InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Prologue - A Test of Memory (The Coming of Rinkatsu) ❯ Kikyo's Thoughts ( Chapter 22 )

Kikyo walked down a barren path in the middle of what seem oblivion plus vegetation. There were trees... but no animal life... no activity... no signs of life. But she didn't care where she was going... she was just trying to grasp the moment, embrace what was happening.

Inuyasha was hers now and Kagome was gone. The name Kagome was foreign now (at least she thinks).

Naraku is dead, but another evil is masquerading about the land... and it was her fault... the Shikon Jewel was now in this Rinkatsu's posession and it was all because of her.... But love is a mysterious thing. It makes humans do the strangest things... it makes us act without thinking about the consequences, whether they be good or bad.

But the one thing she couldn't grasp was her new behavior... her Kagome-like attitude all of the sudden. She didn't understand this. She felt happy and could make a joke if provoked. She could even laugh. Was this all because she was given a second chance at a true life? Was it because she was no longer a walking corpse that fed off the souls of the dead? Was it because she was no longer condemned to a life in hell for eternity?

This was the best reasoning she could think of... her new found happiness.

It was when Kikyo came to this conclusion that she truely realized her new world. She was able to be happy now without being confused. Kikyo could finally smile, something she had not done in the longest time. And as though it were foreign to her facial muscles, Kikyo did smile.

She looked at the moon and appreciated it's glow, it's beauty. The stars were twinkling so gently and gave off such a welcoming glow... Kikyo was happy.

Kikyo was so caught in the moment that she didn't even bother to look where she was going on the path...

She ran into someone. She fell back a few steps and then regained her composure. She looked at this person. It was Miroku.

But Miroku did not look welcoming or friendly. He was dressed in pitch black robes and his pupils had changed from his usual black to an evil red. And shockingly, the staff he carried was mounted by a wooden skull.

"Master would like to see you," Miroku said reaching his arm towards Kikyo. He said a spell and they vanished.