p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"It was Nighttime, and a group of villagers were searching the forest, holding torches in their hands./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;""Kuri-san! Reiko-san!" The villagers said./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"Two villagers found Kuri and Reiko's backpacks under a tree and waves to the rest./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;""Hey Look!"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;""Over here!"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"The villagers gathered around the bags./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"Xxx/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"Kuri, Inuyasha and Izayoi were in in Otherworld. The reflection of Izayoi was seen in the pond, but there were no facial features on her face in the water. Kuri laid sideways on the ground, unable to move./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-style: italic; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"There's no face in the reflection! Inuyasha! Inu- My voice… I can't speak. Please notice it, Inuyasha! She doesn't have a face! She's… not your mother! /spanspan style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"Kuri thought./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;""Inuyasha… I must return to the Otherworld." Izayoi said./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;""Oh… Must you go?" Inuyasha said./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"Izayoi held up a lotus flower in her hand and let it fall into the water. The petals fell apart and caused ripples in the water./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"" Good boy… Let me hold you tight." Inuyasha said. Inuyasha looked dreamy, turned around and they hugged face to face. "I won't let go." Izayoi sank her hands into his back. "Become one with me."/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"Inuyasha winced in pain. "Mother…" Izayoi lost consciousness./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-style: italic; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"Inuyasha! Wh-Why can't I move?!/spanspan style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" Kuri thought/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"Chains appeared around Kuri's body, followed by the little imps. They were chaining down Kuri. A darkness started to swipe across the pond and slowly, the garden was engulfed in darkness. Skeletons of animals appear. The Otherworld was now a desolate swamp./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"Reiko appeared in front of her. "Wake up, sister! This is all an illusion! /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"She snapped the chains with her magic and Kuri stood. "We have to save Inuyasha!"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"Inuyasha was unconscious and his face and body were half sunken in the false mother's body. The false mother no longer had a face./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;""My boy… My dear son…" Muonna said./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"Jaken got out of the boat. "Hey you! Un-Mother!" He clubbed her face with his staff, chipping some flesh off her face. "What's the use of sucking the breath out of him?!"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;""Master Jaken!" Muonna said./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;""What you do to him later is no concern to us! But first, you must get the information out of him! The location of the tomb of Inuyasha and Lord Sesshomaru's father!" Jaken said./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"Kuri pulled Reiko behind a boulder. "That Jaken fellow is Sesshomaru's henchman?"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;""The Human Head Staff… You must watch out for that." Reiko said. "I saw him use it earlier."/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"Kuri nodded./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;""Inuyasha! Inuyasha!" Muonna said./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"Inuyasha sank deeper into Un-Mother. Cut to underwater scene. Inuyasha, unconscious, was thrust underwater, with the Un-Mother's long arms holding him./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;""Please remember… Where is your father's tomb?" Muonna said./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-style: italic; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"I don't know…/spanspan style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" Inuyasha thought./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;""Think harder! Open up your—"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"There was a flash of silver light and the Muonna was on the ground in pieces./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;""That wench! She exorcized it!" Jaken exclaimed./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;""Inuyasha… Are you all right?" Reiko held up Inuyasha./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;""Damn! Damn it to hell! How dare they… use my mother like that?!" Inuyasha cursed./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;""It's all the work of Sesshomaru and Jaken." Reiko said angrily. "And now they're after my sister./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;""What?!" Inuyasha said. "Sesshomaru! What do you want?!"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"Kuri stood in between them. "He wants your father's treasure."/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;""Ah," Sesshomaru said. "A telepath. A rare ability even among demons. I believe this puts me at an advantage."/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"Suddenly he was behind Kuri, his breath on her neck. Kuri flinched visibly./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;""You will do what I say," He whispered softly./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"Kuri felt goosebumps go up her spine as she realized he was correct. Kuri had no control./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"And with a swish of that silver hair, Sesshomaru was gone./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"Xxx/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"Inuyasha took a step forward to stop his half-brother, but Reiko stopped him. "He will hurt Kuri."/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"Finally Sesshomaru was gone and Inuyasha rushed to Kuri's side. "Did he hurt you?"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;""No," she said softly. She caressed his cheek with her hand. "I-Inuyasha...r-run..."/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"Her eyes found his and he saw the vacancy there. "Kuri! That bastard! I'll-"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;""Stop!" Kuri pulled him close to her. "Forget everything. Everything. Love me and only me. Let me be your one and only..."/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"She pressed her lips against his. For a moment Inuyasha believed her. And then he remembered that this was Kuri. She would never be the first to talk about her feelings. She had WAY too much pride for that./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"So he pushed her away, knowing it was a trick. No one like her could love a half demon like him./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;""Th-That's not true!" Kuri yelled at him, her eyes suddenly clear./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"Inuyasha stared at her. Did she read his mind?!/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;""What do ya mean, it's not-" he began, but was cut off by Sesshomaru's hand on his neck./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;""I thank you, little telepath," Sesshomaru said. He removed a pearl from Inuyasha's eye and left through a portal./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"Inuyasha got up. "You girls st-"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman; -webkit-font-kerning: none;""In your dreams," Reiko responded. "Sis already went through for revenge./span/p