Kikyo's Promises
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. Hell, I barely own this laptop.
Summary: Femmeslash, not graphic, just strongly implied Kik/Kag. Kikyo's final journey, and she's accompanied by someone special.
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She had been sitting on her rock, in the very middle of the River of Spirits. The waters thrashed all around her, some daring to reach her and wet her a little, reminding her how easy it would be to let her hatred go, to let Inuyasha go, and just let herself go to Hell.
But she stayed on that rock, knees drawn up to her chest, arms encircling herself, hugging herself as she cried, and cried, and cried. Cried for her betrayal, cried for her soul, cried for the love that refused to let go. Her spirit sat on the rock, as all the other spirits sped on to their destinies.
Then- she was roused. Someone was at her grave, disrupting her scared bones…resurrecting her, she realized with a pang of fear and anger.
Even in death, there was no rest for Kikyo-sama, last of the powerful line of mikos.
Imagine her surprise when she awoke…awoke to find her soul flowing back to her! Her heart, her mind and her spirit rejoiced- she would be whole again!
But then…as quickly as it came, her soul left her again, left her cold and alone and weary, left her spirit undefended, her heart vulnerable, and her mind crazed.
She had a reincarnation- Kagome. Her soul was no longer hers, but this girl's. Her soul no longer recognized her. Her soul cried out for its new body, and left.
And Inuyasha, her love, her traitorous Inuyasha watched over this girl just as he promised her he would watch over her, fifty years ago.
Kikyo's spirit withered some more.
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-later-
Kikyo stood tall, facing Naraku, protecting Inuyasha and Kagome. Sango, Miroku, Shippou, Sesshoumaru and everyone else who'd stood against the youkai had fallen, gone on to nirvana. Kikyo too, fell, but when she went, she took her responsibility with her. For Onigumo had produced this evil because of her, and it was her problem to solve. It had been her destiny, perhaps, the reason she had died and been born once more.
She dragged the mutated youkai to Hell, threw his spirit into the river's raging rush, ate his heart's cruelty to purify it, burnt his mind in the fire of her sorrow, ripped his soul to bits so that it would never enter Earth again.
Then, she returned to her rock, and waited for a promise to be fulfilled. A promise made to her. She waited years, and each year she waited, she grew a little more patient.
She waited for Inuyasha's life to end, so that her love would be free to come and take her.
Inuyasha died, old and happy, leaving behind legacies and ready to rejoin his friends.
Kagome guided him to Nirvana, to the peaceful glade where Miroku and Sango had made their home. She showed him to the forest that Shippou and Rin lived in, and familiarized him with his older brother's favorite haunts. She found Kaede-babaa, who had recreated her village for herself. She left Inuyasha, and he understood that her journey had a different destination. No matter. He'd lived with her love in happiness in life, it was time that someone else received the blessing of the girl.
Then, Kagome came to a rock in the River of Spirits, where a miko sat, hunched.
Kikyo felt a hand on her shoulder. For the first time in centuries, she opened her eyes and looked upon a face she had almost forgotten, but whose voice still rung in her head.
"Now, we are together, and I promise, I shall not leave you again," Kagome whispered.
The miko nodded, and stood. They embraced, and walked to their Nirvana.
Together.