Title Beyond the Pale

Author landofthekwt

Rating M

Prompt Beyond (Unsung Heroes)

Word Count 297

POV Tsubaki

Warning Sex and Violence

Summary Tsubaki joins the dark side.

Tsubaki gazed at herself in the mirror. At last she had what she always wanted. Eternal youth and beauty. All her failures of the past. were forgotten.

Just when she had began to bemoan the fact that she was aging, opportunity came knocking in the form of a youkai. He offered her eternal youth and beauty. The price was her eternal soul.

She did not have to think twice before signing on the dotted line. Souls were after all a very mediocre commodity. She had no need of something that she could not see or feel.

The youkai had given her what she wanted and more. He had been easy to seduce. Thinking he was seducing her, he showed her how he enslaved youkais by sucking them into his eye.

By the time she was through with him, she was in possession of his eye and he was merely a pile of sparkling dust. Soon she assembled a frightening array of youkai. .

Once she had been a miko who fought on the side of good. Now she was a kuromiko who was more youkai than human. Her master's teachings forsaken, she thought only of herself.

She justified her devil's bargain by comparing what she had lost to what she had gained. When she was a miko she had lost her master's favor and the Jewel to Kikyou .

Through her bargain she had obtained eternal youth and beauty and power beyond her wildest dreams. When Kikyou and her master were dust, she would still be young, beautiful and powerful.

Good was overrated. She had not lost her powers when she joined the dark side nor when she had sex with her youkai. She had lost nothing and gained everything. Clearly, she had made the right choice.