Kagome (thinking): Wait! Naraku has Jewel shards! I can find him! Over there! Naraku, take this!!
(Shoots a sacred arrow right where Naraku is hiding)
Naraku (thinking): What?
Naraku, you are totally despicable! Now die!!
Naraku (thinking): She's only a young girl. Why does she have so much power? She's rendered the vapors harmless somehow. This kind of power only belongs to the priestess Kikyo. Can't be.
I won't let you go, even if you beg for forgiveness!! HA!!
(Releases another sacred arrow, piercing his heart)
NarakuThis is exactly like Kikyo's enchanted arrow! Don't tell me this girl is...!
Naraku
Tell me your name, now that you have disturbed me.
Naraku (thinking): Kikyo is alive? The woman I myself had trapped fifty years ago. The one who died, taking the Sacred Jewel with her.
Naraku
So this is the woman who restored me to life. I might not have had this new body at all if not for her.
Yeah right, loser! She did it to save Inuyasha, not you, so wipe that stupid smile off your face!!
Naraku
And yet I still know her to the very woman who followed you in death fifty years ago.
No!! Don't you dare!! Don't you touch her!! Not now or ever!!
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?
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]
Naraku
Yes, indeed. The very thing you gave your life to erase from this world. A shard of the Sacred Jewel.
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.
Naraku
So, Kikyo...
Once your little puppet is broken, you see nothing. Remember that. Your petty feats of minor sorcery cannot affect me. As for the barrier around the castle, the one you erected to keep out Inuyasha, that was easy enough for me to break. [she drops Kagome's Shikon Shard in front of him] You wanted it, didn't you? I leave it to you to stand guard over. After all, who needs its power more than you? And you do need it, don't you? Demon Naraku... or is it, half-demon Naraku?
Naraku
A mere half-demon, I, Naraku?!
True, you've disguised yourself well, but you're still that fugitive human. And the blood of who you once were can never be erased. You seek the Sacred Jewel to become a full-fledged demon, do you not
Naraku
If so... why give me the shards? Am I not the one you seek to avenge your death fifty year ago?
chuckles] It was only my body that died. I may have left it behind, but with this new one, I'm even stronger. I don't ask that you understand. I'm returning to the temple. I will neither run nor hide. Send a messenger if you need me.
Naraku
It's appeared again. No matter how often I change flesh, the burn scars of the human Onigumo, will not leave my back!
[thinking] Go, Naraku. Gather the shards of the Jewel. And when you have found them all, then I will send you to Hell. My soul is much freer than it was then. I am free to hate, free to love.
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!
(sneering) I allowed you to see it!
You wish to slice through it, I imagine?
You are mine! (he launches the Wind Scar attack)
(laughs coldly) Now, perish!
What?! (he is blasted by his own attack) Arrrgggh!
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Inuyasha!
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.
(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.
(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!
(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.
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?
(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.
A woman? (realizes, with shock) You don't mean-?!
Naraku
(chuckles) She is some piece of work, that Kikyo.
(thinking) Ki- Kikyo?! (groans in pain)
Inuyasha- you're alive! Thank the heavens!
Naraku
Kikyo personally handed this Sacred Jewel shard to me, of her own free will.
(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?!
Naraku
(thinking, observing Kanna's mirror) Her soul is spilling out of the mirror. Does this girl really possess such an enormous soul?
(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.
(angrily, drawing an arrow) I'm tired of hearing your voice! You make me sick! (notches her arrow) Take this!
Don't do it, Kagome! It'll fire back at you, exactly like the Tetsusaiga did!
I guarantee it won't! my arrow only strikes evil!
The arrow is starting to pierce the mirror!
(examines the mirror, puzzled) The arrow went through. It didn't deflect.
(angrily) What's going on?! Why did it not strike back at her?!
... I understand. The arrow is made up of souls. The mirror is entirely filled. Unless the souls are released, the mirror will burst.
[A crack appears in the mirror. Kanna raises it and releases all the souls she has captured, including Kagome's and Koharu's.]
(thinking) Naraku knows nothing of my treachery. That's why he used demons to save me.
(thinking) Kanna... where is she going?
(thinking) Another room, beneath the cellar? Ugh!
Naraku
(coldly) Kagura... did you enjoy yourself, outside?
These demons... Naraku builds his body with these demons? He's a half-demon, just like Inuyasha!
Naraku
Kagura... while I slept, you left the castle. Don't try to deny it.
Naraku
Kagura... you are still a part of me. Would you like to return to my flesh again?
(desperately) No! Please, wait... I- I promise I won't do it again!
Naraku
... This will be your last chance.
(thinking) I cannot escape from Naraku on my own! Inuyasha... I'll let you live a while longer. You're my precious trump card.
Naraku
I came here, to see you in person.
Naraku
I needed to test my new power.
I've told you before: A half-demon who harbors Onigumo's heart, has absolutely no power to kill me.
Naraku
You speak the truth, Kikyo. Indeed, if I still had Onigumo's heart, I wouldn't be able to lay a hand on you, now would I? Even though your body is mere artifice.
Naraku
I knew you weren't real, and yet I was still unable to reach out and strike you. [He suddenly grabs her by the throat] You- A woman made of nothing but clay and bones.
What's wrong, Naraku? Weren't you here to kill me?
Naraku
Don't sound so self-assured. It was not out of fear that I decided to spare you. Consider yourself lucky. I will not kill you... I will break you.
Naraku
Onigumo- or shall I say Muso?- imagine meeting here like this, face to face.
You. I know you. Are you Naraku?
Naraku
Did you enjoy the outside world after fifty years absence?
Fifty years? Is that what you said?
Naraku
Muso, I demand that you return to me.
Naraku
The thought repulses me as well. But you were released too early, I'm afraid. And that is why you must come back to me now.
Too early? How dare you say that after keeping me locked up for fifty years!!
Naraku
It couldn't have seemed but a second to you.
I remember what happened now! You're the one who killed Kikyo fifty years ago!
Naraku
And in your twisted greed, you summoned the demons right to your side. Those same demons which devoured your flesh wished to kill Kikyo.
It was you're desire, not theirs!
Naraku
I was not the one to blame. I am Naraku and you should know that by now.
I heard enough!! The only thing I desired was to make Kikyo my woman! Dammit!
Naraku
Kikyo has been resurrected. She looks exactly as she did before.
Naraku
Yes, although she's not exactly the same as before.
Naraku
Want her?
Where is she!? Where is Kikyo!?
Naraku
I'm afraid I cannot grant your wish. Return to me.
Naraku
You saved me the trouble, Muso. I need you to come back to me now.
Let me go!! Release me at once!! Stop! Let me see Kikyo!
"I must see Kikyo!! Kikyo! Kikyo!! KIKYO!"
Naraku
Such bitterness, such festering greed. Give it up, Muso, Kikyo is exactly the same as you- Made of nothing but clay and dirt. Her soul is a mere phantom of the past.
Tell me, Naraku. You absorbed Muso, so does that make you a half demon?
Naraku
But exactly when that occurs is a half demon's deepest secret. Let's start with you, Inuyasha.
Naraku
When do you lose your powers and cower in fear of your enemies?"
Miroku (thinking): Interesting. Judging from what Naraku just said, Kagura hasn't told him that Inuyaha's is the night of the new moon.
I found you, Naraku, and this time I'm gonna destroy you!!
Naraku
Don't make me laugh. Do you honestly think you can slay me?
(From a distance)
Kagura (thinking): He can. Inuyasha's strong enough now.
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