Title: Maid of the Mist

Author landofthekwt

Rating K+

Prompt Mist (Inuyasha Themes #

Word Count 392

Genre She's Back

Pairing Sesshoumaru/Kikyou

Warning None

Summary Kikyou returns only to run into Sesshoumaru

Kikyou strode out of the mists of the woods. She came to a familiar place. Before that day fifty four years ago it had been just another tree to her. On that day it became the place where she and Inuyasha had shared a bond of love and death. That wound would never heal.

So much had happened since that day. Death. Hell. Oblivion. Reincarnation. Resurrection. Dead Again Ascension. Assignment Redux. The afterlife was not what she imagined.

When she had awakened in the afterlife, she had been surprised to learn that her dying promise to Inuyasha was now her duty. One should be careful with one's promises even when one is dying.

Although the promise had been made with all sincerity at the time, she thought it merely a good intention. The Kami had thought otherwise. The promise had become her first assignment

Inuyasha's life belonged to her. She had someone to protect. That protection extended to Kagome, the woman who had saved her soul and to their progeny.

Her thoughts were disturbed by a massive wave of youki. She turned around to see Sesshoumaru towering over her menacingly.

"Miko. What are you doing here?"

Kikyou blinked " You can see me?"

He touched Tenseiga and studied her. Inuyasha's dead miko yet not dead. The scent of death was gone. Divine power instead of holy power. She was not of this world, but Tenseiga did not wish to be drawn. Since she had once saved Rin, he decided not to attack."Why are you here?""

Kikyou bowed " I have been sent back to fulfill my dying promise to Inuyasha to watch over him and protect him and his family. I am not a threat to you or anyone else so long as they do not attack him or his family. Why are you here, Lord Sesshoumaru?"

" I protect Rin."

Kikyou mulled this over and responded " Would you like me to watch Rin when you cannot be here. I am always here. I have nowhere else to go and all the time in the world. You are certainly welcome to watch with me whenever you come to visit Rin. I would appreciate the company.'

"Hn" Sesshoumaru nodded. So long as she kept her mouth shut, she would certainly be better company than his brother and his wife or Jaken.