Title Bring Out Your Dead
Author landofthekwt
Rating PG-13
Prompt Berry or Bury (Issekiwa)
Word Count 250
Warning Death
Summary Inuyasha digs graves
Inuyasha leaned on his shovel. He was tired of being a grave digger. Human graves were something he had assiduously avoided since his mother had been buried more than two hundred years ago. Now corpses were everywhere in the villages they visited in their quest to kill Naraku.
Then it had meant that only person in the world who loved and cared for him was gone forever. He had not believed she was truly gone until they tossed her into the hole without ceremony as if they were burying an animal. If he had not carved a headstone using his claws, it would have been unmarked to this day.
The others insisted on burying the dead. People none of them knew, but people nonetheless. He could understand Miroku. Miroku was a Buddhist monk whose religion presided over funerals in Japan. Kagome came from a shrine family. The shrine honored the ancestors who watched over the living and protected. There had been no one to watch over him.
Now he was expected to bury the victims of Kouga, Kohaku and Naraku. People killed because they happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Killed for a jewel that he had desired but one which brought nothing but death and destruction. He could only hope that by killing Naraku that he would stop having to dig mass graves for innocents, but he had seen enough in the last two hundred years to actually believe that was true.
