Nighttime In A Dark Forest
A tall man with white hair and a fur sash slung over his shoulder stands on a boulder, gazing intently at the moon. He has a purple crescent moon on his forehead, and two purple stripes across his cheeks. A staff appears, floats towards the stone structure and stops. A short green reptilian creature with bulbous yellow eyes comes running and grabs the staff. He turns around.
"Wh-why! Lord Sesshomaru! Lord Sesshomaru!" The Green Reptile shouts excited.
Sesshomaru walks up to the reptile and asks. "Is it here?"
"Yes." The Reptile answers and turns around to face the stone structure. "The stake, pointed in this direction, then lodged itself by this tomb. We'll check it immediately."
The reptilian creature runs towards the structure. Wolves appear behind the boulders and snarl viciously.
The reptile is taken aback and stops. "Why would beasts respect a tomb? Lord Sesshomaru! This is it! There's no mistake!"
Sesshomaru walks up to the reptilian creature, and continues walking forward calmly. The creature hides behind him and follows apprehensively, shooing the wolves. The wolves glare and snarl at them. One of them barks at Sesshomaru.
Sesshomaru looking at the wolf's teeth. "The fang... I search for the fang. Once I possess it, I will be able to transform myself into an even greater power!" He looks at the wolves. "It seems my power is still insufficient, I'm still too naïve. Am I unsure of myself? No... I just don't know my limits." Sesshomaru raises his hand and a green glow emits from it. "I presume too much about my power..."
All the wolves pounce towards him. A green light ray emits from Sesshomaru's hand. He twirls around, the green light following him like a long ribbon. The wolves pounce on him and are immediately annihilated by the green light whip surrounding Sesshomaru.
Carcasses of wolves are scattered across the grass. Sesshomaru stands in front of the stone structure, which has charms strung across it.
"Jaken... the Human Head Staff." Sesshomaru demands his servant.
Jaken runs up to the top of the structure. "Yes, my lord." Jaken pokes the bottom end of his staff on the stone and waits. The two heads on the top of the staff have their eyes closed. (one female and one old man) The female head slowly rises and opens her eyes. Her mouths opens and shrieks.
"The female's face is screaming. Does that mean this is not the tomb you seek?" Jaken asks Sesshomaru as he turns around and leaves.
"Lord Sesshomaru, please wait!" Jaken shouts and pleads running to catch up with his master. A pack of wolves run across a plain. A flea with a human head a balding old man with large eyes sits on one of the wolves, gripping onto its fur.
"Dangerous, so dangerous! Just who is he anyway?!" The Flea asks himself before he turns to the wolves and says. "Hurry! I must report this without delay! To Master Inuyasha!"
...
At a campsite of a battalion of warriors. Most of the warriors are resting. A few of them sit in two rows in front of a fat general.
A general is lifting a boar carcass. "We'll meet up with the main troops tomorrow. Men! Eat boar's meat tonight and energize yourselves!"
"Yo! Such a man of strength and power is our lord and master!" One Warrior exclaimed.
"What an amazing man!" Another Warrior praised.
The general grips the boar's neck. "I'll take an enemy general's head" He chuckles heartily.
"Who goes there?!" A Third Warrior demands, but is attacked and falls onto the ground, revealing Sesshomaru amidst the battalion.
The General reaches the battalion and inquiries. "What's the matter?"
"My lord!" A Fourth Warrior exclaims.
"Why you... who are you?!" The General orders.
"A boat..." Sesshomaru states calmly.
"A boat?" The General laughs. "Who has the luxury to lend you a boat in the middle of war!?" The General taunts and demands.
"I want a boat." Sesshomaru demanded again.
"What?!" The General shouts shocked.
The general runs towards Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru grabs his neck and snaps it. The general gasps for air. The battalion looks on in horror. He flings the general onto a boat in a river nearby. The boat breaks and the general sank into the water.
A Fifth Warrior prepares his sword. "Why you...!" The rest of the battalion follow suit.
Jaken appears among the tall grass, looking perplexed. "Lord Sesshomaru! I can't find any boats in this area!" He looks around him to find a lot of boats in the river. "Huh? Oh...! So many boats! Leave it to Lord Sesshomaru!" Jaken praises needlessly.
A Sixth Warrior stares at Sesshomaru. "Wh-what?"
"You're not mortal, are you?" A Seventh Warrior states angry.
"Beast! We'll kill you! Surround him!" A Eighth Warrior tells Sesshomaru than orders the men.
The warriors close in on Sesshomaru.
"Jaken... I'll let you deal with them." Sesshomaru informs Jaken before walking off.
Jaken walks towards the warriors. "Yes, my lord." Jaken raises his staff high up in the air. The old man head on the staff opens his mouth and spews a torrent of fire towards the warriors. The warriors shout in pain.
Jaken laughs. "Feel the full power of my Human Head Staff!" Jaken swings the staff around to burn more warriors. More cries of pain are heard. The fire eventually stops and the old man head closes his eyes and droop. The warriors are reduced to a charred steaming mess.
"Hah! Not a piece left of them! Fools! If they hadn't resisted us, they would still be alive. Wherever Lord Sesshomaru goes the power holds of the samurai go astray." Jaken turns around. "It's over and done with, my lord." Jaken looks around realizing he's all alone. "Huh? Please wait, my lord!" Jaken starts to run after Sesshomaru.
Suddenly the eyes of the old man on the Human Head Staff glow an eerie red. Jaken stops abruptly and lets go of the staff, which remains floating in the air.
"Err... This is...?!" Jaken says in confused shock.
Jaken's staff floats away, spins a little with the old man head facing another direction and continues floating away.
"The staff changed directions? Is the location of the fang moving?" Jaken wonders to himself.
Jaken and Sesshomaru are on a boat traveling along a dark misty river. Sesshomaru sits in front, while Jaken rows behind him.
"Lord Sesshomaru..." Jaken starts.
"What is it?" Sesshomaru asks monotone.
"The location of the tomb. I believe that Inuyasha knows where it is." Jaken tells his master with hesitation.
"Inuyasha?" Sesshomaru asks.
Without turning around, Sesshomaru slaps Jaken violently, which sends Jaken falling into the river. Jaken surfaces for air and Sesshomaru pokes him on the forehead with his Human Head Staff, making him struggle along the surface of the water.
"It's a name I'd rather not remember..." Sesshomaru says frustrated.
"Please forgive me!" Jaken begs.
"Besides, he is not alive." He sinks the staff deeper. "I heard that a spell was cast upon him fifty years ago."
Jaken is struggling for air and swimming desperately, but manages to say. "Yes... but I have heard that the spell was undone only recently." Sesshomaru sinks the staff deeper, sending Jaken underwater.
"Also, my staff has been pointing in a different direction. I believe this has something to do with Inuyasha's awakening." Jaken starts talking underwater. "By the way, my lord... Won't you release the staff...? I can't... breathe!" Jaken cheeks balloon up and his eyes go haywire. He lets out a torrent of bubbles from his mouth, his body goes limp and falls away.
...
Daytime At The Dry Well In The Feudal Era
A blue bicycle appears out of the well, followed by Kimiko in casual wear. She hitches the heavy bicycle over the well and gets out.
Kimiko wipes sweat across her forehead. "Huh... haven't had to work this much in a long time." Kimiko is cycling peacefully across rice fields.
"How could an average middle school girl like me get hurled into the feudal era period? My family are the protectors of an ancient shrine. We have a sacred thousand year old tree on the premises, a mysterious, secret well... I guess thinking back, it was a pretty strange shrine. The time warp to the feudal era period is connected to the secret well. And now all kinds of phantoms are after the Sacred Jewel which was hidden inside my body. The old priestess, Kaede, and the rest of the villagers are very kind, so I've been able to manage somehow. But it's too frightening to think about all the demons that may come in pursuit of the Sacred Jewel." Kimiko thinks.
"Although he's rough and rude and mean, in order to find the fragments of the Sacred Jewel, I hope Inuyasha and I can get along." Kimiko continues to think.
The flea that appeared earlier on hops heavily across some grass, and lands on a rock to rest and catch his breath.
The flea wipes sweat across his forehead. "I've been walking continuously for three days. Perhaps I will rest a bit."
The flea puts down his walking stick and sits. A bicycle bell is heard in the background. "Huh? What's that sound?" The Flea turns around to find a bicycle wheel towering towards him, which proceeds to crush him, twice over with its two wheels. The flea yells. It's Kimiko riding her bicycle.
Kimiko turns around. "What was that? My imagination, maybe?" Kimiko rides on and approaches Kaede's village.
...
In The Village
Inuyasha is laying casually on a tree branch. Kimiko stands at the base of the tree, looking up at him.
"Tending to my wound? Forget it!" Inuyasha says mad.
"No! It's a serious wound. Get down." Kimiko demands wanting to help because he only got the wound because of her.
"Nope!" Inuyasha childishly and stubbornly refused.
"Come down, please!" Kimiko calls again.
"Hah!" Inuyasha scoffs.
"Sorry" Kimiko apologizes making Inuyasha looks down at her confused. Sit." Kimiko commands.
Inuyasha crashes onto the ground. "Why you... What're you doing?!" Inuyasha demands annoyed.
Kimiko holds up a first aid kit in her hand. "Tending to your wound! What else? You've just been through the mill and you're cut up, beat up and mangled up!" Kimiko says with worry.
"Get one thing clear... I was the winner! Don't you forget that!" Inuyasha says proudly.
...
Kaede is walking along a path with a few village kids following her. Her arm is bandaged up.
"Priestess Kaede, how is your injury?" One Child asks.
"I hope the fragments of the Sacred Jewel can be found soon!" The Child changes the topic.
Kaede laughs. "You children need not worry your heads about it. But if Inuyasha and Kimiko could get along for a while longer, that would be a big help."
The Child laughs and points. "Looks like they're getting along fine."
Near them, where the child is pointing to, Kimiko is sitting on top of Inuyasha, grabbing onto his clothes.
"Just let me tend to your wounds!" Kimiko pleaded.
"Cut it out!" Inuyasha struggles
"Undress!" Kimiko demands.
Kaede looks to the kids. "Do not look!"
"Huh?!" Inuyasha says, confused looking up.
"It seems as though you're starting to get along." Kaede teases.
"Huh?!" Kimiko says.
Both of them are embarrassed. Inuyasha gets up suddenly, making Kimiko fall onto the ground.
"You!" Kimiko says frustrated.
"Can't you understand that my body is different?!" Inuyasha asks, annoyed, but shows Kimiko his chest where his injury used to be.
"Huh...?! It's already healed." Kimiko states confused, but also with a hint of wonder.
"That a terrible injury is healed... And not even a scar! Amazing!" Kaede says impressed.
"Keh! Don't compare me mortals! I ain't flattered at all by your amazement!" Inuyasha says, but there is a tint of blush on his cheeks.
"He's not human, but he's not a demon. So what is a half-demon...?" Kimiko thinks.
Inuyasha arranges his clothes. "Oww!" Inuyasha yelps suddenly and looks at his chest. The flea from earlier is feeding on his blood and gets a little bigger.
The flea stops sucking and looks up. "Greetings, Master Inuyasha!"
Inuyasha slaps the flea and looks at it, a flattened version on his palm. "Huh? Why if it ain't ol' Myoga the Flea!" Myoga slides off Inuyasha's palm and onto the ground.
"Flea?" Kimiko inquiries confused.
Inuyasha kneels down to look at Myoga. "What's up, Myoga?.
Myoga stands up and fattens himself. "It has been so long, Master Inuyasha!" A gust of 'wind' blows at him. "So long... Master Inuyasha..." Myoga struggles and falls onto the ground. Kimiko is spraying a can of insecticide at Myoga with a determined look.
"What'd you do?" Inuyasha asked puzzled.
"Shouldn't I have?" Kimiko asked, confused, still getting used to the things that are different in this time period.
...
Evening At The Village
The village kids are examining Kimiko's bicycle curiously. The group gathers around a fire in Kaede's hut.
"Men are trying to violate my old man's tomb?" Inuyasha asked.
"I, Myoga, protector of the tomb, could bear it no longer and here I am." Myoga informed.
"You abandoned the tomb and ran away?!" Inuyasha demands more mad at Myoga than the men violating his old mans tomb.
"But that tomb was just stone. The urn itself is in another location." Myoga explains.
"Then where is it?" Inuyasha asked curiously.
"Well, I do not know myself." Myoga answered shrugging.
"And you call yourself a tomb protector?!" Inuyasha says frustrated.
"Inuyasha, I have heard that your father... was a phantom dog that once ruled over the western region." Kaede tells him.
...
A battalion of warriors firing arrows at a huge dog. The dog growls and flies into the air. The image fades to an illustration, showing the majesty of the dog.
...
Inuyasha rests his face on his hand. "I don't remember much about 'im." Inuyasha notifies.
"He was a magnificent and powerful demon. And his blood was so flavorful. Master Inuyasha has inherited the tasty blood from his father." Myoga adds on.
"Hmmm... and his mother?" Kimiko questions curiously wanting to know more about Inuyasha.
"His mother was very beautiful." Myoga educates.
Inuyasha stamps on Myoga with his heel and twists it in anger.
"Inuyasha! Don't be so rough!" Kimiko scolds.
"My mother died a long time ago!" Inuyasha states angrily, but Kimiko could detect a hint of sadness in his voice before he stormed out of the hut.
"Did I say something to anger him?" Kimiko asked worried.
"Hmmm... I do not know." Kaede answers truthfully.
"All I did was ask about his mother." Kimiko says.
"Master Inuyasha has been always like that when the subject turns to his mother." Myoga warns Kimiko.
Kaede remains silent and tends to the fire. Kimiko gets up.
...
Nighttime
Inuyasha is sitting on his tree, staring into space and looking pissed off. Kimiko appears in the background and cycles towards the tree. She gets off the bicycle and pushes it along.
"His father was a full fledged demon. And Inuyasha is a half-demon. Half-demon... does that mean the other half is human? Is that why...?" Kimiko starts thinking.
Kimiko remembers what Yura yelled at Inuyasha.
"Half of him is mortal. He's not a whole demon. That's the cause of Inuyasha's complex." Kimiko looks at Inuyasha. "So Inuyasha's mother was human?" Kimiko thinks.
"His mother is human. Is that why he misses her?" Kimiko wonders.
...
Flashback
Kimiko Leaving Her House To Go To The Feudal Era
"I'm off!" Kimiko tells her sister and mom.
"Kimiko, wait!" Keiko called out.
"What? I got to hurry to the other side!" Kimiko reminded.
Kieko holds out first aid kit. "It's something extra to carry, but take it." Keiko demands.
"I already have so much." Kimiko tells her.
"Didn't you say your dog eared friend and others there have gotten injured? Make sure you sterilize their wounds and treat them." Keiko advised smiling and takes the first aid kit. "All right!"
...
"I wonder if Inuyasha really misses his mother?" Kimiko ponders.
A gust of strong wind blows suddenly.
"Wh-what?!" Kimiko asks shocked.
Inuyasha leaps down from the tree branch. "Get down!" Inuyasha plops Kimiko's head onto the ground.
Kimiko raises her soiled face, chiding, but still thankful. "Inuyasha!"
"Can you feel it? There's something weird coming." Inuyasha said seriously.
In the sky, the silhouette of a palanquin is seen floating across the sky, backlit by the moon. Several demons guard the palanquin.
"A noble's palanquin?" Kimiko wonders surprised if she would ever get used to seeing these things.
The screen of the palanquin flies open, revealing a woman in chains inside.
"There's a lady inside." Kimiko states.
Inuyasha gets up and walks a few steps forward.
"Inuyasha! What's the matter?" Kimiko asks
"M-my mother...?" Inuyasha says in disbelief softly.
"You are... Inuyasha!" Inuyasha's Mother calls as the chains tug at her. "Agh!"
Inuyasha runs forward. "Mom!"
Kimiko follows concerned. "What's happening? I thought you said your mother was dead!"
"Inuyasha! Inuyasha!" Inuyasha's Mother yells out.
The palanquin flies towards a cloud swirl in the sky, from which a gigantic demon claw reaches out and crashes it. The rest of the demon appears, with eerie red eyes, among the clouds and clenching Inuyasha's mother tightly in his fist. Inuyasha's mother looks unconscious.
"Inuyasha, your mother!" Kimiko yells terrified.
"You..." Inuyasha leaps into the air, but a torrent of fire surges suddenly towards him. "Damn!"
It was Jaken who released the fire from his Human Head Staff. He is standing on the arm of the huge demon. Inuyasha lands and curses Jaken. Sesshomaru appears, standing on the shoulder of the giant demon.
"Jaken." Sesshomaru says.
"Yes, my lord?" Jaken asks.
"We kill him after our business is done." Sesshomaru reminds.
"Yes, my lord." Jaken answers.
"You... Sesshomaru!" Inuyasha says frustrated.
"Admirable... so you remember your older brother?" Sesshomaru taunts.
"Older brother? Your brother?" Kimiko says in disbelief.
"A mortal girl?" Sesshomaru frowns in distaste.
Kimiko hides behind Inuyasha. "Wh-what?" Kimiko utters.
"Inuyasha... It suits you stick to humans." Sesshomaru mocks.
A chain around Inuyaha's mother's neck is raised, causing her to wince in pain.
"Disgusting beasts called humans. To be a half-demon, whose mother is a human is a disgrace to all our kind!" Sesshomaru jeers.
Inuyasha grinds his teeth in anger.
"So Inuyasha's mother is pretty, after all!" Kimiko thinks.
"Sesshomaru... you! Did you come all this way just to tell me that?" Inuyasha ordered angry as he clenches his fist.
"Fool! I am not so idle as that! I came to ask you the location of our father's grave." Sesshomaru states.
"Grave? Who knows?!" Inuyasha answers annoyed.
"'Visible, but invisible... The true protector of the grave cannot see it." That is the clue to the gravesite." Sesshomaru's tells Inuyasha.
"I don't know what you're talking about! Besides, even if I knew, I wouldn't tell you! That's for sure!" Inuyasha says mad.
"I see... Then it can't be helped. Your mother will suffer for it." Sesshomaru informs as he whips the giant demon, who winces in pain and clenches his fist, thus hurting Inuyasha's mother.
"Inuyasha!" Kimiko shouts worried.
"Are you stupid?! My mother died a long time ago! As if I'd fall for such a trick!" Inuyasha said.
"Trick, huh?" Sesshomaru smirks amused.
"Do you not understand? Bringing dead spirits from the netherworld is a simple task for someone as great as Lord Sesshomaru. He was so kind as to give her flesh! Her own son won't believe that it's her. How mortifying it must be for your mother!" Jaken taunts.
"Inuyasha!" Inuyasha's Mother cry's out.
"It's not some trick...?!" Inuyasha thinks in disbelief starting to hope it was true.
"I've returned from the dead..." Inuyasha's Mother explains.
Little demon imps tug at the chains around her and she faints from the pain.
"Damn! Iron Reaver-Soul Stealer!" Inuyasha yells as he leaps up and claws the giant demon's hand, cutting it into two.
The fist which was clenching Inuyasha's mother falls to the ground. The demon growls in pain. He lands. The little demons which were tugging at Inuyasha's mother flee once they land on the ground.
Kimiko runs up to them concerned. "Are you all right, Inuyasha's Mother?"
"Kimiko! Take my mother and go!" Inuyasha insists.
"You will not escape." Sesshomaru tells them as he whips the demon again, which growls in pain defenseless. "You hopeless imbecile!" Sesshomaru complains as he whips the demon cruelly again, this time in the face.
The demon growls and reaches towards Inuyasha's mother.
"Mother!" Inuyasha yells, running towards her.
"Inuyasha!" Inuyasha's Mother shouts out as Inuyasha blocks the demon's hand from his mother and the hand stabs into his back instead.
She gasps in horror and holds out a white glowing orb in her hand, which enlarges and engulfs Inuyasha, Kimiko and her. Sesshomaru shields his face from the bright light. When the bright light stops, Inuyasha, his mother and Kimiko are gone.
"What a nuisance." Sesshomaru mutters frustrated.
"It's going well, my lord. Just leave everything to Jaken!" Jaken proclaimed.
"You made me go along with this silly scheme... If it fails... You will die." Sesshomaru says seriously.
"Oh... Please leave it to me." Jaken said falling back in terror.
...
Inuyasha and Kimiko appear, unconscious, lying in a serene and enchanted garden, next to a pond.
Inuyasha wakes up looking around. "Where is this?"
Inuyasha's Mother walks up behind Inuyasha. "We are at the border of the spirit world. I must now return."
"The spirit world? Yes... You are dead, after all." Inuyasha resigns himself to his mother's fate.
Inuyasha's mother turns around and walk away. Inuyasha glances at Kimiko who is still unconscious, hesitant to leave her but follows his mother. They walk a little further on the grass, next to the pond.
"Inuyasha... How you have grown." Inuyasha's Mother says happily.
"Of course! I was just a little kid when you died." Inuyasha reminds with a spiteful look.
"It was a violent age. And I left you... all alone with no one to care for you. Forgive me." She stops and turns to Inuyasha. "How you must have suffered."
Inuyasha turns around and folds his arms. "It wasn't your fault."
"Inuyasha..." Inuyasha's Mother says softly.
Inuyasha turns around to face her. Kimiko is finally waking.
"Huh?! Inuyasha and his mother... They're okay." She tries to get up. "Wh-what... My body... I can't move!" Kimiko thinks frightened.
Kimiko looks at Inuyasha and his mother, and notices her reflection in the pond.
"Huh?! There's no face in the reflection! Inuyasha! My voice... I can't speak!" Kimiko thinks getting frustrated.
Inuyasha's mother walks to his side.
"Mother..." Inuyasha starts, but can't finish.
"Parting is so sad... Inuyasha." Inuyasha's Mom said.
"Yes..." Inuyasha replies sadly.
"Have you realized it, Inuyasha? She doesn't have a face! She's not your mother!" Kimiko thinks worried for Inuyasha.
In the reflection of Inuyasha and his mother's in the pond. They face each other, a little sideways, but there are no facial features on the face of his mother.