An Inu-Yasha question

[Seiken Izumi]

Ok. Do any of you remember that in one episode (Return of Tragic Priestess, Kikyo) that Kikyo was revived and then her fatal wound from Naraku returned, spewing blood everywhere. Then it just disappeared. I see this as just an event to where both Inuyasha and Kikyo could talk about the betrayal. But normally, when animes or shows do this, they say "Oh, the wound was healed when she fell of the cliff (?, lol)" or some explanation. Please explain, Inu-Yasha geniuses!

Seiken Izumi

[Ikwig]

Well, I certainly can't give any kind of official explanation (as I recall, the whole returning wound thing didn't even happen in the manga - can't check 'cause I loaned that vol. to a friend :D ), but I can give you my thoughts on "what was up with that?"

My feeling was that the wound and blood returned as Kikyo's soul returned to consciousness in her body - basically reliving those last moments of life and causing her to remember all that she was feeling and thinking at that moment; then, of course, as she had basically "woken up" at (in her mind) the time of her death, she behaved towards Inu Yasha as she was feeling on that day (i.e. with great animosity and anger at his betrayal).

When Kagome recalled the soul to her own body, Kikyo's new body was basically reborn with that "soul of hatred" which would now motivate and move her. At that point, the wound went away, because Kikyo was now a new being (although she still had a remembrance of all that had happened in her past life).

In other words, the body made of bones and grave soil is a new body, not the one which was wounded, so once there was a new soul to go with the new body, there was no longer a wound.

Ummm, that was my interpretation anyway (I really preferred the way that entire scene was handled in the manga, to be honest! :) )