Yo. So, it's me... your depressed, anxiety riddled, burnt out girl here. Yes, I know I haven't updated in a year. And I am sorry to those of you who really liked this story. I just suck at making time to do things. I do plan on finishing all my fics, believe it or not. But don't think it's just this fic that gets *very* sporadic updates at best. It's all of them. And if I could get a stable job that doesn't make me want to curl up and die. And I am sorry that you all get to read me bitch in this part but I hope it gives you some idea as to what's going on with me. I started this story when I was seventeen. I turn twenty-three on Jan 2nd. And I have never been quite as low as I am these days, most of it due to my career and my financial problems caused by this career. And I am trying to go in a different direction. Maybe I can learn to update faster but I wouldn't hold my breath. Hopefully this will please you guys in the meantime. It's short and it's rough but I thought this story needed a better look at this aspect. So here you guys go. If you like it please leave a review telling me it. If you don't then... do whatever I guess?

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"Don't you think that we are rushing this?" The woman asked as she sat on the lounge. Her fingers grazed the dark fabric as she locked eyes with her partner. He stood looking out the window, the air blowing his hair back as he narrowed his eyes in response to her question. This caused the woman to stiffen, her blonde curls moving almost imperceptibly to the naked eye.

"On the contrary," The man purred, laying one pale hand against the window pane. "It's long since overdue. You remember what they did to you, don't you? Or is your mind feeble in old age?" He watched as she started to rise then, her temper having flared to cause her to want to retort.

"I am not old, Ryuu." The woman caught on to what his game was and slowly sank back down onto the warm spot her body had previously vacated. "And do you think I would forget? I remember better than anyone. Mother and Father… they were monsters." She always thought she would spit out her hatred for her parents like acrid venom. Instead, the words left her like a quiet whisper. "I remember how everything was. And I remember being the only one of us who actually gave a damn and tried to piece us back together. Decades of being drilled into us what it meant to be a Namahito, to be of the purest bloodline…" She scoffed as she looked away into darkness.

"I remember, Ryuu. I remember from the beginning of our days. I remember how we were to look perfect," Yakari told him, her eyes growing lidded as she recalled memories from too many years past. "How we weren't to let on that the many decades of inbreeding had all but ruined us. Madness struck earlier and earlier each generation and yet we were to smile and put on a perfect show of a perfect family. Siblings made to marry siblings and produce another perfect clone with perfect Namahito features. Heirs to the dynasty." She rested her chin on her palm now. "I remember better than you, Brother. You would sulk off and go to town for some sort of fun. Sex and slaughter usually from the stench you carried home so often to the point that I could identify the smell as a child. I saw it all happen. When Father brought another woman in to satisfy his lust and did away with her, when Mother drank to help deal with the pain. When our brother was beaten within an inch of his life because he told our father he had performed a procedure on himself, without any morphine mind you, to prevent himself from passing on the illness of our family to any children he would be expected to force upon Liana-"

"You think I remember nothing?" Ryuu asked, arching a brow, his voice deceptively calm. "What about the fact that Father stowed away into your room at night and you had to deal with the burden? How you dreamt of getting away to a better place for so long and to have everything ripped away because Kaishiba's insanity was so nauseatingly infectious that she convinced them all she was a divine being? You think I do not remember your sobbing when Father would leave you bloody on your floor but would worship Kaishiba at her feet?" He spoke as if he were discussing the weather. "And all the while our little sister watched it happen and did nothing. She acted as if she were so much better than us, like she was some sort of goddess, and left you to suffer. She was so very cruel to you, sweet sister. And how did she repay us for not falling for her lies?"

"She was named heir to the family." Yakari's voice was emotionless now as she looked to her hands. "We were supposed to do everything together. She was my best friend, I loved her so much…"

"And she took the only thing that made you happy without second glance. Mother and Father were nothing compared to the monster that she was. Her apathy towards our own suffering while acting as though the herds of blood were worth saving." He shook his head. "Humans had their shot at being the top of the food chain. They already destroyed the Earth once. Nature granted them mercy when she let them live but she knew to not let them ever think they were gods again. She made us. She made vampires to save this world." Ryuu told her. "And that's what we are doing." There was a long, heavy silence as he watched the reflection of his sister in the window. "What causes you to doubt yourself?"

"I still love them, you know." Yakari told him quietly. "I still love my sister. My heart still longs to hold her in my arms and laugh once again."

"You view her through rose colored gaze, Yakari. She never cared for you-"

"I miss her laughter and smile. But I cannot forgive her and I cannot place her above the good of the world, of the lives of millions." Yakari murmured. "And I love Kaname as much as I ever did. And still I know he would never choose me. He would go to her again and again and let her treat him like she did with everyone else. Kaishiba knows not how to love. But I loved him too much and so I let him go. I let him go and I did the hard things for him. Like that child…" She closed her eyes. "I wish there was some way I could have spared that child. I would have so liked to be a mother."

"Please spare me your emotional baggage, Yakari. We will not succeed unless we put it aside-"

Yakari looked up slowly then, her eyes red and gleaming as she spoke now, "But I must admit that the feeling of her flesh separating under my fingers, the squirming of it like a writhing mess of worms as I gutted and shred her open. The way she screamed but remained immobile and helpless. I warned her and her arrogance still cost her dearly in the end. That helps me sleep every night and the look in her eyes. Well that is almost orgasmic." She chuckled as she stood to cross to him then, kicking aside the drained husk of one of her victims- a common vampire with a penchant for blending into his environments- as if it were a dead leaf. She laid her hand on his shoulder then.

Ryuu smirked and took the hand from his shoulder and pressed it to the jagged pane of glass he had previously been touching, chuckling once he heard the slight gasp leave her lips before he took it to his mouth. "That's my girl." He lapped delicately at the scarlet blood as he surveyed the bodies behind them. "That's my queen."