Title What Did You Get For Your Sacrifice?
Author landofthekwt
Rating K
Prompt Sacrifice (Inuyasha Fanfiction)
Word Count 350
Warning none
Summary KIkyou and Kade say goodbye
As Inuyasha carried Kikyou to her death bed, she knew that she had someone else to talk to someone else to say goodbye to before she left the earth forever. Inuyasha could wait. The rest could wait. Kaede could not wait.
Kaede was shocked when Kikyou appeared before her. One minute she was the old miko, of her village. The next she was transformed back into that scared little girl watching her sister die before her eyes.
Kikyou saw it too. She saw Kaede crushed. One minute she had a life. A sister. A friend in Inuyaha. The next she found herself scarred for life. Losing her friend. Losing her sister. Alone and helpless in the world.
Kikyou had done this. By dying and taking the jewel to the other world, she left Kaede to a cruel fate. Kaede would never marry. She would never have children. Instead, she would be a homeless orphan forced down whatever path the village chose for her.
Kikyou realized she had been selfish. By choosing her path, she had closed Kaede's path to happiness. Kaede spent fifty years of her life aa a miko devoted to the kami. Traveling the exact path that Kikyou hoped to escape by marrying Inuyasha and had escaped by dying.
Kaede might look happy. That was because life had worn her down. She had come to accept the duty which Kikyou had thrust upon her Kikyou was dying. She could not give Kaede back her life. All she could say was "Sorry" however inadequate that was
Kaede reached to her sister. She wanted to tell her how much she loved. How much she missed her. Unfortunately, all she could say was "Big Sister" Kikyou vanished and Kaede became the old miko again instead of the frightened little girl.
Kaede sighed. She had lived with the burden of Kikyou's sacrifice all her life. For a moment when she was the person she was before Kikyou died and her life changed her life. At least she knew that Kikyou was sorry for what her. One more moment with her sister was worth all the sacrifices in her life.