Rin/Kohaku Set #2 Theme 2: Scar
Title: Scars
Theme: Set#2 Theme #2, Scar
Genre: General with a light flavoring of angst.
Pairing: Kohaku x Rin
Word Count: 285
Rating: PG-13 (Precuation for some slight sexual imagery)
Summary:
There are several scars on his body, he’s not quite sure he ever wants to know where they came from. They’re pockets in his skin, tiny furrows that are needle thin and healed over with the corrupt magic of the Shikon no Tama. And in the center, behind his heart and behind his spine is the white scar where a shard lay.
It is the symbol of his servitude- his utter fealty to Naraku.
There are slight scars on her body, and she remembers all too well how she got them- amidst howls and snarls and spit and fangs, shrieking and gasping as her flesh was ripped from her and her lifeblood spilling out onto the ruthless dirt to be lapped up as drink. They are healed and faded, resurrection made possible by the Sword of Heaven.
They are the reminder of her debt to a youkai lord and the past she shed.
The years have worn the scars down to barely visible traces on the flesh, yet they remain as they always do- invisible reminders to him, buried memory for her.
He wishes his forgotten memory was as nice as hers but its probably, definitely not and he hates it, hates it because he’s got not choice but to hate what he’s forgotten and what he fears in remembrance.
But when she smiles at him with careless ease and her hands trace those scars and he runs his lips over her own marks, he finds it doesn’t really matter because it’s over and in the past.
When she touches the white mark on his back and smiles and kissed him fully, he is always reminded of one simple fact.
It’s still just a scar.