Chapter 6

Silence, it was all that she could hear surround her. She knew what she had done, she knew that there would be a chance that she would be attacked but there would also be the chance that she would be quickly kicked out of the village and told to never return. She would have been happy if that had been the case, but of course things had never been easy in her mortal life so why would it be any different in her demonic one. When she heard her father's deep voice answer, "I'm sure we can discuss this once we have gotten you settled into your room my dear."

"Test her!"

"Prove that she would and will not kill us all!"

Sudden cries of the elder villagers, the villagers that had been young when she had shown her true power as a child when she had been but three summers old called out in anger and rage at her reappearance. Before her mother or father could say a word Rin let out a low growl of anger as she very carefully let lose some of her power for all to see. Right before their eyes the people of the east, of the land of dragons, watched in shock, worry and fear as the rising sun was suddenly covered by the darkest of clouds, clouds that began to light the sky with lightning and thunder. Once she had gotten the coward to quiet down, Rin turned her back to her parents and locked eyes with all of those that were willing to stare her right in the eye and growled out, "I'm not a child that can be controlled, I'm not and will not be seen as the danger you fools thought me to be. Try to control me again and you all will see what I am truly capable of."

Just as her father was about to call out and decree that no one was to harm, anger, or ever disrespect his youngest daughter ever again, all eyes turned to the young dragon child as she caught the dagger that had been thrown at her and surrounded it with electricity as she growled out, "Oh did I forget to mention, I was trained personally by Sango Taijiya, the current master and one of two remaining Taijiya's. I was trained by Lady Kagome, the miko that finally rid us all of the troubles of the Shikon jewel and I was also trained by Lord Inuyasha, the hanyou that killed Naraku. Trust me when I say that I am more than capable of taking care of myself with or without my demonic powers."

"Enough!" The Queen of the East roared in anger as she glared at her people, "We will retire for the day and we will not be open for court unless we are being attacked. My family and I have lots to discuss without the demands or the eyes of those of you who would see us separated once more."

"Haku, can you look after things while we get ourselves shorted," Maya asked her mate with an apologetic look on her face. "I'm sure you and Rin will have the time to get to know each other soon."

"Of course love, just be careful." Haku answered as he began to make his way toward the fading coward so that he could listen for what they had to say and be there should they need a member of the ruling family to aid them with something.

After looking over her shoulder and throwing down the dagger that had been tossed at her to the ground, Rin followed after her 'family' and her sister so that they could talk about her departure as soon as possible. Once they had closed the castle doors behind them, Rin looked around and sniffed the air so that she could get a feel for the place she had once called home. Just a she was about to turn right, toward a room that held a very old, scent, Rin turned to glare at her father when she heard him say, "You'll have time to enter your bed room and make the proper changes once we have spoken Aya."

"It's Rin, I wish to be called Rin, of course if you cannot seem to do this one simple thing it would stand to reason that I would have no need to answer to your call or your questions in the future."

"Maya? What do you think of this?" The queen asked her eldest daughter. She had already started to train her eldest within the court.

"If it is her wish I will grant it. She was taken from my side. I never wished for her to leave or to be sent away. If it is the only way that I will gain her trust than I will call her by what she wishes to be called by…my sister Rin." Maya explained in a calm and collected voice.

Once they were all in the family room, and after he had sealed it behind him, the King of the East turned to face his family and said, "Be that as it may, she is not Rin, Rin was just the mortal child that she was made to be until her powers faded to a point where she would be able to control them. She was born and will forever be Aya."

"The day you sealed away my memories, the day that you, my father, cast that spell on me is the day that I stopped being Aya. I am Rin, ward of the Lord of the West, pack member to Inuyasha-sama's pack and just recently a fully declared Taijiya master." Rin growled out in anger as her eyes began to shift from the dark blue that they were to a brilliant silver.

"Aya you have to understand love, we had no choice."

"Everyone has a choice, there is always an option, and you could have told them that you had done it when in reality you could have sent me to train with an alley of the east." Rin stated in a calm voice as she kept her eyes locked on her father, the man that had changed her life. "But you didn't and while I'm angry now, I'm also thankful that you did not take the time to think of what could have been done differently. I'm glad because it gave me the chance to meet Lord Sesshomaru, to travel at his side, and I would rather be cast out a thousand times than to have never met him."

"For starters you need to start your lessons, you are second heir, princess of the east and it is time that you were trained to act like one. You will answer when you are called by your birth name Aya and if you really wish to see this Lord Sesshomaru I will arrange for him to come and visit you." The King growled back.

"Aya please listen to your father. We are deeply sorry, we tried to find you but you were lost, you were moved from the village we left you at. Because of the strength of the spell your father and I were unable to find you until recently, when your power had finally reached a level that would not be a danger to us, our people, and yourself." Her mother tried to explain in a broken voice.

Before Rin could tell them the truth, that the spell had only made her stronger and more open to her powers instead of making her weak, she turned to look at her sister in confusion when she heard her say, "I don't think that matters but whatever. I'm still going to be addressing her as Rin and I am not going to be leaving her side or allowing you to do as you please this time around. If I see father or yourself even looking at her wrongly I will not stand for it."

"You have no right to say such things Maya; you are but her sister and nothing more. You may be of age but to our kind she is still but a child, still in our care."

"And just look at how well that turned out." Maya growled back at her father in anger as she stood to leave.

"Maya you will understand why we did what we did when you have children of your own, until than it would be best if you stayed out of matters you don't truly understand." Her mother growled at her in open anger, hurt and worry as she tried to get her emotions under control.

"Enough, I want to spend time on my own, I want to walk the halls that I was thrown out of and I want time to myself, I'm sure we can finish talking at dinner. I don't plan on having lunch." Rin stated as she made her way over to her older sister.

As the king held on to his now tear stained mate, he glared at his two daughters and growled out, "We still have much to talk about Aya, Maya, you two best go rest and I assure you that this will not be over looked. You will learn to respect your mother and I as we should be."

Just as they were about to walk out of the family room, after Maya had broken the seal that had kept them locked in, Rin turned to face the King and Queen of the East and said, "That we do but you must know that I have no plans of staying for very long. You lost all rights to me the day you abandoned me. I have my life to live and I will live it with whom I want and where ever it will be that I wish to be."

Without another word, Rin walked out of the room and followed after her sister to go and see to the room that they had left unused since they had gotten rid of her all those years so long ago. As she silently followed her sister, Rin tried not to be saddened by all that she had come to realize. A part of her wanted to still be a part of her family, had even missed them, but the proud part of her, the part that reminded her of the strong willed and every loyal ward of her Lord would not over look their actions. Could not over look and she didn't think that she ever could. 'I would never abandon any of mine like they did to me. They are the rulers for a reason; they should have made it clear to their people that I was not something to be easily disregarded.'

"If you don't like it there are better rooms closer to my wing of the castle, after you were gone I was so mad I kept trying to leave the village so they finally agreed to give me my own wing in the castle. I live on my own and don't have anyone in that wing with me but Haku since we share rooms." Maya explained in a soft, whispered voice as she opened the bedroom door, the bedroom that Rin had been given when she was a child, when she was still seen as the second born heir of the East.

After a while of silence, Rin gave a short nod and asked, "Which wing are you in?"

With a small smile Maya answered, "I'm in the south side of the castle, its closest to the sea, it helps calm me. If you need anything you can find me there. I'll leave you to your thoughts."

Before Rin could say a word, she let out a long sigh as she noticed that her sister had already left her alone. The room she had slept in over 100 years ago was the same as her memories had shown her. The bed was the side for a young dragon, it was too big for a human child but big enough should her dreams cause her to turn while she slept. At the corner by the window was a small desk filled with blank pages and several books that she had been studying. Not that she would need to review those since Kagome had been sure to teach her all that she had learned from her high school.

'Kagome…Inuyasha…what are you all doing? Have you told my Lord yet that my body is no longer resting, that I have been taken?' Rin thought sadly as she made her way over to the bathroom where she was sure she would be able to find her hidden childhood treasures. Even if her parents had tried to see if she had left any notes for them they wouldn't have been able to find her treasures, they didn't have her gift, as far as she knew no one had been born since she that shared the same gift as she did. Just as she had entered her old bathroom, Rin took in a deep breath and walked over to the west corner of the room and began to tap the floor boards. Just as she had finished removing the floor board Rin couldn't help but smile as she took note of the frozen ice that had waited for her all this time. 'Well at least it didn't fade while I was mortal.'

Once she had finished retrieving the dragon scales of her father, mother, sister and her childhood friend, Rin took in a deep breath, hid them away in her cloth and walked out of the room only to freeze when she found her mother waiting for her on the bed. 'Well this should be good,' Rin thought as she let out a low warning growl and said, "I don't recall allowing you to enter but seeing as how this is no longer my room I guess it doesn't really matter."

"I came to speak with you, well I came on behalf of your father, and he would like a word with you and would also like it if you agreed to allow him to look you over to make sure that the spell is truly broken."

"No, I'm fine and I'm sure that the spell if fully broken. Now if you will excuse me, I am going for a walk."

"I would have thought you would have liked for me to call on your friend Hiei, I'm sure he would like to have the chance to catch up with you."

"Perhaps at another time, when the King and you won't believe that my old ties will be able to convince me to stay here, so if you will excuse me my Queen, I have other matters to attend to."

"It's not why I suggested it."

"I don't like to be lied to, especially not from those who claim to be my family. Whatever it is that you thought you could say to me and would work I suggest you rethink it. I'm not the child you sealed away any long. I am no longer a pup that sees you as her mother. You are nothing but the Queen of the East to me and he will forever be nothing more to me than the King of the East." Rin growled out in a cold, enraged filled voice as she began to walk past her mother for all intended purposes, "The only one that has a hope of being family again to be would be Maya since she never wanted to get rid of me."

"Aya please…just talk to me…what happened to you, what did you live through?"

Just as she had reached the door and just as she was about to leave the Queen to her thoughts, Rin's true fury was let lose as she turned to glare at the woman she had once seen as a mother. When the Queen had taken a step back and away from her, Rin had grinned and smiled a cold, angry smile before she had growled out, "Talk to you? Why should I? Is that an order my Queen? If it is you should know that you would have to fight me to make me talk to you about such things. If it is not an order you should also know that I would never answer such a question to you. I've been hurt, hunted, killed, wounded and used against my pack and those that I care about and that is only in my last life time as a mortal. Did you really think that just because I have my memories, memories of the people that abandoned me for a 'good' reason I would just welcome you back with open arms? Do not fool yourself. Just stay out of my way as I will be out of yours and all will be well my Queen for I have no plans of staying here longer than a few days."

A/n: I know I'm making her a bit cold but it's how I would see Rin being, she'll go back to the warm person that she was as a human but only after she meets up with her Lord. Also I don't plan on writing about the others for a bit, these upcoming chapters will be about her past and what will be expected of her now that she has returned.