't even know what we look like. The other one is that we only have enough power together to show you this much of ourselves in this form!" With this, the little girl wrapped her little arms around Yoko's neck and sighed as she held him close, "It is nice to meet you daddy."

Yoko was just too stunned to react as his arms reflexively wrapped themselves around the little girl, "We don't have enough time to do these things sister," the boy said behind Yoko. Yoko turned around and stood up as the girl let go but still stayed close to him, holding his pant leg sense she was too short to reach up to his hand.

Yoko didn't seem to mind as he looked at the boy, "How can you tell me what is happening to me, if what happened started before you could even think?"

The boy looked at his sister, she shook her head, "He's not angry yet, just curious and a little unbelieving." Yoko looked down at the child and she smiled, "Outside of this dream, I may not be good at hearing and listening to voices as my brother, but I am good at sensing emotions."

Yoko nodded and then looked at the boy who began to speak, "How we know about what is happening, neither of us know, we don't even know all of it. All we know is how we came to be, what we are, and why it is taking so long for us to grow. Should this information satisfy you?" Yoko looked at the boy and nodded the boy started. "First is to tell you that we came into being when the beggin placed us inside you somehow, that is how we got inside you. My sister and I started growing when mommy kissed you or let you kiss her three times. If she had resisted your kiss or you resist her kiss, than that wouldn't have worked. Why we started growing is because your body knew that you needed to kiss someone three times for us to grow some how. Sense you kissed three times mommy, your body thought that she would be our mother so it automatically started the process of our growing, again I don't know how that works."

The boy stopped just encase Yoko had any questions, he did, "So what you are telling me is that you have two mothers?"

The girl giggled, "No," he looked down at her; "We have one mommy and one daddy, when the beggin died,"

"She was no longer your mother, like Nakada had said," Yoko remembered while his eyes became wide at remembering that. So she was telling the truth. But that can't mean that these…children are also mine as well…it can't be! I refuse to believe it!

The boy speaking again brought Yoko out of his thoughts, "What we are is not that hard to explain really. Since you are a fox demon and mommy is a human, we are half demon and half human. Every time we need to take energy from you, we also have to take energy from mommy as well in equal amounts. This, as you already know or are figuring out, is why you and mommy need to hold each other closely with your tops naked so we can get energy from both you and mommy."

The boy stopped talking and Yoko asked his question, "Does that mean that Nakada also feels some pain as well when we are holding each other?"

The boy looked at him, "She may feel some pain, but I'm not sure. We do need her energy like we need yours to make us complete." Yoko nodded and nodded for the boy to continue, "The last is why we are taking a long and short time to grow. If the beggin had given you my sister or I, the process of us growing would only be nine days instead of eighteen. Why it is shorter then normal babies, I don't that but every time there is more than one egg implanted into a male, then the time it takes to grow is doubled or tripled, it depends on the amount of eggs the beggin implants into a male. This is because it take more energy to supply for twins, like my sister and I, then it does for a single baby."

The little boy stopped talking and Yoko closed his eyes going over all of this information and letting it sink in. It all makes perfect sense, but…I have never seen Nakada feel the same pain or any pain at all when she is holding me. And what these children say about us being their parents is absolutely absurd!

A tug on his pant leg brought Yoko's attention to the little girl at his side. She was smiling again as she spoke; "I can't wait to meet you outside of this dream daddy! Even though my brother and I will forget what happened here, or what happened while we were inside you, I will still you that you are my daddy!" With that the little girl hugged his leg and Yoko's eyes widened a little as he instantly stiffened.

Before he could say anything about the matter everything started to become blurry, "We have to go now daddy." Yoko looked at the boy and saw that he was closer to him than he was before. For some reason, Yoko kneeled to the ground and the little girl instantly took that chance to wrap her arms around his neck, holding him close. The boy looked at him as Yoko held the little girl close. Then, the boy moved and wrapped his arms around Yoko's neck and held him close, "I love you daddy."

The little girl huddled closer to the kitsune and said, "I love as well daddy."

Yoko was just to stunned to say anything as he held the two little ones close and he closed his eyes thinking. I really do wish these two were my real children.

End Dream

Yoko sighed as he woke up and faced the ceiling. He placed his hand on his stomach and smiled a little. I wonder if that was just a dream, or was that really the two little ones inside me? If it was, they are very powerful to have accomplished what they did. He looked at the digital clock beside him and saw that he had been asleep for at least two hours. I wonder were Nakada is. He got out of the bed and put some day clothes on and went to try and find Nakada. Yoko figured where she was as he left the bedroom to search for Nakada. She always seemed to find comfort in the greenhouse part of the house; he could also believe that she used that part as a training ground. When he walked into the greenhouse, he was instantly hit with the smell of blood. Blood that he recognized.

He ran to where the blood was coming from and saw Nakada sitting by the stream. Her hand was still in the water and her other hand buried in the soil, both glowing blue. "Nakada," Yoko said as instantly ran towards her, trying to figure out what to do when he saw all of the wounds.

Nakada opened her eyes when she heard Yoko's voice and smiled a little, despite the pain, as he got closer to her, "Hey…Yoko."

Yoko kneeled down to her and looked at her, trying to figure out what to do and what was happening to her, "What happened to you Nakada? And…why are your hands glowing?"

Nakada had her eyes closed as she listened to him speak, "I was training both the air and plants, but when I was going to dodge one of their attacks, m energy boost gave out and I couldn't move away fast enough. Why my hands are glowing is because I asked the Earth and the Water to spare some energy for me so I can heal, and they are."

Yoko stared at Nakada; he knew that she just gave away a little secret she had been keeping from him. She seemed to have the ability to talk to the elements somehow. He sighed and gently wrapped his arm around her shoulders and held her close to him, trying not to disturb her hands. He placed her head at the crook of his neck and wrapped his other arm around her front to her shoulder. He put his head on hers as she began to smile, "So what you are saying is you can talk to the elements? My guess that is another secret of yours you didn't mean to tell me."

Nakada continued to smile, feeling safe, protected and warm in the kitsune's embrace, "I'm tired of keeping secrets from you Yoko, I'm tired period but…I'm done keeping secrets from you. I hope I can trust you with them."

Yoko looked down at Nakada for a second and smiled as he held her closer, "You can trust me Nakada."

Nakada sighed again, but before she went to sleep she said, "Than when I have enough energy, I'll show them to you." To Yoko's surprise and happiness, Nakada snuggled closer to him and fell asleep in his arms.

He smiled as he held her close, closing his eyes. Finally. He thought. Finally I will be able to learn more about her and she won't have to keep her secrets hidden from me. Is this a step in the direction of her love? I hope it is. And with that thought, Yoko fell asleep.