Down The Rabbit Hole and Back Again
"Fighting Technique"
"Speech"
"Thoughts"
Flashbacks
'Recap'
3RD POV:
After the fight with the Corpse Crow, it's the next day, and the two sisters are in the forest river trying to bathe. "You've gotta be kidding! Even if it is Feudal Japan… there's no hot baths?!" Kagome complains again as she stands in the river, naked shivering from the cold water. Ren swims around not feeling too cold as she ducks under the water to wash her hair a little; she comes out again to hear Kagome sneeze and sit in the river. "Cold!"
"Kagome, Ren, don't force it. Come on out." Kaede tells them as she sits on the riverbank with a fire waiting for them, she seems to like Ren more than before the more she gets to know her.
"No! We're all bloody and dirty. And I can't stand my filthy hair!" Kagome exclaims and gathers herself for a moment before plunging into the water. Kaede gives out a sigh and Ren gets up from the water revealing her naked body and shakes her head getting the water out. Unknown to the three women Inuyasha is watching them in a sideways glance as Kaede keeps the fire going, Ren strains the water out of her hair now sitting in the water and Kagome swims under the water. "The Sacred Jewel…"
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'Our names are Kagome and Ren Higurashi. We're just your average school kid and teenager but, through some strange, weird situation, we've ended up here, in the Warring States era.' Kagome introduces.
"She's also become the target of demons, all after a Jewel in her body. This 'Jewel of Four Souls' which belonged to some 'Kikyo' person… how did it end up in HER? Now we have to team up with another half-demon called Inuyasha who wants the Sacred Jewel's power and who intends to keep the fragments for himself. Are we dreaming? But it's NOT a dream!" Ren finishes the recap.
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The night before after the Corpse Crow, inside Kaede's hut they sit around the burning flames as Kagome holds up a fragment of the Sacred Jewel they had found inside the head of the Corpse Crow. "What's going on?!" Inuyasha snaps looking at the small piece.
"Stop barking, Inuyasha," Kaede orders him glancing at him.
"What happened to the Jewel?!" He snaps again getting a look from the fox half-demon.
"The arrow to which Kagome attached the crow's feet hit the Corpse Crow and destroyed it, but it also shattered the Sacred Jewel. In other words, fragments of the Sacred Jewel have been scattered throughout the world. Who knows whether there were one hundred fragments or a thousand. Should even one fragment fall into evil hands, however, the destruction will be incalculable." Kaede explains to the three.
"It wasn't my fault… was it?" Kagome mumbles. "I feel sort of responsible…"
"Kagome, Ren, Inuyasha… you must use your combined strength to gather the fragments and restore the Sacred Jewel!" Kaede tells them as they look at her in shock.
"Heh?" The sisters stutter as they look at the old woman.
"Listen up, old hag! I'm one of the 'evil-doers' looking for the Jewel!" Inuyasha points out,
"It cannot be helped…" Kaede sighs.
"But… we have to go home!" Kagome shouts inside her head and glances at her sister.
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Kagome continues to swim and bath in the river along with her sister as she thinks back. "Besides, I don't have such powers…! And Inuyasha is so selfish!" She comes out of the water and walks towards Kaede with Ren next to her; she looks up noticing Inuyasha sitting on the cliffside looking down at them. With a horror-filled scream, Kagome sits back into the water as Ren looks up at the other half-demon and smirks putting her hands on her hips. "Sit!" Kagome commands, making the rosary on Inuyasha's neck pulling at him, he falls flat-faced onto the ground below.
"So you are here, Inuyasha," Kaede comments not even looking at him.
"Damn! I'd forgotten about this thing." He tugs at the thing around his neck; the two sisters put on their new clothes on behind a bush.
"Shame on you! Spying like that!" Ren snaps at him as they change.
"Huh?! Keh! Idiot! All I was doing was-" He tries to explain but gets interrupted by Kaede as she holds the Jewel up turning to him.
"... trying to steal the Sacred Jewel. Yes, I know." She says. "The future looks very bleak… Inuyasha, unless you join forces with Kagome, who has the ability to 'see' the Jewel, Ren with her sharp mind, there is no way all of the fragments will be found."
"And I'm tellin' you that if it's for the Sacred Jewel, I'll put up with the dumb girls, so stop worryin'!" He snaps at her.
"Do you really dislike us that much, huh?" Ren asks him making him turn around to the girls now changed into new clothes, Kagome is in Kaede's priestess clothes, with her hair tied back and Ren was wearing a short black with pink and flower patterns with her hair slightly up.
"Kikyo…" Inuyasha gapes as he looks at her but Ren smiles as Kagome folds her school uniform, Inuyasha sits with his hands on the ground looking much like a dog staring at Kagome growling slightly with Kaede and Ren watching the exchange.
"What's that expression on your face, Inuyasha?" Ren asks him as he moves away from them and Kagome glares back at them.
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In a dark cave filled with skulls, a woman rises from the skulls stretching as if stiff from sleep. "Well, well… the Sacred Jewel I thought lost over fifty years ago has appeared once more. It's going to be very interesting…" She purrs and picks up a skull with some hair left, and combs the strands of hair affectionately and giggles hysterically.
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Back at the riverbank with Kaede, Inuyasha, Ren and Kagome, a woman with a baby in a bag on her back appears walking towards them. "Priestess Kaede…" She seems hesitant.
"Yes?" She responds looking at the woman.
"My daughter…" She goes onto explain.
"I see. I will be right there." She tells the woman and turns to the other three. "I must return. Do not fight." They walk off and the woman bows to them before walking back to the village with Kaede.
"Hey," Inuyasha says after a long silence.
"What," Ren asks looking at him.
"Get undressed." He orders looking at Kagome; she glares at him as Ren stomps over to him and punches him hard on the head leaving him wincing in pain with a huge bump on his head. "Oww! Why you… why did you?!" He asks trying to sooth the bump.
"Pervert!" Kagome snaps glaring at him.
"I didn't mean undress undress! I meant put your own weird stuff back on!" He exclaims furiously pointing at Kagome's uniform as it tries on poles behind him.
"Because this makes me look like Kikyo?" Kagome asks, and she hits the nail on the head as he stops and looks away from them.
"Whatever." He mumbles childishly.
"Oh, please…! It's like he's in middle school!" Ren snaps inside her head as she looks to him. "Look! We can't work with someone who's always picking a fight!"
"That's fine with me! I prefer to go it alone." He snaps right back at the fiery pinkette.
"I see! You don't need us along then?" Kagome asks and grabs her older sister and walks off behind him, his ears twitch and he looks back at them.
"Hey, where you going?" He asks them as Kagome picks up her school uniform.
"We've made up our minds. We're going home. Goodbye, Inuyasha." Kagome says, and they walk off leaving him alone.
"Going home…? Hey!" He shouts out to them as he stands up.
"Our names are Kagome and Ren. Please address us as such." Ren snorts as they walk.
"Hey! Wait!" He yells out to them.
"It's not 'hey', either." Kagome snaps not even looking back at him.
"Wait, I said! Hey!" He yells out this gets the sisters to turn around.
"What?! It's useless to try and stop us." Ren warns him; he steps up to them with his hand out.
"You got that Jewel piece, right? Leave it." He says to them.
"You mean this?" Kagome asks as she holds up a pouch, glaring at Inuyasha for a few moments. "Sit!" She commands, and he crashes down onto the ground,
"Why, you…!" He growls.
"You can't have it." Kagome snarls as they walk off. "I can't believe that guy! Inuyasha has never once addressed us by our names!"
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In the village, everything is quite as Kaede, and the woman walks to her hut. "This way, Priestess Kaede…" She says as they enter the hut.
"She suddenly collapsed?" Kaede asks her and sees a young girl lying on a mat on the ground unconscious.
"Yes. She was just fine this morning." She remarks with worry.
"I see," Kaede says and walks towards the ground when suddenly a strange sound flows through the air making her stop. "Hmm?! Stay back!"
"Huh?" The unconscious girl suddenly floats into the air. "She's… floating!" The girl, floating in midair turns around facing the two women, with outstretched arms, her head drooping down. Her hand rose slightly, revealing several strands of hair coiled around her hand.
"Hair…?!" As Kaede realises this a knife on the floor starts trembling and flies into the girl's hand, she raises it to attack.
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The sisters walk up to the Dry Well holding hands as they look at the well. "That's how I got here, through the Dry Well. I'm sure we can go back from here." Kagome comments and looks into the well as Ren look around and gasps gaining her sister's attention. "Bones…!"
"Those are the bones of the Centipede-Monster," Ren says looking in, and her sister drops her school uniform squatting next to the well.
"Great. Now I'm afraid to go in." Kagome panics and turns around looking at the sky. "Now what?" Kagome sees something glimmer in the light; a falling leaf is sliced clean into two when it passes it. Kagome notices getting up next to her sister, and something cuts her face, she looks around to find tangles of long hair surrounding them. "It can't be! That's hair!" She gasps, Ren look around not seeing anything as the woman from before appears standing on a strand of hair with others wrapped around her fingers, like a puppeteer.
"Oh, my! You can see it, then… my web of hair. But being able to 'see' it isn't enough…" She giggles looking down at them.
"Who're you?!" Ren demands and the woman giggles with evil intent.
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Inuyasha runs through the forest leaping into the air remembering what the sister's had said. "Let them go, who cares?" He thinks as he leaps again, entering the village where some of the women float in midair in the square, all unconscious holding weapons as he lands in front of them. "What's with you all?" He asks them but they say nothing, they all one by one raise their weapons. "Interesting! Wanna take me on, huh?" He asks, and they float towards him.
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"They call me 'Yura of the Demon-Hair'... though you needn't bother remembering it. Your time's about to run out!" She threatens them as she stretches out her hand and the strands of hair reel towards the girl, cutting at them. "I'm helping myself to the Jewel!" She pulls a strand of hair taking the pouch with the shard of the Sacred Jewel from Kagome and opens it to see what's inside. "Now look what you've done to it. Where are the other fragments?"
"Give it back!" Kagome demands with little courage.
"Answer my question! Where are the remaining fragments!?" She demands, getting angry.
"We… we don't know." Ren replies feeling the difference in power, as a sword floats towards Yura.
"I see." She takes the sword and jumps towards them through the hairs. "In that case… you may as well die!" She swings her sword at Kagome first but she steps backwards grabbing onto Ren, and they fall into the well, screaming as Yura throws her sword in their direction in the well. "It's useless to try and escape!" She misses them as they disappear, she lands on top of the well, her sword returns to her. "Gone…" She peers into the well. "Who are those girls?"
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In the village with Inuyasha and the floating girls as he gets ready to fight them. "Wait a minute! They're all girls from the village. What's going on? Planning to tie me up again? Well, I'm not giving in." He snaps at them when Kaede crawls towards him slowly as she's injured from the attack earlier.
"Inuyasha, don't do it! Do not harm the girls!" She warns him.
"Old Kaede!" He gasps and leaps over to her. "Wow, look at you. You're a bloody mess."
"Have you nothing nicer to say?" She snaps at him.
"So why shouldn't I hurt 'em, huh? They're sure tryin' to hurt me." He counters as the girls come in closer to them.
"They're all under a spell. Kagome? Ren? Where are the girls?" She asks him as she looks around for them.
"They went back to their own land. Not that it matters or nothin'. I don't need them to handle this." He grumbles harshly.
"You mustn't. Do not touch the village girls!" She warns him.
"Will you quit flappin' your gums already? Or have you forgotten they're after you, too." He reminds her.
"Don't you understand, Inuyasha? We must get to the one who is controlling them." She warns him again as one of the girls fly at him and, he dodges the attack.
"Now you've completely lost it." He looks at her.
"Then Inuyasha, please… cut the hair! Just cut the hair, and the trance will be broken!" She informs him.
"The what? I don't see anything." He replies.
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Yura moves her hands controlling the hair around her fingers as she sits calmly on a tree.
"Now, then… time to draw close this prey." Yura purrs.
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Inuyasha attacks one of the girls but she dodges him and flies upwards, she raises a knife as the other girls join her up in the air. "No! Inuyasha, run!" Kaede yells as strands of hair coil around him, immobilising him.
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Yura gives out a giggle while she controls the strands of hair around her fingers.
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The floating bodies controlled by the hair, they move around Inuyasha as hair coils around him. "They're not too smart, whoever's behind this. I may be tangled up, but even if I can't see who's doing it, I can cut down whoever's in front of me!" He smirks and pulls at the hair tangling him.
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Yura lets the strands of hair slack some around her fingers. "Oh, so sorry!" She teases.
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Inuyasha falls to the ground thanks to the slack in the strands of hair tangling him.
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"I suppose I've teased you long enough." She says and spreads out her fingers, making a cat's cradle formation with her fingers, she pulls her hands apart, making the cat's cradle she tightens into a smaller ring.
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Inuyasha is lifted off of the ground and slams into a tree behind him, the tension of the hair tightly coils around his neck and hands making him wince in pain as he struggles in vain. "Inuyasha…!" Kaede calls out to him.
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Yura spreads out her arms, the many strands of hair come out from her chest.
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The grip of the hair on Inuyasha tightens, making it harder for him to breath, he groans out in pain and gathers his strength as he lets out a yell pulling at the hair tangling around him and the tree. The tension in the hair continues to tighten and slices the tree trunk, making it break into pieces, the tree falls down, and Inuyasha is released from the hair.
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The strands of hair around Yura's fingers suddenly go slack and droop down. "The tension's gone. The head must not have been severed." She growls out first in surprise that turns into anger.
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Inuyasha feels around his neck for any pain as he gasps for needed air. "Oh, man… I thought I was done for." He breathes out.
"If you'd been a mere human, it would have come clean off." Kaede comments as the two of them look up to find more of the villagers coming for them, this time it is the men, unconscious, floating towards them with weapons in their hands. "The village men!"
"More human puppets? It's gettin' kinda old." He snarls as he looks at them.
"Inuyasha, leave this to me and make your escape." She tells him.
"Aw man, would you quit bein' such a martyr an'-" He begins to say, but Kaede collapses onto the ground. "Old Kaede!" He looks down at her as she winces in pain from her injuries.
"Inu… yasha…" She gets out.
"Can't be helped." He says.
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Yura sits in the tree branch, retrieving the long strands of hair, at the end of the strand reaches her, and a strand of silver hair is attached. "Ooh! Such pretty, silver hair." She gushes as she plays with the single strand.
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Inuyasha leaps off away from the village with Kaede on his back. "Hang in there, old woman!" He warns her as she notices a web of tight strands of hair in front of them.
"Be careful, Inuyasha! The hair…" She tries warning him, but he just leaps through the air and snaps the hair without feeling anything or getting injured.
"You say somethin', old woman?" He asks her.
"Never mind." She replies, and they continue.
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Yura swings from tree to tree using strands of hair as a vine. "Such a stubborn one. This is fun. And this silver hair… I must have it!" She gleams as she continues to swing from tree to tree.
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The sun is setting as Kaede lies on a heap of fallen leaves, in the forest, she cringes in pain as Inuyasha squats next to her. "Old woman, you said you can see the strands! Tell me where it's being pulled from, then." He asks her.
"Don't be ridiculous! With me in this condition, and even with my seeing powers… hurry… Kagome can-" Kaede tries saying.
"So she can see it, too?" He asks interrupting her.
"Yes. For this foe, Kagome… Kagome is necessary for victory…" She struggles as she winces in pain and closes her eyes and Inuyasha looks at her intently.
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Kagome and Ren lie unconscious at the bottom of the Bone Eater's Well, they stir awake and look around. "Where is this?" Ren asks as they feel around in the dark.
"The bottom of the well. That's right… that girl came after us and pushed us into the well." Kagome clarifies, and they hear voices getting closer.
"We've looked in this well over and over again." Gramps remarks as they walk over.
"But I already told you, it's where they fell in!" Sota argues.
"You must've been dreaming." Gramps counters and shines the torchlight into the well.
"It's the truth!" Sota exclaims, and they look down into the well to see Kagome and Ren under the rays of the torchlight.
"Gramps! Sota!" The girls exclaim with happiness.
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In the evening of modern Japan, the sisters stand in the courtyard overlooking the scenery outside, and Ren soaks in the sun with her fox tail swishing from side to side. "I'm back… back to my own time." The sisters think in sync.
"Kagome, Ren, you've been gone for three days… we've been so worried." Gramps scolds them as they stand behind them with Sota next to him.
"Sis, what happened to you?" Sota asks looking at Ren as her tail swishes.
"I'm not dreaming! We're really home!" Kagome smiles as tears collect in her eyes, she turns around diving into Gramps' arms wailing loudly. "Gramps! I was so scared!"
"Ren... what happened?!" He asks his oldest granddaughter as she turns looking at them.
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Back in the Feudal Era, in the forest, Kaede lies on a heap of leaves with her eyes closed and her arms across her, in a comfortable position. Inuyasha is next to her, digging a pit in the ground like a dog, he gets up after stopping digging. "Okay… this is it, old woman." He says in a serious tone and puts her in the pit, burying under a pile of soil. "Givin' you a decent burial is the least I can do." He continues to pile more soil on top.
"Fire." She says opening her eyes. "Only… I'm not dead yet."
"What I meant was, bury you to hide here. I'll even come back an' dig you out if I don't forget." He remarks and grabs a pile of leaves spreading it on top of the soil.
"Are you sure? You had better not forget." She warns him as he gets up and starts walking away, she raises her hand from the leaves pointing at him. "Do not forget, Inuyasha!"
"I know! I know!" He grumbles and sprints across the forest. "Curse those stupid girls! Where'd they run off to, at a time like this?"
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In modern Japan, Kagome sits in her bathtub at home, having a soak, she closes her eyes and enjoys the warm water. "Happiness at last." She sighs in content; she opens her eyes as she hears Sota laughing from downstairs.
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Inuyasha sprints across the forest, a massive pile of hair flying after him, Yura controls some hair around her fingers, giggling. "Wherever she went, she won't get away!" She cheers.
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Kagome now in the shower combs through her wet hair with her fingers soothing her hair. "It feels so good." She sighs and smells smoke before yelling downstairs.
"Sorry!" She hears Ren shout out.
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Downstairs in the living room, Sota hides behind his sister as the table is patted down by their Gramps. "I'm so sorry; I didn't mean to set the table on fire. I only sneezed." She whines looking at her Gramps and Mother.