Kikyou sat in the tree, her knees drawn up to her chest, and her face buried into her clothing as she wept.

How many times have you told me you love her...?
As many times as I've wanted to tell you the truth...
How long have I stood here beside you...?
I live through you.
You looked through me...

Why hadn't she forgotten him? Hope had somehow weasled its way into her heart, and it had only served to weaken and destroy her...But now, the hatred had returned. Not because she thought he had been the one to kill her; she had long ago know the truth to that. She hated him for not loving her...for leaving her alone, after all he had said...

Ooh, Solitude,
Still with me is only you...
Ooh, Solitude,
...I can't stay away from you...

"If only I had let Naraku do his job," she muttered darkly. "If only..."

How many times have I done this to myself?
How long will it take before I see?
When will this hole in my heart be mended?
Who now is left alone but me...?

Naraku. She lifted her head, and turned her red-rimmed eyes towards his castle, surprised that she was sitting almost within it's gates. Had she been this close to it all along, Kikyou wondered, and never known it? Or...somehow, had she come there...knowingly? Standing, she watched as the dawn slowly streched Her golden rays across the sky.

"No," Kikyou growled to herself. "I hate him. I want him dead. This is all his fault..."

Ooh, Solitude,
Forever me and forever you...
Ooh, Solitude,
Only you, only true...

The morning sun shimmered past the trees, and she frowned. Her hand went to her cheek again, and his voice entered her mind...Didn't he want her dead, too...? Didn't he hate her? They had tried to destroy one another since...Kikyou's brown eyes blinked slowly. Since she fell back in love with InuYasha...

Everyone leaves me stranded...
Forgotten, abandoned, left behind...
I can't stay here another night...

Her feet took a step towards the castle, but she drew back, snapping herself out of the wild thoughts that went through her mind. No...it wasn't possible that Naraku...

Your secret admirer...
Who could it be?

Kikyou turned away. "Crazy. A crazy thought. I'm only using him to get the Shikon no Tama," she reminded herself. Gods, she detested the tremble in her tone.

Ooh, Can't you see...
All along it was me...
How can you be so blind...
As to see right through me...

Again, for the second time within the course of the moon and sun, she looked back. Back to him.

And Ooh, Solitude,
Still with me is only you...
Ooh, Solitude,
I can't stay away from you...

"I must be crazy."

She couldn't move.

Ooh, Solitude,
Forever me and forever you...
Ooh, Solitude,
Only you, only true...