First Two Words Can Mean A Lot

That night Yoko was holding Nakada close as he grunted a little, clinching his teeth together while showing them and his brows knitted together as he dreamt.

Dream

"DJ why don't we go to that lake down over there for some lunch?" she asked as she put away her camera.

"Okay but I want to stay up here for a little while longer okay?" DJ asked as he still looked out into the open area.

"Alright I will be down there getting ready. Oh that's it I'm putting this camera in my backpack down there!" Nakada was getting very frustrated because her camera wouldn't go into her backpack while she was in the tree. She placed the backpack onto her back and climbed down the tree like a cat.

When she was on the ground she kneeled down and started to put her camera back into her backpack. Yoko was watching her the whole time as she climbed down the tree and kneeled down. But he did not see the camera; She has good posture she will most definitely not have any trouble kneeling to me. He thought with a sly grin, "What are you doing here ningen?" Yoko asked in a voice meaning that he wanted to be heard and answered.

Nakada stood right up and looked around her searching for the source of the voice that had spoken in Japanese, "Where are you?" she asked also meaning business forgetting the camera in her hand. She spoke Japanese very well so did her brother who was listening in the tree.

"Look behind you baka ningen," she looked behind her quickly and saw a half bare chest covered with white clothe. She looked up and stared right into the golden-orbed eyes of Yoko.

Oh my god he is so cute! Wait a minute he has fox ears and a tail? Oh man is he really serious? She thought to herself trying to suppress her smile. Now Nakada was telepathic and so was her brother so she said to him with her mind, "Hey DJ what do you think about him?"

He grinned, "I think he looks goofy." Nakada couldn't hold it in any longer she let out a big smile and a little chuckle as well as she covered her mouth with her free hand.

Yoko stood there dumb founded as he watched her giggle at him. What is the matter with this onna? Does she not know who I am? I will teach her! With that he slapped her hard on the face and she fell backwards a few feet and hit a tree with her back against it, "Don't laugh at me you wench! How dare you laugh at me!"

"Nakada is you all right?" DJ asked from the tree.

"Oh I'm alright but he wont be soon!" "What's the big idea? Why did you hit me?" "DJ when you see a flash light hit him in the head okay?"

"Okay Nakada," he moved to another branch so he was above Yoko, as he was about to speak.

"You were laughing at me and you had no right to do that!" Yoko spat at her, "I will make sure I work you so hard you will be to tired even to sleep!"

"I was just thinking how silly those ears and tail were! Do you where them everywhere you go?" Nakada gripped her camera in her hand as she looked at Yoko.

Yoko was just getting angrier with her and he was also confused. Has she never seen a youkai before? Well I will personally teach her then! He held the neck of Nakada's shirt and looked closely into her eyes as his ears twitched with anger.

Nakada saw the ears move and she also saw the tail move as well and she let out her loudest scream ever, "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Yoko was not ready for it and he dropped her and stepped back under the branch DJ was under and flattened his ears to his head as he covered them with his hands and closed his eyes tightly as she still kept on screaming louder and louder at him.

Where is she getting her air? How is she able to raise her voice even louder? What is…Yoko's last thought was caught off as DJ fell out of the tree holding his ears and landed on top of Yoko. Is it raining ningens or something? He thought as he pushed the boy away bad mistake for two reasons. One DJ was still holding his staff so when he tried to push him away he got bonked on the head. Two Nakada was some how still screaming and when she saw that Yoko couldn't stand it and he moved his hands away from his head she screamed even louder.

So now Yoko's ears were bleeding from her screaming as he kept on covering his ears while he curled up in to a little ball while DJ's ears weren't bleeding but they were close, "Nakada stop screaming please!" he told her through there little private mental link. She instantly stopped screaming and DJ ran over to her and looked at Yoko who was still on the ground trying to recover from what just happened and breathing rather hard.

How is it she can be so loud and scream that long? He thought to himself.

"Those things are real?" Nakada asked as she pointed to Yoko's ears and tail with her voice still strong and ready for another scream. He looked at her as if not believing what he was hearing.

Her voice hasn't even been affected in the least from that scream. "Of course their real!" he said while trying to get up but fell forward again but someone held him up before his forehead hit a huge stone popping out from the ground.

"Nakada stay away from him!" DJ yelled as Yoko looked up and saw that she was holding him up.

"He needs our help DJ" Yoko looked at her not believing she was helping him. She held him up with his arm around her shoulder and her arm wrapped around his waist and she gave a little smile to him. She practically carried him to a tree and set him down by it with his back against the trunk, "I am so sorry for that but you don't just do that to people and I didn't realize that these were real," Nakada began to gently touch Yoko's ears to see if they were all right.

He instantly stiffened and got angry, She touched my ears! I don't care how loud or long she screams I will personally wring her little…again his thoughts were cut short as Nakada started to rub behind one of his ears to see if they were alright. She is so gentle and that feels so good where did she learn to be so gentle? He thought as he leaned in closer to Nakada so she could reach his ear a bit better.

She couldn't help but to laugh a little as Yoko leaned in closer to her and closed his eyes, "DJ go into my backpack, there might be something in there to help his ears but it might not be needed," she said as Yoko relaxed completely against her. His back was no longer against the tree but against her chest with his head on her shoulder. Hey! To far! She thought as she put her arm around his chest so he wouldn't fall over side ways and she was surprised on how hard it was. She could hear a faint purr come from the fox as he leaned against her more. He moved and made himself a little bit more comfortable and leaned his head against her chest.

ALL RIGHT THAT'S IT! NO MORE OF THIS FOOLISHNESS! Nakada instantly stopped rubbing Yoko's ear and let go of him completely. Surprised he fell as she got up and went to her backpack, which DJ had made no move to go to at all. All he did was lean against the tree far from the demon and tried to suppress his laughter while he had his arms crossed on his chest.

Yoko opened his eyes as he rubbed the side of his face that had hit the ground, "WHAT DID YOU DO THAT FOR?" he yelled as she got out the first aid kit.

She turned her head around to look at him but her back was still toward him, "You were getting to close there! You had no right to lean against me that away!" secretly Nakada was sorry that she had stopped but oh well.

Yoko began to smell something nauseating. Ignoring it he continued talking as she walked up to him with a clothe in her hand, "Well you shouldn't do that to my ears! I won't lean against you if you don't touch my ears!" Yoko said in a matter of fact voice. He to though was somewhat disappointed that she had stopped. Why did she stop? If only I hadn't leaned on her she probably wouldn't have stopped!

Nakada heard that thought and smiled, "What are you smiling at now?" he asked, "You should never smile at a youkai and what is that in your hand? The smell is sickening," he asked as he leaned his back against the tree and looked at Nakada as she sat with her legs at her side.

It was then that he noticed that what she was wearing was sort of strange. She had blue jeans and a navy blue T-shirt on and a light blue sweater tied around her waist. Those are some odd clothes. He thought to himself as he looked at DJ and saw that he was wearing sweat pants and a T-shirt with a haunted mansion and inscriptions on the shirt but he couldn't read them. Foreigners.

Nakada had been somewhat distracted when he had in away said he was a demon. But remembering what she had in her hand she looked at it, "This might help the pain in your ears but I am going to have to put it over your mouth," she looked at Yoko and saw him looking at her with questioning eyes.

"You're lying," he said to her after a small while. She closed her eyes and sighed.

"I just have one question for you," Yoko looked at her and when she opened her eyes he nodded, "What is your name. I know you must not be called demon around here,"

He looked at her hard again, "Its Yoko Kurama."

"My name is Nakada Alene Bates and my brother's name is DJ or Donald John Bates," she nodded and suddenly hands came from the back of the tree and grabbed his arms. He tried to resist and then he saw Nakada take the cloth and put it over his mouth.

Why is she doing this? he thought as he breathed in the nauseating smell and then everything went dark.

End Dream

Yoko sat up eyes wide cold sweat dripping down his face and he looked at Nakada and saw that she was still asleep beside him. He looked at Dianna and Calan and saw that they both were asleep holding their teddy bears tightly. He sighed and went over to his jacket, wanting to think about the dream outside.

The hole was still there as he walked outside into the cold night air. He jumped into a tree and leaned his back against it closing his eyes, thinking about what he had just seen in his dream. He began to think it was nothing but it looked so familiar when he heard someone jump on the branch he was on. He opened his eyes and saw (this isn't what happened so don't worry) Doran's ghost looking at him, grinning and stabbed him in the stomach and Yoko winced as Doran drew out the blade and licked it. Then he plunged it into Yoko's chest right through his heart.

(I repeat that wasn't what happened this is what really happened, I just had to write that.) He began to think it was nothing but it looked so familiar when he heard someone jump on the branch he was on. He opened his eyes and saw Kuronue sitting on the branch looking at him, "Now what are you doing up here so late at night sitting in a tree looking like you are asleep?"

Yoko glared at him, "That is none of your business. But why are you out here as well?"

Kuronue sat on the branch behind Yoko, "I had a dream that I had hypnotized Jennah."

Kuronue's Dream

Kuronue was looking around for Yoko when he saw a girl walking towards him He hid in the shadows and sneaked up behind her. He took off his pendant and tapped the girl's shoulder. She turned around and Kuronue began moving his pendant back and forth in front of her eyes. The girl didn't make any movement as she watched the pendant move from side to side as she went under it's control. When Kuronue thought she was hypnotized well he put his pendant back on and looked at the girl.

He gasped when he saw it was Jennah knowing who she was now (he was explained about everything from the Light Signs.) He stroked her face gently and set her down on the ground not believing she was here. He lowered his face to her but before he could kiss her but he heard someone coming. He cursed and turned to see another girl going towards him and he hid in the shadows. He heard the girl call out Jennah's name as he sneaked up behind her like he had done to Jennah. But this time she turned around and when she saw him she began to scream. Kuronue covered his ears and then flew up into the air, landed behind her and covered her mouth.

The girl bit his hand stomped on his foot elbowed him in the stomach turned around and kicked him right in the treasure chest. Kuronue leaned over a bit cursing as the girl looked at him and he saw that the girl was Nakada and he cursed even more. Nakada looked around and saw Jennah sitting on the ground still hypnotized. Kuronue got up but before he could do anything Nakada pounced on him holding his hands on either side of his head and wrapped her legs around his.

"What did you do to her?" Kuronue shuddered because he had let her voice go cold.

"I hypnotized her!"

"Undo it!"

"No!"

"I said un-hypnotize her you bat! Or you will regret the day you were born!"

"I don't care I wont un do it unless you tell me where Yoko Kurama is and what you have done to him!"

Nakada was about to say something when they heard Yoko's voice, "Kuronue…is…is…that…you?"

"YOKO? HELP GET THIS BITCH OFF OF ME!" Kuronue yelled back into the mist to where Yoko's voice had come from.

Nakada glared at Kuronue and he knew he shouldn't have said that, "BITCH? HOW DARE YOU CALL ME A BITCH YOU BAT GUY!"

Soon everyone was in view and they saw Nakada had was holding a bat demon pinned to the ground the same way she had done with Yoko when he wouldn't wear the human cloths. Nakada looked at Yoko, "Do you really know this rude bat guy?" Nakada asked while looking at him.

"I don't know. The Kuronue I knew was killed during a robbery. If you really are the real Kuronue then tell me something only you and I would know."

The bat demon saying he was Kuronue couldn't believe what he was hearing, "Yoko you would know me anywhere wouldn't you?" Yoko just looked at him then Kuronue sighed and thought, "All right umm you slept and had sex or rapped a lot of human women that you had made into slaves and they are all dead because I had killed them?"

Nakada instantly looked at Yoko and his ears flattened down to his head. Yoko didn't want to tell anyone that because it was hard enough to gain their trust because he was a demon. They thought he was just a demon thief and they had accepted him for being that. Yoko looked towards Nakada and he saw tears in her eyes and he wondered why. Where he came from people were used to that. The whole team stared at him as well as if they were looking at a stranger and he felt rather uncomfortable under their gaze, especially Nakada and Lacey's. Lacey's gaze was one of hatred and disgust while Nakada's was one of utter disbelief.

He didn't know what to do as he felt like he was being examined, trailed, and everything near those line. He felt like everyone wanted to move away from him as if he was carrying some kind disease as he felt helplessly lost. He didn't know what he was feeling until it hit him with shear brutality…he was felling fear of what was happening. He wanted to panic reach out to anyone but he knew no one would help him and he still had some pride to make sure he didn't panic but Nakada spoke.

She looked at him in the eye and in a shaky voice she asked, "Is what he saying true Yoko? Have you done that? And is he the only one who knows?" Her was losing her grip on Kuronue and he did notice but he just looked at her wondering why she would ask him this.

The feeling of fear rose higher and it was all he could do to keep his hands from shaking. He wanted to reach out to Nakada and tell that it wasn't true and that this bat demon wasn't Kuronue. He wanted to tell them that what this bat demon was saying wasn't true at all and make everything better for him, "Yes, to all three questions but why do the first two that matter?" Nakada slowly got off of Kuronue so as to not hurt him but she could no longer look at Yoko.

"Okay Kuronue you have seen Yoko, he is all right so undo what you did to Jennah," Nakada said coldly and pointed to Jennah completely ignoring Yoko's question. Kuronue and all the rest of the team shivered uncontrollably at how cold her voice was. They could even see her breath as if it were really cold out. After Kuronue and the rest of the team stopped shivering he snapped his fingers and Jennah came to. When she saw Kuronue she screamed almost as loud as Nakada so the two demons were kneeling on the ground holding their hands over their ears. Nakada looked like she had no affect to it as the rest of the team kneeled down and she was the one with sensitive hearing.

Nakada felt like an empty hole inside and she couldn't hear or feel the anything. Then she looked at Jennah and noticed that she was still screaming. She went over to her and covered her mouth with her hand and said, "It's all right Jennah we are here now and I think Kuronue is on our side," Jennah looked at her a bit worried.

Kuronue looked at them and knew they were speaking through their minds and then Nakada stood up, "I will check tomorrow if he is with us or against us. I'm going into the camper if Kuronue is hungry he can have my share of the food I'm not that hungry tonight," Nakada then looked at Yoko and walked over to him. He instinctively took a step back but she didn't seem to have noticed as she walked up to him, "And as for why it matters whether you did those things our not. What do you think I am? What do you think most of the team is? Yoko we are girls! There are two HUMAN boys and six HUMAN girls. And what's more you wanted to make me a slave!" With that she slapped him hard across the face her nails digging into his skin a little and ran off with all the speed she had to the camper and went into her and Yoko's bedroom and took out her Diary after she had gotten dressed for bed.

Yoko stood there with his hand on his face that was beginning to redden from her slap and the call marks healing quickly thanks to his demonic healing abilities. He turned around and looked into the fog where Nakada had run into back to the camper. Shoot! Was all that he could think.

End Dream

Yoko looked up into the clear sky and his breath was a bit ragged as a tear fell from his eyes and he quickly wiped it away, "I guess if that had happened she would have hated me."

"No, actually she wouldn't, you see, I had other dreams connected to that one and she never hated you. She was angry with you for a while a because of that and you read her diary along with me. But over time she began to forgive you. It was just longer then it should have because of the diary thing and you were the one that didn't tell her. In my dream you marked her, married her in the human way and did something called the Sign Mating Ritual."

Yoko smiled, "Nakada can be such a forgiving person at times."

Kuronue smiled, "Yeah Jennah and I couldn't help but to notice the marks on your necks," Yoko smiled as he touched the mark with the tips of his fingers, "Did you tell her what you did during mating season? Or are the rumours true that she found out herself"

He looked up at the sky, "The rumours are true, and I can't believe I didn't tell her. But, she still forgave me, and while we marked each other today we were doing the most stupidest ever."

"Oh and what's that?"

"Marking each other in front of the twins and they might have been awake the whole time."

They both laughed leaning their backs against the tree, "Well I guess that is pretty stupid," Kuronue said while wiping a tear away from his eyes. He looked behind him and saw Yoko had one leg hanging over the branch the other pulled to his chest with his arms crossed across his chest. He smiled, "But did you do it when we left?"

Yoko shook his head, "No, I was planning on it but Nakada said not until four years. She said that humans who are nineteen and under can die during giving birth to babies. But, I think she is worried I will try to rape another human women."

"No I'm worried that you would die during mating season," Yoko slid off the branch he was on but someone grabbed his hand to keep him from falling. He looked up and saw Nakada there holding his hand.

"Nakada! Don't scare me like that!" Yoko said as he got up onto the branch again. He looked at her, "What are you doing up this late anyway?"

Nakada looked at him as she crouched down on the branch her ears back and her tail moving back and forth, "Dianna had to have a diaper change and her crying woke me up, and Calan as well. I saw you weren't there so after I had changed Dianna's diaper, settled both of them done, I began to search for you."

Yoko smiled, "Well thanks for worrying about me. Why did you think I would die at mating season?"

Nakada looked down at the ground, "Because you told me that was why you had started raping women in the first place."

Yoko looked at her understanding now and looked at Kuronue, "Can you leave us alone for a second Kuronue?" he nodded and left. Yoko carefully pulled Nakada close to him and wrapped his arms around her holding her close, "Nakada I would never die now that I have marked you as my chotto. I won't be in as much heat as I usual am in and I would be able to survive it this time as well." Nakada looked up at him and he smiled, "You don't have to worry anymore about that." She smiled back and wrapped her arms around Yoko and they held each other tightly. He looked at Nakada and drew back a little, "Nakada, I have one question, do you know something about a kind of ritual called the Sign Mating Ritual?"

Nakada looked at him thoughtfully and shook her head, "It doesn't seem to ring any bell but it does sound familiar…why?"

Yoko shook her head, "Just something I heard," he shivered a little. "Come on, lets go inside before we catch a cold," she nodded and they went inside.

The next day everyone was up and around the camp fire and Nakada was taking care of Dianna with Yoko beside her taking care of Calan. Calan smiled. "Now is the time to show our surprise since everyone is here sister." Calan held on tightly to Yoko and said, "D-d-d-da-da-dad-daddy," everyone looked at him surprised not that he had just spoken his first word but that he had called Yoko his father.

"Well it seems Calan thinks you his father Yoko," Theo said with a smile.

"Yes it would seem that way wouldn't it," Yoko asked looking at Calan and he smiled as Yoko held him closer, laying his head on his chest.

Then, Dianna huddled closer to Nakada and teenager looked at her, it still a little surprised her brother had spoken but inside she was smiling. Dianna smiled and began to speak again, "Mo-mo-mom-mommy," and everyone looked at her surprised as Dianna and Calan began to repeat their new words. But then they reached for their other parents and Nakada took Calan's little hand and Yoko, Dianna's. When this happened, Dianna switched from saying mommy to daddy, and Calan switched from saying daddy to mommy.

"I guess those two have adopted you both as their parents in substitute for the ones they lost," Condor said looking at the twins.

No one said anything this time the twins had practically taken the words right out of their mouths.

That night Yoko was holding Dianna looking at her still unable to comprehend what Dianna had just said. Nakada was sitting next to him holding Calan. Dianna looked at him and again said, "Daddy," with a smile as Yoko still held her close.

But this time he smiled and caressed her face, "Yes Dianna, I am your daddy and there is no one in this or any other world who can say or do anything to change that."

Calan, not to be out done grabbed Nakada's shirt and said, "Mommy."

Nakada held Calan up to her cheek and gently rubbed it with her own, "Yes, my son. It is so nice to be called that."

Yoko smiled as he looked at Nakada, "I think it is official, they are our kids, " he lowered his head, "And, no one is going to change that. They love us and we most certainly love them." He lowered his head even further and kissed Nakada on the lips…which was interrupted by Julio .

"Excuse me Yoko but…" he looked at them and saw them break their kiss. Nakada was blushing a little but you could barely tell the faint blush on Yoko's nose and cheeks.

"What do you want?" Yoko asked a little irritated that the kiss was interrupted.

"Never mind it can wait until tomorrow," he turned and ran out of the tent.

"You do know of course he is going to probably tell the whole camp about this," Nakada stated looking at Yoko.

He looked down at her and smiled, "Let him tell," and he kissed her again.