Deal by milingchi [Weekly Perfection: Close]
Title: Deal
Author: Mi Ling Chi
Prompt: Close - Weekly Perfection #205
Rating: T
Warning: Character Death/Murder(Sort of)
Word Count: 400(Microsoft Word)
Genre: CU, Tradgety, Hurt/Comfort(Again, more along the lines of Hurt)
Summary: Naraku was dead, but so were her friends.
Naraku was dead.
Kagome should’ve been so happy, so giddy but she wasn’t. She couldn’t be, not if Naraku’s death came at the price of her friends’ deaths, especially since she was the only one in the inu-taichi to have survived. The only thing she felt was a darkness settling on her shoulders.
They had been so close. Naraku was almost dead and no one was fatally wounded. In his final moments, Naraku made a wish on the jewel.
“If I am to die here then the hanyo Inuyasha, the taijya Sango, the houshi Miroku and the kitsune kit Shippo will die with me.”
At the same moment he had wished for her friends deaths, she had shot the purifying arrow that had destroyed Naraku and her friends.
Now she kneeled above Inuyasha, tears sliding down her cheeks. Never in the time they had fought Naraku did she think they might die. Maybe this was the Kami’s way of saying that she should have.
After hours of silent sobs, Kagome heard the sounds of footsteps. Her head slowly turned to the entrance to Naraku’s castle and she saw Sesshomaru, the mighty lord of the west.
“Your friends are dead.” Kagome knew his words were not a question but she nodded anyway. She was to numb to come up with a witty response.
“Naraku is too.” She nodded again, her eyes flicking to the space where Naraku’s ashes lay.
“All things die. Surely as a miko, you know this,” Sesshomaru said. A small ember was lit inside Kagome when he said his comment. It reminded her of all the times she’d been compared to the dead miko, Kikyo.
“I may have purifying powers but that does not mean I’m a miko, lord Sesshomaru,” she sneered. She watched as his lips curled up into a smirk. The ember was suddenly cold and burnt out.
“You wish for death, do you not? Your words show me you do. I will not grant that for you, this Sesshomaru knows that there is more for you in this world then death,” he stated with ease. Kagome’s shook her head.
“There isn’t. Who wants an untrained miko from the future? Who wants a girl who doesn’t obey their every command?” she asked.
“Hn, I will offer you a deal. Watch Rin, teach her how to take care of herself and you can travel with me.”
“Deal.”
Author: Mi Ling Chi
Prompt: Close - Weekly Perfection #205
Rating: T
Warning: Character Death/Murder(Sort of)
Word Count: 400(Microsoft Word)
Genre: CU, Tradgety, Hurt/Comfort(Again, more along the lines of Hurt)
Summary: Naraku was dead, but so were her friends.
Naraku was dead.
Kagome should’ve been so happy, so giddy but she wasn’t. She couldn’t be, not if Naraku’s death came at the price of her friends’ deaths, especially since she was the only one in the inu-taichi to have survived. The only thing she felt was a darkness settling on her shoulders.
They had been so close. Naraku was almost dead and no one was fatally wounded. In his final moments, Naraku made a wish on the jewel.
“If I am to die here then the hanyo Inuyasha, the taijya Sango, the houshi Miroku and the kitsune kit Shippo will die with me.”
At the same moment he had wished for her friends deaths, she had shot the purifying arrow that had destroyed Naraku and her friends.
Now she kneeled above Inuyasha, tears sliding down her cheeks. Never in the time they had fought Naraku did she think they might die. Maybe this was the Kami’s way of saying that she should have.
After hours of silent sobs, Kagome heard the sounds of footsteps. Her head slowly turned to the entrance to Naraku’s castle and she saw Sesshomaru, the mighty lord of the west.
“Your friends are dead.” Kagome knew his words were not a question but she nodded anyway. She was to numb to come up with a witty response.
“Naraku is too.” She nodded again, her eyes flicking to the space where Naraku’s ashes lay.
“All things die. Surely as a miko, you know this,” Sesshomaru said. A small ember was lit inside Kagome when he said his comment. It reminded her of all the times she’d been compared to the dead miko, Kikyo.
“I may have purifying powers but that does not mean I’m a miko, lord Sesshomaru,” she sneered. She watched as his lips curled up into a smirk. The ember was suddenly cold and burnt out.
“You wish for death, do you not? Your words show me you do. I will not grant that for you, this Sesshomaru knows that there is more for you in this world then death,” he stated with ease. Kagome’s shook her head.
“There isn’t. Who wants an untrained miko from the future? Who wants a girl who doesn’t obey their every command?” she asked.
“Hn, I will offer you a deal. Watch Rin, teach her how to take care of herself and you can travel with me.”
“Deal.”