Negi spent all night feeling furious with himself for not realizing that he had fallen into a trap until it was too late. While wracking his brain trying to figure out what the man could be planning or what he wanted...

Well never mind. Negi already knew what the man wanted.

He wanted his daughter, Nara. And Negi wasn't happy about it. Not one little bit. Nara was his baby girl. His only baby girl. And if some psycho thought that he would give her up without a fight, he had another thing coming.

It was in the early morning hours that his senses began to come back to him and he started to study the room, looking for obvious weaknesses and ways to escape. One weakness that he found was the window, however it was locked and breaking it would let his kidnapper know that he was up to something. Not only that but with Nara sleeping like she was, he'd bet anything that she had been drugged.

And that meant that trying to get her out would be risky. Far too risky for her in her current condition since he didn't know just how badly she was hurt and was afraid to move her.

He spent what felt like hours looking around the room before his eyes finally started to burn and he passed out on the floor, leaning against the bed holding his daughter's hand.

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Akisame hadn't slept more than an hour the entire night. He'd been too busy coming up with a plan to deal with Negi. And by the time morning rolled around he was ready to get things out of the way.

His plan was simple. And went against everything that he had been taught about blending in, but as far as he could tell it was the only way to get Negi and Nara to understand their situation fully.

He bit back a yawn and got to his feet and went in search of Sakaki, Apachai, and Kensei, needing them to back him up in this endeavor.

He swung by the kitchen and found Sakaki, fully healed from his wounds on his knees on the floor with his arms wrapped around Miu's slender waist, his head tipped back so that he could see his wife's face and he had a pleading expression on his face.

"Please, please, please, please Miu! I swear I didn't do anything that Akisame said I did! I'm a victim for crying out loud-"

"And you whine like an old woman." Akisame said in amusement from the door way. Sakaki looked towards the door and growled at Akisame. Earning a smack to the head from Miu as she smiled at him.

"Good morning Akisame."

"Good morning little sister-" Akisame said cheerfully before glancing at his brother and smirking evilly. "Retard."

"Heartless bastard." Sakaki snapped back at him as he slowly got to his feet then asked. "So what's this I heard from Apachai this morning about having another human in our midst?" Miu reached out and pinched her husband's arm causing the wolf demon to jump and back away from her as she hissed.

"How many times do I have to tell you not to refer to us as 'humans'? We're people for heaven's sake."

"Ow! Sorry, sorry- Ow. Did you have to pinch me so hard? I feel like I'm bleeding or something-" Sakaki said as he rubbed the sore spot then looked back at Akisame expectantly as his brother laughed at him. "So about that-" Miu made a warning sound earning a wary look from her husband before he continued. "Uh...person. Who is it?"

"That person is my father-in-law. Or at least he will be once I've mated Nara." Sakaki's jaw dropped and Miu looked at him like he was deranged as Akisame stepped into the room and walked over to the counter and pulled a coffee cup from one of the shelves over Miu's head and then fixed himself some of the coffee that Miu had made a short while ago.

"Oh my god Akisame!" Miu shrieked as Sakaki reached out and picked up his wife and walked over to the door and set her out in the hallway and then shut the door in her face with a muttered.

"Sorry babe, guy talk time-" Sakaki turned and looked at Akisame with a dark look on his face and snarled. "You've got some damn big balls bringing an outsider into our home like this brother."

Akisame ignored him for a moment then said softly. "I felt that I didn't have a choice Sakaki. Nara would never be content here unless she could see her father. She would have kept risking her life in an effort to escape and then inevitably she would have died. This seemed like the lesser of two evils. She gets her father. And I get her."

Sakaki's expression lost some of it's ferocity and he leaned his back against the door and ran one hand through his dark hair and sighed. "Fuck man. How are you going to deal with having that male around? You know he isn't going to just step aside or hand Nara over to you peacefully."

"I'm not going to give him a choice. I haven't explained anything to Nara yet about who we are. I figured that I would do that today with her father in the room. I'll explain things as simply as I can. I'm not completely human. And as someone who isn't fully human, I have a bad tendency to let my instincts lead me. If I see something I want. I go get it. And if they don't believe me, then I'll ask one of you to transform right there where they can see you. That way they'll have no way to say it's a trick or we're fake or sick in the head."

"I'll let Nara know that she can leave if she really wants too. But with her father here, I've taken away her main reason for wanting to leave. So I doubt that she'll try to run away again."

"She'll think that your punishing her father because she tried to leave." Sakaki pointed out. Akisame looked at him, a thoughtful expression on his face.

"I'm not punishing anyone because it was my fault that she tried to leave. But never the less I suppose that things will become a bit more strained than they already are."