Morning rays of sunlight filtered through the blinds touching the cheek of the room's sleeping occupant. The occupant, a young demon, stirred slowly eyes opening to the daylight. Aqua eyes blinked slowly beneath a turf of brunette hair, before widening quickly. The small form, seconds ago deep in sleep now shot up and began dance on top of the covers.

"It's my birthday!"

The boy, known as Rinku, hurriedly began to get dressed. True demons lived long lives, and the child had hundreds of more birthdays to look forward to, but today was extra special. Today Rinku turned 75. This age seemed to hold no special value to humans. This was, to them, an age closer to death. However, to demons 75 was an age that was recognized as the beginning of adolescence. This age, equivalent to 13 in human years was the age when Rinku would be recognized as young adult, and not a child.

During the next 25 years of his life Rinku would slowly begin to age. The boy would grow taller, and his features would slowly morph into that of a human teenager. After this process Rinku would hold his older form for hundreds of years before appearing to age a day.

After throwing his shirt on and tugging at his pants the soon to be man opened the door and began his mad decent down the stairs. "Whad'ya get me, whad'ya get me, wha'd ya get me!"

Jumping over the last two steps the boy threw his arms up in the air. "I'm up guys!" However his greeting echoed off the empty living room. Rinku blinked staring slowly at the room. The T.V. was off and no one sat on the couch or in the chairs.

The kitchen! Rinku thought dashing into the said room. Pushing opening the swinging door, the yo-yo demon's eyes widened to find no one there as well. After this discovery the brunette began to frequently search all rooms in the house. The bedrooms were empty, the bathrooms were empty, the back yard were they trained was empty, the attic was empty, even Suzuka's lab was empty.

After once again checking the kitchen for any signs of life, Rinku noticed something he hadn't before. On the table laid a small stack of notes. Leaning over the kitchen table the demon began to organize the notes, as to which was written first, afterwards the child began to read them.

Hello all,

I have a date tonight, and am not sure when I shall return. Don't wait up.

Shishiwakamaru

After crinkling his nose some Rinku began to remember that Shishi had left this note yesterday afternoon. Having no idea when the blue-haired samurai would return the child crumbled up the note and began to the next one.

Hey blokes!

Natsume's in town after all, and I promised to take her to the tequila pancake breakfast! Wish me luck, bastards! Ahahahahah!

-Chu

Hello all!

It seems we all have plans for the day? The inventor's seminar in Kyoto is here for the week, so I'll see you guys in a couple of days! Hope you three find entertainment for today!

-The Beautiful Suzuka

Rinku,

Jin and I are going to meet up with Yusuke and Kurama. We'll probably be gone a while, so the house is yours for the day. Don't burn it down. We left you some breakfast in the microwave, don't get into trouble.

-Touya

Aqua eyes began to take in the notes. "Oh I get it!" Rinku smiled, throwing down the pieces of paper. "Nice one you guys! You really had me going!" The child smiled putting his hands behind his head, he began to walk into the living room.

"This whole thing is a surprise party or something, right? …Come on out, I get it! …Guys?"

The yo-yo child had been sitting in the middle of the living room now for almost thirty minutes when the grim possibility began to sit in his mind. They forgot.

"But they couldn't have!" Rinku began to argue with himself out loud. "We talked about it all week! I even asked for a dog, and they said no! But they still had to remember it! There's no way in Hell they would forget!"

Just as the child finished his sentence a wave of thoughts began to crash into his mind. Chu had taken some hits to the head, Jin was…Jin, Touya and Shishi were always so indifferent when it came to personal matters, and Suzuka was always involved with his experiments. Sometimes the blonde would spend days in his lab working on something. Maybe they all really did forget…

After reaching his conclusion Rinku was surprised to see the front door open.

"Shishi!"

The blue-haired samurai eyed the child wearily. "Hello Rinku…Were is everyone?"

"Chu's out with Natusme, Jin and Touya went to meet Kurama and Yusuke, and Suzuka's at an inventor's thing."

"Ah," The bird demon nodded heading up stairs.

"Wait!"

The samurai turned to eye the youth curiously. "What?"

"Don't you know what today is?"

"October 3rd, I believe." Shishi stated ready to head upstairs.

"And?"

Sighing the fighter pulled out his cell phone to look at his date book. "I don't have time for guessing games…Yesterday was Yom Kippur, that's the only important thing I see this week…. We're not Jewish so I don't think that's what you were implying."

"You really don't know." Rinku realized.

"Know what?" Shishi called walking upstairs to his room. "You're a kid, stop being so damn cryptic."

The brunette sighed; following Shishi to his room watching the samurai grab a bag out of his closet.

"What's that?"

"Why?"

"You said I'm a kid. Don't I have a right to be curious?"

"Brat," The blue haired bishone mumbled. "It's a change of clothes I forgot. I'm going back to my date now. I'll probably be back tomorrow night."

"Uh! Shishi!" Rinku called following the demon down the stairs. "Before you go, do want to train or something?"

"I don't have time."

"What about my kendo?" Rinku reminded. The samurai had been giving him kendo lessons for a little over a month now, and the yo-yo kid was really enjoying it.

"Just go over what I showed you, and when I get back we'll spar. Okay?" Shishi called over his shoulder as he opened the front door.

"…Fine." The brunette sighed watching the door close. "Asshole."

Sighing the child began to finger the three stars on his cheek one to the other. Father, Mother, Sister…True Rinku did not think about them much anymore since he began living with Chu and the others; they were his family now. Hn…some family.

They were all jerks, how could they all have just forgotten? Hadn't they just celebrated Touya's birthday last month? Of course they remembered ice-pops and not his!

"Then if they don't care, maybe it's better I learn this now. Fine you jerks! I can take the hint! If this is the true age were I become a man, then it's probably time I get a place of my own!"

Hmm. Maybe it came out a bit more angst then I meant it. However, I'm in a mood, and if you were 13 and your loved one's forgot your birthday…Come one you'd act the same way to. So the story behind the birthdays is that a really long time ago I made up ages and birthdays for these fighters and as I looked at the calendar I realized Rinku's birthday, October 3rd was coming up, so I decided to honor him with a fic. We should pay more attention to the short people…Hint; I'm 5'2 ½. Sigh, So yeah please read and REVIEW if you would like to see an update sometime soon. Do it for Rinku! Review!