Hello everyone! I'm really sorry that this chapter took me so long to write. – sliding bow down--- please forgive me. I'm really happy that you have all stuck through me all the way through this fanfic. I really appreciate it. I'm sorry to say though that this is the last chapter. I have seemingly lost interest and have been writing this chapter ever since I got home from school so I hope that it will suffice for my long absence.

Please enjoy this long awaited chapter. :D

Mate

I could feel every last ounce of my strength leave me as I finished healing the lord's wound. My back went limp as I leaned all my weight on Sesshoumaru. I could feel as I slipped in and out of consciousness. It was hard… trying to keep my eyes open was nearly impossible.

"I'm sorry Nizuni," Sesshoumaru whispered into my ear, "I should not have marked you unasked."

"No…" I struggled with my words, "Please… don't apologize…"

My voice was quiet, even though I was close to him.

"I've… always felt this way."

"Don't speak Nizuni. Save your energy," he told me, wrapping his arms around my waist and holding me against him.

'What… energy?' I questioned myself, trying to open my eye. It took me a few moments to realize that they weren't going to open.

"Damn…" I murmured, furrowing my eyebrows.

I didn't like that at all. If opening my eyes was a hard task then that made me weak.

It was a weird feeling… I knew the feeling but in my dazed condition I couldn't help but be a little confused. My body was passing through something… and then there was nothing. Only darkness…


Yakazumi raised out of the ground a short distance away from Sesshoumaru, the girl in his arms. He was watching her almost… lovingly.

"A sweetheart isn't she?" he asked the lord that was still sitting confused and wincing on the ground, "Sacrificing everything to save your life."

"Let her go," Sesshoumaru growled, "She doesn't want to go with you."

"I'm her brother," Yakazumi laughed as he shook his head, "She's spent all this time looking just for me. Of course she wants to come with me."

"Have you asked her?" the lord asked hatefully, "Have you even considered what she desires?"

Another laugh… Sesshoumaru didn't see what was so amusing about the situation.

"She's the one being selfish. She wants to be with a lowly dog and let this clan die. All I want is to rebuild it and make it stronger."

"By destroying how many others?" Sesshoumaru growled.

"Our sibling relationships are much different lord Sesshoumaru, so do not tell me how to treat my sister."

Shadows formed in a large circle around Yakazumi and he began to sink through it, taking the unconscious girl with him.

"Say farewell lord Sesshoumaru. You will never see Nizuni again."

A loud, fierce growl broke through the trees as Sesshoumaru lost himself in his rage. He began to take his true form… began to realize that he must break his promise that he had once made.


Fayt watched as Yakazumi brought himself out of the ground. He looked rather concerned at the sight of the unconscious girl in his arms.

"Brother, are you sure that this is the right thing to do?" the shadow dragon questioned with a slightly cocked brow.

"She is our sister Fayt. She belongs with us and belongs with you," Yakazumi explained calmly.

"I don't want to take her if she has already been marked, brother," Fayt stated, taking a step closer to the siblings.

"No one will be there to see the mark except you and me," Yakazumi stated with a small smile, "No other would know what had happened."

"I would," he said, grabbing his brother's shoulder, "and I will not make Nizuni do the same as our mother had."

"I promised our sister to you before she had met that mutt Sesshoumaru, Fayt. Nizuni rightfully belongs to you," the older brother explained, slightly annoyed with his younger brother's questions.

Fayt made a displeased expression at the explanation. He was going to make the two mate together then?

"You will take Nizuni once this whole ordeal with the dog is dealt with. Then the reconstruction of the clan can also begin," Yakazumi murmured, handing the unconscious girl to Faye.

With a sigh, the shadow dragon took his half sister into his arms and held her tightly to him. He wanted her with his entire being… but if she did not want him in return then what was the point? It would be a forced love – a duty. He didn't want such a thing.

Their clans may have been dying, but what they chose to do with their bloodlines was their choice… not Yakazumi's.

"What about the cat and Abel?" Fayt found himself asking.

"They became an inconvenience and I had to remove their game pieces from play," Yakazumi explained, shaking his head slightly.

"I guess the king comes last then," the dragon murmured.

"It appears that way brother."


Loud pants, paws hitting the ground, and the sound of trees being knocked over could be heard through the dark forest. The lord could not find the Shadow demons anywhere. He had followed their scent through the ground until a point where it had completely disappeared. This only enraged his demon further… made him push himself to every edge of his lands and farther.

Days had passed before he had returned to his humanlike form. It still rained, even now as he sat against a thick trunk of a tree. His golden orbs remained shut as he thought… as he tried to remember a way to get to the place of the Shadow demon clan. They had once lived in one village hidden by the power of a priestess kind enough to give them refuge from other demons. It was hidden in a mountain – in a valley – somewhere around the area.

"Maybe that's where they went," Sesshoumaru murmured to himself.

Once he had Nizuni back he knew that he would let no one else take her away. He needed her now, more than so many things. He wanted her to have his pups and raise them with him.

"I will find you."


My hands were chained above my head in our old hut; in our once home. They were attached to the hut and made in such a way that if I used my power of the shadows then the hut would come with me. There was no possible way to escape from them.

"So then I guess you're the one that's going to mate the she-dragon," I hissed at Yakazumi as he stood guard in the doorway of our old hut.

"I would rather take both you and the she-dragon and make you both bear my children," he explained rather dully, "If I told Fayt that then I'm sure that he would comply and would be willing to share you with me."

My fists clenched hatefully at the thought.

"I'm just an item to you aren't I?" I growled, glaring at his back.

My brother turned and smirked at me before coming over. Placing a hand on my cheek, he leaned closer to me.

"Be thankful sister," he mused, "because I will be gentler with you than the dragon. You are the only female with pure Shadow blood. Do you really think I would want that to go to waste?"

"Even if you did, the child would be the only one," I hissed hatefully, turning my head away from his.

"Then we would have as many as it takes to keep the cycle going."

I seethed at his words. 'I guess I really am just an item to you.'

His hand touched my thigh before moving up my leg to my lower region. I kicked my legs at the touch.

"What the hell are you doing?" I growled, trying to keep him away.

"Fayt has gone to find your precious lord and remove him from the picture. I intend on taking you with his leave," Yakazumi explained before his lips forcefully captured mine.

I was pulled away from the wall to a lying position on the floor; the chains on my hands moving through the wood at my brother's command. His shadows tied my legs to the ground, keeping them spread apart for him. I bit his tongue; forcing him to pull away.

"Don't worry Nizuni, you'll get used to this," Yakazumi mused pleasantly, "You'll be the mother of many children, both pure and mixed… the re-builder of our clan."

"I don't want to rebuild our clan. I don't care anymore!" I growled, trying to struggle out of my restraints.

"Well it's something that you're going to have to live with."

Claws pulled my pants from me before opening my hoari fully. A finger traced down my shoulder, down my collar bone, and between my breasts.

"Get off Yakazumi! I'm not doing this!" I demanded, still struggling.

"You have no choice dear sister."

His hands cupped my breasts, fondling them gently. I tried to turn away from him, but I was completely strapped down. I closed my eyes and turned my head away. There was no point in calling for help. 'I'm screwed… there's no point in fighting this because Sesshoumaru won't find me… Not here…'

Yakazumi removed his own clothes before moving down to place his mouth on a nipple. He began to suckle… and I couldn't fight the groan that escaped my lips. Pleasure started to rise within me; the same pleasure as before with Fayt.

"Stop," I pleaded, "Please."

He didn't stop and continued. After a while, his mouth had been everywhere from my upper torso to my lower torso. My body was filled with unwanted pleasure as he placed himself at my opening.

"Be a good girl and moan for me," he murmured before pain filled my lower region.

His member was inside me, buried deeply within my opening. I tried to struggle and force the feeling away… but I failed.

I groaned with displeasure as he started to move within me; as he started to take my body. My fists clenched tightly, my own claws digging into my palms. It was strange and uncomfortable. Out of the males… I was being taken by my own brother… by my own flesh and blood.

"You have to know how to please if you're going to be taken by your other brother as well," he mused, pushing in deeply, "Otherwise I don't think that Fayt will be pleased with his female choice."

My brows furrowed with his words.

"Fayt's… my brother?" I asked with confusion.

"Our brother," he corrected.

I groaned as he continued to move… as he released inside me. Yakazumi faltered as he moaned with bliss at his climax.

"That should do dear sister," he panted before slowly getting to his feet, "At least for now."

Opening my eyes, I started blankly at the ceiling of the hut. I had been raped by my own brother…

Sighing, my head fell to the side with shame. 'How could this happen?'

"I'm sorry Sesshoumaru," I whispered, feeling tears well up in my eyes.


Sesshoumaru glared at Fayt as he approached the entrance of the mountain valley. The dragon was standing with crossed arms against the barrier.

"If you know what's good for you Fayt, you will move," the demon lord threatened, cracking his claws.

"The barrier is open lord Sesshoumaru," Fayt explained rather solemnly, "I cannot follow Yakazumi's plan any longer."

"What are you saying?"

"She has been taken my lord," the dragon murmured.

"…By who?"

"Yakazumi…"

Sesshoumaru's fists clenched hatefully with those words. Without a word, the lord went past the dragon and through the barrier. If there was anything that he would not stand for… it was someone claiming his mate before he could.


Battle sounds were heard outside the hut and it stirred me out of my sleep. My eyes opened slightly when I heard footsteps close to the doorway. I looked up with confusion, only to see a blurry figure standing there.

"Nizuni…"

"…S-Sesshoumaru?" I asked with confusion.

The chains were broken in a moment and I was held in a tight embrace. I welcomed his scent easily as he held me close.

"Things will be alright Nizuni. Yakazumi can't hurt you anymore," he murmured into my ear.

I smiled slightly at his words. He may have been my brother… but he didn't act like it.

"Okay."

End of Fanfic

Epilogue

I couldn't help but smile at the sight of the three children running and wrestling in the plains. They got along well together. Two of them were twins… conceived from my deceased brother. The other was Sesshoumaru's child. The twins were seven, and Sesshoumaru's child was four.

His arm wrapped around my shoulder as he placed a hand on my rather large stomach. I smiled at his touch. Even past his cold exterior… Sesshoumaru made a good father.

"I love you," he whispered into my ear, resting his head against mine.

"I love you too Sesshoumaru."


Okay… so was it okay? Was it a good ending? Please, tell me! –begs- I'm sorry if that part where Yakazumi rapes Nizuni was too much. My apologies but I needed something and some kind of twist to make the chapter longer… it seemed like a good idea at the time. Don't spear me! – hides behind a corner—

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