I was enraged with myself. I had little to no control around her, I felt... vulnerable. I couldn't hurt her, and yet I couldn't have her either! It was driving me mad... I was humiliated when she discovered my erection, an angered when she pitied me enough to ignore it. Even the small amount of time she has lived with the fox has softened her greatly... if she were thinking rationally, that would have been an opportune moment to take advantage of the fact I was willing to claim her. Now that I'm thinking about it, I want to claim her... but it is custom to ask permission from the nearest kin, and then you mark, and then you conceive... it is tradition.

I know enough of this woman that she can take care of my child and rear him like a true youkai warrior.

While laying in the cave alone, almost reaching the brink where I lose myself- I reflected back on the past year, the youkai I have become- the human I've become... it disgusted me to be so separate from everything about home, and whats worse is that I am unable to return...

But here, I have an incredibly attractive fire youkai, I long for him, he is gentle, but strong- and I feel strange around him, its unexplainable, I feel young... foolish... giddy? He smells like the Makai, and that alone is more then enough to turn me on... but he is also of the kooromie, the asexual female youkai race, it is odd that his mother was bedded- and they allowed him to survive... unless that was a mistake. I long for his company- but in my last day of rutting I see it fit that we remain apart.

Her sent escaped the cave we had been dwelling in- I was hooked like a human seeking his next fix... like a long drag of a cigarette, he sent captivated me...

I entered the cave.

I sensed him enter the opening of the cave, I was rutting and he was ready- he touched my arm like it was made of glass "Kurama, you will obey me?" I frowned, "Akito... and, I will"
he smirked "Akito. ..you will be faithful?" I looked into his eyes "Hiei"

I was more then ready when she agreed to be my mate. I was ecstatic.

We knew nothing about each other. We've spent only moments together over the past year, when my brother smells I've been made a claim he will be furious, and as a Makai custom, he will more then likely force me to conceal it... but if Hiei knows the formal procedure, the marking will never leave- it will be a permanent scar. If I were in the Makai, it would be considered nudity to let somebody see it. But we are not in the Makai, an since I am no longer under my brother's charge... I can freely accept a mate.

I admit, I have contemplated about the remarkable koroomie... he would make a suitable mate- even being an outside race, our pups will be strong.

Anyways... it's too late for anyone to stop us.

He smiled at me, sweetly almost- it was the strangest sensation... to feel... bubbly...

It was my first time to have taken a male during my rut... and it felt amazing.

I looked over at the fire youkai he was firmly holding onto my center, he was smiling, I was smiling... he began rubbing my belly before whispering "...komodo"
I nodded, I knew, I felt it when it happened. I was proud... even happy, we had conceived during our first union. I knew that it was about time I settled down for a mate- but never in my wildest dreams did I think it was going to be during my first rut in the ningenkai... I had accepted the fact that I was now the ningen equivalent of being married, and I was fine with this blissful even... now my only worry was...

What were we going to tell my brother?