Title: The Woman in White
Author: landofthekwt
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: White (Issekiwa Week 83)
Word Count: 250
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Warning: Ghosts
Summary: Kikyou returns to her old haunts
The men told tales about around the fire of a woman in white who appeared every year on the same day by the sacred tree. The apparition would struggle toward the hanyou pinned by an arrow to the tree. She appeared to be trying to hug the boy locked forever between life and death.. When she came close enough to touch him, she would fall to her knees and sigh as if she knew that she could never reach him. Slowly, she would fade away until nothing remained but the night mists..
The men who guarded Inuyasha swore that she had been making these visits as long as they could remember. Kaede wondered why she had never heard of the legends. Why had her sister never appeared to her. She had kept the faith and become the village miko in her sister's place. She had kept a guard on the hanyou for fifty years. Where was her reward for her lonely vigil?
This year she would watch alone. If her sister came she would see her. At midnight the ghost appeared and began her trek toward Inuyasha. Kaede could not restrain herself
"Sister"
The woman in white turned and smiled with that look of utter loneliness that Kikyou had perfected.
"Kaede you came at last. Expect my reincarnation this summer. Through her I will finally reach Inuyasha. Through her I will finally free Inuyasha. Through her Inuyasha and I will finally find love and peace. Farewell, beloved sister."