Title: Itsy Bitsy Spider
Genre: Angst/Drama
Theme: Week #28, Trust
Word Count: 248
Rating: PG
Pairing: Naraku/Kagome
Summary: It's strange how she seems to trust him…
This fiction placed 3rd in iyfic(underscore)contest Week #28, "Trust"
What is there left for her? A broken future, the Bone-Eater's Well discarded, disenchanted, the mystical portal broken; a dismal past, her friends scattered, her lover in the arms of another. Nothing remains, for all of her optimism, there is nothing left waiting for her. She is lost, wandering blindly, stumbling through war-torn villages and her mind casts about for some reason to go on, some reason to keep living.
He finds her broken and lost and says in a convincing tone what she had known all along and yet was afraid to admit to herself. How does he know her so well, this villain, this man that is supposed to be her enemy? Or had he been her enemy? She is no longer sure; is she the villain or the heroine of this myth? Her memory is gone, spliced and broken. Her trust is easy to gain and she goes with him, for she believes that he can return to her what has been lost. His lies tangle inside of her heart.
The night never seems to break and the horizon is colored a deep crimson that matches his eyes that shine with pleasure at the sight. He knows he has won; he holds control over the miko, the broken creature that lingers somewhere between insanity and rationality, constantly peering into space as if lost in a far-off memory.
His lies have wound about her, tying her down. She is a prisoner of her own innocent trust.