I just found this completed story in my folders – and I only vaguely even remember writing it. I think I wrote it back about two years ago – it was one of my earlier stories, though I have no idea why I never posted it. I was in a bad Kikyou mood at the time, annoyed at her arrogance, always claiming that she was the one that was going to kill Naraku, and then stealing the jewel shards and giving them to him, which only made him stronger. It made me think on the consequences for what she did – he killed a LOT more people after making those incarnations than he could have before, so she was DIRECTLY responsible for all those deaths. And it was all because of her own hubris. I think that's why, though sometimes I feel bad for what happened to her in the past, I really just don't feel all that sympathetic – her arrogance just turns me against her in the end. Her only saving grace was that she did, finally, come down off her high horse and realize that she wasn't all that right before she died again. Funny enough that it was AFTER Kagome healed her that time. Most Kikyou-shippers don't take note of that... or want to admit it.

Anyway, for what it's worth, here's an old story that's never been posted before – a view of what I would have liked to see in the manga – an Inuyasha that wasn't such a blinded fool over his oh so perfect Kikyou.