Nighttime In The Higurashi Residence
Grandpa, Sota and Mom gather around the living room table with Buyo.
"Grandpa, is Kagome's and Kimiko's story true?" Their Mom Keiko asks her dad worried.
Grandpa grunts and folds his arm. "Course it's true! A ghost appeared from inside the well and kidnapped Kimiko taking Kagome with her!" Sota says determinedly thinking of when his sisters went down the well.
"As the legend of our shrine goes… There is something in the "Bone-Devouring Well" that takes the corpses of evil spirits and makes them disappear somewhere." Grandpa explains then stands up and clenches his fist in a determined manner. "And if this "somewhere" is in the time dimension… Well, we must do something." Grandpa explains.
Buyo yawns while Sota and Keiko look at Grandpa, puzzled.
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At the Dry Well
Grandpa just finished nailing several planks on the mouth of the well. He attaches a lot of paper oracles/charms all over the well. "There!" Grandpa says while he laughs smugly to himself.
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Living Room
Kagome is blow drying her sister's hair. "Huh? Sealed?" Kimiko asks her Grandpa who is drinking his tea calmly.
"Yes… With written oracles to ward off evil spirits and seal off the entry to the netherworld. The well will never be opened again." Grandpa tells his oldest granddaughter and picks up his teacup.
Kimiko pauses for a while, looking conflicted but Kagome is happy she or her sister never have to go back.
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In The Feudal Era
Inuyasha is sprinting across a dark forest. He stops near the well and sniffs the ground. "No mistaking the smell of that girl…" He notices the pile of Kimiko's school uniform next to the well. "Her clothing… Damn! They really did go home… In here!" Inuyasha says jumping in the well.
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In Kimiko's room
Hmmmm… Home sweet home! It's like it never happened… that I was in another age and another time." Kimiko thinks fondly while laying on her bed.
"You must combine your powers with Inuyasha and gather the fragments of the Sacred Jewel and restore it!" Kimiko remembers.
"That Yura with the inverted hair… I wonder what she was? She must've been after the Jewel, too." Kimiko sits up guilty. "I'll bet Inuyasha would be so angry if he learned that the fragment was stolen from me." Kimiko ponders guilty.
"I hope Inuyasha can manage without me." Kimiko claps, determined. "All right, I won't worry about him! Besides, I can never return to that world again." Kimiko says determined but sadly.
"Kagome, Yuka is on the phone. Kimiko, it's dinner time!" Keiko calls her girls.
"Okay!" They both yell going down.
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At The Dinner Table
A hotpot is simmering. Sota and grandpa are talking.
"Gramps… Will the seals on the well ever come off?" Sota asks.
"Never. Each seal contains powerful words of magic that can't be broken. No matter what kind of evil spirit, it will be impossible." Grandpa answers.
"It's hot pot for dinner!" Kimiko and Kagome say kneeling down happily.
"So you can rest assured, Kimiko." Grandpa tells her.
"Hot pot! Hot pot! Hot pot!" Kimiko and Kagome rant happily ignoring Grandpa's words.
"There're not listening." Sorta says in amusement and mock tears flow out of Grandpa's eyes.
"It's such a glorious age!" Kimiko says and Kagome agrees with her. "Let's dig in!" Kimiko says happily but then the door behind Kimiko slams open suddenly.
The family stares at Inuyasha, shocked.
"Huh… Inuyasha?" Kimiko says shocked but glad she could see him again.
"You…! Who said you can go home?!" Inuyasha asks angrily.
Kimiko puts down her bowl still shocked.
"You… Where'd you come from?" Kagome asks.
"The well! Where else?" Inuyasha answers Kagome, but stomps to Kimiko.
"The well? But it's…!" Kagome starts, but Grandpa interrupts.
"Do not lie! Those oracles have been used of this shrine since ancient times and cannot fail!" Grandpa says.
"Oracle? You mean, this flimsy piece of paper? Didn't work!" Inuyasha says showing the paper and Grandpa clasps his face with his hands in horror, mock tears flowing out of his eyes.
"Gramps!" Sota chides.
"Now come with me!" Inuyasha says, taking Kimiko's hand and trying to pull her out of the room.
"Wa-wait! I have to explain." Kimiko says wanting to go back, but not wanting to leave her family in the dark.
"Just a minute!" Keiko says, walking up to them both.
"What?!" Inuyasha asks annoyed.
"Mom?" Kimiko asks tilting her head.
"Your ears… Are they real?" Keiko asks feeling his ears.
"Lemme try, too!" Sorta says also walking up to them.
"Mom, this is no time for that… Although I did the same thing. " Kimiko tells her, but then remembers she did the same thing too, making Kagome laugh at her.
Kimiko notices a glistening strand of hair on Inuyasha's sleeves.
"Inuyasha… A strand of hair!" Kimiko informs him.
"Hair?" Inuyasha asks, confused looking at where Kimiko is looking.
"Can't you see it?" Kimiko asks him picking up the hair, which coils around Kimiko's hand by itself. It tightens and makes a small slit on her hand, and blood oozes out.
"Huh?! It's moving!" Kimiko mutters to herself.
"Sis… There's blood…!" Kagome says, standing next to Grandpa worried.
"What happened?" Keiko asks her daughter.
"This…!" Kimiko explains but everyone is taken aback, but doesn't see anything in Kimiko's hands.
"Only I can see it…!" Kimiko thinks, remembering what Yura told her.
"Yura's manipulating strand! No!" Kimiko thinks before she gasps and runs off.
Kimiko slides open the door of the hut that houses the Dry Well. The planks sealing the well are all shattered and scattered onto the ground. Thick bundles of hair snakes out of the well rapidly.
"More strands… are coming out!" Kimiko says confused.
"Old Kaede was right. You have the vision at least." Inuyasha says, leaning by the door, calmly.
"You're the one that brought it here." Kimiko tells Inuyasha annoyed.
"Kimiko!" Grandpa says, reaching the hut with the rest of the family.
"Sis!" Sota and Kagome yell worriedly.
"Don't enter!" Kimiko demands, then slammed the doors close. "I must stop it here before it hurts anyone." Kimiko thinks while Inuyasha looks at her intently.
The bundles of hair rushes towards them and Kimiko dodges. The hair hits the door and deflect towards Inuyasha.
"Inuyasha! In front of you!" Kimiko tells him.
His ears twitches, hearing the movement of the hair. He dodges, but subsequent bundles of hair coil around his wrists and ankles. Inuyasha pulls at them.
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"Open up, Kimiko!" Grandpa and Kagome yell banging on the door.
"Kimiko!" Keiko yells worried.
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Inuyasha claws at the bundles of hair, which breaks and falls to the ground. They slither towards each other and join up.
"It gathers together again, even when it's cut. There's no end to this!" Kimiko says.
The bundles of hair coil to form one thick pile which grabs Inuyasha's wrist.
"Huh?! That's…?" Kimiko mumbles to herself, then notices a strand of hair coming out from the well. "That's it! The main strand that's controlling everything." Kimiko runs down the stairs towards the well. "Inuyasha! It's this one! Cut this strand!" Kimiko demands Inuyasha.
Inuyasha struggles with the hair, gripping him and looks in Kimiko's direction. "This? Where?" Inuyasha asks.
"Inuyasha can't see it. Then…" Kimiko pulls at the tight controlling hair. "There's only one way!" Kimiko says determined as she bends, the hair a little to reflect some light on it.
"I see it!" Inuyasha says and claws the hair snapping the controlling hair.
The bundles of hair, gripping him slackens and falls to the ground, slithering back into the well.
"It retreated." Inuyasha says.
Kimiko rubs her hand, which was bruised by pulling on the taut controlling hair. "Strange… If Yura was after the Sacred Jewel, she already accomplished her goal. Could she actually be after me and Inuyasha?" Kimiko mutters to herself.
Kimiko walks to the well then looks at Inuyasha and says "Let's go."
"Wow… That was a quick change of mind" Inuyasha says shocked.
"Who said I never wanted to go back." Kimiko replies.
"Huh?" Inuyasha gaps at Kimiko's statement.
"Besides, if I stay here, Gramps, Mom, Kagome and even Sota will be in terrible danger." Kimiko thinks but then sees Inuyasha's red cloak on her head.
"This was woven with the fur of the Fire Rat. It's much stronger than an ordinary armor." Inuyasha says, blushing while looking away from her.
"Thanks." Kimiko says happily giving him a hug surprising Inuyasha.
"Well, 'cuz… You look like you have really weird skin." Inuyasha says trying to play it off.
"Whatever you say." Kimiko says, smirking, knowing Inuyasha was embarrassed.
"Oh well, whatever. Let's go!" Inuyasha says jumps onto the mouth of the well
"Don't need to tell me twice." Kimiko says also going to the well.
Inuyasha holds onto Kimiko and they jump into the well.
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"They should be returning soon." Yura says while she picks up a red skull next to her. "This time, I'll give them a big reception…" Yura says giddily while stroking the red skull affectionally.
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Nighttime In A Dark Forest, Where Inuyasha Buried Kaede
She is talking loudly to the air, only her head is seen. "Do you understand, Inuyasha? Kimiko is my sister Kikyo's reincarnation. However, she isn't aware yet of the scope of her powers. She needs your help right now!"
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"Watch out! There's hair all over the well, too!" Kimiko tells Inuyasha.
"Are you saying that this Yura with the combed hair is after us?" Inuyasha asks coming out of the well.
"Yes. Look, she took the Sacred Jewel fragment, yet she still comes after us!" Kimiko explains following him.
"Hold it! Did you say she took it?!" Inuyasha yells mad.
"I can see several glowing strands of hair there. There's the main strand that's been bewitching the others. That means if we follow the main strand, we'll find Yura!" Kimiko points in a direction. "That way!" Kimiko instructs ignoring Inuyasha's question.
"Alright!" Inuyasha agreed.
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Back With Kaede
"There's no time to stand around and quarrel! You need Kimiko and Kimiko needs you! And you must get through this difficulty together!" Kaede still talks to air.
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Inuyasha leaps across a pond, piggybacking Kimiko. They run through a forest, and reach a campfire site. Corpses of warriors struck down with arrows surround a campfire.
"A bonfire…" Inuyasha mutters more to himself than her.
"Their heads are gone!" Kimiko's says, disgusted that anyone could do this to someone.
Inuyasha lets Kimiko off his back and examines the corpses. "They're fallen warriors. They must've gotten tangled in the hair strands. Such bad luck." He turns around to look at Kimiko. "Stop looking so depressed! And don't start whining about wanting to go home."
"I… thought I'd borrow this!" Kimiko tells Inuyasha before she starts thinking. "We must destroy Yura quickly or many more people will die."
Inuyasha looks at her intently, seeing the same fire Kikyo had in her eyes. They resumed their journey.
Inuyasha hops up a cliff surface, piggybacking Kimiko.
"The arrows you shoot probably won't hit their targets." Inuyasha tells Kimiko.
"How rude! If I practice while moving, maybe…!" Kimiko says annoyed, but knowing he was right.
"Practice? Did you practice?" Inuyasha asks as he leaps onto a tree trunk interested.
"From now on! Just watch me! I'm going to improve!" Kimiko tells him determined as she clenches her fist.
"Huh?! This girl… She's hopeless, but I gotta admit, she's gutsy." Inuyasha thinks with a small smile.
"The main lines are gathering. She's close!" Kimiko informs as many strands of taut hair surround the trees in the forest.
They tighten suddenly, slicing off the trunk that they were standing on. They leap off. Bundles of hair surge towards them.
"They're coming!" Kimiko shouts and Inuyasha leaps into the air.
"From the left! The right, too!" Kimiko rapidly shoots as Inuyasha somersaults.
More bundles of hair appear.
"Too many! Use your instincts to evade them!" Kimiko decides knowing Inuyasha could do it easily.
"Whhaa-?! What a useless woman! I thought you came to fight?!" Inuyasha asks and demands annoyed.
"I did! There! Behind you!" Kimiko shouts.
"The rear, too?!" Inuyasha asks while he leaps to another rock.
He slides down a slope while piggybacking Kimiko. A bundle of hair suddenly coil around his wrist and pulls him into the air. Kimiko falls off and lands face down on the slope.
"Inuyasha!" Kimiko yelled getting up.
Inuyasha is hoisted in the air among a web of hair, which surrounds a giant sphere of hair.
"A giant sphere of hair… Yura's hiding place?" Kimiko asks unsure.
Yura suddenly appears, leaping, against the night sky. She lands on a few strands of hair, which is similar to a tightrope. Strands of hair are coiled around her fingers. "Hmm… such a fine prey." Yura commented while Inuyasha tries to free himself, but can't. "You're Inuyasha, aren't you? Yura asked, but already knowing the answer.
"So you're Yura? How do you know me?" Inuyasha asked.
"I heard the gossip in the wind. That a half-demon named Inuyasha is serving the reincarnation of a shrine maiden and helping her to protect for the Sacred Jewel." Yura mocked.
"What?! Me? Serving that brainless girl…? You've gotta be kidding me!" Inuyasha said insulted.
"I see… Well, both of you are brainless." Yura tells him while taking out the Sacred Jewel fragment from a pouch. "Turning the Sacred Jewel into this."
Inuyasha growls furiously at Yura.
"That's the Jewel fragment she stole from me!" Kimiko mutters to herself with a little guilt in her voice for letting it get captured in the first place.
"In any case, I'll deal with you two and go look for the other fragments." Yura tells them her plan.
"Deal with me? You're the one who'll rue the day you appeared before my eyes!" Inuyasha says annoyed and angry with a scoff as he pulls and breaks free from the hair around his ankles and left wrist.
He then uses the bundle of hair around his right wrist to swing towards Yura. Yura pulls out a red comb and combs a thick bundle of hair at Inuyasha.
"The same tactic over and over again!" Inuyasha says irritated as the thick hair envelopes him and ties him down in the air again. "Damn it!" He curses to himself.
"Such pretty hair… But you haven't taken care of it, have you? So many split ends." Yura somewhat compliments.
"Shut up!" Inuyasha growls out annoyed.
Inuyasha swings around to claw at Yura, but she falls backwards in anticipation and somersaults gracefully onto another 'tightrope-hair' further away. The tightrope sinks lower under her weight, then spring her back into the air, towards Inuyasha. Yura, in mid flight, takes out a sword and cuts him. Inuyasha winces in pain.
"Inuyasha…!" Kimiko calls out worriedly.
Yura lands on another tightrope in front of Inuyasha. She giggles and licks the blood off her blade. "Now, I'll shred you to pieces!" Yura brandishes her sword and leaps towards him. Mid flight, something flies past her, which takes her aback. She lands on one tightrope to find out what happened.
She sees Kimiko with a bow in her hand, in firing position, on the ground below.
"Release Inuyasha! Because I won't miss this time!" Kimiko demands reading another arrow reminding Inuyasha so much of Kikyo at that moment.
"One of the women who disappeared from the well…?" Yura asked.
"Now! Hurry it up!" Kimiko demands in her no nonsense voice.
"Release Inuyasha, you say? You two must be quite chummy!" Yura mocks them.
"Fool! Forget me and get away!" Inuyasha says, turning to Kimiko.
"It's not that pretty, but I think I'll take her hair, too. What'll I do?" Yura dismisses Kimiko and asks herself.
"Not that pretty"? Inuyasha duck!" Kimiko yells angrily at Yura and then demands Inuyasha as she quickly fires an arrow, which flies towards Inuyasha's back. Inuyasha bows his head and dodge the arrow.
"Where are you aiming, stupid?!" Inuyasha asks mad wondering what her plan was.
The arrow hits the huge sphere of hair as light emits from the arrow. The sphere of hair unravels, skulls falling out of it. The sphere is made up of the hair still attached to the skulls. Kimiko gasps in horror.
"No! All my victims…!" Yura demands horrified.
"The heads of those fallen warriors, we saw…" Inuyasha says mostly to himself.
"Your head will soon occupy a place there. All this fine white colored hair… I can't wait to control it." Yura says angrily holding her red comb. "But before that, however… You there! Woman!" Yura combs out a ball of fire. "You scare me, so die!" The fire surge towards Kimiko and engulfs her. Kimiko falls to the ground, cowering. "How do you like my Elf Fire! You'll feel the heat all the way to your bones!"
"He-help!" Kimiko pleads struggling.
"Serves you right! You're being punished for messing with my nest! Aghh… That woman… she'll be left with no bones." Yura says happily.
"Why you…!" Inuyasha growls out mad.
"Are you sad? Poor thing… Well, you'll be joining her in no time, too." Yura said while she unsheathes her sword and leap towards Inuyasha. "Take this!"
Inuyasha digs his claws into his wound and swings his bloodied claws at Yura. "Blades of Blood!" Inuyasha calls out his attack as four red blades fly towards Yura and slices off her hand which was holding the sword.
"Blades of blood?" Yura thinks, taken by surprise
"The strands are loosening!" Inuyasha said.
Yura's hand falls downwards, but is caught by a few strands of hair.
"My hand…" Yura says shocked.
"Now you can't control your strands!" Inuyasha states.
"You… You should treat ladies more gently. People will laugh at you, you know?" Yura says losing her patient. The skulls from her lair starts to chuckle. The sphere of hair slackens even more and more skulls droop towards the ground. "Playtime's over!" Yura decided and holds her red comb in her mouth and pulls at the hair around her remaining hand. A bundle of skull with hair flies towards Inuyasha, who crushes them with his fist. The hand holding the sword, which was sliced off, flies towards him too. Inuyasha dodges in time.
"Darn! I almost had your head!" Yura says calmly.
"I wouldn't allow that!" Inuyasha tells her as he releases another attack of Blades of Blood at Yura.
Yura calmly swings her comb, and a curtain of hair falls in front of her, blocking Inuyasha's attack. Yura's sliced off hand charges towards Inuyasha from behind, and cuts into his back. As he lets out a cry. The hair, gripping onto Inuyasha slackens, making him crash on the ground. Yura's sliced off hand pulls out the sword and flies back to her wrist. A bundle of hair envelopes her wrist, and her hand is reattached to it.
"You're just a half-demon with half the power." Yura mocked while flexing her hand, while holding her sword with the other.
"Damn…!" Inuyasha curses annoyed at himself.
"Poor little thing… You wanted this in order to become a full-fledged demon, huh?" Yura continues to mock.
"The Sacred… Jewel…" Inuyasha says sadly thinking about the real reason he wanted the Jewel.
Yura lands in front of Inuyasha on the ground. "Don't move. I have to sever your head very carefully so that blood won't stain those white locks." Yura swings her sword at Inuyasha.
"Quit your joking!" Inuyasha scoffs and shoots up and dives his claws into Yura's chest, making a hole through her body. "Hah! That'll teach you!" He said and falls to the ground again.
Yura steps on Inuyasha's hand and calmly says. "You're so arrogant. Thrusting your hand into the breasts of a woman you've only just met."
"You… you…! You didn't feel anything?!" Inuyasha thinks annoyed.
"You stole my Jewel fragment, didn't you?" Yura asks as she bends over and takes back the pouch from Inuyasha. "Now that wasn't nice at all."
"Where is it?! Where is Yura's weak spot?" Inuyasha thinks.
Yura stands up and laugh. Suddenly, the hair on her red comb that's in her hand tightens. She turns around, only to find Kimiko climbing towards Yura's giant lair. "That woman…" Yura says irritated with her.
Yura pulls some hair around her fingers, which tugs at the main sphere, causing Kimiko to slip and fall. She manages to cling onto some hair, which prevented her from falling further. Inuyasha grabbed the chance and picks up Yura's sword.
"You shouldn't have looked away!" Inuyasha shouts as he swings the sword upwards. He slices Yura's back, which were immediately mended by the hair.
Yura turns around to glare at Inuyasha. "You are becoming a pain!" Yura swings her hand, which tug at the hair, gripping onto Inuyasha, making him crash onto a rock surface.
Inuyasha laughs. "You didn't bat an eyelid when you were struck or hurt. Now, you seem awfully upset. Something worrying you over there?" Inuyasha mocks her and she gives an incredibly pissed off look.
"Inuyasha! There's something inside that… that red skull!" Kimiko tells him figuring out Yura's weak point, pointing to the red skull.
"Red Skull?!" Inuyasha asked.
Yura turns around and leaps off towards Kimiko, taking her sword.
"You're not getting away!" Inuyasha yells as he breaks away from the grip on the hair.
"My web of hair!" Yura says horrified as she pulls up the entire sphere of hair, dragging Kimiko along with it.
Inuyasha follows, but is blocked by two bundles of hair. "Damn!" Inuyasha curses worried for Kimiko.
Kimiko tries to get a better grip of the moving pile of hair, but reaches a skull instead. She squirms.
"If it hurts you, let go." Yura states annoyed as she flings her swords at Kimiko, which hits the Inuyasha's coat that she's wearing.
"I did it!" Kimiko falls off and in gripped in midair by two bundles of air around her wrists.
"What are you? Why don't you bleed?" Yura demands angered.
"Now that she mentions it… Even when engulfed in flames… Is it because of this robe?" Kimiko thinks then remembered what Inuyasha told her. "Inuyasha…"
Yura appears right in front of Kimiko. "You seem like an ordinary mortal… How's this then?" Yura asks as she coils a strand of hair around Kimiko's neck, making her wince in pain.
"Blades of Blood!" Inuyasha yells as an array of red blades slash Yura's back and cut the hair around her fingers.
The strand of hair around Kimiko's neck slackens. "I-Inuyasha…" Kimiko says weakly but happily.
The sphere of hair starts to collapse, bringing Kimiko with it.
"Don't you faint on me! I can't be looking after you!" Inuyasha says angry with a tint of worry in his voice.
Inuyasha leaps towards Kimiko and lifts her. They land on the ground safely, the sphere of hair collapsing onto the ground behind them.
"Watch out, Inuyasha!" Kimiko warns but is too late as he turns around to look and is struck by Yura's sword.
"Why that…!" Inuyasha muttered to himself.
Yura lands on a mountain of skulls and takes back the sword with a hair. "I am immortal, you know!" Yura calmly states.
Yura sends the sword towards Inuyasha again. She is struck by a sudden pain. Kimiko is driving an arrow into the red skull on the ground, trying to crack it.
"That's it! The strand coming out of this red skull… It's connected to Yura's hand! It must be her weak point." Kimiko tells herself.
"That woman… I'll kill her!" Yura infuriated yells.
Yura sends the sword towards Kimiko instead. Just as the sword is about to reach her head, Kimiko succeeds in cracking the red skull. The sword stops in mid air. Light emits from the skull. A red hemisphere within the skull breaks into two. Yura gasps in terror and disintegrates. Her clothes fall downwards to the ground. The sword also falls onto the ground. Kimiko catches her breath. She picks up one of the broken hemisphere, which turns out to be a red comb.
Inuyasha walks towards Kimiko, clenching onto his wound. "So that's Yura's true form…" Inuyasha tells and informs her.
"This red comb?" Kimiko asked not as shocked as she should be.
She guessed she was getting used to this era.
"That's the Adornment Comb of the Dead. It was used to comb the hair of the dead… that's how it probably got bewitched. In this day and age, an enchanted comb or two is nothing to be surprised at." Inuyasha explains somewhat shocked she wasn't as surprised as the last time she was here and then he lets out a cry and kneels down.
"Inuyasha… you're badly hurt. Because you let me wear your Fire Rat armor." Kimiko says thankful but worried.
"It's nothing but the Sacred Jewel…!" Inuyasha plays it off.
Kimiko notices the pouch near Yura's clothes and picks it up. "I found it." Kimiko opens the pouch and takes out the Sacred Jewel fragment. "I wonder how long it'll take to gather them all?" Kimiko questions.
"Let's go, Kimiko." Inuyasha says as he takes his coat and stands up.
"Huh?" Kimiko asked, genuinely surprised and happy.
"What?" Inuyasha asked, confused.
"It's the first time you said my name." Kimiko tells him smiling a small smile getting excited.
"So what?" Inuyasha asked annoyed.
"Maybe you're warming up to me?" Kimiko teases with a smile.
"Keh! Don't get cheeky! Who'd be chums with a girl like you?!" Inuyasha demands annoyed.
"And who was it that just saved you?" Kimiko teases and slaps Inuyasha's back teasingly. Inuyasha winces in pain and falls over. "Look… if it hurts, just speak up and say so!" Kimiko says helping Inuyasha stand, ignoring Inuyasha saying he doesn't need her help.
"Shut up!" Inuyasha yells and just decides to let her help as they walk back to the village after getting Kaede.