Title: Selfless
Author: Morganna3
Rating: PG-13/T
Summary: Who said there's no such thing as a truly selfless wish? Drabble.
Warning: Character death
Disclaimer: Inuyasha is copyrighted to Rumiko Takahashi, Shounen Sunday, Viz and Sunrise Communications et al. No copyright infringement is intended.
Selfless
The jewel was finally complete.
Stained in blood and tears.
"Make the wish Kagome." Clearly she was the best choice. Lives of bitter loss and regret lead to hearts edged in darkness. Kagome was the least tainted of them all.
Kagome stared blankly at her friends. She'd always assumed that Inuyasha would make the wish. Obviously, she'd been wrong. "I-I don't know what to wish for. Is there such a thing as a truly selfless wish?"
"Perhaps you should wish to make a truly selfless wish?" Wasn't Miroku the wise one?
She dropped her gaze to the jewel cupped in the palms of her hands. It seemed to glow brighter in anticipation. Pink and healthy and purified. Nothing could go wrong. Right? Closing her eyes, she concentrated on the purity in her soul. "I wish to make a selfless wish. One that will take away the threat of the Shikon no Tama forever."
Fade to black.
Somewhere within the heart of the jewel possibilities were sorted through and discarded at an alarming rate.
Selfless.
For a being of such a pure heart, a wish that brought happiness to friends or family would also bring happiness to the wisher and thus the jewel deemed such a wish selfish. This theory was then extrapolated to include all of humanity and youkai-kind.
Any wish which lead to a better world would also bring the miko happiness.
Selfish!
Perhaps the jewel would have been better off in Naraku's hands.
Destruction.
Destruction would not bring the miko happiness.
Destruction of the miko's friends and family?
This idea had merit. It would most definitely not make the miko happy but would the jewel cease to be a threat? No, as long as there were wishes and those who would seek to make them then the jewel would be a threat to someone somewhere. Neither pure nor impure wishes would destroy the jewel.
Too bad no one had told the miko.
Destruction of all sentient beings?
Not good enough. Sentience had a way of evolving through time.
Destruction of the world?
This would most definitely destroy the jewel as well and thus the solution.
Wish granted.
-End-
A /N: This drabble gave me fits. It should have been finished months ago. The first draft fell completely flat. I'm not sure this version is much better. The jewel insisted on sounding like a malfunctioning robot out of the original Star Trek series. "This does not compute…" –head desk-