Hello everyone well as you see I am back finally from that little mishap and am ready to give you all a long chapter! … Even though I'm going to be making it all out of writers block THAT'S OKAY I'm sure it'll come out fine!

Chapter 9: Sinu

Ryu led Ash out of the school then used a portal to transport them back to the castle. He led her inside where Shinku met them at the door.

"Does she follow you everywhere?" Ash questioned observing as the little white haired girl followed slightly behind them.

"Basically I almost always have someone of high power with me at all times but she follows anyways being the second in command." He explained as he led her threw a pair of engraved double doors.

The inside lay paintings of different demons on the walls Ash observed all the paintings quickly as they continued to walk; Ryu paid them no mind but led to another room straight across the hall.

"This room is a special one." He started opening the doors and allowing Ash to walk into the black room. A small click sound came and soon all the lights in this new room were lit up.

The room was painted in a dark red color, it wasn't big nor small either with not much really in it. The one thing that caught her eye was the big picture hanging just in front of her.

It was a woman's picture with deep gray eyes and flowing black hair that held streaks of natural blue in it to. The smile on her face seemed to show a mischievous side to her and yet a happy side also.

Ash stood staring at the painting as if in a trance. She didn't notice when Ryu came to stand beside her. "Her name is Sinu she was a powerful water demon." He started to explain.

"She taught me everything I know." Ash was brought out of her somewhat trance by this. "She did?" He smirked, "you seem less surprised by this then I had figured but then again she had said this type of thing might happen."

"I don't understand." She said in a voice close to a whisper. "I'm not surprised, you weren't to know of any of this until life played itself out. Unfortunately life played out the wrong cards then we expected."

"What are you talking about?" She asked letting her confused side show.

He smirked over at her and then looked back at the picture, "Sinu is your mother Ash." She gasped heavily at this the stun replacing confusion in her features as she just stared transfixed upon Ryu.

"Yes your mother taught me everything I know, although you may never have known this because she died after your birth. She trained me when she was pregnant of you but very early in the months."

Ash waited for more explanation.

"Sinu was everything any demon could want in a mate smart, kind yet deadly in battle, and beautiful to. Yet she choose a human to bear her child, she was always four steps ahead of everything."

He took in a breath suddenly then continued, "I suspect she knew of the power that would be withheld in her child so she tried mating with a human to get human blood into you but it failed."

"She knew of the power I would posses?"

"Hai, and she trained me so that when you got older and realized your powers someone would be able to help with controlling it and teaching you to control it."

"But unfortunately instead of you living a life with your father and believing you where human and nothing more Kurama and the others came a long and brought you into it anyways, getting themselves into something they could not handle."

Everything seemed to be sewing itself together all those holes in the puzzle Ash was desperately trying to find the pieces for where finally laying itself out.

"So… that first time you captured me… you wanted my power, to help me?"

"Exactly."

She felt like falling to the ground, just falling and sitting there letting the realization of all of this fill her and try and work itself out… but she doubted that would happen any time soon.

"Before your mother died she instructed me to protect you with what I knew and to make sure everything worked out fine, if it had your life might have come out a bit easier."

"What do you mean by that?" Ash asked now wanting to get anything she could out of Ryu.

"Well if you hadn't have gotten involved Yusuke and the others then there would have been no protest for you to come with me for me to help you." He said putting a emphasize on 'help you.'

"Instead with you getting involved with them you got attached resulting in it becoming harder for me to try and take you to help you, so it posed me as the bad guy."

"… So…"

"So they were never supposed to come into the picture, they're meaning in this is nothing only a disturbance, they do not have the power to help you from your unstableness."

By this time the weight on Ash's heart had seemed to grow almost twice in size. "Oh one more thing, when you were born your mother named you Tuuli."

"Tuuli." She repeated now feeling as if she didn't even know herself.

"Yes it is Finnish for wind."

"Finnish?"

"Yes Sinu always liked the language for some reason and I guess she just found it more fitting for you. Your human father named you Ash though bringing you down from your higher status."

A evil smirk passed across his face, "but I took care of him didn't I?" Ash simply nodded. "Well both names are true for you, you can pick either one and anyone here will refer to u as such."

Ash thought a moment. "Tuuli. If it's what name my mother wanted me to be called then I shall have it as such." The sudden feeling of reassurance filled her and a smile crossed her face.

"Good well then shall we go?" He asked pointing at the door. "Hai… do u have any other pictur-."

"I'll have one sent up to your room." He said leading the way out of the room knowing she would want a good picture of her mother.

A few hours later with Hiei, he sat in a tree thinking everything over when Kurama's voice knocked him back to reality. "Hiei Ash went to school today you know?" His crimson eyes shot open.

"Did you get her?"

"No."

"Why?" He asked flitting down to the ground and glaring at Kurama. "Because Ryu was there and I couldn't make a scene in front of humans." Hiei still glared at him as Kurama explained.

"I don't care! We need to go get her now!" His temper was running thin and s the hours passed on Hiei was getting even more upset.

Kurama sighed, "fine… we will go tomorrow morning agreed?"

"No now."

"Hiei be reasonable at least I know you want to go but we need to think this threw and make sure Yusuke and Kuwabara know what is going on." Hiei was silent a moment looking over the fox.

"Fine tomorrow morning when I say we will go." He said returning to glaring at Kurama. "Fine." He said starting to walk up to the house.

Hiei watched him walk off then flitted away himself to a treetop in the forest near the clearing where Ryu's castle still stood.

'I know you're there Ash.' He thought just staring at the blackened castle walls, 'I can sense your presence calling out… but as the days go on it is becoming thinner and thinner.'

'Could it be that you don't want to be taken back now?' He thought sighing quietly and flitting off again, the sight of the castle held a lot of unwanted memories that he did not want to think about.

A/N: Well that was longer then some of my other chapters have been ne? Well anyways IMPORTANT NOTE: two things… do u want me to call Ash Tuuli or keep it as Ash? And second…

Anyone remember that poetry thing I did in the beginning of the story? Well it's not over I never called it to a close so… yeah!