She was loosing.

'I have to help her. but what can I do? What can anyone do now? NO! I cant think that way. There has to be something I can do. I know!' (kyo)

"Kyo! What are you doing!" Yelled a worried Kagura. "Why are you taking your braclet off? You know what will happen"

"I dont care. I cant just stand here while she does this all alone. I have to help. And the only way i'll be strong enough is if I fight in my cursed form to lift the curse." and with that Kyo pulled off the braclet. As he was going through his transformation, he saw flashbacks of himself as a child.

~Flashback~

"Kyo-kun, you must never take this off." His mother had told him as she placed a small braclet on his left wrist.

"Why mother?" A cute little Kyo had asked.

His mother didnt answer him, but everyday after that she checked to see if the braclet was still there.

~end flashback~

Kyo opened his eyes to see a slightly retreating crowd. He didnt care. Once his transformation was complete, he ran into the dark room just in time to catch Kaiya just before she slammed into the floor from one of Shins nasty blows.

"Kyo," she murmered weakly.

"Im not going to let you do this alone. Besides, you said it was the cats fate to lift the curse, and that a similar is born to help its 'other' fulfil the its destiny if the job was to large to do alone. So you see, I cant let you do this alone." Kyo put her down on the floor and her knees gave way, letting her sink to the ground.

Kaiya looked up at him, taking in his mononoke form. 'At least he doesnt have to look as hidius as i do. I can let him have that satisfaction.'Kaiya laughed to herself.

She nodded and got up off the floor. "Lets go get them." she said with renewed strength and confidence. Kyo nodded and they both turned to face the Sohma heads together.

"Aww, look Akito, theyre both here to die together. They will never win. I will not allow you to win! If I must live my life destined to be alone, then I will have at least have the satisfaction and power over you that I deserve." Shin spat. "I shall finish you off in my most powerful form of all. Behold the power of the dragon!"

There was a bright blue light surounding Shin. As the light died down, and everyone unshealded theyre eyes, they saw an enormus dragon towering over them.

"Oh my," Was all Hatori could say.

"He doesnt look so tough." Kaiya said through gritted teeth.

Kyo looked at her in his daze, but quickly shook it off and nodded confidently. And they both ran forward to attack him at the same time. Together, both in their mononoke forms, even in his form as a dragon, Shin was slowly, slowly, becoming weaker.

"YOU WILL NOT TRIUMPH OVER ME!" Shin bellowd as he swung a claw at Kyo, but was stopped mid-slash, Kaiya had bitten his other arm, her dagger like teeth digging into his flesh. distacting him from his target.

"Come and get me. coward!" Kaiya taunted.

"You cant win." Kyo said tauntingly.

'Its true, these two ugly beasts are taking my strength, it seems that as my strength leaves, their strength gets stronger. It will all be over soon. Im sorry brother, I've failed.'(Shin)

"HA! You think you can win! It has only just started." Shin took in a huge breath of air and spat out a great wave of fire. Making a direct hit on Kyo and Kaiya.

.

"KYO! KAIYA!" The Sohma clan yelled out together.

"How could they survive such a thing." Momiji said in a less then cheerful voice. All the Sohmas bowed their heads in respect.

"They died trying to lift the curse. For that, we are eternaly thankful" Hatori spoke to all of them.

Yuki looked up at the place he had last seen the two. 'They cant be gone. He cant be gone. I never told him-'

"Look!" Haru exclaimed as he pointed at the dieing inferno. They all looked up.

"How, how can this be?" Ayame thought out loud.

"Nice trick brother. To bad it didnt work!" Kaiya taunted. Kyo smirked at this.

"NO! How can this be!!!" Shin said outraged. That attack had been his last hope. If that didnt kill them. There was nothing left he could do.

"Lets get this power hungry bastard once and for all." Kyo said confidantly. Kaiya nodded and they both went in for the final attack. To end all the suffering of the cursed Sohma family, and to finaly have peace between one anouther.

As Shin tried dogging the last of the oncoming attacks, he clumsily knocked into everything in the room, shelves, vaces, dressers, chairs, all chattered as the huge dragons body colided with them.

"Your cornered Shin, theres nowhere else to go."

"Give up."

"Never." Shin spat. "Even if it may look like Im loosing, my brother will not allow me to loose. Its because of all of YOU that my brother is to die! I will get my revenge on all of you for just allowing his life to be thrown away! You will all pay!" Shin said as he used the last of his strength to use his knife like claws to slash the to beast cats in two. Just as he was about to make contact, he head "Im sorry Shin. My brother" said a tearful whisper past his ear as two figures attacked him from behind. And Shin fell to the ground, eyes wide open in shock, he changed back into his human form, to weak to now keep his great dragon form.

There was a silence as the two beast cats silently changed back into humans as well, who then turned to the corner where Akito was last seen. He was gone. They heard a grown from behind them and turned to see Shin trying to get up.

Kyo saw one of Akitos 'tresures', an old chinese relic, some old sword. He picked up the unsheathed sword and pointed it directly at Shins face. "Wheres your beloved Akito now Shin?"

Shin could only look up at the infuriated orange haired boy in disbeleaf. "no. he wouldnt leave. he wouldnt leave me." He said in denial.

"Its true Shin, Im sorry, you faught for Akito, in his name, and now he has deserted you." Kaiya said almost sypatheticly now standing infront of her half-brother.

"You thought that by making the cat seem like the lowest of the jyunnishi, that you could prevent its destiny from being fulfilled. You made the whole jyunnishi think that the cat was the scum of the earth. Ever since the begining of this curse, the family head was overcome by the thought of revenge and tortured the cat. All so you could have your slice of power and revenge. Yours and Akitos selfishness brought an end to happiness to this family. But when Tohru came into the lives of the Sohmas, your power started to slip away, and that scared you. Your weakness gave me the courage to overcome my fear of you and Akito. I am not affraid of your torture anymore. Not afraid of what you could do, or what you will do. I will take all the beatings and pains of this family if it will lift the curse. I've lived in the shadows of fear for too long." Kaiya said confidently looking into the shaking orbs of Shins black eyes.

He was panting heavily, not knowing what to expect from her next. Getting himself together, he yelled the first thing that came to his head, "You lieing bitch! What do you know about me! How would you know anything!" He yelled, panting in frustration.

Kaiya squat down in front of Shins face and put on a bright smile. "Because, you are my brother, and beleave it or not, I know you better then you know your self. I knew you before you discovered your urges for power and revenge. When you were a fun happy loving little boy. A boy who inbraced life and his family." Kaiya turned her head away as tears started to fall. "Before you found out about me, about the curse, and that you could have power over all of us. Before you started hurting me." Kaiya turned her back on him, and for the first time, Shin saw, really saw, all the pain and blood he had inflicted on her. And he smiled. He saw the blood dripping down, he suddenly remembered the instance when each scar was made. "Yes," he chuckled evily, "I did do that. Didnt I. We manipulated you both well. Both you and Yuki."

Yukis eyes widened at this statment.

"What are you talking about Shin?" Kyo asked in Yukis sted.

"Akito manipulated Yuki, the rat, the cats greatest enimy, and was the wood to his growing flame of manipulated hate for you. He knew that if the cat and the rat were to be friends, we wouldnt stand a chance. So we manipulated you both. Akito and I. And you all reacted the way we thought you would. Except-" Shin stoped, his strength giving way with every breth.

"Except for me." Kaiya finished. Shin nodded.

"None of us deserved this. Not even you or Akito. None of us deserved to have to bare this curse." She looked at her freely bleeding back, "This blood, my blood, is the blood of all past Sohmas and theyre suffering. None of us deserved to suffer at your hands. Not me, not Kyo, not Hatori, not Yuki or anyone else." She turned around and for the first time stepped out of the darkness of the room and into the light. There were gasps as everyone saw her red back. "We've all suffered." She looked down at her wrists, "Some of us more then others. But im glade i didnt die back then, or else i would never have meet the other Sohmas, and I would never have made it this far.To be able to do what is needed to be done. Now, neither of you hold any power over us that are part of the jyunnishi. We will no longer even be the jyunnishi. We will be free." She grabed the sword from Kyos loose hands and held it close the her chest. "For the curse to be lifted, someone must give a blood offering. With my spilt blood, it is my wish that all of you will be free and no longer live alone. I hope you all find love, and live your life like normal people. Im sure we'll meet again some day." She turned to face all the jyunnishi, who were all saring at her in disbeleaf of what she was about to do. She whispered a soft "Good-bye" And she pirced the sword into her chest and fell back to the ground.

"Stupid girl.... Shes sacraficing her life to lift the curse...Somehow, i cant help but love that crazy bitch" Shin said as he closed his eyes, "hurry, save her damn life." and life left his body.

Emediatly the Sohmas sprang to Kaiyas side, "Shes still alive." Hatori said in his calm voice.

"Dont waste your sympathy." Kaiya muttered. The last thing she heard was the sound of sirens and a voice echoing in her head.

"Hold on. Dont give up. You have to come back. Just hold on a bit longer."

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A/N

So What did you guys think? Sorry if it was a bit corny.-_-" and for all the miss spellings.(my spell checks like, messed/busted)

Anyways, yeah, i kind of realize this chappy is a bit short, and i was gonna make it longer. But this way, it keeps you coming back.^-^

Hope you like this fan fic so far, and look for my new DK fanfic coming soon. Its a humor that im writing for my friend. And if any of you know DK, try writing a Rath/Cecia fic. There arent enough of those. I would write one, but as ive prooven with this fic im not good with pairings. so anyways! write a R/C fic and u'll make someone out there really happy. *cough*sophie*cough* ^-^

please R&R or you'll never find out what happens.^-^

~ pen-in-the-wind