I do not own Inuyasha. Inuyasha belong to Rumiko Takahashi. I only own Kimiko.
[ ACT I ]
In a forest, by a waterfall.
Kimiko: You've gotta be kidding! Even if it is Feudal Japan... There are no hot baths?! (standing naked in a river, shivering) C-C-Cuh-Cuh... (squats into the river) Cold!
Kaede:(sitting on the riverbank by a fire) Kagome, Kimiko, don't force it. Come on out.
Kagome: No! We're all bloody and dirty.
Kimiko: And I can't stand my filthy hair!
Kimiko and Kagome gather themselves for a moment and plunge into the water. Kaede gives up and sighs. Pan upwards, a cliff overlooking the riverbank. Inuyasha is resting on one of the tree branches, eyeing Kimiko, Kagome, and Kagome sideways spitefully. Cut to Kimiko swimming in the river.
Kimiko:(thinking) The Sacred Jewel...
CUT TO FLASHBACK of modern-day Japan, of Kimiko and Kagome's day before they fell into the well.
Kimiko:(narrating) My name is Higurashi Kimiko and my sister is Kagome. We're just your average kids but, through some strange, weird situation, We've ended up here, in the "Warring States" era.
Cut to Kimiko and Kagome's encounter with the Centipede Monster in the Dry Well.
Centipede: Rejoice! My power is coming back! My body is being restored! You have it... I know you have it!! (her lower body, which was just bones, fills out and turns into a long centipede body) You have it, don't you? Don't you? (licks Kimiko's face with her long pointed tongue)
Kimiko: Let me go! You're disgusting! Let me go! (struggles and shoves her left hand into the centipede's face) Let me go, I said! (light emits from Kimiko's palm which throws the centipede back, releasing Kimiko and Kagome)
Cut to Kimiko's second encounter with the Centipede-Monster and the Corpse Crow.
Kimiko: (narrating) 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. Am I dreaming? But it's NOT a dream!
[ Title screen: Down the Rabbit Hole and Back Again ]
Nighttime. Kimiko and Kagome hold up a fragment of the Sacred Jewel and look at it intently. Kimiko, Kagome, Inuyasha, and Kaede are sitting in Kaede's hut, by the fire.
Inuyasha: What's going on?!
Kaede: Stop barking, Inuyasha.
Inuyasha: What happened to the Jewel?!
Kaede: 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.
Kimiko: It wasn't my fault... was it? (thinking) I feel sort of responsible...
Kagome: This very crazy!
Kaede: Kimiko, Kagome, Inuyasha... You must use your combined strength to gather the fragments and restore the Sacred Jewel!
Kimiko: (shocked) Heh?
Kagome: Wait? With him!
Inuyasha: Listen up, old hag! I'm one of the "evil-doers" looking for the Jewel!
Kaede: It cannot be helped...
Kagome:(thinking) But... we have to go home!
Cut to present. Kimiko swimming and bathing in the river.
Kimiko: (thinking) Besides, I don't have such powers...! And Inuyasha is so selfish!
Kimiko and Kagome stands up in the water, and walks towards Kaede. Kagome looks upwards, noticing Inuyasha's presence. Inuyasha is sitting on the ledge of the cliff, staring at Kagome innocently, blinking his eyes. Kagome screamed and plugged back into the water.
Kagome: Sit!!
The rosary on Inuyasha's neck pulls at him, making him fall flat-faced onto the ground.
Kaede: So you are here, Inuyasha.
Inuyasha: Damn! I'd forgotten about the rosary.
Kagome:(puts her clothes on behind a bush) Shame on you! Spying on us like that!
Kimiko: (As she put on her clothes behind a bush) Had you have no shame, spying on girls!?"
Inuyasha: Huh?! Keh! Idiot! All I was doing was--
Kaede:(holding the jewel up and turns to INU) ...trying to steal the Sacred Jewel. Yes, I know.
Inuyasha:(sits up) If you knew, why'd you ask?
Kaede: The future looks very bleak... Inuyasha, unless you join forces with Kimiko and Kagome, who has the ability to "see" the Jewel, there is no way all of the fragments will be found.
Inuyasha: And I'm tellin' you that if it's for the sake of the Sacred Jewel, I'll put up with the dumb girls, so stop worryin'!
Kimiko: Do you really hate us, don't you?
Kimiko walks up to Inuyasha wearing Kaede's priestess clothes, with her hair tied up, looking exactly like Kikyo, as Kaede and Kikyo's priestess robes are the same. Images of Kikyo flashes across Inuyasha's mind.
Inuyasha: (thinking) Kikyo...
Cut to a while later, Kagome is folding her school uniform and Kimiko siting with Kaede. Inuyasha sits with his hands on the ground (like a dog), stares at Kimiko and Kagome and growls.
Kaede: What's that expression on your face, Inuyasha?
Inuyasha shoves himself sideways from them. Kagome glares back.
[ End of ACT 1: 5min 17sec ]
[ ACT II ]
In a dark cave filled with skulls. A woman's silhouette is seen against a red background.
Sexy woman: Well, well... The Sacred Jewel I thought lost over fifty years ago has appeared once more. It's going to be very interesting...
She picks up a skull with some hair left, and combs it affectionately. She, then giggles hysterically.
Back at the riverbank with Kaede, Inuyasha, Kagome, and Kimiko. A woman with a baby on her bag appears and walks towards the group.
Woman: Priestess Kaede...
Kaede: Yes?
Woman: My daughter...
A while later.
Kaede: I see. I will be right there. (to Inuyasha, Kimiko and Kagome) I must return. Do not fight.
The woman bows to them and walks back to the village with Kaede. There is a long silence between Kimiko, Kagome and Inuyasha.
Inuyasha: Hey.
Kagome: What.
Inuyasha: Get undressed.
Cut to the sky, a loud crash is heard. Cut to Kimiko and Inuyasha, who is wincing in pain with a huge bump on his head.
Inuyasha: Oww! Why you... Why did you--?!
Kimiko: (holding a rock) Pervert!
Inuyasha:(furious, pointing to Kimiko and Kagome's uniform drying on the riverbank) I didn't mean undress undress! I meant put your own weird stuff back on!
Kimiko: Why, because we look like Kikyo?
Inuyasha is stumped by Kimiko's question and looks away indignantly.
Inuyasha:(childish) Whatever.
Kagome: (thinking) Oh, please...! It's like he's in middle-school!
Kimiko: (to INU) Look! I can't work with someone who's always picking a fight!
Inuyasha: That's fine with me! I prefer to go it alone.
Kagome: I see! You don't need us along then?
Kagome walks behind Inuyasha. Inuyasha's ears twitches, and he looks back.
Inuyasha : Hey. Where you two are going?
Kagome: (picking up her school uniform) I've made up my mind.
Kimiko: We're going home. Goodbye, Inuyasha. (walks off)
Inuyasha:(stands up) Going home...? Hey!
Kagome: Ours name are Kagome and Kimiko.
Kimiko: Please address us as such.
Inuyasha: Hey! Wait!
Kimiko: It's not "hey", either.
Inuyasha:(yells) Wait, I said! Hey!
Kimiko: (turns around) What?! It's useless to try and stop me.
Inuyasha:(appears in front of Kimiko, with outstretched hand) You got that Jewel piece, right? Leave it.
Kimiko: You mean this...? (holds up a pouch, and glares at Inuyasha for several moments) Sit!
Inuyasha: (crashes onto the ground) Why, you...!
Kimiko: You can't have it. (furming, thinking) I can't believe that guy! Inuyasha has never once addressed me by our names!
In the village.
Woman: This way, Priestess Kaede...
Kaede: (entering a hut with the woman) She suddenly collapsed?
A girl lays unconscious on a mat.
Woman: Yes. She was just fine this morning.
Kaede: I see.
Kaede walks towards the girl. Suddenly, strange sounds are heard and Kaede stops.
Kaede: Hmm?! Stay back!
Woman: Huh?!
The girl suddenly floats in the air but she remains unconscious.
Woman: She's... floating!
The girl, floating in midair, turns around to face them, with outstretched arms and drooping head. Her hand raise slightly, revealing several strands of hair coiled around her hand.
Kaede: Hair...?!
A cleaver on the floor starts trembling and flies into the girl's hand. She raises it and attacks.
Cut to Kagome and Kimiko walking up to the Dry Well.
Kimiko: (thinking) That's how I got here, through the Dry Well. I'm sure I can go back from here. (looks into the well and gasps) Bones...!
Kaede:(voice-over) 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.
Kagome: Those are the bones of the Centipede-Monster. (drops her school uniform and squats next to the well) Great. Now I'm afraid to go in. (turns around to look at the sky) Now what?
Something glimmers in the light. A falling leaf is sliced cleanly into two when it passes it. Kimiko and Kagome's notices and gets up. Something cuts Kimiko's face. She looks around to find a tangle of very long hair surrounding her.
Kimiko: It can't be! That's hair!
Sexy Woman: (appears and stand on a strand of hair) Oh, my! You can see it, then... my web of hair. (cut to close-up of her with hair wrapped around her fingers, like a puppeteer's strings) But being able to "see" it isn't enough...
Kimiko: Who're you?!
Kagome: What do you want?!
The woman giggles evilly.
Inuyasha runs through a forest and leaps into the air.
Kimiko:(voice-over) I'm going home. Goodbye, Inuyasha.
Inuyasha :(thinking, scoffs) Let them go, who cares?
Inuyasha 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.
Inuyasha: What's with you all?
One by one the women raise their weapon.
Inuyasha: Interesting! Wanna take me on, huh?
The women float towards Inuyasha.
Back to Kimiko, Kagome, and the sexy woman.
Sexy woman: They call me "Yura of the Demon-Hair"...though you needn't bother remembering it. Your time's about to run out! (stretches out her hand and several strands of hair reel towards Kimiko and Kagome, cutting them) I'm helping myself to the Jewel!
She pulls a strand of hair which takes out Kimiko's pouch of Sacred Jewel. She opens it to find a fragment.
Yura: Now look what you've done to it. Where are the other fragments?
Kagome: Give it back! That's my sister!
Yura: Answer my question! Where are the remaining fragments!?
Kimiko: W-we don't know.
Yura:(a sword floats towards her) I see. (takes the sword and jumps towards girls) In that case...you may as well die!
Yura swings her sword at Kimiko and Kagome. The girls steps backwards and falls into the well, screaming. Yura throws her swords in girls direction in the well.
Yura:It's useless to try and escape!
Nothing happens. Yura lands on top of the well. Her sword returns to her.
Yura:Gone... (peering into the well) Who was those girls?
Back to Inuyasha getting ready to fight the floating girls.
Inuyasha: 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.
Kaede: (injured and crawling towards Inuyasha slowly) Inuyasha, don't do it! Do not harm the girls!
Inuyasha: Old Kaede! (leaps to where Kaede is) Wow, look at you. You're a bloody mess.
Kaede: Have you nothing nicer to say?
Inuyasha: So why shouldn't I hurt 'em, huh? They're sure tryin' to hurt me.
The girls close in on Inuyasha and Kaede.
Kaede: They're all under a spell. (looks around) Kagome? Kimiko? Where's the girls?
Inuyasha: they went back to their own land. Not that it matters or nothin'. I don't need them to handle this.
Kaede: You mustn't. Do not touch the village girls!
Inuyasha: Will you quit flappin' your gums already? Or have you forgotten they're after you, too.
Kaede: Don't you understand, Inuyasha? We must get to the one who is controlling them.
One of the girls fly at Inuyasha and attacks. Inuyasha dodges.
Inuyasha : Now you've completely lost it.
Kaede: Then Inuyasha, please... Cut the hair! Just cut the hair and the trance will be broken!
Inuyasha: The what? I don't see anything.
Cut to Yura's hands moving like a puppeteer's, controlling the hair around her fingers. She is sitting calmly on a tree.
Yura:Now, then... Time to draw close this prey.
Back to Inuyasha who attacks one of the girls. She dodges and flies upwards. She raises a cleaver. Other girls also float higher up in the air.
Kaede: No! Inuyasha, run!
Several strands of hair coil around Inuyasha, immobilizing him. Cut to Yura giggling evilly while controlling the strands around her fingers. Back to Inuyasha. The floating bodies are controlled by hair, and they move around Inuyasha to coil hair around him.
Inuyasha: 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 pulls at the hair tangling him. Cut to Yura who let some slack in the hair around her fingers.
Yura:Oh, so sorry!
Cut to Inuyasha falling to the ground due to the slack in the hair tangling him. Back to Yura.
Yura:I suppose I've teased you long enough.
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. Cut to Inuyasha being lifted off the ground and slammed unto a tree. The tension of the hair tightly coiled around his neck and hands are making him wince in pain. He struggles in vain.
Kaede: Inuyasha...!
Cut to Yura, who spreads out her arms. Many strands of hair come out from her chest. Cut to Inuyasha. The grip of the hair on him tightens, making it hard for him to breathe.
Inuyasha: Nnyaah! (gathering strength)
Inuyasha 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. Cut to Yura. The hair around her fingers suddenly slack and droop.
Yura: (surprised) The tension's gone. The head must not have been severed. (pissed)
Cut to Inuyasha feeling around his neck, gasping for air.
Inuyasha: Oh, man... I thought I was done for.
Kaede: If you'd been a mere human, it would have come clean off.
Some metallic sounds are heard in the background. The two of them look up to find a few villager men, unconscious, floating towards them with weapons in their hands.
Kaede: The village men!
Inuyasha: More human puppets? It's gettin' kinda old.
Kaede: Inuyasha, leave this to me and make your escape.
Inuyasha: Aw man, would you quit bein' such a martyr an'—
Kaede collapses onto the ground.
Inuyasha: Old Kaede!
Kaede:(wincing in pain from her injuries) Inu...yasha...
Inuyasha: Can't be helped.
Cut to Yura on the tree, retrieving the puppet-ting hair. The end of the strand reaches her, and a strand of silver hair is seen.
Yura:Ooh! Such pretty, silver hair.
Cut to Inuyasha piggybacking Kaede, with close-up of his pretty silver hair.
Inuyasha: Hang in there, old woman!
Kaede:(noticing a web of tight hair in front of them) Be careful, Inuyasha! The hair...
Inuyasha:(leaping through the air, and snapping the hair without feeling anything or getting injured) You say somethin', old woman?
Kaede: Never mind.
Cut to Yura swinging from tree to tree using three strands of hair as a vine.
Yura:Such a stubborn one. This is fun. And this silver hair... I must have it!
Evening, in a forest. Kaede lies on a heap of fallen leaves, in pain. Inuyasha squats next to her.
Inuyasha: Old woman, you said you can see the strands! Tell me where it's being pulled from, then.
Kaede: Don't be ridiculous! With me in this condition, and even with my seeing powers... Hurry... the girls can—
Inuyasha: So they can see it, too?
Kaede: Yes. For this foe, Kagome and Kimiko... the girls are necessary for victory...
Kaede winces in pain and closes her eyes. Inuyasha looks at her intently.
Evening, in modern day Japan. Kimiko and Kagome lays unconscious in a dark pit.
Kimiko:(wakes and looks around) Where is this? (feels the ground) The bottom of the well.
Kagome: That's right... That girl came after us and pushed us into the well.
Grandpa: (distant voice) We've looked in this well over and over again.
Sota:(distant voice) But I already told you, it's where they fell in!
Grandpa: You must've been dreaming. (shines a torchlight into the well)
Sota: It's the truth! (looks down into the well to find Kimiko and Kagome under the rays of the torchlight)
Kimiko: Gramps! Sota!
Evening in the courtyard of the Higurashi shrine. The duo looks at the scenery outside: the temple structures, telephone poles, shops in the streets.
Kimiko: (thinking) We're back... Back to our own time.
Gtrandpa: (standing behind Kimiko and Kagome with Sota) Kimiko, Kagome, you've been gone for three days... We've been so worried.
Sota: Sis, what happened to you?
Kimiko: (thinking) I'm not dreaming! I'm really home!
Kagome's eyes start to tear. She turns around and dives into Grandpa's arms and wails loudly.
Kagome: Gramps! I was so scared!
Grandpa: Kagome... What happened?!
Back in the Feudal Era, in a forest. Kaede lays on 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 (like a dog).
Inuyasha: (gets up, in serious tone) Okay... This is it, old woman.
Cut to Kaede in the pit, buried under a pile of soil.
Inuyasha: (piling more soil onto Kaede) Givin' you a decent burial's the least I can do.
Kaede: Fine. (opens her eyes) Only...I'm not dead yet.
Inuyasha: What I meant was, bury you to hide here. I'll even come back an' dig you out, if I don't forget. (grabs a pile of leaves and spread it on top of the soil)
Kaede: Are you sure? You had better not forget.
Inuyasha gets up and starts to walk away. Kaede's hands raise from the 'grave', pointing at Inuyasha.
Kaede: Do not forget, Inuyasha!
Inuyasha: (exasperated) I know! I know!
Cut to Inuyasha sprinting across the forest.
Inuyasha: Curse those stupid girls! Where'd they run off to, at a time like this??
Cut to Kimiko in a bathtub in her home, having a soak.
Kimiko: (closing her eyes and enjoying the warm water) Happiness at last.
Cut to Inuyasha sprinting across the forest. A huge pile of hair flies after Inuyasha.
Cut to Yura controlling some hair around her fingers, giggling.
Yura: Wherever she went, she won't get away!
Cut to Kimiko in the shower, combing her wet hair with her fingers.
Kimiko: It feels so good.