Miroku quotes from InuYasha

Miroku

Naraku sure has a love for these elaborate setups.

Sango

He has the short-tempered ones fight outside, and then he has us dealing with this demon-puppet? What does he take us for!?

Miroku

We mustn't let our guard down. We're in Naraku's castle. Who knows what traps are set?

Sango

It's been one trap after another! I'm getting tired of these deceptions!

Sango

The sorceress had a spider mark on her back, as does Naraku! What strange connection could the two of them have?

Miroku

It seems she shares a secret with Naraku. Mysterious...

Kagome

(as she tends to Inuyasha's wounds) So you're suggesting that this Kagura woman might have been born from Naraku?

Miroku

I'm saying that we have to consider it a possibility.

Kagome

Come on!

Shippo

That's impossible- Naraku's a man! How could a man give birth to a woman?

Miroku

Naraku himself was created from a host of various demons. What if one of them was torn from his body?

Kagome

Good point- and she couldn't have been Naraku in disguise, seeing as she knew so little about us!

Miroku

(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.

Kagome

(smirking) Well, it's not like you're gonna go out with her!

Shippo

(annoyed) Could you try and stay focused please, Miroku?

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-

Sango

Right. Why wouldn't he have done so much earlier?

Miroku

That's the point. It's not that he didn't choose to do it-

Sango

He wasn't able to before!

Kagome

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!

Miroku

(sighs) I know.

Sango

Still, we cannot simply abandon the orphan child.

Miroku

True enough. Perhaps she can accompany us until we find a suitable family that can take the girl in.

Sango

(dryly) At the least- seeing it was you that asked her to bear your children.

Miroku

Oh, that. I ask the same question every single time I meet a new girl.

Sango

Every girl except one maybe. (pause, Miroku jumps in front of her and clasps her hand in his)

Miroku

Sango, would you consider bearing my-

Sango

Spare me, would ya?!

Miroku

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!

Kagura

(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!

Miroku

Kagura!

Inuyasha

Not you again!

Kagura

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?!

Kagura

I am. A mortal with no soul is no different from a dead man.

Inuyasha

"Mortal with no soul?"

Kagura

(raises her fan) Your friend Kagome is having the soul sucked out of her, even as we speak.

Inuyasha

(enraged) You witch!

Miroku

That must mean that there's a second demon here, with Kagura!

Kagura

(opens her Tessen fan) Inuyasha, unsheathe your Tetsusaiga! This time, victory shall be mine!

Inuyasha

(thinking) Kagome.

Kagura

(mockingly) What ails you, Inuyasha? Don't tell me you're afraid?

Miroku

Of course I will- but, what about you?

Inuyasha

You know what. (draws Tetsusaiga) I'm stayin' here to finish this witch off!

Kagura

Dance of Blades!

Inuyasha

Go now, Miroku!

Miroku

(runs towards the house) I'm on my way!

Kagura

Your help will arrive too LATE!!

Shippo

Miroku, look! Inuyasha is wielding his Tetsusaiga- he'll cut through the Wind Scar!

Miroku

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!

Kagura

(sneering) I allowed you to see it!

Inuyasha

The Wind Scar!

Kagura

You wish to slice through it, I imagine?

Inuyasha

You are mine! (he launches the Wind Scar attack)

Kagura

(laughs coldly) Now, perish!

Inuyasha

What?! (he is blasted by his own attack) Arrrgggh!

Inuyasha!

Miroku

It's him! Naraku!

Naraku

(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.

Miroku

(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!

Naraku

(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.

Miroku

(thinking) The souls of Kagome and the villagers are locked within that mirror! (he reluctantly wraps the rosary back around his forearm]

Naraku

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!

Miroku

(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!

Kagura

(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.

Naraku

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?

Miroku

(thinking) How can that be?! Naraku's sacred Jewel fragment is nearly whole!

Naraku

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.

Miroku

A woman? (realizes, with shock) You don't mean-?!

Naraku

(chuckles) She is some piece of work, that Kikyo.

Inuyasha

(thinking) Ki- Kikyo?! (groans in pain)

Shippo

Inuyasha- you're alive! Thank the heavens!

Naraku

Kikyo personally handed this Sacred Jewel shard to me, of her own free will.

Inuyasha

(thinking) Kikyo...

Kagura

(raises her fan) She wishes to gaze upon your face... after you're good and DEAD!

Miroku

Shippo, stay down!

Shippo

Miroku!

Kagura

Now, give me your head!

Shippo

That's Kagome's arrow! Kagome!

Kagura

(angrily) Her again?! You failed me, Kanna! Why did you not steal her soul?!

Naraku

(thinking, observing Kanna's mirror) Her soul is spilling out of the mirror. Does this girl really possess such an enormous soul?

Kagome

(thinking) How did this happen? How did Naraku get a hold of the Sacred Jewel Shard? (she has a flashback of her last encounter with Kikyo) It is the very same shard that Kikyo stole away from me! (pause) Was it her that gave it to Naraku? Those shards that we worked so hard to collect, one by one... did Kikyo give them to Naraku?! Even so, even after she committed such a vile act, Inuyasha still loves her- even though he's this badly wounded, he cannot forget her.

Naraku

Woman, pass this message on to Inuyasha: If he must hate someone, hate Kikyo. For the only thing she desires... is Inuyasha's death.

Kagome

(angrily, drawing an arrow) I'm tired of hearing your voice! You make me sick! (notches her arrow) Take this!

Shippo

Don't do it, Kagome! It'll fire back at you, exactly like the Tetsusaiga did!

Kagome

I guarantee it won't! my arrow only strikes evil!

Miroku

The arrow!

Shippo

The arrow is starting to pierce the mirror!

Kanna

(examines the mirror, puzzled) The arrow went through. It didn't deflect.

Kagura

(angrily) What's going on?! Why did it not strike back at her?!

Kanna

... I understand. The arrow is made up of souls. The mirror is entirely filled. Unless the souls are released, the mirror will burst.

Kagome

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.

Inuyasha

Hmm?

Miroku

Did you discover whether Naraku lied when he said that Kikyo gave him the Sacred Jewel?

Inuyasha

Yeah.

Miroku

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?

Sesshomaru

I've seen all that I needed. [advances] DIE!

Miroku

Look out, Inuyasha! He's coming for you!

Sesshomaru

[thinking] This scent again!

Kagome Higurashi

Inuyasha! [Thinking] Oh, no! He's transformed again!

You people need to take Inuyasha and flee from here!

Sesshomaru

Totosai...

Sango

Inuyasha!

Miroku

Kagome, now!

Kagome Higurashi

Sit!

Jaken

But my Lord, why did you not go after him? He was in the palm of your hands! Master Sesshomaru?

Kagura

[thinking] He's strong. He might even be able to kill Naraku. Hmm [Smiling, she flies away] Naraku holds my life in his hands, but I have no intention of remaining a servant forever to the likes of him. I am the wind. One day, I shall be free!

(chuckles) It's a poisonous cocoon. With continued exposure, you'll melt away, like those fools inside. (frowns as he stares into the cocoon where Inuyasha and Miroku are trapped) They haven't disintegrated! (smiles as he understands) Oh... so they've created a barrier on the inside.

Miroku

(projecting the barrier around them) Inuyasha, can you move at all?

Inuyasha

Of course I can move! I'll rip this stupid cocoon apart-

Miroku

Inuyasha!

(smirking) You are wasting your time; you are more or less paralyzed. The poison powder has entered your bloodstream already, through the wound in your torso. It will fester, slowly.

Fetch the sword for me.

Yes, sir! (he picks up Tetsusaiga)

Miroku

He's got your sword!

Here you are, Chief!

Arggh!

Miroku

(thinking) Tetsusaiga has rejected him!

...Chief?

(angrily) Little man, what is the meaning of this? Why does this sword reject me?!

Inuyasha

(sneers, weakly) I'll tell you about my Tetsusaiga: it's real choosy about its' user! And it would never let a low-class demon like you come anywhere near it!

Oh? Then, explain why this "low-class" bandit was capable of wielding the sword.

(sheepishly) "Low-class bandit?" Come on, Chief! (Gatenmaru looks from him to Inuyasha)

... I see. Very interesting, little man; you're a half- demon. (cackles) How utterly amusing! A half-demon like you had the gall to pick a fight with me, the demon Gatenmaru!

(notices Kagome) Ahh. A delectable-looking woman. Bring her to me.

Sango

Why, you-!

Come quietly!

Miroku

Are you alright, Inuyasha?! (notices the slime from the cocoon is sinking towards them) Oh, no! The barrier's diminishing!

Shippo

(standing in front of Kagome) What d'you want with her?!

We're following the chief's orders! Hand the girl over!

Shippo

No way! You won't touch a hair on Kagome's head! (Sango and Kirara join them, and the bandits surround them)

Kagome

Sango!

Sango

(deflecting two men's swings with Hiraikotsu) There's too many of 'em!

Miroku

(notices the cocoon slime is scorching his staff) It's breaking up! The barrier won't hold out much longer! Argh! (the slime scorches his shoulder) Inuyasha, are you all right?! Hang on!!

Miroku

Inuyasha?! (to himself) What's happening?!

Shippo

He's cut all over!

Kagome

Stop, already! Inuyasha!

Sesshomaru

(thinking) Inuyasha... you feel no fear. You know no pain. The demon blood coursing through your veins is taking over your soul. (Inuyasha slashes repeatedly at him, which Sesshomaru narrowly dodges) You don't even know who you are... and you will continue fighting until you die. I came in your pursuit to see if Bokuseno's words were true. (he leaps over Inuyasha and lands across from him) And now, little brother... I understand. You are not a full-fledged demon. All you are, is a half-breed.

Sesshomaru

(lunges, wielding Tokijin) Know your place in the world! A half-demon... should act like one. On your knees!

Kagome

Ah! Inuyasha!

Kagome

Please stop!

Sesshomaru

He has finally been brought down. (approaches)

Kagome

(angrily, with tears in her eyes) Don't come any nearer!

Sango

Kagome, no!

Shippo

Kagome's in trouble!

Sesshomaru

If you wish him to stop, use Tetsusaiga to reverse the transformation. (Kagome looks surprised) Otherwise, he will continue to fight when he awakens.

Kagome

(thinking) I thought he wanted to kill Inuyasha!

Miroku

(suspiciously) You could've finished him off earlier, if you'd wanted to. Instead, you merely held him off with your sword. Why did you stop at that? We all know you despise Inuyasha. I can't believe you've developed feelings for your brother.

Sesshomaru

... I will slay him... eventually. Why kill him now, when he doesn't know himself? There would be no point.

Kagome

(thinking) It's almost as if he came to stop Inuyasha's violent behavior!

Inuyasha

(stares at the bandits' corpses)... Did I do this?

Miroku

(thinking) Doesn't he remember?

Inuyasha

(stares grimly at his bloodstained hands)... Look at me. My claws absolutely reek of the scent of the bandits' blood.

Kagome

(thinking) The poor guy! (aloud) Inuyasha, you did it to save the innocent. That's why you attacked these bandits.

No! He's a demon!

If you get close, he'll rip you to pieces!

Kagome

(stares at them) You're wrong!

(pulls free) I don't care if he is a demon! He did everything in his power to save my Grandpa! He helped get rid of all the bad men!

Inuyasha

(thinking, clenching his fist) No... I hunted those men down. The demon that I wanted to become, the power that I desired... (hangs his head) It wasn't like this.

Are you certain, Monk? Is my home indeed possessed by a demon?

Miroku

Yes, and we must exorcise it immediately. This is my duty as a man of the cloth; I expect no payment, Headman.

Absurd! You shall all be given a meal and a bed, tonight.

Inuyasha

Look at that guy- lying through his teeth again.

Kagome Higurashi

Shhh!

Hm? [he stops, and everyone bumps into him]

Inuyasha

What?!

Miroku

Shhh. [he indicates a thumping sound coming from the roof]

Kagome Higurashi

Earthquake?

Sango

...You mean there was a demon?

Kagome Higurashi

So, you didn't just make it up?

Inuyasha

Well, there's a first for everything.

Miroku

[turns around, irritably] Pardon me?!

Shippo

[running toward them] You guys! Kagome! [he jumps into her arms]

Kagome Higurashi

You found us! How did you know that we were here?

Shippo

[panting]...I figured, Miroku wouldn't waste any time exorcising the wealthiest-looking house in the village.