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Chapter 10

Rin handed Yuki a small bowl of soup. "The boy that had the firearm, what will happen to him?"

"Yuki, he will be executed for trying to assassinate the Daiyoukai." Rin said simply to the woman as she watched her put the bowl down on her lap, staring into the liquid. "It's the law, both of the West and the Makai. You really should eat before the healer comes in to change your bandages."

"Rin-sama, I am not sure the boy had any evil intentions."

"Yuki, I do not believe that either. I believe that he was tricked into thinking that he was doing what was best for his family and his people. Living in the castle it is hard to remember how poor and much hardship so many people still have to endure. Even for us that once where in his shoes." Rin's eyes glazed over in memory. When she first met Sesshomaru-sama, when he was hurt and she was beaten half to death because she was catching and taking him fish reserved for the village. "I don't know if you know this but before I lived with Sesshomaru-sama, I lived alone on the outskirts of a village. I often forget how hard it was just to survive."

"Rin-sama, Yuki, may we come in? We are ready to change the bandages now." A healer said from the door. Rin turned to the door with a smile. "Please come in. We need to make sure she is healing well."

o.O

Hiei stood at the opening to Sesshomaru's study. It was clean and neat just how Rin would have it, just how his mate would have it. The girl spent five hundred years with out them and still was loyal and loving to them. How could there be no resentment, or anger? She was so different from any other being in any of the three worlds. Many would feel blessed just to know her. "Staring is rude."

"Entering without permission is also rude," Hiei said with a smirk to his mate. "How did you get away with out a guard?"

"The same way you did. We are S-class youkai in our own home."

"Yeah, let anyone tell the Lords of the West that they need a guard to follow them around to watch their ass. What's up you guys?" Bufan said following Hiei into the study. He took a seat in front of the large desk. As the oldest it was odd for him to act like Yusuke at times. He and Rin really were a good pairing. "So any news on this Benefactor yet?"

Hiei stood just inches next to Sesshomaru and shook his head. "Other than the offer nothing is coming up. No one even knows were to turn in the bounty. Once Sesshomaru and I are dead the person responsible will be approached with their prize and be granted the title as Daiyoukai of the West."

"I would have respect the change of title if there was a proper challenge but this whole having something kill a Daiyoukai for money thing seems a bit extreme for the Makai. It's too human mob," Bufan said scratching his chin in thought. "We just need to know who we are dealing with. It is obvious it is some one who is less than S-class or they would have stepped up for a challenge. But that does nothing to narrow it down. Hell at this rate it might be easier to kill you two off and see what happens."

"Love, you are brilliant," Rin said as she walked into the study that had been hers for the last five hundred years. The three males looked at her waiting for her to continue because as of the moment she was sounding more than a bit crazy. "We fake your assassinations. And send some one to collect the reward."

o.O

Chanas and Sisuri stood outside Darktan's cell. The talkative of the two staring in as the quite had her back to the bars standing guard. "All of this for money really? You really are a rat. Too bad that our lord gets the honor of cutting your head off once you are found guilty. In the old days you would already be dead."

"Chanas, don't talk to the filth." Sisuri pulled her mate away from the bars like a mother would pull a child away from a dead bird in the park.

"But I saw this coming five hundred years ago. I just didn't know what it was back then. This Benefactor is our great threat, but five hundred years is a very long time for some one to sit on a vision." (1)

"Prophecy?"

"Don't make me laugh, I am not a prophet. I am a youkai who some times gets visions that are never clear enough to even tell what century the events will unfold in. The guard is already up now. Soon the Benefactor will try to break into the castle and steal something of great importance to Sesshomaru-sama." Chanas was barely speaking to where she made any noise at all. She was nervous and expressing it by chewing on the claw on her thumb vigorously. The vision came in and out of her thoughts for the last five centuries and now it was always on her mind. "And I can't even tell you what it is suppose to be. It could be Hiei-sama, or just something here in the castle. How do you think that he is going to take it?"

o.O

"You knew that something was coming?" Rin asked the shorter youkai general from her place at the head of the table. "Why not bring it up before?"

"Sesshomaru-sama and Hiei-sama left right after I had the vision and it was back when my visions were even more useless than they are now. When the lords left it was clear the danger was not coming for a while. Now it would appear that my vision is coming true."

"You said that the threat would try to steal something of great importance to me after the guard has been put up?" The general nodded to the Daiyoukai. Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow slightly in thought. What could this Benefactor have a chance of taking that would not be under lock and key? Rin and Hiei could easily take care of themselves, as could anyone else in the castle. So it had to be an object, but there was nothing here that was of that great of importance.

"Your title and lands." It was Rin's voice, small and child like that drew everyone's attention to herself. She set with her knees pulled up to her chest, her forehead down to where she was looking into her lap. She looked up at the youkai that saved her life when she was but just a little girl with a sad smile that didn't reach her eyes. "Isn't that what the rat said? This benefactor would give over your title and lands. They would look greatly important to you. You came back after five hundred years to reclaim them. You left me seemly alone for all that time, so I wouldn't be on the list. You took Hiei with you, but as the heir to another lands he would be more important to his home land, even as your mate. From the outside it could look to just be a political mating."

"Rin," Bufan said trying to comfort her.

"NO! Listen. From the view of an outsider Sesshomaru-sama would seem like a cold-hearted son of a bitch who would only care about his title and what he must do to maintain his lands. That's why this person is not only wanting to take them, but give them to a lower youkai. It's an insult to his name, memory, and our house." Rin unfolded herself, stood up, and walked to her fathers. "We need to find this person and remove them from this world and any other."

Sesshomaru watched as the woman walk out of the room. "We will need a plan."

O.o

The portrait was hanging across the room from the chair that the woman was sitting at. The subject was her mother, long passed and the reason for her hatred of the Western house. Her mother killed herself because of the Western Lord. And she would going to destroy his life as her mother's then her own lives were destroyed.

Born just twenty years before the Shikon resurfaced in the world she did not know of it's history or the impact it would have in the near future. Her mother often endured the harsh words of their family because of her birth. Her mother was not mated and never would be now. She had a child that did not have a father. She claimed it was the Daiyoukai of the West but no one believed her enough to even seek the man to test the story.

The Shikon's reappearance brought forth Naraku to power. Like many youkai her family hid from the evil hanyou. Still their family called her mother a liar and her uncle's wife was the worst. The woman would attack her mother claiming it was an ascendent or even her mother's fault. Slowly the light in her mother's eyes started to fade.

Over the next hundred years her mother slipped farther and farther into a depression that she did not come out of. And to the day she killed herself she stood her ground that Sesshomaru, the Daiyoukai of the Western Lands was the father of child. But the man was no longer of this world.

Her mother's abuse was soon focused on her. It did not take long for the girl to run away and find some one to teach her. She asked about the Western Lord and found that he had left with a promise to return in about four hundred years from this time. Benefactor swore she would train and do whatever it took to take out the man that was the reason for her mother's death. She was not going to be weak forever.

The first sign of Sesshomaru was at the tournament to determine the ruler of the Makai. It was there that she first saw him fight and it was there that she came to the conclusion that he was too strong for her to take on herself. She would have to get help. She would put a bounty on the man's head. He would die. If not by her hands, by her means.

End Chapter

1. Reread Chapter 8 (Chapter 9 according to the URL) of In Need of a Title. Chanas did have a vision foretelling death in the West.

Yay another chapter! Okay so the Benefactor believes she is Sesshomaru's daughter and yet still wishes to kill her father.