Demon Miko by Aya

Tainted wishes

Authors Note: alright everyone, here is the REVISED version of Demon Miko, which will hopefully be better than the other one.

 Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha nor do I make profit off its storyline or characters. All rights belong to Rumiko Takahashi

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The battle was finally over. The dust cleared to see the band of heroes who had defeated Naraku no Kumo, InuYasha no Taisho, second son to Inu no Taisho, the Great Dog General, who pushed past his own fears and insecurities to defeat this enemy, that robbed him of his chance at happiness with the woman he loved.

Sesshoumaru no Taisho, whose original goal was to kill the spider half breed because he impugned his honor, but whose goal had changed to just protecting what was his, his little brother and his adoptive daughter Rin.

Miroku Takahashi and his fiancé Sango Sato, who beat their odds of survival and lasted till the very end, just because they wanted to be with one another and live out the life they knew they deserved.

Sango Sato, who had entered this battle because Naraku had killed her family, had forced her brother into servitude, but who had then stayed to be with the man she loved and hopefully save her younger brother once more.

Shippo no Kitsune-Higarashi, the adoptive son of Kagome, who survived to see the end of this battle happen with his new family by his side, though his birth parents were long dead by a few years now, he felt their loss and grieved, but he had a NEW family, with Kagome and InuYasha’s group.

Kikyou, the original Shikon Miko, who had taken the Shikon no Tama to use for her own purposes, though they were originally selfless, they were not so at the end of the day, they had been what SHE wanted, as well as what InuYasha had wanted.

Kouga no Yoro, leader of the Yoro wolf demon tribe, he who had chased Kagome all over Japan just to be with her, who had finally realized that his actions were silly and he could not be with her, and so had gone to be with Ayame, but wanted this battle to end once and for all, who had lost his tribe thanks to the kumo’s underling, Kagura.

And the final member of this band, Kagome Higarashi, true Shikon Miko, who now held the completed and purified jewel in her hand and felt such happiness and joy to know it, was finally over.

“What should we wish for…?” The soft, silent and important question came not from InuYasha, but from tiny little Rin, who did not know that the wish had to be correct for the jewel to disappear, and where it would disappear to was a whole other matter entirely.

“I think that we should leave the wishing up to Kagome runt.” InuYasha’s gruff voice of course came next as he watched Kagome, also wondering what they would wish for, he had no idea what else any of them could possibly want, Miroku no longer had the wind tunnel, which meant he’d live to see old age with Sango, Kikyou was finally free of her anger and betrayal so could live her life with her Miko powers to help others. Sesshoumaru had what he wanted the whole time, and now even had his other arm back in the bargain, what more could any of them want…?

Kagome looked at the tiny pink and purple hued gem that sat so innocently in her hands. What was indeed the correct wish…? Her grandfather had spoken of it when telling the Shikon no Tama story to her before this battle, the correct wish, one that would erase the Shikon no Tama from the world entirely.

She assumed it had to be a selfless wish of course, or else it wouldn’t work would it? But at the same time, she wondered, was the selflessness supposed to come from her or from all of them…?

With that thought in mind, she closed her eyes and her mind supplied the correct wish. ‘I wish for everyone to have what they all truly desire’

The tiny pink light that engulfed her was startling, but not wholly unexpected…but the hue turning from the pink of her Miko powers, to the bitter purple and her scream of pain, was unexpected.

Confusion went through the group as the band moved forward, but stopped when they noticed the light beginning to fade, and what stood there now was NOT their friend…it was a full blooded demon.

“Kagome….?”