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He remembered.

Fifty years ago he had killed Kikyou. He had grown improper feelings for that seventeen year old maiden and out of jealousy he had set up a trap for her and her hanyou lover.

Hanyou.

That despicable word had ringed through InuYasha's ears when Kikyou had deceived him. But she hadn't really deceived him. He, Naraku, had tricked him into thinking that he was deceived by Kikyou. And now, fifty years later, a miko had called Naraku that same cruel word.

Hanyou.

Why did you betray me!?

Those words had ringed throughout the clearing as the miko shot her arrow through the hanyou's shoulder. She had been deadly wounded in her shoulder, tricked by Naraku. Naraku had thought that she would use the Shikon no Tama to heal herself. He would have tainted both her and the powerful jewel and then he would have grasped them both into his hands. It had never crossed his mind that Kikyou would give up her life in order to destroy that cursed jewel.

But she did. As a true miko she died for her mission, burning the Shikon no Tama along with her body. The miko's life ended in a tragic death as the hanyou was sealed away on Goshinboku.

And now fifty years later a miko was pointing an arrow at him, asking him why he had betrayed him.

Koimizu fired his arrow and like lightning it soared across the sky. But while the sealing arrow that had been launched fifty years ago had spared InuYasha's life, this arrow would not spare his; it was merciless and bent on destroying him. The arrow pieced straight through Naraku's weakness, his heart, and Naraku felt the sadness, the pain, the anger and burning hatred in that single blow.

He knew.

These were not Koimizu's feelings. They were Kikyou's.

Kikyou's sadness for never having that dream fulfilled of being an ordinary woman. Her pain for being cruelly tricked by Naraku and in the process losing both her lover and her life. Her anger for having been awakened from her death, leaving her to be a restless soul. And finally, her burning hatred for him, Naraku, the one who destroyed her entire life and afterlife.

He knew her deepest feelings and he would die with them.

Naraku's eyes became blank as he stared into space, mulling over what wrongs he had done in his life. He had fallen into the same trap that he had set up for Kikyou and InuYasha fifty years ago.

And Kikyou laughed cruelly as he finally got what he deserved. "Naraku, how does it feel to be betrayed like this? Do you not enjoy this gift that InuYasha and I have made just for you?"

The son of them. They who haunted his never ending nightmares. Made of InuYasha's blood and Kikyou's tears…

With his final strength Naraku let his tentacles come out to slash through the boy-miko before him. And Koimizu vanished in a flash of light; his only remains a piece of paper drenched in blood and tears.

Naraku let out a wretched laugh. "I loved him, Kikyou…" he whispered. He had loved this boy. How pathetic he was to love a shikigami, a mere puppet whose every thoughts, feelings and actions were controlled by Kikyou.

Behind them the ruins of Koimizu's village caught fire, but there was not one soul crying for help. Naraku understood. There had never been a village. They had been ruins, masked by a spell that preserved the illusion of a village made by Kikyou, which was the perfect setting for her revenge on him. It now crumbled back into the nothingness that it had once been.

Tears of Love. Yes, he had loved that boy, Koimizu.

Naraku lifted his head back up and stared at Kikyou as his body began to dissipate. "In the end my heart still sold me out to you, right?" he said as a sad smile appeared onto his face. "I will meet you in hell, Kikyou…"

And Naraku's body vanished, releasing the souls of a thousand youkai that had been trapped inside his body.

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