Oh my soul is dying it's crying

I'm trying to understand

Please help me


How could an angel break my heart

Why didn't he catch my falling star

I wish I didn't wish so hard

Maybe I wished our love apart

How could an angel break my heart

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Tears slid down Kikyo's face as she watched the newly formed 'couple'. At the moment, she felt like dying and she could feel her soul crumbling as she watched the scene before her. She wanted to leave this place but first.... she wanted to see if Inu Yasha in fact did love Kagome. She wanted to hear it from him....she didn't have to wait very long...


After Kagome and Inu Yasha stopped their laughter, they were silent in each other's embrace. Obviously, they wanted to stay that way without anything to interrupt them. But there was something of Kagome's mind, something similar to Kikyo's own thoughts. She reincarnate of the dead miko disentangled herself from Inu Yasha's arms and looked into his golden eyes.


"What's wrong, Kagome?"


"Nothing...there's just something I want to know..."


"And that is...?"


"Do you still love Kikyo?"


Inu Yasha seemed taken aback by this but he didn't answer immediately. Because of this, Kagome took his reaction as a 'yes' and turned away from him.


"Kagome..."


"You don't have to tell me Inu Yasha...it's okay. She's your past lover, I should've know that..."


"I love you."


"Exactly, that you love...what?" Kagome whipped around and looked at him questioningly.


He smiled, "You heard me. I love you, Kagome. Not some clay corpse. Why would I pine for the dead when I have the living?"


"Oh, Inu Yasha!" Kagome cried happily, launching herself into his arms once more. The two stayed like that.


Kikyo ran as far as she could from the hanyou. She ran from him and her reincarnate, all the while running the scene over and over again in her mind. Why, Inu Yasha, why? Why did you betray me...like this? I thought you loved me, was all of it a lie. Or...did you stop loving me...because of me. Was it my fault you fell for that girl?

Suddenly, Kikyou stopped, dead in tracks. Was it really her fault. All her attempts to bring him with her to her own sanctuary, to her fate, had that driven him away. Had her attempts to get him to continue loving her, in fact, persuade him to do the opposite. Was it all her fault?

The miko sunk to her knees and buried her head in her hands. No....no, no, no, no, NO! Why her...why them...why had the fates been so cruel? If only Naraku hadn't intervened...hadn't stolen her chance at true happiness, she'd have been able to live out her life with her one true love. But now it was another that had taken her place...damn her and yet....good luck. Kikyou admired the girl who was so much like herself and yet so unlike her. Atleast...I get to be with my love in another life...perhaps this time....she and I as one will be able to live our lives the proper way... Yet even as she thought this, Kikyou cried. Her tears mixed with the ground and she stayed like that until hours later.


She stood some time later and looked back, at the place where she had run from. She took out an arrow from her quiver (which she never failed to bring with her) and looked at it solemnly. Very well then. I've cried my last tear...I shall not stand in the way of her (and yet my) happiness. Farewell Inu Yasha...in this life we were not able to be together...may that girl fulfill my dream...


And with that, Kikyou plunged the arrow into her would be heart and fell to the ground. She breathed her last breath and with that the form of Kikyou shriveled up and burned...until there was nothing left but a pile of clay and bones...


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End


So, did ya like it? This isn't one of my very best stories but this is my first Inu Yasha fic so...be hard on me! I want to know what I did wrong so that I can write better stories in the future! Anyhow, one request before our departure: please go to my bio and read some of my fanfics! (That is, if you're a Sailor Moon fan...even if your not you might find them interesting.) I'll be writing more Inu Yasha fiction (better than this one) so look out for more!


-Priestess Exterminator Sachiko

i.e: Sachiko-sama