Rin/Kohaku Set #2- Theme 58 A Woman's Clothes
Title: The Clothes Make The Woman
Theme: Set 2, Theme 58
Genres: General with a dash of humor
Pairings: Kohaku x Rin
Word Count: 321
Rating: G
Summary: Kohaku puzzles over women and their clothing.
A woman’s clothes
A woman’s clothes, Kohaku decided, more often than naught, decided the woman.
After all, Sango’s clothes changed when she changed. When she was homely and lovely and demure, living with the monk, she had on plain, normal clothes that were loose and far from battle ready.
When she became a taijiya she had on a snug, black armor that he knew all too well- his own was rusting in a storage room, a buried body. Then she was fierce and determined and ready to slay- the image of tears and fog and blade still rings in his mind.
The first time he had seen her, she had worn bright colors, sharp and contrasting against the dim hut and its lonely candlelight. No matter the situation, she was always wearing the brightest, most colorful clothing possible.
"Are you listening to me?" Rin asked impatiently, tapping her foot irritably as she looked at him expectantly.
Kohaku nodded distantly. "Yeah..." he agreed absently. His eyes wandered lazily over her.
"Well... what do you think?" she asked, doing a small spin as to show off for him.
"It looks... different." Kohaku acquiesced carefully, meeting her brown eyes.
"Different? What does that mean?" Rin questioned challengingly, arching her eyebrow.
"Um... it means you look... different?" he offered nervously, feeling a trickle of sweat running down his back. Words had never been his strong suit, in this life or the last.
Rin gauged him for a few moments and Kohaku began to feel more and more uneasy. After a while, she smiled. "Alright... you’re off the hook for now, mister." She twirled, letting the material waft in the wind. "Besides, I do so love this yukata."
The clothes make the woman, after all, and if Kohaku misjudged what they made her into, he realized, he would have probably received the cold shoulder- and a deathly glare from a certain youkai lord- for a few weeks.