Just When You Thought One Dead Priestess Was Enough
Youkai no Kira
Summary: the dead priestess pendant is in the hands of Kikyou which causes the bearer to form clones. Their mission: destroy Inuyasha. Can Inuyasha defeat the clones before he accidentally kills the real Kikyou?
The dead priestess of the Western Lands, finds herself one afternoon, wandering about with a full supply of arrows in her possession. Kikyou, with her cold body, pale skin and long jet-black hair, looked up at the sky into the setting sun. She sighs and continues her short journey to a mountain by the river.
The climd took no more than half an hour and the sky was growing dark. Kikyou arrived at the entrance of a small cave with a fire burning wildly. A young girl, no more then eleven was trying to contact the dead. Kikyou made a frustrated and disgusting look at the child.
"Are you the wizardling by the name of Kotoko?!" Kikyou demanded to the girl.
The girl stopped her summoning spell which casued the fire to calm down. The child look towards Kikyou. "I am."
"Why are you summoning back the dead?" Kikyou asked.
Kotoko's tone soon got serious. "That's none of your concern, Lady Kikyou!"
Kikyou's eyes went wide as she underestimated the girl's powers. Kotoko continued. "I have forseen this, Lady Kikyou. You are here for the jewel shard that's embedded in my pendant, are you not?"
Kikyou's eyes narrowed. "Yes."
"Why?" Kotoko questioned. She hated strangers as well as priestesses; especially dead ones.
"As you put it, that's none of your cocern!"Kikyou was being frustrated. "Give me the jewel!"
"No!"
"you are lucky that I haven't killed you yet. I'm being nice. give me the jewel!!"
"I don't care if your being nice to me. This jewel is the only thing I have left of my mother has given me before she died. And it's the only way i can contact her from the dead. If you want it so badly, you have to kill me forit!" Kotko explained.
"So be it." Kikyou retrieved her weapon andamied it at Kotoko. She fired her arrow and Kotoo disappereaed in a blue light leaving th ependant behind.
Later on that night, Kikyou had the pendant around her neck, tired from so many purifications that day, plus needing more arrows. The priestess had her won hut in a distant village, away from the Bone Eater's well.
Kikyou crashed for the night, after making stew and burning out the fire. The harvest moon shon brightly on the land, especially the pendant hanging around her neck. the pendant started to glow brighter with every clone itr mdae of the sleeping priestess.