1500
Feudal Japan
"Run! Kurama! Ahri! Take the children and GO!" Midoriko shouted.
"I cannot." Ahri said, pained. She held her side, and Midoriko saw that it was caked with blood.
"Mama! MAMA!" Shippo cried, reaching for his mother.
"I will protect her! GO!" Midoriko cried.
Kurama scooped up Shippo and Ninako and left Midoriko to guard his mate.
Midoriko placed her right hand, with index and middle fingers extended, in front of her pendant, then raising her hand to the upper right. It appeared in her hand, a sword—Kiboken.
"Inuyasha! Stop this right now!" Midoriko shouted. "Koibito! Koibito!"
The incantations slammed him to the ground over and over.
But Inuyasha stood, snarling, claws caked in the blood of Ahri, who now lay dying beside him.
Inuyasha lunged forward, ferally clawing Midoriko in the chest.
"Don't make me do this..." Midoriko whispered. "Anata..."
She stabbed him into the Goshinboku using Kiboken. "SHIKON!"
Her dying words echoed in the distance.
"And so...Mother. This is what you have trained me for?" Ninako appeared in the mist. "Your soul...and that of auntie...you shall be...transcendent."
2007
Hikawa Shrine
"Sister! It's snowing! Isn't it just beautiful?" Kurisuta Hikawa, a girl of fifteen, said.
Kuri had long straight hair with bits of hair framed inward towards her face. There was a split in the middle of her widow's peak and she let a streak of hair on both sides frame her face in front of her shoulders. Her eyes were blue and her skin was pale. Kuri wore the school uniform, a red medium dress, black stockings and brown boots.
"Oh but it's so cold!" Reiko said, coming out, following the fox, Kit. "Kit wait! Don't go in there!"
Rei had red hair, green eyes, and tanned skin. She wore her hair in a high ponytail with a big bow. Rei wore the school uniform, a red medium dress, with white socks and black flats
Kit ran into the Wellhouse and sat on the shrine, then vanished, and sitting there was a young girl.
"I see I see." The girl said. "Well you're definately old enough now aren't you. I'm tired of pretending to be a fox. I'm a dog after all."
"A dog?" Reiko said. "But Kit...?"
The girl smiled, showing fangs. "The name's Ninako."
And with that she jumped into the Bone Eater's Well and disappeared.
"Hey girl! Are you hurt?" Kuri yelled. "Was she a spirit do you think? Like Grams always talks about?"
"No...she was probably some sort of demon!" Reiko said.
Suddenly a strange, snakelike creature came out of the well and wrapped around both of them, dragging them in.
"Sh-Shikigami!" They both yelled.
1550
Feudal Japan
The sisters climbed out, hand over hand, and reached a clearing in a forest.
"It looks like home, but smells different." Reiko said. "Cleaner. I like this smell."
"That looks like the Goshinboku." Kuri said. "But...somehow...it's not. A younger tree. Oh! There's a boy there..."
Kuri ran over. "More like...a man..."
Her hands traced a mark on his neck. "That looks like...my birthmark..."
SLASH! Kuri was whipped from the tree by a vine.
Holding the vine was a fox demon, Yoko Kurama.
He had long silver hair, tall fox ears, and wore pure white. His features were sharp and vulpine, and his eyes gold. It was clear he was no dog.
"How dare you touch my pack mate, Inuyasha!" Kurama shouted. "Only the hands of the great priestess Midoriko may touch him, when she is born anew to free him!"
Blood pooled from the wound on Kuri's face, and Inuyasha pulsed, his nose twitching.
"Midoriko...I can smell your blood. Has the time come for me to end your wretched life?" Inuyasha growled.
"Hey you! You can't just whip my sister! Apologize!" Reiko shouted.
"Wench! Who do you think you're talking t—" Kurama stopped. That face. Those eyes. Could she be—
And then he was upside down, hanging from the Goshinboku.
"Let me down!" Kurama pleaded. "Whoa! Look out!"
Shikigami flew through the air and blasted straight through Kuri's body, dragging with it the Shikon.
"That's the—" Inuyasha said. "You...wench! Call off the Shikigami!"
"It's not mine!" Kuri stumbled, trying to stand feeling pained from when the monster had flown through her.
"If you can't...then I'll destroy it!" Inuyasha said.
"You expect us to believe that? The fox can do it!" Reiko pointed at Kurama.
"No I can't." Kurama landed, making quick work of her vines. "That's a shikigami. Only Midoriko—the one who cast it—or her mate—Inuyasha—can call it off. If it keeps feeding off that girl, soon she will be nothing."
Kuri put the Shikon in her pocket. "So I save you, you save me. No tricks."
"He's the trickster not me." Inuyasha said. "I'm no fox."
Kuri looked at the sword, tested it, touching it. "A barrier."
"So you can't then." Inuyasha sighed. "Then how did you awaken me in the first place? And how do you have the sh—"
"Shut up!" Kuri said.
Kuri placed her right hand, with index and middle fingers extended, in front of her pendant, then raising her hand to the upper right. It appeared in her hand, the sword.
And Inuyasha landed in front of her. "And now! Give me back my demonic power that is sealed in the Shikon no Tama!"
"You tricked me!" Kuri hissed. "Stupid PUPPY!"
