Title: I don't love you, I hate you

Author: Nicluv1787
Rating: T

Genre: Introspective(ish)

CU/AU: CU

Prompt: Rebel

Characters: Naraku & Kikyo

Words: 398

Summary: How he wanted her. How he hated her.

Warning: mild language

A/N: Won third place at Iy_theme

Obsession, desire, he needed her, wanted her; that beautiful priestess Kikyo. Damn the immobile body he was trapped within. Only his eyes could watch the way she moved, the bend of her neck, the twist of her wrist. She was so stiff, so rigid. Oh, to see her undone, how that would excite him. But trapped as he was, how could he make it so? Ah, these tempest voices, slithering tongues that tease and coerce. He could feel them just outside his senses.

"Take my body, feast upon it!" he cried. Yes, this is how he'd have her, his Kikyou.

Reawakening, he was but no longer is, Onigumo. No, now he is Naraku, with poisonous hate that courses through his body. Hate for Kikyou that vile priestess. Kikyo must die, he must taint the jewel. Yes, and kill Inuyasha as well, that damned hanyou that Kikyo loves. No one can have Kikyou but him. No one loves her but him. No, he doesn't love her, he hates her. Her life and death belong to him. Let the string of deceit spread, poison them, taint them. Yes, this is what he wanted all along. He just didn't realize it as a flimsy human. He watches Kikyou die. That is what he wanted all along.

Fifty years, fifty damnable years, he spread his poison across the island. He needed power, needed it greatly, then without any effort, it falls into his lap. The jewel shards, soon all of them will be his. But she, she was back; Kikyo. He had killed her, watched her die. Damn her. She would return wouldn't she? This heart, this human heart of that thief Onigumo desires her, wants her. It's disgusting. Yet he can't kill her, because of this heart. She must die, has to die. He rebels against these untrue human feelings, sheds this human heart. Now, now he can truly kill her. He lets the blade of miasma pierce her, he watches her fall.

The end, the jewel is complete, a dark twisted corrupted jewel. How it sparkled for him alone. Yes, this is what he wanted. This is what that human wanted. They are in sync. Let them make the wish, their true wish… for Kikyou. Damn her, he wanted her. Killed her so many times, but he wanted her.

"Give me Kikyou."

But no, that wish can never be granted.