[YUZUKI]
"For you… If you… would do anything…thing. I'm sorry… so so…rry… I couldn't… pro… protect us, Yuzu," Matsui forced out as her tears fell down her face. She looked so defeated and bested.
She looked like she had seen hell and perhaps she had. Her lungs were emptying a little too fast and her body was shutting down already. Alpha Yuzuki had the displeasure of watching her mate turn grey and it was the worst possible thing for her.
Each agonizing minute on this battlefield, was a reminder that Yuzuki would never forgive Kazuya's betrayal. She would remind the man of what it meant to lose, and if she had to do it the hard way, the Yuzuki would do it.
"I know… you're my brave kitten… the best thing that ever happened to me," Yuzuki said as she hugged Matsui, ignoring the blood that had covered them. Maybe some other day they would have been better mates and beppier, right?
"I… will al… always… love you, Yuzu," Matsui breathed out agonizingly and Yuzuki watched in sadness and desperation. None of this was okay. None of what the bastard had done to them was right.
"I'll ask the goddess… to let me love you well in another life," Yuzuki said as her breaths began leaving her too. She was struggling to hold on, but with Matsui's life force depleting fast, she had no reason to hold on too.
"Yo… you want me… in… another life?" Matsui asked and before Yuzuki could say anything else, she added, "I… I want to… That too, Yuzu… I will wait for you… in my… next life… always."
Yuzuki watched the love of her life slowly fade and it was doing things to her that she would never be able to explain. She could feel her rage boiling and frankly, it was unsettling for her.
She hated what she was exposed to and she hated that even to this point, the deities hadn't even shown up or taken responsibility for her pain. It was almost as if they were enjoying the horrors of the life she was kidding.
All of this was crazy.
Yuzuki had prayed when the war had begun and her prayers had gone unanswered when her parents were taken out. And right now, she was enduring worse.
The fear of her mate's bond breaking was keeping her glued to Matsui because all her life Yuzuki had only ever learned to love Matsui. The woman was her everything and yet right now, she didn't seem to have anything left anymore.
"Oh, kitten," Yuzuki said, wiping her tears.
She hated that this was what had become of the woman she had loved with everything. Yuzuki wished she had been a better mate, a perfect mate who didn't have to worry about anyone hurting her kitten.
Yuzuki wished she was stronger and could fight back against people like King Kazuya.
But even then, she was dying, so what was the point, right?
"M…May w…we meet… again… in an… ano—" Matsui struggled, only to fail.
She then fell, lifeless, in her mate's arms. And that was the moment that reality dawned on Yuzuki as she looked around her one last time, before pressing a last kiss on Matsui's lips.
"In another life, kitten… may we meet again," she whispered defeatedly to her lifeless mate. It was a silent wish yet a desperate one that called out to the deities that were listening.
"I promise I'll make them pay…" Yuzuki added before she breathed her last too, finally letting go, seeing as she had no reason to stay holding onto her life. She was pitiful as she lay there, with nothing to make of her life anymore.
The fates watched in horror as the two mates lay side by side, their lives no longer something that anyone could talk about.
They watched as Alpha Yuzuki, one of the best Werewolf Alphas in the realm, clung to her dead mate, her eyes brimmed with tears while her body was just a hollow cove. It was a sad moment but there wasn't much they could do.
Destiny and fate had made the choice and unfortunate as it was, this had to be it for the two mates.
*****
In the near distance, the moon goddess was watching and she was listening. She could see the damage that Kazuya had done and while she could have prevented all of this from happening, she had let it happen.
Maybe it was her way of wanting to see what Matsui would do, or maybe it was her way of seeing to what extent the damage to Kazuya's heart was. She had created all of her creations with love and affection and yet none had turned out as vile as Kazuya.
"You let him be free for a long time, Mistress," the moon goddess's assistant said as she looked at the mess on the Fukada pack. Families had been stripped apart and it wasn't a beautiful sight.
No amount of rainfall would ever be able to wash away the filth that Kazuya had unleashed. It was disappointing, to say the least, and the moon goddess knew that she had to act sooner or later.
"Yeah… But the only one who could eliminate him is dead. I don't have the patience to create another creature to eliminate Kazuya or put him in line," the goddess sighed like she was helpless.
She looked like she was suddenly the meekest woman in the realm.
In truth, she wasn't sure if creating someone else to take out Kazuya was a good idea. The man was uncontrollable and it would take a lot of work to mold the perfect weapon against Kazuya.
Perhaps the goddess just didn't want to indulge herself in a lot of work, no?
"You have a perfect weapon for that," the assistant said and the moon goddess shook her head. That was not the best idea and she knew it. Yuzuki had died with so much rage that she had shaken the entire realm in her death.
Everyone had felt her impact and frankly, they all felt what she had felt right before she gave up.
Yuzuki Fukada was a vengeful soul who knew betrayal at its finest. She had been hurt in the worst of ways to the point that she thought that caring for her mate was the best way to get over her family's loss.
"Yuzuki?" the moon goddess asked as if she wasn't already considering the woman.
"Actually, both of them. They have the kind of rage that could control Kazuya. You heard them… they would do anything to be reborn. So why not take a chance on them?" her assistant asked and the moon goddess sighed.
She had heard Matsui and Yuzuki's desperation loud and clear. She had seen them. And she knew that they would do anything to get back what they had lost, or even a fraction of it if given the chance. It was so obvious either way.
"They will be too dangerous together," the goddess sighed knowingly.
"Then keep them apart for some time after their reincarnation and see if they find their way to each other. That should tell you if you made the right decision or not. Besides, you have power over their fates," the assistant reminded making the goddess sigh once again.
"Fine. I'll grant their wish… I just hope this won't be a mistake."
"Have some faith, Mistress."
"They're still too dangerous," the goddess said before she snapped her hands and granted the craziest wish ever asked of her. Perhaps she couldn't always have regrets, besides what could go wrong with a raging reborn Yuzuki?