Kagura quotes from InuYasha

Kagura

That makes things easier for me in the long run. The Sacred Jewel shards make demons even stronger, don't they? What an utterly enticing object. You're planning to lure them here with this? But why? You can conjure them without all this.

Kagura

The Jewel shard in your arm has finally released its poison. Now it's time for you to die.

Kagura

You are unable to move. That Sacred Jewel shard in your arm is an imitation, made from a crystallized poison and paralyzing miasma. That leaping around made your blood flow faster, and sped up the spread of the poison. Now that you are paralyzed, I shall help myself to your true Jewel shards.

Kagura

That must be the sacred arrow.

Kagura

I'd think twice about letting this boy remember everything. His past truly would destroy him. Let the lad die in peace, freed from all those terrible memories.

Inuyasha

I won't let you hurt, Kagome. I'm the one you should be coming after, not her.

Kagura

Still alive, are we now? Wolf boy, it appears you didn't complete the job.

Inuyasha

Heh. If you think that mangy wolf could do me in.

Kagura

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.

Koga

Naraku?

Inuyasha

Just the thought of that beast gives me the strength enough to move my wounded body.

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.

Jaken

[to Sesshomaru] That fool Kaijinbo! Where in the world could he have gotten to with your sword?!

Rin

Lord Sesshomaru! [laughs, runs toward him]

Sesshomaru

Stop, Rin. Do not move.

Sesshomaru

A woman?

Jaken

[sniffs] I know that scent! She smells much like the strange beast that offered to lend you the severed human arm- the demon that disguised himself with the baboon pelt! His wretched plan took us to Hell and back! Curse him! Your arm was almost burned off, and I was beaten to a pulp by that monk! Ugh- simply recalling that incident makes me ill.

Sesshomaru

I recall the scent. It is the same as the beast that attempted to trap me, the one who is known as Naraku.

Kagura

[smiles] So, you must be Inuyasha's brother Sesshomaru. You're very clever. I am Kagura, the Wind Sorceress... an incarnation of Naraku.

Sesshomaru

"Incarnation?"

Kagura

Correct. Sesshomaru, the fangs you delivered to Kaijinbo to make your sword were those of a demon called Goshinki. Like me, he was also created from Naraku.

Sesshomaru

All very interesting, but did you search me out just to tell me this?

Kagura

[smiles, opens her fan] Hmm...Can you not detect its' scent? Tokijin reeks of Goshinki's aura. It is closer than you think. [A windstorm encircles them, and she flies away] You are the sword's rightful owner.

Jaken

I am not sorry to see her leave so soon! I don't believe I've ever seen such an arrogant woman!

Sesshomaru

[notices Rin is still standing still] Rin, you're free to move now.

Rin

[relaxes] Yes, my Lord!

Jaken

Speaking of strange women...

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!

Kagura

Inuyasha, why do you think Kohaku has lost his memory?

Inuyasha

It's obvious! 'Cause Naraku's controlling him!

Kagura

That's part of it. But it's also because Kohaku himself doesn't want to remember. Such awful memories.

Sango

That's enough!! Don't say anymore in front of Kohaku!!

Kagura

Tell me. Do you still bear a grudge against Kikyo?

Kikyo, you say?

Kagura

Ughh. The air in this castle is so stifling. (glances at the skeletons lining the halls) All the vassals who were at this castle were exposed to Naraku's toxic miasma and died.

Kagura

(irritably) Why are you sneaking up from behind like that, Kanna?! Huh?

Kagura

(thinking) Him, again; Koga, the leader of the Wolf-demon tribe. Is he near this castle? Is it a coincidence, or perhaps... (kneels in front of Kanna) Kanna, tell me: does Naraku know about this?

Kanna

He doesn't... He's gone.

Kagura

Mm. (thinking) That's right, Naraku disappears once in a while.

Kanna

Kagura...?

Kagura

(stands) I'll go and kill him. There's no need to wait for Naraku's orders.

Kanna

You'd better not, Kagura.

Kagura

Hmph! I despise Naraku's method of stooping to trickery! I'll kill for Jewel Shards; I need no schemes.

Kanna

It's in Naraku's hands. Both life... and death. (Kagura scowls at her) We are all merely Naraku's tools.

Kagura

(walks away) I could care less. He's not here now.

Kagura

Hello. It's been too long, Koga.

Koga

Not you again!

What's with those skeletons?

Kagura

They're the guards of the castle; they're countless in numbers.

Koga

Wind Sorceress Kagura, I haven't forgotten your despicable face, not for one minute! How could I: you're the one that killed my comrades! (charges) Prepare to die; it's payback time for all you did!

Kagura

(sarcastically) I missed you, too. I was so close to getting your sacred Jewel Shards before; I'll get them this time for sure! (thinking) It'll be easy to slow him down; I'll make him dance for me. Dance of the Dead!

Koga

More tricks!

Kagura

Dance of Blades! (she fires her Dance of Blades at him)

Koga

Not this time! (he dodges through it and lunges towards her) Surprise!

Koga

Got her! Huh?

Kagura

(leaping above him) Fool! I'll cripple you! (closes her fan and points it at him) DANCE OF THE DRAGON!

Sesshomaru

... His scent is in the air.

Jaken

(sniffs) You're right! It's the scent of that Naraku fellow who was so rude to you, Lord Sesshomaru! Is he... nearby? (a huge gust of wind blows around them) What's going on?!

Kagura

Yo.

Jaken

Yo yourself!

Kagura

Sesshomaru, I assume you came here following Naraku's scent as well?

Jaken

Lord Sesshomaru, this wench is Naraku's incarnation!

Sesshomaru

Wind Sorceress Kagura, I recall.

Kagura

So, you remember me. I am very flattered. (Sesshomaru reaches for Tokijin) Take your hand from your sword. I didn't come to fight, Sesshomaru. I have a proposition you might be interested in.

Sesshomaru

Proposition?

Kagura

(holds out the Shikon shards she stole from Koga) You know what these are, Sesshomaru. I'll give you these sacred Jewel shards. In return, I want you to... kill Naraku.

Jaken

WHAAAT?!

Kagura

Free me. Release me from his grasp.