Title Things That Go Bump In The Night
Author landofthekwt
Rating K
Prompt User Friendly (Inuyasha FanFic)
Word Count 378
Warning I see dead people
Summary Kikyou finds a use for the shindamachu
The summoning spell had been a simple one. One that she had learned in the temple long ago, but which she never thought she would have a use for.
Summoning shindamachu was something kuromiko did. Only they associated with demons. Only they stole the souls of distressed young women.
Her need had been great. Her hate had been great. All these blackened the heart that had once been pure. Now she was more demon than human.
Perhaps that is why the shindamachu flocked to her. Mighty herds roaming the night sky in search of souls to bring to their mistress.
She felt kin to the women they brought her. They were so much like her. Dying young with regrets. Lost love. Failed love. Betrayed by their men.
They gladly lent her strength to move against the man who had betrayed her. If their souls allowed to obtain her revenge perhaps they too could release their anger and regret.
The empathy she felt for them, did not keep her from using them to allow her to move. Without them she would become a lifeless clay statute unable to get her revenge and allow her to move on.
By day she might pretend to be the kindly miko who cared for the sick and played with the children. By night she was the monster who used demons to gather the souls of young women to allow her to move.
No wonder she felt such a affinity to the shindamachu and the souls of dead women Beneath this veneer of flesh was a hollow women She was the evil she had fought against in her former life
Once she had been pure. In death she had been defiled. A hungry ghost. A revenant living only for the day she took Inuyasha to hell with her. She had been asleep for so long. Inuyasha had woken from that Inuyasha's death would allow her to sleep again. Only through his death could purge the hatred his betrayal had spawned.
Come my friends. Bring me the souls of the dead. I am free you will be free Young women lend me the power of your souls so that I may wreak the revenge for all women who were betrayed by their lovers.