I ran through the streets, desperately searching, looking for the one person who would be able to confirm the fact that I wasn't the last. To let me see that perhaps I hadn't destroyed everyone in my life. I came to a quick halt outside of the area I was told to meet him at. The streets were dark and quiet, not a person in sight.

My heart thundered in my chest as I took a step forward, glancing around for the man I knew would be there. There was a sudden presence behind me and I whirled around, my eyes widening as they fell upon the one person I never knew the true fate of. My brother stood before me, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his expression blank.

"Kokuren, is it really you?" I asked softly, taking a small step forward only for my blood to run cold as the once trusted face of my brother turned harsh and cold as he brandished a knife in my direction. "Of course it's me, who else would know what you are?" He gritted his teeth at me and I felt my heart beginning to race in my chest.

"What are you doing, Kokuren?" I demanded slightly, but my voice had a small falter in it. I could kill without emotion so long as I didn't hurt those I cared about or my mate, but this was my brother for crying out loud! He was the only family I had left, and I didn't even know that he was still alive.

"Our entire village was slaughtered that day... and now I'm going to make sure our bloodline stops here!" I growled and jumped forward, slicing down into my arm as I quickly stepped back, trying to block him and talk some kind of sense into him. "Kokuren, stop! I don't want to fight you!"

He grit his teeth at me and jumped at me again, narrowly missing my shoulder. The beast was screaming in fury within my mind, but I couldn't let her out... I couldn't let her kill my last remaining family member, not when I had a chance to be able to talk some sense into him and get him to stop this foolishness.

"You don't see it do you? The destruction of our entire clan was because of us! Our blood is some toxin that ensnares others! That is why the raiders showed up, and it isn't like mother helped with all of her talk about being so great and being such a superior clan! She poisoned everyone's minds, but I broke free, and now I need to end it here and now. I need to kill you and then I will kill myself."

I was stunned as he said this and I shook my head in frustration. "Stop! Don't you hear yourself!? Don't you hear how crazy you sound right now? Killing me and yourself won't do anything! I have kept myself secret from almost everyone, you are the only one who is in the wrong here, Kokuren!"

He grinned, a twisted and feral smile that chilled em to my very core. "You sound just like mother when she tried to stop me... that bitch got what was coming to her! She treated everyone so badly except for you! You were the little perfect golden child who could do no wrong and father just let her behave like that to us! He didn't care. No, as long as YOU were safe, no one cared!"

I was surprised as he said this. Of course I knew, and ti came as no shock to me, but I was the one who stepped in to be a mother to our siblings, where he could have easily done his best to take care of them as well, but he refused. He refused to be the one who could help our family thrive, instead he turned to drinking and was hardly ever home.

But his other words rang with me, it was clear that I did not have any memory, mine or the beasts, as to what happed to my parents and what happened to him, but now I could see... I could see that he was the one who killed my parents and then he went and hid away like the coward he was.

"You and I both need to die! Finally send the pretender little 'perfect' girl to her grave and then I will be the end of the poisonous bloodline of ours! There is no other way. We all should have died when that beast attacked us, and you should have died sealing it away, but you lived!

"I wanted to just kill you and be over it... but I couldn't... you were my little sister and I was supposed to take care of you. I wasn't ready to kill a child... but now you're not a child... you are just a demon wearing the face of my sister and you need to be killed for your transgressions against everyone! You're just a horrible monster that shouldn't even be alive."

He growled angrily and held the knife up to me before diving forward once more and slashing it at me as if he were trying his damnedest to gut me then and there. I moved back, but I knew that there was no sense talking to him anymore, his face was twisted and insane. He was already too far gone.

I heard a familiar voice near me and I knew that Hisoka had come with the Zoldycks to try and help me in what ever way they could, but I was past the point of needing help. The moment Silva took a step forward to get into the fight I growled and called out, making my intentions clear.

"Don't you dare get into this fight! It had nothing to do with the three of you! If anyone is to end this fight, it will be me or my brother! Outsiders have no place in this!" That seemed to make the three of them freeze as I dodged another attack from my brother and I felt the harsh truth settle in my chest. Either my brother or I would have to die, there was no other option.

It was a hard truth that I was going to have to accept, but I knew that there was no way around it. I had to weigh my options. My brother was clearly unbound, so that meant that there would be no one except for myself to feel the pain of his passing, where I was bound as well as having a child that I would need to care for.

The odds were clear, and it was obvious that I would have to kill my own brother, if not to save myself then to save my mate and to save the child that I was trying to protect with all of my life. My brother was insane... but he was still my brother... I would take no pleasure in killing him, and I knew it would hurt me for a long time after this.

I felt the pain fill my heart and swell in my chest. The pain was enough for the beast to quiet down and for my mind to be purely my own. If anyone was to fell my brother, it would be me and no one else would have a hand in this. It was my job, after all, to kill the unbound and to keep my clan and family a secret. He was a threat, and he needed to die.

I bit my lip as I once again dodged his attack and pulled a blade of my own, the very same that I had to use to kill my little brother Kitsune to end his suffering. Now it would taste the blood of my family once more, in order to end his torment and suffering form the darkness that plagued his mind.

I couldn't save him from his insanity, but I could free him from it. My movements were swift and precise as I sliced the blade into my own brother, stumbling him and kicking him back into the ground. The pain that filled his eyes made my heart swell in agony, but this was something I had to do. No one else should do it, and it was by my hand he needed to die.

I slowly walked over to him, kneeling next to him as he lay in a pool of his own blood, gasping for air, his shades had fallen off and his eyes now gazed up at the sky before rolling over to look at me. "K-Kiame... it hurts... so much..." He gasped out, blood spattering on my face and I felt the tears form in my eyes and fall gently down my cheeks as I forced a smile.

"I know it hurts... I know, Kokuren... but I'm going to make it go away, alright? You won't hurt anymore, my brother. Just close your eyes, and trust me... Trust me to help you." His eyes slid shut and his breathing became more labored as I pressed my hand over his eyes, my hand shaking as I raised my own blade, saying a silent prayer for my brother's mind before my hand flew down.

I shook violently as I heard the sound that was his final breath and I felt the tears rush faster down my cheeks as I slowly pulled my hand away, knowing that now, I had killed my own family once more, to end their torment. A soft sob escaped my throat as I slowly fell back against the wall behind me, pulling my knees up to my chest and hiding my face.

It was all too much for me... I just couldn't deal with this right now. I had to go away into my mind, that was the only place I could heal and escape the cruel world that had forced me to kill my last remaining brother. I let the numbness consume me and fill my mind to the brink.

~~~Hisoka P.O.V.~~~

I stood silently, watching as Kiame suddenly stopped shaking, her eyes going blank and her face becoming emotionless. The tears still fell, but she no longer moved to acknowledge them, just letting them fall down her face as she stared at the corpse of her brother who had tried so hard to kill her.

Her actions up until them reminded me of the memory she showed me where she had to kill her brother Kitsune to stop his suffering, and now she had to kill another one of her brothers to stop his pain and madness. Her eyes were that of a broken woman, and she didn't even respond as I walked over and picked her up, her entire body limp. It was like her mind was gone.

"To kill for a job is one thing and is fairly easy to get over, but to kill family in self-defense is another thing entirely. That is something that can break even the strongest soul." Zeno murmured softly from somewhere behind me as I turned, carrying my broken little mate.

"She needs time to heal... to get over such an event... it would be best if she healed in the estate." I nodded, silently agreeing though I believed that I should be with her to help her heal. However, it was clear that perhaps she wasn't even there anymore, like she just mentally checked out from her body.

I handed her off to the larger Zoldyck who stood in silence, his eyes trailing from her to her dead brother. She would need time... and lost of it if she planned to heal... or if she ever healed. She was not dead, that much I could feel, but I could feel no emotion and no energy from her side of the bond. Was she just broken, or was she mentally gone?