On The Road Again
Three months later the winter snows had finally passed and so everyone began their journey once again. Right now they stood still looking in front of them at a swamp. They looked at the swamp and Nakada went over to a stick that was lying on the ground and threw it like a spear into the water and it sank beneath the surface of the water. Steam arose from the water where the staff had been thrown, "Well anyone up for a swim?" she asked.
"I can fly us across," Kuronue said spreading his wings. Nakada looked at the others and they all nodded.
Nakada stood there thinking and looked at the team. They nodded and she looked at the demons. "Well we have a little secret to give away," the demons looked at them and the whole team smiled. All of a sudden they began to float in the air and fly around. Then the wind picked up around the other demons and they were in the air as well. They easily flew over the swamp and were on the other side in no time. Dianna was laughing the whole time and her brother seemed a little as Yoko carried them in the little two pouched kangaroo pouch. The fox smiled as he looked at her and then over at Calan to see if there was anything wrong. But the baby boy soon started to enjoy the ride.
When everyone landed, Yoko went over to Nakada and gave her the pouch and looked at everyone, "We'll go a little further and see if there is any ground that is more solid," everyone agreed and they continued a little further. Yoko looked at Nakada as she began to blush and look around took around. Yoko looked at her and walked over to her, "It there anything wrong?" he asked.
She looked at him and he nodded, "Yes, the twins seem to be a little hungry." She said as she turned a little to show Yoko that the twins were beginning to suck on Nakada's shirt. "I can't feed both of them at the same time."
Yoko nodded, "Here, I'll take one of them, and find them, you can have the other?"
"Okay, be careful," she said as Yoko began to take Calan out of the pouch.
He smiled at her, "I've had a harder time stealing from amateur vaults Kitty. This is nothing," Lucifer unclipped himself form Nakada's hair and the couple reached inside to take out a bottle and started to walk along with the group as they feed them.
After an hour, everyone stopped and Yoko's ear's twitched as if he had heard something, "Nakada do you hear that?" he asked looking around and slowly placed Calan back into the pouch.
She looked around as well her tiger ears moving all over the place trying to figure out what the sound was. Her eyes widened when she figured out what it was, "EVERYONE GET DOWN!" she yelled and they did as flying arrows came out of no where shooting above their head. Dianna held onto the cloth of Nakada's shirt scared to no end. Her brother, on the other, was enjoying it to no end. Nakada held them both close and Yoko wrapped his arm around Nakada holding her close and stroking Dianna's face to reassure her along with Nakada.
Kuronue held Jennah close his wings covering both of them, "This seems oddly familiar," he said looking at her with a smile. She smiled as well and nodded as she huddled closer to him.
The arrows stopped shooting and everyone slowly got up, "Those arrows had people behind them," April pointed out as she stood and walked away from Falser who had been protecting her.
Yoko looked at Nakada, "Stay here," he ordered.
"But…" Yoko pressed his finger to her mouth.
"Just like I don't know your abilities at one time, you don't know mine yet," and he lowered his finger as he smiled, "Don't worry…I know if I am in any danger you will be there in case I need any help," she smiled and nodded. He jumped into the trees and silently went over to where the arrows had come from.
Nakada held the twins close snuggling them and whispered, "Don't worry, daddy isn't going to get hurt," she said that more to herself then to the babies.
Then they heard Yoko laughing and people yelling but they sounded like kids, "Hey let us go you…you…what are you anyway?"
Yoko came out of the bushes with four boys holding each by the collar of their shirts, "Look what I found!" he said with a smile.
The boys looked human as they tried to struggle out of Yoko's grasp. One looked to be around ten and had brown hair and hazel eyes. Another looked around seven with black hair and brown eyes. The last two seemed to be brothers one twelve and the other also ten bother having blonde hair and blue eyes. But they all were carrying bows along with empty long thin containers that looked like they had held arrows. The oldest went to elbow Yoko but he moved a little, "LET US GO!" the boy yelled and Yoko grinned as he kneeled down on one leg to look at the children so he was almost at eye level with them.
He looked at the oldest and smirked a little, "What would your name be?" he asked but he just glared at him and stubbornly ignored him. Yoko smiled a little, "Don't worry I'm not going to hurt you."
The boy looked at him but before he could say anything the youngest spoke, "His name is Joshua," he said a little afraid.
"Conner!" Joshua said a little angry and Conner broke out of Yoko grasp and ran behind him afraid. Everyone smiled a little as Conner used Yoko as a shield to hide from Joshua.
Yoko smiled a little as he turned his head to watch Conner peep out a little from around his arm, "He said he wouldn't hurt us. And he looks like one of the inu youkai's back at the village."
Everyone giggled a little when Conner had said Yoko looked like a dog demon. Yoko was surprised by what Conner had said that it had taken a little time for him to understand what he said. He looked at him and Conner felt like he was in danger and began to get scared but for some reason Nakada didn't hear is heartbeat going bad. Then to everyone's surprise he smiled and began to laugh as he let go of the boy's collars and stood up. When he had some control his laughter he wiped his eyes and looked at Conner, "You're close about the inu theory but I'm a kitsune."
Conner smiled and giggled a little covering his mouth looking a little mischievous. After a little while they found out the names of the other boys. The one that looked that looked to be the brother of Joshua was Brandon and the last was Thomas. They told everyone that they had wondered far from their village to have target practice when they noticed that they had wondered to far.
"It was Joshua's fault," Brandon accused, "He said that if we went a little farther there would be some moving targets around for us to try and get."
Joshua looked down but Yoko touched him gently on the shoulder and Joshua looked at him. Yoko smiled, "And he was right. You four found us but I doubt we were the moving targets you were counting on."
Joshua smiled and nodded, "Sorry about that but we thought you wanted to hurt our village and us."
"Well I don't see any harm in that," Kuronue piped in, "But next time ask before you shoot," everyone laughed a little and they settled down to eat. To everyone's surprise the boy's ate like they hadn't eaten anything in days. Brandon coughed a little after he had stuffed too much in his mouth. Rebekah went over to him see if he was all right, "Hey slow it down a little there kido," she said as she held his shoulders and he finished coughing.
She gave him some water and he gladly took it but took small sips. When his breathing had become normal he looked at her and smiled, "Thank you miss," and she smiled as well.
"Your mommy always told you to slow it down," Conner said who was beside Yoko and was the only one who was eating slowly.
Brandon looked at him and Conner got a little scared, "You're a mama's boy Conner," Brandon said still looking at Conner.
Yoko looked at Brandon and he noticed, "Brandon there is nothing wrong with what Conner is. He is right you should eat your food more slowly or you wouldn't have choked in the first place."
Brandon looked a little scared and nodded his head, "S-sorry," he managed to say.
Conner sat closer to Yoko and he looked down at him and saw that he was smiling, "Thanks," Conner whispered and Yoko nodded with a little smile on his face.
Nakada looked at Yoko and had to smile. He is going to be a wonderful father to Calan and Dianna. She thought as she turned to play with her children.
After everyone had eaten they began their journey through the woods and after awhile the team stopped. Everyone looked at them, "What's wrong?" Kuronue asked looking at them.
"There's a village a head of us," Lacey answered looking straight ahead.
Conner looked ahead of them and began running but Yoko stopped him, "Hey hold on there kid we don't know if this is your village our not so you better stay here."
Nakada gave Dianna to Yoko, so he was then holding two babies, very well actually, "I'll be a second to see if the village is safe to enter. Don't worry I don't think this is the first time I had to sneak around," she said scratching her ears and then with a flip of her tail she disappeared into the trees. (Another thing I forgot to say was the team doesn't wear their sunglasses anymore because they had transformed.) The band looked at the spot she had jumped from and they sat on the ground waiting for her to return.
Yoko went over to the girls still holding the twins. When he was by them he asked, "What did she mean by "I think"?" he asked sitting down with them.
They looked at each other and then at him, "Yoko we just found out recently that when we were trying to remember our lives before we met you or even came here we found out that we couldn't," Yoko stared at Rebekah as if she had gone mad, "All we can remember are bits and pieces of our lives before we met you. And gradually we are all having dreams, weird dreams of running away from our old homes with you and Kuronue. We were being chased by a girl named Kelsey and so many other things," Rebekah looked at Yoko and saw that he wasn't believing one word of this, "Some of them were good and most of them were terrible and/or hell."
Yoko stared at Rebekah and the rest of the team looking like as if he was in a trance and then he heard Dianna crying and he looked at her stroking her face a bit and looked in the direction Nakada had gone. Conner looked at him and walked up to him, "She will be okay our village is very peaceful."
Yoko looked at him and smiled as he kneeled down to Conner, "So peaceful that they let little children play with real arrows?" the four bows smiled and sweat dropped a little.
"We kind of…well," Joshua said looking at the ground folding his hands behind his back and twisting his foot in the dirt, "We stole them."
Yoko looked down and shook his head as he sighed, "My guess you are going to have a long talk with your parents when you get back." The boys looked down seeming to be a little scared.
Nakada was running towards the village but then she stopped before she went through the small amount of forest left that separated her from the village. She turned around and looked at the bracelet on her wrist she had gotten from Reado.
Flash Back
"Reado listen," Nakada said while trying to go back to the camp but he kept on getting in her way, "I know your intentions are good but I was told to stay with Yoko and his group of thieves no matter what. I promised I would and if he does try to rape me he will pay dearly."
"But Nakada you don't know what he is capable of doing," the tiger demon insisted as he stepped in her path again which was really starting to annoy her.
"And you don't know what I'm capable of either, neither does he," she continued to protest.
"Fine but let me give you something so you can summon me if you want me to take you and the others away or if you need information on this place," Nakada looked at him and nodded, "Take this bracelet and when you wish to summon me say, 'Reado I summon you,' and I will be there to help you in anyway I can."
Reado slipped a bracelet around Nakada's wrist with ice blue beads and it sparkled in what light there was. Nakada gently fingered it and looked at Reado, "Thank you Reado, but when ever I summon you it will probably be for information and not to runaway. Only when bad gets to worse I will summon you to get my friends, little brother and I out of there," Reado nodded and after he had given Nakada some more trinkets he was gone.
End Flash Back
Nakada took off the bracelet and said clearly with her eyes closed, "Reado I summon you," she heard a sound behind her and saw the sliver tiger youkai behind her looking at her with wide eyes. She smiled, "No I am not a demon. Specially told the Yoko Kurama and I only summoned you for information. READO STOP STARING!" she yelled when she saw the tora youkai was actually scanning her body.
Reado stopped and looked at her face and he tried to speak but the first three tries were nothing. And then he tried again and he found his voice, "I'm sorry Nakada, it's just I being a tiger youkai and not found a mate and you looking so much like a tiger youkai…"
"Don't get any idea's," Nakada said sitting on a tree root that was sticking up out of the ground, "I already have a hentai kitsune after me that gets slapped enough as it is. I don't need a hentai tiger youkai after me as well. Plus he marked me, which I have nothing against. But coming to think about it, I don't slap him that much anymore. Now why do you have that look on your face?" she asked looking at Reado whose eyes were wide in shock.
"Y-you s-slapped THE YOKO KURAMA!" he said pointing an accusing finger at Nakada.
She looked like as if it was no big deal, "Yeah but I would be hit every time that is until after I chased him into the camp butt naked," Nakada giggled a bit then she looked at Redo, "That is not to be repeated to anyone."
"Nakada I don't even believe that happened!" he said looking rather pale, "No one has ever done that to Yoko and lived to tell the tale," he said looking almost like a ghost.
She smiled, "Well I did tell you, you nor him knew what I was capable of doing. And underneath all that coldness and cold stone temper he is actually really nice, kind, loving…not at all like the thief you know. But anyway back to why I summoned you. I need some information on the village near by. We got four boys as well with us. human boys and they say they came from a village in these woods," she said indicating the village behind her.
Reado shook his head and returned to the situation she was talking about, "Yes this is a peaceful village of people and demons that have survived and made it this far into the Forest of Doom. I have no doubt the boys you picked up are from this village since there is no other," Reado indicated.
"Would it be safe for us to pace through or should we drop the boys off and go around it?" she asked leaning forward her tail moving from side to side.
"It is safe for you to pass," he said looking at her tail, "No one in the village has ever heard of Yoko or his troops so it should be safe for you to pass through if no one steals anything," he said inquiring that they were traveling with a band of thieves.
"Don't worry," Nakada said with a smile, "No one will steal anything without dealing with one of the team members. But is there anyway to get the trust of the village and is there any thing we need to do?" He shook his head yes and she nodded but looked up at him before he started, "Oh and one more thing," he looked at her tail then up at her, "STOP STARING AT MY TAIL!"
After Reado had finished telling Nakada everything he knew she went back to the camp. When she reached it everyone was asking her questions and she answered as many as she could. Yoko calmed them down and she told them all that she knew. Once she was finished she looked at Yoko who seemed to be thinking, "How do you know this stuff Nakada?" he asked looking at her his thumb against his chin and his elbow in his hand.
"You all know I'm a telepathic so I easily went into their minds. The village is full of demons humans, cross breads between demon and half demon or demon and human," everyone looked at her surprised and she just looked back, "Is there something wrong with that?" she asked looking at them.
"For a demon to fall in love with a human is considered one of the most lowest things a demon can do," Yoko said not looking at her. She stared at him in surprise, "For this to happen they might be peaceful and not care if we pass through. But we can't steal anything," he said all of this with his eyes closed sitting on a raised tree root the four boys looking at him questionably. He sighed and looked at her finally, "What do you think?"
Nakada was shocked by this question and hesitated for a second. She hated it when someone asked her opinion in these kinds of thing but she still thought about it, "If no one steals anything and we give them our weapons until we leave then I think they might let us in. They might be surprised though on how many of us there are," she said being somewhat serious and somewhat funny.
Yoko smiled as he closed his eyes and nodded, "Then we will check it out." The four boys leaped for joy and led the party to the village
When they got to the village Nakada was extremely nervous and when they entered the village her nervousness instantly faded away as she felt a friendly presence come from the people and children in the village. The boys went to crying mothers and what seemed to be the chief of the village walked up to them and bowed in front of Yoko, "I am the chief of this village and I welcome you travelers with open arms. I hope your journey here didn't give you too much trouble and you didn't lose too many men."
Yoko bowed as well and ignored the vixens in the village that seemed to have seen him, "I am Yoko Kurama the leader of this band and your hospitality is greatly appreciated. We have not lost any men but one when we entered the forest but that one was killed when he tried to kill me. We hope to be on our way once we have recovered our energy from the long trip this far into the woods. We ran into those four boys along the way and they showed us how to get here."
There was a loud gasp from the people who had come to see the new comers, "Surely you don't mean to try and get all the way through the Forest of Doom?" the chief who looked to be human said with surprise, "It is a miracle that your entire band made it here alive with one missing."
Yoko looked at the chief, "We took this way because it is a lot closer to our home then the long way and we have the thanks of the team that joined us along the way for why we are safe," he said indicating the girls, D.J. and Kyle.
"They look to be demon but they are human," the chief said looking over each of them.
"We had an accident and now they are either temporarily like this or permanently like this," Yoko said his face unmoving as he watched the chief look over the rest of the band. When he looked at the twins Nakada was holding in the kangaroo pouch, the chief's eyes widened.
"Where did you find these children?" he asked pointing to Dianna, who was sleeping in April's arms this time giving Nakada a break, and she held the twins close to her and Yoko instantly walked in between her and the chief with Nakada beside him.
"We ran across a band of demons who had them and they attacked us. We fought back and got the cubs from them. Is there a problem with either of them?" he asked and soon the whole band and team were standing protectively beside, behind or in front of April who was still holding the twins close in the kangaroo pouch.
This movement surprised the chief and the rest of the village. When he finally got over the shock he said, "Did you happen to know that, those children are beggin born?" Nakada and Yoko looked at each other and the team looked at Dianna and Calan who were still sleeping in April's arms, "They are not full Beggin, not anymore though. They must have been the last egg, and changed species to that of their parents. Half demon and half human what kind of demon I don't know. But they were beggin born and she could still be dangerous since we don't know what kind of demon her mother or father was."
"I assure you," Nakada said now speaking up, "They are but small babies and we plan to leave before they have grown to an age that they are dangerous," she said looking the chief in the eyes and Yoko could have sworn he saw her eyes glow a bit.
The chief smiled, "Well as long as you keep to that promise there is no reason to worry. Tonight we will rejoice that there is now a band of humans and demons that have walked into this forest worked together and managed to get this far into this forest! Demon world must have changed ever since the last to have entered this forest," There was a loud cheer from the village and the twins woke up. When they saw that everyone was cheering they both let out a little laugh.
Everyone was placed in empty huts that had two rooms each. Everyone was alone except for Yoko, Nakada, Kuronue and Jennah who decided to double up. Calan and Dianna were being taken care of April so Yoko and Nakada where walking around the village but they didn't know what the other was doing. Nakada couldn't lose all the single male humans, and tiger youkai so she went up a tree hiding her scent and spirit energy so they wouldn't find her. Yoko was the exact same with the vixens in the village except he basked in their adorations as they walked around the village with them at his heels giving him a tour of the village he would definitely not forget.
Nakada smiled as she laid her back on the tree enjoying the peace and quiet of being alone. Her happiness though was short lived when she heard girls screaming under the branch she was laying on. She looked down frustrated and then looked surprised. She saw Yoko smiling and enjoying all of the attention he was getting from the vixens. Who were now practically fighting each other to try and get close to him and all he did was smile.
Outraged she jumped from the tree and landed in front of him. Surprised, the smile instantly left Yoko's face and worry replaced it, "Nakada I can explain…" but he was interrupted when she punched him in the face and he was sent backwards ramming right through the tree making a loud crash as he ended up on the other side. The vixens instantly went to his rescue and tried to help him up and see he was all right. He got up on his own and looked around for Nakada, but couldn't find her. DAMN! He thought to himself. Way to go Yoko, cheat on Nakada when she is in the tree right above you! "Did any of you see where that girl went?" he asked.
"Oh so I'm "that girl" now huh?" he turned around saw Nakada leaning against the tree her arms crossed and looking peeved. She moved and placed her hand on the tree and it glowed ice blue. She closed her eyes and the tree healed instantly like as if there had never been a hole.
"Nakada that's not what I…"
"SHUT UP!" she yelled interrupting him turning her head to him to look at him and he looked at her shocked. She had never told him to shut up ever and she would only slap him never punch him. Only when he was hurting her back at the mansion did she punch him He looked at her and she continued, "Go ahead and enjoy your little fan club and don't even bother talking to me!" with that she disappeared leaving Yoko with a swarm of swooning vixens still trying to get his attention.
Nakada ran back to her and Yoko's hut and fell down on the bed on the ground and started to cry. How could I have been so stupid as to fall in love with that…that DEMON! Even if…he is my…true love. She thought to herself mentally beating herself up with tears falling down her face.
Then she heard a knock at her door and the wind told her it was Jennah. She went over to the door after wiping her eyes and putting on a fake smile. She opened the door and looked at Jennah who wasn't happy at all, "Nakada I saw what happened," Nakada lowered her head and let the teen in, little did she know that Yoko had somehow lost the vixen fan girls and was listening to everything.
"I don't know what I was thinking April," Nakada started as she sat on her bed and Jennah sat beside her.
"You fell in love what do you expect," then she smiled, "Though it wasn't one of those love at first sight now was it?"
Nakada actually chuckled at that, "No, try love at first hundredth slap," then she smiled and blushed intensely, "Or love at first naked sighting," she said with a smile and she was blushing as red as a rose. Yoko heard that and he smiled as he blushed just as much as her, "I even let him mark me and he let me mark him and half of my heart crystal is in his heart. When I saw him with those girls and accepting the treatment they were giving him…I got angry."
Yoko closed his eyes and lowered his head placing one hand on his neck over the mark Nakada had given him and the other over his heart, "Oh come on Nakada," Jennah said smiling and wrapping her arm around Nakada's shoulder, "Kuronue told me he is 269 years old, and, well my guess he has kind of gotten perverted over the time and I guess he can't deny the cries of female vixens," Yoko as fuming mad when he heard her, "But you have to try and accept him for what he is and the way he is. Don't you remember? That is one of your most greatest desires."
Yoko listened and he remembered Nakada telling him it was, "I guess, but at least I know something without having to ask him."
"Oh and what's that?" Jennah asked and Yoko listened.
"Yoko doesn't really feel the same way about me like I feel about him, even if he did mark me. I am just like another one of those girls he rapped and threw away like as if they never were," Yoko did all he could to try and not to jump through the window. He just sat there listening to what else she had to say.
"But Nakada, when he put his half of your heart crystal in his heart, he didn't feel any pain. That meant that he does feel the same about you. And you didn't feel your half hurt when he did those things did you?"
Nakada shook her head, "No, but there were no vixens there."
"So what are you going to do now?" The violet haired teen asked looking at her and Yoko listened intently.
Nakada paused and thought about it, "Well I have obviously screwed up my chance with being with him with the punch I gave him earlier and have you noticed that have never actually told him to shut up before? Also I never punched him as well…I did once but that was because he was hurting me and he was angry."
"So what are you saying Nakada?" Jennah asked looking at her and Yoko listening hoping against all hope that she wasn't going to say what he thought she was going to say.
"I'm saying that I think I should try to…stop my feelings for him," Yoko swore he could hear his heart break and shatter into a thousand pieces and he pressed his hand to it to try and stop it from hurting. He winced greatly as he closed his eyes and one lone tear fell from his eye.
"Nakada you can't be serious!" Jennah said sounding shocked, "You know better then anyone that feelings like this just can't be turned off just when you want them to. And you gave him half of your heart crystal and your children survived which means he is your true love."
Nakada went to the window Yoko was under and he quickly moved so he wouldn't see her but he was still listening to her and he could smell the tears she was starting to cry, "I don't know what to do Jennah. I feel I'm beginning to sound like one of those vixens begging him for attention."
Yoko sniffed the air and he could smell tears and his heart hurt even more he couldn't take it anymore. He walked over to the front door and knocked on it, "Nakada can I talk to you for a second?" he asked. There was silence and he spoke again, "Nakada please listen I'm sorry for what I did I know I shouldn't have done that but please," a tear fell from his eye, "Please don't shut me out like this." The door opened a little while after and he saw Nakada with tears in her eyes and she saw him with tears in his eyes as well.
Nakada's Pov
Jennah went through the window when we heard Yoko knock on the door, "Nakada please just talk to him," she asked me through whispering I nodded and she left.
I heard Yoko talk outside of the door again. "Nakada please listen I sorry for what I did I know I shouldn't have done that but please," I stood in front of the door and I could faintly smell tears, "Please don't shut me out like this."
Is he really crying? I thought over. He had never cried before only when he was in pain while the twins were having her growth spurts and when they were born. I began to question it but I knew that he couldn't be faking the pain he had in his voice. I took a breath and slowly began to open the door. I looked at him and I saw the pain and tears in his eyes as he looked at me. He was standing straight and proud like he always did, but, it was his eyes that showed he was hurting.
I leaned against the door a little, "You heard everything didn't you?" I asked. He looked at me and nodded, "Well what do you want to do?" I asked. He looked at me as if confused by the simple question, "Do you want to try and keep this going but still slowly? Or do you want to stop right here? I can easily take the heart crystal back and heal both of our necks so we would be free again. Do what we want not caring that the other was in love with someone else."
Yoko's Pov
"I can easily take the heart crystal back and heal both of our necks so we would be free again. Do what we want not caring that the other was in love with someone else." I looked at her not being able to grasp what she was saying. Did she really hate me so much as to do things like that? I looked at her and she looked right back, "Yoko if you want to continue with what we are doing then you will have to get one thing straight." I looked at her and nodded, "I don't want to be played like a fool and I hate people who cheat and are liars. If you want to continue with this then you have to get one thing clear. You can be nice to other girls, you can embrace them from time to time or even a kiss on the cheek because some people in my world do that and don't mean it to be intimate…but if you want what we have so far to continue then it can. But if I see you doing something like I had seen you do a while ago then you can just say good bye forever, no matter if you're my true love or anything."
I looked at her and I could understand why she had said this. She didn't want to get hurt and I didn't want her to get hurt especially if I was the one that had hurt her. She was giving me more leeway then any human or demon female would their love. I looked at her and I couldn't believe I was actually thinking about this. Her half of her heart crystal was inside my beating heart and she could easily take it out. Both of our necks had marks on them and she could easily heal them like as if they never were…and what about my son and daughter? Would they have a pair of parents that did love each other and were meant for each other but where never full together because the idiotic father couldn't stay true? I mentally shook my head not wanting to ever let any of those things happen and I would never stray away from my mate.
I looked at Nakada who was still waiting for my answer. I looked at her and walked over to her and when I was close enough to her, I wrapped my arms around her holding her close and she did the same thing, "I want to be with you Nakada." I whispered as she laid head on my chest over my heart and I laid my cheek on her head stroking her hair.
Normal Pov
Nakada held Yoko close and tears began to fall freely from her eyes as she cried into his chest and he held her close trying to hold back his own tears laying his cheek on her head, "I am so sorry Nakada."
She looked at him and covered his mouth with her finger, "Do not say a word Yoko," she said with a smile, "You aren't used to me that well yet and I'm not used to you."
Yoko looked at her, "Please say we aren't going to have to start all over again," he pleaded looking at her.
She chuckled, covering her mouth but still had one hand placed over his heart, "Don't worry I don't think that is necessary but now that you mention it. We did get to know each other better because we started over. I wonder…"
Yoko then placed his finger on her mouth,, "Don't wonder anything," he said looking serious, "There most be some kind of level that we are on right now that humans call or something like that."
She looked at him and thought, "Well by now I guess we would be on the level of roomies since we sleep together." He looked at her confused and she sighed as she led him into the hut, "Come on and I'll tell you about it but I have to heal that jaw of yours. It is broken again."
That night there was a celebration at coming of the band. Conner for some reason would not leave Yoko alone but he didn't seem to mind much. Nakada was always hiding from the male humans and tiger youkai. Finally she went over to Yoko and sat beside him in front of a huge bonfire and when she did all of the men who were chasing her stopped. Yoko looked up at her and smiled, "I guess you don't like attention that much."
She looked at him and smiled, "No I don't like it…I loath it entirely and you know that already," she looked beside him and saw the little boy, "Hey Conner, where are your parents?"
Conner shrugged, "I don't know they are probably dancing with the other dancers around the bonfire."
Yoko looked at him and then at Nakada, "Where's Calan Dianna?" he asked.
"They are with Rebekah. She doesn't like parties that much and frankly I don't then as well," Nakada sat back a bit and Conner sat in between her and Yoko taking her hand. She looked at him and smiled so did Yoko as Conner took his hand as well.
Then two humans went up to them, neither of them looking happy. Yoko and Nakada recognized them as Conner's parents and the little boy began to look scared, "Conner where have you been?" Bertha, Conner's mother asked, "We have been searching the whole village for you!"
"Excuse me but he was with us the whole time and you should have known he wouldn't have wondered off far," Yoko said as he stood up looking at them, "He wondered off once and he met the consequences because of that. I doubt he would do it again."
George, Conner's father, got in front of Bertha, "Last time I checked, Yoko Kurama, you weren't Conner's father. So why don't you leave this situation up to his real parents?"
Yoko looked at them and Nakada began to hear his heartbeat slowly go back to the original beat. She stood up but before she could do anything Conner tugged on her and Yoko's hand. They looked down, "It is all right, I'm kind of tired anyway."
Yoko nodded and watched as Conner went to with his parents looking back and both he and Nakada saw that it looked like he was pleading for help, "I don't like those people one bit," Nakada said as she sat back down along with Yoko.
The fox nodded, "But what can we do about it?" he asked looking at her, "They are his real parents you know that." Nakada sighed and looked into the fire and backed away from it when she saw she was a bit close, "Nakada what's wrong?" Yoko asked a little worried.
She looked at him and smiled a little, "Fire and I never got well together so it is one of my most greatest weaknesses until I can find a subject that we can both agree on."
"It must be great to be able to talk to the elements and hear what they are saying. You would know what your enemy is doing that very second or know if you are in trouble. What is it like?"
She sighed as she looked into the fire, "It really isn't all that it is cracked up to be. Sometimes I wish I couldn't hear the elements for more then one reason just like my telepathic powers."
He looked at her confused, " Why?"
She looked at him and smiled, "You might find out things that you don't want to, and, I can't control whose mind I hear so I can easily be overwhelmed with voices. With all of those voices talking at once, it is enough for anyone to go mad. That is why I like quiet places so I can get away from it all. Plants, air and water don't have mouths so they use their minds. And like us they can speak whenever they want to. But, sometimes, the elements will hold back information if they believe it is not needed to be told, or someone asked them to." Yoko looked at Nakada and wrapped his arm around her holding her close. She looked at him and smiled, "You know maybe we should have started dating instead of fighting," she said with a smile.
"What do you mean by dating?" Yoko asked looking at her.
She looked at him like as if he was crazy, "Umm…dating is when two people who like each other very much go out together to learn more about each other," Nakada was getting a bit red and Yoko saw that.
"So do they do anything else either then talk?" he asked smirking.
Nakada gulped and her blush became a lot more visible, "Depends on were their going and how old they are," she said.
Yoko smirked as he held Nakada closer, "Well I'm 269 and you're sixteen so what would we be able to do?" he smirked and Nakada was really beginning to regret mentioning about dating. But before Yoko could do anything a vixen took his hand, placed a gold ring on it and whispered something into his ear. When she was done she ran off into the night, "What is this?" he asked as he looked at it still having one arm around Nakada.
"It looks like a ring from one of your fan girls," Nakada said crossing her arms.
Yoko let go of Nakada and tried to take the ring off but for some reason he couldn't, "Hey how do you take this thing off?" he asked trying to pull the ring off of his finger but it had suddenly become tight. Nakada and Yoko both went after the vixen and found her backed up to a tree looking worried, "How do you take this thing off?" Yoko asked again showing her the ring.
The vixen looked at Yoko, "Only I can take it off of you but there is a price for that."
"Oh and what would that be?" he asked glaring at the vixen.
"I want to go back home," she said sadly, "I have heard of you Yoko Kurama, King of Thieves. I knew you wouldn't have let me tag along unless I forced you. I put the ring on you so I'd have a way to convince you to take me along. Since you made it this far without losing anyone except one person I thought maybe I could have a chance with your group in going through the forest when I have tried. Many others have as well and failed miserably. I was one of the lucky ones coming out alive but horribly wounded. Don't you see?" she asked looking at Yoko's cold eyes that showed no emotion, "I want to get back to my village and each time I go in there I get a bit farther so you need me."
Yoko looked at Nakada, "What do you think? Do you think she's telling the truth?"
"I am," the vixen said.
"What if we don't take you at all?" Yoko asked, "I can easily live with a ring on my finger for the rest of my life."
"Even if it is a short one?"
They both looked at the vixen, "What do you mean a short one?" asked Nakada looking at the vixen a little worried but Yoko was unfazed by what the vixen said.
"I can make the ring the Yoko is wearing poison him with just a thought," she answered in a cold voice.
Nakada was about to say something when Yoko spoke first, "I don't believe you one bit Vixen," she looked at him surprised, "If that really did happen then you would have my whole band after you if I died."
"At least I would still be out of this place," she said, "And I'm telling you that I am speaking the truth."
Yoko just looked at her and then turned around, "Come on Nakada we don't have enough time to waste with this vixen's lies."
The Vixen glared at Yoko and snapped her finger. The ring on Yoko's finger glowed as they walked off back to the bonfire. The vixen just smiled, "You will see if I'm lying or not soon Yoko," with that she went back to her hut and went to sleep.
After a while the party stopped and Yoko carried Nakada back to their hut. They had been dancing so much when he had finally coaxed her into it, but because they had to dance around the fire she had become a little weak. But stubborn her didn't give any sign of it until the party was over.
Back at their hut Rebekah was trying to calm down a crying the twins. But try as she might she couldn't get them to be quiet. She had changed their diaper, tried to get them to drink some warm breast milk, burped them, and played with them EVERYTHING! But they wouldn't stop crying. When Yoko came into the hut carrying Nakada he looked at the twins worried, "What's wrong with them?" he asked as his ears buried into his hair from the crying sound they made.
The instant Calan and his sister heard Yoko's voice they stopped crying and looked at him and smiled, "I guess she wanted to see you and…Nakada! What happened to her?" she asked watching Yoko place Nakada on their bed.
"We kind of danced to close to the fire," he told and held Calan carefully while giving her the milk while Rebekah did the same with Dianna..
Rebekah saw the ring on his right finger and asked, "Where'd you get the ring?"
Yoko looked at it while he continued to feed Calan, "Some vixen stuck it there and now it won't come off. She lied saying that it was filled with poison and she would make the ring release it if I didn't let her join us."
She looked at Yoko a little worried, "You're sure she was lying?"
Yoko looked at her and nodded, "There is no way a ring could do that. I've heard of rings that when someone puts them on your finger and they speak to you then they stay on forever until the person that put it on you takes it off. This is probably that kind of ring but they never had any poison in them so I doubt it's true." Calan finished her bottle and risking something come up he placed him on his shoulder and started to try and burp him.
"So you think it is a bluff?" she asked looking at him not convinced as she did the same with his little girl.
"I know it is a bluff Rebekah," he answered as both of the twins burped and he looked at his shoulder as he gently took Calan's head off his shoulder and saw that he was nice tonight.
"But no one knew that this place existed so how do you know that she wasn't telling the truth?"
Yoko sighed as he held Calan close and took Dianna as well. He looked at Nakada making sure she was all right under the covers. He looked at Rebekah, "Rebekah I assure you that it can't happen. And even if it could where do you think they would get the supplies and requirements to make such a ring?"
She sighed and thought, "I just thinking that maybe you shouldn't be so quick to judge this place. It is peaceful in some ways but they are ready to fight if necessary."
Yoko thought for a second, "Look if she wanted me dead do think I would be by now?"
"Maybe the poison she was talking about acts slowly."
Yoko sighed once again, "Listen after the talk with her I kind of felt like that maybe we should bring some people with us if they don't give us any trouble and don't trail."
"You are trying to change the subject Yoko."
"Yes I am, but still, what do you think of the idea?"
She thought for a second and smiled, "I don't see anything wrong with it," then she yawned, "Well I should be getting back to bed, but Yoko, I still don't like that ring."
Yoko smiled as she walked out of the hut, "Good night Rebekah," he said before she was out of the door. Yoko felt the twins shake a little and saw that they were also yawning and shivering.
He looked at one of Nakada's hairclips and Lucifer unattached himself from her hair, "Don't say anther thing laddie." With that, Lucifer opened himself up and turned upside down and started shaking. One big crib, that wasn't very tall, with curtains came out. First is seemed like it was small and was stretching out of Lucifer, then it gained it's appearance and landed on the floor in front of the bed, "There you go. The curtains will keep the heat inside the crib so it will keep you kits nice and warm through the night."
Yoko turned to Lucifer as he turned back into a hairclip, "Thanks Lucifer." The fox went over to the crib and gently put both of his twins inside and draped the see through curtain over them. The twins yawned again as they cuddled close to each other and fell asleep. Smiling, Yoko turned around and got into the bed next to Nakada. He covered them both with the sheets on the bed and held her close. Before he went to sleep, he kissed her on the head and closed his eyes to sleep.
Well, here is the long awaited chapter for this story. I am so sorry that I haven't been updating lately, school, trying to find storyies on the net that peek my interest (mostly what I have been doing :) ) The thing is, I already have this chapter all written out before, and some other chapters for it as well. But the thing is, you change one thing, and you have to change a lot in those chapters. I just really don't want to do that TT. I hope you guys appreciate this becuase, I am supposed to be doing a school assignment and it is due on the 21. I know I still have a long way to go, but I really don't like doing things unless forced into doing them, and it is a long assignment.
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