InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Indolentia ❯ Kikyou's Last Words ( Chapter 13 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

The cool night breeze whipped the dark hair of the priestess into a furious tangle, as she approached the god tree. A noise in the nearby brush alerted her, she didn't need to turn to know that a scared rabbit was running away from her. I would run from me too little rabbit.


The hole that should have contained her heart ached with emptiness, as she cought her last eye-full of the half-demon prince who she had lost and found again. He was unchanged physically. The same strong features, the same silvery white hair, and the same golden amber eyes. He will look at me one last time.


Kikyou took a seat under the Goshinbuku, and began to humm. Softly, but forcefully, and as her sad tune took form, Inuyasha began to awaken.


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He awoke to see Kikyou's soul collectors flying in whispy swirls all around him, and to the sound of a sweet song from long ago. A quick glance, and he saw her. She looked so small, smaller than he remembered, and tired. Her hair no longer glistened, and her skin was sallow. His Kikyou was no more. He waited for the once beautiful and powerful miko to finish her song, as he let the melody wrap around him. The words to this particular tune had been lost centuries ago, but the song itself stood alone. It was sickeningly saddening, yet hopeful, making him think that maybe Kikyou had never really left him.


When she finished her melancholy melody, he jumped down in front of her. Liquid gold met empty pools. For a moment it looked like maybe there was a flicker of life, of the real Kikyou there, but as soon as it came it was gone, and the black nothingness returned.


"Ki Kikyou?"


"Inuyasha, do you remember, the first time you and I actually spoke. I was humming that song, alone in the medow. I heard you, and I called you to me."


"I remember."


" I was watching you, waiting for, I mean, I just wanted the jewel."


"Ah the jewel of four souls. All the time that I protected it I always wondered: How can something so small cause so much pain. I see now that the jewel can also heal."


Kikyou's cold eyes ran over Inuyasha too closely making his ears twitch.


"What is it your'e after?"


"I merely came to say goodbye. I wanted to see you one last time. I will not hold you to your word. I can not take you with me. You do not belong where I am going."


Kikyou stood and swept herself into his arms, crushing her face against the solid wall of his chest.


"I wanted to be a normal woman. I wished for it so many times, Midoriko, she never listed to me. My heart was not true."


Inuyasha could feel the tears dampening his haori, and still he could not speak. He just let her cry as he stood there dumbfounded. A look of pure confusion plastered to his face. Goodbye, Kikyou.


"I have to go now. Please let her mend what I could not. All is as it should be."


With that Kikyou broke thier embrace and let her soul collectors carry her away. She dared even spare a look over her shoulder at the fearless half-man that she had broken her vows for. Her time was spent.


Behind her, a single tear ran down the silver-haired hanyou's face, as he fought the urge to follow the dead priestess. Her time is spent, and she knows it needs to end. Instead he called to her as he had done so many times before.


"Kikyou!!"


This time there was no reanimation.


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Time passed, and the sun began to peak over the horizon. Still Inuyasha sat on his perch. Lost in thought and completely numb. What had he lost. Nothing, I've lost nothing, Kikyou has been dead a long time. Gradually his limbs became tingly and once again feeling was restored. He hopped down and literally shook off his burden, before heading back to the villiage. Back to Kagome.


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