"Sesshomaru" said the voice of his mother as she walked towards them, then smirked "And is that Inuyasha I scent?" she then smirked "Of course it is….who else would smell of a pupped bitch"

Sesshomaru snarled at her, she was trying to get Inuyasha to confront her.

"Leave" he said darkly, voice dripping with venom "I will not repeat myself mother and I would not hesitate to cut you down if you choose to ignore my command"

"You have a responsibility to bring her before the council! that is our laws. Do you think you are above our laws now?" she scoffed then smiled evilly, making his blood boil "Of course you are….you already proved it by mating your own sister" she said loudly

Sesshomaru snarled loudly making Inuyasha cringe "You will hold your tongue or lose it" his voice was pure ice making his own mate whimper a little.

"Koneko" he called out to her "Come here"

(Inukimi)

I knew that as soon as my son had his mate in his arms he would transport her somewhere else. I had to get to Inuyasha first and plant my seed of mistrust.

The moment Inuyasha came around my some I felt a bitterness settle in my heart.

If she would have been anyone else….I would have been overjoyed that my son found her…but she wasn't. She was the brat that Inu No Tashio sired with that human whore.

The little half demon that walked around my son was so impossibly small and petite that she only came up to my son's broad chest. How can a demon be so small? Her face was so perfect and beautiful; it was like the very gods created her in their image. I myself could acknowledge that she was indeed far more beautiful than Akira….and even myself. Delicate features that seemed almost elfin set into flawless ivory skin, huge golden eyes that were very feline rimed with dark fanning lashes and a small but plump heart shaped mouth that covered the smallest pair of fangs. Her ears where twitching, marking her for the half demon that she is and long pure silver hair hung lose all the way to her bottom. I was right when I assumed that she would be beautiful.

I watched as she came round and tucked herself in my son's powerful embrace without hesitation her small dainty arms going around his midsection surprising me by the very loving gesture…even more surprising was that my son allowed her. She looked at me with confusion and curiosity before my son's arm snaked around her possessively. It was clear that he was cold to everyone but her and it made me wonder how he behaved round her in the privacy of their chambers.

"Sessh…it's okay" she said softy to him. I scoffed at the name she used for him. How the mighty has fallen.

"He is angry that I will reveal the truth to you Inuyasha" I said smirking when she looked at me in question.

"Enough mother" Never in all my years have I seen my son so out of control as he was right now…..and all for sake of keeping his little mate next to him. I looked into his eyes and saw anger burning in his icy golden depths. How was it that Inuyasha managed to get around his aloofness?

Before I could ponder this I felt the presence and of the twelve elders approaching fast.

I knew the moment Sesshomaru felt it as well because he took off in the air fast taking his mate with him. It won't do him any good though.

The barrier was set.

(Inuyasha)

Sesshomaru was going crazy.

I didn't know what to do or say to him to make him calm down. The moment he hit the barrier he tried to push at it with all of his might but it wouldn't budge.

He landed back on the ground snarling viciously, his arms going around me holding me tightly to him…as if I was going to be ripped away from him. My body was turned into him leaving me blind to what was going on around me, every time I tried to see around him he would tighten his grip on me. His demonic aura was pulsing angrily overcoming the other auras I was making out.

"Lord Sesshomaru" my ears swiveled towards the voice to my left side "We, the council have come forth on his night to demand that you submit and bring forth your mate in answer of the offense that is placed upon you"

Offense? What are they talking about?

"Sessh?" I said softy looking up at him "What is going on?"

"What is going on is that Sesshomaru has been lying to you" said Sesshomaru's mother.

"What?" was all I was able to get out before I felt the dangerous aura of my mate pulsing around me.

"You think you can make I, Sesshomaru, submit to your wishes and hand over my pregnant mate?"

I cringed at his voice, I have seen this side of him before when I was younger and still male, this was the voice that usually followed a world of pain for whoever was on the receiving end of it…and thank the gods that wasn't me anymore. For here I was in the arms of the most deadly and dangerous demon the Gods ever created and strangely enough…..I was also the safest.

"You will submit Lord Sesshomaru or you will bring on the wrath of all of the council" said the voice of the idiot who challenged Sesshomaru

Was the guy so desperate for death? I mean…..did they not know who they were messing with?

All of the sudden the swirl of power surrounded me; suffocating me…it was too much. They were trying to overpower Sesshomaru. The power was nothing for him….but to me.....

I cried out in pain as my body started to convulse. I felt like I was being shocked with pure white hot energy, it burned and hit my body in all of my pressure points. I gasped as I tried to breathe but I wasn't as strong because of the pup.

"Koneko!"

I heard the worried voice of my mate….but in too much pain to answer. He pulled me into himself and tried to surround me with only his aura. It lessened the pain a bit but by now I was feeling woozy.

"Are you fools trying to kill my mate?!" he thundered "She is weak with pup and a half demon, cease your powers immediately"

The moment the terrible pressure subsided my body went lax, if it wasn't for Sesshomaru's arms around me, I would have fallen on the hard ground.

"Then perhaps you will do as you are told Lord Sesshomaru and bring forth your mate" said a cold voice to the back of Sessh.

"Cowards" hissed Sesshomaru "So you waited until my mate was with me to force me to submit. You lowly filth are not worthy to be called a demon council"

"You may not agree with our methods but nevertheless we will see and judge your mate"

Judge me? Who the fuck were they to judge me?

I growled low in my throat.

I thought about giving her a snarky insult but felt Sesshomaru tense. That's when it hit me. My mate is a Lord, he is the persona of regality and pose, and if I gave into my anger I would only be humiliating him and proving to the counsel that I was nothing but a lowly half breed.

Inhaling I found my calm and pushed back my insecurities for Sesshomaru's sake. I straightened my back and held up my head surprising Sesshomaru. I shook out my long hair and turned to face his mother.

"I was merely voicing my displeasure at how tactless the council's actions are by deciding to ambush my mate and me" I said steeling my voice so that it sounded more like Sesshomaru's.

I looked over to the first elder and was satisfied that he was momentarily flabbergasted when I revealed my face to them. Deciding that I would put my looks for good use, I gave him a little smile showing a bit of my fangs to him.

"I believe you wanted me to present myself to you, am I not correct?" I said sweetly to the elder demon almost smirking when he blinked then cleared his throat.

"Yes my dear" he said gently.

"I am Inuyasha, daughter to the deceased Hime Izayoi and Daiyoukai and Lord Inu No Tashio and now lifemate to my half-brother, Daiyoukai and Lord of the Western Lands, Sesshomaru" I said with a little bow earning the low growl of pride and approval from my mate. Whatever he was expecting….this was not it.

"Very well my dear" said the elder "We the council acknowledge you Lady Inuyasha"

"Now that the formalities have been met" said the colder voice of another council "We will move on the much more distressing matters"

"Your request was for my mate to present herself and she did" said Sesshomaru looking at the elder demon who had spoken "Now leave, my mate has been over taxed this evening and requires rest"

"And it is her delicate condition that we are here to discuss" snapped the cold one "Had you not behaved like a dog in heat we would not be needed to come at all Lord Sesshomaru"

"Can someone please speak plainly?" I said "You are speaking in riddles, what has Sesshomaru done to bring all of the council here?"

"He mated you" answered the elder demon next to the one I presented myself to. I frowned in confusion.

"I don't understand" I said softly, feeling a sense of dread creeping up my spine…I was not going to like this "We are the last silver Inu's, is it not my duty to bear him pure blood heirs?"

The kind elder shot Sesshomaru a cold look "Is that how you got her to agree to this sinful bond with you Lord Sesshomaru?"

"Sinful?" I said softly then looked at my mate "Why are they calling what we have sinful Sessh?" I said needed to hear it from him.

He looked at me for a long moment, not answering me but I could see the swirl of emotions in his eyes, even if others did not. Fear was the first one that I was able to recognize.

"Answer me!" I said a bit more forceful than I wanted to.

"He was not supposed to mate with you because the old customs have long died Inuyasha" said the voice of his mother.

I turned to look at her "What?"

"The last siblings to be mated were over 500 years ago" she said, her voice free of any emotion.

"She is right my dear" said the kind elder "We the council decided over 500 years ago to dissolve the old ways because we realized how immoral the act of inter-mating was. Brothers were becoming obsessed and feral over their sisters, mating with them far too young….like yourself"

I didn't know what to say. My mind was processing what they told me…what Sesshomaru had done. I was never supposed to mate with him?

"How old are you?" asked the one with the cold voice.

"Uh…251" I said in a daze.

"Not human years my dear….demon years"

I looked at him with a frown "Demon years?"

"Dear gods above!" muttered some of the council members.

"Do you mean to tell us that you don't even know your real age? Have you lived with nothing but humans your whole life?"

"Yes..why?"

The council turned to pin Sesshomaru with cold gazes.

"You were aware of this fact and yet you still decided to keep her in the dark" one of them hissed at him.

"Inuyasha, you are 58 in demon years…..the proper mating age for demons are 100 years old. As such you are far too young to carry a pup"

I breathed in and out, feeling my head spinning. This was not happening.

"Well…I think it's a little too late for that now huh?" I said softly to no one in particular.

If what they were telling was the truth….then….my human instincts were right all along….it was wrong to love Sesshomaru like I do.

"He has dishonored you my dear, mated you and pupped you before you were ready" I looked up at the kind elder and saw sadness etched in his timeless face, he held out his hand "Come my dear"

I heard the snarl from Sesshomaru as soon as he extended his hand to me. I felt like I was frozen. What do I do? My head was spinning with everything that they have told me….everything that Sesshomaru did.

"He used you Inuyasha" came the vice of his mother "He needed a full blooded heir and who else would he mate? Come now little one, you of all people know him well enough to know that he would never take a mate that will taint his oh so pure blood"

I felt like I was going to pass out, my breaths coming out in small pants. I shook my head in denial. I felt the hands of my mate cupping my face as he kneeled down.

"Look at me!" he commanded, but I closed my eyes and shook my head…it was too much I didn't want to see the guilt in his face, the guilt that will confirm that what they are telling me is true "Remember what I asked of you…trust me"

I froze. This was why he asked me to give him my unconditional trust.

He knew what he did. He knew he was at fault. He knew that to take me as his mate was wrong but he did it anyways.

Gods! I felt like my heart was breaking and yet…. I love him so much. Then my thoughts turned darker….what if his mother was right? What if he only wanted me for the ability to produce pure blood heirs? Because there was no one else he deemed worthy of himself and not really for me?

"I know it hurts my dear" said the soft voice of the elder "But if you come with us we can ensure that you have the freedom that was stolen from you"

"You will not touch my mate" came the harsh cold voice of my brother….my brother….that was what he was….a brother. I touched my stomach gently, my pup…my baby….is my baby a mistake?

"Do not regret our pup Koneko" he said pulling my body into his arms and held on to me tightly "Do not think to leave me" he whispered into my neck giving me a little lick "Remember our moments together….you…my mate know a side if me that is unknown to everyone else…remember that"

His scent filled my nose until I felt hot tears leak from my eyes, I inhaled deeply feeling my heart beat just a little faster.

What was I suppose to do? The thought of leaving him was too painful.

Despite of everything that they told me that he has done…..he still owned my heart. Yes…it was true…I did know a side of him that not even Rin knew about, it was the side of him that laughed, that smiled that looked at me with pure joy and tenderness.

So I gave in…..I couldn't help myself. I wrapped my arms around his neck and buried my face into his neck as I cried. I was so emotionally battered and mentally exhausted that I just wanted to sleep and wake up to find that this was all some nightmare.

To find myself up in the castle in my bed, warm with my mate's body next to me as he stroked my hair and kissed me in to oblivion.

"Shhh...koneko" said Sesshomaru "We will speak more of this tomorrow…close your eyes koi, rest and know that I have you" I felt myself being lifted bridal style in his strong arms. My face still buried in his neck I closed my eyes and pretended that this was all a bad dream.