a/n: Hey...this is the 5th chapter! Whoopteydoo!!! I kinda-ish got writers block on this so0o0o...if it's not REALLY REALLY good...then...tell Miya to bop me on the head! Arigatou!

T-T; me no no own anything T-T;

Cold Heart, Gone Soft?
It's been 4 months since he knew that Rin was pregnant. Sure he had to do something, but he just didn't know what. Rin is after all eating more food...and he just couldn't admit that she was getting bigger. It was summer and the sweltering heat made him sweat more than normal. He laid his head on his arms while never losing focus of his forest. Yeah he owned a forest...he also owned most of the western part of Japan. He inherited his father's home, but not the Tetsusaiga. The heavy haze left him in a state of dreaminess. He was about to drift off to "Dreamland" but he felt something tugging on his pants.

"Daddy...daddy...I'm hungry...wake up! I'm hungry..." Hitaru said while tugging harder on his father's leg.

"Go tell Jaken to make you something..." Sesshomaru said to Hitaru without moving an inch.

"But I don't want Mr. Toad to touch my food..." Hitaru said again.

"Just tell 'Mr. Toad' to wear some gloves then," Sesshomaru said.

"Fine...have it your way..." Hitaru said and went inside to get some food.

A few minutes later someone was poking him.

"I said tell 'Mr. Toad' to wear some gloves," Sesshomaru said thinking it was his two year old son.

"Uh...I'm not Hitaru..." Rin said. Sesshomaru opened one eye then the other and turned around.

"Your right...you're not...if you were you'd be tugging on my leg," Sesshomaru said with a laugh.

"Ha, ha, very funny..." Rin said.

"Well, what do you need?" Sesshomaru asked her.

"Uhm...do you know what today is?" Rin asked him.

"Yeah...it's Monday..."

"No, dork! It's my birthday...You forgot?? I can't believe you..." Rin said with a fake sniffle.

"UH...No, I didn't forget! HAHA! ME? FORGET...yeah I forgot, so what?"

"You're so mean..."

"Haha...just playin...Happy Crappy Birthday, Rinnie," Sesshomaru said and lightly hit her 14 times.

"Ah...okay??" Rin said a bit puzzled and went inside.

'August 25...yeah I forgot it is her birthday...oops.' Sesshomaru said and clumsily jumped off the balcony, landing with a thud on the soft ground. 'Better go get her something before she has one of her "attacks" and kills me.' He thought and ran off towards the back of his castle.

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"Jaken...can you make a cake?" Rin asked him.

"Hai, after I finish with Hitaru's...dishes..." Jaken said.

"Do you know what today is??" Rin asked him.

"Hai, August 25, a.k.a your birthday," Jaken said.

"That's right!" Rin said and sat down at the table.

"Me go show daddy what I can do!!" Hitaru said and headed for the balcony. "Uh-oh...daddy go bye-bye!" Hitaru said while sticking a finger up his nose.

"He did, eh?" Rin said. 'Wonder what he's gonna get me...' She thought.

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He went inside his castle and slipped by everyone to get to his room. He carefully closed the door, locked it and opened up his closet. It was so full of Sakura's and his clothes that he thought he would give Rin one of Sakura's kimonos to her. He had a very hard time trying to pick one. He had all the kimonos in order.

"How bout this one?" He mumbled picking up a red kimono embroided with dragons and tigers.

"Okaay...fine whatever," he said and went into the living room.

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"Here...it's your birthday present," Sesshomaru said throwing a package in her lap.

"Uhm...thanks?" Rin said picking it up and setting it aside.

"What? You're not going to open it?" Sesshomaru asked her.

"Nope!"

"NANI?! So I spent all my time wrapping it up for you and you're not going to even LOOK at it or at least see what it is?"

"Damn...I'll open it later," Rin told him.

"Oh..." Sesshomaru said and sat down on his chair.

"Damn, damn, damn, dammy, damn," Hitaru sang while dancing around.

"Hitaru...don't say that word," Sesshomaru told him.

"Why?" Hitaru asked his father.

"Because it's bad," Sesshomaru said.

"Why?" Hitaru said and sat in Sesshomaru's lap.

"Because...because...I said so?" Sesshomaru said.

"Oh...okay!" Hitaru said and snuggled into Sesshomaru's fluffy thingy. a/n: hey I dunno what to call it...so I call it the FLUFFY THINGY!

"So...Sesshomaru...Tell me how you got to know Sakura," Rin asked him.

"Why? You already know the whole story..." Sesshomaru said.

"Well...just do this as a favor! And plus...it's my birthday," Rin begged him.

"It is about time you told someone, me Lord," Jaken added in.

"Story! Story! STORY! NOW DADDY! TELL STORY!" Hitaru said pulling on Sesshomaru's fluffy thingy.

"Since when have you guys been controlling my life?" Sesshomaru said and sighed.

"Uhm...I've never controlled your life..." Rin said.

"Hai...you did, when you were saving me..." Sesshomaru said.

"Oh...haha...that, yeah well...that was like a long time ago!" Rin said.

"Uh...My Lord...I've never controlled your life..." Jaken said while folding his hands.

"If I do say so myself you have..." Sesshomaru said.

"N-nani?? When?" Jaken said alarmed.

"Oh...I don't know..." Sesshomaru said and Jaken sighed. "Like that one time when you told me to finish Inu Yasha off..." Sesshomaru added.

"Ack!" Jaken said. "I didn't think you'd remember that one..." He mumbled.

"Well...I guess it is time for me to let everything out, don't you think?" Sesshomaru said. Rin and Jaken nodded while Hitaru just sat there looking confused.

"Well...okaay...It started like this..."

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a/n: Haha...cut you off! I can be so mean...wellz...Sesshomaru meeting Sakura can make a whole new lot of chapters! Whippee! Don't you feel so...special? I know I don't. Haha...cuz I have to write them all...it'll be so...fun. Wellz haha...catch ya'llz laterz! ~itsumo xkawaiixpinayx