☆ETHEREAL [Hyakkimaru x reader]

Meet her

the sun shines rather brightly. the sky looks like orange, with white clouds around it.
"Aniki, wait," Dororo extended his hand, trying to reach Hyakki's belt
Bluk ...
Hyakkimaru looked back and found Dororo falling to the ground. he lifted Dororo on his shoulder.
"Dororo ... body ... hot ..." he said to the passing farmers
"I'm just a farmer, I can't do anything, son" and the farmer left without instructions
Hyakki lowered Dororo's body and let him lie on the ground. Hyakki sat next to him, only seeing her pale skin and red face. A feeling of worry appeared on his face.
Just before sunset, the earth still has a little light in it.
"Excuse me, what happened to your friend?"
a young girl with white clothes and long pants like those always worn by samurai. his hair is black and short, with a ponytail on the back, and a red ribbon to tie it. she uses sandals made of straw.
Hyakki just see her as a white fire, but he feels strange.
“Dororo…body…hot…” it was all he can say
The girl go near dororo and put her hand in dororo’s forehead.
“You can come to my place , its not far from here, I have some medicine”
The girl’s voice heard soft but yet strong. Its different from Mio’s voice. Hyakki nodded and lift dororo again in his shoulder.

****
“So, your companion name is dororo. You seem to hear me and see me, but I can tell that those eyes are fake”
The girl boils the dried herbs while talking to quiet Hyakki. He look down to Dororo who just sleeping in front of him. He don’t know how to answer a question yet, although he slightly understand the question.
“Well, I am not introducing myself yet. My name is Rin, I live by myself here”
Rin stirring the herbs she boiled earlier, she take a bowl and put the herb’s water in it.
“Here’s the medicine, wait a moment till it’s warm” Rin puts the bowl beside sleeping dororo.
“I am not a doctor, you see, I am just 14 y.o girl, my par…”
“Mother… mother…” dororo screamed, it makes Rin stop her story and calm down dororo.
“Dororo, calm down” said Rin. Hyakki has the worried look again on his face, but he didn’t say a word
Dororo open his eyes, and see Hyakki and a girl beside him trying to calm him down.
“Here’s your medicine dororo, drink it slowly” dororo drink the medicine that Rin gave.
“Onee-chan, who are you?”
“My name is Rin, take a rest dororo, we will stay by your side. You can ask me anything after your fever go” said Rin, smiling. Dororo feels so calm and fall asleep.

***

Dororo wake up and finr himself laying in a warm mattress. The house he stayed in is not too small, it has 3 rooms and complete with the furniture.
Dororo suddenly remember about the girl.
“It is nee-chan house”
Dororo sit up and see Hyakki lean on the wall, sleeping. Dororo is smiling, know that Hyakki take care of him
“Dororo-chan, you finally awake?”
“Nee-chan….” dororo’s eyes widened, don’t believe the nee-chan is such a cute girl. When he had bad dream about his mother lately, his mind was cloudy, and he didn’t focus on anything in front of him
“I made breakfast, lets eat together, wake up your guy friend, Dororo” dororo is nooded
“His name is hyakkimaru”
“Hyakkimaru, good name”
“Sorry nee-chan, I cannot remember your name, my mind was clody when I was sick”
“It’s Rin. You can call me Nee-chan if you want” said Rin smiling.
“Ok, Rin-Nee. Arigatou for everything” Dororo shake Hyakkimaru’s body, “Aniki, wake up. We will take our first breakfast in this past 2 weeks”
Rin just smiling at them.

#author's note
Sorry for my bad english haha, next time i will recheck it using google translate
I take the pic from google *pls give ur permission owner :)
Hope u like the story