Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha *breaks down sobbing* Can you believe someone thought of him before I did?
The dialogue here is exactly how it is said in the English dubbed show.
Now for the story:
The Girl Who Overcame Time and the Boy Who Was Just Overcome
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"It's Inuyasha!" A person in a net slashed through it, he laughed evilly to himself; He was dressed in red with long white hair, claws, fangs, and dog ears on the top of his head. He jumped onto a pillar and ropes were thrown at him in an attempt to catch him. He slammed into a building through the roof. He stood up slowly as the dust from the roof faded. He smirked to himself. He grabbed a jewel that was perched on a stand. He turned around when men come through the door with weapons. The men hurled the spears at him. He jumped through the roof and the building exploded.
"So there!" he said as he flew through the air. He held the jewel in his hand and said to himself "Finally a way for me to become all demon at last!"
"Inuyasha!" A woman yelled aiming an arrow at him. She shot and pinned him to a tree. He gasped when the jewel fell from his hand and grabbed at it in an attempt to get it back.
Thwang! The bow was heard when she released the arrow. She stood there glaring at him, the wind blowing gently.
"K-Kikyo" he stammered "How could- I thought we-." He groaned quietly and closed his eyes. He appeared to be dead. The woman slowly staggered to the jewel, groaning in pain. She dropped her bow and kneeled down. A small girl and a group of men rushed over to the woman.
"Lady Kikyo- That wound, it-."
"Big sister! You're hurt really badly." The girl said.
"I forgot who I- and now see what-." Kikyo said as she picked up the jewel. "All for this, the sacred jewel which-." She groaned in pain.
The girl put her arms around the woman "You're in pain let someone-."
"I won't be alive much longer. And so I give this to you, the Shikkon no Tama, which you must burn with my body." She said as she handed the jewel to the girl "It must not fall into the hands of those who would abuse it." Kikyo held the Jewel to her chest and closed her eyes as she fell to the ground
"Sister Kikyo!" The girl cried out. "Sister Kikyo!"
Kikyo held the Shikkon no Tama between her fingers as her dead body was burned. I shall take it with me to the other world She thought when the Jewel flashed a light and her body turned into ash.
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"Shikkon no what?" A girl with long black hair said.
"Shikkon no Tama" an old man replied "The jewel of four souls." The girl looked at the jewel that she was holding curiously.
"You don't actually think that tourists are going to buy these dumb key chains, Do you?"
"That is not just a key chain. That crystal on the end is a replica of an ancient jewel which-hmm?" He was interrupted as a cat started batting the crystal ball that the girl was holding. The girl pulled it away from the cat and watched as the cat still batted at it.
"Hmm?" She looked at the man, who was glaring at her.
"Ahem. As I was saying, that crystal is a replica of an ancient jewel which-." The cat started batting at the key chain again. The girl pulled it away and the cat fell down in attempt to reach it.
"An ancient jewel which-." The girl gasped and said "You do remember it's my birthday tomorrow right?" The man groaned in frustration and dropped the key chain. He laughed.
"I planned to wait another day but…"
"So you did get something! Hand it over!" She opened her gift only to find what looked like a green fin. She looked at it in shock.
The old man started explaining "That is an authentic mummified hand of the water imp which-"
"Here Buyo… eat." The girl said as she handed the gift to the cat.
"Whaaa! That's an antique!" The man cried out as the cat walked off with the hand.
Antique this, authentic that, here, everything's got a story the girl thought.
"Why these pickles are full of history," the old man said as he picked one up.
"Not half as full as you are" The girl said in a bored tone. The thousand year old sacred tree, the legend of the hidden well. I've heard these stories all my life, and I've never believed a word of it. That is, until today, my 15th birthday.
"I'm leaving!" The girl called out as she ran from her house dressed in her school uniform.
"Hey, what are you-." she called out as she stopped.
"Nothing." A boy said as he turned around holding a bowl of food.
"You're not supposed to play in there." the girl said as she entered the building.
"I'm, not it's the cat"
"Did he go down to the well?" The girl asked.
"Buyyyyooooo!" The boy called as they stood at the top of some steps looking down at a well. "I don't know where else he could be."
"So go down."
"But why do I gotta be the one?" The boy whined.
"Because you're the one who's looking for him." She said as she squatted down.
A scratching noise was heard from the well.
"Ahhh!" The boy jumped behind her. "Something's down there!"
"Uh yeah the cat." The girl walked slowly down the steps as the scratching continued. That sound, from inside the well she paused. Thump! "Ahhh!" she yelled out and looked down.
"Ahhh!" The boy falls backwards. "Buyo." He says surprised. The cat Buyo is rubbing itself along the girl's leg. She picks the cat up.
"You make fun of me because I'm scared and then your all 'Ahhh! Ahhh!'" He says in a mocking tone.
"Look who's talking Mr. 'Why do I have to go down?'" She says angrily. The scratching continued.
A light flashes through the cover of the well. The boy steps back "b-behind you!"
The light explodes and the wellcover shattered. Arms grab the girl and pull her into the well while the cat jumps out of her arms. She looks shocked while she is still being pulled in and grabs at the boy.
"What's going on?" The boy says frightened.
The well on the inside doesn't look like a well at all; it is blue with stars and looks like a magical version of space. One of the arms holding her turns the girl's head. She looks at who or what pulled her down the well. She gasps as she sees a monster with a woman's upper body and a centipede's lower body. It is holding her with eight arms.
"At last! I can feel my strength returning" She says as she holds the girl. The girl struggles to get away. "You have it, don't you? Give it to me!" She says as she licks the girl's face. The girl panics.
"What are you doing?! Let go!" She yells as she places her hand on the monster's face. A light comes from the girl's palm and explodes at the monster. The arm holding the girl comes off and stays on her.
"Give it to me! I must have the sacred jewel!" The monster says as she falls away.
A light shines in the girl's side.
"The sacred jewel?" she questions slowly. She falls on firm ground and leans there panting.
"… I guess I must have fallen… in the well…" She said as if to reassure herself. Maybe I bumped my head or… "Uhh maybe not..." she said as she looked at the arm next to her.
"Either way," she got up slowly, "Hey Sota! Get Grandpa!" She grabbed a vine on the inside of the well and started to climb out. "He probably took off."
"Hmm?" she said as a white butterfly circled around her.
"What the…" She said as she lifted herself out of the well. She is surrounded by plants and grass and forests. I could be wrong, but Toto, I think we're not in Tokyo anymore
"Grandpa? Mom? Are you there?" She called out as she started walking. "Sotaaa! Buyyyyooooo!" She keeps on walking "It's like the family shrine is not even- oh! The tree!" She said as she started running to the tree. That means I'm practically home! She gasps when she sees a boy pinned to a tree with an arrow. "Is that a boy?" she says to herself as the wind blows gently through his hair. The girl climbs up on the tree. "Hey… Whatcha doin'?" She says as she stands in front of him. She notices his ears. Oh wow. They're like… dog ears I think I wanna…touch 'em. She plays with his ears. She sighs "now that that's out of my system…"
"Get away from there! What do you think your doing?" Some men shout, aiming their arrows at her. They shoot.
"Ah!" She pushes herself up against the boy and the arrows just miss her and the boy.
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"You didn't have to tie me up you know" She said struggling. Villagers were standing around her.
"That's right, a girl in strange clothing"
"Could there be another war?"
"Of course and right before rice planting season."
"She could be a kitsune in disguise."
"Better a shape changer than another war"
Topknot…topknot…topknot…topknot…what is this the Japan of medieval times?
"Make way for high priestess Kaede!" An old woman with a patch over her right eye walked over to the girl. She started throwing rice at the girl.
"Demon! Be gone!" the high priestess says.
"Hey! Hey! I'm not a demon okay?" The girl yells
"Are ye not?" Kaede responds "then why where ye found in the Forest of Inuyasha?"
"She could be a spy for another village" a man whispered.
"In that case she would be a fool" Kaede responds "who would invade such a poor village as ours?" She notices the girl glaring at her. "Let me have a good look at ye. Look clever, girl or be a half-wit" Kaede says as she takes the girl's face in her hand and examined it. Why you…The girl thinks angrily. "It's there. Though I've no idea why."
says Kaede.
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Kaede slowly stirs a pot of soup and fills the girl's bowl "Stew?" She offered the girl the food.
"Wow… that look's great! Real food!" The girl took a sip.
"Bare us no ill will child, for though I now see ye mean us no harm. In these troubling times of war, no stranger may be welcomed among us without deep distrust."
"We really aren't in Tokyo anymore are we?" The girl asked.
"To-ky-o? Never heard of it. Is that where your people are from?"
"Uh yeah! So I should get going!" The girl said nervously though I've no idea how to get back of course she closes her eyes and takes a sip of her stew. Kaede looks at her.
"Sister please! You must-."
"Take the jewel Kaede and see that it is burned with my body"
Fifty years have passed since then Kaede thught to herself.
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The huge body of a centipede is seen rushing to the village. Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! A bell rings and people are running everywhere.
"What's going on?" Kaede says as she peers out of her hut. She and the girl both run out.
"It's the monster! The monster's come back!" a man yells.
The centipede monster holds a horse in her mouth and drops it from high above.
"It's that thing!" The girl yells.
"Give me the sacred jewel!" The centipede monster yells as she swoops down upon the girl and Kaede.
"It said the Sacred Jewel! Bearing it still?" Kaede said to the girl.
"Uh… I have no idea… I mean I've heard of a jewel but I-." The girl explained.
"I must have it! I must!" The monster cried out as she twirled around knocking away everything in her path. That thing! It's after me! The girl realized.
"We must lure it to The Dry Well." Kaede says
"The Dry Well?" The girl asks
"In the Forest of Inuyasha"
The well I climbed out of!
"Which way is the forest?" she says to Kaede "Where the light's shining… right?"
"Wait!" Kaede shouted as the monster flew past her.
"I'll draw it away!" The girl yells as she ran to the forest.
"How is it she can see what cannot be seen in the Forest of Inuyasha?" Kaede thought out loud. A man ran over to Kaede with horses "Lady Kaede!" He shouted as everyone got on a horse.
The girl ran to the forest thinking someone will save me right? They've got to!
"Grandpa? Mom? Anybody? Whoever you are please somebody help me!!!"
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A pink aura surrounded the boy with dog ears. His claws flexed.
"I smell it." He said evilly "The blood of the woman who killed me. And it's coming closer." He reached to the arrow which has him pinned to the tree and tried to take it out but it glowed purple and he was unable to touch the enchanted arrow.
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"The Jewel! Give it to me!" The centipede monster shouted.
"I told you I don't have it!" The girl shouted back as she runs up a hill. The monster slammed into the hill sending the girl through the air.
"Ow!" she yelled as she hit the ground.
"Hello Kikyo." A disgusted voice said. The girl looked around cautiously. "Playing with bugs now are we?"
"Huh?" She looked up at the boy she saw earlier Did he just talk? "So you're alive?" She said, surprised.
"Why you takin' so long to kill it? Just do her like you did me." He looked down at her. "You look pretty dumb there Kikyo. The Kikyo I know wouldn't waste her time."
"That does it." The girl stood up looking with and angry and annoyed look. "Kikyo! Kikyo! Whoever she is! She's NOT me 'cause MY name is-."
"She's here." The boy said as the centipede dove at them both. All of a sudden weapons came from out of no where and hit the monster in the side.
"Good! Now pull!" A man shouts as everyone pulls the monster away from the girl and boy.
"So I was saved" The girl says, relived.
"You're pathetic Kikyo."
"I'm NOT Kikyo!" The girl yelled as she marched up to him. "Look I'm telling you! I'm not her! Whoever her is!"
"And I'm saying you gotta be her! Because if your not there's no way that you could smell so-." He sniffed. "You're not her." A sweat drop appeared on his face.
"I know!" The girl said. "My name is Kagome! Ka-go-me!"
"Your right." He said as he looked away, "Kikyo was cuter, much cuter." The centipede monster grabbed Kagome and started pulling her away.
"Ahhh! Let go of me!" She shouted as she grabbed onto the boy's hair.
"OW! OW! OW! You let go!" He yelled at her.
"Inuyasha has revived!" A man shouted to Kaede. How can that be? Kaede thought The arrow should have held him forever!
"Give me the sacred jewel!" The centipede yelled still holding onto Kagome. The sacred jewel? Inuyasha thought. The centipede sprouted fangs and moved closer to Kagome.
"Stop it!" Kagome screamed as she put her hand up to the centipede. A light flashed and all of the monster's arms fell off. "Hey. That happened before in the well" Kagome said to herself while the villagers and Kaede stand there shocked. "How'd I do though...what's happening now?" Kagome gasped when a light started shining in her side. The Centipede charged her and grabbed Kagome's side with her fangs, and flung her into the air. A sphere came from the bite in Kagome's side. She looked at it as she fell through the air. It came from inside me she thought is that the sacred jewel? Kagome hit the ground and the jewel landed in front of her.
"Give me the jewel! Quick!" Inuyasha said as Kagome got up slowly.
"What?" Kagome said, confused.
"Hurry!" The centipede monster wrapped her body around Kagome and Inuyasha and crushed them against the tree.
"I heard some half-demon brat was after the jewel. It's you isn't it?!" The centipede monster said as she went to the jewel. Half demon? What is he anyways? Kagome thought.
"That's all I need to kick your scaly hide" He said "anything more than that would be a waste of my time!"
"Listen, you talk big but can you back it up?" Kagome said.
"Huh?" Inuyasha looked at her surprised.
"Can you or not?" Inuyasha looked at the centipede as if determined to destroy her.
"What can he do?" The monster said "Or you for that matter? You're powerless to stop me! You're helpless, the both of you." Her tongue wrapped around the jewel and she swallowed it.
"Don't you dare!" Inuyasha cried out. The centipede's arms attached themselves back onto her body. Kagome held on to Inuyasha and said quietly "Look it's re-arming." The centipede exploded out of her skin.
"Rejoice! My power is complete!" She screeched as she shed her old skin. Her new skin was black and red and she had large red eyes. She wrapped her body around Inuyasha and Kagome tighter.
"It's crushing me!" Kagome gasped as she clung onto Inuyasha.
"Hey… can you pull out this arrow?" Inuyasha whispered to her.
"Huh?"
"Look, can you pull out this arrow or not?!" He shouted to Kagome.
"I-I don't know…" Kagome said as she reached up to the arrow. Kaede jumped off her horse and yelled to Kagome "Nay child! Once the arrow is removed then Inuyasha will be free to destroy us all!"
"Don't be stupid you old hag! At least you got a chance with me; whereas that thing will eat you all!" Inuyasha yelled back angrily "And what about you? Are you ready to die yet?" He said looking down at Kagome. I-I don't know what I should do Kagome thought as she reached up to pull out the arrow. But…given the choice I choose to…
"LIVE" She shouted as a bright light flashed and the arrow disappeared in her hand.
"It's gone!" Kaede said, "My sister's spell vanished!" Ba-boom, Ba-boom, boom, boom…A pink aura surrounded Inuyasha as the arrow disappeared. Kagome looked up at Inuyasha "Inu…yasha?" She said slowly, as if remembering his name from somewhere.
"Ah ha ha ha ha!" Inuyasha laughed maniacally, ready to attack the monster. The centipede monster screeched and tightened her body around Inuyasha and Kagome even more. A golden light flashed as Inuyasha slashed through the centipede's body.
"Ahhh!" Kagome yelled as she's thrown onto the ground with centipede body parts flying around her. Inuyasha spun through the air and landed in front of the centipede.
"Nasty hag!" He yelled as the monster charged at him. "Iron reaver, soul stealer!" He shouted as he slashed through the centipede's body. Parts of the monster's body went flying as he sliced the monster completely in half.
"Now I know… he is strong." Kagome said staring at Inuyasha. Near her, a centipede segment moved. "Ah!" She gasped and jumped away "It's still moving!"
"Find the glowing flesh quickly" Kaede advised "That's where the jewel will be, it must be removed at once lest the flesh of Mistress Centipede revive."
"Whoa! Whoa! Tell me you're joking!" Kagome said. She looked around. "There! It's that one!" She pointed to a nearby segment of Mistress Centipede. Kaede walked over to it and removed the jewel. Instantly the flesh of Mistress Centipede shriveled leaving only bones.
"Huh?" Kagome said as Kaede handed her the jewel. "But-."
"Only ye may possess the sacred jewel" Ye who seem so much like the dead Kikyo Kaede thought.
"But how'd it get inside my body? Why would I have a jewel wanted by demons?" Kagome asked.
"Exactly," Inuyasha said as he crushed it under his foot. "Humans can't use it so why bother to keep it? If you hand over the jewel right now, I won't have to start sharpening my claws on you." He flexed his claws, ready to attack Kagome.
"What?" Kagome looked at him, "What? What?" You mean he's not the hero?