Title Only the Lonely
Author landofthekwt
Rating K
Prompt Lone or Loan (issekiwa)
Pairing Inuyasha/Kikyou
Word Count 250
Warning none
Summary Kikyou reaches out to Inuyasha
She laid her bow aside and waited. He was out there in the trees watching her like he always did.It wasn’t as if he could sneak up on her without her noticing. He knew that she knew.
Lately, their fights had become formalities. Neither was actually trying to kill the other. Merely sparring to let her know he was still there. Her fighting back just to show that he would never take the Shikon no Tama from her.
She was tired of the fighting. The daily grind of killing that she did just to stay alive. She didn’t need someone to fight with. She needed someone to whom she could drop her mask and be herself. Someone that she could be human with. Not the perfect miko. Not the perfect killing machine with the bloody demon smell. Someone she could be an ordinary woman with.
She had not asked for this life. She did not want this life. Not allowed to be human. She felt a kinship with Inuyasha. He was neither human nor youkai. Not allowed to be human or youkai. Forever, separate, forever alone. Maybe there was hope them. If they were together, they would no longer be alone.
Today she had come to the hillside offering to meet him halfway. She had laid down her bow and turned her back to him. It was up to him to make the next move. All she could hope was that he hated being alone as much as she did.