Scene: Time lapse. Present. Higurashi Monument. Kagome and her friends are standing there, talking. Grandpa is making business with a foreign man.
Ayumi: How's it going, your relationship?
Kagome: Great. Everything is fine.
Yuka: Is he still that egoistic?
Kagome: No, not at all. He's taking good care of me. Mustn't grumble at all.
Yuka: You don't expect us to buy that do you?
Kagome: It's the truth! Couldn't be better.
Eri: And when will you see him again?
Kagome: If nothing intervenes the day after tomorrow after school. He cracks up when I leave him alone for too long.
Ayumi: He seems to be very fond of you.
Yuka: Haven't you told he would have another one? What about her? Is he still meeting her?
Kagome: He can't. She's dead. (She sees the daughter of the man who is making business with Grandpa.)Sango?
Ayumi: Kagome, are you listening to us?
Eri: Kagome!
Kagome: What? Oh, yeah. What did you just say?
Ayumi: You're not listening to us, Kagome.
Kagome: I'm sorry I got distracted.
(Grandpa and the man shake hands.)
Man: I enjoyed making business with you.
Grandpa: So did I. Kukuru, I fooled him pretty much and he doesn't realize it.
Man: (to his daughter) Come on, Sango, let's go.
Kagome: Sango!? Um, excuse me! (She walks over to the man and his daughter.)
Ayumi/Eri/Yuka: Kagome!
Kagome: Excuse me please for asking that stupid question but was one of your ancestors called Sango, too and lived at about 500 years ago?
Grandpa: Kagome! Don't bother them with those stupid questions! I have to apologize for my granddaughter's behavior. I'm sorry.
Man: But there's no reason to. There was indeed one called like that.
Sango: My great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother was called Sango and lived at that time.
Kagome: Can you tell me anything else about her? What she did for a living for example?
Man: No, I'm sorry. We have to leave now. Excuse us.
Kagome: Of course.
Man: Are you coming, Sango?
Sango: But Grandma told she had been a demon slayer.
Man: Sango. How many times did we talk about this? Demons don't exist. They never have. Excuse us. Have a nice day. Sango, come on now.
Sango: Yes, Dad.
(They leave. Grandpa looks at Kagome. Kagome's friends come over to them.)
Eri: Who was that, Kagome?
Ayumi: A friend of yours?
Yuka: Do you know her?
Kagome: Yes, I think I do… Well, see you. Bye! Grandpa, I need to talk to you. Now! (She drags Grandpa into the house.)
Yuka: She's gotten so strange since that series of diseases had started.
Ayumi: Maybe it damaged her brain somehow.
Eri: She's not normal, that's for sure.
Scene: Higurashi Monument. Inside the house. Kagome and Grandpa are sitting there, talking.
Kagome: Grandpa, you do know everything about this spiritual stuff.
Grandpa: True legends, you mean, Kagome.
Kagome: Yeah, right. Do you believe in reincarnations?
Grandpa: Huh!Of course. What a stupid question. Why do you ask? Do you doubt it?
Kagome: No, I don't. I know that it's true. I got some experience in the Feudal Era. This girl just now seemed familiar to me. She looks exactly like my friend Sango in the other era. Do you think it's her reincarnation?
Grandpa: This is what you want to know?
Kagome: Yeah, what else?
Grandpa: Nothing. She could be indeed. She believes in the existence of demons. This could be a hint.
Kagome: I think so, too. Thanks, Grandpa.
Grandpa: No problem. And I thought…
Scene: Time lapse. Ice cream parlor. Kagome's and his friends are sitting there.
Ayumi: Tomorrow's the day of all days. First day at a new school. Beginning of try-out-period at senior high school.
Eri: Yeah. Kagome, you were really lucky that you can already go to senior high.
Yuka: Yeah, considering how many times you missed classes your marks got quite bad.
Kagome: It's not my fault. I did my best to catch up and I did it by a hair's breadth.
Ayumi: You're gonna go to a different school than Houjou, right?
Yuka: Really? That's not true!
Kagome: It is.
Eri: You can't do that to him. Poor guy.
Kagome: I don't fall for this guy. He should look for another girl and give her all those healthy things.
Ayumi: You are really ungrateful. Is your boyfriend that better?
Kagome: Absolutely. You have no idea.
Eri: Is he going to your new school, too?
Kagome: No, I don't think he ever went to some kind of school, actually. (Her friends are shocked.) But he's not a nuisance or anything! He's doing a lot!
Yuka: For example?
Kagome: Fighting demons. Um, he fights evil.
Eri: He's working as prosecutor?
Kagome: Well, yeah, something like that. Might be better to let them believe that. Otherwise they will start criticizing Inu Yasha all over again.
Scene: Feudal Era. Meadow. Inu Yasha and the gang are resting there.
Miroku: When was Kagome going to return?
Inu Yasha: In a few days. She told something about a new school. Seemed to be very important to her.
Shippou: Hopefully it's not more important to her than us.
Inu Yasha: It mustn't be more important to her. She has to get the Shikon no Tama back. It's her first priority.
Sango: It is but she still has a life in her own time. You can't decide about that.
Inu Yasha: Who broke the jewel, I or she? It's her own fault. First she has to fix this. After that I don't care if she goes back home forever. But I hope she never actually will.
Scene: Present. Time lapse. High School. Kagome's standing on the school yard. She sees Sango and goes to her.
Kagome: Hi! You're Sango, right?
Sango: Right and you were?
Kagome: Oh, sorry, didn't introduce myself. My name is Kagome. Kagome Higurashi.
Sango: Nice to meet you, Kagome. (They shake hands.) We are in the same class I saw.
Kagome: That's great!
Sango: Who is this girl? And who does she remind me of?.
Scene: Feudal Era. Bone-eaters-well. Inu Yasha's sitting there, waiting for Kagome.
Inu Yasha: Kagome where are you?
(Shippou joins him.)
Shippou: You are terribly impatient, you know that? If you miss her so much then go and see her.
Inu Yasha: Nobody said I would be missing her. I just want her to come back because we can't find Naraku without her. She's the only who can track down the shards.
Shippou: Sure. And more importantly you miss her… Hey! You didn't hit me!
Inu Yasha: It's not working anyway.
Shippou: Idiot!
(Inu Yasha hits him.)
Inu Yasha: Satisfied?
Shippou: Now I know you are yourself. Ow!
Scene: Present. Time lapse. Kagome und Sango are walking home together. A boy catches up on them.
Boy: Hello, I think we didn't get to know each other yet. We are in the same class. My name is…
Kagome: Miroku.
Miroku: This is right. How do you know…?
Kagome: Tell you soon. First answer my question. Has there any of your ancestors been called like you?
Sango: She asked me the same. Just say yes.
Miroku: Yes, that's right, too. What strange girl! I don't know her but apparently she knows me.
(Kagome sees his right hand is in bandages)
Kagome: Oh no, don't tell me it's still there! (She takes his hand and looks at it.)
Sango: What do you mean?
Miroku: I know what she means. No, calm down. I don't have the Kazaana.
Sango: Kazaana?
Miroku: But now tell me who are you and why do you know about it?
Kagome: I'll tell you.
Scene: Present. Time lapse. Sango's home. Kagome sees a cat.
Kagome: Kirara! (Kirara recognizes her and goes to her. Kagome strokes her.)
Sango: Won't ask you how you know that again. My great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother had a cat called Kirara and everytime the kitten were given to the next generation. That's what I was told.
Kagome: This is nonsense. This is exactly the same Kirara who has accompanied your ancestor. She's a youkai. That's why she doesn't age so fast.
Sango: A youkai?
Kagome: Yeah but a harmless one as you might have noticed. She's supported me a lot already. (Kirara runs into the basement. Sango turns on the lights. Kirara caresses Hiraikotsu.) It's yours, isn't it?
Sango: Right. I inherited it.
Kagome: Do you know how to use it?
Sango: Perfectly. Grandma took care of that.
Kagome: Miroku, Sango, it's really you.
Miroku: Now come on tell us how do you know that all.
Kagome: What all do you know about the Feudal Era?
Miroku: Much. Grandpa told me about it.
Sango: Grandma, too…
Miroku: It was the time when humans still believed in the existence of youkai and mononoke.
Kagome: Perfectly right. Nowadays there's hardly someone who does so. I didn't believe in it myself until I entered the Feudal Era on my fifteenth birthday.
Sango: How?
Kagome: Heard of the Shikon no Tama?
Sango: Yes, it was made in the home village of my ancestor.
Miroku: A jewel strong and dangerous when possessed by a youkai…
Kagome: Exactly. It was in my body because I allegedly am the reincarnation of the miko which was responsible for protecting the Shikon.
Miroku: I remember. This miko was killed by a very bad evil youkai called Naraku. The same youkai that cursed my ancestors with the Kazaana. So you are her reincarnation? Interesting
Kagome: That's what they say. If I'm right Naraku must have been vanquished because you are not cursed.
Miroku: Right. My ancestor killed him together with his friends at that time.
Kagome: We did it! Do you know by any chance the names of these friends?
Miroku: Wait, there was Inu Yasha, the hanyou…
Kagome: Yeah…
Sango: Kizune youkai Shippou.
Kagome: Right.
Miroku: And.. oh, now I know… Kagome!
Sango: You are the girl from that time from the future, our present?
Kagome: Yes, I regularly go back there to the Feudal Era…
Miroku: To get the Shikon back which you once has broken.
Kagome: They told you about this, too? Huh…
Sango: There was another one… Miroku…
Miroku: And Sango…
Kagome: You're right.
Miroku: So you think we are the reincarnation of your friends from the Feudal Era and our souls recognized each other and found back together again?
Kagome: I don't think so. I know it.
Sango: Unbelievable.
Scene: Time lapse. Higurashi monument. Kagome shows Miroku and Sango the well.
Sango: The Bone-Eater's well.
Miroku: It banned the youkai from this world. Only the bones were left behind.
Kagome: Mistress Centipede's bones are still in there. But tell me now, what happened to the other ones Shippou and Inu Yasha?
(Sango und Miroku look at each other, feeling uneasy.)
Sango: Do you tell her or must I?
Kagome: Tell me what?
Miroku: They died still in that era.
Sango: Shippou was killed in a fight. I don't know if it was an accident…
Miroku: Yes, it was. He had no chance.
Kagome: And Inu Yasha?
Miroku: That was an awful scene He got victimized by himself.
Sango: He was seriously injured when he lost Tetsusaiga. He transformed into a youkai and fought and fought…
Miroku: Until his body gave in.
Kagome: Inu Yasha… dead? (She breaks down.)
Sango: We shouldn't have told her. She'll have to go through it soon enough.
Miroku: You're right. We were reckless. Remember she's in love with him.
Kagome: What? What did your ancestors tell you? I'm not in love with him.
Sango: She already denied it that time. Although everyone knew about it. Even Shippou and Kaede.
Kagome: Hang on! How do you know that this true? Have we ever done something that proves this?
Miroku: How would you rate a kiss?
Kagome: You mean when I released Inu Yasha from Kaguya's charm?
Miroku: This one and the ones following.
Kagome: Following? Well… well…
Sango: Now she's completely confused. I'm sorry, you're not that far yet, are you?
Kagome: What if I told you that you might be right?
Miroku: Nothing. The course of time would not change as our ancestors will never hear it from your mouth. Wanna say something, Kagome?
Kagome: Alright, you're of course right . Yes, I'm in love with Inu Yasha. Satisfied now?
Sango: The question is if you are.
Kagome: What?
Sango: It took ages that time, too. So this will probably repeat again unless you do something about it. Otherwise it'll drag on again.
Kagome: I don't care… We were really a couple?
Miroku: Yep. You were and you can't say you would have been unhappy.
Kagome: But still I couldn't retransform him to save him?
Sango: No, he even almost killed you. It was over. He had fully transformed into a youkai. His soul was completely lost.
Kagome: And what happened to me? I mean, the girl from the future?
Miroku: You returned home. They've never seen you again.
Kagome: But we vanquished Naraku together before?
Sango: Exactly.
Kagome: And what about the Shikon?
Miroku: As far as I know it broke again and they never managed to complete it again.
Kagome: That's why there were still shards here in our time. I have to change the course of time. It mustn't turn out that way. I don't want to lose Inu Yasha and Shippou. (Tears are running down her face.) They mustn't die.
Miroku: I don't know if this is possible but with this knowledge there should be a chance.
Sango: Do you best!
Kagome: I will. Then you will stay together, too.
Miroku/Sango: Huh?
Sango: They only told me he was perverted.
(Miroku pats her butt. Sango slaps him.)
Miroku: And they told me she always slapped him.
Kagome: Relax, Sango. It's a family thing.
Scene: Feudal Era. Time lapse. Inu Yasha and the gang are sitting there. Kagome's talking to Myouga.
Sango: You really met our descendants and equally reincarnations at your time?!
Kagome: Yes, it's amazing! They know everything. You two gave all your knowledge about this era to your descendants and they did the same to their ones. There has been a generation in between that didn't believe in it but that Sango and Miroku are not that superficial.
Shippou: And did you meet my reincarnation, too, Kagome?
Kagome: Um, no, Shippou. There aren't any demons in my time any more.
Inu Yasha: Did you meet mine?
Kagome: Neither. Maybe I will soon. Oh, Inu Yasha, if you knew. But I will save your life whatever it costs.
Miroku: Did they also tell you how our journey continues? A little hint could be useful.
Kagome: We'll manage to finish off Naraku together!
Sango: Really?
Inu Yasha: I knew we would! That bastard deserves nothing else!
Kagome: But some bad things will happen, too. For instance the Shikon will break again and we won't manage to complete it. Inu Yasha, remember the noh-mask? That's why there are still shards in my time. We never found all the shards. Myouga, I was gonna ask you about that. Is it still possible to change the course of time?
Miroku: Hmh?
Myouga: Of course. With every new act you change the course of time substantially. The fact alone that you told us about your time and now this news has caused changes and influenced the course of time. This has an effect on your time, Kagome and even further in the future.
Kagome: So you're saying everything we do and say now has an influence on history?
Miroku: Exactly.
Shippou: What do you want to change, Kagome?
Kagome: Well, I want to finish the search for the Shikon shards successfully of course! (She looks sadly at Inu Yasha and Shippou.)
Inu Yasha: What's that? Why is she looking so sadly at Shippou and me? Does she know more than she wants to tell us? Does she maybe want to change another thing?
Kagome: Thanks for the information. I need to go back now. I'll be back in a few days. See you! (She jumps into the well.)
Inu Yasha: Do you agree that Kagome's hiding something from us?
(The others nod.)
Scene: Present. Time lapse. Kagome's school. School yard. Kagome, Miroku and Sango are standing there, talking.
Sango: So can you still change the course of time?
Kagome: Yes, fortunately. Everything happening in the other era changes the future happenings. I will save Inu Yasha and Shippou. I've sworn myself to that and we will complete the Shikon again, too.
Miroku: You didn't burden yourself too little.
Kagome: I'm gonna put everything what went wrong right.
Sango: We wish you good luck.
Kagome: Thank you. I'll need it.