InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Bits From The Big Yellow Bag ❯ Moving On ( Chapter 6 )

Moving On

Crossover (of sorts!) - Rin-Ne

 

`He looks like InuYasha,' Kikyou mused mentally, assessing the red-haired young man who now led her to the wheel of reincarnation.

 

“You've clung to the world too long,” he admonished her, eyeing the wheel and flipping a coin in his hand. “I'm not saying you didn't have a good reason to, but he'll be taken care of now, you know that. They'll avenge you, too.” He laid his hand on her shoulder, adding, “It's time for him to move on.”

 

Kikyou gazed at the man, scowl so similar to the hanyou's but attitude so different… is this how InuYasha would have been if he had lived a better life?

 

“I thought I would be returning to hell,” she said quietly.

 

His eyes seemed to peer into her soul. “You suffered… in life, in death, and in life again. It is time to await your turn.”

 

She reached to grab his arm. “Wait!”

 

He blinked. “Yes?”

 

“Do I- I mean, you look-” Kikyou fell silent, uncharacteristically unable to express her thoughts. “I just… think I might know you.”

 

The young man grinned, sweeping the bright-red shock of hair out of his face. “We all come from the same place,” he suggested softly, “And all cycle back to the same world.” He motioned to wheel. “Now, hop on… you know you'll see him again,” he reassured.

 

Kikyou let herself ascend to the wheel, content in the knowledge that she'd not lost InuYasha forever.

 

A/N:

Originally posted to LiveJournal on April 30, 2009

Word Count: 241 exactly

Prompt: “Next”