I do not own Inuyasha. Inuyasha belong to Rumiko Takahashi. I only own Kaori.
[ Title screen: Enter Shippo...Plus the Amazing Thunder Brothers! ]
[ ACT I ]
A blue alarm clock, on the ground, strikes twelve and beeps.
Kaori:(stops the alarm) Okay, three minutes are up.
Inuyasha: (immediately slurps up a bowl of instant noodles ravenously) Tastes great! Kagome, this is really good!
Kaori:(stares at Inuyasha eating with squinty eyes) Oh yeah? I'm glad.
Inuyasha: (pointing to the instant noodles and kettle on the ground) Aren't you having some?
Kaori:(stands up and yells, crows in the background fleeing) Listen to you! How can you eat in a place like this, the aftermath of a battle? (pans downwards to a field of skulls) You suddenly decide you're hungry and take everything out of my backpack! What's wrong with having a leisurely lunch by a pretty stream or a field of flowers? (sits back on a rock) Oh, you...! You're so uncouth!
Myoga: (on Inuyasha's shoulder eating a fishcake) I must say, though, Kagome, your country has many convenient things. I was shocked at your "bicycle". But a thing that tells time and by looking at your strange foodstuffs, you do much trade with foreigners from the south.
Kaori:(happy) Wow! Myoga, you're very smart. (holds up a cup noodle in a promotional manner) However, did you know that cup noodle was invented by the Japanese? It was intended for use up in outer space.
Inuyasha & Myoga: (stops eating) Outer space?
Kaori:(puts down the cup noodle, excited) Yes. Humans go to outer space... (claps, remembering) Oh yeah, did you know, we even went to the moon!
Inuyasha: The moon? How?!
Kaori:Using a rocket.
Inuyasha: A rocket?
Kaori:(stretches out her arms far apart) It's huge (makes funny gestures on the ground) and fire shoots out from the bottom (curls up) and kaboom! (raises her hand wildly in the air)
Inuyasha continues eating, not listening.
Kaori:(folds her hands and sulks) By next time, I'll have to studied up on it!
The sky suddenly darkens, similar to nighttime.
Kaori:What?! It suddenly got dark.
Inuyasha: (shoots up, throwing away his empty instant noodles) What's this?!
Myoga: Master Inuyasha, you mustn't litter!
Inuyasha: This is no time to be concerned about that!
A cyan vortex appears and twirls, closing in on them. It is almost four times bigger than them.
Vortex: (slow threatening tone) You there...! You possess the Sacred Jewel!
Inuyasha: (places his hand on the tetsusaiga) What?!
Kaori:A demon?
Myoga: No... That's fox fire!
Inuyasha: Fox fire?!
The vortex shrinks into a small circle, which suddenly enlarges into a cute gigantic pink blob with two big eyes and four little dangling orange orbs sticking out. Inuyasha, Kaori and Myoga are speechless. The pink blob floats towards them.
Blob: (in a more kiddy voice) Hand it over! Or I'll kill you! (sucks at Inuyasha's head)
Inuyasha, with a 'what-the-hell' look, scratches his head and a sweat drop flow. He raises his hand and slaps the orb violently. The orb shrieks as it deflates and twirls in the air. It transforms into a circle again, which then turns into a kid with orange hair, a bushy tail and paws for feet. He falls flat-faced onto the ground.
Fox: (gets up and rubs his cheek) Oww!
Inuyasha: (reaches the kid with Kaori and Myoga) Huh?
Kaori:A child?! (Thinking) Cute!
Fox: What're you doing?! You heathen! (tries to escape as Inuyasha grabs him by his tail) Hey!
Inuyasha: (raises the fox in it air) You've got a tail! Hah! You're just a baby fox in disguise!
Fox: Yea, I'm a fox!
Kaori:Huh?! A fox? How cute! (moves behind Inuyasha) Let me hold him next!
Inuyasha: Why're you lining up behind me? (suddenly dragged onto the ground, the fox transforming into a stone statue weighing his hand down)
Kaori:Huh?! A jizo statue? (turns as noise is heard in the background) My things!
Fox: (rummages through Kaori's backpack and holds up a container) Here it is! A fragment of the Sacred Jewel! (turns around to face Kaori and Inuyasha, and leaps into the air) Ah-hah-hah! It's mine! Farewell! (transform in a fox fire which disappears in a puff, leaving them stunned)
Kaori:He disappeared!
A skull behind them pops out a bushy tail and runs off. Inuyasha and Kaori turn around. It is the fox, escaping while panting. Inuyasha clenches his fist. A 'knock' is heard. Cut to the fox sitting on the ground, pouting, with his eyes closed in indignation. A huge bump appears on his head.
Fox: My name is Shippo.
Kaori sprays some medicine on his bump.
Kaori:Why are you after the Sacred Jewel fragment?
Shippo: (worked up) To avenge... To avenge my father!
Kaori:Avenge? Was your father killed?
Inuyasha: Hmm... So you wanted to gain strength by using the Sacred Jewel fragment? (takes out the container from his clothes, Kaori glares at him)
Shippo: Hah! I'm strong even without the Sacred Jewel fragment!
Inuyasha: (fighting with Kaori over the Sacred Jewel) What're you doing?!
Kaori: Give it back to me!
Shippo: (infuriated) Are you listening?!
Inuyasha: Huh? (stops fighting with Kaori and gapes at a shrieking Shippo)
On a plain, two battalion of warriors, red and white, face off. Battle cries are being sounded. Cut to the sky, where huge dark clouds appear and cover the sun. Soon the battalions are shrouded in semi-darkness. Thunder is heard in the background. The warriors of the red battalion look up.
Warrior 1: (pointing) Huh? What's that cloud?
A bolt of lightning flashes across sky and two demons fly towards them.
Pony-tailed demon: (flies on wheels, one on each foot) Ready to hunt, Manten?
Fat demon: (sits in a cloud) Yes, Brother Hiten!
Hiten: (swings his pike) Thunderbolt attack! Witness our power!
Long bolts shoot from Hiten's pike and annihilates the red battalion.
Warrior from white battalion: They annihilated the enemy in one blow! Are the beast-monsters our allies?!
Manten: Huh? Allies? Don't make me laugh! (opens his mouth and shoots out fire)
The white battalion was annihilated by Matens' fire attack. The two fly across the sky proudly.
Hiten: Boy, wasn't that fun, Manten?
Manten: (combing his three strands of hair) It sure was, Brother Hiten.
Hiten: I have so much power left over. The power of the Sacred Jewel imbedded in my forehead is real.
Manten: I'll say!
Hiten: (sits on Manten's cloud) So let's keep gathering more and more, Manten!
Manten: Yeah! (caressing a fox pelt around his waist) We'll look high and low for beasts like this fox who possess the Sacred Jewel and beat 'em to death!
The two chuckles evilly as they fly off into the distance.
Kaori rides on her bicycle along a path, and Shippo sits on her bagpack.
Kaori:Your father possessed a Sacred Jewel fragment?!
Shippo: Those two go around killing demons who possess fragments.
Kaori:(stopping) Those two?
Shippo: The Thunder Brothers.
Inuyasha: (appears on a tree above them) Thunder Brothers?
Myoga: (on Inuyasha's shoulder) He mean, Hiten and Manten? I have heard that they are unruly, mean brothers.
Inuyasha: So what? If we defeat them, we'll get several fragments at once!
Shippo: Don't make me laugh! You wouldn't be able to taken them on! You're just a half-demon, aren't you? I can smell the human in you! Just a half-demon, you should stay out of demon affairs!
Kaori:Shippo... That wasn't a nice thing to—
Inuyasha jumps down and thumps Shippo on his head.
Shippo: Why you...!
Inuyasha continues thumping Shippo's head.
Kaori:Inuyasha, stop it.
Shippo: (Inuyasha stops and Shippo kowtows repeatedly) Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Sorry!
Inuyasha: As long as you understand.
Shippo: In penance... (reaches into his clothes)
Shippo thumps a jizo statue on Inuyasha's hand on the ground and sticks a charm on it. He somersaults in the air and lands.
Inuyasha: Hey you!
Shippo: (laughs) As long as the charm stays on, the jizo statue will not move!
Kaori:Shippo! You're partly to blame, too.
Shippo: Hmph!
Kaori:Inuyasha, stop playing around!
Inuyasha: (struggles to take his hand from under the jizo statue) I can't get it off!
Shippo: I don't like to play tricks on women, but I need you to sleep for a while! (leaps up and hits the back of Kaori's neck)
Kaori:(grabs Shippo) That hurt!
Shippo: (conjures a fox fire that pushes Kaori away) Tadah! (lands on the ground holding Kaori's container of shards) I'll use this to lure out the Thunder Brothers!
Kaori:Huh? The Sacred Jewel fragments! (grabs her bow and arrow from her bicycle) Give them back or I'll get mad! (chases Shippo)
Inuyasha: Kaori! Peel off the charm first. Hey! Hey you!
Manten is examining his reflection is a pond.
Manten: (holding a comb) If only I had a little more hair. Then I'd be popular like Brother Hiten. Huh? (noticing something rustling in the grass)
Shippo: (looking back while running) He's not coming after me.
Manten: (stamps in front of Shippo) Hmm... What's this? If it ain't the son of that fox I killed!
Shippo: Y-You...! Hah! (gasps as he notices the pelt on Manten)
Manten: (slaps the pelt) Your father's fur is sooo warm! (laughs)
Shippo: Why you...! How dare you do that to my father... Why...! WHY! (jumps at Manten)
Manten hits Shippo, which send him flying off. The container of Jewel shards fall out of his clothes.
Manten: Hey, those are Sacred Jewel fragments!
Shippo grabs the container but Manten steps on his tail.
Manten: You... Those are the fragments of the Sacred Jewel. Give them to me! If you don't...! (mouths a lightning ball in preparation)
Shippo: Darn!
Manten laughs as he readies his attack. An arrow suddenly pierces Manten in the nose.
Kaori:(holding a bow, surprised) I did it.
Manten: What? Hey, you! (tries to grab Shippo who is escaping)
Kaori:(draws another arrow) Don't move! I'll hit you right in the brain next!
Back with Inuyasha.
Villager: (walking by) A monster! (screams and flees away)
Inuyasha: Don't run! I just asked you to peel off the charm!
Back with Shippo, Kaori and Manten.
Shippo: Kaori...!
Manten: My nose hurts!
Kaori:Don't move! Shippo, come here. Hurry! (Shippo runs to Kaori)
Manten: (chases Shippo) Why you...! Leave the Sacred Jewel fragments! Wait!
Kaori:He has two fragments in his forehead! If I aim there, I can bring him down! (releases her arrow at Manten's head) Darn, I just grazed him!
Manten stops suddenly, whining.
Kaori:Huh? What's wrong?
Manten: (touchs his head and two strand of hair falls off) My hair...! (tearing) How could you...?! (lightning bolt flashes across the sky and sparks emit from his mouth)
Shippo: Watch out! Run! (runs off with Kaori) My father was killed by that!
Manten releases his lightning attack at them. Kaori and Shippo fall onto the ground, sliding a distance away. A rift is seen on the ground. Kaori was knock out unconscious.
Manten: Did I strike them dead?
Shippo: Kaori, hang on!
Footsteps are heard behind Shippo. He turns around, gasps and runs off.
Manten: Why, it's only a woman! Huh? (examines Kaori's face and blushes) So... pretty!
Cut to Shippo hiding among some tall grass. Manten carries Kaori off on his cloud.
Shippo: Kaori! You helped me, yet I abandoned you and ran away! (clenches his fist) D-Damn!
Myoga is trying to peel off the charm off the jizo statue.
Myoga: Ohh... It's not working! Master Inuyasha, I can't peel this charm off.
Inuyasha: (struggling) Damn that punk fox!
Shippo: (appears standing on Kaori's bag) Hey! I'm willing to help you. (jumps off Kaori's bag) But you must promise NOT to hit me.
Inuyasha: Hmm? You alone? Where's Kaori?
Shippo: Will you promise or not?!
Inuyasha: I won't hit you, stupid!
Shippo peels off the charm from the jizo statue, which transforms into a mini statue.
Shippo: (grabs the mini-statue) Now listen quietly.
Cut to Inuyasha thumping Shippo on the head furiously.
Shippo: (flat on the ground with many bumps on his head) You promised not to hit me!
Inuyasha: (stands and holds up Shippo by his tail) Oh yeah... One more, Sacred Jewel fragments. (shakes Shippo)
Three acorns, two leaves, a top, a jizo statue and the container of jewel shards fall out of Shippo's clothes.
Inuyasha: (bends down and picks up the container) Good. All intact.
Shippo: (struggling to get free) Will you pay attention?! Kaori's been captured by the Thunder Brothers! This is no time for that!
Inuyasha: Huh? Thunder Brothers? They're the ones that killed your father? You came across them?
Shippo looks away in silence and Inuyasha examines him closely.
Inuyasha: Hmm... You don't look like you avenged his death. Did you hide and watch Kaori being kidnapped?
Shippo: Sh-Shut up! Hurry and rescue her! Isn't she your woman?!
Inuyasha: (taken back, blushes and thumps Shippo onto the ground) Huh?! No way! (turns away from Shippo and folds his arms)
Shippo: Hey!
Inuyasha: (smugly) Well, I'll save her...
Shippo: Huh?
Inuyasha: Well, why don't you grovel at my feet? Then I'll let bygones be bygones.
Shippo: (stands up and glares at Inuyasha, exasperated) Why...!
Myoga: (jumps onto Shippo's shoulder) Shippo, just do as he says. You need to act like an adult now.
Shippo: (clenches his fist and grinds his teeth) Grr... Why must I stoop so low?! (image of Kaori carried away by Manten) But I can't save her by myself. Damn! (kneels in a kowtow position) Please help me! (kowtows while clenching his teeth)
Some noise is heard. Shippo looks up and finds Inuyasha carrying Kaori's bicycle over his shoulder.
Inuyasha: Get off your knees! Let's go! (turns around and walks off)
Shippo: Huh? (looks at Inuyasha in disbelief)
[ End of ACT I: 12min 18sec ]
[ ACT II ]
A building lies in the middle of a mountain, enshrouded by a dark gloomy sky. Cut to Manten stirring a purple potion in a pot. A giant cleaver lies next to him. Kaori lies on a bed behind him. Kaori regains consciousness.
Manten: Awake, are you? (turns around)
Kaori:Wh-Where am I? (notices the pot) Y-You intend to eat me?!
Manten: No! The flesh and blood of pretty, young women promote healthy hair. I'm gonna boil you down into a potion and apply it to my head.
Kaori:(grimaces) Wh-hhat?! (clenches her fist and shouts) I'd rather be eaten than put on your head!
Manten: (puts down his stirrer and rushes to Kaori nervously) Shh! Not so loud! If Brother Hiten finds you here, he'll really eat you!
Hiten: (crashes the door, holding a vixen in his arms) Yo, Manten! You're home.
Vixen:Hmm... You don't look alike at all!
Manten: (panicking) Brother Hiten!
Hiten:Who's that woman?
Manten: (stands in front of Kaori with outstretched arms) She's my prey!
Hiten: Don't worry, I won't lay claim on her. I've got a better woman right here! (the vixen smiles)
Kaori:(thinking) He seems more human. Maybe he'll be more receptive.
Hiten: Hey, Manten. Did you find a new Sacred Jewel fragment?
Manten: Huh? (puts a hand over his mouth) Errr... That's right. (clasps his hand and looks into the distance happily)
Hiten: (walks to Manten, leaving the vixen at the doorway) Hmm?
Manten: (rubs his head and bows) Sorry, Brother! I found one, but...
Hiten: But what? Don't tell me that you were more interested in a woman and (clenches his fist and swings it backwards) failed to get the Sacred Jewel fragment?!
Light emits from Hiten's palm in the vixen's direction. Loud noise is heard and sparks fly. The vixen, charred, plops on the ground backwards.
Manten: Brother! Sorry!
Hiten:You're so hopeless! If you weren't my kid brother, you wouldn't have enough lives to survive!
Kaori:(thinking) Who is he?! He's so frightening!
A short while later.
Hiten: What?! That fox tyke has the Sacred Jewel fragments?! (turns around and walks off)
Manten: Are you gonna go for them, Brother Hiten?
Hiten:(stops) Of course! Come on!
Kaori:(thinking) It's my chance to escape! (starts crawling away)
Manten: Wait! (picks up the giant cleaver and swings it at Kaori)
Kaori:(dodges and yells) What're you doing?!
Manten: What'm I doing?! I'm gonna kill you so you can't escape! What else? I need you to make my hair potion!
Kaori:Wait! If you kill me, you won't...
Manten: Won't what?
Kaori:Well... (pauses) Won't be able to get the Sacred Jewel fragments!
Manten: What?!
Kaori:(thinking) I got it! I can handle the stupid one. The older brother may just go for it. (to Manten) Do you two know Inuyasha? He's quite strong.
Hiten: Strong? I've heard of 'im. But isn't he just a half-demon?
Kaori:He's strong! He defeated demons from high and low and has most of the Sacred Jewel fragments.
Hiten: Wha...
Manten: ...at?! (MAN and Hiten looks at Kaori)
Kaori:(thinking) Good! He bit it!
Hiten: (sits down next to Kaori) Hey! You'd better not be lying!
Kaori:(scoffs and look at Hiten sideways, in a conspiring tone) Humph... Inuyasha...is in love with me.
Manten: Huh?
Kaori:If you ask for an exchange, (background morphs into a flowery, sparkling one) I'm sure he'll gladly exchange the fragments for me! (looks in the distance and clasps her hands dreamily)
Manten: (background changes back) Brother Hiten, she's gotta be lying!
Hiten: I think I'll believe her.
Mantten: Huh?
Hiten: (picks up Kaori by her collar) Woman! Take us to this Inuyasha. (looks at the vixen) However... If you've been lying, your pretty face will end up black and charred. (holds up Kaori's face)
KAG:(thinking) He means it... This arrogant oaf!
Cut to Shippo yelling. He is in the bicycle basket while Inuyasha carries it over his shoulder running. The bicycle shakes terribly. Inuyasha leaps onto a rock surface, then across a few pinnacles.
Inuyasha: What's wrong, Shippo? You're screaming your head off. If you're scared, just go back.
Shippo: Stupid! I'm going to avenge my father! You'd better be as strong as you say you are! The Thunder Brothers have used the Sacred Jewel fragments to increase their power!
Inuyasha: (stops suddenly on a pinnacle) Whoa...! That makes beating them even more fun!
Myoga: (on Inuyasha's shoulder) Still, I'm worried about Kaori!
Inuyasha: That woman is fine! She's got a tenacious streak in her.
Myoga: (worried, with sweat drops) I hope so... According to rumors, those two brothers devour pretty girls immediately!
Shippo: Is that true?! What'll we do? Does that mean Kaori has already...
Inuyasha: Stupid! What's pretty about Kaori?
Shippo: What?! Are you totally blind?!
Myoga: Yes, I think she's very pretty, too.
Shippo: (clenches his hair and shakes his head, screaming) I'll bet she's already been eaten! It's all my fault!
Myoga: "Pretty woman, short life." What a wise saying.
Shippo: (stops and stares at Inuyasha) Inuyasha! How can you stand there looking so blank?! Kaori is a beauty! So she may already have been eaten up!
Inuyasha: So... Tell me what's pretty about Kaori?
Myoga: I've been thinking this from before, but I think your perception of beauty is a little off.
Shippo: (clenches his hair and shakes his head again) Aghhh! No wonder you look and dress so weird! (Inuyasha closes his eyes and clenches his teeth in silence)
Myoga: I agree... A red outfit is a bit troubling. I think you should dress with a little more refinement.
Inuyasha: (exasperated and yells) Aghh! Shut up! How did the subject turn to the way I dress?!
A lightning bolt suddenly strikes the pinnacle that they were standing on. The pinnacle shatters into pieces. Shippo and the bicycle falls onto the ground and tumble away. Inuyasha lands and looks up. Another lightning bolt appears. Inuyasha grabs Shippo and runs off. Inuyasha kneels on the ground and shields Shippo and himself with his hand as the bolt hits the ground they were on before. The ground shatters into pieces. Inuyasha puts down Shippo. They look up into the dark clouds.
Hiten: (floating on wheels above them) Humph, so you thwarted me! For someone yapping out loud in front of someone's front yard, you move fast. You must be the one...Inuyasha the half-demon.
Myoga: (leaps onto Inuyasha's shoulder) Master Inuyasha, that's the older Thunder Brother, Hiten.
Shippo: (leaps onto Inuyasha's back and holds onto one of his ear) Hey you! Where's Kaori?!
Hiten:Relax, I haven't started eating her yet. Manten!
Manten: (floats next to Hiten on a cloud) Yo! (holds up Kaori) Tadah!
Kaori:Inuyasha!
Inuyasha: (stands up suddenly and yells) Kaori! (Shippo falls off Inuyasha) (thinking) She's still alive!
Hiten: By your expression, looks like the woman spoke the truth. Hand over every fragment of the Sacred Jewel! If you want to save the woman you love! (lightning flashes across the sky)
INU: (nonplussed) The woman I love?
Kaori looks away, with an embarrassed look on her.
Inuyasha: (staggers towards Hiten and Manten) W-wait! Who said I love her?!
Kaori:(turns around) Don't be so embarrassed!
Manten: (grinds his fist onto Kaori's head) So you WERE lying! (Kaori holds up her face and looks at him in a cutesy 'sorry-I-lied-please-don't-kill-me' manner)
Inuyasha: (clenches his fist and shouts) Who'd hand over the precious fragments just for you?!
Kaori:(shouts fiercely while Manten is taken aback) What?! You intend to abandon me?!
Inuyasha: (yells) Abandon?! You make it sound like you and I are an item!
Kaori:(shouts) Which is more important?! Me or the Sacred Jewel fragments?! (points a finger at Inuyasha and yells) If you dare choose the fragments, I'll rip your lips out!
Hiten:Whatever! One thing seems true... You have the fragments of the Sacred Jewel. I'm gonna kill you and take 'em all! (flies towards Inuyasha)
Inuyasha: Hah! (draws out a transformed tetsusaiga) You'll be the sorry one!
Hiten: Thunderbolt attack! (points his pike at Inuyasha with sparks flying)
Inuyasha blocks Hiten's pike with the tetsuaiga and holds him off. Lightning bolts spark out from the pike and the ground starts to shatter.
Hiten: Hah! I wonder just how long can you hold out against my strikes?
Inuyasha gathers his strength and pushes Hiten away with his sword.
Hiten: (flies further away from Inuyasha) You've got brute strength, at least. This is gonna be fun! (lightning flashes and thunder bellows in the background)
Inuyasha: (thinking) Thunder Brothers, huh? I'm getting tired of you!