Title Yesterday's Children
Author landofthekwt
Prompt Sad Smile (Inuyasha Fan Fic #198)
Word Count 250
Characters Kikyou/ Kouchou and Asuka
Warning Character Death?
Summary Kikyou's shikigami
She stared at the paper dolls in her hand. That is all they were after all. It was she that breathed life into them. Not alive or dead. Just paper dolls.
Why did she feel a sense of loss? Why did it hurt when Kohaku dispatched them with one sweep of his sickle? It was not like they were dead.
With one wave of her hand they would come alive again, ready and willing to carry out her wishes, thinking nothing of themselves but only of her.
Her master had warned her never to create shikigami in human form. They were not people. They were spirits summoned by miko. Tools. No more. No less. Giving them human form only created confusion. Giving them names only created an attachment to them.
But Kikyou could not help herself. She had been desperate and alone when she survived Mount Hakurei. She reached out to a fantasy she had once had.
Once upon a time she had dared to dream having of children with Inuyasha. Children with dark hair. In her mind she had named them Kouchou and Asuka.
She knew in her heart that Kouchou and Asuka were not her children, but she wished they only Naraku had not intervened. If only their wish to live together as husband had been granted.
She had learned sadly that wishes do not come true. Lovingly she put the paper dolls nside her robe next to her heart. That is really where they belonged.