Title: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Author: landofthekwt
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: The Wilted Rose (The Wilted Rose #37)
Genre: Fanon Fantasies about Kagome's wish to allow IY and Kikyou to live happily ever after
Word Count: 578
Pairing: Inuyasha/Kikyou
Warning: Character Deaths and non births
Summary: Possible results of a common fanon theme : What would have happened if IY and Kikyou had made their wish and Naraku had never been born?:
The stupid girl had finally ruined it. They had beaten Naraku. She could have found peace. But no the stupid girl could not leave well enough alone. Somehow she had made the wrong wish.
The worst part was that she had not let any of them know. All of them could have given her input on the right wish. Instead, she had taken the entire burden for the wish on herself.
She could have made the wish that Kikyou had suggested to Inuyasha. Fearing that was too selfish a wish, she had chosen a more generic solution. She had wished that Naraku had never been born.
The results were immediate. Kikyou and Inuyasha gazed in horror as their bodies became human.
Unfortunately, Kikyou was now a 69-year-old human while Inuyasha was now a 250-year-old human.
Kikyou cursed herself as the man she loved died in her arms. It was horrible to watch him shrivel and die. Though his last words were of love for her, she would always blame herself for his death as much as she had the first time.
It was all her fault. She should have known that the jewel only granted cursed wishes. Instead of making Inuyasha a young man, it had fixed his human age the same as his actual age.
She thought of following after him, but he had begged her not to. Her first death had caused him so much guilt. It would too much to burden his soul in the afterlife.
Her only hope was that they would meet again in another life. A life where they were not burdened by the Jewel.
When Inuyasha finally died, it finally hit her. The Jewel was lying on the ground where Kagome had stood when she made the wish. The girl from the future was no place to found.
None of the other companions were present either. Kikyou supposed that their lives continued or did not continue as they would have if Naraku had never been born.
None of his friends would have ever have met. Who knows if the monk would have been born if not for Naraku? The girl had only been reincarnated with the Jewel in her body because of her own desire to see Inuyasha again.
For a moment, she contemplated suicide so that she could follow after Inuyasha. She dismissed such thoughts when her sister approached her to assist with Inuyasha's burial.
Her sister had fifty years of anguish to deal with as a result of her following after Inuyasha the first time. She had given up her life to become a priestess because Kikyou could not live without Inuyasha.
She would not do that again. The sisters would live out their remaining years together. This time Kaede would take care of her instead of the other way around
The Jewel would have to be disposed of one way or another. Although it seemed inert after the wish, the youkai would come after it. She and Kaede were elderly women and could not fight them as she once.
She stared at the Jewel. It had brought her nothing, but pain and misery. She wished that she had never been given the Jewel to guard. To her horror the Jewel pulsed.
The youkai slayers finding Kikyou not at home in the village decided to approach the second person listed as possible Jewel guardian by the temple master. They would have to find Tsubaki.