characters: Raidou, Rin

prompts: wound, ache, subtle

length: 100 words


It still feels like liquid fire is sliding down his face, rivulets gashing open the skin anew. They trained him in the Academy not to scream or cry, before they threw him out into the battlefield, but it's hard and the fire is dripping, tearing —

Rin makes little soothing noises while she runs her hands, coated in chakra, over his face. He's not even sure if she realizes she's doing it, doesn't recognize the words as anything he's heard before —

but Raidou hangs on to the words, digging his fingers hard into the dirt beneath them, and closes his eyes.


Don't mind me, just writing some drabbley things to get over writer's block. This may or may not be the start of a ~new fanfiction era~ for me, I don't know. For information on my chaptered stories (if you're reading this because you follow them), please check my profile?

Reviews are nice. Prompts in reviews might be heeded. As of right now, prompts are coming from a generator.