nightmare ; rin / halfpintsavage.
nightmare : my muse coming to your muses aid when they awake from a nightmare.
That night he had told Lord Sesshōmaru that he would be staying up on guard. The demon didn’t question him on that, just acknowledged it before leaving to...well wherever he felt like going -Kohaku never questioned him of where he was going anyway-.
Jaken had been the first to fall asleep, even though he had announced that he too would be staying awake. Though they spoke for a while, Kohaku saw how eventually Rin too fell asleep, curled by the fire they had made. The young demon slayer didn’t know how long it had passed since...but it was still extremely dark when whimpers began reaching Kohaku’s ears.
It startled him at first, just for a moment though as he quickly identified the origin of the whimpers: Rin.
He couldn’t be sure but it seemed to him that she was whimpering words such as ‘mama’ and ‘papa’. Was she having a nightmare with her family...? Kohaku didn’t know much about Rin’s past, he probably just knew what Jaken and the Demon Lord knew, that her family had been killed by bandits and she had been the sole survivor.
The sole survivor. That was something Kohaku could somewhat relate to...with him and Sango being the last of the Demon Slayers and Kohaku wasn’t even truly...alive. He shook the thought of his head, it wasn’t the time to think about himself. Just as he was about to gently wake her up, he saw as her brown eyes snapped open and almost immediately he withdrew his hand as he didn’t wish to scare her further.
❝ Rin...Rin it’s alright. ❞ he had let some time go by, to allow the little girl to adjust back to reality but he then choose to speak, seeing as she wasn’t reacting. He spoke in a low tone so to not scare her or even to not wake up Jaken, the green imp could be quite grumpy when he was forced awake ❝ Rin, it’s alright. You were having a nightmare. ❞
Once again he moved his hand towards her, resting it gently on her shoulder. ❝ It’s alright, I am here. ❞