Disclamah: celinae doesn't own the characters. She borrowed them, or rather…
"insolent-celinae-dono, give me world domination! MUWAHA.."
"celinae-sama, write a story about my inner bleeding/angst!"
"celinae-wench-sama, make me snog Kagome."
"celinae-bitch-sama, don't take Kikyou awaaay froom meee!"

Kukuku.

Under the Cherry Trees
By celinae

Chapter 5: Yin-yang

She was the dark, unruly, passionate sister. The everything, the opposite of her counterpart.

Kanna; the void, the mirror. Together they made the yin-yang balance, but the void collapsed and now she was left overflowing into life.

Spilling her dreams, her innocence, her future, her blood.

None of it mattered, really.

Naraku was Kanna's husband, but Kanna being dead didn't stop him from being a man. And Kagura hadn't ever been innocent and naïve, or at least never pretended like Kanna.

Or maybe Kanna hadn't pretended… Kagura couldn't remember those kinds of things well nowadays, and it didn't matter anyway, because Kanna was dead, and even living she had been a pale blur.

Sometimes Kagura had trouble remembering if Kanna had lived at all. But then she thought of Naraku, and that single moment where his face had softened. Just once, when he was looking at her glistening white hair.

That one glance was enough, and for Naraku, it was everything. Even if Kagura had, perhaps, loved him as well, he chose the mirror.

All the better for his reflection.

She watched as he desired that wench, that cold-beauty Kikyou. And watched his grin of greedy triumph as he held the half-pure Shikon in his hands, the colors twirling in a myriad of black and white light.

Yin, yang, balance.

And she watched his empty face as he finally devoured her, his miasma swallowing her black soul, until there wasn't any line of air to distinguish the two colors, until there was just black and black and black.

Her last thought fell through the growing distance of her mind, struggling against the cold and painful slumber of death.

A/N: Next will be Kagome! If I can get the energy to write it… XD