Title: Helpless
Author: landofthekwt
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: Soften (Issekiwa #97)
Genre: No Justice for the Dead
Word Count:250
Warning: None
Summary: Kikyou is bitter about Kagome's hold on Inuyasha
Life was not fair. She had done everything in her power to protect the Sacred Jewel. Killed her lover to prevent him from stealing it. Had herself burned with the Jewel to place the Jewel beyond the reach of evildoers. Sacrificed everything that she ever wanted. And for what.
Inuyasha had been revived by her reincarnation. He already cared for that girl more than her. She could see that he was a changed man. The girl had softened him. He trusted her. His eyes were warm when he looked at her. All the things she had wanted to do if she had lived.
Instead, she was left with a soul filled with hate. Although she could now show Inuyasha all the things she wanted to do with him, it was already too late. Her clay body was clay and smelled of bones and graveyard soil. She had to use the souls of young girls to move.
All she could offer him was death. The only place they could be together was in hell. She had offered him eternity. Instead, he had left her for her reincarnation as soon as spell was lifted. She had abused his trust by placing him under the spell to take him to hell while he was embracing her.
He said that her appearance did not make any difference, but his actions showed otherwise. He clearly preferred the woman healed his heart. She was doomed to watch as the man she loved moved toward another woman.