Author's Note: I haven't added to this little group in such a long time. A "Kikyou/Kagura" prompt and Talon's "ooh do a personal's ad" suggestion led me here, to this not-so-cracky, bittersweet entry.

Dear Lost Soul

Kikyou scanned the screen, biting her lip. How long would she remain alone, rejected, longing for affection even as she knew herself unworthy of it. Who would want a soulless creature like her? Who ever had? From her first short life and death followed by resurrection at the hands of an ill-intended witch to the present, she had been reincarnated over and over. Now she found herself thrown into a strange, modern world of technology and greed, with her memory of past lives painfully in tact.

She struggled against dismay. Like the millions who joined computer dating sites, so did Kikyou, doubting success but fearing resignation to another lifetime alone. Daily, she returned to the webpage, hoping that this day she would find a match, some unique being who could appreciate her as she was, for who she was…and even for who and what she was not.

Perhaps maybe today the fates would be kind, though they had never been. She clicked her inbox and held her breath as she read the single message that awaited her.

Dear Lost Soul,

I read your ad with great interest, and I answer it with pleasure. Loneliness plagues all who have dared to love and lost, but even moreso those, like us, who have had even the chance for love taken from us by power beyond our control. It is easy to read between the lines of your ad and fill them with my own similar story. We have both spent more than one lifetime in search of love, have we not, Kikyou? Let this be the life we thwart the gods and claim our happiness.

Heartless Whore

Kikyou expelled her breath in a rush, mouthing "Kagura" with a fragile smile. Her fingers could not type a reply fast enough. Let it be.