Title: Farewell, Kikyo, My beloved

Date: Sunday, October 29, 2005

Summary:

Kouga's bubble plummets downward as Inuyasha goes after it with Kagome still on his back. But, the collapsing mountain hinders him as pieces of Naraku's flesh block his path. Kouga spirals downward and Inuyasha lands on a ledge with Kagome. Miroku and Sango come down towards them on Kirara, warning them that they have to get out since there's miasma at the bottom. Shippo tells Kagome that there's nothing they can do. They have to let Kouga go. Kagome has a flashback to when Kouga told her to let him go when he was sinking into Naraku's flesh. Inuyasha asks Shippo if he could fly Kagome out of there. "Take care of her, great youkai Shippo" Kagome gets off Inuyasha's back with Inuyasha's fire rat jacket still on her. Shippo transforms into the big pink ball. Miroku and Sango urge her to move faster. Inuyasha assures her that he'll bring Kouga, or rather, "the flea bag" back safe and sound. He places Kagome onto Shippo and jumps down after Kouga. As he disappears, Kagome yells for him to be careful and makes him promise to come back. "I promise!" he yells out as he disappears into the crumbling mountain. Kikyo stands outside, wondering if the evil aura she feels is Naraku since it feels a little bit off. She narrows her eyes suddenly. The mountain is crumbling to pieces. Out of the crumbling mountain comes a dark smoke-like shape. It spins and then like a tornado, races towards Kikyo. She doesn't move as it gets closer. The ground around her cracks open. The spinning thing of smoke (with a purple light in the center) stops in front of Kikyo. As the smoke clears, Naraku stands in front of Kikyo, smiling. "Kikyo. Long time no see." Inuyasha tries to get down to the bottom of the mountain where Kouga fell. The air is getting extremely noxious. At the bottom of the mountain is something that I can only describe as a pool of shouki. Anything that falls into it melts. Inuyasha looks around and finds Kouga in the bubble lying on a little island in the shouki. He slashes at it with his claws, grabs Kouga and when he puts his hand on Kouga's skin, he realizes that Kouga had begun to melt. He jumps up right as the island collapses and melts in the shouki. Inuyasha realizes that Naraku didn't just want Kouga's shikon shards, he wanted Kouga's demon power as well. He jumps up using the falling pieces of flesh to propel himself higher. Kouga coughs and opens his eyes. After calling Inuyasha "Dog crap" he immediately asks about Naraku. Inuyasha tells him that he'll explain later but first they have to get out of here. Sango, Miroku, Kagome, Shippo, and Kirara are still trying to get out. But there's no way out. The top of the mountain has caved in, blocking all exits. Miroku decides that if there's no way out, they'll have to make one. He opens his air void and sucks up all the falling rubble. Finally, light shines down on them from an opening at the top of the mountain. They move up to get out, finally making it out. They fly around the mountain, wondering if Inuyasha has come out yet. Kagome assures them that he'll make it since it'll take more than that to kill him. Inuyasha is still moving upwards with Kouga. He wonders how to get out and Kouga yells at him for being an idiot and not remembering the way out. Inuyasha informs him that it caved in. Inuyasha slashes at some fallen rubble and then sees the exit that Miroku had made with his Kazaana. He looks up into the light and sees a vision of Kikyo. He's absolutely shocked and wonders why he's seeing visions of her now. Kikyo and Naraku are standing across from each other. Kikyo asks him what he is now and he tells her that he's made a new body (as if THAT wasn't blatantly obvious) She tells him she's not stupid. The new body is flashy and impressive but what was he REALLY doing inside of Mount Hakurei? He seems impressed that she noticed. Kikyo mentions Kagura escaping with something from the mountain right before it started to collapse. She fits an arrow into her bow and aims at Naraku. "Speak! What is your true objective here?" Naraku says nothing. *commercials* Kagome watches the mountain crumble as she waits for Inuyasha. Suddenly, she senses two shikon shards. They look at the mountain and see Inuyasha emerge. Kagome is extremely relieved. Inuyasha sees another vision of Kikyo, standing on the cliff. When he focuses he sees that it's Kagome. A huge boulder begins to fall on them when Kouga pushes off it with his legs, using it to propel himself and Inuyasha to safety. The mountain completely crumbles. Kagome runs over to Inuyasha and Kouga grabs her hand. Inuyasha hits him in the head and reminds him exactly how he got out of the mountain. Shippo tells Kouga that he COULD thank Inuyasha. Kouga is surprised, especially when Kagome tells him that Inuyasha saved him of his own will without her having to tell him to. Inuyasha tells hem that he just didn't want Naraku getting Kouga's shikon shards. They end up growling at each other. Kikyo's arrow is still pointed at Naraku. She lets it fly but misses. She aims another. "Naraku. What is your real objective?" Naraku does his trademark chuckle and asks her if she really came over here just to ask him that. Then he informs her that it wasn't a conincidence that she met the old bandit (See Kikyo's Solitary Voyage or Journey or something like that) Kikyo is shocked. Naraku narrows his eyes. "I had it all planned out from the start" He suggested a proper burial place for the bandit. He told him about Mount Hakurei and then planted him on a road that Kikyo was traveling. "You didn't choose to come here...I called you to me!" "'Fate' is only a delusion of the weak. For those with true power, there is no such thing. We CONTROL fate!" He'll be happy to show her his true objective. He lifts up his right arm and one of the spikes grows. "There is one thing that I absolutely must accomplish." The spike shoots out at Kikyo, breaking her bow in half. It also wounds Kikyo in the shoulder. The wound emits a glowy purple light as Naraku laughs. Kikyo can't bleed since her body is made of clay and bones. Kikyo falls to one knee and narrows here eyes. Kikyo came up to the mountain feeling perfectly safe since she knew Naraku couldn't hurt her because he still had Onigumo's heart within him that loved Kikyo. But now he can crush her and not feel a thing. He got rid of his human half. The thing Kagura was fleeing with was his human half. Naraku informs Kikyo that the crevice below is filled with his toxins. Not even Kikyo's clay body can withstand them. His hand grows to be rather large and clawed. "Kikyo. That hole is your grave!" he says with a smile on his face. His hand-claw lashes out. Kikyo remembers the past. Inuyasha and her in the boat when they kissed. Naraku's claw goes completely through her. She gasps out in pain and then falls backwards into the crevice as Naraku's hand returns to him. As she falls she remembers more of the past. When she pinned Inuyasha to a tree by his clothing. When she sat with Inuyasha while he glared at her. As Inuyasha watched her while it was snowing. Inuyasha watching her play with the children. Inuyasha watching her from a tree (is there a trend developing here?) Inuyasha hanging off the cliff by one arm as she fell (episode 15) Inuyasha and Kikyo as they kissed in episode...22? (Kagome's Voice and Kikyo's Kiss) Inuyasha hugging her. Inuyasha... Inuyasha turns around. Why do I feel like something horrible is happening? He runs off, leaving Kagome yelling after him. Naraku's hand returns to normal as he looks down into the shouki. Sesshoumaru steps forward. "How pathetic, Naraku. You dispose of one puny woman and you think you're something special?" Naraku turns around to see Jaken and Sesshoumaru (looking particularly good I must say). Jaken is furious when Naraku refers to Sesshoumaru without a title. Sesshoumaru tells Jaken to stand back. Jaken scoots away backwards. Naraku asks Sesshoumaru if the reason he kept chasing after him was because he was so intrigued by him. Jaken runs back and starts yelling at Naraku that he was the one who meddled in "my master's" affairs and-- "That was an order, Jaken!" Sesshoumaru says rather firmly. Jaken moves back without a word. Sesshoumaru says that since Naraku feels confident enough to leave his barrier, he must have gained a bit of power. "Would you like to find out?" Sesshoumaru puts his hand on Toukijin. He narrows his eyes with a "hmph" and then with lightning speed draws Toukijin. Blue energy rushes at Naraku. It hits him. "Nailed him!" Jaken yells out but Sesshoumaru narrows his eyes. Naraku's body looks destroyed but Naraku laughs. He encased himself along with his pieces of flesh in another pink bubble. Out of the bubble comes a blue ball of energy - Sesshoumaru's power back at him. (Do we see a resemblance to the Bakuryuuha?) Sesshoumaru lifts Toukijin up, blocking the attack, but to Jaken's shock he gets pushed back by the sheer force of the attack. Suddenly he jumps up and slashes at Naraku, seemingly cutting him in half. But Naraku just laughs. He tells Sesshoumaru that he won't die and then disappears in his little tornado of smoke, laughing. Sesshoumaru realizes that Naraku was just using him to test the power of his new body. Sesshoumaru sheathes Toukijin when Inuyasha arrives. "Oh, Inuyasha. You're still alive?" Sesshoumaru says. Inuyasha asks him what happened. "Seems like Naraku hated that woman more than he hated you." Sesshoumaru says. Inuyasha looks shocked. He looks to the side and sees Kikyo's bow, broken on the ground. "Kikyo's bow? Kikyo!" He runs past Sesshoumaru to the bow. Inuyasha picks up a piece of the bow. The wind begins to blow. Inuyasha remembers how Kikyo told him that Naraku couldn't kill her, so it's impossible that he did. He looks into the crevice and sees a piece of white cloth with a soul snatcher flying around it. The cloth gets picked up by the wind and falls into the shouki, immediately burning up. The soul snatcher follows it and also burns up. (Sotsugyou by Tackey and Tsubasa begins to play in the background) "I lost you again. You died again, and I still couldn't..." Jaken looks into the crevice and says that there's no hope for the girl now since there's too much poison. Sesshoumaru begins to walk away and Jaken follows. "Dammit, Sesshoumaru, get back here!!!!" Inuyasha yells out. Sesshoumaru stops walking and turns around. Inuyasha's holding Kikyo's bow, his entire body shaking. "What did you do, just stand by and watch?! Did you just sit there and watch her die?!" He asks, facing Sesshoumaru. Shesshomaru turns around and begins to walks away again. "I told you to WAIT!" Inuyasha practically screams and grabs Tetsigua handle. "I don't know or care exactly what ties you had to that woman..." Shesshomaru stops walking and turns around to face Inuyasha. "But I didn't kill your 'Kikyo.' Naraku did. And you were the one who failed to save her, Inuyasha." Inuyasha straightens up. Sesshoumaru turns around and begins walking away again. "If I were you, I'd save my grief for later and go after Naraku instead." "He's right," Jaken says and follows his master. They both disappear into the smoke as the background song gets louder. Inuyasha is left behind, holding Tetsusaiga's handle as the light breeze gently moves his hair. He falls to the ground. "Kikyo...I..." The rest of the gang are running towards him. "Inuyasha!" Miroku calls out. Kagome jumps off Kirara and runs towards Inuyasha as he straightens up, fists clenched. She looks down at the ground and sees the broken bow. She asks if something happened to Kikyo. Miroku, Sango, and Shippo look at her, shocked. "Naraku...What Naraku really wanted...was Kikyo's life" Inuyasha says, his back to the gang. Everyone is shocked as the wind picks up. Kagura sits in a tree. She can't believe that Naraku wants her to "look after this stupid thing" The thing tells her that Kikyo has died. Then we see "it." It's a baby with very light - almost white purple hair and lavender eyes. However, it has an evil look to it. "Naraku killed her." Source: "http://www.inuyashaworld.com/episodes_show.cfm?ep_id=124" Author: "Wouldn't you like to know?" Reviewed by: "Christopher Murray"

Title: Beyond the Darkness- Naraku Reborn

Date: Sunday, October 22, 2005

Summary:

Inuyasha has finally awaken in response to Kagome's cries, but he seems to be in no hurry to free himself. Of course, before long Naraku appears, but it is only his face in the midst of a black cloud. Naraku informs Kagome, Sango, Miroku, Kirara, and Shippo that they are inside of him, trapped.  The things restraining Inuyasha is Naraku's intestines! Talk about gross! Suddenly a part of the intestines wrapped around InuYasha strikes into him and pulls about five Jewel shards out of his body! Naraku combines them with three other Jewel shards to form one big one. He uses this to begin to formulate a new body for himself. This body is then surrounded with a pink transparent barrier. Sango uses the Hiratos to attack the intestines, but quickly learns it was not the best idea. Acid spews out of the wounded area. Naraku continues to taunt InuYasha, and Miroku senses that Naraku's aura has become much stronger, and informs Inuyasha who responds, "It's only more warped than before!" one of the intestines wraps around Kagome and Shippo until Shippo transforms back. Inuyasha breaks free of Naraku's innards, greatly angered, lunging straight towards him and attacks his barrier bare-handed. Naraku calls him a fool for doing so, irking InuYasha just a bit more. InuYasha pulls out his sheath and says, "Come, Tetsigua". The Tetsigua breaks out of one of the intestines and files to Inuyasha, who catches it as he puts back his sheath. He then unleashes the Wind Scar, but Naraku raises one of his hands, and a red eye opens up on it. from his arm, a needle-like thing emerges and deflects the Wind Scar! It begins to bounce around the walls without subsiding. A part of the Wind Scar destroys the intestine holding Shippo and Kagome, but Inuyasha comes to the rescue, of course, and protects Kagome and Shippo with the Tetsigua as Sango uses her Hiratos to protect Miroku. Kagome senses two jewel shards at Naraku's feet, and tells Inuyasha to go after Naraku, who does so after he gives Kagome his Robe of the Fire Rat. Kagome shoots a sacred arrow at Naraku, and it hit dead on target, dispersing the Wind Scar as it does so. A sickly gray bubble is released from Naraku's barrier, holding Kouga, unconscious, inside. InuYasha goes after it as Naraku causes the walls to begin to collapse, saying that he'd do them a favor, since they were such good friends, he would let them rest in the same grave. He then looks up, deciding to focus his attention on Kikyo.

Meanwhile outside, Kikyo sees Kagura escaping Mount Hakuri holding something much like Shesshomaru's fluffy, but it is only a small fraction of it's length., and shoots a sacred arrow at her. Flying on her feather, Kagura easily dodges the arrow, and begins to open her fan, only to be stopped by the furry thing she is holding, "You will not be the one to kill Kikyo," it says. Kagura closes her fan, a bit surprised that the thing talks, and flies away. Naraku's face then appears, translucent over Mount Hakuri, and says that he will kill Kikyo. Will he succeed?

Episode; 118 The Heart of Mount Hakuri

Sango and Miroku have Found a cave in Mount Hakuri, following a demonic aura. Sango uses her Hiratos to create a step so that she could make it across a crag separating the trail from the cave. She pulled Miroku over as well and they enter the cave together. Unfortunately, the demonic aura leads them right into a trap. Kagura is waiting for them with countless demons and Simyosho on hand. Due to the Simyosho Miroku can only use his sutra charms while Sango attacks with her Hiratos. Kagura is finally visible through the vast array of demons, and Sango uses that instant to attack. Kagura counter attacks with her fan, sending Sango's boomerang back at her shouting "I am the wind!" Sango is hit squarely with her own weapon, knocking her out. The demons are coming closer, and Miroku is Sango's last hope. He opens up his wind tunnel, despite the Simyosho. Taking in the poison, the demons begin to fear his wind-tunnel. He picks up Sango and the Hiratos, continuing in the direction of the demonic aura, seeing as the other way had been cut off. The demons attempt to attack again, but Miroku uses his wind tunnel and continues, It is obvious that one more use of the wind tunnel would kill him, and before long he collapses right next to Sango. Sango wakes up to see Miroku next to her. He smiles, "I'm glad you're awake". Sango realizes that Miroku had nearly passed out from taking in too many Simyosho, and that he is dying. She screams something along the lines that she would die with him. Then Miroku realizes that the demons were no longer attacking, and sees one get purified. He too begins to feel better, "The barrier is so strong it's purifying the poison in me. Looks like we won't have to die together." Sango realizes that he is referring to something she said, but she doesn't remember what it was she said. They continue to run forward, convinced the way they are going is the way Naraku is in. All this while, InuYasha decides that Sango and Miroku are taking too long, and he decides to follow them. He is able to pass through the barrier without being purified, but he is much weaker. It becomes near impossible to move forward, and Renkotsu chooses that moment to appear and attack Inuyasha. InuYasha attempts to fight back, but his reflexes are slowed, and finally Renkotsu throws InuYasha further into the barrier, expecting him to be purified, but Only InuYasha's demon half is gone, he becomes a human, and it isn't even the full moon. InuYasha is now forced into the defensive, will he be able to escape Renkotsu with his life, or is it all over for our favourite hanyou?