Akuma: Today's song is 'At Your Own Speed' by Yoko Ishida. If you would like the lyrics in English, I will be glad enough to send them to you when I have the time. I got into my play, I'm Posidon...strange, I know. A girl playing a greek sea god. Oh well, I love my lines and how I have to say them. Also, my calculations were all wrong and it's actually 8 months pregnant for Yuuki, and she has one more month to go. I won't tell you how late it is in the month so you won't know when Yuuki is giving birth. I thank InuKa and Siane and Ayame and ...Satsuki I guess. (I miss her) for the first reviews so far

Chapter 2: At Your Own Speed


Yuuki and Kousen stood on the banks, Kousen's arms wrapped around her waist and broght her back close to his chest. "One more month," he whispered into her ear and kissed her gently on the cheek.

Yuuki kehed and rubbed her swelled ab, "I think she would be beautiful."

"She? Keh, I believe that it's going to be a he." he rolled his eyes, "And he's going to be handsome, just like his father."

"I guess we will never know until the birth." Yuuki sighed, Even though I know it's a girl.

Kousen glared off into the distance, his thoughts didn't care about the gender of the child that moment, but if the nightmare was an omen or just a silly coincindence.


"What's the name of the child," his sister smiled apon him, then over to the small hanyou pup in Yuuki's arms.

Kousen smirked at her, "Sawao..." then he glanced over to Yuuki, who kehed. "right?" he saw the slight glitter in Yuuki's smirking eye. "It's a he! Isn't it," he pleaded.

"Kousen...Kousen, you let your guard down so easily," a raspy voice suprised them all in a sudden thunder.

Kousen looked everywhere for the owner of the words, when he felt a small bite on his neck. Kousen forced the object off him, and gasped at what appeared in his arms, a small wolfdog hanyou pup with white hair glared at him. It was his own pup, only with the evil glare of it's red eyes reflecting off the walls of the secluded area. Kousen held hard on the grip of the pup as he turned and saw his Yuuki torn to shreds, her bones layed out where she layed. Blood stained the wooden walls with a dark red color.

"Father..." the small pup growled.

Kousen glared at the pup, this was certainly not his. "What have you done to my child, whoever you are!"

"I'm right here father, I just want to kill you." it smirked as it's throught gurgled with a deep growlish voice.

"Why?"

"For bringing me into this world," the thing's smirk turned into a glare of death, "I will never forgive you." it snapped, "Tsumi will help me. But first, Tsumi has to be brought to life."

Kousen wanted to kill it right there and then, "How?"

"Sometime's you can't figure out every single object of the future. That ruins all the fun." the young pup was able to wriggle out of his arms and in a split second lept for his face and the last Kousen heard was the cruching of teeth and he felt the warmness of the blood. His blood.


"Kousen" Yuuki snapped him out.

Kousen closed his eyes and swallowed down the memory, "yes."

"What's wrong, I've been trying to talk to you for the past minute but you've been sitting there staring out in the distance like a zombie." she rolled her eyes.

"Sorry." he sighed as he grasped her closer. What does 'Tsumi will help me' mean. Does it mean that Tsumi is still alive. No, he isn't. That thing said he had to be brought to life, but how?. He thought deeper of how their enemy could be breathing the air again, and who would help him.

Yuuki couldn't take it anymore, "You've changed Kousen, and I don't like it. I never expected you to turn out like me and hold your problems from your mate."

"I just...just want to...can we changet the subject?" Kousen growled, "I don't like talking about this."

Yuuki sighed and turned back to her regular position. "Please tell me one day...okay."


Miyuki nursed Chiyo in her arms while Kiba sat by her, "I'm so glad I met you." Kiba kissed her gently on the cheek.

Miyuki tore Chiyo away and covered her breast with her harori and smiled, "me too."

"Sesshoumaru..." Satsuki's voice was heard from outside.

Houshou's voice was heard too, "FADER." the wolfdog gleed with happiness.

"What's with the sad face...or, is that a sad face." Satsuki joked.

"This is no time for jokes...where's Yuuki." he snapped.

Satsuki knew then that something was wrong, "What's going on?"

Sesshoumaru's sigh was heard and a whisper into Satsuki's ear and a gasp told that something was wrong...terribly wrong. "I think I saw her with Kousen heading towards the river banks." Satsuki whispered out with sadness in her voice. Sesshoumaru's steps here heard on the grass, becoming dimmer with each step away from them.

"Wats wong mwommy?" Houshou questioned, "Why awre you and daddy sad?"

"I have to go talk to Aunt Miyuki and Uncle Kiba for a sec, kay." Satsuki's mother voice told her son. "Stay out here and out of danger and trouble." she instantly entered the hut, "Yuuki's parents are..." Satsuki started with a bold but sad voice, but couldn't finish the sentace and she gave a wimper.

Miyuki gulped, "are...what?"

Kiba stayed silent as he tried to listen to Satsuki's pulls of bravery to tell through her wimpers. And he started to wimper along.


Kousen's dog ears twitched along with his nose, "Why's Sesshoumaru coming?" he let go of Yuuki.

Yuuki looked up to Kousen, then to where Kousen was facing. Indeed, Sesshoumaru was walking...running looked a bit more like it...towards them. "Sesshoumaru, konnichiwa"

"Yuuki, I've got bad news." he stopped before them and sighed out, "About your parents"

Kousen blinked at his uncle. "yeah?"

Yuuki sat there, forgetting to breath.

"A boy came up to me, said he'd been looking for you, Yuuki, to give the message that was sent a few weeks ago, but he could never find you. Your parents, Yuuki, were looking for you, they knew of the future and wanted to give you this," Sesshoumaru opened his palm to reveal a claw, like Miyuki's and Kiba's, but this one was a dark purple. An Earth Youkai claw. "They couldn't find you and had no choice but to give a messenger this to give it to you, because...your parents are dead."

Yuuki let out a long gasp, and tears forced at her eyes as she held them back and let out wimpers.

nandatte itsumade mo nayande dare ka no kotoba ni nagasareru no?

konna futashika na toki samayoi tsuzuke teru

nichiyouno nigiyaka na kousaten sore zore no speed de aruiteru

minna motteru kizu to kuyashisa wo kakushi nagara

honou no ai wo sagashi te

kitto jibun ga omoi kireba nani ka kawaru

yuuki dashite ippo fumi desou

kowagara nai de minna ga iru hitori jya nai

ima wa mae ni susumenaku temo kimi rashii speed de

itsu date tsukimatou pride dare ka no mae de namida nagaenai

itai kurai sakendemo todokanai kodoku na yoru

demo ashita ni tsunagatte ru

kitto jibun rashiku aru tame tsumazuitari hitori de naitari shiterunda

tasukete kureru takusan no te

itsumo soba ni aru koto wasurenai de ikou

kimi rashii speed de

kitto kore kara mo deai to wakare ga aru

ima wa mada tachi domatte te mo

mayoi nagara mo aruite ikou hitori jya nai

taisetsu na no wa shinjiru koto kimi rashii speed de

"I believe I should leave you alone for a while." Sesshoumaru turned and walked off while dropping the earth youkai claw on the ground near them, "See you back at home."

Kousen glanced down at his mate, he could tell that she was in pain...immense. "Yuuki..." he whispered.

"It's all my fault Kousen, if I hadn't left, they would be still alive. They wouldn't be searching all over the world if I hadn't left. I never even said good-bye when you took me away." she dug her face into his chest and cried.

Kousen sighed, he remembered when he saw his parents die right before his eyes, especially his mother who died because of his birth took up the rest of her strength. "I never said good-bye to my parents either..." he tried to make her feel better.

"AT LEAST YOU WERE AT THEIR DEATH BED." Yuuki cried out, "I haven't seen my parents for months...and you tried to help your parents before they died."

Kousen grasped his fire claw that hung at his neck, "No I didn't. I never tried to save my mother since I was only a newborn and didn't know the definition of death."

"But that's it, you were young...that's an excuse."

Kousen growled in a whisper, "But I was also a helper for my mother's death. She was too weak to go into labor with me." He looked down at his mate and could see in her indigo eyes that she was in too much pain to argue. "At least you know they love you." Kousen smiled as he grabed the Earth-youkai claw from the ground and hung in front of Yuuki.

Yuuki looked up to him, and saw a smile on his face with his eyes faced towards the necklace. She followed them and saw a peice of paper tightly wrapped around the leather strap. Yuuki grasped hold of the note and carefully undid it and read the inscription.

Dear Yuuki,

If you are reading this, we are probably dead. We just wanted to tell you that we both love you very much. So we took this Earth Youkai claw from the battle when your father proposed to me and gave it to you. We will alway's watch over you.

From Mother and Father, (Sango and Miroku)

Yuuki felt the leather strap fall around the nape of her neck while Kousen slightly kissed her on the nape, "Don't worry about it so much, your parents wouldn't want you to act like this."

"I guess your right, Kousen, I guess your right." she lifted the purple claw and looked into her reflection, and smiled.


Akuma: A rather smushed chapter. I'm sorry but I'm rather tired and tied up so I was not really in the creative mood. Sad chapter, but such a stupid one. Also, I got my new glasses...did I ever tell you that I wear glasses? SURPRISE. I do, I don't get my contacts for a few weeks though. I love these glasses, they certainly look better than those damn wire ones. Did I mention I got in at at play, I'm the Sea God, Posiden. sqeels I know I have to play a man but it's so fun yelling at people and not being yelled at for it because it's just an act. I saw the Da Vinci Code, and I love it. I either need to go to the movie theatre and get the DVD when it comes out, or just get the DVD. Oh, and I'm suggesting that you send in songs for me to put in the story. All the good songs are in the first story, so if you send me a song that is totaly awsome and I think it would go great with a chapter for the story, I will put it in. Got it, so I got songs more people can reconize. Don't forget, I need reviews for songs.