The Third Horror Of Having A Teenage Daughter -- Boys
Kohaku began searching them out once Rin turned thirteen. He brought her flowers, brought her sweets, little trinkets and other things over which she gave him great, beaming smiles, which, in turn, made him blush and stutter and grin and stare at his shuffling feet.
Rin greatly enjoyed his visits, and so Sesshomaru would not put a stop to them. Although he did not trust Kohaku as far as...Jaken could throw him.
It was because of Naraku, really, because he could not trust anyone who had been under Naraku's control for so long. No sooner would he trust Kagura or Kanna.
When informed of this, Kiare made a rude noise. It's not because of Naraku. It's because you think he's putting the moves on your little girl, and you hate it.
There is, he will admit, although only to himself, some truth in this, although very little. The mongrel does not understand him nearly as well as she thinks.
It is not because of some suppressed paternal instinct that he has to stop himself from reaching for Tokijin when Kohaku moves to close to her, or from using his claws to remove the boy's head when he touches her.
It is simply because he does not trust him, and no one he does not trust should be so close to Rin.
So he watches them with narrowed eyes, does not let them leave his sight, despite the boy's frightened glances and Jaken's confused pleas to be elsewhere during the strange human mating rituals. He watches, and he waits, and he wishes that she were still a little girl, so he would not have to worry about such things.
He is more of a parent than he believes.
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