Chapter 42

While most in the hall looked about for the source of the voice and while Kagome and Inuyasha each drew their weapons, Rin took in a deep breath and locked eyes with her mate so that he would know that they need not worry for their pack. Once he had given her a brief nod of the head, Rin offered him a small smile and exited the barrier that her mother had thrown up to protect the pack. Before Inuyasha or Kagome could growl at their daughter to get back into the barrier, Rin summoned her weapon from within her as she growled out, "As a new born, a shinigami came and should have taken me away but he gave me life, as the child of the east I should have been loved and protected yet I was cast out. I am not what they are yet am the same. I became the daughter of a dragon and the daughter of a shinigami."

Rin locked eyes with her raging biological father and her biological mother as she prepared to finish her statement. While she knew that they had meant well, she was tired of being controlled and never accepted for who or what she was.

"Two dragons came together to have me, a shinigami gave me life and it was Inuyasha-Otu-san and Kagome-Oka-san that will forever be my parents. I will forever be their daughter just as I will forever be the mate of Lord Sesshomaru."

"And there you have it; my child has finally been reborn to be with people that will accept her for who and what she is." The Shinigami in question growled out as he turned to glare at the two surprised and very uncertain dragons that had stormed in, "Will you fight to have her or will you allow things to be as they should," he asked them in a voice filled with promise.

"They will not fight for her since I see that she is truly where she was always meant to be." The queen of the east growled out as she stood up and began to approach the dragoness that stood between the three groups. "She is Lady Rin, mate of Lord Sesshomaru, daughter of Lady Kagome and Lord Inuyasha and is a guest in our home. They will not be touched."

"Miku, can you have some rooms prepared for my family in my wing?" Rin asked as she kept her eyes locked on the queen of the east. 'This is too easy.'

"Are you certain mistress?"

"I am, take Amon with you and make sure that the rooms are all connected." Rin ordered as she tightened her grip on her weapon as it began to give off small currents.

Once the two guards had taken their leave of the room, Rin turned her attention toward the foolish male that still thought to take her from her family and growled out, "Will you leave things be now or will you truly wish to end your life here where you stand?"

"Lady Rin," father and son growled as they bowed and showed their submission.

Once that had been done and over with, the Queen of the East turned to the two and growled out, "I would advise for you both to head home, I will write to you soon."

"Of course my queen, with your leave," The two mumbled as they kept their heads down.

Once they had all been left alone, Kagome walked out of her barrier and over to her pup as she let out a low growl, while the Queen watched to see how it was that her daughter would react, especially since she had been so against being ordered and controlled, the King of the East began to let out an enraged growl as he watched his daughter submit to the hanyou miko without question as she whispered, "Oka-san,"

"That was foolish," Kagome growled at her daughter in worry as she looked her over.

"No, I was perfectly safe." Rin mumbled in a low and gentle voice.

"We'll speak of this later." Kagome promised as she turned her attention toward the Queen and King of the East and asked, "Now on to the next matter."

"Oka-san?" Rin asked in a confused filled voice.

"When our daughter returned to her she awoke from some nightmares." Inuyasha growled out in an enraged filled voice.

"She was in pain and it was because of this that we knew that her stay here, as short as it might have been, was one that held pain." Sango joined in.

"Therefore, we wish to know what was done to our niece and why it was that she cried in her sleep of a door that gave her only pain." Miroku finished as his staff began to glow with his spiritual power.

"You told them what I said in my sleep?" Rin asked in a surprised and confused filled voice as she turned to lock eyes with her mate.

"I thought that the matter would be let go." The former king of the east growled out in a tense filled voice as he glared at his long time friend.

"As my sister, your Oka-san has state in the past; family does not lie to one another. You spoke of a door, of a room that did you harm, we wish to see it." Sesshomaru answered her question loud enough so that he could be heard by all.

"Oh come now my friend, you know that I will always be there for you however this is my family. You know my kind; you know that it was one of the traits that my dearest friend, your mate, wished to see more in your own kind." Inukimi growled out in an annoyed filled voice.

"You've betrayed me and yet you still think you can speak of her to me?" he growled out in rage.

"I betrayed no one, I am protecting my family as you should have done so after her death, while you may have chosen to tend to your loss on your own I chose to stand by my family. Do no test me, friend or not I will not allow anything or anyone to harm my family." Inukimi growled out in rage as she allowed her own aura to expand from her. While hers was not as powerful and as deadly as her sons or the miko that was now the ruling female for the west, she was not weak and refused for any to see her as such.

Not wishing for things to get out of hand, Rin turned to her father and whimpered, "Otu-san."

"Kagome, come on, if Sesshomaru can let it go we should as well." Inuyasha growled as he approached her mate.

"I will never forget the pain in her voice; I will make sure that that room is destroyed before I leave." Kagome promised out as she turned to lock eyes with her mate.

"The room has been destroyed." Shu promised as he appeared by the miko's side. "I ensured that it had been after I spoke with the Queen when I first arrived."

"I want to see it." Kagome pressed on.

Before a fight could break out between the male that her daughter saw as her father and the female that was her daughters mother, the Queen of the East took in a deep breath, and locked eyes with the hanyou miko and said, "If you so wish to do so I will show you to the room while the rest of your pack gets settled."

"Our pack is not splitting up." Sango and Miroku quickly stated as they appeared by the young hanyou's side.

"I…Oka-san I can't go there." Rin whispered as she backed away from her mother and father.

"Mother?" Sesshomaru asked in a low growl so that only she would hear him.

"I have no need to view such a room, should you all truly wish to go see this room I will stay with my son's mate while you all tend to your matters, Rin-san will that be alright with you?"

"Yes, yes I'll join you." Rin quickly answered as she suddenly appeared by Inukimi's side.

"Where do we meet you?" Inuyasha asked his brother.

"I'll be joining you so that this Sesshomaru will be able to lead you back to the rest of the pack."

"Back to Rin and your mother you mean, Miroku and I will be joining you." Sango stated as she locked eyes with her best friend.

"Of course," Kagome answered as she turned to give her full attention to the dragoness before her and said, "We are ready to follow when you are ready to lead us."

After watching his mate lead the group away from their court room and after taking note of the power that stayed behind to protect the two that had been left behind, the King of the East turned to lock eyes with his daughter and asked, "Why have you done this? Why have you split our family apart?"

"I did not split them apart, you did, and you and your mate chose to give me up rather than to fight your people, the very same people that have no choice but to do as you say. I found my true family as the human child you made me, a family that will not change me nor will they wish to see me as a controllable child." Rin growled out in anger as she glared at the King before her.

"Shall we?" Inukimi asked her daughter as she prepared to follow after her daughter.

"Lady Inukimi, I would like to have a word with you."

Before her mate's mother could growl out that she would not be leaving her side, Rin let out a long sigh and said, "It's alright Lady Inukimi, I will be fine on my own. I wish to prepare my room and to see that the rooms for the rest of the pack have been prepared. I also wish to spend some time with my sister."

"No harm will come to her," Maya promised in a power filled voice as she glared at her father.

"Very well, you best stay out of trouble until dinner." Inukimi stated as she watched the two take their leave.

"Father, will you truly allow such things? That demon will be unable to balance her out."

"In case you failed to notice pup," Inukimi growled out in an annoyed filled voice, "it was because of her bond to my son that she did not explode as she should have when the room was first mentioned. Whatever you did to her still haunts her and it will hunt her for years to come."

"Which further proves that she is still too weak and easily controlled by the power she should have had sealed long ago."

"Enough, you will leave us to speak, go in search of your mate, go in search of your advisor to have matters shorted so that the whole of the east will know not to harm that child. Do something and leave us to speak in peace." His father-in-law growled out in anger.

After they had left the room and once they had been able to find a place where they could talk, Rin closed the door to the library she had once used behind her and faced her sister and her brother. After making sure that her brother had truly been completely healed of his burn wounds and after she had made sure that her sister had not been seriously wounded, Rin let out a long sigh and took a seat in one of the free chairs as she heard her sister ask, "Will you stay away now that you have gotten what you wanted?"

"Of course not, while I am now a member of the West and mate to Lord Sesshomaru, you are still my sister, my brother, I would not abandon you."

"What will you do now?"

"I will go to the west and finish my training; I have much to learn before Oka-san can give me the title of Alpha female of the west."

"You must know sister that should you ever need anything from us you need only ask."

"I know Haku, thank you but…but I think now that everything has been brought to the light and now that I have finished going through what I had to in order to find my way back to my pack I think that everything will fit into its place."

"What will you do should your mother wish to attack Oka-san for the room in which you were sealed in?" Maya asked in a worried filled voice. While she had no agreed with her mothers and fathers choice of how they would treat her younger sister, it did not mean that she wished to see them dead.

"I'll beg Oka-san if I must to let things be. After all, what matters most now is that I am back at their side and back with my family."

"What will you do of Miku? You must have taken notice that she seems to have found a mate of her own." Maya asked as her mate began to leave the room so that they would be able to talk in peace.

"I will allow her the choice; she is still my guard first and foremost however should she wish to stay here to remain by his side I'm sure you would not mind if I left her behind…"

"As my guard you mean?" Maya growled out in an annoyed filled voice.

"You know that there are many in the village that will wish to start something. Now that they have seen the control that I have they will wish for me to return to the lands of my birth so that they can make use for me. They will try to use you and they will fail but that does not mean that I would leave you unguarded."

"I don't need a guard; I took up much more after mother than you did. I believe it was why you were reborn." Maya commented in a thoughtful voice.

"I do not have the same gifts as the good Lord King." Rin growled out in her own annoyed filled voice.

"That was not what I meant." Maya stated in a amused filled voice.

"Explain." Rin demanded in a cold and angry filled voice.

"I took more after mother, it is in her blood that we are named royals, it is because she is the great, granddaughter of the first ruler of the dragons. We are the children of the first mother of dragons and yet we have lost our way. Somehow we forgot of our heritage and of where we came from. Our kind began to act and wish to hold the same names and titles that the demons held and it was not something that we should have ever wished to have been made a part of."

"You're confusing me." Rin pointed out in a very serious filled voice.

"Forever remember the sacrifice and the power that I have given you and you will never worry of the time when you will be forced back to the forms of your birth." Maya quoted as she kept her eyes locked with her younger sister. "The first Queen for saw what would happen to our kind if they were left to their own vices, she saw the loss, the harm, and the weakness that our kind would gain with their greed. They respected her, never questioned her because of the power she had over all, mother was never able to master such a power, it seems to have weakened in time but what no one foresaw was that it would remain hidden until it would be needed once more so that the dragons would know their place."

"What most do not know is that the first Queen of our kind had two gifts that gave her the ability to keep all of our kind from trying to over throw her or from trying to take her power from her. She was the first and only dragon of storms just as you were born my little dragon."

"What does that have to do with anything? So you inherited one of the gifts while I took on the other, why is this of such great importance?" Rin questioned once more.

"What mother could not do I can, I have the ability that will forever run in our veins. Not many will like it, and while they may listen to me because they will fear me, they will not have the power to ever to try to harm me or to try to force my hand." Maya came to a finish with a sad smile on her face. "I will always know when one of my children is close, when they wish to harm me, to surprise me, to do anything. I now have the upper hand, I have the ability to temporary or permanent change any dragon to their beast form."

Silence filled the space between the two sisters, while Maya seemed happy by the news that she could and would finally have a way to protect her sister, Rin's mind began to race. What did this mean for her? Would she always feel like she would have to return to people that had cast her out? Would she never truly be free? What if her sister changed her mind and wished for her to return, would she have a choice? Would she be given the chance to stay with her pack, with her true family? Before Rin could really start to worry, she looked up and locked her fear filled eyes with that of her sister as she heard her whispered voice say, "You have nothing to fear from me my little dragon…I would never do what they had done to you…I will never rip you away from the people that loved you, that were meant to love you when our…my parents did not."

"I believe you, and you are my family just as much as they are, but Maya, how can you be certain that it will not work on me…that you will never be forced to do such a thing to me."

With a sad smile and understanding her sisters fear of things to happen once more as they had with the current King and Queen of the East, Maya locked eyes with her sister and whispered, "I would never do such a thing because I am unable to do so. You are the only dragon since our kind were born to be immune to my ability. I hope you will not take this in poor taste however I have already tried to turn you to your dragon form. I believe it is because of the second gift that you have received from our bloodline. While I have control of all the will of dragons, you're unobtainable to me since you are my other half when it comes to the ruling of these lands."

With a small grin on her face, Rin shook her head and said, "No, I am not your other half. I solely belong and am forever meant to be paired with Lord Sesshomaru. I must say sister that while I am glad that you appear to be ready to retire the King and Queen I must also say that I have not been completely honest with you about my true gift."