A drabble for the LJ community IYfic Challenge. The theme was "Rain."
Title: TearsRating: K+
Genre: angst/introspective
Pairing: implied Inuyasha/Kikyou
Word Count: 183
Summary: Kikyou is free now to do those things she could not do in life.
Kikyou knows that she is changed now; freer. Free to love, free to hate...
When the first raindrop hits her cheek, she finds she is also free to weep.
She is almost surprised at how easy it is. She thought she'd forgotten how to cry.
She tries at first to resist, choking back a sob filled with bitterness and regret, then the rain begins in earnest and Kikyou is unable to hold back the flood. She stands in the downpour and lets herself go, weeping for the girl she once was and the woman she never had the chance to be. She weeps for the boy caught between two worlds, cursing his name and the life together that they never had.
When the sun breaks through the last lingering mist of the shower, she is calm once more. Kikyou understands. Perhaps now she is free to weep, as she never could in life, but she needs the rain.
This cold clay body isn't meant to cry. Kikyou can weep, but she can no longer shed tears.
The rain must shed them for her.