Title: Slipping Away
Author: landofthekwt
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: Seal
Word Count: 299
Genre: Perils of Pauline
Warning:None
Summary: Kikyou chooses to slip away from Inuyasha
She dangled from the cliff Held only by the man she loved. The man she hated. Even as he saved her, he asked her to go back into Kagome. He had saved her only to ask her to die.
She had been dead. Had begged him not to say her name. Yet once he had she knew that she would not find peace until she took the life of her betrayer.
Surely, he saw that. Yet as she looked into his eyes, she saw only love and a deep sense of loss. Once he learned that she would die if she went back into Kagome, they both knew that he could not ask her to do that.
The alternatives were few. If she allowed him to save her, she would return to Kagome and die. If she purified him, she would fall off the cliff. Her anger got the better of her. She was not going back. If she died of the fall so be it.
She glowed with an angry pink glow as her powers flowed into Inuyasha. He screamed as his clothes and body burned. Try as he might he could not hold onto her any longer. She slipped from his grasp.
He stared dumbfounded at her as she plummeted toward the river far below. For her part she did not cry out and maintained her defiant visage until she finally disappeared into the mist.
He wondered how it had come to this point. . Just when he found her again she slipped through his fingers leaving a hole in his heart.
The two of them were never fated to be together in this life or the next. They were like matches which were hot when ignited, but quickly burned themselves out leaving nothing but ash.