I DO NOT OWN INUYASHA.
"So, the priestess Kikyo huh?"
Kikyo spun around as she heard that. "Funny, I don't know you but you know me."
"Naraku said you were old but I didn't believe him. Guess I was wrong. My name's Bankotsu." The man said.
Kikyo gasped. "How do you know him?"
"I'm not supposed to say." Bankotsu replied as he walked past her.
Kikyo noticed something off about his aura was like hers. "You're dead. Why are you here?"
"Speak for yourself." Bankotsu replied as he walked away from the late miko.
Three weeks later
Kikyo launched another arrow at the youkai in front of her. This one was persistent, Kikyo knew something was wrong with it. No youkai would survive a battle with her for this long…unless…
"Oh, no!" Kikyo shouted in realization.
The demon was a ghost and she couldn't fight back, it was purposely holding the fight so it could drain her power. Kikyo took off in a run hoping to outwit the beast.
'I'll lure it to the sacred spring, not demon can ever exist there, living or dead.'
She could see the clearing ahead of her, but the youkai swiped its claws at her throwing the poor woman off balance. Kikyo fell to the ground with a hard thud quickly she raised her bow in an attempt to block it's next attack but right when the youkai went to strike the bow it screamed in terror as it was chopped in half. Kikyo glanced to the side to where the attack had come from.
"You looked like you needed some help."
Kikyo knew that voice from before.
"It had the advantage of surprise, that is all." She replied. "It will not happen again."
Kikyo tried to stand up but she didn't have enough souls in her to do so and quickly collapsed. Bankotsu looked at her shaking his head. With no warning he scooped Kikyo into his arms and started walking to his camp.
"What are you doing? Release me." Kikyo demanded.
"Relax, you can't walk in this state, I'm taking you back home with me." Bankotsu answered.
"Release me now. I do not need your help." Kikyo barked.
"What is your problem? You're obviously too weak from that youkai to stand let alone go home." Bankotsu pointed out. "I would never leave a woman alone I such a predicament."
"You don't know me very well do you?" Kikyo replied.
"No, I don't but you're still a woman in need of help." Bankotsu reasoned.
"I was never a woman, female, yes, but never a woman. In death this is no different."
"I highly doubt that." Bankotsu commented. "Every woman needs a strong man to protect them right?"
Kikyo laughed. "You think you can be that man?"
"If I need to be yes." He answered.
"Well you don't. You can't save someone who is already dead." Kikyo explained.
"I beg to differ."
"Why?"
"Because I just did." Bankotsu told her.
'Yes,' Kikyo thought. 'I guess you did. Didn't you?'