Title: Just a Dream
Author: landofthekwt
Rating: PG-13
Universe: Canon
Prompt: Dreams; The Wilted Rose Week 15
Word Count :297
Genre: Self pity
Warning: None
Summary: Inuyasha relives his nightmare.
The dream had persisted every night since he had been revived. He was running through his forest with the Jewel. Kikyou would appear bleeding from wounds to her head and a vicious cut that extended from her shoulder to her stomach. Somehow she would always find the strength to fire her arrow while screaming " Die Inuyasha" and then stagger toward the tree.
No matter how many times she shot him, he always seemed surprised that she would shoot him. Somehow part of him could not believe that she would actually shoot him. The part of him that believed that she loved him and would never betray him. He thought that if he became human that they could live together as husband and wife. He would never be alone again.
But it was just a bad dream. No wife. No Kikyou. Just a recurring nightmare. He thought that he would have peace. He and Kikyou could have been happy together. Instead, they had died together. Maybe he was just meant to be alone. Maybe he was not meant to be happy. He wanted desperately to forget Kikyou and move on with his life.
Instead, he was forced to search for the Jewel with a girl who smelled like Kikyou and looked like Kikyou. He had known Kikyou. This girl was no Kikyou. Kaede persisted in her belief that this girl was the reincarnation of Kikyou. Inuyasha saw no evidence that she was. She was just a constant reminder of what he had lost and what he could never have.
The nightmare had one good effect. By forcing him to relieve his death every night, he could see in graphic terms what would happen if he let his guard down and allowed himself to love someone else again.