It was the middle of the afternoon sesshomaru was lying against a tree with his eyes closed.

Rin was playing with the flowers happily picking them then an idea popped into her head on what to play with jaken.

"master Jaken! Lets play pretend" rin said getting excited.

Jaken who was sitting on the ground resting from their long travel was now standing.

" I have no time to play with a stupid girl like you!" jaken shouted making sesshomaru open his eyes to give jaken a death glare.

"play with her"

" y-yes l-l-lord sesshomaru" jaken said shakily.

"so rin how do we play this pretend game" jaken asked

"we pretend to be each other" rin giggled.

"I know! You pretend to be rin and rin will pretend to be master jaken" rin giggled again then stepped forward and reached out for jaken's staff of two heads.

"What are you doing!" jaken asked angrily.

"rin needs your staff to play" rin said managing to grab the staff.

"stop it you stupid child!" jaken shouted ripping his out of rin's hands and then hitting rin on the head quite hard.

Rin put her hand on her head and winced on how much it hard her eyes welled up with tears then began to sniffle.

"rin I'm sorry! I didn't mea…"

"jaken…"

Jaken stiffened the looked up to see sesshomaru's eyes colored red staring down at him showing he was angry. Jaken looked at rin who was sitting on the ground crying letting out sobs and wails and rubbing her eyes with her tiny fists.

Sesshomaru raised his fist and hit jaken at the back of his head knocking him into a thorn bush. Sesshomaru eyes turned back to their normal golden colour the he looked down at the crying girl. He kneeled down to her.

"Rin " he said softly. Rin looked up with tears rolling freely down her face and sniffling sesshomaru picked rin up also giving a small cuddle hoping it will stop her crying .

Rin wrapped her small delicate arms around sesshomaru's neck still whimpering.

" ssshhh..its ok rin" sesshomaru soothed.

" lord sesshomaru jaken hit rin" rin whimpered.

" I know"

Sesshomaru looked through rin's hair having difficulties finding where jaken hit her because of rin's raven colored hair. Sesshomaru found a bruise forming on her head and he growled " jaken is going to die" he thought.

After a while sesshomaru sat rin on the ground.

"better?"

Rin sniffled then nodded while wiping the last of her tears away.

Sesshomaru got up and was about to walk away when a loud yawn stopped him in his tracks he looked down at rin again.

Rin was rubbing her eyes with her tiny fists again while yawning showing she was getting sleepy.

"rin"

Rin looked up with sleepy eyes.

"its time for a nap"

Sesshomaru picked rin up again and walked back to the tree and leaned his back up against it.

"no rin's not *yawn* tired"

"yes you are" sesshomaru said wrapping his fluffy around rin till she looked like a small infant in a blanket then began to rock rin back and forth and began to softly sing:

Baby mine, don't you cry

Baby mine, dry your eyes

Rin's eyes closed and smiled liking that her lord was singing to her.

Rest your head close to my heart, never to part baby of mine

Little one, when you play, don't you mind what they say

Let those eyes sparkle and shine, never a tear, baby of mine

If they knew sweet little you

They'd end up loving you too

All those same people who scold you

What they'd give just to hold you

Sesshomaru looked down at the sleeping child in his arms and smiled his rare warm smile.

He carried on singing:

From your head down to your toes your not much goodness knows

But your so precious to me sweet as can be, baby of mine

Sesshomaru finished his lullaby still looking down at the sleeping rin his smile still remained his face. He leaned down and kissed her forehead.

"sweet dreams my little rin"

The End/Fin