Nov 6 - Priestess Day
Kikyou looked at the group of friends who assembled around her reincarnation. The man she once had loved, the cursed monk, the orphan who was a victim of the shattered jewel, the exterminator an her brother who lost her entire village. The lord who had his own personal journey. with his followers standing beside him. The wolf chief with his remaining pack members, even her aged sister. All of them wishing to see Naraku dead.
"I shall slay Naraku," Kikyou said. "Alone. And I shall purify the jewel. It is my duty."
"Kikyou!" Inuyasha said, his voice rough. "You don't have to fight alone, we can help you... I promised..."
She offered him a soft smile. "I am of the dead, Inuyasha. Your duties lay with the living. There is no need for more to suffer. And I don't intend to perish today myself."
"Do you have a plan, lady Kikyou?" asked the monk while Inuyasha looked away.
"Yes I do. Goodbye," she said and let her soul collectors lift her from the meadow and carry far away, ignoring the calls of the group.
She landed in a place devoided of life, only sad dried up tree trunks spreading their naked branches overhead. Naraku was standing there, smirking smugly as he watched the miko approaching.
"Kikyou," he said. "Did you finally decide to give up?"
"Of course not," she replied and put her hands together to pray, a string of beads hanging from her fingers. Naraku approached the woman he desired carefully, expecting to see his enemies jumping from behind the dead trees any minute. There was no chance any of them could miss the feel of his vile aura radiating from this place. He just needed to wait and kill them off one by one as they came.
A glow caught his attention and brought it back to Kikyou. The beads in her hands glowed and suddenly the string broke. Naraku gasped and frowned when he saw the beads all flying from her to him. In a time shorter than he could react the beaded necklace reset itself around his neck and the vile hanyou reached for it.
"What's this?" Naraku asked.
"Osuwari." Kikyou said and then calmly approached the crater. She easily fished the piece of the sacred jewel from Naraku's limp fingers while the hanyou was too stunned to even yell at her. "I always wanted to say this."
"Why..? How...?" Naraku lifted his face from the dirt.
"Did you really had to go with that command?" Inuyasha groaned from the edge of the clearing where he and his friends were just entering the scene. "For a second I was sure mine will work!" Kagome riding on his back gave his ear a little affectionate tug.
"So you really had a plan," Miroku rubbed his chin.
"I must confess I feel ashamed we didn't come up with this solution earlier," Kaede nodded from her place behind Sango on Kirara's back. "So, what's next?"
"I brought Naraku down. Osuwari, So it's my privilege to end his existence," Kikyou said, making sure Naraku was still subdued. Inuyasha flinched.
"Fair enough. He's yours," Sesshomaru turned around to leave. Kouga looked like he wanted to say something, but Sesshomaru growled something at him and the wolf tucked his tail between his legs, unhappily deciding not to go against Sesshomaru's statement.
"Now, let's descent into the Underworld," Kikyou reached for Naraku's hand and smiled. "I believe you have a special spot reserved there."
"You can't make me!" Naraku exclaimed. Inuyasha's ears flattened against his skull when his former girlfriend started to dig the hole to the Underworld with Naraku's body.
"Let's go home before I start feeling sorry for the asshole," he muttered to his friends.
