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Chapter 14

Rin could not sleep. Not wanting to wake up Bufan, she careful disentangled herself from his arms and started to walk out of their chambers in the Western Cathedral. How she ended up at the entry way to the castle's dungeon she for the life of her could not figure out. But the woman housed below was the reason for her inability to sleep. She needed to know why this woman, this Aldra, would attack her family.

The guards let her pass with out so much as a second glance, up until the last couple of weeks, she had been lady of these lands, and she was still the heir until Sesshomaru and Hiei said otherwise. Not to mention, she was now the Queen of the Makai. The once young girl that ran around the grounds of this stronghold collecting flowers now stood a seasoned warrior about to face the only foe she may not be able to defeat. The blood daughter of Sesshomaru.

o.O

Aldra had been sitting in the corner across from the wall that she shared with another prisoner. Apparently, the rat youkai that was her neighbor had tried to cash in on her bounty and in the end turned the attention of the Western Lands on her fully. That little man would die a slow and painful death if it were up to her, but it would not be her luck. He was to be executed, more than likely right before she was. It wouldn't be so bad if he didn't smell so bad. He must have been here for days, he smelt like worse than that. She was half inu, and when Sesshomaru had called her by her mother's name, that just proved that Lila had not been lying about just who her father had been.

Light footfalls, not the heavy boots of the guards, caused Aldra to look up from her place and see just who would be walking down to see the prisoners at this hours. Before her cell stood the human woman that her sire (1) called heir. The one that was devoted one, the new Queen of the Makai. "I'm sorry, I'm not accepting guest right now. Please try again in the morning."

Rin stood before the bars of the cell, wondering how did this woman become the way she was. Did she have a horrible back story that would be told in monolog, was she even really a villain? Could it be that this was a child acting out because she had an absent father? "I don't care if you aren't accepting guest. I want to know why."

Rin watched as the female youkai narrowed her eyes dangerously. Not changing her expression she would have reminded anyone, even herself of Kagome, the miko that had once stood up to Sesshomaru with no expression on her face. "You want to know why? Because I have suffered for five hundred years. My mother died because that male you call father left her pupped but did not mate her." Aldra started to laugh to herself. "What would a princess such as yourself know of hardships? Just leave me."

Five hundred years was a long time to become strong and powerful. Like any youkai, Rin could use her own aura as a weapon now. That was who she was now but that was not who she had been her whole life. Before Sesshomaru she was a weak little girl, who had to lean on others to survive. It was him pushing her to do better that made her stronger. So for someone to say she did not know what hardship was really pissed her off. "I was not born a princess. I do know what hardship is, and you cry because your survived it? You are foolish."

About to turn and leave the woman behind Rin stopped, she had been right. This woman was acting out because her father had been absent. Yes, there was more to her story but who would she ever tell it to? Rin was starting to hate the influences that the miko from the future had created on her. She set down in front of the cell on the bare ground and watched the woman. The rat would have to be bathed if not killed soon. He was starting to smell in his own filth, but so was the nature of his species.

"Tell me everything."

O.o

The next morning the castle was back to business as usual, but the rumor that Sesshomaru-dono had a daughter and she was the one locked up in the dungeon were spreading fast. Soon there were more theories as to who the mother was than to as why the woman would attack her own father. "I heard it was a whore back in the times of the evil hanyou."

"Our lord would never be with a whore. She was a princess in a house of a lesser lord I'm sure."

"You two need to get back to work!" A head servant said walking past those that were gossiping.

With their hearing the lords could hear everything their servants were saying about the woman now believed to be Sesshomaru's daughter. "Who was her mother?"

The inu looked up at his mate surprised it had not come up sooner. "A woman, I met before Inuyasha was release from Kikyo's curse. She was beautiful and served no purpose other than to fulfill my needs at the time. She begged me to mate her, but I had no interest."

"So you left her?" Hiei asked as he sipped the drink in his hand. They were alone in Sesshomaru's study. They could be their selves for the time being.

"I was looking for Inuyasha and my father's sword. She was a passing fling. I did not know she was with child." Sesshomaru said reviewing a document that was on his desk. "I don't believe it would have ended well if I had."

"Why not?"

Both youkai looked up to the immortal human Queen of the Makai that had walked into the room unannounced. "Why would it have not ended well?"

"He would have never continued his travels Rin, he would have never been tended to by you...and he would have never met Hiei." It was Bufan's voice that joined them this time. "If he had stayed with her mother, yes she would have been a happy child of a the Western Lord, but you never would have been."

Rin nodded, it was so easy to be a child around those that were hundreds of years older than you. Even when you yourself were over five centuries old. "I understand, but because you did not mate her mother, she was raised in a hellish way. It is no wonder Aldra hates you."

O.o

"So you have returned."

"I have." Rin said sitting down in front of the cell in which Aldra set in. "Why did you not just come to the castle and speak to Sesshomaru-dono? He recognized you right away."

"He believed me to be my mother. I have been told I grew into her double."

"I wouldn't know what that would be like." Rin said with a smile. "You know this could be settled if you just talk with him."

"I doubt it, sister."

"Sister?"

"Are you not also an abandoned daughter of the Western Lord?"

Rin had never thought of them leaving her behind as abandonment before those words, it caused doubts that should never have been there but then there were Sesshomaru's own words. If she had gone with them, it would not have turned out well. She would have never grown into the fighter she was now. She would have never mated Bufan. She would not be the Queen of the Makai. "I have not nor will I ever be abandoned. If you opened your eyes you would see neither were you."

End Chapter

1. Sire: the male parent of a quadruped.

It's not all I wanted it to be...I think my role playing is effecting my writing again...fucking role play and its awesomeness. Well it's an update. Hope you got something from this chapter. Until next time.