Title: Scattered Souls
Author: landofthekwt
Rating: G
Universe: Canon
Word Count: 248
Pairing: None
Warning: Spoiler for Chapter 465 The Wilted Rose Week 6
Kagome gazed in wonder as the souls which had once been Kikyou's flowed in a glowing procession up the dark hillside. She could feel their warmth as they passed.
The soul collectors were darting in and out among the Inutachi chasing the souls which had been loosed by the disintegration of Kikyou's body. They seemed to have a particular soul in their sights. When at last they captured it they began their long ascent to the heavens..
A year ago Kagome had been like many young people of her generation. She had openly mocked the beliefs of her own grandfather in the Kami and worship of the ancestors. No one she knew believed that anyone had a soul.
All that had been changed by her trip through the well. The part of her soul had .been ripped from her. The person she had been reincarnated from had been resurrected. It was amazing that someone who had once been an inert part of her own soul could hate her so much and desire the love of the same man that she did.
Kikyou's suffering was over..At last she could find peace. She was ascending because Kagome had saved her soul. In her last moments on her life Kikyou had finally become the person that she always wanted to be.
Her mission had passed to Kagome. Kagome wished Kikyou well on the next stop on her journey to Nirvana as the scattered souls disappeared into the heavens..