The next morning, Kohaku awoke first, and was soon followed by Rin. They both packed things quietly, and put out what was left of the fire from the night before. Once everything was packed, they set off in silence.
They had already gone pretty far, before Rin decided to break the silence.
"One time, when I came to one village…" She started, and continued to tell about the time when she first met InuYasha and his group. Shippo had gotten into her candy, and made himself sick. InuYasha sat in a tree the majority of the time, because he wanted to keep as far as he could from his brother. Kagome sat InuYasha twice to keep him from doing things to Sesshoumaru. Kirara and Shippo had fallen asleep about half way through the day. Miroku had gotten slapped hard in the face for doing something she didn't see. Then later, he got slapped again, and this time she saw him rubbing Sango's butt.
Kohaku laughed and then began a story of his own. "Once, when I was in a village, I saw a monk go up to a random house, which I had been to a few times during my stay in the village, and tell the owner that there was an evil spirit in there. She believed him, and when he came it to exorcize it, he rubbed her butt, and she slapped him and chased him out of the house with a broom."
"A monk huh?" Rin asked through her laughter. "I think that might have been Miroku." She laughed harder, since now she pictured Miroku running away from a woman waving a broom like mad.
After their laughter died down, Rin decided that the silence needed to be filled once again, and started a game of questions.
"What was the craziest thing that happened to you when you came across a village?" She asked Kohaku.
"Hmm… Let me think. I've had a few odd occurrences before. One most memorable would be when they thought I was a savior of some sort, there to cure their village of a 'curse.' Or so they said. As far as I could tell, there was nothing wrong. So I pretended to give them a supposed cure, and left in the middle of the night to avoid anything crazy." He said, laughing slightly. Rin giggled in response.
"Well, you do save lives." She said with a smile. "You saved mine. I don't know how I can ever thank you enough, or repay you."
"Ah, don't worry about it." He said, turning away.
"Well, I will someday." She said finally.
They continued walking, until Kohaku decided to fill in the silence.
"What kinds of things do you do, to pass the time?" He asked suddenly.
"Well, sometimes I do things like if it's night, I look for shapes the stars make. Or if it's day, the same with clouds. If there's no clouds, then maybe shadows, or patterns on the ground, such as the leaves, or the beaten down trail. I also began to recognize different birds. Things like that, or things like, I'll collect something. But since I travel, I can't carry around a collection, so I start a new and different one each day. It gives me something to think about, something to do, to keep my mind busy while I spend hours and hours on end traveling." She said, and named off a few other things, such as humming a tune, making up one of those songs that the travelers sing about a great traveler.
"What things do you do?" She asked, as she finished her list of thing she did.
"Well, for the most part, I never really do anything. I like to look at the stars, and at the clouds, but sometimes I never have time to do those things. Sometimes I'll hum something, or think up a story in my head. I'll think up things like; what if there was someone with me. What would we do? And I'll come up with an entire day of what we'd do…" He drifted off as he looked up into the darkening sky.
"What now?" Rin asked, looking up as well.
"Well, we should camp. Or we could press on, there might be a village near by, where they'll let us stay in an in or something." He offered.
"I like the inn idea. I'm pretty sure there's one near here, since this is the direction I came from before the other night." Rin nodded in the direction to her left.
"All right then, let's go." Kohaku agreed, and started off towards where he hoped was a village.
Sure enough, about a half hour later, as the sun went all the way down, they reached a little village. There was one place with their lights still on. They walked up to it, to find it was an inn, where they could stay the night for a fair price, if they shared a room. They agreed, and went inside.
"Well, this'll do. It's better then having to camp I'll wager, especially with the likeliness of rain again tonight." Rin sighed, looking out the window to see storm clouds rolling in again.
"Yeah, you're right. This was a good idea…" Kohaku trailed off as he went to stand at the window and watch the clouds roll in.
Rin looked down at her clothes, and at her self in general. "I need a bath…" She commented, and then left the room to go ask the lady running the inn where she could take one, and find things such as towels and bathrobes. She came in for a brief moment to leave Kohaku a towel and robe, and then left to go take a bath.
When she came back, her clothing had been cleaned, and left in her room for her, and Kohaku was already gone to take his bath. She changed fast, not sure of how long it'd take him to take one. After that, she lay down to sleep, and dozed until Kohaku came back.
"Did I wake you up?" He asked as she rolled over.
"No, I wasn't fully asleep. But now I'm going to be…" She mumbled as she rolled over again. Kohaku quietly laid down as well, and went to sleep soon after he could hear her breath become slower.