Kikyo quotes from InuYasha

Are you unable to cross over? You are dead, young priestess. You must now pass to the Netherworld.

Kikyo

Will you not overlook my presence here? I merely wish to live in peace in this small village.

If you wish to live in peace, then why must you gather souls of the dead?

Kikyo

...I have reasons.

You require those souls in order to sustain that body of yours! [He lifts a seal shaped like a coiled dragon]

Kikyo

What action will you take? I take it you won't leave.

I shall return you to where you belong!! I shall do it for your sake! [A burst of exorcising energy fires from the seal, striking Kikyo and coiling around her in the form of a dragon] You cannot escape this demon-binding spell of mine!! I shall extinguish your light and save your soul from eternal misery!!

Kikyo

"Save me!?" A wretch such as you attempts to save my soul!?

Kikyo

You would've done better to leave me be, and not end your life.

[weakly] Priestess... tell me what your purpose is. Time continues for the living; they carve their futures with each passing moment. However, for the dead such as yourself, time stands still. Thus, the dead and the living cannot reside together. And yet... you insist on trying... How tragic.

Kikyo

[thinking] Tragic, you say? I am tragic?! [she hears someone behind her and spins around] Who goes?!

Kikyo

[softly] Sayo. Were you... did you witness that? [she approaches her and kneels in front of her] Sayo? [she reaches out to touch her face, but Sayo flinches away]... Forgive me. I did not mean for you to see such a sight.

...Wait, Kikyo!

Kikyo

Farewell, Sayo. Please forgive me.

Kikyo

Is he not here with you?

Kagome

I came on my own. Inuyasha set off to find you earlier. That's right. He must be trying to come here.

Kikyo

Tell me. What is your relationship?

Kagome

What did she do to me? I can't move!

Kikyo

This will end your interfering.

Kikyo

Inuyasha has come. I fear he has not come to save you. His purpose lies in seeing me. You will not interfere.

Kagome

Interfere!? Are you still planning to destroy Inuyasha!? He's not your enemy! Someone pitted you against each other on purpose! Inuyasha would have never taken your life, Kikyo.

Kikyo

From your competence, you expect me to be rejoicing.

Kagome

Huh?

Kagome

I guess not.

Kikyo

The dead have but one wish: to walk among the living once more. A wish that will never be realized. However, this dead woman can wish for one thing. I wish for a heart, the heart of the man whom I shall never allow to forget me. That is my desire.

Kagome

You'll never allow him to forget about you? You mean Inuyasha?

Kikyo

It is clear Inuyasha wishes for my death. That is a good thing because it means he feels remorse for dispute. Let him feel remorseful. I shall never allow him to forget about me. Time will not advance. Thus allowing me to exist in a dimension where time is frozen. I can live on inside his heart during my frozen recreation.

Kagome

You're always on Inuyasha's mind. Why can't you be satisfied with that? He hasn't forgotten you after all these years! He thinks of you all the time. Isn't that good enough?

Kikyo

When Inuyasha and I parted, we despised one another. The love you speak of is but a shallow emotion. Nothing can fuel the desire for enacting vengeance. Only bitterness can.

Inuyasha

So you were the one doing it. Gathering the souls of the dead women.

Kikyo

This body is molded from the earth and ashes of my grave site. It must be sustained with human souls if I am to remain here. Inuyasha, you must despise me. I have drawn in the souls of the dead, and it is my hatred of you that fuels my actions.

Inuyasha

That's just ludicrous! You many very well despise me but the feeling's not mutual. Kikyo...I never stop thinking of you! Not even for an instant!!

Inuyasha

I could never hate you or think less of you. It's your spirit I care about, not your appearance.

Kikyo

Truly, Inuyasha, you wouldn't? You wouldn't despise me if I used these hands to steal the life from you?

Kagome

She's kissing him!!

Kikyo

Inuyasha, after meeting you, I renounced my position as a shrine priestess. I became an ordinary woman. I've longed to embrace you like this when I was alive.

Inuyasha

Kikyo's sent is so familiar. Her fragrance is just as it used to be. The only difference is that she has no warmth. Her body is cold from death. And she's sad and lonely.

Kikyo

We are unable to turn back the hands of time. So please allow me to embrace you a little longer.

Inuyasha

I can't save you. I can't do anything to help you, except stay like this. If only time could stand still.

Kikyo

Would you agree to that? If I did stop time?

Inuyasha

Yes. I don't care as long as...as long as I'm with you.

Kikyo

Does that girl mean more to you than I do?

Inuyasha

Wait, Kikyo! Listen to me!!

Kikyo

Inuyasha, never forget the feel of my lips against yours. For it was real. Never forget.

Kaede

Kikyo, is it really you?

Kikyo

What ails you, Kaede? Do you fear your own sister?

Kaede

You misunderstand. I heard ye had fallen from a cliff. I did not imagine ye would survive.

Kikyo

You are correct. I am dead. Yet something left undone in this world keeps me from moving on.

Kaede

Do ye still hunger to take Inuyasha's life?

Kikyo

I have just met with Inuyasha moments ago and almost succeeded in stringing the life from him. Speak to me, Kaede. Tell me all you have to offer about this Naraku person.

Kaede

Everything began with the evil desires of Onigumo. He called forth the demons' and was devoured by them. Thus was born the monster Naraku.

Kikyo

So it all began with Onigumo. That bandit.

Kaede

That's right. He used to say that the Sacred Jewel grows in beauty when it is tainted with malice.

Naraku

Tell me your name, now that you have disturbed me.

Kikyo

My name is Kikyo.

Miroku

Unless the spell cast in here is broken, Inuyasha will...Who's there?

Kikyo

Inuyasha.

Inuyasha

Kikyo.

Kikyo

The dead souls are...leaving. This explains it. The miasma, where it's from.

Inuyasha

But why!!?

Kagome

I have to get Kikyo out of there! If don't, Inuyasha will keep protecting her. He would never ever let her be hurt, no matter how it hurts me. You're conscious. Can you stand?

Kikyo

You little fool. By coming here, you risk Inuyasha losing you forever.

Kagome

What are you saying? Inuyasha's trying so hard to save you, but you...Kikyo.

Naraku

I have erected a barrier. Those servants of yours may not enter. Without your souls of the dead, you remain helpless. [sits next to her bed] Kikyo... what can you be thinking? [flashes back to the previous episode] There at the mountain, where the magic was broken, were the demons who were to create my new body. Inuyasha stumbled onto the scene, lured by the miasma, and began to do battle with the one who would win. Then you appeared. Your arrows have the power to break whichever spell you choose. And yet, if you wanted to prevent that unholy fusion... you ought to have aimed straight for the demon. The demon would disintegrate, and the spell would be easily broken. But before the one became complete, were you trying to see what lay beyond?

Kikyo

And there you were. [opens her eyes] Your disguise is fine... Onigumo.

Naraku

Huh. Onigumo? Now, that brings me back me back. Fifty years ago, you saved me, took pity on me and sheltered that fugitive in the cave. Onigumo offered his body to the demons, who latched onto his evil soul. And thus was born, Naraku. [withdraws a Shikon Jewel shard from his robe]

Kikyo

That's...

Naraku

Yes, indeed. The very thing you gave your life to erase from this world. A shard of the Sacred Jewel.

Kikyo

They say that it was your desire to possess it that brought you to kill me.

Naraku

Discussing it with one who is no more than a collection of dead souls, is unseemly. But the search for the remaining fragments, frustrates me.

Naraku

That girl who is so like, and yet unlike you. A battle between those who can purify evil. If you yearn for this world, I beg you... Go after her.

Kikyo

Naraku appears frightened of you. He tries to control me with a Sacred Jewel shard, hoping I might be turned against you.

Kagome

The Jewel shard in your chest.

Kikyo

Surely the priestess who once took guard of the Sacred Jewel has not sunk so low as to be controlled by a mere shard.

Inuyasha

Kikyo? Those are Kagome's Jewel shards!! Kagome. You didn't!! Don't tell it was you!!

Kikyo

What's wrong, Inuyasha? Tell me. Why do I get the feeling you're unhappy to know I am well?

Inuyasha

Answer me!! Just what did you do to her!!?

Kikyo

I tried to kill her. What is that you plan to do about it? Will you kill me? Tell me. When Naraku had you under a spell, what was it that you thought about?

Inuyasha

"I...I swear I'll always protect you."

Kikyo

Now, could you have said that if you going to kill me!? Embracing death together! Now that's a day I'll wait for.