Title: Dying for Our Sins
Author: landofthkwt
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: Tree ( Inuyasha Themes Week1)
Word Count:200
Universe: Canon
Genre: Christ figures
Warning: Character Deaths
Summary: Kikyou repents her actions.
The thick red liquid covered her hands. He looks so peaceful, so innocent hanging from her arrow. Her arrow had killed him. Her arrow was now embedded in the God Tree.
How could she have been so blind? It was his blood that was on her hands. She could never wash it away. She had sinned against him and the kami. His body mocked her. It proclaimed her guilt.
It had been her idea to use the Shikon no Tama to turn him human. Her idea to rid herself of the duties as Protector of the Sacred Jewel. Her idea to live together as man and wife. As a result of her ideas he had died.
He would not be dead now if not for her. She could not live without him. That truth was abundantly clear. If she could not live with him, she could still follow after him in death.
She must atone for her sins. All she had to offer was her life. Only by burning the Sacred Jewel with her body could she prevent anyone from using it for evil purposes.
She could only hope that Inuyasha could forgive her for what she had done.