Nighttime
A group of villagers are searching the forest, holding torches in their hands.
"Miss Kimiko! Miss Kimiko! Miss Kimiko!" The Villagers call out.
Two villagers find Kimiko's bicycle under a tree and waves to the rest.
"Hey! Look!" The First Villager calls.
"Over here!" The Second Villager calls after the rest of them.
The villagers gather around Kimiko's bicycle.
...
Nighttime In Modern Day Japan, Just Outside The Higurashi House.
Keiko is twisting a seat on a bicycle, making sharp creaking sounds. Sota, in his pajamas, opens the door.
Sota rubs his eyes. "What're you doing in the middle of the night?"
"Did I wake you? I'm sorry. I was just lowering the bicycle seat to Kimiko's height. She took her own bike to the other dimension. I thought she'd have a hard time using this one when she returns." Keiko explained.
"Sis won't be back for two or three days. She took so much clothes with her." Sota reminded.
"I know. But I just want to do what I can for her." Keiko replied back.
"Sis is so lucky! You're so concerned about her." Shota said.
"Oh, but I'm just as concerned about you, Sota. Concerned that you won't wet the bedding again." Keiko teases.
"How can you say that?! I'm already in the third grade! I won't do that!" Sota yells embarrassed.
Keiko giggles. "We should help her out too, okay?"
Sota nods. "I know." He notices something in the sky. "A falling star!"
"Oh! Please let Kimiko be safe!" Keiko wishes.
...
Kimiko, Inuyasha And His Mother Are Still In An Enchanted Garden
The reflection of Inuyasha's mother is seen in the pond, but there are no facial features on her face in the water. Kimiko lays sideways on the ground, unable to move.
"There's no face in the reflection! Inuyasha! Inu- My voice... I can't speak. Please notice it, Inuyasha! She doesn't have a face! She's... not your mother!" Kimiko thinks frightened for Inuyasha.
"Inuyasha... I must return to the netherworld." Inuyasha's Mother informed.
"Oh... Must you go?" Inuyasha asks sad.
Inuyasha's Mother holds up a lotus flower in her hand and lets it fall into the water. The petals fall apart and cause ripples in the water. "Inuyasha... Look at the surface of the water."
Inuyasha kneels next to the pond and an image is formed. A ball bounces across a bridge spanning over a pond. A toddler chases after the ball and catches it after running across the bridge. A woman stands serenely among flowers, looking at the toddler. The toddler notices her, throwing his ball away and runs into her receiving arms. The woman sitting in a pavilion, overlooking the pond. The toddler sits in front of her. The woman hugs him snugly from behind.
"That's back when I was a kid..." Inuyasha's voice is heard.
"So you remember! When you were a child, I often embraced you like that." Inuyasha's Mother voice is also heard as she hugs Inuyasha from behind.
"Good boy... Let me hold you tight." Inuyasha's Mom requests as Inuyasha starts looking dreamy, turns around and they hug face to face.
"I won't let go." Inuyasha's Mother sinks her hands into his back. "Become one with me."
Inuyasha winces in pain. "Mother..." He loses consciousness.
"Inuyasha! Wh-Why can't I move?!" Kimiko thinks desperately as chains appear around Kimiko's body, followed by the little imps.
They are chaining down Kimiko. A darkness start to swipe across the pond and slowly, the gardens engulfed in darkness. Skeletons of animals appear. The scene is now a desolate swamp.
"This is... all an illusion!" Kimiko realized.
Myoga appears and hops onto Kimiko's cheek. "Kimiko! Snap out of it! It's me, Myoga the Flea" He hops onto a chain on Kimiko's neck. "Who would have thought that the one looking for the tomb would be Master Sesshomaru, Master Inuyasha's elder brother! Such a formidable foe! Poor thing, you're chained up and unable to move. I'll undo the spell in a moment." He notices Kimiko's inviting neck and cheek. "Hmm? Looks delicious!" Myoga starts sucking blood from Kimiko's cheek forgetting about everything else.
Kimiko slaps Myoga and gets up. "Thank you! I think I can move now." Kimiko said, annoyed but also relived.
The little imps around Kimiko flee. A flattened version of Myoga slides away from Kimiko's palm.
Jaken rows a boat in the swamp, towards Inuyasha and his mother. Inuyasha is unconscious and his face and body are half sunken in the false mother's body. The false mother no longer has a face.
"My boy... My dear son..." The False Mother coo's.
Jaken gets out of the , you! Un-Mother!" He clubs her face with his staff, chipping some flesh off her face. "What's the use of sucking the breath out of him?!"
"Master Jaken!" The Un-Mother exclaims surprised.
"What you do to him later is no concern to us! But first, you must get the information out of him! The location of the tomb of Inuyasha and Lord Sesshomaru's father!" Jaken demands.
"That Jaken fellow is Sesshomaru's henchman?" Kimiko asked herself hiding behind a boulder.
"The Human Head Staff... You must watch out for that." Myoga warns.
"Okay!" Kimiko nods in understanding.
"Inuyasha! Inuyasha!" Un-Mother calls.
Inuyasha sinks deeper into Un-Mother. Inuyasha, unconscious, is thrust underwater, with the Un-Mother's long arms holding him.
"Please remember... Where is your father's tomb?" Un-Mother questions.
"I don't know..." Inuyasha thinks.
"Think harder! Open up your heart to me." Un-Mother demands.
Long arms curling downwards in the water, towards an black orb.
"What's that?!" Un-Mother inquires.
Inuyasha sinks into the Un-Mother's body.
"The black pearl in the right..." Inuyasha states.
"The black pearl in the right? That's not enough to go on! Find out more!" Jaken fiercely demands.
"Master Jaken, if I delve any deeper, this boy's spirit will be broken!" Un-Mother explains.
"So what? Just do it!" Jaken orders unconcerned.
Un-Mother gasps and nods. "There, there... Inuyasha." Un-Mother hugs Inuyasha tighter.
Inuyasha under water struggles a little.
"I can't breathe, Mother!" Inuyasha opens his eyes, look upwards and finds the Un-Mother holding him into the water. "The face...!" The hands around him curls tighter and strangles his neck.
Inuyasha gasps for air.
"Hey! Not yet? Hurry, or I will face the wrath of Lord Sesshomaru! Huh?!" Jaken threatened.
Kimiko steps on Jaken from behind and snatches his staff.
"Why you... troublemaker!" Kimiko swings Jaken's into the water with the staff.
The Un-Mother gets up and runs away.
"Wait! Let Inuyasha go!" Kimiko demands chasing her.
"No!" Un-Mother cries desperately as she runs backwards and sinks Inuyasha deeper into her body, until only his hair is visible.
Kimiko pulls Inuyasha's hair. "Inuyasha! Huh?!" Kimiko trips and loses grip on him. "He's being sucked in!"
Myoga hops onto Kimiko's shoulder. "Kimiko! You must awaken Master Inuyasha's spirit!."
"Spirit?!" Kimiko says confused.
"The demon is the Un-Mother." Myoga informed. "She was created by the forlorn spirits of mothers who lost children to famine or war. If you reawaken the spirit that's under the spell of the Un-Mother, his body will be released!"
"Awaken the spirit?! But, how?" Kimiko asked desperately.
Kimiko gasps in horror as Inuyasha is almost inside Un-Mother with only his arm visible.
"Oh joy... You and Mother will soon be one..." Un-Mother said.
"I won't make it in time!" Kimiko says worriedly, but then notices the reflection of the Un-Mother in the water, who is holding a kid Inuyasha in her arms. "That child... is Inuyasha?"
"Yes! That is the work of the Un-Mother's magic!" Myoga tells her.
"If I erase that image, then..." Kimiko says getting an idea to save Inuyasha, she steps and hits the water surface with the staff, disturbing the reflection. "Inuyasha! Wake up!" The Un-Mother shrieks and Inuyasha falls out of her onto the ground.
"Inuyasha... Are you all right?" Kimiko asks concerned as she holds up Inuyasha and then hugs him in relief.
"Damn! Damn it to hell! How dare they... use my mother like that?!" Inuyasha angrily says pulling away from the hug.
Un-Mother falls onto the ground, crying. "It's all the work of Sesshomaru and Jaken." Kimiko tells Inuyasha.
"What?!" Inuyasha demands.
Sesshomaru appears from afar and walks forward. "Inuyasha... I know where the tomb is."
"What?! Sesshomaru!" Inuyasha yells mad.
Sesshomaru zooms toward Inuyasha and grips his neck.
"Why you...!" Inuyasha grunts.
"I never imagined it would be there! Very clever... That father would pick such a place. The black pearl in the right... Father didn't want anyone to disturb his resting place so he hid his tomb there." Sesshomaru starts explaining to no one.
"You..." Inuyasha holds onto Sesshomaru hand, which is strangling him. "What kind of nonsense are you talking about?!"
"So you were entrusted with the tomb unknowingly. Well then, would you like to visit father's grave with me?" Sesshomaru asks not expecting an answer.
Sesshomaru holds up two fingers and emits a spark at Inuyaha's right eyeball. He groans in pain.
"Master Inuyasha!" Myoga cried out.
Sesshomaru pulls his fingers towards him, and a black orb in extracted from Inuyaha's iris. He takes the orb and plops Inuyasha onto the ground. Inuyasha holds a hand over his right eye, in pain.
"Inuyasha!" Kimiko yells as she holds up Inuyasha.
"No wonder it was useless looking underground. Visible, but invisible. The true protector of the grave cannot be seen. And... it is the black pearl imbedded in your right eye." Sesshomaru scoffed.
Inuyasha lowers his hand, revealing that his right iris is gone. "And just for that... You tricked me with my dead mother's image...!" Inuyasha demanded angrily.
The Un-Mother turns around and looks at them.
"It was just a joke." Sesshomaru casually said not caring.
"Why you...! Unforgivable!" Inuyasha tries to claw Sesshomaru, but he dodges.
Sesshomaru takes out his whip and attacks Inuyasha. "Die!" Sesshomaru attacks Inuyasha several times, which Inuyasha manages to dodge.
One attack hits him and he is thrown onto the ground. Sesshomaru readies another attack, but the Un-Mother rushes in front of Inuyasha. The whip hits her back instead and shatters her body into pieces.
"Huh?!" Kimiko states surprised.
The body pieces and shreds of the Un-Mother's clothes fall onto the ground. One shred of her clothes lands on Inuyaha's shoulder.
"The Un-Mother?" Myoga said.
"She protected Inuyasha?" Kimiko questioned, but with an understanding smile dawned on her face.
"The Un-Mother is a demon filled with motherly love. It's in her nature to try to protect children." Myoga understands.
"My son..." The Un-Mother cries weakly from her remaining head and Sesshomaru whips it into pieces after hearing what she said.
Inuyasha is furious.
"Hey, you!" Kimiko yells out to Sesshomaru.
"Don't interfere! Or else we'll both be killed." Myoga warns.
"I don't care!" Kimiko states.
"Jaken! Jaken!" Sesshomaru calls his servant.
Jaken who was crawling among the grass, runs up to Sesshomaru. "Lord Sesshomaru! I have my Human Head Staff back!" Jaken holds up his staff proudly.
Sesshomaru holds the staff and looks at the black orb. "How I have waited for this moment!"
Sesshomaru drops the glowing orb onto the ground and pokes the lower end of the staff at it. The old man's head on the staff cackles.
"The old man laughs! The tomb will now open!" Jaken excitedly says.
Light emits from the orb and a portal opens in the air. Sesshomaru and Jaken go in.
"They've disappeared!" Kimiko said.
"Master Inuyasha, hurry and enter before the entrance closes up. Lord Sesshomaru intends to take sole possession of your father's treasure!" Myoga said crawling up Inuyasha's hair.
"I'm not interested in that!" Inuyasha tells Myoga.
"Don't say such a thing!" Myoga pleaded.
"Shut up! Who said I wasn't going?!" Inuyasha holds up the piece of the Un-Mother's clothes. "That Sesshomaru... I'll kill 'im!" He shreds the cloth into pieces. "Kimiko, it's dangerous, so you stay here..." He turned around to find Kimiko has already gone. "Huh?"
Kimiko is climbing into the portal. "What, are you waiting for an invitation!" She asked and then enters.
"Hey! Hey, Sesshomaru's inside!" Inuyasha catches up with Kimiko in the portal.
"That's why we have to go teach him a lesson! I'll never forgive him for what he did!" Kimiko explained furious.
Kimiko and Inuyasha reach the end of the vortex and floats in the sky above a desolate and rocky landscape. A gigantic skull of an animal stands in the middle of the land. Below the skull is an armor of sorts. A skeletal bird flies towards them and carries them on its back. The bird flies towards the skull.
"Father..." Inuyasha said not knowing what to feel.
"Those bones are your father's...?" Kimiko asked, not knowing whether to be shocked or not.
"Can't you tell?" Inuyasha asks like it is obvious.
"Well, even if you say that... How was I to know?! It's so huge!" Kimiko points out frustrated.
"His father was a phantom of incomparable stature. And here he is in his truest form, undisguised." Myoga informs her.
The bird flies into the mouth of the skull.
"The treasured sword imbedded in his bones... That is what Master Sesshomaru is after." Myoga informed.
...
Inside the ribcage of Inuyasha's father. Sesshomaru stands and gaze at a sword. The rusty and chipped sword is standing upright, with its tip embedded in a golden pedestal.
"I am finally here. To possess the sacred sword imbedded in my father's bones. The lethal fang sword... known to kill a hundred beasts in a single stroke! Known as Tetsusaiga!" Sesshomaru holds the sword.
"Tetsusaiga was forged from one of his father's fangs. Being in possession of this sword empowers you with as much strength as your father!" Jaken said excitedly.
Sesshomaru tries to pull out the sword, but a static charge discharges and he releases his hand from the sword. His hand turns blue and static surrounds it.
"Can't pull it out?" Jaken inquires.
"He was ever so cautious. There's a spell on it." Sesshomaru said, looking at his hand return to normal but fumes still emit from it.
Inuyasha lands with Kimiko on one of the ribcage bones yelling. "Sesshomaru!"
"Hmm?" Sesshomaru said uninterested.
Inuyasha leaps towards his brother. "I haven't finished with you yet!" Sesshomaru dodges as Inuyasha crashes onto the ground. "Damn! Where'd he go?!" Inuyasha looks around to find Sesshomaru high up in the air.
"This is our father's resting place. Be respectful!" Sesshomaru demands Inuyasha.
"You hypocrite! You're the one trying to rob his grave! Now get out of here!" Inuyasha yells.
"Master Inuyasha! Look behind you!" Myoga requests.
"Behind me? Why?" Inuyasha questions curiously.
"That's the sword... made from your father's fang... That's Tetsusaiga!" Myoga exclaims happily.
"Huh?!" He goes to the sword. "It's just an old, rusty sword! Tes-something-or-other?! Hah! You can't even cut a turnip with this!" Inuyasha mocks the sword.
"Master Inuyasha! Please draw the sword out. Lord Sesshomaru, you were unable to pull Tetsusaiga out. Isn't that so?" Myoga request, then asks Sesshomaru.
"And you say that Inuyasha can?" Sesshomaru states incredibly thinking of he couldn't do it than this half-breed of a brother shouldn't be able to either.
"But of course! Master Inuyasha was meant to inherit the Tetsusaiga! The fact that the tomb was entrusted to Inuyasha is proof of that!" Myoga informed, but also fearing Sesshomaru's wrath, inches slowly to the back of Inuyaha's neck. "Now hurry, Master Inuyasha! Draw the sword out!"
"What inheritance?! What treasured sword! I could care less about this rusty sword! But Sesshomaru! You've insulted me one too often! Now you'll die in our father's grave!" Inuyasha declared before he leaps to claw Sesshomaru but he dodges.
"Where are you aiming?" Sesshomaru taunted.
Sesshomaru lands on the ground and leaps back into the air. Inuyasha chases and attacks, but Sesshomaru dodged effortlessly. Inuyasha punches him and Sesshomaru flies further up. Inuyasha punches into the ribcage instead, and crashes onto the ground.
"Damn!" Inuyasha curses.
"Such a childish attack!" Sesshomaru mocks landing behind Inuyasha.
"Master Inuyasha! You cannot fight unarmed! Get the sword!" Myoga begs.
"Shut up!" Inuyasha snarls annoyed.
"Inuyasha! Just go and draw the sword out!" Kimiko is shouting from where they landed on the rib cage knowing if she went down she would be in the way.
"Kimiko!" Inuyasha shouts surprised she had such little confidence in him.
"Sesshomaru couldn't do it! Now, if you pull it out with ease, Sesshomaru's pride will be in shreds! How embarrassing for him!" Kimiko tells him her plan.
"I see... All right! That'll be really fun to watch." Inuyasha walks towards the sword as Sesshomaru gives him an angry glare.
"Hey, I can't wait to see your face!" Inuyasha calls out to Sesshomaru as he gets onto the pedestal and holds the sword.
"No...! Master Inuyasha is immune to the spell which cast off Lord Sesshomaru!" Jaken said, appearing from a pile of skulls as Inuyasha tries to pull out the sword.
"I knew it! Tetsusaiga is destined to belong to Master Inuyasha!" Myoga giddily says.
Inuyasha clenches his teeth and pulls with all his strength, and glow emits around the sword.
"Pull it out, Inuyasha!" Kimiko cheers having full confidence he could pull it out.
Inuyasha is still trying very hard to pull out the sword. An orb of light surrounds the sword. Sesshomaru looks on. Slowly, the light dissipates, but the sword remains embedded in the pedestal.
"Huh?!" Kimiko said in disbelief.
"Huh?!" Inuyasha asks confused.
"Oh dear!" Jaken said.
"Hey..." Inuyasha in a deadpan voice picks up Myoga and squeezes him with his fingers, his eyebrow twitching. "I couldn't pull it out!"
"Wh-why?!" Myoga shouts shocked and confused.
"Let's cut the comedy." Sesshomaru demands as he suddenly flies towards Inuyasha, who dodges and sprints away.
Sesshomaru catches up with him effortlessly and pins him onto the ribcage wall. He holds out his other hand threateningly.
"My poison claws will sublimate you!" Sesshomaru shouts.
A green glow emits from his hand and he charges at Inuyasha. At the very last minute, Inuyasha breaks away from Sesshomaru grip and the hand charges poisonous fumes at the ribcage wall instead. Part of the wall melts and forms a hole, which gradually gets bigger.
"Wanna turn me into slime, huh?!" Inuyasha thinks sprinting away.
"You won't get away!" Sesshomaru said zooming next to Inuyasha.
"Why you-!" Inuyasha starts to claw at Sesshomaru, who flies into the air and takes a whip.
Sesshomaru whips Inuyasha, who falls backwards onto the ground.
"Lord Sesshomaru! Let me assist!" Jaken requested and swings his staff.
Kimiko jumps onto Jaken, making him fall flat face onto the ground fed up with doing nothing. "Hey, you! Coward!" She tells him getting off Jaken and facing him.
"What?! Take that!" Jaken gets up and swings his staff at Kimiko.
Kimiko grabs the staff and pushes it forward. "You puny lizard!"
Jaken gets engaged in a sort of 'tug of war' with her. "Why little wench!"
"Even humans like me can fight!" Kimiko angrily retorts.
"I won't lose this time!" Jaken pushes the staff forcefully, which sends Kimiko falling backwards, near the pedestal.
Inuyasha, while engaged in a fight with Sesshomaru, notices and yells Kimiko's name. This momentarily distraction allows Sesshomaru to slug him in the face. Kimiko gets up as Jaken swings his staff threateningly.
"What?! Is that all you can manage?!" Jaken mocks.
Kimiko steps backwards, one foot on the pedestal. She subconsciously reaches backwards and use the sword as support. "I'm not done yet!"
Inuyasha is lying on the ground. He struggles to get up and flies at Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru charges one hand at Inuyasha's stomach, thus stopping Inuyasha midair. Inuyasha winces and his body start to curl up.
Sesshomaru raises the other green glowing hand. "This is it! Disappear!" Sesshomaru leaps into the air and pins Inuyaha onto the ground.
He flexes his hand muscles as he prepares to move in for the kill. Kimiko, whose hand is still on the sword runs towards Inuyasha worried.
"Inuyasha!" Kimiko yells out, but as she runs, the tip of the sword is dislodged from the pedestal. Kimiko realizes and stares at the sword in her hand shocked.
"Huh?!" Kimiko said surprised.
Hearing, Sesshomaru stops and turns around to look at Kimiko. Kimiko holds up the sword with both hands and looks at it in disbelief.
Kimiko turns toward Inuyasha and Sesshomaru. "Sorry... I pulled it out." Not knowing what else to say.
Jaken looks on, stuttering and lost for words. Sesshomaru and Inuyasha stare at Kimiko incredulously.
"Sorry... " Kimiko apologized again and just looks at the sword blade, not knowing what to do.