RasKik

RasKik is the term used to refer to the romantic relationship between Rasetsu and Kikyō.

## Their Relationship

### Inuyasha

**Kikyo's Lonely Journey**

Near his death, he met the revived Kikyō, not realizing that she was the same Kikyō he had tried to kill decades earlier. Kikyō could sense that he was very ill and near death. Kansuke attempted to rob her while she was passing by. He became wary of her since she had no possessions and there were no temples near them. He began to collapse over a tree due to his illness and decided to let her pass. Kikyō sensed that he was carrying a shard of the Shikon no Tama, and that it was the only thing that was keeping him alive. He resolved to keep on living until he could find the right place to die. He then completely collapsed on the ground after coughing heavily.

Kikyō took him to an abandoned temple and tended to him. She wished to listen to his tale before he died. Kansuke told her about his past, including his history with Onigumo (much to her surprise). Fifty years ago, he was lured by a fellow bandit, who was Onigumo, into attacking Kikyō to possess the Sacred Jewel. Inuyasha had defended her, and Rasetsu lost an eye. The wounded Rasetsu discovered Onigumo tricked him and made off with his men. Seeking revenge, he set fire to the inn where Onigumo was, then threw his badly burned body from a cliff at the bottom of which Kikyō fatefully found him.

Rasetsu and Kikyō were suddenly attacked by a demon with multiple eyes, who, like the hair monster, that was after Rasetsu's jewel shard in order to obtain a new body for itself. He became deformed as a result of it being severed and abandoned by Naraku. It trapped Kikyō while demanding the jewel shard. Rasetsu tried to destroy it with a bow and arrow, but the yōkai was able to easily repel it. It angrily grabbed Rasetsu with its hair while once again demanding the jewel. Rasetsu attached his jewel shard to an arrow and strikes one of the yōkai's large eyes. This hurt it long enough for Rasetsu and Kikyō to be freed. It was destroyed after Kikyō shot her sacred arrow at it. Rasetsu found it pitiful that he had to be saved by a woman, but acknowledged that Kikyō was no ordinary woman.

Rasetsu was placed next to a tree outside of the temple while it was raining. Kikyō returned after she recovered his jewel shard. He decided to let her keep it after confessing that he had no more use for it, though he asked her to grant his last request in exchange. Rasetsu cut off a lock of his hair and asked Kikyō to take it to the sacred land of Mount Hakurei, so that his soul may be saved from eternal damnation for his past transgressions. Just before he passed away, he learned of Kikyō's name.

**The Three Sprites of the Monkey God**

**Inuyasha Shows His Tears For The First Time**

**Fare Thee Well: Jakotsu's Requiem**

After Kikyō helped Hakushin move on to the afterlife, Kikyō pulls Kansuke's hair out of her dress, and it too disintegrates, and Kansuke's soul floats away. The soul disappears, and Kikyō knows it was purified.

**Farewell Kikyō, My Beloved**

When Naraku confronted Kikyō at Mount Hakurei, he revealed that he used Kansuke in order to lure Kikyō to Mount Hakurei by planting rumors in him about his soul finding salvation there.

## Evidence

* Kikyō intended to honor Rasetsu's final request.

## Quotes

* "*Since I was young, I have performed all sorts of evil deeds... Murder, theft, arson, I lived doing whatever I felt like. But now I've gotten old, and gotten ill, and gotten scared that I'll fall to hell...*"―Kansuke.[src]
* "*Even for villains like me, I've heard there's a place where you can be saved. Intending that be where I die, I was travelling towards it, but, it seems I can't go any further...*"―Kansuke to Kikyō.[src]

## Trivia

* Rasetsu's last words are "A bad joke for a dying man" in response to Kikyō revealing her true name.