Kakashi dragged Uzu upstairs and pushed her into a room and quickly shut the door and locked it behind him. "Kashi?"

"Hush... I just want you to myself for a little bit." He said as he walked over to the bed and pulled the covers back and waited for her to climb in. She hesitated for a second and he made an impatient sound.

"Come here Uzu. I need to check you over with my own eyes and make sure that you're really okay." He said gently as he reached out to her. She looked at his hand warily and wondered what he would do once he saw the markings that his father had put on her. She didn't thing that he would take seeing the bites very well. And she doubted that he would simply let it slide.

"Is there a problem Uzu?" Kakashi asked after a second, moving away from the bed and grasping her wrist and pulling her over to the bed and pushing her down onto it and grasping the front of her shirt.

"Kashi..."

His expression was dark as he unbuttoned the buttons. His father had done something to her. He could tell by the way that she was acting. She had never looked so anxious, and nervous before. "What did he do?"

"N-Nothing Kashi. I-I'm fine." Uzu stuttered as she tried to pull the lapels of her shirt together as he slipped his hands inside of the soft silky fabric and tried to push it off of her shoulders. She was lying. He could sense it in the way she was trying to hide whatever hsi father had done to her, and though he understood that she didn't want to cause trouble between himself and his father, the gauntlet had already been thrown down.

His father had dared to lay his hands on his mate. And while he may not actually kill him for it like he would anyone else. He didn't have to sit back and allow it to pass either. He grasped her wrists and leaned in and kissed her in an effort to distract her so that he could pull the shirt off of her. She made a whimpering sound as he licked along her lower lip and almost smirked when he felt her hold on the fabric loosen enough for him to pull it aside.

She felt the cool air on her naked skin and jumped a little bit under him and he lifted his mouth and stared at her flushed face and fairly shook with rage as he saw the bite markings on her neck and shoulder. The one on her neck wasn't really what pissed him off so badly. What pissed him off so badly was the bite mark on her shoulder.

The one that was raw and red and angry looking. The one where he could clearly see his fathers teeth imprinted on her smooth pale skin. He reached out a shaking hand and lightly traced the teeth marks and noticed the way she jumped and twitched under his hand. "Oh god baby..." His father was such an unbelievable bastard to mark her like this. To mark her skin as if she were his mate.

He leaned over her and rested his weight on his elbows and licked the bright red mark. Gently running his tongue along her shoulder. How could his father have done this? How could he have marked his precious love, as his own? What could he have possibly been thinking?

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Sakumo sat down on the couch in the darkened living room drinking a beer and waiting for Kakashi to come barreling down the stairs to kill him. He knew that it was only a matter of time before Kakashi saw the mating mark that he had placed on Sweetness earlier today, and knew that his son would be furious.

But there were things that his son didn't know yet about their creators, and how the mating mark on Sweetness's skin played an important part in ensuring her safety and well being. He knew that it was only a matter of time before their creators came to the ranch looking for him and his son. He also knew that they had promised never to lay their hands on another female that bore his mark, and by claiming her as his mate and the child she carried as his own, his creators wouldn't be able to touch her without losing a majority of their people to his wrath.

Kakashi however was the only real wild card in the deck. No one would expect him to also be mated to the same girl.

It would puzzle their creators. Confound them.

It would also give them something new to study, out of curiosity about how two alpha's could stand to share the same woman and not rip out each others throat. He lifted his beer to his lips and took a small drink, trying to ignore the nervous fluttering in his stomach and set the drink aside.

He was full of regrets.

And though this would add to the numbers, he couldn't help asking himself. What was one more?

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Kakashi kissed Uzu lovingly and then rolled off of her. "Dammit." He muttered as he ran his fingers through his silver hair and sat on the edge of the bed. Uzu lay on the bed for a second or so longer before sitting up.

"Whats wrong?" She asked anxiously as she slowly pulled the lapels of her shirt together. Kakashi looked at her and thinned his lips and sighed.

"We need to talk." He said gently, trying to ease into the news that she now had two mates instead of one because he didn't want to freak her out.

"About what?" She asked as he stood up and walked over to the bedroom door and unlocked it and opened the door.

"Don't worry about it just yet." He said as he slipped out of the room, leaving her alone for the time being as he walked down stairs to get his dad. He wanted the man to tell her himself, what he had done, and why. He came down the steps and looked towards the living room. It was quiet and dark, but he could see his father's outline perfectly in the darkness, sitting on the couch, drinking a beer. Kakashi walked up to him and kicked his left foot.

Needing to vent his frustrations some way that didn't involve punching the ever loving hell out of his dad. "Get up." Kakashi said in an eerily calm voice. Sakumo set his drink back down and stared at his son and licked his lips.

"You found the mark?"

Kakashi bared his fangs at him and flattened his ears back against his head. "Mm, so that's a yes then-" Sakumo said softly as he stood up. "Where am I going?" He asked Kakashi curiously.

"Upstairs to explain to Uzu just what you have done and what it means." Kakashi said in a tone colored by barely restrained rage. Sakumo nodded his head in the dark and started walking, finding just a little bit amusement in the way Kakashi followed him up the steps.

Sakumo entered the bedroom and froze when he saw Uzu sitting on the bed with her shirt unbuttoned and loosely hanging over her shoulders, the lapels covering her breasts, but leaving the soft swells exposed, her long pale blond hair hung over her shoulders and curled around her cheeks. Oh god she looked good.

She turned her head and looked at him and made a funny sound and quickly turned her back on the bed and started to button up her shirt hastily with shaky hands while muttering swears under her breath. Sakumo chuckled and walked into the room and made himself comfortable standing against the wall across from the bed as Kakashi closed the door again and locked it.

Uzu looked up and over at Kakashi and frowned. "Kashi?"

"It's alright baby. We just need to talk. All of us." Kakashi said as he looked over at his father. Sakumo crossed his arms and waited for his son to speak.

Kakashi looked at him and said in a deadly calm voice. "Tell her. Tell Uzu just what you have done."

Uzu looked back and forth between Kakashi and Sakumo with a confused look on her pretty face. "I put a mating mark on her." Sakumo said softly, so softly that Kakashi almost couldn't hear him speaking. And if he couldn't hear his father then he knew that Uzu couldn't.

"Say it louder."

Sakumo gave his son a dark and angry look. "I put a mating mark on her." He said the words coldly, making himself seem as if he didn't care one way or the other and steeled himself for Uzu's reaction. She paled a little bit and looked at Kakashi then him with a panicked expression on her face.

"I-I don't understand, Kashi. What does this mean?"

She sounded so scared. Kakashi's heart ached in his chest. "It means that instead of one lover, you now have two."

She stared at him in shock and shook her head slowly. Sakumo came away from the wall and grasped her hands. "Please don't look like that..." She had such a distressed look on her face that it was literally breaking his heart.

Kakashi ran his fingers through his hair again. God what a fucking mess. "Uzu, honey, I'm sorry about this, but I need to leave you with him so that you can both get to know each other."

Uzu started to move off of the bed but Sakumo caught her before she could reach Kakashi. "Kashi no! Please!" She was scared. She didn't like this situation, and while he couldn't blame her, there was nothing much that he could do other than stay in the room and watch his father. And he doubted that he could stand to do that.

Kakashi was having a hard time keeping himself from crying. If he had ever, ever thought in a hundred years that something like this would happen then he would have walked away form her that first day he had met her. "He won't hurt you honey. He won't. So try not to be so scared..."

She struggled even more in his father's grasp and tried to reach for him. "Kashi!"

Kakashi gave her a sad look and slipped out of the room and closed the door and slumped to the floor crying. Crying because he may have just earned her hatred and contept. Crying because they were facing an uncertain future.

But most of all because he was'nt sure if there was anything that he could say or do for her later, to get things back to the way they had been before.

And he hated himself for it all.