Rin smiled waking in her bed she saw her kind maid who she called Suki. The maid looked up with a smile as she helped Rin tie her purple obi as she wore the same black yukata, she only had this one until she was able to have more made. Suki smiled at the young princess and opened the door for Rin "Thank you, Suki." Suki nodded and led her down the hall way to the dining hall where the morning meal was being made.

The table was being set with its final touches she sat on her favorite seat. Sesshomaru's chair was the west end of the table on the edge of it on his right was Rin, then on the opposite all the way on the east end on the edge was Nani's spot. Rin was delighted when she saw no Nani and a bit sad seeing no Sesshomaru.

She looked to see a male with white hair and blue eyes standing behind her with his hands behind his back. Rin noticed him and turned to see him as she sat down "Hello Aki." He bowed his head and spoke plainly "Morning my fair princess." She smiled and sat back down facing forward as she rolled her eyes, 'Jeez. I know I'm a princess, but I don't want to be overly worshiped… it's…. Just not my thing.' She sighed and looked at the empty plate ahead, the table was set but no food just yet.

"I said to address me as Rin, how you address me is far too formal for my taste."

He stood up again and spoke in a bored voice "I am not able to do so, princess." Rin pursed her lips in a pout as she glared at the plate as her right eye twitched "Why not?" He blinked with boredom as he answered "It is my job to be your body guard and respect you." She sighed Sesshomaru was ridiculous to have Aki watch her all the time "Ugh… Fine. But if you call me that then I'm going to call you Baka."

He narrowed his eyes and bowed his hand over his heart "As you wish princess." He rose as she spoke with a smile on her lips "As you wish Baka." Suddenly he took a deep breath that was auditable most the time he was quiet "I will check on the meal." Rin nodded letting him go and then heard foot steps down the hall she smiled and then someone opened the window and a breeze carried a scent making her slouch in her seat. The footsteps came closer and the one it belongs to came closer as well the body of the figure.

Two blue eyes meeting her's with a warm smile and freshly brushed white hair and ruby red lip paint on her lips. She sat in her spot at the table and spoke softly "Hello, dear daughter of my husband, princess Rin. May I ask how you are doing this fine morning?" Rin wanted to barf at how perfect and proper she was, Rin vowed she would never be so stiff and proper. 'Ugh, she is like a doll as someone else is pulling the strings. She seems to fake. Why Sesshomaru married her and not someone else I will never understand. I'm sure there are better women… WAIT! What am I saying?! Her being how she is will make it easier for me not to feel guilty.'

Nani folded a cloth napkin in her lap and looked up as they brought out their morning meal setting the dishes along the length of the table and the main two dishes in front of the ladies, as two maids waited for a command to grab something out of reach for one of the ladies. Rin shook her head ridding her of her pervious thoughts, Nani had a piece of tofu between her chop sticks looking at her "Rin, May I ask what you are doing, dear?"

Rin inwardly groaned 'If you are going to ask before I can answer what is the point of asking if you can ask me something. What if I want to say no?' She smiled a fake smile and acted cute and innocent "Oh nothing, my dear mother. I am just letting my thoughts run wild."

Nani nodded and went back to eating as perfect as ever, Rin looked at her and noticed she was only eating a few cubes of tofu and then drank her tea and that was it. Rin blinked several times, she ate beef, pork, rice, dumplings, and egg and then grabbed a peach and from the table and started eating.

Nani's eyes widened looking at her with wonder and disgust "May I ask something? My question is, are you not worried about gaining weight?" Rin's face had a huge smile of amusement creep onto her face, she never worried about her weight. She kept active so she never was worried, besides she needed to have energy for her hyper nature.

"No, Tamiko. I do not worry about my weight. Why do you?"

Nani glared at her and her lips formed a thin line "My name is Nani, I must say I know you are still a child. Since you have a human mind, however your game is no longer amusing, also I do worry about my figure. I have a certain image to uphold, how I look reflects on my mate. You should worry on your manners, your behavior and your figure. You do not want to make your father look bad, or do you?"

Rin stood up quickly pushing her hands off the table and got up turning her nose to the air and walking out "I am my own person. He doesn't control me, I control me." Aki was stunned by this and amazed by this. Nani looked at her and glared "You will be well mannered at the ball or I will speak with your father and not let you attend."

"What is that Nani?"

Rin smiled and turned around to see a man with sunny golden eyes, with a cold icy gaze, white hair like the moon with the softness of silk, and pale skin with porcelain smoothness. Rin stopped her eye looked to the corner and smiled tipping her nose in the air as her temper flared and she walked out "Nothing, father."

He walked to his chair as his eyes followed Rin as she exited with Aki on her heels "Rin, I expect you to see you later today to disgust you're on how you are liking it here." She nodded and said a quiet "Yes, father." Before she left and walked down the hall to the library where she smiled and grabbed a book "Aki, could you fetch me a pillow? The one from my bed, I wish to read in comfort here in the library."

He looked at her and bowed "Of course Princess." She smiled hugging the book to her chest "Thank you Baka." Rin smiled and waved then looked at her book she was holding which was the family history book and smiled hugging it close as she watched him walk away. Soon as he was out of sight that was it, she grabbed the book and took off down multiple halls going deep deep within the palace trying to get herself and anyone who followed her scent lost.

She smiled getting herself lost, there was a hall way with a picture of a childhood portrait of a man with light blue hair and red eyes and slightly tanned skin, with his hair only in a high pony tail that dangled to the valley between his shoulder blades. The young child wore gold and he smiled the portrait was well painted and vivid with color even though the paper was slightly gold with age. He had a black circle with a white outline around it as it was on his forehead and silver jagged stripes.

She smiled sitting underneath if feeling an odd feeling of familiarity and comfort. Rin smiled sitting as her long dark hair fanned around her shoulders dipping to her hips as it pooled resting on the floor a smile etched on her rose lips as her red eyes matching that of the man that is in the painting above her, He surely has long since left this world. Her pink stripes on her cheek curved as her smile reached her cheek muscles 'finally I can get some peace and quiet and get to see the history that has passed through this palace.

Rin looked at the book and let her fingers slide against the cover, the wood covered by simmering white silk and a dark purple moon etched into it. The string embroidered the word 'Western Family.' The words dug into her like only enticing her to read it, this family was her's after all now… 'And…' Her hand lifted to her stomach 'and yours, little one.'

Opening to the first in the family tree she saw the man's name Shinutasa na Tashio, the name made her confused. The first lord struck her curiosity and smiled looking at the pages and read quickly absorbing the information.

Shinutasa na Tashio was the first Lord of the known western lands of the Inu Yokai. Shinutasa na Tashio not much is known other than a few legends that he wrote in a lost journal of the early days. His son was one of the first demons to have a humanoid form. They say Shinutasa na Tashio was once just a light blue dog that had fallen from the moon. That is what the mortals say, however he said he does not remember that. He spoke of living among other Inu Yokai all of them had different furs and strengths or talents. Each of their individual selves came to strengths in the pack.

I was always looked up too and the pack wanted me to make the important decisions. I led the pack for as long as I could and then a huge storm happened right after a battle with another pack, I was wounded and I wandered into the woods. The next thing I knew was waking up in a stable of a forest village, I couldn't move my leg was broken and my back leg was sprained. I laid their until I heard a creak at the door I stumbled to try and stand, staggering in pain I growled the hair on my back rose as I bared my fangs and my eyes blood red with rage.

As I read I got sucked into the story and smiled eagerly reading.

When the door opened there was a young woman who had her hair all down to her waist, her hair midnight black. Her skin slightly tan and her eyes something strange they were dark brown with green hues. A smile etched on her face with a blush as she moved a buck in her hand to the ground and raised her hands up then kneeled down and bowed her head on the hay in the stable "Please let me tend to you. I will not do anything to hurt you. But please let me help you, I can't bear to see I can help other's then not help at all."

He looked at her and she rose her head with tears in her eyes as she looked up at him as tears stained her face and shook with fear of being turned away "Can I help?" He laid down and his teeth were shielded by his jowls as he looked at her waiting for her next move. He sat down and she walked over splitting his legs and brought back food and water every night then spoke to him often.

Soon she was able to understand little gestures, she looked at him and spoke softly time soon went by. She looked at him as he began to stand to leave she felt her heart break and watched as he left. He smelt the sadness in her emotions and on her scent. She however smiled and waved, he ran into the forest only to hear a man run out of the house screaming and yelling. Then heard a scream of the young woman and his eyes grew wide his ears perked as he felt something inside him well up into a ball of seething rage. Something was different he wanted to stop the screaming it just didn't hurt his ears it hurt his soul to hear it.

Images of the girl ran through his brain, her in her yukata smiling opening the barn to greet him or her sadness saying goodnight. When her father was away she was alone and would sleep leaning against him in the night, something about this girl burned into his soul. Her smile, her happiness, her kindness, her pure soul and her heart that didn't judge him for being a monster… for being a yokai.

She screamed again and then it stopped, his eyes widened as he was standing listening then his breathing hitched as he turned and bolted full speed, fueled by a mass of fury, possessiveness and fear. Within seconds he was on top of the man who had her pinned to the ground with blood on his fists as she lied on the ground her throat had severe bruising on it. Her eyes had blood on them and her face was bruised as well.

He looked the man was in a mas of bruised and bleeding flesh as he licked his chops cleaning the discussing blood as he walked over to the woman who laid limp on the ground. He leaned down and licked the blood from her face as he saw the bruising leave completely. However when she finally woke, her eyes were not brown like before nor deep and dark shades holding her emotions. The eyes that stared at him now were pale and dull brown and her fear skyrocketed.

"I-I can't see!"

As I read on I read on how she left to live with him and his pack, he made all protect her. He was her eyes, she dressed in a yukata and a fur pelt matching his own fur. She and he mated and by some miracle their bloods were able to mix after rutting to produce a humanoid version of a dog demon, in strength, soul, instincts, everything that was a Inu Yokai but contained into a human looking figure.

Their son had ruby red eyes, light blue hair like his father's fur, his tanned skin looking like his mother's and his facial markings were neither of his parent's but resembled his inner beast lastly he had a matching tail come from his shoulder.

Shinutasa na Tashio and his mate 'Sachiko,' mated and she was made immortal with him. However their deaths came as a surprise during the famous civil war, Sachiko kind heart pleaded for her mate to take their third infant.

Her eldest son and daughter ran their own packs, they were also both in humanoid forms. Their eldest son was named Renkostuwa, and their daughter was named Taiumik. She had light blond hair that is nearly white with light blue eyes, she was born light skin and her and her eldest brother got into a huge disagreement and their packs had a civil war over the western territory.

Sachiko and Shinutasa na Tashio's infant was a son. Sachiko's plea was to have her mate take him safety and leave her here. Sachiko loved her family greatly and in her son and daughter's feud for power. She knew she had to do anything to make them stop…

She didn't know what that meant exactly but knew it wouldn't be good, and didn't want her mate to see or be there when she knew what it was she had to do. However he wouldn't leave and was begging her to leave with him. He claimed their eldest children were lost to greed and power, they were gone to them.

Her hearing had grown intense giving her the ability to see things with her hearing or but feeling the ground. She had been blind for nearly a hundred years giving her lots of practice, and being immortal kept her from aging. But she knew she couldn't run she had to stop this, if she didn't she would never move on in life…

Her son and daughter had a energy strike directed at one another and their mother pushed away from her mate. Her heart clenching as her eyes had tears, in seconds before anyone could stop her she ran and threw herself in-between her son and daughter. Their attacks hit her and when the smoke cleared nothing was left.

Shinutasa na Tashio held his young infant close as he fell on his knees feeling a great pain go threw him his mate was killed right before him. He felt a burn in his heart and on his neck he knew that his mate mark had turned black. Showing all that his mate has left the world forever…

Just before that she had pleaded with her mate to keep her son safe, he promised. He hadn't known that she was planning on sacrificing herself for her family.

But he honored her wish and raised the infant to adulthood, however he didn't raise the child with love. He raised him with a cold heart not showing any care for the child other than just needing it to survive.

However… the loss of his mate drove the young lord and father mad. He became insane and resented his children, all but his third son. The lord killed himself right after the third child hit adulthood ending his living hell here on earth without his mate.

The three children of Sachiko and Shinutasa na Tashio were greatly saddened by their parents' loss, the youngest son grew to hate his siblings with all his being and left the west changing his name and running from his past. The eldest son and daughter were left to pick up their mistakes and try to bring peace; they hated humans saying their mother was stupid for killing herself for their sakes.

They started killing all the humans making the land nearly human free, the hate for mortals was passed onto each generation.

The next lord was Renkostuwa.

Rin felt her heart clench reading on she read on and on until she hit Inu no Tashio. Her eyes widened as her mind was hungry to know more of her mate's father. She looked up at the painting above her as her heart clenched and got up picking up the book looking down the hall to come across more pictures at the end of the hall she saw an old painting of a big light blue Inu yokai and a young woman who was human "Shinutasa na Tashio, and Sachiko. I hope you are able to find love and peace where you are now. I know life can be hard…"

She wandered around until she found a picture of two Inu yokai. The male had light white hair and green eyes with golden hues mixed in. He had a single stripe on his left cheek it was a pink scar of some sort, he stood next to a woman who had tan skin and grey hair with purple eyes and a black crescent moon laying on its back with a red dot in the middle. They both looked as if it was painful to be standing next to each other as if they hated one another with all their might.

Rin stood their staring and wondering what was going on in their heads as she looked down at the names under the picture "Lord Harutachi and Lady Yukimi." She put her back to the wall under the picture and slumped against it until she slid down the wall as her body rest on the floor against the wall she opened the book and read again.

Lord Harutachi is the tenth lord and was a very cruel and heartless killing machine, he didn't need any reason to kill. He never gave a reason for anything he did, he wiped out a whole tribes of demons. One of the tribes he wiped out he took the most beautiful woman gaining his wife Yukimi.

Yukimi tried to run or escape many times she was a kind and happy girl in her tribe, however it was destroyed right before her eyes. Rin's eyes widened as she felt like once again she was being pulled into the story seeing it through her own eyes as she continued to read…