A Big Sister

"Yume," Conner spoke as he continued to follow the tiger youkai with his little sister in his arms while tiger cub carried his brother, "Where are we going? I'm tired and I don't think dad will be happy when he figures out we left."

The eight-year-old tiger demon stopped walking and turned around to look at the black haired boy, "I told you Conner, your daddy is going to be mad for a little while, but he won't be afterwards. I have a little surprise for him, and I need your help to do it." Once she finished talking she turned around and started walking through the forest again with Conner following behind her.

"A surprise? Is dad going to like it?"

Yume smiled as she continued to walk to an empty shack not far from the palace walls. "I think he is going to feel something powerful about our surprise."

Conner smiled as he continued to carry his little sister into the shack, following Yume. "Dad must have done something for you to give him such a big surprise. But why did you show up to us as a cub Yume?"

Yume stopped walking as she placed Calan on an old floor rug and watched as Conner did the same thing with Dianna, "Showing up as a tiger cub was part of the surprise Conner, he couldn't know it was me. And as for him doing something for me, well, it was more to me." The tiger cub turned around and looked at Conner with some rope in her hands, "And I am going to make him feel what he made me feel when he did that thing to me." She walked over to Conner with the rope, "Now I am going to tie you up for a few moments Conner okay? Just until Yoko finds us, alright?"

Conner's eyes were questioning as he watched Yume walk over to him with the rope, "Why do you have to tie me up Yume?"

"So that when Yoko comes...you can't run away!" and with that, Yume jumped on Conner before he could run and quickly tied his hands behind his back. After she was done, she took another piece of rope and tied his legs down.

The now scared boy looked up at the tora cub with confused eyes, "Why are you doing this Yume? What did dad ever do to you?"

"You really don't know anything about you adopted father do you?" The cub asked with her right hand on her hip.

"I know that he is a great man and that he loves me and Calan and Dianna and mom too!"

Yume started at the boy, "A great man? That fox is anything but a great man! He is murderer and a thief! He killed my whole village and stole everything from us! From me! I was the only survivor!" Yume turned around so her back was to the three children on the floor. She crossed her arms and bowed her head as tears began to fall from her eyes, "My mom stuffed me into a hiding place under the floor and I waited there, hearing the screaming, the yelling, smelling all of the blood. I waited until mom would come and get me, until she would open the floor boards again and let me out, telling me it was all just a joke and that everything was okay." Yume turned to face Conner with anger in her eyes, "She never came! She never came because she was dead! My dad was dead, my brothers and sisters were dead, and the whole village was dead! I was the only one who survived!"

Yume knelt down to the floor and wrapped her arms around her knees she brought them up to her chest, "Everyone was killed."

Conner watched her in front of him, surprised at what he had heard. He got up as best as he could and crawled over to the tiger cub. He learned against her shoulder and she instantly stiffened, "But dad's not the same as he once was. When mom was still around, I heard them talking about how dad was regretting more and more about what he had done." Conner lifted himself up from Yume and looked at her as she raised her head, "I'm sure dad will let you stay with us. My mom can be your…"

"I don't want another mommy! I want my mommy!" yelled Yume as she quickly stood up and stared down at the boy with tears falling from her eyes.

Conner looked up at the girl with fear in his eyes. After a few moments of silence, he lowered his head and looked at the ground, "The first memory I have of my mom back in the village of the Forbidden Forest, was not the best one." Yume stared down at Conner, wondering why he was saying this. Conner took a breath, "Both my mom and my dad hated me because I was different. I was human like them, but I wasn't born the way humans are supposed to be born. I was beggin born, I was born from my dad instead of my mom."

"My parents didn't hate me!" started Yume but Conner interrupted her.

"I still loved them!" The tiger cub went silent and stared and the child with tears falling down his face, "I still loved them, and…I still do love them, more than my mom and dad now…because that is the only part of me that is different from other humans, and maybe even demons. After all the yelling and beating, every single night, I still loved them and hoped that one day they would love me back." Conner brought his knees up to his chest and bent over so his face was hidden, "Despite that, I still went and followed Yoko and Nakada, because I knew that I would be happier with them, I wouldn't love them as much as my other parents, but I would still love them…and they would love me."

Conner looked up at Yume, "You loved your family and they loved you, but…they aren't going to come back! You don't have to replace them or love my mom and dad more than your real parents, you can just live with us!"

Yume stared at the crying boy, "But Yoko killed my parents," she said in a small voice.

"I'm sorry Yume," the two children turned around and saw Yoko at the door of the shack, out of breath as he started at the children inside, making sure all of them were alright.

Yume instantly got over her shock and ran behind Conner and wrapped one arm around his chest while she positioned her small, but sharp, claws at his neck, "Sorry isn't going to cut it Yoko Kurama!" she spit out like poison. "Sorry isn't going to bring my family back!"

Yoko looked down at Yume with his golden eyes, "I know that it won't Yume, I know nothing will bring back you family, no matter how much you want it to." Yoko tried taking a step closer and the little tiger cub pressed her claws closer to Conner's neck and it began to bleed. "Don't do this Yume, don't do what I did. Killing them isn't going to make you feel better, or replace the hurt you feel. It may let you forget for awhile, but the pain will always return and will make you want to kill more and more."

"You sound like you have experience," the cub hissed out.

"My parents were taken from me when I was a little cub like you," the adult admitted. "When I had learned to defend myself, I was angry, all the time and I felt like it wasn't fair. Killing and stealing was how I survived, but it also gave me some release from the anger and pain. Apart of me probably thought that I would feel better if everyone else felt my pain as well, but it never worked." Yoko paused to let his words sink into the child's mind for a moment and watched as tears started to fall from Yume's eyes once again, "Don't turn into me Yume, don't be the reason that, in the future, you are found in this position. Talking to the person you had hurt later on in your life, talking to that person and trying to convince them to not hurt those that you care most about."

Yume glared at Yoko through her tears, "Like you would let me live to make your same mistake after I kill your children."

"Do you want to die Yume?" Yoko asked while still staring at the child with his never changing gaze. He wasn't glaring, but there was no emotion in his eyes as well.

The female child's eyes widened at this comment and for a second, her tears stopped flowing. "I…I…I want…my mommy and daddy back…I want to be with them."

"But do you want to die? Do you think that they would want you to die Yume?" Yoko persisted as he slowly began to step closer to the two children again, Yume not seeming to notice. "Your mother hid you so you wouldn't die, so that you could be kept safe, do you think she would want you to die this way Yume?"

Yume's eyes were down cast as Yoko walked closer and closer to the cub until he was right in front of her. He kneeled down to the two children's level and gently took Conner from Yume and undid his bonds. Once freed, the boy latched onto the fox's neck and Yoko held onto him as well, glad to have the child in his arms once again. After a few moments he whispered in Conner's ear, "Why don't you go and check you brother and sister to make sure they are okay? I'll take care of Yume." Conner nodded against Yoko's shoulder and then left to look over his younger siblings.

Yoko continued to kneel on the ground and stared at Yume. The little girl's ears were tilted down along with her head and just looked like a sad, dejected, lonely child, desperately in need of her parents. Yoko knew that feeling all too well, having felt that way for so long after his parents were taken away. He placed his large hand on the cub's shoulder and she visibly tensed, scared of being hurt. With his other hand, Yoko moved some long, silver hair away from her face.

"I don't know what to do, Yume, to help you, but I do know how you are feeling, I know what's it's like to be alone. If you don't want to be apart of our family, that's fine." Yoko hooked his finger under the child's chin and raised her head to look at him, "But I am not going to kill or hurt you, and I am not leaving you alone. You can live here if you want, or we can find you a family to be with in the village."

Yume stared into Yoko's eyes and did the most unexpected thing; she jumped up against Yoko and wrapped her arms around his neck. Tiny sobs could be heard coming from the small child as she cried against him, "I…I ha-hate you!"

"I know," was his reply as he wrapped his arms securely around the little girl.

"I wish you would just die!"

"I know."

"You could never be my daddy!"

"I wouldn't even think about it."

"But don't send me away! Please!"

This shocked Yoko as well as Conner as the girl continued to sob against the fox, "We won't send you away if you don't want to leave."

The girl nodded her head; "I want to-to live with you and Con-Conner, and the twins and Nakada when she comes back! I don't want to be alone anymore!"

Yoko stroked the girl's back to calm her down, "You won't be alone any longer Yume," Yoko promised as he whispered in her ear.

Conner slowly moved over to Yume and began to hug her as well, "We won't leave you alone Yume, and you can and can't be part of our family."

Yume backed away from Yoko and wiped away her tears with one hand while the other was still wrapped around Yoko's neck, "Why can't I be part of your family?"

Conner looked confused as he tilted his head, "You said you didn't want my mom and dad to be your mom and dad, but you can still be my and the twin's big sister! So you can and can't be part of our family!"

Yume laughed a little at this and Yoko couldn't help but let out a little chuckle at this simple logic, "I guess that does make some since Conner," the fox said as he placed his hand on top of Conner's head and messed up the boy's hair a little.

"But," the two boys looked at Yume as she resumed her hold on Yoko's neck and looked between the boys and stopped at Yoko, "Even if I do hate you, would it be okay if I start to love you after awhile? And maybe call you my dad, even though you could never replace my real daddy?"

Yoko smiled and nodded his head yes, "It would be okay if that happened, if that made you happy, then by all means when you feel you are ready and want to, then do it."

"Dad?" came Conner's voice and the two looked at the boy, "How did you know we were here?"

Yoko smiled, "Let's just say, an old bag told me."

"I heard tha' young man!" Lucifer said as he appeared in the doorway, "I'll have you know, only Ice can call me that!"

Yoko smirked as he looked at the bag, "I thought only Ice could call you an old gym bag. I merely called you an old bag."

Steam could be seen coming off form the floating gym bag as the everyone in the hut laughed, "Yeah, well, it's about time those kids got to sleep, there is a lot of explaining to do tomorrow, maybe we shouldn't tell Nakada that you lost the kids the night she left!"

Yoko gained a shocked look on his face, "You wouldn't dare!"

"Oh ho ho! Not nice to have some stuff like this on you now is it?" the bag chortled as he realized he had gotten Yoko back on the 'old bag' thing and the children laughed as well.

Yoko smiled as he closed his eyes and shook his head and then looked at all of the kids in the hut. Conner and Yume looked ready to fall asleep on their feet, despite the smiles, and the twins, they didn't look like they were about to sleep…they were asleep. Yoko sighed, "Lucifer's right though, we all should get some sleep for tomorrow." With that, he let go of Yume and went over to the twins and picked them up, disturbing them a little, but they instantly went back to sleep.

Back in the children's bedroom (again) the twins were in their crib, snuggled together, and Yume slept with Conner in their bed. Yoko stood over the two children as they began to fall asleep and smiled as he tucked them in (again) and said goodnight to them (again). "Now, that is enough excitement for tonight don't you think?" Yoko asked as he sat on the edge of the bed.

"Yes dad!"

"Yes Yoko!"

Yoko smiled as he leaned over and kissed Conner on the top of his head (again) and cupped Yume's cheek, looking at her with a smile, "Goodnight you two, see you in the morning." After he said that he stood up from the bed and walked to the door of the room.

"Night dad!" Conner waved before he turned to Yume and snuggled closer to her.

Yume looked up at Yoko and smiled as she said, "Goodnight." Yoko smiled as he walked out of the room and closed the door behind him. When the door was closed, Yume held Conner closer to her and whispered softly to herself, "Goodnight…father."

In the next story

"Nakada!" Yoko yelled out as he entered the mansion. After a moment, he began to get worried. "Conner? Yume? Calan? Dianna?"

"Daddy!" came Dianna's voice from the hallway next to the stairs. She hurriedly ran to her father on her little feet and jumped into her father's arms as he kneeled down to the ground. The rest of his children appeared in the hallway, Yume and Conner holding the just two-day-old twins, and no Nakada.

"Dianna," Yoko began than looked up at the five other children, "What happened? What's wrong?"

Yume held her baby brother closer to her being, as if to comfort herself, "They…took her, they took mom. She tried…to fight them off and protect us but…" tears began to fall down from her eyes as she remembered what happened. Scenes of what happened just a few hours ago flashing through her mind, as well scenes from when her first parents were killed.

Yoko stared at his eldest child, "Who took her Yume? Who took your mother?"

Yume couldn't say anything as the tears fell rapidly down her face, but Conner spoke up beside her, "The Dark Signs."

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I am SORRY It took me a whole year (just over or a little more) to update the final chapter and leave a teaser behind that also may take a long time to write! First it was the summer job and other things, then it was university (IT IS SO EASY TO GET BEHIND IN THERE SO IF YOU EVER GO TO UNIVERSITY MAKE SURE TO READ! WHAT YOU ARE GIVEN EVEN IF IT LOOKS SMALL, BELIEVE ME! IT ISN'T IN THE LONG AND SHORT RUN!)

Okay, to b honest I was going to update last month because Reneey gave me an email about my lack of updating, but it really isn't as easy as it looks honestly. But enough complainging, the reason why I didn't update last month was, yes, because of university, but also, I thought it might make a nice christmas present to enveryone. I am also working on a few other stories at the moment. One that is the sequel to my next sqeul (or next) and one that has nothing to do with these series. Anyway, I promise I will try to work on the sequel to this one (though you all might be getting kind of sick of all these sequels and barely any updates, just give the word and I'll try to fix up this chapter to make it seem like it really ended, maybe) Anyway

Good night, Merry Christmas and hope you have a great Christmas and a Happy Near

If you want, I can probably make a little after chapter to this story, you know, to get the Yu Yu Hakusho thing together for a kind of "after the story talk", but I would like some reviews for this story if anyone won't mind, see ya in the new year!

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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