PURE FLOWER
PURE FLOWER
Chapter 10
New Emotion and Secret Revealed
"Some demons take the form of the victims after they consume them. From what I heard, Lady Ren does not look like how she was supposed to look like at all." Jaken said as he took out a roll of parchment from the huge casing on the floor. Then he passed the parchment to young Lord Ryuya, the young demon he was to educate.
"I do not know how to read, yet." Ryuya said as he passed the parchment to his brother Shura. Both of them were ordered by their father to learn the histories and facts of the demons. Ryuya frowned as he thought the learning would be better if his mother was here, but his father told him she was sleeping. Demons usually do not require any sleep at all, but Rin needed her rest because she was with pup.
"I heard the rumor as well. When I asked father about it, he said it does not matter at all." Shura stated as rolled down the parchment about the demons who take the forms of the victims. It was not big deal for demons to consume humans, although he himself and his father did not participate in such practices. His father once mentioned that eating humans would only taint his blood.
"Did father consume someone too? Then how about you?" Ryuya asked and flinched slightly when Shura gave him a mean glare. He knew he should not have asked that silly question, but he was curious.
"Demons such as us, the White Dog Clan are born with superior appearance; therefore we do not need to take the forms of the other. We do not consume human as well." Shura replied hotly, feeling angry at his brother for asking such disrespectful question. But he forgave the young demon when he saw his regret expression.
"Lord Sesshoumaru is a noble demon. Although he has no liking for human race, he still honors his father's wishes and offer protection to those humans in the village. Where did you get the idea about Lord Sesshoumaru eating human?" Jaken yelled at Ryuya. He did not care if he was the son of his lord. To Jaken, whoever insulted his Lord Sesshoumaru would not be forgiven.
"I am sorry, really. I knew father is not that type of demon when I met him….but the people in the village said…" Ryuya whispered softly and glanced at his elder brother for help. He liked these people, his new family. He did not want to lose them.
"…It is alright, Ryuya, you simply do not know, that is all." Shura assured his young brother and shot a warning glare at Jaken. It was not his fault that he was estranged from his clan ever since he was born.
Jaken gulped when he saw the warning directed at him. Although Lord Shura was not as powerful as Lord Sesshoumaru, but he was able to all the things his father could do, including killing him. He gulped again before saying.
"Then I shall pass you all that knowledge which you are supposed to have."
RIN'S CHAMBER
Rin watched silently as the woman who looked so much like her mother sat down on a pile of cushions near where she sat. She knew that woman was Lord Sesshoumaru's first mate, Ren. She was her sister as well. However, she could not shake the weird feeling away. She was afraid of her. Something is not right…
"Erm…is there anything you want from me? Since you search me out in such late hour…" Rin asked politely and tried not to flinch when she looked into her sister's icy amber eyes. Although her Lord Sesshoumaru sometimes would have such iciness in his golden eyes, but his iciness did not give her fear like how Ren was giving her. Lord Sesshoumaru…
"What I want? There is nothing I want from you, sister dear. Sesshoumaru is mine from the beginning; do you really think you can take him from me?" Ren stated with a smile on her ruby lips. But Rin noticed that the smile did not reach her eyes.
"I can kill you now and then, and Sesshoumaru will never kill me. He loves me, as I love him." Ren stated further and smirked when she detected the scent of fear in the air. Indeed she could kill her easily, but a nagging at the back of her mind prevented her from doing so. A warning…
"Why? Why do you want to kill me? Aren't we family? And the fact you look like my mother may also indicate that you are related more closely to me, isn't that so?" Rin asked and cried out in shock when Ren suddenly appeared before her in a flash. She tried to back away from her but Ren prevented her from doing so by clutching her hair.
"I look like your mother? Who is she?" Ren asked hotly as suspicious rose in her mind. She took the current form from a woman she encountered almost a hundred years ago. She was so entranced by the woman's fragile beauty and so she ate her. A fact she regretted so much after knowing the woman she ate was from a cursed clan.
"Who is she!!" Ren asked again more fiercely. When Rin remained silence, her anger grew. However, before she could strike her, someone grabbed her from behind and threw her against the wall at the opposite site of Rin. She groaned in pain but cursed when she saw it was actually him, Sesshoumaru.
"Lord Sesshoumaru…" Rin whispered softly. All her fear had disappeared the moment she saw him standing beside her. Then she looked at Ren who had recovered from the attack. Now she knew why Lord Sesshoumaru had been refusing to tell her anything about his first mate. He wants to protect me from heartache…
She had been setting high hope in meeting her sister. She wanted to bond with her, to talk freely with her, to do whatever sisters were supposed to do. Her Lord Sesshoumaru did not want to break her hope by telling her that her sister actually hated her. He knew she would not have believed him. I still do not want to believe it even now…
"What are you doing here, Ren?" Sesshoumaru asked as he tried to control his anger. When he detected Ren's scent in the air around Rin's living quarter, he had quickly rushed out from the conference chamber, ignoring the protests of the generals. When he saw Ren was about to attack Rin, at that moment all he could see was red. However, he recalled his promise to his son by not killing that bitch. In fact, he did not want Rin to witness his killing style as well.
"Humph, can't I visit her? She is my sister afterall." Ren replied calmly as she dusked the invisible dirt from her silk kimono.
"Next time, I will kill you." Sesshoumaru declared hotly, calming himself down in case he accidentally killed her.
"Will you really kill me? I do not think so." Ren stated and laughed softly when she saw the anger in his golden eyes. His anger made her lusty, for she could feel his passion. Mine, everything of his is mine!!
Rin saw the exchange of both Lord Sesshoumaru and Ren. She wondered why her lord husband mated with Ren if he hated her, and why Ren was so confident that Lord Sesshoumaru would not kill her.
"…He loves me as I love him."
Rin froze when she recalled what Ren had told her earlier. She glanced at Sesshoumaru and wondered if he loved Ren, and was that why he was unable to kill her. Rin clutched her chest softly when she felt something stirred in her heart. Love, she did not know such thing. Her mother had not taught her about it. Then why did her heart ache when Ren said Lord Sesshoumaru loved her? I want him to love me…
Rin's amber eyes widened at the sudden thought of wanting Lord Sesshoumaru to love her. She knew Lord Sesshoumaru cared very much about her and that was why he was here protecting her. She had his protection and care, she must not be greedy. She did not want to turn into Ren. She did not want Lord Sesshoumaru to hate her. Much to her surprise, she felt herself crying.
"Rin, are you hurt?" Sesshoumaru asked gently, not taking his eyes from the threatening figure standing at the far end of the chamber. He smelled Rin's tears, thinking that she was injured, but there was no sign of blood of the scent of pain from her.
"Rin?" He asked again, taking a brief glance at her.
"I am fine, my lord. I am not hurt. I am just…glad that you are here." Rin replied with a smile on her face. Then she wiped away her tears with the sleeves of her sleeping robe. I must not be greedy…
"Then I shall continue my question. Who is your mother, girl?" Ren asked again. However, she already knew the answer because there was only one woman who could be mistaken as her. The woman her father bought from the Black Market, the woman her father killed.
"…Sakuya." Both Rin and Ren said at the same time. While Rin gasped with shock, Ren smiled in triumph. Sesshoumaru remained silence for the time being, but was putting a protective arm around Rin's waist.
"As I thought," Ren laughed out loud at the thought of what Rin would face since her identity had been revealed. There was a law all demons must follow. A law set to protect both demon and human race from destruction.
"My Lord Sesshoumaru, you have just done something you never should have done." Ren stated. She smiled when she saw Sesshoumaru glaring at her with his golden eyes, and Rin staring at her with fear. She knew…
"You have just protected the last survivor of the Wing Clan."
A/N: Hah, another cliff hanger. Please do not hate me; I just want to make the process more interesting. So, what is the Wing Clan and why they are cursed?? Is Rin really the survivor of the cursed clan?