Title: The Face in the Mirror
Author: landofthekwt
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: Mask (The Wilted Rose Week 27)
Word Count::499
Genre: Contemplation of the Death of an old Friend
Warning: None
Summary: Kikyou decides that Kagome must die
The more she stared at the woman who shared her face, who shared her soul, shared her life, shared her lover, shared her vocation as guardian of the Shikon no clearer everything became to her. Kagome was her. She knew for certainty that there was only room in this world for one of her. The person named Kagome would have to die.
In a way Naraku was doing her a favor. He had opened up the crevasse to dissolve Kagome's body leaving only the Shikon no Tama. The rest of the lot would die in Illusionary Death Trap that Naraku had set for them . . .
She had come here to find out about Naraku. Kagome had already interfered by destroying the demon puppet. None of them needed to save her from Naraku she could have left anytime she wanted. If they died, it was their own fault.
She had her plan now. If she gave Naraku the entire jewel, she could purify him. First, she mustrid herself of her troublesome reincarnation and give the Jewel to Naraku.
This woman had already interferred with her. Twice she had called back her soul preventing her from killing Inuyasha and taking him to hell. In the Kudoku her actions had almost prevented Kikyou from reaching Naraku and could have resulted in Inuyasha merging with Naraku.
.This girl had already taken so much from her. Her soul, Inuyasha's heart, her task as guardian of the Jewel. It was time to take back her life. Her face. Her soul. If Naraku had succeeded in killing Inuyasha, she could reclaim Inuyasha in hell after she had rid the world of Naraku and the Jewel.
This girl had actually come to save her. Didn't she understand she hated her and wanted her dead. She was the face in the mirror. Every time Kikyou looked at her that face haunted her. Her face reflected everything that she had lost.
It reminded her that Kagome was alive while she was dead. Her reincarnation had the trust of Inuyasha and was healing the wounds of her heart. She carried and purified the Jewel of which Kikyou had been the guardian. The girl had a future. She could still be a wife and a mother to Inuyasha's children. The very thing for which she had given her life.
Kikyou had no future. She was dead. She could never be anything to Inuyasha. The only place they could be together was in hell. She could no longer be the guardian of the Jewel. Naraku would hold it until she was ready to cast him and the Jewel from this World.
She was free of all previous entanglements. A blank slate on which her new life could be written. She was free . No longer bound by the life she once had Better to break the mirror that her reincarnation represented so that she no longer had to face what she had become and what she could have been.