Title Just Fade Away
Author landofthekwt
Rating K
Prompt Calm (Unsung Heros #9)
POV Kouchou and Asuka
Word Count 298
Warning Character Death
Summary Kikyou's Shikigami face the end calmly
Kikyou had no strength to lend them. They could feel her. She had revived them for one last Kohaku. Yet soon they would fail. The power that Kikyou had lent them was fading Naraku's incarnation was correct. Soon the barrier would fall. Kohaku would be captured. The shard would fall. Their deepest regret was that they failed Kikyou.
It was she had given them a soul. She that animated them. It was she that they loved They would obey her commands without was not painful They were after all only paper dolls. But they were more. They were Kikyou's shikigami. Serving her was all they lived for. No task was too big or small. They did not love Inuyasha, but the mistress did. If she needed him they would fetch him. They had not believed that Kagome would save Kikyou because she hated her, but knowing that she was their mistress only hope they had fetched her.
When she revived them they knew this was the end. Kikyou would not survive the web of miasma in which she was caught. When Kikyou died they would die also, They protected Kohaku because Kitkyou was tainted and could not protect the shard. As Kikyou faded, they began to fade also. .
At the end they could do nothing against Byakuya, but tell Kohaku to run. They knew that their existence would end and that given Kikyou's condition they would never see her again in this world. Even at the end they were calm and did not waver even as his magic swept them away. They maintained their link to Kikyou to end, thanking her for bringing them to life and giving them the opportunity to serve her. Their only regret was that they had failed their mistress.