Chapter 12

A/N: Just so you know this chapter is starting up with a flash back of an explanation on Rin's power and why she is able to do what she does. Now on with the story!

'I'll do anything for you my little Aya…I've given a part of myself for you and I hope that you will live the long life that you deserve.' The young Queen of the East whispered as her weak, new born baby girl as she held her tightly yet gently in her arms. Her lady in waiting and her maids had left her with her daughter and at her request had not allowed the king of the east or her eldest daughter to enter her room to see the new addition to their small family. It was hard enough seeing the life being drained out of her new born daughter but if her mate, her eldest daughter were to stand by her as they all witness this event she would fall apart and would be unable to be the strong queen she needed to be for her lands and for her family.

'The dragons of old watch out for the new, the mothers remember, the fathers ignored the true mothers whispered soft words…' The Queen of the east whispered as her tears fell upon her dying child's little hand. 'Remember, remember the darkness of power, fear not the unknown, embrace what you fear and welcome what you know.'

'A touching song I must say, though I'm glad she didn't go on to add me in it…more so then she already has.' A deep, dark voice was heard as her room began to fill with a darkness, a blackness that she knew did not belong to the dragon that had been thrown out from her lands just a few months before she had been due to give birth to her dying daughter.

'I am in no moods for games show yourself or leave with your life I care not which you chose but I am certain that you will not like me either way.' The enraged Queen of the East hissed out in anger as she allowed her power to slowly and unnoticeably fill the room.

After filling the room with his laughter and after nullifying her power, the deep, dark voice was heard reply, 'I would not be kicking me out so soon young queen, I am after all the shinigami that has been asked to pick up your little child.'

Silence filled the room, she could not tell you for how long or for how short it had filled the space between the dying child and its mother but all that she could tell was that these were not her memories, not fully her own at any rate for she could see herself resting in the arms of her vey tried and sorrow filled mothers arms.

'What do you want?' The Queen of the East strong voice filled the room as she locked eyes with the demon, no, the shinigami that stood before her.

'What are you willing to give for her?' he asked in a whispered voice as he suddenly appeared with the child in his arms.

'Name your price Shinigami and give me my child.' She growled out in anger as she kept her eyes on her daughter and her power at the ready as she realized that she was finally able to surround him in her power.

Sensing the change in his own powers and the power that threatened to harm him, the death god looked down at the child in his arms and realized that it was the child he held that had weakened him so that her mother could be able to get her back. It was the moment that he had locked eyes with the child that he felt a need to save her, to open her up so that she would be the first dragon demon that would be able to mold herself to her enemies so that she could never be killed. She would be the first born with such a gift since the first Queen of the dragons. As he offered her what he could and after giving her the gift that would fade once she found her true mate, the shinigami turned to the young queen of the east as he offered her the child and said, 'I only ask that she will be known to you as my daughter and not that of your mates. She will be mine just as she is yours and should she ever be bound or held or kept from my sight there will be nothing you could do or offer me to keep me from taking her from you once more.'

'You have my word Shinigami; she is yours and yours alone just as she is mine and mine alone. She will never be bound or kept from your sight so long as I am able to prevent it.'

As the death god began to pull in his power so that he could take his leave he knew that she would keep to her word and do as he had asked, the death god nodded his head and said, 'Give her a drop of your blood once I am gone and she will have the life that she was meant to have though you must know young queen that by doing so you give her more of the royal blood that flows through your veins and you lose it as well since you are willing it over to her to keep her alive.'

'I am aware Shinigami but I care not so long as my child lives.' The queen answered as she locked eyes with her weak child that seems to be gaining some of her color back as the Shinigami began to take its leave.

She opened her eyes and found herself in the darkened room once more. While a part of her was unsure if she had really heard the voice while she had began to fade into the darkness that had kept her from the pain of seals and bounds that had harmed her so much. 'I need to speak with mother but that has to wait. The longer I stay here the angrier my lord will get and as much as I'm upset with my family I don't want them killed.' Rin thought sadly as she slowly began to sit up in bed as she felt her power and strength quickly rushing into her. Just as she was about to move herself so that she would be able to claim out of the bed, Rin froze in place as her anger and fury at her once friend took over her when she heard his worried filled voice say, "Are you stupid or do you just not care that your attempts to leave without being allowed to do so can kill you."

Angry, hurt, and still half asleep, Rin growled out at Hiei and replied, "I already died once at birth and I've lived through hundreds of deaths, do not talk to me about death Lord Hiei for I am well aware of the pain and the coldness of it."

"I meant nothing by it Princess Aya, only that you will not get a chance to leave should you die in this life. The spell is no longer on you and it will no longer be what protects you from the chains of death that would be sure to bind you when your life ends." He explained in a low growl.

"I want nothing to do with you or your ruler's dragon of darkness. All I wish is to be free to leave and to go to those that I see as my true family." Rin growled out in anger as she stood up with her power discretely wrapped tightly around herself.

Taking note that she was allowing him to call her by the name she had been given at birth and no longer correcting him and wishing to be called by the mortal child that she had once been, Hiei let out a low growl of his own and replied, "I am not here on orders I am here out of worry Aya, you are and will always be my first friend and I will not stand by and allow you to harm yourself."

As sparks of power surprisingly began to spring from her claws, Rin narrowed her eyes and said, "You allow me? Please Lord Hiei, I am nothing more than your princess, the daughter of the ruler's that you so loyally follow. I am not your mate, or you're intended; I do not see you as my friend now for a friend would not have sealed me in this room with no way out, if you think me my friend than let me out!"

Before Hiei could roar back at her that it was not something that he could easily do, that it was something that he would have to make sure he followed since it seemed that the Queen was looking to remind the rest of the race just what blood she held in her veins and the power she would be able to hold over them all should they push her enough the two froze in place as they heard a knock on the door from the outside. The same door that had cause her so much pain before now seemed like nothing more than an ordinary door that would let her out whenever she was ready to leave the room she had woken up in. Just as she was about to ask who it was, Rin let out another low growl of annoyance when she watched Hiei walk out through the door and left her alone to cool down from her anger. 'I have a bit of his gift…I wonder…was the voice right? Can I really let myself out as if I pushed back hard enough with his gift?' Rin thought as she turned her back to the door and looked out the small window to see where exactly she had been placed in the castle.

Just as she had finished realizing that she was in the back and facing away from the village so that she would not be seen by the people that had chased her from her own, Rin couldn't help be feel relieved when she heard her sisters soft voice say, "Well at least it's not as dark as I had thought it to be and they were nice enough to leave you a window."

"Is there anything else that you'll need of me my Princess?" Hiei's cold and emotionless voice was heard.

While she knew that he was upset about her words and what she had asked him to do for her, Rin knew that his cold voice and emotionless tactic was nothing compared to what her lord could do and would say with as little words as possible. 'I don't care how mad you are Hiei; I have the right to be upset here not you…'

"No, I trust that you'll go straight to my mother, she has several things that need to get done and trust no one to get them done in the manner she expects them to but my mate and yourself." Maya answered as she kept her eyes trained on the back of her younger sister. 'She doesn't belong here…she needs to close the door to her old life and is unable until she can see the Lord of the West for one final time.'

"Of course my Princess, I'll be back to retrieve you for diner." Hiei answered before taking his leave without even offering his once friend a parting word.

After a few moments of silence and realizing that she would not be the one to speak up first, Maya let out a long sigh and said, "You were a bit hard on him don't you think?"

"No I do not, and he can go to hell for all I care since he is the fool that put me in here." Rin growled out in anger.

"R…Aya you have to understand that he had no choice in the matter, it has to do as he was told or be shunned like his father was all those years ago." Maya explained in a tired filled voice. "He would have lost everything that he worked so hard to get for himself."

After letting out a long sigh of her own and shooting a spark of electricity at the bed to her right, the young dragoness turned to face her sister and said, "I know, I understand it, but it does not mean that I have to feel alright about it or that I have no right to be upset when I do have full right."

"I'm not saying you don't, I'm just saying that you could at least let him know that you still see him as the dear friend that you once held him as."

"I'll try, it's just all so hard…this is all so new yet so familiar to me and I'm still confused by what I'm feeling."

After an awkward moment of silence, Maya locked eyes with her baby sister and said, "Father said that if you were agreeable and would stop requesting everyone to address you as the mortal child that you no longer are that he would allow Hiei to let you out of the room so that you can walk the village with Haku and I."

Realizing that this was her chance to get out of here and to finish her plans of escape and also noting how her sister was acting, Rin let out a long sigh and looked around the room and stopped to rest on the door that had not only kept her sealed in this damp, dark room but had harmed her so badly that she had pasted out, as she thought about her chances of breaking free on her own and of her own power and the chances of her escape being successful should she agree to this one things so that she would be able to do as she pleased, well as much as she could do as much as she pleased without the King and the Queen of the East say so.

Sensing her sister's uncertainty, Maya took a step toward the young dragon demon, young to her since she was much older than her sibling, and said, "I know that you don't like it, I know that you want to see if you would do better breaking free from this place then making a deal with our parents but it would be safer for you if you were to agree. I promise to call Rin when it is just us, when there are no ears around to report back to them if that is your wish but you have to agree to this…please mai ritoru ryumasen, please don't chose to stay in here."

After seeing the worry and hurt in her sisters eyes, the young dragoness dropped her stance and relaxed a bit in surrender as she whispered, "So be it, let them call me Aya and out of respect, respect that they have not earned from me, I will answer…now get me the hell out of here."

"Before I can do that Rin there is something I promised mother that I would explain to you and we cannot leave this room until I have done so." Maya explained in a calm and gentle filled voice as she slowly made her way to take a seat on the bed that her sister had been resting in. "Besides, Hiei won't be back until he has finished with mother and I'm sure it'll take a while since she and father will be announcing tomorrow that we are to hold a ball in honor of your safe return."

"I'm sure they're all going to just love that announcement." She mumbled under her breath.

"Regardless it will be made and it will be held in a short amount of time."

"How short amount of time?" Rin asked in a curious filled voice. 'If it's soon enough I won't have to do a thing, they'll be giving me the chance I'll need to make my escape.'

"The ball is going to be held for you in a few days…four days if there is trouble with some of the villagers but mother would like to hold it in three. After words she will be announcing that she will be taking over as the main ruler of the lands so that she can teach me of our heritage, she also plans to have you at her side as well so that we are both taught what she was taught at our age."

"I see…I suppose you are now going to tell me that we're the daughters of the first dragon demon, the line that carries the blood of the demoness that was strong enough to turn the mindless beasts that we once were to intelligent, powerful and ever graceful demons we are today." Rin answered in a bored filled voice as she turned to finally lock eyes with her sister. "You, no, we are the daughters, great, great, great, granddaughters of the first dragoness of existence. There were those that chose to stay and those that chose to seek their own lands for their own purposes, either way any and all dragons that live today come and are the children of our line."

When her sister seemed to shocked by her knowledge of what they truly were and where they had come from, Rin let out a long sigh and turned to look out the window once more as she added, "There is a reason that the spell father used on me is hardly ever used and never has it ever been used within the royal line…as some would say Maya…knowledge is power…in my case I absorb others powers just as water can be changed and mixed with."