In a remote village surrounded by mountains. The villagers wear rustic feudal era clothes.
"It's Inuyasha!" The Villagers yell running terrified.
Inuyasha leaps into the sky while trapped in a net. He slashes at the net maliciously and frees himself. Grappling hooks are suddenly shooting at him, but he dodges easily. In a temple, Inuyasha grins evilly and looks at the necklace with a pink orb that glows and he grabs it. Villagers run towards him, throwing spears at him. One of the weapons knock into a lantern and the temple catches fire. Inuyasha escapes through the roof while the temple roof explodes.
"That'll teach you! With this in my possession... I can become a real demon!" Inuyasha declared while staring at the orb on the necklace and continues running and jumping into the forest.
"Inuyasha!" A Priestess yells while drawing an arrow.
Inuyasha turns back while running, and the arrow hits him in the chest, pinning him to a tree behind him and the necklace falls out of his hands. The Priestess looks at Inuyasha determinedly.
"Ki... Kikyo...! Why, you...!" Inuyasha asks confused weakly while struggling, but then falls unconscious.
Kikyo falls to her knees weakly, showing a trail of blood behind her.
"Sister!" A Little Girl with an eye patch on one eye yells rushes up to her.
"Lady Kikyo! She's badly wounded." A Villager yells frantically.
"Sister... How did you get hurt?" The Little Girl asks worriedly.
"My cowardliness... has resulted in this." Kikyo tells her weakly while she picks up the necklace. "And all for this... Jewel of the Four Souls." Kikyo continues to struggle to say while she winces in pain.
"Sister, we must tend to your injury!" The Little Girl pleaded while helping Kikyo.
"I am beyond saving. So listen to me, Kaede. Take this Sacred Jewel... and burn it with my body. It must never get into the hands of evildoers!" Kikyo orders her little sister Kaede while clenching the orb on the necklace tightly and falls onto her side.
"Sister! Sister!" Kaede sadly yells.
Kikyo is now in flames, holding the necklace in a prayer stance, with her eyes closed. "The Sacred Jewel...I will take it with me to the other world." Kikyo voice is heard saying.
...
"A Sacred Jewel?" A Middle School Girl said startled.
"Yes! This jewel will bring happiness and prosperity without fail!" A Old Man says excitedly.
He is wearing a traditional Shinto Priest outfit.
She was holding up a key chain with a mini plaque of Japanese characters and purple orb dangling at the bottom. "You're selling this marble thing? Keychain charms are out of style!" Another Girl who looked like Kikyo asks and tells the Old Man.
He is holding a similar chain with a pink orb. "It's no ordinary keychain! The ball at the end is the Sacred Jewel... This shrine's... Huh?" The Old Man started explaining when a cat's paw appears and starts pawing at the orb the Kikyo look alike is holding, making a noise.
The girl got distracted and teases the cat with the keychain. While the other girl just giggled while watching them, but the old man glares at them and coughs.
"Now heed this, Kimiko (Kikyo's look alike) and you too Kagome, The origin of this shrine's Sacred Jewel... Huh?" He pauses when he sees that Kimiko is still playing with the cat, and Kagome is half listing so he says louder. "The origin of this Sacred Jewel is..."
"Hey Gramps! Remember what day tomorrow is?" Kimiko clenches the keychain and interrupts in a hopeful voice ignoring her Grandpa's speech about the jewel.
Kagome just looks at her older sister with a small smile, her birthday was the same day, but a month later because Kimiko was a premature baby.
"Oh, how could I forget my oldest granddaughter's birthday?" Grandfather replied.
"A present for me?!" Kimiko asks, excited, but she could see Kagome mouthing to her not to get her hopes up.
Kimiko looks at her present incredulously.
"The mummified hand of a water imp is sure to bring happiness. In fact, the origin of that is..." Grandpa starts telling the two girls.
"Have a snack, Buyo." Kimiko says disappointed and gives the present of the water imp's hand to the cat, who bites into it and walks away and tarts thinking. "I should of listened to Kagome."
"No, don't give it away!" Grandfather cries as he tries to catch the cat but the cat jumps onto his face.
Boxes of Sacred Jewel key chains in the back of the room while Kimiko's Voice is heard saying. "Origin. Origin, huh? My family has been the caretaker of a shrine for generations."
...
Middle Of Dinnertime
Gramps holds up a pickle with his chopsticks.
"Now then, the origin of these pickled vegetables is..." Gramps starts explaining.
"Their donations from a shrine-visitor, right?" Kagome asks irritated with all her Grandpa's story's for the day.
"Huh?!" Grandpa says, but then bows his head in embarrassment.
...
Nighttime
An overview of the courtyard of the shrine. A small hut and then a huge tree can be seen.
"The thousand-year-old sacred tree. The legend of the Hidden Well. Everything has some origin. I've been told the stories, countless times. Yet I never paid any attention to them." A hut is seen. "Until today... when I turned fifteen." Kimiko's voice is heard explaining.
...
It's a busy morning in Tokyo. Students and office workers fill the streets.
Kagome and Kimiko's mom yell out. "Kagome! Phone call!"
"The review notes? Sure, I'll bring them today. I know!" Kagome says, then hangs up the phone while running to the front door to put her shoes on while Kimiko waited for her.
Both Kimiko and Kagome were dressed in their school uniform.
"We're off!" Kagome and Kimiko yell while running pass the hut but suddenly stop.
"Huh? Sota?" Kagome ask confused.
"Sisters..." Sota starts as he stands by the door to the hut with a bowl of cat food but Kimiko cuts him off with. "You're not supposed to play around here."
"But Buyo." Sota says still worried.
"Did he go into the Hidden Well?" Kagome asked worriedly.
Kagome, Kimiko and Sota go into the hut and they are at the top of a staircase which leads to a square which is a well covered up with planks and a charm.
"Buyo! I think he's at the bottom." Sota tells his two sisters scared.
"Why don't you go down?" Kagome says backing away a little bit.
"This place gives me the creeps." Sota said shaking a little.
"Such a scaredy cat! Be a man!" Kimiko tells Sota.
A fading scraping noise is heard.
"Something's down there!" Sota yells and hides behind Kimiko while Kagome grabs the back of her sisters shirt afraid.
"It's the cat! Aw, man..." Kimiko said before she walks down the stairs with Kagome still gripping her shirt while the scraping noise is heard again.
"That sound? From inside the well?" Kimiko thinks, but then hears Kagome scream.
"Buyo!" Sota shouted, falling on his back from the scream.
Buyo appears next to Kagome's feet and purrs loudly. Kimiko picks him up and stands near the well.
"You scared me! Don't scream so loud, Sis!" Sota scolds Kagome.
"Watch it! We're down here 'cause you're scared!" Kagome told Sota making Kimiko roll her eyes knowing Kagome was just as scared.
A light emits from the well and the planks on the well rumbles. A vortex of energy surges out, breaking the planks and charm.
"Sisters!" Sota yells worried.
The vortex of energy turns into hands and grabs Kimiko into the well, but since Kagome tried to help she got pulled into by holding her sister's ankle. Buyo escapes and runs to Sota
"Sisters!" Sota yells scared.
"Huh?!" Kimiko turns around to find a woman with six hands grabbing onto her and Kagome holding onto her ankle for dear life.
"Such joy! I can feel my strength returning! My body is coming to life again!" The Woman says and her lower body which was a centipede's, which was just bones, fill out and turns into a long centipede body.
"You have it, don't you? Don't you?" The Centipede Monster asks and licks Kimiko's face with her long pointed tongue.
"Let us go! You're disgusting!" Kimiko demands and struggles while trying not to move her legs too much not wanting to hurt Kagome and shoves her left hand into the centipede's face. "Let us go, I said!"
Light emits from Kimiko's palm, which throws the centipede back, releasing Kimiko and essentially Kagome.
"You little...! You won't escape from me! The Sacred Jewel...!" The Centipede Monster tells her while she fades away.
Kimiko and Kagome continues falling. A pink light emits from Kimiko's stomach. One of its human arms which broke off from the centipede still grabs onto Kimiko.
"The Sacred Jewel?" Kimiko ponders but then the arm loses its grip on Kimiko.
"Huh?" Kagome asked, confused.
Kagome and Kimiko land gently onto the bottom of the well. They catch their breath and looks at the opening of the well.
"Are we inside the well? Was that a dream?" Kagome questions and turns around and see the broken human arm, saying in a creeped out voice. "It wasn't a dream! We gotta get out!" She stands panicking. "Sota! Are you there? Get Gramps!" Kagome says getting panicky while Kimiko just places a hand on her shoulder which calms Kagome down slightly.
There is no answer. Kimiko grips onto the vines growing on the walls of the well and climbs upwards making Kagome follow after.
"That kid! He ran away!" Kimiko mutters frustrated but understandably.
A white glowing butterfly flutters near Kimiko
"Huh?" Kagome and Kimiko say shocked.
The butterfly flies away. Kimiko reaches the ledge of the well. However, it is no longer the interior of the hut anymore. A lush greenery and forest is seen instead. Kimiko sits herself on the ledge and then helps Kagome up.
"Where's this? I know I fell into the well at the shrine, but..." Kimiko thinks, but trailed off and gets off the ledge and walks around. "Gramps! Mom? Gramps! Mom!" Kimiko starts thinking, but as she and Kagome start walking, she yells for their family.
The two walk into a forest area, birds are tweeting in the pleasant forest.
"Sota... Buyo... The shrine is gone." Kagome says sadly.
Kimiko gives Kagome a hug, but then notices the Sacred Tree.
"The Sacred Tree that is in the Higurashi Shrine" Kimiko said happily.
The girls run towards it happy.
"What a relief" Kimiko said relived as she pushes away some bushes. "We're close to home!"
However the girls stop in their tracks. The girls look at the Sacred Tree a boy is pinned onto the tree, with roots growing over him. An arrow is pierced through his chest. His eyes are closed and he looks dead and or unconscious.
"A boy?" Kagome asks, backing away a little not wanted to get close to a corpse, however Kimiko climbs up a root and walks to the boy.
"Hey, what're you doing?" Kimiko asked the boy, but then noticing two dog ears on the boys head, thinking. "These... aren't human ears. I want to touch them..."
Kagome comes over, but she stays by the root of the tree seeing as there's no danger and not wanting to be far from her sister. Kimiko rubs the boy's ears curiously with both hands for a while, but she stops and slouches over when she hears Kagome laugh at her.
"Maybe you shouldn't be doing that sis." Kagome tells Kimiko giggling.
Suddenly a group of villagers appear and draw arrows at Kimiko and Kagome.
One of the villagers who is called Yukichi yells out while drawing an arrow at Kimiko with several other villagers point theirs at Kagome threateningly "You there! What're you up to?!"
The villagers fire their arrows. Kagome runs behind the tree while Kimiko cowers onto the boy, while the arrows miss and hit the tree trunk instead. The villagers rush up to her and Kagome.
...
The Village Square
Kimiko and Kagome sit with their hands and ankles tied up on a straw mat in the village square. The villagers surround them.
"Hey! Why are we tied up?!" Kagome and Kimiko yell annoyed.
"Two young girls in strange clothing." A Villager says.
"From a foreign land?" Another answers questionably.
"Will there be war again?" Another asks fearfully.
"Just before rice planting season? We're so short-handed as it is!" Yukichi complains.
"Perhaps they're a fox in disguise?" A Village Woman suggested.
"Better a shape changer than another war." A Villager says hopefully
"Topknots... topknots... All of them have topknots! Where is this place?!" Kagome thinks while surveying the villagers.
"Make way for High Priestess Kaede!" Yukichi yells to the villagers.
An old woman with an eye patch in priestess clothes, holding a bundle and a bow, walks towards Kimiko since she was the closest to Inuyasha.
"Great. Here comes ANOTHER weirdo." Kimiko thinks becoming frustrated.
Kaede hands her arrow to Yukichi, reaches into her bundle for some powder and throws it at Kimiko and then Kagome both of them are struggling.
"Hey! What're you doing?!" Kimiko and Kagome yell fed up.
"They told me a demon was found in the Inuyasha Forest. I thought some ritual purification was in order." Kaede stated like it was a simple solution to everyday problems.
"Then could they be foreign spy's?" A Villager asks.
"Yes, but to spy on what?! We can barely feed ourselves in this village." Kaede says pissed off.
Kaede then looks at at Kimiko surprised. She walks closer to Kimiko. "You there. Let me take a good look at your face." Kaede grabs Kimiko's chin and turns Kimiko's face left and right. "Look clever, girl!" Kaede says, ignoring Kagome for now.
"Enough already!" Kimiko yells glaring at Kaede.
"Such a likeness... to my sister Kikyo." Kaede says to Kimiko letting go of her face.
"Huh?" The Sisters ask looking at each other in confusion and surprise.
...
Nighttime - Kaede's Hut
Kaede scoops up some stew for the girls who are sitting waiting patiently "Looks delicious! Thank you!" Kagome and Kimiko compliment and then drink the stew.
"Forgive us. With so many wars these days, our young ones have become rash. Even if I tell them we've no business with wars, they refuse to listen and only give me more to worry about." Kaede explains to the girls.
"This, uh... isn't Tokyo, is it?" Kagome asks sadly.
"'Tokyo'...? Never heard of such a place. Is that your homeland?" Kaede questions confused.
"Yes, well... we'd like to go home soon." Kimiko informed and then begins thinking. "Not that I know how, exactly..."
Kaede looks intently at Kimiko as she and Kagome slurp up more stew.
...
Flashback
"Sister, we must tend to your injury!" Younger Kaede pleaded supporting her sister.
"Take this Sacred Jewel... and burn it with my body!" Kikyo requested.
...
Present
"Fifty years have passed since that day." Kaede thinks solemnly.
...
Meanwhile
A demon burrowing through the grass at a very fast speed. It crashes into a hut and reveals its Centipede's body. It destroys more huts in the village. The villagers run as a bell rings in the background. Kaede, Kagome and Kimiko rush out of their hut.
"What's going on?!" Kaede asks.
"An evil spirit!" A Villager yells.
The Centipede Monster that grabbed Kimiko and Kagome into the well appears. She holds a horse in her mouth. Several villagers fire arrows at her, whom she swipes away with her tail. She flings the horse in Kimiko, Kagome, and Kaede's direction. They all manage to dodge.
"That again!" Kagome yells fearfully.
"Hand me the Sacred Jewel!" The Centipede Monster demanded and swoops down at Kimiko, Kagome and Kaede but misses.
"The Sacred Jewel?" Kaede inquired shocked than looks to Kimiko. "Do you have it?"
"I don't know! I don't know about any Sacred Jewel!" Kimiko yells frustrated.
Two villagers fire arrows at the Centipede Monster while she's in midair.
"Give it to me! Give it to me!" The Centipede Monster repeats yelling angrily and spins her body and swipes her spinning tail at the villagers."
"That demon! It's coming after me!" Kimiko thinks.
"Our spears and arrows have no effect!" Yukichi shouts to Kaede.
"We must throw her into the Dry Well!" Kaede orders the villagers.
"Dry well?!" Kagome asks confused
"The well in the Inuyasha Forest." Kaede answers.
"That's the well me and Kagome climbed out of." Kimiko thought coming up with somewhat of a plan.
"Which way is the forest?" Kimiko asks as she turns around. "Where the light is shining?"
Kimiko runs off. Kagome sees her sister running off and yells at her to come back but Kimiko ignores her.
"What did you say?!" Kaede asks shocked.
The Centipede Monster swoops down at Kimiko and the villagers again.
...
In Front Of The Forest
Kimiko is running she jumps into a shallow pond.
"Let it pursue me!" Kimiko yells to the villagers.
"That girl! How can an ordinary girl see the foul vapors that rise from the forest?" Kaede thinks to herself.
"Priestess Kaede!" A Villager says as he approaches with several other villagers and horses.
Kaede and Kagome take one horse while Yukichi get onto his horse.
...
Kimiko is running through a lone path, panting heavily. She is running towards a forest which has a psychedelic colored sky above it. Kimiko looks back and see the Centipede Monster chasing her, thinking "Gramps! Mom! Save me! Someone help!" Kimiko then yells out. "Someone help me!"
...
The Forest
Where the boy is sealed a pink glow pulses around him. His hands suddenly clenches a little. The boy wakes up opening his amber colored eyes.
"I can smell it... The scent of the woman who killed me! It's approaching!" The Boy says, smirking evilly and darkly and tries to take out the arrow in his chest, but the arrow emits a barrier that prevents him from doing so. "Damn!" The Boy angrily shouts frustrated.
Kimiko is running up a slope in the forest as the Centipede Monster is hot on her trail.
"Give me the Sacred Jewel!" The Centipede Monster yelled at Kimiko.
"I don't have any such thing!" Kimiko shouted back getting frustrated.
When Kimiko runs up the slope, the Centipede Monster lunges at her, crashing into the ground and sending her flying. She flips in the air and lands in front of the boy.
"Oww!" Kimiko said.
"Hey Kikyo! Why are you wasting time with the Centipede Monster?" The White Haired Boy asks Kimiko.
Kimiko looks up at the white haired boy, thinking. "Did I just hear... talking?!" Kimiko then decided to ask the boy. "Are you alive?"
"Kill her in one strike, Kikyo. Just like the time you killed me. Huh? Don't look so dumb! Lost your mind already, Miss Kikyo?" The Boy asks, annoyed and mocking Kimiko.
"Kikyo? Kikyo? Who's this Kikyo?! You listen here, my name is..." Kimiko irritably said, but was cut off by the boy who looks ahead and mysteriously said. "She's coming."
The Centipede Monster lunges at Kimiko from behind, who dodges. A few grappling hooks appear and hits the Centipede Monster. The villagers appear around the group.
"All right! Heave!" A Villager orders.
"Right!" The Villagers reply and pull the grappling hook, reeling the Centipede Monster in.
"I'm saved..." Kimiko sighs in relief.
"So hopeless, Kikyo!" The Boy scoffed irritated.
"Hey, you! Don't mistake me! I said I'm not Kikyo!" Kimiko says while walking right in front of the boy.
"Shut up! Who else would give off a scent like you? Huh?" The Boy starts yelling annoyed, but then stopped noticing something and sniffs Kimiko. "Or... maybe not Kikyo."
"Finally! My name is Kimiko! Ki-mi-ko!" Kimiko say irritated.
"Kikyo seemed smarter. And she was a beauty." The Boy states.
Kimiko gets riled up, but before she can yell at him the Centipede Monster grabs her from behind, pulling at her. Kimiko in turn pulls at the boy's hair.
"Let go of me!" Kimiko yells at the Centipede Monster.
"Ouch! You let go of me!" The Boy yells her.
Kaede, Kagome and Yukichi arrive at the scene with their horses.
"Priestess Kaede! Inuyasha!" A Villager shouts.
"The Inuyasha has awakened?! The spell that was cast was eternal! So why...?" Kaede thinks shocked.
"Give me the Sacred Jewel!" The Centipede Monster yells at Kimiko.
"Let me go!" Kimiko yells scared.
"The Sacred Jewel?" Inuyasha thinks becoming intrigued.
The Centipede Monster opens her mouth, revealing all her sharp teeth, about to bite into Kimiko, but she raises her hand at the Centipede Monster yelling. "Stop!" A force emits from Kimiko's palm and hits the Centipede Monster, causing her to let go of Kimiko making her fall to the ground. The human arms of the monster drop off.
"That's right!" Kimiko thinks allowed looking at her hand. "Something like this happened in that well"
A villager gasps in amazement at Kimiko's feat.
"But... why can I do these things?" Kimiko asks no one. A glow appears at the side of Kimiko's torso.
"Something is shining!" Kagome yells scared for her sister.
The Centipede Monster lunges at Kimiko again and this time, Kimiko is thrown into the air. As she is in midair, the glow exits her body and becomes a pink orb.
"From within me... Is that the Sacred Jewel?" Kimiko thinks while falling to the ground, the orb landing in front of her.
"Give me that Jewel! Hurry!" Inuyasha demands.
Before Kimiko has time to react, the Centipede Monster circles her body around the tree and Kimiko several times, and squeezes, pressing Kimiko onto Inuyasha on the tree. The orb is still on the ground.
"I heard that a half-demon brat was after the Sacred Jewel. So you're the one?" The Centipede Monster taunts Inuyasha.
"A half-demon? What is he anyway?" Kimiko wonders to herself a little curious.
"Don't underestimate me, Centipede Monster! I can take care of you... if I really get down to business." Inuyasha told the Centipede Monster.
"You! You're awfully arrogant! Are you strong?" Kimiko asks Inuyasha.
"Huh?" Inuyasha states confused looking at Kimiko.
"Well, are you?" Kimiko says getting impatient.
"What can he do, strapped down like that? He's under a powerful spell." The Centipede Monster mocks and bends down to the Sacred Jewel. "Just stay where you are and watch!" The Centipede Monster picks up the jewel with her tongue and swallows it.
"Damn you!" Inuyasha growled out.
"It swallowed the Jewel!" Kagome yelled.
"No! What will happen, Priestess Kaede?!" A Villager asks terrified.
The fallen limbs of the Centipede Monster start glowing and reattach to her.
"Its arms are growing again...!" Kagome shouted afraid.
The Centipede Monster shakes a little and her skin falls off, revealing a grotesque rotten skeleton like torso and face.
"Rejoice! My power is being restored!" The Centipede Monster says excitedly. The Centipede Monster tightens her body and Kimiko who ends up being dragged downwards.
"It got me!" Kimiko yells struggling.
"Hey. Can you pull out this arrow?" Inuyasha asks seriously.
"Huh?" Kimiko says, confused.
"I'm asking if you can pull out this arrow!" Inuyasha states fiercely.
"This arrow?" Kimiko inquired reaching. "This one?"
Kaede gets off the horse with Kagome following behind her. "Do not remove it! That arrow secures the spell on the Inuyasha! You must not free the Inuyasha!" Kaede yells at Kimiko.
"You old hag, wake up! Do you want to become fodder for the Centipede Monster?! Once it completely absorbs the Sacred Jewel, it'll be the end!" Inuyasha somewhat scolded at Kaede and then looks to Kimiko and yells. "Come on! Do you want to die here, too?!"
"I-I don't understand, not any of it...!" Kimiko said, but grabs the arrow and shouts. "But I know one thing..." Kimiko pulls the arrow. "I DON'T WANT TO DIE!" Kimiko yells while a light emits from the arrow and it disintegrates.
"It disappeared...! The arrow that held my sister's spell...!" Kaede states surprised while Kagome looks over at her with concern and confusion.
The light that emits from Inuyasha fades away and Inuyasha starts to pulsate.
"Inu... ya... sha?" Kimiko asks softly and weakly.
Inuyasha starts to laugh hysterically. The Centipede Monster tightens her grip on Inuyasha, but he breaks free, destroying her body, which explodes into pieces. Kimiko is thrown off onto the ground.
"You brat!" The Centipede Monster yelled at Inuyasha.
"Shut up, old hag!" Inuyasha brandishes his claws. "Iron Reaver, Soul Stealer!" Inuyasha yells somersaulting to the ground.
Inuyasha claws at the Centipede Monster's mouth and splits the Centipede Monster's body into two. The body breaks into pieces and lands scattered on the ground.
"Wow... He really is strong...!" Kimiko states in disbelief and relief. One of the Centipede Monster pieces around Kimiko twitches. "It's still moving!" Kimiko shrieks.
"Do you see the flesh that shines? The Sacred Jewel is embedded there! You must remove it, else it will keep rejuvenating!" Kaede demands rushing to Kimiko with the villagers and Kagome.
"No way!" Kimiko said and looks around frantically. "There! I can see it!" Kimiko tells Kaede while Kagome comes to stand by Kimiko relived her sister was okay.
Kaede feels for the Jewel in the body piece that Kimiko was referring to and picks up the jewel. The flesh on all the body piece disintegrates, leaving only bones. Kaede gives the jewel to Kimiko. Kimiko and Kagome are surprised.
"Only you can possess the Jewel." Kaede tells the two girls then thinks. "You, who seem so like my sister, Kikyo."
"Why was it in my body? This jewel which can empower such a demon?" Kimiko wonders aloud.
Inuyasha steps up and crushes one of the bones with his feet threateningly. "Exactly! Which a human has no possible use for it! If you don't want to feel the pain of my claws, just give me the Jewel and get it over with!" Inuyasha threatens.
"But... But! But isn't he supposed to be the HERO?!" Kagome thinks in disbelief becoming worried for her sister.