Yako walked happily down the street, freshly bought plastic bags of food hanging limply from her hands. A month had passed since she had last heard from Neuro, and Yako was happily on her way home to prepare for her first date. Kyle. An American foreign exchange student, tall, black hair, handsome, and best of all, human. She sighed at the thought. A normal relationship. A chance at a normal life. The thought was wonderful. And it was only about six or seven hour away from her.

Eight a clock at night, and Yako was beside herself with first time nerves. She wore a simple black dress, her hair still sporting those wonderful mouth shaped hair clips. She sat at her kitchen table, playing with her hair nervously. And then the door bell rang. Yako leaped up from her chair as gracefully as a month pregnant teenager could, and opened the door. And there was Kyle.

Pale, black hair, and a casual jeans and T-shirt dress style. Kyle was probably the generic role model for what every teenage high schooler could ever want. He smiled at her, motioning towards a blue 2002 Pontiac fire bird that he had parked in front of her house. "You ready to go?" he asked with a strong quirkiness, raising an eyebrow as he smiled at her.

It damn near made her faint from happiness.

Yako smiled at him, nodding in confirmation as she stepped outside and closed the door, locking it behind her. She nearly skipped to his car, climbing into the seat next to the driver after Kyle had opened the door for her. "Thank you…" She muttered out timidly, a blush adorning her face proudly.

"What manner of man would I be not to even open a door for such a beautiful, beautiful woman?" He asked as he smiled, gently shutting the door and walking around to the driver's side. "The night is yours my dear. Where would you like to go for dinner?"

Yako smiled, blushing at his politeness. "Well, there is this one restaurant I have not been to in a while." She said contemplatively. Of course, she had not been because it was right down the street from Neuro's office. But....it had been a month. It would be nice to go again. "It's about twenty down the street." She said, guiding him to the restaurant.

Kyle nodded, beginning to drive safely down the road. "You got it little lady." He said with a smile as he drove.

Yako looked around nervously out her window, expecting to see Neuro outside to steal her from her happiness the closer they got to the office building. But even when they were practically right in front of the building, there was not a single sign of Neuro. The light was even off in his office. Yako sighed in relief, smiling at Kyle when he was before her, opening her door and offering his hand to help her out of the car.

The evening went to smoothly it was almost as if it were scripted. Kyle and Yak chatted about everything and anything...except her pregnancy. Kyle to special, easy care not to bring that matter up, and for that, Yako was grateful. And despite her commonly insatiable appetite; only made worse by the little demon spawn inside of her, Yako was able to order as much as she needed or wanted, without one single disapproving remark from Kyle.

After a wonderful hour and a half dinner, the two finally rose to make their leave. Kyle again offered her his hand to help her up, smiling at her as he did so. Kyle led her outside, heading towards his car. And then he turned, pulling her with him.

Yako was a little startled by his sharp turn, and pulled against his grip. "Kyle.....what are you doing? Your care is the other way." She stated, looking back at the car, a look of confusion washing over her previously happy disposition.

"Just relax Yako. I have something I wanna show you." He said, pulling her quickly into an alley.

"Relax? I was not under the impression I was nervous. And what is so great about an alley?" She thought to herself as she pulled harder against his grip. "Kyle....stop pulling so hard. Your starting to hurt me." She said, looking up at him.

He continued pulling her along. "It's not too far away now, just come on." He ushered her along quickly, taking her deeper and deeper into the alley. Shadows and darkness creped up on them ominously, almost as if it were engulfing them.

After what seemed like ages, he finally stopped pulling her, and then turned her petite frame to face him. Yako had not been nervous a few moments ago, but she sure was nervous now. She backed away from him slowly. "Kyle.....I...I wanna go home." She said, nervously.

He smiled at her. But it was not the warm smile she had come to know up until now. This smile was different. Evil. In every possible sense of the word. His eyes began to glow a bright red and black, the color within his iris moving, swirling, almost as if his iris' had become magma. His gaze was potent enough to easily suggest as much.

Yako gasped when she saw he eyes, backing herself hard into the wall in a desperate attempt to put as much distance between them. "Y-your....your....your a...." She stammered, her hands shaking as she felt the wall behind her, eyes darting about for a way away from Kyle.

"A what?!" He asked her, cocking his eyebrow. "A demon?! Why, what a clever little human you are." He said, chuckling darkly. "But of course you must be. Bearing the child of one of the most powerful demons in our realms, and even without his help. You would be quite a prize to keep as a slave." He said manically, slowly stepping towards her. As he walked, his form began to change. He grew taller, towering over her. His hands and skin became deformed, almost as if they were rotting, and his nails grew into sharp, menacing talons. His form became that of a ram, with the left half of his face marred and burned and the right side nothing more than bone and teeth. But there was no clear cut line from where charred flesh became bone. It looked almost as if the two were one in the same, and it was near impossible to determine where one stopped and the other ended. Almost as if that line were moving from side to side solely to distract the onlooker."You would have done well to stay under Neuro's wings, human. He may have been more.....lenient with you than I will be. But you have potential. So much of it. And I refuse to let you waste it as he did by allowing you your human freedoms."

"No!" Yako cried, darting to the side to try and get away from him. He blocked her path easily. "No! I...I am not your servant. Leave me alone!" She cried, running down the alley away from him. He lunged at her, hitting her hard with his large hands, throwing her against the brick walls that enclosed them from the possible assistance of the outside world. She cried out in pain with what little breath she had left in her body. Her form went rigid, and then numb, all at once as she slumped down to the concrete ground. "Ahh....ah....ow." She whimpered as she struggled to get back up.

"What right do you have to run from me? You opposed the last demon who would make you his, and he let you go. And you will not be able to raise that child on your own. If anything else, I'm doing you a favor." He said as he grabbed her by her throat, roughly hoisting her off of the ground. "Your nothing but a human. A weak, insignificant maggot. Why should I let you go, even let you live?" He asked her, his pointed teeth showing as he spoke. "Well? ANSWER ME! WHY?!"

"Because she is not free for you to take." Was the response that came from the shadows. The voice was darker and more menacing than Kyle's could have ever even hoped of becoming.

Yako looked out towards the voice, struggling to breath as she did so.

Then, out of the shadows, came the tall, muscular blond and black haired man that Yako only just now realized she had so dearly missed. Neuro's face was calm, serious and refined. Only his body movements illustrated how furious he really and truly was. "Well louse......I know I said that you would die without me, but even I thought that you would last longer than a month." he said as he continued to slowly approach them. "However......this would not be the first time you have done something completely opposite to my hopes or expectation, now would it?" He said, smiling at Yako, who was now crying. At this, Neuro turned his attention to Kyle. "You have a lot of nerve attacking the servant of someone so much stronger than yourself. Let her go, now." He commanded, his dazzling emerald eyes swirling with rage.

Kyle let got of Yako's neck, eyes locked with Neuro's. "You let her go. You have no right to command me or tell me what to do with her." He said as Yako rand towards Neuro, hiding behind him timidly, arm wrapped around her stomach in protection. Her first sign of motherly instinct. Neuro placed his hand on her chest gently, pushing her back. His only warning that she needed to be further behind him. She immediately complied.

"Then we fight for rights to her." Neuro said simply, his aura emanating menacingly around him.

Kyle smirked evilly. "Very well then." He said. In the next instant, he was behind Neuro. He grasped Neuro by the back of the head, slamming him down onto the ground. He then brought his leg up, kicking Neuro square in the gut and poll bolting him forward into the wall across the alley. The force of the impact caused dirt and debris to cloud in the air around him, making it difficult to see and even harder to breathe.

"Neuro!" Yako cried desperately as she looked on in horror at what was going on between the two demons. A part of her wanted to run in and help, if there was even anything she could possibly to to help. But she restrained herself, holding her breath as she struggled to convince herself that Neuro knew what he was doing and would be fine.

But.....that is what everyone thought with Bush to. And that didn't turn out well at all.

Then, out of the cloud of debris came Neuro's figure. His jacket was off, and he adorned his true form; the multicolored head of a demonic parrot. Large, gloriously colored wings spanned down his arms, almost completely obstructing his hands from view. "My, what a determined young fighter you are." Neuro said as he stalked towards the other demon.

Neuro's aura had become practically lethal at this point. Humans lack the ability to read the facial expressions of demons, but auras will never lie. Neuro was pissed. Royally. And not only that, Neuro was done playing games with the younger demon. And Yako was not the only one who could tell. Kyle's posture had changed to a defensive, possibly even cowardice stance. And Neuro could only laugh at it. "Oh... Where is my opponent? What happened to the person who was going to beat me for rights to my servant?"

There was no response from Kyle

"Your not scared, now are you young ram?"Neuro asked, his smile growing more and more evil by the second.

Once again, silence was all that met him in response. The younger demon stood his ground though, not moving from his stance as he stared at Neuro.

"Oh? Well....you should be. But....since your so brave, I guess there's no need for me to hold back." He said, spreading his wings and flying high into the air above them. "Seven weapons of the demon courts." Neuro called out, lightening striking just above him as it began to rain heavily. "Eternal Judgment!"

As he said this, demonic hands erupted from the ground, grasping Kyle completely from the shoulders all the way down to his feet, rendering him completely immobile. Kyle's eyes widened as he struggled against his binds. But it was all to no avail. Neuro had complete control over when and if Kyle ever got freed from this binds. "May my comrades in the demon courts have more mercy on you than I if I were the one holding your trial." Neuro said, his voice dripping with hatred, as the hands began to pull Kyle downwards into the ground. "Let this be a valuable lesson to you young ram. Do not ever test those of the courts, and especially, do not ever cross me."

Kyle screamed at the very top of his lungs, a very bone chilling noise that only a demon could make. He thrashed and struggled against his captors hands, causing them to tighten their grip. He screamed and screamed up until the hands pulled him under the ground. Then, all was silent, save for sound of the pouring rain.

Neuro looked down at Yako from his perch in the sky. She had fallen to her knees, arms still wrapped around her stomach. She was crying silently, shoulders shaking as she struggled to keep herself calm. She had become drenched by the rain, which only added to her frail and fragile appearance. He blinked at her, not knowing what to say. He descended down to her, changing into the familiar human form that she had become so used to seeing. "Yako..." He said softly, walking up to her.

Yako looked up at him, the rain making it hard to tell that she was crying. "Why?" She asked him, her voice shaking. "Why.....why did you save me?"

"Why shouldn't I have?"

"I.....I treated you so badly....Neuro..."

"Demons can forgive just as easily as humans. We just don't do it as often. Be grateful." He said, flashing her that familiar toothy smirk. A smile that now made her happy to see. Grateful to see. She was grateful. She was also a fool. Neuro truly truly did care for her. Loved her, just as she loved him. She loved him......yes.....yes, she did love him. And she hated herself for not noticing it sooner.

Yako jumped to her feet, wrapping her arms around him. She cried freely now, burying her face into his chest. He wrapped his arms around her slowly, holding her petite frame snuggly to his body. She shook in his grasp with her tears, gasping out apologies as best she could. And all the while, all he could do was smile at her. Her and her silly, simple human emotions. "Come, Yako. Your going to get sick out here." He said, picking her up bridal style. "I won't have any use for a servant that is not at their best." He said, his best attempt at comforting words. Yako simply smiled, nodding in agreement.

One hour later

Yako was again sitting on the couch. Her clothes were dried, and she had a nice, hot bowl of chicken noodle soup to both warm and calm her. All courtesy of Neuro, of course. Neuro sat at his desk, scanning a paper in search of more mysteries. "I will need to find a decent mystery soon, louse. That weapon was not easy to summon, let alone use." He said, never taking his eyes off of the paper.

Yako nodded, sipping on her soup silently. She looked up to look at him again, and was startled to find that he was not sitting at his desk, but beside her on the couch now. "Nothing. Not one single mystery." He said, looking at her. "You....are you.....hurt?" He asked, as if her were struggling to find the proper words to say to her.

"Oh.....No...Not really. Just a few scratched here and there." She said, ignoring the extreme pain that coursed through her entire back.

"Really?" Neuro asked, placing his hand on her back roughly, causing her to scream in pain. He leaned forward quickly, taking the bowl from her and setting it on the table before she spilled it on herself. "Why do you lie to me louse?" He asked her, looking at her.

She had no response.

"Answer me, Yako. Why lie to me?"

"Because......I...I don't know." She said, trying to organize how to explain it to him. "I....I hurt you...so badly....a month ago. I...I don't want to burden you any more than I have to." She said, looking away from him.

Neuro frowned at her, his eyes becoming serious. "What manner of demon would I be to have a servant and not care for her?" He asked, hooking his finger underneath her shirt and starting to pull it up.

"No!" Yako cried, pushing his hands away. Neuro clasped her hands withing his. She was still cold, which worried him. Humans should be warm, not cold, after all. That is what he knew. "Yako...I only want to get to you back. Your in pain...you could have broken bones and not know it. Let me help you.....Please." he said, looking at her, his eyes growing somewhat soft with his sincerity.

Please. Please? Neuro.....had said please. Maybe it was for that reason alone that Yako nodded, turning around so that he could remove her shirt. He slid it off of her gently, in case the wounds had scabbed over onto the shirt. They had not. In fact, many of them were still open. No longer bleeding, but open; fully exposed and practically asking for an infection.

Neuro reached up to the clasp of her bra, gently pushing it together and then releasing it. He pushed it down her shoulders gently, letting her hold it to her chest as he examined her back. He stood slowly, removing his skin like glove to reveal his demonic hands. "Don't move Yako. This may sting.....but you have to stay still."

Yako nodded slowly, taking a deep breath to steady herself.

Neuro put his jagged nail to his wrist, slicing it open. He let the blood pool on his talons before taking his hand and running the blood over one of her deeper wounds. The blood and wound began to sizzle and burn, slowly closing and healing the wound. Yako hissed in pain, but managed to remain still. "Good." Neuro praised, continuing his previous procedures. All of her wounds were healed within ten minutes. Neuro clipped her bra for her, and then began to gently message her shoulders once she had pulled back on her pink sweater. "Feel better now?" He asked, smiling at her as he continued to message her.

Yako stood, smiling at him. She hugged him warmly. "Yes. Thank you Neuro." She said, rubbing her head on his chest.

Neuro then pushed her away, looking her in the eyes. "Yako....you still need me to survive." He said, trying his best to make sense to her. "And....Yako....I....I love you." He said, as he again slid down onto one knee before her. "Yako....please." He said, taking her hand into his, and looking right up into her eyes, his emerald eyes glowing with a strange passion that Yako had never seen before. "Will you do me the honors of becoming my bride, and my eternal mate?" He asked, squeezing her hand gently.

Yako looked down at him. She began to cry. Not some soppy sobbing "OMG" act, but something much more wonderful. Tears, silent and overjoyed tears, rolled down her cheeks so freely that she barely knew what to do with herself. "Yes....Yes Neuro. I will." She said.

Neuro was on his feet within moments of her acceptance, pulling her tightly into his embrace. "Thank you, Yako." He said, stepping back with his hands still on her shoulders. "Yako....I am not human. I do not feel emotions the same way that humans do. And.... I can not always be.....the human like figure you see me as now. Nor am I capable of always acting human, even for your sake. Can you still accept me?" He asked, looking down into her eyes again.

"Of course I can Neuro. Because....I...I love you to. And.....I love all of you. Demonic traits included." She said, blushing deeply.

Neuro smiled, obviously pleased. "Well then." He said wrapping his arms around her waist. "Allow me to show you....just how much of my demonic traits there are to love."

A/N: Well, it took forever, but here it is. Chapter 5. I'm sorry to those of you who have been waiting so long for a new chapter. For those of you who are new to my story, I am in school, and it does tend to take me forever to post a new chapter. Especially in times like now when my grades have been far less than acceptable. I would like to extend my thanks and love to all the wonderful and encouraging reviewers. However, I would like to personally credit Eos-hime with the successful production of this chapter. As I know some of you may have wondered, yes, for I time, I had given up on this story. But about 3 or 4 days ago, I got a review from Eos that quotes the scene from chapter 4 where Neuro cried. I was amazed at the strength of the imagery, and was very moved by it. I even though that they were giving me a suggestion for the next chapter. I was absolutely astonished by it....even more so when I realized at the end of of their review that the writing was not theirs, but my own. And...basically, that inspired me to continue writing the story. Let this be proof to you all that meaningful reviews do help me, so I look forward to more. I can not guarantee when the next chapter will be out, but I thank each and every one of you for being so patient and for continuing to come back and read my story. I love you all. Take care until next time.