Inuyasha
-Sengoku o-Togi Zoushi
Part 298
Version: 0.800
Title: Housenki
Written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi
Translated from: Shounen Sunday 2003 #9, 29th January 2003
© Rumiko Takahashi and Shogakukan 1996-2002
Translation & editing by
Chris Rijk
Additional translating and editing by
No one yet
This translation is © Chris Rijk 1996-2002.
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Translation notes and style
Although scene descriptions are provided, it is not nearly the same as seeing it for yourself. If you enjoy the series, I would strongly recommend buying the tankoubon (collected version, each about 180 pages or 10 chapters long, costing 410 yen) when they become available (typically 3-4 months after the weekly Shonen Sunday release), and the first 21 volumes are now on sale.
Warning: These translations will occationally include strong language, and violence, though this is only when it is present in the original Japanese version.
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Page 1
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[View of Inuyasha riding on Kirara, flying through the air.]
Title
Housenki
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Page 2
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[View of the volcanic mountain where Toutousai lives.]
fx mountain rumble...
2
[View of the large skull Toutousai lives in, with that three-eyed ox nearby.]
fx ground *smolder*
3
[View of Inuyasha rushing along.]
fx Inuyasha stomp stomp
Inuyasha
Hey, you there, Toutousai?
4
[Toutousai looks around from his work.]
Toutousai
Hmm? What's this all of a sudden?
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Page 3
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[Inuyasha pats at Toutousai's clothes.]
Inuyasha
I've no business with you.
Where's Myouga-jijii?
fx Inuyasha *pat pat*
Toutousai
You're as rude as ever.
2
[Myouga is sucking on Inuyasha's nose.]
fx Myouga *su-u-u-ck*
fx Myouga *swell swell*
3
[Closeup of Myouga.]
Myouga
Going to the trouble of coming all the way here...
You gotta be in some kinda trouble eh.
fx Myouga *s-i-i-igh*
4
[Inuyasha slaps himself (and Myouga) in the face.]
fx Inuyasha *slap*
fx Myouga *squish*
5
[Closeup of Myouga on Inuyasha's finger.]
Myouga
Huh?
You want to go to your father's grave?
6
[View of Inuyasha talking to Myouga.]
Inuyasha
Take me there.
There's something I want to confirm.
Myouga
...is all you can say huh.
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Page 4
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[Scene change. Drawing of a black shiny sphere.]
2
[Kagome, Miroku, Sango and Shippou are having a picnic.]
Miroku
The Kuro Shinju (Black Pearl)...?
That's the entrance to Inuyasha's father's grave...?
Kagome
Yes.
There was a time when we went to get Tetsusaiga, hidden in the grave...
3
[Closeup side view of Kagome, overlaid over the scene when Inuyasha and Kagome are about to enter the swirling vortex of energy to the grave.]
Kagome
A space opened up from the Black Pearl...
and connected to the grave.
However...
4
[Closeup of Kagome.]
Kagome
when we came back to this world, the Black Pearl...
had vanished in an instant.
5
[Scene change back to Inuyasha and Myouga.]
Inuyasha
What happened to that Black Pearl?
You're not hiding it are you?
Myouga
How can you say that to me.
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Page 5
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[Closeup of Myouga.]
Myouga
At that time, the Black Pearl had completed it's duty of letting Inuyasha pass through.
It's already vanished.
2
[Inuyasha speaks to Myouga.]
Inuyasha
Vanished?
Myouga
Gone completely.
3
[View of Toutousai.]
Toutousai
Anyway Inuyasha,
what made you want to go pay your respects now?
4
[Closeup side view of Inuyasha.]
Inuyasha
Bah!
It's nothing carefree like that.
5
[(One explanation later) View of Toutousai.]
Toutousai
A Shikon fragment...?
6
[Closeup side view of Inuyasha.]
Inuyasha
Yeah.
There might be one in that world.
7
[View of Toutousai thinking.]
Toutousai ......
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Page 6
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[Closeup of Toutousai shouting.]
Toutousai
Ya dope!
There's no way.
2
[Inuyasha has hit Toutousai on the head.]
Inuyasha
Who's the idiot.
fx Toutousai clunk...
Toutousai
Try thinking about it properly.
3
[Drawing of Inuyasha's father's skeleton.]
Toutousai
{voice over} The Youkai's graveyard,
is another world that requires a special path to get there.
4
[Closeup of Toutousai.]
Toutousai
How would a Shikon fragment end up flying to a place like that?
5
[Closeup of Myouga on Toutousai.]
Myouga
That's right Inuyasha-sama.
6
[Drawing of when Kagome was inside, looking at the alter where Tetsusaiga was.]
Myouga
{voice over} Besides, at that time, Kagome was with you at that place, but...
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Page 7
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[View of Myouga bouncing towards Inuyasha.]
Myouga
she didn't feel any indication that there was a Shikon fragment, did she.
2
[View of Inuyasha talking to Myouga, a bit uncertain.]
Inuyasha
... That was then.
Myouga
I think it's the same now.
3
[Inuyasha squeezes Myouga angrily.]
Inuyasha
Ah shuddup.
Do you have any intention of taking me or not?
fx Myouga *squeeze*
4
[Clousep of Myouga looking a bit frantic.]
Myouga
T, to go to the grave...
you have to meet Housenki.
5
[Inuyasha talks to Myouga.]
Inuyasha
Housenki!? Who's that?
Myouga
An old friend of your father's.
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Page 8
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[Drawing of a huge clam shell in a lake. Inside is an old man with many glows around him.]
Myouga
{voice over} Housenki rears many kinds of jewels,
and those jewels one by one,
become the entrance leading to the graveyard.
2
[Scene change. View ahead from someone rushing through the air.]
fx air whoosh
3
[Inuyasha and co are now rushing over the ground - Kagome on Inuyasha's back, and Miroku and Sango on Kirara's.]
Kagome
I see,
then Inuyasha's Black Pearl was also...
Myouga
Inuyasha's father recieved it from Housenki.
4
[Closeup side view of Inuyasha, talking to Myouga while rushing along.]
Myouga
But you know,
originally the Youkai's graveyard is a resting place for the dead.
It's not a place where the living can readily walk in and out of...
fx Myouga *si-i-i-gh*
Inuyasha
Bah!
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Page 9
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[Closeup of Inuyasha.]
Inuyasha
We have to get the Shikon fragment before Naraku does.
We have no choice but to check out places even like that!
2
[Scene change. Misty frame.]
3
[View of a misty lake in the mountains.]
fx water slsh...
4
[Inuyasha and Kagome arrive.]
fx Inuyasha sh
5
[View of Myouga bouncing on Inuyasha's shoulder.]
Myouga
Housenki-dono, are you there!?
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Page 10
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[View of the lake - the water is swirling and bubbling.]
fx water glub glub
2
[A huge clam shell rises out of the lake.]
fx water slishhhhh
3
[Someone looks out from a small gap in the shell. Not much can be seen apart from two eyes.]
fx shell creak...
youkai
Who's there...?
There's no jewels here.
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Page 11
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[View of Kagome and Inuyasha looking a bit surprised.]
Kagome Eh...?
Myouga
Housenki-dono, it's me, Myouga.
2
[Closeup of the Youkai's eyes.]
youkai
Hmm?
Myouga-sama...?
3
[The Youkai opens up the clam shell some more - he seems rather young.]
fx shell rumble...
youkai
I am Housenki's son...
Housenki has died.
4
[Closeup of Inuyasha.]
Inuyasha
Wha...
He's dead?
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Page 12
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[(A bit later) View of Inuyasha and Kagome.]
Inuyasha
Old age?
2
[Kagome and Inuyasha are now sitting before the son in the shell - he's about twice the height of them. Miroku and Sango are standing nearby.]
youkai
Yes, he passed away peacefully.
Consequently, I am the second generation.
3
[View of them talking.]
Kagome
Um~m. Earlier you said there were no jewels for going to the gave...
youkai
There's none.
4
[Closeup side view of the son.]
youkai
My predecessor used up the jewels and died.
I am currently in the middle of making new jewels.
5
[View of Inuyasha, with Myouga bouncing along his shoulder.]
Inuyasha
That's the thing.
Give me one.
Myouga
Inuyasha-sama...
You mean "please" surely.
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Page 13
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[Closeup of the son.]
youkai
It's not that I'm unwilling to give you one, but...
you must wait a bit.
2
[View of Kagome and Inuyasha.]
Kagome
We'll wait!
Inuyasha
So, how long'll it take!?
3
[Inuyasha and Kagome keel over comically.]
youkai
One hundred years.
fx Inuyasha and Kagome thump
4
[Inuyasha shouts at the son.]
Inuyasha
What the heck's with that!
youkai
I'm still in the middle of training...
5
[View of Sango and Miroku.]
Sango
Youkai have quite a long term view eh.
Miroku
Seems this was a waste of time.
6
[Closeup of Inuyasha looking angry and frustrated.]
Inuyasha
Dammit...
Aren't there any other ways!?
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Page 14
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[White frame.]
Inuyasha
While we're doing this...
Naraku and that Hakudoushi brat may take the fragment.
2
[Scene change. Misty frame.]
3
[Hakudoushi is standing on a rocky ledge, with some Saimyoushou coming towards him.]
fx Saimyoushou bzz...
4
[Hakudoushi touches one of the insects.]
fx Saimyoushou bzz...
Hakudoushi
I see...
5
[Closeup side view of Hakudoushi thinking.]
Hakudoushi
At the moment, a path to the boundry between this world and the next,
is limited to only one way.
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Page 15
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[Black frame.]
Hakudoushi
Have to force open the gateway... huh.
Interesting...
2
[Scene change. View of an overcast sky at night.]
3
[The group is sitting before a camp fire.]
Inuyasha
Hey, Myouga-jijii.
You really don't know of any other ways, do you?
4
[Closeup of Myouga looking a bit agitated.]
Myouga
I don't know any!
To go to the graveyard, there's nothing other than...
5
[View of the trees.]
fx leaves rustle...
voice
{off} Shall I tell you?
About the entrance...
6
[Inuyasha and Kagome look around at a sudden gust of wind.]
fx wind whoosh
Kagome !
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Page 16
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[Kagura arrives.]
fx Kagura swish
Miroku
Kagura!
2
[Closeup of Kagura, looking serious.]
Kagura
That Hakudoushi brat is heading towards the the mountains in the Country of Fire.
There, is the gateway to the boundry between this world and the next.
3
[View of Inuyasha and Miroku looking surprised.]
Inuyasha
Mountains in the Country of Fire?
Myouga !
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Page 17
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[Miroku talks to Kagura.]
Miroku
What's the meaning of this Kagura!
Why did you come to tell us that...
2
[View of Kagura, taking up a feather and preparing to leave.]
Kagura
Who knows.
Ask Hakudoushi that.
fx feather pick
3
[Miroku and Inuyasha watch Kagura rise up into the air.]
fx Kagura whoosh
4
[Kagome, Sango and Miroku look off into the distance.]
Kagome
Hakudoushi told her to go and tell us...?
Miroku
...It's probably a trap.
5
[View of Inuyasha, with Myouga looking worried.]
Inuyasha
Bah! Whether it's a trap or whatever...
Myouga
Don't go Inuyasha-sama.
6
[Closeup of Myouga.]
Myouga
The mountains in the Country of Fire are too dangerous!
Even with many people, that place is just too...
7
[Inuyasha gives Myouga a dry look.]
Inuyasha
Humph, the way you're getting worried...
means this stuff about a gateway is for real doesn't it.
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Page 18
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[Inuyasha speaks to a shocked Myouga.]
Inuyasha
In that case we gotta go!
Whatever that brat Hakudoushi is planning!
2
[Scene change to Hakudoushi riding on Entei, with Kagura behind him.]
fx air whoosh
3
[Closeup side view of Hakudoushi looking rather satisfied.]
Hakudoushi
Kukuku... Inuyasha...
I'll forgive you for passing through the gateway before me.
4
[Black frame.]
Hakudoushi
In exchange for your life...
Last modified February 3rd 2003
