Teething

A month later during the night Yoko woke up to the twins crying, "Your turn Yoko." Nakada said while still half a sleep.

"I hate it when you keep track," he said as he got up and went over to the two cradles.

Conner woke up as well and watched as Yoko gently took hold of both of the twins and sat down, "Is she okay?" he asked.

"They're fine, probably just hungry because I can't smell anything nasty," Yoko answered with a smile. Dianna then grabbed onto his shirt and started to chew on it, her brother soon followed suit in her actions, "Now why are you chewing my shirt?" he asked with a little smile as they continued to chew and made cute little growling sounds.

Nakada turned around and looked at him; "Chewing your shirt?" she asked looking at him but still looking sleepy.

"Yes…is there anything wrong?" Yoko asked looking a little worried.

Nakada chuckled a little and sat up tiredly, "Yoko I think they're teething. That kind of hurts babies when their teeth start to grow into their mouths. The reason why they are chewing on your shirt is because they needs something to relieve them of the pain and chewing stuff usually does the trick."

Yoko looked at his son and daughter and took his shirt away from Calan's mouth and gently stuck his finger into her mouth. He smiled a little when he felt a few sharp bumps in his mouth. He then did the same thing to Dianna and she instantly took his finger and started to chew on it as well. As she chewed, he definitely felt small teeth starting to grow in, "You're right Nakada," he said as drew back his finger, and wiped it on his pants, "They are teething which usually means more sleepless nights am I correct?" Nakada smiled as she nodded.

Lucifer, who had been awake because of the crying, went over to Yoko, "I believe I have something for them to chew on and occupy their time with though, reach in." Yoko balanced Dianna against his stomach, which she snuggled into with a sigh, and reached in to pull out two rubber bears. "You give them to Dianna and her brother, the bears are big enough so that won't choke on them, but they are small enough so that they can chew on them."

The fox gave each baby a bear, a yellow one for Dianna, and a blue one for Calan. The twins eagerly took the bears and began to chew on them, still making the cute little growling sounds. The fox smiled as he stood up carefully and placed the cubs back into their cribs and walked over to his and Nakada's bed again. He moved under the covers behind Nakada and made sure he was facing Conner and the two cribs that held his twins, just in case as if watching them. Nakada did the same thing and she smiled when she felt Yoko's arm wrap itself around her waist and she laid her arm on it as well. She leaned her back against Yoko's torso, giving a little yawn and closed her eyes letting sleep over take her.

Yoko looked at Nakada and then at Conner making sure he was asleep and finally at the twins, watching them as they continued to bite the teddy bear. He smiled and placed his free arm under his head closing his eyes and went to sleep after making sure his family was all right.

The next day Conner woke up a little hungry and looked at his little brother and sister who were asleep. He looked at his new parents and saw that they were asleep as well. His father was holding his mother closely with his chin on top of her head. She was snuggled close to him, her forehead against his chest with her back to Conner. He laid down on the bed for a little longer until he thought that maybe some of the band was up now. He got up and went outside to look around and saw that no one was up. He sighed and was about to go back into the tent when he heard a branch break nearby. He turned his head to a bush and walked over to it slowly, wondering what it was that had made the twig snap. He got a little closer and saw a tiger tail and he got a little scared as he began to back up. The tail hid in the bushes and the bushes began to move a little as something began to jump out.

Yoko and Nakada both woke up when they heard Conner screaming and quickly ran outside when they didn't see him in the tent. Their eyes widened when they saw an ikkle tiger cub licking Conner's face making him laugh. Everyone who was outside, woken up from the little boy's scream, sighed heavily. Nakada leaned against Yoko with relief as the fox held her close, needing the support himself. They both smiled as they watched Conner play with his new little friend. Conner then took notice that everyone was up along with his parents. He went up to them with pleading eyes, "Can I please keep him?" He made his eyes so big and looked like he was about to cry and everyone was laughing.

Nakada went over to the little cub and it jumped into her lap as she kneeled down and cradled her like she did with one of her children, "Well I don't see anything wrong with it but Conner," he looked at her, "It's a girl."

Conner rolled his eyes to the back of his head and hit his forehead with his head, "You mean I got beaten by a girl? How humiliating," everyone laughed and Nakada looked at the little tiger cub. Conner looked at her, "Does she have a name?"

Nakada looked at him and shrugged, "I don't know," she gently went into the tiger cub's mind and it seemed a bit worried when she did but she excused that and saw that the tiger cub did have a name. She looked at Conner and nodded, "Yes she does have a name…Yume."

"Dream," Yoko said and then he went into their tent when he heard Dianna crying and brought her out. Then Yume seemed to be a little surprised and struggled out of Nakada's arms and she smiled as she let her go. Yume went over to Yoko and Dianna and started to paw at his leg. He looked down at her, not sure at first but he kneeled down holding Dianna close and the tiger cub sniffed at her for a second.

Dianna opened her eyes and saw Yume looking at her. First she was a little startled and scared as she held on to her father's tunic but she settled down. She gently reached her hand out to Yume and she sniffed it before she licked her hand and nuzzled her face gently. Yoko relaxed a little and stood up with Yume on his shoulder, "You really do seem to attract the ladies Yoko," Kuronue said laughing a little, "Whether they be human, demon, animal, young or old they seem to always fall for your magnetic pull towards them."

Yoko glared at Kuronue, "Nakada can you do something about Yume? She's kind of heavy," she sighed and walked over to him taking hold of Yume and gently pulling her off of Yoko's shoulder. "OW! Watch the claws," he complained a little.

"Hey I don't control what happens with her claws Yoko. It's up to her if she claws you are not. But honestly I don't think she wants to let you go." Nakada continued to try and get Yume off of him but she was persistent and wouldn't let go. Finally Nakada sighed and gave up, "Here why don't I…" before she could say another word she and the rest of the team began to glow their own colour.

Yoko covered his eyes as did the rest of the band, "Nakada what's happening to you?" The light died down and the whole team was back in their human forms. Yoko and everyone else started at them unable to understand what happened. "Y-your back to your normal self!" Yoko spoke staring at Nakada as she looked over her self and touched her ears.

"It would seem that way wouldn't it…"

"What's the matter?" Yoko asked noticing her hesitate.

She concentrated as if listening to something and smiled, "We're out of the forest," everyone looked at her.

The team members began to concentrate as well and smiled, "She's right," April spoke out pointing ahead, "There is a village not far from here," she pointed behind her, "And the evil presence from the forest is about ten miles behind us."

Yoko listened carefully and he could hear and smell a village near by, "Well, I guess then this is where we separate with the people that joined." Everyone looked at Yoko and he looked back at him, "It wouldn't be safe for of my band to approach the village seeing that we are on the most wanted list of Makia." Everyone became a little scared and Nakada saw that Emerald and Theo were close together holding hands and she knew what they were thinking.

"Yoko can I talk to you for a second?" he looked at her and nodded. When they were in the tent she turned around and glared at him. He instantly backed away.

"Hey what's that look for?" he asked, "I didn't do anything wrong."

"Why don't you tell the whole world the whole world that you are a criminal huh?" she almost yelled and Yume was starting to get scared as she hid in Yoko's hair.

"What did I do wrong this time?" he asked looking at her confused.

"Okay, maybe that was far from the point but did you happen to think that maybe some of the people who joined us started to actually like you and some of the other members of the band?"

"What are you saying?" Yoko asked completely dumb to the question and then he remembered Theo and Emerald. He looked at her, "Oh, I had forgotten about Theo and Emerald. Well, what do you suppose we do with them?"

Nakada thought for a second. Calan woke up and started to complain a little and she went over to him and picked him up, "We could let Theo go back with her to her village or we could bring her along to the hideout."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa let him go? Are you out of your mind? He could easily be caught and thrown into the Makai jail! He could then be tortured until he told them where the hideout is and then kill him. And bring the vixen back to the hideout? She could tell everyone about us just to get a little extra credit and cash in her wallet."

"Well I don't believe she would do that," Nakada said looking at the flap of the tent while holding Calan against her shoulder and rubbing his back.

"You gave her your trust too soon you know that?" Yoko snapped, "Tell me, how much do you know about her?"

Nakada looked at him and glared, "What I know of her is no concern towards you. While you were talking with the men and I was taking care of the children, I would talk with some the people that we brought along with us. And that includes Emerald." She looked at him and then suddenly she remembered something, "Why are you acting like this Yoko?" He looked at her puzzled, "Whenever we talked about something like this you never make a fuss about it so why are you now?"

He stared at her, "Because you are willing to risk the location of our hideout and if not that, get Theo into major trouble."

Nakada sighed and walked over to him taking hold of Dianna so the twins were in both of her arms and let Yume jump on her shoulder, "Stay here for a second." She went out the flap and Yoko sat on the bed of furs sulking.

Then he began thinking. Nakada's right why am I acting like this?

Nakada came back into the tent with out Yume or the twins and looked at Yoko, "I think I know why you are acting like this Yoko," he looked at her, "It was because before I had looked like a demon. And now I am in my true form, I look like a human and you don't trust me anymore because of that."

Yoko looked at Nakada carefully and saw that she had tears in her eyes, "No…Nakada…that's not true of course I trust you but this is my band that I have to think about and take care of them. I care about every single member about them and even more now that you have come along with your friends and brother; you showed me so many things."

He walked over to her and wrapped his arms around her holding her close, "But Yoko, what if you were one of the followers and you had met me and we were in the same position as Theo and Emerald. What would you do?"

Yoko looked at her closely and he understood, "Then why don't we give them that decision?" she looked at him and nodded. They went outside and walked over to Theo and Emerald who seemed a little afraid. Yoko looked at them with no emotion on his face, "Theo, Nakada and I couldn't help but notice that you and Emerald are getting close." The two demons nodded holding each other's hands. He sighed, "You have the choice of going with her to her village and sometimes visiting. Or you can go back to the hideout with her as well and visit her clan."

Theo looked at Emerald and smiled, "The thing is sir," he looked back at Yoko, "We had been talking about this along time and I want to stay with her and go back to her village if they will have me."

Yoko smiled and nodded, "I hope to see you two visit sometime back at the hideout."

"We'll try to visit," he answered with a smile as he wrapped his arms around Emerald and held her close.