A/N: Here's another requested story. Hope you guys enjoy, it may take me a while before updated again, but please read and review non the less.
-Leiko-
I couldn't help but laugh as I ran through the courtyard of the Eastern Palace. I was finally getting out of this hell hole.
"Halt! Lady Leiko where do you think you're-"
A guard started to say as he and four others tried to stop me, but I threw senbon needles at them and they all sunk to the ground unconscious. The needles were coated in a special sleeping solution I'd made. It lasted for twenty four hours, more than enough for me to get away. I ran past the now unconscious bodies of the guards and out the main gate. I didn't even look back as I ran into the surrounding forest. I was tired of living in a place where I was overlooked as if I was no more than the shadows on the walls. Ever since my sister was born that's exactly how it's been. I hate her for it, but I also love her because she's my twin. I don't blame her, I blame my parents. But I wasn't going to deal with it any longer, seventeen years was long enough. I was going to go where I knew I was seen. With people who knew I existed and were my friends.
'Sorry RinRin, but you can have this life. I'm through with it.'
I thought as I continued running through the forest. The moon was high in the sky, illuminating the ground beneath my feet not that I needed it. Being a neko hanyou had its perks, perfect eyesight was only one of them. I only had one place in mind, but sadly it would take me a while to get there and then there was the fact that he might not even be there. I sighed to myself as I sped up. I'd just have to deal with that when I got there.
The following morning
-Rini-
I walked down the halls of the palace and noticed instantly that something wasn't right. Usually there would be guards posted here and there, but they were all nowhere to be seen. It wasn't until I passed by my father's office that I learned of what was going on.
"How could you just let her leave!"
My father's voice boomed with rage as he spoke with someone.
"We-We tried to stop her M'lord, but she outsmarted us."
Another voice that sounded like General Mako said.
'Who are they talking about?'
I wondered as I hid my jaki and crept closer.
"Outsmarted you! How could she outsmart trained military soldiers!"
My father asked and I felt his jaki flare in aggravation.
"She put some kind of knock out solution on the needles she used on us and slipped past us. I'm sorry M'lord, we will find Lady Leiko."
General Mako said and I gasped as I backed up away from the door.
'Leiko ran away? But why?'
I wondered as I made my back to my room so as not to get caught eavesdropping.
'Maybe she got tired of how things were around here.'
Reisha said and I frowned at my beast.
'What do you mean how things were around here? What's wrong with the way things are?'
I asked and she just laughed before disappearing into her cage. Hanyous usually aren't very in tune with their beast, but Leiko and I are unique in the fact that we can talk to our beasts as well as any full blooded youkai. Usually I'd be grateful about that fact, but right now I wasn't so sure.
'Well if she isn't here then there's only one place she'd go.'
I thought as I got up and headed for my wardrobe. I quickly pulled out the kimono that Leiko had bought me for my seventeenth birthday. It was white with red trimming. It had slits up the sides which made it easier to move around in. I tied my obi around my waist and slid my two short swords into the band. Zenka was a pair of special blades forged by my great grandfather's fang. I tied my thigh length black hair into a high ponytail so that it was out of my eyes and slipped out of my bedroom and made my way carefully across the courtyard till I made it to the gates. I waited for the guards to move along on their patrol before bolting through the gate and into the surrounding forest. I could just barely pick up Leiko's scent, but it was there. I was going to find her and bring her back after I had her tell me why she left.