Chapter 9
Once they had reached the court yard and after surrounding them in a giant bubble of water that would keep anyone from watching them, Rin turned to face the demon sword smith and offered him a small smile only to be confused when he began to back away from her. Once she had realized that he thought that she had plans of attacking him, Rin quickly redid the spell that her father had casted on her to make her look like a mortal and said, "Master Totosai please you must listen to me. I do not have much time and need your help."
"You're that human child, the one Sesshomaru called his ward." He whispered in surprise as he stopped swinging his weapon.
"I'm Rin, please master Totosai I need your help. I need you to take this letter to Kagome-sama, only she'll be able to read it in the langue she taught me. Please Master Totosai, can you please take this to her as quickly as possible."
"Didn't you die?" he asked in a confused filled voice.
Sensing her mother's approach with a demonic aura that she did not recognize, Rin let out a low growl, approached Totosai and stuffed her later with the scales she had with her and whispered, "The scales that I left with you I want you to put into the same weapon you made for me as the mortal child I was. The letter must be given to Kagome-sama as soon as possible. I am a prisoner here in the eastern lands, please Master Totosai I need your help."
Just as she had finished lowering the wall of water that she had summoned to surround them, Rin jumped back in relief as she heard master Totosai say, "Two fangs and a strand of your hair. Your weapon will be a Katana like I promised your parents. I gave my word as a swords smith."
After returning to her demonic form, Rin let out a low growl and offered him a small smile as her mother and their guest reached them she said, "Than it best be a weak weapon for I will not be using it all that much. I'm sure you would like to take your leave so that you can start on the weapon. Farewell Master Totosai."
"Goodbye Rin-chan, I'll have your weapon soon." Totosai quickly answered after he had taken all four of her fans and three strands of her hair that he would need to make the sword he had swore he would make and the weapon that was surely to fit her best.
"Rin?" Jaken asked in a surprised filled voice as he really looked at demoness before him.
"My daughter's name is Aya master Jaken, I would advise you to keep to it." The Queen growled out in an annoyed filled voice. She should have seen this coming, that child was so much like herself when she was younger. It would seem that her daughter, while she was supposed to be living a mortal's life, had always been surrounded by demons.
"I prefer to go by Rin Queen, I've already explained myself. Master Jaken it is good to see you again. Could you tell me, is Lord Sesshomaru doing well since my death?" Rin answered in a strong, voice as she turned to lock eyes with the small imp that had helped look after her years ago before she had been handed over to Inuyasha-sama's and Kagome-sama's care.
Before Jaken could get over his shock and before he could even start to ask his questions, he watched as the King of the East attacked his youngest daughter and slammed her against a nearby tree. Before he could go after them and aid the dragoness that appeared to know him, he turned to the Queen of the east as he heard her low growl say, "You have delivered your message just as you had been ordered. I understand that you would have liked to speak with Master Totosai about the reason he was here I suggest you try to catch up to him before he disappears."
Realizing that it would be best for him to take his leave and perhaps visit with Inuyasha-sama and his pack to see if anything had happened to the body of Lady Rin since she had been buried Jaken turned around and took his leave just as he had been asked to do so. Once they had been left alone, the queen walked over to where he husband was struggling to keep their daughter pinned down and growled out, "Just what do you think that you were doing Aya, if he gets the wrong idea than the treaty we have been trying to obtain with the Lord of the West for years now would be for not."
After finally being able to break free of her father and after blasting him back with electricity, Rin locked eyes with her mother and laughed at her before saying, "If you would have just let me be and would have allowed me to leave when I had asked to at the start of all of this you would have already gotten your treaty but you ruined it by keeping me locked in this castle when I wish to leave!"
"What are you talking about you foolish girl, what ties could you possibly have with the great Lord of the West? The coldest demon to have ever been ruler of any lands!" her father roared in anger as he tried to shake off her power and the effects it had on him.
Before Rin could answer his question and throw it at their face that they would have hell to pay now that she had a letter on its way to her pack, to her family, Rin turned around and locked her surprise filled eyes with that of her sister as she heard Maya's calm voice say, "If you would have just given her the chance, shown her that you would have allowed her to do as she liked, to make her own choices than maybe, just maybe she would have also told you that she had lived her final life before she died as the Lord of the West personal ward."
"Maya," Rin whispered in a slightly hurt voice. While she had planned on telling them that Kagome and Inuyasha would be the ones to personally come for her, she had not wanted them to know her ties to her lord. 'Now that they know they'll want to use me and I'm tired of being done with as they please. If he so chooses to become my mate it is because he cares for me as I care for him, not for the sake of a treaty between the east and the west.'
"Aya, why did you never tell us, this would be the right thing that we just may need in order to get him to agree to our treaty?" The King demanded to know.
"I'll accept his request to have one of our own stay with him for a short while to talk about the treaty and the details should he agree. Maya you will be going and I'll have Aya go for you at the end of your stay so that they can properly be introduced and after we have gotten the chance to talk to your sister and get her to see reason and to understand why she should forgot all the ties she had as a mortal." The King began to order about as he turned his back to make his way back to his study so that he could begin on his letter, the letter that he would have his eldest daughter hand to the Lord of the West.
Just as her father was about to leave them all alone in the clearing, Rin let out a low warning growl as her power once again exploded from her caging them all in a bubble of water filled with ragging electricity. As if that wasn't enough, the water was as black as night, with swirls as of shadows ready to push them back or hold them in place so that the electricity in the water would be able to do them proper harm. Once she was sure that they weren't going to try to get away or try to attack her, Rin ignored Maya's cries and pleas for her to end this and glared at the two people that had given her life.
"If I could point out but one thing my King, just how the hell do you think that the Lord of the West, my Lord, would feel when he realizes, when I tell him that I was kept from his side, from explaining things and why he would never be able to kill those that took me from the grave he himself dug me because of a treaty he was tricked into before all the truth was revealed to him."
"Rin, Rin please don't do this, don't force them into a corner like this, it never ends well for those that do." Maya tried to warn her sister.
"Maya watch out!" Haku growled out in worry as he pulled her back and away from the bubble that would most certainly harm his mate.
"Hiei, get them out of here." Rin growled out in a cold voice as she kept her eyes trained on her parents.
"My Princess I am the King's and Queen's Lord General, I must follow their orders not yours." Was his own cold answer.
"Very well than, King I suggest you give him the order, I do not know how this will go and do not wish to harm the only family from this life that has done me no wrong."
"Aya you will stop this. Do you think that you could take on both your parents? Please my daughter, get a hold of yourself." The Queen stated in a calm and worried filled voice.
"It would seem that the spell did not work, we'll have to try it for another century or so." The King of the East was heard as he began to try to bind his youngest daughter once more.
"Try what, your little spell, that did not work than and it will not work now," Rin growled out in a cold voice as she changed herself back to the form that her father had sealed her in all those centuries ago. "I understood how the spell was meant to work and have changed it to make it my own the moment I awoke as the dragoness that I was born to be. Anything you try now won't work."
"We don't have to seal your powers now…Hiei take her to the wing we prepared for her a decade ago in case this were to ever happen." The King ordered with a grin on his face.
"No! Don't you dare touch her!" Maya roared out in rage as her mate held her back and refused to let her go for her own protection.
But it was too late, Maya and Haku watched as Hiei quickly took hold of their sister before disappearing from sight. Once the King and Queen were sure that the dragon of darkness had done just as he had been told to do, they turned to their eldest daughter and her mate and offered the two a small smile and turned to leave. Once they had left them to their thoughts, Maya turned to her mate and locked eyes with him knowing that he would help her should she ask him to he would help her get her little sister back. But before she could say a word, she turned around and locked eyes with the small imp that had stayed hidden and asked, "What is it that the messenger of the Lord of the West needs from me and mine?"
"I need nothing but the direction in which the master sword smith went."
"Toward the village and forest of Inuyasha, he wished to speak to Lord Inuyasha if I am not mistaken." Haku answered as he pulled his mate back to make sure that she had not been harmed.
"That child, why has she only now been talked off in the courts and other lands?" Jaken asked as he tried to get a bit of understanding of what it was that had been going on.
"That is not something that you should worry yourself with Master Jaken, now I suggest you take your leave before my father and mother realize that you still linger." Maya requested in a calm and elegant voice, "They are not the most forgiving of demons."
Realizing that this was his last chance to leave without being harmed, Jaken turned his back and quickly called on Ah-Un so that they could take their leave so that he could quickly catch up to Totosai. Once he was out of the Eastern Lands, Jaken ordered to be taken to Inuyasha's-sama's village so that he could speak with Inuyasha-sama at once. Just as he had reached the God tree where he had once been sealed, Jaken approached Totosai and asked, "Master Totosai are you here to see Inuyasha-sama as well?"
"Who are you imp? Where is your master?"
"Sword smiths, Master Totosai, are you here to believer a message?"
"Well someone better start explaining before Otu-san starts looking for blood." Shippo's relived filled voice was heard as he approached the two.
"Prince Shippo, I am needing to speak with your mother and father, it is a matter that cannot wait." Jaken quickly stated as he changed his focus from the sword master to the first son of Lord Inuyasha.
"They are with the rest of the pack in the shrine. Mother is very upset and nearly lost it even with her sealing weapon at her side. Master Totosai it is a good thing you have arrived." Shippo explained a cold tone of voice.
"What has happened young prince?"
"Rin, my sister's body has been taken in the middle of the night not to long ago. We believe it is the work of a witch with similar powers to those of Urasue." Shippo answered as he made sure to keep to the story that they had all chosen to tell his uncle to avoid a word. 'Of course at this rate I'm sure that it will end up being mother and father that start the war and Uncle will be the one to finish it.'
"Young kit, hand this over to your mother and father, I have things to do and a job to finish I don't have time to waste away here." Totosai stated as he tossed the later over to the young fox kit before turning to leave.
After catching the letter and sniffing it, Shippo let out a low enraged growl and burned the letter in his hands as he growled out, "You best leave master Totosai because when I tell my father the letter and the people you are currently making a weapon for he will want to do nothing more than skin you alive and at the moment I would imagine that my mother would aid him rather than help you."
After being left speechless by the young Prince words and his tone of voice with the sword master, Jaken followed the enraged fox kit back to the village where he knew he would be able to get the answers he so needed to get so that he could fully report back to his lord. Once they had reached the village and after he had walked back with the young kit to the shrine where Lord Inuyasha stood with his mate and pack, Jaken stepped back and waited until the young kit had finished talking with his father. Just as he thought that he would have to make himself known, Miroku approached the imp and said, "Master Jaken, I hope that all is well with Lord Sesshomaru."
"It is, the lands have been growing and there are always matters that need tending too." Jaken quickly answered as he took note of the stressed and angry peak in his eye. "I was out on a job for my Lord and chose to check in to take news to my Lord of anything that has recently happened."
"Nothing has happened since the death of Rin, we are all still in a bit of shock." Miroku answered in a tight voice.
"Could you ask Lord Sesshomaru if it would be alright to send Kohaku with the pups for a while to the western lands?" Sango joined in as she tried to change topics and as discreetly as possible get him to leave.
Not liking that he was being lied too and that things were being kept hidden not only from his Lord but from himself as well in matters that regarded the child that they had all cared for, Jaken hardened his eyes and glared at the monk and Taijiya before him, while knowing that he would be heard by Lord Inuyasha and Lady Kagome he growled out, "Oh, well I suppose you would not know than as to why a young dragon demon girl claimed to be Rin, the child that Lord Sesshomaru took as his ward, while I was delivering a message for my Lord."
"Sango, Miroku, you guys should probably go and get ready to travel. I'm sure that Master Jaken would have Ah-Un ready for your use once we have finished talking here." Kagome's angry, yet calm voice reached them as Inuyasha and Shippo stood by her side.
"Lady Kagome, I'm sure that you will explain matters to me so that I can get word back to Lord Sesshomaru."
"Feh, we were planning on visiting my brother soon, Shippo go and find Kohaku. He should be finishing up with the village no to far from here. I want you both back before we have to leave in the morning." Inuyasha ordered as he locked eyes with the green imp that served his brother.
Knowing better than to disobey his father and mother when they were in such moods, Shippo walked past Jaken and quickly took his leave of the village so that he could go and get the last of their pack member back home before they all set off to travel and left his mother and father to handle the green imp that served his uncle. Once they had been left alone, Kagome let out a long sigh and asked, "Did a dragon demon really claim to have been our Rin while you had been visiting the Eastern lands?"
"She did, why does this upset you both so? What does this have to do with Rin?" Jaken growled out.
After wrapping his arms around his mate and letting out a low growl of frustration, Inuyasha answered, "Because Rin's body was taken just two nights ago. We got their scents…the scents that robbed Rin's grave were none other than dragon demons from the Eastern Lands."
"I thought Sesshomaru was in the middle of creating a treaty with them…just what the hell happened that made them want to rob the grave of my daughter?" Kagome growled out when Inuyasha's retelling of events brought back her anger.