Title: The Ghost of You
Parings: None
Words: 1406
Rating: M
Summary: With his hands he slays the second one to ever love him.
Six feet deep is the incision,
In my heart; that barless prison.
-Cradle of Filth.
"Drop it!" Her voice ran out, harsh and cold like the wind.
I never said I'd lie and wait forever
He cringed and held the jewel tighter in his grasp.
It shouldn't be like this...
If I died we'd be together
Slowly he turned to face her, this beauty who had once loved him.
At least he had wanted to believe she had.
I can't always just forget her
It was going to be just like before. He forced his eyes shut.
Kikyou, Kagome? They were different women, but right now...
Both times merged the space of fifty years was nothing to memory.
Kikyou, Kagome? It was the same. They were the same right now.
But she could try
He knew how it had come to this...
Tetsusiga had failed no, he had failed.
At the end of the world
The taijiya had lunged for the boy but he turned in her arms and hugged her.
She'd finally gotten her brother back...
Kohaku smiled and while plunging the knife in her back.
Or the last thing I see
The priest saw it happen.
Throwing aside the demon with a sutra he opened his wind tunnel.
He turned and sucked in the white demon, Kanna and the wind user, Kagura.
You are...
She was dying and he was holding her telling how it was going be alright.
How sorry he was.
Never coming home
Smiling faintly, she knew her fate.
At deaths thresh hold she held nothing back.
Never coming home
She loved him, she told him with a kiss.
Then she begged for him to find some way to save the boy.
Her breathing ceased, silencing the life.
The monk so gently placed her on the ground and with a cry turned to the onslaught of demon insects.
And he had watched...
The hanyou had watched without moving.
A faint tingle ran up his spine to remind him.
Could I? Should I?
The girl and the kitsune!
He'd saw her then, she was staring at him, her gray blue eyes shocked and frightened.
She saw the monster beneath the mask.
And all the things that you never ever told me
The wind shifted and he caught her sweet scent mixed with hatred and blood.
Hatred of him.
And all the smiles that are ever ever...
He watched her closer and saw she was holding the unconscious kitsune.
Her mouth was set-she had seen everything he realized- tears were drying on her face.
A shriek of pain cut through the setting sun.
In those few short seconds Miroku had taken in all the insects.
He saw the battlefield.
Kikyou was their purifying Onigumo's heart; Kouga's tribe must have helped.
Just like that Naraku was dead.
Get the feeling that you're never
Miroku was crawling back to Sango's body.
He saw Kagome running for the bodies, but she stopped and set the kitsune down.
She knew what his nose had already told him, it was too late for the monk.
He didn't want to look anymore.
The silver haired hanyou walked away.
All alone and I remember now
"Why! They care about you!"
So much rage, so much pain in her voice.
She held the bow taught, notched an arrow.
"Hanyou..." The girl murmured trying to get his attention.
She wouldn't even call him by his name.
He couldn't, he just couldn't.
This is what she wanted him to do...
He loved Kagome...
But Kikyou was there first.
Kikyou had touched his heart.
Without another pause her leaped at the girl, he felt a charged arrow graze his left shoulder. He didn't stop.
His sharp claws pierced her right shoulder and her torso.
At the top of my lungs in my arms she dies
Inuyasha held her in his arms, a shroud of blankness covering his face.
She opened her mouth to speak but blood filled it, the excess dripping and falling onto his wrist.
"I loved Kikyou." He said almost emotionless looking into the eyes that accused him.
"I really believed that you were her! But looking at you now, I see so much...I see how I was wrong." He lowered his head looking ashamed.
"I thought I-You were beautiful-I thought-I really did…once not so long ago--" He said faltering then added it. "I really thought I loved you."
He looked at her again and she spoke though it took most of her energy to manage it.
"TRAITOR...traitor-"
Without knowing it she had spoken the same words uttered from another dying mouth fifty years ago.
"Love?" She whispered the blood choking her. "I'll love you in death even now I do..." Kagome reached up and brushed her fingers against reality.
If I fall
He kept looking into her eyes and the light that was fading in them and realized he was a monster.
She just looking at him her mouth overrunning with blood as a corner twitched as if attempting to smile.
If I fall (down)
Longingly he touched the scar on his chest...This should have killed him!
Aching inside he winced at the fresh gash on his arm, a few inches more and this would have done the job for him.
And all the things that you never ever told me
When there was no more light in her eyes...no more light in his world he looked around.
He held her even as the heat from her body began to fade.
Inuyasha understood then what life meant.
What you needed above all.
Love.
Afraid, he thought of her then.
If he followed her to that other world would she welcome him?
In death was it possible for his sins to be forgiven?
And all the smiles that are ever gonna haunt me
Love.
Love?
He closed his eyes only to be haunted by her once too familiar smile overlapped by the near-death twitch she had attempted.
He had been wrong! He'd loved her more than he thought...
But the past...Kikyou...it was the same.
He looked again at her bloody form.
Before he knew it he was scrambling toward Miroku and Sango's bodies, which had yet to be moved and buried.
There it was...
Sango's sword lay next to her right hand.
Could I? Should I?
He grabbed it and hurtled back to kagome.
"Kagome..."
The curve of her neck and her face placid and empty…
Her eyes, empty blue orbs that had once held untapped feelings.
She'd never really lived.
It had been cut short!
With a cry he fell forward thrusting the deadly weapon into his abdomen.
He had cut her life short.
He was feeling less...
A great empty feeling was taking the place of the pain.
'Love?' That word kept echoing in his mind.
"Kagome." He repeated her name like a prayer.
The silence of pending death was beyond sorrow.
He cried out again, defeated by the soundlessness of it all.
Never coming home
Focusing on her face again and then on the blood, hers, and he looked at his hands.
He touched the blade and he was falling on the ground.
The feeling of the world righting itself as he hit the ground...
Lying on his side he saw her there next to him.
In his final moments he didn't want to see the death.
He was a coward.
He let his weight shift and he grunted as he shifted and was now lying on his back.
The blade hadn't gone straight through him.
And all the wounds that are ever gonna scar me
"Inuyasha!" A voice rang out and she was there an angel.
Blurry, he looked at her face as she knelt over him.
"Kagome?" He said full of a rushing sound like wings.
No Kikyou...His mind registered.
She was dead too...
He had killed her too...
"I won't follow you." Her voice was listless as she looked at the fallen maiden next to him.
"Her fate was to be the same as mine, she was my reincarnation." Then a hint of pain struck her voice as she continued.
"But she will have you," Kikyou began to cry then, "She will have you by her side, and you go willingly...as you never would for me. May your souls be at peace."
With tears running down her face she smiled sadly as the molten gold eyes misted over forever.
For all the ghosts that are never gonna...
A/N: Song is by My Chemical Romance
