Chapter 5
The day following her death everyone had quickly began to make sure that all would be ready for her funeral. While Kagome had already sealed her hut so that no one would be able to try to take her body and do what had been done to Kikiyo, they found a good resting place for Rin. Sesshomaru, having been gone long enough, had left to return to his lands and had asked his brother to make sure to bury her with all that he had given her and with a piece of his armor so that he could guard her even in death. The night of the new moon, when both Kagome and Inuyasha shared their human night, Rin awoke and found herself surrounded by earth. Just as she was about to panic and allow her new demonic powers to run wild, Rin froze and listened above as she felt the earth slowly pushing her up toward what she could only hope was the surface.
'Maya, Maya you came back for me…I'm sorry for what I did.' Rin thought sadly as she waited to be dug up.
"Aya, my little dragon, Aya are you awake?" Maya's whispered voice was heard as she tried to ignore the sting of the miko's seal and barrier around her sister's grave.
"Maya, Maya you came back." Rin whispered back as she reached up and broke free of the ground that had held her.
"I was not going to leave you, come, we must go. We need to return home, mother and father are waiting for us."
"I'm not going…" Rin growled out in anger as she struggled to control her demonic power.
"You have no choice, I was told to make sure that you knew that if you did not come they would come for you and they would kill your former family if need be." Maya whispered sadly.
"They can try but they will fail. And they are my family, not former." Rin growled out as her eyes began to glow an unearthly silver color while her claws began to spark as what seemed like lighting began to surround her.
"Easy Aya, you have only just now gotten your powers back and must quickly learn to control them."
"What for? Why? Will the King and Queen seal me away in a mortal body once more?" the young dragoness growled out in anger as she suddenly changed her appearance to that of her former, human self.
"Now Aya you…"
"Rin…I want you to call me Rin Maya. Please, I promise that you and I will have lots of time to speak but if you truly are on my side as you have always promised to be please address me as Rin."
With a sad smile on her face, Maya tried to take a step forward only to be stopped by a barrier as she whispered, "I can understand that you need time to trust me once more my little dragon but time is what I will give you…Rin."
With a single nod of her head, Rin dropped the spell that had been placed on her long ago and returned to her former, true form of birth, a dragoness with hair as black as night with a brilliant blue tips. Her eyes were the color of blue and silver. While as a child she had been unable to control her growing powers, Rin suddenly found that the choice of sealing her away and leaving her to diminishing power had only proven to and forced her demonic powers to grow and advance for what she had been born with. After letting out a long sigh, Rin nodded at her sister and said, "Stand back, and you might want to be prepared to take off, I'm not sure if I can turn to a dragon just yet so if you want to turn you can. That's of course if you don't mind carrying me. I can break the barrier but it will cause Kagome-sama and Miroku-san to realize that someone is trying to get to me."
Trusting her sister's word, Maya gave her a signal nod of the head before turning into the great dragoness that she was, a large green dragon that reminded her of spring. Just as she was about to break the barrier that she knew Kagome would feel shatter, Rin took in a deep breath and couldn't help but to smile when she was hit with a sudden realization. The realization that she had been born before her Lord, she was older than her Lord, and a demon. She was a good, proper mate for her beloved lord and the sooner she finished with the fools that claimed to be her parents the sooner she could finally be at his side. 'My Lord, I will find you soon, I'll have Kagome-sama and the rest of pack help me in convincing you that it truly is I."
As soon as she expanded her power, the lightning and the power it held, it easily broke through and shattered the barrier that was meant to keep her in her grave. Once she had broken through, Rin ran and jumped onto her sisters back and held on tightly as her sister began to make her way to the eastern lands. To the lands she had once thought of home, to the people that would claim to be her parents. Of course she was not foolish, she knew that it would take time for them to let her be and let her go. 'Of course I could always just explode and let my power run wild so that I'm allowed to do as I please. Maya has a mate now, I should be given the right to find my own and I know just the man to be, the only man that is capable of bringing me honor; of being my equal.'
As she held on to her elder sister Rin began to close her eyes and tried to focus on the exact words that her parents had told her, had whispered to her shortly before she had been sealed away. It was at this time that she remembered just how much they had been pressured by their people the people that they had already spent years protecting had forced them to give up their youngest child.
Flash Back
'Aya, Aya we love you…we have to send you away for a while ok love, just until you are ready to handle the power that you were born with.' The queen whispered in a saddened voice.
'Why? I didn't mean it…I just wanted to help, she…the baby…please don't make me go. I'll be good I promise.' Rin remembered begging in a broken and panic filled voice.
'We know love, and we understand but your powers, you have too much and the villagers…they demand that we send you away. For their safety we must send you away for them.' The King answered in a calm voice.
'I don't want to go…please don't make me go.' The young child cried out as her power began to fill the room.
The young dragon's parents watched in shock and worry as the young child not only surrounded herself in what appeared to be lightning but began to shake the room and control the air around them. They stepped back as they watched their child drop to the ground in worry, fear and panic. Before it got too bad, the Queen let out a low warning growl when she took note of her eldest daughter tossing one of the court men against the well when he had moved to attack her youngest. Before either the king or the queen could say a word, they hard their angered daughters voice growl out, 'Stay away from my sister.'
'Maya just what are you doing here?' the Queen growled out in anger.
'Protecting my sister since you two are incapable of doing so! The villagers need only follow your orders and stay out of our family matters; they have no right to demand you do such a thing! I will not see my sister be sent away!'
'You have no idea what it means to rule Maya and you have lots to learn now return to your room, we do what we must to keep order in our lands.' Her father growled out as he began to make his way over to the two.
'Maya, Maya I don't want to go, I don't want to leave. Don't let them send me away.' Aya cried out in sadness.
Before Maya could make any promises to her younger sister she cried out in anger, panic and fear as her mother pulled her back while her father knocked her sister out. The last thing Rin remembered seeing was her mother holding back her enraged sister with her own powers and wings while the lights in the room began to fade all around her.
As the last of the memory faded away to the back of her mind, Rin was pulled out of her thoughts when she took note of the same dark brown, almost black dragon that had 'killed' her just days before. With a teasing grin on her face, Rin looked down at her elder sister and said, "Did you tell your mate not to kill me this time?"
After hearing a low growl of reply from her sister and a roll of the eyes from the dragon that traveled alongside them Rin let out her own growl before whispering, "I'm nervous, I don't want to see them, I don't want to get betrayed again."
Realizing that it would be best for them to walk in rather than land and for her sister to be overwhelmed, Maya lowered down, dropped her sister on to the forest floor and turned back to her humanoid form and said, "They do feel bad for what they had done. Mother never gave up looking for you but they didn't think that you would have been strong enough to alter the magic that father had placed on you. You made it very hard for them to find you again."
"They were just now able to find me because of the dragon's blood that began to reawaken my own powers."
"I'm sorry what? When did you get dragon's blood into you? I wasn't bleeding over you when I…um…"
"When you killed me? No you weren't, before that day my pack and I had gone out and we found a dark, evil dragon demon and we fought him. I didn't tell them at the time but some of its blood got into my own wounds. After that I started to get a better feel of the air around me, the cold wouldn't affect me and when it rained I could make sure that not all of the drops of water would hit me when it was a light rain fall." Rin explained in a calm, collected voice as everything began to fall into place.
"You'll have to keep it to yourself, if mother and father were to find out of this they would try something else, something that would be a lot more permanent." Maya stated in a very serious filled voice.
"I will not say a word; you have my word on it." Her mate growled out in a calm voice so that he would not worry her.
With a grin on her face, Rin shook her head and said, "They'll try, but they will fail, and when they fail they will regret it."
Just as the elder dragoness was about to make a suggestion, she froze in place when she heard her younger sister let out a low warning growl as she started off to their right. Before a word could be uttered they watched in amazement as the young dragon demon showed control beyond her years as she growled out, "Show yourself or go back to the village, my sister and I are not yet ready to return home."
"My Lady Aya, Princess Maya, your father requested that I came after you, you have taken far too long and are needed at the castle." The deep voice that belonged to the dragon demon that now stood before the three replied.
"We'll be there shortly now I suggest you go," Rin growled out in an enraged voice as she glared at the dragon demon before her.
When the demon before them had made no move, Maya growled in anger while her mate held the dragon by the throat as she growled out, "Can you not hear? My sister, second Princess of the Eastern lands gave you an order, it should be followed as if I or my parents had issued it, do I make myself clear?"
"Of…course Princess Maya…"
"Good, Haku let him go, its time he took his leave." Maya ordered as she turned to face her sister.
"I'll follow him and make sure that he does as you have asked love, Imoto," Haku stated as he roughly pushed the demon forward in the direction of the main village of the eastern lands.
Once they were completely alone and once she had seen her sister slightly physically relax, Maya took in a deep breath and locked her light green eyes with the dark, silver specked eyes of her younger sisters and asked, "Are you ready? Are you ready to face the King, Queen…the village, our people?"
"That shouldn't be your question; you should be asking if they are all ready for me." Rin replied with a grin on her face, a grin and a look that would have made Inuyasha proud. 'I'll be home soon, I promise.'
Realizing that if they didn't reach the village soon that her sister would run off back to the family she knew she would always rely on, Maya took in a deep breath and lead the way. Once they had reached the gate she began to watch her sister closely. She watched as she sisters entire body tensed up, she watched as her sister began to shake while trying to calm her racing heart. She watched as some of the villagers glared at her and took steps to avoid her while others just watched her with mild curiosity.
However it wasn't until they had come to the view of the castle and the sight of their parents that she truly began to worry. Since she was closest to her, she could feel and partly see the young dragon's power as she began to wrap herself in power, in lightning. Just as they had reached her parents, Maya took a step closer to her sister while making sure to put herself in a position to protect the young dragon if need be and said, "Mother, father, I have returned with my sister."
The King and Queen held only eyes for the child that they had so long ago sent away from their lands to live the life of a mortal; to live a life in a form that would weaken her until she was fit to return back home. When it was clear to the two and the younger dragon, their youngest daughter refused to say the first words, the King cleared his throat while his mate whispered, "My Aya, my baby girl welcome home."
"It's Rin actually," she answered in a cold, much colder then she had ever been able to use or hear come out of her Lord mouth, voice, "I'd rather be called Rin, I like it much more than Aya and am better known by it by the rest of my pack, a pack that I have full intention of returning to once I am done here."