I dont own InuYasha, Sesshomaru, or any other cannon charracters. The only ones I own are my OC's.

This first chapter, a few after, have no cannon charracters in it (sorry). I'll get to them later, after I show the story of the main OC.

Chapter 1: Last of the Clan

A scream tore through an otherwise peaceful night, followed by a string of curses and groans of agony.

The screams were coming from a cave, and the area around had been vacated by the forest residents hours before, when the screaming had started.

Outside the cave, a man paced restlessly, stopping every so often to look into the cave with a worried look. His long dark hair swirled around him as he walked, and his pointed, elongated ears were held tightly to his head with worry. His bronze eyes darted around, looking for signs of enemies, but as of yet, none had come.

As another anguished scream came from within the cave, a second man, sitting with his head resting in his hands, looked up. His eyes, darker than the other's, glared at the other man with annoyance.

"Pacing wont do any good Kazuhiko, sit down." The pacing man stopped and turned to return the glare. "I'd like to see how you would be doing if that was your mate in there, and your pup's coming into the world."

The sitting man sighed.

"Aniki, if we both had mates with pup's on the way, we would be in less of a mess than we are now. We are the last of the Shadow Inu Clan, we need to have pups, or our clan will die with us."

"I know that Michio, I just don't want to have to put Selene through this. The pup's cant be birthed in her true form, but this form's births are so painful for her." Kazuhiko started into the cave, his face filled with regret. It was his fault his mate was in pain, even if they did want pups, this was just to much.

Inside the cave, Kazuhiko's mate lay panting and groaning in agony. She was truly beautiful, even in this state. Her steel blue hair clung to her damp face, her pale yellow eyes, the pupils contracted to tiny slits, darted around in panic, before closing as another contraction hit. The markings on her face, long red lines beneath each eye, glistened under her sweat, and her long ebony horns clanked against the wall each time she threw her head back from the pain.

Her midwives, a young Inu and a pair of Tanuki, scrambled around her, telling her to breath, be calm, and trying to avoid her claws and horns. The Inu had been through Hybrid births before, where the mother's usual birth method would not work due to the father's species, and had to give birth in her humanoid form. It was not a pretty affair. The Tanuki were scared to their wits ends, and wondered how they had been dragged into this to start with.

Kazuhiko had finally sat down next to his brother, mimicking his position, with his head in his hands and his elbows on his knees. His sensitive ears, no matter how hard he tried, could not block out the sounds of his mate's pain, and his nose could smell her blood. It was taking every ounce of his control not to burst in there, to stop his beasts urge to stop whatever was causing his mate harm.

His eyes suddenly shot open as he heard a new sound mix in with those of his mates pain. Another cry, this one weak, half whimpering. The sound of a newborn pup. He listened as the cry grew, and his mates cries died down to just a dull roar. He was a father.

He looked over to his brother, who was wearing his stupid lopsided grin.

"One down, four more to go, eh Daddy?" His brother's congratulate whack on the back snapped him out of his stupor, and Kazuhiko grinned. It would not be long now, and he could hold his mate and their litter. He was a father!

Kazuhiko slowly entered the cave upon the Inu midwife's beckoning, his brother following a few paces behind. As he poked his head into dark back room, he blinked a few times to adjust his eyes.

"Selene?"

His mates eyes opened and stared groggily at him for a few seconds, before she snarled and curled protectively around her litter. Whimpering, Kazuhiko got down on the ground, and shifted forwards a little, asking permission to see his pups. She tilted her head slightly and growled a warning, before moving to allow him to come closer to her pups.

Slowly and carefully, as not to invoke his mates wrath, Kazuhiko moved over to her, and laid down beside her. He propped himself up to look over the litter snuggled up against her.

Three dogs and two bitches. Excellent.

Out of the dogs, two had tails, like himself, one of those had horns like his mother, and one of the bitches also had a tail. The third dog has steel blue hair, as did one of the bitches, while all the others had hair as black as his own.

They all had mixtures of his and Selene's markings, his being large teal stripes that underlined his eyes and defined his cheekbones, and her's being four thin red stripes under her eyes, pointing towards her jawline. Both of them also had stripes along their bodies too, as did the pups.

Kazuhiko cuddled up against his mate, and wrapped his long, fluffy tail around his family.

"They are beautiful Selene, just like you." He smiled happily as his little family fell asleep with him, truly content for the first time in years.

At the doorway, Michio looked at his brother's new family was mixed emotions. He was happy for his brother, but so longed to have his own mate, and own pups. He sniffed, and picked up the scent of the young Inu bitch that had attended to his sister-in-law's labour.

He turned towards the source of the scent, a wicked grin on his face.

"I wonder... I might just ask her if she's spoken for..."

Yey, finished the first chapter ^^

The main OC is one of the pups that was just born, btw. Dont bite me for not having any cannon's in there yet, InuYasha's not born yet, and there is no reason for the others to be there yet (Sesshie and InuPapa)