This takes place right after Naraku pushes Kikyo into the river of miasma. Kikyo isn't one of my favorite characters, but I thought this song fit the situation. The lyrics really aren't in this order, I skip a few lines here and there.

DISCLAIMER! I don't own InuYasha and it's characters. They all belong to Rumiko Takahashi, Sunrise, Viz, and all the other sponsors. Trust me, if I owned the show, InuYasha and Kagome would be together, and Miroku and Sango would already be married. Plus some other stuff.

I don't own the song either, which is With Or Without You by Keane.

See the stone set in your eyes

See the thorn twist in your side

I will wait for you

Kikyo lay on the stone bank next to the river of miasma. There was a deep gash in her counterfeit body, and it was oozing purple liquid just as a human's wound might ooze blood. She could sense InuYasha some distance away, and had no desire to let him see her like this. The pale woman began to painstakingly drag herself into a large crack in the wall. The exertion seemed to make her fake flesh dissolve even faster.

Through the storm we reach the shore

You give it all but I want more

And I'm waiting for you

Finally reaching the crevice, Kikyo pulled herself into the back of the small space, panting rather hard. Through the gap in the wall, she could see InuYasha standing on a rock in the middle of the river. His lips were moving, but her hearing had stopped working ages ago. All she could hear was herself practically gasping for breath and pieces of her shoulder and chest chipping away.

With our without you

With or without you

I can't live

With or without you

Several of the raven-haired woman's soul collectors flew quickly yet gracefully into the crack. Glancing out, she saw InuYasha quickly spin around, wide eyed, then with one final glance, leap off to a different rock. Kikyo felt a small portion of her strength return as the small orbs of light sunk into her body. The serpent-like creatures soared away again, leaving her once more alone in the darkness.

Sleight of hand and twist of fate

On a bed of nails she makes me wait

And I wait without you

InuYasha spun around frantically, seeing a flash of bluish-green out of the corner of his eye. He scoured the area, but couldn't find anything suggesting Kikyo might have been there. He couldn't even smell the graveyard soil he normally could when she was around, all he could smell was the acrid tang of the miasma. He momentarily wondered if she could have been dissolved by the miasma, but uneasily dismissed the thought. Deciding what he thought he had seen was a mere trick of the light, sadly turned around and soared to a rock several feet ahead of him. A wave of miasma licked at his heels as he landed on the edge of a rock, stinging his flesh and forcing the half-man to jump to a larger stone.

My hands are tied

My body bruised

She's got me with

Nothing left to win

And nothing left to lose

His long, silver mane flowing out behind him, InuYasha leaped to the top of the cliff and collapsed onto his hands and knees. Holding back stinging tears, he told himself over and over again that his first love was gone. He couldn't bring himself to move, knowing that she never would again. He just lay there, finally letting his tears flow forth. He tossed his head back and howled her name to the moon.

With or without you

With or without you

I can't live

With or without you

Yay! Finished! How was that? It's only my second fic, so don't flame meh please, but I don't mind constructive criticism ;)