Title Closer to Heaven
Author landofthekwt
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: Close ( Inuyasha Themes Prompt #6)
Word Count: 300
Genre: Stages of Death
CU
Warning: Character Death
Summary Kikyou. Still Dead. But she getting better.
When Kikyou died , she knew Hell. Hell was being betrayed by the one you loved. Hell was seeing everything that you ever wanted was within reach but being unable to touch it. Hell was following after the one you loved so that you would never have to see him again. Hell was choosing to burn with the Jewel so that it would no evil person would possess it again.
When she was reincarnated, she should have been able to move on. Instead, she was forced to back to the world as one of the living dead. Stuck in a private hell, trapped with the hate and love that she had died with. unable to move on from the moment she died. Forced to live off the souls of others to continue her existence. Bereft of all purity of her former life she became one of the monsters whom she had fought all of her life.
As her body of bone and graveyard soil dissolved Kikyou knew Heaven. Heaven was becoming the ordinary women that she had always wanted to be. Heaven was having the man you loved hold you in his arms. Heaven was having the man you loved tell you that you were the first woman he loved and cry for you. Heaven was reclaiming your humanity. Heaven was promising to watch over the man you loved.
In her last moments she made peace with all of her attachments to the world of the living. Her duties as Protector of the Sacred Jewel had been transferred to Kagome. All of her power had been transferred to the Jewel At last she was ready to move on.
She might still be dead, but at least since Kagome had saved her soul she was closer to Heaven.