Kikyo, Naraku and others in “Unfinished Business”

Kikyo

I'll ask you just one more time. Naraku, tell me what your true purpose here is!

Naraku

I'm surprised. Did you come all this way and go to all this trouble, to ask me such a simple matter?

Kikyo

I'm the one asking the questions.

Naraku

[chuckles] Round and round goes the spinning wheel...spinning and weaving a red thread of fate. Meeting Rasetsu, or should I say Kanske, was no coincidence. It was according to my plan.

Kikyo

You mean...?

Naraku

I merely took advantage of his desire to find a place to die. It was all so simple. I put rumors into that dying man's head about the sacred grounds of Mt. Hakurei, and thus set him on your path. Now do you understand? [chuckles] You did not come here of your own accord. I lured you here. I have often heard you humans refer to this as fate or destiny.

Naraku

Only the weak utter such nonsense. It is different for the truly powerful. They create this so-called fate or destiny themselves.

Kikyo

You're the one speaking nonsense, Naraku!

Naraku

Oh, yes. You were interested in finding out about my true aim. You wish to know? Then I shall tell you. [he raises his forearm, and a blade of bone grows from his wrist] You shall learn my purpose, what it is I need to accomplish at Mt. Hakurei. Here's your answer.

Kikyo

Agh!

Naraku

[chuckles] Your imitation body is formed of bones and graveyard soil. You don't even bleed.

Kikyo

[slumps to her knees] I curse you, Naraku.

Naraku

You underestimated me, Kikyo. You came feeling self-assured, so certain that I would not be able to kill you. You believed that as long as I had the heart of that worthless human- that pathetic bandit, Onigumo, who loved you with all his being- you believed I wouldn't harm you. [he retracts the bone-blade] I feel nothing, even after wounding you so. No remorse, no sadness.

Kikyo

[thinking] Does that mean his heart no longer beats inside you? I see! That's what Kagura had in her possession- his human heart!

Naraku

The bottom of this crevice is filled my miasma. An imitation body like yours will dissolve easily, in a matter of seconds. [he raises his arm again, his fingers extending into clawed tentacles] Kikyo... this will be your burial ground.

Kikyo

No! Why are these memories coming back to me now? [the tentacles impale her and retract, sending her plummeting into the miasma gorge] Inuyasha...

Inuyasha

Huh?!

Kagome Higurashi

Inuyasha?

Inuyasha

[thinking] I don't like this. I've got a bad feeling about something...