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?
Heh. If you think that mangy wolf could do me in.
Oh, please forgive me. Then you are up to a duel with me?
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.
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.
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]
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?
[Naraku sits in his castle, with Kagura before him]
... With the blows that you received from Tetsusaiga, I was able to comprehend the power of Inuyasha's sword. Go forth now, Kagura. Your sister, Kanna... has already been dispatched.
(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!
(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!
Then again, I suppose if you were capable of slaying them, you would've already done so.
Are you the one who's possessed these villagers?!
I am. A mortal with no soul is no different from a dead man.
(raises her fan) Your friend Kagome is having the soul sucked out of her, even as we speak.
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!
(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?
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)
(runs towards the house) I'm on my way!
Your help will arrive too LATE!!
(fires another attack)
[Kanna has trapped most Kagome's soul inside the void of her magic mirror]
How strange- I cannot subdue her soul. (to Kagome) Still, you are unable to move, are you not? (steps towards her) I desire the shard of the Sacred Jewel that you possess. Give it to me.
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!
(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.
(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.
(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?
(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.
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.]
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.
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.
Kagura (thinking): So, Inuyasha and that Kikyo woman know each other.
(Flashes back to what Naraku had commanded her to do)
Kagura, fellow Kikyo and find out what's up to. She cannot be trusted.
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)
