[examining the Bone-Eater's Well] It looks like an ordinary old well. Yet, this passage connects to Kagome's world?
Yep, but the only ones who are able to travel through the well, are Kagome and Inuyasha. He's the only one who can go back and get Kagome, but that stubborn dolt is too proud to ever do that! He'd cut off his nose to spite his face!
InuyashaEverybody's takin' a shot at me today, I can feel it! My ears are burning.
Inuyasha, stupid is as stupid does. Ye need to learn, to be more careful with your speech.
Inuyasha
Are you calling me stupid, you old hag?! What do you know about it, you weren't even there-
I know this, ungrateful dog: In order to find the Sacred Jewel shards, Kagome's spiritual power is essential, yet ye made her upset with your words and sent her running home.
Inuyasha
That was her idea!! I didn't tell her to! She said "I'm going home, stupid!!"
[gives him a look]...Inuyasha.
Inuyasha
Yeah, what?
That imitation was pathetic.
Inuyasha
I'm a demon, not a comedian!
Inuyasha
I won't let you hurt, Kagome. I'm the one you should be coming after, not her.
Still alive, are we now? Wolf boy, it appears you didn't complete the job.
Koga (weakly): Inuyasha?
Inuyasha
Heh. If you think that mangy wolf could do me in.
Oh, please forgive me. Then you are up to a duel with me?
Inuyasha
I warn you: You're not gonna die quickly. Tainting me with eh blood of the wolf-demons, and setting that fool on me was unforgivable. But even more infuriating is the reek of Naraku that cloaks you.
Inuyasha
Just the thought of that beast gives me the strength enough to move my wounded body.
It wasn't your fault. Naraku tricked you, Koga! Inuyasha had no desire to settle things this way. Inuyasha.
Inuyasha
It seems we were both deceived by Naraku's scheme. If you can hang on to life, there is a way to save you. Hold out your arm! I will cut it and the counterfeit Jewel shard!
No! There must be another way! Don't just hack the guy's arm off, Inuyasha!
Wait a minute! We can't touch the poison barrier. But, Kagome, isn't the sacred arrow able to break the barrier?
(as she tends to Inuyasha's wounds) So you're suggesting that this Kagura woman might have been born from Naraku?
I'm saying that we have to consider it a possibility.
That's impossible- Naraku's a man! How could a man give birth to a woman?
Naraku himself was created from a host of various demons. What if one of them was torn from his body?
Good point- and she couldn't have been Naraku in disguise, seeing as she knew so little about us!
(folds his arms) In any case, whatever her story might be, if she's been created by Naraku then I'm not interested in her.
(smirking) Well, it's not like you're gonna go out with her!
(annoyed) Could you try and stay focused please, Miroku?
[Flashback of Inuyasha's battle with Kagura]
Inuyasha
The woman had the same scent as Naraku- and the burn scar on her back was the same as his! Still, don't you think it's strange? For a woman, this Kagura possessed unusual strength. If Naraku could create someone like her-
Right. Why wouldn't he have done so much earlier?
That's the point. It's not that he didn't choose to do it-
He wasn't able to before!
Meaning, Naraku has recently gained some kind of new powers?
Inuyasha
(concerning Koharu) I hope you understand our position, Miroku- we can't take that girl with us!
Still, we cannot simply abandon the orphan child.
True enough. Perhaps she can accompany us until we find a suitable family that can take the girl in.
(dryly) At the least- seeing it was you that asked her to bear your children.
Oh, that. I ask the same question every single time I meet a new girl.
Every girl except one maybe. (pause, Miroku jumps in front of her and clasps her hand in his)
Sango, would you consider bearing my-
Inuyasha, the villagers are clearly under someone's spell! We must not harm them!
Inuyasha
(angrily) I know that! (punches two of the villagers and knocks them back) We ain't gettin' anywhere!
(smirks) You fools are so pathetic. (Miroku and Inuyasha turn to face her) You would've done well to slay them all- that way, they wouldn't keep coming after you!
Inuyasha
Not you again!
Then again, I suppose if you were capable of slaying them, you would've already done so.
Inuyasha
Are you the one who's possessed these villagers?!
I am. A mortal with no soul is no different from a dead man.
Inuyasha
"Mortal with no soul?"
(raises her fan) Your friend Kagome is having the soul sucked out of her, even as we speak.
Inuyasha
(enraged) You witch!
That must mean that there's a second demon here, with Kagura!
(opens her Tessen fan) Inuyasha, unsheathe your Tetsusaiga! This time, victory shall be mine!
Inuyasha
(thinking) Kagome.
(mockingly) What ails you, Inuyasha? Don't tell me you're afraid?
Inuyasha; (grits his teeth) Miroku, go back to the house and help the girls.
Of course I will- but, what about you?
Inuyasha
You know what. (draws Tetsusaiga) I'm stayin' here to finish this witch off!
(she fires her Dance of Blades attack at Inuyasha, who deflects it with Tetsusaiga)
Inuyasha
Go now, Miroku!
(runs towards the house) I'm on my way!
Your help will arrive too LATE!!
(fires another attack)
Miroku, look! Inuyasha is wielding his Tetsusaiga- he'll cut through the Wind Scar!
I must stop him. He does not yet know about the second demon, the soul-thieving apparition. Sango's weapon was thrown back at her, and the Wind Scar will be hurled back at Inuyasha!
Inuyasha
I see it!
(sneering) I allowed you to see it!
Inuyasha
The Wind Scar!
You wish to slice through it, I imagine?
Inuyasha
You are mine! (he launches the Wind Scar attack)
(laughs coldly) Now, perish!
Inuyasha
What?! (he is blasted by his own attack) Arrrgggh!
MSMiroku and Shippo
Inuyasha!
(chuckles) That was indeed simple enough. I came, so that I could ask you in person how it felt to have your own power turned against you- and very easily, I might add.
(sarcastically, stepping in front of Inuyasha) I am indeed honored by your presence, Naraku- I rather expected a demon puppet. You are a coward who never sullies his own hands, who knows only how to lay traps! You must have been falsely confident, or else you would not have dared to show your face!
(Calmly) The Wind Tunnel? You are free to draw anything into your void. (glances at Kanna's mirror) But, surely, even you could not be that foolish, monk.
(thinking) The souls of Kagome and the villagers are locked within that mirror! (he reluctantly wraps the rosary back around his forearm]
My course of action was simple: I created Wind and Void to act as incarnations of myself. And yet, witness the damage I was able to inflict!
(thinking) Incarnations? So, my suspicions were correct. Naraku's power has increased drastically if he is capable of this level of sorcery! We have fought Kagura, the Wind sorceress, before. And this other, she is... "Void?" That is why we could not sense its evil; it has no presence! It's no wonder the situation went unnoticed until it was too late!
(opens her fan) Have we not spoken long' enough? Shall we take Inuyasha's head along with us as a trophy (Naraku glares at her) No? Did you not want to tell that woman that Inuyasha had been slain? I was under the impression that this was what you desired.
True enough. It was only through her cooperation that I was able to create you, and Kanna. What emotions would rise on her face if I were to show her Inuyasha's head, I wonder?
(thinking) How can that be?! Naraku's sacred Jewel fragment is nearly whole!
You suggested earlier, that I do everything to avoid sullying my own hands. Even the mightiest are inferior to someone. A woman attempted to use me, so that I would murder Inuyasha for her.
A woman? (realizes, with shock) You don't mean-?!
(chuckles) She is some piece of work, that Kikyo.
Inuyasha
(thinking) Ki- Kikyo?! (groans in pain)
Inuyasha- you're alive! Thank the heavens!
Kikyo personally handed this Sacred Jewel shard to me, of her own free will.
Inuyasha
(thinking) Kikyo...
(raises her fan) She wishes to gaze upon your face... after you're good and DEAD!
That's Kagome's arrow! Kagome!
(angrily) Her again?! You failed me, Kanna! Why did you not steal her soul?!
(thinking, observing Kanna's mirror) Her soul is spilling out of the mirror. Does this girl really possess such an enormous soul?
Inuyasha
Kikyo, tell me what's going on! Is it true that you gave Naraku those fragments of the Sacred Jewel that you stole from Kagome!?
Yes, I did. To cast Naraku into oblivion.
Inuyasha
What's that supposed to mean? Naraku's already a lot stronger than he used to be. and he's created two incarnations of himself: Kagura of the Wind, and Kanna of the Void.
She escaped. Inuyasha, Naraku will only grow stronger and stronger. You mustn't allow him to kill you. Until I am able to cast both Naraku, and the Shikon Jewel from this world. Your life belongs to me. No one else will have you.
(Vanishes with her soul-collectors)
Inuyasha
Kikyo.
You saw Kikyo, didn't you!? It's written all over your face! Inuyasha, you can't even look me in the eye. Just like always.
Inuyasha
Look, it wasn't some kind of tryst or anything.
Kagome (thinking): So he did see her. come on! I figured that much out for myself, Stupid!
Miroku (thinking): Here we go again. Mind you, I don't understand why he doesn't want to go into the details. So did you find out the truth?
Inuyasha
Hmm?
Did you discover whether Naraku lied when he said that Kikyo gave him the Sacred Jewel?
Inuyasha
Yeah.
So it's true then. She made a pact with Naraku!
Inuyasha
Never!! I don't know what Kikyo intends to do, but I think that...Kagome's leaving. Now what's her problem?
(In his home, Totosai is bawling his head off over the broken haves of Tetsusaiga)
Only a simpleton would have allowed this to happen!! What has this fool done to you, my precious Tetsusaiga!?
Inuyasha
Yeah, yeah!! Now can you stop bawling and start fixing my sword!!?
Listen, youngster, it's not that simple!
Inuyasha
You mean you can't fix it!?
I am a master sword-smith. I can repair it over the course of three days.
Inuyasha
[staring at the Sacred Tree] Over fifty years...
What's that? What are you thinking, Inuyasha?
Inuyasha
I was thinking, we really haven't changed much considering fifty years have passed.
Don't talk nonsense! I've changed a lot... since that time, long ago, when I sealed you to this tree we're under.
Inuyasha
It was because of Naraku's deceptions that we hated each other. So much that you trapped me here, for fifty years. And then you died. Kikyo, be honest: have I changed? [pause] Before I knew of Naraku's existence, there was no doubt that I burned with resentment over what you'd done to me. But then you told me, that my life was yours. And... yours is mine.
[starts, then covers it with a chuckle] It seems you're not so different from Naraku, after all.
Inuyasha
You're saying... I'm the same as Naraku?!
Deep within Naraku, Onigumo's heart beats, and still yearns for my touch.
Inuyasha
Onigumo's heart?
He desired me. And having me kill you, with my own two hands... was something that he dreamed about. It was something that the jealous heart of Onigumo schemed for.
Inuyasha
He was jealous? Over something so ridiculous?
Yes. Ridiculous. But, that's... what mortals are.
Inuyasha
[thinking] Onigumo's heart remains inside Naraku! [aloud] Wait, Kikyo: does Naraku have feelings for you too, now?
He is reluctant to admit it... but I am certain that he has a lingering desire for me. And in an effort to ease that feeling, he's trying to get rid of me.
Inuyasha, are ye really sure ye want to go through with this?
Inuyasha
Oh, come on, Kaede. Do I have to hear it from you, too?
Remember that the Kikyo ye speak of now, is conjured up from earth and bones. Ye wish to be with someone, who's not of this world!
Inuyasha
[thinking] Her body may be different, but her spirit still remains.
Do ye fully appreciate the implications?! The two of ye can never be together, in this world. Deep down, what this resurrected Kikyo wants is for both of ye to die together.
Inuyasha
That's fine. I am prepared to leap into Hell with Kikyo, if that is her wish. [thinking] If that's to be our destiny, I'd embrace it without a second thought.
[staring into the Bone-Eater's Well] I have to return the Sacred Jewel Shards. But I can't; I don't want to. I'm afraid. Once I give these back... I won't be able to see Inuyasha again.
Inuyasha
[in Kagome's imagination] I'm sorry, Kagome. I've decided to go with Kikyo.
Don't tell me that! It's just too... How could you?! [clenches her fist] I wish Kikyo would disappear from our lives forever! [gasps] No... have I really turned into such a horrible person? It's true; right now, I probably have a horrible look on my face! I can't let Inuyasha see me like this [she leaves the shrine, not looking where she is walking, then pulls out the Shikon shards] These shards?
The Sacred Tree. Yes, this tree... of course. This is where Inuyasha was sealed, five hundred years ago. This is the very spot where I first met Inuyasha!
Inuyasha... Inuyasha! [crouches and begins crying, quietly] Why'd I ever meet him? If I knew it was gonna hurt this much, I wish I'd never laid eyes on him. But I want to see him; I can't deny it. I want to see Inuyasha, once more! [stands up] It's clear, now... I must be in love with him. Before I knew it, I'd grown to love him so much.
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