Rin looked up as she saw rain clouds coming in. She sighed. "How am I going to make it anywhere in time before those clouds hit, and the rain starts?" She grumbled to herself. She'd been out on her own for a year now, and still didn't like it much, since she was all alone. She was used to being with Sesshoumaru and Jaken.

She looked around, to see if she could see any where that she could use as shelter from a storm. She looked off past the large field to her left, to see a cave low in the side of the mountain. She sighed, knowing it would take her a while to get there, but she knew getting into a dry place before the end of the storm would be better then staying out through the whole thing.

Deciding running would save time, she started off at a semi slow pace, to save energy for the climb up to the cave. All the while, she scanned her surroundings to make sure no demons were coming at her. She also kept a close watch on the ground in front of her, watching every step, in case of any other obstruction between her and the cave.

Kohaku was at the base of the mountain, looking up at the cave. He sighed, looking back at the clouds coming in. He took one last look, and then turned his back to it, and began to climb, despite the height. He may not have had much memory as to much from his past, except for a few blurry faces in the back of his mind, but one thing he did know about himself, was that he had a fear of heights.

He was careful not to look down as he climbed higher and higher. He looked from side to side in case anything was coming at him, and ahead to make sure nothing was falling towards him. When he got to the top, he took a sigh of relief, and headed inside the cave.

Inside, it was pretty big, compared to how it looked from the outside. There was a lot of room, and it was obviously occupied for however short of a time not to long ago. There was a fire pit already set up, but the coal was cold, so there were no worries of any one coming back, since there was no other sign of life besides the fire pit.

Kohaku set his stuff down, and took one more look around, to get familiar with it. He took in every shadowed spot, and even made sure he could tell where the back was, in case any one—or anything for that mater--- was hiding in there.

He took out three small blankets. He set one down, and then another on top of it, then rolled one up, and set it at the head of the bed he had just made. With that, he stood up, and walked out to the entrance. He looked up as a raindrop, first one of the night, had fallen on his head.

"Great, and the rain begins" Kohaku sighed, and went back inside.

Rin looked up as the first drop of rain of the night fell on her head.

"Great, and the rain begins." Rin sighed, and started going a little bit faster, careful with her footing, because she didn't want to slip.

As she reached the bottom of the mountain, she realized the cave was a lot higher then she thought. But she had no choice but to continue on, for the rain had only gotten harder as time passed on. She was soaked, as well as probably everything in her bag. She adjusted her bag, then found a few places to step, and hold on to, and began her climb up.

It was a much longer climb then she would have liked it to be, and the rain made it all the much harder. Her hands slipped constantly, and so did her feet. Suddenly her foot slipped, causing her to twist, and only end up hanging on by one arm. Her bag caught on the rocks, making it impossible for her to move away. She tried to swing it off the rock it was stuck on, but all it did was tear it, causing all of it's contents to fall to the ground, in a heap in the mud and rocks below.

She looked up to see how close she was, and saw she was getting pretty close to the top. She took one swing, to get her feet back on, and caught the rocks just right, regaining her balance. She swung her arm up to the next rock, and missed. She tried again, barely grasping hold of it. She pulled herself up to grab the next rock, but her hand supporting her slipped, and her feet weren't standing on any rocks.

She shrieked as she slid down about five feet, to a place where she couldn't regain balance or grab onto anything, except the root hanging out that she had already grabbed on to.

Kohaku heard a scream from outside of the cave. He ran to the edge, and kneeled down to look over. First he saw how high up he was, which was very unnerving, and then saw a girl hanging on by a root. She must have been trying to climb up to get out of the rain, but the rain had made the rocks to slippery.

He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, then swung his leg over the edge.

"Hold on! I'm coming!" He shouted down to the girl.

Rin looked up to see a pair of feet belonging to a boy above her.

"I can't hold on much longer! I'm slipping, and the root is tearing!" She called to him.

"Just hold on as long as you can!"

Rin yelped as the root tore from the side of the mountain, sliding her down two more feet.

"I'm all right!" She called back up to him. "It just slid down! But I don't know how much longer it'll hold!" She looked over her shoulder, and saw she was still a long ways up.

Kohaku quickened his way down, but couldn't go much faster, for the rocks being wet made it difficult for him to find his footing. He looked over his shoulder, careful to focus on the girl, and not the ground below her. Seeing he wasn't too far off from where she was, he took a deep breath, and continued.

"I'm almost there!" He said, as he reached a small ledge just above her. He wrapped one hand around a different root, and leaned down, holding out his hand to her. "Grab on!"

Rin tried to swing herself up to reach his hand, but no matter how hard she tried, she could only graze his fingertips at the most. "I can't! You're just a little to far away!"

Kohaku stretched as far as he could, and shook his hand, motioning for her to try again.

Rin swung herself up once again, this time catching his palm, and grabbing on. The root in his other hand wavered at the new weight, but held on. She let go of the root she was holding on to, and lifted her other hand to just above his wrist. She missed, unable to quite grab hold, her hand wet and hurt from the root. Her other hand began to slip.

"I'm slipping!" She shouted to him.

"Just hold on! Hold on as tight as you can! I'm going to try and pull you up!" He instructed, as he braised his feet against the corner between the ledge and the side of the mountain. But before he could begin to pull her up, she slipped, letting go of his hand completely, and falling out of reach of both him, and the root she was holding on to previously. She fell to the ground, and didn't move for a moment.

She tried to lift her arm, but she had no more strength, and it hurt to bad. She blacked out.

Kohaku's eyes almost fell out of his head as he saw the girl crash to the ground. Her arm moved for a second, but then it fell back to the ground at her side, and she didn't move after that. With that, he slid down to the bottom, and checked to see how badly she was hurt.

Not to bad, but the strain took all the energy she had left, and caused her to black out. He looked back up, as the rain just then began to stop.

"Of course, now it stops." He mutters. He looked back to the girl's limp form, and then back up at the cave. He looked around to the side of the cave, hoping to find an easier way back up. Sure enough, he did.

With that, he carried her up the steep and small trail, careful not to look down at any time.

When he reached the top, he laid her next to the fire on the bed he had made, and then leaned against the stone near by to watch her. He looked her over about ten times, to make sure she wasn't hurt badly. When she woke up, he'd help her clean her cuts, and put stuff over them.

After looking her over one last time, and checking her temperature, he pulled out another blanket, and put it over her. With that, he leaned back and let his eyes fall, as he fell asleep.