A/N : Things I shouldn't be doing :
Not studying.
Writing a fanfic.
Posting only two chapters in the first go.
Hiding in the bathroom eating chocolate.
Dancing on the dining table.
Going too far with this list.
Doing all of these things anyway.
It's a chilkut zindagi, you know?
Disclaimer: all I own are my many self-generated characters. Canon characters belong to Rumiko Takahashi
PROLOGUE
Somewhere beyond time and space
There she is. The girl who brought me into this world, shattered me into thousands of fragments and failed to rebuild me. The girl whose arrow peirces me. Ironically, it is her heart that lies in my will now. She will make a wish, and when she does, Midoriko will be free. Kagome will take her place, battling Naraku for eternity.
I know the deepest secrets of her heart. All she wants is for that half-demon to love her wholeheartedly and with no complications. Such a foolish young child… the half-demon is older but not much wiser. He wants nothing less than the power of his father and full-blooded demon brother.
If the little priestess ever escapes my clutches, I know her fate nonetheless. She will get what she so deeply desires. She will live with the half-demon - but only for a few years. Her days on this earth are numbered. As for Inuyasha, he will die a full-fledged demon.
There they stand, side by side, blissfully ignorant of their fate. "Shikon jewel," Kagome says, "I'm ready to make my wish." I am ready to grant it. "Shikon jewel," she addresses me again, "I wish for you to disappear."
That is the only way she can get away from me. Even as she speaks, I can feel the souls trapped in me tugging free. "Forever!" She finishes.
Forever? For her lifetime, yes. But she does not know that raw power in such a form as mine cannot be contained forever. It may take a hundred years or a thousand.
But when the four souls meet again, I will be reborn.
A/N: for all you non-Indians out there, the unfamiliar phrase means "small life".