Chapter 11

After spending hours on her own and using the time to figure out a plan, Rin let out a low growl and braced herself for what she knew she would have to do if what she had planned was to work on her parents and the fury she was sure to unleash upon them all when she finally got her freedom. 'Of course to make this work I'll have to stay clear of my elder sister for a while…I'll have to make sure that I have no intention of being influenced by her and that I'll be the obedient daughter that they want me to be.' And with her final thought, Rin took in a deep breath and charged at the door knowing what it would do to her and knowing that this would be worth it.

However the pain that dug into her, that clung to her bones and ripped the unimaginable scream from her throat was something that she had not been expecting. She had not used her aura or demonic energy in fear of what it would cause the seals to do to her but she had never imagined that it would be this unbearably painful. It was nothing compared to what she had lived through in any of her lives, nothing to the heart ache, the pain of death, even the pain of loss held nothing to what she was currently experiencing. The only thing that kept her motive, that gave her the courage to continue to charge at the door was the fact that it would be her only way out back into the world and toward the path she would need to take the path in order to make it back to her Lord.

'I'm not giving up; I'm not going…Oka! Oka it hurts…it hurts so much…' Rin thought as she finally allowed her tears to fall with each slam and punch she gave the door that kept her locked in the small room. Unknown to her Rin had started to use her demonic powers with each of her hits and filled the seals with the darkness and electricity that currently filled her and fought back the pain that began to grip her.

"Let me out!" Rin roared when she finally grew tired of taking the pain that the seals were inflicting on her she fought back and began to throw her power and energy right back at the door in hopes of breaking the seals. Little did she know that she was showing power and control that not even her parents had thought her capable of since she should not have been able to do all that she was currently doing to try to break free from her cage.

As the world around her began to fade, as the pain, the anger, hurt and so much more began to consume her, Rin dropped down to her knees and as she slowly passed out from everything that was currently filling her yet draining her of her strength Rin tried to focus on the whispered voices she could hear from the other side of the door. After realizing that they were her surprised parents with a worried Hiei's voices talking about her, Rin couldn't help but smile as she allowed the darkness to completely consume her so that she could rest in peace. But just as she was about to completely fade away to total darkness Rin was confused when she heard a whispered voice say, 'No one can run from death just as they cannot hope to hold it. You are my daughter in your own way and while you will never be what I had wished you to be you will not be stuck here…you will win my child and you will find true happiness.'

They had been slowly making their way to the room that they had asked the dragon of darkness to seal their daughter in the room that they had prepared for her long ago. While they had promised the great priestess that they would not use it to hold the child it would seem that they had had no other choice but to do just that. Of course it was not as if the miko would be able to do anything from her grave now that the jewel had been purified and rid of but it still did not mean that they were not unease with the choice that they had just made. Just as the Queen was about to ask Hiei if he had been back since he had dropped her off, the three dragons froze mid step when they heard the helpless, pain filled cry of the young dragon they had been on their way to see.

At once the king turned to his advisor and asked, "Did you warn her of the seal and the spells we had put in place for her own safety?"

"I did, she in turn chose to tell me that there was no room that she would and could be held in place by such things." Hiei answered in a calm and collected voice.

"That foolish child, I suspect that we'll have to leave her there and on her own for at least a few days."

"I would give it a few weeks my dear." The King of the east growled out in an annoyed filled voice as he came to a stop at the room that their youngest daughter was being held in.

"I'm sure it would take no more than a few days…Hiei can you please check to see if she is still aware of what is going on or if she was wounded by the seals?" The queen ordered as she turned to face her mate.

Once they had been left alone, the King locked eyes with his mate and said, "Well go on than, and say what it is that you wish to say and make your peace but you should know my love that I will not change my mind. This is for the best of our family and for the best of our country."

After a moment of silence, the Queen of the East let out a long sigh and whispered, "What if our Maya is right? What if we should have just let her be and allowed her the freedom that we tore from her as a child? What if we really are doing more harm than good?"

After pulling his mate into his arms, the King of the East shook his head and said, "I know that you worry and I worry as well but we must see this through my love. If we cannot prove to our people that this changes nothing, that our loss did not affect our ability to rule. We must do what they ask so that they keep feeling safe and we must also ensure the treaty with the West."

"If we lose her again only when we just have gotten her back I will not be able to pick myself back up my love, she is still my child, still a part of me and of my blood. I can't stand to lose her a second time; I won't be able to lose her for a second time." The Queen tried to explain to her mate. 'It'll be his second time to lose a daughter and it would be my third.'

"And you won't I promise you, we will keep her, I will make it so that she will have no choice but to stay with her people and her family."

Before the queen of the east could ask what it was that her mate had meant and what it was that he had already planned on doing with their daughter, their attention was drawn to the door as they watched the shadow that was their advisor as he was heard say, "She lost conscious on the floor, should I move her to the bed?"

"No, I'll move her; you and my husband may go and tend to my eldest daughter while I tend to my baby girl. I will see you all at dinner and Hiei make sure to bring her some clothing before I am called for dinner."

"My Queen," Hiei answered as he bowed to her and watched as she walked through the door with ease.

"Love, are you sure you will be alright with her." The king asked in a worried filled voice.

"She is weak, hurt, angry and most of all alone. I can at least make sure that she is not alone while I try to get her to see why it is that we do what we are doing and open her eyes to the rules of our world and of our court."

Knowing that there would be no way to change her husband's mind and realizing that she would have to do her own planning to help counter attack whatever it was that her mate had already set into motion. Once she had entered the room, the Queen of the East quickly lifted her daughter up and off of the ground and gently placed her on the small bed that had been placed in the corner of the room. After making sure that her daughter was covered up and was sleeping as peacefully as she could with the still lingering pains from the seal that had kept her in place, the queen quickly set to lighting up the room so that it felt more calming and relaxing instead of the prison cell that it had first been made to be.

Just as she had finished doing all that she could and was allowed to do with the seal in place, the queen of the east finally set her sorrow; regret filled eyes on her daughter as she willed her tears to stay within her. There was no point to regret her actions, no point to cry over something she could no longer change since it was in the past, the only thing that she could do was move on and hope that she would win over the love of her daughter once more and complete her family once again. 'I gave a bit of my power to keep you, I made a deal that even your father knows nothing about to make sure that I would get the chance to raise you…but even than fate chose to keep you away from me. My Aya, my little girl how I wish I could get back the time that was robbed from us.'

"The dragons of old watch out for the new," she began to sing as she began to gently comb her daughter's hair in her sleep, "The mothers remember, the fathers ignored the whispered words of the true mother's soft words…"

"Umm…" Rin groaned in her sleep as she began to move about in the bed she had been placed in.

Just as the queen was about to talk to her daughter and promise her that she would do all that she could to get her the freedom she so desperately wished for, she froze in mid movement when she heard her daughters whispered plea say, "No, no…I'm not gone…it's me…please…Oka-san, Otu-san, Kagome-Oka-san please! It's me Rin!"

Extremely hurt by her daughters words and unable to stay to listen to her daughter as she continued to fight and struggle with the memories from her former life, the queen of the east whipped the few tears that had escaped her and quickly stood to leave so that she didn't have to listen to her daughters cries for the hanyou that had been the mother she had wish she could have been for her daughter. Once she was out of the room, the queen turned to face the dragon of darkness and asked, "Are you done with my mate or were you asked to come and get me."

"I was asked to come and retrieve you, the Lady Princess and her mate are very upset and things are not looking very good." Hiei explained as he kept to the side.

"Oh my dear Queen, must I always be the peace keeper?" the queen growled at herself as she stood tall and turned to face Hiei to add, "I do not want anyone other than myself in that room do you understand me Hiei? That includes yourself and my mate."

"With all due respect my Queen I am your mates advisor, I follow his orders first and for most." He replied in an unsure voice. 'Just what the hell kind of discord has all of this caused?'

Showing him all of her teeth and surrounding him in her own power, the Queen of the east locked eyes with the dragon of darkness and growled out, "Make no mistake Hiei, he may be my mate and may hold the title of King however it has always been the females that truly rule these lands and I am no exception nor are either one of my daughters. Since they are still young my word is law and will always come before their own. My mate may be the figure of ruling however I am still of the royal line and will always hold the true power of these lands…do I make myself clear Hiei?"

"Of course my Queen, forgive me I will do as you have asked, what should I tell your mate, the Lord King should he ask why my spells have changed so that no one but you will be allowed entrance?" Hiei asked in a curious voice.

"You will leave my tell him nothing, you will leave him for me to handle and you will make sure that my daughter gets the food that she needs so that she can start to regain her strength and that she will be given something for her pain." She ordered before storming off and in the direction in which she was sure to find the rest of her broken family. 'How, how did things get to be this way? My dear Queen just where did I go wrong? Just how can I fix what has broken my family…'

After leaving Hiei to tend to her daughter in his own way and knowing that he would do just as she had ordered, the queen of the east quickly made her way toward the rest of the family to see what it was that she had to fix or mend to get them to stop fighting until her daughter woke up. While she wished that her youngest daughter would no longer hold so dearly onto the human life she had lived before she was returned to him she would not force her and seal her away in that room any longer than a single day. Just as she had walked into the room, the Queen of the East let out a long sigh as she walked into find her eldest daughter's mate being held down by her mates power and her mate currently struggling to hold back his daughter. After using her plants to get her mate to back away and leave her daughter and her mate be, Queen Haniyasu let out a low growl and said, "While I understand that we are all a bit upset, if you raise another hand to my daughter Kenta I will not be pleased nor will I stand by and allow it."

"Hani, my love you know that what I do I do for the good of this family."

"While you may had thought that your plans and actions have aided this family I will no longer stand by your ideas love. We have tried to do things your ways, now it is time to do them my way." She growled out in anger as she made sure that her daughter was alright by walking over to her and looking her over from head to toe.

'What the hell is going on? Is this a trick? She hasn't done this since before Aya was sent away…' a very confused Maya was heard as she stood still and just watched how this would play out.

"Thank you for protecting my mate when I could not Queen Haniyasu, I will work to get stronger so that I can be the equal that your daughter deserves." Haku was heard growl out as he suddenly appeared by Maya's side.

With a small smile on her face, Haniyasu shook her head and replied, "Worry not Haku, the women of this family will always be stronger than their mate. It is a requirement because of the royal line that we hold in our bloods."

"Hani, what have you done? Please don't tell me you let her lose. You and I both know that she is not ready. That she will not be welcomed so easily back into the country, not after the spectacle she made of herself when she first arrived." The king pulled out as he tried not to lose his temper.

"Even if I had love, you would have had no say. Do not forget that it is by my blood that you rule and it is also by my will that I have allowed the people to believe that I chose not to be the main ruler of these lands." Queen Haniyasu growled out in anger as she turned her full attention to her mate as her eyes began to glow an unearthly green color. "But perhaps it is time to remind the people just who the true ruler is here and just what blood it is that runs through the veins of my daughters and through my own."

"Mother…what do you mean? What does our bloodline have to do with anything?" a very confused and worried Maya was heard ask as she put her thoughts of her sister at the back of her mind.

"Should I leave?" Haku asked in his own confused filled voice. While he was technically a part of their family now through his mate's side, he knew that he was still not accepted since he was not of their lands but the lands from across the ocean which was why he was still working on gaining their approval.

"Yes,"

"No,"

Both the king and queen both answered at the same time. After glaring at her mate and making sure that he silently understood her unspoken threat, the King looked away with a low growl of his own as he moved to take a seat in their privet area. Once she was sure that he would not answer or speak unless she had invited him to do so, the Queen of the east turned to her son and offered him a small smile before explaining, "You may stay my son however I do ask that you keep this secret. Not many would take kindly to you should you emit to them that you know of our secret and many would look to claim that you married my daughter because of this secret. Maya we never told you this because it was something that we thought could wait until it was closer to the time when you would be taking my place as Queen of the East."

After taking in a deep breath and nodding her head in understanding, Maya locked eyes with her mother and said, "Very well however I only ask that I be allowed to explain things to my sister once we have come to an agreement. While she still may seem like a child she is not. She is far older and wiser than any of use give her credit for since she has already lived through many lives and has seen much more than we have of the world and what it has to offer and its cruelty to others."

A/N: Should I start explaining or should I just keep you all in the dark and keep you guessing as to where I am going with this? Lol XD XD No worries you'll find out in the next chapter. Please let me know what you all think. I know it has been a while since I have written or posted up something new but I am going to try my best. As always please review! XD XD :D :D