InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Prologue - A Test of Memory (The Coming of Rinkatsu) ❯ Kikyo and Her Desires ( Chapter 2 )

It was a dark night in Japan. The stars were arranged in a way that gave a mystic and eerie glow to the night, just enough light that you could vaguely see someone in front of you. But, Kikyo with her pale skin and strange glow that follows her stood out in the night. She could be seen from some distance. But she could care less about people spotting her. All that mattered to her was a simple name...

Inuyasha...

She'd mutter to herself a few things about Kagome and Inuyasha that would seem incoherent and senseless from a distance, but no one was there to hear her. Except one person.

The negative feeling... the darkness in Kikyo's heart called out like a beacon to one who would search it. And one who did search for it was within a few yards of her, but she was too busy thinking to notice.

It wasn't until the person was within arms-length of Kikyo that she realized them. She stopped and glanced out of the side of her head to see who it was.

"You finally noticed me," said the figure. "I thought I was going to have to stand right in front of you to get your attention."

"What do you want?" said Kikyo in an unamused tone.

The figure chuckled and said, "It's not what I want. It's what you want."

Kikyo was still unamused.

"It disturbs you to see him with another taker, does it not?" said the figure.

"Who are you?" snapped Kikyo because she knew he was referring to Inuyasha.

"My name is Rinkatsu, if it even matters," he replied, stepping forward to a point where his face could be seen clearer. He seemed like a regular monk. "I can make him yours, you know. Just trust me."

"I don't even know you. I won't trust someone who I'm not sure can even trust me," she said. She began to walk away from him.

"I can sense it in you... that feeling of pain. I can make it stop. Just say the words and I shall make it so."

Kikyo turned around and yelled angrily, "You think you can toy with me? You wear the clothes of a monk but you have not the understanding that one would posses! Clearly I'm in pain, and you would let me be if you realized it! It hurts me to see him with that stupid girl Kagome, but even if you do know that I love Inuyasha, there's nothing you can do to make it that I can be with him! Nothing!"

"Inuyasha? The half-demon? Yes... he is quite a famous fellow and his name is commonplace. Is he who you want to be with?" said Rinkatsu.

"Yes," said Kikyo weakly, "I wish to be with Inuyasha...but he‘s with Kagome…and he‘s happy…"

"Say no more little girl... I shall make it so..." Rinkatsu snapped his fingers.

Kikyo was confused... she knew not what was happening....

A couple centuries later, Kagome awoke to a new day, unaware of what her life was now going to be like.