Guess what, I do own them! Not! Oh if only... This is just a cute short chapter. Mostly about how Sesshy see's his little girl. And some one said I should explain how Sesshy conviced Totosai to make another sword, so that's in here.

Sesshomaru fought back annoyance as his little pack walked along the trail. It had been over a week since the rain had let up and they had left that accursed cave. Rin had been acting strangely ever since.

She day dreamed more often and her head seemed to stay in the clouds. Most of the songs she hummed to her self sounded like love songs. And rather than weaving garlands for Ah 'Un she would pull the petals off of the flowers she picked. Half the time she would giggle after picking the last one.

Sesshomaru didn't like the way his daughter was acting. No, he didn't like it at all. Rin was acting like a love sick puppy. But that wasn't possible, she was to young to be in love, right? Kami, she was only 14 years old. She hadn't been with him but seven years.

But she was human, not youkai. Humans do age faster... Looking at her one could not deny that she had matured. Except Sesshomaru, he stubbornly refused to see anything but the seven-year-old child he had taken under his wing. Even when everyone around him insisted on pointing it out.

Right at the moment Rin was sitting on Ah 'Un once again mutilating a poor flower. She smiled brightly as she pulled the last petal off and giggled insanely. She sighed and looked at her adoptive father. "Daddy?"

"Hn?" He asked in aknowledgement of her with out turning around.

"Do you think we'll run into Kenji and his family again soon?"

Sesshomaru paused and glanced over his shoulder at the girl. Then realized he had to look up to see her face. When the hell had she gotten so tall that he had to look up at her when she rode Ah 'Un?

"I do not know." He answered. 'Kami, I hope not!' He thought. He glanced down at Hoshi and once again curse Totosai.

He had asked Totosai to make this sword. At first Totosai stead fastly refused. Sesshomaru pointed out that tokijin was far to powerful to use against human boys and Tensaiga could not kill. He had then explained that Rin was becoming too beautiful, he needed a sword to defend her.

Well, that was different than just wanting to exterminate humans, wasn't it? Totosai finally agreed, after going on and on about how maybe there was a little bit of Inutaisho in Sesshomaru after all. But he still didn't fully trust Sesshomaru so he made a slight modification. The sword would only awaken if Rin, or someday one of her descendants, were in danger.

Damn it, he didn't fear any of these young men would kill her. It wasn't her life he worried about... It was her honor. And so now he had two practically worthless swords. Damn that Totosai...

He was drawn out of his thoughts by Rin rushing past him as she gathered up flowers. She didn't pull them apart this time. She noticed Ah 'Un was a little down to day, and realized she hadn't been paying them much attention the past few days. So she began to weave garlands while they walked.

Now that was more like it, an activity he was use to. She quickly finished one and hung it on her arm while she made the other, then placed one on each of the dragon's heads. She kissed it on each muzzle like a girl might kiss her pony and appologized for neglecting the beast. It's two heads nuzzled the girl fondly, they so loved the child.

"Daddy, next time we go by a town do you think maybe I can buy something pretty in the market place?"

What was it with girls and shopping? "Rin, you have three good kimonos, four or five combs, a mirror, and a necklace in one of those packs." 'And Kami only knows how much stuff at home...' His mind added.

"But daddy..." Her eyes got big and that bottom lip came out.

'Don't look, you know just what she is doing. Do not look...' He thought. He looked anyway. Rin used the most powerful weapon a girl can use, puppy dog eyes.

"I'll think about it."