By the time they reached the green room the tea was ready for them, also Rin was some what over her shock, as they sat down Lady Patricia started to serve the tea. After a couple of minutes of enjoying their tea Rin looked at Lady Patricia.
Lady Patricia smiled at Rin "So Rin-San how do you like your tea?" she waited for Rin to answer her.
Run blushed "It's …It's fine my lady, It's just like the kind that Lord Sesshoumaru has at his castle."
Patricia smiled as she watched Rin Blush she was so cute. Rin looked at Lady Patricia she looked to be about seventeen or eighteen, it was hard to think of her as being older then her when she looked to be about the same age as her.
"Can…can I ask you." Rin looked away from Lady Patricia. "Why… why did you bring me here My Lady." Rin was looking into her teacup.
Patricia laughed and put her teacup down "Well your straight to the point."
"It's just that I don't know why you could have wanted to bring me here?" Rin looked up at Patricia.
Patricia let out a sigh "Do you really want to be with Shuichi Rin-San?"
Rin was in shock again with what Lady Patricia had just asked her she shook her head to get all the crazy thoughts out of it. "My Lady Shuichi-San is a really caring person, but I don't think of him in any other way then just being my friend."
Patricia stood up and walked to the bookshelf she held up her hand and ran her finger along the spines of the books "You know Rin-San I love Shuichi" she turned her head to look at Rin "When my father died he was the only one that was there for me, at first I thought he was only with me because of who I am but I thought that over time he started to love me too."
Rin could see the pain in her eyes. "My Lady"
"So when he came to me and asked if he could have some time off on his duties so he could court someone my heart broke into a million pieces, but what could I say I knew that I hand to let him go." Patricia dropped her hand away from the books lucky for her Rin didn't see her tears fall to the floor.
Rin could tell that Lady Patricia was having a hard time telling her this part of her life, Rin looked back at Lady Patricia her head was hanging down, this was almost like what her and Lord Sesshoumaru were going through Rin covered her face with her hands "I know what your going through My lady when he told me it was time for me to find a mate, I was heart broken I thought we were fine together I thought…." Her sentence broke off because of the lump that had formed in her throat.
Patricia was stunned she didn't think anyone else in this world was feeling just like her. "I guess we're the same aren't we Rin-San." Patricia waked back over to where Rin was sitting and sat down next to her she reached up and took Rin's hands away from her face and smiled at her "I guess I can show you what I really look like." Patricia let go of Rin's hands and a bright light engulfed her, Rin closed her eyes she was a little afraid of what she might see.
"Humm… I hope I won't scare you too much with how I look." Patricia reached out and tapped Rin on her nose. Rin cringed a little witch made her laugh.
Rin opened her eyes she was very surprised at what she saw Lady Patricia was older now she looked to be about twenty five years old, she was tall about six feet with sea green hair that reached down to her knees and gray eyes her kimono was white and jade green (almost like Sesshoumaru's) she smiled at Rin. Rin took all this in with a smile when she looked at Lady Patricia's forehead she seen a jade green star.
"So do I scare you to much?" Lady Patricia asked her
"No My Lady you don't, but if this is your true form why did you show me the form that looked to be about my age?"
Patricia laughed "That's a good question" she tapped her chin "I show that form to people I don't know very well." She sat back to look at Rin. "I just wanted to now how you feel about Shuichi, so I'm sorry that I dragged you here Rin-San."
"Well My Lady if you must know I love someone very much, but I just have to tell him." Rin got a far away look in her eyes.
"Rin-San would I be wrong if I said that it's Lord Sesshoumaru that you LOVE?" Patricia said.
Rin blushed bright red "I .. Umm don't… Umm…" she didn't know what to say or how to act.
Lady Patricia put her hand over her mouth and started to giggle it was hard to keep from laughing with Rin's face so red and getting redder by the minute. Finally after she calmed down a bit she was able to talk "Don't worry Rin-San I won't tell anyone until you tell me too."
Rin started to giggle herself it was nice having someone to talk to, they talked about everything, what the two guys they loved did that made them mad and happy, about what they would like to say to them. (If they ever got the chance) by the time Lady Patricia looked out the window she was surprised to see that the sun had set.
"Well Rin-San I was going to have Shade take you back to Lord Sesshoumaru today but it seems that it has gotten late, so if you don't mind would you like to stay the night with me?" Patricia waited for her answer she was hoping she would say yes.
Rin looked out the window "I guess one more day couldn't hurt" she thought to herself Rin turned to look at Lady Patricia "I would love to My Lady"
"Great let me show you to your room, and after that we'll have dinner and talk some more about Shuichi and Lord Sesshoumaru." They both got up and headed to the door of the green room.
Somewhere in the Castle
"Father do you rember when I was younger and I would start bleeding from my left eye?" Shade looked at the book he was holding, whenever him and his father were alone in their rooms he loved to read witch made some of the others in Lady Patricia's army laugh at him.
Cain looked at his son "Did something happen while you were gone Shade?"
Shade closed the book and turned it over to look at the spine he let out a sigh "Yes father I started to bleed out of my eye again." Shade pressed the book aginst his lips and look at his father.
"Has this happened any other time Shade?"
"No father, not since I was younger." Deep down Shade knew Rin-San had something to do with his eye acting up again after all these years. "Why?… Why does she do this to me? And why did she make him feel this way?" He put his head down just then his left eye started to burn he rubbed it with his right hand.
"Stay here." The voice whispered"No brother don't leave me!" a little hand reached out and grabbed his hand.
He reached down and pried her hand out of his "Don't worry I'll be back for you."
"Nooo… Shade don't leave me!" the little girl faded into the darkness
Shade's eyes shot open his left one was bleeding really badly. "Father what did I look like when you found me?" Shade knew that his father had found him but he never wanted to ask about that part of his life.
Cain leaned forward and rested his elbows on his knees; somehow he knew that this day was coming "Are you sure about this Shade?" Shade shook his head yes Cain stood up and walked into the next room witch happen to be the washroom he garbed a cloth and wet it. When he entered the room Shade was in he walked to him and sat down next to him and started to clean the blood from his face Cain took a deep breath "Someone or something attacked the village you were living in, when I happened to come across the village there was nothing left and no one was left alive." Cain put the cloth on his knee and looked at Shade "You were lying on the ground a few feet away from a little girl. Who I thought was dead when I brought you here you were almost dead yourself."
"Father do you know who the girl was?" Shade's eye was bleeding again this time they almost looked like tears.
"No I'm afraid not but if I had to guess I would say she was your sister." Cain picked up the cloth and handed it to Shade and pointed to his face Shade nodded and held the cloth to his eye.
"My sister?" shade looked at his father he was looking out the window
"Shade you have to understand I started to care about you, but no matter how much I did for you I was losing you so I had to ask My Lady to bring you back to me." Cain looked back at Shade.
"And how did you do that Father?" he wasn't sure he wanted to know the answer.
Cain looked him straight in the eyes. "My Lady had to turn you into a half-breed and with doing that she had to erase some of your memories."
Shade rested his head on the back of the chair; Cain took the cloth from him and went to rinse it out. "My memories." He whispered
"Shade I'm sorry I had to do this to you when you would start to start to think about your past you would break down and cry the only way I knew how to keep this from happening was to erase more of your memories, you were so young and I didn't want you to suffer." Cain placed the cloth on Shade's eyes. "The only condition My lady gave me was that if you tried to get them back you would have a hard time and your eye would start to bleed, I thought that was better then you upsetting yourself with all you lost." Cain placed his hand on Shade's forehead.
"Father do you think that Rin-San could be the little girl who was next to me the day you found me?" Shade sat up and let the cloth tumble from his face.
"When I saw her in your arms I was shocked, because she looked a lot like you when you were younger." Cain shrugged his shoulders.
"So father this Rin Dark could be that little girl?' Shade said as he looked into his fathers eyes.
"I'm not sure but if she is then the girl the Lord of the Western Land takes care of is your sister and he might have something to say about that." Cain rubbed his chin this could cause some trouble.