In A Forest, By A Waterfall
"You've gotta be kidding! It's freezing?!" Kimiko yells complaining standing naked in a river, shivering. "C-C-Cuh-Cuh..." Kimiko squats into the river. "Cold!"
"Kimiko, don't force it. Come on out." Kagome tells her sister sitting on the riverbank by a fire with Kaede.
"No! I'm all bloody and dirty. And I can't stand how filthy I am!" Kimiko yells back.
Kimiko gathers herself for a moment and plunges into the water. Kagome shrugs and gives up sighing.
Upwards, a cliff overlooking the riverbank.
Inuyasha is resting on one of the tree branches, eyeing Kimiko, Kagome and Kaede sideways spitefully. Kimiko starts swimming in the river.
"The Sacred Jewel. I'm just your average school kid, but, through some strange, weird situation, I've ended up here with my sister, in the Feudal era. I've also become the target of demons, all after a jewel in my body. This "Jewel of Four Souls" which belonged to some "Kikyo" person... How did it end up in ME? Now I have to team up with a half-demon called "Inuyasha" who wants Jewel's power and who intends to keep the fragments for himself." Kimiko thinks irritated.
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Flashback
Kimiko holds up a fragment of the Sacred Jewel and looks at it intently. Kimiko, Inuyasha, Kagome and Kaede are sitting in Kaede's hut, by the fire.
"What's going on?!" Inuyasha demands.
"Stop barking, Inuyasha." Kaede says annoyed.
"What happened to the Jewel?!" Inuyasha continues to demand.
"The arrow to which Kimiko 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 explained to the group.
"It's my fault isn't it?" Kimiko asks becoming depressed.
"Kimiko, Inuyasha... You must use your combined strength to gather the fragments and restore the Sacred Jewel!" Kaede orders them even though it sounded like a demand.
"Heh?" Kimiko says shocked.
"Listen up, old hag! I'm one of the "evildoers" looking for the Jewel!" Inuyasha says smirking at Kaede.
"I don't believe that" Kimiko mumbles, but only Inuyasha hears and looks at the girl with her head down but then shakes it off.
"It cannot be helped..." Kaede replies not hearing Kimiko's musings.
"But... we have to go home!" Kimiko thinks looking over at her sister.
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Present
Kimiko is swimming and bathing in the river. "Besides, I don't have such powers...! And Inuyasha is so hard headed!" Kimiko complained thinking and stands up in the water, and walks towards Kaede and Kagome.
She looks upwards, noticing Inuyasha's presence. Inuyasha is sitting on the ledge of the cliff, staring at Kimiko innocently, blinking his eyes. Petrified, Kimiko screams and sits back into the water.
"Sit!" Kimiko shrieks and the rosary on Inuyasha's neck pulls him, making him fall flat faced onto the ground.
"So you are here, Inuyasha." Kaede says calmly.
"Damn! I'd forgotten about the necklace." Inuyasha says, lifting his head.
"Shame on you! Spying like that!" Kimiko reprimands putting her clothes on behind a bush
"Huh?! Keh! Idiot! All I was doing was-" Inuyasha was saying, but Kaede interrupted him
"Trying to steal the Sacred Jewel. Yes, I know." Kaede tells him holding up the jewel to Inuyasha.
"If you knew, why'd you ask?" Inuyasha huffs sitting up.
"The future looks very bleak... Inuyasha, unless you join forces with Kimiko, who has the ability to "see" the Jewel, there is no way all of the fragments will be found." Kaede explains to the boy again.
"And I'm tellin' you that if it's for the sake of the Sacred Jewel, I'll put up with the dumb girl, so stop worryin'!" Inuyasha replies not seeing the saddened look on Kimiko.
"Do you really dislike me that much." Kimiko asks masking her hurt as she walks up to Inuyasha wearing Kaede's priestess clothes, with her hair tied up, looking exactly like Kikyo.
"Kikyo..." Inuyasha thinks longingly as images of Kikyo flashes across Inuyasha mind.
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A While Later
Kimiko is folding her school uniform. Inuyasha sits with his hands on the ground like a dog, stares at Kimiko and growls.
"What's that expression on your face, Inuyasha?" Kagome asks, turning to face him and his response is to shove himself sideways from them. Kimiko just sighs.
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Cave
In a dark cave filled with skulls. A woman's silhouette is seen against a red background.
"Well, well... The Sacred Jewel I thought lost over fifty years ago has appeared once more. It's going to be very interesting..." The Sexy Woman says and picks up a skull with some hair left, and combs it affectionately. She then giggles hysterically.
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Riverbank
A woman with a baby on her bag appears and walks towards the group.
"Priestess Kaede..." The Woman says.
"Yes?" Kaede asks.
"My daughter..." She says and Kaede gets up and walks to her.
"I see. I will be right there." Kaede turns to Inuyasha, Kimiko and Kagome. "I must return. Do not fight." Kaede orders the group.
The Woman bows to them and walks back to the village with Kaede. There is a long silence between the three of them.
"Hey." Inuyasha says, staring at Kimiko.
"What." Kimiko asks curiously.
"Get undressed." Inuyasha says calmly.
Kimiko walks over to Inuyasha with a small mischievous smile on her face while Kagome puts her hands over her mouth to muffle her laughter knowing what her sister was about to do.
Kimiko balls a hand up in a fist and punches Inuyasha's head who is now wincing in pain with a huge bump on his head.
"Oww! Why you... Why did you-?!" Inuyasha asks annoyed.
"Pervert!" Kimiko says.
"I didn't mean undress undress! I meant to put your own weird stuff back on!" Inuyasha angrily says, pointing to Kimiko's uniform drying on the riverbank.
"Because this makes her look like Kikyo?" Kagome asks him, which makes Inuyasha stumped by Kagome's question and looks away indignantly.
"Whatever." Inuyasha says childishly.
"Look! I can't work with someone who's always picking a fight with me for someone I look like!" Kimiko yells fed up.
"That's fine with me! I prefer to go it alone." Inuyasha says stubbornly.
"I see! You don't need me along, then?" Kimiko asks sighing annoyed.
Kimiko walks behind Inuyasha as Kagome follows her sister. Inuyasha's ears twitches, and he looks back.
"Hey. Where you going?" Inuyasha asks confused.
"I've made up my mind. We're going home. Goodbye, Inuyasha." Kimiko says, picking up her school uniform and walks off with Kagome.
"Going home...? You!" Inuyasha yells standing up.
"My name is Kimiko. Please address me as such." Kimiko says coldly fed up with Inuyasha's attitude.
"Hey! Wait" Inuyasha yells at the two girls.
"It's not "hey", either." Kagome answers for her sister.
"Wait, I said! Hey!" Inuyasha yells at them.
"What?! It's useless to try and stop me." Kimiko tells him knowing Kagome would go with her on whatever she decided.
"You got that Jewel piece, right? Leave it." Inuyasha states and appears in front of Kimiko, with outstretched hand.
"You mean this...?" Kimiko asks and holds up a pouch, and glares at Inuyasha for a moment. "Sit!" Kimiko yells while Kagome giggles at her sisters antics.
"Why, you...!" Inuyasha growls after he lands on the ground. "You can't have it." Inuyasha thinks.
"I can't believe that guy! Inuyasha never once addressed me by my name! I wish he would." Kimiko says becoming frustrated, but hopefully at the end, making Kagome nod agreeing with her sister.
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Village
"This way, Priestess Kaede..." The Woman leads Kaede.
"She suddenly collapsed?" Kaede asks entering a hut with the woman as a girl lies unconscious on a mat.
"Yes. She was just fine this morning." The Woman explains.
"I see." Kaede says, walking towards the girl. Suddenly, strange sounds are heard and Kaede stops. "Hmm?! Stay back!" Kaede demands holding out a hand in front of the Woman.
"Huh?" The Woman asks, confused, but the girl suddenly floats in the air but she remains unconscious. "She's... floating!" The Woman yells astonished.
The girl, floating in midair, turns around to face them, with outstretched arms and drooping head. Her hand raises slightly, revealing several strands of hair coiled around her hand.
"Hair...?!" Kaede says, confused and a knife on the floor starts trembling and flies into the girl's hand. She raises it and attacks.
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Forest
Kagome and Kimiko are walking up to the Dry Well.
"That's how we got here, through the Dry Well. I'm sure we can go back from here." Kimiko thinks, then looks into the well. "Bones...!" Kimiko gasps.
"That dry well is nicknamed the "Bone-Devouring Well." It is where the corpses of the dead demons are discarded. After several days, the corpses disappear." Kaede's voice echoes in the girls heads.
"Those are the bones of the Centipede Monster." Kimiko said and drops her school uniform while Kagone squats next to the well.
"Great. Now I'm afraid to go in." Kagome says, but Kimiko turns around to look at the sky.
"Now what?" Kimiko groans out annoyed making Kagome gets up and stands next to her sister confused.
Something glimmers in the light. A falling leaf is sliced cleanly into two when it passes it. Kimiko notices and gets up. Something cuts her face. She looks around to find a tangle of very long hair surrounding her. Kagome doesn't see anything but looks at her sister worriedly.
"It can't be! That's hair!" Kimiko gasps while Kagome looks around and the sexy woman appears and stand on a strand of hair "Oh, my! You can see it, then... my web of hair." She wrapped the hair around her fingers, like a puppeteer's strings. "But being able to "see" it isn't enough..." She laughs evilly.
"Who're you?!" Kimiko demands, but the woman giggles evilly.
...
Inuyasha runs through a forest and leaps into the air.
"We're going home. Goodbye, Inuyasha." Inuyasha thinks of Kimiko's words. "Let her go, who cares?" Inuyasha scoffs. He leaps again, entering the village. Several women float in midair in the village square, all unconscious and holding a weapon in their hand. Inuyasha lands. "What's with you all?" Inuyasha asks, looking around confused, one by one the women raise their weapons. "Interesting! Wanna take me on, huh?" Inuyasha grins and the women float towards him.
...
"They call me "Yura of the Demon-Hair"... though you needn't bother remembering it. Your time's about to run out!" Yura stretches out her hand and several strands of hair reel towards Kimiko, cutting her. "I'm helping myself to the Jewel!" Yura tells the two girls as she pulls a strand of hair, which takes out Kimiko's pouch of Sacred Jewel and opens it to find a fragment.
"Now look what you've done to it. Where are the other fragments?" Yura demands angrily.
"Give it back!" Kimiko demands.
"Answer my question! Where are the remaining fragments!?" Yura yells.
"I... I don't know." Kimiko says, looking down Kagome takes her sister's hand to offer comfort.
A sword floats towards Yura. "I see." Yura takes the sword and jumps towards Kimiko. "In that case... you may as well die!" Yura yells and swings her sword at Kimiko.
Kimiko leans backwards and falls into the well dragging Kagome with her, screaming. Yura throws her sword in Kimiko's direction in the well.
"It's useless to try and escape!" Yura tells the girls but nothing happens. Yura lands on top of the well. Her sword returns to her. "Gone..." Yura peers into the well. "Who were those girls?" Yura asks but shrugs it off.
...
Inuyasha gets ready to fight the floating girls. "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." Inuyasha says, confused looking around then smirks.
"Inuyasha, don't do it! Do not harm the girls!" Kaede says injured and crawling towards Inuyasha slowly and weakly.
"Old Kaede!" Inuyasha says somewhat worried leaps to where she is. "Wow, look at you. You're a bloody mess." Inuyasha says.
"Have you nothing nicer to say?" Kaede asks.
"So why shouldn't I hurt 'em, huh? They're sure tryin' to hurt me." Inuyasha asks as the girls close in on him and Kaede.
"They're all under a spell." Kaede looks around. "Kimiko, Kagome? Where are those girls?" Kaede asks worried.
"They went back to their own land. Not that it matters or nothin'. I don't need her (referring to Kimiko) to handle this." Inuyasha scoffs.
"You mustn't. Do not touch the village girls!" Kaede pleads with Inuyasha.
"Will you quit flappin' your gums already? Or have you forgotten they're after you, too." Inuyasha states angrily.
"Don't you understand, Inuyasha? We must get to the one who is controlling them." Kaede explains to him.
One of the girls fly at Inuyasha and attacks, but he dodges.
"Now you've completely lost it." Inuyasha tells Kaede.
"Then Inuyasha, please... Cut the hair! Just cut the hair and the trance will be broken!" Kaede begs.
"The what? I don't see anything." Inuyasha says, confused looking around.
...
Yura's hands moving like a puppeteer's, controlling the hair around her fingers. She is sitting calmly on a tree.
"Now, then... Time to draw close this prey." Yura says calmly.
...
Inuyasha attacks one of the girls, but she dodges and flies upwards. She raises a knife. Other girls also float higher up in the air.
"No! Inuyasha, run!" Kaede yells to Inuyasha.
Several strands of hair coils around him, immobilizing Inuyasha.
...
Yura is giggling evilly while controlling the strands around her fingers. The floating bodies are controlled by hair, and they move around Inuyasha to coil hair 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!" Inuyasha smirks while he pulls at the hair tangling him but Yura who let some slack in the hair around her fingers.
...
"Oh, so sorry!" Yura says sarcastically.
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Inuyasha falls to the ground due to the slack in the hair tangling him.
...
"I suppose I've teased you long enough." Yura says to know one as her fingers spread out, making a 'cat's cradle' hair formation with her fingers. She pulls her hands apart, making the 'cat's cradle' tighten into a smaller ring.
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Inuyasha is being lifted off the ground and slammed into a tree. The tension of the hair tightly coiled around his neck and hands are making him wince in pain. He struggles in vain.
"Inuyasha...!" Kaede yells worried.
Yura, who spreads out her arms. Many strands of hair come out from her chest. The grip on the hair on Inuyasha tightens, making it hard for him to breathe.
"Nnyaah!" Inuyasha says gathering strength.
He lets out a yell and pulls at the hair tangling around him and the tree. The tension in the hair tightens and slices the tree trunk, making it break into pieces. The tree falls and Inuyasha is released from the hair.
...
The hair around Yura's fingers suddenly slack and droop.
"The tension's gone. The head must not have been severed." Yura's says shocked than pissed.
...
Inuyasha feeling around his neck, gasping for air.
"Oh, man... I thought I was done for." Inuyasha says.
"If you'd been a mere human, it would have come clean off." Kaede informs him.
Some metallic sounds are heard in the background. The two of them look up to find a few village men, unconscious, floating towards them with weapons in their hands.
"The village men!" Kaede yells.
"More human puppets? It's gettin' kinda old." Inuyasha nags.
"Inuyasha, leave this to me and make your escape." Kaede weakly demands Inuyasha.
"Aw man, would you quit bein' such a martyr an'—" Inuyasha was saying but Kaede collapses onto the ground.
"Old Kaede!" Inuyasha yells unable to hide his worry.
"Inu... yasha..." Kaede says weakly and wincing in pain from her injuries.
"Can't be helped." Inuyasha sighs.
...
Yura is on the tree, retrieving the puppet-ting hair. The end of the strand reaches her, and a strand of white hair is seen.
"Ooh! Such pretty, white hair." Yura says happily.
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Inuyasha is piggybacking Kaede.
"Hang in there, old woman!" Inuyasha yells to Kaede.
"Be careful, Inuyasha! The hair..." Kaede warns Inuyasha noticing a web of tight hair in front of them
"You say somethin', old woman?" Inuyasha asks leaping through the air, and snapping the hair without feeling anything or getting injured.
"Never mind." Kaede says tiredly.
...
Yura is swinging from tree to tree using three strands of hair as a vine.
"Such a stubborn one. This is fun. And this white hair... I must have it!" Yura tells herself.
...
It is now evening, in a forest as Kaede lies in a heap of fallen leaves, in pain. Inuyasha squats next to her.
"Old woman, you said you can see the strands! Tell me where it's being pulled from, then." Inuyasha demands Kaede.
"Don't be ridiculous! With me in this condition, and even with my seeing powers... Hurry... Kimiko can—" Kaede says but stops.
"So she can see it, too?" Inuyasha states.
"Yes. For this foe, Kimiko... Kimiko is necessary for victory..." Kaede weakly says and winces in pain and closes her eyes.
Inuyasha looks at her in concern.
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Evening - In Modern Day Japan
Kimiko lies unconscious in a dark pit with Kagome's head on her stomach.
"Where is this?" Kimiko feels the ground. "The bottom of the well. That's right... That girl came after me and pushed us into the well." Kimiko says once she wakes up completely.
Kagome groans and also wakes up.
"We've looked in this well over and over again." The girls could hear their Grandpa's distant voice say annoyed.
"But I already told you, it's where they fell in!" Sota insists also in a distant voice.
"You must've been dreaming." Grandpa tells Sota shining a torchlight into the well on the two girls.
"It's the truth!" Sota insists and looks down into the well to find Kimiko and Kagome under the rays of the torchlight.
"Gramps! Sota!" The Girls shout happily.
...
In the courtyard of the Higurashi shrine Kimiko looks at the scenery outside with Kagome next to her: the temple structures, telephone poles, shops in the streets.
"Were back... Back to our own time." Kimiko thinks fondly.
"Kagome, Kimiko, you've been gone for three days... We've been so worried." Grandpa says standing behind Kimiko and Kagome with Sota.
"Sis, what happened to you?" Sota asks Kimiko since she was in different clothes.
"We're not dreaming! We're really home!" Kimiko and Kagome thinks smiling at each other.
Suddenly Kagome's eyes start to tear and she turns around and dive into Grandpa's arms and wail loudly.
"Gramps! I was so scared!" Kagome wails.
"Kagome... Kimiko... What happened?!" Grandpa asks the two girls.
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Feudal Era - Forest.
Kaede lays in a heap of leaves with her eyes closed and her arms across her, in a serene position. Inuyasha is next to her, digging a pit in the ground kind of like a dog.
"Okay... This is it, old woman." Inuyasha says seriously and gets up.
Kaede is in the pit, buried under a pile of soil.
"Givin' you a decent burial's the least I can do." Inuyasha tells Kaede piling more soil onto Kaede.
"Fine." Kade said and opens her eyes. "Only... I'm not dead yet." Kaede says annoyed at Inuyasha.
"What I meant was, bury you to hide here. I'll even come back an' dig you out, if I don't forget." Inuyasha states to Kaede and grabs a pile of leaves and spread it on top of the soil.
"Are you sure? You had better not forget." Kaede reprimands Inuyasha, but he gets up and starts to walk away.
Kaede hands raises from the 'grave', pointing at Inuyasha.
"Do not forget, Inuyasha!" Kaede demands Inuyasha
"I know! I know!" Inuyasha says exasperated and sprints across the forest.
"Curse that stupid girl! Where'd she run off to, at a time like this?" Inuyasha says angrily.
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Kimiko's Bathroom
Kimiko is in a bathtub in her home, having a soak.
"Happiness at last." Kimiko sighs while closing her eyes and enjoying the warm water.
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Feudal Era
Inuyasha is sprinting across the forest and a huge pile of hair flies after him. Yura is controlling some hair around her fingers, giggling.
"Wherever she went, she won't get away!" Yura says gleefully.
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Kimiko's Bathroom
Kimiko is now in the shower, combing her wet hair with her fingers. "It feels so good." Kimiko says happily.