Title: An Ordinary Woman
Author: landofthekwt
Genre: Introspective
Rating: K+
Word Count:234
Universe: Canon
Pairing: Inuuyasha/Kikyou
Warning: Character Death Spoiler for the Mount Azusa arc and Chapter 465. Written for Issekiwa Plain Theme
Summary: Kikyo realizes that she has become an ordinary woman
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. He belongs to Rumiko Takahasi and the various corporations which have rights to him
She had been a woman in chains. The chains had been forged by her link by link. It was chains that made her what she was and chains which prevented her from being an ordinary woman.
Now the chains were breaking.
Kagome had broken the chains of jealousy and hate when Kagome saved Kikyou's soul by retrieving the bow from Mount Azusa. With the bow she had transferred the chain of duty to Kagome.
The chains of purity, power and vengeance were broken when Kikyou used the last of her own power and purity to fire the arrow into Naraku. She no longer needed to fight anymore. She no longer needed vengeance against Naraku. She no longer needed her pride anymore. She had nothing to prove anymore to anyone. That chain dissolved as Inuyasha carried her away.
She had thought that she was still bound by the chain called Inuyasha. As she looked closer, she realized it was not a chain at all. It was a lifeline that she never wanted to break.
As she listened to Inuyasha tell her that he loved her, felt his tears upon her face and reveled in the touch of his lips on hers; she realized that for the first time in her life she was happy.
She had become an ordinary woman. No longer was she bound by the chains that had bound her as a miko since childhood. In her moment of joy, she realized that her body would soon dissolve. But that one moment of happiness was enough for her.