PURE FLOWER
Chapter 13
Promises
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She stared at the total darkness around her. Since the day she was born, both she and her mother were thrown into the similar dark pit called her home. Her mother had told her from time to time how their father and his so called noble race despise her mother's bloodline; the Wing Clan. Her mother, the priestess and the sole survival of the Wing Clan had also told her how she ended up at the Southern Land, into the hands of the demon Soma.
"I was praying at the temple that day when he spotted me. Then he kidnapped me, told everyone I was a slave he bought from the auction block."
"It is a disgrace for me, and for my clan to remain in this place, unable to return to my birth land."
Her mother then would tell her the history of her people; how they were worshipped and then betrayed by both human and demon race. Then a few hundred years ago, one of the high priestess was captured and devoured alive by one of the noble demon, whom she later found out was the daughter of the demon who captured her, the Lady of Western Land; Lady Ren.
"That priestess is my sister. When that demoness saw me, she instantly recognizes me as one of the Wing Clan. She is the reason why we are abandoned in this place where there is no chance of escape."
She was named Rin because her mother wanted to her to remember the demoness who devoured her mother's sister. After a few years of living in total darkness with scarce food supply, her mother finally became mad.
"Let me out!! Let me out!! I want to go home!!"
"I would do anything!! Please, just let me out!!"
Rin remembered no matter how her mother screamed and begged; there was no one willing to help them. When her mother gave up trying to beg for freedom, she became despair.
"How I wish everything goes back to the starting point…"
"How I wish I never exist…"
"How I wish this world never exist…"
Some days, her mother would be as quiet as a mouse, not talking to her at all. Some days, her mother would be as cheerful as a little girl, telling her everything she had seen or experienced in her birth land and of how happy she was at that time. Then one day, the first day Rin saw her father, the Lord Soma, her mother was killed. She could vividly recalled that day her mother died, killed by her own father.
"You are no more use to me." Her father said.
No matter how her mother struggled and screamed, it was useless. However before her mother was beheaded, she heard her mother screamed out a curse.
"I curse you!! I curse all the creatures living upon this land. This land shall never prosper!! This land will perish along with the creatures upon this land!!"
"With my blood and life, I lay this curse!!"
Then her mother's head was removed with a single swing of his father's sword, right before her eyes. Without even looking at her once, her father ordered the guards to take her mother's body away.
"Feed this thing to the beast." Her father ordered.
Rin could feel something died inside her the moment she witnessed her mother's death. She no longer hopes, no longer wish that she could be free with the help of the others. She remembered looking at the blood on the ground and made a vow.
Northern…
Eastern…
Southern…
And Western…
I will destroy all the noble demon clan once I am out.
"Lady Rin, it seems that she has given birth." The cloaked figure said.
"I will go to her. After all, I am the one who revived her from death." The Lady Rin said and vanished into thin air.
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MASTER CHAMBER
Sesshoumaru stared down at the woman he vowed to protect; a woman who had given him two half-breed daughters. It was impossible for two demons to produce half-breed offspring; therefore one of them must be a human.
"Please forgive me, Lord Sesshoumaru."
Sesshoumaru now realized why Rin kept apologizing to him when she went into labor. It was because she knew her lie would be exposed with the birth of the half-breeds. It also meant he, the Lord of Western Land was tricked by a simple female human.
A disgrace…
Hundreds of years ago, he once made a promise to himself not to follow into his father's footstep in involving with female human. It was the human's fault that his father died. If he had not go back into the human fortress to save his human mate called Izayoi and half-breed son InuYasha, his father would still be alive, instead of perishing in a sea of fire with a human samurai. After his father's death, the elders made him the new lord of Western Land while criticizing how weak and foolish his father had been. Since then, he vowed he would never involve himself with a human, especially a female one.
I have broken my vow…
He wanted to know who this woman really was, and how she came to become the daughter of Lord Soma. Was she a fraud? Did the Southern Lord know about this and still pass her to him? If Rin was indeed a human, why did she have the scent of a demoness? He had so much he wanted to know.
"My Lord, what should we do with the half-breeds?" Jaken asked as he stared at the new born girls sleeping at the near cradle. When the midwife announced them being half-breeds, the lord's elder son, Shura immediately asked the demoness who recently gave birth to feed the girls since Lord Sesshoumaru had failed to response.
Sesshoumaru turned to gaze at the half-breeds; his daughters. Both girls had some silver hair at the top of their head, and similar red strips on their hands and legs. Unlike his half-breed brother InuYasha who was half formed with dog ears on his head, his daughters had sharp pointed ears like most demons do.
"Aya and Maya…" he whispered.
"What is it, my lord?' Jaken asked.
"The one clothed in red will be named Aya. The one clothed in silver is Maya. Do not refer them as half-breeds." Sesshoumaru warned and walked out from the chamber. Since the birth, Rin had shown no sign of awakening. The midwife had ensured him that she was only resting. He would wait. He would wait for her to wake up, and then only decide what to do. Since she was a human, it would be impossible for her to be the daughter of a demon. It also meant he had the right to cast her away if he so desired.
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'Let me out!! Let me out!! I want to go home!!"
The young woman in rugged kimono griped the iron bars keeping her from freedom and watched as the demons killed and devoured her kins, one by one. One moment, she had been picking flowers from the flower field with her siblings, the next thing she knew, she was confined in a locked cage full of people, awaiting to be slaughtered.
"Please!! I want to go home!! They are waiting for me!!"
It had been her fault that she strayed too far from the watch of her parents and siblings. Didn't they tell her from time to time that the land was dangerous and there had been numerous cases where people went missing and never be found?
"NOOOO….!!!"
The young woman screamed when the demon dragged her out from the cage and threw her onto the blood stained ground. Kneeling, she begged.
"I would do anything!! Please let me go home!!"
The demons around her laughed at her pleas. Then they began to tear apart her kimono, tearing her skins along the way. She stared into those red eyes with her tears filled eyes and screamed, again and again.
"NO…!!!"
Wake up…
You are safe here…
Wake up…
Rin heard the familiar voices in her mind; the voice of someone very important to her, someone she loved, yet lied to. She would not expect him to forgive her, nor would she expect him to keep her with him. She had lied to him when he told her there must be no secrets between them. She had lied to him because of the promise she made with her 4 months ago.
Wake up…
Rin heard the voices again. She could not fully hear the voices, but the voices were familiar. Trying hard, Rin open her eyes, hoping to see a pair of golden eyes looking at her, instead, she found herself looking into a pair of similar amber eyes.
"Lady Rin…"
A/N: Am I being cruel? Nah…since I update two chapters within the week. Next chapter will reveal who is actually who. Till then.
Why use Aya and Maya?
Yea, this true I like these names as well as Shura, Ryuya, and Sakuya. I used all these names in all my stories so that I will not have to think up other names to name my characters. Wouldn't it be fun to see the same characters in different story and different situation?
Other Stories
I will update my other stories once I finish this "Pure Flower".