Title: Shikon Priestess
Author: Minako (minakiwi)
Rating: G
Genre: Angst
Warnings: None
AU/Canon: Canon
Pairing: None
Word Count: 299
Summary: She had only wanted a normal life.
She hadn't wanted the honorifics, the duty, or the power that came with being a priestess. It was something she was born with, a purity of her reiki that made her more than what she dreamed of being. When she was taken away from her parents they had been so amazed that their daughter was the one sought by the Master that her mother had protested. She cried then, because she was small and her mother's tears made her afraid. That fear passed and she had vowed not to cry again so the Shrine Master wouldn't frown at her in that disappointed fashion.
In the back of her mind she didn't feel she was more special than the other children being trained in the traditional ways. There was a kernel of protected hope that when she came of age she could go home to her village - be a healer, have children of her own. It was all she had ever wanted, a family to love as her mother had loved her. At least now she had the children here to care for, including her sister, until the day that the Master had called her forth along with the only other he trained that approached her in power.
She'd stood respectfully at the side of Tsubaki as they listened to the Master as he spoke about the honor of the duty he was going to give one of them. Kikyou had given a slight glance to Tsubaki, as sure it would be she chosen as Tsubaki herself was. But it had not been Tsubaki after all, but Kikyou who had been given the duty to purify the Sacred Jewel. She became the Shikon Priestess at that moment and her dreams died screaming while she kept her face serene as possible.