Title: Wishing for Panacea
Rating: G
Genre: General/Introspective
Pairings: Inuyasha/Kikyo, little Inuyasha/Kagome
Word Count: 163

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Occasionally, he wishes she would smile more. Which is odd, because she never smiled much before so he's not sure why he she would smile now or why he even wants her to. Except, perhaps, maybe, it would make him feel better, he thinks. Make him feel better about the tragedy that befell both of them, costing his heart to be pinned by a fatal mistake (later to be dissolved by the hand of that returned failure) and her spirit to sink into bitterness and fury (later to be restored to a mockery of a body – clay and ashes and bone).

After all this time, he hasn't forgotten the way she smiled. It had always been slow and serene, like snow falling. It wasn't like Kagome. Kagome, who smiled for no reason, and was like a sun rising and hovering in the sky. She smiled simply because she enjoyed living and enjoyed being alive.

Occasionally, Inuyasha wishes Kikyo would smile like that too.