Title: Dead Memories
Author: landofthekwt
Rating: PG-13
Word Count:456
Genre: The bond between them
Prompt: Memories The Wilted Rose Week13
Universe: Canon
Pairing Inyasha/Kikyou Inuyasha/Kagome
Warning: Spoiler for Chapters 454-455
Summary: Kagome is ensnared by Naraku
Kagome was caught in the web of dead memories. Naraku has spun it well. It was for this very purpose that he had taken back his human heart For a only a human heart could feel love, feel sadness, feel jealous.
She had heard the story of Inuyasha and Kikyou. She thought she understood the bond between them. When she come back through the well she told herself that she would stay by Inuyasha's side even though she knew that the bond between Kikyou and Inuyasha could never be broken.
But now she could see and feel the pain and emotions of Kikyou and Inuyasha. She could see the arrow in its flight to Inuyasha's chest. The look of surprise, of disappointment, then at last the look of acceptance as he fell into the sleep of death.
As she gazed at Inuyasha she could feel the horrible searing pain in Kikyou's chest and shoulder. The wound that she bore was in the same place as the one she had received at Mt. Hakurei.
She could tell that Kikyou was dying . Yet Kikyou was moving toward the tree until she could almost touch Inuyasha. Kagome somehow knew that Kikyou wanted to reach and hug Inuyasha as he hung limp and lifeless from her arrow. But her strength failed her and she sank to her knees.
The emotion that Kagome could emanating from Kikyou was not hate. It was sadness that they would never be together in this life. Kagome was struck by overwhelming feeling of deep love.
She knew that this was the bond between Kikyou and Inuyasha which she could not break. It was a bond of pain, sadness, love and death. She was struck by a feeling of overwhelming hopelessness.
When the vision ended the threads were gone. But they had left an overwhelming imprint on her heart. She felt dirtier than she ever had in her life. The heart that she had kept pure had been tainted.
The hateful jealousy which Baby had tried to urge upon she had rejected because every human feels jealous. But seeing Inuyasha die from the arrow and feeling the love that Kikyou felt had filled her with a jealousy which she could not contain. At that moment she hated Kikyou's eternal love. She could not even bear to look at Inuyasha.
Somewhere Naraku was smiling. His web had caught all three of them. Kikyou would die of her wounds and Kagome's purity had been lost. He no longer feared being purified with the Jewel.
Victory would be his at last.
Kagome should have known better than to peek at the memories of the dead. Now the bond that been between Kikyou and Inuyasha had become a shackle to her soul.