Kohaku woke up to a stiff neck, and the girl no longer in the bundle of blankets. He looked around to see where she had gone. He figured outside. He walked out to see her looking down to the bottom of the cliff.
Kohaku cleared his throat to let her know he was there. She jumped slightly at the sound, and then relaxed.
"Thank you…" she murmured softly.
"It was nothing…" He responded, just as softly.
After a few moments silence, he came over to take a seat next to her.
"What's your name?" He asked politely.
"My name is Rin. What's yours?" She asked, turning to face him with a bright smile.
"Kohaku. My name is Kohaku." He said after a moments pause.
"Nice to meet you Kohaku. Thank you very much for saving me last night." She said, turning away.
"Really, it was nothing." He replied and turned away as well.
There was a few minutes silence. Rin couldn't take the silence any more.
Why did he save me like that? What is he doing out here all alone?
"I'm glad you didn't end up hurt to bad." Kohaku said lightly, ending the silence. "But we should do something about those cuts." He said, motioning for her to follow him back inside.
"Yeah, I agree." Rin replied. "Uhm…" she hesitated. "What are you doing out here, all alone?" She asked, as she followed him back in.
"Well, I don't really know. I have no memory of my past, except a few blurry faces in the back of my mind. No names, except my own, and no idea where I am at even." He replied, half matter-of-factly, and half sadly.
"Oh…" Rin breathed.
"What about you? Why are you out here alone? Surely there's someone out there looking for you." Kohaku asked lightly. He began on cleaning out her cuts. "Tell me if any of this hurts you."
"Heh, I doubt it. I got separated from the guy I was with. I doubt he even cares enough to look for me. Other then him, I have no other person to consider as family. My family I think was killed. It was too long ago, and I was too young to remember. All I know is I've been with him for as long as I can remember, pretty much ever since the incident." She lowered her head. As she spoke, Kohaku cleaned and covered her cuts. "Thank you." She murmured.
"Oh…" Kohaku lowered his head as well, silently wishing he hadn't asked, seeing the pain it brought her to talk about it.
They sat there for a while longer, in silence once again, as Kohaku put away the stuff he used to clean her cuts.
Rin suddenly brightened up, and turned to face Kohaku, as he looked up.
"I have an idea." She said. "Why don't we travel together? Just until we find where we're supposed to be going. I mean, why would our paths have crossed unless it was meant to happen? So what do you say? Friends?" She held out her hand for him to shake.
He hesitated a moment, then set his hand in hers, and shook it. "All right. Friends." He smiled.
Friends. Now that's a new concept for me. I've been alone since before I can remember, though that's not that far back, since I have no memory past a handful of years back. Kohaku thought to himself.
Rin sat back and sighed. Friends. I've made a friend. She smiled, and then flopped onto her back, folding her hands behind her head, and watched the clouds roll by. Kohaku soon followed suit.
They lay there for what seemed like both mere seconds, and hours and hours on end. Finally Kohaku stood and brushed himself off, then turned to Rin.
"We should get going…" He suggested.
"I think we should wait until tomorrow. Even I woke up too late for us to have taken off and gotten far, you slept longer then I did. We should wait until tomorrow. The next village is too far off for us to make it there before nightfall, and we learned last night traveling much at night isn't to much of a good idea." She remarked, giving a weak smile.
Kohaku shrugged. He couldn't argue with that. A day of rest would be nice, and she was right, there was no way they'd get anywhere before dark if they started now. He lay down next to her on the ledge again, and folded his arms behind his head, and drifted off to sleep for a little while.
When he woke back up, the sun was farther down, and Rin was no longer lying down. Instead she sat off to the side of him, watching the sun sink down behind the horizon. He got up and walked over to join her for the moment. They sat in silence as the sun slowly sank down in the distance. After it had completely left their sight, Kohaku stood.
"Are you hungry?" He asked.
Rin nodded. She hadn't eaten much in a long time. She stood and followed Kohaku back into the cave. As she walked through the entrance, it hit her. She had lost her bag in her run to the cave, a ways before she had met up with the spider demons.
"What is it?" Kohaku asked, when he realized that Rin was no longer right behind him.
"My stuff fell into the mud, all of it ruined, last night. My bag caught on the rocks, and tore open, spilling everything out." She smacked herself on the forehead, and silently cursed her luck.
"Hey, don't worry about it. Maybe we can get you some things in the next town…?" Kohaku suggested.
Rin nodded and searched her waist for her coin purse. It was there. She heaved a sigh of relief.
Kohaku took out some squares wrapped in cloth. He handed one to Rin.
"It's bread. Trust me, it's good. And it will help you regain any energy you've lost." He said, unfolding the cloth around the one he had set-aside for himself and taking a bite out of it, once he had put away the others.
After they ate, Kohaku took out two more blankets, added them to the others, and made a bedroll for Rin.
"Here. You'll sleep here tonight." He said, once he had finished.
"B-but, where will you sleep?" Rin asked, looking around to see there was no other sleeping place made.
"Don't worry about me, you just lay down and sleep. You need to rest, after that fall of yours." He said, and motioned for her to lay down.
Rin decided it was useless to argue any further, knowing she'd only lose that fight. She shook her head, and slipped into the bedroll. She yawned and closed her eyes. After a while, she heard Kohaku lay down. She peeked her eyes open, to see him across the fire, laying on what seemed to be a set of clothing, and he had his bag for a pillow.
"I can't sleep." She said softly, incase he was asleep himself.
"Me neither." Came a soft reply from across the fire, a few moments later.
"My name is Rin. I'm 16, and I've been on my own for about a year now. I traveled with Sesshoumaru ever since some of my earliest memories. My earlier memories are of when my family I think was killed. I wouldn't know, because Sesshoumaru took me away from there. I haven't known many people, but I do know some on a somewhat personal level I guess you could say. Sesshoumaru's brother, InuYasha, and his companions, Kagome, Miroku, Shippo, and Sango." Something clicked in Kohaku's mind as the last name was spoken. "That is basically my past. I'm extremely afraid of spiders, which is why I was pretty much hopeless last night. I like to read and write, draw and I love music. I don't have any friends, with the exception of you, but I want more friends. And hopefully a really close one someday." Rin rambled off. When she stopped, she was surprised to see that Kohaku hadn't fallen asleep, but was propped up on his elbow, looking at her from across the fire.
He sighed and rolled back over onto his back. "My name is Kohaku. I have no recollection of my past, with the exceptions of some blurry faces in the back of my memory. I've made no friends along the way, until today. Though secretly I was hoping one of more would come along some day. Hey, it gets lonely traveling alone, especially when you didn't know any one to begin with, and have no memory of any one. I'm afraid of heights, but I like to sit in trees, they just can't be to high up. I like to draw, read, write, and I like music." Kohaku rambled off in response to Rin's ramble.
It was Rin's turn to sit up on her elbow and watch Kohaku talk over the fire. When he was done, she nodded, and rolled over onto her back with a sigh and a yawn.
"I'm tired now." She managed to mumble past another yawn.
"Me too." Yawned Kohaku in reply.
With that they both rolled onto their sides, and closed their eyes, drifting off into a peaceful sleep until morning.