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[ recap ]
Flashback from episode 18 when Sesshomaru encountered Naraku.
Sesshomaru: Who are you?
Naraku: Like you, I despise Inuyasha.
Sesshomaru: Tell me your name.
Naraku: It is Naraku.
Flashback from previous episode when Sesshomaru fought Inuyasha, and Kaori was thrown by the impact of Sesshomaru's attack.
Kaori: (voice-over) I'm not afraid! Naraku is an awful demon! We must destroy him!
Cut to Sesshomaru thrusting his claws into Inuyasha's chest.
Sesshomaru: Trying to gain time…?!
Cut to Inuyasha hugging Kaori at the Dry Well.
Inuyasha: I was scared.
Cut to Kaori falling into the well.
[ End of recap: 49sec ]
[ Title screen: Despicable Villain! The Mystery of Onigumo! ]
Continuation from previous episode, after Kaori falls into the Dry Well. Inuyasha uproots a tree and throws it into the well, to block it.
Shippo: (grabbing Inuyasha's legs) What're you doing, Inuyasha?!
Inuyasha: Shut up!
Shippo: If you destroy the well, Kaori won't be able to return! Don't you care if you never see her again?!
Inuyasha: When she's around, I can't fight the way I want.
Inuyasha turns around and walks away. Shippo is exasperated and sulks. Miroku looks at Shippo.
Inuyasha: Let's go, Miroku.
Miroku: Where to?
Inuyasha: Isn't it obvious?! To find Naraku and beat the hell out of him!
Miroku: Well, Shippo?
Shippo: Forget it! I hate Inuyasha! (rubs his eyes)
Inuyasha: Keh! Please yourself!
Miroku: I think you were a bit too rough. Although I understand that you don't want her to get hurt.
Inuyasha: If you understand, shut up!
Miroku: So you're going to look for Naraku but how will you find him? You have any ideas?
Inuyasha: Well…
Miroku: You don't?
Inuyasha: Shaddup!
Miroku: You sent her back. Just because Kaori isn't here now, don't take it out on me!
Inuyasha: You…!
Miroku: (sits on a rock) Oh well… Let's just calm down and think things through!
Inuyasha: We don't have the time!
Miroku: (stern) I, too…! I, too, want to find him quickly and slay him with these hands! (looks at his right hand) Fifty years ago, he opened the Wind Tunnel in my grandfather's hand. The curse has carried over generation after generation to me!
Inuyasha: Miroku… (sits down next to Miroku) I'm not good at thinking. You think of something.
Miroku: These things must be taken in order. Inuyasha, you said you fell into Naraku's trap fifty years ago in this village.
Inuyasha: Yeah.
Miroku: So you've met Naraku then?
Inuyasha: Well…
Flashback to conversation between Inuyasha and Kikyo.
Kikyo: Inuyasha, you can become a mortal. If you use the Sacred Jewel. Tomorrow at dawn, right here…I will bring the Sacred Jewel.
Cut to flashback of Kikyo firing arrows at Inuyasha.
Kikyo: Die, Inuyasha!
Cut to present.
Inuyasha: Even if I met him, he was disguised as Kikyo. I don't know what he looks like.
Miroku: That's the strange part. You don't know Naraku, yet he disguised himself as Kikyo and shot an arrow at you. Did you do something that embittered him?
Inuyasha: I've never seen his face! How would I know?!
Shippo tries desperately to pull the huge tree out of the well.
Miroku: In any case, Kikyo was a priestess. It could be that Naraku had something to do with Kikyo rather than you.
Inuyasha: Kikyo and Naraku?!
Cut to image of Kikyo.
Fade to image of Kaori in present day Japan. Kaori is on her way to school. She is wearing a cardigan over a shirt. Her friends run up to her.
Eri: Kaori! It's been so long! Is your rheumatism better?
Yuka: Not! She had beriberi!
Ayumi: Huh? You're not in uniform. What happened?
Kaori: My uniform was dirty…with blood all over.
All: Huh?! Now it's hemorrhaging?!
Kaori: (giving up) My illness is going from bad to worse.
Cut to classroom. Kaori is staring into space as the lesson goes on.
Kaori: (thinking) Inuyasha's bleeding hadn't stopped. I was so worried for him… When he embraced me…
Flashback to previous episode when Inuyashha pushed Kaori away after hugging her.
Miroku: (holding the Sacred Jewel necklace) I'll hold onto this!
Kaori: (narrating) What if he did that on purpose to get the Sacred Jewel? (fade to present) If so, I'll never forgive him! (stands up and yell)
Teacher: Higurashi! Go stand in the hallway.
Cut to Kaori standing in the hallway.
Kaori: (thinking, in dreamy mode) I had never been held like that by a boy… (a sweat drop appears by her temple) I guess he passes for a boy. Since he's a half-human.
Kaori leans on the window sill and looks out.
In Kaede's hut. Kaede is dressing Inuyasha's wounds while Miroku sips a cup of tea.
Kaede: Inuyasha, with these injuries, you won't be able to fight for a while.
Inuyasha: Shaddup! It'll be better in a few days.
Kaede: Hah! Trying to act brave! Well, I'm done. (slaps INU's back)
Inuyasha: (yells in pain) What're you doing?!
Kaede: With that kind of energy, you may recover quickly. But I've been thinking, ever since that time my sister was resurrected from mud. My sister said that her Sacred Jewel was stolen by you. Don't you think it strange? This man who disguised himself as you… Why, he could have made his escape with the Jewel. Yet… He tricked you into terrorizing the village and going after the Sacred Jewel. And then, Kikyo sealed you to the tree. Did he want to make you despise each other? Or was he trying to fill Kikyo's heart with hate and bitterness?
Inuyasha: What?
Kaede: In Kikyo's possession, the Sacred Jewel remained pure. But when her heart became unclean and hateful, the Jewel also became unclean and filled with evil strength. And at that time, only one person would have hoped for that.
Inuyasha and Miroku looks at Kaede intently.
Kaede: Do you want to go there…where this man lived?
Kaede, Inuyasha and Miroku walk in a field of tall grass.
Kaede: My sister had decided so…
Inuyasha: But she harbored a thief?
Kaede: Because he was unable to move at all.
They reach a cave by a lake.
Kaede: He called himself Onigumo.
Cut to flashback of a man all bandaged up. He lies on a straw, immobile. Kikyo is feeding him.
Kaede: (narrating) He had terrible burn scars over his entire body. His face, especially, was badly burned. He probably fell from a cliff…both his legs were broken. Still, Onigumo lived. He was unable to move but he slowly healed and was able to speak. However… His true self…
Cut to a young Kaede tending to Onigumo.
Onigumo: Hey kid…
Kaede: I'm Kaede.
Onigumo: Your sister has something called the Sacred Jewel.
Kaede: How do you know about that?
Onigumo: All bad men are after it.
Kaede: You, too?
Onigumo: I understand that the more evil this Jewel absorbs, the more evil it becomes. How nice…
Kaede: My sister has it under control. It will not go bad.
Onigumo: Kikyo is always so smug. I'd like to see her worried and scared. Now that would give me a rush. (laughs)
Cut to Kikyo picking flowers. Young Kaede stands next to her.
Kikyo: I see… So Onigumo said that?
Kaede: Sister, I don't like him.
Kikyo: Forgive him. (looks up at the sky) He will probably never be able to move from there.
Kaede: (narrating) Shortly thereafter, Sister sealed you to the tree and died.
Cut to young Kaede with a bandage over her eye, looking into the cave.
Kaede: (narrating) Several days later when I went there, the cave was burned down. The flames must have been huge, Onigumo was unable to escape and perished…leaving no bones…not a sign.
Fade to present.
Kaede: Or so I thought.
Inuyasha: C'mon, Old Woman! Wasn't he human? The Naraku I seek is a demon!
Kaede: Absolutely. No matter how weak and evil, he was still human. No mistake about that.
Miroku: Shall we go inside this cave?
Cut to Shippo trying desperate to remove the tree from the well. He gives up and rolls over.
Shippo: It won't budge! Unless the well is fixed, Kaori can't return. Will I ever see her again?
An image of a smiling Kaori appears across the sky. Fade to image of Inuyasha.
Inuyasha: When she's around, I can't fight the way I want!
Shippo: (exasperated) He's so willful! (punches the ground willfully) I'll never speak to Inuyasha ever again! (folds his arms and frowns)
A voice is heard.
Voice: Inuyasha?
Shippo turns around gingerly, with apprehension. Several wolves appear. A huge drooling and fierce wolf demon looms over Shippo angrily.
Wolf-demon: Did you say Inuyasha?
Shippo shrieks.
Kaede, Miroku and Inuyasha walks into the cave. Miroku suddenly stops and points to a patch in the cave.
Miroku: Priestess Kaede, what is this? No grass, not even moss grows on this one spot.
Kaede: (shocked) This is where the paralyzed Onigumo rested!
Miroku: (kneels to examine the spot and backs away immediately) I feel the spirit of a demon! The spirit which was left here decades ago!
Kaede: What?!
Miroku: Can it be that the one who left the evil here so that no grass grows is actually human?
Inuyasha: No, it's not human. It's from a demon!
Miroku: How can a human like Onigumo possess such evil as would belong to a demon?
Shippo's voice is heard in the background.
Shippo: Help…!
Cut to Shippo running away from the pack of wolves.
Shippo: Inuyasha!
Miroku, Kaede and Inuyasha run out of the cave.
Inuyasha: Shippo!
Inuyasha leaps. Shippo trips and turns around, staring at the oncoming wolves in terror. Inuyasha rushes towards the wolves and claws at them.
Inuyasha: Iron-Reaver, Soul-Stealer!
Inuyasha kills the wolves and holds Shippo in his arms. He winces and falls on his knees.
Shippo: Inuyasha! (gasps and looks at his hand which was on Inuyasha's chest) Inuyasha…blood!
Inuyasha: (thinking) Damn! My wound has reopened!
The Wolf-demon from earlier on looms over Inuyasha.
Wolf-demon: Are you Inuyasha?
Inuyasha: Who are you?!
Wolf-demon: I am the guardian of Hell, Royakan!
Kaede: Royakan? Are you the demon that guards that forest?
Royakan: I am reborn! Inuyasha, I come to kill you! (opens his mouth and spews out a pack of wolves)
Inuyasha: (stands) Kill me?!
Miroku: (worried, thinking) He knows that Inuyasha is in no condition to fight.
Inuyasha and Miroku fight the wolves.
Royakan: It's useless to fight me! (opens his mouth and spews out a pack of wolves)
Miroku: There's only one thing to use here! (opens his Wind Tunnel and sucks in the wolves) Inuyasha, come over this way!
Royakan: No way! (opens his mouth and spews out a pack of wolves)
Cut to Naraku perched on a tree, playing with several Sacred Jewel fragments in his hand.
Naraku: (laughs) What a brilliant idea it was imbed a Sacred Jewel fragment to Royakan.
Back to Inuyasha. He claws at the wolves.
Inuyasha: Iron-Reaver, Soul-Stealer! (kneels weakly)
Shippo: (perched on Inuyasha's shoulder) Inuyasha!
Inuyasha: My vision's getting blurry…
Miroku turns around and sucks in the wolves.
Kaede: Monk, Inuyasha's in danger!
Miroku: Yes… There's only one way… If I can swallow up Royakan…!
Miroku closes his Wind Tunnel and picks up his staff. He dashes towards Royakan and throws his staff at Royakan, hitting him on the head. Miroku then opens his Wind Tunnel in Royakan's direction.
Miroku: We can win!
Royakan struggles to hold on. He punches the ground violently, breaking it into pieces. Miroku ends up sucking the pieces of ground. He closes his Wind Tunnel to find Royakan gone.
Miroku: He escaped…
Cut to Naraku on a tree.
Naraku: I should've made Royakan a bit stronger. (disappears)
Kaede walks over to Inuyasha.
Kaede: Are you all right, Inuyasha?
Inuyasha: Where's Royakan?
Kaede: He escaped.
Miroku: Inuyasha, Naraku is near.
Inuyasha: What?!
Miroku: Royakan is probably under control by Naraku, who has a Sacred Jewel fragment.
Kaede: No wonder such a gentle demon like Royakan has turned so evil.
Inuyasha: (stands up and walks) Naraku! Where are you?! If you're here, come out and fight…!
Inuyasha collapses on the ground. Shippo and Kaede run to him.
Shippo: Inuyasha!
Kaede: Monk, Royakan may come again. We should return to the village.
Miroku nods.
Shippo: Inuyasha…
Inuyasha is unconscious.
Modern Japan. Kaori is attending Physical Education class. The rest of her friends play happily, while she leans on a fence, deep in thought.
Kaori: (sighs, thinking) It's been three days. Why doesn't he come for me?
Yuka: Kaori! (walks to Kaori with Eri and Ayumi) Hojo from Group B wants to talk to you.
Cut to Kaori talking to Hojo.
Hojo: Higurashi, how've you been feeling these days?
Kaori: I'm okay.
Hojo: (excited) Really? Then will you go to the movies with me on Saturday?
Kaori: On Saturday?
Hojo: Yeah. It'll be a nice change from studying. Or do you have other plans?
Kaori: Plans…err… (thinking) Inuyasha might've come for me by then…
Kaori's friends suddenly appear behind them.
Yuka: Go, Kagome.
Eri: You already stood him up once.
Hojo & Kaori: How'd you know?!
Eri, Yuka and Ayumi stands up and grabs Kaori.
Yuka: Excuse us.
Eri: Give us a moment.
They pull Kaori aside.
Kaori: What?
Eri: Do you have someone else you like?
Kaori gasps and blushes.
Ayumi: You're always sighing.
Yuka: It's not the look of one who's worried about school.
Kaori: Well, that's…
Flashback of Inuyasha hugging Kaori from previous episode.
Kaori: (voice-over) After he hugged me like that…
Back to present.
Eri: (points at Kaori) I'll bet it's unrequited love!
Kaori: W-what…? (angry) Are you kidding me?! Ugh...Ok, I will go on the date with him, so you guys get off my back...
Eri is taken aback. Yuka and Ayumi appear next to Hojo.
Hojo: Is she okay?
Yuka: Well…
Kaori: (storms to Hojo and says unamused) Hojo! I'll go to movies with you.
Hojo: (excited) Really? Yes!
Kaori pouts in anger.
Fade to Kaori pouting in anger in the Dry Well in Higurashi shrine.
Kaori: (thinking) Ugh, I'm so frustrasted.
Kaori sighed. She looks into the well and jumps in. She lands on the ground.
Kaori: Didn't work. (thinking) I wonder what Inuyasha is doing now.
Night time in a hut. Inuyasha kicks the door angrily. His hands are tied up. Shippo sits in a corner.
Inuyasha: Open! Open! Open up!
Shippo: It's useless, Inuyasha. This hut is plastered with charms to keep demons out.
Inuyasha: Why must I be sealed in?! (yells) Open!
Kaori: Please Inuyasha. Be still and rest.
Kaori suddenly appears behind Inuyasha and looks worriedly at Inuyasha.
Kaori: Your wound isn't healed yet.
Inuyasha: Kaori…!
A bushy tail appears on Kaori's butt.
Shippo: Eh-heh-heh… Would you like me to sleep with you?
Inuyasha: Shippo… Why you! (kicks Shippo) Don't you dare disguise yourself like that again?!
Shippo: Don't get so mad!
Inuyasha continues kicking Shippo. Kaede and Miroku open the door.
Miroku: Inuyasha, are you still banging around?
Inuyasha: Miroku! You!
Miroku: Charms are no use if you act like this.
Inuyasha: (jumps) Lemme outta here!
Miroku: (hits Inuyasha with his staff) Priestess Kaede, please seal the door with the charm.
Kaede: All right. (puts a charm on the door)
Cut to Kaede dressing Inuyasha's wounds.
Miroku: You're not ready yet. I know how eager you are, but first, the wound must heal completely.
Kaede: He's right. You can't underestimate that Naraku. Isn't that why you made Kaori go through the well?
Inuyasha doesn't reply.
Shippo: (thinking) Inuyasha… So that's why you sent her away.
Miroku: I don't want to die in vain. And that's why I need you to get well quickly.
Inuyasha: Stop talking like a weakling! I'm ready to fight anytime!
Miroku: (gently) Inuyasha, just stay still and get some sleep. (cut to MIR kicking INU's back violently) How many times must I repeat myself?! You dog!
Kaede: (deadpan) Hey. His wound will reopen.
Later in the hut. Inuyasha is lying on the ground, getting to sleep. SHI stares into space.
Shippo: Say, Inuyasha…
Inuyasha: What is it?
Shippo: I wonder how Kaori is doing?
Inuyasha: Not again! Look, just forget about Kagome already. (thinking) As long as she's alive and well somewhere, that's all. I don't want to see anymore woman I know die.
In a deep forest. Royakan cowers under a tree, trembling in fear. Naraku appears behind him.
Naraku: I looked for you, Royakan.
Royakan: (gasps and turns around) Naraku! Go back! I refuse to fight Inuyasha again! (waves his arms madly)
Naraku: You're trembling.
Royakan: I don't want to be sucked into the Wind Tunnel. Just go away!
Naraku: (chuckles evilly) I will take away the fear that is making you tremble. (holds up a Sacred Jewel fragment)
Royakan: (trembling) S-stop!
Naraku shoots the fragment into Royakan's head. He yells and clutches his head in pain. He goes crazy and storms through the forest. He reaches a cliff and yowls. His body transforms to a more wolf-life shape. Naraku looks on and laughs.
Kaede and Miroku sit in front of Inuyasha's hut, in a praying position. A string of charms surround the area. A wind blows.
Miroku: A sinister wind… Priestess Kaede, take care. It's coming.
Kaede: Yes.
A pack of wolves appear in the sky and fly towards them.
Kaede: He will not take a step further!
The wolves hit the barrier around the charms and disintegrates. Royakan appears and looks around the barrier.
Royakan: Inuyasha! Where are you?!
Inside the hut, Shippo peeps out of a window.
Shippo: What happened?! He's grown much bigger!
Back to Miroku and Kaede.
Royakan: Where are you, Inuyasha!
Kaede: (thinking) As long as our spell is active, that hut where Inuyasha lies will be invisible!
Miroku: (thinking) But what has happened to this demon? He's different. I'll wager another Sacred Jewel has been imbedded in him.
Royakan attacks the barrier futilely.
Cut to close up of Naraku.
Naraku: Such a pitiful defense.
Cut to Miroku, Kaede and Royakan. A spear suddenly appears and flies at Kaede. Miroku gasps and stands up.
Miroku: Priestess Kaede!
Kaede: Don't move!
Miroku: I must!
Miroku knocks the spear away. The barrier dissipates and Royakan sees Inuyasha's hut.
Royakan: I can see you now! (jumps) Inuyasha, there you are! (punches Inuyasha's hut which shatters)
Miroku & Kaede: Inuyasha!
Inuyasha bursts out of the hut and slashes Royakan with a transformed tetsusaiga.
Inuyasha: Thanks for releasing me, Royakan. That old hag and monk had me sealed up.
Kaede: (deadpan) We were protecting him!
Miroku: (deadpan) Such an ingrate!
Royakan: Die quietly! (punches Inuyasha)
Inuyasha: (dodges) Shaddup!
Inuyasha leaps and swings Tetsusaiga at Royakan. Royakan merely clasp Tetsusaiga's blade with his palms and throws Inuyasha to the ground. Inuyasha winces in pain.
Kaede: Inuyasha's been thrown!
Miroku: Inuyasha's all talk… His strength isn't back yet.
Inuyasha: How'd he get so strong…?
The Sacred Jewel necklace falls out of Inuyasha's clothes. Royakan runs to it.
Royakan: It's a giant fragment of Sacred Jewel.
Inuyasha: Damn!
An orange furball suddenly appears and grabs the jewel and sprints away.
Shippo: You can't have 'em!
Inuyasha: Shippo!
Royakan: You won't get away! (spews out a pack of wolves)
The wolves runs after Shippo, who shrieks in terror.
Miroku: Shippo! I'll take over. I'll use my Wind Tunnel!
Kaede: That's…!
A horde of Naraku's poison insects appear.
Miroku: Naraku's poison bugs!
Inuyasha: Damn! What'll I do?!
Shippo continues running away from the wolves.
[ End of episode 20: Despicable Villain! The Mystery of Onigumo! ]
